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Twenty-Second Year 

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CURIOUS  STRIK E.

There  has  been  in  progress  in  Mar-
seilles,  France,  a  sort  of  strike  or 
labor  upheaval,  which  is  quite  unique 
in  its  way.  It  has  now  been  in  prog­
ress  for  fully  two  years  and  untold 
damage  has  been  done  not  only  to 
the  commerce  of  the  port  of  Mar­
seilles,  but  to  French  shipping  gener­
ally.  The  strike  has  involved  serious 
fighting  and  rioting,  which  have  ne­
the 
cessitated  the  calling  out  of 
troops,  and  although  work  on 
the 
Marseilles  docks  has  not  been  sus­
pended  during  the  entire  period,  it 
has  been  so  frequently  interrupted 
that  shipowners  have  been  unable  to 
properiy  conduct  their  business.

Unlike  most  strikes,  this  one  has 
not  been  dominated  by  a  demand  for 
increased  wages  so  much  as  other 
problems  intimately  connected  with 
the  general  labor  question.  The  sail­
ors  have  struck  against  the  discipline 
maintained  on  the  ships,  and 
the 
longshoremen  and  freight  handlers 
along  the  docks  have  stopped  work 
out  of  sympathy.  No  sooner  would 
the  sailors  be  mollified 
the 
freight  handlers  would  strike  afresh 
for  some  amelioration  in  their  condi­
tion.

than 

As  a  result  of  this  disturbed  and 
distorted  condition  of  things  in  the 
great  French  port,  the  shipping  busi­
ness  has  become  demoralized 
and 
shipowners  are  sending  their  vessels 
elsewhere,  so  as  to  be  out  of 
the 
strike  atmosphere  and  beyond 
the 
reach  of  the  agitators,  who  appear  to 
be  primarily  responsible  for  the  per­
petual  turmoil  which  prevails.  Pas­
sengers  now  avoid  the  French  ships, 
owing  to  the  lack  of  discipline  which 
prevails  on  such  vessels.  This  is  not 
the  fau}t  of  the  shipowners,  but  is  the 
result  of  the  perpetual  agitation  go­
ing  on  among  the  sailors,  and  the 
fact  that  the  shipping  people  have 
been  compelled  to  consent  to  all sorts

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  28,  1904 

of  unreasonable  conditions  in  order to 
operate  their  vessels.

The  steamship  lines  centering  at 
Marseilles  are  gradually  withdrawing 
from  that  port  and  making  Genoa 
their  regular  port  of  call  and  base  of 
operations.  Whether  this  withdrawal 
of  business  will  bring  the  Marseilles 
agitators  to  their  senses  remains  to 
be  seen.  It  is  no  wonder,  under  such 
conditions,  that  the  French  merchant 
marine  is  declining  instead  of  ad­
vancing.  Discipline  is  as  necessary 
on  a  ship  as  it  is  in  an  army,  and 
without  it  vessels  can  not  be  success­
fully  operated  at  a  profit.

A  strike  is  no  respector  of  persons 
and  it  often  lands  in  unlooked  for 
places.  Organized  labor  has  a  very 
firm  hold  on  San  Francisco.  A strike 
out  there  is  usually  quickly  followed 
by  a  boycott  and  then  sandwich  men, 
as  they  are  called,  at  once  begin  to 
parade  up  and  down  the  street  in 
front  of  the  store,  restaurant  or  shop, 
carrying  the  announcement  that  the 
place  is  boycotted  and  bidding  every­
body  keep  away.  The  union’s  atti­
tude  to  the  sandwich  men  is  that  of 
employer.  Acting  on  good  business 
principles  in  a  recent  strike  in  that 
city,  the  union,  trying  to  get 
the 
work  as  low  as  possible,  refused  a 
demand  for  an  advance  in  wages and 
thereupon  the  sandwich  men  struck. 
incident  created  considerable 
The 
merriment  and 
comment,  but  at 
last  accounts  both  the  union  and  the 
sandwich  men  stood  firm  and 
the 
breach,  instead  of  being  closed,  grew 
wider.

terror  in 

Surgery  may  yet  make  us  normal 
in  our  behavior.  A  boy  in  Indianap­
olis  was  regarded  as  incorrigible,  and 
the  public 
was  such  a 
schools  which  he  attended 
that  he 
was  sent  to  a  reform  institution.  A 
surgeon  performed  an  operation  on 
him,  removing  a  bony  growth  which 
pressed  on  the  brain,  and  as  a  re­
sult  the  boy’s  nature  has  changed 
completely  and  he  is  now  a  model 
youth. 
If  this  line  of  operation  is 
to  be  generally  adopted  the  surgeons 
will  be  obliged  to  work  overtime,  so 
numerous  are  the  subjects.

Sawdust  is  now  lending  itself  to 
many  uses.  Shipbuilders  in  England, 
France  and  Germany  are  using  what 
is  called  “stone-wood,”  a  mixture  of 
sawdust  with  certain  minerals,  which, 
formed  into  slabs  under  hydraulic 
pressure,  makes  a  surface  which 
is 
safe  to  walk  upon  and  will  not  burn 
or  permit  one  to  slip.  This  sub­
stance  can  be  worked  like  any  hard 
wood  and  is  being  extensively  used. 
Anyone  who  lacks  sawdust  for  ex­
periments  in  this  direction  can  prob­
ably  procure  equally  good  results 
with  breakfast  foods.

Number  1097

TH E   V A LU E   O F  M IDDLEM EN.
Theoretically,  business  should  be 
done  directly  between  the  distribut­
ing  merchants  and  the  manufactur­
ers.  The  broker,  the  commission  mer­
chant,  the  traveling  salesman,  or  any 
other  person  who  stands  between the 
producer  and  the  consumer,  has  to 
be  paid,  and  theoretically  the  various 
amounts  paid  to  such  persons  could 
be  saved  if  there  were  in  every  de­
partment  direct  trade  between  the 
producer  and  the  consumer.

This 

is  what  many  people  have 
said,  and  it 
is  what  the  Japanese, 
who  are  most  careful  economists, are 
saying.  The  Chronicle,  an  English 
journal,  published  at  Kobe,  Japan,  in 
a  recent  issue,  says  that  at  the  close 
of  the  war  with  Russia  a  determined 
effort  is  to  be  made  by  the  Japanese 
to  enter  into  direct  trade  relations 
with  foreign  countries,  the  object be­
ing  to  exclude  the  middleman,  who 
in  this  instance  is  the  foreign  mer­
chant.  Whether  such  a  policy  will 
be  successful  depends,  however,  not 
on  the  wishes  of  the  Department  of 
Finance  or  the  hopes  of  the  Japanese 
merchant,  but  on  considerations  of 
economy.  Experiments  in  the  past 
in  direct  trade  have  not  proved  so 
successful  as  to  warrant  others  being 
undertaken  without  the  greatest  cau­
tion  being  observed.  Meanwhile  it 
may  be  well  for  the  Japanese  to  con­
sider  whether  the  middleman  does 
not  serve  a  purpose  in  the  commer­
cial  economy.

The  Iron  Age,  of  New  York,  re­
cently  pointed  out  that  one  of  the 
aims  of  the  great  trusts  and  consoli­
dations  organized  in  America  was  to 
eliminate  the  middleman  and  save 
his  profit  to  the  consumer,  and  when 
the  tidal  wave  of  consolidation  was 
at  its  height  prophecies  were  freely 
made  that  brokers,  and  even  jobbers, 
would  find  their occupations gone and 
would  have  to  seek  new  fields  of  en­
deavor.  But  the  prophecy  has  not 
been  fulfilled.  There  are  fully 
as 
many  jobbers,  brokers  and  manipula­
tors  as  ever in  all  the  great  cities,  and 
they  are  just  as  necessary  as  ever.

Buyers  find  in  the  hands  of 

the 
right  sort  of  agent  or  middleman  a 
larger  assortment  and  a  greater  va­
riety  than  if  they  attempted  to  deal 
with  the  mills  alone,  and  the  conve­
nience  resulting  from  such  conditions 
is  worth  the  commission  to  such  an 
agent.  Of  course,  it  is  necessary  that 
the  agent  shall  be  honest,  intelligent 
and  fully  posted  in 
his  business. 
When  that  is  the  case  he  is  of  great 
service  to  both  buyer  and  seller.

Don’t  make  a  remnant  counter  of 
your  efforts— beginnings  and  ends, 
without  any  middles,  command  only 
catch-all  prices.

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

forest 

cranberries,  but 

of 
fires 
ruined  the  majority  of  the  bogs  a 
few  years  ago  and  since  then  the 
yield  has  been  a  fraction  of  what  it 
formerly  was.  The  Western  berry, 
However,  rarely  finds 
into 
the  markets  of  the  East.  Chicago 
buyers  capture  it  and  wholesale  it 
to  Western  points.

its  way 

New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsyl­
vania  and  New  England  consume 
about  one-fourth  of the  Nation’s cran­
berry  yield.  The 
remainder  goes 
West  and  South,  to  Canada  and  a  lit­
tle  to  Europe.

New  York  is  the  leading  shipping 
point,  with  Chicago  and  Kansas  City 
second  and  third.  New  York  deal­
ers  handle  250,000  bushels  of  a  one- 
million  bushel  crop.  Of  this  amount 
to 
go 
100,000  to  150,000  bushels 
is 
local 
consumers.  The  balance 
shipped  to  many  points.  Texas 
is 
becoming  a  notable  patron  of 
the 
cranberry,  and  California  is  as  fond 
of  the  berry  as  it  is  of  its  own  lus­
cious  productions.  All  the  cranber­
ries  sent  abroad  go  to  London  and 
Liverpool,  but 
is  small. 
Liking  for  cranberries  seems  to  be 
an  acquired  taste  across  the  water, 
and  though 
in­
creased  somewhat  in  the  last  twenty 
or 
the  gain  is 
exceedingly  small.

twenty-five  years, 

shipments  have 

total 

the 

the 

The  cranberry  grower  will  this year 
receive  from  $5.50  to  $6  a  100-quart 
barrel  for  his  crop.  That  is,  he will 
average  that  for  what 
cotton 
buyer  calls  good  ordinary.  The  re­
tail  price  promises  to  be  about  10 
cents  a  quart,  but  the  factor  in  this 
is  the  abundance  of  the  yield.  Sift­
ing  these  figures,  it  will  be  seen  that 
a  large  amount  of  money  goes  to 
some  one  between  the  producer  and 
consumer,  but  it  must  be  borne  in 
mind  that  cranberries, 
like  apples, 
must  pay  the  price  of  long  storage. 
Sometimes,  when  the  producer  can 
afford  it,  he  puts  away  a  large  por­
tion  of  his  crop  and  lets  it  remain 
in  storage  until  the  last  of  December 
or  the  middle  of  January,  when,  as 
a  rule,  the  price  advances. 
In  the 
spring  of  1902  a  consignment  of  cran­

berries  sold  at  from  $18  to  $20  a  bar­
rel.  Those  figures are  rarely  reached, 
but  $12  to  $15  a  barrel  is  not  uncom­
mon  at  out-of-season  times.

Even  at  present  prices  this  will  be 
for  cranberry 
a  prosperous  season 
growers  outside  of  New  Jersey,  from 
Cape  Cod,  where  American  cranber­
ries  were  first  grown,  to  the  remote 
island  of  Kodiak,  Alaska,  the  north­
ern  and  westernmost  point  where  the 
fruit  is  grown.

as 

is  generally  known 

Of  all  familiar  fruits  it  is  safe  to 
say  that  there  is  none  of  which  so 
little 
the 
cranberry.  Originally  it  grew  wild 
as.  in  fact,  it  does  to-day  in  sev­
eral  of  the  states  bordering  on  the 
Canada  line,  in  the  salt  marshes  of 
the  coast  States,  in  the  glades  of 
the  Alleghanies,  and  as  far  South  as 
Virginia  and  the  Carolinas.  Unlike 
the  strawberry,  the  wild  cranberry  is 
distinctly  inferior  to  its  cultivated  rel­
ative.  Both  grow  on  a  small,  hardy 
shrub  about  six  inches  in  height.

The  fruit  takes  its  name  from  the 
appearance  of  the  flower,  which,  just 
before  expanding 
into  perfection, 
bears  a  marked  resemblance  to  the 
neck,  head  and  bill  of  a  crane.  Hence 
the  name  “craneberry,”  which  usage 
has  made  into  “cranberry.”

fertilizing, 

Instead  of 

Sand  and  peaty  ground  forms  the 
proper  soil  for  a  cranberry  marsh  or 
the  j 
bog. 
grower  is  obliged  to  give  the  vines 
or  bushes  liberal  coatings  of  sand. 
The  ground  must  be  low,  as  it  is 
kept  under  water  most  of  the  time. 
The  marsh  or  bog,  as  it  is  variously 
termed,  is  so  arranged  that  any  sec­
tion  of  it  may  be  flooded  at  the  dis- j 
cretion  of  the  grower,  the  system  of 
ditches  and  sluices  being  the  same  as  | 
those  used  in 
the  arid 
lands  of  the  West.  The  making  of 
the  bog  is  an  expensive  process,  in­
volving  an  expenditure  of  from  $300 | 
to  $500  an  acre,  and  an  interim  of 
five  years  lapses  before  the  yield  is 
really  profitable.  After 
that,  each 
year  should  give  a  larger  return  on 
the  investment.  No  rotation  of  crops 
is  necessary,  and  the  shrubs  live  and 
bear  and  increase  endlessly.

irrigating 

2

CR AN BER RY  CROP.

Some  Facts  Concerning  Its  Growth 

and  Marketing-

Cape  Cod  folks  are  gathering  their 
In  a little  while the  New 
cranberries. 
Jersey,  Michigan,  Wisconsin  and Min­
nesota  marshes  will  swarm  with  pick­
ers.  Then  the  full  red  and  white  tide 
that  annually  sweeps  across  the  coun­
try  from  the  cranberry  districts  will 
make  itself  felt,  and  the  forerunner  of 
the  Thanksgiving  turkey  become  a 
commodity of present  importance with 
both  wholesaler  and  grocer.

it 

There  will  not  be  so  many  cran­
berries  this  year  as  last.  The  vines 
seem  to  have  been  impressed  by  that 
conservatism  which  hedges  about  a 
Presidential  year  and  to  have  decided 
to  keep  well  within  a  defined  yield 
limit.  Last  year  United  States  grow­
ers  raised  1,250,000 bushels.  The crop 
of  1904  will  be  from  15  to  20  per 
cent,  less,  New  Jersey  showing  the 
greatest  decrease,  where 
is  be­
lieved  the  crop  will  be  60  per  cent. 
Still,  prices  are  not  expected  to  go 
any  higher,  for  good  old-fashioned 
apple  sauce  has  of  late  years  become 
a 
formidable  competitor  of  cran­
berry  sauce,  and  this  keeps  the  fig­
ures  at  normal.  Still,  even  with  the 
reduced  yield,  there  will  be  enough 
berries  to  make  sufficient  sauce  for 
every  turkey  that  survives  the  perils 
of  getting  wet  and  eating  too  much.
first  cranberries  come  from 
Cape  Cod  bogs  or  marshes.  There 
the  harvest  begins  the  last  week  in 
dark-red 
August.  That 
berry  whose  blush 
in 
stores  early  in  September  is  from 
Cape  Cod.

is  on  view 

attractive 

The 

Color  is  the  cranberry  standard  of 
value,  and  so  the  New  Jersey  grow­
ers  wait  until  the  early  Cape  Cods 
are  well  out  of  the  market  before 
they make  shipments  in  quantity.  The 
Jersey  grower  is  a  most  careful  hus­
bandman,  always  with  an  eye  to  the 
main  chance. 
It  is  said  that  some 
years  ago  the  New  Jersey  Legisla­
ture  made  what  is  known  as  a  bush- 
el-crate  standard;  that 
is,  formally 
declared  the  crate  in  question  con­
tained,  when  filled,  a  bushel  of  ber­
ries.

For  a  time  all  went  smoothly,  but 
presently  the  men  who  handle  cran­
berries  in  New  York  City  discovered 
that  the  so-called  bushel  crate  con­
tained  only  thirty  quarts  instead  of 
the  regulation  thirty-two.  The thrifty 
Jerseymen  had  been  receiving  pay  for 
two  quarts  in  every  crate  that  they 
never  furnished.  This was  some years 
ago,  so  now  in  New  Jersey  a  bushel 
is  not  a  bushel  when  it  is  a  crate  of 
cranberries.

The  cranberry  harvest  may  be said 
to  continue  from  the  last  week  in 
August  to  the  middle  of  September, 
or  until  the  severe  frosts  put  an  end 
to  the  season.  Long  Island’s  har­
vest  is  coincident, with  that  of  New 
Jersey,  but  its  limited  yield  averages 
higher  in  quality  than  New  Jersey’s 
and  generally  brings  top-notch prices. 
October  is  the  cranberry  month  in 
the  Middle  States  and  west  thereof. 
Wisconsin,  Michigan  and  Minnesota 
are  all  cranberry  states,  the  former 
leading  in  the  size  of  its  crop.  W is­
consin  used  to  be  a  large  producer

Planting  a  new  section  of  bog  is 
a  simple  process.  A  small  handful  of 
twigs  is  twisted  together  and  thrust 
deep  into  the  sand.  They  take  root 
immediately,  and  within  a  year  put 
forth  new  uprights  and  begin  to  send 
out  runners.  The  planting  is  eight 
or  ten  inches  apart  in  rows.  Gradu­
ally  the  space  between  fills  up,  and 
in  an  old  bog  the  shrubs  grow  as 
thick  as  buffalo 
they 
then  require  is  weeding,  sanding,  and 
flooding.

grass.  All 

the  early 

Flooding  is  necessary  not  only  for 
the  growth  of  the  plant,  but  to  pro­
tect  it  from 
frosts  of 
Autumn. 
It  is  no  unusual  sight  to 
see  a  half  hundred  pickers  at  work in 
one  section  of  a  bog,  while  the  ad­
joining  section  is 
inches

eighteen 

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Rectal  Specialist

103 Monroe Street 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Invented at Last

The  N.  &  B.  Automatic  Lighting  System

An independent gas plant for illuminating stores, halls,  restaurants,  lodge-rooms,  bowling 
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In presenting this  illustration of  our latest device for artificial  lighting,  we  are  con­
fident that we have the most complete and  up-to-date system on  the  market  and  the  only 
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our system will convince you that it is indeed a most wonderful invention and far  superior 
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ent  covering  the  berries  are  seen,  the 
water  only  intensifying  their  brilliant 
coloring  and  the  deep  green  of  the 
surrounding  leaves.

fingers 

Picking  cranberries  is  a  task  for 
nimble  fingers.  The  picker,  sitting or 
kneeling  on  the  damp  sand,  plunges 
both  hands,  with 
slightly 
spread,  among  the  vines,  and  with  a 
quick  movement  strips 
the  berries 
from  the  stems  and  tosses  them  into 
a  waiting  pan.  When  the  pan 
is 
filled  it  is  emptied  into  a  pail  holding 
one-third  of  a  bushel.  The  size  is 
uniform,  and  the  pickers  are  paid 
by  the  pail.  The  berries  are  finally 
put  into  crates  and  barrels.  Before 
they  are  ready  for  market,  however, 
they  are  winnowed,  with  the  aid  of 
a  winnowing  machine,  of  leaves  and 
weeds,  and  are  then  ready  for  the 
consumer.

Cranberry  scoops  are  largely  used 
on  cranberry  marshes.  A  scoop  is 
a  box-like  contrivance  fifteen  inches 
long,  with  wooden  fingers. 
is 
used  to  strip  the  vines  of  berries,  and 
by  its  aid  the  task  of  gathering  the 
berries  is  greatly  expedited.

It 

Cranberry  growing 

is  called  a 
“young  man’s  work.”  This  means 
that  a  young  man  who  chooses  cran­
berry  farming  as  a  road  to  affluence 
must  be  willing  to  wait  and  work 
steadily  and  with  perseverance  while 
he  waits. 
few  years  ago  a 
wealthy  resident  of  Detroit,  stirred 
by  glorified  accounts  of  cranberry- 
raising  profits,  invested  $250,000  in 
an  attempt  to  raise  the  berries  on  a 
large  scale.  He  abandoned  the  enter­
prise  at  the  end  of  the  second  year, 
losing  almost  the  entire  investment.

A 

Why  High  Prices  for  Grain  Are  In­

evitable.

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Sept.  26— The 
present  grain  situation  is  the  most 
peculiar  known 
in  half  a  century, 
with  the  exception  of  a  short  period 
during  the  civil  war. 
Indeed,  it  is 
doubtful  if  there  is  a  man  now  living 
who  has  seen  a  similar  condition  of 
affairs,  where  the  demand  for  home 
consumption  was  so  great  and  the 
export  demand  so  small,  while  yet 
the  crop  promises  to  be  deficient  in 
supplying  the  demand  for  home  con­
sumption.  With  the  European  grain 
crop  120,000,000  bushels  short,  as  re­
ported,  it  needs  no  deep  mathemati­
cal  calculation  to  reach  the  conclu­
sion  that  wheat  will  bring  a  high 
price  before  the  May  settlements  are 
made,  and  that  the  farmer  has 
a 
good  thing  in  sight  in  all  grains.

It  is  improbable  that  much  grain 
will  be  exported  during 
the  next 
twelve  months,  although  the  short­
age  in  Europe  may  cause  foreigners 
to  bid  up  the  price  and  thus  aid  in 
sustaining  the  value  in  the  markets 
of  the  United  States.  It  appears  now 
that  the  whear  yield  of  the  country 
will  not  exceed  525,000,000  bushels, as 
against  670,000,000  bushels  for 
1903, 
when  exports  were  about  120,000,000 
bushels,  the  lowest  in  many  years, 
while  the  consumption  for 
the  same 
period  was  the  largest  in  the  history 
of  the  country.

Now,  with  the 

in­
consumption 
creasing  and  absolutely  nothing 
to 
export,  and  the  consumption  exceed­

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

3

the 

ing  the  home  product,  what  may  be 
expected?  Unusually  high  prices—  
the  demand  exceeding 
supply. 
These  are  natural  conditions.  They 
are  conditions  confronting  the  mill­
ers  and  which  are  forcing  them  into 
a  combine  to  minimize  the  loss  of 
crops  until  the  new  grain  can  be 
bought  annd  stored  in  the  elevators. 
These  are  picturesque  conditions  and 
wholly  outside  the  natural  conditions 
and  natural  possibilities.

For  several  days  the  elements  have 
contributed  to  dishearten  the  grain 
grower  and  reduce  the  yield.  The 
tresher  is  telling  a  tale  of  wheat 
yields  far  below  the  average,  but  it 
is  the  truth  that  the  thresher  is  now 
at  work  in  the  poorest  fields  of  the 
Northwest,  where  rust  did 
great 
damage.  During  the  next  two  weeks 
threshing  machines  will  tell  a  differ­
ent  story,  although  the  most  san­
guine  do  not  concede  an  average 
yield  of  over  ten  bushels  per  acre 
for  the  entire  Northwest. 
Indeed, 
should  the  average  yield  reach  nine 
bushels  per  acre,  the  aggregate  pro­
duction  for  +he 
three  Northwest 
States  will  exceed  that  of  last  year 
by  20,000,000  bushels.

favorable 

yield,  while 

In  a  previous  article  it  was 

as­
serted  that  the  yield  of  Minnesota 
and  the  Dakotas  would  equal  that  of 
1903  under 
conditions. 
There  is  no  reason  to  change  these 
views  provided  the  favorable  condi­
tions  continue. 
In  a  talk  with  J.  J. 
Hill  that  prince  of  crop  experts  de­
clared  to  the  writer  that  he  believed 
the  wheat 
70,000,000 
bushels  under  what  it 
should  be, 
would  reach  the  yield  of  last  year, 
and  that  other  crops  would  bring the 
tonnage  of  railroads  up  to  25  per 
cent,  greater  than  a  year  ago. 
It  is 
not  necessary  for  Mr.  Hill  to  go 
into  the  wheat  fields  to  know  the 
prospects.  Like  any  experienced stu­
dent  of  crop  conditions,  he  is  able  to 
form  his  estimate  by  conditions  at 
seeding  time. 

In  May  he  said:

“We  will  not  have  a  big  crop  of 
wheat.  There  will  be  many  bad 
spots.  The  spring  has  been  too  wet 
in  some  places  and  too  dry  in  others. 
There  will  be  early  wheat  and  there 
will  be  late  wheat.  Both  are  likely 
to  be  damaged.  But  there  will  be  a 
good  crop  which  is  neither  early  nor 
late  nor  too  dry  nor  too  wet.”

During  the  past  week  the  returns 
from  the  threshing  machines  have 
justified  the  above  conclusions.  The 
yield  of  wheat  in  the  Dakotas,  Min­
nesota 
and  Northern  Wisconsin 
should  be  about  as  follows:

Bushels

North  Dakota.....................  65,000,000
Minnesota 
.............................68,000,000
Soouth  Dakota..................... 30,000,000
Northern  Wisconsin.........   18,000,000

Total 

............................181,000,000
Last  year,  according  to  the  Gov­
ernment  estimate,  the  Dakotas  and 
Minnesota  raised  173,000,000  bushels 
of  wheat.  But  in  addition  to  this, 
and  which  should  be  figured  in 
the 
Northwest  receipts,  is  the  yield  of 
Montana— not 
15,000,000 
bushels  tributary  to  the  big  Minne­
sota  and  Eastern  mills,  making  a  to­

than 

less 

tal  of  196,000,000  bushels  of  wheat  for 
the  American  Northwest,  not  includ­
ing  the  Pacific  Coast  States.

Apple  Crop  Appalls  Dealers.

The 

apple  market 

throughout 
Wayne  county  has  .practically  come 
to  a  standstill,  for  dealers  are  fright­
ened  at  the  size  of  the  crop.  Earlier 
in  the  season  there  was  a  fair  de­
mand  for  choice  apples  at  90  cents 
per  barrel,  the  purchasers  furnishing 
the  barrel.  Now  there  is  practically 
no  market.  The  outlook  on  green  ap­
ples  never  suited  the  buyers  as  little 
as  it  does  this  fall,  and  the  more  they 
investigate  the  situation  the  less  they 
like  it. 
It  begins  to  look  as  though 
the  farmer  would  have  to  do  business 
without  middlemen.  The  best  price 
talked  now  is  75  cents  per  barrel, 
found 
and  scarcely  a  dealer  can  be 
who  will  buy  at  any  price. 
In  the 
dried  apple  market  things  are  a  little 
more  lively,  although  dealers  are  not 
active.  Dealers  are  advising  their 
old  customers  to  go  slowly,  drying 
their  own  apples  before  they  con­
tract  for  other  orchards.  The  reason 
for  this  is  that  the  dealers  look  to 
see  evaporating  apples  drop 
from 
I2j4  cents  a  bushel  to  8  or  even  6 
cents  later  in  the  season.  The  pro­
ducers  are  going  at  it  as  hard  as 
ever  they  can  tilt,  and  hope  to  make 
a  profit.— Rochester  Union.

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T h e  S t a t e

Movements  of  Merchants.

Howell— Mts.  C.  W.  Moon  has  en­

gaged  in  the  bazaar  business.

Ludington— W.  D.  Bridge  will 
open  a  new  music  store  about  Oct.  i.
Port  Huron— Patrick  H.  Mahar 
will  shortly  open  a  new  shoe  store.
is 
closing  out  his  stock  of  boots  and 
shoes.

Jackson— Edward  C.  Morrisey 

Detroit— Ritter  &  Schmidt  have
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Wm. 
Waldeyer.

Saginaw—John  Enszer  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  business  of  Julius 
Catterfield.

St.  Johns— W.  A.  Hunt  has  pur­
chased  the  market  business  of  John 
P.  Snyder.

M ason—H .  O.  H alstead  has  pur­
chased  the  clothing  stock  of  Caven- 
der  &  Mehan.

Lansing— Kelso  &  Bartel  have  en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  in  the 
Hawes  building.

Muskegon— Alfred  A.  Ball  has 
closed  his  Palace  bakery  and  dis­
continued  business.

Ann  Arbor— N.  Generaux  will 
shortly  engage  in  the  confectionery 
and  tobacco  business.

Detroit— Collins  &  Schuler  have 
tobacco 

purchased  the  cigar 
stock  of  John  J.  Griffith.

and 

Paw  Paw— Tice  &  Decker,  who re­
cently  bought 
the  Longwell  de­
partment  store,  have  sold  it  to  A. 
C.  Martin  and  A.  W.  Showerman.

Lyons— The  general  stock  of  W. 
Halsted  &  Co.  and  the  grocery stock 
of  S.  W.  Webber  have  been  con­
solidated  under 
the 
Lyons  Grocery  Co.

style  of 

the 

Yale— Wallace  Ballentine  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  F.  A.  Griswold 
and  Frank  Newell,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Griswold,  Newell  &  Co.
Vassar— Rutherford  & 

Rowley, 
dealers  in  agricultural 
implements, 
wagons,  buggies,  etc.,  have  gone  to 
the  wall.  The  assets  are  estimated 
at  $500  and  the  liabilities  at  $3,000.

St.  Johns— R.  W.  Stone,  who  has 
been  in  the  grain  business  at  Alto 
for  seven  years,  and  R.  D.  Bergin, 
of  Lowell,  have  purchased  Osgood’s 
elevator  and  grain  and  hay  and  coal 
business,  and  will  continue  it  at  the 
same  location.

Boon— E.  A.  Losie,  who  has  man­
aged  the  general  store  of  J.  Cornwell 
&  Son  here  for  several  years  past, 
has  formed  a  copartnership  with  J. 
M.  Hayden  and  purchased  the  stock. 
Business  will  be  continued  under  the 
style  of  Losie  &  Hayden.

Onaway— The  grocery  store  and 
meat  market  of  Walter  Smith  was 
closed  last  Friday  by  M.  A.  Quick 
&  Co.,  who  held  a  chattel  mortgage 
I  on  the  stock. 
It  was  adjusted  later 
by  Smith  giving  Quick  a  bill  of  sale 
of  the  entire  stock,  and  the  latter  is 
now  in  charge.

Traverse  City—Geo.  L.  Purkiss, 
the  Northport  fish  merchant,  has 
engaged  in  the  fish  business  here.

Coldwater— Alpha  Boyden 

and 
Frank  Kohler  have  each  opened  new 
bakeries  here  during  the  past  week.
of 
Williamsburg,  has  purchased  Mrs. 
Alma  Clymer’s  millinery  stock  and 
business.

Bellaire— Mrs.  Luella  Pray, 

South  Haven— E.  W.  Fitzgerald 
will  succeed  Griswold  &  Fitzgerald 
in  the  men’s  furnishing  and  grocery 
business.

Schoolcraft— E.  L.  Mosher,  form­
erly  engaged  in  business  at  Otsego 
and  Vicksburg,  will  open  a  jewelry 
store  here.

Holland— H.  J.  Fisher,  the  drug­
gist,  has  let  the  contract  for  a  new 
business  block,  to  be  occupied  by 
his  drug  stock.

Alpena— C.  A.  McGregor  has pur­
chased  the  stock  of  the  Star  Shoe 
Co.  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Lansing— Beasley  &  Wells  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  F.  H.  Bar- 
teaux,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Cheboygan— Julius  Bohn  will open 
a  hardware  store  in 
three 
weeks  in  the  building  formerly  oc­
cupied  by  Frank  Lockhart.

about 

Lansing— Rossa  Bros,  have  open­
ed  a  new  grocery  store  and  meat 
market  in  the  H.  E.  Johnson  build­
ing.  They  hail  from  Durand.

Alma— T.  E.  Pringle  has  purchas­
ed  the  interest  of  F.  J.  Emmer  in 
the  clothing  stock  of  Pringle  &  Em- 
mer  and  will  continue  the  business  in 
his  own  name.

Detroit—The  stock  and  good  will 
of  the  Harris  Paper  Co.  has  been 
purchased  by  Lester  H.  Cheeseman, 
who  will  continue  the  business  un­
der  the  style  of  the  Cheeseman  Pa­
per  Co.,  a  corporation  with  $25,000 
paid-in  capital  stock  which  will  be 
organized  for  the  purpose.

Albion— E.  T.  Bornor,  in  partner­
ship  with  J.  A.  Gibbs,  has  purchased 
the  business  of  Francis  E.  Steele and 
will  sell  wood,  coal,  flour,  feed, brick, 
cement,  salt,  tile,  etc.  Mr.  Bornor 
has  had  experience  in  this 
line  of 
business  as  he  has  been  connected 
with  the  Parma  Mercantile  Co.  for 
some  time  past.

Bellaire— Geo.  Otis,  of  East  Jor­
dan,  has  purchased  the 
implement 
stock  of  H.  E.  Dickerson  and  will 
move  the  business  into  the  new  ce­
ment  block.  F.  L.  Knapp,  harness- 
maker  with  Mr.  Dickerson  for  sever­
al  years,  will  have  charge  of 
the 
business  for  Mr.  Otis,  which  will  in­
clude  harnessmaking.

Hudsonville— L.  M.  Wolf, 

the 
general  dealer  at  this  place,  owns 
and  cultivates  a  forty  acre  farm  on 
the  edge  of  the  village. 
Included  in 
the  farm  is  seventeen  acres  of  muck 
land,  on  which  the  humus  is  about 
thirty  feet  deep.  On  this  land  Mr. 
Wolf  raises  remarkable 
of 
onions  and  celery.  From  seven  acres 
of  onions  and  celery  last  season  he 
realized  nearly  $1,100.  He  has  on 
exhibition  at  his  store  this  week  six 
onions  which  weigh  6^  pounds  and 
he  insists  that  on  the  five  acres  he 
planted  to  onions  this  season  he  will 
have  at  least  250  bushels  which  aver­
age  over  a  pound  apiece.

crops 

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

Holland— The  Frank  S.  Gray  gro­
cery  stock  has  been  purchased  by 
E.  Heeringa  and  Nicholas  Tannes, 
who  will  continue  the  business  un­
der  the  style  of  Heeringa  &  Tannes. 
The  stock  has  been  the  cause  of  con­
siderable 
legal  controversy,  due  to 
the  utterance  of  a  chattel  mortgage 
for  $375.  The  principal 
creditors 
were  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  and
A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.

Rudyard— Nicholas  De  Kruyter, 
formerly  book-keeper  for  the  Linn 
Murray  Furniture  Co.,  Ltd.,  of Grand 
Rapids,  has  purchased  an  interest in 
the  shoe  and  harness  business  of  his 
father,  to  which  they  will  add  a  line 
of  groceries,  famished  by  the  Mus­
selman  Grocer  Co.,  and  a  line  of  dry 
goods,  furnished  by  P.  Steketee  & 
Sons.  They  will  also  engage  in  the 
shipping  of  hay  and  grain,  and 
the 
firm  name  hereafter  will  be  J.  De 
Kruyter  &  Son.

the 

Dorr— J.  Neumann, 

veteran 
general  dealer  at  this  place,  died 
suddenly  last  Friday  as  the  result 
of  the 
illness  from  which  he  has 
suffered  for  several  years  past.  Mr. 
Neumann  was  a  good  merchant  and 
a  good  citizen  and  his  death  leaves 
a  wide  gap  in  this  community.  The 
funeral  and  interment,  which 
took 
place  Monday,  were  the  most  large­
ly  attended  of  any  event  of  the  kind 
ever  occurring  in  Dorr.  Business  was 
suspended  at  every  business  house in 
the  place.

for 

Howard  City—W.  Fred  Watson, 
who  has  conducted  a  bakery  and  res­
taurant  business  here 
several 
years,  has  made  an  alleged  sale  of  his 
stock  to  his  father  and  departed  for 
parts  unknown.  His  assets  were  ap­
proximately  $700  and  his 
liabilities 
$1,000.  This  circumstance  affords  a 
fresh  illustration  of  the  necessity  of 
a  sale-in-bulk  law  such  as  the  mer­
cantile  interests  of  the  State  have 
pleaded  for  for  several  years  and 
which  would  now  be  on  the  statute 
books  but  for  .the 
and 
treachery  of  the  present  Governor.

ignorance 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit— Harris  Bros.  &  Co.,  man­
and  overalls, 

ufacturers  of  shirts 
have  discontinued  business.

Big  Rapids— Jones  &  Green  are 
razing  the  old  Crawford  sawmill and 
will  put  it  up  near 
their  planing 
mill.

Cassopolis— C.  W.  Bunn  has  nearly 
completed  the  erection  of 
a  new 
sawmill  to  replace  the  mill  recently 
burned.

Petoskey— The  Petoskey  Block  & 
Co.,  manufacturer 
Manufacturing 
of  butchers’  blocks,  will  shortly add 
refrigerators  and  butchers’ 
fixtures.
Bay  City— The  Aylea  Lumber  Co., 
a  local  concern,  has  established  a 
lumber  yard  at  South  Bay  City  for 
the  purpose  of  handling  stock  to  the 
retail  trade.

Detroit— Isaac  N.  Petry,  formerly 
Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Harding 
&.  Petry  Lumber  Co.,  has  disposed 
of  his  interests  to  H.  W.  Harding 
and  the  company’s  name  is  now  the 
H.  W.  Harding  Lumber  Co.

Sparta— The  Sparta  Milling  Co. 
has  leased  the  elevator  at  Grant  and 
will  operate 
in  connection  with 
its  business  here.  E.  W.  Smith,

it 

who  has  been  on  the  road  for  the 
company,  will  have  charge  of  the 
Grant  establishment.

Lansing— F.  Thoman  has  bought 
the  interest  of  J.  P.  Thoman  in  the 
well-known  milling  and  grain  firm* 
of  F.  Thoman  &  Brother,  associated 
in  business  here  for  the  past  twenty- 
one  years.  The  mills  have  resumed 
business  under  the  management  of 
C.  J.  De  Roo,  who  has  for  a  num­
ber  of  years  had 
‘the 
Walsh-De  Roo  Milling  Co.,  of  Hol­
land,  and  Frank  H.  Thoman,  a  son 
of  the  owner.

charge  of 

Ind. 

Arrangements 

Menominee—The  Peninsular  Box 
&  Lumber  Co.  has  secured  an  un­
usually  large  contract  from  the  Sing­
er  Sewing  Machine  Co.,  of  South 
Bend, 
have 
been  made  between  the  two  compan­
ies  whereby  the  Menominee  concern 
will  furnish  all  the  sewing  machine 
company’s  boxes  and 
from 
now  until  January  1,  1906.  The  com­
pany  uses  about  14,000  crates  per 
month  and  as  many  boxes.

crates 

Cheboygan— Nelson  &  Clark  have 
sold  their  sawmill  property  here  to 
M.  D.  Olds,  who  has  large  tracts of 
timber  tributary  to  Cheboygan.  The 
crew  will  all  remain  with  the  new 
owner, until  the  close  of  the  present 
season,  when  ail  the  skilled  help  will 
remove  to  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  where 
Nelson  &  Clark  and  F.  W.  Wheeler, 
of  Detroit,  have  acquired  200,000 
acres  of  land  covered  with  cypress, 
juniper  and  other  varieties  of  valua­
ble  timber  located  on  Juniper  Creek.
Haakwood— The  Haak  Lumber Co. 
has  sold  its  tract  of  hardwood  and 
hemlock,  aggregating  23,000  acres, to 
Frank  Buell  &  Co.,  of  Bay  City.  The 
timber  will  be  shipped  by  rail 
to 
Bay  City,  where  it  will  be  manufac­
tured  in  the  mills  of  the  purchasers. 
This  sale  practically  closes  the  oper­
ations  of  the  Haak  Lumber  Co.  here. 
The  sawmill  burned  last  winter  and 
was  never  rebuilt.  The  flooring mill 
and  other  movable  property  are  to 
be  taken  to  some  other  locality  in 
the  State.

Detroit— The  Detroit  Sulphite  Fi­
bre  Co.  has  been  adjudicated  bank­
rupt  by  order  of  Judge  Swan.  The 
inventory  totaled  $511,522,  with  $23,- 
115.63  bills  receivable.  The 
liabili­
ties  were  scheduled  at  $510,597.90, the 
Old  Detroit  National  Bank  being  a 
creditor  to  the  extent  of  $56,776;  the 
First  National  Bank,  $30,539.33,  and 
E.  Jennie  H.  Richardson,  surviving 
trustee  of  the  estate  of  David  M. 
Richardson,  $45,000.  The  matter has 
been  referred  to  Referee  Davock  and 
the  Detroit  Trust  Co.  and  J.  H.  Mc­
Cormick,  receiver,  will  continue  to 
act,  with  a  $15,000  bond,  until  the 
creditors  take  action.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  Ltd“

Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids
Detroit  Opera  House  Block,  Detroit
Good  but 

slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  d e­
mand 
letters.  Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  codec-

Grand Ra pid s«

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Wealthy,  Maiden  Blush, 
King  and  Strawberry  varieties  com­
mand  $i.50(0)1.75  per  bbl.  The  de­
mand  has  improved  during  the  past 
week.

Bananas— $i@ i .25  for  small bunch­
es;  $1.50(0)1.75  for  Jumbos.  The mar­
ket  is  well  supplied  with  good  stock 
and  prices  hold  steady.  More  inde­
pendent  bananas  are  coming  into the 
United  States  each  year,  and  it  may 
be  that  some  day  the  “trust”  will 
have  a  rival  that  will  really  be  of 
some  good  to  the  trade.  Just  now, 
however,  the  combination  is  as  ar­
bitrary  as  a  setting  hen.

