GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  21,  1904

Number  1096

Twenty-Second Year 
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TH E   SIEGE  OF  PO RT  ARTHUR.
With  the  fall  of  Liao-Yang  and the 
defeat  of  General  Kuropatkin  gener­
al  interest  has  for  the  present  been 
diverted  from  the  situation  in  Man­
churia  to  the  siege  of  Port  Arthur. 
With  Kuropatkin  disposed  of  for  the 
time  being,  the  Japanese  can  devote 
greater  energy  to  the  reduction  of 
the  Russian  stronghold,  which  is  the 
only  remaining  obstacle  in  the  way 
of  the  full  success  of  their  plans.  The 
fortress  has  now  been  cut  off  from 
all  communication  by  land  for  three 
months  and  a  half,  and  as  no  supplies 
have  been  taken  in,  provisions  must 
now  be  running  low.  It  is  reported 
that  meat  has  become  exhausted  and 
that  the  garrison 
is  compelled  to 
subsist  on  bread  mainly.  The  ships’ 
supplies  have  also  run  short,  and  as 
the  sailors  have  been  sent  ashore  to 
man  the  forts,  they  are  an  added  bur­
den  to  the  commissariat.  Ammuni­
tion 
the 
incessant  fighting  has  greatly  drained 
the  stock  for  the  large  guns.

is  also  running 

low,  as 

constantly 

re-enforced. 

Although  repeated  Japanese 

as­
saults  have  been  repulsed,  the  be­
siegers  have  made  steady,  if 
slow, 
progress.  While  the  Port  Arthur 
garrison  is  being  depleted  by  casual­
ties  and  disease,  the  Japanese  are be­
ing 
The 
process  of  attrition 
is  undoubtedly 
gradually  telling,  and  as  there  is  no 
ionger  any  earthly  hope  of  relief,  it 
end  must 
seems  certain  that  the 
come  before  very 
is 
little  purpose  now  to  be  served  by 
bolding  out  longer  at  Port  Arthur 
other  than  the  protection  of 
the 
remnant  of  the  ill-fated  Port  Arthur 
squadron.  These  ships  would  be  of 
immense  value  were  the  Baltic  squad­
ron  ever  able  to  reach  the  Far  East, 
but  that  is  a  remote  prospect  now 
and  it  does  not  seem  possible  that 
the  constantly  harassed  garrison, en­
cumbered  as  it  is  with 
and

long.  There 

sick 

wounded  and  short  of  supplies,  can 
hold  out  for  several  months  longer. 
It  would  take  iully  that  time  for  the 
Baltic  fleet  to  reach  the  Far  East 
under  the  most  favorable  conditions.
Had  General  Kuropatkin  defeated 
the  Japanese  at  Liao-Yang  he  might 
have  found  it  possible  to  send  an 
army  south  to  relieve  Port  Arthur, 
but  all  possibility  of  such  relief must 
now  be  abandoned.  Had  the  Baltic 
squadron  been  able  to  start  for  the 
Far  East  months  ago,  so  as  to  be 
able  to  co-operate  with  a  sally  of  the 
Port  Arthur  fleet  like  that  of  Aug. 
10,  it  might  have  been  possible  to 
wrest  control  of  the  sea  from 
the 
Japanese  and  raise  the  blockade  of 
Port  Arthur.

With  the  fall  of  the  fortress  all 
further  need  of  the  Baltic  fleet 
in 
the  Far  East  will  be  at  an  end.  There 
will  be  no  other  place  for  it  to  go  but 
Vladivostok,  which  will  soon  be  clos­
ed  by  ice.  Moreover,  the  fall  of  Port 
Arthur,  by  relieving  the  Japanese  fleet 
of  the  further  necessity  of  blockading 
that  place,  would 
enable  Admiral 
Togo  to  lie  in  wait  for  the  Baltic 
squadron  and  cripple  it  before 
it 
reaches  the  Far  East.

Whatever  may  be  said  of 

the 
Russian  commanders  for  the  way  in 
which  the  war  has  been  managed on 
their  side,  there  can  be  no  question 
but  that  the  garrison  of  Port  Arthur 
and  General  Stoessel,  its  commander, 
have  won  great  laurels.  They  have 
sustained  unflinchingly  many  hard 
attacks  from  the  finest  infantry  and 
artillery  in  the  world,  and  it  will  be 
only  exhaustion  of  supplies  that  will 
finally  force  them  to  surrender.

in 

Lots  of  apples  means  lots  of  cider. 
More  cider  will  be  made 
the 
United  States  this  year  than  in  all 
the  rest  of  the  world  in  five  years. 
Cider  really  deserves  a  place  among 
our  national  beverages.  As  the  Bos­
ton  Transcript  says: 
“A  beverage 
that  improves  the 
complexion  and 
brightens  the  eyes  is  certain  to  be a 
favorite,  and  cider  is  said  to  do  both 
things. 
It  is  not  fattening  and  it 
suits  rheumatic  persons  better  than 
wine,  beer  or  punch.  Of  course  when 
cider  gets  old  and  hard  its  effects 
are  anything  but  pleasant.  Hard  cid­
er  is  responsible  for  a  good  deal  of 
trouble.

The  Japs  have  possession  of  two 
of  the  three  coal  mines  upon  which 
the  Russians  depend  for  the  opera­
tion  of  the  Manchurian  railway.  The 
third  is  expected  to  fall  into  their 
hands  soon.  This  is  a  matter  that 
will  be  of  great  importance  in  future 
movements,  as  without  coal  to  sup­
ply  their 
locomotives  the  Russians 
will  be  seriously  hampered  in  trans­
porting  troops  and  supplies.

G EN ERAL  TRAD E  REVIEW .
The  sharp  reaction  of  last  week in 
Wall  Street  markets  has  been  fol­
lowed  by  another  steady  advance,  un­
til  now,  with  no  apparent  reason, 
another  reaction  is  in  evidence.  This 
weekly 
swing,  with  each  advance 
marking  a  decided  gain  in  the  general 
average,  is 
favorable  to  speculative 
operations,  and  so  activity  is  greater 
than  for  many  months  past.  A   fea­
ture  of  the  situation  which  will  sur­
prise  many  is  that  the  advance 
in 
stock  values  during  the  season  of  re­
covery,  amounting  to  about  20  per 
cent.,  is  fully  one-half  of  the  total 
decline.  This  is  the  more  significant 
in  that  the  decline  was  largely  ac­
counted  for  in  the  elimination  of  fic­
titious  or  watered  values.

generally 

While  frosty  weather  has  had  its 
influence  in  some  localities  the  month 
as  a  whole  is  more  favorable  to  crop 
maturing  than 
expected. 
This  gives  assurance  of  a  large  quan­
tity  of  corn  and  its  products  to  keep 
the  railways  busy.  The  phenomenal­
ly  high  price  of  wheat,  apparently  in­
dependent  of  any  cornering  opera­
tions,  indicates  that  prices  of  all  farm 
products  will  be  high  enough  to  war­
rant  profitable  freight  rates.

Fall  trade  is  progressing  steadily, 
but  not  with  undue  haste.  The  crop 
situation,  interest 
in  politics  and 
other  hindrances  are  enough  to  in­
sure  conservatism.  Yet  buying  has 
been  liberal  and  in  many  cases  there 
has  been  unexpected  urgency  in  se­
curing  shipments.  The  dominant  fac­
tor  in  the  situation  is  that  there  is  an 
abundance  of  money  in  the  hands  of 
consumers  and  there  is  the  disposi­
tion  to  spend  it  freely  for  needs  and 
luxuries.

too 

Iron  and  steel  industries  are  mov­
ing  steadily,  and  not 
rapidly. 
Among  textiles,  woolens  still  lead  in 
activity.  Cotton  mills  are  still  buy­
ing  from  hand  to  mouth.  Footwear 
shows  decided  improvement,  the  ad­
vance  in  prices  seeming  to  increase 
orders.

Lord  Kitchener,  the  famous  Brit­
ish  general,  prefers  single  men  for 
army  service.  He  was  twitted  once 
on  being  a  woman  hater.  He  answer­
ed  smilingly  that  he  was  just  the  re­
verse.  Then  he  became  serious  and 
said  that  experience  had  taught  him 
that  single  men,  as  a  rule,  make  bet­
ter  soldiers  than  married  men.  The 
latter,  he  declared,  are  bound  to  keep 
in  mind  the  welfare  of  their  wives 
and  children,  and  on  this  account  are 
apt  to  draw  back  from  dangers  that 
would  not  cause  them  an  instant’s 
hesitation 
if  they  had  only  them­
selves  to 
a 
think  of.  Therefore, 
wife,  although  she  may  be  very  am­
bitious  for  her  husband’s  success, im­
pairs  his  efficiency  as  a  soldier 
in 
action.

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R E P R E SE N T A TIV E   RETA ILERS.

G.  H.  De  Graaf,  the  Pioneer  Grand 

Rapids  Grocer.

it.  Energy 

The  basic  force  responsible  for  all 
self-earned  success  is  energy.  One 
may  have  talent;  but,  lacking1  ener­
gy,  may  not  apply  it.  One  may  per­
ceive  opportunity;  but,  lacking  ambi­
tion  to  begin  and  energy  to  further, 
may  not  seize 
is  but 
power.  The  criminal  may  possess 
energy,  but  he  lacks 
integrity  and 
sense.  Energy  to  be  of  value  must 
be  properly  applied.  The  lightning 
bolt  carries  greater  energy  than  the 
wire  cable,  but  the  one  brings  only 
devastation  while  the  other  may turn 
a  million  spindles  and  serve  a  thous­
and  useful  purposes.

The  man  of  talent  must  possess 
energy.  The  man  of  energy  must 
possess  other  constituent  qualities; 
he  must  possess  judgment  that 
is 
able  to  decide  which  way  will  be 
best;  he  must  possess  courage  to 
carry  to  a  conclusion  this  judgment, 
once  determined,  in  the  face  of  pre­
dictions  of  disaster.  The  greatest 
successes  have  been  won  by 
the 
brave  in  the  face  of  the  fears  of  the 
timid.

The  man  of  energy  must  have  in­
tegrity  if  his  talent  is  not  to  be  di­
verted  into  questionable  channels.

Energy,  after  all,  is  merely  a  ca­
pacity  and  desire  for  hard  work.  A 
practical  simile  is  that  of  the  control­
led  electricity  in  contrast  with 
the 
unbridled  lightning.  And  this  simile 
brings  to  mind  the  human  dynamo 
whose  portrait  and  life  story  adorn 
this  page.

Gerrit  H.  De  Graaf  was  born  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  4,  1851.  His 
iather  and  mother  were  both  natives 
of  the  Netherlands,  having  come  to 
this  country  in  1846  and  located  at 
Buffalo.  When  he  was  5  years  of 
age  his  parents  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids,  where  he  attended  the  pub­
lic  schools,  going  from  the  primary 
to  the  grammar  grade  and  taking  two 
years  at  the  high  school  under  Pro­
fessors  Daniels  and  Strong.

On 

leaving  school  his  first  em­
ployment  was  in  the  dry  goods  store 
of  C.  B.  Allen,  where  he  remained 
one  year.  Not  having  a  particular 
liking  for  the  dry  goods  trade,  he 
concluded  to  learn  the  grocery  busi­
ness.  Accordingly,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  McNaughton  &  Horton, 
who  were  then  located  where  Muir’s 
drug  store  now  is.  A  year  later  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Voorhis  & 
Co.,  with  whom  he  remained 
three 
years.  His  next  employment  was 
in  the  grocery  store 
of  Gilbert 
Cook,  on  the  corner  where  the  Mor­
ton  House  now  stands.  He  remained 
in  this  establishment  two  years,  when 
he  became  connected  with  the  staff 
of  the  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Chica­
go,  Saginaw  &  Canada  Railway, 
which  was  projected  to  run 
from 
Fruitport  to  St.  Louis.  The  promot­
er  of  the  enterprise  was  Capt.  Craw, 
of  Fruitport,  and  the  financial  backer 
was  Capt.  Tom  Scott,  of  Philadel­
phia.  So  sanguine  was  Mr.  De  Graaf 
of  the  success  of  the  project  that  he 
permitted  his  wages  to  remain  in  the 
treasury  of  the  company,  which  he 
afterwards  had  reason  to  regret,  be­

as  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  munici­
pality  he  has  served  so  well  and  so 
faithfully  in  minor  positions  of  trust 
and  responsibility.

Review  of  the  Poultry  Crop  of 

West.

the 

Chicago,  Sept.  20— The  reports  this 
year  from  our  correspondents  indi­
cate  a  material  increase  in  the  supply 
of  chickens,  a  fair  increase  in  the  sup­
ply  of  turkeys  and  ducks,  and  a  fall­
ing  off  in  the  supply  of  geese.  The 
weather  conditions  have  been  rather 
more  favorable  than  for  the  past  two 
or  three  years.  The 
season  was 
rather  cool,  but  on  the  whole  quite 
seasonable,  but  in  some  sections  of 
the  Southwest,  the  Far  West  and  the 
North,  the  heavy  rainfall  caused  a 
rather  heavy  loss  in  the  early  hatch­
ings,  especially  of  turkeys,  many  of 
the  young  birds  dying  of  wet  and 
cold.  The  fertility  of  the  early  eggs 
also  was  somewhat  affected  by  the 
very  cold  weather  during  the  winter, 
leaving  the  stock  not  in  as  good  con­
dition  as  when  the  winters  were not 
so  severe,  but  this  was  overcome  lat­
er  by  more 
conditions. 
From  Towa  a  number  of  reports  stat­
ed  that  rats  killed  off  a  good  share 
of  the  early  hatchings.

favorable 

large 

Turkeys— The  crop  of  turkeys 

is 
estimated  to  be  about  15  per  cent, 
heavier  than  last  year.  Our  reports 
in  most  instances  claim 
in­
creases  in  the  flocks  of  turkeys,  but 
some  points  which  raised  a  good 
many  turkeys  last  year  report  a  ma­
terial  shrinkage  this  year.  On 
the 
whole,  however,  we 
look  for  more 
turkeys  to  come  to  market  during 
the  winter.  The  season  is  unusually 
late,  and  where  in  other  seasons  a 
good  many  turkeys  have  been  ship­
ped  in  up  to  this  time,  so  far  this 
year  but  few  turkeys  have  been  re­
ceived.  Then,  too,  farmers  are  being 
blessed  with  good  crops,  and  in  no 
need  for  immediate  money,  can  af­
ford  to  allow  their  turkeys  to  run  un­
til  fall.

least 

Chickens— The 

reports  generally 
indicate  a  very  material  increase  in 
the  crop  of  chickens,  and  it  is  fair 
to  state  that  the  crop  at 
is 
about  20  per  cent,  larger  than  last 
year.  The  weather  conditions  were 
generally  favorable.  Farmers  being 
in  good  condition 
financially,  and 
receiving  good  prices  for  their  eggs, 
have  perhaps  not  marketed 
their 
stock  as  early,  nor  as  freely  as  usual, 
and  indications  are  that  there  is  a 
large  quantity  to  come  forward.

Ducks— Everything  points 

to  a 
large  crop  of  ducks— such,  at  least, 
are  the  conclusions  derived  from  the 
reports 
indications 
are  for  an  increase  of  about  10  per 
cent,  over 
Late  prices 
have  been  more  encouraging  to  farm­
ers  to  raise  ducks.

received.  The 

last  year. 

Geese— The  crop  of  geese  is  esti­
mated  to  be  about  the  same  as  last 
year,  possibly  10  per  cent.  less.  Of 
late  the  raising  of  geese  has  fallen 
off  considerably,  with  perhaps 
the 
largest  shrinkage  in  Illinois,  where 
the  enactment  of  a  law  prohibiting 
geese  from  running  at 
large  has 
made  a  very  marked  difference  in  the 
number  of  geese  raised.

P.  H.  Sprague.

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

struck 

the 
cause  the  panic  which 
country  in  the  fall  of  1873  wiped  the 
road  out  of  existence  for  the  time  be­
ing  and  dissipated  every  penny  of 
his  accumulated  earnings.  He  there­
upon  returned  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
entered  the  employ  of  De  Graaf, 
Vrieling  &  Co.,  who  were  then  en­
gaged  in  the  manufacture  of  interior 
finish  on  South 
the 
senior  partner  being  his  esteemed 
father.  Mr.  De  Graaf  presided  over 
a  cut  off  saw  in  the  factory,  applying 
himself  diligently  to  the  task  of  re­
covering 
the  ground  he  had  lost 
through  his  year’s  experience  in  the 
railway  promoting  business.

street, 

Ionia 

By  the  following  year  he  had  man­
aged  to  accumulate  enough  savings 
to  embark  in  the  grocery  business  in 
a  small  way,  and  on  Jan.  9,  i875>  he 
opened  up  for  business  at  229  South 
Division  street.  He  remained  there

him  in  business;  Minnie,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Price,  and  J.  Arthur, who 
graduates  next  year  from  the  high 
school 
the  German-English 
course.

on 

Mr.  De  Graaf  is  a  member  of 

the 
B.  P.  O.  E.,  which  he  has  served 
very  acceptably  as  Exalted  Ruler.  He 
the  Knicker­
is  also  a  member  of 
bocker  Society, 
in  which  he  now 
holds  the  office  of  Vice-President.  He 
has  been  Alderman  of 
the  First 
Ward  for  ten  years  and  was  nominat­
ed  for  Comptroller  on  the  Republi­
can  ticket  in  1900.  He  has  been  a 
candidate  for  the  nomination 
for 
Mayor,  and  before  many  years  will 
undoubtedly  realize  the  laudable  am­
bition 
cherished  by  himself  and 
friends  that  he  may  occupy  the  high­
est  office  within  the  gift  of  Grand 
Rapids  people.

Mr.  De  Graaf  attributes  his  suc-

G.  H.  De  Graaf

until  1877,  when  he  built  the  block 
which  he  has  since  occupied  at  221 
and  223  South  Division  street.

Mr.  De  Graaf  very  quickly  became 
heir  to  a  prosperous  and  constantly 
expanding  patronage,  due  largely  to 
his  energy  and  personality.  He  was 
a  good  buyer,  displaying  his  goods 
well  and  satisfying  his  customers, 
and  he  soon  came  to  be  regarded  as 
one  of  the  foremost  grocers  of 
the 
city.  He  continued  the  business  un­
til  the  spring  of  1903,  when  he  dis­
posed  of  his  stock  to  his  son,  G. 
Henry  De  Graaf,  in  order  that  he 
might  accept  a  position  as  member 
of  the  Board  of  Assessors,  voluntari­
ly  and  unexpectedly  tendered  him  by 
Mayor  Palmer.

Mr.  De  Graaf  was  married  in  1875 
to  Miss  Minnie  Agters,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  and  is  the  father  of  three 
children— G.  Henry,  who 
succeeds

the 

cess  to  careful  attention  to  business, 
to  taking  proper  discounts  and  mak­
ing  prompt  collections.  No  greater 
tribute  can  be  paid  to  his  success as 
large 
a  grocer  than  to  recall 
number  of  customers  who 
started 
with  him  in  1875  and  who  are  still 
patrons  of  the  establishment.  Ab­
solute  cleanliness  is  one  of  the things 
he  has  always 
insisted  upon  and 
prompt  attention  to  telephone  orders 
has  also  been  a  cardinal  feature  of 
his  establishment.

Mr.  De  Graaf  is  not  only  a  natural 
politician,  but  he  is  thoroughly  vers­
ed  in  the  affairs  of  the  city,  having 
made  a  study  of 
every  municipal 
problem  which  has  confronted  Grand 
Rapids  for  several  years,  so  that  he 
is  very  generally  regarded  as  one  of 
the  best-posted  men  on  municipal 
matters  in  the  State— a  man  who 
would  do  the  city  and  himself  credit

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A Good  Repeater

A  prominent  grocer,  when  re­
cently asked what kind of goods 
he  liked  to sell best,  replied!

“Give me a  good  repeater  like  Royal  Baking  Powder;  an 
established  article  of  undisputed  merit  which  housekeepers 
repeatedly buy and are always satisfied  with.”

EW   baking  powders  and  new  foods,  like
new  tads,  come  and  go,  but  Royal  goes 
on  forever.  Grocers  are  always  sure  of  a 
steady sale  of  Royal  Baking  Powder,  which 
never  fails  to  please  their  customers,  and  in 
the  end  yields  to  them  a  larger  profit  than 
cheaper and  inferior brands.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO..  NEW  YORK

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Movements  of  Merchants.

Grand  Ledge— F.  S.  Kebler  has 

opened  a  new  shoe  store.

Clarksville— J.  A.  Clum  has  engag­

ed  in  the  grocery  business.

Battle  Creek— Ashley  &  Co.  have 

engaged  in  the  harness  business.

St.  Johns^-John  Schneider  has 
sold  his  meat  market  to  W.  A.  Hunt.
Cadillac—J.  H.  Salt  has  succeeded 
Howell  &  Salt  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Marine  City— T.  W.  Crow  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Geo.  N. 
Jones.

Eureka— Albert  Green 

closing 
out  his  general  stock  and  will  retire 
from  trade.

is 

Lansing— Fred  H.  Barteaux  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Beas­
ley  &  Wells.

Ypsilanti— Frank  A.  Banghart  will 
the 

succeed  Vought  &  Rogers 
meat  business.

in 

Detroit— C.  H.  Schroder  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of 
John  C.  Kratz.

Wolverine— J.  F.  Holden  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  drug  stock  of 
Floyd  G.  Wagar.

Sebewaing— John  Runnel  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  general  stock  of 
Marcus  Blumenthal.

Petoskey— J.  Welling  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  Joseph  Rosenberg gen­
eral  stock,  at  Charlevoix.

St.  Johns— Harrison  Sherman  has 
sold  his  bazaar  stock  to  E.  C.  Haga- 
man  and  Harry  Beers,  of  Hillsdale.

Linden— Bowles  Bros,  have  dis­
posed  of  their  bazaar,  furniture  and 
undertaking  stock  to  Austin  Bowles.
Gaylord— John  M.  Brodie  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  men’s  furnishing 
goods  and  shoe  stock  of  R.  B.  Qua & 
Son.

Bloomingdale— M.  T.  Bruce  will 
continue  the  meat  business  formerly 
conducted  under  the  style  of  Bruce 
& Fields.

South  Haven— A.  C.  Randall  & 
Co.  have  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  O.  W.  Lee  and  will  continue  the 
business.

Oscoda— Geo.  E.  Hamilton  will 
the 
succeed  Mills  &  Hamilton 
hardware  and  agricultural  implement 
business.

in 

Jackson— Fuller  &  Kirtland,  gro­
cers,  and  Fuller,  Kirtland  &  Co.,  bak­
ers,  have  been  succeeded  by  the  Ful- 
ler-Kirtland  Co.

Eaton  Rapids— W.  E.  Hanlon,  of 
Ohio,  has  rented  the  T.  L.  Teynolds 
store  and  will  occupy  it  with  a  stock 
of  confectionery.

St.  Johns— C.  A.  Putt  has  sold  his 
shoe  stock  to  John  H.  Darrow,  of 
St.  Louis,  who  will  remove  the  stock 
to  either  St.  Louis  or  Caro.

Harbor  Springs— Clyde  Wells  has 
sold  his  tobacco  stock 
to  Charles 
Poyer  and  William  Moore,  who  are 
to  take  possession  October  I.

Alpena— Wm.  D.  Foley  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  jewelry 
stock  of  A.  J.  Tulian.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Tulian  &  Foley.

Saginaw— The  Metropolitan  Dry 
Goods  Co. 
is  succeeded  by  L.  H. 
Hayt,  who  will  continue  the  retail 
dry  goods  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Caro— F.  A.  Turner  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  F.  E.  Kelsey,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.  Mr.  Kelsey  will  retain  his 
elevator  business.

Beulah— Frank  L.  Orcutt  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  S.  E. 
Thompson  &  Co.  and  will  continue 
the  business  in  connection  with  his 
ieed  and  potato  business.

Plainwell— J.  H.  Clement  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Fred  F.  Patter­
son  in  the  dry  goods  firm  of  Patter­
son  &  Clement  and  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Escanaba— The  Rathfon  Bros,  dry 
goods  stock  has  been  purchased  at 
auction  sale  by  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Co. 
and  Stein  &  Co.,  of  Chicago.  The 
consideration  was  $29,000.

Algonac— Horace 

Swartout  will 
start  at  once  to  build  a  large  cement 
building  on  his  corner,  one-half  of 
which  will  be  used  for  a  bank  and 
the  other  half  for  a  meat  market  for 
himself.

Bay  City— Jesse  Radford  has  pur­
chased  the  fish  and  oyster  business 
of  Ben  Fox  and  will  conduct  the  busi­
ness  under  the  name  of  the  Bay  City 
Fish  &  Oyster  Co.,  at  114  Washing­
ton  avenue.

Detroit— The  People’s  Coal  & 
Wood  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  asso­
ciation  with  the  county  clerk. 
It  is 
capitalized  at  $5,320,  of  which  $1,900 
is  paid 
in,  and  there  are  nineteen 
stockholders.

Marquette— The  sale  of  the  A.  T. 
Van  Alstyn  Dry  Goods  Co.  stock 
will  occur  here  on  Sept.  28  under  the 
auspices  of  H.  J.  Lobdell, 
trustee. 
The  stock  will  be  sold  in  bulk  to  the 
highest  bidder.

Albion— Harry  Herrick,  of  Chica­
go,  will  open  a  fancy  china  and  ba­
zar  store  about  October  1.  Mr.  Her­
rick  has  been  traveling  for  the  Sam­
uel  Cupples  Woodenware  Co.  for the 
past  five  years.

Edgerton— Ernest  W.  Bratt  has 
purchased  the  interests  of  Fred  W. 
Fuller  and  Charles  Cline  in  the  gen­
eral  merchandise  stock  of  Fred  W. 
Fuller  &  Co.  and  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Traverse  City— W.  S.  Anderson has 
merged  his  undertaking  business  in­
to  a  stock  company  under  the  style 
of 
the  Anderson  Undertaking  Co. 
The  stockholders  are  Wm.  S.,  Jennie 
E.  and  Ralph  A.  Anderson.

in 

Coldwater— Floyd  George,  who  is 
closing  up  his  partnership 
the 
firm  of  Tripp  &  George,  in  this  city, 
has  purchased  the  grocery  and  mar­
ket  of  M.  P.  Maxon,  at  Union  City, 
and  expects  to  move  there  about  Oc­
tober  10.

Butternut— A.  J.  Braman  has  sold 
his  hardware  and  implement  stock to 
Will  Isham,  who  was  formerly  en­
gaged  in  trade  at  this  place,  but  who 
has  been  on  the  road  as  traveling 
salesman  fpr  the  J.  I.  Case  Threshing 
Machine  Co.

Cedar  Springs— Z.  G.  Birdsall  & 
Co.  have  sold  their  general  stock  to 
D.  A.  Keech,  who  has  taken  posses-

in 

sion.  Mr.  Keech  will  combine  his 
stock  with  the  above,  and  will  va­
cate  his  present 
the 
Spooner’  building.

location 

Ann  Arbor— Mack  &  Co.  are  pre­
paring  to  install  a  private  telephone 
system  in  their  store.  Thirty  phones 
will  be  put  in,  and  will  be  distributed 
through 
establishment.  The 
phones  will  be  the  Washtenaw  Home 
Telephone  Co.  instruments.

their 

Saginaw— Waldron, 

Alderton  & 
the 
entire 
Melze  have  purchased 
stock  of 
leather  goods,  socks  and 
mittens  of  the  Lacy  Shoe  Co.,  at 
Caro,  and  removed  it  to  this  city and 
consolidated  it  with  their  stock  at 
131-135  North  Franklin  street.

Conklin— John  W.  Cazier  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  produce  firm  of 
Cazier  &  Skeels  to  his  partner,  who 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
style  of  S.  W.  Skeels.  Mr.  Cazier  will 
continue  the  general  store  he  has 
conducted  so  successfully  for  several 
years.

Detroit— The  Puritan  shoe  stores 
in  this  city  and  in  Ann  Arbor  have 
been  sold  under  an  order  by  Judge 
Mandell,  directing  George  E.  Keith, 
the  receiver  of  the  Puritan  Shoe  Co., 
to  dispose  of  the  four  stores  to  the 
Walkover  Shoe  Co.,  of  this  city,  for 
$11,900.94  cash.

Stanwood— J.  B.  Van  Auken,  man­
ager  of  the  general  stock  of  Cress 
&  Kuyers,  died  Sept.  6  as  the  ulti­
mate  result  of  Bright’s  disease,  aged 
56  years.  Deceased  is  succeeded  by 
Fred  Haist,  who  has  been  identified 
with  the  store  for  some  time  in  the 
capacity  of  assistant  manager.

Litchfield— A.  J.  Lovejoy  &  Co. 
have  merged  their  general  merchan­
dise  business  into  a  stock  company 
under  the  style  of  the  Bert  Hickok 
Co.  The  capital  stock  is  $7,000,  all 
subscribed  and  paid  in 
in  property. 
The  stockholders  are  Albert  J.  Love- 
joy,  Frank  E.  Church  and  Bert 
Hickok.

Detroit— Articles  of 

association
have  been  filed  by  the  C.  C.  McDon­
ald  Co.  for  the  purpose  of  dealing 
in  wearing  apparel  for  women.  The 
capital  stock  is  $10,000,  divided 
in 
$10  shares,  of  which  $8,500  is  paid 
in.  John  D.  Mabley  has  599,  Myra 
S.  Mabley  one,  and  C.  C.  McDonald 
has  250  shares.

Manistee— William  Hoops,  who has 
disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  meat 
market  of  Kuehn  &  Hoops  to  his 
partner,  William  Kuehn,  expects  to 
leave  in  a  few  days  for  Dallas,  Tex­
as,  where  he  will  associate  himself 
with  Walter  Baumann,  another  Man­
istee  boy,  who  is  at  present  operat­
ing  a  meat  market  in  that  city.

Ann  Arbor— There  is  a  scrap  on  in 
this  city  over  the  right  to  the  use  of 
the  “Puritan”  shoe 
label.  William 
Purfield,  a  former  manager  for  the 
returned 
Puritan  shoe  store  here, 
last  spring  and  announced 
that  he 
had  purchased  the  right  for  Washte­
naw  county  to  the  name  of 
“The 
Puritan”  from  President  Jameson, of 
the  general  company.  The  company 
went  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver. 
Now  R.  H.  Hoffstetter,  the  manager 
of  the  old  headquarters  of  the  Puri­
tan  shoe  store,  is  retaining  the name, 
while  Mr.  Purfield  has  another  store

also  labeled  “Puritan  Shoe  Store.” 
Purfield  says  that  he  is  backed  up by 
Pingree  &  Smith,  of  Detroit,  who are 
making  some  of  the  shoes.  A  legal 
fight  will  probably  result.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Lansing— The  Hall  Lumber  Co. 
has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$12,000  to  $30,000.

Ironwood— The  Scott  &  Howe 
Lumber  Co.  has  increased  its  capital 
stock  from  $50,000  to  $75,000.

Talbot—The  saw  mill  and  general 
store  of  the  Butts  &  Lillie  Co.,  Ltd., 
has  been  closed  under  a  chattel  mort­
gage.

Caro— Van  Sickle  &  Johnston have 
succeeded  J.  D.  Wisley  &  Co.  and 
will  continue  to  operate  the 
flour 
mill  at  this  place.

South 

Boardman— The  Harvey 
Lumber  Co.  has  disposed  of  its  mill 
property  here  and  is  putting  up  a 
mill  in  Springfield  township.

Detroit— The  Puritan  Cereal  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $24,000,  of  which  $500  is 
paid 
in 
in 
property.

and  $23,500 

in  cash 

Grand  Marais— The  Walker  Ve­
neer  &  Panel  Works  has  changed 
its  name  to  the  Great  Lakes  Veneer 
&  Panel  Co.  and  decreased  its  capital 
stock  from  $100,000  to  $80,000.

and 

Holly— Joseph  Oik  has 

retired 
from  the  elevator 
implement 
firm  of  McLaughlin  Bros.  Co.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  James 
and  Thomas  McLaughlin,  under  the 
same  style.

Highwood— Mcllvenna  &  Kings­
ley,  who  have  purchased  the  inter­
ests  of  the  Highwood  Manufacturing 
Co.,  are  making  preparations  to  re­
build  the  mill  which  burned  some 
few  weeks  ago.  They  expect  to  be 
doing  business  in  a  few  weeks.

Cadillac— Murphy  &  Diggins  have 
begun  operations  in  their  new  saw­
mill,  commonly  known  as  Cummer, 
Diggins  &  Co.’s  “little”  mill.  The 
property  has  been 
four 
years  and  has  been  transformed  from 
a  pine  plant  into  a  mill  for  cutting 
hardwoods  and  hemlock.

idle 

for 

Talbot— The  Oakwood  Cheese Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $5,000  to  erect  and  conduct 
'a  cheese  factory.  Construction  work 
on  a  stone  factory  will  be  commenc­
ed  this  week  and  it  is.  expected  that 
the  factory  will  be  able  to  start  oper­
ations  next  April. 
It  will  have  a 
capacity  of  10,000  pounds  of  milk 
daily.  An  expert  cheesemaker  will 
have  charge  and  it  is  expected  that 
a  high  quality  of  Switzer  cheese will 
be  turned  out.  Other  varieties  will be 
manufactured,  but  a  specialty  will  be 
made  of  Switzer.

Commercial 
Credit  Co •»

Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Opera  House  Block,  Detroit
Good  but  '  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  recei P*  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

letters. 

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Abraham  Das  &  Co.  will  succeed 
John  T.  Thomasma  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Fred  W.  Fuller  has  purchased  the 
quarter  interest  of  Ernest  W.  Bratt 
in  the  grocery  firm  of  Fred  W.  Ful­
ler  &  Co.,  152  North  Division  street, 
and  will  continue  the  business  in  his 
own  name.

The  West  Michigan  State  Fair 
is  in  full  blast  this  week,  with  com­
plete  exhibits 
in  .  all  departments, 
splendid  weather  and  a  large  attend­
ance.  The  exposition  reflects  much 
credit  on  the  management  and  on 
all  who  have  in  any  way  contributed 
to  its  success.

The  American  Express  Co.  is  the 
only  one  of  the  local  express  com­
panies  which  declined  to  enter  into 
an  arrangement  which  enables  ex­
hibitors  to  receive  and  receipt 
for 
their  shipments  at  the  West  Michi­
gan  State  Fair  grounds.  Probably 
very  few  shipments  to  the  next  fair 
will  be  made  by  the  American.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Wealthy,  Maiden  Blush, 
King  and  strawberry  varieties  com­
mand  $1.25(8)1.50  per  bbl.  The  supply 
is  large,  but  the  demand 
is  nearly 
equal  to  the  supply.

Bananas—-$1(0)1.25  for  small  bunch­
es;  $i.50@i.75  for  Jumbos.  The  de­
mand  is  as  good  as  expected  at  this 
receivers  have  no 
season  and  the 
trouble  in  getting  all 
supplies 
wanted.

the 

Beans— $1.50(0)1.65  for  hand  picked 

mediums.

a 

Factory 

Beets— 50c  per  bu.
Butter— Receipts  of  dairy  are  mod­
little 
erate,  and  the  market  is 
stronger. 
is 
strong  at  20c  for  choice  and  21c  for 
fancy.  Dairy  is  steady  at  io @ i i c   for 
packing  stock  and  I5@i6c  for  No.  1. 
Renovated  is  also  moving  freely  at 
i6@i7c.

creamery 

Cabbage—45c  per  doz.
Carrots— 50c  per  bu.
Cauliflower— $1.25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.  bunches.
Crabapples— 60c  per  bu.  for  Siber­

ian;  50c  per  bu.  for  General  Grant.

Cranberries— Cranberries  are  more 
abundant,  but  the  price  is  steady  at 
$7  per  bbl.  The  stock  this  week  has 
a  better  color  than  that  offered  last. 
The  Cape  Cod  crop  seems  to  be 
abundant.  Wisconsin  stock  has  not 
arrived  yet.

Cucumbers— 10c  per  doz.  for  large; 

18c  per  100  for  pickling.

Eggs— Receipts  have  been  below 
consumptive  requirements  during  the 
past  few  days, 
of 
which  local  dealers  have  been  com­
pelled  to  draw  on  cold  storage  sup­
plies.  Dealers  pay  I7@ i7^c  for case 
count,  holding  candled  at  i8@it)c.

in  consequence 

Egg  Plant— 85c  per  doz.
Grapes— Delawares  command 

15c 
per 41b.  basket.  They  cannot be  ship­
ped,  because  the  railroads  will  not 
accept  them  unless  the  baskets  are

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covered  and  no  covers  can  be  obtain­
ed.  Niagaras  fetch  15c  per  81b.  bas­
ket.  Wordens  command  13c  for  same 
size  package.  Blue  varieties  in  bu. 
baskets  fetch  8o@90c.

Green  Corn—   10c  per  doz.
Green  Onions— Silver  Skins, 

15c 

per  doz.  bunches.

Green  Peas— $1  per  bu.
Green  Peppers— 65c  per  bu.
Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  io@ 

12c  and  white  clover  at  i3@isc.

Lemons  —   Californias 

command 
$3-7S@4  and  Messinas  fetch  $3.75(8)4. 
Stock 
but 
about  as  could  be  expected  at  this 
season  of  the  year.

is  moving 

slowly, 

Lettuce— 60c  per  bu.
Musk  Melons— Home-grown  osage 
fetch  5o@6oc  per  crate.  Small  Rocky- 
fords  command  $1.25(0)1.50  per  crate.
(Louisiana), 
$1.25  per  sack;  Silver  Skins,  $1.25  per 
crate;  Spanish,  $1.40 per  crate.

Onions  —   Southern 

Oranges— Late  Valencias,  $4.25  per- 
box;  Mexicans,  $3.50(0)3.75  per  box. 
There  is  no  change  in  this  division 
of  the  market.  The  amount  of  busi­
ness  is  small  when  compared  with  the 
active  seasons  In  these  fruits.  Peach­
es,  pears,  plums,  apples,  etc.,  are  too 
cheap  and  oranges  are  too  high  to 
allow  much  trade  in  the  latter.

Parsley— 25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Peaches— Chilis,  $ i @ i .25;  Crosbys, 
$i.io@x.35;  Crawfords,  $1.50(0)1.75; 
Elbertas, 
Champions 
(white),  $1(8)1.25.

$1.60(0)1.85; 

Plums— Lom bards  are  out  of  mar­
ket.  Green  Gages  are  scarce  and  in 
active  demand  at  1.50  per  bu.  Blue 
varieties,  $1.25(2)1.40.

Pears— Flemish  Beauties  and  Sugar 
fetch  $1  per  bu.  Bartletts  are  out  of 
market.

Potatoes— Local  sales  range  from 
35@40c  per  bu.  The  crop  of  late 
will  be  large,  unless  bad  weather 
should  continue  long  enough  to  cause 
rotting.

Pop  Corn— 90c  per  bu.  for  either 

common  or  rice.

Poultry— Live  stock  is  dull  and 
featureless,  owing  to  light  demand. 
Spring  chickens, 
i i @ I2c;  hens,  9(8) 
10c;  coarse  fowls,  7@8c;  spring  tur­
keys,  io @ I2 )4 c ;  old  turkeys,  9(8)1 ic; 
spring  ducks,  9@ ioc  for  w hite;  Nes- 
ter  squabs  are  dull  and  slow  sale  at 
$1-25-

Radishes— Round,  10c; 

long 

and 

China  Rose,  15c.

Squash— Hubbard  commands  Ij^c 

per  lb.

Sweet  Potatoes  —   Virginias 

are 
steady  at  $2  and  Jerseys  are  in  good 
demand  at  $3  per  bbl.

Tomatoes— 6o@75c  per  bu.
Turnips— 50c  per  bu.
W aterm elons— io@i5c  apiece 

for 

Georgia.

W ax  Beans— 75c  per  bu.

And  She  Took  It  All  In.

Mildred— You  belong  to  a  men’s 
in  the  world  do  you 

club?  How 
amuse  yourselves?

Jack  (gently  stroking  her  hair)—  
We  don’t  try  to  amuse  ourselves, 
dear.  Men’g  clubs  are  for  the  pur­
pose  of  study  and  mutual  improve­
ment.

F e v   poets  know  the  price  of  pro­

visions.

The  Grocery  Market.

for 

Sept. 

affecting 

yesterday, 

Sugar  (W.  H.  Edgar  &  Son)—  
Since  we  wrote  you  on 
13 
there  has  been  practically  no  change 
in  the  sugar  situation. 
Spot  raws 
are  firmly  held  at  4  5*i6c,  with  no 
transactions.  Meantime  such  sugars 
as  have  been  offered 
shipment 
from  Cuba  or  elsewhere  have  been 
purchased  at  equal  to  about  4.33c, 
duty  paid.  The  speculative  market 
abroad  has  varied  from  day  to  day, 
ad­
the  week  opening  with  sharp 
vances 
both 
cane  and  beet  supplies.  Recent  es­
timates  of  the  continental  crop  indi­
cate  a  shortage  much 
larger  than 
earlier  estimates,  and  it  is  now  prac­
tically  certain  that  we  shall  enter  the 
new  campaign  in  October  with  bare­
ly  enough  sugar  to  go  around.  A ll 
indications  point  to  continued  upward 
movement.  Refined  is  in  active  de­
increasing 
mand  with 
constantly 
oversales.  W ithdrawals 
on 
out­
standing  contracts  are  heavy  and  the 
volume  of  new  business  is  gaining 
steadily.  A   very  heavy  late  season 
demand  is  generally  expected  in  view 
of  the  fact  that  as  yet  none  of  the 
later  varieties  of  fruit  have  put  in  an 
appearance. 
It  is  reasonable,  there­
fore,  to  assume  that  the  heavy  de­
mand  will  continue  well  into  October 
with  no  material  improvement  as  re­
gards  deliveries.  Therefore,  we  con­
tinue  to  advise  purchases  well  in  ad­
vance  of  requirements.

T ea— Fine  Japans  are  scarce,  but 
felt  so 
the  scarcity  has  not  been 
strongly  there,  as  most  of  the  sea­
son’s  business  in  new  Japans  has been 
done.  A ll  fine  teas  are  scarce  and 
in  excellent  demand  at 
firm  prices. 
There  will  probably  not  be  a  pound 
of  surplus  in  these 
lines  this  year. 
Under  grades  are  plenty,  however, 
and  will 
likely  have  a  prosperous 
season.  Another  feature  in  connec­
tion  with  the  Japan  situation  is  that 
the  fine  grades  dp  not  compare  with 
the  fine  grades  of  last  year.

are 

in  buying 

Coffee— Retailers 

generally 
is 
' coming  to  the  belief  that  there 
little  danger 
liberally  at 
the  present  figure  and  are  ordering 
in  larger  quantities  than  previously. 
Package  goods  show  no  change 
in 
price  nor  much  in  movement.  They 
are  sold  at  a  figure  at  which  the 
bulk  goods  can  compete  easily  and 
the  latter  is  getting  rather  more  than 
its  ordinary  share  of  the  trade.
the 

Canned  Goods— W hile 

corn 
crop  in  the  South  appears 
to  be 
large  and  a  pack  of  corresponding 
magnitude  is  indicated  in  Maine  as 
well  as  in  New  York,  prospects  ap­
pear  to  be  anything  but  satisfactory 
from  the  consumers’  standpoint  be­
cause  of  the  prolonged  cold  weather. 
From  present  indications  the  chances 
for  a  full  delivery  on  Maine  or  New 
Y ork  contracts  are  not  at  all  promis­
ing. 
In  some  sections  of  the  W est, 
notably  Illinois,  estimates  of  the out­
put  are  being  reduced,  owing  to  the 
uneven  condition  of  the  crop.  A t 
present  there  is  little  disposition  on 
the  part  of  either  buyers  or  sellers 
to  enter  into  fresh  engagements.  To­
matoes  are  being  held  back  by  the 
low  temperature  and,  unless  Old  Sol 
soon  asserts  himself,  the  pack  will

be  very  small.  A   California  report 
says  that  a  week  or  ten  days  will 
practically  tell  the  story  so  far  as 
the  fruit  pack  is  concerned  and  can- 
ners  will  then  be  able  to  know  with 
some  definiteness  what  their  deliver­
ies  will  be.  Many  packers  have  an­
nounced  that  they  will  deliver  but 
50  per  cent,  in  peaches,  particularly 
in  everything  below  extras. 
Some 
expect  to  make  full  deliveries  on both 
sizes  of  extra  peaches  and  on  pears 
and  apricots.  Prices 
for  Eastern 
fresh  peaches  have  been  good  and 
crop  conditions  in  the  immediate  vi­
cinity  of  Eastern  packing  sections 
have  been  such  that  Baltim ore.  and 
other  packers  will  not  have  as  many 
goods  to  offer  as  might  otherwise 
have  been  the  case.

Dried  Fruits— A   new  syndicate  has 
bought  the  carry-over  of  raisins  and 
has  named  new  prices  on  them.  The 
syndicate  opened  the  way  for  shrewd 
buyers  to  pick  up  a  lot  of  raisins  a 
week  or  two  in  advance  at  much, low­
er  prices.  These  are  now  offered at 
about  J."2c  below  the  syndicate’s  new 
prices.  Currants  are  unchanged.  The 
first  of  the  new  crop  has  reached 
the  New  Y ork  port  during  the  past 
week.  Prunes  are  selling  in  a  small 
way  at  unimproved  prices.  Peaches 
are  scarce.  The  available  stock  seems 
to  be  all  bought  up  and  the  situation 
is  strong.  Apricots  are  likewise 
in 
a  strong  position.

Syrup  and  Molasses— Glucose  has 
declined  10  points  during  the  week, 
in  spite  of  the  advancing  corn  mar­
ket.  Competition  among  manufac­
turers  is  the  cause.  A s  yet  no  change 
has  been  made  in  the  price  of  com­
pound  syrup,  and  whether  any  will 
be  is  quite  uncertain.  The  demand 
for  compound  syrup  is  fair.  Sugar 
syrup  is  in  excellent  demand  for  ex­
port,  and  fairly  active  for  home  con­
sumption.  Prices,  are  well  maintain­
ed  and  unchanged.  Molasses  is  quiet 
and  unchanged.  The  first  barrel  of 
new  crop  cane  juice  has  been  re­
ceived  in  N ew  Orleans,  and  sold  at 
$1  per  gallon.

been 

Provisions— There  has 

is  scarce,  owing  to  the 

no 
change  in  smoked  meats  during  the 
week.  The  demand  has 
fallen  off 
considerably,  but  is  still  large.  Pure 
lard 
large 
demand  and  the  high  price  of  hogs. 
The  price  is  likely  to  advance.  Com­
pound 
is  unchanged,  but  will 
naturally  follow  lard  in  whatever  that 
does.  Barrel  pork  is  unchanged  and 
in  good  demand.  Dried  beef  is 
in 
good  demand  at  unchanged  prices. 
Canned  meats  are  unchanged 
and 
quiet.

lard 

H oratio  B.  Lewis,  form erly  Mana­
ger  of  the  Elk  Rapids  Iron  Co.,  but 
for  the  past  year  engaged  in  exploit­
ing  a  new  lumber,  manufacturing and 
agricultural  enterprise  in  Cuba,  has 
returned  to  this  country  and  formed 
an  alliance  with  W m.  H.  W hite  & 
Co.,  the  Boyne  C ity  lumbermen.  Mr. 
Lewis  will  make  Boyne  City  his 
headquarters,  but  will  continue 
to 
reside  in  Ypsilanti,  where  his  family 
was  located  while  he  was  absent  in 
Cuba.

It  takes  a  man  to  draw  the  map of 

a  woman’s  heart.

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Window 
T r im m in g

light  in  chewing  chunks  of,  but  for 
these  many  deceased  insects  to  be so 
a 
close  to  the  ground  drug—well, 
possible  mix-up  was  really  not 
a 
pleasant  thought  to  thrust  upon  the 
passer-by.

Autumn  Fancies  Seen  in  Local  Store 

Fronts.

The  time  seems  to  have  gone  by 
when  one  may not cast  a  surreptitious 
glance  into  a  handsome  store  win­
dow,  and,  judging  by  the  crowds  that 
the 
stand  continually  in  front  of 
store  fronts— crowds 
composed  of 
all  sorts  and  conditions  of  humans—  
it  must  even  be  permissible  to  look 
at  the  displays  behind  the  glass  a 
longer  time  than  a  stolen  glance  im­
plies.

Certainly,  the  merchandise  of 

the 
dry  goods  and  kindred  stores  daily 
becomes  more  beautiful,  and  if  one 
iooks  with  an  intelligent  eye  at  the 
objects  placed  for  his— mostly  her—  
inspection  much  of  interest  may  be 
learned.

Grand  Rapids’  stores  are  paying 
more  attention  to  harmony  of  colors 
than  used  to  be  the  case;  and  incon­
gruous  articles  are  not  so  often  seen 
in  proximity.  Also  more  care 
is 
given  to  the  detail  of  cleanliness,  al­
though  that  was a faux pas, in a recent 
Monroe  street  drug  store  exhibit  of 
different  sorts  of  licorice,  which  al­
lowed  hundreds  of  dead  flies  to  accu­
mulate  on  the  window 
all 
around  the  powdered  licorice.  This 
condition  would  not  have  mattered so 
much  as  to  the  stick  form,  or 
the 
hard  black  stuff  that  the  children  de­

floor 

Of  course,  it  is  hard  to  keep  things 
immaculate 
in  a  dusty  town— every 
one  knows  that— but  when  the  things 
displayed  in  a  window  are  intended 
for  the  consumption 
of  mankind, 
either  as  food,  beverage  05.  drug, 
those  who  have  the  care  of  such 
should  see  to  it  that  nothing  in  the 
nature  of  dirt 
is  allowed  to  come 
in  contact  with  them.  This  should 
go  without  saying,  but  I  am  sorry  to 
state  that  if  one  steps  but  casually 
into  any  store  that  caters  to  the 
inner  man  he  ia  sure  to  be  confronted 
with  disgusting  spectacles  that  cause 
him  to  register  a  solemn  vow— men­
tally,  of  course— never  to  buy  a  pen­
ny’s  worth  of  stuff  in  such-and-such a 
department  again.  These  things ought 
not  be,  but  I  suppose  we  must 
go  on  till  the  end  o’  time  and''eat 
things  with  our  eyes  shut.

I  heard  a  man  say,  the  other  day, 
that  if  he  ran  an  eatables  store  he 
would  paste  up  a  most  rigid  set  of 
I rules  as  to  personal  cleanliness  and 
I care  of  goods,  on  the  part  of  his 
clerks,  and  any  one  known  to  in­
fringe  one  of  them  should  instantly 
be  discharged.

I  am  thinking  this  man’s  store 
would  look  pretty  lonesome  behind 
the  counters  about  313  days  of  the 
year!

*  *  *

But  I  started  out  to  speak  of  a

more  agreeable  topic  than  the  aver­
age  grocery  store,  and  somehow  the 
trolly  got  off  the  wire.
*  *  *

Last  week  I  mentioned  the  neat 
jewelry  exhibit  of  W.  D.  Werner,  op­
posite  the  Morton  House.  To-day 
the  arrangement  of  his  goods  is  even 
more  attractive.  The  larger  part  of 
the  window  floor  is 
covered  with 
some  soft  white  cotton  stuff  and one 
section  presents  a  patch  of  old-fash­
ioned  blue  delaine,  in 
a  medium 
shade.  Boxes,  four  or  five  of  them, 
are  placed  underneath 
these  mate­
rials,  giving  variety  as  to  the  way 
objects  may  be  placed.  Men’s  open­
ed  hunting-cases  to  the  number  of 
fourteen  occupy  one  of  the  covered 
boxes,  while  thirteen  ladies’  watches 
with  similar  cases  are  displayed  on 
the  blue  cloth.  All  are  laid  in  the 
same  position  as  to  the  beholder,  giv­
ing  the  appearance  of  even  a  larger 
number.  Two  clocks  catch  the  eye 
and  a  small  silver*  tray  and  things 
for  serving  tea,  also  a  unique  card 
holder,  in  shades  of  bronze 
and 
green.  Some  Du  Barry  chatelaine 
fobs  for  the  Fair  Sex  are  very  pret­
ty,  and  one  o*her  is  especially  so, 
very  dainty,  made  of  gold  in  such  a 
manner  that  the  little  points  shine 
like  jewels.

4  *  *

Several  of  Herpolsheimer’s  win­
dows  were  covered  with  white  can­
vas,  indicating  that  something  was 
doing  behind  it  in  the  way  of  new 
decorations.  One  of  the  large  side­
walk  show  cases  contains  beautiful 
white  doilies  in  drawn  work,  hun­

dreds  of  “Tenerife  wheels”  being  em­
ployed  in  the-borders.  These  wheels 
have  sprung  into  great  prominence 
during  the  past  year,  both  for  use 
with  linen  in  articles  for  the  dining 
100m  and  alone  and  in  combination 
with  other  designs  for  the  embellish­
ment  of  ladies'  dresses, 
cloaks,  un­
derwear.  One  even  sees  them  on 
hats.  Said  originally  to  be  hand 
made 
the 
women  inhabitants  of  Tenerife,  one 
of  the  Canary  Islands,  it  is  to  be 
doubted  if  the  profusion  now  shown 
on  every  side  ever  felt  the  touch  of 
a  Tenerife  Islander’s  fingers.  The 
machinery  of  another  nation, 
or 
nations,  has  probably  been  called  into 
play.

the  poorer 

by 

of 

Who  that  stopped  to  feast  the  eyes 
on  the  glove  display  of  the  Herpol- 
sheimer  Co.,  fronting  the  entrance, 
but  just  ached  to  catch  up  the  big 
pieces  of  white  and  cream  real  kid, 
such  as  “handsehuhen”  are  made  of, 
and  softly  stretch  out  the  delightful 
stuff!  The  gray  “undressed”  piece 
isn’t  so  “temptizing,”  owing  to  the 
darker  tint  and  the  rougher  feel.  One 
the 
could  envy  the  daily  seller  of 
beautiful  finished  product— if 
one 
“forgot  to  remember”  how  tired  her 
fingers  are  at  nightfall, 
the 
countless  trying  on— the  working  of 
obstreperous  big  hands  into  gloves 
that  the  buyer  insists  will  be  “big 
enough.”  One  pair  of  white  gloves 
is  fit  for  a  duchess— such  dear  little 
stitching  on  the  back  in  green  and 
white! 
such 
name,  is  given  as  that  of  the  manu­
facturer.

“Roeckl,” 

some 

from 

or 

The Smile That Won’t  Come  Off

The  Smile  that  means  delight  and  mirth, 

The  Smile  that  beams  around  the  earth, 

The  Smile  that  smiles  for  all  it’s  worth—  

The  Smile  That  W on’t  Come  Off.

The  Smile  that  widens  in  delight,

That makes  all  frowns  fly  out  of  sight,

The Quaker Oats Smile-

th a t’s  all  right!

The  Smile  That  W on’t  Come  Off.

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And  the  bags!  Who  can  resist  their 
prettiness?  But,  my  goodness,  how 
they  cost! 
If  one  sets  out  to  get 
an  appropriate  money  holder  for each 
of  her  gowns,  or  for  the  prevailing 
color  of  the 
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gowns,  she  can  make  more  than  a 
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can  simply  swamp  it!  A  capacious 
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It  has  a  blafck  lining  of  moire  and  all 
the  little  pockets  of  folderols  inside 
— very  nice  for  a  dressy  old  dowager 
but  too  sensible  for  a  younger  wom­
an.  Two  of  the  bags  are  similar  in 
size  and  shape,  rather  small  and  box 
like.  One  is  a  delicate  sage  green, 
the  other  a  warm  brown,  really  bor­
dering  on  the  burnt  orange.  And 
that  big  alligator  skin— big  but  not 
too  big!  Ah,  what  a  love  of  a thing, 
with  its  smooth,  shining  edges  and 
its  rough 
is 
something  xbout  this 
coarse 
leather  that  one  simply  can’t  g'et 
away  from— to  see  is  to  be  seized 
with  the  most  maddening  desire  to 
possess!  This  love  of  a  bag  is  lined 
with  a  white  moire,  sprinkled  with 
soft  pink  wild  roses  and  the  accom­
panying  greenery  of  their  delicate 
foliage.

center!  There 

rich, 

piny 

If  only  the  kid  skins  and  the  gloves 
and  the  bags  had  been  put  into  this 
outside  show  case  it  would  have  been 
perfection,  but  some  one  threw  in 
two  suede  belts  garish 
in  color—  
utterly  at  variance  with  the  rest  of 
the  contents— one  of  them  a  dread­
ful  green  green  and  the  other 
a 
Royal  blue,  spoiling  the  whole  thing. 
Too  bad.

*  *  *

That  boy  who  stands,  sits  or  re­
clines  in  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.’s  al­
ways-interesting  west  window  must 
be  something  of  an  actor, 
for  he 
makes  of  himself  whatever  suits  the 
caprice  of  his  master,  the  window- 
man.  Last  week  he  was  sleeping— 
with  his  eyes  wide  open— in  a  volum­
inous  canvas  sack  for  hunters’  use. 
To-day  he  lounges  on  a  box  in  the 
center  of  a  display  of  goods  of  spe­
the 
cial  attraction  to  devotees  of 
pigskin. 
guns 
semicircle  behind  him, 
stand  in  a 
which,  even  if  known  not  to  be  load­
ed,  would  scare  a  woman  dummy  out 
of  her  wits— if  she  had  any  to  lose. 
Men,  women  and  children  are  always 
to  be  found  gazing  at  the  sporting 
goods  exhibited  in  this  window.  They 
seem  to  draw  like  a  lodestone.

Numerous  deadly 

*  *  *

The  Millard  Palmer  Co.  has  a 
quadrilateral  space  done  in  a  quiet 
green  for  the  floor  and  background, 
in  which  is  on  display  a  frieze  of 
popular  magazines,  while  on  the  floor 
lest  copies  of  ‘ The  Foolish  Diction­
ary”  (Gideon  VVurdz) and some forty- 
odd  copies  of  Melvin  E.  Trotter’s 
“Jimmy  Moore  of  Bucktown,”  which 
iatter  is  destined  to  be  of  help  to 
boys— and  older  boys.

Trying  a  More  Plausible  Tale. 
The  lady— That 

isn’t 
story  you  told  me  before.

the 

same 

The  beggar— No,  lady;  you  didn’t 

believe  the  other  one.

Some  men  can’t  even  tell  the  truth 

without  lying  about  it.