Beans—$1.50(0)1.65  for  hand  picked 

mediums.

Beets-—40c  per  bu.
Butter-—Receipts  of  dairy  are  by 
no  means  as  plentiful  as  a  few  weeks 
in  consequence  of  which  the 
ago, 
price  has  advanced  to 
ir@ i2c  for 
packing  stock  and  i6@i7c  for  No. 1. 
Renovated 
is  also  slightly  higher, 
commanding  I7@I7J^C.  Creamery is 
steady  at  20c  for  choice  and  21c  for 
fancy.

Cabbage—45c  per  doz.
Carrots— 50c  per  bu.
Cauliflower— $1.20  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Crabapples—60c  per  bu.  for  Siber­

ian;  50c  per  bu.  for  General  Grant.

Cranberries— $7  per  bbl. 

Cape 
Cod  berries  have  come  in  abundant­
ly  the  past  week  and  the  color  of 
the  stock  is  better  than  the  early  ar­
rivals.  Prices  are  about  a  quarter  a 
barrel  lower,  with  the  movement as­
suming  bigger  proportions.  W is­
consin  berries  will  arrive  before long.
Cucumbers— 10c  per  doz.  for  large; 

at  I7@ i8c  for  case  count  and  I9@ 

Eggs— Receipts  have  been equal to 
the  demand  and  the  market  is  steady 

>8c  per  100  for  pickling.

last  year  and  2c  under 

20c  for  candled. 
In  the  ordinary 
course  of  events  the  market  should 
advance  soon,  as  it  is  now  i]E^c  un­
der 
1902. 
Eggs  that  are  now  coming  candle 
out  fairly  well,  although  they  con­
tinue  to  show  more  signs  of  being 
held  longer  than  the  receivers  like.

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 
covered  and  no  covers  can  be  obtain­
ed.  Niagaras  fetch  15c  per  81b.  bas­
ket.  Wordens  command  14c  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  Peppers— 65c  per  bu.
Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  io@ 

12c  and  white  clover  at  I3@i5c.

Lemons— Californias  and  Messinas 
fetch  $4.  The  demand  is  only  mod­
erate.

Lettuce— 60c  per  bu.
Musk  Melons— Home-grown  osage

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

Onions  —   Southern 

fetch  50@6oc per crate.  Small  Rocky- 
fords  command  $i.25@i.5o  per  crate.
(Louisiana), 
$1.10  per  sack;  Silver  Skins,  $1  per 
crate;  Spanish,  $1.40  per  crate.  Home 
grown  are  coming  in  freely, 
com­
manding  6o@75c  per  bu.  The  crop 
is  large  and  the  quality  appears  to 
be  fine,  although  the  yield  is  affected 
in  some  districts  by  the  maggots.

Oranges— Mexicans  bring  $4(0)425 
per  box.  As  the  season  advances 
the  orange  market  continues  to  firm 
up  and  choice  sizes  become  harder 
to  get.  The  condition  is  not  unusual 
this  year,  although  it  may  be  that  a 
little  later  the  fruit  will  be  unusually 
difficult  to  obtain  at  any  price,  as 
the  reports  have  it  that  the  late  crop 
is  being  cleaned  up  very  close.
Parsley— 25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Peaches— Chilis,  $i @ i .25;  Crosbys, 
$i .io@ i .35;  Crawfords,  $i .50@i .75; 
Champions  (white),  $i @ i .25;  Gold 
Drops,  $i @ i .25-

Plums— Green  Gages 

scarce 
and  in^  active  demand  at  $1.50  per 
bu.  Blue  varieties,  $1.25(0)1.50.

are 

Pears— Flemish  Beauties  and  Sugar 

fetch  $1  per  bu.

Potatoes— Local  sales  range  from 
35@40c  per  bu.  Dry  weather  and  the 
absence  of  killing  frosts  have  done 
and  will  do  much  yet  to  put  the  crop 
in  good  shape  and  stave  off 
the 
threatened  rot.  So  far  as  stock  com­
ing  to  this  market  is  concerned  there 
is  some  rot  shown  on  it,  but  the  po­
tatoes  seem  to  stand  up  a  reasonable 
length  of  time.

Pop  Corn—90c  per  bu.  for  either

common  or  rice.

and  moderate 

Poultry— Live  is  quiet,  due  to light 
demand 
receipts. 
Spring  chickens, 
io@ n c;  hens,  8@ 
9c;  coarse  fowls,  6@7c;  spring  tur­
keys,  I2@i4c;  old  turkeys,  io@i2c; 
spring  ducks,  9@ioc  for  white;  Nes- 
ter  squabs  are  dull  and  slow  sale  at 
$1.25. 
(drawn) 
ranges  about  2c  per  lb.  higher  than 
live.

Dressed  poultry 

Radishes— Round,  10c; 

long 

and 

China  Rose,  15c.

Squash— Hubbard  commands  Ij4c 

per  lb.

Sweet  Potatoes  —   Virginias 

are 
steady  at  $1.90  and  Jerseys  are  in 
good  demand  at  $3  per  bbl.
Tomatoes— 6o@75c  per  bu.
Turnips— 50c  per  bu.
Watermelons— 10c  apiece  for home 

grown.

The  Grocery  Market.

to 

an 

later 

indicate 

continued 

Sugar  (W.  H.  Edgar  &  Son)—  
Since  we  wrote  you  on  Sept.  20  the 
market  has  remained  nominally  un­
changed.  Spot  raws  are  firmly  held 
at  4  5_I6@4)^c,  with  no  transactions. 
A  cargo  of  Javas  en  route  was  re­
cently  sold  at  a  shade  above  4J4c, 
and 
additional  cargo  at 
equal  to  about  4.31c.  We  now  learn 
of  recent  purchases  by  our  princi­
pal  refiners  of  practically  all  unsold 
Javas  afloat,  two  cargoes  due  in  two 
weeks  at  about  4.31c,  while  two  car­
goes  which  can  not  arrive  until  De­
cember  were  sold  at  a  shade  under 
4kic.  These  purchases 
in 
a  marked  degree 
the  underlying 
strength  of  the  position.  With  re­
finers  willing  to  purchase  for  De­
cember  arrival  at  equal  to  4l^c,  duty 
paid,  any  expectation  of  lower  prices 
tor  sugar  would  seem  to  be  without 
substantial  basis  and  with  little  pros­
In  our  last  we 
pect  of  realization. 
referred 
advances 
abroad.  After  a  slight  reaction  the 
advance  movement  was  renewed,  un­
til  to-day,  when  quotations  for  best 
sugar  figure  to  a  parity  with  centri­
fugals  at  about  4.40c  for  September 
shipment  and  4.48c  for  October.  The 
same  relative  advance 
taken 
place  in  cane  descriptions,  and  this 
general  upward  movement 
is  ac­
counted  for  in  the  conviction  that 
the  total  production  of  sugar  during 
the  coming  campaign  will  hardly  be 
sufficient  for  ordinary  requirements. 
Refined  is  unchanged  and 
strong, 
with  a  possibility  of  higher  prices 
at  any  time.  Withdrawals  continue 
heavy  and  the  volume  of  new  busi­
ness  is  increasing  from  day  to  day. 
There  is  no  sign  of  a  let-up  in 
the 
demand, 
is  a 
slight  improvement  only  in  deliveries. 
We  have  every  reasonable  expecta­
tion  of  an  unusually  heavy  October 
consumption  and, 
the 
strength  of  the  whole  situation,  we 
suggest  the  safety  as  well  as  the  ad­
visability  of  providing  well  in 
ad­
vance  for  wants.

consequently 

in  view  of 

there 

has 

the 

Coffee— All  statistics  point  to 

a 
continued  strong  situation  and  this 
is  the  supposition  that 
large 
roasters  are  working  on  at  present. 
Demand  for  coffee,  as  reported  by 
the  jobbers,  shows  no  particular  fea­
tures. 
the 
trade  is  regaining  confidence  in  the 
market  and  is  laying  in  its  fall  sup­
plies.

It  is  of  good  size,  as 

Messrs.  Waldron,  Alderton  & 
Melze,  wholesale  shoe  dealers 
of 
Saginaw,  have  just  bought  the  en­
tire  stock  of  the  Scheurmann  Shoe 
Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Bay  city,  at 
an  extremely  low  figure.  This stock 
consists  principally  of 
women’s 
warm  shoes,  Nullifiers,  etc.,  and,  on 
account  of  the  low  price  at  which 
it  was  bought,  puts  this  enterprising 
house 
in  a  position  to  give  their 
customers  some  rare  bargains,  which 
will,  no  doubt,  be  appreciated  at  this 
time  of  year.

Great  men  have  no  time  to  tell  the 
multitude  how  to  be  great,  and  no­
body  is  going  to  listen  to  a 
little 
man,  no  matter  how  persistently  he 
squeals  the  directions.

Tea— It  is  quite  evident  that  good 
tea  in  nearly  all  lines  will  be  want­
ed  during  the  entire  season.  There 
has  been  no  change  in  the  situation 
during  the  week.  Holders  of  lower 
grades  are  reported  as  having  some 
difficulty  to  get  rid  of  their  tea,  and 
this  fact  may  cause  some  concessions 
in  price  a  little  later.

Canned  Goods— Tomatoes  are not 
attracting  any  great  amount  of  at­
tention.  The  jobbers  and  brokers 
express  very  little  doubt  that  there 
will  be  plenty  of  them  packed, 
in 
spite  of  some  stories  of  short  crop. 
Much  speculation  is  still  being  in­
dulged  in  as  to  the  pack  of  corn,  but, 
as  usual,  these  guesses  are  of  little 
value.  As  far  as  heard  from 
the 
weather  has  been  reasonably  good

this 

season, 

5
the 
in  all  corn-producing  districts 
past  week,  and  that  will  go  toward 
assuring  a  good  output.  California 
fruits  are  moving  as  well  as  usual 
at 
except  possibly 
peaches,  which  are  so  high  that  they 
are  slow  in  starting.  Salmon  holds 
firm  at  the  prices  last  stated. 
It  is 
hardly  probable  that  the  market  will 
even  keep  its  present  basis  during 
the  winter,  as  the  pack 
fell  very 
much  short  of  last  year’s,  as  noted 
before.  French  sardines  are  high 
and  promise  to  be  higher  before  the 
next  season.  The  catch  was  small, 
according  to  the  brokers,  although  a 
United  States  Consul  at  Nantes  says 
the  catch  this  year  was  a  large  one. 
There  you  have  it.

are 

Dried  Fruits— Peaches 

is  upward.  Raisins  are 

very 
firm,  and  the  demand  is  light  on  ac­
count  of  the  high  prices.  Standard 
and  choice  grades  are  nearly  unob­
tainable,  the  only  grades  offered  be­
ing  extra  choice  and  fancy.  The  ten­
dency 
in 
small  demand.  The  new  seeders’  syn­
dicate  has  infused  some  strength in­
to  the  situation,  and  the  price  is  a 
little  firmer  than  a  week  ago,  be­
cause  the  holders  who  offered  cheap 
raisins  when  the  syndicate  named  its 
new  prices  have  gotten  all  the  orders 
they  want.  Loose  raisins  are  in  fair 
demand  at  probably  J^c  advance over 
prices  of  a  week  ago,  especially  on 3 
and  4-crowns.  Apricots  are  begin­
ning  to  show  some  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.  Prunes  are  unchang­
ed.  The  demand  is  still  light  and 
the  price  low.  There  is  an  improve­
ment  in  the  demand,  however,  but 
none  is  looked  for  in  the  price.

Syrup  and  Molasses— Glucose  has 
made  no  change  during  the  week. 
Compound  syrup  is  still  quiet,  but 
will  improve  in  demand  from  now 
on.  Prices  are  unchanged. 
Sugar 
syrup  is  in  excellent  demand,  both 
for  export  and  manufacturing  pur­
poses  at  home.  Prices  are  unchang­
ed,  but  are  hardening.  Molasses  is 
still  unawakened  and  rules  at  un­
changed  prices.

Stocks  are  very 

Fish— The  market  on  mackerel  is 
still  firm,  as  the  catch  shows  no  im­
provement. 
light 
and  the  trade  are  simply  picking  up 
what  they  can.  A  few  Norways  are 
coming  in,  selling  on  a  basis  of  $23 
for  2’s  and  $21  for  3’s,  in  a  large 
way.  They  were  snapped  up 
at 
once.  Nothing  new  has  developed 
in  sardines.  Practically  all  fear  of a 
shortage  has  now  disappeared,  and 
packers  expect  to  make  full  deliver­
ies.  Prices  are  unchanged.  Cod  is 
getting  firm,  although  no  change has 
occurred  during  the  week.  The  ten­
dency  in  both  cod  and  haddock, how­
ever,  is  upward.  The  demand  is  im­
proving.  Ocean  whitefish  is  selling 
well  at  unchanged  prices. 
Salmon 
is  unchanged  and  quiet.

The  so-called  banana 

trust  has 
transferred  its  local  branch,  which 
has  been  conducted  under  the  style 
of  the  Williams  Fruit  Co.,  to 
the 
Yuille-Zemurry  Co.

If  Destiny  still  refuses  to  give  you 
what  you  want,  camp  out  on  her 
doorstep.  She  will  throw  you  some­
thing  before  long  to  get  rid  of  you.

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

Window

T r im m in g

Some  Notable  Windows  Shown  This

Week.

The  Heystek  &  Canfield  Co.  this 
week  shows  a  lot  of  pictures  suitable 
for  dens  “and  sich,”  also  several  sam­
ples  of  paper  to  render  the  walls  in 
keeping  with  the  “atmosphere”  of 
these  delightful  snuggeries.  Most of 
the  pictures  deal  with  Dutch  charac­
ters  in  their  native  environment.  The 
coloring  of  some  of  the  little  chil­
dren  of  the  Netherlands  is  softer  in 
tints  than  is  usually  seen,  the  effect 
being  really  pastel.  Several  of  the 
flat  Flemish  oak 
a 
windmill  extension  in  one  corner.  A 
three-panel  picture  of  youthful  Chi­
nese  has  two  sizes  of  cute  little  lan­
terns  (flat)  strung  along  the  upper 
part  of  the  frame.  The  window  as 
a  whole  is  so  rich  and  warm  in  tone 
that  it  would  chase  away  a  fit  of  the 
blues.

frames  have 

*  *  *

A  

little 

farther 

down  Monroe 
street  every  one  stops  to  look  into 
the  one  large  window  of  the  above 
firm’s  competitors— C.  L.  Harvey  & 
Co. 
It  is  always  of  interest  to  the 
lover  of  wall  decoration,  and  what 
person  does  not  enjoy 
looking  at 
beautiful  pictures,  even  though  their 
possession  be  denied  him? 
I  know 
funds 
one  woman  whose 
must  be  employed  only 
the 
“most  absolute”— if  I  may  use  such 
an  expression— of  necessities  but who 
manages  to  extract  a  deal  of  pleasure 
in  simply  looking  at  the  lovely things 
in  the  store  windows— things  as  un­
attainable  for  her  as  the  ownership 
of  the  Kohinoor.

slender 

for 

The  person  with  a  touch  of  the 
Oriental  burning  in  his  veins  will  ad­
mire  the  picture  of  veiled  Turkish 
women  lazily  watching  the 
sinuous 
dancing  of  four  beauties  of  the  Far 
East.  Their  feet  are  bare,  with 
bracelets  gleaming  on  their  white 
shapely  ankles.  Turkish  pipes 
re­
pose  on  floor  and  tabourette,  and the 
smoke  is  slowly  rising.  The  woman 
supposed  to  be  the  handsomest  of 
them  all  is  gracefully  reclining  on a 
luxurious  leopard  skin, 
rugs, 
cushions  and  all  the  other  appurte­
nances  of  this  sort  of  life  are  seen 
in  the  most  lavish  profusion.

and 

♦  ♦  ♦

If  I  did  justice  to  Herkner’s  west 
should  want 
window  this  week  I 
nothing  less  than  a  page  of 
the 
Tradesman  to  be  placed  at  my  dis­
posal.  The  products  of  the  jewel­
er’s  art  there  displayed  must  be seen 
to  be  appreciated.  Such  goods  can 
not  be  looked  at  as  we  inspect  those 
of  other  stores— they  are  too  dainty 
in  workmanship,  the  designs  are  too 
intricate  to  receive  a  mere  passing 
glance.

Bracelets  are  again  adopted  by  the 
chief  devotee  at  the  shrine  of 
the 
artificer  in  fine  gold.  One  struck  my 
fancy  particularly—just  a  little  nar­
row  round  band  of  smooth  copper- 
colored  gold  reflecting  the  light  from

its  polished  surface  and  compelling 
you  to  love  it  the  moment  your  eye 
rested  on  it.  The  ends  overlay  each 
other,  each  terminal  set  with  a  spar­
kling  amethyst—just  the  thing  for a 
radiant  brunette.  One  of  the  many 
exquisite  brooches  is  composed  of a 
large  topaz  with  threads  of  pearls 
standing  out  all  around  it.  A   tiny 
watch,  seemingly  more  for  ornament 
seeded  with 
than  use, 
pearls  on  either 
the 
watches  unembellished  with 
jewels 
are  indescribably  beautiful  with  their 
thick  incrustations  of 
the  precious 
metal.  All  the  brooches  displayed 
are  marked  by  extreme  simplicity  of 
design,  and  herein 
lies  their  chief 
charm.

side.  Even 

thickly 

is 

*   *   *

Let  not  the  man  of  taste  pause  in 
front  of  Baxter’s  if  his  purse 
lack 
that  plethoric  condition  so  satisfying 
to  the  soul  of  the  luxurious  liver,  for 
he  is  foreordained  from  the  founda­
tions  of  the  world  to  deep  gnawings 
of  envy  at  his  more  fortunate  broth­
er’s  situation  in  life  and  to  execra­
tions  on  a  stern  fate  that  says  him 
Nay,  Nay!  when  he  would  gratify 
his  longings  for  the  condiments  but 
must  satisfy  his  hunger  with  plain 
bread  and  butter— or  go  without  eat­
ing  entirely.

All 

those 

firmly 

elegant 

suggest!  How 

traveling-y 
’board-ship 
things— what  delightful 
days  do  they 
the 
thick  steamer  rugs  and  the  wool caps 
speak  of  warm  cozy  comfort  in  wind- 
sheltered  nooks! 
If  your  pocket- 
book  is  nice  and  fat  just  notice  those 
umbrellas  and  canes  that  come 
in 
sets,  the  handles  being  exactly  alike 
and  the  pairs  fastened 
to­
gether  in  two  places  with  stout  lit­
tle  fancy  leather  straps.  The  hand- 
dles  of  gun  metal  with  the  inlaid  sil­
ver  four-leaf-clovers  especially  pleas­
ed  me.  And  the  Baxter  filmy  silk 
hosiery,  I  must  not  forget  to  mention 
that.  Talk  about  a  girl’s  “swiping”—  
that’s  not  my  slang,  it’s  what  the 
Lords  of  Creation  designate 
it—  
talk  about  her  just  quietly  appropri­
ating  to  her  own  use  her  brother’s 
little  belongings  in  the  way  of  neck­
ties,  stick-pins,  neckerchiefs  and  um­
brellas— why,  actually,  if  you  exam­
ine  closely  those  delicate  black  silk 
sox  in  the  suspender  window— sox a 
pair  of  which  you  could  without  the 
least  difficulty  draw  through  a  lady’s 
fingerring—you  can  readily  imagine 
your  younger,  or  even  elder,  brother 
guiltily  sneaking  to  your  darling  sup­
ply  and  cutting  the  tops  off  to  meet 
his  shorter  requirements,  and 
that 
without  any  great  stretch  of  the  im­
agination',  either!
*  

*  

*

One  of  the  most  beautiful  windows 
I  have  ever  seen  is  that  of  Hopkins 
&  Oliver,  the  Wealthy  avenue  gro­
cers,  who  have  used  grape  vines with 
the  fruit  on  exclusively.  The  effect 
is  very  striking.  The  vines  are  from 
the  Vinecroft  grapery.

The  Optimist  In  Business.

Stupendous— the 

creative  power
of  optimism!  Before  we  are  done 
prophesying  the  better  day  is  here. 
No  sooner  are  we  prepared  than  the 
improvement  is  come.  To  will,  to

believe,  to  act  is  to  have  the  battle 
half  won.

There  would  seem  to  be  a  mag­
netic  power  in  earnest  preparation. 
How  often  have  we  seen  a  man  put 
in  another  department,  another plant, 
another  machine,  with  no  actual  as­
surance  that  the  move  was  warrant­
ed;  and  yet  the  business  was  forth­
coming  to  justify  it.

It  is,  of  course,  quite  possible  to 
be  over-sanguine.  We  are  presum­
ing  a  practical  business  head.  When 
it  comes  to  being  visionary  the  nar­
row,  hidebound,  over-conservative 
man  takes  the  palm  for  seeing  things 
which  are  not  there.  His  visions  are 
all  of  disaster  and  defeat. 
It  is  as 
impractical  to  conjure  up  an  impos­
sible  disaster  at  each  step  as  to  see 
Golconda  in  every  enterprise.

The  impractical  man  of  either  sort 
will  never  accomplish  much  because 
he  is  not  clear  of  vision;  and  of  the 
two  men  the  sanguine  has  the  better 
of  it,  because  he  feels  good,  and 
about  all  we  get  out  of  life  is  the 
way  we  feel  about  it.

The  great  thing  is  to  see  true.  All 
the  good  work  of  the  world  has  been 
Qone  by  clear  seeing,  buoyant  men. 
When  their  vision  has  reached 
far 
beyond  their  day  they  have  suffered 
for  it.  Recognition  came  after  they 
were  dead.

In  business  life  it  does  not  pay  to 
be  too  far  in  advance  of  the  time. 
Commercial  undertakings 
can  not 
wait  long  for  recognition,  but  it  is 
well  to  keep  always 
enough 
ahead  so  that  the  world  and  one’s 
contemporaries  never  quite  catch  up.

just 

so 

Leadership,  by  never 

little, 
means  separation  from  the  mass.  The 
race  crowd  invariably  knows  the  col­
ors  that  are  leading. 
It  is  not  al­
ways  possible  to  distinguish  the  rel­
ative  places  of  those  in  the  bunch.

We  must  be  buoyant  to  achieve. 
The  meanest  thing  one  can  say  of 
man  or  beast  is  to  call  him  a  poor 
spirited  creature. 
If  a  horse  has  too 
much  mettle  it  may  be  toned  down 
by  age  and  training,  but  little  can  be 
done  with  a  man  or  a  colt  that  mopes 
and  drags  his  feet.  George  Dyer.

Treatment  of  a  Fact.

There  was  once  an  U gly  Little Fact 
that  had  no  home.  So  he  trotted 
along  the  highway  until  he  came  to 
the  community  where  he  belonged, 
when  he  sat  down  on  his  haunches 
in  the  square  and  began  to  howl.

And  as  the  people  hung  over  the 
fence  in  great  numbers,  looking  at 
him,  he  howled  more  loudly  than  be­
fore,  telling  the  truth  about  the  Com­
munity  in  tones  that  penetrated  to 
the  remotest  alley  of  the  town.

Then  a  Leading  Citizen  came  for­
ward  with  a  large  brick,  remarking:
“This  will  never  do.”  And  so  say­
ing,  he  landed  the  large  brick  neatly 
on  the  head  of  the  Ugly  Little  Fact. 
And  other  Leading  Citizens  followed 
his  example.

“We  do  this,”  they  explained,  “not 
because  you  are  true,  but  because you 
are  uncomplimentary,  and  should  be 
treated  as  a  Malicious  Slander.”

A  rifle  has  a  small  mouth,  but  you 

The Smile that Won’t Come Off

remember  what  it  says.

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  Won’t  Come  Off.

The  Smile  that  widens  in  delight,

That  makes  all  frowns  fly  out  of sight,

The  Quaker  Oats  smue-

— that’s  all  right! 

The  Smile  that  Won’t  Come  Off.

Review  of  the  Hardware  Market.
Wire  Nails— Improvement  contin- ' 
ues  in  the  volume  of  business  in  wire 
nails. 
So  many  large  orders  have 
been  placed  since  the  last  official  re­
duction  in  prices  shipments  from  the 
mills  for  the  Western  trade  are  be­
ing  delayed.  Except  at  points  where 
competition  is  very  keen  prices  are 
held  firmly.  The  tendency  to  do 
away  with  arbitrary  differentials  con­
tinues;  carload  lot  prices  being  ac­
cessible  to  carload  buyers  whether 
jobbers  or  large  retailers.  The  most 
prominent  manufacturers  are  not  ac­
cepting  orders  for  delivery  beyond 30 
days.  Quotations  are  as  follows,  f. 
o.  b.  Pittsburg,  60  days,  or  2  per 
cent,  discount  for  cash  in  10  days; 
carload  lots,  $1.60;  less  than  carload 
lots,  $1.65.  Local  quotations  are  as 
Single  carloads,  $i.79J/£l
follows: 
small  lots  from  store,  $i.8s@i-90.

Cut  Nails— The  volume  of  business 
'  in  cut  nails  has  not  increased 
as 
much  proportionately  as  that  in  wire 
nails.  The  natural  requirements  for 
fall  consumption  have  stimulated buy­
ing  to  some  extent,  but  the  bulk  of 
the  demand  is  for  the  wire  products. 
The  majority  of  manufacturers  are 
holding  their  products  at  $i.6o@i.6s 
for  carload  lots  and  less  than  carload 
iots,  respectively,  but  in  the  territory 
west  of  Pittsburg  prices  are  on  a 
basis  of  $1.65  in  carload  lots,  f.  o.  b. 
Pittsburg,  wNi  an  advance  of 
10 
cents  in  less  than  carload  lots.  Lo­
cal  quotations  are  as  follows:  Car­
loads  on  dock,  $1.74;  less  than  car­
loads  on  dock,  $1.79;  small  lots from 
store,  $1.85.

the 

Barb  Wire— With 

recurrence 
of  fence-building  time,  the  demand 
for  barb  wire  is  increasing  noticea 
bly.  The  regular  price  schedule  for 
fencing  is  as  follows,  f.  o.  b.  Pitts­
burg,  60  days,  or  2  per  cent,  dis­
count  for  cash  in  10  days.

Painted  Galv
Jobbers,  carload  lots........$1  75  $2  °5
Retailers,  carload  lo ts...  1  80  2  10 
Retailers,  less 

than  car­

the 

lots................... . 

load 
Smooth  Wire— The  orders 

1  90  2  20
for 
smooth  fence  wire  are  also  greatly 
augmented  and  most  of 
recent 
contracts  call for immediate shipment. 
Quotations  are  as  follows,  f.  o.  b. 
Pittsburg,  60  days,  or  2  per  cent,  dis­
count  for  cash  in  10  days:  Jobbers, 
carloads,  $1.45» 
retailers,  carloads, 
$1.50.  The  above  prices  are  for  the 
base  numbers,  6  to  9.  The  other 
numbers  of  plain  and  galvanized wire 
take  the  usual  advances.

The  Little  Woman’s  Retort.

The  mild  business  man  was  calmly 
in  the  crowded 
reading  his  paper 
trolley  car. 
In  front  of  him  stood a 
little  woman  hanging  by  a  strap-  Her 
arm  was  being  slowly  torn  out  of 
her  body,  her  eyes  were  flashing  at 
him,  but  she  constrained  herself  to 
silence.

Finally,  after  he  had  endured  it  for 
twenty  minutes,  he  touched  her  arm 
and  said:

“Madame,  you  are  standing  on  my 

foot.”

“Oh,  am  I?”  she  savagely  retorted, 

“I  thought  it  was  a  valise.”

No  animal  envies  a  human  beast.

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• 

SEPTEMBER  28,  1904

T H E   Q U EST  FO R  T H E   PO LE.
Undeterred  by  the  many  failures 
to  reach  the  elusive  North  Pole,  a 
constantly  increasing  number  of  as­
pirants  for  the  honor  is  steadily  de­
veloped.  The  dangers,  the  sufferings 
and  even  the  tragedies  which  make 
up  the  history  of  the  quest  for  the 
pole,  instead  of  frightening  off  ex­
plorers  and  dampening  the  spirit  of 
adventure  which  prompts  this  ambi­
tion  for  fresh  discovery,  only  serve 
to  sharpen  the  desire 
succeed 
where  so  many  have  already  failed.

to 

These  excursions  in  quest  of  the 
North  Pole  are  expensive  ventures, 
but  people  have  always  been  found 
willing  to  put  up  the  money  in  the 
hope  that  the  mystery  will  finally 
be  solved.  Even  governments  have 
aided  in  providing  the  cost  of  these 
expeditions.  Men  have  been  found 
prepared  to  try  the  most  dangerous 
and  risky  plans  which  promised  the 
remotest  prospect  of  success.  The 
unfortunate  Andre  with  his  balloon 
was  one  of  these  daring  spirits.

the  ice  pack  and  frozen  polar  basin, 
making  a  bee  line  for  the  pole.

Having  become  convinced  in  his 
own  mind  that  his  plan  is  practicable, 
Commander  Peary  has  set  about con­
structing  a  vessel  such  as  will  best 
carry  out  his  designs.  Heretofore 
ships  intended  for  Arctic  explorations 
have  depended  mainly  on  sails  with 
limited  auxiliary  steam  power.  Com­
mander  Peary  will  build  a  small  ship 
provided  with  high  engine  power and 
with  only  sufficient  sails  to  move  the 
vessel  slowly  in  the  event  that  the 
coal  supply  should  fail.  The  engines 
will  give  about  as  much  power  as the 
average  ocean-going 
tug  possesses 
and  are  expected  to  drive  the  ship 
through  the  ice,  thus  enabling  her  to 
get  farther  north  than  has  been  the 
case  heretofore.  The  vessel  will  be 
constructed  of  wood,  sheathed  with 
steel,  and  the 
bow  will  be  so  ar­
ranged  as  to  lift  under  the  pressure 
of  the  ice  floes,  thus  preventing  the 
crushing  of  the  ship.

In order  that there may be  an  abun­
dance  of  fuel,  the  crew  will  be  quar­
tered  on  deck  and  the  hold  will  be 
given  over  entirely 
coal  and 
stores.  With  such  a  ship  Commander 
Peary  expects  to  get  farther  north 
than  ever  before, 
leaving  a 
shorter  distance  to  travel  by  sled.

thus 

to 

the 

Americans  will  welcome  the 

an­
nouncement  that  Commander  Peary 
is  to  try  again  to  secure  for  this 
country  the  honor  of  the  discovery of 
the  pole.  The  courage  and  persist­
ence  of  the  dauntless  explorer  have 
appealed  strongly  to 
average 
American,  hence  it  is  certain  that  his 
enterprise  will  not  lack  the  financial 
support  which  it is  stated  is  still  need­
ed.  For  an  American  officer  to  dis­
cover  the  pole  is  an  honor  which 
Americans  wil  consider  worth  pay­
ing  for,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  that 
by  the  time  Commander  Peary 
is 
ready  to  start  all  the  money  needed 
will  be  on  hand.

One  of  the  most  persistent,  as  well 
as  successful,  of  the  long  list  of  Arc­
tic  explorers,  is  Commander  Robert 
E.  Peary,  United  States  Navy,  who 
has  made  several  expeditions  to 
the 
Arctic  seas,  and  although  he  did  not 
reach  the  coveted  goal,  he  added 
something  to  the  further  knowledge 
of  the  route  that  must  be  traversed 
and  contributed  largely  to  the  general 
information  about  the  Arctic  region. 
Commander  Peary  has  announced his 
intention  of  making  one  more  voyage 
in  search  of  the  pole,  and  although 
he  does  not  claim  with  confidence 
that  he  will  succeed,  he  clearly  indi­
cates  that  he  has  strong  hopes  of 
succeeding.  Having  made  the  at­
tempt  several  times  before,  he  has 
the  advantage  of  a  thorough  knowl­
edge  of  the  route  as  well  as  the  risks 
and  dangers  he  will  have  to  encoun­
ter.  He  is  in  a  better  position 
to 
make  preparations  in  advance  for the 
difficulties  he  will  have  to  overcome 
than  any 
former  explorer.  Com­
mander  Peary  believes  that  by  mak­
ing  an  early  start  and  pushing  as  far 
north  in  his  ship  as  it  is  possible  to 
go,  and  then  wintering,  he  will  be  in 
?  position  to  reach  the  pole  the  ensu­
ing  summer  by  starting,  as  soon  as 
there  is  enough  light,  in  sleds  over

The  best  and  healthiest  trade  in 
the  world  is  that  of  dye-making  from 
coal  tar.  There  is  no  manual  work 
that  comes  near  it,  for  tar  and  the 
smell  of  it  are  the  best  of  all  tonics 
and  tissue  builders.  The  average 
is  eighty-six 
life  of  a  tar  worker 
years.  The  mortality 
is  8o  per 
cent,  lower  than  in  any  other  factory 
trade.  Malignant  diseases  are  al­
most  unknown  in  aniline  dye  factor­
ies,  and  even  in  epidemics  the  work­
ers  suffer  very  little.  And  there  *is 
nothing  like  a  tar  works  for  keeping 
off influenza.  Yet  the  work  of  actual­
ly  making  the  tar,  which  falls  to  the 
gas  and  coal  works,  is  virulently  un­
healthy,  because  of 
sulphur 
fumes;  but  when  the  tar  is  “finished” 
it  brims  with  health  and  strength, 
and  the  weakliest  men  improve  while 
working  it.

the 

An  Ithaca  woman  has  taken  first 
prize  at  a  baby  show  with  a  waif 
that  she  found  on  her  doorstep.  Still 
it  is  not  expected  that  people  gen­
erally  will  be  pleased  when  they  find 
other  people’s  children  left  on  their 
doorsteps.  They  are  not  all  prizes.

The  wind  does  not  whistle  through 

the  barn  that  is  full  of  wheat.

PROGRESS  O F  TH E  WAR.
Very  little  news  can  be  given  from 
day  to  day  of  the  progress  of  events 
in  the  Far  East,  probably  because 
there  is  really  very  little  news  to
relate  as  far  as  actual  happenings  i 
are  concerned,  but  the  silence  proba­
bly  points  to  momentous  events  in 
preparation.  Just  such  a  dearth  of 
immediately  pre­
news  commonly 
cedes  some  important  action. 
It  is 
known  that  the  Japanese,  having 
rested  after  the 
connected 
with  the  battle  of  Liao-Yang,  are 
again  on  the  move,  with  Mukden  the 
objective.

labors 

covered 

With  their  usual  cunning  the  Jap­
their 
anese  generals  have 
entire 
front,  with  outposts  pushed 
far  enough  forward  to  screen  their 
actual  movements. 
It  is  the  belief 
that  while  advancing  steadily  along 
the  railroad  towards  the  Russian  po­
sition,  General  Kuroki  on  the  right 
and  General  Nodzu  on  the  left  are 
pushing  columns  forward  in  order to 
flank  the  Russian  position  at  Muk­
den.  Whether  the  Russians  accept 
battle  at  the  Manchurian  capital  or 
fall  back  to  Tie-Ling  Pass,  the  flank­
ing  movement  wTill  still  be  the  same. 
The  Tie-Ling  Pass,  while  a  strong 
position,  can  be  readily  turned  with a 
sufficient  force.

In  just  what  condition  the  Rus­
sians  are  for  defending  Mukden  is 
not  known.  They  have  no  doubt 
been  re-enforced,  but  to  what  extent 
it  is  impossible  to  say.  Some  author­
ities  do  not  believe  that  Mukden  will 
be  defended,  but  the  Russians  are a 
dogged  race  and  they  will  probably 
not  retire  from  the  Manchurian  capi­
tal  without  a  sharp  fight.  While  the 
Japanese  have  greatly  strengthened 
the  captured  position  at  Liao-Yang, 
the  capture  of  Mukden  was  a  part  of 
their  original  programme,  hence 
it 
is  safe  to  say  that  they  will  make 
every  necessary  effort  to  drive  the 
enemy  out.  The  Japs  have  undoubt­
edly  been  considerably  re-enforced, 
and  after  a  fortnight’s  rest  they  are 
again  in  excellent  trim  for  a  resump­
tion  of  the  campaign.

According  to  General  Kuropatkin, 
the  Cossacks  have  been  engaged  in 
keeping  in  touch  with  the  enemy  and 
have  unmasked  several  of  his  move­
ments.  While  the  Cossack  may  be 
of  some  value  as  a  scout,  he  has  a 
very  poor  reputation  as  a  fighter.  No 
troops  in  the  world  are  more  over­
rated  than  the  dreaded  Cossacks. 
They  are  simply  a  horde  of  irregu­
lars,  with  whom  plunder  and  cruelty 
are  strong  characteristics,  but  who 
are  of  very  little  value  in  the  fore­
front  of  battle.

Fighting  has  been  apparently  re­
sumed  in  front  of  Port  Arthur,  but 
just  what  the  extent  of  the 
fresh 
assault  which  the  Japanese  are  mak­
ing  will  assume 
is  hard  to  deter­
mine.  That  matters  are  reaching  a 
desperate  pass  in 
the  beleaguered 
fortress  seems  certain,  although many 
of  the  stories  brought  out  of  the  con­
ditions  there  by  refugees  are  un­
doubtedly  much  exaggerated.  That 
desperate  fighting  has  occurred 
is 
certain,  but  that  both  sides  have  set 
aside  all  rules  of  civilized  warfare 
and  have  engaged  in  a  contest  of

savage  extermination  is  highly 
im­
probable.  The  story  accredited  toa 
lieutenant 
certain  young  Russian 
with  a  princely  title 
is  no  doubt 
highly  colored.  How  soon  the  for­
tress  is  likely  to  fall  is  as  much  a 
problem  as  ever.

There  are  several  stories  of 

the 
watch  which  Pope  Pius  carries.  This 
version  is  said  to  be  authentic.  One 
of the  cardinals  was  at  the  Vatican  re­
cently,  and  while  talking  with  the 
Pope,  Pius  took  his  watch  from  his 
pocket  to  see  what  time  it  was.  The 
cardinal  noticed  that  the  timepiece 
was  a  cheap  nickel  affair  with 
an 
old  shoestring  attached  to  it  in  place 
of  a  chain.  The  cardinal  drew  his 
own  costly  chronometer 
from  his 
pocket  and  asked  the  Pope  to  take 
it  as  a  gift,,  and  give  him  the  nickel 
one.  Then  the  Pope’s  face  lighted 
up  with  one  of  those  smiles  which, 
if  one  has  been  fortunate  enough  to 
see  it,  can  never be  forgotten, and said 
that  the  old  watch  was  quite  good 
enough  for  him.  He  added  that 
it 
was  given  to  him  when  a  lad  by  his 
mother,  who  saved  up  her  hard  earn­
ed  coppers  until  she  could  buy  it, but 
there  was  no  money  left  for  a  chain. 
One  of  his  sisters  gave  him  the  shoe­
string  for  that,  and  he  was  so  pleased 
with  his  gift  that  he  promised  his 
mother  he  would  carry  it  as  long  as 
it  kept  time.  The  Pope  has  never 
had  another  watch,  and  says  that  he 
never  will.

Because  a  determined  man  insisted 
on  having  a  seat,  an  extra  car  was 
put  on  a  Reading  train  at  Tamaqua, 
Pa.,  the  other  day.  The  man  walked 
through  the  train  and,  finding  every 
seat  occupied,  took  up  a  position  on 
the  platform.  A   train  man  then told 
him  that  he  would  have  to  go  in­
side.  The  man  said: 
I 
have  paid  for  a  seat  and  I  want  a 
seat,  or  here  I  stay.”  Two  officials 
were  called  from  the  division  super­
indent’s  office  and  they  labored  with 
the  determined  man,  but  without 
success.  Finally  the  officials  ordered 
out  another  car  and  the  determined 
man  entered  it  and  seated  himself, 
while  the  train  pulled  out  ten  min­
utes  late  as  a  result  of  the  incident.

“I  won’t. 

fir 

The  American  Consul  at  Rouen  re­
ports  the  discovery  of  a  process  for 
the  manufacture  of  artificial  cotton 
from  the  cellulose  of  the 
tree, 
which  is  flexible  and  well  adapted  to 
the  uses  to  which  natural  cotton  is 
put.  For  some  years  past  an  excel­
lent  cloth  has  been  obtained  from  the 
fiber  of  the  pineapple,  which  is  rep­
resented  to  be  superior  to  cotton  fab­
ric.  While  neither  of  these  fibers may 
displace  cotton  they  go  far  to  show 
that  human  ingenuity  is  far  from  util­
izing  all  the  resources  of  nature  and 
that  the  comfort  of  mankind  is  not 
totally  dependent  upon  any  particular 
product.

The  only  way  to  tell  if  you  are  in 
love  is  to  close  your  eyes  and  ask 
yourself  if  you  would  be  willing  to 
have  him  at  home  three  rainy  days 
in  succession.  If you  would,  then you 
love  him!

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9

GEN UIN E  SUCCESS.

Traits  of  Character  on  Which  It  De­

pends.

Suppose  you  were  an  employer, 
keen  for  success, devoted to your busi­
ness,  willing  to  be  fair  and  to  exact 
tairness,  which  would  you  prefer— an 
applicant  who  had  mastered  the  three 
R’s,  reading,  writing  and  arithmetic; 
or  one  whose  qualifications  were  in­
tegrity,  industry  and  intelligence?

A  fool  may  read  well.  Some  of  the 
champion  liars  of  all  history  wrote 
well.  One  of  the  best  mathemati­
cians  of  modern  times  is  an  ex-con- 
vict,  a  past  master  of  forgery,  who 
is  said  to  draw  a  salary  from  various 
banks  anxious  to  keep  him 
from 
“the  necessity”  of  resuming  the  per­
formance  of  those 
illegal  acts  for 
which  nature  and  education  have ad­
mirably  fitted  him.
To  generalize: 

Intelligence  pre­
supposes  the  ability  to  read,  write 
and  figure,  and,  in  this  sense,  one  of 
the  three  I’s  includes  all  of  the  three 
R’s.  Certainly,  under  modern  condi­
tions  in  the  United  States  no  child 
of  normal  endowments  need  fail 
to 
know  how  to  read,  write  and  “do 
sums.”  But  many  circumstances may 
contribute  to  the  mental,  moral  and 
physical  obliquity  of  such  a  neo­
phyte. 
is 
found  leaning  safely  and  surely  on 
simon  pure  mathematics.  The  an­
cient  aphorism,  “figures  will  not  lie,” 
is  disproved  in  a  thousand  instances. 
The  ability  to  read.leads  to  the  sewer 
as  well  as  to  the  sanctuary  of  let­
ters.  Blackmailers,  forgers,  embez­
zlers,  as  well  as 
scholars,  philoso­
phers,  churchmen,  may  be,  and  usual­
ly  are,  penmen.

Oftentimes  dishonesty 

What,  then,  becomes  of  the  time 
honored  theory  that  the  three  R’s 
are  the  fundamental  requirements  for 
success?

It would  be  quite  easy  to  show  that, 
under  existing  conditions,  the  best 
man  generally  achieves 
the  most 
good  without  regard  to  the  three  Rs.
Thomas  Alva  Edison,  the  wizard of 
Menlo  Park,  the  most  successful  of 
American  inventors,  never  measured 
up  to  the  ideal  qualifications  of  writ­
er,  reader  and  arithmetician.  To  this 
day  he  is  notably  weak  in  mathemat­
ics.  His  handwriting 
is  scandalous 
from  a  pedagogical  point  of  view.  He 
is  not  well  grounded  in  physics.  He 
has  been  able  to  read  since  he  was  ^ 
years  old,  but  with  all  his  abnormal 
voracity  for  books  few  men  have  read 
with  less  system  or  to  slighter  pur­
pose.

Edison  began  life  the  child  of  poor 
parents;  his  education  was  limited  to 
narrow  scope  afforded  by  a  district 
school.  He  managed  to  learn  the 
alphabet  and  became  in  time  a  rapa­
cious  reader  of  books.  But  he  read 
without  purpose,  without  foresight, 
without  system.  He  tells  himself  of 
having  devoured  seventeen  shelves 
of  printed  volumes  in  the  public  li­
brary.  Fiction,  poetry,  history,  geog­
raphy,  science,  religion— it  was  all 
one  to  Edison.  He  read  everything, 
and,  when  he  was  through,, when  the 
lime  came  when  he  had  to  earn  his 
own  living,  he  didn’t  know  what  he 
had  read.  Long  division  mystified 
him.  His  writing  was  impossible  to

read.  He  became  a  train  boy,  a  news 
agent  on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway 
in  Michigan,  probably  for  the  reason 
that  this  work  did  not  require  any 
special  development  either  as  reader, 
writer,  or  arithmetician.

What,  then,  did  he  bring  to  his 
life’s  work?  He  was  deficient  in  two 
of  the  famous  R’s.  But  he  was  mas­
ter  of  the  three  E’s.  He  had  energy, 
enterprise  and  emulation,  the  last  be­
ing  another  word  for  ambition.  He 
had  the  three  I’s,  integrity,  industry 
and  intelligence,  and  the  possession 
of  these  inherent,  rather  than  acquir­
ed,  qualities  made  him  in  time  mas­
ter  of  those  purely  artificial  attain­
ments  which  he  regarded  as  less  fun- | 
damental  than  the  bigger,  vaguer  and 
more  potential  qualities  which  go  to 
If  he  had  no 
make  up  character. 
accomplishments,  at 
least  he  had 
character,  and  he  knew,  as  most  wise 
persons  know,  that  character  is  the 
foundation  and  the  energy  of 
all 
achievement.

in 

Native  intelligence,  indomitable  in- 
dusty,  unswerving  integrity,  all  ele­
mental  qualities,  commenced  at  once 
to  drill  for  Edison  holes 
the 
adamantine  front  of  the  future,  which 
never  yields  to  the  puny  strokes  of 
mere  reading,  writing  and  arithmetic. 
A  poor  writer,  young  Edison  started 
a  newspaper  and  wrote  most  of  it 
himself;  a  bad  mathematician,  he  con­
trived  a - printing  office  in  the  bag­
gage  car  and  made  it  pay;  having 
once  the  single  attainment  of  wide 
reading,  he  made  that  come  to  the 
lescue  of  his  numerous  shortcom­
ings  and  passed  in  a  few  months 
lrom  the  position  of  newsboy  to that 
of  editor.

To  this  day  Edison  is  not  master 
of  the  mathematics  of  chemistry,  and 
yet he  has achieved more  in  chemistry 
than  half  the  scientists  of  his  day.  He 
is  accused  of  being  “a  poor  business 
man,”  and  yet  good  business  men 
trust  him  implicitly  because 
they 
know  that  his  integrity 
is  beyond 
question.  In  a  day’s  study  he  has  di­
vined  and  simplified  problems  that 
for 
had  occupied 
scientific  minds 
decades.  He  is  so  intelligent 
that 
observers  call  him  the  wizard  for  lack 
of  a  better  name.  He  divines  things 
that  balk  reason  and  defeat  the  most 
conscientious  research.

Four  times  during  his  phenomenal 
career  he  has  worked  himself  into  a 
physical  collapse.  The  cheapest  me­
chanic  in  his  shop  or  laboratory  does 
not  work  as  long  or  as  hard  as  does 
Edison.  By  his  indefatigable  industry 
he  makes  real  the  dreams  of  academ­
ic  idlers.  Even  now  he  has  to  hire 
experts  to  figure  out  the  mathemati­
cal  problems  of  his 
investigations. 
He  has  failed  a  hundred  times,  but 
he  has  never  been  discouraged.  He 
has  succeeded  a  thousand  times,  but 
he  has  never  admitted  that  his  work 
is  done.  He  has  written  little,  but 
his  works  have  spoken  for  him  in 
tones  that  will  not  die  or  be  mistak­
en,  and,  while  he  will  be  remembered 
as  a  great  inventor  who  contributed 
almost  nothing  to  scientific  literature, 
yet  he  will  be  always  famous  as  one 
who  achieved  more  facts  than  any 
of  his  contemporaries  or  predeces­
sors.

The  boy  who  can  read  and  reads 
only  frivolity,  falsehood  and  filth; the 
child  or  man  who  can  write  and 
writes  vulgarisms,  names  and  mot­
toes  in  public  places;  the  person  who 
can  “figure”  and  figures  race  track 
“dope,”  gambling  percentages,  poli­
cy  chances  and  lottery  luck;  all  of 
these  persons  have  probably  mas­
tered  the  three  R’s.  But  they  seldom 
are  enlightened;  they  probably  lack 
enterprise  and  energy. 
Intelligence 
will  not  be  satisfied  with  reading lies. 
It  will  not  wallow  in  obscenity. 
It 
will  strive  after  the  best  that  is  with­
in  reach  of  its  equipment.

The  industrious  man  who  can write 
will  not  cut  his  initials  on  trees  and 
fences,  nor  will  he  scribble  doggerel 
on  whitewashed  walls.  The  man  of 
integrity  realizes  and  shuns  the  swin­
dle  of  the  gaming  table;  he  knows 
that  a  wager  may  be  a  hostage 
to 
dishonor,  and  is  quite  aware  that  in 
the  inexorable  mathematics  of 
life 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  something 
for  nothing.  Such  men  may  be  poor 
writers,  hesitating  readers,  impossible 
arithmeticians,  but  they  have  mas­
tered  those  superior  qualities  which 
include  all  the  fundamental 
essen­
tials.  No  intelligent  man  will  fail to 
acquire  the  modest  arts  of  reading 
and  writing.  No  industrious,  honest 
man  will  fail  in  the  mathematics nec­
essary  to  computing  his  money,  his 
earnings,  his  debts,  and  the  properties 
confided  to  him.

include 

It  must  appear,  then, that integrity, 
industry  and  intelligence  lie  nearer 
to  the  necessities  than  reading,  writ­
ing  and  arithmetic,  for  they  are  vi­
tally  the  qualities  which  make  or  mar 
the  utilities  of  mere  crafts. 
Is  it  not 
better  to  be  dumb  than  to  be  a  per­
jurer?  Or  finer  to  be  illiterate  than 
to  pen  a  slander?  Or  to  count  no 
farther  than  five  on  the  fingers  rath­
er  than  to  wreck  a  bank  with 
fine 
figures,  the  furtive  lies  of  higher 
mathematics?  To  be  a  reader,  writ­
er  and  mathematician  is  not  to  be  in 
ac­
possession  of  the  fundamental 
quirements  of  an  education. 
It  is 
far  better  to  be  honest,  energetic  and 
intelligent,  for  these 
and 
promise  all  the  other  basic  require­
ments  and  the  simple  arts  are,  after 
all,  but  tools,  weapons,  media  for the 
exercise  of  the  spiritual  and  intellec­
tual  good  that  is  in  us,  means  which 
may  be  useful  or  evil  as  they  are  ex­
ercised  by  good  or  sinister  motives.
The  illiterate  but  intelligent  boy, 
entering  an  office  to  start  his  life  of 
work,  has  a  distinct  advantage  over 
the  reading  and  writing  boy  whose 
mind  is  warped  or  dull.  Character, 
as  a  power  in  the  world,  is  infinitely 
superior  even  to  genius,  and  in  meas­
uring  one’s  qualifications  it  must not 
be  forgotten  that  energy,  industry, in­
tegrity  and  intelligence  are  character­
istics,  and  therefore  essentially  great­
er  than  any  superficial  accomplish­
ments  such  as  penmanship,  eloquence, 
mathematics,  music,  logic,  or  any  art 
or  any  craft.  Genius  often  finds  its 
way  into  jails,  madhouses  and  pot­
ter’s  fields.  Character  never  goes  to 
waste,  for,  in  this  sense,  it  comprises 
fidelity,  patience,  toil  and  truth.

Edison  is  a  man  of  character  rath­
Indeed,  it

er  than  a  man  of  genius. 

It  is  something  to  know  that 

is  well  known  that  some  of  his  great­
est  achievements  have  been 
the 
dreams  of  brilliant  visionaries  made 
In  his 
real  by  the  drudging  realist. 
alembic  the  fancies  of  genius  are  re­
duced  to  the  facts  of  the  practician. 
At  his  forge  a  wire  and  a  magnet 
utter  the  music  of  the  spheres.  He 
is  no  musician,  but  he  has  made  a 
wax  cylinder  and  a  brass 
trumpet 
echo  the  voices  of  a  thousand  sing­
ers.  He  has  put  the  ecstasies  of 
dreamers  into  a  solution  of  hard 
work  and  precipitated 
incalculable' 
facts.  Character  and  not  inspiration 
has  been  always  the  fire  of  his  fur­
nace,  and  even  now,  blown  with  the 
bellows  of  his  ceaseless 
enterprise 
and  stirred  with  the  iron  of  his  tire­
less  diligence,  his  fire  remains  bright.
in 
these  days  education  is  making  more 
directly  for  the  development  of  the 
character  than 
ever  before.  The 
training  of  the  intelligence;  the  de­
velopment  of  candor  in  word  and 
deed;  the  sense  of  the  values  of  work 
and  patience;  these  some  day  will 
precede  without  superseding  the  in­
cidental  and  largely  superficial  attain­
ments;  for  they  are  the  basis,  the 
fountain  heads,  the  origins  and  ener­
gies  of  all  worthy  effort.  They  are 
as  the  brain  and  the  heart  and  the 
spirit  to  the  hand,  the  eye  and  the 
tongue,  and  so  they  come  first  in 
the  measurement  of  things  that  count.
The  boy  who  writes  falsehoods  in 
copper  plate  is  not  comparable  with 
the  truth  teller  who  can  not  hold  a 
pen.  To  divine logarithms and to cal­
culate  percentages  will  not  balance 
the  account  of  the  Shylock,  the  mis­
er,  with  his  fellow  men.  To  read  the 
stories  of  the  ages  will  not  whiten the 
soul  of  him  who  emulates  villainy and 
forgets  the  ten  commandments.  To 
be  enlightened  is  to  know.  To  be 
educated  may  be  to  be  equipped  for 
ultimate  deviltry,  since  some  of  the 
greatest  scholars  have  been  arch­
fiends  of  vice.

The  intelligent  office  boy  will learn 
to  read  and  write  while  he  is  waiting 
for  the  telephone  to  ring.  He  will 
attack  the  waste  basket  and  the  ink­
well  with  zeal  because  he  is  industri­
ous. 
Intelligence  includes  integrity, 
for  there  is  no  more  flagrant  example 
of  dense  stupidity 
than  dishonesty, 
and  the  normal  mind  eschews  it  as 
the  normal  stomach  resents  whisky 
or  tobacco.  Habit,  an 
impalpable 
slavery,  may  come  to  negative  the 
best  native  qualities  of  a  man,  or  it 
may  come  to  intensify  and  direct  all 
of  his  finest  characteristics.

The  habit  of  industry  can  be  ac­
quired  as  easily  as  the  habit  of  idle­
ness.  But  it  is  always  the  man  or 
boy  of  character  who  intrenches  him­
self with  good  habits,  and  it  is  always 
the  moral  weakling,  the  characterless 
person,  who  becomes  the  slave  of 
evil  habits.  Accomplishments  are 
either  helps  or  hindrances  to  genu­
ine  success.  High  qualities  of  char­
acter  alone  can  make  them  worth 
while,  mighty  and  enduring.

John  H.  Raftery.

When  a  man 

introduces  himself 
with  flattery  you  may  count  on  him 
as  a  probable  foe.

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sea-shell  with  beautiful  inlaid  work. 
This  work  usually  shows  at  its  full 
value,  athough  the  fine  workmanship 
of  this  beautiful  button  in  question 
is  worth  especial  mention.  The  col­
oring  is  wonderful  and  for  fine  trim­
ming  few  buttons  can  equal  this  one. 
It  is  one  of  the  best  of  the  season’s 
novelties.

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

sprinkling  of 

Madam  Pompadour  designs 

are 
quite  the  proper  caper  this  season, | 
and  all  the  import  lines  show  a  lib- j 
eral 
these  designs. 
These  are  noted  for  their  fine  and 
minute  workmanship  and  they  seem 
to  be  the  natural  accompaniment  for 
the  styles  of  the  season,  old  fashion­
ed  as  they  are.

Small  roses  with  their  leaves  care­
fully  worked  out  and  each  little  thorn 
carefuly  put  on 
is  the  commonest 
pattern,  although  these  popular  goods 
come  in  many  modified  forms.

BU TTO N S  AND  BUTTONS.

Which  Variety  Will  Capture  the  Pop- ¡ 

ular  Fancy?

The  domestic  manufacturers  have 
made  up  their  sample  lines  and  are 
anxiously  awaiting  the  decisions  of 
buyers  to  know  what  is  the  popular 
fancy. 
It  is  said  that  gilt  is  to  be 
very  good,  although  buyers  are  rath­
er  steering  clear  of  it  early  in  the 
season  for  the  reason  that  it  had  such 
a  decided  vogue  early  last  year.

Enameled  effects  are  good  proper­
ty  and  some  buyers  are  placing  good- 
sized  orders,  although  they  count  for 
very  little  as  it  is  the  re-orders which 
tell  the  tale  to  the  manufacturers. 
Fancy  shapes  and  designs  are  bound 
to  be  good  value,  although 
is 
rather  early  in  the  year  to  tell  with 
certainly  what  will  sell  and  please 
the  public.

it 

Filigre  designs  look  well  on  heavy 
fabrics  and  will  probably  have  quite 
a  following,  although  these  buttons 
must  be  good  grade  to  make  a  fine 
showing.

Some  very  natty  new  things  are 
being  shown  in  the  button  line.  The 
line  of  domestic  goods  is  especially 
rich  in  novelties,  the  best,  perhaps, 
being  the  champagne  colored  pearl  j 
buttons.  These 
in  various 
styles,  and  run  through  the  varying 
sizes.  Gold  still  continues  in  vogue, 
and  it  is  highly  improbable  that  it 
will  be  killed  before  it  has  run  its 
natural  course.

come 

The  pearl  button  is  having  a  decid­
ed  vogue  this  season  and  some  very 
handsome  samples  are  being  shown,  j 
The  larger  sizes  are  used  extensively ¡ 
as  trimming,  and  the  smaller  play | 
the  general  utility  air.  Pearl  is  so j 
easily  worked  into 
such  beautiful  | 
tints  and  tones  that  it  blends  well 
with  almost  any  kind  of  fabric,  and 
is  never  too  conspicuous.

and  dome 

It  is  reported  that  buttons  are  get­
ting  away  from  the  spherical  shapes 
and  are  gradually  working  into  the 
hemi-spherical 
shapes. 
While  the  globe  shape  is  attractive  it 
still  is  rather  difficult  to  adjust  prop­
erly  upon  a  fabric  without  giving  it 
a 
For 
real  hard  wear  the  dome  shapes,  of 
course,  are  the  best.

too  prominent 

position. 

For  the  summer  gowns  some  very 
fine  samples  of  hand  embroideries are 
to  be  seen.  For  the  all-white  shirt 
waist  suits  these  buttons are embroid­
ered  with  the  tiny  pompadour  roses 
and  make  a  very  attractive  showing. 
As  a  general  thing  the  buttons  are 
covered  with  the  same  kind  of  ma­
terial  as  the  gown  and  thus  the  whole 
idea  of  continuity 

is  preserved.

Washable  buttons  in  various  sizes 
are  seen  in  the  shops.  These  are 
pretty  and  durable  and  are  very  prac­
tical  for  wash  fabrics,  especially  for 
children’s  apparel.

The  fine  enamel  effects  this  season 
come  in  the  novelties  and  some  fine 
enamels  are  shown  against  cut  steel 
backgrounds.  Others  are 
studded 
with  cut-steel  and  make  pleasing  nov­
elties.  The  designs  are  strictly  up- 
to-date  and  buyers  in  search  of  high 
grade  goods  will  do  well  to  have  a 
look  at  the  fine  enamels.

A  fine  design  is  in  the  shape  of  a

in 

Rhinestones  come 

large-sized | 
buttons,  as  well  as  the  smaller  ones, 
and  are  by  no  means* cheap.  Rhine­
stones,  as  rhinestones  pure  and  sim­
ple,  are  coming 
favor  once 
more,  and  buyers  are  looking  over 
the  lines  with  favorable  eyes.

into 

Odd  buttons  come  in  the  emblems 
of  the  court  of  Louis  XVI.,  and  keep 
people  guessing  as 
in  what  period 
they  belong.  Without  a  doubt  they 
are  clever,  and  the  designs  show  mer­
it,  so  that  they  are  assured  of 
a 
leadv  sale  in  the  fine  goods.

Some  velvet  and  fabric  designs are 
to  be  found  in  combination  with  the 
metal,  all  finishes  and  colors  going 
well,  although  there  is  a  great  deal 
j of  the  castor  sold  as  well  as  the  myr­
tle  green.

Filigre  buttons  are  handsome  and 
what  woman  can  resist  them  as  trim­
ming  for  a  handsome  gown,  especial­
ly  when  the  design  is  strictly  new 
and  exclusive.  Of  course  the  prices 
for  the  fine  grade  buttons  are  high, 
j but  then  a  woman  who  has  the  taste 
to  purchase  these  buttons  usually  has 
|  the  money  to  go  with  it  and  gratifies 
her 
Some  fine  filigre 
buttons  come  in  steel,  gun  metal  and 
silver,  besides  the  regulation  finish 
of  gilt.

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those 
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to 

Being  detailed 

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scientific  expedition  on  an  extended 
cruise,  the  officer  unbent  a  little  in 
communicating  the  news  to  his  per­
sonal  attendant.

“Well,  James,”  he  said,  “how  would 
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world?”

“Do  we  go  from  east  to  west,  sir?” 

asked  the  valet.

“Yes.”
“We  lose  a  day  in  going  that  way, 

don’t  we?”
“We  do.”
“Well,  sir,  I’d  like  it  first-rate. 

would  give  me  one  day  off.”

It 

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which  they  lived  and  occurred,  and 
their  bearing  on  the  lives  and  actions 
of  those  who  followed  them.  The 
teacher  who  can  not  help  those  he 
seeks  to  instruct  to  a  perception  of 
these  relations  is  not  fit  to  teach  his­
tory. 

Frank  Stowell.

STU D Y  OF  H ISTORY.

Wrong  Method  of  Teaching  in  the 

Public  Schools.

to 

those 

A  number  of  American  editors, act­
ing  on  the  assumption  that  one  of 
the  most  important  functions  of jour­
nalism  is  to  instruct,  are  printing 
what  they  call  “Daily  History.”  They 
are  prompted  to  this  course,  it  is 
said,  by  the  desire  to  make  their  pa­
pers  acceptable 
school­
teachers  who  have  concluded  that the 
press  can  be  made  a  useful  auxiliary 
in  their  educational  work. 
If  what 
they  offer  pleases  the  teachers,  and 
is  really  regarded  by  them  as  a  val­
uable  aid  to  the  study  of  history, we 
greatly  fear  that  they  are  not  com­
petent  judges.  To  impart  to  pupils a 
knowledge  of  the  performances  of 
men  in  bygone  days  is  not  an  easy 
task. 
It  can  not  be  done  at  all  by a 
resort  to  what  may  be  called  the 
chronological  method.  Dates  are but 
the  dry  bones  of  history,  and  have 
not  even  the  merit  of  being  articu­
lated  when  they  are  presented  from 
day  to  day  without  attempting 
to 
make  them  fit  in  with  contemporary 
events.  To  have  any  value‘they must 
be  bound  together,  and  the  skeleton 
must  be  provided  with  the  flesh  of 
description,  and  into  the  whole  must 
be  breathed  the  spirit  of  understand­
ing.

Of  what  value  to  the  pupil  is  a 
statement  of  such  isolated  facts  as 
the  following,  which  we  find  in  one 
of  these  newspaper  lessons:

excellent  of 

Sept.  22,  19  B  C.,  Publius  Vergilius 
all 

Maro,  the  most 
the  ancient  Roman  poets,  died.
Sept.  22,  622  A.  D.,  Flight  of  Ma­
homet;  an  imposing  event,  which, it 
is  stated,  took  place  sixty-eight  days 
after  the  commencement  of  the  great 
Arabian  era,  July  16th.
Sept.  22,  1193  A.  D.,  Henry  IV.,  of 
Germany,  and  his  captive,  Richard 
the  Lion, 
from 
Spires  to  the  primates  and  magnates 
of  England, 
severe 
terms  of  ransom  “agreed”  upon  be­
tween  them.
Sept.  22,  1415  A.  D.,  Henry  V. 
took  Harfleur,  in  France,  reducing it 
to  an  English  colony. 
.
Sept.  22,  176?,  George  III.  and  his 
Queen  Charlotte  crowned  at  West­
minster.

addressed 

ratifying 

letters 

And  about  fifteen  more  of  the  same 

the 

sort.

It  is  about  as  hopeless  a  task  to 
impart  historical  knowledge  by  this 
method  as  it  would  be  to  teach  a 
-child  the  English  language  by  caus­
ing  it  to  study  and  get  by  heart  fif­
teen  or  twenty  words  a  day  of  the 
unabridged  dictionary,  which  is  said 
to  contain  a  quarter  of  a  million  def­
initions.  Something  like  this  plan is 
adopted  in  many  of  our  schools,  and 
because  with  advancing  age  the  pu­
pil  masters  enough  of  the  tongue  he 
hears  spoken  at  home  and  elsewhere 
to  express  himself  fairly  teachers  and 
parents 
system 
works  well  in  practice.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  however,  it  is  not  the  few 
words  and  definitions 
laboriously 
learned  by  rote  which  constitute the 
equipment  of  the  speaker  and  writer; 
were  he  to  depend  upon  them,  his 
resources  would 
indeed  be  slender. 
It  is  what  he  has  picked  up  imper­
ceptibly  that  stands  him  in  real  stead. 
What  he  adds  to  his  vocabulary  after 
leaving  school  is  of  infinitely  more

imagine  that 

the 

consequence  than  that  which  he  ac­
quired  by  the  process  of  memoriz­
ing.

learn  a 

language  from 

To  attempt  to  learn  history  by 
cramming  the  mind  with  facts  chron­
ologically  arranged  differs  in  no  es­
sential  particular  from  the  futile  ef­
fort  to 
a 
dictionary.  Dictionaries  and  chronol­
ogies  have  their  uses.  They 
are 
store-houses  of  information  to  be 
drawn  upon  when  required,  but  they 
contain  much  useless  lumber,  which 
it  would  be  senseless  to  transfer  to 
the  brain  even  if  that  repository  had 
the  capacity  to  take  care  of  it.  What 
possible  benefit  can  any  one  derive 
from  knowing  the  exact  day  of  the 
month  and  year  in  which  George  III. 
was  crowned,  or  the  date  of 
the 
death  of  the  Roman  poet,  Virgil? 
How  much  is  the  mind  broadened 
when  it  holds  captive  the  fact  that 
Henry  IV.,  of  Germany,  and  Richard 
the  Lion  Hearted, 
of  England, 
agreed  as  to  the  terms  of  the  ransom 
of  the  latter  on  the  22d  of  September, 
1193?  What 
the 
cession  by  the  Oneidas  of  their  lands 
the 
to  the  State  of  New  York  on 
22d  of  September,  1788,  with 
the 
other  events  occurring  on  other 
twenty-seconds  of  September?  These 
events  thus  virtually  bracketed  have 
no  more  relation  to  each  other  than 
a  number  of  figures  set  down  at  ran­
dom;  therefore,  it  is  unwise  to  associ­
ate  them  together,  for  the  inevitable 
result  must  be  the  production  of  con­
tusion  in  the  minds  of  pupils.

connection  has 

the 

schools 

to  apply 

To  teach  history  as  it  should  be 
taught  in  our  public 
the 
methods  of  the  universities  must  be 
adopted.  The  scholar  should  not  be 
required  to  load  his  mind  with  dates; 
the  aim  should  be  to  give  him  a  vivid 
impression  of  the  doings,  not  only  of 
the  chief  actors  but  of  the  people  of 
It  is  perfectly 
the  period  treated. 
practicable 
system 
adopted  by  Mommsen  to  the  discus­
sion  of  every  historical  event  and 
personage.  Take  all  of  the  incidents 
or  events  quoted  above  and  it  will  be 
seen  that  it  is  not  difficult  to  give 
them  a  setting  which  would  interest 
and  instruct.  To  tell  a  pupil  that  Vir­
gil  died  on  a  certain  date  and  that  he 
was  an  excellent  poet  is  not  calcu­
lated  to  arrest  the  attention;  but 
link  his  name  with  the  literary  and 
other  exploits  of  the  Romans  of  the 
century  before  the  beginning  of  our 
era  and  that  object  will  be  accom­
plished.  The  date  of  the  hegira  is 
of  very  little  consequence  in  itself, 
and  the  teacher  who  thinks  that  the 
pupil  who  fixes  it  in  his  mind  is  lay­
ing  up  historical  information  of  value 
is  mistaken.  The  flight  was 
an 
event  in  the  life  of  Mohammed,  but 
the  really  important  thing  .for  the 
student  to  grasp  is  a  comprehension 
of  the  achievement  of  the  man  who 
gave  a  religion  to  the  world  whose 
votaries  are  numbered  by  hundreds 
of  millions. 
It  is  not  impossible  to 
do  this  in  a  comparatively  brief  talk 
in  which  genuinely  useful  knowledge 
may  be  conveyed  together  with  in­
teresting  anecdote. 
It  does  not  re­
quire  the  genius  of  a  Plutarch  to  do 
this,  although  the  practice  of 
the 
garrulous  old  biographer  of  avoiding 
tediousness  by  being  too  exact 
in

the  matter  of  dates  might  be  imi­
tated  with  profit  by  all  who  talk  or 
lecture  on  historical  subjects.

in 

Text-books  and  chronologies  can 
not  be  dispensed  with  entirely  by 
teachers  in  our public  schools.  Prop- I 
erly  used  they  are  a  valuable  adjunct 
in  the  work  of  teaching  history,  but 
interest  must  be  developed 
the 
subject  before  they  become  of  real 
service  to  the  scholar.  That  can  be 
best  done  in  the  manner  above  sug­
gested.  No  real  advance  can 
be 
made  by  the  student  who  is  merely 
crammed  with  dates  and  the  bare 
bones  of  events.  By  such  adventi­
tious  aids  he  may  qualify  himself  to 
pass  an  examination,  but  he  will 
never  know  or  understand  history 
until  he  learns  the  relations  of  men 
and  things  during  the  period 
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tions  of  Missouri  and  adjacent  states 
remarked  on  his  return:  “There  are 
no  eggs  coming  in  down  there;  never 
saw  so  few  at  this  season.”  The  next 
man  I  chanced  to  meet  was  a  receiv­
er;  I  asked  him  how  his 
invoices 
were  running  and  he  said,  “Unusually 
iarge;”  he  added  that  he  had  just  re­
ceived  word  of  the  shipment  of  a 
straight  car  of  fresh  stock  from  a 
Missouri  point.

these 

But  sometimes 

conflicting 
statements  come  from  one  and  the 
same  source.  An  egg  man  showed 
me  a  letter  the  other  day,  written by 
a  shipper  who  was  forwarding  regu­
lar  consignments. 
In  it  he  said  that 
eggs  were  getting  very  scarce  in  his 
territory  and  that  he  felt  certain  that 
the  New  York  market  would  very 
soon  have  to  advance;  he  enclosed  an 
invoice  for  a  shipment  of  about  the 
usual  size  and  wound  up  by  advising 
that  he  expected  to  forward  a  larger 
lot  next  time.

The  scale  of  egg  movement  to  the 
principal  distributing  centers  and  the 
rate  of  reduction  of  accumulation  of 
stock  at  representative  points  seem 
at  present  to  afford  the  most  relia­
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unfortunately,  not  always  accurately 
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ples,  etc.  Why,  then,  should  not  this 
principle  be  applied  on  behalf  of  the 
dairy  industry?  Generally  speaking, 
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compelled  to  do  things  by  the  law, 
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tories  and  creameries.

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the 
ferent  to  the  requirements  of 
trade  and  public  health?  At 
the 
present  time  about  three-quarters  of 
the  Ontario 
factories  and 
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Observations  of  a  Gotham  E gg  Man.

Discussing  the  merits  of  the  egg j 
situation  with  a  number  of  different  j 
people,  all  more  or  less  interested,  | 
it  is  sometimes  amusing  to  observe ! 
the  lengths,  the  depths,  the  heights j 
to  which  some  folks  will  go  in  the | 
search  for  “pointers.”  After  talking I 
the  situation  over  a  half  dozen  times | 
with  as  many  egg  men  one  will  not 
only  have  mulled  over  the  apparent I 
comparative  supply  of  reserve  stock, 
the  scale  of  receipts  and  rate  of  out­
put,  but  his  attention  will  have  been 
directed  to  the  effects  of  the  recent! 
meat  strike,  the  character  of  immi­
gration  as  affecting  the  demand  for | 
eggs,  the  evidence  that  the  farmers 
are  selling  off  an  unusual  quantity 
of  poultry  (and  vice  versa),  the  ef­
fects  of  the  moulting  season,  various 
views  as  to  the  extent  of  present  pro­
duction,  etc.,  etc.,  even  down  to  pre­
dictions  as  to  the  future  weather  con­
ditions.

I  sometimes  think  the  average  egg 
man,  in  his  keenness  to  size  up  the 
probable  course  of  values 
aright, 
delves 
into  too  great  a  range  of 
causes  when  he  might  better  save his 
gray  matter  and  stick  closer  to  a 
consideration  of  effects.  There  are 
always  in  the  future  of  the  egg  mar­
ket,  especially  as  we  approach  the 
winter  season, 
elements 
affecting  the  situation  that  can  only 
be  guessed  at;  these  may  as  well  be 
sized  up  on  a  system  of  general  aver­
ages.  And  as  for  the  remoter  causes 
which  bear  upon  present  conditions, 
they  may  as  well  be  ignored  in  favor 
of  the  consideration  of  their  average 
and  general  or  combined  effects  as 
showrn  in  the  actual  movement  of 
goods,  so  far as  available  statistics  of 
such  movement  are  obtainable.

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One  hears,  at  times,  some  curious 
interpretations  of  facts,  or  supposed | 
facts,  affecting  the  egg  situation.  In | 
conversation  with  a  holder  of  refrig­
erator  eggs,  the  other  day,  he  declar­
ed,  as  an  indication  of  light  fall  pro­
duction,  that  farmers  must  be  sell­
ing  off  an  unusually  large  number  of 
fowls.  “Why  shouldn’t  they?”  he  re­
marked;  “just  look  at  the  high  price 
they  can  get  for  their  fowls.”  Now, 
I  have  not  looked  up  the  matter  and 
don’t  know  whether  fowls  are  really 
higher  priced  than  usual  at  this  sea­
son,  but  it  struck  me  as  peculiar  logic 
to  argue  that,  if  fowls  are  high  (in 
relation  to  egg  values)  it  was  an  in­
dication  that  an  unusual  number  was 
being  marketed— it  seemed  to  me  to 
point 
the  other  way.  But 
after  all  what’s  the  use  of  going  to 
the  motives  of  the  farmers  to  find 
out  what  can  be  so  much  more  di­
rectly  learned  from  a  comparison  of 
actual  receipts  in  the  leading  mar­
kets?

just 

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ter  in  the  hands  of  the  factorym en. 
M any  of  the 
factories  not  paying 
anything,  or  not  employing  the  in­
structors,  have  very  much  greater 
need  of  them  than  those  who  are.

To  overcome  this  condition 

the 
question  of  licensing  plays  an  impor- 
tatn  part,  and  should  be  fairly  con­
sidered. 
If  every  factory  and  cream­
ery  had  to  be  put  up  to  a  certain 
to 
standard  before  being  allowed 
manufacture  cheese  or  butter 
then 
they  would  have  to  be  in  a  sanitary 
condition.  The  fee  paid  for  a  license 
could  be  applied  to  pay  for  proper  in­
struction,  and  each  factory  would  re­
ceive  equal 
instruction  and  atten­
tion.  The  department  under  which 
the  work  would  be  carried  on  would 
know  exactly  how  much 
revenue 
would  be  derived  from  the  factories, 
and  arrangements  could  be  made  to 
engage  the 
required  number  and 
properly  qualified  men  to  carry  on 
the  work  satisfactorily.

Many  of  our  progressive  dairymen 
are  in  favor  of  some  such  scheme  to 
improve  the  conditions  of  the  dairy 
industry,  as  the  present  conditions 
are  not  satisfactory,  because  all  fac­
tories  are  not  on  an  equal  basis.  One 
man  or  company  may  have  their  fac­
tory  or  creamery  so  situated  that 
they  are  compelled  to  keep  it 
in 
proper  repair,  while  their  next  neigh­
bor  may  have  his  buildings  in  such 
a  location  that  filth  and  rubbish  are 
not  so  noticed  by  the  public,  and  the 
business  is  run  on  much 
cheaper 
lines,  thus  causing  unfair  competi­
tion.

the 

less,  and 

If  each  factory  paid  an  equal  fee 
and  this  fee  would  guarantee  them 
proper  inspection  and  instruction,  the 
difference  betwen  our  best  factories 
rnd  our  poorest  ones  would  become 
very  much 
average 
standard  would  be  raised  greatly.  The 
quality  of  the  goods  could  not  help 
being  more  uniform,  and  our  repu­
tation  in  the  foreign  market  would 
improve,  as  nothing  will  enhance  the 
reputation  of  dairy  goods  as  quickly 
as  the  fact  that  better  sanitary  con­
ditions  exist,  and  greater  cleanliness, 
along  with  up-to-date  methods, 
is 
being  practiced.

Australia  has  found  it  necessary  to 
take  up  the  question  of  licensing  fac­
tories  and  creameries,  and  Wiscon­
sin  has  been  compelled  on  behalf  of 
the  public  and  the  dairy  interests  to 
enact  rigid  laws  regarding  clean  and 
sanitary  factory  conditions.  When 
we  consider  the  enormous  magnitude 
of  the  export  trade  of  Canada 
in 
dairy  products,  and  the  vast  sums 
invested  in  cows,  buildings,  apparat­
us  for  manufacture,  curing,  refrigera­
is 
tion  and  transport,  the  country 
assuredly  warranted  in  taking 
such 
legislative  precautions  as  will  secure 
the  permanent  success  and  safety  of 
the  industry.  We  would  be  glad  to 
have  an  expression  of  the  minds  of 
men  concerned  in  the  well-being  of 
this  great  industry  upon  the  neces­
sity  and  practicability  of  the  licens­
ing  proposition,  which  carries  with it 
a  universal  and  thorough  system  of 
instruction,  with  suggestions  also  as 
to  the  speedy  enactment  and  carry­
ing out  of such  regulations.— Farmer’s 
Advocate.

M I C H I G A N
Science  in  Feeding  Poultry.

T R A D E S M A N  

13

STORE  YOUR

A P P L E S

with  us  and  get  top  prices 
in  the  spring. 
Liberal 
advances  made.
Grand  Rapids

Cold  Storage  Co-

i

j

1

| 

Good

For  fifteen  years  I  have  worked  to  build  up  a

■
I 
!  Michigan  Cheese 
j 
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8

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.

Trade

I  Fred M. Warner,  Farm ington,  Mich.

Butter

Is  gaining  just  a  trifle  and  think  we 
will  see  good  dem and  right  along; 
but  of  course  with  the  heavy  rains 
and  fine  feed  now  in  sight  we  can 
not  expect  much  in  the  way of  much 
higher  prices.

E.  F.  DUDLEY,  Owosso, Mich.

The  Experiment  Station  in  North 
Dakota  makes  a  report  on  an  inter­
esting  experiment  with  poultry  as 
follows:

“The  other  pen  was  not 

“That  food  has  as  much  to  do with 
the  egg  production  as  it  has  with 
beef  or  butter  there  is  but  little  ques­
tion.  We  placed  two  pens  of  fowls, 
under  exactly  the  same  conditions as 
far  as  the  temperature,  room  and 
care  were  concerned,  but  fed  them 
with  an  entirely  different  object 
in 
view.  One  pen  we  wished  for  breed­
ing  purposes  and  did  not  want  them 
to  lay  until  the  breeding  season  open­
ed,  so  that  we  can  get  a  more  steady 
egg  production  than  if 
they  were 
made  to  lay during the entire winter.
intend­
ed  to  use  at  oil  for  breeders,  but  to 
produce  the  greatest  number  of  eggs 
possible  at  the  time  of  year  when 
they  would  bring  the  highest  price. 
During  the  month  of  December  the 
pen  which  was  intended  for  laying 
experiment  contained  nineteen  pul­
lets,  and  the  one  intended  for  breed­
ing  purposes  contained  sixteen  pul- 
les.  During  this  month  the  laying 
pen  laid  sixty-three  eggs,  the  non­
laying  hens  laying  no  eggs.  During 
the  month  of  January  the  laying  pen 
324  eggs,  the  non-laying  pen  seven 
eggs.  During  the  month  of  Febru­
ary  the  laying  pen  109  eggs  and  the 
non-laying  pen  twelve  eggs.  During 
the  month  of  March  the  laying  pen 
3 68  eggs  and  the  non-laying  pen  for­
ty-three.  During  the  month  of  April 
the  laying  pen  129  and  the  non-laying 
pen  189.

“We  began  the  last  of  March  to 
get  our  breeding  pen,  which  has  so 
far  been  designated  as  the  non-lay­
ing  pen,  into  good  laying  trim,  with 
the  result  as  stated.  From  this  time 
on  the  breeders,  although 
in 
number  than  the  other  pen,  laid  a 
great  many  more 
the 
month  of  May  the  laying  pen  laid 
142  eggs,  the  non-laying  pen  381 
eggs.

eggs.  For 

less 

“The  method  of  feeding  that  we 
employed  to  bring  this  about  was 
substantially  as  follows:  The  morn­
ing  feed  for  those  which  were 
in­
tended  to  produce  eggs  consisted  of 
boiled  lean  meat,  scraps  from  the  ta­
ble,  the  fat  having  been  removed,  all 
the  wheat  screenings  they  wanted  to 
eat,  mixed  with  corn  twice  a  week.

fed 

“Those  which  were  not  intended 
for  producing  eggs  were 
on 
wheat  screenings  of  poorer  quality, 
with  corn.  These  gradually  increas­
ed  in  weight  until  they  had  the  ap­
pearance  of  being  overfat.  This  pen, 
although  not  put  to  laying  until  the 
first  of  April,  averaged  1 5 0 eggs to 
each  hen  during  the  season.  They 
were  pure  breed  Plymouth  Rocks. 
The  other,  which  was  put  to  laying 
during  the  entire  winter,  averaged 
153  eggs  to  each  hen.  The  average 
price  of  the  eggs  was  18  cents  a  doz­
en.  The  average  price  of 
those 
those  which  did  not  begin  until  April 
1  was  n j'i  cents  a  dozen  at  regular 
market  price.  This  shows  a  marked 
difference  in  the  average  price,  due 
principally  to  the  high  price  of  eggs 
during  the  months  of  December,  Jan­
uary,  February  and  the  fore  part  of 
March.”