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TR AN SFO R M ATIO N   O F  JAPAN.
The  transformation  of  Japan,  from 
the  condition  of  an  Oriental  despot­
ism  steeped  in  Eastern  superstition 
and  virtually  enveloped  in  barbarism, 
to  be  an  empire  with  a  constitutional 
government,  conducted  on  the  high­
est  principles  of  popular  justice,  with 
the  most  modern  enlightenment  in 
public  and  private  affairs,  the  entire 
wonderful  change  having  taken  place 
in  little  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  cen­
tury,  is  one  of  the  most  astonishing 
facts  in  the  history  of  civilization.

in  the  country 

The  original  government  of  Japan 
made  it  a  sort  of  religious  despotism. 
The  Mikado  was  theoretically  an  ab­
solute  monarch  having  the  power  of 
life  and  death  over  his  people,  but 
held  in  such  sanctity  that  he  had  vir­
tually  no  communication  with  them. 
He  reigned  through  the  Shogun,  an 
official  appointed  by  the  Mikado,  and 
vested  with  supreme  military  power. 
In  the  course  of  time  the  Shoguns 
absorbed  the  whole  of  the  governing 
power,  civil  as  well  as  military,  and 
the  Shoguns  being  appointed  from 
among  the  powerful  nobles  or  chiefs, 
a 
there  grew  up 
governing  class  which  regarded 
the 
Shoguns  as their immediate superiors 
and  the  Mikado  as  a  sort  of  sacred 
individual  who  was  kept  in  seclusion.
Thus  it  came  about  that  the  Mika­
do  was  the  nominal  ruler  of  the  coun­
try,  but,  although  he  was  treated 
with  the  greatest  respect,  was  in  real­
ity  a  prisoner  in  his  palace  at  Kyoto. 
The  country  was  divided  into  numer­
ous  principalities,  which  were  more 
or  less  independent.  Japan  was  an 
empire  in  name,  but  no  longer  an  em­
pire  in  fact.  Thus  the  land  was  ruled 
by  a  number  of  great  feudal  chiefs, 
who  were  supported  by  their  armed 
retainers,  the  samurai, 
soldier 
caste  of  Japan.  The  autonomous ter­
ritories  of the  great  nobles  were  ruled 
on  different  principles— they  possess­
ed  their  own  laws,  finances  and  regu­
lations.  There  was  consequently,  per­
haps,  less  unity  in  Japan  then  than 
there  is  at  present  in  China.

the 

In  the  absence  of  a  powerful  cen­
tralizing  influence,  the  country  had 
become  divided  against 
the 
formerly  unquestioned  authority  of 
the  Shoguns  had  been  shaken  and 
gravely  compromised, 
the  nobles

itself; 

were  intriguing  for  power,  the  people 
were  arbitrarily  and  harshly  treated, 
feudalism  felt  the  ground  heave  and 
give  away  under  its  pressure.

The  numerous  Daimios,  the  great 
feudal  lords  of  Old Japan, were gener­
ous  patrons  of  literature  and  art,  and 
strove  to  make  their  residences  not 
only  seats  of  power,  but  also  centers 
of  learning.  From  these  learned  cir­
cles  the  ultimate  revolt  against  the 
Shoguns’  usurpation  took  its  begin­
ning.  In  1715  the  Prince  of  Mito  fin­
ished,  with  the  assistance  of  a  host  of 
scholars,  his  great  work,  “ Dai  Nihon 
Shi,”  or  history  of  Japan.  This  class­
ical  work  was  copied  by  hand  by  in­
dustrious  students  and  eager  patriots, 
the 
and  was  circulated 
empire,  being  printed  only  in 
1851- 
It  is  characteristic  of  the  spirit  of 
intense  and  reflective  patriotism  of 
Japan  that  this  celebrated  compila­
tion,  which  gave  an  account  of  the 
decay  of  the  Mikado’s  power  and  of 
the  usurpation  by  the  Shoguns,  be­
came  the  strongest  factor 
the 
eventful  overthrow  of  the  Shogunate, 
in  the  re-establishment  of  the  Mika­
do’s  power,  and  in  the  unification  of 
the  empire.

throughout 

in 

The  result  of  this  agitation  was 
that  in  1867  the  ruling  Shogun  vol­
untarily  resigned  his  position,  and the 
office  was 
finally  abolished.  The 
present  Mikado,  Mutsu  Hito,  who 
was  then  in  power,  was  thoroughly  in 
sympathy  with  the  reformers,  and on 
the  17th  of  April,  1869,  he  took  be­
fore  the  Court  and  the  Assembly  of 
Daimios  the  charter  oath  of  five  arti­
cles,  which  in  substance  were  as  fol­
lows:

1.  A  deliberative  assembly  shall  be 
formed,  and  all  measures  shall  be  de­
cided by public  opinion.
2.  The  principles  of  social  and  po­
litical  science  shall  be 
constantly 
studied  by  both  the  higher  and  lower 
classes  of  the  people.
3.  Everyone  in  the  community  shall 
be  assisted  in  obtaining  liberty  of  ac­
tion  for  all  good  and  lawful  purposes.
4.  All  the  old,  absurd  usages  of 
former  times  shall  be  abolished  and 
the  impartiality  and  justice  which  are 
displayed  in  the  working  of  nature 
shall  be  adopted  as  the  fundamental 
basis  of  the  State.
5.  Wisdom  and  knowledge  shall be 
sought  after  in  all  quarters  of  the  civ­
ilized  world,  for  the  purpose  of  firm­
ly  establishing 
foundations  of 
Empire.

the 

Thus  the  Mikado  identified  himself 
with  the  cause  of  reform,  pledged  the 
nation  to  progress,  and  made  the  suc­
cess  of  the  movement  towards  the 
modernization  of  Japan  a  certainty. 
Henceforth  the  whole  of  the  nation 
strove  for  progress  and  enlighten­
ment  with  that  passionate  will-power 
and  singleness 
not 
found  outside  Japan.  It  is  not  neces­
sary  to  detail  the  various  steps  of 
progress  made  in  organizing  the  gov­
ernment. 
It  is  enough  to  say  that a 
house  of  parliament  was  established 
to  which  the  members  are  chosen  by 
popular  elections.

purpose 

of 

Colleges  and  universities  were 
founded,  and  professors  and  teachers 
were  drawn  from  Europe  and  Ameri­
ca,  while  young  men  were  sent  to  the 
most  advanced  foreign  countries  to 
study  every  branch  of  learning  and 
science,  warfare  on  land  and  sea,  and 
whatever  else  could  be  of  value  to

the  country.  To-day,  Japan  has  its 
own  military  and  naval  schools,  it 
makes its  own  cannon  and  small arms, 
which  are  of  superior  quality,  and its 
own  gunpowder  and  other  explosives, 
which  are  not  surpassed  in  destruc- 
tive  power  by  those  of  any  other  na­
tion,  while  the  Japanese  armies  and 
navy  have  proved  themselves  to  be 
most  skillful 
in  war  and  wondrful 
fighters.

Japan  is  the  only  Oriental  country 
in  which  constitutional  free  institu­
tions  are  incorporated  in  the  govern­
mental  system,  and  they  have  inspired 
the  people  with  most  distinguished 
sentiments  of  honor  and  patriotism. 
It  has  been  said  in  every  age  that  a 
true  spirit  of  liberty  and  patriotism 
based  on  a  system  of  free  govern­
ment  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the 
creation  of  the  highest  courage  and 
heroic  love  of  country  and  sense  of 
duty.  This  certainly  seems  true with 
regard  to  the  Japanese.  There are no 
Asiatics  like  them  in  those  respects, 
and  they  are  not  surpassed  by  the 
people  of  any  of  the  Western  na­
tions.

The  transformation  of  Japan  must 
be  considered  one  of  the  wonders  of 
the  modern  world.

In 

and 

In  the  ancient  times  Latin  was the 
language  most  recognized. 
the 
last  century  French  was  the  tongue 
most  used  in  diplomacy 
the 
language  most  desirable  for  a  trav­
eler  to  speak  fluently.  There  is  every 
reason  to  believe  this  century  will 
see  the  general  adoption  and  that 
before  its  close  English  will  be  the 
tongue  of  the  business  man  and  the 
diplomat. 
Its  adoption  is  spreading 
rapidly.  For  years  it  has  been  true 
that  an  American  could  go  anywhere 
in  Europe  and  get  along  very  com­
fortably with  no linguistic attainments 
beyond  the  language  of  his  own  coun­
try.  Great  Britain  has  its  colonies 
around  the  globe  and  on  them  the 
sun  never  sets.  There  of  course Eng­
lish  is  the  recognized  language.  The 
Americans  in  recent  years  have  been 
pressing  forward  very  rapidly  and 
successfully  and  have  still  further  in­
troduced  the  same  language.  The in­
crease  of  English  speaking  has  been 
very  noticeable  in  the  last  decade  or 
two  and  is  bound  to  press  still  fur­
ther  forward.  To-day  the  business 
man  who  does  not  speak  English  is 
at  a  disadvantage  in  the  markets  of 
the  world.  Commerce  and  diplomacy 
are  the  two  influences  which  work for 
the  popular  spread  of  any  language 
and  they  are  both  enlisted  very  earn­
estly.  There  are  those  who  believe 
that  one  day  all  the  inhabitants  of 
the  world  will  speak  English,  but  of 
necessity  that  day  must  be  very  far 
distant.  The  growth,  however, 
is 
very  perceptible.

In  a  number  of  the  leading  stores 
of  Edinburgh  and  Glasgow  there  is a 
notice:  “Americans  not  served  here.” 
Yankee  shoppers  used  to  cause  the 
proprietors  and  their  assistants 
to 
turn  the  shops  topsy-turvy  until they 
looked  like  a  rummage  sale  and  then 
would  elevate  their  noses  and  “guess 
we’ll  try  somewhere  else.”  Hence  the 
notice.

CAN ADIAN   CANALS.

They  began 

The  Canadians  have  been  much 
more  progressive  than  Americans  in 
the  construction  of  artificial  water­
ways.  They  are  keeping  at  it  right 
busily. 
seventy-five 
years  ago  canalizing  natural  water 
courses,  but  internal  dissensions, lack 
of  funds  and  opposition  for  various 
reasons 
in  and  out  of  Parliament 
have  caused  delay,  but  during  the 
last  decade  the  enterprises  have  been 
taken  up  with  renewed  interest.  For 
example,  the  Trent  waterway  covers 
a  total  distance  of  203  miles,  165  of 
which  are  now  navigated  by  steam­
boat  and  only  three  miles  of  actual 
canal  remain  to  be  dug  before 
it 
will  be  open  from  end  to  end.  It  ex­
tends  from  the  Georgian  Bay  to  the 
Bay  of  Quinte,  which  is  an  arm  of 
Lake  Ontario,  and  will  offer 
the 
shortest  water  route  for  grain  from 
the  Northwest  to  tidewater. 
is 
over  700  miles  shorter  than  via  the 
Erie  Canal  to  New  York.

It 

lock 

One  of  the  great  engineering  feats 
lift 
recently 
is  the  hydraulic 
put  into  service 
at  Peterborough,
'  Ont.,  where  a  fall  of  65  feet  has  been 
-overcome  by  the  construction  of  a 
single 
lock  operating  automatically 
and  doing  the  work  of  five  ordinary 
locks.  There  are  similar  devices  in 
England,  France  and  Belgium,  but 
this  is  the  first  cn  this  continent.  The 
Canadians  are  especially  proud  be­
cause  it  was  designed  and  built  en­
tirely  by 
their  own  people.  By 
means  of  it  steamers  and  800  ton 
barges  are  easily  handled.  The  man­
ifest  object  of 
the  Canadians  of 
course  is  to  control  the  transporta­
tion  of  grain  and  other  products  from 
the  Great  Northwest  to  tidewater, 
realizing  that  the  question  of  com­
mercial  supremacy  is  involved  in  that 
achievement.  The  millions  of  money 
spent  in  the  province  for  these  pur­
poses  would  lose  much  of  its  effec­
tiveness  if  there  were  a  ship  canal 
from  Oswego  via  the  Mohawk  and 
Hudson  Rivers  to  New  York,  so  that 
steamers  of  reasonable  size  could  go 
from  Duluth  to 
tidewater  without 
breaking  bulk.  That  would  be  the 
most  direct  channel  and  the  cheapest 
and  hence,  of  course,  it  would  do  the 
greater  part  of  the  business.  The 
United  States  is  waking  up  to  the 
importance  of  water  transportation 
and  in  time  will  provide  the  facilities.

time 

Sunday  evening  a  man  went  along 
Avenue  B  in  New  York,  followed  by 
a  great  concourse  of  cats  of  all  col­
ors  and  kinds.  They 
rubbed  up 
against  him  and  manifested  the  most 
intense  delight.  For  a 
the 
crowds  attracted  by  the  unusual  spec­
tacle  could  not  understand  how  the 
man  had  hypnotized  the  felines,  but 
it  was  soon  discovered  that  he  was 
scattering  catnip  as  he  moved  along. 
The  fellow  was  taken  to  a  police  sta­
tion,  all  the  cats  following  him,  and 
fighting  their  way  into  the  cell 
to 
which  he  was  assigned.  The  police 
had  hard  work  getting  them  out.  The 
next  morning  the  man  paid  a  fine  of 
$5,  which  he  seemed  to  consider  a 
small  price  for  the  fun  he  had  ob­
tained.

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

9

SONGS  T H A T   TH R ILLE D .

Famous  Words  and  Tunes  Produced 

by  the  War.

One  of  the  lingering  superstitions 
of  the  war  is  contained  in  a  beautiful 
little  poem  by  Bayard  Taylor:
“Give  vis  a   song,”  th e  soldier  cried,
W hen  the  heated  guns  of  the  cam p  allied

The  outer  trenches  guarding,
Grew  w eary  of  bom barding.
It  is  not  at  all  likely  that  the  sold­
iers  did  anything  of  the  kind.  There 
were  isolated  cases  when  they  broke 
into  a  song  of  triumph  during  battle 
when  the  victory  was  coming  their 
way,  but  those 
be 
counted  on  the  fingers  of  one  hand. 
There  are 
too,  where 
wounded  men,  in  the  supreme  mo­
ment  of  dissolution,  with  the  trans­
figuring  glow  of  another  world  ir­
radiating  their 
songs 
which 
inspired  their  comrades  and 
sent  them  with  renewed  energy  into 
the  conflict,  but  they  also  are  few.

instances  can 

instances, 

faces, 

sang 

When  a  great  conflagration  threat­
ens  human  life  and  endangers  vast 
property  interests  men  do  not  go  with 
songs  on  their  lips  to  put 
it  out. 
When  floods  devastate  populous  dis­
tricts.  rescuers  do  not  set  out  on  the 
boiling  waters 
triumphal 
hymns,  and  the  roar  and  smoke  of 
battle  is  ten  million  times  more  terri­
ble  than  either.

singing 

W hen  th e  bugles  sang  truce 

A nd  th e  night  cloud  had  lowered 

the  men  sank  to  rest  almost  where 
they  stood.  Exhausted  nature  could 
endure  no  more. 
If  perchance  they 
had  themselves  escaped  the  fiery  mis­
siles  all  about  them  were  destruction 
and  death.  Dr.  Root,  in  “Just  After 
the  Battle,”  gives  a  graphic  descrip­
tion  of  the  scene.

“Anthems,” 

Still  upon  the  field  of  b attle 
I  am   lying,  m other  dear,
W ith  m y  wounded  com rades  w aiting 
F or  the  m orning  to  appear.
M any  sleep  to  w aken  never.
In  this  world  of  strife  and  death,
And  m any  m ore  are  faintly  calling 
W ith  th eir  feeble  dying  breaths.
There  were  hundreds  of  people 
who  spoiled  reams  of  nice  white  pa­
per  with  pieces  they  called  “National 
“ Battle 
Odes” 
Hymns  of  the  Republic”  and 
ludi­
crously  pathetic  drivel  of  various 
kinds.  The  trash  in  the  song  world, 
like  drift  in  a  nood,  always  comes  to 
the  surface  at  such  times,  and  like 
driftwood  most  of  it  piled  up  on  the 
shore  and  was  buried  in  the  sands 
of  oblivion.  But  very  few  of 
these 
“pieces”  ever  got  outside  of  the  music 
the 
stores,  and  of  those  that  did, 
good  was  speedily  sifted  from 
the 
bad,  and  that  worthy  to  live  has  be­
come  part  and  parcel  of  the  history 
of  the  great  conflict.

and 

Much  of  the  music  now  known  as 
“War  Songs”  was  not  written  until 
the  war  was  almost  ended.  The  most 
popular  writers  of  music  at  that  pe­
riod  were  Dr.  George  F.  Root,  Chas. 
Carroll  Sawyer  and  Henry  C.  Work, 
and  the  most  famous  of  the  few  war 
songs  was  Dr.  Root’s  “Battle  Cry  of 
Freedom.” 
It  was  written  in  1861 
and  sung  first  at  a  big  “rally”  held  in 
Union  Square,  New  York,  just  after 
the  first  call  for  75,ooo  men. 
It  was 
sung  by  a  male  quartet  and  took  the 
loyal  throng  by  storm. 
It  is  said  by 
those  who  were  there  that  the  sing­
ing  of  the  lines,

W e  are  springing  to  th e  call,  your  broth­

ers  gone  before,

.Shouting  th e  b attle  cry  of  freedom.

And  we’ll  fill  th e  vacant  ranks  w ith  a  

million  freem en  more,

W e  will  welcome 

Shouting  th e  battle  cry  of  freedom,
to  our  num bers 
Shouting  th e  battle  cry  of  freedom,

loyal,  tru e   and  brave.

And  although  they  m ay  be  poor,  not  a  

the 

m an  shall  be  a   slave,

Shouting  the  b attle  cry  of  freedom,

So  we’re  springing  to   th e  call  from   the 

east  and  from   th e  west,

Shouting  th e  b attle  cry  of  freedom.

And  we’ll  hurl  th e  rebel  crew   from   the 

land  we  love  th e  best,

Shouting  th e  battle  cry  of  freedom,

caused  a  frenzied  demonstration  of 
patriotism  that  was  allied  to  insanity 
and  utterly  indescribable.  The  flow­
ing  rhythm  of  the  melody  was  catch­
ing,  and  before  the  third  verse  was 
sung  the  words  of  the  chorus  were 
written  in  every  heart  present  and  a 
great  volume  of  rich  melody  went up 
from  the  throats  of  the  multitude,  as 
all  joined  in  singing  the  grand  rally­
ing  chorus.  The  song  was  from  that 
moment  enshrined  in  the  heart  of 
every  man,  woman  and  child  in  the 
North.  The  marching  columns  car­
ried  it  South  and  it  became  the  one 
great  song  of  the  Northern  armies, 
“John  Brown”  only  disputing  its  su­
premacy.  Of  this  nondescript  father­
less  song  Mr.  R.  H.  Dana,  Jr.,  once 
wrote:  “It  would  have  been  past  be­
lief  had  we  been  told  that  the  almost 
undistinguished  name  of  John  Brown 
should  be  whispered  among  four  mil­
lion  of  slaves  and  sung  wherever  the 
English  language  is  spoken  and  in­
corporated  into  an  anthem  to  whose 
solemn  cadences  men  would  march to 
battle  by  tens  of  thousands.”

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  so  few  of 
the  better  class  of  verse  writers  de­
voted  their  talent  to  the  production 
of  the  songs  of  the  war  period.  But, 
poor  as  the  poetry  usually  was,  if  it 
had  but  a  line  or  two  which  touched 
a  responsive  chord  in  aching  hearts 
it  became  popular  at  once,  and  the 
airs  being  simple  were  easily  learned. 
Very  soon  everybody  in  the  North 
who  was  not  too  busy  reading,  writ­
ing  or  asking  questions  about 
the 
war,  was  singing  about  it  or  playing 
variations  on  the  popular  melodies, 
which  even  the  bootblacks 
in  the 
streets  were  whistling.

The  war  songs  sung  in  the  North 
were  legion.  Those  that  penetrated 
to  the  South  were  very  few  and  not 
many  of  those  were  generally  sung. 
The  men  close  to  the  enemy’s  guns 
were  too  busy  dodging  bullets  and 
returning  guerrilla 
to  attend 
“singing  school.”  The  high  falsetto 
of  rebel  minie  balls  as  they  came 
screeching  through  the  air  was  much 
more  familiar  to  them  than  the  “Star 
Spangled  Banner”  or  “America,”  al­
though  they  in  time  learned  those, 
too.

fire 

vast 

recruiting 

It  was  in  the  North  that  most  of 
the  songs  were  “made.”  The  cities 
became 
stations, 
where  congregated  the  gallant  boys 
of  all  ages  and  from  every  section 
of  the  country.  Mighty  mass  meet­
ings  were  held  nightly  to  discuss  the 
great  problem  of  the  war  and  to 
arouse  the  spirit  of  patriotism  in  the 
hearts  of  the  people.  Glee 
clubs, 
brass  bands  and  drum  corps  vied  with 
each  other  in  entertaining  the  loyal 
audiences,  and  the  effect  that  these 
songs  had upon the people was a prac­

tical  test  upon  their  popularity  and 
Company  after 
longevity  of  life. 
company,  regiment  after 
regiment 
was  formed,  and  as  the  brave  boys 
marched  away  the  new-born  songs 
greeted  them  on  every  side.  Tuneful 
tongues  and  retentive  minds  carried 
those  songs  South.  And  how  the 
“old”  boys  love  to  hear  them  to-day.
They  hear  th e  bugle  pealing  fo rth  
its 
They  listen  to  th e  rolling  of  th e  drum s, 
th e  battle 
th e  songs 
The  fire  is  burning  low,  th e  sentry  lonely 
W ith  slow  and  m easured  step  his  w eary 
All  these  he  seem s  to  see  as  he  listens 
Those  songs  they  san g   upon  th e   old 

brazen  notes,
The  sounding  call 
clash  and  din, 
they  come.
treads
round.
to  those  songs,
cam p  ground.

to  arm s, 
Like  mocking  echoes  w ith 

«

“Wrap  the  flag  around  me,  boys,” 
cried  a  ydung  soldier  who  fell  mortal­
ly wounded  at  Fort  Donelson  on  Feb­
ruary  14,  1862.  His  last  words  were 
carried  home  to  his  friends,  and  on 
that  Dr.  Root  founded  the  song.  Just 
try  singing,

Oh,  w rap  th e  flag  around  me,  boys,
W ith  freedom ’s  sta rry   emblem,  boys,
In  life I loved  to  see  it  wave 
And  now  my  eyes  grow   dim,  m y  hapds 

To  die  were  fa r  m ore  sw eet
To  be  m y  w inding  sheet.
And  follow  w here  it  led.
W ould  clasp  its  la st  b rig h t  shred.

Oh,  T  had  thought  to  m eet  you,  boys, 
On  m any  a  well-won  field
W hen  to  our  starry   emblem,  boys,
The  tr a it’rous  foe  should  yield.
B ut  now,  alas,  I  am   denied 
My  dearest  earthly  prayer,
You’ll  follow  and  you’ll  m eet  th e  foe. 
B ut  I  shall  not  be  there,

and  you  will  open  the  heart  and  un­
lock  the  lips  of  the  grimmest  old  vet­
eran  living.  He  will  tell  you  of  the 
terrible  battle  of  the  Wilderness  and 
how  his  corps,  the  ninth,  was  driven 
back  with  heavy  loss,  but,  reform­
ing,  confronted  the  enemy,  and  how 
in  that  second  charge  his  messmate 
went  down  with  a  bullet  through  his 
lungs  and  only  life  enough  to  gasp, 
“Wrap  me  in  the  flag,  boys,  and  don’t 
let  the  rebs  get  me.”  Or  mayhap  it 
will  be  a  hero  of  Cold  Harbor  or  a 
survivor  of  South  Mountain. 
Sing 
to anv one of these  war-worn  veterans 
one  of  the  pathetic  old  songs  and  he 
will  have  a  reminiscence  ready  for 
you.

“Just  Before  the  Battle,  Mother,” 
was  one  of  the  songs  worn  thread­
bare  in  the  North.  Like  “Just  After 
the  Battle,”  the  poetry  as  poetry  was 
simply  awful.  There  was  a  studied 
effort  at  rhyme  that  was  painful  in 
its  precision  and  a  certainty  of  “jin­
gle”  that  jarred  horribly,  but  these 
were  two  great  songs  of  that  day.

All  the  songs  made  for  the'period 
covering  the  war  were  not  sad  by 
any  means.  One  of  the  notable  comic 
songs,  written  by  Henry  C.  Work 
in  1862  and  sung  on  every  concert 
stage 
in  the  North,  was  “ Babylon 
Has  Fallen,”  and  marked  the  first 
general  participation  of  the  negroes 
in  war:
Don’t   you  see  de  black  cloud  risin’  over 

darkeys

W har  de  m assa’s  old  plantation  am ? 

N ebber  you  be  frightened,  dem   is  only 
Come  to  jine  and  fight  for  Uncle  Sam.
D on't  you  see  de  lightnin’  flashin’  in  de 
Like  as  If  we’s  gwine  to  hab  a   storm ? 
No!  you  is  m istaken,  ’tis  de  darkeys’ 

cane  brake.

yondah,

bayonets

An’  de  buttons  on  d ar  uniform

de  tunder,

W ay  up  in  de  corn  field,  w h ar  you  hear 

D a t  is  our  ole  fo rty-p o u n d er  gu n ;

W h en   de  sh ells  is  m issin ’ ,  den  w e  load 

w id  punkins.

All  de  sam e  to  m ake  de  cow ards  run.

Look  out  d ar  now,  we’s  gwine  to  shoot!
Look  out  dar,  don’t   you  understan ’? 
Babylon  has  fallen,  Babylon  has  fallen. 
A n’  we’s  gwine  te r  occurpy  de  lan’.
It  took  like  wildfire  and  was  much 
the 
it  most 

sung  in  the  South 
“Johnnies,”  who  hated 
heartily.

taunt 

to 

One  of  the  topical  songs  of 

the 
North,  issued  in  ’63  by  Henry  Work, 
was  “Corporal  Schnapps.” 
It  was so 
full  of  homely  pathos  and  contained 
such  a  graphic  picture  of 
life 
“down  South”  that  everybody  sang it: 
Mine  h eart  ish  broken  into  little  pits,
Mine  schw eetheart,  von  coot  p atrio t  kirl. 
I  fights  for  her  der  patties  m it  der  flag,
P u t  now  long tim e  she  nix  rem em bers me, 

I  tells  you,  friendt,  v a t  for,
She  trives  me  off  m it  te r  war.
I  schtrikes  so  prave  a s  I   can.
A ndt  coes  m it  another  m an.

the 

I  m arch  all  tay,  no  m atter  if  te r  schtorm  
P e  m ore  ash  M oses’  flood,
lays  all  night  m ine  headt  upon  a 
I 
A ndt  s-i-n -k -s  to  schleep  in  der  m udt. 
They,  kives  me  h a rt  pread,  tougher  a s  a 

schtum p

It  alm ost  preaks  m ine  shaw ,

I  schplits  him   som etim es  m it  an 

iron 

rock,

wedge

A ndt  cuts  him   opp  m it  a   saw.

They  kives  m e  peaf  so  ferry,  ferry   salt, 
Like  Sodom’s  wife,  you  know,
I  surely  dinks  dey  p u t  him   in  der  prine 
Von  hundred  years  acoe.
Everybody  who  can  remember  any­
thing  about  the  war  will  recall  the 
desolate  Thanksgiving  of  1861.  Thir­
teen  stars  in  the  Union  blue  had  been 
dimmed  by  treason  and 
secession. 
The  federal  troops  had  met  with  re­
pulse  and  disaster  in  every  direction. 
The  South  was  acting  under  its  new 
government  and 
the  breach  was 
growing  wider  each  day,  while  all  the 
strength  and  manhood  of  the  North 
were  rushing  to  dam  the  tide  of  dis­
loyalty  and  disunion.  Then  was  born 
a  song  worthy  of  the  time  and  topic. 
It  was  not  sectional  and  was  sung  in 
Southern  homes  as  well  as  Northern. 
Dr.  Root  composed  and  dedicated  it 
to  the  homes  made  desolate  by  the 
war,  and  it  was  sung  at  a  great 
Thanksgiving  demonstration  in  New 
York  on  that  day:
W e  shall  meet,  but  we  shall  m iss  him.
W e  shall  linger  to  caress  him.

There  will  be  one  vacant  chair;
W hile  we  breathe  our  evening  p ray ’r.

A t  our  fireside,  sad  and  lonely,
Often  will  the  bosom  swell 
At  rem em brance  of  the  story 
How  our  noble  W illie  fell,
How  he  strove  to  bear  our  banner 
In  the  thickest  of  the  fight 
And  uphold  our  country’s  honor 
In  th e  stren g th   of  m anhood's  m ight.

True,  they  tell  us  w reaths  of  glory 
E ver  m ore  will  deck  his  brow,
But  this  only  soothes  the  anguish 
Sweeping  o'er  our  h eartstrin g s  now. 
Sleep  to-day,  O  early  fallen.
In  thy  green  and  narrow   bed,
Dirges  from  the  pine  and  cypress 
Mingle  w ith  th e  tears  we  shed.
Then  on  July  1,  1862,  came  the  call 
for  309,000  more  men!  Hearts 
that 
beat  high  with  hope  that  the  war was 
about  to  end  almost  broke  under  that 
stunning  blow.  Again  the  song  writ­
er  was  equal  to  the  occasion,  and  if 
the  measure  was  mixed  and  the  poet­
ic  feet  sprouted  corns  and  bunions in 
an  effort  “to  get  there”  there  was 
nothing  the  matter  with  the  feet  that 
measured  its  music 
into  marching 
time.  Right  bravely  the  boys  tramp­
ed  away,  and  loyally  they  sung:
W e  are  coming,  F a th e r  A braham ,  three 
From   M ississippi’s  winding  stream   and 
W e  leave  our  plows  and  workshops,  our 
W ith  h earts  too  full  for  utterance,  w ith 

hundred  thousand  more,
from   New  E ngland’s  shore,
wives  and  children  dear,
but  a  silent  tear.

If  you  look  across  the4 hill  tops  th a t  m eet 
Long  m oving  lines  of  rising  dust,  your 
A n d   n ow   th e  w ind  an   in sta n t  tears  th e 
And  floats  aloft  our  spangled  flag 
in 

th e  northern  sky,
vision  m ay  descry,
clou dy  v eil  aside.
glory  and  in  pride.

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If  you  look  all  up  our  valleys  w here  the 
You  m ay  see  our  sturdy  farm er  boys  fast 
And  children  a t  th e ir  m other’s  knees  are 
And  learning  how 
sow 

grow ing  harvests  shine.
form ing  into  line,
pulling  a t  th e  weeds.
and 
ag ain st  th e ir  country’s  needs.

reap 

to 

You’ve  called  us  and  we’re  coming  by 
To  lay  us  down  for  freedom 's  sake,  our 
Or  from   foul  treason’s  savage  grasp  to 
And  in  the  face  of  foreign  foes  its  frag ­
Six  hundred  thousand  loyal  m en  and  true 
W e  are  coming.  F a th e r  A braham ,  three 

Richm ond's  bloody  tide,
brothers’  bones  beside.
wrench  th e  m urderous  blade.
m ents  to  parade.
have  gone  before.
hundred  thousand  more.

Into 

When  at  last  the  North  had  been 
drained  of  its  best  blood  and  still  the 
gaping  hell  of  war  yawned  for  more 
gore  to  feed  its  thirst  the  “draft”  or 
conscripting  and  pressing  into  service 
was  resorted  to.  Many  and  ludicrous 
were  the  incidents  of  this  method  of 
raising  troops,  and  the  crop  of  comic 
songs  with  “drafting”  for  their  theme 
was  unusually 
large.  Only  one, 
“They’ve  Gratted  Him 
the 
Army,”  lived  very  long,  however.  An­
other  which  was  sung  almost  exclu­
sively  in  the  North  and  with  most in­
sulting  emphasis  was, 
“How  Are 
You,  Conscript?”  The  loyal  North 
had  not  much  faith  in  “conscripted” 
soldiers  and  the  boys  down  South 
had  less,  and  the  poor  fellows  led  a 
hard  life  until  they  demonstrated  in 
some  way  the  misapplication  of  the 
doggerel,  which  ran  as  follows:
How  are  you,  conscript!  How  a re   you 
The  provost  m arshal’s  got  you  in 
A  very  tig h t  place  they  say.
Oh,  you  should  not  m ind  it.
N or  breathe  ano th er  sigh,
F or  you’re  only  going  to   Dixie 
To  fight  and—m ind  your  eye.
How  are  you,  conscript?  How  are  you 
You’ll  give  us  all  a   lock  of  your  h air 
Before  you  go  aw ay.
How  are  you,  conscript?  How  a re   you 
I  spose  you  tak e  it  ra th e r  hard,
Since  you’re  your  m other’s  joy.
How  are  you,  conscript?  How  are  you 
H ave  you  got  th ree  hundred  in  green­
To  pony  up  an d   pay?

■  to-day?
backs

m y  boy?

to-day?

to-day?

In  1863,  thinking  that  the  war  was 
about  over,  and  looking  to  the  end, 
the  whole  North  was  singing:
W hen 

Johnny  comes  m arching  home 

again.

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

is 

soldier 

W hen  they  heard  the  joyful  sound,
W hich  our  com m issary  found,
liven  started   from   th e  ground 

The  song  of  all  songs,  however,  to 
the  veteran 
“Marching 
Through  Georgia,”  the  production  of 
Henry  C.  Work,  in  1865.  Age  can 
not  wither  nor  custom  stale  the  infi­
nite  variety  of  ways  in  which  this 
song  is  served  up,  from  the  newsboy 
on  the  street  to  the  tenore  robusto 
who  sings  campaign  songs,  and  from 
Gilmore’s  band  to  Dago  organ  the 
gamut  of  human  and  artificial  instru­
mentalities  is  run  with  varying  suc­
cess.  Since  Sherman  was  “mustered 
out”  the  “boys”  have  taken  a  melan­
choly  delight  in  singing:
B ring  th e  good  old  bugle,  boys.
W e'll  have  an o th er  song;
Sing  w ith  the  spirit 
T h a t  will  s ta rt  th e  world  along;
Sing  it  a s  we  used  to  sing  it,
F ifty  thousand  strong,
W hile  we  w ere m arching through Georgia.
How  the  darkies  shouted
How  the  turkeys  gobbled
How  th e  sw eet  potatoes 
W hile  we  were m arching through Georgia.
Sherm an’s  dashing  Yankee  boys 
Will  never  reach  th e  coast,
So  th e  saucy  rebels  said.
it  was  a  handsom e  boast.
H ad  they  not  forgotten,  alas!
To  reckon  w ith  th e ir  host.
W hile  we  w ere m arching through Georgia.
So  we  cleared  a  thoroughfare 
F o r  freedom   and  h er  train ,
Sixty  m iles  in  latitude.
T hree  hundred  to   th e  m ain;
T reason  fled  before  us.
For  resistance  was  in  vain 
W hile  we  were m arching through Georgia.
The old  general  hated  the  song with 
a  holy  horror.  And  in  Boston,  where 
the  250  bands  and  over  a  hundred 
drum  and  fife  corps  passed  him  in  the 
reviewing  stand  where  he  stood  for 
seven  mortal  hours  listening  to  the 
never-ending  din,  the  tail  end  of  the 
tune  played  by  the  last  band  fairly 
dove-tailing  in  with  the  same  old tune 
played  by  the  next  one  in  line,  the 
general  got  wild  and  swore  a  great 
round  oath  that  he  never  would  at­
tend  another  National  encampment 
until  every  band  in  the  United  States 
had  signed  an  agreement  to  not  play 
“ Marching  Through  Georgia”  in  his 
presence.  That  was  his  last  encamp­
ment.  When  next  the  tune  was  play­
ed  in  his  presence  it  fell  as  a  dead 
march  upon  unheeding  ears.

The  muffled  drum ’s  sad  roll  had  beat 
Charles  E.  Belknap.

The  soldier’s  la st  tattoo.

Bought Out an Entire 
Sobbing Stock of Shoes

A few days ago The Lacy  Shoe  Co.  (wholesale 
shoe  dealers of  Caro who  are  closing  up  their  af­
fairs)  made  us  a  proposition  on  their  stock.  So 
our  Mr.  Waldron  looked  the  whole  thing over  and 
bought  their entire stock  of  shoes  and  shipped 
them  over to  our  Saginaw  warehouse.

This  gives  us  an  opportunity  to  offer  some 
friends 

very  interesting  bargains  to  our  many 
about  the  State.

Would  also call  attention  to  the  fact  that  we 
are State Agents  for  the  celebrated  Lycoming 
and  Keystone  Rubbers  and  have  an  immense 
stock  of new  fresh  goods.

!  Waldron,  flldcrton  & ITfcIzc 
I 
|  

131,133,135 Franklin Street, Saginaw, ltlicb. 

Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers 

j 
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!

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You  Have  Said  There  Is  No  Money  In 

Cutting  Cheese

You were no doubt correct, but there is money in cutting cheese if you use a

Down  With  the  Helm.

A  man  never  drifts  from  worse  to 
bad— it  is  always  from  bad  to  worse. 
No  one  becomes  better  from  laissez 
faire.  No  ship  ever  gains  the  harbor 
with  a  free  rudder.  Good  never  comes 
from  natural  development.  Some who 
read  this  know  what  giving  loose rein 
to  desire,  appetite  or  passion  means. 
A  short  time  ago  you  would  have 
been  shocked  at  the  suggestion  that 
you  would  do  some  of  the  things  that 
are  now  a  common  part  of  your  life. 
You  wandered  farther  and  farther out 
straight  path  until  you 
from  the 
scarcely  recognize 
the 
man  who  walked  in  your  boots  a 
year  or  two  ago. 
Isn’t  it  time  to 
“hard  down”  the  helm  and  bring  her 
up  to  the  wind?  Are  you  willing  to 
take  the  risk  of  running  free  like  this 
for  another  six  months?  Where  will 
you  be  if  you  continue  the  thoughts, 
the  acts  that  have  made  your  life  for 
the  past  six  months  a  walking  night­
mare?  Listen  to  the  fog  bell.  Down 
with  the  helm.— Canadian  Shoe  Jour­
nal.

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H urrah,  hurrah!
H urrah,  hurrah!

W e'll  give  him   a   hearty   welcome  then, 
The  men  will  cheer,  th e  boys  will  shout. 
The  ladies  they  will  all  tu rn   out,
And  w e'll  all  feel  gay  when
Johnny  comes  m arching  home
“When  This  Cruel  War  is  Over” 
was  a  much  sung  song  both  North 
and  South,  and  was  particularly  fruit­
ful  in  parodies.

H eavily  falls  th e  rain,
W ild  are  the  breezes  to-night,

and  the  chorus,

B rave  boys  are  they,
Gone  a t  their  country’s  call.
And  yet,  and  yet,  we  cannot  forget 
T h at  m any  brave  boys  m ust  (all,
was  one  of  the  best  songs  of 
the 
period  and  one  of  the  best  sung  since 
the war.

One  of  the  grand  old  favorites  writ­
ten  in  1864  has  been  growing  in  favor 
with  the  years,  and  half  a  hundred 
grizzled  old  veterans  will  sing  it  all 
night,  alternating  with 
“Marching 
Through  Georgia,”  if you’ll  give  them 
half  a  chorus:

W e’ve  been  ten tin g   to -n ig h t 
On  th e  old  cam p  ground.
M any  are  dead  and  gone.
Of  th e  b rav a  and  th e  tru e 
W ho’ve  left  tn e ir  homes 
O thers  been  wounded 
long.

night.

M any  are  th e  h earts  th a t  are  w eary  to ­
W aiting  for  the  w ar  to   cease;
M any  a re   the  h earts  looking  for  the night 
To  see  the  daw n  of  peace.

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

Utilize  Election  Time  for  Advertis­

ing.

The  time  for  talking  politics  is  at 
hand,  and  the  spellbinders  will  soon 
be  amongst  us,  pouring  forth  impas­
sioned  appeals  to  support  their  vari­
ous  political  candidates.  Then  is  the 
merchant’s  opportunity  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  situation  and  turn  it 
to  his  profit.

One  way  is  to  obtain  pictures  of 
the  various  candidates  for  the  presi­
dency.  Most  of  the  magazines  and 
newspapers  will  contain  their  por­
traits.  Look  up  some  of  the  principal 
criticisms  concerning  the  claims  of 
each  for  election  and  arrange  them 
by  pasting  them  underneath 
their 
several  portraits.  When  this  is  done, 
paste  them  inside  the  show  windows 
where  they  can  be  easily  read.  Above 
all  the  line  of  portraits  put  a  card 
with  the  words  in  large,  plain  letters, 
“Take  Your  Choice.”

Get  a  printed  statement  of 

the 
pluralities  by  popular  vote  and  elec­
toral  vote  of  each  state  for  President 
for  1900.  These  will  be  found  in  the 
newspapers  and  magazines.  Paste  it 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  window. 
Such  statements  are  eagerly  read  be­
fore  election  time,  and  the  people will 
stop  to  read  them.  All  the  passers-by 
will  be  interested  and  by  giving  all 
the  candidates  you  will  escape  the 
criticism  of  being  partisan.

O f  course,  the  end  and  aim  of  all 
this  kind  of  advertising  is  to  draw 
attention  to  the  window  display.

The  windows  should  be  decorated 
neatly  in  red,  white  and  blue,  and 
among  the  shoes  there  should  be  dis­
tributed  cards  with  pertinent  sayings 
combining  election  and  shoe  talk:

You  have  a  choice  for  President. 

We  have  choice  shoes.

We  have  footwear  for  followers  of 

all  candidates.

Vote  for  your  favorite.  He’ll  walk 

easy  if  he  wears  our  make  of  shoes.

To  Voters— Republicans,  Demo­
crats,  Prohibitionists,  Socialists,  Pop­
ulists  will  march  easy  in  the  proces­
sion  if  they  buy  their  shoes  here.

Election  Bets.  Bettors  will  find  our 
shoes  better  than  all  others  to  pay 
bets.

These  cards  can  be  written  by 
hand,  in  large  letters,  and  often  at­
tract  more  attention  to  them  than  if 
they  were  printed  in  type.

Another  plan  is  to  use  the  cards 
for  distribution  amongst  the  crowds 
that  gather  at  the  various  meetings. 
Take  each  saying,  print  on  small  sep­
arate  cards,  with  the  firm  name  and 
address  at  bottom 
circulate 
them  at  intervals.  The  cost  of  the 
whole  series  would  be  trifling  and 
the  results  in  increased  trade  would 
undoubtedly  be 
satisfactory.— Shoe 
Trade  Journal.
How  Careless  Habits  Handicap  Busi­

and 

ness  Men.

Did  you  ever  notice  a  woman  go­
ing  about  with  an  occasional  hook 
which  was  astray  from  its  eye,  or 
feel  an  impulse  to  tell  some  man  you 
meet  to  keep  his  clothes  buttoned  up? 
There  are  some  people  whose  shoe­
laces  are  continually  dragging,  and 
if  they  have  strings  about  them  any­
where  they  are  always  untied.

In  mental  and  commercial  habits

the  number  of  business  slovens  who 
neglect  their  work,  leave  it  half done, 
or  by  putting  it  off  let  the  job  get 
so  mouldy  as  to  be  not  worth  atten­
tion,  is  much  greater  than  one  can 
appreciate  who  does  not  occasional­
ly  handle  the  work  of  such  botches, 
sluggards  and  triflers.

Ask  the  head  of  any  department  of 
a  considerable  business,  and  he  will 
confess  that  90  per  cent,  of  his  trou­
bles  are  caused  by  people  who  never 
have  any  better  explanation  than  “I 
didn’t  know  it  would  make  any  dif­
ference,”  “I  thought  this  was  good 
enough,”  or  “W hy  didn’t  you  tell  me 
how  you  wanted  it  done?”  These  de­
partment  chiefs  will  tell  you  that 
they  invariably  instruct  their  clerks 
and  subordinates  how  things  should 
thing  must 
be  done, 
be  done  promptly, 
and, 
most  of  all,  completed;  yet  it  makes 
little  difference— slouches  slouch* over 
their  work  still;  just  enough  is  done 
in  an  important  matter  to  lead  the 
man  in  charge  to  believe  that  it  has 
been  attended  to,  while  the remainder 
of  the  task 
left  unfinished  and 
trouble  is  the  result.

that  every 

exactly, 

is 

There  is  always  a  right  way  and  a 
wrong  way  to  do  everything,  and  if 
one  notices  the  easy-going  and  the 
flighty  they  are  almost  certain  to 
take  the  wrong  way.  It  is  bad enough 
to  find  those  about  you  are  complete­
ly  lacking  in  initiative,  but,  under­
standing  this,  one  expects  but  little 
original  cleverness.

It  is  when  the  executive  details  get 
all  mixed  up  that  the  man  in  charge 
of  several  departments  or  a  number 
of  people  is  driven  nearly  crazy.  Men 
in  these  responsible  positions  wear 
out  very  quickly,  not  in  doing  their 
own  work,  but  in  everlastingly watch­
ing  that  the  work  of  others  is  prop­
erly  performed.  Scores  of  these  wor­
ried  men  have  told  me  that  after 
struggling  with  new  office  and  travel­
ing  help  for  months,  sometimes  for 
years,  courteous  and  really clever peo­
ple  have  to  be  discharged  simply  be­
cause  they  can  never, 
figuratively 
speaking,  get  the  hooks,  into  the  eyes, 
the  buttons  into  the  buttonholes,  tie 
strings  so  that  they  will  stay  tied,  or 
shut  doors  so  that  they  will  stay  shut.
In  offices  these  inaccurate  people 
get  accounts  wrong,  dates  mixed  up, 
put  drafts  and  receipts  in  the  wrong 
envelopes,  spell  names 
improperly, 
make  mistakes  in  initials,  forget  to 
push  settlements  when  they  should be 
made,  crowd  customers  when  there 
are  many  reasons  why  they  should 
not  be  crowded,  and,  if  salesmen,  get 
customers  up  to  the  point  of  buying 
yet  fail  to  get  orders,  somehow  miss 
the  people  they  go  to  see,  miss  the 
trains  in  getting  out  of  towns,  miss 
their  appointments,  and  are  continu­
ally  traveling  in  bad  luck.  The  per­
centage  of  these  inconclusive  and  in­
accurate  people  who  ever  succeed  in 
reforming,  after  bad  business  habits 
are  once  formed,  is  exceedingly  small.
The  number  of  men  of  all  varieties 
who  go  into  business  for  themselves 
and  succeed,  I  have  been  told,  is  less 
than  7  per  cent.; 
failures,  of 
course,  include  men  who  have  capital 
and  no  experience,  experience  and no 
capital;  but  the  great  grist  of business

the 

humanity  which  is  continually  being 
ground  to  commercial  powder  by  the 
stern  laws,  unsympathetic,  unyield­
ing,  which  demand  accuracy  and  con­
clusiveness  is  mostly  made  up  of 
those  who  only  half  do  their  work 
and  have  no  distinct  and  absorbing 
purpose.

At  the  seasons  when  the  boys and 
girls  are  home  from  school,  give  each 
one  of  them  some  little  daily  task 
and  see  that  it  is  well  done  before 
the  remainder  of  the  day  is  theirs. 
Don’t  let  them  go  wild  or  drift;  life’s 
sea  is  littered  with  driftwood,  weeds 
and  light  stuff,  blown by  the  wind and 
worn  by  the  waves  in  going  nowhere 
and  being  nothing.

Similar  But  Different.

“Say,  pa,”  queried  the  village  edi­
tor’s  small  son,  “what  is  the  differ­
ence  between  an  amateur  poet  and a 
professional?”

“The  difference,  my  son,”  replied 
the  old  man,  “is  that  one  writes  for 
glory  and  the  other  writes  for  cash.”
“Then  they  have  nothing  in  com­
mon,”  said  the  youthful  information 
seeker.

“Yes,  they  have  one thing in com­
mon,”  replied  his  father,  “and  that is 
their  disappointment.  Neither  gets 
what  he  is  after.”

Percival  B.  Palmer  &  Company

Manufacturers  of

Cloaks,  Suits  and  Skirts 

For  Women,  Misses  and  Children 

197-199  Adams Street,  Chicago

n
J E N N IN G S

Flavoring  EiMs

are  known  by  the

F ru it!

T he  question  of  selling  consum ­
ers  and  peddlers  Flavoring  E x ­
tracts  has  been  brought  to  our  at­
tention,  and we  wish to  state  plain­
ly  that  we  do  not  sell  direct  to 
either  private  consum ers  or  public 
peddlers.

JENNINGS

flavoring extract co-

Grand  Rapids

Merchants’  Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand 

Rapids every day.  Write for circular.

Overalls  and  Coats!

STARUNION

B R A N D

Registered  Trade  Mark.

In  B lue  Denim   from  $4.75  to  $10.00  per  dozen. 

A ll  H igh  Grade.  Union  Made.

G et  O ur  Prices  on  Your  Requirem ents.

Plain  Blue,  W hite,  F an cy  Stripes.  G ood  Goods. 

B etter  Service.  B est  Prices.

H.  R.  S T O E P E L

330-332  Lafayette  Ave. 

Detroit,  Mich.

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

It Will Only Cost You a Cent to Try  It

We would like to buy your eggs each week, so drop 
how many you have for sale and at what price ana 
you ship.  Write  in time so we can either write  or 
can  use them all summer if they are nice.

a postal card to  us  stating 
on what  days  of  the week 
wire  an  acceptance.  We

L. 0 .  SNEDEC0R & SON, Egg  Receivers
_______

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York 

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 of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in 
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchaser.  Also Excelsior,  Nails  and  Flats 
constantly in stock.  Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.  Warehouses ano 
factory on  Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan.  Address

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

Butter,  Eggs,  Apples,  Pears, 

Plums,  Peaches.

I am in the market all the time and will  give  you  highest  prices  and  quick 

returns.  Send me all your shipments.

R.  H IRT.  JR..  D E T R O IT .  MICH.

Poultry Shippers

I  want  track  buyers  for  carlots.  Would  like  to  hear  from  shippers  from 
every point in  Michigan. 
I also want  local  shipments  from  nearby  points 
by express.  Can handle all the poultry shipped to me.  Write or  wire.

William  Andre,  Grand  Ctdge,  Michigan

u t t e r s  Eggs

I  give  below  a  careful 

Observations  of  a  Gotham  E gg  Man.
estimate 
of  storage  accumulations  in  the  cities 
of  Chicago,  New  York,  Boston  and 
Philadelphia:

Chicago 
New  York 
Boston 
Philadelphia 

1904. 
..........   775,000 
. ..  450,000 
..............  176,000 
..  161,000 

Aug.  1,  Sept.  1,  Sept.  1, 
1904. 
1903.
760,000  455.000
360.000
433,000 
172,000 
170,000
161,000 
132,000
T otals 
..........1,562,000  1,526,000  1,117,000
The  statement  of  storage  stocks  in 
New  York  (including  Jersey  City) 
can  be  depended  upon  as  very  nearly 
correct,  as  it  is  based  upon  exact  re­
ports  of  more  than  9°  Per  cent,  of 
the  holdings.  The  Chicago  statement 
is  something  of  an  average  of  various 
reports;  one  source  of  information 
from  that  city,  which  ought  to  be  as 
reliable  as  any,  places  the  quantity 
held  at more  than  800,000  cases,  while 
other  estimates  range  down  to about 
725,000,  including  the  holdings  at the 
stock  yards.  From  the  table  of  re­
ceipts  it  appears  that  Chicago’s 
re­
ceipts  since  March  1  have  been  about 
228,000  cases  more  than  last  year, so 
that  to  account  for  the  indicated  in­
crease  of  over  300,000  cases  in  the 
holdings  on  September  1  we  must 
suppose  the  city  consumption  to have 
been  less,  or  the  proportion  of 
re­
ceipts  shipped  East  to  have  been 
lighter.  The  latter  is  the  more  plaus­
ible  explanation  as,  taking  the  season 
as  a  whole,  the  avidity  for  storage 
eggs  has  been  much  greater  in  the 
West  this  year  than  last,  and  all  re­
ports  have  indicated  a  relatively  free 
Chicago  consumption.

receipts, 

In  an  editorial  last  week  we  took 
occasion  to  comment  on  the  Philadel­
phia  reports  of 
showing 
quite  conclusively  that  they  must  be 
inaccurate.  We  think  it  quite  possi­
ble  that  many  eggs  going  directly  to 
Philadelphia  storage  houses  are  being 
missed  by  the  compilers  of  the  daily 
statistics;  this  is  the  most  probable 
source  of  an  error  in  receipt  state­
ments  which  is  made  evident  by  the 
fact  that  last  year,  under  reported 
receipts  of  85,500  cases 
in  August, 
Philadelphia  reduced  storage  hold­
ings  23,000  cases,  while  this  year,  un­
der  reported  receipts  of  only  67,618 
cases,  the 
stock  remained 
practically  unchanged.  Of  course,  no 
such  decrease  in  August  trade  output 
is  conceivable.

storage 

The  statistics  of  receipts  and  stor­
age  accumulations  in  New  York  indi­
cate  a  considerable  increase  in  total 
trade  output,  in  that  with  an  increase 
of  some  238,000  cases  in  receipts since 
March  1  we  show  now  an  excess  of 
storage  holdings  of  only  about  73,000 
cases.  But  during 
the  month  of 
March  we  had  very  unusual  condi­
tions;  we  had  previously,  for  several 
months,  had  a  very  short  supply  of 
eggs,  prices  were  very  high,  and  the 
masses  of  our  people  used  them  with 
great  economy. 
In  March  our  sup­
ply  became  very  heavy,  prices  fell  to 
reasonable  figures,  and  there  was an 
abnormal  consumption;  so  that  al­
though  our  March  receipts  amounted

to  no  less  than  402,576  cases  .they 
were  all  used  for  consumptive  and 
out-of-town  trade,  and  we  made  no 
permanent  storage  accumulation  until 
after  the  first  of  April.  To  get  at a 
fairer  relation  of  regular  trade  out­
put  therefore  we  must  consider  the 
period  from  April  1  rather  than  from 
March  1;  during  the  five  months from 
April  to  August  inclusive  our 
re­
ceipts  this  year  were  1,964,685  cases, 
against  1,781,113  last  year;  and  de­
ducting  the  storage  stocks  remaining 
each  year  on  September  1  from  these 
figures  wc  get  an  average  daily  out­
put  this  year  of  about  10,000  cases, 
against  about  9,300  cases  last  year.

During  the  month  of  August  our 
statistics  show  an  encouraging  gain 
of  trade  output  as  compared  with  last 
year;  if  our  storage  holdings  made a 
net  decrease  during  the  month  of 17,- 
000  cases  our  output  must  have  been 
equal  to  about  9,800  cases  a  day,  or 
about  68,600  cases  a  week,  while  last 
year  our  August  output  figured  only 
about  58,000  cases  per  week.

is, 

however, 

The  favorable  influence  of 

these 
statistics 
offset  by 
the  evidently  greater  scale  of  produc­
tion  which  has  made  the  August  re­
duction  of  storage  stock  very  small as 
compared  with  last  year,  while 
the 
outlook  for  fall  receipts  is  for  a  mate­
rial  increase.

I  wish  my  readers  to  consider  that 
the  above  calculations  of  output  áre 
not  given  as  exact,  but  simply  as  in­
dications  of  the  facts. 
I  do  not  be­
lieve,  for  instance,  that  our  August 
consumption  of  eggs  has  shown 
so 
great  an  increase  over  last  year  as 
10,600  cases  a  week.  To  arrive  at 
exact  figures  the  relative  out-of-town 
movement  would  have  to  be  known, 
and  also  the  amount  of  accumulation 
in  trade  channels  outside  of  cold  stor­
that  con­
age.  But  the  indication 
sumption  has  been  more  or 
less 
greater  is  perhaps  fairly  reliable.— N. 
Y.  Produce  Review.

Co-Operative  Marketing  of  Eggs  in 

Denmark.

Co-operative  marketing  of 

farm 
produce  is  reduced  to  a  perfect  sys­
tem  in  Denmark.  The  Danish  Co­
operative  Egg  Export  Association 
has  a  membership  of  33,500  farmers, 
divided  into  500  local  societies,  or 
circles,  each  circle  being  an  integral 
part  of  the  central  company  and  sub­
ject  to  the  control  and  supervision 
of  the  central  organization.

Each  circle  has  its  own  by-laws, 
but  such  by-laws  must  conform  to  the 
provisions  of  those  of  the  central  or­
ganization.  Naturally,  therefore,  the 
by-laws  of  the  500  circles  are  quite 
uniform.

Each  circle  collects,  at  its  own  ex­
pense,  the  eggs  produced  on 
the 
farms  of  its  members  and  prepares 
them  for  shipment  to  one  of  the  eight 
general  shipping  centers  at  its  own 
expense.  After  leaving  circle  (the lo­
cal  collecting  center)  all  expenses  are 
born  by  the  company.

Profit  sharing  is  absolute.  To  this 
end  the  company  guarantees  to  pur­
chasers  that  all  eggs  delivered  by the 
company  shall  be  new  laid  and  clean, 
each  egg  being  stamped  by  the  com­
pany’s  registered  trade  mark  for new 
laid  eggs.

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No  circle  of  less  than  ten  members 
is  admitted  to  membership  in 
the 
company.  Each  circle  on  being  ad­
mitted  pays  into  the.  company  135^ 
cents  per  circle  member.  Each  circle 
admitted  is  obliged  to  deliver  all eggs 
collected  from  its  members  to  the 
company.

Eggs  over  seven  days  old  must  not 
be  delivered,  under  penalty  of  a  fine 
of  $1.34  for  the  first  offense  and  dou­
ble  that  for  further  offenses.  A  circle 
must  not  keep  eggs  longer  than  four 
days  after  collection  before  sending 
them  to  a  general  shipping  station 
of  the  company.

The  eggs  must  be  delivered  abso­
egg  must  be 
lutely  clean.  Each 
stamped  plainly  both  with  the  num­
ber  of  the  circle  and  with  the  number 
of  the  member  of  the  circle  delivering 
the  eggs.  Each  circle  must  provide 
its  members  with  stamping  ink  and 
rubber  stamps  bought  of  the  survey­
or  indicated  by  the  company.

Each  member  of  a  circle  must  for­
ward  all  eggs  produced,  except  those 
needed  for  home  consumption  and  for 
hatching.  Eggs  must  be  carefully 
gathered  every  day  and  in  hot  sum­
mer  days  twice  each  day.  Only  arti­
ficial  nest  eggs  must  be  used,  and  the 
nests  must  be  barred  at  night.

Each  circle  is  governed  by  a  circle 
board,  consisting  of  an  uneven  num­
ber  of  members.  This  board  provides 
for  the  expense  of  collection  and  sup­
erintends  crating  for  shipment  to  cen­
tral  stations.  The  eggs  are  shipped 
by  the  500  circles  to  one  of  the  cen­
tral  shipping  stations 
in  ordinary 
cardboard  egg  crates  set 
in  pine 
boxes  of  uniform  size.— United States 
Consul  in  Copenhagen.

Best  Way  To  Pick  Live  Ducks.
In  the  first  place, 

“catch  your 
ducks,”  and  right  here  you  can  make 
a  mistake.  Don’t  excite  and  worry 
the  ducks  into  a  panic,  as  they  get 
terribly  frightened  when 
cornered 
and  will  rush  from  side  to  side  in 
an  effort  to  get  away.

little  along 

After  you  decide  where  you  wish 
to  pick  them  take  some  grain  and 
the 
scatter  a 
toward 
building,  finally  a  little  thrown 
in 
will  get  them,  as  they  are  so  greedy 
that  they  will  rush  in  in  a  body,  for 
they  are  like  sheep— where  one  goes 
the  rest  will  follow.

around 

Then  close  the  door  on  what  you 
think  you  will  have  time  to  pick  that 
morning.  Move 
quietly, 
throw  only  a  little  grain  down  at  a 
time,  and  pick  up  one  while  feeding. 
If  you  can  have  a  small  lath  pen  in 
one  corner,  all  the  better. 
Induce  a 
few  into  it  at  a  time  by  throwing  in 
the  grain,  and  you  can  then  pick  up 
one  readily  without  hardly  disturbing 
the  rest.

Have  a  box  or  stool  to  sit  on,  also 
a  bushel  basket  to  put  the  feathers 
the 
in,  with  a  cloth  thrown  over 
basket  when  you  come  out  in 
the 
wind.  Try  the  feathers  by  pulling  out 
a  few;  if  they  come  out  easily  and 
no  blood  follows  on  the  quill,  they 
are  ready.  You  also  can  notice  when 
it  is  time  to  pluck  them,  they  often 
sit  around  and  work  their  feathers, 
and  you  can  see  scattering  ones  on 
the  ground. 
If  not  ready,  put  the 
duck  out  and  try  another,  as  I  have

found  that  all  will  not  be  alike.
Turn  the  duck  on  its  back,  put  its 
head  under  your 
left  arm,  holding 
its  legs  in  your  left  hand.  Be  careful 
and  not  hold  them  too  tight  and  close 
together.  Their  legs  are  set  quite 
wide  apart  and  are  easily  lamed  and 
hurt.  Pick  a  few  feathers  out  at  a 
time  with  quick,  short  jerks.  Get 
most  of  the  feathers  off  the  breast 
and  under  parts,  leaving 
fine 
down,  not  disturbing  the  back,  for 
the  duck  will  be  apt  to  sunburn  and 
be  a long time  recovering.  The  nicest 
feathers  are  on  the  breast.

the 

Put  the  feathers  into  a  flour  sack, 
not  too  full,  and  hang  them  in  the 
wind  or  by  the  stove  to  dry  out  be­
fore  putting  away.  The  Pekin  duck 
furnishes  such  beautiful  white  feath­
ers  for  pillows  that  if  you  can  have 
time  to  pick  the  old  ones  and  those 
you  intend  to  keep  over  several  times 
in  the  summer  it  will  seem  to  help 
pay  for  the  feed.  Addie  Beardsley.

The  Iowa  Cheese  Industry.

last 

interested 

According  to  the 

report  of 
the  Iowa  Dairy  Commissioner,  there 
are  now  in  that  State  43  cheese  fac­
tories,  which  is  a  decrease  of  9  from 
the  preceding  year.  The  largest  fac­
tory  in  the  State  receives  about 3,000,- 
000  lbs.  of  milk  per  year  and  pays 
for  it  at  the  rate  of  90c  per  100  lbs., 
averaging  up  summer  and  winter. 
The  most  successful  factory  in  the 
State  receives  about  2,000,000  lbs.  of 
milk  per  year  and  pays  for  it  an  aver­
age  of  $1.08  per  100  lbs.  The  differ­
ence  between  these  two  factories  is 
that  one  of  them,  the  smaller,  is  in 
a  dairy  district  and  the  other  is  not, 
and  it  costs  more  to  get  milk  to  the 
large  factory  than  to  the  small  one. 
Other  cheese  factories  in  the  State 
pay  a  generally  lower  average,  some 
of  them  going  down  to  an  average 
It  is  estimated 
of  68c.  per  100  lbs. 
that  the  43  cheese 
factories  make 
about  3,000,000  lbs.  of cheese  per year, 
and  this  sells  for  about  $300,000.  The 
cheese  interest  of  the  State  does  not 
seem  to  be  in  a  growing  condition, 
the  farmers  and  manufacturers  being 
more 
in  making  butter 
than  cheese.  This  is  due  to  several 
causes.  One  is  that  the  price  paid 
for  milk  for  cheesemaking  is  less,  as 
a  general  thing,  than  that  paid  for 
milk  used  for  the  purpose  of  making 
butter. 
In  the  case  of  the  cheese 
factory  also  the  farmer  gets  back 
no  skimmilk,  which  is  a  matter  of 
the  man  who  has 
importance 
calves,  pigs  and  chickens  to  feed. 
If 
this  skimmilk  is  worth  20c  per  100 
lbs.,  as  many  claim  it  to  be  for  feed­
ing  p u rp o se s,  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
price  paid  for  milk  for  cheese  must 
be  very  much  higher  than  the  price 
paid  for  milk  to  be  made  into  butter, 
where 
returned. 
Whether  or  not  a  cheese  factory  can 
compete  with  a  creamery  depends  on 
whether  the  creamery  is  so  situated 
and  so  run  that  it  can  pay  a  good 
price  for  milk.  We  may  say  that 
the  unprofitable 
creamery  makes 
possible  the  cheese  factory  under  the 
present  prices  for  cheese.  Out  of 
the  43  factories  reported  in  the  State, 
28  are  known  to  pay  by  the  test. 
Perhaps  others  do  but  reports  were 
not  received  from  all.

skimmilk 

the 

to 

is 

Butter

Same old story for three years: plenty 
of  rain,  lots  of  feed,  plenty  of  cheap 
butter.  Ship  it  along  anyway,  let s 
get  it  out  of  the  way.

E. F.  DUDLEY,  Owosso, Mich.

S T O R E   Y O U R

A P P L E S

w ith  us  and  get  top  prices 
in  the 
spring. 
L ib eral 
advances  made.

Grand  Rapids

Cold  Storage Co-

N M N N N N N H N N N H N N H « l f l « N N I H I M H M |  

For fifteen  years  I  have  worked  to  build  up  a 

£

Michigan  Cheese 

Good

Trade

I  have  it.  Last  year  I  manufactured  at  my  own 
factories  25,462  boxes  of  cheese,  1,016.000  pounds, 
selling  in  Michigan  23,180  boxes,  or  over  91  per 
cent,  of  my  total  output. 
I  solicit  trial  orders  from 
trade  not  already  using  Warner’s  Oakland  County 
Cheese.  Stock  paraffined  and  placed  in  cold  stor­
age  if desired.
Fred M. W arner, Farmington, Mich.

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14

L O ST   HIS  JOB.

He  Guarded  His  Employer’s  Inter­

ests  Too  Well.

The  clerk  was  a  tall, 

thin,  some­
what  sickly  fellow  with 
a  high, 
shiny  brow  and  a  narrow  chest.  He 
had  been  a  good  boy  from  his  youth 
up.  He  was  one  of  the  ushers  in 
the  Methodist  church  and  had 
a 
class  of  little  girls  in  the  Sunday 
school.

His  name  was  David.
David  had  never  found  his  niche 
in  life.  He  agreed  with  his  mother 
and  his  aunt  that  he  was  fitted  to 
adorn  a  high  place.  Once,  before he 
had  joined  the  church,  he  had squan­
dered  a  quarter  on  a  palmist  who  had 
visited  the  town  as  an  adjunct  of  a 
circus  and, 
that  David  re­
garded  her  as  a  solid-gold  goddess—  
a  rare  experience— she  rewarded  him 
by  prophesying  that  he  would  some 
day  be  a  great  general  with  fierce 
whiskers.

seeing 

So  David  raised  side  whiskers,  and 
it  came  to  pass  that  the  palmist’s 
prediction  was  fulfilled,  for  they  cer­
tainly  were  fierce  all  right.

David  drifted  around  the  town  un­
til  he  had  reached  the  wise  age  of 
22  years  without  settling  himself.  He 
had  done  odd  jobs— “filled  various 
positions,”  as  he  himself  stated  it—  
little  jobs  of  copying,  clerking  and 
so  on,  but  he  had  never  caught  on 
permanently.

Finally  the  town  paper  published 
that  Mr.  David  So-and-So  had  “ac­
Jones  & 
cepted  a  position  with 
Smith, 
grocers 
(whose  advertisement  will  be  found 
on  page  4),  and  would  begin  his 
new  duties  immediately.”

the  well-known 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  David’s  moth­
er  had  hunted  the  job  and  hunted  it 
hard.

Well,  some  months  before 

this 
David  had  joined  the  church  and had 
plunged  headlong  into  sentimental re­
ligiousness.  When  he  “accepted the 
position”  with  Jones  &  Smith, 
the 
grocers,  he  communed  with  himself 
the  night  before  he  begun  his  duties 
and  resolved  that  fidelity  to  his  em­
ployer’s  interests  should  be  his  re­
ligion.

That  was  all 

right,  but  David 
should  have  remembered  that  there 
is  a  limit  to  religion  as  well  as 
to 
the  quantity  of  sugar  that  a  woman 
should  get  for  a  dollar.

to 

brought 

Well,  David 

the 
lowly  work  of  weighing  lard  a  bland 
and  impressive  dignity.  He  bent  his 
meek  glance  upon  the  lady  custom­
ers,  especially  those  whom  he  recog­
nized  as  fellow-members  of  the  Meth­
odist  church,  and  smiled  gently  upon 
them  as  he  gave  them  exact  weight 
and  not  a  hair  over.

Every  grocery  store  is  full  of  co­
quettes— fair 
ladies  who  dally  with 
the  clerks,  not  because  they  wish  to 
ensnare  their  young  affections,  but 
solely  to  the  end  that  they  may  get 
a  couple  of  tomatoes  or  an  ounce  of 
sugar  over.

And  it  works,  too.  The  grocery 
bill  of  the  aged  and  angular  female 
is  always  proportionately 
greater 
than  that  of  her  who  is  plump  and 
pleasing.

That,  I  believe,  is  mainly  why  com­

puting  scales  were  invented.

All  of  these  coquettes  tried  their 
wiles  on  David,  but 
in  vain.  He 
wore  the  armor  of  religious  duty  to 
his  employer  and  the  smiles  of  the 
eager  females  glanced  off  his  hollow 
back  like  blunt  arrows.

They  could  smile  and  beam  and 
make  goo-goo  eyes  to  beat  the  band, 
but  David  gave  a  pound  for  a  pound 
and  a  quart  for  a  quart.

The  first  woman  who  kicked  got 
a  soft  answer,  but  it  didn’t  turn  away 
wrath.

“Why,  Mrs.  Simpkins,”  said  David, 
in  surprise,  “you  would  surely  not 
expect  me  to  give  you  more  than 
you  pay  for. 
If  I  were  to  do  that 
I  should  not  be  doing  my  duty  to 
my  employer.”

The  lady  in  question  kept  a  board­
ing-house  and  had  whiskers  almost 
as  fierce  as  David’s.  She  could  not 
kick  to  the  proprietor  for  extra meas­
ure,  so  she  simply 
loudly 
when  he  wasn’t  around  and  boycot­
ted  David.

talked 

Slowly  David  acquired  the  reputa­
tion  of  being  a  young  skinflint.  He 
would  not  sort  out  the  tomatoes  and 
give  the  best  ones  to  an  insistent  fe­
male  who  stood  over  him,  as  human 
clerks  will,  but  would  give  every­
body  the  good  and  the  bad  as  they 
came.  To  all  suggestions 
to  do 
otherwise  he  returned  the  same  gen­
tle  answer:

“The  bad  ones  must  be  sold, since 
they  are  a  part  of  the  basket,  Mrs. 
Knocker. 
If  I  were  to  pick  out  all 
the  good  ones  for  you  I  would  not 
be  doing  my  duty  to  my  employer.” 
Of  course,  these  are  things  about 
the 
which  you  can  hardly  kick  to 
grocer,  since  they  are  really  schemes 
to  defraud  him,  so  the  women  sniff­
ed  at  David,  insulted  him  by  implica­
tion  and  refused  flatly  to  be  waited 
on  by  him.

The  worst  thing  he  did,  though, 
was  to  charge  the  women  for 
all 
they  ate,  and  that  really  precipitated 
his  finish.

Every  grocer  has  to  put  up  with  a 
lot  of  stuffing  from  his  female  cus­
tomers.  To  be  sure,  he  don’t  like 
it,  but  he  simply  can’t  help  it.  A 
woman  will  stroll  about,  waiting  for 
somebody.to  take  her  order.  She’s 
always  hungry  for  free  eats. 
She 
nips  up  a  bit  of  cheese  or  a  peach  or 
cake  from  an  open  box,  while  the 
grocer  looks  on  helplessly.  He  knows 
that  the  slightest  remonstrance would 
drown  him  in  indignant  feminine  de­
nunciation.

Not  so  with  David,  however.  He 
had  a  duty  to  perform  and  he  per­
formed  it.  No  woman  who  ate  at 
random  had  any  right  to  eat  free 
of  charge,  and  it  was  his  duty  to  his 
employer  to  make  her  pay.

One  day,  soon  after  he  had  reach­
ed  this  heroic  decision,  a  woman  took 
a  peach  out  of  a  basket  and  said, as 
she  thought,  with  delicate  humor, 
“You  can  put  this  in  the  bill,  David.”
David  put  it  in  the  bill,  all  right 
When  she  got  it,  the  woman  was  so 
mad  she  couldn’t  hold  pins  in  her 
the 
mouth.  She  came  rushing  to 
store,  holding  at  arm’s 
length  the 
outrageous  bill  in  which  this  item

stood  out  in  red  fire— “One  peach,
2  cents.”

It  was  on  Saturday  morning,  and 
the  store  was  full.  The  offended 
lady  bore  down  upon  the  proprietor 
waving  her  red  flag,  and  let  out 
a 
cannonade  of  talk  that  held  him 
speechles  for  several  minutes. 
“It’s 
a  pity  if  I  can’t  eat  a  peach  after 
dealing  here  for  twelve  years  and 
paying  my  bills  on  the  spot  every 
Monday!”

And  so  on  and  so  on,  while  a 
horde  of  other  sympathetic  females, 
themselves  good  eaters, 
stood  by. 
David,  who recognized  his  handiwork, 
looked  on  with  the  uplifted  look  of 
him  who  does  his  duty  well.

After  the  grocer  had  wiped  the 
debris  of  the  lady’s  talk  off  his  face, 
he  said:

“Who  charged  Mrs.  Pilligus 

for 

this  peach?”

“I  did,  sir,”  said  David,  remember­
ing  the  prophecy  that  he  was  to 
be  a  great  general.

Before  the  grocer  had  had 

a 
chance  to  say  anything  further,  an­
other  lady  proceeded  to  speak  her 
mind  about  David,  and 
the 
whole  bevy  got  their  little  hammers 
out,  and  David  got  it  good 
and 
proper.

then 

He  had  done  only  his  duty,  but 
there  wasn’t  one  in  the  whole  gang 
who  had  a  good  word  to  say  for 
him.

After  the  experience  meeting  was 

over  the  grocer  observed,  curtly:
“All  right,  ladies,  I’ll  fix  this. 

I 
don’t  think  there’ll  be  cause  for  any 
further  trouble.”

That  night,  which  was  Saturday, 
final  inter­

David  got 
view  was  somewhat  interesting:

fired.  The 

“How  in  the  world  have  you  come 
to  get  all  these  customers  down  on 
you?”  demanded  the  grocer.

“I  don’t  know,  sir,”  replied  David, 
“I  have  endeavored  at 
tremulously. 
all  times  to  do  my  duty. 
I  have  re­
fused  to  give  more  than  the  proper 
weight  and  measure,  because 
I 
thought 
it  would  be  robbing  you, 
and  when  I  saw  customers  taking 
goods  and  eating  them  I  thought  it 
would  be  wrong  not  to  charge  them.”
The  grocer  hadn’t  the  heart  to 
jump  on  him— he 
so  manifestly 
thought  he  had  done  right— so  he 
said  he  thought  he  wasn’t  cut  out  for 
a  storekeeper,  and  David  picked  up 
his  neat  little  hat  and  went  sadly  on 
his  way.

Moral:  What’s  a  feller  to  do?—  

Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

She  Didn’t  Chew  Tobacco.

At  one  of  the  Grand  Traverse Bay 
resorts  there  is  an  old  man  who  is 
something  of  a  character.  He  spends 
a  large  portion  of  his  time  fishing 
from  the  dock  and  it  is  noticed  by 
everyone  that  he  hardly  ever  fails  to 
catch  something,  and  even  although 
everyone  else  in  the  vicinity  is  hav­
ing  bad  luck.  Recently  a  young  wom- 
«an  approached  this  man  and  said  in 
a  coaxing  w a y

“Mr.  F.,  won’t  you  show  me  how 
you  bait  your  hooks,  so  I  can  do 
mine  that  way,  and  then  perhaps  I 
can  catch  something?”

The  old  man  paused  in  his  fishing

long  enough  to  explain  exactly  how 
he  placed  the  bait  on  the  hook.  The 
girl  went  away  and  fished  and  fished 
and  fished,  occasionally  rebaiting  her 
hooks  in  the  manner 
shown.  But 
she  didn’t  catch  anything.  So  again 
she  went  to  the  old  man.

“Oh,  Mr.  F.,”  she  said,  “there  must 
be  some  other  reason  why  the  fish 
won’t  bite  on  my  bait. 
I  wish  you’d 
tell  me  what  it  is.”

The  old  man  looked  up.
“Maybe,”  he  said  in  a  drawling 
tone,  “you  didn’t  spit  on  your  bait.”
The  girl  looked  a  little  bit  dis­

gusted.

“Is  that  what  you  do?”  she  asked.
“Sure,”  answered  the  old  fisher­

man.

The  girl  went  away  and  the  old 
man  had  ten  minutes’  peace.  Then 
she  came  back  again.

“Now,  Mr.  F.,”  she  remonstrated, 
“do  tell  me  why  I  don’t  catch  any 
I’ve  baited  my  hooks  just  the 
fish. 
way  you  bait  yours. 
I  even  spat  on 
my  bait  and  I’ve  fished  faithfully  just 
the  way  you  do.  And I haven’t caught 
anything.  Will  you  tell  me  just  how 
it  is  T  don’t?”

The  old  man  looked  at  her  reflec­

tively.

“I  don’t  know,  miss,  I’m  sure,”  he 
observed,  after  considering  the  ques­
tion  for  a  few  minutes.  “If  you  bait 
your  hooks  just  so  and  if  you  spit  on 
your  bait  I  don’t  know  why  you don't 
catch  fish  lessen  it’s  ’cause  you  don’t 
chaw  tobaccer.”

And  then  the  girl  gave  it  up

Fall  Silk  Waist  Styles.

In  silk  waists,  the  subject  of  fall 
styles,  which  are  now  fairly  well  de­
termined,  is  of  interest  to  manufac­
It  is  nov­
turers  and  retailers  alike. 
elty  which  ensures  success 
the 
change  be  not  too  radical.  The  early 
models  shown  give  an  adequate  fore­
cast  of  the  permanent  features  for 
fall  wear.

if 

A  striking  feature  in  the  general 
makeup  is  the  fullness  in  the  sleeve 
at  the  elbow,  not  at  wrist,  as  worn 
last  season.  This  undoubtedly  af­
fords  more  ease  and  safety  to  the 
wearers,  preventing  the 
soiling  of 
many  choice  materials  while  at  the 
table.  Extension  box  plaits  continue 
now  to  the  neckband,  giving  a  more 
dressy  appearance.  Soft  collars  and 
cuffs  are  rapidly  taking  the  place  of 
stiff  collars,  because  in  many  cases 
where  a  waist  is  bought  with  a  stiff 
collar,  the  latter  has  to  be  discarded, 
as  it  will  not  fit  the  neck.

The  whole  tendency  is  for  plainer 
and  neater  effects,  having  large  box 
plaits  and  tucks,  which  are  replacing 
pin  tucks.  The  cheaper  goods  which 
are  in  vogue  are  made  in  a  shirtwaist 
effect,  while  the  better  grades  have 
a  good  dress-making  finish. 
If  pos­
sible,  the  better  class  are  more  elab­
orate,  and  all  show  fuller  waists. 
In 
a  word,  manufacturers  begin  to  take 
cognizance  of  the  fact  that  large  sizes 
with  full  waists  are  in  vogue.

Why  She  Was  In.

The  Lady— Willie,  is  your  mother 

at  home?

The  Kid— Yes;  she  is  sick.

Happiness  is  health  of  heart.

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15

A   Striking  Proof  of  the  Losses
Caused  by  U se  of the  O ld C ash-D raw er

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f  1  1 HIS old cash-drawer was in use for fifty years in a  M
8 
large general store not far from Toronto, Ontario.  L . 

Through all change of systems from the time of its 
establishment  when  the  proprietor  only  had access  to 
the  period  a  cashier  used  it,  the  drawer was  never

9H HK,|

PBff

was a platform raised six inches from the floor.  Recently, 
when the proprietor tore out the cashier’s desk and installed
a multiple National Cash Register an assistant gathered up the dust and refuse beneath this floor. 
An N. C. R. salesman who was present suggested that the refuse be sifted.  Both proprietor and 
assistant were amused at first.  The N. C. R. man, however, insisted and the sifting was done.
HIGH 1Y-SIX DOLLARS, in small gold and silver coins of various denominations and 
badly dilapidated bank notes, were rescued from this refuse.
Imagine the proprietor’s surprise!  And yet he never had missed the money, never knew 
it was gone!  His assistants, too, appeared nonplussed and admitted that they had no idea 
that such leaks and losses existed in the store.  How much more was lost out of this old open 
cash-drawer the proprietor was unable to estimate.  The eighty-six dollars represented the 
leaks occurring after  the installation of the cashier—a very small fraction of the time of 
service of the old cash-drawer.
This is an interesting instance of the oldtime methods of storekeeping with its suspicions, 
temptations, lack of confidence, and losses.  A NATIONAL CASH REGISTER, with 
the system which it enforces, would have prevented the disappearance of even one penny of 
that eighty-six dollars.  Isn’t it time for you to discard your old cash-drawer and stop the 
leaks draining the life-blood of your business?

TEAR  OFF THIS COUPON AMD  MAIL  TO  US  TODAY

N. C. R. COMPANY, DAYTON, O.

I  own  a 

store.
Please explain  what  kind  of  a  register  is  best  suited  for  my 
business.

Name

Address 

This does not put me under any obligation to buy. 

No.  of  Clerks

Michigan Tradesman.

1

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long,  and  new  business  is  urgently 
called  for.  Cloak  manufacturers  are 
endeavoring  in  every  possible  manner 
to  get  an  inkling  as  to  what  is  going 
to  be  worn, but  at  present  there  is too 
much  uncertainty  to  warrant  them in 
going  ahead.

in 

Commission  houses  are 

the 
throes  of  making  lightweight  deliver­
ies.  The  trade  has  been  calling  for 
their  purchases,  and  manufacturers 
have  filled  their  contracts  with 
re­
markable  precision  and  celerity  up  to 
the  present  time.  But  the  same  can 
hardly  be  said  with  regard  to  heavy­
weights,  as  many  of  the  mills  are  far 
behind  on  orders,  which  is  the  re­
sult  of attempting  to make  both  light­
weights  and  heavyweights  at 
the 
same  time,  and  keeping  both  buying 
factors  in  good  humor.  The  past has 
demonstrated 
such  endeavors 
have  not  only  failed  to  please  either 
party,  but  have  made  trouble  for  both 
as  well  as  for  the  manufacturer. Many 
manufacturing  clothiers  are  waiting 
for  their  goods,  which  must  be  at 
once  made  up  if  they  are  to  get  them 
into  the  hands  of  retailers  when  cold 
In  some  sections  of 
weather  comes. 
the  South  the  demand 
for  heavy­
weights  at  the  hands  of  retailers  has 
already  made  itself  felt,  and  another 
fortnight  will  see  a  general  opening 
all  over  the  country.

that 

Sellers  report  that  the  leading  fab­
rics  are  those  presenting  a  neat  ef­
fect,  which  fortunately  covers  quite 
a  wide  range— from  the  finest  pin 
stripe  to  the  large  but  very  indistinct 
plaid  effect,  including  many  fancy  de­
signs  that  are  gained  by  the  weave 
of  the  fabrics  and  without  the  use  of 
a  different  colored  yarn.  Among  the 
best  sellers  is  one  line  with  two  tones 
of  brown  and  several  effects  of  gray 
with  a  plaid  of  a  mildly  contrasting 
color.  Another  is  a  modification  of 
the  old  herring-bone  design.  There 
have  been  some  good  sales  of  fancy 
mixture  effects  in  both  woolen  and 
worsted  goods. 
In  trouserings  there 
is  a  great  run  on  fine  stripes,  quiet 
a n d   n e at,  w ith  
th e  
lo u d   effects  th a t  h a v e   in  th e   p a s t  h ad 
rather  a  good  call.  Mercerized  goods 
are  bright in  tone,  but  the  designs  are 
aimed  to  subdue  them  to  a  large  de­
gree.

little   d isp la y   o f 

Always  Have  Money.

A  lady  who  was  visiting  the  home 
of  a  triend  had  just  given  the  chil­
dren  a  penny  each.  When  the  sav­
ings  bank  was  produced  and  the  coins 
were  deposited  therein,  the  lady  made 
the  remark  that  the  children  had  a 
lot  of  money.

“Oh,  yes,”  said  little  Mary,  “Mam­
ma  is  very  good  to  us.  Every  time 
we  take  our  castor  oil  without  crying 
she  gives  us  a  penny.”

“And  what  do  you  do  with  all  the 

money?”  asked  the  visitor.

“Why,  Mamma  buys  some  more 

castor  oil  with  it!”

Close  of  Men’s  Wear  Lightweight 

Season.

It  can  be  said  with  safety  that  ini­
tial  buying  of  men’s  wear  for 
the 
spring  of  1905  has  come  to  an  end, 
and  that  the  season  has  been  quite 
satisfactory  to  manufacturers  is  pret­
ty  generally  conceded.  Woolens  and 
fancy  worsteds  have  been  purchased 
in  large  quantities, but  on  fancy  wool­
ens  there  has  been  a  smaller  range 
covered  than  in  years  past,  although 
the  volume  of  purchases  has  been  of 
an  average  sort.  Lines  that  have 
been  neglected  by  buyers  are  those 
that  as  a  general  rule  have  lacked 
merit  or  are  passe,  and  are  seen  but 
little  in  the  market  at  the  present 
time.  Manufacturers  who  have  lean­
ed  toward  the  production  of  browns, 
in  both  woolens  and  worsteds,  have 
been  generally  favored  as  far  as  or­
In  fact,  it  is  a 
ders  are  concerned. 
common  sight  to  see  displayed 
in 
windows  of  tailoring  establishments 
many  patterns  of  brown  goods.

The  season,  the  tailors  assert,  has 
commenced  very  early,  but  when  ask­
ed  to  advance  a  reason  they  are  puz­
zled.  The  fact  that  fancy  woolens 
have  not  met  with  the  demand  ex­
pected  has  caused  some  mills  to  be 
short  of  orders,  much  to  their  dis­
like,  as  they  will  doubtless  be  com­
pelled  to  stop  some  of  their  machin­
ery  before  the  heavyweight  season 
commences.  There  has  been  some 
surprise  at  the 
little  influence  that 
prices  have  had  on  the  disposition 
of  orders  for  the  spring  season.  At 
the  opening  of  the  season  manufac 
turers  figured  their  values  down  to 
the  minimum 
level,  and  about  the 
only  point  that  competition  could 
be  centered  on  was  the  comparative 
value  of  styles.  The  attractive  pat­
te rn s   sec u re d   the  b u lk   o f  the  b u sin ess 
a t  h ig h e r  than  sam p le   p ric e s,  an d  
these  mills  are  as  well  situated  as 
their  owners  could  wish,  having  abput 
all  they  can  get  out  of  the  way  be­
fore  the  next  heavyweight 
season 
makes  its  advent.  There  have  not 
been  the 
that  have 
marked  some  seasons,  and  from  a 
canvass  of  the  whole  situation  it  can 
be  stated  that  the  lightweight  season 
of  1905  has  been  fully  up  to  the  aver­
age  in  respect  to  volume.

cancellations 

Overcoatings  are  having  a  very  sat­
isfactory  demand  at  the  present  time, 
both  plain  and  fancy  fabrics  figuring 
in  the  general  movement.  Sellers are 
dismajred,  however,  at  the  slow  de­
mand  for  cloakings.  There  appears 
to  be  an  indication  on  the  part  of 
buyers  regarding  what  to  take,  and 
sellers are  also  at a  loss  to  know what 
to  suggest,  and  until  one  or  the  other 
or  both  determine  what  is  going  to 
be  the  style,  trade  is  likely  to  remain 
at  a  standstill. 
It  should  not  be  in­
ferred,  however,  that  there  is  noth­
ing  being  done  by  these  mills,  for  few 
of  them  are  without  enough  business 
to  keep  their  looms  at  work,  but  the 
orders  on  hand  are  not  going  to  last

j 25 Years Before the  Public

clothiers  to see  our line, who will soon see advantages  in  placing 
orders with us, having  such immense lines to choose  from  for Fall 
and  Winter trade.  Then our Union Made  Line  is  just  as  great, 
especially  in  medium  priced  goods, none  so  cheap and  few  as 
good.  We  manufacture  all  ages, Child s, Boys  and  Men s, also 
stouts and slims.  Our overcoats are perfection.  Mail and  phone 
orders promptly shipped. 
If you wish, one of  our  representatives 
will call upon your address.

Bell Phone, Gain,  1282

Wholesale Clothing  Manufacturers

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Untimely  Somnolence.

“ He  says  he  has  so  many  business 
him  awake 

they  keep 

troubles 
nights.”

“Yes,  but  they  don’t  keep  him wide­
awake  during  business  hours,  and 
that’s  the  principal  trouble.” -

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Manufacturers of dladlator Clothing

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17

Hat  Factories  Running  To  Their  Full 

Capacity.

All  of  the  fall  styles  of  stiff  hats 
are  now  on  sale,  the  last  to  come  out 
having  made  its  appearance  late  in 
August.  Ther;  is  nothing  startlingly 
novel  in  the  shapes  offered,  but  the 
styles  are  attrac tive  and  will  sell  well. 
It  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  the  crowns 
of  derby  hats  are  this  season  higher 
in  effect  than  has  been  the  case  for 
several  season?.,  and  the  brims  are 
also  a  trifle  narrower,  thus  giving  the 
hat  a  heightened  appearance.  The 
effect  of  the  fall  hats 
is  certainly 
very  pleasing.  No  extremes  in  style 
have  so  far  made  their  appearance, 
for  which  the  retail  trade  should  be 
duly  thankful.

The  chief  topic  of  conversation and 
argument  in  hat  circles  at  the  pres­
ent  time  does  not,  strange  to  say, 
concern  the  style  or  shape  of  the 
hat  or  hats  that  will  prove  the  most 
popular  this  season.  The  one  ab­
sorbing  thought  is,  “Will  brown  hats 
sell?”  Naturally 
there  exist  many 
differences  of  opinion  on  this  interest­
ing  subject,  and  to  the  listener  of 
many  arguments  it  all  suggests  an 
attempt  at  picking  the  winner  in  a 
horse  race.  There  is  no  doubt  that 
brown  stiff  hats  are  entered  for  the 
fall  race  for  popularity.  How  well 
up  in  the  running  they  will  be  is  a 
matter  yet  to  be  determined.  There 
is  also  no  doubt  that  the  brown  hats 
will  rank  well  among  the  favorites 
entered  and  should  show  excellent 
staying  qualities.  They  ought  to  be 
well  up 
front  and  bring  good 
prices  in  the  selling.

in 

It  is  evident  that  there  is  a  strong 
determination  on  the  part  of  the  stiff 
hat  manufacturers  to  this  season make 
brown  hats  more  popular  than  they 
ever  have  been.  Every  order  so  far 
taken  calls  for  brown  hats  and 
in 
quantities  that  vary  according  to  the 
customer’s  trade. 
It  is  stated  by  the 
manufacturers that  the  sales on brown 
and  black  hats  have  so  far  been  about 
equal.  This  augurs  well  for  the  col­
ored  goods.  The  shapes  are  practi­
c ally   the  same  as  a re   shown  in  black 
h a ts. 
In   c o lo r  th e   sh a d e s  ra n g e   fro m  
light  to  dark brown, the  lighter  shades 
having  bands  and  bindings  of  a  con­
trasted  color.  The  opportunity 
is 
now  at  hand  for  the  retailers  to  in­
crease  their  business  and  profits  by 
pushing  the  brown  hats.  No  special 
effort  is  necessary  to  sell  black  hats, 
and  the  majority  of  people  who  will 
purchase  a  brown  hat  will  also  buy a 
black  one  before  the  season  is  over. 
Consequently  a  little  extra  effort  at 
this  time  will  surely  result  in  a  sub­
stantial  increase  to  the  business.

line 

latest 

in  this 

Soft  fur  hats  offer  to  the  manufac­
turers  greater  possibilities  for  novel 
shapes  and  effects  than  do  stiff  hats, 
which  fact  accounts  for  the  wide  va­
riety  ot  novelties 
of 
goods.  Some  of  the 
styles 
shown  for  fall  have  the  usual  low 
crown,  which  is  about  five  inches  in 
height  and  may  be  worn 
creased, 
dented  or  in  telescope  style.  The 
brim  is  broad,  about  three  and  three- 
quarter  inches  in  width,  and  is  raised 
somewhat  at  the  sides.  The  front  is 
intended  to  be  pulled  down  as  a 
shade  to  the  eyes.  The  particularly

novel  feature  of  the  newest  styles  is 
the  band,  which  is  figured  in 
“jac­
quard”  effects,  being  woven  on  a  jac­
quard  loom.  The  hats  are  shown  in 
the  many  shades  of  nutria  and  tan, 
and  have  bands  in  matched  and  con­
trasted  colors.

that 

Straw  hat  manufacturers  have,  so 
far,  received  most  favorable  results 
from  their  traveling  representatives, 
who  are  now  on  the  road  showing 
the  line  for  next  season.  The  lines 
present  all  the  old  favorites  in  split 
and  sennit  braids,  and  have  a  goodly 
representation  of novelties.  A   notice­
able  feature  in  many  lines  of  straw 
hats  is  the  very  wide  bands  that  are 
being  shown,  also 
the  yacht 
shapes  are  smaller  in  their  general 
dimensions  than  were  sold  during  the 
past 
trade 
throughout  the  country  has  enjoyed a 
very  good  straw  hat  season,  and  are 
said  to have  carried  over  small stocks. 
The  outlook  for  next  season  is  there­
fore  excellent.  There  is  every  rea­
son  to  believe  that  woven  hats  will 
meet with  an  extensive  sale  next  sum­
mer,  and  Panama  hats  are  regarded 
at  present  as  being  the  only  woven 
articles  that  will  be  seriously  regard­
ed.  Every  retailer  should  have some 
Panama  hats  to  sell.

summer.  The 

retail 

While  Panama  hats  have  been  sold 
in  this  country  from  time  immemor­
ial,  the  value  of  the  hats  was  until 
recently  so  great  they  never  became 
popular  with  many  hat  wearers  on 
that  account.  A   few  years  ago  Pan­
ama  hats  were  introduced  into  this 
country  in  great  quantities,  the  sup­
ply  having  the  effect  of  bringing  the 
price  within  the  reach  of  many  peo­
ple.  Since  that  time  Panama  hats 
have  found  a  fixed  position  in 
the 
lines  of  summer  headwear,  and  there 
is  no  questioning  the  popularity  of 
this  product  of  the  tropics.— Clothier 
and  Furnisher.

Lick  Only  the  Envelope.

A  man  who  had  just  purchased  a 
lot  of  postage  stamps  at  a  branch 
office  and  was  posting  a  lot  of  letters 
complained  to  the  clerk in  charge  that 
there  was  not  enough  gum  on  them 
and  that  they would  not  adhere  to the 
envelopes. 
“If  yon  would  lick  the 
corner  of  the  envelope  as  well  as 
the  stamp,”  replied  the  clerk,  “you 
would  find  that  they  would  adhere 
firmly.”

A  woman  standing  by  mailing  let­
It 
ters  remarked,  “That  is  correct. 
lick  the 
is  not  even  necessary  to 
stamp. 
I  never  do,  for  I  dislike  the 
taste  of  the  mucilage,  and  I  merely 
moisten  the  corner  of  the  envelope 
and  never  have  any  trouble  in  regard 
to  the  stamp  adhering.”

“Well,”  said  the  man,  “I  have  been 
mailing  letters  in  large  numbers  for 
many  years,  in  fact,  ever  since  post­
age  stamps  came  into  use,  but  never 
heard  of  this  way  of  putting  on 
I  really  believe  that 
stamps  before. 
the  women  know  more  than 
the 
men.”

“Most  women  do, 

about  many 
things,”  remarked  the  clerk,  who  was 
a  woman.

A  girl  who  can’t  sing  and  persists 
in  singing  ought  not  to  be  allowed 
to  sing.

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

SU CCESSFU L  SALESM EN.
Chas.  W .  Stone,  Representing 

Puritan  Corset  Co.

the 

It  makes  no  difference  upon  which 
side  of  the  counter  he  may  stand,  a 
first-class  salesman  is  born  with  cer­
tain  characteristics  which  enable  him 
to  accomplish  with  seemingly  little 
effort  that  which  the  man  without 
inherent  and  God-given  salesmanship 
ability  finds  he  can  not  accomplish, 
either  to  his  own  satisfaction  or  to 
the  profit  of  his  employers.  Sales­
manship  is  hypnotism.  The  “knack” 
of  selling  goods  is  something  which 
can  not  be  taught  in  a  school  for 
salesmen. 
If  a  man  possesses  this 
something  which  can  not  be  describ­
ed  and  defined  by  a  better  word  than 
“knack,”  he  is  born  with  it.  Constant 
use  and  application  will  polish  and 
temper  it,  but  no  amount  of  coaxing 
or  driving  will  develop  it  if  the  seed—  
and  it  must  be  larger  than  a  mustard 
seed— be  not  planted  in  a  man’s  head 
by  the  Almighty  himself.  The  men 
who  sit  in  offices,  draw  salaries  and 
expense  checks,  sweat  blood  and  are 
called  “the  old  man”  realize  that  out 
of  the  many  thousands  of  traveling 
men  there  are  really  but  very  few 
salesmen.  The  old  stories, “Too  wet,” 
“Too  dry,”  “Out  of  city,”  “Will  give 
good  fall  order,”  etc.,  are  familiar 
phrases  to  every  man  who  employs 
any  number  of  traveling  men  and, 
alas!  too  frequently  take  the  place 
of orders which  are  given to  the  sales­
man  who  possesses  the  “knack.”

there 

is  no  opportunity 

The  life  of  a  salesman  is  not  an 
easy  one,  for  however  much  sales­
manship  ability  he  may  possess,  if he 
is  successful  under  present  trade con­
ditions  and  with  the  fierce  competi­
tion  which  prevails  to-day,  he  must 
be  a  hard  worker,  he  must  catch  early 
trains  and  stick  to  late  trains,  he 
must  copy  his  orders  and  write  to 
his  wife  after  all  the  stores  are  closed 
and 
to 
take  orders.  He  must  have  his 
clothes  pressed  after  he  goes  to  bed 
and  he  can  not  afford  to  wait  twenty- 
four  hours  in  a  town  in  order  to  get 
a  pair  of  duck  trousers  laundered  or 
spend  his  time  and  the  firm’s  money 
drinking  high  balls  and  smoking  15 
cent  cigars  in  order  to  show  that  he 
is  a  good  fellow  and  one  of  the  boys.
The  life  of  a  mere  traveling  man 
is  an  entirely  different  proposition. 
If  he  be  fond  of  change— and  most 
of  them  are,  judging  from  their  fre­
quent  demands  for  expense  checks—  
is  a  continual  round  of 
their 
pleasure.  The  hardest  work 
they 
feel  called  upon  to  do  is  to  write  an 
occasional  weather 
the 
house  which  employs  them,  and,  what 
is,  perhaps,  still  more  laborious, make 
out  a  weekly  expense  account,  which 
really  requires  considerable  ingenuity 
and  is  quite  a  tax  upon  their  nervous 
system.

report  to 

life 

Chas.  W.  Stone  was  born  at  Toron­
to,  Ontario,  April  5,  1851.  His  father 
was  a  native  of  England  and  his 
mother  was  descended  from  the  fa­
mous  Scotch-Irish  clan.  He  attended 
the  common 
schools  of  Toronto, 
graduating  from  the  Normal  school 
at  the  age  of  17  years.  Concluding 
that  the  States  possessed  greater  op­
portunities  for  advancement  than  the

Dominion,  he  went  to  Detroit,  where 
he  very  fortunately  obtained  a  posi­
tion  as  salesman  in  the  dry  goods 
house  of  Campbell  &  Linn.  A   year 
later  he  removed  to  Ionia,  where  he 
sought  and obtained  employment with 
different  dry  goods  houses,  including 
that  of  L.  D.  &  M.  C.  Smith,  with 
whom  he  remained  seven  years,  be­
ginning  at  the  staple  counter  and 
ending  as  confidential  clerk  and  book­
keeper.

In  1877  he  formed  a  co-partnership 
with  his  brother,  R.  C.  Stone,  and 
engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business 
under  the  style  of  Stone  Brothers. 
The  firm  started  in  a  small  way,  but 
was  soon  compelled  to  enlarge  to 
more  than  twice  its  former  capacity. 
In  1886  he  sold  his  interest  to  his 
brother  and  formed  a  copartnership

covers  Michigan  with  the  regularity 
of clock  work,  but  frequently  is  called 
upon  to  visit  the  trade  in  other  states 
as  far  East  as  New  York  and  as  far 
West  as  Denver.  He  undertakes  to 
see  his  trade  every  thirty,  sixty  and 
ninety  days.

Mr.  Stone  was  married  in  1876  to 
Miss  Mary  Merritt,  and  is  the  fath­
er  of  three  children,  Mrs.  L.  R 
Gault,  of  Detroit;  Mrs.  Chas.  LaFev- 
er,  of  Battle  Creek,  and  Dr.  B.  C. 
Stone,  who  is  now  practicing  medi­
cine  in  Detroit.

Mr.  Stone 

is  a  member  of 

the 
Presbyterian  church  at  Battle  Creek 
and  is  a  member  of  every  branch  of 
Masonry  except  the  Consistory  and 
Shrine.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Mac­
cabees  of  Battle  Creek  and  of 
the 
Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Knights  of

fields.  The  reply  is  thoroughly  char­
acteristic  of  the  man,  as  follows:

“We  have  in  our  employ  twelve 
traveling  men  and  six  salesmen.  Mr. 
Stone  is  one  of  the  six  successes, 
and  if  you  will  tell  me  what  enables 
one  horse  to  trot  faster  than  an­
other  when  fed  on  the  same  oats, 
traveling  the  same  road  and  drawing 
the  same  load,  I  will  tell  you  what 
makes  one  traveling  man  succeed  and 
another  fail.”

Threw  His  Money  Away.
returned 

When  Mr.  Locke 

to 
Bushby  after  some  years’  residence 
in  the  West  there  was  much  specula­
tion  among  his  old  friends  and  neigh­
bors  as  to  the  extent  of  his  present 
apparent  prosperity.

“Looks  mighty  well-to-do,  same as 
if he  wouldn’t  trade  in  anything  less’n 
bobtailed  horses,”  said  one  man, “but 
you  can’t  jedge  by  looks,  not 
al­
ways.”

“No-o.”  said  another  old  neighbor, 
"though  they  count,  looks  do,  and 
no  mistake.  But  something  he  did 
in  Nashuay  the  other  day  come  to 
me,  first  hand,  from  Bill  Saunders, 
and  I  guess  there’s  no  doubt  about 
Ezry  being  well  off  in  this  world’s 
goods.

said 

“ ’Twas  like  this,” 

the  old 
man,  after  a  sufficient  pause  for  his 
audience  to  close  in,  “he  took  Bill 
over  there  for  the  day,  paid  all  ex­
penses,  gave  him  a  first-class  dinner, 
bought  him  a  couple  of  neckties  and 
a  throw  for  Sar’ann  to  put  on  her 
evenings.  And  last  off  he  towed  Bill 
into  a  drug  shop  to  give  him  some 
ice  cream  sody. 
‘W e’ve  got  just time 
before  we  take  the  train,’  he  says  to 
Bill.

“Well,  sir,  they  drunk  off  the  sody 
with  one  eye  on  the  clock,  and  Ezry 
he  handed  out  a  quarter  to  the  clerk 
to  pay  for  it.  He  put  the  quarter  in 
the  change  machine,  and  then  he  jab­
bed  an’  jabbed  to  get  the  change out, 
and  there  was  something  wrong, so 
it  wouldn’t  open.

“ ‘You  wait  a  minute,  sir,  and  I’ll 
get  the  five  cents  next  door,’  says the 
clerk;  but  Ezry  took  his  bag  up, and 
jest  waved  it  at  the  clerk,  careless 
as  if  they’d  been  talking  about  a  pea 
or  a  bean.

Charles  W.  Stone

with  Thos.  A.  Carten  under  the  style 
of  Stone  &  Carten.  The  firm  dis­
solved  six  years  later,  both  continu­
ing  in  business  in  their  own  names.  A 
year  later  Mr.  Stone  sold  his  stock 
to  J.  L.  Hudson  and  accepted  a  po­
sition  on  the  road  as  a  specialty  sales­
man.  A  year  later  he  was  offered  a 
position  as  general  salesman  for  the 
Michigan  Corset  Co.,  which  he  filled 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned. 
On  the  organization  of  the  Puritan 
Corset  Co.,  four  years  ago,  he  was 
offered  the  position  of  general  sales­
man,  which  he  very  gladly  availed 
himself  of  because  of  his  admiration 
for  the  Manager  of  the  company,  W. 
L.  Brownell,  between  whom  and  him­
self  there , have  always  existed  the 
strongest  friendship  and  the  highest 
personal 
regard.  Mr.  Stone  now

the  Grip,  being  at  present  a  director 
in  the  latter  organization.

Mr.  Stone  attributes  his  success  to 
industry  and  to  the  endeavor  to  do 
the  square  thing  by  everybody.  He 
enjoys  meeting  and  overcoming  the 
knotty  problems  which  surround  him 
in  the  introduction  of  new  goods.  He 
has  never  undertaken  to  secure  any 
business  by driving or  coaxing,  having 
found  that  his  long-time  experience 
in  the  dry  goods  trade  and  as  a  re­
tail  dealer  behind  the  counter  is  of 
great  assistance  to  him  in  his  present 
occupation.

In  the  preparation of this  biography 
the  Tradesman 
requested  W.  L. 
Brownell,  Manager  of  the  Puritan 
Corset  Co.,  to  state  why  Mr.  Stone 
has  been  so  successful  in  exploiting 
Puritan  corsets  in  new  and  untried

“ 'Keep  it  for  good  luck,’  he  says. 
‘W e’ve  got  to  catch  a  train.’  And 
Bill  Saunders  says  that  he  didn’t  any 
more  heed  him  saying  that  there was 
another  train  in  two  hours  than  if  he 
hadn’t  spoken. 
I  guess  there’s  no 
manner  o’  doubt  but  what  Ezry’s  fi­
nancially  prosperous.”— Youth’s  Com­
panion.

How  To  Hear  Plants  Grow.

Two  Germans  have  discovered  a 
method  by  which  they  can  hear  plants 
grow. 
In  the  apparatus  the  growing 
plant  is  connected  with  a  disk,  having 
in  its  center  an  indicator  which  moves 
visibly  and  regularly,  and  this  on  a 
scale  fifty  times  magnified  denotes 
the  progress  in  growth.  Both  disk 
and  indicator  arc  metal,  and  when 
brought  in  contact  with  an  electric 
hammer,  the  electric  current  being 
interrupted  at  each  of 
the  divided 
interstices  of  the  disk,  the  growth  of 
the  plant  is  as  perceptible  to  the  ear 
as  to  the  eye.

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room  back  to  the  chaperon  chairs, 
and  then  crowd  him  into  that  outer 
darkness  of  society  where  one 
is 
neither  fish  nor  flesh,  nor  good  red 
herring— where  one  has  lost  the  grip 
and  the  pass-word  to  the  young  set, 
and  has  not  been  put  up  for  admis­
sion  to  the  married  set— for  man’s 
place  in  society  is  ever  a  reserved 
seat,  and  he  is  never  too  young  or 
too  old  to  receive  the  glad  hand  and 
the  warm  welcome.  Nor  does  man’s 
family  gently  and 
insidiously,  but 
firmly,  try to push him out of the home 
nest,  for  a  bachelor  son  or  brother 
or  uncle  has  ever  been  regarded  by 
their  relatives  in  the  same  light  as 
Cordelia’s  jewels— an  ornament 
as 
well  as  a  living  asset,  that  one  may 
be  able  to  realize  upon  at  any  time.

Men  do  not  have  to  marry  for  a 
living.  They  are  amply  able  to  sup­
port  themselves.  Nor  are  they  forced 
into  matrimony  to  find  some  outlet 
for  their  energies,  and  some  occupa­
tion  to  fill  their  idle  hands  and  pur­
poseless  days,  because  for  men 
the 
whole  wide  world  of  interest  is  open, 
and  there  is  nothing  that  fires  their 
fancy  that  they  may  not  dare  and  do.
Above  all,  in  picking  out  a  wife  a 
man  can  absolutely  choose  whom  he 
pleases. 
If  he  sees  a  woman  whose 
beauty  entrances  him  or  whose  wit 
attracts  him,  or  whose  grace  and 
charm  please  him,  he  may  seek  her 
out,  and  woo,  and  generally  win  her. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  when  nine  hun­
dred  and  ninety-nine  men  out  of  a 
thousand march  to  the altar  they  have 
in  the 
with  them  the  one  woman 
world  that  they  prefer 
all 
other  women,  the  one  woman  that 
represents  their 
feminine 
pulchritude,  and  virtues,  and  whom 
they  believe,  for  the  time  being  at 
least,  to  be  an  unfledged  angel,  so 
when  the  bridal  choir  chants  “Oh, 
Perfect  Love,”  the  average  bride­
groom  feels  like  speaking  up  and say­
ing,  “I  am  IT.”

ideal  of 

above 

Now,  the  woman  starts  into  matri­
mony  under  no  such  auspicious  con­
ditions,  and  while  very  few  women 
marry  without  being  in  love,  the  ma­
jority  of  women  have  a  highly  culti­
vated  facility  for  loving  that  enables 
them  to  get  up  enough 
sentiment 
‘bout  almost  any  man  to  marry  upon. 
‘Never  marry  for  money,  my  child,” 
said  an  astute  old  dame,  “always  mar­
ry  for  love,  but  never  let  your  affec­
tion  rest  upon  any  but  a  rich  man.”

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Which  Loves 

the  More— Man  or 

Woman?

W ritten  for  th e  T radesm an.

A  correspondent  asks  me  whether 
I  think  men  or  women  love  the  more.
I  think  that,  taking  the  average 
married  couple  as  a 
standard  of 
measurement,  we  find  men  love  better 
at  the  start  of  matrimony,  and  wom­
en  love  better  at  the  finish; men love 
more,  and  women  love  longer; 
that 
with  man  love  is  a  fever  that  can  be 
easily  cured,  but  with  woman  love is 
a  chronic  complaint  from  which  she 
never  recovers.  A  man  may  do  a 
foolish  thing  for  love,  but  not  infre­
quently  love  turns  a  woman  into  a 
fool  herself.

This  is 

generally 

speaking. 

In | 

reality,  every  love  affair  is  an  indi­
vidual  case  where  the  relative  affec­
tion' of  the  man  and  woman  must  be 
determined  by  their  individual  tem­
peraments.  Not  all  men  have  the 
same  capacity  for  loving  any  more 
than  all  men  have  the  same  financial 
genius.  There  are  just  as  few  Ro­
meos  as  there  are  John  D.  Rockefel­
lers,  and  the  same  thing  is  true  of 
women.  There  are  some  women  who | 
are  all  heart,  just  as  there  are  other 
women  who  are  all  complexion,  or  all 
conscience,  but  there  is  no  standard I 
measurement  of  a  woman’s  ability  to 
love. 
It  is  a  sliding  scale,  and  it 
goes  up  or  down  according  to  the 
woman.

In  the  majority  of  cases,  however, 
when  a  young  man  and  woman  g e t ! 
married  he  is  more  in  love  with  her 
than  she  is  with  him,  and  there  are 
several  good  reasons  why  this  should 
be  the  case. 
In  the  first  place,  when  I 
a  man  marries  the  act  is  one  of  ab­
solute  volition  on  his  part. 
It  is  the 
realization  of  a  dream,  the  flowering j 
of  a  romance  that  he  has  conjured  I 
into  being  himself,  and  it  is  because 
he  desired  it  beyond  all  other  earth­
ly  things  that  he  has  become  Bene­
dict,  the  married  man.

No  power,  tacit  or  overt,  constrain­
ed  him  to  marry.  For  him  there  was 
no  obloquy in  single  blessedness.  The 
passing  seasons  did  not  relegate  him 
from  the  front  row  of  buds  in  the  ball

To  a  certain  extent  this  sentiment 
represents  the  mental  attitude  of  the 
feminine  sex  on  the  subject  of  love. 
A  woman  knows  that  it  is  so  uncer­
tain  about  the  man  she  could  love, 
loving  her,  that  she  keeps  her  feel­
ings  like  a  prudent  housewife  does 
her  preserves,  bottled  up  and  not  to 
be  opened  until  company  comes.
Thus  is  she  always  prepared 
contingencies,  and 

for 
sentimental 
so 
marvelous  is  her  ability  to  love  to  or­
der  that  she  has  no  difficulty  in  be­
stowing  her  heart  upon  the  man  who 
asks  for  it,  and  living  ever  after  as a 
devoted  wife.  Women  will  deny  the 
assertion  that  they  marry  for  any­
thing  but  the  purest  and  most  disin­
terested  affection,  but  it  is  a  fact,  nev­
ertheless,  that  a  good  deal  of 
the 
skimmed  milk  of  toleration  and  kind­

liness  and  gratitude  masquerades  as 
the  cream  of  devotion  with  women, 
and  that  what  they  call 
is 
merely  liking.

loving 

In  her  secret  heart  a  woman  al­
ways  wonders  that  a  man  should  be 
foolish  enough  to  marry,  even  when 
he  marries  her.  She  can  not  see  her­
self  being  rash  enough  to  burden  her­
self  with  the  support  of  a  family,  and 
having  to  put  up  with  another  per­
to. 
son’s  whims,  if  she  didn’t  have 
With  her  the  matter  is  different. 
In 
a  way,,  matrimony  is  forced  on 
a 
woman.  There  is,  to  begin  with,  the 
reflection  of  being  an  old  maid  that 
not  even  the  modern  woman’s  phi­
losophy  has  been  able  to  rob  of 
its 
thorns.  Then  there  is  the  necessity 
of  a  support,  for  few  women  have 
been  taught  any  way  by  which  to.

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earn  a  competence  for 
and  still  fewer  have  a  private  fortune 
of  their  own. 
In  the  third  place,  the 
spinster  is  an  anomaly  in  society,  one 
who  is  neither  maid  nor  widow,  and 
who  finds  no  niche  to  fit  in,  and  in 
the  fourth  place  she  is  pushed  into 
marriage  by  her  family,  who  frankly 
show  that  they  feel  a  spinster  daugh­
ter  or  sister  as  an  incumbrance.

Worst  of  all,  woman  may  not  seek 
the  mate  she  desires.  She  must  mar­
ry  the  man  who  wants  her,  instead  of 
the  man  she  wants.  She  must  take 
her  opportunity  in  place  of  her  pref­
erence.  Undoubtedly,  in  many  mar­
riages  the  bridegroom  is 
the  one 
man  in  the  world  that  the  bride  would 
have  chosen  for  her  spouse,  even  as 
she  is  the  one  woman  that  he  has 
picked  out  for  liis  wife,  but  I  believe 
in  the  great  majority  of  cases  the 
woman  does  not  enter  into  matri­
mony  as  free-willed,  and  with  as  ro­
mantic  an  affection  as  the  man  does.
But  marriage changes all this.  Mat­
rimony  is  a  strange  crucible  in  which 
a  man’s  love  cools  off,  and  a  wom­
an’s  love  heats  up  as  a  general  thing. 
Probably  no  man  who  married  a 
woman  for  whom  he  had  a  lukewarm 
affection  ever  fell  in  love  with  her 
after  he  was  married,  no  matter  what 
her  virtues  as  a  wife,  but  any  woman 
will  fall  in  love  with  a  man  after  she 
ici  married  to  him  if  he  is  good,  and 
kind,  and  considerate  to  her,  for  a 
man’s  love  lives  on  illusions,  and  mat­
rimony  even  with  a  good  woman  has 
enough  revelations  to  disillusion  any­
one,  but  a  woman’s  love  grows strong 
on  deeds.

To  my  thinking,  the  fact  that  a 
man  loves  the  more  when  he  is  mar­
ried  than  the  woman  does  is  a  wise 
provision  of  nature,  and  the  only  way 
by  which  the  sentimental  accounts 
between  a  husband  and  wife  could 
ever  be  balanced.  Taking  it  big  and 
large  it  may  be  said  that  the  average 
man  starts  out  in  married  life  with 
the  biggest  supply  of  romance  and 
love  and  sentiment  generally  he  is 
going  to  have.  All  of  the  ordinary 
affairs  of  life  tend  to  deplete  this  cap­
ital.  His  wife  loses  her  beauty  that 
captured  his  young  fancy.  The  inti­
macy  of  wedded 
the 
thousand  faults  he  never  suspected 
that  she  had  concealed  about  her  an­
gelic  disposition.

reveals 

life 

The  affairs  of  the  stock  market  be­
come  more  important  than  affairs  of 
the  heart,  and  the  very  stress  of  busi­
ness  and  the  necessity  of  making  a 
living  take  him  away  from  her.  He 
has  a  Ihousand  interests  in  which  she 
can  not  enter,  and  which  if  they  do 
not  actually  make  him 
forget  her 
keep  him  from  thinking  about  her. 
She  is  no  longer  the  whole  of  life  to 
him.  She  becomes  merely  a  side  is­
sue.  Love  is  not  dead,  but  it  is  drug­
ged  and  in  a  trance.

the 

On  the  other  hand, 

circum­
stances  of  a  woman’s  life  draw  her  to 
her  husband.  Her  world  is  bounded 
by  her  home,  and  the  sun  and  moon 
and  stars  revolve  around  the  man 
whose  coming  home  at  night  is  the 
event  of  the  day,  whose  appreciation 
is  the  reward  of  her 
and 
whose  pleasure  and  welfare  are  her

labors, 

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study.  This  keeps 

the 
continual 
woman’s  love  alive  and  burning,  and 
if  the  husband  will  only  throw  a  few 
coals  on  the  fire  in  the  shape  of  com­
pliments  and  endearments  he  may  be 
always  sure  ot  having  a  fire  upon 
the  hearthstone  by  which  to  warm 
himself  as  long  as  he  lives.

That  woman’s  love  outlasts  man’s 
we  see  funnily  illustrated  in  the  large 
numbers  of  middle-aged  wives  that 
are  solemnly  hopping  around  on  one 
foot  in  physical  culture  classes,  and 
to 
banting  and  massaging  in  order 
regain  the  waist  measure  of 
their 
youth,  and  remain  as  attractive  in 
their  husband’s  eyes  as  when  they 
married,  but  nobody  ever 
saw  a 
bald-headed  old  man,  with  a  fat  fig­
ure,  making  any  efforts  to  make  him­
self  beautiful  to  his  elderly  wife.