14

T H E   O LD   MEN.

How  They  May  Overcome  the  Hand­

icap  of  Age.

There 

is 

little  doubt  that 

“A  place  for  the  old  man? 

In  our 
modern,  killing  paced  commercial 
life  there  is  no  place  for  him.”
if 

a 
poll  of  the  busy  men  could  be  made 
upon  the  question  of  finding  employ­
ment  for  the  man  who  has  grown 
old  and  still  must  work  for  a  living 
the  above  or  something  similar  would 
be  the verdict.  A  prominent  business 
man,  in  discussing 
this  phase  of 
American  life  as  it  is  to-day,  said: 
“The  question  used  to  be: 
‘What 
shall  we  do  with  our  sons?’  Now  it 
“What  shall  we  do  with  our  j
is: 
fathers?’  The  business  life  of 
this 
country  has  multiplied  and  increased 
so  in  all  ways  that  the  old  man,  the 
one  who  has  become  gray  without 
getting  into  business  for  himself,  is 
out  of  place,  pushed  out  by  circum­
stances.”

The  man  who  said  this  is  an  em­
ployer  of  a  great  number  of  men  in 
many  lines  of  work,  and  he  added 
further  to  his  statement  by  saying 
that  in  his  own  establishment  there 
frequently  arose  instances  where  a 
man  got  too  old  in  his  place  and 
the  firm  was  forced  to  dispense  with 
him  or  set  him  down  to  a  lower  posi­
tion.  No  man  is  ever  engaged  in 
this  establishment  who  is  over  40, 
and  this  is  a  set  rule  with  many  busi­
ness  houses  of  the  city.  But,  despite 
this  hostility  toward  the  old  man, 
which 
is  a  creation  of  economical 
conditions  as  they  are  to-day,  there 
are  positions  where  the  old  man  is 
employed,  sometimes  even 
in  pref­
erence  to  the  young  man,  and,  al­
though  these  places  are  by  no  means 
plentiful, 
in  this  city,  they  are  of 
sufficient  number  tq  take  care  of  a 
large  number  of men  of  advanced  age 
who  are  out  of  other  and  more  lucra­
tive  employment  because  of 
years,

their  1 

“It  is  a  fact,  and  one  which  can 
not  be  more  forcibly  learned  than in 
a  place  like  this,  that  the  old  man 
is  emphatically  not  wanted  in  most 
business  houses  in  the  city,”  recently ! 
remarked  George  W.  Geary,  Super­
intendent  of  the.  Free  Employment : 
Bureau.  “Still,  there  are  places, quite 1 
a  number  of  them,  to  be  found  for j 
this  class  of  the  unemployed.  Neces­
sarily,  the  positions  open  to  the  old j 
man  are  restricted.  There  are  few I 
trades  open  to  him,  absolutely  n o ! 
class  of  manual  labor  will  have  him, | 
and  business  houses  in  general  are 
extremely  chary  of  giving  him  a 
trial.  Even  if  he  is  experienced 
in 
any  line  of  work  and  can  prove  that 
he  is  competent  in  every  way,  the 
employer  will  look  at  his  gray  hair 
and  quickly  turn  him  down.

“He  may  be  one  of  the  best  men 
in  the  world  at  his  trade,  if  he  has 
one,  and  he  may  have  letters  of  rec­
ommendation  to  prove  the  same, but 
once  let  him  get  out  of  a  place  after 
he  has  grown  old  and  he  will  find 
that  he  has  the  task  of  his  life  on 
his  hands  when  he  tries  to  get  back. 
The  class  of  work  that  is  most  open 
to  aged  man,  which  offers  something 
akin  to  satisfactory  compensation, is

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

without  doubt  clerical  work.  There 
are  other  things  that  he  can  get  in­
to,  and  does,  and  the  easiest  work 
for  him  to  find  employment  at  is  as 
in 
a  watchman  or  houseman,  but 
these  the  remuneration  paid  an  old 
man  is  so  low  that  it  is  barely  suffi­
cient  for  him  to  live  on,  no  matter 
bow  economical  he  may  be.  But  at 
clerical  work,  if  he  can  do  that,  and 
it  happens  frequently  that  the  old 
man  out  of  work  was  once  a  clerk 
or  business  man,  he  can  often  pro­
cure  employment  at  the  same  wages 
as  paid  for  younger  men.”

A t  the  office  of  the  Free  Employ­

ment  Bureau  the  greatest  number  of j 
men  who  seek  help 
in  obtaining 
positions  are  old  men.  The  small call 
for  old  men  in  business  or  trades 
to-day  may  be  judged  when 
it  is 
told  that  of  the  number  of  these  men 
who  seek  employment  only  a  small 
percentage  ever  find  work,  despite 
the  special  efforts  of  the  Bureau  to 
place  old  men.  Practically  the  only I 
class  of  employers  who  send  in  re- 
quests  to  the  office  for  old  men  are 
those  who  wish  to  engage  a  watch- j 
man  or  an  old  man  for  other  work 
about  a  house  or  store.  Janitors and 
helpers  around  hotels,  watchmen and 
housemen— these  are  apparently 
the 
only  kinds  of  work  in  which  there 
is  a  real  call  for  the  old  man.,  and 
there  only  because  the  old  man  can 
be  had  for  half  of  what  it  would  be 
necessary  to  pay  a  young  man.  The 
trades,  the  professions  are  all  closed 
against  him  because  he  is  old.  He 
seldom  is  given  an  opportunity  to 
demonstrate  his  ability  if  he  has  any.
As  2  watchman  an  old  man  often 
can  find  employment,  and  generally 
proves  a  success,  but  simply  because 
he  is  an  old  man  and  it  is  known 
that  he  can  be  had  for  less  than  a | 
young  man  he  is  paid  small  wages, 
even  if his  work is  just as  satisfactory 
as  that  of  a  younger  man.  But  if  a 
man  has  grown  old  without  saving j 
enough  to  make  him  independent  in  j 
his  old  age  he  is  apt  to  be  willing 
to  take  anything  that  offers  a  way j 
to  make  a  living,  and  at  the  employ­
ment  headquarters  there  are  always 
more  men  waiting  for  this  kind  of 
employment 
there  are  posi-1 
tions.

than 

There  are  several  kinds  of  work 
that  are  included  in  this,  such  as 
watchmen  in  downtown  buildings, 
housemen,  and  sometimes  platform 
men  on  the  elevated  roads,  and  in 
some  cases 
in  small  buildings  old 
men  are  employed  as  janitors.  The 
| wages  are  always  low,  running  from 
| a  couple  of  dollars  a  week  to  about 
I $40  or  $50  per  month,  and  the  work 
is  often  only  temporary.  The  Bu- 
| reau  has  sent  appeals  to  employers | 
I  of  this  class  of  labor  to  try  to  give 
i  the  old  men  a  show  wherever  it 
is 
|  possible.  Generally  where  an  em- 
|  ployer  agrees  to  do  this  the  old  man 
“makes  good,”  and  is  retained,  and | 
sometimes  gets  an 
vance  in  wages.

immediate  ad­

But,  according  to  Supt.  Geary, the 
only  work  that  pays  fair  wages  for 
|  the  services  of  the  old  man  is 
the 
I  work  of  the  clerk.  Often  an  em- 
j ployer  sends  in  a  request  for  a  clerk 
and  specifies  that  he  must  be  an  old

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

man.  Many  employers  say  that  when 
they  want  a  clerk  and  a  clerk  only, 
not  a  man  who  is  young  and  ener­
getic  enough  to  grow  up  with  the 
house,  but  simply  a  man  who  can 
do  a  certain  kind  of  work  satisfac- 
torily,  they  prefer  an  old  man  for 
many  reasons.  The  old  clerk  is  gen­
erally  a  better  man  than  the  young 
one;  h**  is  m on  accurate,  often  quick­
er,  and  always  takes  more  pains  and 
care  With  his  work  than  the  young 
man.  The  old  style  clerk  is  more 
often  a  fine  oenman  than  the  new, 
and  occasionally  a  firm  has  a  .place 
where  it  needs  a  man  who  can  turn 
out 
fine  work  without  regard  to 
speed.  Then  an  old  man  is  sought 
and  each  day  the  Employment  Bu­
reau  finds  a  place  for  this  kind  of 
man.

Then,  also,  an  employer  knows that 
the  young  man  will  not  work  with 
the  regularity  of  the  elder,  and 
in 
clerical  work  the  “machine  man”  is 
not  despised,  but,  on  the  contrary, is 
often  sought.

“I  believe  that  a  majority  of  the 
men  who  come  in  here  who  are  over 
50  years  old  are  either  broken  down 
business  men  or  office  workers,  and 
there  are  some  of  the  finest  clerks 
in  the  world  that  come  to  this  Bureau 
for  help  in  seeking  work  in  the  city,” 
says  Mr.  Geary.  “There  is  absolute­
ly nothing the  matter with  these  men; 
they  are  still  in  possession  of  all 
their  mental  faculties  and  are  just 
as  skillful  and  accurate  at  their  work 
as  ever.  The  only  thing  the  mat­
is  that  they  have 
ter  with 
grown  old.  They  are  generally 
re­
spectable  in  appearance,  but  we  have 
our  troubles  trying  to  convince  the 
employer  that  they  can  use  this  kind 
of  a  man.  We  find  places 
for  many 
of  them,  however,  and  sometimes  at 
good  wages,  but  to  obtain  this 
a 
man  must  be  exceptionally  experienc­
ed  and  exceptional  workman.

them 

“He  has  to  overcome  the  handicap 
of  age  by  his  excellence  as  a  work­
er,  and  the  old  man  who  has  no 
particular  ability  or  knowledge  finds 
it  hard  to  get  work  of  any  kind,  no 
matter  how  small  wages  he  will 
work  for. 
If  he  can  find  a  job  as 
watchman,  janitor  or  houseman  he 
is  generally  to  be  considered  lucky.” 

Jonas  Howard.

Two  Profits  in  Five  and  Ten  Cent 

Goods.

There  is  a  double  profit  in  5  and 
them­
10  cent  goods— one,  that  on 
selves,  and  the  other,  that  from 
in­
creased  sales  in  other  lines,  due  to 
the  larger  trade  drawn  to  the  store 
by  the  pulling  power  of  large  num­
bers  of  things  in  one  place  marked 
to  sell  at  a  uniform  price.

The  largest  5  and  10  cent 

store 
syndicate  started  twenty  odd  years 
ago  with  one  store  building  stocked 
with  only  $300  worth  of  goods.  Now 
it  owns  over  a  hundred  stores 
in 
leading  cities,  and  it  opens  a  new 
store  about  every  month.

In  the  West  there  is  a  ten-year-old 
syndicate  that  began  with  a 
single 
store  and  a  capital  of  less  than  $10,- 
000.  To-day  it  operates  stores 
in 
twenty  or  more  Middle  and  Western 
cities,  sells  over  $1,000,000  a  year, and

it  is  said  that  the  profits  of  the  busi­
ness  have  paid  for  every  store  start­
ed  since  the  first  one.

In  almost  every  city  of  20,000  or 
more,  not  occupied  by one  of the  syn­
dicates,  there  is  an  individual  5  and 
10  cent  store,  which  probably  makes 
as  much  net,  with  a  stock  worth  a 
few  thousands,  as  other  merchants in 
that  city  make  with  a  capital  five 
times  as  large.

Now,  if  such  a  store  in  a  live  city 
of  20,cco  or  more  is  the  best  business 
proposition  on  earth  in  proportion  to 
the  capital  invested,  why should  YO U  
not  earn  a  profit  by  running  a  5  and 
10  cent  store  “on  the  side?”

The  most  striking  thing  in  a  suc­
cessful  5  and  10  cent  store  is  the 
prominence  given  to  real  bargains—  
that  is,  well-known  goods  priced  even 
lower  than  their  cost  to  the  ordinary 
retailer.

But,  you,  a  merchant  who  knows 
values,  would  soon  discover  many 
things  offered  at  10  cents  that  cost 
from  48  to  72  cents  a  dozen,  and 
many  other  things  marked  5  cents 
that  would  pay  a  profit  at  2  or  3 
cents.

A   few  real  bargains  of  irresistible 
bigness  in  the  foreground,  inducing 
a  cheerful  giving  up  of  nickels  and 
dimes  for  many  more  things  that 
might  be  priced  at  3  or  7  cents— that, 
seemingly,  is  the  key  to  the  lucrative­
ness  of  s  and  10  cent  stores.

And  the  mere  fact  that  the  store 
does  not  name  odd  prices  seems  to 
satisfy  the  occasional  person  inclined 
to  ask  why  things  are  not  sold  for 
less  than  5  and  10  cents.

The  successful  5  and  10  cent  mer­
chant  has  two  kinds  of  courage.  He 
dares  to  pay $1.50 per  dozen,  on  occa­
sion,  lor  goods  to  retail  at  a  dime. 
And,  also,  he  dares  to  get  a  juicy 
profit  on  most  of  his  wares.

Adopting  some  of  his  methods—  
taking  a  loss  on  an  occasional  thing, 
large  tnough  to draw general  notice—  
shrewdly  mixing  with  the  losing  arti­
cles  other  things  that  will  more  than 
even  up—you  could  make  a  5  and  10 
cent  store  on  the  side  pay  as  well, in 
proportion,  as  the  exclusive  5  and  10 
cent  stores  are  m§de  to  pay  in  the 
larger  towns.

By  a  s  and  10  cent  store  on  the 
side,  we  mean  simply  some  one  place 
in  your  store  where  are  collected,  in 
little  or  big  lots,  goods  to  be  sold  at 
S and  10 cents.  The size  of your town 
and  the  amount  of  space  you  can 
spare  are  the  only  limitations  that 
need  to  be  considered.

A  single  counter— a  series  of  coun­
ters  down  the  center  of  the  store— a 
section  of  a  side  wall— the  basement 
— the  upstairs— the  adjoining  room—  
any  one  suitable  place,  little  or  big, 
will  do.  And  the  investment  may  be 
as  small  as  $50,  as  large  as  $3,000,  or 
anywhere  between  these  extremes.

Simply  group  a  big  lot  of  suitable 
articles  by  themselves— these,  marked 
S  cents,  those  marked  10  cents— fol­
low  the  methods  successfully  pur­
sued  by  the  exclusive  5  and  10  cent 
stores,  and  make  your  similar  store 
“on  the  side”  yield  more  good  twice 
over  than  any  of  your  other  equal 
investments  in  stock.— Butler  Bros.’ 
Drummer.

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w*  Tall and Ulinter 1905

Style  Booklet

*  Bow Ready  «

16

Large  Neckties  Are  Ordained  by 

Fashion.

Very  small  scarfs  are  a  thing  of 
the  past,  and  can  only  be  sold  in very 
small  and  remote  towns,  where 
it 
longer  to  accept  changes  in 
takes 
styles.  The  South 
still  demands 
some  ij4  and  r^-inch  four-in-hands, 
and  wants  them  reversible.  Here 
and  throughout  the  East  and  West 
the  call  is  for 2-inch  as  the  narrowest, 
254  as  the  popular  and  254  and  254- 
inches  for  the  fine  and  really  fash­
ionable  widths.  Both  manufacturers 
and  dealers  welcome  the  big  cra­
vats,  for  it  means  greater  possibili­
ties  in  weave  and  design  and  broader 
profit  in  selling. 
It  means  more 
goods  made  and  sold  about  $1  and 
it  means  a  holiday  business  that  will 
enable  the  retailer  to  put  his  cravat 
department  upon  a  more  paying  and | 
satisfactory  basis.  The  vogue 
of 
large  forms  may  make  it  harder  for 
the  exclusive  $4.50  and  $2.25  houses 
to  give  as  full  values,  but  there  is  no 
room  fort doubt  that  the  industry  as 
a  whole  is  benefited  by  it.  The  fold 
collar  will  occupy  a  secondary  place 
next  autumn  and  the  wing  will  lead 
all  the  reigning  collar  forms.

De  Joinvilles  never  lose  the 

ap­
proval  of  a  certain  class  of  men  who 
will  take  no  other  form  of 
cravat. 
The  big  shapes  ordained  by  the  mode 
will  make  the  de  Joinville  appear  to 
the  best  advantage,  for  it  is  always 
a  full,  capacious  cravat  to  be  knotted 
loosely.  The  demand  for  de  Join­
villes  is  by  no  means  general  and 
they  will  not  figure  conspicuously  in 
sales,  but  they  are,  nevertheless,  a 
factor  in  the  high-class  trade.  Few 
manufacturers  care  to  go 
into  de 
Joinvilles,  because  first,  the  demand 
is  restricted  to  the  exclusive  set,  and 
second, 
im­
ported  from  France  and  personally 
selected.

the  goods  must  be 

Plain  red  silk  scarfs  are  very  popu­
lar.  The  fine  wale  is  the  most  desira­
ble  and  the  assortment  of  shades  is 
very  large.  Browns  and  tans  are 
especially  in  demand.

There  is  no  question  now  that 

in 
50-cent  neckwear  the  254-inch .four- 
in-hands  will  be  the  leading  shape, 
with  some  2-inch  and  254-inch,  and 
in  the  better  goods  254-inch  will 
have  the  lead,  with  occasional  orders 
for  254  and  even  3-inch.  The  latter 
is,  of  course,  extreme,  but  the  higher 
class  exclusive  furnishers  want  ex­
tensive  styles,  and  the  men  who 
wear  them  know  how  to  tie  them 
properly,  so  they  do  not  look  ex­
treme,  but  have  an  exceedingly  at­
tractive  appearance.

Another  new  and  decidedly  rich 
texture  is  a  silk  poplin 
in  moire 
antique  effects.  It  is  of  plain  colors, 
but  must  look  very  handsome  when 
made  up.  Several  quite  new  shades 
in  these  are  shown.  The  fleur  de  lis 
figure  is  again  utilized,  and  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  there  is  no  figure  more 
appropriate  and  more  beautiful.

There  will  be  an  increased  demand 
for  ascots.  Men  have  learned  how to 
tie  them,  and  it  gives  them  a  chance 
to  display  a  handsome  scarf-pin.  The 
double-under  folded  square  will  be 
the  correct  shape  for  ascots.  When 
the  proportions  of  this  scarf  are  cor­
rect  it  can  be  utilized  as  a  four-in- 
hand  as  well,  and  a  very  swell  scarf 
it  is  when  properly  tied.  When  prop­
erly  proportioned  it  is  expensive,  as 
it  takes  554  yards  of  silks  to  the 
dozen,  and  any  imitation,  made  of 
less  material,  will  cheapen  it  and  will 
not  answer  the  purpose  for  which  it 
is  intended.

colors 

Loud  neckwear  is  not  popular  any 
more— in  fact,  plain 
and 
shades  are  in  good  demand  and  all 
shades  in  browns  are  especially  de­
sirable.  Olive  and  sea-green  are  al­
so  good,  and  these  shades  have  been 
utilized  in  combination  with  navy 
and  crimson,  which  are  very  effec­
tive.  Hair  line  stripes  in  rep  silks are 
new  and  are  taking  well.  The  stripes 
or  lines  are  separated  i }4  inches  and 
they  are  cut  on  the  bias.  The  scarfs 
are  254  inches  wide  and  when  tied 
are  very  swell.

Summer  dressing  gowns  made 
from  China  (undyed)  silk  are  seen in 
the  Broadway  stores.  They  are  lin­
ed  with  surah  silk  of  crimson  or  blue, 
and  finished  with  colored  cord 
to 
match  the  lining.  The  girdles  are 
cither  flat,  made  also  from  China 
silk,  or  heavy  cords.
The  chief  topic  of 

conversation 
and  argument  in  hat  circles  at  the 
present  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 
absorbing  query  is,  “Will  brown  hats 
sell?”  Naturally  there 
exist  many 
differences  of  opinion  on  this  inter­
esting  subject.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  brown  stiff  hats  are  duly  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  no  doubt  that  the  brown 
hats  will  rank  well  among  the  favor- 
ites  entered  and  should  show  ex-1 
cellent  staying  qualities.  They  ought 
to  be  well  up  in  front  and  bring  good 
prices  in  the  selling. 
It  is  evident 
that  there  is  a  strong  determination 
on  the  part  of  the  stiff  hat  manufac­
turers  this  season  to  make  brown 
hats  more  popular  than  they  ever 
have  been.  Every  order  so  far  taken 
calls  for  brown  hats  and  in  qualities 
that  vary  according  to  the  extent  of 
the  customer’s  trade.  Manufacturers 
say  the  sales  on  brown  and  black 
hats  have  so  far  been  about  equal. 
This  augurs  well  for 
colored 
goods.  The  shapes  are  practically 
the  same  as  are  shown  in  black  hats. 
The  colors  of  the  shapes  range  from 
light  to  dark  brown, 
lighter 
shades  having  bands  and  bindings of 
contrasted  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  result  in  a  substantial 
increase  to  the  business.

the 

the 

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for a  few hundred  because you  never  bought 
any  goods  of  us. 
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we’ll  attend  to your wants  promptly.

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Gladiator Pantaloons

THEY  FIT

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Manufacturers of Qladlator  Clothing 

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17

N O V E L T Y   IN  N ECK W EAR.

Campaign  Cravats  Are  Selling  For 

Souvenirs.

cravats 

campaign 

is  courting  considerable 

Novelty  in  neckwear  lines  is  the 
call  on  all  sides. 
“Something  just 
a  little  out  ‘of  the  ordinary,”  is  the 
way  a  merchant puts  it.  Judging  from 
the  sales  of 
it 
would  seem  that  every  devotee  of 
Roosevelt  and  Parker  will  add  one 
of  these  novelties  to  his  collection. 
The  idea  of  using  them  for  souvenir 
purposes 
is  growing  rapidly.  The 
merchant,  by  the  way,  that  fails  to 
take  advantage  of  this  year’s  cam­
paign 
loss 
in  sales.  Allover  designs  of  highly 
contrasting  hues  and  fancy  weaves 
in  Oriental  shades  are  well  liked  by 
the  buyers  of  50 
cent  neckwear. 
Purchasing  of  three-inch  cravats has 
taken  a  large  jump  in  the  last  two 
weeks.  The  most  popular  of  these 
extreme  sellers  is  made  up  of  the 
heaviest  of  silks  with  the  raw  finish. 
Holiday  purchasing  is  almost  entirely 
in  favor  of  dark  and  subdued  tone 
effects 
inch 
shapes.  Ring 
tecks,  are 
selling  exceedingly  well  and  will  be 
noticed  in  the  great  majority  of ear­
ly  fall  displays  in  retail.  First,  last 
and  always  plains  should  be  shunned 
in  the  fall  and  winter  purchasing  by 
all  merchants, 
those  who 
wish  to  cater  to  the  highest  class 
buyers.

two-and-one-half 

cravats, 

except 

in 

trick 

Because  of  the  difficulty  in  tying 
the  big  forms  of  cravats,  the  made- 
up  shapes  will  be  more  prominent 
than  last  autumn  in  low-priced  goods. 
Puffs  and  flats,  especially,  will  be 
sought  to  take  the  place  of  the  regu­
lar  Ascots  and  one-overs  by  men 
who  can  not  catch  the 
of 
knotting  the  cravat  gracefully.  Lin­
ed  and  reversible  four-in-hands  will 
occupy  their  old  place  in  $2.25  and 
$4.50  goods.  The  upper-class  cra­
vats  will  be  the  folded-in  of  French 
seam  forms.  Open  squares  will  be 
fully  as  good  as  last  year.  Ties,  al­
though  among  the  early  sellers,  will 
be  superseded  later  on  by  four-in- 
hands  and  open  squares.  There  are 
signs  that  the  tie  exhausted  its  favor 
this  summer  and  has  been  cheapened. 
Anyway,  the  tie  does  not  allow  very 
limits  pat­
distinctive  designs,  but 
terns 
conventional 
treatment. 
The  four-in-hand,  though,  gives  wide 
latitude.

to 

in 

Folded-in 

four-in-hands  will  be 
the  smartest,  with  the  French  seam 
following.  The  high-class  trade will 
take  the  2^2-inch  four-in-hand,  while 
the  extreme  trade,  such  as  the  ’var­
sity  set,  will  favor  the  3-inch.  Ties 
will  be  about  154  inches  in  the  cen­
ter  and  2-inches  at  the  ends.  All- 
over  effects  are  prominent 
the 
Shaded  ombres,  dull- 
buyer’s  eye. 
finished 
iridescent 
changeants  and  shot  weaves  of  many 
different  sorts  command  notice.  Per­
sians  are  not  considered  good  save 
in  very  new  designs.  Grey  has  been 
done  to  death  and  is  less  favored. 
Brown  is  still  strong,  particularly in 
mixtures.  Myrtle,  prune  and  royal 
purple  have  come  to  the  fore  and 
more  gold  and  golden  brown  are 
used  in  what  may  be  termed  illumin­

radizmeres, 

a 

ating.  The  heavier  the  silk  the  bet­
ter  it  takes  the  knot  and  the  less  it 
shows  wear.  A  leading  manufacturer 
has  brought  out 
glace-surfaced 
weave  that  he  shows  in  thirty-seven 
different  color  combinations.  Green 
is  an  admirable  color  for  combina­
tion  effects,  especially 
in  the  sub­
dued  shades,  and  it  harmonizes  well 
in  almost  anything.

Fancy  white  grounds 

Fancy  fronts  in  shirts  are  things 
to  be  considered  in  the  purchasing 
of  the  nobby  fall  line.  One  of  the 
most  popular  fall  fancies  has  a  body 
of  white  cambric  and  the  bosom and 
cuffs  of  a  dark  lavender  hue.  These 
color  contrasting  styles  cover  a  wide 
range. 
in 
double  plaits  are  now  liked  by  the 
the 
country  buyer.  Buyers 
larger  city 
them­
favor  of  mercerized  ox­
selves  in 
fords  in  blue,  brown  and 
cham­
pagne.  Plain  front  negligees  and  all- 
over  printed  grounds  are  liked  best 
where  the  most  contrasting  color 
schemes  are  used.

stores  declare 

from 

Some  shirt  manufacturers  would be 
pleased  to  see  the  laundered  single 
pleat  fancy  bosom  shirt  restored  to 
a  full  share  of  former  favor.  As  re­
marked  by  a  Broadway  man: 
“The 
old  fancy  stiff  bosom  preserved  the 
negligee  in  its  place  as  a  one-season 
shirt.  Now  it  is  a  two-season  gar­
ment,  and  when  a  furnisher  gets 
stuck  on  his  summer  stock  he  orders 
very  few  for  winter,  and  when  he 
gets  stuck  on  his  winter  stock  he 
lets  it  stand  as  a  partial  check  on 
his  summer  orders.  Although  a long 
chapter  might  be  written  on 
the 
subject,  the  meat  of  the  matter  is 
tersely  expressed  by  the  Broadway 
man.

The  underwear  business  has  been 
exceptionally  good  and  hosiery  has. 
if  anything,  been  ahead  of  it.  The 
lines  that  the  haberdashers  and  de­
partment  stores  have  on  hand  now 
are  badly  broken  and  there  is  little 
left  to  advertise  in  sales.  There  have 
been  special  stocks  of  hosiery  made 
up  to  meet  the  emergency'  and  they 
have  found  ready'  sale.  Solid  colors 
and  two  tone  effects  have  been  the 
best  sellers,  but  some  of  those  that 
include  in  their  make-up  as  many  as 
four  and  five  colors  have  been  taken 
readily. 
the  various 
brown  and  tan  shades  have  been  in 
big  demand  in  common  with  other 
features.of  haberdashery  as  well  as 
suits  and  shoes.  A  brown  or  tan 
groundwork  with,  perhaps,  a  figure, 
clock  or  stripe  of  a  contrasting  col­
or  or  of  a  different  shade  of  the 
same  color  has  been  among  the  good 
sellers.

course 

Of 

circulated 

regarding 

Since  the  initial  opening  of  spring 
lines  many'  misleading  rumors  have 
been 
the  ex­
tremely 
low  prices  of  balbriggans. 
Two  of  the  largest  handlers  of  bal­
briggans  are  willing  to  give  an  affida­
lines  have  not  been 
vit  that  their 
reduced.  One  of  these 
is  a 
very  important  factor  in  the  market, 
and  its  reduction  would  naturally 
work  much  harm.  Things 
in  the 
knit-goods  trade  are  certainly  a  lit­
tle  backward,  and  these  disquieting 
rumors  tend  to  make  things  even 
worse.  These  positive  declarations 
from  two  of  the  largest  makers  ex­

lines 

plode  another  set  of  untruthful  state­
ments  about  cut  prices.

No  matter  what  the  disposition  of 
buyers  has  been  in  other  directions, 
it  is  apparent  that  none  of  them  have 
stinted  their  sweater  stocks.  This 
seems  to  indicate  that  the  knitted 
outer  garment  has  come  to  stay  in­
definitely.  Some  mills  making  pop­
ular-priced  goods  for  men  and  boys 
have  already  increased  their  fall  busi­
ness  over  50  per  cent.  Similar  re­
ports  come  to 
light  regarding  the 
novelties  and  manufacturers  who 
have  had  ingenuity  enough  to  evolve 
new  ideas  and  keep  up  with  the  styles 
in  children’s  clothes  have  made  new 
records.  •  Belted  blouses  and  some 
fixtures  of  children’s 
of  the  fancy 
wear  are  among  the  best 
sellers. 
Right  combinations  and  weaves  are 
already  showing  good  results  in  the 
duplicate  way.

Colored  handkerchiefs  have  been 
very  popular  with  men  of  refined 
taste,  but  some  of  the  designs  seem 
more  appropriate  for 
colored 
brethren  than  for  a  man  of  fash­
ion.  Plain  hemstitched,  either 
in 
white  or  colors,  are  in  best  favor, 
with  the  narrow  hem  next.

the 

Brown  continues  to  be  the  keynote 
of  color  for  the  fall  and  winter  in 
overcoats,  suits,  shirts,  neckwear, ho­
siery,  shoes,  gloves 
and  perhaps 
hats.  Every  manufacturer  has  made 
strenuous  efforts  to  outdo  his  neigh­
bor  in  producing  a  shade  or  num­
ber  of  shades  of  brown  or  tan  that 
will  take  the  fancy  of  the  consumer. 
The  woolen  manufacturers  have  pro­
duced  literally  thousands  of  sample 
pieces  that  partake  of  this  general 
tone,  either  in  solid  colors  or  fancy 
effects.  The  manufacturers  of  neck­
wear  have  created  magnificent  “cham­
pagne,”  “old  iron”  and  other  shades 
with  every  expectation  of  securing 
a  large  part  of  the  business.  Ho­
siery'  is  to  be  seen 
in  every  tone 
from  a  delicate  cream  to  the  color 
of  a  dark  Havana  cigar.  The  manu­
facturers  of  underwear  have  fallen 
into 
line,  and  some  curious  effects 
have  been  evolved  in  these  garments. 
The  question 
long  is  this 
fashion  for  brown  going  to  keep  up? 
It  certainly  will  not  go  out  alto­
gether  this  winter  or  by  next  spring, 
but  will  it  prove  permanent  beyond 
that?

is,  how 

The  Young  Papa.

“Popley’s  baby  is  beginning  to  talk 

now.”

“Has  he  been  boring  you  with  some 

stories  about  it?”

“No;  but  I  sat  next  to  him  at  the 
lunch  counter  to-day,  and  I  heard  him 
say,  absent-mindedly,  to  the  waiter: 
‘Dimme  a  jink  o’  water,  p’ease.’ ”

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agents  soliciting  orders  as  we  rely  on 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Loose-Fit  Clothing  Is 

In  Fashion 

Again.

Collars  on  the  popular  sack  suits 
are  a  little  wider  than  formerly.  The 
single  breasted  coat  is  selling  equally 
well  in  three  and  four  button  lengths. 
Euying  to  date  seems  to  be  about 
equally  divided  between  the  double 
breasted  and  the 
breasted 
styles.  Selling  at  retail  for  autumn 
has  so  far  been  in  favor  of  the  single 
breasted  cOat.  Fancies  in  cheviots 
are  breaking  all  records.

single 

Last  week  the  extremes  of 

the 
military  coat  and  baggy  hip  trousers 
were  reduced,  and  this  fall  there  is  a 
still  further  modification  of'the  lines 
of  the  old  vogue.  Now  there  is 
a 
general  loose-lit  to  clothes,  with  the 
coat  full  and  long,  and  trousers  a 
medium  between  former  extremes.

The  three-button  sack  coat  has lost 
much  of  its  old  identity. 
Its  outlines 
are  straight  and  full.  There  is  wider 
spacing  between  the  buttons,  with 
more  skirt,  indicating  the "increased 
length.  The  cut-away  front  is  less 
sharp  than  before.  The  sides  are 
slightly  shaped  and  the  front  arid 
back  full.  The  collar  and  lapels  are 
broad,  the  latter  about  three  inches 
at  the  widest  point,  yet  the  opening 
is  long.  Shoulders  are  broad  and 
covered.  The  sleeves  have  deep 
vents  and  three  buttons  to  match  the 
three-button  front.  The  back  has five 
inch  vents  at  the  side  seams.  The 
breast  pocket  with  a  trifle  slant 
is 
placed  on  the  left  side.  The  hip  pock­
ets  have  flaps  shaped  like  the 
front. 
The  length  of  this  garment  is  29 
inches.

as 

long 

The  double  breasted  coat 

is  29 
inches  long,  has  two  rows  of  three- 
buttons,  with  iong  collar  and  extra 
wide  lapels  with 
roll.  The 
points  of  the  lapel  slant  downward, 
and  are  slightly  rounded,  not  cut  to 
a  sharp  point, 
formerly.  The 
width  of  the  lapels  adds  much  to  the 
broadness  of  the  chest,  the  breast 
being  cut  full,  with  a  slight  spring 
to  the  sides,  full  under  the  armholes 
and  tapering  a  little  at  the  waist, 
There  are  four  buttons  with  vent  at 
the  sleeves  and  a  center  vent  five 
inches 
is 
full.

long  in  the  back,  which 

The  noticeable  features  in the walk­
ing  suit  coat  for  business  wear  are 
the 
improved  contour  of  the  skirt 
fronts,  which  are  cut  away  more 
than  in  recent  designs,  the  bottoms 
being  rounded,  and  the  opening  wider 
than  in  the  approved  styles  for spring. 
The  skirt  falls  straight  over  the  hips, 
the  garment  being  cut  with  a  slight 
spring  to  the  waist.  This  style  is 
practical  for  business  or  morning 
dress.  The  pockets,  placed  below  the 
waist  seam  and  below  the  armholes, 
are  serviceable  and  within  easy reach 
of  the  hands,  are 
to 
overcome  all  drag  upon  the  buttons. 
The  collar  and  lapels  are  wide,  with 
ample  neck  opening  so  as  to  show  a 
fancy  waistcoat  beneath 
if  desired. 
Only  three  buttons  are  used  for  fas­
tening,  the  fourth  button  being  for 
ornament.  This  model  of  a  walking 
coat  gives  a  man  a  broad-shouldered, 
full-chested  appearance, 
decidedly 
mannish.

so  placed 

The  frock  coat  for  fall  is  modeled 
to  give  a  man  the  aspect  in  clothes

full-chested 

which  nature  intended  he  should  have, 
broad-shouldered, 
and 
natural  from  the  waist  down,  hence 
the  new  model  frock  is  made  with 
long  skirts,  falling  straight  from  the 
hips  and  without  that  wide  flare  or 
bell  shape  and  spring  at  the  waist 
so  peculiar  to 
the  Parisian  Beau 
Brummel.  The  American  frock  fol­
lows  the  lines  of  the  latest  English 
model.  The  length  for  a  39  size  is, 
waist  18^2  inches,  full  length  of  gar­
ment,  41  inches  from  collar  to  bot­
tom  of  skirt.  Lapels  are  silk  faced 
to  the  buttonhole,  only  one  button­
hole  placed  in  the  left  lapel.  The  la­
pels  are  broad  and  long.

The  morning  coat,  which  came  so 
prominently  to  the  front  at  the  New 
York  Horse  Show  last  year,  has since 
been  worn  by  fashionable  men  as  an 
agreeable  substitute  for  the  full  frock 
for  just  such  occasions  as  the  frock 
was  used  for,  as  being  correct  for 
morning  and afternoon calls, for street 
and  church, 
in  fact,  all  formal  or 
semi-formal  wear,  even  including  aft­
ernoon  receptions  and  weddings.  For 
the  latter  event,  however,  the  frock 
is  the  more  conventional  garment for 
the  groom  and  his  attendants.

The  cut  of  the  morning  coat 

is 
similar  to  the  English  walking  coat 
above  described  excepting  that  it  has 
no  breast  or  hin  pockets.  It  is  plain­
ly  made.  A  style  of  morning  coat 
which  has  become  more  fashionable 
than  usual  and  has  been  introduced 
for  fall  is  bound  with  braid, 
the 
widths  of  the  binding  varying  from a 
narrow  piping  to  half  an  inch.  This 
braid  follows  the  outline  of  collar  and 
lapel  and  cuffs,  and  is  also  put  on  the 
waistcoat.  Vicunas,  worsteds  and 
cheviots  are  the  cloths  favored.  The 
formal  morning  coat  is  made  of black 
cloth,  although  a  deep  gray  is  good 
form.  They  are  also  made  in  light­
er shades  and mixtures  and with  pock­
ets,  but  in  such  styles  are  less  dis­
tinctly  for  formal  wear.

collar  down  over 

The  38-inch  topcoat  is  by  far  the 
most  popular  of  the  short  models  for 
It  has  graceful  lines 
autumn  wear. 
from  the 
the 
shoulder  and  the  lapels  are  angular 
in  the  extreme.  This  coat  has  the 
same  effect  as  a  long  coat  from  the 
standpoint  of  fullness  and  carriage. 
It  is  a  little  longer  than  the  accepted 
style  last  season.

The  raincoat  as  an  all  round  gar­
in 
ment  is  cutting  a  bigger  figure 
market  buying  than  heretofore.  From 
the  standpoint  of  stylish  outline  and 
serviceableness  it  should  be  seriously 
considered  by  country  merchants  this 
fall.  The  raincoat  selling  to-day  can 
be  had  in  either  the  sack,  belted  back, 
paletot  or  surtout  styles.  To 
the re­
tailer  seeking  variety  in  his  clothing 
line  there  are  many  commendable 
features  entailed  in  the  1904  raincoat. 
The  best  selling  styles  are  made  so 
full  that  the  old  objection  of  bother­
some  skirts  has  been  eliminated.

Fancy  mixtures  in  boys’  suits  are 
more  than  popular  with  the  visiting 
buyer.  The  tendency  in  purchasing 
seems  to  be  toward  Scotch  mixtures, 
although  fancies  in  dark  browns  are 
well  liked.

The  reefers  which  are  selling  best 
are  double  breasted  and  have  wide 
Eton-shaped  velvet  collars.  The  style

which  has  received  the  largest  num­
ber  of  orders  to  date  has  two  rows 
of  ornamental  buttons  and  is  made 
of  a  heavy  rough  fabric.

The  autumn  overcoat  for  boys  is 
similar  in  style  to  that  best  liked  last 
spring,  viz.,  very  full  and quite short. 
There  is  a  little  flare  from  the  waist 
line.

The  boys’  overcoat 
from 

favored  by 
country  buyers 
the  medium 
sized  towns  has  a  long  fly  front  and 
reaches  almost  to  the  shoe  tops.

The  belted  back  overcoat  for  boys 
is  taking  much  better  than  was  ex­
pected  earlier  in  the  season.

The  Old  Lady  and  the  Lawyer.
A  certain  lawyer,  famed  for  high 
charges,  had  incurred  the  enmity  of 
an  old  lady  on  account  of  the  same. 
Wishing  to  get  even  with  him  she 
consulted  him  about  drafting  her 
will.  As  she  was  a  very  wealthy  old 
lady  without  near  relatives,  she  had 
many  charitable  associations  to  ben­
efit,  and  the  accurate  draft  of 
the 
will  required  much  patience,  skill  and 
time.  Among  the  provisions 
she 
made  a  generous  bequest  to  this  law­
yer  and  nominated  him  executor.

After  the  execution  of  the  will  she 
called  for  her  bill,  whereupon 
the. 
lawyer,  with  the  vision  of  ample  fees 
in  the  prospective  settlement  of  the 
estate,  and  the  memory  of  the  gen­
erous  bequest,  told  the  old  lady  that 
under  the  circumstances  he  should 
charge  nothing,  but  finally  to  satisfy 
her  business  scruples,  made  out  a  re­
ceipt  in  full  to  date  for  a  $1,  whereas 
could  have
the  smallest  sum  he 

properly  charged  would  have  been 
$100.

The  old  lady  marched  home  with 
her  will,  set  herself  to  work,  copied 
it  out  carefully  word  for  word,  leav­
ing  out  the  bequest  to  the  lawyer 
and  nominating  a  new  executor.

lawyer  at 

In  the  course  of  time  she  died,  and 
the  disgust  of  the 
the 
contents  of  the  will  was  so  great  that 
he  inadvertently  let  out  the  secret, 
to  the  huge  delight  of  his  brother 
lawyers.

New Oldsmobile

Touring  Car  $950.

Noiseless,  odorless,  speedy  and 
safe.  The  Oldsmobile  is  built  for 
use  every  day  in  the  year,  on  all 
kinds  of  roads  and  in  all  kinds  of 
weather.  Built  to  run  and  does  it. 
The  above  car  without  tonneau, 
#850.  A  smaller  runabout,  same 
general  style,  seats  two  people, 
$750.  The  curved  dash  runabout 
with  larger  engine  and  more power 
than  ever,  $650.  Oldsmobile  de­
livery  wagon,  $850.

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19

Coats for  Men  Have  Broader  Should­

ers.

The  country  merchant  who  has not 
visited  market  to  date  will  do  well 
to  note  the  characteristics  and  oddi­
ties  of  the  new  fall  styles.  Probably 
a  great  many  cf  these  style  changes 
border  too  closely  on  the  novelty,  yet 
the  wisdom  of  noting  the  prevailing 
tendency  in  style  holds  good.  One 
of  the  most  noticeable  characteristics 
of  the  coat  is  the  broad-shouldered 
effect.  A  new  broadness  of  shoulder 
has  been  effected  by  increasing  the 
width  of  the  shoulder  of  the  coat 
about  half an  inch  on  each  side.  This 
laises  the  collar  somewhat  and  to 
quite  an  extent  increases  the  space 
between  it  and 
sleeve.  Then 
again,  the 
length  of  the  shoulder 
seam  has  been  increased  by  making 
the  top  of  the  back  part 
the 
shoulder  about  one-half  inch  narrow­
er  than  usual  on  each  side.

the 

of 

There  is  little  doubt  that  the  dou­
ble-breasted  sack  will  be  the  popular 
business  coat  until  cold  weather  sets 
in.  The  lapel  tops  are  almost square 
and  the  trousers  are  of  conservative 
width  at  the  hips,  falling  in  almost 
straight  lines  to  the  bottom.

In  dress  suits  the  better  class  mer­
chants  have  unanimously  declared 
themselves 
in  favor  of  the  peaked 
lapel.  The  skirt  is  tapered  a  little 
more  than  usual  and  the  roll  is  ex­
ceedingly 
long.  The  edges  of  the 
better  grades  are  blind  stitched.

In  the  novelty  overcoat  line  one  of 
the  most  popular  sellers  is  a  double- 
breasted  ulster  with  yoke.  The  box 
plait  which  falls  down  the  back  is  a 
little  more  narrow  than  the  favored 
style  of  last  season.  The  coat  with 
the  extreme  wide  collar,  full  mili­
tary  back  with  vent,  is  proving  ex­
ceedingly  popular.  The  tendency  in 
overcoat  buying  would  suggest  that 
belt  overcoats  will  be  more  popular 
than  was  suspected  a  few  weeks  back. 
The  dressy  surtout  and  paletot  and 
the  Chesterfield  are  selling  at 
the 
usual  rate. 
In  the  boys’  line  fancies 
and  dark  grounds  with  bright  col­
ored  yarn  showing  here  and  there 
are  well  liked.  As  market  buying 
progresses  there  seems  to  be  a  grow­
ing  tendency  toward  the  fanciful  or 
mercerized  mixtures. 
In  the  over­
coat  line  for  boys  the  long  ulster­
like  model  is  growing  more  and  more 
popular.

Retailers  have  already  done  a  fair 
business  in  tan  and  olive  covert  top­
coats.  While  the  weather  is  propi­
tious  these  are  being  pushed,  and  re­
placed  by  raincoats  as  the  weather 
indicates  their  acceptableness.  This 
season  the  swell  paddock  and  pale­
tot  have  been  taken  up  by  all  the  pop­
ular  clothes  and  department  stores, 
and  there  is  general  confidence 
in 
the  style  selling  well.  If  such  proves 
to  be  the  case  it  will  strengthen  the 
position  of  the  skirted  overcoat  for 
winter.  Two  styles  are  held  to  as 
ieaders,  one  buttoning  through 
the 
front,  and  the  other  with  a  fly  or 
sack  front. 
In  the  former  garment 
the  waist  line  encircles  the  garment 
and  is  shaped  back  and  sides,  while 
in  the  latter  the  back  is  shaped  and 
the  front  is  full  an  dloose.

The  consensus  of  retail  opinion  is

that  worsteds  in  double  and  single- 
breasted 
sacks,  medium  and  dark 
gray  and  fancy  mixtures,  will  sell 
well.  Serges  are  no  uncertain  quality 
and  may  sell  well  with  many  pretty 
and  attractive  worsteds  to  men  who 
buy  two  suits  a  season.

Manufacturers  are  at  present  deep 
into  plans  for  spring.  Designers  are 
still  occupied  with  new  patterns. 
Some  of  the  houses  have  their  first 
sample  lines  ready.  Among  the  con­
servative  there  is  a  tendency  to  adopt 
the  long  styles  with  suitable  modifi­
cations.  The  popular  trade,  although 
varying somewhat  from  former styles, 
still  adheres  to  the 
lines  followed 
out  on  last  spring’s  apparel.  There 
will  be  a  short  spring  overcoat,  36 
inches  in  length,  full  English  box, 
raw  edge  Kersey,  sack  and  double- 
breasted,  with  wider  collar  and  la­
pels  than  have  been  made  here  in 
several  seasons.

The  regular  fall  overcoat  length ap­
pears  to  be  45-6  inches.  The  garment 
is  in  the  Chesterfield  or  sack  style, 
full  and  roomy  throughout,  with  wide 
collar  and  lapels  and  less  depth  of 
opening  than  in  the  old  style. 
It  is 
estimated  that  it  is  the  most  accept­
able  gentleman’s  garment  for  busi­
ness 
and  general  wear.  Extreme 
lengths  will  for  the  most  part  be 
confined  to  the  belted-back,  which 
will  be  less  in  number  than  they  were 
this  season.

The  full  ulster  type  of  long  over­
coat  may  supplant 
the  belted-back. 
The  ulster  is  a  plain  back,  cut  very 
full  from  the  shoulders  down  with 
extra  wide  sweep  at 
the  bottom; 
single  and  double-breasted  with  wide 
collars  and  broad  lapels.  The  gen­
eral  length  is  50  inches.  Fabrics made 
especially  for  this  style  of  garment 
are  used.  They  are  fancy  in  designs 
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Six  buttons  are  used,  the  bottoms 
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portions,  about  19  inches  in  the  leg, 
and  17  at  the  bottom  for  a  33  waist, 
the  tendency  being  to  get  away  from 
the  fullness  of  the  pegtops.  Coats, 
too,  have  less  of  the  shdped-in  cut 
than  before,  being  longer  and  looser.

Money  in  an  Optical  Outfit.

A  Chicago  oculist  announces  the 
interesting  and  important  discovery 
that  alcoholism  is  caused  by  weak 
eyes.  He  says  he  once  knew  a  case 
where  a  properly  fitted  pair  of  eye­
glasses  completely  destroyed  the vic­
tim’s  appetite  for  drink  in  thirty days. 
A   Philadelphia  physician  also  claims 
we  could  all  be  geniuses  if  we  wore 
glasses.  A   Texan  delegate  now 
claims  that  green  spectacles  are  a 
remedy  for  the  “cut  rate”  evil,  and  a 
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W OM EN  CRIM INALS.

W hy  They  Are  Usually  Worse  Than j 

Men.

And, 

Crime  and  criminal  women  have al­
ways  been  of  the  greatest  interest  to 
the  vulgar  herd. 
curiously 
enough,  each  season  brings  its crime 
— like  a  fruit— and  its  cause  celebre. 
Last  year  it  was  the  Humbert  affair; 
this  year  it  is  Italy  which,  in-the  per­
son  of  the  Countess  Bonmartin,  runs 
in  close  rivalry  to  France.

In  a  short  time  the  ministry  of  jus­
tice  will  publish  its  annual  statistics, 
a  sinister  batch  of  crimes,  and  we 
shall  see  that  their  number  is  about 
the  same  as  it  has  been  in  previous 
years.  Morality  is  doubtless  neither 
better  nor  worse.  Men  have  not 
much  changed.  The  streets  of  Paris, 
in  spite  of  the  “apaches,”  are  not 
more  dangerous  to-day 
they 
were  in  the  eighteenth  century,  when 
Raffiat  with  his  band  of  thugs  attack­
ed  belated  wayfarers.

than 

And  still  the  year  which  has  just 
elapsed -offers,  in  point  of  criminality, 
something  peculiar.  Certain  crimes, 
which  had  grown  rare  of  late  years, 
have  brusquely  reappeared.  Poison 
has  become  fashionable  once  more. 
For  crime  has  its  fashion;  now  it  is 
the  revolver,  now  vitriol,  now  poison. 
The  dagger,  “cette  arme  de  preci­
sion,”  has  been  cast  aside 
a 
weapon  as  unerring,  but  more  den- 
gerous  and  even  more  dastardly—  
poison.  And  now  rumors  of  poison­
ing  cases  are  becoming  more  and 
more  frequent.  A  few  months  ago 
Mme.  Galtie,  at  Lectoure,  and  Mme. 
Massot,  at  Marseilles,  were  accused 
of  poisoning  their  husbands,  and  at 
Rouen  Mme.  Bonroy  is  being  tried 
for  having  killed  her  husband  in  the 
same  ymy.

for 

Women  criminals!  One  must  ac­
knowledge  that  in  the  preparation  of 
a  crime,  in  the  planning  of  its  com­
plicated  details,  woman  excels,  as  if 
she  were  better  capable  of  construct­
ing  a  plot  in  real  life  than  for  the 
stage.  And  the  greater  part  of  crimes 
committed  by  women  are  “magnifi­
cent  crimes,”  if  one  may  use  the  too 
celebrated  words  of  J.  J.  Weiss.

M.  Ferrero,  the  eminent  philoso­
pher,  has  recently  made  a  short  stay 
in  Paris.  He  is,  like  M.  Ferri  and  M. 
Lighele,  one  of  those  celebrated  Ital­
ian  criminologists  who  have  made 
their  science  illustrious.  He  married 
one  of  the  daughters  of  Prof.  Cesare

Lombroso,  whose  collaborator  he has 
often  been,  notably  in  the  writing  of 
that  peerless  book,  “Woman  as 
a 
Criminal,”  a  work  which  leaves  far, 
far  behind  it  the  studies  of  “Criminal 
Women”  of  Maci,  interesting  though 
they  be.

It  was  M.  Ferrero  who,  only  a  few 
days  ago,  was  telling  me  of  the  cause 
of ce'.ebro,  which  is  now  the  sensation 
in  all  Italy.  The  Count  Bonmartin 
was  slain  by  his  brother-in-law,  his 
throat  cut,  as  if  this  were  still 
the 
sixteenth  century.  There  is  no  more 
poignant  crime  in  the  Italian  chroni­
cles  of  Stendhal.  The 
Countess 
Bonmartin  seized  as  an  accomplice—  
the  assassin  arrested  by  his  own  fath­
er,  who,  like  an  ancient  Roman,  came 
in  person  to denounce  his  guilty son—  
does  it  not  seem  as  though  one  were 
present  at  some  horrible  tragedy  of 
the  ancients,  or  at  a  bloody  drama  of 
the  time  of  Castruccio  Castracagni? 
Opinion  in  Italy  is  divided  and  many 
people  to-day  believe 
in  the 
inno­
cence  of  Countess  Bonmartin.

After  the  verdict  Prof.  Lombroso, 
who  is  the  physician  of  the  prison  of 
Turin,  and  sees  the  accused  every 
day,  will  doubtless  tell  what  he thinks 
of  the  mentality  of  the  Countess. 
In 
the  meanwhile  he  can  gather  docu­
ments  of  the  greatest 
interest  on 
women  criminals.  This  savant,  in  his 
laboratory  at  Turin,  analyzes  and  de­
scribes  hereditary 
sins,  measures 
skulls  (as,  for  instance,  that  of  Char­
lotte  Corday,  now  owned  by  Prince 
Roland  Bonaparte),  dissects  brains, 
and  has  composed  for  himself  a  reg­
ular  museum  of  degenerates.  While 
in  other 
savants  are 
studying  illness  in  order  to  conquer 
death,  Cesare  Lombroso,  in  as  scien­
tific  a  way,  studies  crime,  which  is 
another  malady,  and  often  epidemic, 
in  order  to  prevent  and  combat  it.

laboratories 

One  must  acknowledge 

that  his 
book,  “Woman  as  a  Criminal,”  is  so 
terrible  in  its  truth  that  it  makes  for 
despair.  The  Professor  and  his  son- 
in-law  speak  of  nothing  but  the weak­
ness,  the  perversity  of  woman,  her in­
feriority,  at  the  moment  when  Paris 
has  just  raised  a  statue  to  George 
Sand,  genius  in  woman  form, 
and 
when,  every  day,  some  new  effort, 
poem,  novel,  or  lecture  reveals  more 
and  more  the  talent  of  woman.
right, 

the 
crime  of  women,  a  woman’s  crime, 
has  in  it  something  peculiarly  odious

Still,  M.  Lombroso  is 

and  perfidious.  A  woman  kills  oftener 
for  revenge,  and  then  she  brings  to 
her  crime  all  the  refinement  of  cruel­
ty.  Poison  is  to  her  the  same  sort 
of  weapon  as  an  anonymous  letter.

A  poisoner  has  the  maddened  thirst 
of  a  drunkard,  with  this  difference, 
however,  that  she  pours  out  her  bev­
erage  for  others.  She,  too,  has  visi­
bly  her  hysteria.  This  refinement of 
cruelty,  this  sort  of  pernicious  dainti­
ness  in  crime,  is  a  malady  like  any 
others. 
In  certain  women  this  hys­
teria  will  turn  into  a  need  of  lying, of 
inventing 
In 
others  it  becomes  a  passion  for  writ­
ing  unsigned  letters,  often  addressed 
to  themselves;  in  others  still,  it  is the 
madness  of  crime,  the  impulsive,  irre­
sistible  need  of  killing,  just  for  the 
pleasure  of  killing,  to  see  the  features

extraordinary 

tales. 

drawn  in  the  agony of pain,  the  throes 
of  the  dying.

crimes 

Now  we  are  having  a  little  epidem­
ic  of  poisoning.  But  a  noticeable fea­
ture  is  this— all  these 
take 
place  in  the  provinces.  It  would seem 
as  if  a  Parisian  woman,  in  her  fever­
ish  existence,  in  her  whirlwind  of  a 
life,  has  neither  the  time  nor 
the 
quiet  mind  necessary  to  set  upon  a 
victim  with  the  same  cold  slowness, 
the  same  daily  ferocity.  When 
a 
Parisienne  does  revenge  herself  upon 
somebody,  she  uses  her  revolver,  in 
between  two  calls,  or  two  outings  in 
her  automobile.  Everything 
goes 
quickly  in  Paris,  even  murder.  Be­
sides,  husbands  in  Paris  are  less  trou­
blesome  and  some  more  frivolous, 
and  consequently  their  deaths  are  less 
necessary.

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an  exception,  but  she  makes  me  think 
of  the  Arab  proverb: 
“There  are 
three  things  one  can  not  trust— a 
king,  a  horse  and  a  woman.  The king 
torments,  the  horse  runs  away,  and 
woman  is  faithless.”

She  is  not  faithless,  however, weak 
as  she  is,  for  she  is  full  of  love;  and 
she  is  true,  when  she  is  a  wife  and 
mother,  when  she  devotes  her 
life 
to  the  simple  thing  which  we  call 
duty.

Voltaire,  like  Lombroso,  but  less 
scientifically,  made  a  study of criminal 
women,  too,  but  he  touched  upon  this 
redoubtable  subject  only,  as  it  were, 
for  amusement.  In  an  article  entitled, 
“Poisoning,”  he  tells  us  that  one  day 
M.  d’Argerson,  the  Minister  of  State, 
leceived  a  letter  from  a  madman,  pro­
posing  to  him  a  means  for  poisoning 
at  one  fell  swoop  all  the  English  peo­
ple  in  London.

“The  fellow  has  made  a  mistake,” 
said  d’Argerson. 
“His  scheme  does 
not  concern  me,  but  my  brother, who 
is  Minister  of  War.”

Perhaps  d’Argerson’s 

correspond­
ent  was  a  woman.  Voltaire  didn’t 
think  of  it. 
I  wonder  what  M.  Lom- 
troso  would  say?  George  Claretie.

Some  Women  Do  Not  Know  Where 

Their  Rights  Cease.

Self-abnegation  is  usually  claimed 
by  woman  as  her  especial  virtue,  yet 
it  is  the  opinion  of  the  average  busi­
ness  man 
that  no  woman  knows 
where  her  rights  cease  and  where 
those  of  others  begin.  This  is  the 
opinion  of  the  business  man  during 
business  hours  when  he  meets  the 
other  man’s  sister  and  daughter 
in 
the  office,  the  store,  the  street  car, or 
the  bank.  For  it  is  in  public  places 
and  while  coming  in  casual  contact 
with  strangers  that  women  so  uncon­
sciously 
infringe  on  the  rights  of 
others.

In  crowded  street  cars  women  gen­
erally  refuse  to  move  down  to  the 
middle  of  the  car  unless  the  conduc­
tor  comes  inside  and  literally  com­
pels  them  to  move.  Nine  times  out 
of  ten  a  woman  hangs  to  the  strap 
nearest  the  door,  thus  making  every 
newcomer  brush  against  her,  crowd 
past  her,  and  perhaps  step  on  her 
gown.  Often  on  the  elevated  trains 
during  the  rush  hours  men  are  com­
pelled  to  step  on  women’s  dresses  or 
else  kick  them  out  of  the  way.  Un­
der  these  circumstances  I  sometimes 
hear  men  say,  “Don’t  move;  I 
can 
push  by,”  probably  because  they  have 
learned  by  experience  that  it  would 
do  no  good  to  ask  the  woman 
to 
move  down.  When  I  see  women  do­
ing  the  same  thing  in  elevators— re­
fusing  to  step  back  in  the  car,  but 
standing  near  the  door  where  every 
one  must  push  by  them— I  wonder 
how  they  can  be  willing  to  appear  so 
selfish.  The  only  explanation  I  can 
think  of  is  that  they  never  see  them­
selves  from  an  outside  point  of view 
at  all;  they  simply  do  not  know  that 
they  are  infringing  on  the  rights  of 
others.
This 

selfishness  of 
women  is  noticeable  in  other  places 
besides  public 
conveyances.  Who 
crowds  in  ahead  of  a  line  of  men 
waiting  to  purchase  theater  tickets?

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Never  any  one  but  a  woman.  She  is 
in  a  hurry  and,  of  course,  just  one 
person  crowding  in  could  not  make 
much  difference.  At  the  bank  who 
attempts  to  get  to  the  paying  teller’s 
window  ahead  of  a  long  line  of  wait­
ing  men?  Would  any  man  or  boy 
think  of  so  infringing  on  the  rights  of 
others? 
If  any  man  or  boy  thought 
of  doing  it  he  would  refrain  because 
he  would  know  that  every  man  in  the 
line  would  jostle  him  out  in  short  or­
der.  But  what  can  men  do  when  a 
woman  refuses  to  await  her 
turn? 
They  must  either  suffer  in  silence,  de­
pend  on  the  vigilance  of  the  attend­
ant,  or,  if  they  venture  to  remonstrate 
in  person,  draw  down  upon  them­
selves  the  wrath  and  scorn  of  the 
woman  interfered  with.

Walking  three  or  four  abreast  on a 
crowded  street  is  a  form  of  selfish­
ness  one  seldom  sees,  but  one  often 
sees  groups  of  women  blocking  up 
doors  and  p.assageways.  Passing  a 
prominent  office  building  one  day  re­
cently  I  saw  three  young  women 
standing  in  the  entrance,  grouped  in 
such  a  way  that  the  passage  was  com­
pletely  blocked.  A  man  approached 
the  entrance;  they  did  not  move.  He 
hesitated  a  moment,  said,  “Pardon 
me,”  and  crowded  through  the  group 
as  best  he  might.  One  of  the  girls 
looked  after  him  scornfully. 
“Well,” 
she  exclaimed,  “aren’t  men  the  rudest 
things!”  The  man  heard,  but  it  was 
not  the  part  of  a  gentleman  to  reply.
Another  form  of  woman’s  selfish­
ness  in  public  places  is  typified  by a 
trailing  skirt  on  a  downtown  street. 
Most  women  admit  the  inconvenience 
to  themselves  of  wearing  a  too  long 
skirt  downtown,  but  I  never  heard  a 
woman  speak  of  the 
inconvenience 
to  which  she  puts  other  people  by 
wearing  such  a  garment. 
she 
holds  up  her  skirt  she  discommodes 
herself: 
it  drag  she

if  she 

lets 

If 

others,  who  must 
discommodes 
walk  around  it  to  avoid  stepping  on 
it.  All  this  besides  the  fact  that  a 
woman  still  further  infringes  on  the 
rights  of  others  when  she  wears  a 
garjnent  offensive  to  sight  as  a  foully 
stained  skirt  certainly  is.

The  fact  if  has  been  necessary  for 
civic  authority  to  compel  women  to 
remove  their  hats  in  theaters  is  most 
significant.  The  fact  that  so  many 
women  of  refined  appearance  even 
now  refuse  to  comply  with  the  law 
unless  some  one  especially  requests 
them  to  do  so  seems  to  indicate  that 
women  not  merely  do  not  know  when 
they  infringe  on  the  rights  of  others, 
but  that  they  do  not  care  whether 
they  do  so.  At  afternoon  concerts  a 
third  of  the  women  keep  on  their 
hats— refined  and  intelligent  looking 
women,  too.  They  do  it  simply  be­
cause 
is  personally 
inconvenient 
to  take  their  hats  off. 
If  you  asked 
one  of  these  refined  'looking  women 
why  she  kept  her  hat  on  she  might 
say  her  hair  was  not  dressed  suitably 
for  appearing  without  a  hat,  but  she 
could  not  plead 
the 
law.

ignorance  of 

it 

things 
of  the  solemn  and  significant 
the  music  was  saying,  but  all  this 
movement,  this  fluttering  of  women’« 
hands  and  rustling  of  women’s  gar­
ments,  was  interposed  between  the 
stage  and  me. 
I  turned  my  head  to 
avoid  seeing  the  frantic  efforts  the 
stout  woman 
in  front  of  me  was 
making  to  tie  her  veil,  and  my  eyes 
took  in  a  woman  who  was  putting 
on  a  pair  of  tight  kid  gloves; 
she 
moistened  one  thumb  and  finger  arid 
then  worked  down  each  finger  of  her 
other  hand  with  infinite  difficulty. 
I 
closed  my  eyes  to  shut  out  the  sight 
of  these  offending  women,  but 
I 
could  not  close  my  ears  to  the  stir 
and  rustle  going  on  around  me.

it  appears 

From  these  few  instances  of  the 
public  selfishness 
that, 
either  from  thoughtlessness or willful­
ness,  some  women  at  least  do  not 
know  where  their  rights  cease  and 
where  those  of  others  begin.

John  A.  Howland.

If  you  are  doing  no  good  to  others 
you  are  doing  much  harm  to  yourself.

Once  when  I  had  looked  forward to 
especially  enjoying  the  last  number 
the 
on  the  programme  of  one  of 
Friday  afternoon  rehearsals  of 
the 
Chicago  orchestra  the  behavior  of the 
women  in  the  balcony  where  I  sat 
seriously  interfered  with  my  enjoy­
ment  of  the  music. 
It  was  the  Pil­
grim  chorus  from  “Tannhäuser,”  and 
hardly  had  the  conductor  raised  his 
baton  when  a  rustle  went  all  over  the 
balcony.  Here  a  woman 
reached 
down  and  began  feeling  for  her  rub­
bers,  there  a  woman  with  great  diffi­
culty  got  her  arms  up  to  her  head 
to  tie  her  veil.  All  around  me  wom­
en  began  adjusting  their  sidecombs, | 
straightening  their  hats,  and  putting 
on  their  boas. 
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A  great  many  reasons  are  given  for 
what  Mr.  W egg  would  aptly  call “the 
decline  and  fall  off  of  matrimony.” 
Some  lay  the  blame  for  the  continual­
ly  lessening  number  of  weddings  on 
the  higher  education  of  women,  de­
claring  that  men  do  not  care  for  a 
steady  diet  of  brains  for  breakfast, 
while  others  accuse  men  of  having 
grown  so  selfish  that  they  fear  to  fly 
from  the  comforts  of  the  bachelor 
apartments  they  have  to  the  perils  of 
the  housekeeping  they  know  not  of. 
A  third  set  of  philosophers  account 
for  the  increase  in  celibacy  by  the 
career  craze  in  women,  while  a  fourth 
ascribe  it  to  the  economic  conditions 
of  the  times,  and  the  difficulty  a  man 
experiences  in  making  enough  bread 
and  butter  for  two.

A  woman  might  answer  the  ques­
tion  of  why  people  do  not  marry  as 
much  as  formerly  by  replying,  as  did 
the  milkmaid  in  the  old  song:  “No­
body  axed  me,  sir,”  she  said.

And  in  this  lies  the  crux  of 

the 
whole  matter.  People  do  not  marry 
because  they  do  not  desire  to.  For 
some  unknown  reason  Cupid  keeps 
union  hours  instead  of  working  over 
time  as  he  used  to  do.  Comradeship 
has  been  substituted  for  love  between 
men  and  women,  and  they  are  con­
tent  to  be  friends  instead  of  husbands 
and  wives.  As  for  all  the  specious 
reasons  that  political  and  social econ­
omists  give  for  the  fewer  numbers of 
marriages,  they  are  all 
rank  non­
sense.  No  man  enamored  of  a  wom­
an’s  eyes  ever  yet  stopped  to  think 
whether  she  was  wise  or  silly.  No 
woman  ever  yet  lived  who,  when  the 
right  man  came  along,  wouldn’t  have 
swapped  off  a  laurel  wreath  for  a  kiss 
and  thought  she  got  the  best  of  the 
bargain,  while  as  for  the  sordid,  finan­
cial  matter  of  being  able  to  support 
a  wife,  it  is  the  very  last  thing  that 
Romeo  ever  considers.

Now  the  blame  for  this  disinclina­
tion  towards  matrimony  may  be  fair­
ly  laid  upon  the  shoulders  of  men. 
Few  women  ever  espouse  a  career 
until  they  fail  to  espouse  a  husband. 
The  reason  that  women  do  not  often- 
er  succeed  in  business  is  said  to  be 
because  they  are  always  ready  to 
give  up  a  job  for  a  wedding  ring,  and 
even  the  fact  that  women  compete 
with  men  in  labor,  and  thus  lower 
wages, 
is  solely  attributed  to  the 
fact  that,  failing  to  achieve  a  hus­
band  to  support  them,  they  are  forc­
ed  to  support  themselves.  There  is 
nothing  to  show  that  women  are 
averse  to  matrimony,  or  being  prop­
erly  urged  refuse  to  enter  into  the 
holy  estate  with  the  proper  party.

The  inescapable  inference  of  all  of 
this  is  that  women  are  not  as  attrac­
tive  to  men  as  they  formerly  were, 
and  that  with  all  the  accomplish­
ments  that  the  modern  girl  is taught 
she  lacks  one 
art  in  which  her

grandmother  excelled— the  art  of 
catching  a  husband. 
It  is  sadly  true 
that  there  are  no  such  belles  now 
as  there  once  were,  no  woman  who 
is  the  toast  of  her  village,  or  city,  or 
county,  and  for  whom  men  do  daring 
and  reckless  things,  and  are  willing 
to  fight  and  perchance  die.  The  girl 
of  to-day  listens  with  pea-green  envy 
to  her  grandmother’s  account  of  the 
rows  of  suitors  who  sighed  at  her 
door,  who  dogged  her 
footsteps 
wherever  she  went,  and  who  besieg­
ed  her  with  offers  of  their  hearts  and 
hands.  She  might  have  picked  and 
chosen  among  a  score  of  good  offers, 
and  when  her  granddaughter 
com­
pares  this  retinue  of  lovers  with  the 
two  or  three  men  in  her  own  train 
who  are  almost  offensively  frank  in 
declaring  that  their  attentions 
are 
without  intentions,  and  who  knows 
that  she  will  be  dead  lucky  if  she 
gets  a  single  good  matrimonial  offer, 
she  wonders  why  this  is 
thus  and 
why  men  are  colder  lovers  and  mas­
culine  hearts  more  impregnable  than 
they  were  of  old.

the 
It  is  certainly  not  because  of 
deterioration  of  women.  Never 
in 
the  history  of  the  world,  not  even 
among  the  ancient  Greeks,  was  the 
percentage  of  female  pulchritude  so 
high  as  it  is  now.  The  cult  of  the 
body  has  Leconte  almost  a  religion 
among  women.  More  intelligence in 
eating  and  drinking  and  bathing  and 
and  exercise  has  developed  a  gener­
ation  of young  girls  who  are  veritable 
Hebes  and  who  would  make 
their 
aenemic,  thin-chested,  pasty 
com­
plexion  grandmammas  look  like  can­
didates  for  an  invalids’  home.  So  if 
man  seeks  for  beauty  in  a  wife  he 
may  shut  his  eyes  and  make  a  grab 
in  the  dark  in  any  group  of  women 
and  be  sure  of  getting  one  who,  had 
she  lived  in  his  grandfather’s  time, 
would  have  had  all  the  poets  writing 
sonnets  to  her  eyebrows  and  all  the 
beaux  fighting  duels  for  her  smiles.

Women  are  more  intelligent  than 
they  were  before,  more 
versatile, 
more  sympathetic,  more  companion­
able.  Time  was  when  talking  to  a 
woman  must  have  been  as  fatiguing 
as  amusing  a  baby,  so  limited  was 
the  range  of  subjects  in  which  she 
was  interested,  and  so  insistent  was 
she  in  keeping  the  conversation  in 
the  personal  key.  Now  woman  fits 
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no  fad  or  fancy  to  which  she  is  not 
able  and  willing  to  minister. 
She 
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piety,  geometry  or  golf,  as  he  pleases, 
and  it  is  pathetic  to  think  that  wom­
an,  having  devoted  such  pains  and 
trouble  to  prepare  herself  to  be  the 
ideal  wife,  so  seldom  gets  a  chance 
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Inasmuch,  then,  as  woman  is  as 
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have  lost  the  art of winning husbands. 
Their  methods  are  bungling,  crude, 
and  they  present  even  to  the  man 
that  marries  them  the  practical  ad­
vantages  of  having  a  side  partner in­
stead  of  the  glory  and  romance  of 
realizing  a  dream.  This  of 
itself 
renders  them  less  attractive  to  men, 
since  it  is  the  luxuries  and  not  the 
necessities  of  life  that  allure  us  most, 
and  that  we  are  most  anxious  to  get.
Perhaps  the  chief  reason  that  men 
show  a  disinclination  to  marry  may 
be  accounted  for  by  the  freedom  of 
companionship  that  prevails  between 
the  sexes. 
In  the  olden  time,  when 
the  only  way  a  man  could  enjoy  a 
woman’s  society  was  by  marrying 
her,  he  was  in  a  rush  to  hustle  with 
her  to  the  altar,  but  when  custom 
permits  a  man 
a 
woman’s  evenings,  when  they  may 
spend  long  days  together  on  the  golf 
links,  when  they  may  attend  thea­
ters  and  parties  together  and  even 
enjoy  the  pleasure  of  a  little  meal 
for  two  in  a  perfectly  proper  restau- 
lant,  the  man  is  in  no  hurry  to  wed. 
He  has,  in  reality,  as  much  of  the 
woman’s  company  as  he  wants  with­
out  the  necessity  of  assuming  her 
bills,  or  giving  her  the  right  to  lec­
ture  him.

to  monopolize 

The  long  engagement  is  a  modern 
invention  of  man’s,  not  woman’s,  and 
it  is  a  handicap  that  our  grandmam­
mas  never  knew.  Nothing  that  the 
new  status  of  woman  has  brought  to 
her  is  so  delightful  as  the  possibility 
of  a  platonic  friendship  with  man, 
but  we  get  nothing  in  this  world 
without  paying  for  it,  and  the  price 
that  women  pay for  comradeship  with 
men  is  often  spinsterhood.  When  it 
was  .1  case  of  either  lover  or  nothing 
it  was  generally  lover.

Another  reason  why  men  are  less 
eager  about  marrying  now  than  they 
used  to  be  is  because  the  modern 
feminine  Barkis  is  too  willing.  Many 
things  change,  but  human  nature 
never  changes,  and  the  primitive  in­
stinct  of  man  is  for  the  chase.  The 
harder  a  thing  is  to  get,  the  more 
he  wants  it.  The  more  inaccessible 
a  thing  is,  the  more  anxious  he  is 
to  climb  after  it,  the  more  danger 
there  is  in  seeking  a  thing,  the  more 
sure  he  is  to  dare  it.  Women  have 
iorgotten  this  masculine  peculiarity, 
and  instead  of  permitting  themselves 
to  be  pursued 
turned 
around  and  have  become  the  pur­
suers,  with  the  inevitable  result  that 
men  have  lost  interest  in  the  chase 
and  dropped  out  of  it.

they  have 

Probably  our  grandmothers  were 
just  as  anxious  to  get  married  as  any 
girl  is  now,  but  they  had  the  gump- 
lion  to  affect  a  coy  and  reluctant 
attitude,  and  because  a  man  believed 
that  it  was  a  difficult  task  to  capture 
the  citadel  of  a  maiden’s  affections, 
he  wooed  her  with  fire  and  passion 
and  all  the  energy  of  which  he  was 
capable.  Because  she  appeared  indif­
ferent  to  his  visits  he  kept  the  path 
to  her  door  hot  with  his  footsteps. 
Because  the  most  that  he  hoped  to 
win  from  her  hand  in  the  shape  of  a 
letter  was  a  line  or  two  of  discreet, 
copy-book,  maidenly  reply, 
to  his 
numerous  missives,  he  weighed  down 
the  mails  with  burning  billets  doux.

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

23

How  is  it  now?  The  modern  girl 
has  left  him  in  no  doubt  as  to  the 
state  of  her  affections,  and  so  he 
takes  no  trouble  in  wooing  her.  She 
will  say 
“yes,  and  thank  you,  too,” 
whenever  he  asks  her  and  any  old 
lovemaking  will  do. 
If  he  does  not 
come  to  see  her  she  calls  him  up  by 
telephone,  and  so  he  goes  when  there 
is  no  more  exciting  amusement  and 
prospect.  As  for  letters, 
she  will 
write  anyway,  so  what  is  the  use  in 
bothering  to  keep  up  his  end  of  the 
correspondence? 
It  is  the  old  story 
of  the  over-ripe  peach  no  one  wants 
to  gather.

that 

fences 

Our  grandmammas  also  had  an­
other  advantage 
their  grand­
daughters  lack— our  great  grandmam­
mas  understood  the  value  of 
the  un­
attainable.  They  did  not  throw  their 
daughters  at  eligible  young  men’s 
heads.  They  built 
around 
them.  When  a  young  man  came  a- 
wooing  the  entire  family  did  not  take 
to  the  back  yard  so  as  to  give  him 
a  chance.  The  stern  parents  stood 
guard  over  a  girl,  and  put  him 
to 
his  wits’  end  to  steal  a  moment’s  con­
verse  with  her,  or  press  her  hand  in 
secret. 
Sometimes  the  wily  father 
even  went  to  the  extent  of  locking 
the  girl  up  in  her  room  to  keep  her 
from  a  suitor,  and  then  the  man,  who 
very  likely  could  not  have  been  driv­
en  in  at  the  front  door,  was  ready  to 
break  his  neck  climbing  up  to  her 
window  to  steal  her.

anxiety 

In  a  word,  they  made  courtship ro­
mantic  and  difficult,  and 
in  conse­
quence  there  were  many  elopements 
and  few  old  maids.  Without  doubt, 
it  is  parents’  palpable 
to 
marry  off  their  daughters  nowadays 
that  scares  so  many  men  off,  for 
while  a  man  may  be  thrilled  at  the 
prospect  of  being  pursued  by  an  irate 
father  with  horse  pistols  to  Gretna 
Green,  it  gives  him  the  cold  shudders 
to  feel  that  he  is  being  taken  in  in a 
confidence  game.

The  moral  of  all  of  which  is,  that 
in  affairs  of  the  heart  women  do  not 
know  so  much  as  their  grandmam­
mas  did  after  all. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Absent  Minded.

An  old  gentleman  who  was  very 
absent  minded  often  had  to  ring  for 
his  servant  and  say:

“James,  I  am  looking  for 

some­
thing and  now  I  can’t remember  what 
it  is.”

And  then  James  would  suggest: 
“Your  purse,  sir,  or  spectacles,  or 
checkbook?”  And  so  on,  until  the  old 
gentleman  would  say  at  last:

“Of  course;  that’s  it.  Thank  you, 

James.”

One  night  the  old  gentleman  had 
gone  to  his  room  and  all  were  in 
bed  when  James  was  startled  by hear­
ing  his  master’s  bedroom  bell.  He 
rushed  upstairs  and  threw  open  the 
door.

“James,”  said  the  old  gentleman, “I 
and 

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now  can’t  remember  what  it  was.” 

“Wasn’t  it  tc  go  to  bed,  sir?” 
“Of  course,”  said  the  old  gentle­
man,  “so  it  was.  Thank  you,  James.”

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The  money  question  is  a  kaleido­
scope,  each  turn  in  affairs'presenting 
new  combinations  with  varying forms 
and  colors,  difficult  to  describe,  still 
more  difficult  to  forecast;  and  yet all 
these  changes  are  subject  to  natural 
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familiar  with  the  basic  principles  of 
finance,  the  laws  of  supply  and  de­
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different  fields  of 
ranged 
alongside  of  the  varying  demand  of 
the  consumer,  the  commodity  move­
ment  necessary  to  offset  a  distribu­
tion  quite  satisfactory  to  the  public 
need,  and  the  motive  power— volume 
of  money— necessary  to  effect  such 
movement.

Whether  a  bank’s  funds  should  be 
loaned  at  all  to  aid  in  unduly  ad­
vancing  the  price  of  commodities, 
and  to  what  extent 
such  advances 
may  be  made  with  safety,  are  added 
questions  entirely  apart  from  the or­
dinary  principles  upon  which 
the 
credit  is  based.  Unduly  enhancing 
the  cost  of  any  commodity,  or  the 
cost  of  money— interest  rates— ad­
versely  affects  general  business,  the 
immediate  and  perhaps 
the  most 
baneful  effects  of  which  are  experi­
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measure  of  success,  requires  stable 
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it  may  be  different.

It  is  well  known  that  fluctuations in 
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And  still,  the  proper  understanding 
of  these  matters  does- not  fully  equip 
the  modern  banker. 
In  these  days 
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the  complex  affairs  of  modern  com­
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by  the  power  of  concentrated  wealth, 
inspired  by  the  popular  mania 
for 
amassing  large  fortunes.  Prices  are 
manipulated,  normal  conditions  upset, 
natural  laws  reversed.

Witness  the  retrograde  movement 
of  cotton  during  last  season, 
from 
warehouse  and  mill  in  New  York  and 
New  England  back  to  New  Orleans 
to  meet  delivery  on  speculative  con­
tracts,  at  prices  of  raw  cotton  lifted 
beyond  the  point  of  profitable  manu­
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staple  as  a  basis  for  speculative  con­
tracts— contracts  whose  only  intend­
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has  sole  reference  to  the  price  as  de­
termined  by  quality  and  quantity.

The  great  cereals  of  the  country 
are  the  popular  football  of  specula­
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ment,  with  analogous  results. 
If the 
artificial  prices  thus  created  were 
lealized  by  the  producer,  it  would be 
a  compensatory  advantage,  but  the 
“corner”  and  the  “squeeze”  are only 
possible  when  the  crop  has  “come in 
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hence  seemingly  increase  the  dealer’s 
profits,  tend,  nevertheless,  to  demor­
alize  business,  and  are  of  real  ad­
vantage  to  no  one.

in 

The  extreme  fluctuations 

the 
money  rate, 
frequently  ranging  as 
high  as  20  per  cent.,  as  it  did  in  1901- 
04,  indicate  the  existence,  legislative 
or  otherwise,  of  unnatural  and  un­
wholesome  conditions.  The  strong 
demand  for  money  at  full  rates  that 
have  generally  prevailed  for  the  past 
three  or  four  years,  followed  by  an 
accumulation  of  unloanable  funds  at 
the  present,  is  a  natural  result  and se­
quence  of 
industrial  debauch 
through  which  we  have  passed,  but 
from  which  we  have  not  yet  recov­
ered.

the 

fortunate. 

The  individual  who  closed  out  his 
securities  at  top  prices,  and  kept  out, 
was  fortunate.  The  manufacturer  or 
merchant  who  sold  out  at  the  height 
of  the  boom  realized  more  than  his 
property  was  worth,  and  was  propor­
tionately 
The  average 
successful  man  who  was  in  business 
eight  years  ago,  and  has  remained  in 
to  the  present  time,  would  be  better 
off  to-day  had  an  average  degree  of 
prosperity  characterized  this  period 
instead  of  the  wide  fluctuations  in 
values  and  extremely  high  prices 
which  prevailed.

The  manufacturer  who  can  sell 
more  than  his  output  at  almost  any 
price  he  chooses  to  demand  usually 
increases  his  capacity,  notwithstand­
ing  the  fact  that  the  cost  of  labor 
and  material  are  at  the  maximum, 
and  thus  permanently  over-capitalizes 
his  plant,  and  impairs  his  economical 
I  seek  by 
production  in  the  future. 
these  illustrations  to  emphasize 
the 
fact,  with  which  we  are  all  familiar, 
that  the  public  prospers  most  with 
average  conditions  and  stable 
influ­
ences,  and  with  the  natural  laws  of 
trade  in  force  unvexed  by  artificial 
influences.