That  woman’s  love  is  more  endur­
ing  than  man's  admits  of  no  argu­
ment.  Every  day  in  the  police  courts 
trembling  wretches,  with 
we  see 
bruised  bodies, 
lying  to  shield  the 
hand  of  the  brute  that  struck  them; 
we  see  wives  toiling  to  support  the 
drunkard  that  comes  home  to  abuse 
them;  we  see  women,  outraged,  be­
trayed,  degraded,  forgiving  the  man 
that  has  dishonored  them.  Shame, 
nor  disgrace,  nor  ill  treatment,  nor 
neglect,  have  power  to  kill  a  woman’s 
love. 
It  will  not  even  drown  in  her 
tears,  but  a  man  only  loves  a  woman 
while  she  is  on  her  good  behavior.

In  this  way  does  man’s  love  differ 
from  woman’s,  and  so  if  one  might 
sum  the  problem  of  whether  man  or 
woman  loved  more,  in  prize  fighter 
language,  one  might  say  that  while 
man’s  love  is  the  stronger  to  start 
with,  woman’s  love  has  the  greater 
staying  powers,  and  the  more  ability 
to  take  punishment,  and  thus  is  wom­
an  entitled  to  the  championship  in 
loving. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Don’t  Grit  Your  Teeth.

“No  teeth  to  fill,”  the  dentist  said 
to  the  man  in  the  chair,  “but  you 
are  grinding  off  your  teeth  more than 
you  ought  to.  Do  you  grit  your teeth 
in  your  sleep?”

And  the  man  said  he  didn’t  stay 
awake  long  enough  to  know  about 
that,  but  were  they  much  ground 
off?

“More  than  they  ought  to  be  at 
“You 
your  age,”  said  the  dentist. 
have  worn  the  enamel  off  from  some 
of  them  and  got  down  to  the  den­
tine.”

“What’s  going  to  happen?”  asked 

the  victim.'

“Why,  if  you  keep  on  grinding 
them  off,”  said  the  dentist,  “the  teeth 
will  hollow  out  and  we’ll  have 
to 
put  plugs  in  them  with  gold  tops 
to  give  them  new  grinding  surfaces.”
This  wasn’t  a  very  pleasant  pros­
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when  he  sat  back  from  his  work  to 
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instance. 
And  he  made  up  his  mind  that  he 
would  stop  that,  anyway,  and  he  hop­
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his  teeth  in  his  sleep,  if  he  did  so 
grind  them.  For,  fine  as  they  might 
be,  he  didn’t  want  any  of  those  nice 
little  gold-capped  plugs  put  in  his 
teeth  if  he  could  help  it.

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Narrow  Escape  of  a  Man  Seriously 

W rilten   for  th e  Tradesm an.

Afflicted.

To  crowd  the  entire  fact  into  a 
nutshell,  Dan  Elkins,  the  average six 
teen  year  old  boy,  came  into  the  Het- 
tingtons’  office  and  asked  for  a  po­
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took  to  him  and  told  him,  if  he  was 
ready  to  accept  $3.50  for  a  week’s 
work  there  was  a  place 
for  him 
somewhere.  Then  came  the  answer 
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“ I’ll  come  at  that  rate  for  a  week. 
If  at  the  end  of  that  time  I’m  not 
worth  more  than  that you  want some­
If  I  can’t  earn  a  dollar  a 
body  else. 
day  here  I  can  elsewhere. 
I’m  will­
ing  to  begin  low  down.  Sixty  cents 
a  day  for  a  fellow  that  weighs  160 
pounds  is  too  small  a  sum  for  me. 
I’m  good  for  two  and  a  half  a  day  at 
home. 
I’m  willing  for  a  while  to 
come  down  to  a  dollar  just  to  see 
what  I  am  worth.  Can  you  make  it 
a  dollar  a  day  for  a  month?”

Aside  from  what  he  said,  which  had 
appealed  strongly  to  him,  there  was 
a  something  in  the  voice  that  made 
the  man  look  out  of  the  window  at 
the  bit  of  the  river  that  glinted  off 
there  in  the  distance  and  it  was some­
thing  like  a  minute  before  his  eyes 
came  back  again  and  rested  on  the 
boy  before  him.

it 

found 

“A  good  many  things  have  to  be 
taken  into  account.  We  don’t  really 
need  a  boy  at  all;  but  we  are  always 
on  the  lookout  for  what  we  may 
want  and  you  strike  me  as  being  that 
sort  of  a  boy.  Have  you  been work­
ing  out  doors?  You  say  you  weigh 
160  pounds  and  can  do  a  man’s  work; 
have  you  been  working  on  a  ranch?”
The  questions  were  needless.  The 
young  fellow  from  head  to  heels had 
brought  into  the  office  the  air  found 
only  on  the  plains,  and  the  man  in 
the  office  chair  at  the  desk  had  asked 
them  for  the  purpose  of  looking  the 
youngster  over.  He 
a 
pleasure  and  he  determined  to  make 
the  most  of  his  chance.  Asking  the 
boy  to  be  seated  by 
the  window, 
where  the  river  in  the  distance  was 
rippling  on  its  way  to  the  far-off sea, 
he  sawr  in  the  manly  shoulders,  the 
well-poised  head  and  the  earnest,  de­
termined  face  another  well-grown lad 
whom  ten  years  ago  that  gleaming 
river  had  seized  in 
relentless 
hands  and  strangled.  This  voice  was 
certainly  like  his,  the  strong,  well- 
built  figure  was  much  the  same  and 
the  two  young  faces  had  in  common 
an  earnestness  of  purpose  which 
meant  much  for  the  future  should it 
dare  refuse  however  grudgingly  the 
best  it  had  in  store.  For  the  first 
time 
in  ten  tiresome  years  had  a 
young  face  so  moved  the  man,  and 
had  he  yielded  then  to  the  impulse 
that  seized  him  he  would  have  taken 
Dan  Elkin  home  with  him  and  put 
him  into  the  room  that  for  a  decade 
had  been  a  mausoleum  sacred  to  the 
memory  of  as  promising  a  young  life 
as  the  fair  world  has  seen.

its 

“I  have  always  lived  on  a  ranch,” 
the  voice  began,  “and  that  means 
working  out  doors.  There  is  always 
enough  there  for  a  boy  to  do  and

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

you 

so  I  grew  rapidly.  Then  father  was 
obliged  to  be  often  away  from  home 
and  that  left  me  to  begin  early  to 
the 
look  out  for  things,  and  being 
only  child— well, 
know”— the 
“only”  boy!  They  certainly  had  that 
in  common— “they  have  to  take  men’s 
places  early  and  that  makes  a  big 
difference.  We  get  to  be  men  be­
fore  we  know  it.  That  and  our  be­
ing  big  does  the  business  for  us. 
I 
guess  we  get  the  grown-up  idea  be­
fore  we  are  ready  for  the  thing  it­
self.”

So  the  boy  wandered  on  in  his 
talk,  the  ranch  and  his  home  there 
giving  him  abundant  material  to  talk 
about,  and  long  before  he  was  done, 
the  young  face  of  long  ago  in  the 
mind  of  the  listener  settled  into  the 
features  before  him,  and  when 
the 
story  was  ended  the  dollar  a  day 
was  promised,  the  boy  was  placed  at 
the  foot  of  the  coihmercial  ladder  to 
climb  or  not  to  climb  as  he  saw  fit, 
and  William  Hettington  went  home 
to  dinner  that  night  to  tell  his  wife 
about  a  Dan  Elkins  hired  that  day 
“who  talks  as  Will  used  to  talk  and 
who  looks  into  your  eyes  as  he  used 
to  look  when  he  was  much  in  earn­
est.”

exclamation  which 

It  goes  without  saying  that  Dan 
Elkins  earned  his  dollar  a  day  and 
that  he  is  still  working  for  the  Het­
tington  Brothers.  He  never  knew 
how  he  happened  to  “get  in  there!” 
an 
constantly 
greeted  him  for  days  afterward.  He 
was  too  busy  looking  after  his  work 
to  think  much  about  anything  else, 
and  while  he  sometimes  wondered 
that  sc  much  that  was  pleasant  came 
his  way  he  could  not  know 
that 
“Uncle  Billy”  for  the  sake  of  the  boy 
he  could  not  forget  was  living  his 
life  over  again,  and  making  it  hap­
pier  by  adding  so  much  that  was  de­
sirable  to  his— Dan’s.

the 

For  the  man  life  seemed  again  to 
be  worth  living  and  more  and  more 
as  the  days  went  by  into  his  life  the 
old  hope  and  the  old  joy  seemed  to 
store 
come.  He  went  about 
every  day  to  see  that  face  and 
to 
think  of  the  other  one  behind  it.  He 
found  himself  looking  into  the  store 
windows  and  wondering  what  things 
Dan  would  like  to  have. 
If  anything 
especially  pleased  him,  it  did  not take 
him  long to  step  inside  and  buy  it  and 
in  due  time  the  delighted  Dan  would 
find  it  on  his  bureau,  admiring  it and 
wondering  from  whom  it  had  come.
A year of this  went by and  one  Sun­
day  in  the  early  fall  the  merchant, 
lighting  his  cigar,  drove  to  Dan’s 
boarding  place  and  found  him  stand­
ing  in  the  doorway,  a  little  uncertain 
what  to  do  with  himself. 
It  did  not 
take  long  to  induce  him  to  get  into 
the  buggy  and  away  they  went  to­
wards  the  mountains,  whose  rugged 
heads  were  thrust  sharply  up  into 
the  blue  September  sky.  The  unex­
pected  ride— above  all  the  ride  with 
“Uncle  Billy”— the  glory  of  the  au­
tumn  day,  the  good  road,  the  splen­
dor  of  the  mountains,  loosened 
the 
young  fellow’s  tongue  and  the  driver, 
listening  to  “the  sound  of  the  voice 
that  is  still,”  began  to  dream dreams 
full  of  kindness  and  good  will  for  the 
young  man  at  his  side,  all  the  better

and  the  brighter  because  they  ended 
with  the  determination  of  realizing 
the  very  dreams  which  Dan  had 
dreamed  away  back  in  his  home  on 
the  Colorado  ranch.  Why  not  have 
this  boy  for  his  boy?  W hy  not  have 
him  living  in  the  room  over  the  din­
ing  room,  using  “his”  chair,  “his” 
table,  “his”— everything?  The  home 
would  be  cheery  again  with  the  old 
voice  sounding  through  it.  The  place 
so  long  vacant  at  the  table  would 
again  be  filled  and— and— when 
the 
time  came  for  these  things  to  be  left 
behind,  could  they  be  left  in  better 
hands  than  Dan’s?

After  that  the  two  were  often  to­
gether  and  the  reader  can  understand 
how  natural  it  was  and  how  easy  it 
was  for  the  man  to  get  down  into 
the  boy’s  life  and  how  pleasant  this 
was  up  to  a  certain  point  to  the  boy. 
He  knew  now  where  all  the  surprises 
had  come  from  and  he  was  not  at  all 
adverse  to  the  rides;  but  when 
in 
his  zeal  the  man  began  to  caution 
the  boy  about  companionship  and  to 
late 
bear  down  a  little  heavily  on 
hours  and  where  he 
them, 
after  a  little  of  that  he  “squared  off 
and  told  the  meddling  old  fool  to 
mind  his  own  business.”  When,  not­
withstanding  this,  the  merchant  re­
membering  the  age  of  his  protege 
kept  on  “for  the  boy’s  good” 
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his  “old  man”  and  treated  him  as 
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that  sort  of  name.  After  the  ride he 
rapidly  developed  a  violent  case  of 
hatband  contraction.  He  began  to 
be  critical  in  regard  to  neckties.  He 
began  to  talk  of  the  future  with  an 
over-confidence  that  awakened  dis­
gust,  all  of  which  might  have  been 
put  up  with  had  it  been  accompanied 
with  even  decent  treatment  of  the 
man  who  was  thinking  too  much  of 
a  boy  who  didn’t  know  when  he  was 
well  treated;  so  in  time  Uncle  Billy 
got  more  than  enough  of  “the  shab­
biest  treatment  of  his  life,”  and  the 
result  was  as  sudden  as  the  coming 
of  the  cause  had  been.  There  weren’t 
any  more  presents  and  any  more 
rides.  There  were 
familiar 
greetings  and  the  undue  familiarity 
of  the  short-sighted  clerk  met  with 
a  coolness  that  chilled;  and  when 
one  day  that  same  clerk  presumed to 
go  into  the  office  without  knocking 
and  with  an  at  home  air  threw  him­
self  into  one  of  the  firm’s  chairs  he 
was  sent  out  with  a  flea  in  his  ear, 
concluding  as  he  went  to  his  place  in 
the  store  that  he  had  possibly  gone 
too  far.  He  guessed  he  had  made  a 
fool  of  himself.

few 

room,  at  the  table,  with  me  when 
I  want  him,  to  send  him  to  school, 
to  college,  to  bring  him  up  with  the 
idea  of  having  him  take  my  place  in 
the  firm  when  I  am  ready  to  give  it 
up— in  a  word  to  have  him  my  boy, 
my  own. 
I  tried  Elkins,  but  it  isn’t 
in  him,  and  now  I  have  been  won­
dering  if  Burrill  will  fill 
the  bill. 
Does  he  strike  you  as  a  gentleman?”

“Yes.”
“Does  it  seem  to  you  that  there  is 
anything  in  him  at  all  suggestive  of 
Will— the  way  he  carries  himself and 
meets  people  and  things  like  that? 
Will  was  quiet,  and  gentle,  but  he 
was  manly.  Does  Burrill 
strike 
you  so?”
“Yes.”
“Will  he  prove  the  intolerant  cad 
that  Elkins  did  if  I  give  him  a 
trial?”

“No.  Go  ahead.  An  ancestor  of 
his  not  far  back  was  a  gentleman. 
That’s  what  Burrill  is.  The  other 
fellow  is  a  jack.  He’s  a  good  busi­
ness  man;  but  cultured  people  don’t 
want  him,  and  the  house  of  Hetting- 
ton  is  made  up  of gentlemen.”

A  fortnight  later  there  was  a  stir 
in  the  clerk-family  of  the  Hetting- 
tons.  Ben  Burrill,  “a  unicorn  who 
didn’t  know  beans,”  had  been  boosted 
into  Jim  Watson’s  posish  right  over 
the  heads  of  Elkins  and  Hardy.  He 
was  only  seventeen,  but  he  was  a 
boy  whom  everybody  took  to  and 
was  not  sorry  afterwards  that  he did. 
Envy  insisted  that 
the  promotion 
was  a  mistake,  but  the  new  broom 
not  only  swept  clean  but  kept  new, a 
fine  quality  in  brooms.  Then,  too, 
the  boy  “hath  borne  his  faculties  so 
meek”  that  he  soon  made  the  strong­
est  friends  of  those  who  had  frown­
ed  upon  his  promotion.  The  keen 
eyes  of  the  office  especially  were  on 
him  and  when  a  month  after  his  ad­
vance  the  reports  showed  that 
the 
business  of  which  he  had  charge  had 
unexpectedly  and  astonishingly 
in­
creased  there  were 
congratulations 
among  the  firm  members  over  the  re­
sult.  With  Uncle  Billy  the  matter 
went  farther. 
It  left  him  thoughtful 
and  in  his  quiet,  unobtrusive  way he 
went  into  the  store  to  look  the  boy 
over.

He  was  prepared  for  the  six  feet 
two  that  met  his  gaze,  but  it  was 
the  open,  thoughtful,  earnest 
face 
that  gave  him  peace.  The  boy  was 
inclined  to  be  handsome— would  be, 
in  fact,  when  once  the  “pin-feather 
age”  had  been  passed.  There  was 
nothing  of  W ill’s  voice  in  the  tone 
that  answered  the  few  questions  ask­
something  else 
ed,  but  there  was 
which  satisfied,  a  deference  and 
a 
heartiness  in  his  manner  which  call­
ed  back  certain 
lovable  qualities, 
buried  now  for  ten  long  years.  So 
for  another  month  he  watched  and 
waited  and  then  one  day  after  din­
ner  he  and  Mrs.  William  went  over 
for  an  evening  with  Brother  John’s 
folks.

The  brothers  had  hardly 

settled 
comfortably  down  in  the  den  when 
Uncle  Billy  unburdened  his  mind.

“John,  I’ve  been  thinking  a  good 
I  want 
in  his

deal  lately  of  my  boy,  Will. 
another  boy  in  his  place, 

So  the  next  day  Ben  Burrill  was 
surprised  to  be  called  into  the  office 
and  invited  to  dinner,  and  when  after 
dinner  he  was  told  what  Uncle  Billy 
had  in  store  for  him,  he  sat  as  one 
dazed.  When  the  power  of  speech 
came  to  him,  what  he  said  was,  in 
effect,  that  words  were  weakest  when 
wanted  most,  that  he  would  do  his 
best  to  make  Mr.  Hettington  glad 
for  what  he  had  determined  upon, 
that  the  education  was  what  he  had 
for— his 
been  working 
father  and 
grandfathers 
for  generations  had 
been  college  bred— and  that  if  doing 
his  best was  a  guarantee  of  the  future 
he  was  confident  that  success  was 
ahead.  It  was  not,  after  all,  so  much 
what  he  said  as  how  he  said  it,  and 
when  he  got  through  Uncle  Billy  was 
satisfied that his  successor  in  the  busi­
ness  firm  would  be  a  credit  to  him.

Ben  Burrill  did  not  go  again  into 
the  store  as  a  clerk.  The  fall  term 
was  beginning  and 
the  new  pro­
gramme  of  his  life  was  soon  entered 
upon.  His  chance  had  come  and, 
making  the  most  of  it,  he  was  soon 
in  college,  where  he  was  graduated 
after  the  full  four  years’  course.  Then 
with  two  years  abroad  he  came  home 
ready  for  his  place  in  the  office.  He 
is  there  to-day  and  filling  it  to 
the 
satisfaction  of  the  firm  and  to  the 
great  joy  of  the  silent  partner.

Dan  Elkins  still  holds  the  same 
place  at  the  same  salary  that  he  held 
when  Ben  left,  and  the  other  day 
when  he  and a fellow clerk were  walk­
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taking  that  gentleman  home  to  din­
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been  if  an  aggravated  case  of  swell- 
head  hadn’t  prompted  me  to  throw 
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whatever 
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daily  life  and  character.  With  “the 
pride  of  long  descent”  in  his  veins, 
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up  all  these  and  do  what  he  could  to 
brighten  the  life  of  the  Indian  and 
fit  him  for  the  immortality  of  the 
Beyond.  A   few  weeks  later  found 
him  with  his  cultured  manhood  jour­
neying  Westward;  and  there  at  Rose­
bud  under  the  bright  June  skies  I 
enjoyed  the  hospitality  found  only in 
the  cultured  Christian  home.

It was  in  August,  1878,  that  Spotted 
Tail,  chief  of  a  large  band  of  Brule 
Sioux,  selected  the  location  on  Rose­
bud  Creek  and  settled  there  with 
7,000  Indians.  The  agency  was  es­
tablished  first  in  tents  and  log  cab­
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light for a  limited  number.

Nineteen  years  ago  the  scattering 
of  the  smaller  bands  began  under 
their  various  chiefs,  who  chose  such 
locations  as  seemed  advantageous  for 
farming  and 
stock-raising.  There 
were  some  good  crops  here  and there 
and  a  few  successful  herders,  but 
farming  and  home-building  could  not 
succeed  while  the  semi-monthly  is­
sues  of  beef  and  rations  were  kept 
up  and  the  family  were  allowed  to 
continue  their  gipsy-like 
existence, 
leaving  their  homes  and  gardens  to 
the  coyote  on  four  legs  or  two.

A fortunate  provision  with  these In­
dians  was  the  establishment  of  the 
day  school,  where  thirty  children  of 
school  age  could  be  gathered,  and  we 
find  that  the  day  school  and  the  mis­
sion  chapel  have  been  the  means  of 
holding  these  Indian  villages  togeth­
er.  The  issues  of  beef,  rations  and 
annuities  have  been  cut  down  or  dis­
continued  until  two  summers  ago the 
experiment  of  self-support  was  tried 
by  three-fourths  of 
the  population 
and  found  much  favor  with  the  In­
dians.

The  schools,  both  mission  and day, 
closed  in  early  June;  that  of  St. 
Mary’s  was  the  first  visited. 
It  was 
begun  in  February,  1874,  on  the  San­
tee  reservation.  Ten  years  later 
it 
was  destroyed  by  fire  and  re-built on 
the  Rosebud  Reserve  in  order 
to 
reach  the  large  body  of  Indians there. 
My  notes  say  “heathen”  and  I  do  not 
think  it  best  to  trifle  with 
them. 
Here  the work  of training  Indian chil­
dren,  surrounded  by  the  influences 
of  a  Christian  home  with  as  much  of 
the  home  feeling  and  sympathy  as 
possible,  has  been  going  on  for  more

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than  seventeen  years  by  Mr.  Clark’s 
tireless  hands.  Two  miles 
farther 
east  is  the  Government  Boarding 
School,  about  six  years  in  operation, 
and  between  the  schools  is  a  large 
stone  church,  opened  about  four years 
ago.  A t  these  two  schools  the  same 
training  is  accomplished,  the  leading 
idea  being,  How  shall  these  children 
be  successfully  taught  practical  les­
sons  in  household  economy?  With 
the  regular  lesson  from  the  text-book 
are  taught  those  of  the  home.  They 
learn  to  keep  house,  to  cook  and  to 
sew.  The  making  of  beds,  the  clean­
ing of  rooms, what  washday  and  iron- 
ingday  mean;  in  fact,  whatever  per­
tains  to  making  and  sustaining  hap­
py  home 
these 
schools  a  matter  to  study,  to  learn 
and  to  put  into  daily  practice.  The 
boy  is  taught  to  work. 
it  be 
farming,  then  he  learns  to  do  at  the 
school  what  he  must  know  how  to 
do  on  a  farm  of  his  own.  So  he 
milks,  so  he  plows  and  plants  and 
harvests,  and  so  with  his  own  hands 
he  learns  how  to  get  his  living;  and 
in  our  drives  about  the  reservation |

life  is  made 

brains  of  the  white  teacher 
I  am 
frank  to  say  I  do  not  believe  they 
could  have;  but  the  fact  that  under 
any  circumstances  they  did  it  and 
"the  thing  went”  carries 
its  own 
story  of  encouragement.  The  prog­
ress  of  civilization  at best  is  slow, and 
from  what  has  been  done,  under  the 
greatest  discouragement,  we  may  be­
lieve  that  more  that  is  good  must 
follow.  More  than  half  the  popula­
tion  are  Christians  and  as  faithful as 
professing  Christians  are  elsewhere. 
They  are  intelligent  worshippers  and 
prefer  to  have  books  in  hand  so  that 
they  may  assist  or  respond  at 
the 
proper  times.  The 
responses  and 
singing  of  Indian  congregations  are 
often  startling  in 
full-voiced 
earnestness  and  no  less  impressive  is 
their  reverent  attention  to  sermons 
[ and  instructions.  At  a  convocation 
of  clergymen  and  catechists,  I  listen­
ed  to  two  sermons  by  Indian  speak­
ers  in  their  language  without  fatigue, 
the  recurrent  vowel  sounds  so  dull­
ing  the  angular  gutterals  as  to  pre­
vent  any  approach  to  discord.  Per­
haps  the  editor  and  the  readers  of

their 

at 

If 

they  were 

three  years 

imprisoned.
On  returning to  their people,  Howl­
ing  Coyote,  in  order  to  justify  him­
self,  boasted  of  his  superiority,  de­
picted  the  pleasures  of  those  who 
traveled  the  white  man’s 
road  and 
feigned  the  deepest  scorn  for  those 
who  clung  to  old  customs.  This  cut 
into  the  heart  of  his  rival,  Running 
Elk.  He  thought  his  power  was 
slipping  from  him,  but  with  deci­
sion  he  met  the  calamity.  He  stalked 
into  the  agent’s  office  and  sat  down. 

“Cut  hair,”  he  said.
“Whose?”
“Mine.”
“What?  Do  you  want  your  hair 

cut  off  short  like  a  white  man’s?” 

“Ugh,”  grunted  Running  Elk,  “me 

travel  white  man’s  road  now.”

When  the 

locks  were  shorn  the 
chief  asked  for  a  pair  of  trousers  and 
&  coat,  which  were  given  him  by  the 
delighted  agent.  Then  he  walked  to 
the  mirror  and  stared,  his  features  in 
the  meantime  fixed  as  if  graven  in 
stone.  Then  turning  to  the  agent 
he  said: 
“Howling  Coyote  no  kin 
laugh  more.  Me  all  same.  Me  betta. 
Howling  Coyote  be 
three 
years  civilize.  Me 
three 
hours.”

takum 
civilize 

Two  days  later  the  agent,  through 
his  window,  saw  Running  Elk  in  the 
rain  and  wading  through  a  sea  of 
mud,  his  bare  legs  gleaming  like  half- 
polished  bronze,  a  hat  on  his  head 
and  his  trousers  under  his  arm.

“Why  don’t  you  wear  your  trous­
ers,  Elk?”  he  asked  with  astonish­
ment.

“Me  no  want  to  git  dirty,”  replied 
the  warrior  as  he  proceeded  to  dress 
himself. 

“Me  heap  tired.”

“What’s  the  matter?”
“No  sleep  nothin’  tall.  Think  all 
time  losum  scalp.”  Then  after  a  long 
silence  of  profound  thought,  “Mighty 
lonesome  be  civilized,  my  camp.  Me 
one,  that’s  all.  Squaws  he  laugh— 
laugh  all  time.  Me  no  like  civilize. 
No  like  white  man’s  road.  Make  me 
tired!”

in 

leading  hindrances 
feeling  and 

Is  it  barely  possible,  or  wholly  so, 
that  Running  -Elk’s  reply 
contains 
the  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter? 
Does  the  civilizing  of  the  Indian sav­
in 
age  find  its 
that 
that  “tired” 
“Squaws  he  laugh?”  For  myself 
I 
am  convinced  of  this:  that  the  Gov­
ernment’s  long-coming  conclusion  to 
recognize  manhood  and  let  that  rec­
ognized  manhood  take  care  of  itself 
and 
encouragement 
and  help  of  the  mission  school  and 
day  school  are  the  only  agents  which 
will  ever  overcome  the  “weariness,” 
and  counteract  the  baneful  influence 
of  the  squaw’s  laughter.

constant 

the 

Richard  Malcolm  Wash’akah.* 

(*Give  me  another  month  at  Rose­
bud  and  I’d  write  you  a  letter  in  Da- 
kotah.)

Well  Defined.

What  is  your  idea  of  a  truly  good 

wife?”  asked  the  youth.

A  truly  good  wife,”  answered  the 
Cumminsville  sage,  “is  one  who  loves 
her  husband  and  her  country,  but 
doesn’t  attempt  to  run  either.”

_ There  are  few  vices  worse  than 
vinegary  virtues.

The  Sioux  Indians  at  Home

my  attention  was  repeatedly  called to 
the  results  of  Indian  industry.  Here 
in 
stood  numerous  shocks  of  corn 
large  well-kept  gardens  and 
there 
was  the  vegetable  cellar,  where  such 
roots  as  the  children  raised  were 
kept  for  use  at  the  regular  school 
luncheon,  a  meal  where,  it  is  hardly 
needful  to  state,  the  Indian  child  has 
learned  some  very  important  lessons.
Hardly  a  structure  visited  failed to 
show  what  the  Indian  boy  can  be 
taught  to  do  with  his  hands,  and  one 
instance  deserves  special  mention—  
the  making  of  a  windmill 
the 
Whirlwind  Soldiers’  Camp  School. 
The  materials  were  pieces  of  packing 
boxes,  a  cast-off  buggy  axle,  pieces 
of  wire  fencing,  rejected  water  pipes, 
a  few  pieces  of  scantling,  some  nails 
and  bolts,  the  last  three  the  only 
new  materials  made  use  of.

at 

If  now  the  question  be  squarely 
I  believe  that  the 
put,  What  of  it? 
answer  can  be  as  squarely  stated.  It 
is  more  than  we  have  any  right  to 
expect.  Whether  the  Indian  boys 
would  of  themselves  made  the  wind­
mill  without  the  guiding  hands  and

the  Tradesman  would  like  to  join  in 
and  enjoy,  as  heartily  as  I  did,  the 
singing  of  “Nearer,  my  God 
to 
thee!”  in  the  Indian  tongue.  A  sin­
gle  stanza  will  answer,  and  here  it  is: 

Mita  Wakantanka,

Nikiyena,

Ka  kis  mayanpi  sa,

He  taku  sni;
Kici  cina  wacin,
Mita  Wakantanka,
Mita  Wakantanka,

Nikiyena.

Among  these  agencies,  which  are 
working  a  slow  but  certain  change 
among  these  inhabitants  of  woods 
and  wilds,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered 
at  that  a  bit  of  rivalry  should  now 
and  then  appear. 
It  is  related,  with 
how  much  truth  the  reader  himself 
must  judge,  that  Howling  Coyote, 
after killing or  capturing  all  the  mem­
bers  of  an  emigrant  train,  as  they 
were  celebrating 
in 
dance  and  revelry,  was  himself  and 
his  turbulent  band  of  two  hundred in 
turn  surprised  and  captured.  Howl- 
ing  Coyote  and  forty  of  his  warriors 
were  sent  to  San  Quentin,  where  for

their  victory 

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N O T   A L L   TH U G S.

Constables  Who  Will  Not  Disgrace 

Their  Offices.

If  there  is  any  class  of  men  that 
is  misjudged  and  unjustly  disliked  be­
cause  of  the  actions  and  characters 
of  a  few  of  the  men  in  the  ranks  it 
is  surely  the  constable.  The  idea so 
prevalent  among  people  that  the  con­
stables,  as  a  class,  are  a  lot  of  thugs 
and  ruffians  who  will  do  anything 
up  to  murder  while  serving  a  writ or 
warrant  is  wrong.  That  there  are  in­
dividuals  among  the  constables  who 
richly  deserve  this  reputation  I  will 
not  deny,  but,  as  a  class,  the  judg­
ment  is  unjust.

The  actions  of  a  few  men  who  have 
thrown  aside  all  ideas  of  law  or  de­
cency  while  in  the  performance  of 
their  duties  have  been  so  extensively 
chronicled  in  the  daily  press  that  it 
is  hard  to  make  the  average  reader 
believe  these  men  are  not  representa­
tive  of  all  constables.  If  they  are  told 
that  there  are  gentlemen  to  be  found 
among  them  they  will  laugh.  How­
ever,  let  me  say  that  there  are  consta­
bles  who  are  entitled  to  this  designa­
tion;  that  there  are  constables  who 
absolutely  refuse  to  accept  writs  of 
attachment or  foreclosures whose  exe­
cution  will  bring  hardship  to  the  de­
fendants  of  said  writ  and  that  there 
are  constables  who  refuse  to  serve 
warrants  on  women.  The  majority 
of  what  may  be  termed  the  decent 
constables  will  never  arrest  a  woman 
at  night. 
Instead,  we  simply  notify 
her  that  she  is  wanted  and  she  gen­
erally  comes  and  signs  a  bond  with­
out  being  arrested.

I  must  say  that  most  warrants 
sworn  out  in  Justice  Court  cases  in 
the  city  are  instigated  by  some  law­
yer,  for  if  left  alone  people  who  have 
a  grievance  will  settle  it  generally 
out  of  court  if  it  is  possible.  Some­
times  in  settling  out  of  court  they 
seriously  disturb  the  peace  of 
the 
neighborhood  and  even  black 
each 
other’s  eyes,  but  even  this  is  better, 
if  the  people  only  knew  it,  than  be­
ing  dragged  into  a  court  and  being 
subjected  to  fines,  court  costs  and 
lawyers’  fees.

But  when  they  go  to  a  lawyer  in­
variably  there  is  work  for  the  consta­
ble.  It  may  be  only  a  question  of  50 
cents  or some  dirty  clothes  that  start­
ed  the  trouble,  but  there  will  be  a 
batch  of  warrants  to  serve  if  it  goes 
to  a  court.  This  class  of  cases  is 
the  hardest  to  handle  also,  for  the 
parties  to  the  suit  are  nearly  always 
foreigners,  and  when  the  constable 
goes  into  their  homes  to  arrest  one 
he  is  an  object  of  suspicion,  to  say 
the  least,  and  is  treated  as 
such. 
Jews  are  the  only  people  who  will

not  fight  to  escape  a  warrant,  but 
they  will  lie  until  the  constable  does 
not  know  whether  he  has  the  right 
man,  even  if  the  names  agree.  All 
others  will  fight  if  the  occasion  offers 
it,  and  the  colored  man  will  turn  and 
run,  jump  out  of  a  window  or  do 
anything  desperate  when  he  hears 
that  a  constable  is  looking  for  him.

Here,  in  the  poor  district  of 

Personally  I  have  more  warrants 
to  serve  in  the  Market  street  district 
than  any  other  place  in  the  city,  for 
there,  no  matter  how  trifling  a  mat­
ter  of  dispute  arises,  the  first 
re­
course  of  both  parties  is  the  Justice 
Court. 
It  is  seldom  that  the  consta­
ble  is  met  with  force  there,  however.
the 
city,  where  the  people  for  the  most 
part  are  ignorant  of  the  laws  and 
customs  of  the  country,  the  disreputa­
ble  type  of  the  collection  constable 
is  seen  at  his  worst.  When  one  of 
this  class  of  men  goes  to  serve  a 
writ  or  warrant  in  this  district  he 
first  begins  by  threatening  to  kill the 
person  he  is  after.  He 
a 
house  and  kicks  the  furniture  and 
scares  the  people  so  that  they  are 
glad  to  do  anything,  even  to  bribing, 
in  order  to  save  themselves  from  in­
jury.

enters 

The  reputable  constable  must  fur­
nish  a  bond,  but  there  are  constables 
who  have  faulty  bonds— bonds  that 
no  one  would  lose  a  cent  by  if  they 
were  forfeited,  and  it  is  these  men 
who,  not  being  afraid  to  lose  reputa­
tion  or  money,  carry  on  their  ne­
farious  work  with  a  high  hand  and 
throw  the  decent  constable  into  dis­
repute.  They  accept  a  levy  for  $2 
and  go  to  a  man’s  house  and  take  $10 
worth  of  stuff,  and  they  take  it,  no 
matter  if  they  have . to  commit  as­
sault  to  get  it.  Then,  when  it  comes 
to  returning  for  the  same,  not  hav­
ing  a  bond  that  can  be  sued,  they 
falsely  inform  the  one  for  whom  they 
made  the  collection  that  nothing  of 
value  was  secured  and  rob  their  cli­
ent  as  well  as  the  victim  of  the  writ. 
These  constables  and  the  loan sharks 
work  much  together,  and  they truly 
rob  the  poor  people  that  come  into 
their  clutches.

Another  source  of 

revenue  and 
trouble  for  the  constable  is 
in  the 
securing  of  juries  in  the  downtown 
districts.  While  a  man  may  be  an 
ardent  supporter  of  all 
anti­
crime  committees  in  the  world  and 
a  firm  reformer,  when  it  comes  to 
securing  him  to  serve  on  a  jury  he 
has  a  hundred  excuses  for  not  serv­
ing.  Of  course,  there  is  a  difference; 
some  men,  busy,  prominent  men,  too, 
will  always  serve  when  summoned.

the 

Last  winter,  in  securing  a  jury  to 
try  a  case  arising  from  a  family  quar­

rel,  I  got  a  minister,  a  well  known 
bank  President,  two  of  the  leading 
gamblers  of  the  city  and  a  negro 
hodcarrier.  When  I  came  to  look 
them  over  and  get  the  other  man  I 
decided  that  a  professional  burglar 
was  all  that  was  missing  to  equalize 
the  morals  of  the  jury. 
I  went  into 
a  building  with  a  blank  summons  in 
my  pocket  and  stated  my  wants.  To 
my  surprise  a  young  fellow  stepped 
out  and  said  he  was  the  boy  I  was 
after. 
“ But  if  you’re  a  burglar  you 
don’t  want  to  get  into  a  court,  of all 
places,”  I  said.

“Well,”  said  the  boy,  “if  those  gam­
blers  can  take  a  chance  on  it  I  guess 
I  can,”  and  I  accepted  him.

This  jury  turned  in  its  verdict  and 
went  up  and  drew  their  50  cents  each, 
the  bank  President 
and  minister 
being  the  most  urgent  in  their  de­
mands  for  their  fees.

sometimes 

In  serving  levies 

the 
constable  runs  into  some  queer  ad­
ventures,  but  it  is  seldom  that 
the 
reputable  constable  is  found  throw­
ing  furniture  and  household  goods in­
to  the  street. 
twenty 
years’  experience  as  a  constable  in 
this  city  and  only  once  have  I  seized 
what  might  be  termed  household 
goods.

I  have  had 

This  was  the  case  of  a  servant  girl 
who  Had  secured  judgment  against a 
restaurant  keeper  for  wages  due  her. 
I  went  to  serve  the  writ  at  night,  at 
restaurant 
the  suggestion  of 
keeper,  who  called  me  up  on 
the 
telephone  and  said  that  he  wished  to 
have  the  matter  over  with  as  soon 
as  possible.

the 

I  went  to  his  place  and  found  it 
barren  of  chairs,  tables  or  anything, 
apparently,  that  might  be 
seizable. 
There  was  a  crowd  of  the  keeper’s 
neighbors  present  to  give  the  con­
stable  the  laugh. 
I  looked  about  the 
place  and  saw  on  the  range  in  the

kitchen  a  choice  assortment  of  roast 
beef  and  roast  chickens,  with  all the 
trimmings.  To  the  astonishment  of 
the  crowd,  I  picked  up  a  basket  and 
proceeded  to  stuff  the  roasts  into  it. 
When  the  keeper  became  assured  of 
my  seriousness  in  making  the  seizure 
he  hurriedly  called  quits  and  paid 
the  girl’s  wages.  What  kind  of  a 
sale  I  would  have  held  on  that  choice 
lot  or  chicken  and  beef  I’m  sure  I 
don’t  know.

As  to  the  money  earned  by  a  con­
stable  in  his  work,  he  does  fairly  well, 
but  never  gets  rich.  If  he  worked  on 
the  allowances  of  the  statutes  he 
would  starve,  because  a 
constable 
will  frequently  spend  three  times as 
much  lor  car  fare  in  effecting  a  serv­
ice  as  the  legal  fee  amounts  to.  So 
he  charges  slightly  more  and  makes 
perhaps  on  an  average  as  much  as 
the  police  officer  of  the  city.  The 
work 
is  sometimes  extremely  disa­
greeable,  but  scarcely  ever  is  there 
any  complaint  that  it  is  monotonous.

John  Small.

Forest  City 

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Be  Wayward.
W ritten   for  th e  Tradesm an.

about 

“Dill’s 

Castle  Rock,  Colo.,  Sept.  2,  1904.
Dear  Dillon— This  letter  is  as much 
a  surprise  to  me  as  it  will  doubtless 
be  to  you.  Your  mother,  it  seems, 
got  a  letter  from  you  yesterday  and 
said 
this  morning  at  breakfast  she 
something 
getting 
homesick,”  and  then  all  at  once  I 
remembered  that  she  and  I  had  a 
big  lumber  heels  of  a  boy  in  Denver 
who  is  trying  to  make  a  standing 
place  for  himself  in  that  swift  city. 
It  was  easy  to  see  that  she  had 
something  on  her  mind  and  I  re­
marked,  “Is  that  so?”  in  the  right 
place  and  off  she  went.

It  looks  as  if  you  are  trying 

to 
widen  the  field  of  your  financial  oper­
ations  just  enough  to  include  me, and 
while  it  may  be  a  little  discouraging 
I  feel  as  if  I  must  say  that  I  just 
wouldn’t  if  I  were  you.  Six  weeks 
at  the  worst  is  the  longest  time  to 
begin  the  Thanksgiving  dodge.  Then 
it  is  well  enough  to  begin  to  quote 
the 
“How  dear  to  my  heart 
are 
scenes  of  my  childhood!”  and 
to 
ask  your  mother  if  she’s  picked  out 
the  biggest  and  the  ripest  pumpkins 
for  a  batch  of  her  good  pumpkin pies 
and  to  wind  up  with  the  heart-stir- 
ring  statement  that  six  weeks  is  a 
good  long  time  to  wait  to  hear  the 
sound  of  a  mother’s  voice  and 
to 
clasp 
ever-welcoming 
hand!  By  beginning  in  August 
it 
more  than  doubles  the  time  and  the 
thing  gets  so  confoundedly  stale  by 
the  last  Thursday  in  November  as 
to  suggest  Lazarus’  condition  after 
he  had  been  dead  four  days.

father’s 

a 

Now,  Dill,  don’t  you  begin 

that. 
I’m  willing  to  let  your  mother  be­
lieve  until  she  finds  out  to  the  con­
trary  her  own  self  that  her  dear 
Dillon  is  the  same  cherub  in  curls 
that  used  to  repeat  his  “Now  I  lay 
me”  every  night  before  he  went  to 
bed. 
If  you  play  your  cards  well  she 
may  never  know,  and  so  far  as  that 
is  concerned  I’m  willing  to  help  you; 
but,  Dill,  when  it  looks  as  if  you 
were  trying  to  bamphoozle  me 
it 
goes  against  the  grain  and  I  won’t 
have  it.  So  far  as  I  can  see  the  fact 
is  this:  You  are 
a 
whirl  of  what  in  my  day  we  called, 
“Bucking  the  tiger.”  The  first  time 
you  had  been  “buying  things”— you 
were  so  forgetful  as  not 
state 
what— and  wanted  a  twenty  to  piece 
you 
out  with. 
The  next 
“went”  five  “better”  (!) 
this 
time  I’m  waiting  with  some  curiosity 
to  hear  what  sum  will  relieve  you 
of  your  dire  necessity;  and  I  am  all 
the  more  curious  about  it  because 
your  mother  has  sent  you  all 
the 
ready  money  she  has  on  hand  and 
she’s  coming  to  me  for  it.

indulging  in 

time 
and 

to 

I’m  going 

She  won’t  get  it. 

to 
tell  her  that  I’ll  write  to  you  and 
will  see  that  you  don’t  suffer,  and  in 
the  meantime  you  want  to  stop  two 
little— I  hope  they  are 
that—  
practices  before  they  get  to  be  hab­
its.  The  first  is  gaming  and 
the 
second— to  me  far 
the  worst— the 
complete (!)  covering  up  of  tracks, 
at  which  every  boy  from  fifteen 
to

just 

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twenty-three  is  cock-sure  that he  is an 
expert.

I  don’t  know— and  I’m  mighty sure 
that  I  don’t  want  to  know— how  long 
you’ve  been  at  it,  but  the  time  has 
come  for  you  to  stop.  A  fellow  at 
nineteen  ought  to  have  become  fa­
miliar  enough  with  the  terms  of  the 
game  to  use  them  intelligently  when 
he  wants  to  intensify  the  idea  that 
he  is  “tough.”  You  ought  by  this 
time  at  a  card  party  to  be  able  to  say 
with  sufficient  earnestness  to  produce 
conviction,  “Let’s  change  this  game 
to  poker,”  or,  with  a  careless  display 
of  your  hand  to  the  fellow  at  your 
left  remark, 
for  a 
straight?”  With  this  knowledge  at­
tained  that’s  all  you  ever  want— or 
should  want— to  do  from  that  time 
forth  with  a  gambling  game.  This 
is  the  place  for  the  sermon,  but  you 
won’t  get  it  any  more  than  you’re 
going  to  get  any  more  money  from 
home  to  pay  that  sort  of  debt,  and 
for  the  same  reason—you  don’t  need 
it.  You  are  nineteen  and  you  have 
brains.  Use  them.

“How’s 

that 

It  is 

Wh3t  I  must  say  is  that  the  spirit 
of  gambling  is  in  the  air  and  Denver 
is  no  worse  than  any  other  town  of 
its  size  in  that  respect. 
the 
fashion  to  consider  betting  as  argu­
ment  and  the  “nickel,”  the  “two  bits,” 
the  “a  v”  or  the  “a  ten,”  paid  or  un­
paid,  measures  the  belief  or  the  unbe­
lief  of  the  modern  reasoner(!).  Now, 
Dill,  I  want  you  to  stop  the  whole 
blamed  business.  Leave  out  of  your 
vocabulary  the  “I’ll  bet  you”  and 
keep  out  of  and  away  from  the  places 
and  the  persons  who  are  pulling  you 
to  the  “damnation  hole”  a  good  deal 
nearer  than  you  think  you  are.  To 
bring  this  thing  to  a  head,  I’ll  tell 
you  what  I’ll  do. 
If  you’ll  make  a 
clean  breast  of  it  and  promise  me, 
as  man  to  man,  that  you’ll  stop  gam­
ing  for  money.  I’ll  get  you  out  of 
this 
last  box.  Now  don’t  try  to 
play  any  dodge  game.  Meet  me  on 
the  level— the  time  is  coming,  I  hope,' 
when  you  can  meet  me  on 
“the 
square”— and  I’ll  be  to  you  the  dear­
est  dad  this  side  of  “Kingdom  Come.” 
Will  you?

lies  in  the  fact  that 

The  trouble  with  the  covering  up 
business 
the 
“he,”  indulging  in  it,  always  believes 
himself  smart  enough  to  do  what 
no  man  ever  has  done  or  ever  will 
do,  forgetful  of  the  fact,  if  he  ever 
knew  it,  that  the  very  covering  is 
sure  to  show  that  disturbance  has 
been  going  on.  That  thing  bothered 
me  a  good  dea!  and  I  finally  made up 
my  mind  to  this:  not  to  do  any­
thing  that  I  care  much  about  cover­
ing  up.  You  are  going  to  find  that 
a  tough  doctrine  to swallow and it’s 
going  to  be  a  good  many  years  be­
fore  you  swallow  it,  if  you  ever  do; 
but  you’d  better.

You  know  your  mother  and  you 
know  how  her  hands  go  up  when 
she  is  horrified  at  the  sins  of  the 
world.  From  the  first  “Thou  shalt 
not”  to  the  included  tenth  there  are 
no  two  ways  about  one  of 
them. 
Well,  I  early  saw  that  I  was  going  to 
be  kept  in  constant  hot  water  or  be 
the  saint  I  know  I  never  can  be—  
you  may  get  out  of  that  all  the  com­
fort  you  can— and  I  tried  the  cover­

ing  up  trick  until  I  saw  it  was  no 
go  with  her. 
It  made  her  cry  and 
it  made  me  mad  and  finally  I  gave 
myself  a  good  hauling  over,  decided 
what  1  could  cut  out  and  what 
I 
wouldn’t  cut  out  and  went  at 
it. 
I  had  got  my  growth  and  was  going 
to  smoke  when  I  want  to. 
I  wasn’t 
going  to  do  any ‘more  lying  when  I 
came  home  at  2  o’clock  in  the  morn­
ing  and  so  through  the  whole  list  of 
the  things  you  are  doing  now, 
I 
haven’t  any  doubt. 
I  told  the  truth 
and  didn’t  wait  to  be  asked  about  it.
At  first  there  was  the  inevitable 
“I.  V.”— my 
initials,  you  know—  
“don’t  you  know”— and  there  I  broke 
in  with  “yes,  I  know  all  about  it.  I 
know  a  great  deal  more  about  it  than 
you  do  or  ever  can  and  you’ll  have 
to  let  me  decide  all  these  questions 
as  I  think  best. 
I  won’t  keep  any­
thing  back  if  you’ll  drop  the  lectur­
ing  business.”  Here’s  a  sample: 
I 
got  heme  last  night  at  a  little  after 
1.— “I.  V.,  where  in  the  world  have 
you  been?”— “At  the  Midway  with a 
drummer.  .  We  played  billiards  and 
I  had  two  glasses  of  beer— the  last 
it. 
one  after  we  quit.”— That  ends 
There 
and 
that  little  “dred”  we  all  hate  is  got 
rid  of.  Make  up  your  mind,  Dill, 
that  you  have  got  to  face  the  music.

isn’t  any  covering  up 

It’s  only  a  question  of  time  any  way 
and  the  sooner  it’s  over  the  better.

Now,  boy,  drop  the  Thanksgiving 
gag.  Accept  or  reject  my  proposi­
tion  like  a  man.  Don’t  try  to  work 
either  your  mother  or  me  and  above 
all  things  stop  trying  to  cover  things 
up. 

From  your  Dad,  I.  V.

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Twenty-five  years  ago  the  man  am­
bitious  enough  to  attempt  to  culti­
vate  1,000  acres  would  probably  have 
been  thought  idiotic,  but  such  has 
been  our  agricultural  progress  that 
to-day  one  can  find  farms 
in  the 
West  ranging  as  high  as  10,000  acres. 
In  a  single  year  the  owner  of  one 
containing  6,000  acres  in  Iowa  has 
placed  in  the  bank  $50,000— the  prof­
its  of  that  period  after  taking  out  all 
expenses. 
In  other  words,  every 
acre  of  the  farm  netted  him  over 
$8,  counting  in  400  acres  of  wood­
land,  roads,  and  soil  on  which  noth­
ing  productive  was 
It 
may  be  needless  to  say  that  this 
farmer  kept  an  account,  and  a  minute 
account,  of  every  item  of  income  and 
outlay.  An  analysis  of  this  account 
is  of  interest,  for  it  explains  in  part 
how  he  succeeded where  others  would 
have  failed.

.cultivated. 

The  farm  in  question  is  called  a 
“corn  farm.”  This  title  is  misleading. 
In  addition  to  corn,  no  less  than  1,000 
acres  are  planted  in  wheat  each  year, 
and  about  600  acres  in  oats.  Corn 
is  relied  upon  for  the  principal  money 
return— the  cash  crop—but  if  all  the 
available  soil  were  devoted  to 
it 
annually  far  more  fertilizer  would 
be  required  than 
if  another  cereal 
were  occasionally  planted,  so  the  crop 
is  rotated  by  raising  three  successive 
harvests  of  corn  from  a  field,  then 
“putting”  it  in  wheat  or  oats,  and  fol­
lowing  this  haivest  with  three  more 
of  corn.  The  land  is  valued  at  $30 
an  acre,  representing  an  investment 
in  the  soil  of  $180,000.  The  improve­
ments,  which  include  houses,  barns 
and  buildings  of  all  kinds,  fences, 
sewerage,  machinery  and  live  stock, 
swell  the  total  to  $258,500. 
If  the 
farmer  had  this  capital  placed  where 
it  paid  him  5  per  cent,  interest  his 
income  from  it  would  be  about  $13,- 
000— at  6  per  cent,  a  little  over  $15,- 
coo.

Here  is  the  problem  for  him  to 
solve:  Can  he  make  his  soil  yield 
sufficient  in  quantity  and  quality  to 
pay  him  $15,000  annually  after  meet­
ing  all  expenses? 
If  so,  his  money 
is  a  6  per  cent,  investment.  As  al­
ready  stated,  he  has  cleared  as  high 
as  $50,000  in  one  year,  and 
a 
period  of  ten  years  his  profits  have 
never  been  less  than  $19,000  at  each 
year’s  end.  The 
expense  account 
would  stagger  many  a  man  who  cal­
culates  on  100  or  500  acres.

in 

It  would  buy  what  would  be  con­
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parts  of  the  United  States,  for 
it 
amounts  to  $25,000  a  year— but  it  in­
cludes  everything,  even  the  deprecia­
tion  ;n  value  each  year  of  buildings 
and  machinery,  which  the  owner  esti­
mates  at  10  per 
cent.  Therefore 
every  harvest  must  yield  him  at  least 
$44,000  in  order  to  make  the  smaller 
profit  recorded,  but,  as  already  inti­
mated,  this  kind  of  farmer  estimates 
by  the  50,000  and  100,000  bushels,  as 
he  calculates  his  outlay  in  tens  of 
thousands  of  dollars.

Here  is  what  was  put 

into  his 
granaries  in  one 
season:  215,000 
bushels  of  corn,  20,500  bushels  of 
wheat,  28,000  bushels  of  oats.  He 
sold  the  corn  for  $64,500,  the  wheat 
for  $10,000,  and  by  feeding  the  oats

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How  Mechanical 

Ingenuity  Has

Worked  Revolution  in  Farming.
These  are  the  days  of  big  things 
because  we  are  getting  down  to  busi­
ness  more  and  more:  In  other  words, 
we  are  realizing  that  so  much  can  be 
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ing,  therefore  time  saving,  methods. 
Perhaps the  farmers have been  among 
the  most  recent  to  realize  it,  as  is  in­
dicated  by  the  actual  revolution  in 
agriculture  in  America  which  is  tak­
ing  place.

The  work  of  the  farmer  has  been 
called  an  industry,  but  with  the  man 
of  to-day,  who  depends  on  the  soil 
for  a  livelihood,  it  is  also  a  business 
to  become  more  productive  to  the 
extent  that  each  phase  of  it  is  car­
ried  out  on  progressive  and  system­
atic  lines,  and  this  is  why  the  expres­
sion  “one  horse”  is  regarded  as  con­
temptuous,  since  the  one  horse  farm­
er  is  usually  among  those  who  can 
not make  ends  meet  at  the  year’s  end, 
and  comes  out  with  a  balance  on  the 
debit  rather  than  the  credit  side  of 
his  account— if  he  keeps  an  account, 
although  he  may  be  too  negligent 
even  to  keep  one.

Success  rests  with  man.  Under 
this  heading  is  not  to  be  placed  the 
small  land  owner,  for  he  may  get  as 
much  net  value  out  of  fifty  or  ioo 
acres  by  economical  agriculture  as 
his  neighbor  who  pays  taxes  on  dou­
ble  the  area,  but  who  has  not  appre­
ciated  the  profit  which  comes  from 
progress.  The  same  rule  applies  to 
the  farmer  as  to  the  merchant,  the 
manufacturer,  even 
the  banker— it 
rests  with  the  man  himself  to  apply 
judgment  and  method,  as  already 
stated,  in  making  a  business  out  of 
agriculture,  or  to  plow 
sow 
haphazard,  trusting  to  nature  to  re­
pay  him  with  the  harvest.

and 

But  nature  helps  those  who  help 
themselves  by  taking  advantage  of 
mechanical 
invention  and  applying 
processes  which  experience  or  possi­
bly  the  farm  college  has  taught  them. 
The  best  proof  of  this  fact  is  what 
appears  to  be  the  wonderful  results 
which  have  attended  agriculture  on 
a  large  scale  in  the  great  grain  belt 
beyond  the  Mississippi,  as  well  as  in 
the  Central  West.  Here  the  corn  or 
wheat  field  may  be  calculated  by  the 
square  mile— not  the  acre.

Instead  of  ‘■ he  one  horse  you  hear 
of  four,  six,  even  a  dozen  hauling 
the  apparatus.  The  bushels  of  grain 
are  reckoned  in  50,000  lots,  and  one 
man  may  own  a  township.  Yes, they 
are  one  man  iarms,  not  one  horse 
farms,  4>ut  with  this  difference— the 
man  may  not  put  his  hand  to  the 
plow  or  toss  a  bundle  of  hay  from 
one  year’s  end  to  the  other.  He  farms 
with  his  head— not  with  his  body.  He 
devotes  his  ability  and  experience  to 
getting  best  results  out  of  the  men 
he  employs  and  the  machinery  he 
owns,  and  wherever  it  is  a  question 
whether  the  man  or  the  machine  will 
do  the  more  he  takes  the  machine 
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to  his  animals  reduced  his  year’s  feed 
bill  to  $200.

The  expert  corn  grower  who  reads 
this  article  will  doubtless  be  surpris­
ed  at  the  harvest  to  the  acre— over 
fifty  bushels— but  this  farmer,  who 
makes  it  his  business,  does  not  waste 
an  acre  of  cultivated  soil,  and,  after 
it  is  plowed,  gives  one  part  the  same 
attention  and  care  he  gives  to  all—  
through  his  machinery  and  the  men 
behind  it. 
In  the  preparation  of  the 
ground  the  gang  plows  come 
into 
play,  each  drawn  by  six  sturdy horses. 
If  the  soil  is  heavy  even  the  seeders 
are  drawn  by  four  horses,  never  less 
than  two.

You  do  not  see  the  “man  with  the 
hoe”  walking  over  a  field  and  wasting 
a  half  dozen  kernels  where  he  plants 
one;  then  another  man  following  him 
to  bury  the  seed  in  the  earth.  These 
machines  drop  just  three  grains  in 
every  space  allotted  for  a  hill,  be­
cause  they  can  be  adjusted  to  it,  and 
cover  the  grain  automatically. 
In 
planting  time  you  can  count  thirty 
of them  in operation, so  the  thousands 
of  acres  are  seeded  as  quickly, 
if 
not  more  quickly,  than  a  hundred.

To  harrow  the  surface  the  farmer 
starts  out  a  hundred  harrows  in  a 
morning. 
If  they  were  placed  side 
by  side  they  would  cover  a  strip  400 
feet  in  width  as  they  move  along.  He 
keeps  the  weeds  from  choking  the 
young  corn  with  seventy-five  culti­
vators,  each  drawn  by  two  horses. 
The  “man  with  the  hoe”  exists  only 
in  poetry  on  this  place.  Time  and 
space  are  too  precious 
for  him. 
When  the  crop  is  gathered  seventy- 
five  four  horse  wagons  haul  the  piles 
of  ears  to  the  barns,  placed  here  and 
there  at  convenient  points,  to  save 
time.

Throughout  it  all  the  idea  is 

to 
keep  every  man,  every  animal,  and 
every  machine  doing  what  can  be 
done  to  the  best 
advantage— each 
forming  a  part  of  a  system  of  which 
the  farmer  is  the  director.  Conse­
quently  the  same 
is 
noted  in  one  part  as  in  another,  and 
the  farm  is  as  carefully  divided  into 
departments  as  an  up  to  date  fac­
tory  or  store, 
each  one  knowing 
what  he  has  to  do,  and  how  and  when 
to  do  it.

thoroughness 

It  is  not  strange  that  this  man may 
“make”  his  corn  for  10  cents  a  bush­
el  where  it  costs  his  neighbor,  who 
does  not  believe 
in  “new  fangled” 
methods,  nearly  twice  this  amount. 
When  a  farm  can  be  conducted  as  a 
business,  and  the  cost  of  plowing, 
planting,  cultivating,  and  every  other 
expense  sum  up 
less  than  $5  for 
every  acre,  while  the  corn  from  every 
acre  sells  for  two  or  three  times  this 
amount,  the  business  of  agriculture 
is  worth  thinking  over.

Ingenuity  has  been  displayed 

in 
few  inventions  more  notable 
than 
those  which  concern  the  soil  and  its 
products.  The  inventor  has  so  re­
duced  actual  human  labor  in  field  and 
garden  that  a  man  can  perform  about 
every  operation  required  by  merely 
the  turn  of  a  wheel  here  and  the  pull 
of  a  lever  there  with  one  hand,  while 
he  guides  his  horses  with  the  other. 
He  can  actually  plow,  cultivate  and 
seed  100  acres  without  walking 
a

step,  and  with  his  two  or  four  horses 
and  machine  will  accomplish  as  much 
as  a  dozen  or  a  score  of  men  with 
hand  tools.