Banks  are  the  barometer  of  trade; 
bankers  are  dealers  in  credit.  Their 
business  consists  in  swapping  a  well- 
known  for  a  less-known  credit.  To 
succeed  they  must  study  and  be  fa­
miliar  with  all  branches  of  industry, 
and  the  changing  conditions  of  the 
business  world  as  well  as  the  chang­
ing  conditions  of  the  individuals  and 
corporations  with  which  they  deal. 
It  follows  that  bankers  of  all  people 
desire  freedom  from  boom  and  de­
pression,  and  it  seems  to  me  that 
our  labors,  as  individuals  and  as  an 
association,  should  be  directed  to­
ward  vindication  of  natural  laws  in 
trade  and  finance.

As  to  currency,  there  is  little  likeli­
hood  of  change  in  our  laws  for  some 
time  to  come. 
It  would  be  the  part 
of  wisdom  to  perfect  our  currency 
upon  well  grounded  principles,  in  the 
light  of  experience  and  along  scien­
tific  lines,  at  a  time  when  the  public 
is  free  from  currency  agitation.

But  large  legislative  bodies  seldom 
proceed  in  such  manner.  Their  ac­
tion  is  taken  at  some  crucial  period 
and  in  response  to  an  acute  public de­
mand.  There  is  nothing  to  suggest 
such  demand  in  the  near  future.  Our 
currency  is  good  beyond  question, but 
rigid  as  the  laws  of  the  Medes  and 
Persians. 
It  is  quite  similar  to  the

currency  of  England.  We  have  $346»“ 
000,000  in  United  States  notes,  issued 
directly  by  the  Government,  made  le­
gal  tender,  and  which  are,  in  effect, 
*  forced  loan.

The  greenbacks  are  redeemable  in 
the 
gold  so  long  as  the  credit  of 
Government  is  such  that  its  bonds 
can  be  sold  for  gold.  They  are  good 
beyond  question,  are  practically  gold 
notes,, and  I  think  they  have  come  to 
stay. 
I  am  not  arguing  against  any 
proper  scheme 
for  perfecting  our 
currency,  but  as  practical  men  we 
should  recognize  facts  and  probabili­
ties.  The  volume  of  currency  in  the 
aggregate  and  per  capita  exceeds  any 
previous  period  in  our  National  exist­
ence  and  is  certainly  adequate  to  the 
public  needs.  The  perennial  output 
of  our  mines  will  satisfy  any 
in­
creased  demand  which  may  accom­
pany  increase  of  population  and  ex­
panding business.

Our  sub-treasury  system,  which 
withdraws  from  circulation  the  daily 
customs  receipts  of  the  Government 
and  locks  them  in  the  Treasury,  from 
which  they  can  only  be  withdrawn  by 
an  appropriation  of  Congress,  is  an 
arbitrary  and  artificial 
interference 
with  currency  conditions,  enacted  at 
a  time  when  the  Government  pro­
fessedly  was  afraid  to  trust  its  in­
come  funds  in  the  hands  of  the  banks. 
Whenever  the  Government’s  income 
exceeds  its  expenditures,  the  daily ab­
sorption  of  money  by  the  Treasury 
becomes  an  important  consideration 
that  must  be  taken  into  account  by 
every  banker  and  business  man 
in 
determining  their  course  of  action.

The  natural  course  of  business  is 
marred  or  modified  by  the  Govern­
ment’s  strange  adherence  to  this  ab­
surd  provision  of  law. 
Its  absurdity 
may  well  be  illustrated  by  noting  the 
consequences  which  would  ensue  in 
case  municipalities  and 
individuals 
should  adopt  the  same  cowardly  con­
servatism.  Suppose  each  state,  each 
city,  county,  town  and  village  should 
hold  all  their  receipts  for  taxes  in 
their  treasury  or  strong  boxes,  until 
the  same  should  be  paid  out  in  regu­
lar  course  in  meeting  their  direct  ob­
ligations.  The  effect  of  such  a  course 
upon  the  money  in  circulation  and 
the  violent  fluctuations 
in  volume 
necessarily  produced  can  easily  be 
foreseen.

it 

Go  a  step  farther,  and  suppose  each 
should 
individual  and  corporation 
adopt  the  same  course,  and 
is 
easy  to  see  that  the  whole  superstruc­
ture  of  credit  would 
the 
ground.  Congress  has  given  some 
signs  of  a  disposition  to  repeal  this 
law,  albeit  the  same  was  accompanied 
with  a  provision  that  the  banks  pay 
not  less  than  2  per  cent,  interest  to 
the  Government  for  the  privilege  of 
keeping  these  funds  in  circulation.

fall 

to 

The  weakest  point  in  our  currency 
system  is  shown  during  those  periodi­
cal  crises  commonly  called  panics.  A 
panic  means  business  paralysis.  Some 
climax  to  a  series  of  adverse  influ­
ences  operating  upon  the  public mind 
temporarily  destroys  credit;  and  in a 
country  like  ours,  where  90  per  cent, 
of  business  transactions  are  consum­
mated  by  means  of  credit,  it  means

a  practical  stoppage  of  the  wheels  of 
industry.

I  am  aware  that  some  people  ob­
ject  that  an  emergency  circulation 
would  have  a  bad  effect  upon  the 
public  mind.  They  seem  to  think  that 
the  public  would  only  know  of  the 
emergency  through  such  an 
issue. 
Any  financial  or  industrial  disturb­
ance  that  may  occur  will  be  known 
to  the  business  and  reading  public 
step  by  step  as 
it  occurs,  and  an 
emergency  circulation  would  be  re­
ceived  by  the  public  as  a  remedy  and 
a  relief,  and  any  one  who 
thinks 
otherwise  pays  a  poor  compliment to 
the  intelligence  of  the  American  peo­
ple.

I  am  strongly  of  the  opinion  that 
there  should  be  some  modification  of 
existing  laws  so  as  to  permit  banks 
to«'  protect  the  business  interests  of 
the  country  in  times  of  greatest  need. 
1  think  so  all  the  more  from  the  fact 
that  the  time  has  gone  by  when 
clearing  house  certificates  may  be 
successfully  used  to  mitigate  the  rig­
ors  of  a  panic. 
I  think  I  am  safe  in 
saying  that  it  is  the  general  opinion 
among  bankers  that  clearing  house 
certificates  will  no  longer  prove  a 
measure  of  relief  unless  it  may  be 
under  most  exceptional 
circum­
stances.

initial 

Recurring  to  the 

thought 
of  this  paper— the  desirability  of  sta­
ble  business  conditions  and  uniform 
cost  of  transportation,  and  reasona­
bly  uniform  rates  for  money,  we, as 
bankers,  entirely  apart  from  legisla­
tive  or  coercive  measures,  can  exer­
cise  great  influence  in  bringing about 
such  conditions.  Much  of  the  hos­
tilities  to  banks,  much  of  the  animos­
ity  existing  between  different  sec­
tions  of  the  country 
traceable  to 
the  unequal  distribution  of  banking
power,  credit  facilities.  A   borrower 
in  the  interior  or  remoter  sections 
reads  of  the  very  low  rates  of  inter­
est  prevailing  in  the  money  centers, 
compares  the  same  with  the  full  rate 
he  is  compelled  to  pay,  and  concludes 
that  his  immediate  creditor  is  reap­
ing  an  undue  advantage  in  charging 
him  undue  or  extortionate  rates.

is 

Reasoning  something  like  this  fur­
nished  the  backbone  of  the  silver 
propaganda,  whose  disturbing  influ­
ence  has  cost  the  country  so  sorely 
during  the  past 
twenty-five  years. 
People  in  the  newer  sections  of  the 
country,  aware  of  the  rich,  natural 
localities,  which 
resources  of  their 
only  awaited  development 
to  be 
transformed 
into  wealth,  clamored 
for  an  increased  volume  of  currency. 
What  they  needed  was  capita!  to 
transform  latent  wealth  into  tangible 
wealth;  what  they  thought  they  need­
ed  was  more  currency,  and  this  con­
viction  served  to  swell  the  ranks  of 
the  advocates  of  cheap  money.

The  Credit  Foncier  of  France 

is 
a  great  mortgage  bank. 
It  takes 
mortgage  obligations  from  its  cus­
tomers  and  gives  in  exchange  its own 
debentures  or  obligations.  Such  ob­
ligations  are  listed  and  have  a  daily 
quoted  value  upon  the  Paris  Bourse, 
and  the  Credit  Foncier  is  not  permit­
ted  to  charge  its  customer  in  excess 
of five-eighths  of  I  per  cent,  above the 
day’s  quotations  for 
securities.

its 

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|H Y   do  you  rent  a store,  buy  fixtures,  hire  clerks?  W hy  do  you 
invest  money in merchandise?  T o  get  more money, do you  not? 
Yet,  where do you put that  money when  you  get it—the  money 
for which you have invested your savings, the money for which you 
have worked so hard ?  W hat do you do with it?  Do you put it away carefully 
where nothing can happen to it—where you  can be sure of  getting  every  cent 
of the profit you have earned?  O r  do you  put it into a  common cash-drawer, 
an ordinary box under the counter, used, maybe, by your great-grandfather along 
with  his hour-glass,  his tallow  candle  and  other ancient  fixtures ? 
J t r e u c o j  y ou  pUt  y O U r   hard-earned  money  into  this  relic  of  antiquity 
unchecked and practically unprotected.  Ashes are dumped into

a barrel in  much  the  same  careless  way.

You use a scale in order that you may not lose money by 
giving a customer more  of your goods than he  is entitled to.
You  weigh  these  goods  with  infinite  care.
F a lse 
Y et  the  hard-earned money  for  these  same
econom y 
g00ds  [s  dropped  into  the  ancient  makeshift
under  the counter with  much less thought than you expect 
your  clerks  to take  in splitting  an ounce  of sugar.

Let  us show you  how you  can  keep  a check on every transaction involving 
money in your store.  How you can guard every penny of your  receipts.  How 
you can increase your cash  sales  and add  25  per  cent, to  the efficiency of your 
clerks.  The demonstration will  cost you  nothing  and  put you  under no obli­
gation  to  buy.  You  can  pay  for the system out of the money it will save you.

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what kind of a register i»  oest suited for my business. 

This does not put me under obligation to buy.

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This  secures  the  borrowers  through­
out  France  a  uniform  rate.

discharge  the  duties  and  responsibil­
ities  of citizenship.  A.  B.  Hepburn.

to 

As  a  matter  of fact,  the  Credit  Fon- 
cier  gives  to  its  borrowers  money 
or  such  funds  as  they  desire.  The 
law  serves  to  limit  the  ex­
above 
change  or  service  charge 
five- 
eighths  of  i  per  cent.,  and  secures to 
all  borrowers  of  the  same  date  the 
same  rate  of  interest.  As  you  are 
all  aware,  the  Bank  of  France  charges 
the  same  rate  of  discount  each  day 
at  all  its  branches  throughout France.
Of  course,  what  may  be  successful­
ly  carried  out  in  densely  populated 
France  may  not  be  at  all  praticable 
in  the  United  States,  but  with  in­
creasing  wealth  and  growing  popula­
tion 
something  approximating  the 
Credit  Foncier  may  become  practi­
cable  and  would  seem  to  be  desirable.
Terminal  wheat  receipts  in  Duluth 
and  Minneapolis  are  regarded  as the 
best  of  collateral  by  banks  generally; 
why  not  cotton  in  New  Orleans,  Gal­
veston,  Mobile,  Atlanta,  Savannah, 
Charleston 
important 
points ?  Some  attempts  have  been 
made  by  warehousing  companies  to 
make  the  staple  products  of  the  coun­
try,  warehoused  in  the  locality  of 
their  production,  available  as  collater­
al  with  banks  generally. 
Insufficient 
capital  and  insufficient  business  ex­
perience  have  thus  far  deprived  the 
project  of  a  fair  trial.

other 

and 

With  sufficient  funds,  under 

the 
management  of  experienced  men  of 
well  known  character  and  ability,  it 
seems  to  me  the  project  ought  to 
succeed  and  prove  an  advantage  alike 
to  borrower  and  lender. 
I  give  these 
for  instances  to  illustrate  the  convic­
tion  I  have  that  the  best  way  to  do 
away  with  sectional  prejudice  in  our 
country,  with  the  general  prejudice 
which  exists 
and 
against  capital— the  best  way  to  puri­
fy  our  politics  and  prevent  business 
interests  and  property  values 
from 
becoming  the  football  of  each  recur­
ring  political  campaign— is  to  bring 
far  as  lies  in  our  pow­
about, 
er, 
conditions' 
throughout  the  country,  with  the  cost 
of  commodities  and  rates  for  money 
fluctuating  within  reasonable  limits.

reasonably  unform 

against 

banks 

so 

We  tend  to  accomplish  such  re­
sults  by  bringing  the  resources  under 
our  control,  which  is  the  motive  pow­
our 
er  underlying  and  controlling 
industrial  fabric,  closely 
in  contact 
with  the  material  product— the  per­
ennial  output— of  the  business  public, 
and  by  making  that  contact  as  close 
as  possible  throughout  the  length and 
breadth  of  the  land.  By  exercising 
our  influence  along  these  lines,  we 
can  best  serve  the  material  interests 
committed  to  our  charge,  and  best

T R Y
T H E M
N O W

Hard  to  Stop  Trickery  of  Dishonest 

Clerks.

Misrepresentation  of 

goods  by 
salespeople  is  a  source  of  loss  to  the 
department  stores  that  they  are  con­
stantly  seeking 
to  eliminate.  The 
more  highly  a  store  values  its  repu­
tation  the  more  it  is  injured  by  a 
single  instance  of  misrepresentation. 
Likewise  the  man  or  woman  used  to 
strictly  honorable  dealings  is  more 
offended  by  dishonesty  than  is  one 
used  to  the  false  pretensions  and 
cheap  chaffering  of  low  class  mer­
chants.

It  doesn’t  hurt  a  banana  peddler 
much  to  be  detected  in  tucking  in 
one  black  banana  in  a  dozen.  You 
expect  and  are  on  the  lookout  for 
just  that  from  a  merchant  of  his class. 
Then,  besides,  he  rarely  expects  to 
meet  you  as  a  customer  again.  He 
thinks  that  he  can  always  find  new 
customers  to  cheat  among  a  whole 
city  full.

So  with  the  cheap  stores.  They 
haven’t  an  immaculate  reputation any­
way.  Then 
there  are  such  hosts 
of  careless  people  in  the  city  waiting 
to  be  cheated  that  there  will  always 
be  enough  left  to  go  around,  no  mat­
ter  how  often  or  how  badly  they  are 
gulled.

But  a  store  which  aims  to  reach 
and  hold  the  better  class  must  be 
more  precise  in  its  dealings.  Such 
people  have  better  memories,  as well 
as  finer  sensibilities,  and  they  do not 
expect  and  will  not  put  up  with  mis­
representation.  Therefore,  the  higher 
class  the  store  is  and  the  higher  the 
class  of  people  who  patronize  it  the 
more  carefully  it  must  guard  against 
all  misrepresentation  on  the  part  of 
its  salespeople.

A   clerk  in  such  a  store  gains  in  the 
long  run  by  presenting  goods  just as 
they  are,  because  it  is  for  his  best 
interests  to  hold  the  confidence  of 
his  customers  so  that  they  will  come 
back  to  him  again  and  again.  On the 
other  hand,  a  clerk’s  salary  is  based 
chiefly  on  his  weekly  sales  reports, 
so  that  an  unprincipled  man  is  under 
constant  temptation  to  misrepresent 
goods  in  order  to  increase  the  amount 
of  his  sales.

He  sees,  for  instance,  that  a  cus­
tomer  hesitates  about  purchasing  a 
dress  pattern  because  she  thinks  there 
is  a  thread  of  cotton  in  the  goods.  If 
the  clerk»admits  the  shoddy  she  may 
leave  the  counter  without  purchas­
ing,  and  then  all  the  time  he  had 
spent  on  her  would  be  wasted.  Then 
a  clerk  is  tempted  to  trade  on  the 
ignorance  of  timid  or  inexperienced 
customers  when  by  so  doing  he  can

make  a  sale.  All  this  is  short  sight­
ed  and  in  the  long  run  works  against 
a  clerk’s  own  interests,  but  not  all 
of  them  believe  it.

To  guard  against  such  misrepresen­
tation  is  part  of  the  duty  of  the  head 
of  each  section.  He  is  supposed  to 
know  all  that  is  going  on  in  his  de­
partment.  The  floorwalkers,  too,  are 
supposed  to  have  their  eyes  and  ears 
open  to  guard  against  any  kind  of 
poor  work  on  the  part  of  clerks,  but 
it  is  obviously  impossible  for  these 
few  overseers  to  hear  everything said 
by  each  clerk.  Out  of  the  scores  of 
sales  going  on  around  him  the  head 
of  the  section  can  keep  track  of  only 
a  few,  and  the  floorwalkers  only  a  few 
more.  So  the  great  majority  of  sales 
are  necessarily  trusted  entirely  and 
absolutely  to  the  salespeople.

Another  mode  of  supervision  is the 
reporting of one clerk by another.  But 
this  does  not  amount  to  much,  be­
cause,  no  matter  how  important  to 
the  firm  is  the  information  conveyed, 
tattling  is  dishonorable.  A  clerk’s 
loyalty  belongs  first  to  his  firm,  yet 
few  men  or  women  are  so  hardened 
that  they  can  “tell  on”  a  fellow  work­
er  without  feeling  ashamed.

requests 

The  management  also  requests cus­
tomers  to  report  all  cases  of  misrep­
resentations.  These 
are 
made  frequently,  so  that  the  fact  is 
well  advertised  that  such  reports  will 
be  investigated,  and  in  all  cases  jus­
tice  done  the  customer.  But  many 
people  will  not  take  the  trouble  or 
spend  the  time  to  make  a 
report. 
Mrs.  A.  is  a  busy  woman.  When  she 
finds  that  the  handkerchiefs  are  part 
cotton  which  a  certain  clerk  told  her 
were  every  thread  linen,  she  simply 
goes  to  some  other  store  the  next 
time  she  wants  to  buy  anything 
in 
linens.

All  clerks  in  the  best  stores  are 
clearly  instructed  to  present  goods

on  their  merits,  and  under  no  circum­
stances  to base  a  sale  on  misrepresen­
tation.  All  the  management  can  do 
after  so  instructing  them  is  to  sup­
pose  that  the  combined  reports  of 
customers,  fellow  clerks,  floorwalk­
ers,  and  heads  of  departments  will 
clerk  who 
eventually  disclose  the 
misrepresents. 
is  some 
ground  not  thoroughly  covered  by 
these  practical  safeguards.

Still  there 

After  all,  the  character  of  the  sales­
people  must  be  relied  upon. 
If  they 
are  not  strictly  honest  they  can  make 
sales  by  misrepresenting  goods.  But 
when  found  out  they  are  always  rep­
rimanded,  and  if  they  do  not  care 
enough  for  their  future  to  follow  in­
structions,  even  if  they  are  not  honest 
from  principle,  they  are  dismissed.

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taking  best  are  the  full  round  toe, the 
medium  toe,  the  medium  wide  toe 
with  a  modified  freak  look  about  it, 
a  medium  narrow  toe  with  somewhat 
of  a  Po-toe  swing  to  it,  the  Po-toe 
last  with  straight  inside  and  a  mark­
ed  outward  swing. 
In  the  child’s  line 
the  popular  styles  are  the  medium 
full  ordinary  toe,  the  narrow  dressy 
toe,  the  Po-toe  with  straight  inside 
with  outside  swing,  the  Po-toe  with 
more  breadth  over  the  toe  and  a  trifle 
freakish,  the  full,  neat  square  effect 
and  the  extreme  wide  toe.

that 

those 

In  the  women’s  line,  bluchers  are 
selling 
remarkably  well.  One  of 
these  popular  sellers  has  mat  kid  top, 
cap  toe,  single  sole  and  beveled  edge. 
The  tendency  in  market  purchasing 
would  indicate 
styles 
which  enable  the  foot  to  take  its  nat­
ural  position  are  coming  in  vogue. 
That  this  tendency  is  growing  can 
be  seen  in  the  outward  swing  last, 
which  promises  to  be  very  popular. 
The  old  time  cramped  effect  will  be 
superseded  by  styles  giving  the  Po- 
toe  effect  without  causing  injury  to 
the  feet.  Although  new,  this  foot- 
form  line  is  already  a  strong  seller. 
It  is  made  in  vici,  russia  and  patent 
colt,  oak  soles,  new  substitch  proc­
ess,  innersoles  soft  and  smooth,  and 
has  more  strong  talking  and  selling 
points  than  any  other  shoe.— N.  Y. 
Commercial.

On  a  Shopping  Tour.

Th e  sh a d e s  of  n igh t  w ere  fa llin g   fa s t  
A s  through  a   b argain   sto re  th ere  p asse d  
A  m aid,  w ho’d  lin gered  till  the  la st,

J u s t   sh opping.

H e r  m ien  w a s  sad ,  her  face  looked  w orn; 
H er  h a t  w as  crush ed,  her  d re ss  w a s  to rn ; 
S h e’d  jo stle d   th ere  sin ce  early   m orn. 

J u s t   sh opping.

"O h ,  s ta y ,”   the  sa le sg irl  said ,  “ an d  see 
T h is  lovely  silk   a t  fo rty -th ree 
A  y a rd .”  

Sh e  an sw ered,  “ N one  fo r  me, 

I’m   sh o pp in g.”

said,

“Mount  not 
“ T h e  elev a to r’s   ju s t   ah e a d .”
B u t  up  sh e  craw led  w ith  la g g in g   tread, 

stairs,” ,  floorwalkers 

the 

J u s t   sh opping.

A t  6  o’clock,  a s   hom ew ard  w ent 
Th e  salesw om er.  on  p leasu re  bent,
They  left  her  there  by  accident,

Still  shopping.

A  w atch m an   m a k in g   la te   h is  round 
W a s  sc a re d   b y   an   unw onted  so u n d;
On  th e  th ird  floor  the  m aid  he  found. 

J u s t   shopping-

There  in  the  twilight  cold  and  gray 
Sauntered  the  maid  who'd  shopped  all 
And  n oth in g  bou ght  to  ta k e   aw ay — 

day,

Still  shopping.
No  Horsewhips  in  Moscow.

the 

There  is  a  notable  law  in  force  in 
most  of 
large  Russian  towns 
concerning  horses.  Among  the  curi­
ous  things  that  arrest  the  attention 
on  arriving  in  Moscow  is  the  entire 
absence  of  whips  among  drivers  of 
cabs,  carriages  and  all  sorts  of  vehi­
cles.  There  is  a 
law  prohibiting 
their  use  and  there  is  not  a  single 
whip  in  use  in  Moscow.  The  excel­
lent  condition  of  the  horses  attest 
the  benefit  of 
law. 
Nothing  can  exceed  the  beauty  of the 
sleek  and  well-groomed  horses  used 
in  the  carriages  of  Moscow.
The  Sharper  Vision.

this  humane 

“ I  believe  there’s  something  be­
tween  our  daughter  and  young  Hug- 
gerly.”

“I  seen  them-  in  the  parlor, 

last 
night,”  volunteered  young  brother, 
“an’  there  wasn’t  nothing  between 
them.”

Business  Opportunity

For  Sale— The  stock  and good  will  of  a  pros 
perous,  well-established  wholesale  shoe business  of 
highest  reputation, in  one  of  the  best  cities  of  the 
west.  Parties  wishing  to  consider  such  an  open­
ing  will  please  address  C.  C.,  care  of  this  paper, 
when  full  details  and  an  opportunity  to  investigate 
will  be  given.  Capital  required,  about  $100,000.

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have  occurred  to  you,
but  the  very  fact  is  in 
evidence,  that  to  satisfy  your  customers,  you  should  carry  a 
complete line of

Banigan  Rubber  Boots 

And  Shoes

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

If you have  never  handled  them  it  may  be  suggestive  of 

oth*T than fairness if you do not place a trial order.

QEO.  S.  MILLER,  Selling  Agent

■ 31-133  narket St., CHICAGO,  ILL.

Geo.  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?

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

Our store is on  the way to Union Depot and we are always pleased 

to see our friends and customers.

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Business  Improving 
Trade.

in 

the  Shoe 

Shoe  manufacturers  and 

jobbers 
say  the  further  the  season  progress­
es  the  more  encouraging  it  becomes. 
While  the  number  of buyers  who  visit 
this  market  at  ihis  period  of  the year 
is  not 
large,  still  quite  a  number 
were  in  the  city  last  week,  and  they 
placed  some  fair-sized  orders.  .  The 
majority  of  fhe  retail  shoemen  are 
looking  forward  to  a  good  fall  and 
winter  trade,  and  are  making  prepar­
ations  accordingly.  Stocks  that  were 
held  over  do  not  look  so  large  and 
are  considered  less  of  a  handicap  than 
many  feared.

Wholesalers  predict  the  reign  of 
the  conservative  shoe  this  fall,  al­
though  they  aver  that  the  best  sell­
ers  will  have  a  slight  tinge  of  the 
coming  style  for  spring.  Radical  de­
partures  are  predicted  for  the  com­
ing  spring  season  and  these  predic­
tions  should  be  of  great  suggestive 
value  to  the  shoe  buyer.  The  new 
pointed  toe  with  an  outward  swing 
to  the  last  will  sell  well  this  fall.  One 
of  the  best  selling  shoes,  however, 
for  the  trade,  and  the  shoe  which 
market  visitors  favor,  is  one  of  Eng- 
ish  enamel  with  waterproof  sole  and 
calf  topping.  From  the  standpoint 
of  style  there  is  nothing 
extreme 
about  it  and  it  makes  a  sensible  all­
round  shoe  for  the  business  man  and 
the  conservative  patron  of  the  coun­
try  store.

Among  the  men  there  seems  to  be 
£  growing demand  for  the  sort  of  sub­
stantial  shoes  with  which  over-shoes 
need  never  be  worn.  Bluchers  are 
going  to  be  popular  and  patent  shoes 
will  be  worn  to  a  great  extent.  De­
mand  will  continue  for  the  Cuban 
heel  on  women’s  shoes,  if  present 
indications  count  for  anything. 
It 
is  believed  that  tans  will  sell  better 
than  ever  next  summer.  They  will 
range  in  shade  from 
the  delicate 
flesh  color  to  dark  chocolate  tints 
and  will  be  worn  by  infants,  women, 
children  and  men.  The  white  can­
vas  shoe  seems  to  have  taken  the 
market  by  storm  and  a  continued de­
mand  is  looked  for^next  season. 
In 
short,  shoes  for  this  fall  have  small 
heels  and  all  »n  all  the  military  ef­
fect.  The  largest  buyers  are  avoid­
ing  extremes.

There  will  be  no  decided  change 
in  shoe  styles  this  fall,  although  the 
spring  season  will  open  up  at  retail 
with  a  few  style  departures.  Some 
stores  will  experiment  with  a  few 
new  styles  and  on  their  success  will 
rest  the  country  merchant’s  decision 
as  to  what  styles  will  be  favorably 
received  by  his  trade.  The  market 
buyer  this  fall  will  find  exceptionally 
good  values  for  his  money.  Each 
season’s  goods, 
show  a 
decided  advancement  in  the  detail of 
counters,  linings,  innersoles  and  up­
per  and  sole  stock.

fact, 

In  toe  styles  for  boys  there  is  a 
decided  tendency  toward  the  conserv­
atively  roomy  shape.  The  two  styles

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as  the  chief  distinguishing  feature  of 
the  powder.  To-day  to  change  the 
name  of  the  powder  probably  would 
1 uin  its  prestige.

A  wise  business  man  had  done  the 

You  will  be  scrupulous  in  your  re­

gard  for  the  rights  of  others.

You  will  not  forget  engagements, 
promises  or  obligations  of  any  kind.
In  conversation  you  will  not  be  ar­

1

N E X T  B E ST  THING. 

Reasons  Why  We  Should  Not  Over­

look  It.

When,  for  good  and  sufficient  rea­
son,  it  becomes  impossible  to  carry 
through  business  plans  in  the  best 
way,  do  the  “next  best  thing.”

Knowledge  of  just  what  this  next 
best  thing  is  in  any  emergency  of  the 
affairs  of  life  is  essential  to  the  busi­
ness  of  doing  it.  But  frequently  when 
the  judgment  has  put  its  seal  upon 
the  necessity  of  the  thing  next  to  be 
done,  the  shock  of  not  having  been 
able  to  do  the  first  thing  intended 
stuns  the  individual  until  the  oppor­
tunity  for  the  next  best  thing  is  ir­
revocably  past.

Common  sense  has  come  to  be re­
garded  as  almost  uncommon  sense. 
Yet  common  sense  is  not  all.  That 
thing  called  common 
sense  might 
teach  an  unlettered  man  that  if  he 
could  take  the  positive  pole  of  a 
great  battery  into  both  his  hands and 
its  negative  pole  into  both  his  hands, 
each  with  impunity,  he  could  as  safe­
ly  take 
the  positive  and  negative 
poles,  one  in  each  hand.  But  the 
analogy  does  not  hold.

Common  sense,  for  instance,  never 
in  the  world  suggested  to  Columbus 
that  the  earth  was  round,  or 
to 
Galileo  that  the  world  moved  rather 
than  the  sun.  Common  sense  revolt­
ed  at  both  and  in  the  end  was  made 
the  fool  of  the  thing  that  is  called 
“genius”  for  the 
lack  of  another 
name.  Yesterday  in  history,  to-day 
in  the  present,  and  in  all  to-morrow, 
perhaps,  common  sense  was,  is,  and 
must  continue 
the  handmaiden  of 
genius  to  the  extent  that  the  phe­
nomena  of  nature  are  uncovered  new 
to  a  world  of  conventional  thinkers.

Success,  sooner  or 

later,  always 
must  determine  the  position  of 
a 
man  in  comparison  with  his  fellow 
men.  And  so  long  as  success  must 
continue  the  comparative  thing  it  is, 
so  long  must  there  be  the  necessity 
for  a  man’s  doing  that  “next  best 
4hing.”

There  ic  a  practical  business  story 
not  ten  years  old  that  illustrates  the 
inspiration  that  may  be  necessary  as 
a  next  best  thing  in  backing  up  all 
that  common  sense  had  accomplished 
and  yet  failed  in:

A  great  cleaning  powder  was  stum­
bled  upon  by  a  chemist,  who  saw 
a  fortune 
in  it.  But  the  practical 
business  men,  upon  whom  it  would 
devolve  to  sell  the  stuff,  found  an  in­
superable  difficulty  with  the  market. 
The  powder  was  a  shade  seemingly 
impossible  of  producing  the  degree 
of  whiteness  that  was  the  powder’s 
chief  merit. 
“ I  couldn’t  sell  that 
stuff  without  hypnotic  powers,”  was 
the  expert  opinion  of  the  man  who 
knew  the  market.

But  the  manufacturer  knew 

the 
“next  best  thing.”  The  shade  that 
was  so  objectionable  to  the  market 
was  scarcely  more  than  strongly  sug­
gestive  of  its  failure  as  a  bleacher. 
The  chemist  was  called  upon  for  a 
harmless  shade  of  artificial  coloring 
that  would  so  accentuate  the  natural 
shade  as  to  allow  the  purchaser  to 
see  nothing  els 2  but  that  color.  Then 
the  cleaning  powder  was  named  to 
carry  with  it  this  color  description

next  best  thing.

There  is  the  story  of  a  mining  en­
gineer  in  the  desert  country  Of  the 
Great  West  who  figured  that  in  the 
development  of  a  certain  great  placer 
claim,  a  canal  debouching  from  one 
great  river  into  another  great  river 
parallel  to  it  was  essential.  But  the 
capital  developing  it  would  not  see. 
It  was  disputed  that  the  water  from 
the  Poudre  River  ever  could  flow  in­
to  the  waters  of  the  other  stream. 
The  engineer  had  begun  to  stand  for 
his  surveys  and  the  capitalists  were 
lining  up  for  the  expenditure  of  other 
thousands  in  surveys  to  prove 
that 
the  water  must  run  in  the  opposite 
direction.  Then 
engineer  be­
thought  him  of  the  next  best  thing. 
He  met  the  directors  of  the  concern.
“Gentlepien,”  was  his  incontrover­
tible  argument,  “either  that  water will 
flow  from  the  Poudre  into  the  Blank 
River  or  it  will  flow  from  the  Blank 
River  into  the  Poudre!”

the 

to 

standing 

conventional 

There  are  “frog  farms”  in  various 
portions  of  the  world  out  of  which 
their  owners  are  reaping  harvests  of 
money.  They  are 
chal­
lenges 
common 
sense;  they  are  marked  examples  of 
the  inspiration  to  do  the  next  best 
thing.  When 
frog  hunter  no 
longer  could  find  his  wild  quarry  for 
the  supply  of  the  market  he  turned, 
fenced  in  the  marshes,  and  domesti­
cated  the  creatures.  He  did  the  next 
best  thing.

the 

The  ability  to  determine  this  next 
best  thing  in  the  business  world  is 
often  the  determining  factor  in  mark­
ed  successes.  Thousands  of  men 
have  started  out  in  business  or  pro­
fessional  life  to  accomplish  a  certain 
measure  of  success  in  a  definite  line. 
Some  barrier  has  arisen  which  could 
not  be  crossed. 
It  served  to  inspire 
the  next  best  thing  in  the  hearts  of 
the  adventurers,  and  this  next  best 
thing  has  resulted  in  the  attainment 
of  unexpected  successes  beyond  the 
original  first  hopes  of  these  thous­
ands.

The  greatest  problems  in  life  con­
tinue  to  be  expressed  in  the  world’s 
query,  What  is  the  next  best  thing? 
That  “first”  best  thing  will  continue 
to  be  in  the  untried  mind  the  easiest 
of  determinations;  it  is  on  the  rock 
of  the  “next”  best  thing  that  for­
tunes  are  wrecked  or  find  founda­
tions. 

John  A.  Howland.

If  You  Are  Well  Bred.

You  will  be  kind.
You  will  try  and  make 

happy.

others 

You  will  not  be  shy  or  self-con­

scious.

You  will  never  indulge  in ill-natured 

gossip.

You  will  never  forget  the  respect 

due  to  age.

You  will  not  swagger  or  boast  of 

your  achievements.

You  will  think  of  others  before  you 

think  of  yourself.

You  will  not  measure  your  civility 

by  people’s  bank  accounts.

gumentative  or  contradictory.

You  will  never  make  fun  of 
idiosyncrasies 

or 

the 
of 

peculiarities 
others.

You  will  not  bore  people  by  con­
stantly  talking  of  yourself  and  your 
affairs.

You  will  never  under  any  circum­
if  you 

stances  cause  another  pain 
can  help  it.

You  will  not  think  that  “good  in­
tentions” compensate  for rude  or gruff 
manners.

You  will  be  as  agreeable  to  your 
social  inferiors  as  to  your  equals  and 
superiors.

You  will  not  sulk  or  feel  neglect­
ed  if  others  receive  more  attention 
than  you  do.

You  will  not  have  two  sets  of  man­
ners,  one  for  “company”  and  one  for 
home  use.

You  will  let  a  refined  manner  and 
superior  intelligence  show  that  you 
have  traveled,  instead  of  constantly 
talking  of  the  different  countries  you 
have  visited.

You  will  not  remark,  while  a  guest, 
that  you  do  not  like  the  food  which 
has  been  served  to  you.

You  will  not  attract  attention  by 
either  your  loud  talk  or  laughter,  or 
show  your  egotism  by  trying  to  ab­
sorb  conversation.— O.  S.  Marsden  in 
Success.

All  that  glitters  if  not  guilt.

How About  Hunting

Boots ?  Is  your stock  in  shape  for  the  season ?  Ours 
is,  and  there  is  no  doubt  about  our  being  head­
quarters  for  everything  in  that  line.

W e  have  a  black  grain  lace  boot  at  $3.50  and 
a  tan  one  for $375  that are as good  as  can  be  made. 
Then  we  have others  for less  money.

Just  let  us  show  you.

Waldron,  Alderton  &  Melze

■3i~i33~,35 North Franklin Street, Saginaw, Mich.

Wholesale  Shoes  and  Rubbers 

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B A N K   ROBBERS.

W hy  They  Usually  Leave  Big  Vaults 

Alone.

Merchants  are  robbed;  the  safes  of 
country  banks  that  carry  a  surplus 
of  perhaps  ten  or  twenty  thousand 
dollars  are  often  riddled  by  burglars. 
How  is  it  that  the  millions  quietly 
reposing  within  the  doors  of  scores 
of  banks  in  the  larger  cities  are  never 
attempted?  For  it  is  a  fact  that  dur­
ing  the  last  twenty-five  years  no  at­
tack,  successful  or  otherwise,  has 
been  made  on  any  bank  vault  in  the 
United  States  in  cities  of  over  50,000 
inhabitants.  Most  of  the  bank  rob­
beries  occurring  to-day  take  place  in 
towns  of  2,500  to  7,500  inhabitants. 
In  the  larger  cities  where  the  treasure 
really  is  no  one  even  attempts  to  rob 
a  bank.

Why  is  this?
Money  can  protect  money.  That  is 
the  whole  secret.  The  country  banks 
depend  on  safes  costing  perhaps  a 
few  hundred  dollars;  a  great  city 
bank  spends  perhaps  $150,000  for  its 
burglar  and  fire  proof  vaults.  And 
these  vaults  are  proof.  They  are  ab­
solutely  unassailable.  The  guarding 
of  a  bank’s  money  has  been  reduced 
to  such  a  science  that  a  banker,  hav­
ing once taken  the  proper precautions, 
never  gives  the  matter  a 
further 
thought,  although  he  have  millions 
of  dollars  within  his  doors.

The  fire  proofing  for  a  large  vault 
can  be  constructed  for  from  $10,000 
to  $15,000. 
It  is  the  burglar  proof 
steel  lining  that  brings  the  cost  of 
vault  construction  up  to  the  six  fig­
ure  mark.

Think  of  a  steel  door  weighing 
twelve  tons  or  of  a  hinge 
alone 
weighing  one  ton!  When  that  door 
consists  of  ten  inches  of  drill  proof 
steel,  plate  lapped  on  plate,  do  you 
wonder  that'  even  the  most  daring 
burglar  has  never  attempted  it?  Such 
a  great  door  usually  has  some  four 
and  twenty-two  or  three  inch  steel 
bolts  which  shoot  out  automatically 
in  four  directions  as  soon  as  the  door 
is  closed.  The  entire  closing  of  the 
door  is  absolutely  water  tight.  The 
closing  has  actually  been  tested  one 
whole  night  under  water.  This  clos­
ing  is  of  the  “tongue  and  groove” 
variety  and  the  groove  is  packed  with 
packing.

This  formidable  door  is  furnished 
with  a  time  lock  that  can  be  set 
for  any  number  of  hours  and  that 
can  not  be  opened  until  the  hour  for 
which  it  is  set  arrives.  The  door is 
furnished  with  perhaps  three  dupli­
cate  timers,  so  that  if  two  should 
fail  to  work  there  would  still  be 
one  to  open  the  door.

Inside  the  great  door  a  massive 
grating  called  the  day  grate  gives 
access  to  the  vault.  To  this  cham­
ber,  which,  with  its  four  inch  walls  of 
drill  proof  steel,  is  worthy  of  Vulcan 
himself,  only  the  active  officials  of 
the  bank  have  entrance.  Here  are 
the  tellers’  safes,  where  they  keep 
the  money  for  the  day’s  business. 
Here  are  bags  of  gold,  $5,000 
in 
each,  piled  up  like  so  many  bags  of 
buttons,  each  bag  most  securely  tied 
and  sealed.  Here  are  packages  of 
bills  stacked  up 
like  bricks.  The 
ones  and  twos  in  $1,000  packages;  the

fives  in  $5,000  packages;  and  the  tens 
and  twenties  in  $10,000  packages. 
The  bills  in  each  of  these  packages 
have  been  counted,  tied  up,  and  seal­
ed  by  two  persons  in  the  presence 
of  each  other,  so  that  the  bank  can 
guarantee  the  amounts  as  given  on 
the  labels  without  recounting.