Even  when  the  corn  is  ready  for 
cutting,  no  longer  is  it  necessary  to 
swing  the  sickle  blade  and  get  the 
backache  gathering  and  binding  the 
stalks.  One  reason  why  the  West­
ern  corn  “patch”  may  extend  a  mile 
or  more  in  length  is  because  it  can 
be  cut  and  grasped  by  fingers  of  steel 
and  bound  like  a  bundle  of  wheat 
without  a  touch  of  the  hand.  The 
corn  binder  and  shocker  moves  along 
as  rapidly  as  the  horses  drawing  it 
can  walk,  cutting  every  stalk  of  the 
hill  close  to  the  roots.  Held  in  the 
shock  former  the  stalks  are  wrapped 
into  a  compact  bundle  ready  to  be 
carried  to  the  barn  or  stacked  amid 
the  hills.

strips 

When  it  is  time  to  separate  the 
ears  from  the  husk  the  farmer  does 
not  call  in  his  neighbors.  One  of 
the  hands  pitches  the  stalks  and  ears 
into  a  machine  that 
every 
piece  of  covering  from  the  ears  and 
piles  them  into  the  wagon  or  on  the 
ground.  Then  it  takes  the  husks  and 
blows  them  through  a  pipe  into  the 
barn  loft,  to  be  stored  for 
fodder 
Here  again  a  steam  engine  having 
the  power  of  two  or  three  horses  will 
do  as  much  in  a  day  as  forty  or  more 
human  huskers,  and  the  only  wages 
are  water,  oil  and  fuel.

The  “husking  bee”  has  gone  like 
the  man  with  the  hoe,  and  even  the 
haymaker  is 
rapidly  becoming  a 
memory.  We  are  all  familiar  with 
the  horse  rake,  which  gathers  the 
hay  into  long  swaths.  At  last  appa­
ratus  has  been  designed  that  gath­
ers  up  the  swath  as  it  moves  along, 
raises  it  to  the  top  of  a  wagon, where 
the  man  with  the  pitchfork  adjusts 
the  load.  As  the  vehicle  moves  for­
ward  it  is  filled  by  this  hay  elevator 
attached  to  its  rear  and  the  hay  ad­
justed,  ready  to  be  hauled  to  the 
market  without  another  touch.

The  grain 

field  at  harvest  time 
presents  an  animated  scene,  especial­
ly  when  the  wheat  is  threshed  on the 
spot  where  it 
is  grown.  The  old 
time  thresher  with  its  horses  in  the 
treadmill  was  considered  little  short 
of  marvelous,  but  it  was  long  since 
discarded  for  the  one  driven  by  the 
traction  engine  which  hauled  it  from 
place  to  place,  and  now  the  visitor 
to  a  California  wheat field  can  see  the 
climax  of  the  agricultural  engineer’s 
effort— a  mechanical  giant,  which, as 
it  passes  through  the  mass  of  waving 
stalks,  cuts  them,  separates  the  ker­
nels  from  the  sheaf,  and  binds  the 
straw.

Actually  the  only manual  labor  per­
formed  with  the  wheat  itself  is  to 
remove  the  bags  of  grain  as  fast  as 
the  machine  fills  them,  and  to 
load 
the  straw  bundles  on  the  wagon  to 
be  hauled  away,  yet  cutting,  raking, 
binding  and  threshing  are  continually 
being  done  from  the  time  the  man 
at  the  lever  starts  his  motor  until 
he  stops  it. 
In  fact,  steam  power  is 
utilized  in  Pacific  coast  farming more 
extensively  than  elsewhere 
the 
world.

in 

Tractors  representing  the  power of 
fifty  horses  are  substituted  for  ani­

to 

to 

from 

twelve 

twenty-two 

mals  in  plowing  a  field,  making  a  se­
ries  of  furrows  twenty  feet  wide  and 
dragging 
twenty 
plows  after  them.  When  the  earth 
is  ready  for  harrowing,  they  are  at­
tached  to  harrows  fifty  feet  wide  spe­
cially  built  for  them.  The  steam  har­
vester  is  in  common  use.  With  it 
150  acres  of  grain  can  be  cut,  thresh­
ed,  and  sacked  in  twelve  hours,  for 
it  mows  a  swath 
feet 
wide.  The  tractor  draws  its  plows 
over  fifty  to  sixty  acres  in  a  day,  ac­
cording  to  the  character  of  the  soil.
When  one  stops  to  consider  what 
these  figures  mean  he  can  get  some 
conception  of  how  machinery  is  aid­
ing  in  the  revolution  we  have  refer­
red  to.  The  invention  of  it  has  been 
stimulated  by  the  demand  for  labor 
and  time  saving  appliances,  but  this 
demand  has  originated  from  the  de­
sire  of  the  agriculturist 
apply 
methodical  ideas,  as  in  other  channels 
of  human  activity.  As  he  has  studied 
his  vocation  he  has  realized  the  great 
opportunities  of  which  he  can  take 
advantage  if  he  has  adequate  facili­
ties.

If  a  man  believes  he  can  make 
$1,000  or  $5,000  more  by  adding  to 
his  acreage  he  is  strongly  tempted to 
make  the  addition,  especially  when 
modern  methods  will  give  him  the 
desired  results  without 
overwork. 
This  is  the  secret  of  the  expansion 
of  many  of  the  Western  farms  to 
their  present  size.  Not  all  their  own­
ers  have  succeeded,  but  many  have 
done  so,  and  the  stories  of  the  rural 
capitalists  who  direct 
operations 
from  their  automobiles  and  drive  over

in 

truth 

their  places  behind  teams  of  thor­
oughbreds  have  more  than  a  grain 
of 
them,  as  the  camera 
proves.  But  they  are  of  the  class 
who  use  their  heads  more  than  their 
hands,  bearing  the  same  relation  to 
their  property  that  the  president  of a 
cotton  mill  or  of  a  foundry  does  to 
his  industry.

Undoubtedly  the  advantage  of  put­
ting  brains 
into  farming  has  been 
greatly  developed  by  the  work  of the 
agricultural  colleges  of  this  country. 
Their  graduates  have  shown  beyond 
question  that  the  scientific  cultivator 
is  no  longer  to  be  ridiculed  as  an 
impractical  theorist.  The  thousands 
of  young  men  and  young  women  as 
well  who  have  had  the  benefit  of 
study  at  these  institutions  have  per­
haps  done  more  in  furthering  Ameri­
can  agricultural  progress  than  any 
other  medium,  because  education has 
caused  them  to  appreciate  that  true 
economy  lies  in  applying  modern  and 
systematic  ideas  in  caring  for  tree, 
It  can  be  asserted 
shrub  and  shoot. 
without 
that 
they  are  numbered  among  the  most 
prosperous  of  rural  citizens,  for  they 
have  made  their  calling  not  only  an 
industry  but  a  business.  S.  Ryder.

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

least  agree  on  the  delay  in  offering 
their  old  stock  at  reduced  prices.

“ It  strikes  me  that  the  merchants 
of  a  city  should  get  together  at  a 
general  meeting,  or  a 
few  general 
meetings,  and  agree  on  a  delay  in  the 
time  to  cut  prices  this  coming  season, 
say  at  least  one  month  later than  usu­
al,  when they could outline a campaign 
which  would  be  to  their  own  bene­
fit.

“ Every  merchant  will  acknowledge 
that  he  has  a  line  of  customers,  and 
they  are  among  the  well  dressed  and 
sensible  people  of  his  city,  who  al­
ways  look  well  dressed,  but  not  in 
the  very  latest  fashions,  who  make  it 
a  practice  to  come  in  just  after  the 
cut  prices  go  into  effect  each  season 
and  stock  up  for  the  coming  year. 
These  people  are  able  to  spend  the 
regular  price  for  their  wearing  ap­
parel,  but  they  know  they  can  make 
a  considerable  saving  by  buying  a 
little  late  and  carrying  the  goods  over 
on  their  own  account,  and  they  take 
advantage  of 
the  conditions.  This 
class  is  growing  larger  all  the  time, 
and  nothing  but  the  delay  of  the  cut 
price  season  will  break  them  of  this 
habit.

“Suppose  the  dealers  of a  city  agree 
upon  this  delay  of  a  month  in  price 
cutting,  just  for  a  starter  on  getting 
together,  and  then  each  merchant,  in 
his  advertising,  as  the  season  ad­
vances,  continues  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact  that  there  is  so  much  more 
of  the  season  left,  that  winter  will 
last  three  months  longer,  etc.,  which 
will  remind  the  reader  that  there  is 
still  a  long  season  in  which  the  goods 
offered  in  the  advertisements  can  be 
worn  before  others  will  be  needed.

longer 

“I  believe  that  the  continued  pound­
ing  of  these  facts  into  the  minds  of 
the  people,  by  all  the  merchants  of 
a  city,  would  bear  good  fruit  and 
would  keep  the  buying  season  open 
a  good  deal 
than  would 
otherwise  be  the  case,  and  then  at  the 
very  last  of  the  season  all  the  stores 
could  throw  their  remnants  and  odd 
sizes,  etc.,  into  a  big  sale,  and  thus 
clean  up  their  stock  as  thoroughly 
as  usual.  Even  if  they  had  to  cut 
their  prices  a  little  more  than  usual, 
on  account  of  the  advanced  season, 
they  could  well  afford  to  do  so,  when 
the  fact  is  considered  that  the  larger 
part  of  the  goods  which  would  ordi­
narily  have  been  cut  have  been  sold 
at  regular  profits.

“1  am  going  to  try  and  interest  the 
balance  of  the  dealers  in  my  city  in 
a  movement  of  this  kind,  and  hope 
merchants  in  other  cities  will  take  up 
the  movement,  for  I  am  tired  of  dis­
posing  of  so  much  of  my  stock  each 
year  at  a  cut  price,  merely  on  account 
of  fighting  the  seasons,  instead  of 
falling  in  with  them  and  selling  the 
goods  when  they  are  needed 
in­
stead  of  months  in  advance  of  that 
time.

“My  ideas  may  not  be  the  right 
ones  to  remedy  the  trouble,  and  T 
would  be  glad  to  hear  from  other 
dealers  as  to  what  plans  they  can 
advance,  and  think  this  is  the  right 
season  to  agitate  such  a  matter,  so 
that  we  will  have  plenty  of  time  to 
get  a  full  understanding  before  the 
season  approaches  for  action.  Then, 
possibly,  we  will  be  able  to  profit  in

Overcoming  the  Abuse  of  Bargain 

Sales.

“ I  paid  Kansas  City  a  visit  last  Jan­
uary,”  remarked  a  shoe  retailer  to the 
writer,  “and  I  fpund  the  papers  full 
of  advertisements  calling  attention  to 
the  great  reduction  in  the  price  of 
heavy  weight  shoes.  All 
retail 
stores  had  their  windows  full  of  at­
tractive  bargains,  and  it  struck  me  at 
the  time  that  it  was  a  shame  to  cut 
the  prices  of  shoes  right  at  the  begin­
ning  of  the  season 
in  which  they 
were  needed.

the 

“We  are  not  so  quick  to  cut  our 
prices  in  the  smaller  cities,  and  I  be 
lieve  that  the  entire  system  of  selling 
goods  should  be  reformed  in  that  part 
It  is  not  the  shoe 
of  the  country. 
dealer  alone,  but  it 
into  all 
branches  of  trade.

runs 

“In  the  first  place  we  all  try  to 
start  the  sale  of  heavy  weight  goods 
while  the  weather  is  still  hot,  and 
when  low  shoes  are  still  worn.  Then 
we  advertise  and  work  to  get  our 
goods  out  as  quick  as  possible,  know­
ing  that  if  the  stock  is  left  on  our 
hands  the  first  of  February  there  will 
be  no  profit  in  it.

“Then,  as  soon  as  the  buds  begin 
to  swell  on  the  trees  in  the  spring, 
we  are  trying  to  sell  the  light  weight 
goods  a  good  month  before  there  is 
need  for  them,  and  by  the  middle  of 
summer  we  are  giving  all  our  profits 
away  on  the  balance  of  the  stock  so 
it  will  not  be  left  on  our  hands.

“Now,  it  strikes  me that  we  retailers 
are  working  square  against  the  sea­
showing  our 
sons,  for  we  begin 
goods  too  early,  and 
then  cutting 
prices  too  early.  There  should  be  a 
reform 
in  this  direction,  especially 
as  to  the  time  when  the  cut  is  to  be­
gin.  No  man  will  be  able  to  make 
this  reform,  but  dealers  in  all  lines 
should  get  together  and  decide  on 
concerted  action.  I  would  be  glad  to 
see  a  movement  of  this  kind  go  over 
the  country,  for  it  would  be  of  ma­
terial  benefit  to all  dealers  who  handle 
seasonable  goods.

themselves 

“There  may  be  many  ways  of  edu­
cating  the  people  up  to  the  fact  that 
they  should  do  their  buying  early  in 
the  season,  so  they  will  be  the  first 
ones  to  show 
in  new 
styled  garb,  but  in  our  city  it  is  only 
the  very  few  who  delight  to  be  taken 
as  patterns  by  the  rest  of  their  ac­
quaintances  who  indulge  in  early  buy­
ing.  The  great  bulk  of  the  sales  are 
made  when  the  season  of the  year  ap­
proaches  in which  the  goods  are need­
ed  for  the  comfort  of  the  wearer. 
It 
appears  to  me  to  be  a  great  deal  more 
sensible  to cater to this larger number 
of  people  than  to  the  early  birds,  and 
for  that  reason  I  would  be  willing, 
in  my  city,  to  not  open  the  fall  goods 
for  a  month  later  than  we  usually do, 
and  the  same  thing  in  the  spring, 
and  to  delay  the  cutting  of  old  stock 
for about  the same  period.  Merchants 
in  other  cities  might  not  think  this 
plan  a  good  one,  but  they  could  at

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is,  and  there  is  no  doubt  about  our  being  head­
quarters for everything in  that  line.

We  have  a black  grain  lace  boot  at  $3.50  and 
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our  own  business,  instead  of  letting 
our  customers  do  all  the  profiting. 
I  believe  in  selling  good  goods  for 
the  money,  but  I  want  the  money. 
I 
do  not  want  to  sell  goods  at  a  profit 
for  one  month,  and  then  give  the 
same  goods  away  for  cost  the  bal­
ance  of  the  season.”— Shoe  Retailer.

Dealers

Not  Asking  Enough 

For

Rubbers.

for  rubber 

One  of  the  salesmen  for  a  local 
jobbing  house  said  the  other  day: 
“ Retailers  should  not  be  afraid  to ask 
better  prices  for  rubbers.  They  are 
paying  more  now  for  rubbers  than 
ever  before,  yet  some  of  them  have 
not  raised  prices.  This  is  foolish­
ness. 
It  is  an  easy  matter  to  ex­
plain 
to  people  why  rubbers  cost 
more.  Everyone  knows  that  the  sup­
ply  of  crude  rubber  is  diminishing, 
while  the  demand 
for 
hundreds  of  uses  that  it  was  not  put 
to  several  years  ago 
increasing. 
Prices  of  rubber  boots  have  not  ad­
vanced,  while  dealers  are  paying  50 
per  cent,  more  for  these  goods.  They 
make  a  profit  of  about  25  cents  on  a 
pair  of  rubber  boots,  where 
they 
should  make  50  or  75  cents.  This  fall 
most  dealers  will  ask  60  and  65  cents 
for  women’s  rubbers,  which  is  simply 
an  advance  of  five  cents  in  the  best 
grade.  Last  season  nearly  all  dealers 
asked  60  cents  straight  for  rubbers. 
Formerly  these  grades  sold  at  40  and 
45  cents.”

is 

Cheap  Shoes  vs.  Higher  Grades.
The  man  who  deludes  himself  into 
the  belief  that  he  is  getting  as  good 
a  shoe  for  $3  or  $3.50  as  he  can  get 
for  $5  is  buncoing  himself.  He  could 
easily  make  himself  believe  that  a 
$2  hat  is  as  good  as  a  $3  or  $5  hat 
and  a  $15  suit  of  clothes  as  good  as 
a  $25  suit.  Undoubtedly,  some  of  the 
cheaper  grades  have  some  of the  good 
points  of  the  higher  grades,  says  the 
Shoe  Workers’  Journal, but  they  have 
not  all  the  good  qualities.  The cheaper 
shoe  may  wear as long,  but  it  does  not 
wear  as  well. 
It  may  not  rip  or  give 
out,  but  it  does  not  stand  up  as  well 
as  the  higher  grade  shoe.  The  longer 
it  is  worn,  the  more  apparent 
its 
cheaper  grade  becomes  even  to  the 
inexperienced  eye.  The  cheaper  shoe 
has  not  the  workmanship  of the  other, 
and,  even  though  the  stock  was  equal­
ly  good,  the  construction  is  not.

President’s  Boots  Are  Having  a  Hard 

Time.

Every  nail  and  screw  in  the  soles  of 
the  boots  which  President  Roosevelt 
wore  when  he was  a  cowboy  in  North 
Dakota,  and  which  are  on  exhibition 
at  the  World’s  Fair,  has  been  re­
moved  by  souvenir  huntejs.  There  is 
hardly  a  spot  on  the  outside  of  the 
boots  on  which  some  one  has  not 
placed  his  autograph.  A  placard  near 
by  requires  visitors 
their 
names  in  the  register  provided  for 
that  purpose,  not  on  the  President’s 
boots,  but  the  boots  have  an  attrac­
tion  for  names  not  possessed  by  the 
register.

to  place 

It’s  the  stage  electrician  wha  has 

the  lightest  job  of  the  play  house.

It  requires  more  than  a  stroke  of 

luck  to  win  a  sculling  race.

The  Habit  of  Talking  Shop.

talk 

“Do you talk shop? Do the men  who 
follow  your  calling  talk  shop?” asked 
the  man  who  is  in  search  for  the  curi­
ous.  “Talking  shop  is  a  curious  habit, 
and  it  would  be  interesting  to  know 
iu.it  how  far  one’s  calling  influences 
one  in  the  matter.  Or  is  the  habit 
purely  one  growing  out  of  individual 
bent? 
It  may  be  vanity,  or  self-suf­
ficiency,  or  it  may  be  a  commendable 
pride  in  one’s  calling.  Men  who write 
for  newspapers 
shop.  When 
they  leave  the  office  they  are  more  or 
less  excited  by  the  events  of  the  day. 
They  are  full  of the  day’s  happenings, 
often  full  of  their  own  little  part  in 
the  list  of  world-events.  But  news­
paper men  generally  talk  shop  to  their 
own  kind.  Outsiders  would  not  under­
stand,  and  they  would  have  no.  sym­
pathy  with  the  little  nothings  which 
made  up  the  day’s  business  of  the 
man  who  keeps  his  ear  to  the  world 
and  his  pen  to  the  paper.  Lawyers 
talk  shop,  but  not  so  much  as  doc­
tors.  Clerks  talk  shop,  and  traveling 
men,  while  given  much  to  telling  of 
their  own,  generally  tell  a  story  of 
some  sort,  truthful  or  otherwise,  con­
cerning  some  happening  to  them  out 
on  the  road.  Public  men  talk  shop  a 
great  deal.  Talking  shop  with  them 
is  business.  They  are  talking  poli­
tics,  and  putting  forward  those  things 
which  are  calculated  to  aid  them  in 
holding  bn  to  the  good  things  they 
have.  But  what  class  of  men  talk 
shop  more  than  any  other  class? 
I 
do  not  know.  You  are  entitled  to  one 
guess  at  least,  if  you  care  to  make 
it,  and  your  facilities  for  arriving  at 
a  correct  judgment  are  just  as  good 
as  any  other  man’s,  so  blaze  away.”

law 

The  Secret  of  Gladstone’s  Power.
Mr.  Gladstone’s  Christian  example 
made  his  Christian  testimony  power­
ful,  and  there  is  much  in  Mr.  Mor- 
ley’s  book  which  shows  how  habitu­
ally  he  practiced  the  presence  of God 
and  lived  under 
to  Christ. 
Above  all,  he  was  a  Christian  states­
man.  He  spoke  habitually  to  men’s 
souls.  The  signal  splendor  of  his  life 
is  that  he  did  not  appeal  to  men  on 
the  lower  and  baser  side,  but  spoke 
to  them  as  capable  of  great  and  no­
ble  things.  He  called  on  them  to 
walk  in  hard  paths.  When  he achiev­
ed  his  great  triumphs  in  the  country, 
it  was  because  he  appealed  to 
the 
generous  wrath  of  the  people  against 
wrong.  He  never  pandered  to  what 
is  little  and  low  and  mean  among 
men.  He  believed  that  there  was  that 
in  the  human  spirit  which  would  an­
swer  the  heavenly  call,  and  he  was 
there  to  speak  to it, the friend of free­
dom  and  righteousness  and  peace.  No 
detraction  on  the  part  of  his  enemies, 
no  weakness  or  blunder  on  his  own 
part,  can  rob  him  of  the  magnificent 
eulogy  that  he  so  lived  and  wrought 
among  us  as  to  keep  the  soul  alive 
in  England.— British  Weekly.

Japanicity.

Japanicity  is  a  new  term.
Japanicity  describes  a  phase  of the 
justly  celebrated  simple 
the 
other  phases  being  rusticity  and  pub­
licity.

life; 

At  bottom  japanicity  consists  of 
looking  like  30  cents,  but  30  cents

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in 

being  a  much  larger  sum 
the 
Orient  than  with  us,  the  term  has 
become  more  and  more  relative,  until 
now  a  kimona  may  easily  cost  as 
much  as  $50.

Many  of  us  are  really  too  large  to 

go  in  for  japanicity  much.

However,  we  are  not  to  despise the 
day  of  small  things,  which,  aftfr  all, 
do  very  well  if  we  are  careful  not 
to  sit  on  them  with  our  whole  weight. 
— Puck.

Greed  is  the  foe  of  gain.

shoe  is  eight  inches 
high,  double  sole 
and  made  through 
out  of  genuine  old  fashioned 
kip.

Stands  the  hardest  kind of 
hard  wear  in  wet  weather, 
and is  the  best  value  to  retail 
at  $3.00 made  in  America.

This  is  only  one  of  a  va­
riety  of  high  cut  shoes  we 
make  especially  adapted  to 
fall  trade.

RINDGE,  KALM BACH, 

LOGIE  &  CO.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every  day 

to Grand  Rapids.  Send for circular.

HIGH  HUSTLER

Banigan  Rubber  Boots 

And  Shoes

the line to be depended upon to please, not  only  in  Style, Work­
manship and  Fit, bat in points that will meet all the lequirements 
of the most  critical.

If you have  never  handled  them  it  may  be  suggestive  of 

other than fairness if you do not place a trial order.

QEO.  S. MILLER,  Selling Agent

131*133  flarket S t.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

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Qualities  Required  To  Become  a 

Good  Salesman.

W ritten   for  th e  T radesm an.

O f  course,  it  is  easier  to  tell  how 
to  do  things  than  to  perform  them, 
but,  having  had  experience,  I  can say 
that  I  have  learned  some  of  the  es­
sential  qualities  required  to  become 
a  good  salesman  or  a  successful  mer­
chant;  therefore  I  am  certain  that 
the  things  I  would  suggest  are  those 
which  the  average  person  can  do.

First,  put  your  soul  into  your  work. 
Cultivate  for  it  a 
liking.  Do  not 
let the  idea  prevail  that  you  are  work­
ing  merely  for  money,  but  let  your­
self  as  well  as  your  customers  know 
that  you  enjoy  it,  that  your  pride  lies 
within  it,  your  entire  ambition  being 
to  do  the  right  thing  by  all.

Study  human  nature;  by  so  doing 
you  obtain  an  idea  how  different  char­
acters  must  be  handled.  Never leave 
until  to-morrow  that  which  should  be 
to-day.  Do  not  use 
accomplished 
flattery 
for  deception  has  brought 
misfortune  to  many  a  door.  Culti­
vate  kindness  and  courtesy.  Control 
your  -temper,  so  that  you  can  bear 
possible  rebuffs  with  ease.  Never at­
tempt  to  gain  favor  by  giving  away 
your  profit  for  then  you  will  fail.  To 
be  successful  have  only  one  price  for 
all.  Then  be  firm  and  square.  Make 
your  store  attractive  by  cleanliness 
and  order.  Make  all  who  enter  wel­
come.  Do  not  be  more  anxious  to 
wait  upon  Mrs.  Daniels  because  she 
is  wealthy  and  trades  more  extensive­
ly  than  you  are  to  wait  upon  Mrs. 
Wright  who  is  not  rich.  Avoid  mak­
ing  any  distinction  between  your  ben­
efactors  as  the  same  respect  is  due 
to  all.  Never  allow  customers 
to 
think  that  you  are  weary  or  that  your 
time  is  very  valuable  so  that  they feel 
that  they  are 
imposing  upon  you 
while  they  hesitate  in  the  choice  of 
an article.  Show  them  the  new  goods, 
make  them  feel  at  ease  and  let  them 
know  that  it  pleases  you  to  attend to 
their  wants.  You  should  never  be  in 
a  hurry  except  for  your  patrons’  ben­
efit  and  to  step  forward  to  meet  a 
customer. 
If  you  happen  to  be  con­
versing  with  a  salesman  or  other  em­
ploye  and  some  one  enters  excuse 
yourself  and  immediately  greet 
the 
newcomer  and  give  to  him  or  her 
your  undivided  attention.  Use  per­
ception  and,  instead  of  selling  cus­
tomers  some  fancy  article which  only 
through  your 
influence  they  would 
purchase,  sell  them  that  which  will 
give  them  such  satisfaction  that  they 
will  return  to  your  place  of  business. 
At  the  same  time  remember  not  to 
induce  them  to  take  the  article  sole­
ly  on  its  merits  but  also  because  it 
pleases  in  a  general  way.  Remember 
that  the  method  of  selling  to  a  lady 
is  somewhat  different  than  to  a  gen­
tleman  for  the  latter  relies  more  on 
a  clerk’s  advice  than 
former. 
Consider  your  word  as  binding  as 
your  note.  Never  cast  an  insinuation 
toward  your  contemporaries,  but  if 
you  haven’t  a  certain  article  which

the 

z.  patron  desires  tell  him  where  he 
can  obtain  it.  Make  of  your  custom­
er  a  friend  instead  of  a  money  grab. 
Above  all  be  polite  and  attentive  to 
children  for  that  is  one  of  the  essen­
tial  qualities  of  a  business  person  for 
the  people  whom  children  are  fond 
of  are  very  likely  to  win  the  parents’ 
favor.  Where  a  child  is  pleased  it 
will  return,  and  don’t'  forget  that  the 
little  folk  will  notice 
inattention 
more  keenly  than  their  elders.  A l­
though  their  purchases  may  not  be 
over  a  penny  spare  no  pains  to  make 
the  little  ones  welcome.  One  of  the 
most  essential  qualities  of  being  suc­
cessful  is  the  cultivation  of  your  own 
nature  from  that of a  pessimist to  that 
of  an  optimist.  Remember  that  in 
all  business,  in  all  successful  under­
takings,  you  will  find  disagreeable 
things  to  contend  with.  Something 
may  be  hurled  at  you  through  a  mis­
take  or  ignorance  may  lay  it  at  your 
feet,  which  can  not  be  helped.  Un­
der  all  these  difficulties  you  must 
keep  in  mind  the  sunshine  which will 
attach  itself  to  your  life  and  environ­
ment  by  keeping  sweet.  Your  own 
after  feelings  will  be  brighter  and 
better  by  treating  your  troubles with 
smiles  instead  of  frowns,  then  Mrs. 
So-and-So  who  has  made  an  attempt 
at  wounding  you  can  see  by  your 
countenance  that  she  has  failed.  She 
goes  home  ashamed  of  herself  and 
decides  that  your  spirit  is  so  much 
infused  with  goodness  that  you  are 
the 
loveliest  person  she  ever  met. 
Why?  Because  you  did  not  get  an­
gry  at  her  and  tell  her  that  she  could 
not  be  suited  and  you  wished  that 
she  would  go  somewhere  else.  You 
simply  told  her  that  you  were  sorry 
she  was  displeased  and  hoped  that 
in  the  future  it  would  not  be  re­
peated.  Consequently  she  concluded 
that  you  were  just  the  kind  of  per 
son  that  she  wished  to  deal  with, 
while  if  you  had  lost  your 
temper 
and  talked  to  her  unpleasantly  the 
consequence  would  have  been  that 
she  would  never  again  have  entered 
your  place  of  business. 
Let  your 
motto  in  life  be,  both  in  and  out  of 
business:  “Through  all  the  clouds  of

adversity  keep  the  sun  shining  and 
fill  your  soul  with  happiness  and  con­
tent,  thereby  achieving 
life’s  great 
aim,  Success.” 

Lucia  Harrison.

Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

Indiana  Merchants.

Auburn— Culbertson  & 

Boland,
hardware  dealers,  are  succeeded  by 
the  Culbertson  Hardware  Co.

interest 

Bloomington—G.  H.  Clark  has pur­
chased  an 
the  general 
store  of  J.  B.  Clark,  and  the  business 
will  be  conducted  in  the  future  under 
the  style  of  J.  B.  &  G.  H.  Clark.

in 

Converse— Bond  &  Powell,  hard­
ware  dealers,  are  succeeded  by  the 
Powell  Hardware  Co.

Evansville*—Louis  Bissel  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  V.  M. 
Shively.

Geneva— Aspv  &  Dietsch  will  con­
tinue  the  drug  store  formerly  con­
ducted  under  the  style  of  Aspy  & 
Miller.

Hamilton— F.  D.  Farnsworth  has 

discontinued  his  general  store.

Huntington— Frank  P.  Tuttle,  of 
the  firm  of  Tuttle  &  Hubbell,  gro­
cery  dealers,  is  dead.

Liberty  Mills— W.  A.  Baugher has 
removed  his  stock  of  dry  goods  and 
notions  to  Claypool.

Montpelier— The  Little  Lumber Co. 

has  moved  to  Parker.

Liberty  Mills— C.  McCutcheon has 
sold  his  stock  of  hardware  and  gro­
ceries.

Linton— Benj.  F.  Holscher,  dealer 
in  boots  and  shoes,  is  succeeded  by 
Holscher  &  Harris.

North  Manchester— C.  Fanning has 
retired  from  the  bakery  firm  of  C.  & 
E.  Fanning.

St.  Joe  Station— F.  A.  Zeigler, 
harness  dealer,  will  remove  to  Los 
Angeles.

Found  Another.

A  few  years  ago  a  well-known law­
yer  remitted,  in  settlement  of  an  ac­
count  to  the  publisher  of  a  paper  in 
the  West,  a  $2  bill,  which  was 
re­
turned  with  the  brief  statement:

“This  note  is  counterfeit;  please 

send  another.”
'T w o   months  passed  before  hearing 
from  the  lawyer  again,  when  he  apol­
ogized  for  the  delay,  saying:

“f  have  been  unable  until  now  to 
find  another  counterfeit  $2  bill, but 
hope  the  one  now  enclosed  will  suit, 
professing,  at  the  same  time,  my  ina­
bility  to  discover  what  the  objection 
was  to  the  other,  which  I  thought 
was  as  good  a  counterfeit  as  I  ever 
saw.”

It  takes  a  wonderful  play  of  the 
imagination  to  believe  some  men gen­
tlemen.

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TOM   M URRAY,

One  of  the  Most  Unique  Advertisers 

in  America.

For  some  weeks  past  the  Trades­
man  has  been  publishing  fac  similies 
of  the  advertising  placards  of  Tom 
Murray,  the  Chicago  furnishing goods 
dealer,  who  has  certainly  created  a 
new  form  of  store  advertising  in  the 
shape  of  window  bulletins  of  a  unique 
and  original  character.  When  Mr. 
Murray  engaged  in  business  he  occu­
pied  a  comparatively  small  room  with 
his  haberdashery  at  the  corner  of 
Jackson  Boulevard  and  Clark  street. 
At  that  time  he  handled  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods  exclusively,  but 
the 
business  grew  rapidly  and  more  room 
was  needed  soon.  After  several  en­
largements  of  his  store,  he  took  an 
adjoining  room  on  Clark  street  and 
added  a  line  of  clothing.  For  some 
reason  (Mr.  Murray  ascribes  it  to the 
location  and  he  is  probably  right), 
the  clothing  department  did  not  pros­
per  as  it  should  have  done  and  it  is 
now  being  closed  out.

On  the  Jackson  Boulevard 

front 
the  windows  were  covered  with  large 
sheets  of  red  paper  on  which  were 
written  various  messages.  Many  of 
the  bulletins  were  of 
considerable 
length,  yet  thousands  of  people  read 
every  word  of  them.  One  of  the 
windows  was  entirely  covered  with 
the  following,  which  we  print  as  an 
altogether  unique  piece  of  advertis­
ing:

years  I  will  now  briefly  give  you:

My  ups  and  downs  for  the  last  six 
I  have  had  three  ups  and  one  down.
I  started  in  a  store  where  my  hats 
are  now— in  two years  I  went  through 
the  first  wall— in  one 
year  more 
through  another  wall.  That  year 
made  more  money  than  I  ever  made 
in  my  life.  Same  as  most  men  I  was 
not  satisfied— inside  of  a  year  I  went 
through  one  more  wall. 
I  commenc­
ed  to  think  I  could  not  lose— did  not 
know  but  in  the  course  of  a  very 
few  years  my  south  entrance  would 
be  on  Van  Buren  street.  A  store  one 
block long was  seen  in  my  dreams.
My  dreams  would  have  been  realiz­
ed  had  I  been  located  on  State  street 
— on  the  east  side  of  street.  This may 
sound  to  you  a  bit  conceited— let  me 
tell  you  that  if  you  do  not  think  well 
of  yourself,  you 
can  not  expect 
others  to.

Did  you  ever  make  a  mistake?
I  made  a  mistake  when  I  thought 
I  could  sell  first  class  goods  on  Clark 
street. 
It  took  me  one  year  to  find 
out  my  mistake— it  took  me  one  more 
to  give  it  up. 
I  am  not  a  quitter—  
never  was. 
I  have  a  partner— my 
wife.  She  is  not  a  quitter— sticks  to 
me  alright.  I  have  fifteen  more  part­
ners— my  salesmen— and  they  are not 
silent  partners. 
I  tell  them  to  tip  me 
any  idea  they  think  is  for  our  good. 
They,  I  tell  them,  can  make  or  break 
me.
In  a  few  short  years  I  will  want  to 
take  it  a  little  easy.  They  will  get 
the  balance  of  their 
reward. 
When  the  time  comes,  and  it  will, 
they  can  have  more  than  half  of ^  it. 
I  have  no  children  arid  I  think  it  a 
cinch  I  never  will. 
I  can  afford  to 
take  care  of  my  boys;  in  doing  so,  I 
take  much  better  care  of  myself.

just 

Now.  in  my  defeat— my  failure  to 
do  a  clothing  business— I  appeal  to 
you— yes,  YOU,  friend  or  stranger
you  may  be.  It  is  you  who  can  help 
me  and  help  yourself.  September 1st 
I  must  give  up  my  Clark  street  store.
All  clothing,  soft  shirts,  pajamas  and 
underwear  must  be  sold.  The  cut  in 
prices  is  packing  the  store!  Some
hours  we  can  not  wait  on  you.  borne , 
wait  on  themselves.  Caught  a  man | d

helping  himself— opening  an  account 
with  me  without  my  consent.

To  ask  a  man  to  charge  goods  is 
more  than  I  can  stand  in  my  present 
frame  of  mind. 

Weeping  Tom.

Go  home  if  you  are  out  of  sorts 
Your  men  can  take  care  of  your  busi­
ness  for  the  day  better  than  you  can. 
When  you  get  home,  ask  your  wife 
how  you  are  fixed  for  winter  under­
wear. 
the 
morn— I  will  send  you  to  your  office 
happy. 

If  in  need,  stop  here  in 

Tom.

*  *  *

I  tell  my  men  never  to  urge  a 
customer  to  buy.  Not  to  talk  much—  
talk  a  trader  to  death  and  he  is  not 
a  live  one.  Give  a  customer  a chance 
to  think  and  he  will  think  more  of
My  customers  are  thinkers.  Just 

Tom.

now,  so  am  I. 

♦  ♦  ♦

Tom.

If  you  are  one  of  my  many  monied 
friends,  don’t  stay  out  on  account  of 
these  signs  of  distress. 
I  do  not 
want  to  borrow  your  money. 
I  want 
to  give  you  a  better  value  for  it  than 
you  can  get  any  place  else.  Tom.

*  *  *

Don’t  kick  me  when  I  am  down  by 
asking  me  to  charge  goods  when  sold 
less  than  cost.  Better  to  give  a  hand 
of  help  by  paying  me  what  you  owe 
me  when  you  receive  your  bill.

*  *  *

Tom.

They  are  talking  about  me— I  know 
it  and  am  glad.  They  tell_  you  the 
truth  when  they  say,  “He  is  selling 
underwear  too  cheap.”— It  is my  af­
fair— I  pay  the  bill. 

Tom.

*  *  *

Fault 

finders  wanted.  We 

can 
please  any  man  in  this  store.  You 
can  not  if  you  are  half  civil  get  any 
man  in  my  employ  to  treat  you  any 
way  but  civil. 

Tom.

*  *  *

A  very  good  collar  button— a  new 
one  for  every  one  you  break.  War­
ranted  not  to 
roll  under the  bureau.
3  for  25c. 

Tom.

More  Color  in  Neckwear.

The  tendency  in  fall  neckwear  is 
most  decidedly  away  from  the  staid 
pattern  which  has  held  sway  for  so 
long.  City  buyers  are  purchasing  the 
large  forms,  of  course,  yet  it  is  al­
most  an  assured  fact  that  the  country 
merchant  will  find  them  his  best  sell­
ers  also.  There  is  more  profit  in them 
and  the  silks  for  autumn  almost  ne­
cessitate  the  large  shape  in  order  to 
show  their  patterns  to  the  best  ad­
vantage.  Merchants  who  do  not  like 
the  de  Joinville  will  be  up  a 
stump,  so  to  speak.  Probably  the 
trade  of  these  merchants  is  ripe  now 
for  the  loose  knot.  Two-and-a-half- 
inch  four-in-hands  are  figuring  con­
right 
spicuously  in  all  the  displays 
now,  and  this  demand  for  fall 
is 
authentic  as  far  as  the  city  man  is 
concerned.  Country  dealers  who  have 
already  purchased  the  bulk  of  their 
fall  neckwear  registered  their  approv­
al  of  the  wide  four-in-hand.

Gray  has  had  its  day.  Browns are 
better  liked  than  ever  before  and  the 
high-class  haberdashers  are  buying 
heavily  of  the  summer  browns  with 
the  intention  of  holding 
for 
fall  selling.  Golden  brown  lights  up 
some  very  attractive  cravats  of  royal 
purple  of  myrtle  shade.

them 

The  silks  liked  best  are  quite heavy. 
“Anything  to  make  a  big\  knot 
is 
what  haberdashers  and  country  mer­
chants  are  calling  for,”  said  a  neck­
“Dark  grounds 
wear  manufacturer. 
with  market

aiready  favorites 

them,”  she  replied.

“We  don’t  give  matches,  we  sell 

corner  bake-shop  to  obtain  a  match.
“Say,  give  ns  a  match,  will  you?” 
he  asked  of  the  woman  behind  the 
counter.

buyers,  yet  they  are  topped  off  with 
some  very  striking  color  combina­
tions— they  are  plain  and  staid,  yet 
they  are  not.  Madeup  shapes  will be 
more  popular  than  heretofore  for  the 
simple  reason  that  it  is  an  exceed­
ingly  difficult  matter  to  tie  a  cravat 
of  large  shape.  Soft  silks  are  grabbed 
at  by buyers  from  both  city  and  coun­
try.  Never  in  our  experience  as  man­
ufacturers  have  the  wants  of 
the 
a 
city  and  country  buyer  been  so  iden­
grave  air  the  small  boy  took  it,  drew 
tical.  Squares  are  being  bought 
in 
out  a  match,  struck  a  light  with  all 
liberal  assortments  for  the  holiday 
the  grace  possible,  and  puffed  ener­
trade.  The  time  is  here  when  the  50-
getically  upon  the  discarded 
cigar-
cent  square  is  not  a  bad  looker  and j  stub;  then,  leaning  confidentially  over 
country merchants  are  getting  a dead- 
the  counter,  he  extended  the  box  of 
ringer  for  the  looks.”
matches  to  the  woman  and  said: 

“How  much?”
“A  cent  a  box.”
“Give  me  a  box,”  handing  her  a 

The  box  was  produced.  With 

penny.

“The  country merchant is  now mak­
ing  good  for  his  long  delay  in  plac­
ing  neckwear  orders,”  says  a  high- 
class  manufacturer. 
“We  never  sold 
such  large  neckwear  bills  as  we are 
selling  to-day.  From  the  bills  sold 
during  the  last  two  weeks  I  find  that 
bright  greens,  orange  browns  and 
dark  purples  are  selling  best.”

“Say,  you  jest  take  this  box  of 
matches,  will  yer,  and  put  it  in  some 
place  where  you  can  lay  hands  on 
it  easy,  and  when  some  other  gen­
tleman  steps  in  and  asks  for  a  light 
don’t  sell  him  a  match,  give  him 
one  on  me.”  And  with  a  lordly  nod 
the  young  American  made  his  way 
back  to  the  street.— Lippincott’s.

Noblesse  Oblige.

A  small  newsboy,  who  had  made 
the  find  of  a  half-finished  cigar  on 
the  pavement,  stepped  into  a  small

Two  hearts  that  beat  as  one!  Ah, 
yes!  But  remember  four  knives  and 
forks,  dear  boy!

Oeo. H. Reeder

H. L. Keyes

J. W. Baldwin

Our  Business  is  Moving 

Briskly

How can  it help  it  when  we handle the best  lines of  leather  shoes  possible 

to produce at the price, and are state agents for the celebrated

Hood  Rubbers?

GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Oar store is on the wav to Union Depot and we are always pleased 

to see our friends and customers.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand Rapids every day.  Write for circular.

Not  a  Bad  Shoe  For  a  Good  Boy

BUT  JUST  THE  REVERSE

A Genuine  Box  Calf Shoe  For  School 

Boys--Solid Throughout

No.  6512 Boys’ iyi  to

at................... $1  5°

No. 6412 Youths’  12)4 

to 2 a t ................. $i*35

No  6612  L.  G.  8 to  12 

a t ........................ $1.15

Our Own  Make 

Guaranteed

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids

16  and  18  South  Ionia  Street

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand Rapids every day.  Write for circular.

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

a e w W r k x  

j t  M a r k e t,

Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

an 

simply 

New  York,  Sept.  17— The  coffee 
market  is  firm,  with  little  real  busi­
ness  being  done.  Buyers  seem 
to 
think  the  rate  rather  too  stiff,  and 
holders  are  equally  strongly  impress­
ed  with  the 
idea  that  they  should 
make  no  concession,  and  the  matter 
stands  with 
average 
amount  of  trading.  At  the  close  Rio 
No.  7  is  worth  8^@8^c. 
In  store 
and  afloat  there  are  3,459,240  bags, 
against  2,461,502  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  A   little  speculation 
has  been  indulged  in,  but,  as  a  rule, 
the  trading  is  of  a  legitimate  charac­
ter. 
is 
shown  in  mild  sorts  and  buyers  are 
rather  inclined  to  purchase  West  In- 
dias  rather  ahead  of  current  require­
ments.  Central  American  is 
firm, 
with  Good  Cucuta  9fóc  and  n j^ cfo r 
good  average  Bogotas.  East  Indias 
are  firm,  but  transactions 
of 
rather  a  small  character.

increased  ^interest 

Some 

are 

features, 

encouraging 

The  tea  market  continues  to  show 
some 
and 
while  no  especially  large  orders were 
received  there  are  a  good  many  of 
minor  character,  and  in  the'aggregate 
there  is  a  handsome  total.  Prices  are 
well  sustained  and  holders  seem  to 
look  with  confidence  to  the  future.

The  sugar  market  has  been  fairly 
active  and  many  orders  were  receiv­
ed 
for  deliveries  of  old  contracts. 
The  National  refinery  is  said  to  be 
oversold  two  to  three  weeks.  New 
business  has  been  rather  light,  but, 
upon  the  whole,  the  week  has  been 
a  good  one  for  the  sellers.

There  is  a  steady  market  for  rice 
and  the  situation  shows  regular,  if 
slight, 
improvement  almost  daily. 
Prices  are  about  unchanged  and  are 
still  on  a  low  level,  choice  domestic 
not  bringing  over  3%@4c.  A  little 
new  crop  rice  has  been  received,  but 
not  enough  to  attract  attention  and 
quotations  of  the  same  have  been 
rather  above  the  views  of  buyers.

Spices  continue  firm,  and  pepper 
especially  shows  an  advancing  ten­
dency. 
Singapore  black,  I2@i2j^c. 
Supplies  in  the  East  are  said  to  be 
ibout  exhausted  and  it  is  doubtless 
a  good  time  to  purchase  fair  quanti­
ties.  The  whole  line  of  spices  is  well 
sustained.

Grocery  grades  of  New  Orleans 
molasses  are  steady,  and.  with 
the 
advancing  season  there  comes  more 
and  more  call.  Good  to  prime,  i8@ 
27c.  Low  grades  are  in  light  supply 
rnd  quotations  are  firmly  sustained. 
Syrups  are  steady  at  full  rates.

Canned  goods  generally  show some 
improvement  and  there  is  a 
good 
call,  especially  for  California  canned 
peaches,  the  supply  of  which  is  lim­
ited.  Gallon  apples  are  moving  with 
more  freedom,  and  are  rather  easier 
as  there  is  promise  of  a  big  pack.  We 
still  hear  stories  of  a  short  crop  of 
tomatoes,  but  packers  in  the  South 
are  willing  to  take  orders  at  65c;  but

even  at  this  buyers  do  not  seem  to 
tumble  over  each  other  to  obtain  sup­
plies.  Corn  is  doing  well  and 
the 
output  may  be  fairly  large— if— and 
it’s  a  big  one,  we  do  not  have  early 
frosts.  Some  Maine  packers  are  run 
ning  night  and  day  and  hope  to  be 
able  to  meet  contracts.  The  range  for 
the  latter  is  $i .50@ i .6o;  New  York 
State,  $i.20@i.i-5.  Peas  are  dull, and 
with  a  huge  pack  coming  on  the  mar­
ket  the  chances  are  rather  in  favor 
of  comparatively  low  rates.

to 

For  high-grade 

creamery  butter 
there  is  a  better  demand  and  quota­
tions  range  at  about  I9@i9j^c.  Other 
grades  are  in  ample  supply  and  the 
situation  is  rather  in  favor  of  the 
I5i4 @ 
buyer.  Seconds 
I4@ i 6c; 
i8f4 c; 
factory,  I2}4 @ i3^c;  renovated,  I4@ 
16c,  the  latter  for  fancy  stock.
Sales  of  cheese  consist  of 

firsts, 
imitation  creamery, 

small 
lots  and  buyers  take 
little  interest 
in  the  situation.  Little  is  doing  in  an 
export  way.  Not  over  8%c  can  be 
quoted  for  full  cream  stock  of  small 
sizes.

While  there  is  a  steady  call 

for 
stock  and 
fresh-gathered  near-by 
quotations  are  steady 
at  27@28c, 
there  is  an  ample  supply  of  other 
grades  and  fancy  Western  are  work­
ing  out  at  about  22@23c;  average 
best,  2i@2iJ^c;  seconds,  I9@20c,  and 
from  this  down  to  I3@i4c.

Have  Abandoned  the  Sale  of  Produce.
Armour  &  Company  have  sent  out 
the  following  letter  of  instructions  to 
all  its  branch houses:

We  have  decided  to  discontinue the 
fruit  and  produce  business,  as  there 
seems  to  have  grown  up  recently 
some  opposition  to  us  on  the  part  of 
fruit  and  produce  commission  mer­
chants.  This  feeling  was  particularly 
brought  to  our  attention  by  remarks 
made  at  a  recent  convention  of 
the 
National  League  of  Commission  Mer­
chants  in  Louisville.  We  have, there­
fore,  concluded  to  discontinue 
the 
handling  of  all  produce  of  this  de­
scription  and  it  has  been  decided  that 
hereafter  when  the  Armour  Car Lines 
are  employed  in  the  transportation of 
fruits  and  other  produce,  the  contents 
of  these  cars  will  be  owned  by  others 
and  not  by  Armour  &  Company.

This  is  welcome  news  to  the  prod­
uce  trade, which  has  been  discriminat­
ed  against  by  the  unfair  methods  of 
Armour  &  Company  for  some  time 
past.

Toads  as  Insect  Killers.

The  wonderful  insect-killing  capac­
ity  of  the  toad  is  known  in  a  general 
way  to  the  enlightened  few.  An  im­
ported  colony  of  toads  may  be 
the 
salvation  of  a  flower  garden.  Many 
gardeners  give  their  children  a  cent 
apiece  for  every  cutworm  destroyed. 
From  May  1  to  Aug.  1  a  toad  may de­
stroy  2,160  cutworms,  which  it  would 
cost  $21.60  to  destroy  by  hand.  Eng­
lish  gardeners  are  said  to  pay  as 
much  as  $25  a  hundred  for  toads  for 
colonizing  purposes.

The  Requisite.

Briggs— Mrs.  Pacer  is  a  very  bright 
woman,  judging  from  my  interview 
with  her.

Griggs— What  did  she  say?
Briggs— Nothing  much.  But 

she 

approved  of  what  I  said.

Bayers  and  Shippers of

P O T A T O E S

in carlots.  Write or telephone us.
H.  ELMER  MO8 ELEY A  CO.

ORAND  R A PID S,  MIOH.
ELLIOT  O.  QROSVENOR

Late State F ast  rsM lsa ln o w  

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
I3 ja  riajestlc  Building, Detroit,  nick.

Gas or Gasoline  Mantles at 

50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S  WHOLESALE  MD8E.  CO. 

MAXUFACrnjBJIBS,  Im f o b t k b s a n d  J o b b k b s 

of  GAS AND  GASOLINE  SUNDRIES 

Grand Rapids, Mlsh.

A U T O M O B IL E S

We have the largest line in Western Mich­
igan and If you are thinking of buying  you 
will serve your  best  interests  by  consult­
ing us.

Michigan  Automobile  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W A N T E D

Daily shipments of  Batter, Eggs and Poultry.  We  will  pay  ihe  h’ghest  market 

price F. 0. B  your station.  Write or ’phone us at once for prices.

S .  OR W A N T   Su  S O N .  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

Wholesale  dealers  in  Batter,  Eggs,  Fruit and  Produce.

Reference.,  Fourth  National  Bank  of  Grand  Rapids  and  R  G.  Dun.

Citizens  Phone 2654. 

Bell  Phone,  Main  1885.

C L O V E R

TIM O TH Y

A L S Y K E

If  in  the  market  to  buy  or  sell  write  us.

A L F R E D   J.  BROW N  S E E D   CO .

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

------ W e  Carry------

F U L L   L I N E   C L O V E R .   T I M O T H Y

A N D   ALL  K IN D S   F IE L D   S E E D S  

Orders  filled  promptly

M O S E L E Y   B R O S ,  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

Office And Warehouse and Avenue and Hilton Street, 

Telephones, Citizen, or BeU,  rai

The  Vinkemulder Company
Fruit Jobbers and Commission  Merchants

Can  h indie your shipments of Huckleberries and furnish crates and baskets 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand Rapids every day.  Send for circular.

We  are  distributors  for  all  kinds  of  F R U I T   P A C K A G E S   in  large  or 

small  quantities.

Also  Receivers  and  Shippers  of  Fruits  and Vegetables.
JOHN  G.  DOAN,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Bell Main 3370 

Citizens 1881

Wanted

Daily  shipments  of

Butter,  Eggs and  Poultry

W ill  pay  highest  market  price  F.  O.  B.  your  station.  W e 
can  make  you  money.  Write  or  phone  us  at  once  for 
prices.  Both  phones.

Lansing Cold Storage Co.

Lansing,  Mich.

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35

How  Capon  Raising  Can  Be  Made 

Profitable.

that 

It  is  surprising,  in  view  of  the  de­
cidedly  great  advantages  of  castrat­
ing  males,  that  there  is  not  a  great 
deal  more  of  it  done;  and  it  seems  al­
together  probable 
if  poultry 
growers  knew  how  great  the  advan­
tages  are  and  bow  simply  and  easily 
the  operation 
is  performed,  there 
would  be  comparatively  few  cocker­
els  allowed  to  grow  beyond  broiler 
size  uncastrated— excepting  the 
few 
needed  for  breeding  purposes.

The  uncastrated  male  bird  grows 
up  to  be  coarse,  “staggy,”  and  his 
coarse  flavored,  hard,  stringy  meat 
is  worth  less  than  half  as  much  per 
pound  as  it  would  be  if  the  tender, 
delicate 
flavored  chicken  condition 
had  been  continued  by  the  birds  be­
ing  castrated.  There  is  the  greatest 
gain  of  castrating  the  males,  in  keep- 
ig  them  “soft,”  tender  and  fine  flav­
ored,  and  if  poultrymen  would  but 
realize  the  greater  profits  to  be  se­
cured  the  coarse,  “staggy”  males  sent 
to  market  would  be  decidedly  fewer.
A  remarkable  thing  is  that  there 
is  ever  a  short  supply  of  the  best 
fine  tender  chickens,  and  there  are 
so  many  of  the 
"staggy” 
things  the  marketmen  have  difficulty 
in  getting  them  off  their  hands.-  The 
simple  operation  of  castrating  would 
change  all  this,  and  give  the  buying 
public  the  fine  quality  it  prefers  and 
is  well  able  to  pay  well  for.

coarse, 

It  ought  not  to  require  much  argu­
ment  to  convince  readers  that  grow­
ing  chickens  to  five  to  eight  (or  ten) 
pounds  weight  (alive),  and  getting 
32  to  35  cents  a  pound  for  them  paid 
a  good  profit.  When  a  poultryman 
can  sell  his  birds  for  $1.50  to  $2.50 
apiece,  alive,  he  can  see  a  substantial 
profit  in  growing  them;  and  the  es­
sential  thing  to  attaining  that  good 
price  is  to  have  the  fine,  large  soft 
roasters  and  capons  that  the  public 
wants.  It  is  of  no  consequence  wheth­
er  they  are  dressed  as  roasters  or 
as  capons.  Indeed,  sometimes  capons 
are  changed  into  large  soft  roasters 
by  simply  stripping  off  the  feathers 
left  on  as  the  distinguishing  mark 
of  capons.

early 

The  larger  the  capon  the  higher 
the  price,  hence  the  largest  breeds 
make  the  best capons, make those that 
fetch  the  best  prices.  As  a  rule  the 
Asiatic  varieties  are  preferred  by 
growers  of  capons;  the  Light  Brah­
mas,  being  the  largest  variety  of  all, 
being  the  ones  most  generally  grown.
Capons  are  most  in  favor  and  com­
mand  the  highest  prices  in  late  winter 
and 
spring,  February  and 
March  being  the  months  of  top  notch 
prices.  There  is  some  call  for  capons 
in  other  months,  and  they  sell  at  such 
time  at  prices  that  pay  a  good  profit 
to  the  grower,  but  the  best  profit  is 
in  those  marketed  in  February  and 
March.  As  a  rule,  it  is  June  hatched 
cockerels  caponized 
in  September 
that  come  to  market  then,  and  it  is 
evident  hat  the  birds  have  to  be 
housed  and  fed  all  through  the  win­
ter  to  come  to  market  at  that  time.

Capons  should  be  killed  by  sticking 
in  the  mouth,  and  dry  picked,  with 
tail  and  wing  feathers,  the  upper  half 
of  neck  feathers  and  the  feathers  of

the  lower  third  of  the  thigh  (just 
above  the  hock  joint)  left  on.  The 
feathers  are  the  distinguishing  mark 
of  capons  in  all  markets.  The  shrunk­
en  head  and  undeveloped  comb  and 
wattles  should  always  be  left  on,  and 
all  traces  of  blood  upon  the  head  and 
mouth  should  be  removed  by  washing 
in  cold  water.  Absolute  cleanliness 
should  be  observed  in  the  dressing, 
so  that  the  birds  shall  be  “clean,” 
without  the  necessity  of  washing; 
the  skin  has  a  better,  more  attractive 
appearance  if  it  has  not  been  washed. 
Be  careful  to  not  tear  the  tender  skin, 
and  if  it  is  accidentally  torn  put  the 
torn  part  back  in  place  and  secure  it 
with  a  needle  and  white  thread,  until 
the  bird  is  cold,  when 
thread 
should  be  removed.

the 

Pack  in  new,  clean  boxes,  placing 
the  birds  in  layers,  with  backs  up,  and 
pack  them  firmly  into  the  boxes,  as 
firmly  as  possible  and  yet  not bruise 
them.  Line  the  boxes  with 
clean 
white  paper;  never  use  paper  with 
printing  on  it,  as  the  printers’  ink will 
come  off  upon  the  skin,  marring  the 
good  appearance  so  much  desired. 
Make  the  packages  as  well  as  the 
capons  look  as  neat,  clean  and  at­
tractive  as  possible.  Keep  in  touch 
with  a  reliable  dealer  so  he  may  know 
what  stock  you  can  supply  and  you 
may  be  kept  informed  as  to  prices 
and  the  needs  of  the  market.  Re­
member  that  in  promoting  the  inter­
ests  of  the  dealer  you  are  working 
to  your  own  advantage  also,  for what 
he  can  sell  best  pays  you  best.  You 
will  have  no  difficulty  in  finding  a 
market  for  first  quality  capons,  and 
at  prices  which  pay  well. 
If  they  are 
large,  fat,  well  dressed  and  packed 
they will  be  the  kind  the  buyers  want, 
and  they  will  sell  at  profitable  prices.

Could  Eat  Cereals.

A  certain  man  who  was  not  of  the 
cultured  classes  had  made  a  fortune 
in  the  wholesale  grocery  business  and 
was  persuaded  to  furnish  the  capital 
to  start  a  magazine.  He  went  to  a 
big  book-printing  office  to  arrange 
some  of  the  details  and  put  in  a  bad 
half  hour  because  of  his  ignorance 
of  the  technicalities  of  his  new  enter­
prise.

The  printer  soon  dropped  such talk 
as  that  about  names  of  type  and  the 
methods  of  printing ¿nd  asked:

“Now,  what  would  you  have  in  the 
magazine?  A  short  story  or  two,  I 
suppose,  and  a  serial— ”

“All  the  cereals,”  he  broke 

in. 
“There’s  nothing  pays  like  advertis­
ing.  Good  rates  to  the  big  advertis­
ing  people  will  boom  the  thing.  We 
want  the  breakfast  foods,  soaps,  cof­
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SH OULD  N O T  PROPOSE.

Why Women  Should  Leave Proposals 

to  Men.

There  is  no  subject  which  has been 
so  exhaustively  discussed  in  the  pa­
pers,  neither  any  other  upon  which 
advice  is  so  frequently  asked,  as  that 
concerning  the  degree  of  activity 
which  a  woman  may  fitly  and  with 
due  maidenly  modesty  manifest 
in 
courtship.  Still  another  phase  of  the 
question  has  come  to  the  fore,  and 
women  ask,  apparently  in  all  truth 
and  sincerity,  whether  it  is  “all  right” 
for  a  woman  to  make  a  proposal  of 
marriage  to  a  man  in  leap  year.

No  sensible  woman  would  for  a 
moment  entertain  the  faintest  idea 
of  such  a  proceeding,  unless  she  had 
good  and  sufficient  reason  to  feel  sure 
that  the  man  in  the  case  returned her 
affection  and  was  desirous  of  marry­
ing  her;  in  which  event  it  ought  to 
be  easy  to  lead  him  to  say  or  do 
something  which  may  at  least  be  con­
strued  into  a  proposal  of  marriage—  
which  would  surely  be  in  all  respects 
the  better  way,  whatever  the  number 
of  days  in  the  February  of  the  cur­
rent  year.

Moreover,  every  woman  not  a  fool 
knows,  or  ought  to  know,  that 
the 
tradition  of  leap  year  is  merely  a  jest, 
and  in  no  way  alters  the  actual  rela­
tions  between  the  sexes 
regarding 
love  and  marriage.  True,  one  must 
amuse  oneself,  and  leap  year  dinner 
parties  and  dances  afford  an  agree­
able  variety.  Also,  such  entertain­
ments  may  give  a  woman  the  oppor­
tunity  to  encourage  a  bashful  suitor; 
but  even  so,  the  opportunity  must  be 
handled  with  discretion,  since  it  is  a 
sort  of  unwritten 
law  that  no  girl 
must  be  too  attentive  at  a  leap  year 
party  to  the  man  for  whom  she  cares 
most. 
It  is  bad  form,  just  as,  at  a 
dinner  of  the  usual  sort,  no  man  must 
be  seated  at  the  table  next  to  his 
wife. 
Indeed,  so  far  is  this  theory 
carried  that  custom  demands  that the 
woman  who  proposes  in 
leap  year 
must  be  answered  “nay”  in  order  fit­
ly  to  carry  out  the  jest.  No  man 
would  dare  to  display  such  egregious 
vanity  as  to  believe  the  offer  made 
in  sober  earnest.  Many  sins  may  be 
forgiven  a  woman,  but  not  that  of 
asking  a  man  ir.  plain  terms  to  marry 
her.  Nor  would  the  man  who  was 
asked  at  all  appreciate  the  compli­
ment  paid  him.  Men,  no  less  than 
women,  are  “kittle  cattle,”  and  there 
are  sound  wisdom  and  understanding 
of  the  heart  of  man  in  the  refrain  of 
the  old  song:
The  fruit  that  will  fall  without  shaking
Indeed  is  too  mellow  for  me!
Man  retains  many  of  the  character­
istics  of  his  prehistoric  ancestors—  
none  more , so  than  that  of  the  cave 
man,  whose  method  of  courtship  was 
to  run  with  all  his  might  and  main 
after  the  woman  who  ran  away  from 
him  the  fastest.  Ethnologists  tell  us 
that  the  idea  that  the  woman  must be 
sought  by  the  man  dates  back  to  the 
old  barbaric  times  when  a  man  took 
•his  bride  captive  by  deeds  of  arms, 
and  she,  however  willing  to  be  cap­
tured,  was  expected  to  defend  her 
own  dignity by  a  vigorous  show  of re­
sistance.  Centuries,  which  have  al­
tered  so much,  have  but  strengthened, 
w h ile  m od ifyin g,  th is  tradition. 
“A

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

man  may  choose,  but  a  woman  must 
wait  to  be  chosen.”

Nevertheless,  a  woman  gifted  with 
tact  may  do  almost  everything  ex­
cept  actually  propose.  Not  for  naught 
is  the  proverb  that  “one  may  steal  a 
horse  where  another  must  not  look 
at  the  stable.” 
It  is  merely  another 
way  of  saying  that  one  man  is  gifted 
with  the  tact  which  accomplishes  his 
ends  satisfactorily  and  surely,  while 
another  man  blunders  and  bungles, 
hopelessly  and  irremediably.  There 
is  no  gainsaying  the  fact  that  many 
men  would  never  marry  the  wives 
whom  they  do  were  they  not  skill­
fully  beguiled  into  matrimony.  But 
the  snare  is  not  spread  in  sight  of  the 
bird;  the  man  is  led  sweetly  and  gen­
tly  into  the  toils,  drawn  on  so  that  he 
fancies  himself  the  hunter,  not 
the 
hunted.  Not  for  a  moment  would  he 
submit  to  be  rudely  dragged  to  the 
goal.

from 

Many  men,  also,  are  dilatory 

in 
making  a  proposal, 
even  although 
they  be  really  in  love,  and  put  off 
the  fateful  question  for  one  cause  or 
another— some 
nervousness,
some  from  oure  procrastination,  some 
from  diffidence,  and  some  because of 
a  lingering  doubt  as  to  whether  it  is 
not  better  to  let  well  enough  alone, 
and  because  of  the  haunting  sense  of 
the  incurableness  of  marriage. 
It  is 
just such  men  as  these  who  are fright­
ened  off,  never  to  return,  by  too  great 
eagerness  on  the  part  of  the  woman 
whom  they  admire.  When  a  plant is 
endangered  by  frost  astute  gardeners 
douche  it  with  cold  water 
instead  of 
applying  heat.  Women  have  no  mo­
nopoly  of  vanity,  and  most  men  like 
to  believe  that  the  attractive  woman 
admires,  or  is  even  in  love  with  them, 
but  not  one  man 
in  ten  thousand 
wants  a  woman  to  tell  him  of her  love 
until  he  has  declared  his  for  her.  No 
woman  who  has  the  usual  allowance 
of  mother  wit  will  ever  profess  more 
than  friendship  for,  and  a  due  appre­
ciation  of  the  wonderful  gifts  of  the 
man  whom  she  wishes  to  ensnare.

Moreover,  it  must  be  remembered 
that  a  downright  proposal  up.on  the 
woman’s  part  would  place  the  man 
in  a  most  awkward  position.  It  takes 
some  moral  courage,  not  to  say  hard­
ness  of  heart,  for  a  man  to  assure  a 
woman  that  he  does  not  return  her 
affection,  and  has  no  desire  to  marry 
her,  and  if  he  be  on  good  terms  with 
her  family  and  friends  the  difficulties 
of  the  situation  are  materially 
in­
creased. 
It  may  easily  happen  that 
the  offer  of  her  hand  and  heart  is not 
a  welcome  one, 
in  which  case  he 
must  choose  between  wounding  her 
or  sacrificing  himself.  Of  course  one 
may  say  that  the woman  has  only her­
self  to blame  for  her  mortification, but 
even  then  the  episode  is  among those 
which  one,  if  not  both,  of  the  persons 
concerned  would  prefer  had  not  hap­
pened.

If  a  man  is  in  love  with  a  woman 
and  wishes  to  make  her  his  wife—  
states  of  mind  which,  it  may  be  re­
marked  in  passing,  are  not  always 
identical— he  usually  manages  to ap­
prise  her  of  the  fact. 
“ Love  and  a 
cough,”  says  the  Spanish  proverb, 
“can not be  hid.”  Most  women  of  ex­
perience  in  love  and  lovers  will  bear

testimony  that  it  is  far  and  away  eas­
ier  to  encourage  a  timid  suitor  than 
it  is  to  discourage  an  unwelcome  one 
without  actually  snubbing  him.  “ If a 
man  has  a  tongue  in  his  head  he  finds 
it  easy  enough  to  prate  of  love  to 
any  woman  who  will  listen  to  him,” 
says  a  cynical  bachelor  in  a  recent 
novel.  And  it  may  be  mentioned,  al­
so,  that  the  percentage  of  deaf  mutes 
who  marry  is  not  small.

There  is  no  better  rule  for 

the 
conduct  of  life  than  that  which  for­
bids  one  to  do  anything  for  which 
one  must  make  excuse  to  oneself  or 
to  others.  This  old  and  tried  maxim 
holds  doubly  good  in  affairs  of 
the 
heart.  Whether  there  are  any  women 
who  avail  themselves  of  the  supposi­
tious  privilege  of  leap  year  is  a  ques­
tion  which  can  only  be  answered  by 
those  who  probably  prefer  to  keep si­
lent. 
It  is  at  best  but  a  sorry  joke 
when  a  man  says  in  his  wife’s  pres­
ence  that  “she married  him,” but, alas, 
for  any  self-respecting  woman  who 
may  possibly  have  to  endure  the  hu­
miliation  of  such  an  accusation  with 
the  stinging  lash  of  truth  in  it,  flung 
at  her  in  the  heat  of  passion  or  de­
livered,  cut  and  thrust,  in  the  cool 
contempt  of  scorn!  Helen  Oldfield.

The  Japanese  Will  Grow  Taller.
“ Even  if  they  should  lose  the  war, 
and  haven’t  that  to  make  them  feel 
big,”  remarked  the  doctor,  “in  all 
probability  the  next  generation— or 
the  next  but  one— of  the  Japanese 
will  be  as  tall  as  the  average  Ameri­
can  or  European.

“It  is  the  custom  of  sitting  on  the 
ankles  on  the  floor,  instead  of  on  a 
chair  as  we  do,  that  explains 
the 
shortness  of  the  Japanese  leg.  The 
arteries  are  kinked  by  the  cramped 
position,  and  are  therefore  not  prop­
erly  nourished.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
however,  the  Japanese  spine  is  just 
of  a  length  with  the  average  Ameri­
can  or  European  one.  Indeed,  we  all 
differ  in  height  rather  by  reason  of 
leg  than  of  back,  and  the  spinal  col­
umn  is  singularly  constant  among 
various  individuals.  Now  the  chair 
has  gained  a  place  in  Japanese  life, 
and  soon  the  length  of  the  Japanese 
leg  will  become  normal.”— Philadel­
phia  Press.

Blood  Will  Tell.

The  young  man  from  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  had  come  to  his  row’s  end.  He 
had  exhausted  his  vocabulary;  he  had 
lost  his  temper,  and  regained  it.  Now 
he  was  trying  to 
influence  her  by 
reasoning.

“Chothilde,”  he  demanded  of 

the 
unsophisticated 
Southern  maiden, 
“what  do  you  want  me  to  do  next?”
“Nothin’,”  she  replied  in  her  plaint­

ive  drawl.

“Well,”  very  much 
“will  you  marry  me?”

encouraged, 

There  was  a  long  silence,  which  he 
knew  only  too  well  meant  that  she 
wouldn’t.

“Why  won’t  you  marry  me?”  he 

demanded,  savagely.

“ Because,”  she  replied,  with  a  brave 
little  gurgle,  “I  couldn’t  risk  my  life’s 
happiness  with  a  man  whose  grand­
fathers  perpetrated  wooden  nu tm egs 
on  the  public,  Mr.  Smithers!”

F A L L   CLOTH IN G.

Buyers  Demanding  Immediate  Ship­

ment  of  Orders.

effects,  although 

Market  buyers  of  clothing  contin­
ue  their  purchasing  in  the  most  lib­
eral  manner.  In  many  instances  they 
are  demanding  that  the  goods  be 
shipped 
.immediately.  Manufactur­
ers  generally  are  able  to  comply  with 
these  requests.  Local  houses 
are 
stimulated  by  the  favorable  reports 
from  buyers  in  the  market  and  lead­
ing  wholesalers  in  clothing  expect a 
very  succesful  season.  The  design­
ers  are  working  to  produce  catchy 
new 
they  say  it 
will  not  be  a  season  of  many  radical 
changes.  One  manufacturer,  who 
does  his  own  designing,  says  he  ex­
pects  a  larger  demand  for  double- 
breasted  suits  in  lightweights,  and is 
making  new  patterns  for  both  the 
long  and  the  short  lapel,  and  will 
retain  the  narrow  collar  because  he 
believes  it  has  a  much  neater  effect 
than  the  wide  ones.  Loose  draping 
shoulder  effects  will  be  retained, the 
time  having  passed  when  men  want 
suits  that  fit  snugly.

Summer  stagnation  has  prevailed in 
the  retail  branch  of  the  trade,  reliev­
ed  a  little  by  the  cut-price  of  two- 
piece  suits.  As  one  retailer  said,  “It 
is  difficult  to  make  people  buy  what 
they  don’t  need,  and  most  of 
the 
sales  this  month  are  to  people  who 
take  hold  because  prices  are  low.” 
There  is  a  much  improved  demand 
for  good  fabrics  in  the  summer suits. 
The  day of chean  flannels  and  crashes 
that  wrinkle  and  shrink  in  a  day 
seems  to  have  passed  forever.  The 
light  shades 
12- 
ounce  goods  with  smooth  surface and 
well  made  up,  are  meeting  with  ready 
sale,  because 
they  are  sure  to  do 
good  service  and  keep  their  shape.

in  fancy  weaves, 

In  the  men’s  clothing  line  both the 
Chesterfield  and  belted  back  overcoat 
will  sell.  The  tendency  now  seems 
to  favor  the  Chesterfield.  The  new 
covert  top  coac,  which  falls  straight 
from  the  shoulders,  is  selling  best  in 
the  old  tan  shades.  The  lining,  trim­
ming  and  finishing  of  these  styles  are 
far  above  the  average,  and  market 
buyers  will  be  enabled  to  get  better 
values  than  in  seasons  past,  and  all 
this  in  spite  of  the  labor  situation. 
Dark  browns  are  favored  in  suits  for 
fall.  Conservatism  rules,  of  course. 
The  trousers  are  quite  loose  and  con­
servatively  wide  at  the  bottom.

In  the  neckwear  line  there  is  noth­
ing  particularly  new  outside  of  the 
campaign  novelties.  The  two-inch 
four-in-hand  is  thought  well  of  by 
country  merchants,  and  not  a  little 
purchasing  is  being  done  in  the  small 
midget  shapes.  The  already  register­
ed  approval  of  the  fold  collar  for  fall 
and  winter  speaks  worlds  for 
the 
popularity  of  the 
tie.  The 
two-inch  four-in-hand  will  be  worn  by 
those  men  who  favor  the  wing  collar. 
Some  of  the  newest  cravats  brought 
out  are  those  with  the  fringed  ends 
for  wearing  with 
rings.  Browns 
seem  to  be  taking  the  best  now,  al­
though  such  combinations  as  black, 
scarlet  and  white,  black,  white  and 
canary,  and  myrtle  and  white 
are 
tak ing  ex ceed in g ly   w ell.

small 

In  children’s  clothing  for  fall there

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Caps

AMMUNITION

Hardware Price  Current

is  a  new  style  of  suit.  The  jacket  is 
on  the  order  of  a  Norfolk,  yet  com­
bining the  good  points  of  the  Norfolk 
and  double-breaster  jacket,  and  is  to
G.  D.,  full  count,  per  m.
be  w orn  w ith   knickerbockers.  Nor-  Hicks’  Waterproof,  per  m.
.   .. 
.  Musket,  per  m . . . . ............
folk  su its  in  m edium   and  high-priced  Ely’s  Waterproof,  per  m.
goods,  all  sizes,  are  scarce.  The  de-
C artrldges
m and  exceed ed   th e  supply,  the  style  No.  22  short,  per  m . . . , ..........................2  60
No.  22  long,  per  m ......................................3  00
h avin g  m et  w ith   a  better  run  than  No.  32  short,  per m ..................................... 6  00
No.  32  long,  per  m ..................................... 6  75
was  expected  by  buyers  and  manu­
facturers.  They  have  been  better sell- j 
ers  than  for  any  season  before,  and 
the  fact  has  put  the  Norfolk  well  up 
in  the  front  rank  for  fall,  although  I 
edge,  Nos.  11  &  12  U.  M.  C.
it  is  less  seasonable  than  for  spring.  [Black  edge.  No.  7.  per  m..............
The  demand  for  outing  suits  for  boys 
is  increasing  more  and  more  each 
year,  and  this  would  seem  to  open 
up  an  opportunity  for  manufacturers 
to  specialize  along  this  line.

No.  2  U.  M.  C..  boxea  260,  per  <n___1  60
No.  2  Winchester,  boxes  260.  per  m ..l  (0

New  Rival—For  Shotguns

Loaded  Shells 

Gun  Wads

Primers

, 

60 
70 
SO

that 

collar 

saying 

leather 

are  showing  velvet 

Bloomers  have  sold  much  better 
this  year  than  last.  Boys  who  for­
merly  cried  if  their  parents  bought 
them  bloomers, 
the 
“ othei  boys  in  school  poked  fun  at 
them,”  are  now  crying  for  bloomers.
There  is  a  diversion  of  opinion 
among  buyers  regarding  Eton  and 
sailor  collar  styles  for  fall. 
Some 
are  of  the  opinion  that  the  Eton  linen 
collar  has  seen 
its  best  days  and 
that  it  will  be  replaced  for  fall  by 
the  sailor  style  and  dickey,  and  by 
the  velvet  and 
on 
styles  buttoning  to  the  neck.  Some 
clothiers 
and 
leather  collars  in  their  full  lines.  An 
overcoat  style  with  Eton  collar  is 
also  shown;  as  if  it  were  not  sufficient 
to  encumber  a  youngster  with  one 
collar  when  wearing  two  garments, is 
the  argument  used  against  the  intro­
duction  of  the  Eton  collar  overcoat.
But  in  putting  the  Eton  collar  on  the 
overcoat,  it  is  not  intended  that  the 
little  fellow  is  also  to  wear  a  white 
linen  collar  with  the  suit  jacket.  The 
velvet  and 
leather  collars  in  Eton 
shapes  have  been  introduced  as  a 
substitute  for  the  linen,  the  conten­
tion  being  that  they  do  not  soil  so 
readily  and  that  they  fill  the  desire 
for  a  change.

for 

From  present  indications 

it  ap­
pears  that  browns  and  bright  reds 
will  be  the  favorite  colors  in  sailor 
and  Russian  blouse  suits 
fall.
Suits  for  juniors  made  in  the  Rus­
sian  blouse  style  have  ben  received 
for  fall.  A   leading  maker  of  little 
folks’  clothing  has  introduced  a  new 
conception  on  the  order  of  the  ves- 
tee  or  continental  suit  for  dress wear 
The  style 
is  admirably  suited  for 
Sunday,  party  and  evening 
The  jacket  and  bloomer  trousers  are 
in  velvet,  trimmed  with  soutache  and 
silk  buttons.  The  jacket  is  worn  un­
buttoned  over  a 
full  white  pique 
vest.

Worse  Than  Hanging.

During  a  celebrated  murder  trial 
in  New  York  City  two  Irishmen  were 
among  the  many  interested  specta­
tors.

“Sure,  the  evidence  will  convict  the 

prisoner,”  remarked  one.

“Not  only  convict  him,  but  will 

hang  him,”  returned  the  other.

“Man  alive!  They  don’t  hang mur­

derers  in  New  York!”

“Well,  what  do 

them?”

“Kill  them  with  elocution.”

they  do  with 

Iron

Levels

Bar  Iron  ........................................2  26  e  rates
Light  Band  .................................. 
3  c  rates

Nobs—New  List

Door,  mineral,  Jap.  trimmings  ..........   76
Door,  porcelain,  Jap.  trimmings 
. . . .   85

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.'s 

....d is  

..........................................7 VO

600  pound  casks 
Per  pound   

Metals—Zinc
..............................................  8
Miscellaneous
..................................................  40
Bird  Cages 
Pumps,  Cistern 
..........................................  75
Screws,  New  List 
..................................  85
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate  ...............50&10&18
Dampers,  American 
..............................   59

Molasses  Gates

Stebbin’s  Pattern 
...................................69&10
Enterprise,  self-m easu rin g....................   30

Pans

Fry,  Acme  ...........................................60&10&10
Common,  polished 
.................................70&10

Patent  Planished  Iron 

"A”  Wood's  pat.  plan’d.  No. 24-27..10  89 
“B”  Wood's  pat.  plan’d.  No.  25-27..  9  SO 

Broken  packages  V4c  per  tb.  extra..

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

Nalls

 

 

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

Advance  over  base,  on  both  Steel  A   Wire
Steel  nails,  base  ........................................ 2  76
Wire nails,  b a s e ................................................ 2 39
20  to  60  advance  ...................................... Base
10  to  16  advance 
5
..................................................  19
8  advance 
6  advance 
29
.................  
4  advance 
................................... 
30
3  advance 
..................................................  46
2  advance  ....................................................  70
Fine  3  advance 
........................................   50
Casing 10 ad v a n ce......................................  15
Casing  8  advance  .....................................  25
Casing  6  advance  .....................................  35
Finish  10  advance  ..................................  26
Finish  8  a d v a n ce........................................  35
Finish  6  advance 
...................................  45
Barrel  %  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,  D e a n .............................15 00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade  ..  7  60 
14x20  IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade 
..  9  00 
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade 
..15  90 
20x28  IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade
..18  00

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  Weights

Sheet  Iren

Sisal,  VO  inch  and  larger  ....................

L ist  acct.  19,  '86  ...................*...........dis

19

59

Solid  Byes,  per  ton  ..............................20  90

Nos.  10  to  14  ..............................................33  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  than  2-10  extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

First  Grade,  Doz  ......................................  6  00
Second  Grade,  Doz.................................. 5  50

Solder

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

14@'Vi 
21
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities 
of  solder  in  the  market  indicated  by  priv­
ate  brands  vary  according  to  composition. 

Size
Shot Gauge
10
9
8
6
5
4
10
8
6
5
4
Discount 40  per cent.

Drs. of oz. of
No. Powder Shot
4
IVO
120
4
129
IVO
4
128
IVO
4
126
IVO
135
4V4
IVO
154
IVO
4V0
3
200
1
3
208
1
236
3 VO IVO
265
3V0
ivo
264
3V0
IVO
Paper  Shells—Mot  Loaded 

10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

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

Per
100
$2  90
2  90
2  90
2  90
2  95
3  00
2  60
2  50
2  65
2  70
2  70

G u n p o w d e r

Kegs,  25  lbs.,  per  keg..............................  4  >0
Kegs,  12V0  tbs.,  per  VO  k e g .......... 2  90
Kegs,  6V4  lbs.,  per  VO  keg..............1  60

In  sacks  containing 26  lbs.

Drop,  all  sizes  smaller  than  B .......... 1  76

A u g u r s   a n d   B it s

Snell’s ............................................................ 
Jerihings’  genuine  .................................... 
Jennings’  imitation 
................................ 

60
25
60

Shot

Axes

First  Quality,  S. B.  Bronze  ................6  60
First  Quality,  D. B.  Bronze  ................9  00
First  Quality, 
S. B.  S.  Steel  .............. 7  00
First  Quality,  D. B.  S t e e l.........................10 60

Barrow s

Railroad 
......................................................16  00
Garden  .......................................................... 32  00

Stove  . ..  
Carriage, 
Plow

Bolts

new  list

Buckets

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

70
70
60

Well,  plain 

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

B utts,  C ast
Cast  Loose  Pin,  figured 
......................   70
Wrought  Narrow  ......................................  60

Common 
BB. 
BBB 

Chain

VO in.  6-16 in.  % in.  VOin. 
7  C. . . 6   c .. .  6  c...4% c.
SVOc. • -7%C.. ,6V4c. . . 6 c.
8% c...7% c...6% c...6V4c.
Crow bars

Cast  Steel,  per  lb........................... 

 

 

6

Socket  Firmer ............................................   66
Socket  Framing  ........................................   66
Socket  Corner  ............................................   66
Socket  S lic k s ..............................................   65

Chisels

Elbows

Com.  4  piece,  6  in.,  per  doz............net 
Corrugated,  per  doz...................................1  25  [ Steel  and  Iron  ...................................... 60-10-6
Adjustable 

75
......................................dis.  40&10

Tin—Melyn  Grade

Squares

Expansive  Bits

Clark’s  small,  $18;  large, $26  .................  40
Ives’  1,  $18;  2,  $24;  3, $30  ....................  26

Files—New  List
New  American  ........................................ 70&10
Nicholson’s 
..................................................  70
Heller’s  Horse  Rasps  ..............................  70

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27,  28 
List  12 
16.  17

Galvanized  Iron
13 
Discount,  70.

15 

14 

10x14  IC, Charcoal 
................................$10  50
14x20  IC. Charcoal  ...............................   10  50
..................................12  00
10x14  EX. Charcoal 
Bach  additional  X  on  this  grade,  $1.25. 
10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ................................$  9  00
14x20  iC,  Charcoal 
..............................  9  00
10x14  IX,  Charcoal  ...... ; ..................... 10  50
14x20  IX, Charcoal 
..................................10  50
Bach  additional  X   on  this  grade,  $1.50. 

Tin—Allaway  Grade

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 

Gauges

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.'s  . . . .   60&10

13 
75
.. 40&10 
65
Single  Strength,  by  box  ..................dis.  90
16
Double  Strength,  by  box  ........... dis.  90  Mouse,  delusion,  per doz.....................1  25
90

14x56  IX,  for No.  8  A  9 boilers,  per lb. 
Steel.  Game  ................................................ 
Oneida  Community,  Newhouse’s 
Oneida  Com’y,  Hawley A  N orton's.. 
Mouse,  choker,  per  doz.......................... 

By  the  Light  .......................dis.

T raps

1  T ’ 

Glass

Ham m ers

Maydole  &  Co.’s,  new  l i s t .......... dis.  $3V0
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s  ..................... dis.  40A10
Mason’s  Solid  Cast  S t e e l.......... 30c  list  70

Hinges

Hollow  W ar#

Gate,  Clark’s  1,  2,  3......................dis.  60011)

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

Pots 
60&10
........................................................50&10
Kettles 
Spiders  ........................................................ 60*10

 

 

H o r se N a lls

Au  Sable 
...................................... dis.  40&10
Stamped  Tinware,  new  list  . . . . . . . .  
70
lapanned  Tinware  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9SG10

House  Furnishing  Goods 

Wire
Bright  Market  .......................................... 
60
Annealed  Market 
....................................  
60
Coppered  Market 
.................................. 50&10
Tinned  Market  .........................................50&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel  ..........................  
40
Barbed  Fence,  Galvanized  .................. 3  00
Barbed  Fence,  P a in te d .......................... 2  70
W ire  Goods
Bright 
.......................................................... 80-10
Screw  Byes 
.............................................. 80-10
Hooks 
.......................................................... 80-10
Gate  Hooks  and  Eyes  ...........................80-10

Wrenches

Baxter’s  Adjustable,  Nickeled  ..........  39
Coe’s  Genuine  ............. 
40
C o e ’s  P a te n t  Agricultural,  W r e u g k L   70*19

 

37

Crockery and Glassware

STONEWARE

 

 

Churns

Mlikpans

Fine  Glazed  Milkpane 

Butters
41
....................................... 
VO  gal. per  doz. 
1  to  6 gal.  per  doz................................... 
6
8  gal. each 
............................................... 
68
10  gal. each 
 
.............................. 
<6
12  gal. each 
78
................................  
15  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ......................1  29
20  gal.  meat  tubs,  e a c h .......................... 1  (0
25  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ...................... 8  26
30  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ..........................   2  70
2  to  6  gal.,  per  g a l ..................................  6%
84
Churn  Dashers,  per  doz  ...................... 
48
VO  gal.  flat or  round  bottom, per  doz. 
1  gal.  flat or  round  bottom, each  . . .  
6
60
VO  gal.  flat or  round  bottom, per  doz. 
1  gal.  flat or  round  bottom, each  . . .  
6
VO  gal.  fireproof,  bail,  per doz...............  
1  gal.  fireproof,  bail  per  doz..............1  10
Vi  gal.  per  doz..........................................  
60
45
Vi  gal.  per  doz............................................ 
1  to  5  gal.,  per gal.................................  7Vi
5  tbs.  in  package, per  lb......................... 
2
No.  0  Sun  .................................................... 
No.  1  Sun.................................................. 
No.  2  Sun.................................................... 
No.  3  Sun  .................................................... 
Tubular  .....................  
Nutm eg  ........................................................ 

LAMP  BURNERS

Sealing  Wax

Stewpans

86
38
50
85
50
60

Jug*

86

 

 

MASON  FRUIT  JARS 

With  Porcelain  Lined  Cape
Per  Gross-
.......... .................................................  4  00
..........................................................  4  50
....................................................  6  25

Pints 
Quarts 
Vi  Gallon 

Fruit  Jars  packed  1  dozen  In  box. 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per  box ef  6  doz.
No.  0  Sun 
..................................................  1  60
No.  1  Sun 
........................ .......................1  73
No.  2  Sun  ....................................................  3  64

Anchor  Carton  Chimneys 

Each  chimney  in  corrugated  carton

Rochester

La  Bastle

XXX  Flint 

labeled . . . .   4 
labeled . . . .   5 

No.  0  Crimp  ..............................................1  30
No.  1  Crimp  ..............................................17«
No.  2  Crimp 
............................................3  78
First  Quality 
No.  0  Sun.  crimp  top,  wrapped  A   lab.  1  91 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp  top,  wrapped  A   lab.  2  00 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp  top,  wrapped  A   lab.  3  90 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp  top,  wrapped  A   lab.  3  36 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp  top,  wrapped  A   lab.  4  10 
No.  2  Sun,  hinge,  wrapped  A   labeled.  4  25 
Pearl  Top
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and 
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and 
No.  2  hinge,  wrapped  and  labeled  ..  5 10
No.  2  Sun,  “small  bulb,” globe  lamps. 
80 
No.  1  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per  d o z .......... 1  00
No.  2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per  doz.......... 1  35
No.  1  Crimp,  per doz....................... .. 
1  85
No.  2  Crimp,  per  doz..............................1  00
No.  1  Lime  (65c  doz.)  ...........................3  50
No.  2  Lime  (75c  doz.)  ..........................4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c  doz.)  ..........................4  80
No.  2.  Lime  (70c  doz.)  ..........................4  09
No.  2  Flint  (80c d o z .)..............................4  80
1  gal.  tin  cans  with  spout,  per  doz.  1  20
1  gal.  glav.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.  1  38
2  gal.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.  2  20
3  gal.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.  3  10 
5  gal.  galv.  Iron  with  spout,  per  doz.  4  05 
3  gal.  galv.  iron  with  faucet,  per  doz.  3  70 
5  gal.  galv.  iron  with  faucet,  per doz.  4  68
5  gal.  Tilting  cans  .................................. 7  00
5  gal.  galv.  iron  N a c e fa s ...................... 9  00
No.  0  Tubular,  side l i f t .......................... 4  65
No.  1  B  T u b u lar...................................... T  26
No.  15  Tubular,  dash  ............................ 6  50
No.  2  Cold  Blast  L a n tern ...................... 7  76
No.  12  Tubular,  side  lam p.................. 12  60
No.  3  Street  lamp,  each...................... 3  50
No.  0  Tub., cases 1 doz. each.bx, 10c. 
50
No.  0  Tub.,  cases 2  doz. each,  bx, 15c. 60
No.  0  Tub., bbls.  5  doz. each,  per bbl.  2  26
No.  0  Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz.  e’ch  1  25 

LANTERN  GLOBES 

LANTERNS

OIL  CANS

Electric

BEST  WHITE  COTTON  WICKS 
Roll  contains  32  yards  in  one  pieoe. 
No.  0,  %  In.  wide, per  gross or  roll. 
No.  1,  %  in.  wide, per  gross or  roll. 
No.  2,  1  In.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.. 
No.  3,  1V0  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll. 

25
30
45 
85

COUPON  BOOKS

50  books,  any  denom ination............  1 60
100  books,  any  denomination  ............2  50
500  books,  any  denomination..........11 50
1000  books,  any  denomination  ....... 20  00
Above  quotations  are  for  either  Trades­
man,  Superior,  Economic  or  Universal 
grades.  .  Where  1,000  books  are  ordered 
at  a  time  customers 
specially 
printed  cover  without  extra  charge. 

receive 
Coupon  Pass  Books

Can  be  made  to  represent  any  denomi­
nation  from  310  down.
 
50  books 
1  50
.................................................  2  50
100  books 
.................................................11  50
500  books 
.........................................20  00
1000  books 
 
Credit  Checks
500,  any  one  denomination  .............. 2
m
1000,  any  one  denomination  .......... ..  8
2000,  a n y   one  denom ination  .....................6
....................... ................ «
Steal  punch 

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

 

60
30

38

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

to 

some 

replace 

cheaper. 

no  certainty  that  the  price  of  cotton 
will  be  very  much 
A 
“bumper”  crop  of  good  quality  cotton 
would,  of  course,  mean  a  reduction, 
but  the  ravages  of  the  weevil  have  re­
duced  the  acreage  in 
cases, 
which  has  given  a  different  tone  to 
the  market.  The  prices 
for  next 
spring,  it  is  reasonable  to  suppose, 
are  low  enough,  and  manufacturers 
have  bought  their  yarns  a  little cheap­
er  than  for  a  corresponding  time  of 
last  year.  This  offers  an  explanation 
to  the  skeptical  why  the  market  has 
been  slightly  disorganized  by  a  dis­
crepancy  in  the  price  of  fall 
and 
spring  goods.  During  the  last  few 
weeks  more  interest  has  been  disclos­
ed  in  a  duplicate  way  than  had  been 
noted  since  the  beginning  of  the  sea­
son.  This  development  is  not  due to 
any  change  in  the  situation.  Jobbers 
have  naturally  been  shipping  goods, 
and  in  some  instances  find  it  neces­
sary 
staple  numbers. 
Further  complaints  are  made  that 
the  fall  deliveries  are  in  many  cases 
unsatisfactory.  One  large  buyer says 
a  delivery  just  received  by  him  is 
about  the  worst  he  ever  saw.  He 
makes  a  point  that  the  goods  are 
not  even  seconds,  for  while  seconds 
are  mended  before  leaving  the  fac­
tory,  these  goods  have  not  even  been 
mended,  and the buyer says his depart­
ment  would  have  difficulty  in  selling 
the  shipment  for  seconds.  This  is 
typical  of  other  similar  cases  and  is 
indeed  a  bad  commentary  on 
the 
product  of  many  American  mills. 
The  temptation  to  deliver 
inferior 
goods  has  been  greater  this  year  than 
almost  any  other  year..  For  the  rea­
son  that  the  indications  are  for  a 
large  cotton  crop,  the  natural  infer­
ence  would  be  a  much  lower  price 
for  cotton.  Some  mills  have  specu­
and  made 
lated  on 
prices  with  this  thought 
in  mind. 
Some  of  the 
lower  grades  of  knit 
goods  are  the  worst.  Manufacturers 
in  certain  cases  could  not  stand  the 
loss  to  deliver  goods  according 
to 
sample.  To  do  so  would  mean  that 
they  must  lose  considerable  money, 
for  it  is  a  fact  that  some  were  made 
on  a  basis  of  7j£c  cotton.
Velvets— Warp  prints  in 

taffetas, 
gros  de  Naples  or  satin  duchess,  in 
large,  bold  floral  designs 
covering 
cream  or  pale-tinted  grounds,  are 
shown  in  imported  lines;  also  hand- 
tinted  broche  designs  and  hand-tinted 
velvet  designs  on  the  same  grounds. 
A  high  novelty  shown  is  warp  print 
or  broche  silk  with  Venice  lace  in­
serts  in  certain  parts  of  the  design. 
These  appear  in  the  Louis  X VI.  gar­
land  and  basket  pattern,  the  basket 
being  of  lace.  The  same  pattern  is 
in 
carried  out  with  gold  spangles 
place  of  the 
lace.  These 
goods  are  all  marked  with  prices  pro­
hibitive  to  a  moderate  purse,  but  indi­
cate  the  ultra-fashionable  trend  and 
offer  suggestions  that  may  be  of  fu­
ture  service.

lower  cotton 

inserted 

There  is  a  growing  confidence  in 
a  velvet  season  that  will  round  up 
satisfactorily, 
from 
abroad  have  confirmed  belief  in  an 
extensive  use  of  velvet  for  gowns, 
costumes  and  coats  next  winter. 
Blacks  will  dominate,  but  the  dark,

rumors 

since 

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

Dress  Goods— This  week 

has
shown  a  splendid  increase  in  the  ac­
tual  business  transacted  on  the  dress 
goods  end  of  the  market  and  the  in­
terest  that  buyers  are  taking  in  the 
various  lines  open  for  their  edifica­
tion. 
It  is  to  some  extent  possible 
now  to  see  the  probable  future  of  the 
different  fabrics  and  designs,  and 
to 
determine  with  something  like  accu­
racy  what  are  likely  to  be  the  lead­
ers  for  the  spring.  There  is  little 
doubt  that  fancy  lines  have  increased 
in  interest  during  the  week  past,  in 
spite  of  the  promises  of  a  few  weeks 
ago,  and  even  up  to  two  weeks  ago 
for  the  plain  goods,  although  the  lat­
ter  are  not  by  any  means  out  of  it 
now.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  sales 
of  the  two  divisions  as  reported  show 
that  where  all  grades  are  taken  into 
consideration,  the  plain  lines  are  still 
far  in  the  lead.  Fancies  are  being 
bought  chiefly  in  high  grades  by  the 
cloak  and  suit  cutters.  The  jobbers 
are  of  the  opinion  still  that  the  plain 
lines  are  the  ones  for  them  to  bank 
on,  and  are  buying  their  supplies  with 
that  end  in  view.  Certainly  the  mills 
that  have  made 
lightweight 
goods,  such  as  broadcloths,  which are 
so  popular  and  have  been  for  some 
time  in  imported  lines,  have  little  to 
complain  of  in  regard  to  the  amount 
of  business  they  have  accomplished so 
far,  and  have  every  reason  to  believe 
that  their  business  will  continue with­
out  interruption  until 
season 
closes.

the 

the 

In 

Underwear— Uncertainty 

Ginghams— Staple  ginghams  have 
been  reduced  %c  during  the  past 
week,  but  otherwise  quotations  are 
practically  unchanged.  Print  cloths 
are  a  trifle  firmer,  this  being  particu­
larly  the  case  with  wide  goods,  cer­
tain  qualities  of  which  are  in  greatly 
reduced  supply  just  now. 
fact, 
stocks  are  said  to  have  been  mate­
rially  reduced  within  the  past  fort­
night.  Narrow  goods  are  not  in good 
demand, but  prices  rule  steady.
in 

the 
spring  underwear  situation  has  been 
removed  by  practical  settlement  of 
prices.  Lists  that  appeared  to  be  un­
satisfactory  four  weeks  ago  are  now 
the  average  buyer, 
acceptable  to 
which  accounts  for 
increasing 
number  of  orders.  Generally  the  quo­
tations  of  knit  goods  depend  entirely 
on  the  relation  of  supply  to  the  de­
mand  or  on  the  position  of  raw  ma­
terial  at  the  time  the  goods  are  pro­
duced.  The  style  feature  seldom  en­
ters  into  the 
consideration,  which 
means  that  quality  controls  the price. 
In  some  cases  cotton  underwear  for 
the  present  fall  season 
slightly 
higher  priced  than  that  shown  in  the 
sample  for  next  spring.  This  is  due 
to  the  fact  that  all  of  th<*  cotton  un­
derwear  now  finished  and  ready  for 
buyers  was  made  from  cotton  consid­
erably  higher  than  the  present  quota­
tions  of  the  staple  indicate.  There  is

the 

is 

A S   A   R U L E

W E  DO  NOT

TAKE VERY  MUCH  STOCK  IN

T E S T IM O N IA L S

*

4

Madame  Grant  is  the  leading  dressmaker 
in  Kalamazoo,  and  as  you  know  “ a  prophet 
is  not  without  honor  save  in  his  own  country” 
we  feel  that  the  following extract  from  a letter 
received  by  us  carries  with  it  a  little  more 
than  the  usual  weight:

“ P u r i t a n   C o r s e t   C o.,

K a l a m a z o o ,  M i c h .

Gentlemen:— I  have  demonstrated  to  my  entire 
satisfaction  that  the  Puritan  Corset  Style  No.  79,  is 
for  all  classes  of  figures  the  best  corset  manufac­
tured  today  in  this  or  any  other  country. 
It  gives 
a  certain  style  to  the  figure  not  obtained  by  any 
other  garment. 
I  insist  upon  my  customers  wear­
ing  them  when  being  fitted.

M a d a m e   G r a n t . ”

Write  us  if  we  have  no  representative  in 
your  town.  W e  may  be able  to  do you some 
good.

PURITAN  CORSET  CO.

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

39

rich  brown,  myrtle  and  wintergreen 
and  some  of  the  dark  blues  and  terra­
cotta  shades  will  also  be  in  demand. 
Narrow  velvets  will  be  used  again  for 
accessories  and  as  a  foundation 
for 
the  fashionable  embroideries  of  all 
kinds.  Pash  velvet  will  be  used  for 
millinery. 
It  is  probable  that  velvet­
eens  of  the  best  quality  will  replace 
velvets  for  costumes  even  for 
the 
best  class  of  trade.  They  have  the 
appearance  of  silk  velvet,  and  wear 
like  cloth,  which  combination  is  sure 
to  influence  practical  women  in  their 
favor.  Evening  gowns  will  be  made 
mostly  of  chiffon  velvet,  and  it  is  ru­
mored  there  will  be  a  demand  for  it 
for  theater  waists  of  dressy  tendency. 
As  a  trimming  velvet  it  is  endorsed 
by  the  best  customers,  and  it  will 
be  used  also  for  accessories  and  cer­
tain  styles 
In  fancy 
velvets  broadtail  is  far  in  the  lead and 
comes  in  all  of  the  popular  dark  and 
medium  shades,  and  all  of  the  bright 
relieving  colors  as  well.  A  manufac­
turer  of  velvets  is  showing  a  Parisian 
costume  of  medium  shades  of  golden- 
brown  broadtail,  the  trimmings  and 
buttons  of  which  are  of  onion  brown, 
and  a  hat  is  of  the  same  combination 
with  a  touch  of coq  de  roche  broadtail 
in  the  trimming.  A  fac-similé  of  this 
toilette  is  exhibited  at  the  St.  Louis 
Fair. 
Fancy  waisting  velvets  with 
dots,  cubes  or  other  small  designs  in 
fiber,  are  a  line  well  taken  by  manu­
facturers  of  waists  and  suits.  These 
are  sometimes  called  embroiderettes. 
Shadow  effects  in  impress  goods  are 
also  meeting  with  success.

in  millinery. 

Knee  Drawers— Have  been  attract­
ing  a  good  deal  of  attention  during 
the  past  season.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  summer  merchants  did  not  appear 
to  be  selling  many  of  these  goods, 
but  later  on  the  public  seems  to  have 
“warmed  up”  to  them  considerably, 
and  the  chances  are  that  next  sea­
son’s  sales  will  be  fairly  heavy,  as  the 
public  is  brought to realize the advan­
tages  possessed  by  this  style  of  un­
derwear  at  a  season  when  outdoor 
sports  are  “the  thing.”

Cloakings— The  cloaking  end  of the 
trade  is  moving  along 
fairly  well, 
considering  the  manner  in  which  it 
seems  necessary  to  buy  such  goods 
now.  The  promises  for  the  season 
are  good  and  some  excellent  orders 
have  been  booked  during 
last 
week  for  kerseys,  covert  cloths,  tour­
ists’  cloths  and  similar  lines,  from the 
cloakmakers. 
little 
stronger  showing  of  fall  weather  to 
put  this  part  of  the  goods  market 
where  it  ought  to  be.

It  will  take  a 

this 

reasonably 

Mercerized  Lines  —   Among 

the 
quick  and 
satisfactory 
sellers  for  the  spring  of  1905,  the 
mercerized  lines 
stand  pre-eminent 
with  many— those  mills  that  under­
stand  how  to  make  them  right.  Such 
mills  have  had  a  big  business  in  these 
fabrics,  while  those  that  have  missed 
the  vital  points  are  complaining  of 
unsatisfactory  business  in  the  mer­
cerized  end.

Demand  Is  Good  for  Colored  Dress 

Silks.

The  popularity  of  silks  seems  of 
sufficient  momentum  to  carry  through 
the  winter.  The  number  of  yards  of 
silks  sold  this  season  has  been  un-

fabrics. 

usually  large.  The  surprising  thing 
is  the  lack  of  enthusiasm  on  the  part 
of  the  silk  dealers.  The  city  retail 
branch  of  the  silk  business  is  enthusi­
astic  regarding  the  present  sale  of 
silks  and  is  willing  to  give  expression 
to  its  enthusiasm.  But  the  distribut­
ing  trade  is  more  stoical.  The  convic­
tion  has  been  growing  that  the  sea­
son  of  1905  is  going  to  be  a  hummer 
in  the  silk  trade.  All  conditions  war­
rant  this  belief.  Just  now  the  large 
cities  are  realizing  a  marked  demand 
for  silk 
This  popularity 
should  reach  throughout  the  entire 
country  next  spring  and  summer  if 
the  fashions  favor 
silk.  The  well 
posted  authorities  say  the  shirt  waist 
suit  is  on  the  programme  for  next 
year.  Granted  that  and  the  sale  of 
silks  in  large  quantities  is  assured.
The  tendency  of  colored  fancy  silks 
is  the  feature  with  the  general  trade. 
Jobbing  interests  were  concerned  to 
know  early  what 
their  customers 
were  going  to  do  for  fall.  Some main­
tained  that  it  was  not  wise  to  follow 
the  second  season  with  the  same  de­
signs  that  were  so  successful  this 
summer.  The  wise 
silk  manager, 
however,  stuck  to  the  colored  fancies. 
Even  those  who  placed  liberal  orders 
for  colored  fancies  are  finding  their 
early  orders  of  insufficient  propor­
tions.  One  concern  reports  an  order 
for  400  pieces  given  last  week  to  be 
in 
shipped  at  once.  Neat  effects 
small  patterns  are  wanted. 
In  a  few 
instances  merchants  who  placed  their 
orders  early  for  colored  fancies  be­
came  frightened  and  cancelled.  They 
have  since  found  that  they  are  unable 
to  secure  other  silks  that  are  so  pop­
ular.

Silk  counters  of  the  retail  stores 
show  colored  fabrics.  The  managers 
admit  their  inability  to  supply  any­
thing  more  in  demand.  One  large 
window  of  a  department  store  this 
week  displayed  the  new  novelty  silks 
for  fall.  There  were  thirteen  styles 
draped  in  the  large  double  window, 
and  every  pattern  in  the  window  was 
brown.  The  price  on  all  was  the 
same,  $1  per  yard.

Plaid  silks  are  being  favorably  con­
sidered  by  the  trade  at  the  counters 
of  the  city  stores.  The  trade  is  buy­
ing  them  for  waists.  One  department 
reports  quite  a  number  of  sales  of 
j plaid  silks  every  day.

Velveteens  are  expected  to  engage 
more  of  the  attention  of  shoppers 
than  velvets.  For  the  dressy  dress 
chiffon  velvet  may  be  chosen,  but  for 
service  velveteens  are  more  practica­
ble.  Some  of  the  velveteens  shown 
to-day  have  the  effect  of  a  velvet. 
The  glazed  appearance  of  the  old  vel­
veteen  is  absent.  Velveteen  for  the 
manufacturing 
feature. 
Manufacturers  of  novelties,  belts, etc., 
are  considering  a  quantity.  The  cut­
ting  up  trade  is  also  asking  for  them. 
Broadtails  continue  to  be  an  impor­
tant  feature  of  this  line.  The  sale  is 
reported  to  have  been  large  and  is 
continuing.  Full  costumes  of  broad­
tails  are  exhibited  in  the  city  sales­
rooms.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

C o m m er cia l 

Travelers

Michigan  Knight*  of  the  Grip 

President,  Michael  Howarn,  Detroit; 
Secretary,  Cha*.  J.  Lewis,  Flint;  Treas­
urer,  H.  E.  Bradner,  Lansing.

United  Commercial  Travelers  of  Michigan 
Grand  Councelor,  L.  Williams,  Detroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  W.  F.  Tracy,  Flint.
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T. 
Senior  Counselor,  S.  H.  Simmons;  Secre­

tary  and  Treasurer,  O.  F.  Jackson.

Tendency  of  Men  To  Become  Too 

Polite  to  Women.

Can  politeness  be  overdone?  The 
other  day  a  man  met  a  lady  in  a 
prominent  street.  They  stopped  to 
chat.  The  man  removed  his  hat.  He 
struck  an  attitude  of  humility.  They 
chatted  for  ten  minutes.  All  the  time 
the  man  held  his  hat  in  his  hand  and 
stood  there  in  an  acquiescent  atti­
tude  while  the 
lady  talked  animat­
edly  and  evidently in a radiant humor. 
The  man  was  overdoing  himself  in 
the  act of being polite.  He was  mere­
ly  acting  the  part  of  a  well-dressed 
flunky.

We  have  heard  it  announced  as an 
axiom  that  the  predominance  of  the 
schoolmarm  in  our  public  school sys­
tem is  doing a great  deal  to  effeminize 
our  boys. 
If  it  is  responsible  for  the 
tendency  to  overstimulate  our  desire 
to  appear  polite,  the  point  is  perhaps 
well  taken. 
It  won’t  do  to  be  too 
dogmatic  on  this  subject.  Perhaps 
better  views  may  offset  this  conclu­
sion.  But  the  fact  remains  that  a 
tendency  does  exist  among  us  to  be 
overpolite,  and  the  case  cited  bears 
witness  to  this  belief.  There  are 
men  who  always  have  their  hats  in 
their  hands  when  ladies  are  about 
and  who  conduct  themselves,  broadly 
speaking,  in  a  servile  manner  that 
comports  ill  with  the  dignity  of  good 
breeding  and  can  hardly  appeal  to 
the  good  sense  of  a  woman  of  taste 
and  refinement.

But  there  is  one  point  in  our  uni­
versal  bearing  in  respect 
to  which 
most  of  us  might  profitably  seek  im­
provement.  That  is  the  relative  de­
portment  of men  toward  one  another. 
Here  we  often  find  a  glaring  deficien­
In  a  majority  of 
cy  of  politeness. 
cases  it  is  dangerous  for  a  man 
to 
risk  a  conversation  with  a  stranger. 
In  numerous  instances  a  polite  re­
mark  is  met  with  a  frown  and  a 
reproving  stare  from  the  person  ad­
dressed.

Out  in  the  wild  and  woolly  West 
and  down  South  men  still  preserve 
a  primitive  form  of  politeness  in their 
relation  to  strangers.  One  is  permit­
ted  to  ask  questions  and  is  reasona­
bly  sure  of  receiving  a  courteous  re­
ply. 
In  some  sections  the  person  ad­
dressed  is  apt  to  know  all  about  your 
family  before  he  leaves  you. 
In  the 
West  the  wayfarer  is  expected  to  be 
communicative  and  to  dip  in  like  an 
old  friend,  whether  it  is  a  game  of 
seven-up  or  a  discussion  of  crops  and 
politics.  But  :n  this  particular  part 
of  the  United  States  unless  one  has 
enjoyed  a  formal  introduction  to  the 
person  whom  he  wishes  to  engage  in 
conversation  he  is  prone  to  come  off 
with  a  severe  rebuff.  There  are  gar­

rulous  persons  who  are  continually 
butting  in,  whether  they  are  encour­
aged  to  do  so  or  not.  A   wholesome 
rebuff  won’t  hurt  this  kind  of  indi­
viduals.  But  all  men  who  are  dis­
posed  to  converse  are  not  in 
that 
category.  To be  overpolite  to  women 
and  surly  to  men  is  as  reprehensible 
as  the  other  extreme.

We  have  the  Indian  fashion  of 
shaking  hands  and  keeping  our  hats 
on,  and  most  of  the  handshaking that 
is  done  is  as  much  pro  forma  and  in­
trinsically  as  cold  and  unsympathetic 
as  that  same  form  of  politeness  be­
tween  two  pugilists  preparing to  maul 
each  other. 
In  continental  Europe 
when  men  of  breeding  meet  or  are 
introduced  they  remove  their  hats 
and  bow.  The  act  of  shaking  hands 
is  reserved  for  warm  intimates.  Even 
good  friends  doff  their  hats  in  salute 
on  meeting.  This  form  of  polite­
ness  may  be  mere  sham,  if  it  is  not 
prompted  by  a  courteous  sentiment 
that  springs  from  the  heart.  But 
why  not  cultivate  manly  courtesy  as 
a  creed  and  elevate  the  tone  of  gen­
uine  politeness,  without  either  mak­
ing  it  servile  or  confining  it  strictly 
to  one  sex?  Let  there  be  enough 
politeness  to  go  around.

W hy  Luck  Should  Be  Spelled  Pluck.
Spell  luck  with  a  capital  “P”  be­
fore  it.  This  is  the  kind  of  luck  that 
is  unfailingly  good because it supplies 
its  brave  beneficiary  with  the  courage 
that  lightly  surmounts  most  of  life’s 
difficulties  and  trials.  No  individual 
who  spells  luck  with  a  “P”  can  ever 
be  a  coward.  And  it  is  the  coward 
usually,  other  things  being  equal, who 
falls  and  fails.

The  most  careless  analysis  proves 
the  luck  spelled  with  a  “ P”  is  best 
worth  having.  Fear  is  a  depressing 
force  always;  habitually  indulged  it 
means  almost  certain  death  to  the 
highest  possibilities  for  success  and 
happiness.  The  saddest  aspect  of  all 
the  countless,  varied  fears  that  op­
press  humanity  is  found  in  the  fact 
that  so many  of  them  are  unnecessary 
and  groundless  in  the  extreme.

“My  life  has  been  full  of  troubles,” 
mourned  the  much  quoted  old  woman 
whose  plaint  teaches  so  valuable  a 
lesson,  “and  half  of 
them  never 
came.”  A  brave  and  cheery  deter­
mination  not  to  fear  the  future,  never 
to  worry  about  the  “troubles”  until 
they  were  actually  in  existence,  to 
make  always  the  best  of things,  would 
have  transformed  a  sad  existence  into 
a  happy  life.

“The  coward  dies  a  hundred deaths; 

the  brave  man  dies  but  once.”

“No  one  can  be  really  brave  unless 

he  is  afraid.”

little  longer, 

Here  are  two  bits  of  indubitable 
wisdom,  one  old,  the  other  newer, 
well  worthy  the  attention  of  those 
who  would  spell  their  luck  with  a 
“P.”  Anticipated  sorrows  and  trou­
bles,  to  continue  the  line  of  the  first 
a 
are  usually  much 
more  distressing  than  real  ones;  few 
trials  are  as  bitter  in  the  actual  bear­
ing  as  in  prospect.  And,  if  the  hard 
thing  must  come,  why  wear  out  the 
powers  of endurance  and  recuperation 
by  premature  anxiety?  The  luck that 
is  spelled  with  a  “P”  is  usually  mark­
ed  by  a  cheerful  doing  of  to-day’s

duties,  with  a  determination  to  let 
to-morrow  take  care  of  itself,  at  least 
in  regard  to  its  troubles  and  woes.

It  is  small  credit  to  take  up 

the 
second  suggestion,  to  face  life’s  prob­
lems  calmly  if  one  is  naturally  cour­
ageous,  if  there  is  nothing  to  fear. 
The  man  who  sees  and  recognizes 
danger,  who  inevitably  fears  it  with 
the  “pure  human”  part  of  his  nature, 
yet  who  bravely 
and 
through  it  for  the  sake  of  duty— this 
is  the  hero.  This  man,  beloved  of 
his  fellows,  approved  by  his  own con­
science— although  he  may  not  sus­
pect  it— spells  his  luck  with  a  “P.”

goes 

into 

cowards 

For  the  rest,  the  man  who  spells 
his  luck  with  a  “P”  knows  more  of 
the  joy  of  life,  the  exhilaration  of 
victory,  than  twenty 
can 
know.  The  clear  joy  to  be  obtained 
only  through  the  surmounting  of  an 
obstacle  is  his  fullest  measure.  So, 
too,  with  the 
light  hearted,  trium­
phant  gladness  born  of  a  hindrance 
averted.  The  man  who  spells  his 
luck  with  a  “P ”  learns  early  in  his 
career  that  many  of 
the  blackest 
trouble  clouds  that  shadow  the  work­
ing  horizon  are  shadow  clouds  mere­
ly.  Certain  savages  believe  that  the 
strength,  vitality  and  power  of 
the 
enemy  slain  pass  into  the  life  of  the 
slayer. 
It  is  easy  for  the  man  who 
rpells  luck  with  a  “P”  and  his  friends 
to  regard  this  belief  as  at  least  meta­
phorically  veracious,  he  is  so  indomi­
table,  so  optimistic,  so  seemingly  fav­
ored  of  fortune,  so  full  of  hope  and 
resources  and  cheer.

All  of  which  would  be 

empty 
preaching  but  for  the  fact  that  the 
“ P”  mode  of  luck  spelling  is  so  easy 
and  desirable  of  acquirement.  Turn 
about,  fretters, 
cripplingly  anxious 
to-day  about  the  luck  of  to-morrow. 
Spell  your  luck  with  a  “P,”  and  do 
to-day’s  duty  bravely.  Then  when 
the  dreaded 
the 
year,”  the  autumnal 
examinations, 
the  spring  house  cleaning,  the  impor­
tant  payment  are  really  due, 
full 
strength  with  which  to  meet  them 
will  be  at  command  rather  than  the 
nervous  depletion  resulting  from long 
days  and  nights  of  unnecessary,  su­
perfluous  worry,  and  the  grave  crises 
will  bring  you  but  triumph.

“hard  month  of 

For  the  luck  that  is  spelled  with  a 
“P”  will  never  tail  you.  To  meet  and 
greet  it  will  come  all  manner  of good 
things  in  due  time  and  season,  while 
the  calm  mind,  sleep,  and  faith  born

of  its  wholesome  courage  will  discov­
er  and  bring  about  opportunities  for 
thrift,  happiness,  money  making  and 
varied  accomplishments,  unnumbered, 
surprising,  undreamed  of.

Frances  Byrnes.

Bombastic  Eloquence.

The  late James  T.  Lewis,  War  Gov­
ernor  of  Wisconsin,  took  a  deep  in­
terest  in  bombastic  and  hifalutin 
rhetoric.  He knew by  heart  a  number 
of  political  speeches  of  the  absurdest 
kind,  and  to  hear  him  quote  these 
speeches  was  amusing,  for  he  inject­
ed  into  their delivery  not a  little  mock 
fire  and  fury.

One  of  the  speeches  in  Mr.  Lewis’ 
collection  was  made  in  the  Lincoln 
campaign. 

Its  climax  ran:

“ Build  a  worm  fence  around  a  win­
ter’s  supply  of  summer  weather;  skim 
the  clouds  from  the  sky  with  a  tea­
spoon;  catch  a  thunderbolt  in  a  blad­
to  harness; 
der;  break  a  hurricane 
ground  sluice  an  earthquake; 
lasso, 
an  avalanche;  pin  a  lid  on  the  crater 
of  an  active  volcano;  hide  all  the  stars 
in  a  nail  keg;  hang  the  ocean  on  a 
grape  vine  to  dry;  put  the  sky to  soak 
in  a  gourd;  nail  up  eternity in  a  wood­
shed;  and  paste 
‘To  Let'  signs  on 
the  sun  and  moon;  but  never-never 
for  a  moment,  sir— delude  yourself 
with  the  idea  that  any  ticket  or  party 
can  beat  ourn.”

A  man  that  persists  in  coming 

to 
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means  business.

The  meanest thing about a mother- 

in-law  is  usually  her  son-in-law.

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The  initials  of  the  gentleman  who 
has  engaged  to  cover  the  Saginaw 
Valley  for  the Worden Grocer Co. are 
O.  C.  Parsons— not  W.  S.  Parsons, 
as  stated  last  week.

F.  E.  Miller,  of  Ionia,  succeeds 
Will  Isham  as  traveling  representa­
tive  for  the  J.  I.  Case  Threshing 
Machine  Co.  Mr.  Miller  was  former­
ly  on  the  road  for  the  International 
Harvester  Co.