Here,  beside  the  tellers’  safes,  are 
collateral 
is 

compartments  where  the 
received  for  loans  to  depositors 
kept.

the 

the 

The  two  divisions  of 

But  this  is  only  the  outer  division 
of  the  vault  chamber;  beyond 
is 
another  massive  grating  dividing the 
vault  into  two  rooms.  No  single  of­
ficial  can  penetrate  to 
inner 
shrine,  and  one  of  the  two  officials 
necessarily  present  must  be  a  direc­
tor  of  the  bank.  Here  is  the  holy  of 
holies,  where  repose  the  reserve funds 
of  the  bank— millions  of  gold  and 
paper  money.  The  reserve  funds  are 
kept  in  safes  on  which  the  locks  are 
timed  to  open  every  morning,  so  that 
if  necessary  the  bank  tellers  could 
have  the money at a moment’s  notice.
vault 
form  really  one  chamber  with  walls 
of  drill  proof  steel.  The  walls  are 
drill  proof,  yet,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
the  up  to  date  burglar  does  not  work 
with  drills.  A  few  sticks  of - dyna­
mite,  some  nitroglycerin  in  a  bottle, 
with  alcohol,  putty,  candles,  wire, 
wire  nippers,  and  an  exhaust  pump 
are  the  principal  items  in  his  outfit. 
With  these  tools  he  often  “makes an 
impression”  on  a  small  safe.  But  a 
single  charge  of  dynamite  heavy 
enough  to  open  the  joints  of  a  big 
vault  would  wreck  the  whole  building. 
Unlimited  time,  therefore,  in  which 
to  work  would  be  necessary  to  the 
successful  wrecking  of  a  drill  proof 
vault  by  explosives.  For  it  would be 
necessary  to  use  a  long  succession 
of  small  charges;  to  work  patiently 
at  plate  after  plate  and  the  condi­
tions  make  this  absolutely  impossi­
ble.  The  reason  such  great  pains are 
taken  to  make  all  joints  water  tight 
is  to  guard  against  the  introduction 
of  nitroglycerin,  which  has  about the 
consistency  of  honey  or  common gly­
cerin.  Nitroglycerin  is  not  effective 
unless  it  is  inside  the  safe  or  vault.

room 

The  entire  great  steel 

is 
made  fire  proof  by  being  inclosed in 
brick,  or  tile,  or  cement  walls,  be­
tween  which  and  the  steel  walls  is  an 
air  space  four  or  five  inches  thick. 
Air  is  a  nonconductor  of  heat,  and 
being  interposed  between  the  brick 
and  the  steel  walls  prevents  the  lat­
ter  from  becoming  overheated.  So 
perfect  is  the  protection  that  even 
when  a  building  has  been  destroyed 
the  contents  of  the  vaults  within have 
remained  unchanged. 
Several  such 
instances  were  noted  after  the  Balti­
more  fire  last  winter.

Notwithstanding  these 
against 

extraordi­
and 
nary  safeguards 
fire 
thieves  offered  by  these  walls 
of 
steel  and  fireproof  brick 
just  de­
scribed,  the  bank  vaults  are  never 
left  without  human 
guards.  All 
night  three  watchmen,  patrol  the 
entire  building.  These  men  are  re­
quired  to  set  off  certain  signals  in 
various  parts  of  the  building  every 
half  hour.  The  record  of  these  sig­
nals  is  shown  on  an  electric  clock. 
If  one  watchman  failed  to  make  one

signal  at  the  proper  time  the  record 
clock  would  disclose 
such  failure. 
Besides  these  ordinary  signals  there 
are  alarm  boxes  near  the  vault  door 
where  the  watchman  can  ring  up  the 
police,  fire  department,  etc.

imagined,  since 

Even  should  three  watchmen  fail 
in  their  duty— something  hardly  to 
be 
it  would  mean 
ruin  to  the  men— there  is  an  auto­
matic  alarm  set  off  by  any  contact 
w'ith  the  inner  surface  of  the  vault. 
So,  if  one  can  imagine  the  unimagin­
able  and  suppose  the  impossible,  that 
by  any  means  a  thief 
get 
through  the  walls  or  the  door  of  the 
vault,  the  moment  he  reached  the

could 

inner  surface  a  gong  on  the  roof  or 
in  the  street  in  front  of  the  bank 
building  would  clang  out  an  alarm 
that  would  be  heard  three  blocks.
A  still  further  piling  of  Ossa  on 
Pelion  is  the  insurance  which  all  the 
large  bankers  carry  on  their  deposit­
ors’  money,  stocks,  bonds  and  other 
collateral.

Considering  all  these  extraordin­
ary  safeguards  which  are  commonly 
taken  by  a  bank  is  it  any  wonder 
that,  with  the  exceptions  noted,  no 
bank  vault 
large  cities  has 
been  even  attempted  during  the  last
twenty-five  years?

in  the 

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B E L T S   AND  BU CKLES.

Some  New  Things  Now  on  Sale  by 

the  Jobbers.

The  past  month  has  been  a  very 
good  one  for  the  belt  men,  but  with 
the  opening  of  this  month  the  man­
ufacturers  and  wholesalers  expect  to 
start  this  season 
earnest. 
Buyers  have  been  waiting  and  watch­
ing  the  new  things  as  they  appeared 
without  buying  very  heavily,  but 
when  September  is  fairly  under  way 
they  will  all  be  busy  and  happy  as 
well.

real 

in 

Crush  leather  belts  are  in  good  de­
mand,  and  are  going  well  in  all  class­
es  of  trade.  The  very  wide  belts  with  1 
the  militory  buttons  are 
in  good 
demand.  Belts  which  are  at  all  ex­
clusive  in  style  have  the  call  in  the 
retail  stores.

Although  gilt  will  be  good  property I 
this  season,  buyers  are  learning  to  be 
rather  cautious  as  to  the  exceeding­
ly  cheap  grades,  and  try  to  move 
their  stocks  as  rapidly  as  possible. 
The  higher  grades  do  not  tarnish  as 
readily,  although  even  these  grades 
require  good  care  if  they  are  to  ap­
pear  their  best  in  the  eyes  of  the 
customer.

Fine  Japanese  leather  belts  are  in 
good  demand,  and  one  house  which 
makes  a  specialty  of  eccentric  belts 
and  fancy  goods  in  general  makes 
big  displays  of  these  belts,  and  they 
sell  well,  too.  The  designs  are  usual­
ly  odd  and  highly  colored,  and  the 
woman  who  is  in  search  of  a  belt 
a  bit  out  of  the  ordinary  will  natural­
ly  look  at  belts  of  this  kind  with 
admiring  eyes. 

______

The  buckles  on 

these  belts  are 
generally  perfectly  plain,  although 
some  numbers  have  ornate  buckles, 
and  they  show  up  unusually  well. 
The  leather  is  so  handsome  that  it 
seems  almost  like  gilding  the  lily  to 
put  a  handsome  buckle  on  one  of 
these  belts.

The  mourning  belts  this  season  are 
of  the  richest  materials  imaginable, 
and  the  buckles  are  made  of  the  fin­
est  enamel,  one  particularly  quaint 
one  having  a  small  brilliant  in  the 
center  of  a_ pansy  flower.

The  fabric  belts  show  little  change 
from  the  extreme  summer  style,  the 
widths  being  much  the  same,  and 
only  gauged  by  the  demand  of  the 
I  trade  of  the  different 
In 
places  where  the  wide  novelty  belts 
have  a  good  sale  the  buyer  would 
have  no  use  for  conservative  designs, 
and  is  diligent  in  his  search  for  ex­
tréme  styles,  and  this 
season  he 
should  have  no  difficulty  in  finding 
them.

stores. 

Belts  made  of  figured  silks  in  the 
light  and  dainty  tones  make  pleasing 
odd  belts.

Fine  buckles  in  rhinestones  make 
a  festive  showing  on  the  belts  of  the 
season,  especially  those  of' the  light 
filmy  materials  for  use  with  elaborate 
gowns  for  winter  wear.  These  buc­
kles  are  made  up  of  fine  stones,  and 
retail  for  prices  which  are  by  no 
means  low,  although  when  the  value 
is  considered  they  do  not  seem  dis­
proportionately  high.

The  gilt  fad  is  with  us  this  season 
in  a  modified  form,  that  is,  the  fine 
buckles  will  show  a  liberal  amount  of

the  gilt,  but  in  the  extreme  novelties 
rhinestones  and  enamel  will  be  the 
correct  things.  Although  buyers  have 
had  so  much  trouble  with  cheap  gilt 
during  the  past  year  they  are  not  in 
a  position  to  complain  as  they  insist 
I  upon  the  lowest  prices  possible.

Fine  enamel  and  handsome  designs 
are  the  order  of  the  day,  although 
enamel  does  not  show  its  value  to 
the  inexperienced  buyer.  The  veriest 
novice  can  see  the  value  of  gilt  when 
skillfully  worked  out,  but  a  fine  enam­
el  design  will  not  make  the  show  that 
a  much  inferior  and  cheaper  article 
will  do— the  extra  value  being  put 
into  the  workmanship.

Some  gay  filigree  designs  are  to  be 
found  in  the  line  import  lines,  and 
bird  and  bug  life  seems  to  be  the 
proper  caper.  A  fine  bumblebee  with 
the  wings  of  the  filigree  is  one  of 
the  handsomest  and  newest  designs 
brought  over  from  the  other  side.

A  broad  belt  made  entirely  of  East­
ern  embroider'  in  white  has  a  gold 
buckle  set  with 
turquoise  matrix. 
This  is  a  solid  gold  buckle,  with  a 
square 
smaller 
squares  on  either  side. 
In  each  of 
these  squares  is  set  a  large  cabochon 
of  the  turquoise,  the  largest  in  the 
center.

center 

two 

and 

It  should  not  be  a  difficult  matter 
tor  the  average  buyer  to  select  a  line 
this  season  which  would  put  him  in 
a  position  to  sell  belts  in  quantities 
never  before  beard  of. 
In  the  first 
place,  both  leather  and  fabric  belts 
are  good  value,  and  they  can  be  re­
tailed  for  prices  surprisingly  low, so 
that  they  will  move  rapidly.  The

materials  are  of  good  grade  for  low 
and  medium-priced  goods,  while  the 
high-class  belts  show  material  which 
only  appeals  to  the  people  who  un­
derstand  value  and  quality.

As  a  rule,  there  is  a  tendency  to­
ward  greater  simplicity  in  belts,  and 
too  much  metal  is  not  deemed  the 
best  of  taste.  The  back-piece  has 
gradually  given  way  to  the  back-piece 
made  of  the  fabric,  and  ornamented 
with  rings  or  folds  and  shirrings  of 
the  material.

From  Church  Ushers  to  the  Peniten­

tiary.

seldom 

In  sentencing  four  youths  to  the 
penitentiary  for  life  in  Chicago  the 
other  day  Judge  Axel  Chytraus  took 
occasion  to  deprecate  trades  unions 
as  breeders  of  crime.  He  declared 
that  labor  troubles 
ended 
without  some  of  the  strikers  landing 
behind  the  bars.  This  was  marked 
by  the  fact  that  two  of  the  prisoners 
were  strikers  when  they  began 
their 
career  of  crime,  which  included  the 
murder  for  which  they  were  sentenc­
ed.  The  four  youths,  Peter  Dulfer, 
David  Kelly  and  James  and  William 
Formby  w'ere  known  as  the  “bandit 
quartet.”  The  Formby  brothers were 
at  one  time  ushers  in  St.  Paul’s  Con­
gregational  church,  the  pastor  of 
which,  Rev.  Dr.  Parr,  was  present 
in  court  when  Judge  Chytraus  pro­
nounced  sentence.

When  you  write  Tradesman  adver­
tisers  be  sure  to  mention  that  you 
saw  the  advertisement  in  the  Trades­
man.

Don’t  Worry 
If  You’re 
In  a  Hurry

But  send  us  the  order  for your  case  needs.  We  are  equal  to  the  task  of  filling  your  order  on  date  of  receipt  for 
regular  size  cases  from  stock.  You  take  no  chances  on  dissatisfaction,  for  we  take  no  chances  on  hurry-up  jobs—  
regular  work  is  made  up  for  stock— each  case  being  the  embodiment of  thoroughly  kiln  dried  lumber— put  together 
in  a  thorough  manner— when  it  goes  to  the  finishing  department  for  treatment.  Here,  by  the  use  of  the  highest 
grade  varnishes  and  finishing  materials,  in  the  hands  of  men  who  know  their  business,  and  ample  time,  we produce 
the life-time  finish  characteristic of  our  cases.  Right  now were  in  position  to  send  you on a day’s notice any regular 
size  case  you  may need,  and  give  you  seasoned  work. 
In other words, we  can  fill  your  order  same day as received.
Don’t  court  disappointment.  Write  us  your  needs  today— return  mail  will bring our catalogue prices.  Receipt 

of  your  order  means  prompt  shipment.

GRAND  RAPIDS  FIXTURES  CO.

Original  Show  Case  Factory  of  Grand  Rapids

,4 0   SOUTH  IONIA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

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

|Çlerks’0 )rner1

Attention  to  the  Personal  Needs  of 

Customers.

Have  you  ever  thought  of  the  ad­
vantage  to  yourselves  and  to 
the 
stores  in  which  you  work  of  always 
attempting  to  assist  the  customers 
in  some  manner  by  suggestions  of 
information  regarding  the  goods  be­
ing  sold? 
I  don’t  mean  the  attempts 
of  the  mouthy  kind  of  clerks  to  tell 
all  they  know  in  the  first  five  min­
utes  of  conversation  with  a  customer, 
and  a  little  later  attempt  to  tell  some 
more  stuff  they  don’t  know.  It  won’t 
help  you  or  the  store  to  spread  in­
formation  thick  and  sticky, 
like  a 
coating  of  molasses,  everywhere  you 
move  and  on  every  one  who  has  a 
conversation  with  you,  but  you  can 
aid  everybody  concerned  by  having 
your  wits  about  you  and  making  sug­
gestions  to  a  customer  or  offering 
information  that  may  be  of  value  to 
her.  There  is  no  cause  for  putting 
it  in  such  a  way  that  it  may  offend, 
if  she  already  knows  it,  for  it  can  be 
told,  always,  in  such  a  way  that  no 
one  can  take  offense,  and  most  people 
will  be  glad  to  know  what  you  have 
to  tell.

Suppose  you  have  sold  a  customer 
something  in  silverware,  either  plat­
ed  or  sterling,  and  something  has 
been  remarked  about  the  liability  to 
tarnish.  When  wrapping  the  goods,

or  making  change,  you  can  say  to  the 
customer  that  a  small  piece  of  cam­
phor  gum  put  in  the  box  where  sil­
verware  is  kept  will  prevent  it  from 
tarnishing;  and  that  the  gum  can 
conve­
now  be  purchased  in  very 
nient  compressed 
at 
most  drug  stores.  Not  one  house­
keeper  in  fifty  knows  anything about 
that,  and  the  chances  are  that  she 
will  go  home  and  tell  all  her  neigh­
bors  what  you  said,  with  the  result 
that  your 
silverware  and  yourself 
will  be  much  discussed  in  the  next 
two  or  three  weeks.

tablet 

form 

Another  customer  is  desirous  of 
purchasing  some  delicately  dyed  ma­
terial  in  silk  or  wool,  but  hesitates 
because  it  is  so  delicate  and 
the  lia­
bility  of  soiling  and  spoiling  the  gar­
ment  is  almost  too  much  to  persuade 
the  sale.  Tell  such  a  customer  that 
she  need  have  no  fears  of  a  catastro­
phe,  for  the  goods,  no  matter  how 
much  soiled,  can  be  soaked  for  an 
hour  or  two— longer,  if  necessary—  
in  clean  gasoline, 
squeezed  lightly 
through  the  hands,  drained  and  hung 
in  the  wind  to  dry,  without  harming 
fabric  or  color  in  the  least;  the  gaso­
line  will  not  remove  wrinkles,  nor 
will 
it  cause  any  more,  the  fabric 
coming  out  of  the  bath  in  exactly  the 
same  shape  as  it  went  in.  Tell  the 
customer  there  is  no  danger,  except­
ing  that  the  gasoline  will  destroy 
rubber  tapes  or  shields  that  may  be 
in  the  garment,  and  it  is  best  to  re­
move  them  before  cleaning. 
Few 
people  know  that,  and  most  people 
will  thank  you  very  much  for  the 
information,  consenting  to  the  pur­

chase  of  more  delicate  goods,  when 
once  convinced  by  trial  of  the  possi­
bility  of  cleaning  them  so  easily.

If  you  will  say  to  the  customer 
who  buys  a  pair  of  kid  gloves  and  re­
marks  that  the  stitching  soon wears, 
and  it  is  difficult  to  mend  neatly,  that 
a  fine  cotton  thread  will  work  much 
nicer  than  silk  and  will  not  cut  the 
fine  leather  so  quickly  as  the  ordi­
nary  sewing  silk,  which  is 
twisted 
hard,  you  will  have  helped  that  cus­
tomer  and  she  will  remember  the in­
formation  a  long  time,  to  your  cred­
it.  Remark,  too,  that  strong  cotton 
thread  will  always  hold  on  a  button 
better  than  silk  or  linen,  wherever 
it 
is  possible  to  use  cotton.  The 
customer  may  already  know  that, but 
if  she  doesn’t,  she  will  be  glad  of  the 
information  and  be  willing  to  try  it.
These  are  only  a  few  of  the  help­
ful  little  hints  you  can  throw  out  to 
a  customer  at  times  when  you  feel 
sure  the  customer  will  be  glad  to 
hear  them.  You  must  use  tact  and 
good  judgment,  for  not  every  cus­
tomer  will  thank  you,  although  there 
are  mighty  few  people  who  will  be 
offended  at  anything  of  that  sort 
when  pleasantly  told.  On  the  other 
hand,  don’t  tell  anything  for  a  fact 
unless  you  are  sure  of  what  you  tell. 
Keep  your  eyes  and  ears  open  for 
such  things  and  train  your  memory 
to  have  ready  any  hints  regarding 
to 
any  goods  that  may  be  of  use 
customers.  Use 
information 
with  carefulness  and  good  judgment, 
and  use  It  oniy  to  help  along  the 
business.  When  you  do  that  you  are 
helping  yourselves  every  time.

your 

It  is  not  always  the  information 
that  has  the  greatest  amount  of 
money-worth  attending  it  that  is  the 
most  valued.  A  woman  will  think  as 
much  of  something  that  will  assist 
her  in  her  every-day  duties  as  of 
something  relative  to  the  best  way 
to  care  for  her  sealskin  coat  or  her 
taffeta  dress.  But  it  is  not  my  pur­
pose  to  urge  you  to  dip  into  matters 
worth  many  dollars;  I  just  want  to 
tell  you  the  value  of  little  hints  that 
are  worth  something  and  which  will 
be  as  carefully  remembered  for their 
source  as  though  they  represented 
the  entire  value  of  a  customer’s  ward­
robe.

Then  there  are  little  attentions  to 
the  personal  wants  of  customers,  that 
not  one  clerk  in  ten  thinks  anything 
about  or  attempts  to  put  into  prac­
tice.  A  farmer’s  wife  comes  into  the 
store  after  a  long  ride  in  the  cold 
air,  or  perhaps  after  having  been 
caught  in  a  rain  storm.'  She  knows 
she  is  welcome  to  sit  on  a  stool,  that 
she  can  pile  packages  on  the  counter, 
that  she  can  remove  her  wet  wraps 
and  place  them  where  she  pleases—  
that  she  can  do  a  dozen  things  if  she 
wants  to.  So  do  you  know  it,  and 
that  is  the  reason  you  think  nothing 
about  it.

You  don’t  ask  her  if  she  won’t  let 
you  take  her  cloak  or  shawl  and  hang 
it  where  it  will  dry  a  little;  you  don’t 
offer  a  chair  by  the  fire  instead  of 
the  stool  she  takes;  you  don’t  sug­
gest  to  her  that  you  will  clear  a 
space  of  counter  for  her  to  lay  her 
bundles,  and  tell  her  that  she  can 
the
bring  all  her  purchases 

into 

per cent. Gain

Over Last Year

T h is 
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corresponding  months  of  last year.

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what  was  going  on.  When  there  were 
few  customers,  he  had  the  faculty  of 
hanging  on  to  a  customer  without 
tiring  her,  and  selling  her  much  more 
than  she  intended  to  purchase.  All 
this  was  the  result,  very  largely,  of 
self-training,  under  the  belief  that  he 
could  make  himself  agreeable 
to 
everybody,  and  also  under  the  belief 
that  a  clerk  must  not  be  a  chooser 
of  the  people  upon  whom  he  waits 
in  the  store,  for  the  reason  that  it 
is  the  money  for  the  goods  that  is 
desired  rather  than  a  select  parlor 
party.

that 

Improvements  in  salesmanship  and 
the  general  pleasing  of  the  public 
are  not  accomplishments 
can 
come  by  mere  contact.  A  clerk  must 
work  and  must  train  himself.  How 
soon,  think  you,  would  a  man  become 
an  efficient  bricklayer  if  he  should 
sit  on  the  sidewalk  day  after  day  and 
watch  the  men  at  work  on  a  new 
building?  He  might  catch  on 
to 
many  of  the  tricks  and  manipulations 
in  theory,  but  when  he  should  at­
tempt  to  take  the  trowel  in  hand  and 
do  the  work,  he  would  find  himself 
a  very  poor  executor.  The  same  is 
true  of  all  these  points  given  you, 
and  all  these  things  talked  about;  un­
less  you  attempt  to  put  them  into  ac­
tual  practice  and  learn  how  to  use 
them  as  well  as  how  they  should  be 
used,  you  will  find  yourselves  sadly 
lacking  in  executive  ability.

What  retailers  want  is  not  clerks 
who  have  excellent  theories  of  busi­
ness,  but  clerks  who  know  the  right 
things  to  do  and  have  the  ability  to 
do  them.— Drygoodsman.

that  nitro-benzol  was  used  in  some 
of  these  luster  dressings,  and  that 
it  has  caused  several  deaths,  nitro- 
benzol  being  a  poison. 
In  the  case 
of  a  Toledo  (O.)  young  man  it  was 
claimed  that  the  nitro-benzol  pene­
trated  his  shoes  and  stockings  and 
got  into  his 
causing  his 
death.

system, 

Another  fault  found  with  the  luster 
dressings  was  that  the  acids  in  them 
ate  into  the  leather  and  injured  it,  so 
enterprising  manufacturers  began  to 
look  for  something  better  and  next 
produced  the  cleanser  and  the  fric­
tion  paste.  The  cleanser  was  used  to 
remove  stains  and  dirt,  and  the  paste 
polish,  made  chiefly  of  wax,  was  ap­
plied  and  rubbed  briskly  to  a  polish. 
But  people  complained  that  they  had 
to  rub  their  shoes  twice  in  using  this 
cleanser  and  friction  paste,  so  black­
ing  men  combined  the  two  and  made 
a  friction  dressing  which  is  much 
used  to-day.  This  dressing  is  made 
of  simple  waxes,  dissolved  in  acids, 
and  colored,  sometimes  with  nigro- 
sene.  It  both  cleans  and  polishes the 
leather  with  one  application,  and  it 
is  easy  to  use.

Although  shoe  dressings  are  cheap­
ly  made,  the  best  costing  only  from 
$i  to  $1.50  a  gallon,  yet  many  decep­
tions  are  practiced  to  cheapen  the 
cost. 
In  some  cheap  polishes  com­
mon  yellow  soap  is  used  instead  of 
wax,  and  kerosene  and  wood  alcohol 
are  used  instead  of  the  pure  alcohol, 
as  a  solvent.  The  cheap  polishes 
quickly  spoil  shoes,  while  the  high 
grade  polishes  do  much  to  preserve 
the  leather.— Shoe  Retailer.

Con  the Conductor

33

Con  the  conductor,  don’t  try  to  con  him.
He’s  on  the  rear  platform,  Oh,  ain’t  it a 

sin?

Your  nickel  he’ll  take  with  a  cold,  icy 

stare.

One  for  his  company,  the  next  one  his 

share.

H e  ju m p s  on  an d   off  th e  c a r s  w ith   d e­

He  relies  on  his HARD-PAN  shoes  that 

light,

are  right.

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.

shoe 

The  Manufacture  of  Shoe  Blacking.
Shoe  blacking  is  one  of  the  inter­
esting  features  of  the 
trade. 
Large  quantities  of  it  are  used,  for 
shiny  shoes  are  more  necessary  in 
business  and  society  to-day  than  ever 
before.  Material  progress  has  been 
made  in  the  manufacture  of  blacking 
and  in  shoe  shining.  To-day  every 
city  and  town  has  boot  black  parlors, 
with  thousands  of  patrons,  who  pay a 
nickel  or  a  dime  for  a  shine.  But  it 
wasn’t  so  long  ago  that  people  took 
down  the  lump  of mutton  tallow  from 
the  kitchen  shelf 
every  Saturday 
evening  and  gave  their  high  boots a 
Sunday  shine  that 
the 
week.  Even  shoe  blacking  is  get­
ting  to  be  old  fashioned,  and  those 
people  who  still  continue  to  shine 
their  own  footwear  now  use  self- 
shining  polishes  or  friction  dressings. 
The  old-fashioned  blacking  was  often 
made  of  molasses  and  lamp  black,  a 
little  oil  and  some  muriatic  acid.  A 
good  shine  from  this  blacking  de­
pended  upon  a  good  muscle,  and  the 
harder  the  shoe  was  rubbed  with  the 
brush  the  more  it  shown.

lasted  for 

But  with  the  advent  of  the  rapid 
transit  era  people  began  to  demand 
a  rapid  self-shining  blacking,  and the 
blacking  manufacturers  put  on  to the 
market  what  they  called  luster  dress­
ing.  This  was  made  of  alcohol  or 
ammonia, 
in  which  were  dissolved 
shellac  and  a  coloring  matter.  This 
dressing  was  spread  on  shoes,  and  as 
the  ammonia  and  alcohol  evaporated 
the  shellac  remained  on  the  shoe  and 
gave  the  leather  its  shine. 
It  is  said

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.

Ulaldim Hlderton $ lUelze

Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers

131,133,135 Franklin Slreet, Saginaw , rrtictv

store  and  stack  them  up  there;  you 
don’t  offer  to  run  out  to  the  wagon 
and  get  that  basket  of^eggs  she  for­
got.  You  don’t  do  any  one  of  a 
dozen  acts  that  would  make  her  smile 
and  feel  much  relieved,  even  although 
she  protested  and  even  although  she 
would  probably  refuse  to  be  accom­
modated  by  some  of  them.  You  have 
never  been  in  the  habit  of  it,  and  you 
don’t  think  anything  about  it.

There  is  a  certain  danger  in  being 
too  polite  and  too  insistent  on  ac­
commodating  acts,  but  the  danger is 
not  one-tenth  as  great  as  that  of  not 
doing  enough. 
It  costs  nothing  to 
be  polite,  and  few  people  are  cranky 
enough  to  resent  an  act  of  the  sort 
on  the  part of  a clerk.  Even  although 
they  may  protest,  they  are  secretly 
pleased  at  the  attention.  The  best 
clerk  I  ever  knew— mind  you,  I  say 
the  best  clerk  I  ever  knew— was  of 
the  kind  who  had  a  word  of  personal 
enquiry  for  every  customer  and  some 
act  that  made  the  customer  feel  that 
it  was  done  for  her  benefit  alone.  He 
often  blundered,  but  he  was  a  quick­
witted  Irishman  and  was  always  able 
to  extricate  himself  from  the  difficul­
ty  and  turn  the  laugh  on  himself,  if 
it  would  clear  the  situation.  He  was 
polite  and  solicitous  to  the  wife  of 
the  town  scavenger  as  readily  as  to 
the  wife  of  the  county  judge,  and  he 
made  both  feel  that  he  meant  his 
attentions  in  the  best  of  spirit— and 
I  believe  he  did,  almost  invariably, 
for  he  has  told  me  that  he  valued  the 
good  opinion  of  Mrs.  Monohan  as 
highly as  that of Mrs.  Van  Dyke.

His  memory  was  excellent,  but  I 
have  known  him  to  enquire  after  the 
health  of  the  baby  of  a  young  woman 
who  was  not  married,  and  then  ex­
tricate  himself  by  begging  her  pardon 
and  adroitly  finding  out  that  it  was 
really  the  baby  of  a  sister  or  a  cousin 
that  he  meant.  Not  once  did  I  ever 
know  a  customer  to  be  offended  for 
any  such  reason  for  the  fellow’s man­
ner  always  indicated  sincerity.  He 
could  recall  the  names  of  almost  all 
the  customers  who  came 
the 
store,  and  if  he  happened  to  fail, he 
found  some  way  of  discovering  the 
name  before  the  customer  left.

to 

He  did  not  pick  up  his  character­
istic  by  the  roadside,  nor  was  it  en­
tirely  natural,  although  he  was  a  very 
genial  and  companionable  fellow,  but 
he  schooled  and  trained  himself  in 
it  for  a  number  of  years.  People 
would  sit  for  a  long  time  and  wait 
for  him  to  get  through  with  custom­
ers,  when  other  clerks  were  not 
busy.  He  did  not  hold  them  by 
means  of  cut  prices,  nor  by  sop  gifts, 
but  merely  through  the  attractions  of 
his  manners.  Customers  would  say 
they  preferred  him  to  wait  upon  them 
because  he  was  always  so  “jolly.” 
And  although  he  did  “jolly”  some 
people,  he  had  tact  enough  to  know 
where  it  would  work  and  where  com­
mon-sense  talk  must  lead.

Of  course,  he  had  to  couple  his 
manners  with  a  good  knowledge  of 
goods  and  a  surprising  quickness  at 
work.  When  the  store  was  full  of 
customers  he  would  talk  fast  and 
work  faster,  would  get  hold  of  a  cus­
tomer’s  wants  and  have  her  money 
almost  before  she  had  tiro©  to  think

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

toes  made  a  week  ago  will  soon  be 
obliterated.  Corn  is  likely  to  be  a 
very  short  pack  now  in  the  East,  but 
this  will  simply  be  the  gain  of  the 
West.  Prices  are  about  the  same  as 
last  noted,  but  with  an  “upward  ten­
dency.”

Dried  fruits  have  been  rather  de­
few  days, 
moralized  until  within  a 
when  more 
interest  seemed  to  be 
shown,  and  at  the  moment  the  situa­
tion  is  more  encouraging  than  for 
some  time.  This  is  especially  true 
of  prunes,  which  have  been  so  long 
neglected.

There  is  a  better  feeling  in 

the 
market  for  butter  and  fancy  Western 
creamery  shows  a  slight  advance  un­
der  the  influence  of  more  active  en­
quiry.  At  the  close  I9 }4 @2 0c  are 
the  established  figures.  Seconds 
to 

firsts,  i6@ I9c ;  imitation  creamery,  14 

@i6c;  factory,  I3@i4c,  the  latter  for 
early  makes;  renovated,  I3@i5c.

A  better  feeling  prevails  in  cheese, 
and  at  the  close  small  colored  fancy 
full  cream  New  York  State  stock  is 
well  held  at  9 )4 C>  with  the  market 
not  overabundantly  supplied  and  the 
general  tone 
sellers. 
Large  cheese  is  in  limited  supply  and 
held  at  8)4@954 c.

in  favor 

of 

Arrivals  of  eggs  have  fallen  off, but 
there  is  no  dearth  of  supply  and  the 
situation  is  about  as  last  reported. 
Demand  is  very  small  and  the  out­
look  is  for  a  continuation  of  present 
conditions.  Fancy  selected  Western, 
22@23c;  average  best,  20}4@2ic.

Some  Odd  Occupations  for  English 

Butchers.

ìNEW IORK

j t  M ar k et,

Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Sept.  24—There  is  a 
difference  of  opinion  between  buyer 
and  seller  of  coffee,  and  as  a  result 
there  has  been  precious  little  busi­
ness  done  this  week  in  the  article. 
Sellers  are  stoutly  adhering  to  rates, 
and  buyers  seem  to  think  it  is  a  game 
of bluff,  so  they  are  taking  only  small 
lots  and  awaiting  the  turn  of  events. 
There  is  an  unmistakably  strong  un­
dertone  and  quotations  have  tended 
to  a  higher  basis.  At  the  close  Rio 
No.  7  is  worth  in  an  invoice  way 
8^c. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
3,488,810  bags,  against  2,612,739  bags 
at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Re­
ceipts  of  coffee  at  Santos  and  Rio 
from  July  1  to  Sept.  22  amount 
to 
4.050,000  bags,  against  4,329,000  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  There 
has  been  more  activity  in  mild  sorts 
and  firmness  characterizes  the  situa­
tion  all  around.  Good  Cucuta  is held 
at  9 *A@9 H c  and  n j4 c 
good 
average  Bogotas.  East  Indias  are 
firm  at  about  unchanged  rates.

for 

There  has  been  a  pretty  active 
market  for  sugar  all  the  week.  The 
strong,  tone  of  raws  has  been  re­
flected  in  the  refined  article  and some 
good  business  has  been  done  in 
withdrawals  under  old 
contracts, 
while  new  business  has  also  been 
more  “in  evidence”  than  it  was  last 
week.  Prices  are  very  firm  and  are 
likely  to  remain  so.

to 

and 

rates 

pride—ras 

are  certain  amount  of 

Quotations  of  teas  remain  without 
change,  but  there  is  a  better  feeling 
and  more  business 
is  being  done 
week  by  week.  There  is,  of  course, 
still  room  for  improvement  in  the 
jange  of  values,  but  it  is  hardly  like­
ly  any  striking  change  will  come  this 
season.

It  has  become  the  practice  now-a- 
days  to  keep  many  irons  in  the  fire 
and  to  sink  one’s  capital  in  no  iso­
lated  venture,  but  parcel  it  out  in a 
variety  of  concerns,  so  that  if  one 
fails  surely  the  others,  or  some  of 
them,  will  recompense  us.  Just  as 
those  who  have  money 
invest 
adopt  this  plan,  so  does  many  a  coun­
try  butcher  rely  upon  no  one  under­
taking  to  swell  his  banking  account. 
I  do  not  know  why  it  should  be so, 
but  all  tradesmen  in  the  town  have a 
Some  improvement  is  to  be  noted  j certain  unwritten  etiquette  and  a 
to 
in  the  rice  trade  and  holders 
inclined  to  be  chary  in  making  any  whether  or  not  it  is  proper  pride 
I 
concession.  Mills  are  unwilling  to  say  nothing— which  prevents  them
sell  at  prevailing 
the 
from  entering  into  any  dealings  or 
chances  are  that  before  long  there 
speculations  except  those  strictly  ap­
will  be  some  advance.  Prime 
to 
pertaining  to  their  own  particular 
choice  domestic,  3?4@4c;  Patna,  5@
business.  Sometimes  this 
is 
5/2C.
broken  through,  and  we  find  drapers 
becoming  bootsellers,  and  bootsellers 
going  in  for  furniture,  furniture  deal­
ers  in  turn  becoming  pot  dealers  and 
ironmongers.  This  sort  of  thing  is 
becoming  more 
every 
month,  and  so  far  as  the  town  is  con­
cerned  the  butcher  seems  to  be  the 
only  tradesman  to  have  held  aloof 
from  this  combining  of  trades.  No 
doubt  in  time  we  shall  discover  him 
pressing  a  lady  who  has  just  bought 
a  pound  of  chops  to  purchase  a  pho­
nograph,  or  should  he  have  turned  a 
literateur  and  gone  in  for  the  latest 
sensations  in  the  world  of  books,  he 
may  be  persuading  some  young  man 
(whose  mother  has  not  yet  paid  for 
last  week’s  meat  and  dare  not  come 
herself)  to  buy  a  heartrending  story 
of  “How  I  Became  a  Vegetarian  and 
Was  Starved.”

cooler 
weather  there  is  a  steady  improve­
ment 
in  the  call  for  the  grocery 
grades  of  New  Orleans  molasses,  and 
in  the  aggregate  the  volume  of  busi­
ness  has  been  very  satisfactory.  Or­
ders  have  come  from  both  local  and 
out-of-town  dealers  and  as  supplies 
are  moderate  the  situation  is  firm. 
Low  grades  are  in  light  supply  and 
the  demand  is  quite  active.

More  interest  is  shown  in  canned 
goods  now  that  frost  has  brought 
canning  operations  to  a  sudden  stop 
in  Maine,  New  York  and  some  other 
sections,  and  quotations  of  toma-

Every  article  in  the  line  of  spices 
is  held  at  firm  rates.  Demand 
is 
as  good  as  might  be  expected,  sup­
plies  are  moderate  and  the  situation 
generally  is  in  favor  of  the  seller.

approach  of 

common 

With 

rule 

the 

y 

... 

I  am  not  a  tradesman,  so  can  not  ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Lata  sta ts  Food  Conualulooar

Buyers  and  Shippers of

look  at  the  matter  from  his  Stand- 
point.  Were  I  a  butcher  I  would  Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
r  hv  anv  leeiti-  jobbers  whose Interests  are  affected  by 
want  to  make  money  by  any  legiti-  jobbers  whose Interests  are  affected  by
1 the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
*  r  the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres-
mate  means  possible,  regardless  of 
dence  invlted.
pondence  invited.
the  occupation  of  those  around  me, 
» 3 3  ilajestlc  Building,  Detroit,  filch. 
and  if,  as  a  butcher,  I  could  add  to 
my  income  by  retailing  picture  post­
cards,  motor  bicycles  or  butter­
scotch— indeed,  almost  anything  but 
chipped  potatoes,  which  smell  nasty
and  stamp  a  shop  as  having  deterior- 
ated— I  would  stock  them,  regardless | 
of  the  scowls  of  my  neighbors,  and

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consider 

I 
the  lack  of  analogy  in  my  wares. 
am  not  a  tradesman,  however,  and 
therefore  can  not  speak  with  any  au­
thority  on  this  matter  or  look  at  it 
from  a  business  standpoint.  A   good 
deal  has  been  said  of  late  years  about 
living  for  others,  and  not  thinking of 
oneself.  Some  day  we  shall  be  an­
gels— or,  at  any  rate,  some  of  us—  
and  we  have  not  to  worry  about  the 
£  s.  d.,  and  where  the  rent  and  gas 
bill  wherewithal  is  to  come  from,  we 
may  pause  and 
someone 
else,  but  I  am  thoroughly  convinced 
that  with  everyone  in  this  world  who 
has  his  livelihood  to  earn,  No.  I  and 
No.  i ’ s   wife  and  bairns  are  the  chief 
consideration,  and  if  you  asked  me I 
should  say,  in  spite  of  the  prating 
about  living  for  others— rightly  so. 
Hence,  if  you  are  not  making  money 
quickly  enough  by your  own  business, 
add  another  to  it;  it  is  a  free  coun­
try,  and  you  may  lay  your  bottom 
dollar  on  it,  if  it  didn’t  require  a  man 
with  a  nice  judgment  and  some  con­
siderable  experience  a  butchering  de­
partment  would  long  since  have  been 
tacked  on  to chemists, sewing machine 
and  ladies’  hat  shops.  The  moral  is 
charity  begins  at  home.

What  the  town  butcher  has  hesi­
tated  to  do,  his  country  brother  has 
been  doing  for  long— i.  e.,  making 
money  by  any  possible  fair  means. 
And  here  I  come  to  the  real  point 
and  subject  of  this  article— i.  e.,  the 
remarkable  combinations  of  occupa­
tions  which  some  of  our  rural  butch­
ers— I  think  particularly  in  Yorkshire 
— engage  in.  Away  down  in  the  love­
ly  valley  of  Farndale,  through  which 
runs  the  River  Dove,  closed  in  on 
both  sides  by  towering  hills  now 
purple  with  heather,  resides  one  Jo­
seph  Mortimer.  Joseph  has  lived  in 
Farndale  for  many  years,  and  is  one 
of  its  most 
inhabitants. 
There  are  only  two  butchers  in  the 
whole  dale— and  it  is  by  no  means  a 
small  one— both  of  them  are  enthusi­
asts  of  the  hound  and  the  horn,  and 
one  of  them  is  a  committeeman  of 
the  Farndale  Hunt,  on  which  author­
ity  the  present  writer  has  the  hon­
or  of  sitting.  Now  Mr.  Mortimer,  in 
addition  to  being  a  butcher,  is 
the 
landlord  of  the  Feversham  Arms  Ho­
tel,  and  in  addition  to  holding  the  li­
cense  of  this  excellent  inn,  he  is  also 
a  farmer,  and  in  addition  to  this  he 
acts  as  a  barber,  and  if  I  mistake  not 
he  is  also  a  cobbler— surely,  then,  we 
may  say he  is  a  man  of  many  parts.

respected 

forty 

things 

One  great  writer  said,  “It  is  bet­
ter  to  say  this  one  thing  I  do,  than 
these 
I  dabble  in”—  
and  he  was  right.  Let  it  not  for  one 
moment  be  thought  that  these  extra 
occupations  are  merely  dabblements. 
They  are  nothing  of  the  kind,  they 
are  taken  as  serious  adjuncts  to  the 
business,  and  my  old  sporting  friend, 
Mr.  Mortimer,  has  only  recently  add­
ed  to  his  farm  a  considerable  amount 
of  land  in  the  lovely  Yorkshire  dale 
so  rich  in  lore  and  legend  and  so  va­
ried  in  its  scenery.  En  passant  it 
may  be  mentioned,  even  if  incongru­
ous  to  the  point  at  issue  (for  it  is 
my  aim  to  interest  my  readers  and 
not  to  stick  hard  and  fast  to  my  ti­
tle).  Farndale  is  liable  any  and every 
winter  to  be  snowed  HP  for  several

It  is  nine  or  ten  miles  from 
weeks. 
the  nearest  railway  station  and  tele­
graph  office;  there  is  no  doctor  in 
the  dale,  and  no  locomotive  can  get 
into  it  because  of  the  fearfully  steep 
descent  from  the  mountains.  Amid 
these  peaceful 
there 
have  been  several  centenarians,  the 
last  of  whom— Joe  Duck— lived  to 
be  one  hundred  and  four,  and  went 
out  fishing  at  one  hundred.

surroundings 

So  much  for  Farndale.  Further in 
the  open  country,  where  butchers do 
not  lead  quite  such  an  isolated  life, 
the  gentlemen  of  the  blue  coat  also 
have  many  irons  in  the  fire,  and  at 
least  12  per  cent,  of  rural  butchers 
have  a  passion  for  horse  dealing. 
I 
have  bought  horses  from  butchers—  
good  horses,  too.  Many  of  them  are 
excellent  judges— for  instance,  Mr. 
Armstrong,  of  Stockton,  who  keeps a 
small  shop  in  one  of  the  least  busy 
portions  of  that  town  upon  the  Tees. 
Perhaps  I  am  not  perfectly  truthful 
when  I  call  him  a  country  butcher, 
but  his  very  appearance  smacks  of 
the  country,  and  he  is  a  “country- 
bred  un.”  He  deals  considerably  in 
horses,  just  as  his  namesake,  Fred 
Armstrong,  of  Ingleby  Greenhow, 
pretty  little  village  some  few  miles 
distant,  does.  It  is  a  well-known  fact 
that  one  rarely  finds  a  man  who  is 
both  a  good  judge  of  a  horse  and  a 
food beast, nor is it often we find  men 
who  are  interested  in  the  twain; eith­
er  “they  love  the  one  and  hate  the 
other,”  or  are  extraordinary  persons. 
Yet,  many  butchers  do  buy  and  sell 
both, 
and  horse  dealing  among 
butchers  is  quite  a  recognized thing. 
Many  of  them,  of  course,  buy a  good- 
iooking  youngster  or  two  and  break 
them  in  themselves,  run  them  in  their 
traps,  make  them  quiet  and  handy, 
and  sell  them  for  twice  the  amount 
they  gave  for 
them.  They  attend 
horse  fairs  both  to  buy  and  sell, and 
are  continually  chopping  and  chang­
ing.— London  Meats  Trade  Journal.