Big  Rapids  Pioneer:  Royal Street­
er  has  taken  a  position  as  traveling 
salesman  for  James  H.  Dunham  & 
Co.,  a  New  York  dry  goods  firm.  He 
will  travel  in  Michigan  and  expects 
to  go  out  the  last  of  the  month.

Cornelius  Crawford 

(Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.)  is  staying  in  to­
day  to  witness  the  2:20  trot  for  which 
the  Grand  Rapids  Brewing  Co.  put 
up  a  purse  of  $500.  His  mare  Ca­
mille  is  entered  in  the  race  and  he 
confidently  expects  she  will  win  first 
money.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Flint— Bert  Freeman  has  resigned 
his  position  with  the  Saginaw  Dry 
Goods  Co.,  where  he  has  been  for 
several  months,  to  return  to  the  em­
ploy  of  Smith,  Bridgman  &  Co.

Ann  Arbor— H.  F.  Frost  has  tak­
en  a  position  with  Mack  &  Co.  in  the 
carpet  department. 
furniture 
This  is  the  same  line  of  business 
in 
which  Mr.  Frost  was  engaged  at  Du­
rand  for  a  number  of  years.

and 

Bay  City— Wm.  Beck,  of  Evart, has 
engaged  to  manage  the  domestic  de­
partment 
in  the  H.  G.  Wendland 
store.

Big  Rapids— C.  M.  Barry,  pharma­
in  the  drug  store  of  Geo.  F. 
to 

cist 
Fairman,  was  married  recently 
Miss  Edith  Wessels,  of  St.  Louis.

Lansing— Ed.  Retan,  who  for 

the 
past  four  years  has  been  employed 
by  the  Robinson  Drug  Co.,  has  re­
signed  his  position  and  gone  to  De­
troit,  where  he  will  take  up  work  in 
the  Detroit  College  of  Medicine.

Flint— Wm.  C.  Carr,  who  was  con­
nected  with  the  Palmer  store,  in  this 
city,  for  many  years,  is  now  asso­
ciated  with  Warrick  Brothers  as  as­
sistant  manager  of  their  dry  goods 
establishment.

Hastings— Frank  Gillespie,  former­
ly  prescription  clerk  for  A.  L.  Ed­
wards,  of  Hart,  has  taken  a  similar 
position  with  W.  H.  Goodyear,  at  this 
place.

Traverse  City— Geo.  W.  Smith,  of 
the  clothing  department  of  the  Bos­
ton  store,  was  recently  united  in  mar­
riage  by  Rev.  W.  L.  Laufman  at  the 
First  M.  E.  parsonage  to  Miss  Bes­
sie  Noyse,  of  Chicago,  formerly  em­
ployed  in  Siegel  &  Cooper’s  store 
there.

Kalamazoo— Rhenious  Bell,  at  the 
the 
Sheid  Table  Market,  has  won 
first  prize  offered  by  the  Malta  Vita 
Co.,  Battle  Creek,  for  the  person  in 
Michigan  who  sold  the  most  pack­
ages  of  Malta  Vita  in  two  months. 
The  prize  was  $100.  The  contest  be­
gan  June  1  and  ended  July  31. 
In 
that  time  Mr.  Bell  sold  5,002  pack­
ages.  The  second  and  third  prizes 
went  to  clerks  at  Detroit.

Clarkston— S.  E.  Morgan,  who  re­
cently  accepted  a  position  as  druggist

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

for  J.  A.  Loan,  is  at  Detroit  taking 
treatment  for  the 
injury  which  he 
received  while  packing  his  household 
goods  preparatory 
to  coming  here. 
Mr.  Morgan  fell  through  a  trap  door, 
injuring  his  limb,  which  is  giving  him 
considerable  frouble.

Lansing— Alfred  Wise  has  resign­
ed  his  position  in  the  Rose  &  Burton 
shoe  store  and  gone  to  Grand  Rapids, 
where  he  will  be  connected  with  the 
National  Biscuit  Co.

The  valor  displayed  by  the  Japan­
ese  will  never  be  properly  described, 
although  the  results  attained  by  it 
will,  of  course,  be  fully  recognized. 
The  reports  from  the  scenes  of  battle 
have  thus  far  been  of  the  most  mat­
ter  of  fact  nature.  The  newspaper 
correspondents  have  not  been  allow­
ed  much  freedom  at  the  front.  They 
have  personally  witnessed  but  few of 
the  important  engagements  and  have 
not  been  permitted  in  many  instances 
to  forward  such  information  as  they 
have  gathered  in  anything  approach­
ing  detail.  The  only  authoritative ac­
counts  of  the  operations 
in  Man­
churia  have  come  almost  exclusively 
from  the  officers  in  command.  They 
are  necessarily  brief  statements  and 
do  not  have  any  literary  adornments. 
It  is  the  studied  purpose  of  the  Jap­
anese  generals  not to make known the 
significance  of  their  movements,  nor 
to  give  publicity  to  any  fact  that  will 
enable  the  enemy  to  anticipate  their 
plans.  Enough  reaches  the  outside 
world  to  produce  the  conviction  that 
the  Japanese  have  performed,  indi­
vidually  and  collectively,  deeds 
of 
heroism  that  have  never  been  excel­
led  in  the  history  of  modern  warfare. 
The  spirit  they  manifest  is  nothing 
short  of  marvelous,  and  although  the 
literature  of  the  war  may  be  inade­
quate,  history  can  not  fail  to  accord 
the  Japanese  a  glorious  chapter.

A  new  device  has  caused  a  boom 
in  hardware  in  the  prohibition  State 
of  South  Dakota.  It  is  a  spirit  level, 
ruler,  calendar  and  pencil  holder 
combined,  and  in  South  Dakota  sells 
two  for  a  quarter  at  the  best  regu­
lated  hardware  stores.  Where  there 
was  one  hardware  store  in  one  town, 
there  are  now  three,  and  all  are  doing 
a  big  business  in  spirit  levels.  The 
most  interesting  thing  about  the  de­
vice  is  the  spirit  level,  with  empha­
sis  on  “spirit.” 
In  the  center  of  a 
square  piece  of  wood  about  eight 
inches  long  is  a  hole  running  length­
wise,  into  which  fits  very  neatly  a 
glass  tube,  tightly  corked,  containing 
two  ounces  of  spirits.  Another  hole 
running  lengthwise 
large 
just 
enou gh   to  hold  a  lead  pencil. 
In  the 
m iddle  of  th e  piece  of  w ood   are  tw o 
holes  running  at  right  angles  to  the 
aperture  extraordinary  containing the 
tube.  One  can  look  into  these  small­
er  holes  and  see  the  spirits  in  the 
glass  tube.  The  owner  of  the  de­
vice  may,  if  he  chooses,  extract  the 
tube  from  the  frame,  uncork  it  and 
proceed  to  the  work  of  putting  down 
liquor  according  to  the  manner 
in 
vogue 
states. 
Thereupon  the  possessor  has  no more 
use  for  the  spirit  level,  nor  the  lead 
pencil,  nor  the  calendar,  nor 
the 
ruler.

in  non-prohibition 

is 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Caro— The  flour  mill  owned  by  J. 
R.  Sissins  burned  to 
ground 
Sept.  20.  Five  hundred  bushels  of 
wheat  and  fifty  bushels  of  flour  were 
consumed.  There  is  $4,000  insurance 
on  the  mill.

the 

Lowell— Ecker  &  Foster,  proprie­
tors  of  the  lumber  yard  and  planing 
mill  here,  are  embarrassed  and  have 
uttered  a  trust  mortgage  to  Porter 
Carr,  trustee,  securing  creditors  to 
the  amount  of  $10,000.

Petoskey— The 

Petoskey  Block
Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  organ­
ized  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
lumber  and  woodenware.  The  capi­
tal  stock  is  $30,000 
and 
$5,000  preferred.  Three  hundred and 
twenty-six  dollars  has  been  paid  in 
in  cash  arid  $18,474  in  property.

common 

Detroit—The  perfumery  business 
which  has  been  running  under  the 
name  of  the  Phoenix  Perfumery Co., 
at  23  Jefferson  avenue,  has  filed  ar­
ticles  of  association  without  chang­
ing  the  name,  with  $2,000  authorized 
stock,  $500  of  which  is  said  to  be 
paid  in.  Edward  A.,  Charles  D. and 
Marie  Weber  Fiske  are  named 
as 
stockholders.

Fleming 

Hillsdale— The 

Screen 
Works,  manufacturer  of  a  patent 
sliding  screen,  has  sold  its  patents 
and  business  to  the  Hillsdale  Screen 
Works,  which  will  consolidate 
the 
business  with 
its  own.  The  new 
building  for  the  Hillsdale  company, 
on  the  site  of  the  one  destroyed  by 
fire  last  spring,  is  nearly  ready  for 
use.

Kalamazoo— The  Illinois  Envelope 
Co.,  of  Centralia,  111.,  seeks  a  location 
in  this  city.  The  company  recently 
completed  a  $12,000  factory  building 
at  Centralia  and  since  has  decided  to 
make  a  change.  Four  hundred  men 
are  employed  and  a  million  envelopes 
are  made  a  day.  The  company  asks 
for  a  building  site  and  $4,000,  the  ex­
pense  of  moving.

Lake  Odessa— The  Verity  Manu­
facturing  Co.  will  remain  at  Lake 
Odessa,  $4,000  in  preferred  stock hav­
ing  been  subscribed  at  par  by  local 
investors.  A  new  company  has  been 
organized  with  $10,000  common stock 
and  $5,000  preferred.  E.  D.  Verity 
is  President  of  the  new  corporation, 
C.  C.  Verity  is  Secretary  and  W.  J. 
Percival  is  Treasurer.  A  new  build­
ing,  30x50  feet  in  dimensions,  will 
be  erected  at  once  for  use  as  a  store 
room  and  finishing  and  packing  room.
Bay  City— Frank  Buell,  associated 
with  the  J.  T.  Wylie  Manufacturing 
Co.,  has  purchased  20,000  acres  of 
hardwood  timber  land  in  Otsego  and 
th e  H aak 
C heboygan  cou n ties 
o f 
contain 
L um ber  Co.,  estim ated 
to 
175,000,000  feet  of  standing 
timber, 
which  will  be  lumbered  and  the  logs 
railed  to  Bay  City,  where  they  will 
be  manufactured  in  the  Hall  mill,  re­
cently  bought  by  Mr.  Buell  and 
in 
which  H.  A.  Batchelor  and  J.  T.  W y­
lie  are  also  interested. 
It  is  calcu­
lated  this  mill  has  twenty  years’ stock 
already  provided  for. 
It  will  be  of 
decided  advantage  to  the  lumber  in­
dustry  of  this  city.

Kalamazoo— The  flour 

feed 
store  owned  by. Merrill  &  Ogden  has 
been  sold  to  Zinn  &  Little,  who  have

and 

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been  in  the  grain  business  since  Jan­
uary  1.  They  bought  the  grain  ele­
vator  owned  by  J.  L.  Sebring 
for 
many  years.  They  remodeled  it  at 
that  time,  and  put  in  a  feed  grinder 
and  added  a  stock  of  flour  and  feed. 
Mr.  Zinn  also  operates  a  flour  mill 
at  Galesburg,  milling  the  flour  known 
as  “Our  Standard.”  Messrs.  Merrill 
and  Ogden  have  been  in  the  flour  and 
feed  business  for  the  last  four  years 
at  230  East  Kalamazoo  avenue.  They 
are  both  old  feed  men.  Mr.  Merrill 
was  for  a  long  time  head  salesman 
for  Miller,  Ryder  &  Winterburn.  Mr. 
Ogden  was  for  a  number  of  years 
connected  with  W.  E.  Mershon  &  Co. 
The  former  will  act  as  head  salesman 
for  Zinn  &  Little.

Detroit— Frederick  A.  Turney  has 
filed  a  bill  against  the  National  Ce­
real  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  Battle  Creek,  man­
ufacturer  of  X-Cel-O  flakes,  alleging 
fraud  in  the  sale  of  $1,000  worth  of 
stock  to  him  last  April.  Eugene  Mil­
ler,  Walter  H.  North,  Lewis  B.  An­
derson,  George  W.  Taylor  and  C.  A. 
Boyle,  all  of  Battle  Creek,  are  made 
party  defendants.  Turney  alleges  that 
in  April  he  was  offered  the  agency 
for  the  company  in  the  State  of  Mas­
sachusetts,  with  headquarters  at  Bos­
ton,  providing,  however,  that  he take 
$1,000  worth  of  stock.  He  sets  up 
that  he  accepted  the  proposition,  but 
declares  that  the  food  found  no  sale 
and  that,  he  was  forced  to  abandon 
the  business.  He  avers  that  his  $1,000 
was  obtained  under  false  representa­
tions  and  that  of  the  $400,000  claimed 
as  capital  stock  $200,000  was  rated 
as  the  value  of  the  formula  for  the 
flakes.  He  asks  for  the  return  of  the 
$1,000.

long,  cold  winter  of 

The  furriers  report  that  the  de­
mand  for  furs  this  season  is  much 
more  active  than  it  was  at  this  time 
last  year.  There  are  several  reasons 
for  the  increased  demand,  one  being 
that  the 
last 
year  caused  more  furs  to  be  worn 
than  formerly.  The  war  between 
Russia  and  Japan  was  expected  to 
curtail  materially  the  production  of 
furs,  as  Russia  is  the  greatest  fur 
producer 
the  world,  and  many 
hunters  have  enlisted.  Thus  far,  how­
ever,  there  has  been  no  perceptible 
tailing  off  in  the  offerings  of  furs 
from  Russia.

in 

“Yes,  I  think  I  am  growing 

in 
grace,”  remarked  the  flippant  woman 
to  her  pastor.  She  didn’t  explain, 
however,  that  she  was  giving  two 
hours  a  day  to  physical  culture.

LIVINGSTON

HOTEL

The  steady  improvement  of  the 
Livingston  with  its  new  and  unique 
writing room unequaled  in  Michigan, 
its large  and  beautiful  lobby,  its  ele­
gant  rooms  and  excellent  table  com­
mends  it  to  the  traveling  public  and 
accounts for  its  wonderful  growth  in 
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton  and  Division  Sts. 

GRAND  RAP.DS,  MICH.

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M ichigan  Board  of  Pharm acy. 
President—Henry  Heim,  Saginaw. 
Secretary,—Arthur  H.  Webber,  Cadillac. 
Treasurer—J.  D.  Muir.  Grand  Rapids. 
C.  B.  Stoddard,  Monroe.
Sid  A.  Erwin,  Battle  Creek.
Sessions  for  1904.
Grand  Rapids—Nov.  1  and  2.

tion.

M ichigan  S tate  P harm aceutical  A ssocia­

President—W.  A.  Hall,  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  C.  Kirchgessner, 
Grand  Rapids;  Charles  P.  Baker,  St. 
Johns;  H.  G.  Spring,  Unionville. 

Secretary—W.  H.  Burke,  Detroit. 
Treasurer—E.  E.  Russell,  Jackson. 
Executive  Committee—John  D.  Muir, 
Grand  Rapids;  E.  E.  Calkins.  Ann  Arbor; 
L.  A.  Seltzer,  Detroit:  John  Wallace,  Kal­
amazoo;  D.  S.  Hallett,  Detroit.
Trade  Interest  Committee,  three-year 
term—J.  M.  Lemen,  Shepherd  and  H. 
Dolson,  St.  Charles.

P H A R M A C IST   A N D   P H Y SIC IA N .

New  Aspect  of  Their  Mutual  Rela­

tions.

Some  of  the  articles  that  have  re­
cently  appeared  in  medical,  as  well as 
pharmaceutical, 
journals  would  ap­
pear  to  indicate  that  the  relations  ex­
isting  between  pharmacists  and  phy­
sicians  are  in  an  unsatisfactory  and 
altogether  unsettled  condition.  While 
it  is  true  that  the  subject-matter  un­
der  discussion  is  not  new,  and  that 
many  of  the  questions  that  are  now 
involved  have  arisen  over  and  over 
again  for  upwards  of  a  century,  some 
recent  developments 
in  connection 
with  the  trade  in  nostrums,  or  patent 
medicines,  have  added  a  tone  of  bit­
terness  to  the  controversy  that  will 
not  tend  to  bring  about  more  amica­
ble  relations  in  the  near  future.

is, 

too, 

there 

tendency 

Unfortunately, 

in 
nearly  all  of  the  printed  articles,  an 
evident  tendency  to  hold  up 
the 
shortcomings  and  frailties  of  a  few as 
an  evidence  of  the 
and 
ideals  of  all.  That  there  are  members 
in  both  professions  who  do  not  live up 
to  the  prescribed  principles  or  codes 
of  ethics,  and  whose  technical  train­
ing  or  skill  does  not  compare  favor­
ably  with  the  best  that  is  attainable, 
all  must  admit.  But  to  say,  on  the 
ether  hand,  that  all  the  members  of 
these  respective  callings  are  guilty 
of  any  or  all  of  the  accusations  that 
have  recently  been  made  would  be 
overstepping  the  bounds  of  truth very 
materially.  Over  and  above  the  evi­
dent  falsity  of  any  series  of  general 
accusations,  we  should  always  re­
member  that  crimination  or  recrimi­
nation  will  not,  and  can  not,  of  it­
self  bring  other  than  discredit  to  all 
concerned.

It  will  be  much  more 

in  keeping 
with  a  genuine  desire  for  progress, 
therefore,  if  we  as  pharmacists,  rec­
ognizing  the  shortcomings  of  physi­
cians,  also  recognize  our  own,  and 
honestly  strive  to  correct  existing 
abuses  by  the  gradual  elimination  ot 
objectionable  practices.
: I  shall  try  to  outline  the  under­
lying  causes  of  many  of  the  present 
differences  of  opinion,  and  also  to 
indicate  the  oosition  that  I  believe 
pharmacy  will  hold  in  the  future. 
In 
ddition  to  this  I  shall  attempt  to 
indicate  how  we  as  individuals  can, 
i:ow  and  in  the  near  future,  contribute

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

very  materially  to  bringing  about  a 
better  understanding  between  phar­
macists  and  physicians,  and  incident­
ally  contribute  no  little  to  a  better 
knowledge  of  drugs  and  medicines 
on  the  part  of  future  graduates  in 
medicine.

showing.  Much  of  this  deficiency 
of  the  past,  however,  could  be  cor­
rected  in  the  future  if  members  of 
this  Association,  who  are  influential 
the 
in  their  communities,  will  direct 
attention  of  hospital  authorities 
to 
their  shortcomings  in  this  respect.

that  as 

It  has  been  frequently  predicted, 
and  for  apparent  good  reasons,  that 
in  the  future  economic  arrangement 
there  can  be  no  question  regarding 
the  retail  druggist  of  to-day  or  of 
yesterday.  Be 
it  may,  so 
far  as  the  purely  commercial  interests 
of  the  retail  druggist  are  concerned, 
there  can  be  no question  regarding the 
necessity  and  the  consequent 
con­
tinuance  of  the  professional  pharma­
cist.  With  the  constant  increase  of 
specialization  in  the  practice  of  medi­
cine,  and  the  accompanying  realiza­
tion  that  the  human  body  is  not  a 
machine  and  that  its  ills  cannot  well 
be 
general  principles, 
there  must  be  an  accompanying  in­
crease  in  appreciation  of  the  compe­
tent  pharmacist,  who  is  willing  and 
able  to  act  as  an  assistant  or  ad­
junct  to  the  medical  practitioner. 
While  it  is  true  that  the  future  phar­
macist  will  not  be  as  numerous  as  he 
is  at  the  present  time,  he  will  occu­
py  a  relatively  higher  position 
in 
the  social  scale,  and  will  in  addition 
be  in  a  position  to  accomplish  much 
that  will  make  him  honored  and  re­
spected  at  home  and  abroad.

treated  on 

One  of  the  most  widespread abuses 
in  hospital  and  dispensary  practice 
is  due  to  the  fact  that,  apart  from 
a  rather  limited  number  of  routine 
stock  mixtures,  the  medicines  dis­
pensed  consist  largely  of  proprietary 
preparations  that  have  been  donated 
by  charitable  manufacturers  with a 
view  to  having  them  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  medical  men  con­
nected  with  the  institution  and, 
if 
possible,  securing  from  them  suita­
ble  endorsements  for  publication. 
It 
need  not  surprise  us,  therefore,  that 
physicians  who  have  had  hospital ex­
perience  are  frequently  more  hope­
lessly  dependent  on  the  use  of  pro­
prietary  remedies 
graduates 
who  have  not  had  the  so-called  ad­
vantages  of 
training. 
could  and  would  be 
Much  of  this 
changed, 
particularly 
the  larger  and  more  influential  insti­
tutions,  were  to  employ  competent 
pharmacists  who  could  secure  and 
hold  the  confidence  of  the  visiting 
as  well  as  of  the  resident  staff  of 
physicians,  and  who  could  and  would 
be  consulted  on  the  probable  stand­
ing  of  new  remedies.

if  hospitals, 

hospital 

than 

a 

cessful  from  a  monetary  point,  of 
view,  but  he  will  be  assured  of  a 
comfortable  existence  and  the  op­
portunity  of  doing  considerable  orig­
inal  work  that  may  in  turn  revert  to 
I  the  material  advantage  of  himself  and 
his  fellow-workers  in  the  same  field.
Those  of  us,  however,  who  have 
not  had  the  educational  advantages 
that  must  be  provided  for  the  men 
of  the  future,  and  who  probably feel 
that  we  can  not  aspire  to  fit  in  ex­
actly  with  the  demands  that  will  be 
coming  professional 
made  of  the 
pharmacist,  can,  in 
the  meantime, 
conduct  ourselves  and  our  business 
in  such  a  way  that  we  will  gain  the 
trust  and  confidence  of  physicians  of 
to-day,  and  in  this  way  establish  a 
precedent  that  will  be  of  incalculable 
value  to  our  more  professional  and 
scientifically  more  able  successors  of 
to-morrow. 

M.  I.  Wilbert.

Might  Be  True.

Wife— This  paper  tells  about  a  man 
who  says  he  never  made  love  to  a 
woman  in  his  life.  Do  you  believe  it?
Husband— Well,  I  have  no  reason 
Perhaps  he  didn’t 

it. 

to  doubt 
have  to.

Wife— Didn’t  have  to?
Husband— That’s  what  I  said.  He 
probably  made  a  specialty  of  widows.

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This  brings  us  to  a  consideration 
of  the  intellectual  needs  and  wants 
of  men  capable  of  holding  such  po­
sitions 
If  the  hospital  pharmacist 
of  to-day,  or  the  professional  phar­
macist  of  to-morrow,  is  to  have  and 
to  hold  the  confidence  of  medical 
practitioners,  he  must  be  at  least  the 
equal  of  the  medical  man  in  educa-1 
tion,  in  ideas  and  in  ideals— so  much 
so  that  with  the  increase  in  the  re­
quirements  made  of  medical  students 
there  must  be  a  corresponding  in­
crease  in  the  demands  that  are  made 
on  the  general  information  possess­
ed  by  the 
future  pharmacist.  He 
must  be  a  well  educated,  thoroughly 
scientific 
capable 
man,  well  versed  in  all  the  branches 
of  knowledge  connected  with  his own 
a 
profession, 
breadth  of  view  that  will 
readily 
place  him  above  the  average  of  his 
return 
fellow-men. 
for  his 
knowledge 
acquirements  he 
must  not  expect  to  be  eminently sue- |

gifted  with 

altogether 

In 
and 

and 

and 

possible 

imperative, 
this 

For  us  as  pharmacists 
then, 

it  would 
that  we 
appear 
development 
bear 
along  professional  lines  in  mind and 
see  that  the  proper  material  is  avail­
able  when  the  expected  change 
is 
brought  about.  The  proper  founda­
tion  for  this  rational  development of 
professional  oharmacy  can  be  laid  at 
the  present  time,  and,  in  addition  to 
this,  we  may  aid  in  the  pharmaceuti­
cal  education  of  future  physicians if 
we  can,  by  any  means  at  our  com­
mand,  improve  the  present  status of 
hospital  pharmacy 
the  United 
States. 
In  the  education  of  future 
generations  of  physicians  hospital 
training  will  necessarily  play  a  most 
important  part.  Even  at  the  present 
time  a  medical  education  that  does 
not 
least  some  hospital 
experience  is  considered  inadequate. 
This  being  true,  it  becomes  evident 
at  once  that  the  impressions  a  recent 
graduate  receives  during  his  hospital 
experience— impressions 
drugs 
and  druggists— must  be  lasting  ones 
and  ones  that  will 
largely  control 
his  future 

ideas  and  practices.

include  at 

of 

in 

How  woefully  deficient  and  unsat­
isfactory  the  drug  service  in  many 
of  our  hospitals  must  be,  becomes 
evident  when  we  realize  that  in  this 
great  country,  with  hundreds  of  in­
stitutions  to  supply  them,  we  have 
had  but  one  solitary  instance  of  a 
hospital  pharmacist  who  has  be­
his 
come  widely  known 
professional  and  scientific  work. 
I 
refer  to  the 
late  Charles  Rice,  of 
Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York, who,
I  am  sorry  to  add,  was  himself  a 
foreigner  by  birth  and  early  train­
ing.  Compared  to  what  has  been 
accomplished  by  the  pharmacists  of 
European  hospitals,  particularly  by 
those  of  France,  this  is  indeed  a  poor

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

DECLINED

5*
4M58

Lemon  Biscuit  Square.  8
...............19
i« n m   Wafer 
Lemon  Snaps 
...............12
Lemon  Gems  ................ 19
Lem  Yen 
.......................10
Marshmallow  .................19
Marshmallow  Cream ..  16 
Marshmallow  Wainut. 16
Mary  Ann  ...................... 8
Malaga 
............................10
Mich  Coco  F s’d  honey. 12
Milk  Biscuit  ...................  8
Mich  Frosted  Honey  ..  12 
Mixed  Picnic  . . .  . . . . . . 1IM
Molasses  Cakes.  Sclod  8
Moss  Jelly  Bar...............12
Muskegon  Branch. Iced 10
Newton 
............................12
. . . .   8
Oatmeal  Crackers 
Orange  Slice  .........  
  16
............  
Orange  Gem 
»
Penny  Assorted  Cakes.
.....................7
Pilot  Bread 
Pineapple  Honey 
.........15
Ping  Pong 
....................   9
Pretzels,  hand  made  ..  8 
Pretzelettes,  hand  m’d  8 
Pretzelcttes,  mch.  m’d  7
Revere  ...............................14
Rube  Sears  .......................8
Scotch  Cookies 
............ 10
......................16
Snowdrops 
Spiced  Sugar  Tops  . . .   8 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  8
Sugar  Squares 
...............8
Sultanas 
...........................15
...............8
Spiced  Gingers 
Urchins 
.......................... 10
Vienna  Crimp  ..............   8
Vanilla  Wafer  ................1«
Waverly  .............................9
Zanzibar 
........................   9
Barrels  or  drums  .............29
Boxes.......................................30
Square  cans. 
....................32
Fancy  caddies..............'... .35

CREAM  TARTAR

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples

Peel

Beane

Farina

Raisins

Hominy 

S u ndried...................  ©
E vap orated .............6M 07
California  Prunes 
100-125  25lb.  boxes.
90-100  25 Ib.bxa..
80-90  25  lb.  bxa.
70-80  25 lb. bxs.
60-70  251b.  boxes.
50-60  25 lb. bxs.
ft
40-50  25 Tb. bxs.
30-40  26 lb. bxs.
0cases
Me  less  In  bu 
Citron
@15
Corsican..................
Currants 
Imp’d,  lib .  pkg.  . 
@  7M
Imported  bulk  . ..  6M 0  7 
«m on  A m erican..........IS
Orange  American  ........ 12
1  90 
London  Layers  3  cr 
1  96 
IiOndon  Layers  3  cr 
.  9  60 
Cluster  4  crown. 
Loose  Muscatels,  2  cr..  5M 
Loose  Muscatels.  2  cr..  6 
Loose  Muscatels.  4  cr..  6M 
L.  M.  Seeded.  11t>..7M@7M 
L.  M.  Seeded.  \tt>. 5M@* 
Sultanas,  bulk. 
. . .  
8
Sultanas,  package. 
8M 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  L im a ...................... 9
Med.  Hd.  Pk’d.  ..2   00@2  lu
Brown  Holland  .............2  50
24 
lib.  packages...........1  75
Bulk,  per  100  lbs............ 3  00
Flake,  50  It>.  sack  ....1   00 
Pearl,  200  lb.  sack  ...4   00 
Pearl.  100  lb.  sack  ...2   00 
Maccaroni  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic,  10  lb.  box  .  60 
Imported,  25  lb.  box  ..2   50 
Common..............................2  60
Chester................................2  75
Empire 
.............................2  50
Green,  W isconsin,  b u .l  25
Green,  Scotch,  bu.......... 1  40
Split,  lb.......................  
4
Rolled  Oats 
Rolled  Avenna  bbls...5  00 
Steel  Cut.  1001b.  sacks  2  70
Monarch,  bbl.................... 4  75
Monarch,  lOlb.  sacks. .2  25
Quaker,  cases 
...............2  10
Sago
E ast  India 
.......................«M
German,  sacks  .................3%
German,  broken  pkg 
Flake,  UOtb.  sacks  . . . .   4M 
Pearl.  1301b.  sacks 
..3M 
Pearl,  24 
Cracked,  bulk 
.................3M
24  2  Tb.  packages 
. .. .2   60 
FISHING  TACKLE
M  to  1  in  ......................  
8
M  to  2  in  ....................  
7
1M  to  2  In  ......................  
9
2-2  to  2  In  ..................  
11
In  ....................................  15
..................................   29
In 
Cotton  Lines
No.  1,  10  feet  ............... 
6
No.  2,  15  feet  ..............  
7
No.  3.  16  feet  ..............  
9
No.  4,  15  feet  ................   19
No.  6,  15  feet  ................   11
No.  6,  15  feet  ..............   12
No.  7,  15  feet  .................  15
Vo  8.  16  feet  ................ 
1 *
No.  9,  15  feet  ................  29

lib.  pkgs. . . . 6  
Wheat

Pearl  Barley

Tapioca 

Peas

.  4 

 

Linen  Linos
................................   90
Small 
...........................  29
Medium 
Large 
..............................   14
Poles
Bamboo,  14  ft.,  pr  d o..  59 
Bamboo,  16  ft.,  pr  ds.  85 
Bamboo,  18  ft-,  pr  d s.  84
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Coleman’s 
2oz.  P a n e l........................1  29 75
3ox.  T a p er...............2  09  1  60
No.  4  Rich.  B lake.2  00  1  60 

Foote  A  Jenks 

Van. Lem.

Jennings

.. 

Terpeneless  Lemon 

Mexican  Vanilla 

No.  2  D.  C.  pr  ds  . . . .   75 
No.  4  D.  C.  pr  ds  . . . . 1   59
No.  6  D.  C.  pr  d s .........2  00
Taper  D.  C.  pr  dz  . .. .1   99 
... .1  20
No.  2  D. C.  pr dz 
No.  4  D. C.  pr dz 
. .. .1  00
No.  6  D. C.  pr d z ____2  00
Taper  D. C.  pr dz 
. . . . 2  00
GELATINE

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

Knox’s  Sparkling, ds.  1  20 
Knox’s  Sparkling, gro.14  00 
Knox’s  Acldu’d.,  dos.  1  20 
Knox’s  Acidu’d,  gro  .14  00
Oxford 
75
Plymouth  Rock 
........ 1  20
........................1  60
Nelson’s 
Cox’s,  2  qt.  size  ........ 1  91
Cox’s,  1  qt.  else  .......... l  io
Amoskeag,  100  In  b’e.  19 
Amoskeag,  less thaw b.  19 M 
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

GRAIN  BAGS 

Wheat 

Old  W heat

No.  1  W hite.................... 1 10
No.  2  Red......................... 1  10

Winter  Wheat  Fleur 

Local  Brands

to  usual 

Spring  Wheat  Fleur 

I Patents............................... 6 40
Second  Patents.............. 6  00
Straight 
..........................5 80
Second  Straight.............5 40
Clear....................................4  80
Graham...............................j> 50
Buckwheat........................ 5 00
|  Rye.......................................4 20
Subject 
cash 
discount
in  bbls.,  26c  per 
Flour 
bbl.  additional.
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s  Brand
Quaker,  paper.................5 60
Quaker,  cloth.................. 5 80
Pillsbury’s  Best,  Ms  -.6  80 
rillsbury’s  Best,  Ms. . 6  70 
1’illsbury’s  Best,  Ms 
. .6  60
Lemon  ft  Wheeler  Co.'s 
Wingold,  Ms....................6  75
Wingold,  Ms  ...................6  65
Wingold,  Ms 
.................6  55
Judson  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
.................6  75
Ceresota,  Ms 
Ceresota,  Ms 
.................6  65
Ceresota,  Ms 
.................6  55
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel.  Ms,  cloth  .........6  80
Laurel,  Ms  cloth 
.........6  7C
Laurel,  Ms & Ms paper6  60
Laurel,  Ms 
.....................6  60
Bolted..................: ............. 2  90
Golden  Granulated.  __ 3  00

Brand

Meal

Feed  and  Mmatuffa 

St.  Car  Feed  screened 22  50 
No.  1  Corn  and  Oats  22  50 
Corn  Meal,  coarse. 
. .22  50
Oil  Meal...........................28  00
W inter  wheat  bran  ..20  00 
W inter  wheat mld’ngs23  00
Cow  feed......................... 21  00
Car  lots..............................33M

Corn..................................... 57

Oats
Caro

Hay

No.  1  tim othy  car lota.19  50 
No.  1  tim othy ton lots. 12  50

HERBS

Sage 
..................................  
19
Hops  ..................................   U
............. 
Laurel  Leaves 
II
Senna  Leaves 
...............  95
Madras,  5  lb.  boxes   ..   99 
S.  F„  2,2.61b . boxes..  95 
Ktb.  palls,  per  dos 
. . 1   70
151b.  palls 
.....................  99
301b.  p a lls ........................   66

INDIGO

JELLY

LICORICE

Pure 
...................................  89
Calabria 
...........................  28
Sicily 
................................   14
Root 
................................... 
11
Condensed.  2  dz  ...........1  99
Condensed.  4  ds  ...........9  00

LYE

MEAT  EXTRACTS

Armour’s,  2  o s ................4 45
Armour’s  4  os  ...............8  90
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  2 os.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  4 o a i  60 
Liebig's.  Imported.  2 os.4  95 
Liebig’s, 
imported 4 oz 8  50

Galvanized  Wire 

Cotton  Wndsor
...............................1  30
.................................1  44
...............................1  80

Cotton  Braided
.................................  96
.................................1  35

50  ft. 
«   ft. 
70  f t  
• O f t ..........................................f  09
40  f t  
50  ft. 
60  f t . ........................................ 1 «5
No.  20,  each  100  ft long.l 90 
No.  19,  each  100  ft long.2 10 
COCOA
Baker’s 
............................   88
Cleveland 
........................  41
Colonial,  k s  
..............  86
Colonial,  )£s 
..............  S3
Epp« 
..................................   42
...........................       45
Huyler 
Van  Houten,  k s   ..........  12
Van  Houten, Ms  . . . . . .   20
Van  Houten,  Ms 
.........   40
Van  Houten, 
Is  ..........   72
Webb 
.................................   31
Wilbur,  H e ......................   41
Wilbur,  Ms 
..............  42

Index to Markets

B y  Columns

Col

Axle  G rea se......................  1

Bath  Brick 
......................   1
..............................   1
Brooms 
Brushes  ..............................  1
Butter  Color 
...................  1

.........................11
Confections 
Candles 
..............................   1
...............  1
Canned  Goods 
.....................  2
Carbon  Oils 
Catsup 
2 
Cheese
2
Chewing  Gum 
...............  I
Chicory 
j
...........................  2
Cheeoiate 
Clothes  Lines  ..................   3
Cocoa 
t
.......................... , . . .  
Coooanut  ............................ 
I
Cocoa  Shells  . . : ..............  
I
Coffee 
.................................. 
I
Crackers 
............................   s

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

Dried  Fruits  ....................   4

. . . .   4
Farinaceous  Goods 
Fish  and  Oysters  .............10
Fishing  Tackle 
..............   4
Flavoring  extracts  ........   5
Fly  P a p e r ..........................
Fresh  Meats  .....................  S
Fruits  .-...................................M

Gelatine  ..................... 
t
Grain  Bags  ......................   6
Grains  and  Flour  ...........  5

 

Herbs 
Hides  and  Pelts 

..................................  S
.......... 10

Indigo  ..................................   6

Jelly 

J
.............  
L

 

■

Licorice  ..............................   5
Lye 
......................................   S

M
Meat  Extracts 
Molasses  ........ 
Mustard 

..............   5
6
........................  6

 

 

Nuts 

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

O

Hives  ..................................  4

Pipes  ....................................  4
Pickles  ................................  4
Playing  C a rd s..................  0
Potash  '. .. . ........................   4
Provisions 
........................   4

V os

8

Salad  Dressing  .............     7
Saleratus 
..........................   7
..................... 
Sal  Soda 
7
Bait ........................  7
Salt  Fish 
..........................   7
Seeds 
..................................   7
Shoe  Blacking  ................   7
Snuff  ....................................  7
....................................  7
Soap 
Soda 
....................................   8
Spices  ..................................  g
................................   g
Starch 
Sugar 
t
................................  
Syrups 
..............................   8

Tea  ___
Tobacco
Twine

Vinegar

...........  8
W ashing  Powder 
Wlcklng 
•
....................   9
Wooden ware 
Wrapping  Paper  ...............14

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

Yeast  cake...................   io

W

v

gre
800
4 28 
9 00 
>00

Aurora 
Castor  Oil 
Diamond 
Fraser’s 
IXL  Golden 

AXLE  QREA8 E 
da
.......................65
...............65
...................50
.....................76
.............75
BAKED  BEANS 
Columbia  Brand 
. . . .

BATH  BRICK

lib.  can  per  dos. 
90
21b.  can  per  dox.............1  40
31b.  can  per  doz.  .........1  80
American 
........................   75
English  ..............................   85
No.  1  Carpet 
................2  76
No.  2  Carpet  .................2  35
No.  3  Carpet  ................. 2 15
No.  4  Carpet  ................. 1 76
Parlor  Gem 
.................... 2 49
Common  Whisk 
...........  35
Fancy  W h is k ................. 1 20
Warehouse  ...................... 3  00

BROOMS

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid  Back,  8  In  ...........  75
Solid  Back,  11  In  .........  95
Pointed  E n d s ..................   86
Stove
No.  8 
........................   75
No.  2 
......................... 119
No.  1
........................ 176
Shoe
No.  8  ................................. 190
No.  7  ................................. 1 SO
No.  4 
.................................1 70
No.  3  .................................1 90
W.,  R.  ft  Co.'s,  15c  s lse .l 26 
W.,  R.  ft  Co.’s,  25c sise.2 00 
CANDLES
Electric  Light,  8s 
. . . .   9M 
Electric  Light.  16s  ....1 0
Paraffine,  6s  .................. 9
Paraffine,  12s  ...................9M
..........................28
W lcklng 
Applet

CANNED  GOODS 

BUTTER  COLOR 

Com

Clams

Blueberries

Brook  Trout 

Clam  Bouillon

Blackberries
............  
Beans

3  It).  Standards..  75@  80 
Gals,  Standards  . .2 0002 25 
Standards 
86
B a k e d ........................   800180
Red  Kidney 
...............85095
S tr in g ........................ 7001  15
W ax 
..........................   760125
0   1  40
Standard  ............  
@  5  75
Gallon.................... 
2  lb.  cans.  Spiced. 
1 90
Little  Neck,  1  lb .1  0001  25 
Little  Neck,  2  tb. 
1 50
Burnham’s,  M  p t.......... 1 02
............ 3 60
Burnham’s,  pts 
Burnham’s,  qts 
............ 7 20
Cherries 
Red  Standards. ..  1 3001 50
W h ite ......................  
150
Fair...................................... 1  25
Good 
.................................. 1 25
Fancy 
................................l  50
French  Peas
Sur  Extra  Fine..............   22
Extra  Fine  ......................   19
Fine 
is
Moyen 
l l
..........................   90
Standard 
Hominy
Standard 
..........................   85
Lobster
Star,  %Ib..........................2 15
Star.  1  lb ..........................3 75
Picnic  Tails...................... 2  60
Mustard,  1  lb 
.............. 180
Mustard,  2  ! b .. .. .......... 2 80
Soused.  1  tb......................1 80
Soused.  2  lb ......................2 80
Tomato,  1  lb ....................1 80
Tomato.  2  lb ....................2 20
Mushrooms
Hotels 
....................   180  20
Buttons  ..................   220  25
Cove,  lib ....................... &  90
Cove,  21b........................0 1   70
Cove,  1  lb.  Oval  . 
1 00
Peaches
Pie 
....................... 1  1001  15
................1  6502  00
Yellow 
Pears
............
Standard 
0 1   35
..................
Fancy 
Peas
Marrowfat 
..........
Marly  J u n e ............
Marly  June  Sifted.

..................................  
..............................  
Gooseberries

0 2  00

9001 00 
.9901  99 
1  96

Mackerel

Oysters

13

Plums

....................   2M

 

Rio

COFFEE 

COCOANUT

Russian  C aviar

.................8
.............4

COCOA  SHELLS

.............  26
Dunham’s  14s 
Dunham’s Ms &  M s..  26 M
Dunham’s  Ms 
............   27
Dunham’s  Ms 
............   28
Bulk  ........................... 
20  lb.  bags 
Less  quantity 
Pound  packages 

........ ...........
Plums 
85
Pineapple
Grated 
................. 1  25@2  75
Sliced 
.................... 1  35 @2  55
Pumpkin
Fair 
.............. : . . . .
70
Good  ........................
80
Fancy  ......................
10 0
G allon ......................
2 25
Raspberries
S ta n d a r d .............
0   90
%  lb.  c a n s .................... . 3  75
M  lb-  cans  ....................  7 00
1  lb  can  ........................ .12 00
Salmon
Col’a  River,  tails. 
©1  75  I 
Col’a  River,  flats.l  8501  90 I S ? i r n o .............................
Red  Alaska.......................1  50 !  * a,r...................................... 13
..............................16
Choice 
Pink  Alaska  . . .  
F*ancy 
..............................18
Sardines
Domestic,  Ms 
Common............................ 12
Domestic,  Ms  . . . .  
Fair......................................13 M
Domestic.  Must’d.. 
Choice................................ 15
California,  Ms  ..
Fancy................................. 18
California,  Ms  • ■
Peaberry 
FVench,  Ms  . . . .
French,  Ms  . . . . .
Maracaibo
Shrimps
Fair.....................................15
Standard 
..............................18
Choice 
Succotash
Mexican
F a ir ..........................
Choice 
.............................. 16M
Good  ......................
1  50 
............................... 19
Fancy 
..................
Fancy 
1  60
Guatemala
Strawberries
.............................15
Choice 
..............
Standard 
Java
1 1 0  
Fancy  ......................
140
African 
............................12
Tomatoes
Fancy  African 
............ 17
......................   250  95
Fair 
O.  G....................................25
Good 
......................  
115
P.  G.................................... 21
Fancy 
.................. 1  1601  50
Mocha
Gallons....................2  500 3  00
Arabian 
.......................... 21
Package

0   95
...  3M 0  3%

CARBON  OILS 

.............. 1 2001 40

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

6
6 0   9 

Santos

. .j ,

@ n  
0 1 OM 
0   9M 
@  9 
@ 11 @1 1 M 

..............29
................. 16
..  9 
CATSUP

@10 
@10 
@12 
@10 
111 

Barrels
Perfection 
..........
Water  W bite  . . .
D.  S.  Gasoline  ..
Deodor’d  Nap’a...
Cylinder 
Engine 
Black,  winter 
Columbia,  25  p ts...........4 50
Columbia,  25  M pts... .2 60
Snider’s  quarts 
............S 25
Snider’s  pints 
...............2 25
Snider’s  M  pints 
.........1 SO
CHEESE
Acme........................
Peerless 
..............
Carson  City..........
E lsie 
....................
Emblem 
..............
Gem..........................
Ideal  ......................
Jersey 
..................
Riverside. 
............
..............
Warners 
Brick........................
....................
Edam 
Leiden 
................
Llmburger 
...........
Pineapple 
.......... 40
Swiss,  domestic  .
Swiss,  Imported  .
CHEWING  GUM 
American  Flag  Spruce.
Beeman’s  Pepsin 
........
Black  Jack 
....................
Largest  Gum  Made 
..
Sen  Sen
Sen  Sen  Breath  Per’e .l  00
Sugar  Loaf 
....................   55
Yucatan 
..........................   55
Bulk 
Red 
Eagle 
Franck’s 
Schener’s 

..................................  
6
............................  7
................................ 
4
....................  7
........................  
6

>90 
»15 
h i  
>60 
>15 
>23

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

W alter  B aker  A  Co.’«

German  Sweet 
Premium 
Vanilla 
Caracas 
Eagle 

............   23
..........................  21
..................... 
41
............................   35
................................   28

 

CLO TH ES  LIN ES 

Jute

60 f t   3  thread,  extra. .1 06
72 ft.  3  thread,  extra  . .1 40
90  ft,  3  thread,  extra  . .1 TO
SO ft,  6  thread,  extra  . .1 29
72 f t   6  thread,  extra  .
60 f t   ................................ .  75
72 f t  
.............................. .  90
90 f t  
.............................. .1  05
120  f t   .............................. .150
..  Cotton  Victor
69 f t  
1  10
..............................
«0 f t  
..............................
1  35
79 ft  ................................
1  90

Sisal

New  York  Basis.

Arbuckle............................13  50
Dilworth 
.......................13  00
Jersey 
.............................13  50
Lion 
................................12  50
McLaughlin's  XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX sold 
to  retailers  only.  Mall  all 
orders  direct 
to  W.  F. 
McLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.

Extract

Holland.  M  gro  boxes.  35
Felix,  M  gross  .............. 115
Hummel’s  foil,  M gro.  85 
Hummel’s  tin,  M  gro. 143 

CRACKERS

National  Biscuit Company’s 

Brands 
Butter

Seymour  Butters  ...........6
N   Y   Butters 
...................6
Salted  Butters 
............   6
Fam ily  Butters 
............. 6
Soda
N B C   Sodas  ...................6
Select 
..............................   8
Saratoga  F la k e s .......... 13
Oyster
...............6
Round  Oysters 
Square  Oysters 
.............6
..................................7M
Faust 
....................................7
Argo 
Extra  FMrina 
..............   7M
Sweet  Goods
............................ 10
Animals 
Assorted  Cake 
..............10
Bagley  Gems  ...................8
Belle  Rose  .........................8
Bent’s  W ater 
. . . . . . . .   16
Butter  Thin  ....................IS
Chocolate  Drops 
.. . . 1 9
Coco  Bar 
........................ 10
Cococanut  T a ffy .......... 12
Cinnamon  B a r ..............   2
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C. .10 
Coffee  Cake,  Iced  . . . .   10 
Cocoanut Macaroons  ..  18
Cracknels 
........................16
Currant  FYult  ................10
Chocolate  Dainty 
. . . .  18
....................   9
Cartwheels 
Dixie  Cookie 
................   8
Fluted  Cocoanut  ...........10
FTosted  Creams 
........... 8
...................8
Ginger  Gems 
Ginger  Snaps,  N   B  C  7 
Grandma  Sandwich 
..  10 
Graham  Crackers 
. . . .   8 
Honey  Fingers, Iced ..  12
Honey  Jumbles 
............12
Iced  Happy  Fam ily  ...1 1  
Iced  Honey  Crumpet  .  10
Imperials 
.......................... 8
Indiana  Belle  .................16
Jersey  Lunch  ...................8
Lady  Fingers 
...............12
Lady  Fingers,hand md 25

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MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy  Open  Kettle  . . .   40
...............................  35
Choice 
F a ir ............ .......................   26
................................   22
Good 
MINCE  MEAT 

w «lf  barrels  2c  extra 

Columbia,  per  case.  ...2   75

MUSTARD

Horse  Radish,  1  ds  — 1  76 
Horse  Radish,  2  ds  . ...3   50 
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  ds  ..

OLIVES
Bulk.  1 gal.  kegs 
. . . .   1  00
Bulk,  3  gal  kegs...........  95
Bulk,  5  gal  kegs.  . . . . .   90
Manzanilla,  7  o x ..........  
80
Queen,  pints 
.................2  35
...............4  50
Queen,  19  os 
Queen,  28 os  . . . . . . . . . .   7 00
...............  90
Stuffed,  5  os 
Stuffed,  8  os  ...........   ...1   45
Stuffed,  10  os 
...............2  30
Clay.  No.  216 
...............1  70
Clay,  T.  D.,  full  count  65 
Cob,  T'o.  3  ......................   86

PIPES

PICKLES
Medium

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

Barrels,  1,200  c o t u t ...7  75 
Half  bbls,  600  count  ..4   50 
Half bbls,  1,200  count  . .5  50 
..9   50 
Barrels,  2,400  count 
No,  90,  Steamboat 
. . .   85 
No.  15,  Rival,  assortedl  20 
No.  20,  Rover  enameledl  60
No.  672,  Special 
...........1  75
No.  98,  Golf,  satin finish2  00
No.  808,  Bicycle 
...........2  00
No.  632,  Tournm’t  whist2  25 

POTASH 

48  cans  in  case

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Lard

Sausages

Dry  Salt  Meats

Mess................................... 14  00
Back  fat  .........................14  50
Fat  Back.  .......................14  50
Short  cut.......................... 14  00
...................................18  00
Pig 
Bean....................................12  50
Brisket 
...........................16  00
Clear  Fam ily 
...............13  Ou
.................................9%
Bellies 
S  P   Bellies  ....................10%
Extra  Shorts  ................9
Smoked  Meats 
Hams,  12  lb.  average.. 12 
Hams,  14  lb.  average. .12 
Hams,  16  lb.  average.. 12 
Hams,  20  lb.  average. 11%
Skinned  Ham s.................13%
Ham,  dried  beef  sets. .14 
Shoulders,  (N.  T.  cut) 
Bacon,  clear. 
..11  @12
California  Hams  .............9%
.. 14 %
Picnic  Boiled  Ham. 
Boiled  Ham s.....................18%
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d 
. . .   9
Mince  Ham  .....................10
Compound.......................... 6
Pure 
................................   8
60  lb.  tubs, .advance.  % 
80 
lb.  tubs, .advance.  % 
60 
tin s, .advance.  % 
lb. 
20  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
10  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
6  lb.  palls, .advance. 
1 
S  lb.  pails, .advance.  1 
Bologna................................. 5%
Liver 
..............................   6%
Frankfort..............................7%
................................   8%
Pork 
Veal 
.....................................8
...............................9%
Tongue 
Headcheese 
..................   6%
Bxtra  Mess 
.................10  50
Boneless............... 
11  50
Rump,  new........................11 50
%  bbls..................................1 15
bbls.,  40  tbs................1 85
bbls.  .............................3  75
.............................7  75
bbls. 
Kits.  16  lbs  ..................  
70
%  bbls.,  40  l b s ..........   1  25
%bbls.,  80  lbs  ...........  2  60
Hogs,  par  lb....................   26
Beef  rounds,  s e t ..........   15
Beef  middles,  set  .........  46
Sheep,  per b u n d le........   70
Solid,  dairy............ 
. ...10%@11% 
Rolls,  dairy 
Corned  beef,  2 ................ 2 50
Corned  beef,  14  ...........17  50
-  
..2  50
-  - -  
Roast  beef,  2@ 
45 
Potted  ham,  %s 
.. 
85
. 
Potted  ham,  %s  ... 
45 
Deviled  ham,  %s  .. 
85
. 
Deviled  ham,  %a  .. 
46
. 
Potted  tongue.  %s  . 
85
Potted  tongue.  %s 
S2% 
Screenings 
............
3% 
............
Fair  Japan 
@4 
Choice  Japan 
. . . .  
#4%  
Imported  Japan 
. 
«93% 
Fair  Louisiana  hd.
@4% 
Choice  La.  hd........
@5% 
Fancy  La.  h d .... 
@6%
Carolina  ex.  fancy.

 
Pig's  Feet

Uneolored  Butterlne

Canned  Meats

Casings

Tripe

RICE

@10

- 

SALAD  DRESSING

Columbia,  %  pint..........2  25
Columbia,  1  pint...........4  00
Liurkee’s,  large.  1  doz.4  50 
Durkee’s  small,  2 doc..5  25 
Snider’s,  large,  1  doz..2  35 I 
Snider’s,  small,  2 doc. .1  35

Packed  60  lbs.  in  box 

SALERATUS 
...3   15
Arm  and  Hammer 
Deland’s 
.......................... 3  00
Dwight’s  Cow 
...............3  15
Emblem 
.......................... 2  10
L.  P ....................................3  00
Wyandotte,  -100  %s 
..3   00
SAL  SODA

Granulated,  bbls  ..........   85
Granulated,  1001b cases.l  00
Lump,  bbls......................  75
Lump,  1451b.  kegs  . . . .   95  j

Diamond  Crystal 

SALT

Table

Cases.  24 31b.  boxes  . ..  1  40 
Barrels,  100 31b. bags  . .3  00 
Barrels,  50 61b. bags 
..3   00 
Barrels.  40 71b. bags 
..2   75

Butter

Barrels,  320  lb.  bulk  ..2   65 
Barrels,  20  141b.  bags  ..2   85
Sacks,  28 
..............  27
Sacks,  56  lbs...................  67

lbs 

Shaker
Buttar

Boxes,  24  21b 
...............1  50
Brls,  280  lbs,  b u lk ....  2  25 
Linen  bags,  6-56  lbs  3  00 
Linen  bags,  10-28  lbs  3  00 
Cotton  bags,  10-28  lbs  2  75

Bbls.,  280  tb !? u lk ___2  40
5  barrel  lots,  6  per  cent. 
discounL
10  barrel 
lots,  7%  per
cent.  discounL 
I  Above  prices  are  F.  O.  B. 
100  31b.  sacks 
...............1  90
60  51b.  sacks 
...............1  80
28  101b.  s a c k s ...............1  70
56  lb.  sacks  ..................  30
28  lb.  sacks  ..................  15

Common  Grades

W arsaw

56  lb.  dairy  in  drill bags  40 
28  lb. dairy  in drill  bags  20

Solar  Rock

56  lb.  sacks 

..................  22

Common 
Granulated,  line  .. 
line. 
. ..
Medium 

SALT  FISH

Cod

Large  Whole  . . . .  
@ 6
Small  W h o le ___ 
@5%
Strips  or  bricks.  7%@10 
..............  @3%
Pollock 
H alibut
............................15
Herring
Holland

................................14%

Strips 
Chunks 

W hite  Hoop,  bbls8  25 @9  25 
W hite  Hoop,  %bbl4  25@5  00 
W hite  hoop,  keg.  57@  70 
W hite  hoop mchs  @  75
Norwegian  ...................
Round,  100  lbs  ........3   60
Round.  40  tbs...............2 00
..............................  18
Scaled 

T rout

No.  1,  100  lbs....................7 50
No.  1,  40  lbs..................3  25
No.  1,  10 
lbs.................  90
No.  1,  8  lbs....................   75

Mackerel

Mess,  100 
lbs............... 12 00
Mess,  40 lbs.................. 5 30
Mess,  10 lbs.................. .1 50
Mess,  8 lbs.................... .1 26
No.  1.  100  lbs.............. 11 00
No.  1,  40 tbs.................. 4 90
No.  1,  10 lbs.................. 1 40
No.  1,  8 lbs.................... 1 20
Whitefish
No 1  No.  2 Fam
3 50
..........8  50
..........4  50
2 10
52
.......... 1  00
44
............  82
SEEDS

lbs.
100 
50 
lbs.
lbs.
10 
8  lbs.

................................ 16
Anise 
Canary.  Smyrna............... 7%
j Caraway  «••••••••••»•»  i
Cardamon,  Malabar 
..1   00
Celery 
.............................. 10
Hemp.  Russian  ...............4
I Mixed  Bird 
.....................4
Mustard,  white 
.............8
.................................8
Poppy 
Rape 
Cuttle  Bone 
...................25
Handy  Box.  large. 3 dz.2  50 
Handy  Box,  small  ... .1   25 
Bixby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  85
Miller’s  Crown  Polish.  85 

..................................  4%

SHOE  BLACKING 

SN U FF

Scotch,  in  bladders  . . .   87 
MaeonlMj,  In  jars  . . . .  
15 
Frem k  nip ple,  la ¿»re.  41

8
SOAP

brand.

Central  City  Soap  Co’s 

lun g 

Jaxon  ................................ 2  85
Jaxon,  5  box,  del..........2  80
Jaxon,  10  box,  del........ 2  75
Johnson  Soap  Co.  brands
.................. 3  65
Silver 
Calumet  Family 
...........2  75
Scotch  Family 
.............2  85
Cuba  .................................. 2  35
J.  S.  Kirk  &  Co.  brands
American  Family  .........4  05
Dusky  Diamond, 50 8oz.2  80 
Dusky  D’nd.,  100 6oz..3  80
Jap  Rose 
........................ 3  76
Savon  Imperial 
...........3  10
White  Russian 
...........3  10 
Dome,  oval  bars..........2  85 I  Tiger 
Satinet,  oval  ...................2  15
Snowberry.................. . ...4   00

UlilZ  B A  1  CO.  BUdJS

...................... 4  00
Big  Acme 
Acme,  100-%tb. b a r s...3  10
Big  Master 
.................... 4  00
Snow  Boy  Pd’r. 100 pk.4  00
Marselles 
........................ 4  00
Proctor  &  Gamble  brands
Lenox 
.............................. 2  85
Ivory,  6  oz  ...................... 4  00
Ivory,  10  oz 
...................6  76
Star 
.................................. 3  10
...................4  00
Good  Cheer 
Old  Country 
...................3  40

A.  B.  Wrisley  brands

Scouring

Enoch  Morgan's  Sons.

English  B reakfast

a
Medium 
...........................20
Choice 
.............................. 30
Fancy  ................................ 40
Ceylon,  choice  ...............12
---- 49

India

TOBACCO 
Fine  Cut
Cadillac 
............................ 54
Sweet  Loma 
...................33
Hiawatha,  51b.  pails  ..56 
Hiawatha.  10!b.  pails  .64
T elegram .......................... 29
Pay  C a r .............................31
Prairie  Rose  ...................49
Protection  ....................... 40
_
Sweet  B u rley...................42

 

 

 

.........

Plug

Red  Cross  ...................... 31
K y lo ..................................36
Hiawatha 
....................... 41
Battle  Ax 
.................... 37
American  Eagle 
........ 33
Standard  Navy  ............ 37
...47  
Spear  Head  7  oz. 
Spear  Head  14 2-3  oz..44
Nobby  Twist 
................ 55
Jolly  Tar 
...................... 39
Old  Honesty  .................. 43

........ 66
Piper  Heidsick 
Boot  Jack  ....................   go
Honey  Dip  Twist 
....4 0
Black  Standard.............38
Cadillac 
........................  38
forge 
......................” 11130
Nickel  T w is t .................so

12

SODA 

SOUPS

Whole  Spices

.................4%  |  Warpath 

Sapolio,  gross  lots  . . . .  9  00 
Sapolio,  half  gross  lots.4  50 
Sapolio,  single  boxes  ..2   35 
Sapolio.  hand 
...............2  25
Boxes 
Kegs,  English 
Columbia............................3  00
Red  Letter.
..........  90

Smoking
Sweet  Core  ..........  
'3 4
J..................
I Flat C a r ..............................
, 
................................  5%  Great  Navy  ............  
'34
................... "!26
Bamboo,  16  oz. 
. 
25
. . . . . . . . . . 2 7
I  X   T..  r  lb. 
I X   L,  16  oz.,  paiis  ..J i
...................40
Honey  Dew 
SPICES 
Gold  Block  ...........  
  40
Flagman 
.........................‘ 49
Chips 
• • • • • • • • • • • ....  33
Allspice 
............................ 
Kiln  Dried  ..........
Cassia,  China in mats.
n iiW -.  K i- 1 __
Cassia,
Canton................  16  I Luke’s  M ixture..............[39
nn * D u k e ’s  Cameo 
Cassia,  Batavia, b u n d . _
D" ♦ "*"'*  w---- ■ 
.• • • • • .,4 3
Myrtle  N a v y ............... ""44
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.  40 
Turn  Yum,  1  2-3  oz.  .139 
Cassia,  Saigon, in rolls.  55
Cloves,  Amboyna  ........   23
Yum  Yum,  lib.  palls  ..40
C r e a m ................ 
 
Cloves,  Z anzibar..........   20
30
Mace  ..................................  65
Corn  Cake,  2%  oz.'” ” 24
Corn  Cake,  lib .......... 
22
Nutmegs,  75-80 
..........   45
Nutmegs,  105-10 
Plow  Boy,  1  2-3  oz.'.!39
........   3a
Plow  Boy,  3%  oz.......... 39
Nutmegs,  115-20 
.........  30
Peerless,  3%  oz...............35
Pepper,  Singapore,  bik.  15 
Peerless,  1  2-3  os. 
Pepper,  Singp.  white  .  25
...8 8
Air  B r a k e ..................  
3c
Pepper,  shot 
..............  
17
Cant  Hook  ...................... 30
Pure  Ground  in  Bulk 
, _  
Allspice  ........................ 
is  Country  Club  ..........32-34
Cassia,  Batavia  ...........  28  Forex-XXXX  ............... 28
...........  4* I Wood  Indian  ................ 23
Cassia,  Saigon 
Cloves,  Zanzibar 
........   23  §®“   B in d er..................20-22
Ginger,  African 
15  Silver  Foam  ................ 34
..........  
Ginger,  Cochin  ..............   18
Ginger,
P   .  Jamaica  ..........   25
Mace 
................................  65
M ustard............................ 
is
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  17 
Pepper,  Singp.  white  .  28
Pepper,  C ayen n e..........   20
..................................  20
Sage 

„  
TW IN E
Cotton.  3  Dlv___ 
ot
Cotton,  4  p l£  
...........23
Hemp,  6  ply  ......... ” ” l 3
kiax,  medium 
.............20
lib .  balls.............6%
Wool, 
VINEGAR

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

STARCH 

IO

II
Pelts

Clothes  Pins 

Palls

Faucets

. . . .  2  40 I

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Round head,  5 gross bx. 
Round  bead,  cartons  ..
Egg  C rates 
Humpty  Dumpty 
No.  1,  complete  ............   32
No.  2.  com plete..............   18
Cork lined.  8  i n ..............   65
Cork lined,  9  in  . . . . . . . .   75
Cork lined,  10  i n ............  85
Cedar,  8  in........................  55
Trojan  spring 
..............   90
Eclipse  patent spring  ..  85
No.  1  common  ..............   75
No.  2  pat.  brush  holder.  85  | 
121b.  cotton  mop  heads.l  25
Ideal  No.  7 ......................   90
■ 2-hoop  S tan d ard ............ 1 60
3-hoop  Stan d ard ............ 1 75
wire,  Cable  .1 70
2- 
3- 
wire,  Cable  .1  90 I
Cedar,  all red,  brass  .. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka  ...............2  25
Fibre  .................................. 2  70
............... 2  50
Hardwood 
Banquet  ......................
. . 1   60
Ideal 
............................
..1  50
Mouse,  wood,  2  holes ..  22
Mouse,  wood,  4  holes ..  45
Mouse,  wood,  6  holes ..  70
Mouse,  tin,  5  holes
..  65
Rat,  wood 
................
..  80
Rat,  sp 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
lG-in.,  Cable,  No.  3 ..5  50
No.  1  F ib r e ................
.10  80
,No.  2  Fibre  ..............
.  9  45
•No.  3  Fibre  ..............
.  8  55
Wash  Boards
Bronze  G lob e............
..2   50
Dewey 
........................
..1   75
Double  A c m e ............
..2   75
Single  Acme  ............
..2   25
Double  Peerless  __ ..3   25
Single  P e e r le ss........
..2   50
Northern  Q u een ___ ..2   50
Double  Duplex  ........ .. .3  00
Good  Luck  ................ ...2   75
Universal 
..2   25

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

Traps

W indow  Cleaners

Wood  Bowls

W R APPIN G   P A PER

12  in.............................. „ .1  fin
14  in............................... __1  85
16  in............................... ...2   30
11  in.  B u tte r ..................  
75
I  13  in.  Butter  .................1  15
in.  Butter 
IS 
...............2  00
17  in.  Butter 
.............3  25
19  in.  Butter  ........... . . 4   76
Assorted  13-15-17  ........3  25
Assorted  15-17-19  .........3  25
Common  Straw 
............   1 %
Fibre  Manila,  white  ..  2% 
Fibre  Manila,  colored  .  4
No.  1  Manila  ................ 4
Cream  Manila 
.............. 3
Butcher's  Manila 
Wax  Butter,  short  c'nt.13 
Wax  Butter,  full  count.20 
Wax  Butter,  rolls 
....1 5  
YEAST  CAKE 
Magic,  3  doz....................... 1 15
Sunlight.  3  doz. 
.  50 
Sunlight,  1%  doz.  .. 
Yeast  Foam,  3  doz.  . 
Yeast  Cream.  3  doz 
Yeast  Foam.  1% doz. 
.  58
FRESH  FISH
Per  lb.

.1  00 
.1  15 
.1  00 

. . . .   2% 

...................... 15@1  50
..................25@60
Tallow
....................  @ 4%
.................... 
@3%

Old  W o o l..................
Lamb 
Shearlings 
No.  1 
No.  2 
Washed, fine 
Washed,  medium  ..  @25
Unwashed, 
. .14® 20 
Unwashed,  med.  . . 21@23

...........  &
fine 

Wool

CONFECTIONS 

Stick  Candy

Pails
...........................7%
Standard 
Standard  H.  H .................7%
Standard  Twist 
.......... 8
Cut  Loaf  ........ ................     9
cases
Jumbo,  321b........................7%
Extra  H.  H.  .................. 9
Boston  Cream 
...............10
Olde  Time  Sugar  stick 
30  lb.  c a s e ...................12

7

Mixed  Candy
.............. 

Grocers 
.............. ............. 6
Competition 
..............................7%
Special 
Conserve 
.........................   7%
................................  8%
Royal 
Ribbon 
............................. 9
.............................   8
Broken 
Cut  Loaf............................ 8
.............. 9
English  Rock 
Kindergarten  .....................8%
Bon  Ton  Cream  ............  8%
French  Cream  .............. 9
Star 
..................................11
Hand  made  Cream. . .  .14% 
Premio  Cream  mixed. .12% 

Fancy—In  Palls

0   F  Horehound  Drop..10
Gypsy  Hearts  .............. 14
Coco  Bon  B o n s ..............12
Fudge  S q u a res..............12
Peanut  Squares  ...........   9
Sugared  Peanuts  ........ 11
Salted  Peanuts  ............ 12
Starlight  K isses 
...........10
San  Bias  Goodies  .........12
Lozenges,  plain  ...............9
....1 0
Lozenges,  printed 
| Champion  Choeolate  ..11 
Eclipse  Chocolates 
.. .13 
Quintette  Chocolates... 12 
Champion  Gum  Drops.  8
| Moss  Drops  ....................   9
Lemon  Sours 
................  9
Imperials 
............ ........... 9
Ital.  Cream  Opera 
. ..  12 
Ital.  Cream  Bon  Bons.
2tt  lb.  p a lls ..................12
Molasses  Chews,  151b.
cases 
............................ 12
............ 12
Golden  Waffles 
Fancy—In  5tb.  Boxes
Lemon  S o u rs..................50
Peppermint  Drops 
....6 0
Chocolate  Drops 
...........60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops  . ..  86 
H.  M.  Choc.  LL  and
Dark  No.  12  ..............1  o'
Brilliant  Gums,  Crys.60 
O.  F.  Licorice  Drops  .. 80
Lozenges,  p la in ...............55
Ixizenges,  printed 
....6 0
[Imperials 
.........................55
.............................60
Mottoes 
Cream  B a r .......................56
Molasses  Bar 
.................55
Hand  Made  Cr’ms..80@90 
Cream  Buttons,  Pep. 
. ..  65
String  Rock 
...........     60
Wlntergreen  Berries  . .65 
Old  Time  Assorted,  25
Buster  Brown  Goodies
Up-to-Date  Asstmt.  32 

lb.  case  .........................2  50
301b.  c a s e .....................I  25
ib.  case 
.......................S  60

and  Wlntergreen 

Common  Gloss
lib.  packages............... 4@6
31b.  packages  ...........  
  4%
61b.  packages  ...................5%
40  and  50  lb.  boxes  ,3@3%
Barrels............................  @3
20  lib.  packages  .............5
_____ 
40  lib.  packages  .
• •4% @ 7|g °W  Brick 
SYRUPS

Common  Corn

2  75  ,

................!!s  35

Malt  White  Wine, 40 gr  8 
Malt  White  Wine, 80 gr.ll 
Pure  Cider,  B & B 
11 
P“re  Cider.  Red  8ta r .ll 
d   re 
Robinson. 10
Pure  Cider.  Silver  . . . .  10 
WASHING  POW DER
, Diamond  Flake 
. . . .  
S °!j  5 ust>  24  large. 
..4   50  Jumbo  Whitefish  ..11@12
Gold  Dust,  100-5c.........4  00  No.  1  Whitefish 
..  @ 9
Kirkolme,  24  41b........... 3  90  White  f is h ................. 10@ 12
...........................3  75  Trout 
Pearline 
........................  @ 9
.............................4  10  Black  B a s s ............
Soapine 
...............3  75  H a lib u t.......................19@U
Babbitt’s  1776 
Roseine 
..............................  go  Ciscoes  or  Herring.  @  5
....................  8  70  —  “  ‘
Armour’s 
Blur fish  ....................11@12
. . . . . ” ” 3  35
Nine  O’clock 
I  Live  Lobster............   @22
W1 scorn 
.......... *••••*.,  3  go
Boiled  Lobster.  . . .   @23
................. 
•  S«
Scourine 
C o d ............................   @12%
Rub-No-More  ........ !"*  8  76
..................   @  8
Haddock 
No.  Pickerel............  @ 9
WICKING
Pike  ...........................   a   7
No.  0  per  g r o s s .......... 30
Perch,  dressed  . . . .   @ 7
No.  1  per  gross 
.......... 40
Smoked  W hite  ....  @12%
No.  2  per  gross  .......... 50
No.  3  per  gross  .........75
Red  Snapper  ..........  0
Col.  River  Salmonl5  @16
Mackerel  ..................14 @15

WOODENWARE

Bradley  B utter  Boxes 

Baskets
Bushels 
.............................1  00
Bushels,  wide band  . . . . 1   25
Market  ..............................  35
Splint,  large  ...................6  00
Splint,  medium 
.............5  00
Splint,  small  ...................4  00
Willow,  Clothes,  large.7  25 
Willow  Clothes, med’m . 6  00 
Willow  Clothes,  sm all. 6  50 
..   72
2!b.  size,  24 in case 
3tb.  size, 
16 in case 
..  68
51b.  size, 
12 in case 
..   63
101b.  size, 
6 in case 
..  60
B utter  Plates
No.  1  Oval.  250  In  crate.  40 
No.  2  Oval,  250  in  crate.  45 
No.  3  Oval,  250  in  crate.  50 
crate.  60 
Vn  R  Oval  8RO 
Barrel.  5  gal.,  each 
..2   40 
Barrel,  10  gal.,  each  ..2   65 
Barrel.  16  gal.,  each  . .2  70

Churns

OYSTERS

Cans

"  Per  can
F.  H.  Counts  ................   40
Extra  Selects....................  38
Perfection  Standards... 
.30
Standards...........................  25
F.  H.  Counts......................2 00
Extra  Selects. 
...............1  75
Selects...................................1 60
¡standards............................ 1 35

Bulk  Oysters.

Hides

HIDES  AND  PELTS 
Green  No. 1..................   8
Green  No. 2 .................. 7
Cured  No. 1 ............ 
  9%
Cured  No. 2..................... 8%
Calfskins,  green  No.  1  11 
Calfskins,  green  No.  2  9% 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  1  12% 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  2  11 
Steer  Hides,  60!bs.  over  9%

Corn

Barrels  ............................. 23
Half  barrels 
........... ...2 5
30fb  cans  ^ .d z in c a s e .l  60 
191b  cans  %dz in case. .1  55 
51b  cans 2dz in c a se ... .1  65 
2%Ib.  cans 2dz in case. 1  75 
F a i r ............................. 
16
.................................   20
Good 
Choice 
..............................  25

Pure  Cane

 

TEA
Japan

....2 4
Sundried,  medium 
Sundried,  choice  ...........32
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, 
..43
fancy 
Nibs 
...........................22@24
Siftings 
.......................9@11
F a n n in g s...................12@14
Gunpowder
....3 0
Moyune,  medium 
Moyune,  choice  .............32
Moyune,  fancy 
.............40
Pingsuey,  medium  ....3 0
Pingsuey,  choice 
.........30
Pingsuey.  fancy 
...........40
Young  Hyson
C h oice.................................30
Fancy 
................................36
Formosa,  fancy  .............42
Amoy,  medium  ..............25
▲moy,  choioe  .................32

Oolong

Pod  Corn

Dandy  Smack,  24s 
. . .   65
Dandy  Smack,  100s  ...2   75 
Pop  Corn  Fritters,  100s  50 
Pop  Corn  Toast,  100s.  50
Cracker  JaeK 
................ 3  00
Pop  Corn  Balls,  290s  .. 1  30

NUTS
Whole
Almonds,  Tarragona... 16
Almonds,  Ivica 
............
Almonds,  California  sft 
..14  @1«
shelled,  new 
Brazils 
............................It
¡Filberts 
............................tl
Walnuts,  soft  shelled.
Cal.  No.  1...................14@13
1  Table  Nuts,  faney  ....1 8
Pecans,  Med. 
...................9
Pecans,  Bx.  Large  ...1 0
Pecans,  Jumbos  ...........11
Hickory  Nuts  per  bu.
Cocoa nuts  ...........................4
Chestnuts,  per  bu..........

.................. 1  76

Ohio  new 

Shelled

Spanish  Peanuts.  7  @7%
...............S3
Pecan  Halves 
!  Walnut  H a lv e s...............33
|  Gilbert  M e a ts .................26
I Alicante  Almonds  ........36
Jordan  Almonds  ...........47
Fancy,  H  P,  Suns.6%@7 
-Fancy.  H.  P..  Suns.
Roasted 
...................7%@8
Choice.  H  P,  J’be.  @  1% 
Choice,  H.  P..  Jum-

Peanuts

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

S P E C I A L   P R IC E  C U R R E N T

A X L E   O R B A S I

C O F F E B 
Roasted

Dwlnell-W right  Co.’s  Bds.

SOAR

Beaver  Soap  Co.’s  Brands

Mica,  tin  boxea 
Paragon 

..75  9  00
.................. 55  C  00

P  

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Ask for 

No. J516

The  October  Number
of  our  monthly  catalogue,  then, 
will surely be the  issue  sent—pro­
vided, of  course, we find you rated 
as a merchant.

The Specials
we  regularly  provide  for  mer­
chants’  use  in  show  windows  and 
other advertising are  listed  on the 
yellow  pages 
in  every  monthly 
number.

These Yellow  Page  Items
naturally will  pull  hardest  in the 
very  month  for  which  we  have 
provided them.

Other  Reasons
there are  why the man who knows, 
and  that  is  every  merchant  who 
has  once  tested  our  values,  likes 
to  make  sure  he  gets  the  very 
latest  issue of our catalogue.  One 
present  reason  is  a  Holiday  rea­
son.

Easy  Business

is the  Holiday  trade,  if  you  have 
the goods the people want  and  let 
enough  of  ’em  know  what  you 
have. 
It’s  “ Easy  Business ’’  to 
have the goods the people want. 
Our line  of  Holiday  Goods  is  the 
largest  and  most  varied.  On  the 
pink pages  of  our  October  cata­
logue are a  picture,  a  description 
and a  NET  price  for  every  item 
in the immense line.
One  cent  for  a  postal  card,  a 
minute  to  write  " Send  me  cata­
logue No. J 516’’—

Do  It  Now

Luke  the  Lineman

Luke  the  lineman,  who  hikes  up  the 
Is  a  dare  devil  fellow  who  trusts  to  the 
Of  the  shoes  he  has  worn  for  over  a 
And  made  a  man  of  him  unknown  to 
They  are  HARD-PAN  shoes  so  popular 
So  take  off  your  hat  and  make  them  a 

pole.
sole
year
fear.
now.
bow.
Dealers  who  handle  our  line  say
we  make  them  more  money  than
other  manufacturers.

Write  us  for  reasons  why.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

Makers  of  Shoes 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W e are 
equipped 
to print 
everything: 
from  a 
hundred 
postal  cards 
to a 
million 
catalogues. 
Correspond 
with us 
about your 
requirements 
in this 
direction.

Tradesman  Company 

Grand  Rapids

100  cakes,  large  size . . 6  60 
50  cakes,  large  s iz e ..3  25 
100  cakes,  small  size. .2  85 
50  cakes,  small  s lz e ..l  95
Tradesman  Co.’s  Brand

Black  Hawk,  one  b o x ..2  50 
Black  Hawk,  five  bxs.2  40 
Black  Hawk,  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.

W e

manufacture 
four kinds 

of

Coupon  Books 

and

sell  them 
all  at  the 
same price

irrespective of 

size, shape 

or

denomination. 

W e will 

be 
very 

pleased 

to

BA K IN G   POW D ER 

Jaxen  Brand

J A  X O N

HIS-  cans,  4  Sea.  case  45 
Hit),  cans,  4  do*,  case  85 
lb.  cans.  2  do*,  easel  50 
1 

Royal

10c  size.  90 
HIt> cans  125 
8  ozcans  190 
Hit) cans  250 
% lbcans  375
1  lb cans  420
2  lb cans 12 00 
5  lb cans 2150

BLU IN G

Arctic  4 oz ovals, p gro 4 00 
Arctic  8 oz evals. p gro 6 00 
Arctic  16 oz ro'd, p gro 9 00 
W alsh-DeRoo  So.’s  Brands

BREAKFAST  FOOD 

Sunlight  Flakes

Per  case  ........................|4  00
Cases.  24  2  lb.  pack's.32  00 

W heat  Grits

C IG AR S

G.  J. Johnson Cigar Co.'s bd.
Less  than  500................22 00
500  or  more......................32 00
».000  or  more..................31 00

C O C O A N U T

Baker’s  Brazil  Shredded

70  HB>  pkg,  per  oase..2  60 
36  felb  pkg.  per  case. . 2  00 
38  }4Ib  pkg,  per  case . . 2  60 
16  HIb  pkg.  per  case . . 2  60 

FR ESH   M EA T S 

Beef

Carcass................. 4 @  7%
... 4 @  5%
Forequarters. 
Hindquarters. 
... 6
Loins................... 9 @13
Ribs...................... S
@11
Rounds................. 6 @  7
Chucks  ............... 4%(®  5
...............
Plates 
@  4
Pork
Dressed...............
@  6%
1 .dins................. ..
@12%
Boston  But ts.  ...
@10%
Shoulders.............
@  9H
Leaf  L a r d ...........
@  7
M utton
Carcass................. 6 @  7%
Lambs.................. 6 @  7
Voal
Carcass  ..............

5%@  7%ro

m

CORN SYRUP

24  10c  cans 
IS  26c  cans 
4  50o  cans 

.................1  84
...............2  80
..................> 55

White  House,  1  lb ..........
White  House,  2  lb ............
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  1  lb .. 
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  2  lb ., 
'lip  Top,  M  &  J,  1  l b ....
Royal  ja v a   .............. ..
Royal  Java  and  M ocha.. 
Java  and  Mocha  B lend.. 
Boston  Combination  . . . .
Distnuuted  by  Judson 
Grocer  Co..  Grand  Rapids; 
National  Grocer  Co.,  De-  | 
troit and Jackson;  F.  Saun­
ders  &  Co.,  Port  Huron; 
Symons  Bros.  &  Co.,  Sagi­
naw;  Meisel  &  Goeschel. 
Bay  City;  Godsmark,  Du­
rand  &  Co..  Battle  Creek; 
Flelbach  Co.,-  Toledo.
COFFEE  SUBSTITUTE 

Javrll

2 doz.  in  case................... 4  50

CONDENSED  MILK

4  doz.  in  case 
Gail  Borden  E agle. . . . 6  40
...............................5  90
Crown 
Champion 
.......................4  52
.................................4  70
Daisy 
Magnolia 
............... . . . . . 4   00
Challenge 
.........................4  40
Dime 
.................................3  85
Peerless  Êvap’d  Cream 4  do

Full  line  of  the  celebrated 
Diebold  fire  and  burglar 
proof  safes  kept  in  stock 
by  the  Tradesman  Com­
pany. 
Twenty  different 
sizes  on  hand  at  all  times 
—twice  as  many  safes  as 
are  carried  by  any  other 
house  in  the  State.  If  you 
are  unable  to  visit  Grand 
Rapids  and 
the 
line  personally,  write  for 
quotations.

inspect 

STOCK  FOOD. 

Superior  Stock  Food  Co., 

Ltd.

lb.  cloth  sack s.. 

3  .50  carton,  36  In  box.10.80 
1.00  carton,  18  in  box.10.8« 
12H 
.84 
25  Tb.  cloth  sa c k s...  1.66 
50  lb.  doth  sa ck s.. . .   3.15 
100  lb.  doth  s a c k s ....  6.00 
Peck  measure 
..................90
%  bu.  measure.......... 1.80
12%  lb.  sack  Cal  meal 
25  lb.  sack  Cal  m eal.. 
F.  O.  B.  Plain w d,  Mich.

.39 
.75 

send you samples

if you ask  us. 

They are 

free.

Butler Brothers

Wholesalers  of  Everything 

By  Catalogue Only

Tradesman Company 

New  York 

Chicago 

St.  Louis

Grand  Rapids

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subsequent  continuous  insertion.  No  charge  less  than  25  cents.  Cash  must  accompany  all  orders.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

863

869

selling. 

Correspondence 

________________ 879

•________________________________________________________________________866

Excellent  stock  general  merchandise  in 
good  shape;  farming  town  1,200  popu­
lation. 
Invoice  about  $4,000;  good  reason 
for 
solicited. 
Address  863,  care  Michigan  Tradesman. 
___________________________ 
For  Trade—Merchandise  stock,  inven­
tory  $6,700;  about  $1,900  cash  required, 
balance  trade  for good  land;  drug  stocks, 
jewelry  store,  anything  traded  anywhere; 
no  charge  for  listing.  W.  Mottershead, 
Manhattan  Bldg.,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  865
Wanted—Stock  of  merchandise.  We 
pay  cash  and  rent  store.  Address  par­
ticulars,  J.  A.  Becker,  St.  Charles,  Mich.
For  Sale—My  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise,  located  in  the  village  of  Ham­
mond,  St.  Lawrence  county;  one  of  the 
cleanest  stocks  in  northern  New  York. 
Good  reason  for  selling;  store  can  be 
rented  reasonably.  For  particulars  call 
or  address  C.  C.  Forrester,  Hammond, 
N.  Y.___________________________867
For  Sale—At  invoice  about  $7,000.  The 
best  hardware  store  in  best  location  in 
a  city  of  25,000  in  Western  111.  Doing 
good  business;  a money  maker.  Reason
other  business.  Address  Safety,  care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
868
Harness  Business  For  Sale—A  chance 
for  a  harness  maker  with  small  capital. 
I  must  sell.  Address  No.  869,  care  Mich­
igan  Tradesman. 
Furniture  and  Undertaking  for  Sale— 
Undertaking  alone  nets  $600  per  year.  A 
chance  for  a  man  with  small  capital. 
Address  No.  870,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man___________________________ 870
For  Rent—An  up-to-date  meat  market; 
fine  fixtures;  steam  sausage  works;  cor­
ner  brick  store;  low  rent;  good  establish­
ed  trade.  Address  J.  J.  Miller,  Benton 
Harbor.  Mich. 
For Sale—Good established money-mak­
ing  confectionery  and  wholesale 
ice 
cream  business;  an  exceptionally  good 
bargain;  investigate  this.  Confectioner, 
Box  786,  Ludington,  Mich._______ 880
For  Sale—Stock  of  drugs  in  good  town 
of  2,000  population,  40  miles  from  Chi­
cago;  only  2  drug  stores  in  town; stock 
invoices  $1.450  at  fair  values;  will  sell 
for  80  cents  on  the  dollar  to  settle  es­
tate.  Address  J.  A.  Ketring,  Chester-
town,  Ind._______________________881
For  Sale—Only  exclusive  clothing  and 
men’s  furnishing  store  in  hustling  county 
seat  town.  Court  investigation.  Noth­
ing  but  100  cents  considered.  Cause  of 
selling,  sickness.  Clothier,  care  Michi-
gan  Tradesman.__________________872
For  Sale—A  good  clean  drug  business 
in  one  of  the  best  towns  of  Michigan. 
Good  reason  for selling.  Address No.  873,
care  Michigan  Tradesman._________ 873
For  Sale—Book  and  Office  Supply  busi­
ness.  also  stock  of  wall  paper  and  paint. 
E.  Mann,  Owosso,  Mich. 
Look  at  our advertisement  No.  735.  We 
have  Wayland  and  Bradley  mills  left. 
Give  us  an  offer.  We  want  to  sell  them 
at  once.  Henderson  &  Sons  Milling  Co.,
Grand  Rapids.  Mich.______________ 875
For  Sale-—Stock  of  dry  goods  and  gro­
ceries;  new  stock;  old  established  trade; 
best  town  in  Michigan;  other  business 
and  ill  health  reason  for  selling.  Lock
Box  738,  Durand,  Mich.___________876
for  stock  of  dry 
goods.  Would  buy  general  store.  Small 
•place  preferred;  invoice  $3.000  or  $4.000.
E.  E.  Tice,  Paw  Paw.  Mich.______ 877
For  Sale—Bazaar  stock  $4,000  to  $5,000. 
Building  and  barn  $1,100  cash.  Land and 
lots  to  trade  for  farm.  “Poor  Health,” 
care  Michigan  Tradesman. 
For Sale—New cash fancy grocery busi­
ness,  bakery  and  confectionery  goods  a 
specialty;  stock,  fixtures  and  store  up- 
to-date;  one  of  the  finest  in  iron  mining 
country;  free rent for two months;  reason 
for  selling,  expect  to  open  a  shoe  store 
at  once.  Address  G.  L.  Huhlman,  Ne- 
gaunee,  Mich,  _____'__________  
On  account  of  failing  health,  I  desire 
to  sell  my  store,  merchandise,  residence, 
two  small  houses  and  farm.  Will' divide 
to  suit  purchaser.  Address 
.T.  Aldrich
Holmes,  Caseville,  Mich.________  848
For  Sale  or  Trade  for  small  improved 
farm—Building  and  stock  of  groceries  at 
good  country  location.  Everything  new. 
Address  No.  850,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man__________________________ 
S50
35  cents  invested  to-day  in  our  coal 
mine  will  be  worth  $1  in  a  year.  You 
can't  lose.  Your  investment  is  guaran­
teed by railroad bonds.  Write Carl Hegg, 
Box  270,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

..anted—Location 

882

874

845

851

To  Exchange—Fine 

orange 
grove 
in  Riverside,  Cal.;  value  $15,000. 
Clear.  Want  stock  of  merchandise,  farm 
or  town  property.  Address  Drawer  J., 
Corning,  Iowa.______________________ 852

bearing 

To  Exchange—My  equity  of  $11,400  in 
a  360  acre  Iowa  farm;  good  location;  fine 
improvements;  can  use  dry  goods  or  a 
general  stock.  No  traders  need  apply. 
Address  Frank  E.  Jones,  Corning, 
la. 
____________________________________ 853

Bakery—I  will  sell  my  bakery  with  or 
without  property,  a  good  chance.  Write 
to  Raymond  Riede,  Apen,  Colo. 

854

Wanted—Fifty  to  sixty  horse  horizontal 
boiler;  must  be 
in  good  condition  and 
complete  with  full  front  and  fixtures,  but 
no  stack.  Address  Van Bochove  &  Sons,
856
Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

For  Sale—Bakery,  confectionery  and ice 
cream  business;  nice  trade,  good  location; 
only  bakery  in  city.  Good  chance  for 
man  looking  for  a  small  business.  Ad- 
dress  Jos.  Hoare,  Elk  Rapids.  Mich.  857

Fifty  per  cent,  profit  from  income-pay­
ing real  estate in  New  York city.  Amounts 
as  small  as  $25  may  be  advantagiously in­
vested.  No  risk.  Profits  large  and  sure. 
Co-Operative  Investors’  Association,  108 
Fulton  St..  New  York._____________858

For  Sale—B est  paying  stock  of  gen­
eral  merchandise  in  Northern 
Indiana, 
with  store  building  and  living  rooms  ad­
joining.  Owner  wishes  to  go  out  of  busi­
ness.  Address  R.  H., 
care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

859

Mr.  Merchant—Do  you  want  to  sell 
out  and  give  some  one  else  a  chance?  I 
want  an  established  merchandise  or  gen­
eral  merchandise  business  from  $10,000 
to  $25,000.  Will  give  in  exchange  equi­
ties  in  two  first-class  brick  buildings, 
stores  and  flats.  Well  rented  and  good 
paying.  These  are  not  trading  properties 
but  a  first-class  investment.  Will  give 
a  good  trade.  Address  owner,  J.  Salo- 
mon,  .236  E.  Division  St.,  Chicago,  111.  830
lot  and 
building,  for  cash;  in  city  of  20,000  popu­
lation.  Stock  at  $3,000,  lot  and  building 
$2,500.  Established  seven  years.  Address 
Hardware,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.  836
For  Sale—First-class  bakery  with  Hub­
bard  oven, 
lunch  room,  small  grocery 
stock,  2  wagons,  one  borse, 
located  in 
Owosso,  Mich.  Full  particulars,  address 
Ress  &  Cheney,  agents  for  all  kinds  of 
stocks.  Kalamazoo.  Mien. 

For  Sale—Hardware 

stock, 

815

Apple  Barrels—We  have  a  few  car­
loads  of apple  barrels  for  sale.  For  prices 
call  or  address  Darrah  Milling  Co.,  Big 
Rapids,  Mich.______________________ 861

For 

Rent or  Sale—Two-story  brick
building,  also  small  stock  of  goods.  Will 
sell  cheap.  Address  Box  387.  Portland. 
M ich._________ ______ ________  

860

Safe  Investment—One  per cent,  a month 
for  five  years,  paid  monthly.  W rite  for 
particulars  to  Cloverleaf  Dairy  Farming 
&  Poultry  Company,  Valley  Junction,  la., 
R.  R.  No.  2. 

833

For  Sale—20  shares  of  1st  preferred 
stock  of  Great  Northern  Portland  Cement 
Co.  stock  for  $1,200.  Address  Lock  Box 
265,  Grand  Ledge,  Mich. 

835

For  Sale—44.000  shares  stock  Gold  Pan 
Mining  Co.,  property  located  at  Brecken- 
ridge,  Colo.  Apply  to  W.  M.  Clark,  1101 
Downing  Ave.,  Denver,  Colo.________818

1,000  acres  adjoining 

Fine  timber,  2,800  acres  stumpage  in 
w est  Virginia  two  miles  from  railway; 
good  route  for  train;  will  cut  14  million 
feet. 
if  desired, 
.^ainly  oak.  suitable  for  quarter  sawing 
and  ship  timber.  Much  fine  stave  timber. 
Favorable  shipping  rates.  Easily  logged. 
Strictly  first-class.  Guaranteed  as  rep­
resented.  Moderate  price.  Send for  com­
plete  details  to  Box  282,  Lynchburg,  Va.

819

For  Sale—Profitable  hardware  business 
in  prosperous  city.  Northern  Illinois. 
In­
voice  $4,000.  Half  cash,  balance  gilt-edge 
real  estate.  Address  No.  788,  care  Michi- 
gan  Tradesman.____________________ 788

843

For  Sale—Small  amount  of  stock  and 
fixtures.  Retiring  from  clothing  business. 
Good  proposition.  Address  Lock  Box  65,
Chesaning.  Mich.____________  
For  Sale—Good  up-to-date  stock  of 
general  merchandise;  store  building;  well 
established  business.  Stock  will  inven­
tory  $5,000.  Located  in  hustling  North­
ern Michigan  town.  Address  No.  744,  care
Michigan  Tradesman._______________ 744
Restaurant—Finest  stand  in  Northern 
Ohio;  doing  a  $28,000  to  $30,000  business 
each  year;  40  years’  standing.  Will  take 
farm  or  good  city  property  for  part  pay­
ment.  Jule  Magnee,  Findlay,  Ohio.  666

 

837
in 

For  Sale—$1,800  stock  general  mer­
chandise,  shoes,  dry  goods  and  groceries.
Box  2177,  Nashville,  Mich.________ 763
Rubber  Culture  in  Mexico.  Safe  and 
profitable.  Good  opportunity  for  large  or 
small  investors.  Creates  increasing  in­
come for  life  and longer.  Address  Charles 
W.  Calkins,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

For  Sale—A  fine  bazaar  stock 

a 
in  Northern  Michigan, 
lumbering  town 
county  seat.  Price  right.  Good  reasons 
for  selling.  Must  be  sold  at  once.  Ad­
dress  Rogers  Bazaar  Co.,  Grayling,  Mich.
__________________ |_________________ 606

Attention,  For  Sale—Flour,  feed,  buck­
wheat  mills  and  elevator  at  Wayland; 
one  of  the  finest  mills  of  its  size  in  the 
State;  elevator  and  feed  mill  at  Hop­
kins  Station  and  Bradley,  Mich.;  will 
sell  together  or  separate;  all  are  first- 
class  paying  businesses,  and  build'ngs 
and  machinery  in 
first-class  condition; 
our  fast-increasing  business  in  this  city 
is  the  reason  we  want  to  dispose  of  our 
outside  mills  at  a  bargain.  Henderson 
&  Sons  Milling  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

735

For  Sale—A  25  horse-power  steel  hori­
zontal  boiler.  A  12  horse-power  engine 
with  pipe  fittings.  A  blacksmith  forge 
wilh  blower  and  tools. 
Shafting  pul­
leys,  belting.  All  practically  new.  Orig­
inal  cost  over  $1,200.  Will  sell  for  $600. 
Address  B-B  Manufacturing  Co.,  50  Ma- 
sonic  Temple.  Davenport, Iowa. 

537

Wanted—To  buy  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  from  $5,000  to  $25,000  for  cash. 
Address  No.  89,  care  Michigan  Trades­
m an_________________________________ 89

For  Sale—Clean  drug  stock,  good  busi­
ness, 
Reason,
owner  not  registered.  Address  No.  618, 
care  Tradesman. 

county  seat town. 

618

in 

For  Sale—A  modern  eight-room  house 
Woodmere  Court.  Will  trade  for  stock 
of  groceries. 
Enquire  J.  W.  Powers, 
Houseman  Building,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Phone  1455. 

438

Wanted—Will  pay  cash  for  an  estab­
lished,  profitable  business.  Will  consid­
er  shoe  store,  stock  of  general  merchan­
dise  or  manufacturing  business.  Give 
full  particulars  in  first  letter.  Confiden­
tial.  Address  No.  519,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.________________________ 519

835

Wanted—Good  clean  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Want  to  turn  in  forty-acre 
farm,  nearly  all  fruit,  close  to  Traversa 
City  Address  No.  C70,  care  Michigan
Tradesman.________________________ 670
For  Sale—Fourteen  room  hotel,  new 
and  newly  furnished,  near Pelos.key.  Fin 3 
trout  fishing. 
Immediate  possession  on 
account  of  poor  health.  Address  No.  601,
care  Michigan  Tradesman.__________ 601
For  Sale—480  acres  of  cut-over  hard­
wood  land,  three  miles  north  of  Thomp- 
sonville.  House  and  barn  on  premises. 
Pere  Marquette  Railroad  runs  across one 
corner  of  land.  Very  desirable  for  stock 
raising  or  potato  growing.  Will 
ex­
change  for  stock  of  merchandise.  C.  C. 
Tuxbury,  301  Jefferson  St.,  Grand  Rap­
ids. 
Cash  for  your  stock—Or  we  will  close 
out  for  you  at  your  own  place  of  busi­
ness,  or  make  sale  to  reduce  your  stock. 
Write  for  information.  C.  L.  Yost  &  Co., 
577  W est  Forest  Ave..  Detroit.  Mich.  2 
A  firm  of  old  standing  that  has  been 
in  business  for  fifteen  years  and  whose 
reputation  as  to  integrity,  business  m eth­
ods,  etc., 
is  positively  established,  de­
sires  a  man  who  has  $5,000  to  take  an 
active  part  In  the  store.  This  store  is 
a  department  store.  Our  last  year’s  busi­
ness  was  above  $60,000.  The  man  must 
understand  shoes,  dry  goods  or  groceries. 
The  person  who  invests  this  money  must 
be  a  man  of  integrity  and  ability.  Ad­
dress  No.  571,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
______________________________ 
The  Mempnis  Paper  Box  Co.  is  an  old 
fine-paying  business;  will 
established, 
it  invoices; 
sell  the  business  for  what 
proprietor  is  old  and 
in  feeble  health. 
Address  Jack  W.  James,  81  Madison  St.,
Mempnis.  Tenn. 
implement  business, 
established  fifteen  years.  First-class lo­
cation  at  Grand  Rapids.  Mich.  Will  sell 
or  lease  four-story  and  basement  brick 
inventory  about 
building.  Stock  will 
$10.000.  Good  reason  for  selling.  No 
trades  desired.  Address  No.  67, 
care 
Michigan  Traaesman.________ ._______ 67__

_________________ 736

For  Sale—Farm 

571

POSITIONS  WANTED.

Position  Wanted—Clothing  salesman; 
five  years’  experience,  also  experience  as 
department  manager;  age  24;  best  of 
references.  Address  No.  862,  care  Michi­
gan  Tradesman. 

862

Wanted—Position  as  salesman  in  retail 
hardware  store.  Have  had  ten  years’ 
experience.  Address  Box  367,  Kalkaska, 
Mich._____ 

466

H EL P  WANTED.

AVanted—Ambitious, 

Wanted—Registered  assistant  pharma­
cist.  Good  place  for  a  bright,  energetic 
young  man.  State  age,  salary  expected 
and  references  Address  No.  883,  care
Michigan  Tradesman._______________ 883
energetic  men, 
who  are  interesting  and  convincing  talk­
ers. 
If  you  have  ability,  you  can  better 
your  financial  condition  in  our  legitimate 
business,  requiring  no  capital;  all  we 
want  is  your  time.  Address  P.  O.  Box  60,
Grand  Rapids.  Mich._____   _________ 864
Boat  Builders,  for  work  on  small  wood- 
en  launches.  Best  rate  of  wages  and 
steady  work  throughout  the  winter  guar­
anteed.  No  strike  or  labor  trouble  of 
any  kind.  Fred  Medart,  3535  De  Kalb 
St..  St.  i-ouis.  Mo. 

811

AUCTIONEERS  AND  TRADERS

Merchants.  Attention—Our  method  of 
closing  out  stocks  of  merchandise  is  one 
of  the  most  profitable  either  at  auction 
or  at  private  sale.  Our  long  experience 
and  new  methods  are  the  only  means, 
no  matter  how  old  your  stock  is.  We 
employ  no  one  but  the  best  auctioneers 
and  salespeople.  Write  for  term;,  and 
date.  The  Globe  Traders  &  Liceu^ed 
Auctioneers,  Office  431  E.  Nelson  St.,
Cadillac.  Mich.________________ ______445
H.  C.  Ferry  &  Co.,  the  hustling  auc­
tioneers. 
Stocks  closed  out  or  reduced 
anywhere 
in  the  United  States.  New 
methods,  original  ideas,  long  experience, 
hundreds  of  merchants  to  refer  to.  We 
have  never  failed  to  please.  W rite  for 
terms,  particulars  and  dates.  1414-16 Wa- 
oash  Ave.,  Chicago.  References,  Dun’s 
Mercantile  Agency. 

872

M ISCE LLA N E O U S.

in 

878

Oddfellows.  K.  P’s,  Redmen,  wanted  to 
sell  our  gold  plated,  enameled  emblem 
buttons.  Send  25  cents  for  sample  and 
catalogue. 
Fraternity  Emblem  Co., 
Brockton.  Mass. 
Merchants—Are  you  desirous  of  clos­
ing  out  your  stock  or  having  a  reduction 
sale?  We  positively  guarantee  a  profit 
on  all  reduction  sales  and  100  cents  on 
the  dollar  above  expenses  on  a  closing 
out  sale.  We  can  furnish  you  with  ref­
erences  from  hundieds  of. merchants  and 
the  largest  wholesale  houses 
the 
West.  Write  us  to-day  for  further  in­
formation.  J.  H.  Hart  &  Co.,  242  Mar­
ket  St.,  Chicago,  111._____________ -  871
Wanted—I  will  pay  or.e  cent  each  for 
Lion  Heads  taken  from  Lion  Package 
Coffee  and  25  cents  per  100  for  clerks’ 
coupons;  send  by  mail  before  Oct.  20. 
Address  W.  H.  Gentner,  General  Mer­
chant,  Farmington,  Iowa. 
To  Exchange—80  acre  farm  3%  miles 
southeast  of  Lowell.  60  acres  improved, 
5  acres  timber  and  10  acres  orchard 
land,  fair  house,  good  well,  convenient 
to  good  school,  for  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  situated  in  a  good  town.  Real 
estate  is  worth  about  $2,500.  Correspon­
dence  solicited.  Konkle  &  Son,  Alto. 
Mich._______________________________ 501
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Review  of  the  Hardware  Market.
Wire  Nails— Small  supplies  and  the 
recent  reductions  in  prices  have  re­
sulted  in  the  booking  of  unusually 
large  orders  in  wire  nails.  Prices  ap­
pear  to  have  reached  rock  bottom 
figures  and  there  are  no  further  in­
stances  of  shading.  Manufacturers 
are  therefore  holding  their  quotations 
firmly  on  a  basis  of  $1.60  for  carload 
lots  and  $1.65  for  less  than  carload 
lots,  both  f.  o.  b.  Pittsburg.  The 
most  prominent  manufacturers  are 
refusing  to  accept  orders  for  execu­
tion  after  thirty  days.  There  is  a 
tendency  to  abandon  arbitrary  differ­
entials  between  the  jobbing  and  re­
tail  trade  and  the  quotations  of  $1.60. 
Pittsburg,  are  now  accessible  to  car­
load  buyers  of  either  class,  so  that 
jobbers  are  doing  their  utmost  to 
retain  their  business  by  selling  nails 
at  prices  closely  approximating  those 
of  manufacturers.  Quotations  are as 
follows,  f.  o.  b.  Pittsburg,  60  days,  or 
10  per  cent,  discount  for  cash  in  10 
days;  carload 
lots,  $1.60;  less  than 
carload  lots,  $1.65.  Local  quotations 
follows: 
are  as 
carloads,
small  lots  from  store,  $1.85

Single 

@1.90.

Cut  Nails—The  recent  reductions 
made  on  cut  nails  by  many  manufac­
turers  without  the  sanction  of 
the 
Cut  Nail  Association  have  now  been 
made  official  by  the  members  of  that 
organization.  The  present  official 
prices  are  therefore  as  follows:  Car­
load  lots,  $1.60,  less  than  carload  lots 
$1.65,  f.  o.  b.  Pittsburg. 
In  some 
cases  it  is  believed  that  even  these 
p-rices  may  be  shaded  5c  to 
large 
buyers.  Quotations  on  cut  nails  in 
the  East  are  at  the  same  figures  as 
steel  nails,  but  in  the  territory  west 
of  Pittsburg  they  are  quoted  at  $1.65 
in  carload 
lots,  f.  o.  b.  Pittsburg, 
with  an  advance  of  10  cents  in  quan­
tities  less  than  carload  lots.  Local 
quotations  are  as  follows:  Carload 
lots,  on  dock,  $1.74;  less  than  car­
loads,  on  dock,  $1.79;  small  lots  from 
store,  $1.85.

Barb  Wire— Although 

there  has 
been  some  increase  in  the  volume  of 
orders  for  barb  wire,  the  bulk  of  the 
contracts  now  being  booked  are  only 
for  nearby  requirements  and  buyers 
appear  to  be  adopting  a  conservative 
course  in  regard  to  future  purchases. 
Leading  mills  refuse  to  accept  orders 
at  current  prices  for  a  period  longer 
than  thirty  days.  There  is  also  a 
marked  tendency  to  do  away  with  the 
former  differentials  between  the  vari­
ous  classes  of 
regular 
schedule  of  prices  is  as  follows,  f.  o. 
b.  Pittsburg,  60  days  or  10  per  cent, 
discount  for  cash  in  10  days:

trade.  The 

Painted  Galv.
Jobbers,  carload  lots....... $1  75  $2  05
Retailers,  carload  lots__   1  80  2  10
Retailers, 

less  than  car­

load 
lots........v..............   1  90  2  20
Smooth  Wire— The  more  attractive 
prices  asked  by  the  manufacturers  of 
smooth  fence  wire  are  also  resulting 
in  an  increase  :n  the  volume  of  busi­
ness  in  this  Hue,  although  some  or­
ders  are  being  withheld  by  members 
of  the  trade  who  fear  that 
lower 
prices  will  develop.  Quotations  are 
as  follows,  f.  o.  b.  Pittsburg,  60  days 
or  2  per  cent,  discount  for  cash  in  10

days;  jobbers,  carloads,  $1.45;  .  re­
tailers,  carloads,  $1.50.  The  above 
prices  are  for  base  numbers,  6  to  9. 
T h e. other  numbers  of  plain  and  gal­
vanized  wire 
the  usual  ad­
vances.

take 

Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

Indiana  Merchants.

Auburn— A   receiver  has  been  ap­
the  manufacturing 

pointed  to  sell 
plant  of  the  Modern  B uggy  Co.

Edwardsport— C.  M.  W right  has 
imple­

purchased  the  hardware  and 
ment  stock  of  David  C., Villwock..

Elkhart— Zeisel  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  department  store  of Hugh 
McLachlan.

Evansville— The  N ovelty  Furniture 
M anufacturing  Co.  has  changed 
its 
style  to  the  Evansville  Bookcase  & 
Table  Co.

Indianapolis  —   The 

American 
is  succeeded  by  the 

Chemical  Co. 
National  Chemical  Co.

Indianapolis— Tongret  &  Robin­
son,  retail  piano  dealers,  have  been 
incorporated  as  the  Capital  City  Mu­
sic  Co.

Kewanna— E.  H.  Cook  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Enyart 
&  Son.

Logansport— The  O.  A.  Means
drug  store  has  been  closed  by  cred­
itors.

Loogootee— iv  S.  Smith  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  J.  E.  Smith.
Mitchell— J.  B.  Boyle  will  continue 

the  meat  business  of  A.  A.  Arnold.

Terre  Haute— H.  P.  Lenhart  has 
purchased  the  furniture  stock  of  Guy 
Underwood.

Vigo— Austin  Stranahan  has 

sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Hiram  Mater.

W alton— Bishop  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  grain  business  of  Hurd, 
Owen  &  Son.

H untington—Marshall  J.  Purviance 
has  assigned  his  dry  goods  stock 
to  protect  his  creditors.

Indianapolis— A   receiver  has  been 
appointed  for  the  Indianapolis  T o ­
bacco  W orks.

Rosedale— The 

Lumber  Co.  has  filed  a  peiition 
bankruptcy.

Cadwell-Langton 
in 

South  Bend— A   receiver  has  been 
Steel 

Sandage 

the 

for 

appointed 
Skein  Co.

Good  People  T o  Patronize.

Two  new  boycotts  have  been  pro­
mulgated  by  the  labor  unions  during 
the  past  week,  âs  follows:

B.  Kuppenheimer  &  Co.,  clothing 

manufacturers,  Chicago.

Macbeth-Evans  Glass  Co.,  lamp 

chimney  manufacturers,  Pittsburg.

Both  houses  are  reputable  ones—  
leaders  in  their  respective  lines— and 
the  Tradesman  bespeaks  for  them  the 
cordial  support  of  all 
fair-minded 
merchants.

Lake  Linden— The  David  E.  Top- 
Ion  general  stock  will  be  sold  at 
bankrupt  sale  Sept.  29.  The  stock 
was  appraised  at  $30,000.  The  liabil­
ities  are  $58,000.  Toplon  offered  his 
creditors  26  cents  on  the  dollar,  but 
subsequently  withdrew  the  offer.

A  man’s  love  before  marriage  is  as 
deep  as  the  seas,  after  marriage  it  is 
shallower  than  his  “change”  pocket.

Status  of  the  Deatsman  &  Mapes 

Failure.

 

The 

The  estimated  assets  of  Deatsman 
&  Mapes,  the  Sunfield  general  deal­
ers,  are  $26,000.98,  distributed  as  fol­
lows:
Merchandise at cost price.......... $19,645.31
Store  fixtures  at  c o st.................  
807.67
Road  outfit.....................................  
738.00
Book  accounts,  face  value..........   3,610.00
Due for produce............. 
1,050.00
Cash  on  hand................................  
150.00
liabilities  are  $24,375.40,  di­
vided  among  fifty-five  creditors  in  the 
following  amounts:
Ellen  Fournia,  Sunfield.  ............ $  567.64
John  E.  Day,  Sunfield................ 
207.04
John  R.  Dickinson.  ......................   818.80
Guy  Lapo,  Lake Odessa.  ..............   158.49
James Cure,  Sunfield......................  317.34
Joseph  Marshall,  Mulliken............  512.50
Homer C.  Barber, Vermontville.  ..  515.75
Rachel  Welch,  Sunfield.................   516.30
Sunfield  Banking  Co.,  Sunfield.  .  1,248.72 
Burnham.  Stoepel  &  Co.,  Detroit.  8,726.61 
Worden  Grocer Co.,  G’d.  Rapids..  553.81 
H.  Leonard  &  Sons,  G’d.  Rapids.  342.99 
Musselman Grocer Co..  G’d  Rapids  910.93 
Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co..
Ltd.,  Grand  Rapids.....................  1,667.98
Schloss  Bros.,  Detroit..................  348.00
Litman  &  Hoffstadt,  Toledo..........  662.20
Crowley  Bros.,  Detroit...................1,401.36
Woodland News, Woodland...........  
45.50
Butler  Bros.,  Chicago............1.......   128.33
Phil  Brown  &  Co..........................  496.82
Ideal  Clotmng  Co.,  G’d.  Rapids.  117.71 
53.50
W.  F.  McLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chicago 
E.  J.  Kruce  &.  Co.,  Detroit..........  
113.39
59.00
Puritan Corset Co.,  Kalamazoo.  .. 
Lowell  Mfg.  Co..  Grand  Rapids. 
36.00 
Chicago  Candy  Co.,  Chicago. 
.. 
33.92
Walden  Shoe  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.  142.80
Ward  &  Miller.............................. 
30.75
58.23
Otto  Weber  &  Co.,  G’d.  Rapids 
Beifield,  Hinch  &  Cline................  744.20
Stein  &  Bloch,  Toledo.  ................ 
469.00
J.  Shirer.  Cleveland.......................  305.00
41.60
LaJy  Shoe  Co..  Caro................ 
Globe  Tobacco  Co.,  Detroit..........  
45.92
Sorosis  Garment  Co.,  Ionia..........  
47.50
Rammin  Rubber  Co.......................  359.52
36.00
Clapp  Clothing  Co.,  G’d.  Rapids 
W.  R.  Byers.................................. 
84.00
43.36
Sprague,'Warner  &  Co.,  Chicago. 
Mishawaka  Woolen  Mfg.  Co........   914.71
I yon  Bros.,  Chicago..................... 
52.08
7.00
Toledo  Coffee  &  Spice  Co............ 
2.50
Flint  Paint  Co.,  Flint................... 
Cleveland  Neckwear  Co................. 
12.33
E.  A.  Gilson  Co.  ..... 
 
19.80
Fred  M.  Warner,  Farmington.  .. 
11.07
14.17
Evans  Candy  Co.,  Lansing........... 
Howard  &  Solon, Jackson.............  
55.75
Johnson Poper &  Supply Co.. Kal­
17.44
.....................................  
T arising Cold  Storage Co............... 
4.50
40.00
Hulett  Bros.,  Sunfield...................  
Michigan  Knitting  Co..  Lansing.  121.97
Star  Paper  Co.,  Kalamazoo........  
10.62
Thread  Agency,  Chicago...............  
61.81
A.  H.  Morrill  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids 
36.00
Lining  Up  for  the  Coming  Conflict.
The  whole  employing  class  of  the 
United  States  is  lining  up  for  a  new 
campaign  against  the  unions. 
In  this 
fight  it  is  backed  by  the  press, 
the 
middle  classes,  public  opinion  gener­
ally  and  the  highest  labor  arbitration 
tribunal  in  the  country.  The  struggle 
is  momentous. 
It  will  decide  not 
only  the  industrial  but  the  social  and 
political  future  of  the  United  States. 
If  the  employers’  campaign  is  suc­
cessful,  it  means  the  elimination  of 
the  trade  unions  as  a  factor  in  Amer­
ican  industry. 
fails,  nothing 
fhort  of  direct  Government  control 
can  prevent  the  unions’  steady  prog­
ress  toward  industrial  domination.

amazoo. 

If  it 

 

Employers  are  almost  completely 
organized  for  the  fight.  The  public 
has  not  realized  how  much  has  been 
accomplished  since  the  coal 
strike. 
The  organized  manufacturers  and 
contractors  are  no  longer  alone.  They 
are  supported  by  commercial  inter­
ests,  railroads  and  banks.  Evidence of 
their  eo-operation  can  be  seen  on 
every  side. 
In  Chicago  and  St.  Louis 
emergency  funds  of  $1,000,000  are 
ready  for  immediate  use.  The  banks, 
I  was  told  by  an  officer  of  the  St. 
Louis  Association,  are  at  the  bottom 
of  that  organization. 
In  Chicago  the 
railroads  played  a  similar  part.  The 
Chicago 
Association 
grew  up  out  of  the  freight  handlers’ 
strike.  The  Chicago,  Burlington  &

Employers’ 

transcontinental 

Quincy  Railroad  furnished  one  of  its 
first  organizers,  and  the  great  com­
mercial  interest» the  other  three:-  Re­
cently  a 
railroad 
conveyed  strike  breakers  from  New 
York 
to  San  Francisco  at  an  $ 1 1  
late,  at  the  request  of  a  powerful 
employers’  association.  The  move­
m ent  is  spreading  from  city  to  city. 
Since  Philadelphia  and  New  York 
joined  the  fold  a  few  weeks 
ago, 
every  im portant  city  has  its  powerful 
federation  of 
associa­
tions.  Some 
lime  ago  associations 
were  formed  in  m ost  of the  im portant 
national 
industries,  and  now  every 
trade  which  has  not  already  been 
formed  into  a  trust  is  organized  to 
deal  with  labor.  All  of  these  associa­
tions,  local  or  national,  industrial  or 
federated,  with  one  or 
two  excep­
tions,  are  moving  openly  or  secretly 
to  force  the  unions  to  the  open  shop. 
But  the  open  shop,  say  the  unions, 
means  an  open  warfare  against  or­
ganized  labor.—W .  E.  W alling 
in 
Independent.

employers’ 

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Is  unchanged.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine—There  will  probably  be 
no  change  until  the  Amsterdam  bark 
sale  on  O ctober  6th.  The  article  is 
rather  firm.

Cantharides—Continue  to  advance 

and  are  getting  very  scarce.

Cocoa  B uttei— Is  very 

shows  a  fractional  advance.

firm  and 

Menthol  —   Touched  bottom 

last 
week  and  is  rapidly  advancing.  Laid 
down  cost 
is  now  said  to  be  50c 
higher  than  present  price.

Santonine— Has  again  advanced on 
account  of  higher  market  for  crude 
material.

Canary  Seed—H as  been  again  ad­

vanced  and  is  tending  higher.

talking  about 

All  Germany  is 

a 
learned  horse  named  H ans  which  ex­
hibits  the  intelligence  of  a  human  be­
ing.  The  animal  comprehends  hand­
writing,  performs  m athematical  calcu­
lations,  distinguishes  colors  and  dis­
criminates  as  to  musical  selections. 
A  scientific  commission  has  investi­
gated  the  horse’s  perform ances  and 
decided  that  there  are  no  tricks  in­
volved  in 
them.  The  case  arouses 
fresh  interest  in  the  question  w heth­
er  animals  possess  reasoning  power.

_________B USINE8S  CHANCES.
For  Sale—The  stock  of  dry  goods,  car­
pets,  millinery,  ladies’  cloaks  and  suits 
and  the  store  and  office  fixtures,  belong­
ing  to  the  A.  T.  Van  Alstyn  Dry  Goods 
Co.,  bankrupt,  of  Marquette,  Michigan; 
also  the  letters  patent  of  the  U.  S.  for 
a safety belt,  being patent No.  706,457. be­
longing to  said  estate,  will  be  sold  in  one 
parcel  to  the  highest  bidder  on  Sept.  28, 
at  10  o’clock  in  the  forenoon.  H.  J. 
Lobdell,  Trustee,  Marquette, Michigan. 885
Look  Here—$2,500  will  buy a  good  gen­
eral  stock  of  merchandise  located  in  the 
best  town  in  Michigan.  Business  paying 
a  handsome  profit.  This  will  bear  your 
inspection. 
If  you  mean  business  and 
want  a  good  thing,  address  at  once,  Box 
156,  Boyne  City,  Mich.____________ 886
I  want  to  buy  and  pay  top  prices  for 
lot  of  Douglas,  Walkover,  Sorosis.  Rad- 
cliffe,  Queen  Quality,  Dorothy  Dodd  and 
other  trade  mark  and  specialty  lines  of 
shoes,  also  entire  or  part  stocks  unde­
sirable  goods,  odd 
P.  L. 
Feyrelsen,  167  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago.  887

lots,  etc. 

H E L P  W ANTED.

Wanted,Tinners—Will  pay $2.50 per day 
for  9  hours  to  capable  men  used  to  fur­
nace  and  other  job  work.  Kalamazoo’s 
percentage  of  growth  exceeds  that  of 
any other city in Michigan.  A good open­
ing  for  the  right  men.  The  Edwards  & 
Chamberlin  Hardware  Co.,  Kalamazoo. 
Mich. 

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