Only  Time  His  Name  Was  Men­

tioned.

Jim  Webster  was  being  tried  for 
bribing  a  colored  witness,  Sam  John- 
sing,  to  testify  falsely.

“You  say 

the  defendant  offered 

you  $so  to  testify  in  his  behalf?” 

“Yes,  sah.”
“Now  repeat  what  he  said,  using 

his  exact  words.”

“He  said  he  would  give  me  $50 

if— .”

son,  did  he?”

“He  didn’t  speak  in  the  third  per­

“No,  sah;  he took good  ca’h  dat  dar 
‘round;  dar 

were  no  third  person 
was  only  two— us  two.”

“I  know  that,  but  he  spoke  to  you 

in  the  first  person,  didn’t  he?”

“I  was  the  first  pusson  myself.” 
“You  don’t  understand  me.  When 
he  was  talking  to  you  did  he  say,  ‘I 
will  pay  you  $50?”

“No,  sah;  he  didn’t 

say  nothin’ 
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name  wasn’t  mentioned,  ’cepting  he 
told  me  ef  eber  I  got  into  a  scrape 
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Rapids  to  fool  de  jedge  and  de  jury—  
in  fac’,  you  was  de  best  in  town  to 
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W IL L   H E   M ARRY?

Conundrum  Which  Confronts 

Restaurant  Cashier.

the 

Wiitten for the  Tradesman.

There  is  a  pretty  little  romance in 
which  I  am  greatly  interested,  and 
the  outcome  of  which  I  am  wonder­
ing  much  over.

It  is  about  a  tall  slender  Diana  of a 
girl.  She  earns  her  living,  does  this 
young  woman,  by  occupying  the  po­
sition  of  cashier  in  a  certain  restau­
rant  in  a  town  contiguous  to  Grand 
Rapids.

I  can’t  remember  ever 

to  have 
heard  anything  about  her  parents, so 
can  not  state  whether  they  are  alive 
or  no.  At  any  rate,  this  girl  does 
not  live  at  home,  but  has  a  room  of 
her  own  with  a  respectable  family 
in  one  of  the  large  old  houses  that 
used  to  belong,  years  ago,  to  one  of 
the  old  families  of  the  town.  She 
pays  $2  per  week  (in  advance)  for 
room  rent,  and  takes  her  meals  at 
the  place  where  she  earns  her  bread 
and  butter  and  jam.

As  I  said,  the  young  lady  is  tall, 
and- is  always  referred  to  as  a  “very 
pretty  girl.”  Her  hair  is 
light— a 
golden  tint— and  she  does  it  up  be­
comingly  in  a  loose  fluffy  mass  on 
top  of  her  head.  Little  tendrils  ca­
ress  her  temples 
lovingly  and  the 
peachy  complexion  is  a  delight  to 
contemplate.  She  blushes  easily  and 
her  intimate  friends  are  always  teas­
ing  her,  so  as  to  see  the  red  mount 
in  her  cheeks.  Her  features  are  reg- 
' ular,  her  mouth  is  Cupid’s  own  bow, 
her  eyes  are  big,  deep  blue  and  inno­
cent  and  above  them’ is  the  strange 
part  of  her  face:  With  all  her  blond 
coloring  she  has  a  pair  of  arched 
eyebrows  as  black  as 
the  darkest 
night  in  Egypt.  Not  that  I  know 
just  exactly  how  black  the  darkest 
nights 
“haythen”  country 
really  are,  but  anyway  the  expression 
sounds  darker  than  anything  else  I 
know  of.  So  we  will  let  it  go  at 
that.

the 

in 

The  black  brows  always  attract 
people’s  attention  and  command  for 
this  young  girl  always  a 
second 
glance,  if  not  more  than  that.  Her 
expression 
is  very  sweet  and  her 
manners  have  the  grace  that  many a 
society  girl  might  envy.

This  young  woman  is  really  above 
the  work  at  which  she  is  now  em­
ployed;  but  the  work  is  honest,  the 
position  one  of  responsibility  and  the 
pay  good.  She  has  been  in  this  res­
taurant  for  four  years,  now,  and  the 
proprietor  often  and  often  is  heard 
to  declare  that  he 
“couldn’t  keep 
house  without  her.”  Many 
times 
when  he  is  called  away  at  night  the 
the  cash  and 
girl  takes  care  of 
herself  closes 
the 
restaurant, 
at 
12  o’clock!  The  street  car  which 
passes  the  house  where  she  sleeps is 
but  a  step  from  her  place  of  busi­
ness,  so  that,  fortunately,  she  has a 
reasonable  assurance 
in 
getting,  so  late  at  night,, to  the  place 
she  calls  home.

of  safety 

There  is  a  certain  childless  couple 
who  have  taken  an  interest  in  the 
heroine  of  this 
little  sketch.  The 
girl  has  fallen  in  with  them  during 
the  past  year,  and  there  is  just  the 
slightest prospect that the  friendliness

begun  within  the  twelvemonth  may 
into  something  of  advantage 
ripen 
to  the  young  girl— I  mean  in 
the 
way  of a  permanent home.

A  favorite  niece  of  theirs  lived with 
the  couple  for  years.  Her  people 
were  not  living  and  they  took  her 
to  their  hearts  and  home  and  did  for 
her  everything  they  would  have done 
for  an  own,  and  only,  child.  But two 
years  ago  the  girl,  whom  they  had 
come  to  regard  as  the  apple  of  their 
eye,  sickened  and  died  after  an  ill­
ness  of  but  short  duration.  Their 
hearts  were  broken.

By  and  by  Chance  guided 

their 
footsteps  to  this  restaurant,  where 
they  met  the  young  girl  serving  as 
cashier.  A  mutual  liking  sprang  up 
at  once  between  the  older  people 
and  the  girl,  which  finally  resulted 
in  an  invitation  to  “come  up  to  the 
bouse  some  evening,”  which  was  de­
lightedly  accepted.

larger,  kindnesses. 

One  thing  led  to  another,  until 
row   she 
is  the  most  welcome  of 
guests  in  the  pleasant  home.  The 
lady  of  the  house  has  given  the  cash­
ier  a  number  of  pretty  dresses  that 
belonged  to  the  worshiped  niece,  and 
has  extended  to  her  any  number  of 
little,  and 
For 
instance,  the  restaurant  cashier  has a 
pronounced  talent  for  music  and  the 
elder  lady  insisted  that  the  younger 
one  should  come  and  take  lessons 
on  the  piano,  so  long  silent.  The 
distance  between  the  place  and  her 
own  room  is  not  far,  so  the  cashier 
was  only  too  glad  to  accept 
the 
offer.

The  aunt  of  the  dead  girl  is  still 
so  heart  sore  over  her  loss  that  she 
can  not  bring  herself,  yet,  to  ask  the 
cashier  to  take  the  place  of  the  other 
girl,  but  mutual  friends  of  the  par­
ties  think  that  even  that  will  come  in 
time.

And  now  comes  the  Young  Man 

cn  the  scene!

in 

The  cashier  and  a  young 

lady 
friend  of  hers  about  three  or  four 
weeks  ago  attended,  with  a  young 
gentleman  friend,  a  dance  at  a  nice 
club  house 
the  vicinity.  The 
Young  Man  was  introduced  to  the 
two  girl  friends.  He  danced  with 
them  both  several  times,  but  seemed 
to  take  especially  to  the  pretty  cash­
ier.  He not only danced much with her 
but  “sat  out”  as  many  more  dances 
in  a  secluded  cozy  corner,  where  rap­
id  advances  were  made  toward 
a 
pleasant  acquaintanceship.  The  other 
fellow  took  the  girls  home,  of  course, 
but  not  before  the  Young  Man  had 
rsked  permission  to  call  on  the  cash­
ier.

The  girl  could  not  receive  him  at 
the  house  where 
she  rooms,  and 
anyway  she  wished  to  make  enquir­
ies  about  him  before  she  would  per­
mit  the  Young  Man  to  call  on  her. 
So  she  put  him  off  with  some  excuse 
— she  expected  to  go  out  of  town, 
which  was  true  but  she  didn’t  know 
just  when.

Two  weeks  later  the  four  young 
people  again  were  thrown  together 
at  the  same  place  of  dancing. 
In 
the  meantime  the  cashier  had  made 
investigation  as  to  the  Young  Man’s 
character  and  occupation  and  had 
found  both  to  be  excellent,  in 
the

opinion  of  those  who  ought  to  know.
This  time  the  Young  Man  seemed 
more  smitten  than  before  and  would 
not  take  “No”  for  an  answer  to  his 
second 
to 
call.

request  to  be  allowed 

The  girl  was  afraid  the  Young 
Man  would  “look  down  on  her”  if 
he  discovered  her  occupation  and the 
fact  that  she  had  no  home 
in  which 
tc  receive  him  and  in  a  fit  of  em­
barrassment  told  him  he  might  call 
on  her  such-and-such 
evening, 
naming  the  address  of  the  couple  who 
had  taken  such  a  liking  to  her!

an 

She  put  the  time  far  enough  oft  to 
allow  her  a  chance  to  arrange  with 
the  elder  lady  for  the  evening  the 
Young  Man  should  come  to  see  her.
Well,  everything  passed  off  merri­
ly  when  he  came.  The  pretty  cashier 
played  and  sang  for  him  and  her  be­
witching  ways  seemed  to  charm  him 
more  than  ever.  He  invited  her  to 
the  next  dance,  which  invitation  she 
saw  no  reason  for  refusing.  She  call­
ed  the  people  of  the  house  in  be­
fore  the  Young  Man  left,  and  they 
both  were  more  than  pleased  with 
the  caller.

I  forgot  to  mention  that  the  young 
cashier  had  dropped  into  the  way  of 
calling  her  benefactors,  “Mother” and 
“ Father;”  and  so  now,  when  she  in­
troduced  the  Young  Man  to  them, she 
used  those  titles.  The  latter,  in  ac­
knowledging  the  introduction,  quite 
naturally  called  them  by  the  name 
of  the  pretty  cashier!

The  older  people  at  once  saw  how 
matters  stood  and,  wishing  to  “help 
things  along,”  did  not  explain  the 
situation.

The  young  lady  has  kept  one  of 
the  “party  dresses,”  given  her  by her 
friend,  at  the  latter’s  house  so  she  can 
dress  for  the  evening  there  at  any 
lime.

Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short, 
the  Young  Man  called  at  the  friend’s 
house  for  the  cashier  when  he  ac­
companied  her  to  the  “next  dance,” 
and,  of  course,  brought  her  back 
there  after  it.  This  was  followed  by 
several  more  calls  and  an  invitation 
oi  two  to  the  theater.  Always  he 
came  for  her  at  the  friend’s  house, 
and  each  time  the  friend  had  had  her 
stay  there  all  night.

Now,  that  pretty  cashier  is  in  a 
“peck  of  trouble”  over  her  rashness 
in  not  “explaining”  to  the  Young 
Man,  at  the  beginning,  her  position 
in  the  restaurant  and  the  fact  that 
she  is  homeless.  Every  day  she fears 
that  he  may  drop  into 
the  place 
where  she  works  and  “discover  her,” 
and  she  is  afraid  that  in  some  way 
he  will  become  acquainted  with  the 
fact  that  those  friends  are  not  her 
“real  folks.”

“If  he  does  find  me  here,  I  shall 
die— simply  die!”  she  wailed  to  the 
girl  friend  who  was  with  her  when 
she  first  met  the  Young  Man. 
“ I 
just  know  he  will  regard  this  as  a 
humble  position,  and  then  he’ll  find 
out  my  friends  are  not  my  parents.  I 
don’t  know  what  to  do— what  to  do! 
I’ve  got  so  I  care  for  him  a  whole 
lot”— this  with  a  vivid  blush— “yes, 
a  whole  lot,  and  every  time  a  man 
comes  in  here  io  eat  I  look  up  quick­
ly  to  see  if  it  i$  he! 
I’m  getting  so

nervous  over  this  condition  of  affairs 
that  I  believe  I’m  losing  flesh. 
It’s 
‘all  up’  with  me  if  he  finds  me  here!” 
But  her  young  lady  friend  thinks 
that,  if  the  Young  Man  is  the  sensi­
ble  fellow  she  takes  him  for,  he  will 
think  just  as  much  of  the  cashier  as 
if  he  were  a  nobleman  and  she  a 
“peeress  of  the  realm.”

I? 

I  am  waiting  to  hear  from  her 
young  lady  friend  how  the  little  love 
story  “turns  out.”  The  girl  in 
the 
restaurant  has  a  good  education,  and, 
as  I  have  said,  is  fine  looking.  The 
Young  Man  is  a  fellow  of  exemplary 
habits,  has  an  excellent  position  in  a 
wholesale  house,  and  I  am  in  hopes 
to  hear  that  the  acquaintance  will 
result  in  a  love  match. 

H.  S.

Advantages 

the  Mechanical 

of 
Trades.

to  appeal 

It  is  one  of  the  standing  surprises 
of  our  social  system  that  the  advan­
tages  of  the  mechanical  trades  as  a 
career  seems 
to  but  a 
comparatively  small  proportion  of 
American  youths.  Possibly  the  arti­
ficial  barriers  which  have  been  erect­
ed  by  certain  labor  unions  may  de­
ter  some  boys  from  seeking  to  enter 
those  trades.  But  this  is  evidently 
not  the  only  reason  for  their  apparent 
unwillingness  to  engage 
in  skilled 
manual  labor.  Those  who  are  inter­
ested  in  manual  training  institutions 
complain  very  generally  that  parents, 
even  of  the  poorest  classes,  often 
object  to  their  children  being  taught 
to  work  with  their  hands,  preferring 
that  they  should  study  along  com­
mercial  lines,  under  the  mistaken idea 
that  there  is  not  only  more  dignity 
in  clerking  and  kindred  occupations 
than  in  the  practice  of  a  handicraft, 
but  also  more  money.  Nothing  could 
be  wider  of  the  mark,  as  regards  the 
youth  of  average  qualifications  and 
surroundings.  On  the  one  hand,  in 
taking  up  the  role  of  a  clerk,  he  en­
ters  a  field  which  has  always  been 
and  always  will  be  overcrowded, 
while  on  the  other,  by  learning  a 
trade,  he  equips  himself  with 
an 
unfailing  means  of  livelihood,  for,  in 
our  rapidly  growing  country,  there 
is  room  for  an  almost  unlimited  sup­
ply  of  good  workmen.  Possibly  the 
young  clerk  may  secure  more  wages 
to  start  with  than  does  the  young 
mechanic,  but  to  nine  out  of 
ten 
clerks  the  day  comes  when,  grown 
older,  they  find  they  have  reached the 
limit  of  their  opportunity  without 
having  secured  even  a  competency, 
much  less  anything  like  a  leading po­
sition  in  the  community.  But  while 
the  young  tradesman  may  possibly 
have  had  to  undergo  the  grind  of 
hard  work  on  a  small  income  during 
the  first  few  years  of  his  career,  he 
can,  with  diligence  and  persistence, 
secure  for  himself  steady  and  well 
paying  employment,  with  the  pros­
pect  of  early  independence  and 
a 
position,  when  he  shall  have  reached 
the  upper  rungs  of  the  ladder  of  his 
calling,  such  as  but  a  small  propor­
tion  of  his  clerking  confreres  can 
hope  to  aspire  to.  The  pecuniary  ad­
vantages  of  the 
skilled  workman, 
whose  moral  and  mental  qualifica­
tions  are  sound,  are  infinitely  supe­
rior  to  those  attaching  to  the  ordi­
nary  run  of  clerkships.  But,  above

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

and  beyond  this,  there  are  when right­
ly  considered,  a  dignity  and  a  satis­
faction  in  skilled  manual  labor  which 
do  not  exist  to  the  same  degree  in 
the  occupations  to  which  so  many 
young  Americans  are  devoting  them­
selves  because  in  them  they  can wear 
nice  clothes  and  enjoy  the  luxury  of 
clean  hands  and  linen. 
It  is  unfortu­
nate  that  such  distorted  views should 
exist  among  our  American  youths to­
day,  and  those  who  shall  endeavor  to 
disabuse  the  mind  of  the  rising  gen­
eration  of  these  false  ideas  will  be 
conferring  a  real  benefit  upon  them, 
as  well  as  upon  the  public  at  large, 
for  a  skilled  mechanic  is  a  valuable 
citizen  of  any  country.  Doubtless the 
adage,  “There’s  always  room  at  the 
top,”  holds  true  of  every  calling,  but 
it  is  also  true  that  the  “room  at  the 
top”  is  apt  to  be  much  more  spacious 
in  the  mechanical  trades  than  in  the 
general  commercial  field,  in  propor­
tion  to  the  number  of  candidates  for 
its  occupation.— Metal  Worker.

Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

.  Indiana  Merchants.

Bloomfield— Lehman  &  Faucett, 
grocery  dealers,  will  be  succeeded by 
Lehman  &  Cornett.

Bloomington— The  grocery  busi­
ness  formerly  conducted  by  George 
M.  Whitaker  will  be  conducted  in  the 
future  under  the  style  of  the  Whit­
aker  Grocery  Co.

Evansville— The  E.  K.  Ashby  Bicy­
cle  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  E.  K. 
Ashby  Co.

Fort  Wayne— Aurentz  Bros,  will 
succeed  to  the  grocery  business  of 
S.  A.  Aurentz.

Greencastle— W.  A.  Beamer  has 
purchased  the  plumbing  and  heating 
business  of  Chas.  A.  Werkhaff  & Co.
Indianapolis—Wm.  W.  Scoville has 
purchased  the  business  of  the  Gad- 
den  Manufacturing  Co.,  manufacturer 
of  head  linings.

McNatts— Smith  &  Jones  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Len- 
ley  Jones.

Odon— J.  C.  Straw  has  purchased 

the  drug  stock  of  Ziba  Webster.

Rising  Sun— Green  Bros,  have 
sold  their  dry  goods  and  grocery 
stock  to  Wm.  M.  Green.

Sheridan— Hare  &  Hodson,  grocers, 

are  succeeded  by  W.  L.  Hare.

South  Bend—Smith  &  Co.  will  suc­
ceed  to  the  grocery  business  of  Wer­
ner  &  Smith.

Thornton— N.  F.  Richey  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  and  implement 
business  of  J.  E.  Leatherman.

Logansport  —  Oscar  A.  Means, 
druggist,  has  filed  a  petition  in  bank­
ruptcy.

New  Haven— Henry  W.  Rathert, 
in 

a  petition 

druggist,  has  filed 
bankruptcy.

South  Bend— The  Sandage  Steel 
in 

Skein  Co.  has  filed  a  petition 
bankruptcy.

H er  Ideas.

Mother— You  say  you  didn’t 

let 
him  hug  you?  Why,  Ethel,  I  was 
sure  I  saw  you  hugging  him.

Ethel— Well— er— I  thought  if 

I 
only  squeezed  him  real  hard  I  might 
make  him  let  go.

Little  sins  never  stay  small.

Hardware Price  Current

AMMUNITION 

Caps

G.  D.,  full  count,  per  ..........................  40
Hicks’  Waterproof,  per  m.................. 
(0
Musket,  per  .......................................   75
Ely's  Waterproof,  per  m.....................  60

Cartridges

No.  22 short,  per m...............................2 SO
per ............. ........3  00
No.  22 long, 
No. 32 short,  per  ................................... 5  00
No.  32 long, 
per m...................5 75

Primers

No.  2  U.  M.  C..  boxes  250,  per  n s....l  00 
No.  2  Winchester,  boxes  260.  per  m ..l  60 

Black  edge,  Nos.  11  &  12  U.  M.  C.......  60
Black  edge.  Nos.  9  &  10,  per  m........  70
Black  edge. No.  7.  per  m......................   30

Gun  Wads

Loaded Shells 

New Rival—For  Shotguns
Size
Shot Gai
10
10
9
10
10
8
10
6
5
10
4
10
12
10
12
8
12
6
5
12
4
12
Discount  40  per  cent.

Drs. of oz. of
No. Powder Shot
4
1 %
120
4
129
1 %
4
128
1 %
4
126
1 %
135
4% 1 %
154
4% 1 %
3
200
208
3
236
3% 1 %
265
3% 1 %
264
3% 1 %
Paper  Shells—Not  Loaded 

1
1

Per 
133 
|2  »0 
2  90 
2  90 
2  90
2  95
3  00 
3  50 
2  63 
2  65 
2  70 
*  70

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

Gunpowder
-•  - 

Kegs,  25  lbs.,  per keg..........................  4  90
,  2 90
%  Kegs,  12%  lbs.,  per  %  keg 
%  Kegs,  6%  Iba.,  per  %  keg.
.  1  60

---   - 

In  sacks containing 25 Iba 

Drop,  all  sizes  smaller  than  B .........1  75

Augurs  and  Bits

60
Snell’s ...................................................  
Jennings’  genuine  ............................... 
25
Jennings’  imitation  ............................ 
60
First  Quality,  S. B.  Bronze  .............. 6 50
First  Quality,  D. B.  Bronze  .............. 9  00
S. B.  S.  Steel  ............. 7  00
First  Quality, 
First  Quality,  D.  B.  S teel............... 10 50
Barrows

Axes

Railroad 
...............................................16  00
Garden  ..................................................>2  00

Bolts

Buckets

Stove  ..................................................... 
Carriage,  new  list  .............................. 
Plow 
....................................................... 

70
70
60

Well,  plain  ........................................   4  60

Butts,  Cast
Cast  Loose  Pin,  figured 
................  70
Wrought  Narrow  .................................  60

Common
BB.
BBB

Chain
in. %  in. %in.
% in.  5-16 
7  C. . . 6   C. . . 6  c...4%c.
8%c...7%c...6%c...6  c.
8%c...7%c...6%c...6%c.
Crowbars

Cast Steel,  per lb.

Chisels

Socket  Firmer  ......................................  65
Socket  Framing  ....................................  65
Socket  Corner  ......................................  65
Socket  Slicks.........................................   66
Com.  4 piece,  6  in.,  per doz..........net 
75
Corrugated,  per  doz............................ 1  25
Adjustable  .................................dls.  40*10

Elbows

Expansive  Bits

Clark's  small,  $18;  large, 326  ...............  40
Ives’  1.  318;  2,  $24;  3, 330  .................   25

Files—New  List
New  American  ...................................70*10
...........................................   70
Nicholson’s 
Heller’s  Horse  Rasps  ..........................  70
Galvanized  Iron
Nos.  16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25  and  26;  27,  38 
IS 
List  12 
16.  17
Discount,  70.

16 

14 

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

Gauges

Glass

Single  Strength,  by  box  ................dls.  90
Double  Strength,  by  box  ............ die.  90
By  the  Light  ..........................dls.  90

Hammers

Maydole  &  Co.’s,  new  l i s t .........die.  $3%
Terkes  &  Plumb’s  .................. dis.  40*10
Mason’s  Solid Cast  S teel.........30c list  70

Gate,  Clark’s 1,  2.  3...................dis.  60*10

Hinges

Hollow  Ware

Pots 
.................................................   60*10
Kettles 
................................................ 50*10
Spiders  .................................................60*10
Au  Sable  ................................. dls.  40*10
House  Furnishing  Goeds
Stamped  Tinware,  new  l i s t .............__  Tt
Japanned  Tinware  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

HorseNalls

Iron

Bar  Iron  ............ . . .. .. .. .. .. .2   25  e  rates
Light  Band  .............................  
2  c  rates
Door,  mineral,  lap.  trimmings  .........  75
Door,  porcelain,  jap.  trimmings  ....  85

Nobs—New  List

Levsls

Metals—Zinc

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.’s  ....d ls 

600  pound  casks  ................................... 7%
Per  pound    ........................ .................  8

Miscellaneous
Bird  Cages 
...........................................   40
Pumps,  Cistern  ....................................   75
.............................   85
Screws,  New  List 
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate  .............50&10&16
Dampers,  American 
..........................  50
Stebbin’s  Pattern  ..............................66&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring.................   30
Fry.  Acm e............... 
60&10&10
Common,  polished  ........................ 
.70&10
“A”  Wood’s  pat.  plan’d,  No. 24-37.. 10  80 
“B”  Wood’s  pat.  plan’d.  No.  25-27..  9  80 

Patent  Planished  Iron 

Molasses  Gates

Broken  packages  %c  per  lb.  extra.. 

Pans

 

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

Planes

Nails

Advance  over  base,  on  both  Steel  *   Wire
Steel  nails,  base  ...................................2  76
Wire nails,  b ase ........................................  2 39
20  to  60  advance  ................................. Base
10  to  16  advance  ................................. 
5
8  advance  ...........................................   16
6  advance 
...........................................  26
4  advance 
...........................................  30
...........................................   45
3  advance 
2  advance  .............................................  76
Fine  3  advance 
...................................  50
Casing 10 advance.................................  15
Casing  8  advance  .................................  25
Casing  6  advance  .................................  85
Finish  10  advance  ...............................   25
Finish  8 advance  ...................................  85
Finish  6  advance  ...............................   45
Barrel  %  advance  ..............................  85

Rivets

Roofing  Plates

Iron  and  Tinned  .................................  56
Copper Rivets and B u rs.......................  45
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  D ean.......................... 7 50
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  D ean................... 9  00
20x28 IC.  Charcoal,  D ean.........................15 60
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade  ..  7  66 
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade 
.  9  06 
20x28 IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade 
.15  60 
20x28 IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade 
.13  60

Sisal,  %  inch  and  larger  ............

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  Weights

Sheet  Iren

List  acct.  19,  ’86  ............................dls

60

Solid  Eyes,  per  ton  ..........................20  06

Nos.  10  to  14  ........................................38  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  20 
4 00
No.  27  ......................................4  30 
4 10
All  sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30
inches  wide,  not  less  than  2-10  extra.

Shovels  end  Spades

First  Grade,  Doz  .................................  0  06
Second  Grade,  Doz..............................5  50

Solder

Squares

Tin—Melyn  Grade

Tin—Allaway Grade

.............................................  -- 

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 

21
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities 
of solder  in  the market  indicated  by priv­
ate  brands  vary according to  composition. 
Steel  and  Iron  .................................60-10-5
10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ......................... 310  50
14x20  IC,  Charcoal  ............................10  60
10x14  IX,  Charcoal  ........................... 12  00
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  $1.25. 
10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ............................3  9  00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal  .........................   9  00
10x14  IX,  Charcoal  ............................10  50
14x20  IX,  Charcoal  ........................... 10  60
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  $1.50. 
13
14x56 IX,  for No.  9 * 9  boilers, per lb. 
75
Steel.  Game  .........................................
Oneida  Community,  Newhouse’s  ..40*10 
Oneida  Com’y,  Hawley & Norton’s . . 
65
Mouse,  choker,  per  doz......................  
15
Mouse,  delusion,  per doz...................... 1  25
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,  Painted.........................2  70
Wire  Goods
Bright 
.................................................. 80-10
Screw  Eyes 
........................................80-10
Hooks 
.................................................. 80-10
Gate  Hooks  and  Eyes  .......................30-10
Wrenches
Baxter’s  Adjustable,  Nickeled  .......  
SO
................. . . .............  
40
Coe’s  Genuine 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. 70*10

Traps

Wire

37

Crockery and  Glassware

STO N EW A R E

Churns

Mllkpans

Butters
%  gal. per  doz. 
41
....................................  
1  to  6  gal.  per  doz............................... 
«
•*
each  ..............................  
8  gal. 
10  gal.  pach 
...................................
each  ..................................... 
78
12  gal. 
15  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  .................... 1  20
20  gal.  meat tubs,  e a c h ........................1  60
25  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ........... . 
3  25
30  gal,  meat  tubs,  e a c h ........................  2  70
2  to  6  gal.,  per  g a l ...............................  6%
Churn  Dashers,  per  doz  ....................  
84
48 
%  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom,  per  doz. 
1  gal.  flat  or round  bottom,  each  ... 
6
%  gal.  flat  or  round bottom,  per doz. 
60
1  gal.  flat or  round  bottom,  each ... 
6
H  gal.  fireproof,  bail,  per doz..............  
86
1  gal.  fireproof,  bail  per  doz.  ......... 1  10
%  gal.  per  doz.............................. 
%  gal.  per  doz...............................  
1  to  5  gal.,  per  g al.............................   7%
2
5  lbs.  in  package,  per 
lb................... 
86
No.  0  Sun  ................................................ 
No.  1  Sun............................................. 
38
No.  2  Sun......................................  
50
No.  3  Sun  ................................................ 
*6
60
Tubular  ...................................................  
60
Nutmeg  ................................................... 

Fine  Glazed  Mllkpans 

LAM P  B U R N ER S

Sealing  W ax

Stewpans

Jugs

60
45

MASON  FR U IT   JA RS 

Porcelain  Lined  Caps

With
Per  Gross.
Pints 
...................................................   4  00
Quarts  ..................................................   4  60
%  Gallon  .............................................  6  25

Fruit  Jars  packed  1  dozen  in  box. 

LAM P  CH IM N EYS—Seconds

Per box  of  8 doz.
No.  0  Sun  ...........................................1  60
No.  1  Sun 
.........................................   1  73
No.4 2  Sun  .............................................  2  64

Anchor Carton  Chimneys 

Rochester

La  Bastle

Pearl  Top

Each  chimney  in  corrugated  carton

X X X   Flint

No.  0  Crimp  ........................................  1  80
No.  1  Crimp  .......................................  1J8
No.  2  Crimp 
......................................  2  78
First  Quality
No.  0  Sun, crimp top,  wrapped  *  lab.  1  81 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp top,  wrapped & lab.  2  00 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp top,  wrapped  *  lab.  3  00 
No. 1  Sun,  crimp top,  wrapped *  lab.  3  26 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp top,  wrapped *  lab.  4  10 
No.  2  Sun,  hinge,  wrapped  ft  labeled.  4  25 
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and labeled 
.... 4 60
.... 6 30
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and labeled 
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  25
No.  1 Crimp, per doz.............................185
No.  2  Crimp,  per  doz..........................1  00
No.  1  Lime  (65c  doz.)  ....................... 8  50
No.  2  Lime  (76c  doz.)  ...................... 4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c  doz.)  ...................... 4  60
No.  2.  Lime  (70c  doz.)  ...................... 4  00
No. 2 Flint  (80c doz.)..........................4  60
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 acefas................... 9  00
No.  0  Tubular,  side lift .......................4  65
No.  1  B  Tubular.................................T  26
No.  15  Tubular,  dash  ........................ 6 50
No.  2 Cold Blast Lantern................... 7  75
No.  12  Tubular,  side  lamp................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.  50
No.  0  Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.  2  25
No.  0  Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e’ch  1  26

LA N TER N   G LO B ES 

LA N TER N S

O IL  CANS

Electric

B E S T   W H IT E   COTTON  W ICK S 
Roll  contains  32  yards  In  one  piece. 

No.  0,  %  in.  wide, per  gross  or  roll.  25
No.  1,  %  in.  wide, per  gross  or  roll.  30
No.  2,  1  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.. 
45 
85
No.  3,  1%  in.  wide,  per  gross or  roll. 

COUPON  BOOKS

50  books,  any  denomination  .........1  50
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  $10  down.
50  books  .................................  
1  60
100  books  ...........................................  2  50
500  books  ........................................... 11  50
1000  books  ........................................... 20  00
500,  any  one  denomination  .............. 2
1000,  any  one  denomination  .............. S
2000,  any  one  denomination................. 6
Steal  p u n ch .................... ...................... M

Credit  Checks

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

the  prospects  are  that  silks  will  be  in 
evidence  strongly  for  some  months 
to  come.  From  all  indications  mer­
chants  will  do  well  to  prepare  for  a 
liberal  consumption  of  silks.  They 
are  going  to  be  in  demand  and  stocks 
should  be  kept  in  good  condition. 
Some  silk  dealers  are  looking  for  the 
best  fall  season  they  have  ever  had. 
The  prediction  is  made  by  one  silk 
buyer  that  fancies,  little  effects  on 
solid  grounds,  will  be  good.  These 
effects  will  be  small  dots  and  florals 
on  solid  grounds  of  the  new  shades, 
as  olives,  leather,  champagne,  etc.  It 
is  also  predicted  that  Persian  silks 
in  smaller  patterns  than  heretofore 
are  coming.

T o q u es  and  T am s

T o q u es,  or 

O u r lin e  of  T a m   O ’ Sh an ters 
and 
so-called 
stocking  cap s,  is  a  very  good 
one.  W e   have  pretty  num ­
bers  to  retail  at  25c,  50c  and 
$1.00. 
L o o k   over  our  stock 
before  p lacing  your  order.

W E  H AVE

Yarn  Toques,  striped assortment, light or dark, at...... ......   $8  25
Yarn  Toques,  striped  assortment,  at....................................   4  50
Yarn  Toques,  plain color assortment, at...............................   4  50
Angora  Toques,  fancy assortment, at...................................   4  50
Tam  O’Shanters,  round style assortment, mixed colors, at..  4  50 
Tam  O’Shanters,  round style assortment, plain colors, a t...  4  50 
Tam  O’Shanters,  square style assortment, plain colors, at..  4  50 
Tam  O’Shanters,  round style assortment, mixed colors, at..  9  00 
Tam  O’Shanters,  round  style  Angora  assortment,  plain

colors,  at.......... .................................... .........................  9  00
Tam  O’Shanters,  square style assortment,  plain  colors, a t..  9  00

GRAND  RAPIDS  DRY  GOODS  CO.

Exclusively  Wholesale

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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A Leaf From One of Our Booklets

W e   R eceive

A great many mail  orders  from  ladies  for  single 
pairs of corsets.  Whenever we  have  a  merchant 
in the town who is handling our line, we invariably 
turn the  order  over  to  him.  We  are  anxious  of 
course not only to sell  every  pair  of  corsets  pos­
sible, but  particularly  anxious  to  please  and  ac­
commodate  any  lady  who  gives  our  corset  the 
preference.

Y our  H om e  M erchant 

Is entitled to all  tie  business  you  can  give  him; 
his expenses are heavy, and a  very  large  amount 
of  the money he rec ±ives  in  the  way  of  profit  is 
paid out by  him  in  taxes,  and  other  calls  made 
upon him for the  building  up  and  beautifying  of 
your home town.  Stand  by  your borne merchant and 
give him your patronage.  Of  course  if  he  does  not 
have  what  you  want  in  our  line  and  refuses  to 
order it  for  you,  we  shall  be  pleased  to  receive 
your order direct.

Respectfully yours,

PURITAN  CORSET  CO.,

Kalamazoo,  Michigan.

W e   protect  the  m erchant  who  handles  our  lin e  and  w hile 
we  never  try  to  unsettle  a  m an  in  h is  po litical  or  religio us  be­
liefs,  we  sh all  be  glad  to  “ talk  co rse ts”   w ith  you  at  any  tim e. 
W rite   us.

PURITAN  CORSET  CO. 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

Silks— The  silk  market  at  the  pres­
ent  time  is  in  exceptionally  good  con­
dition. 
It  is  not  only  healthy  now, 
but  the  prospects  are  bright  for  the 
future,  not  only  for  the  immediate 
future  concerning  the  fall  and  winter, 
but  also  for  the  remote  future,  in­
cluding  spring  and  summer  of  I9°5- 
The  proof  of  the  excellent  trade  in 
silks  during  the  year  1904  to  the 
present  time  is  seen  in  the  preva­
lence  of  the  silk  costume.  At  the 
present  time  the  visitors  in  the  silk 
stocks  are  many,  and  they  are  buy­
ing  with  freedom  that  is  very  en­
couraging  to  the  silk  trade.  Every 
indication  points  to  a  marked 
im­
provement  in  the  sale  of  silks  over 
those  of  a  year  ago.

line  of  dress  materials 

Dress  Goods— The  call  all  through 
the 
is  for 
lightweight  fabrics.  The  dress  goods 
lines  have  never  shown  so  many light­
weight  materials  as  they  are  showing 
at  the  present  time  and  will  show 
this  fall.  One  of  the  interesting  fea­
tures  of  the  dress  goods  market  is 
found  in  the  large  number  of  light­
weight  materials  which  are 
in  de­
mand.  Broadcloths  are  so  light  in 
texture  as  almost  to  lose  their  iden­
tity.  This 
is  true  of  every  dress 
goods  fabric  which  is  in  demand  for 
the  coming  season.  Sheer  materials, 
such  as  eoliennes  and  grenadines are 
very  popular  among  the  best  dress 
goods  shoppers.  One  silk  fabric  seen 
in  a  dress  goods  stock  is  so  thin  and 
light 
in  texture  that  a  yard  of  it 
would  by  no  means  make  a  handful. 
This  fabric  was  a  black  silk  grena­
dine.  Softness  is  another  quality 
sought. 
Indeed,  the  two  qualities  of 
importance  in  both  dress  and  silks 
for  the  coming  season  are  lightness 
and  softness;  this,  at  least,  for  the 
fashionable  end.  But  while  manufac­
turers  are  seeking  lightness  and  soft­
ness  in  their fabrics,  the  silk  manufac­
turers  are  producing  silks  which  pos­
sess  these  qualities.  For  the  better 
trade  in  the  best  grades  of  silks  it 
is  especially  desirable  that  they  be 
lightweight.  Messaline  finish  for silks 
was  suggested  some  months  ago  in 
these  reports.  These  are  wanted  by 
the  city  shoppers.  The  soft  texture 
is  the  sine  qua  non  with  the  critical 
city  shopper.  Crepe  radium  is  a  new 
fabric  lighter  than  crepe  de  chine. 
These  lightweight  silks,  which  are so 
much  sought  by  the  better  trade,  al­
so  wear  well,  as  there  is  an  absence 
of  chemicals  in  them.  For  this  rea­
son  the  lightweight  silks  are  purer 
silks.  Silks  remain  cheap  compara­
tively  because  manufacturers 
can 
turn  out  two  or  three  yards  on  their 
fast  looms  as  against  one  yard  form­
erly.  The  price  of  raw  silk  also  fav­
ors  the  cheapness  of  silk.  With  the 
possibility  of  producing  silks  increas­
ed  because  of  the  fact  of  the  fast 
looms,  and  with  silk  favored  by  fash­
ion,  both  in  this  country  and  abroad,

soft, 

Ribbons— Plain  ribbons  of  high lus­
ter  shot  glace  or  chameleon  domin­
ate  ribbon  styles,  but  there  is  a  con­
siderable  sprinkling  of  semi-plain  ef­
fects  and  fancies.  A   description  of 
the  plain  ribbons  in  the  crudest  of 
colors  with  brilliant 
luster  sounds 
rather  shocking  to  the  aesthetic  taste, 
but  in  reality  the  ribbons  are  ex­
tremely  beautiful.  They  are  being 
taken  up  rapidly  by  the  millinery 
trade  and  will,  it  is  confidently  as­
sumed,  figure  much  more  extensively 
on  hats  than  in  ordinary  autumn  and 
winter  seasons.  Their 
light­
weight  brilliant 
character  makes 
them  eminently  suitable  trimmings 
for  the  furry  plush  and  velvet  hats 
which  will  dominate  millinery  lines. 
They  come  in  satin,  taffetas,  messa- 
lines,  taffetas  brilliant and failles.  The 
most  brilliant  hues  to  be  found 
in 
the  chemist’s  or  Nature’s  laboratory 
are  turned  into  softness  by  the  com­
bination  with  neutral  tints  in 
the 
weave.  The  most  unusual  color  com­
binations  and  antagonistic  shades  of a 
crudeness  that  jars  on  the  nerves  are 
brought  into harmonious  accord  when 
shot  with  a  third  more  neutral  tint. 
This  unusual  color  blending  marks 
this  season’s  ribbons  as  the  most  ar­
tistic  that  have  been  produced 
in 
years.  Ombres  are  a  prominent fea­
ture  in  ribbons,  and  in  the  glace  and 
soft  shot  varieties  they  have  a  char­
acter  quite  different  from  the  ordinary 
ombres.  Not  only  tones  of  the  same 
color,  but  two  or  three  colors,  are 
softly  merged,  one  into  another,  and 
in  the  glaces  the  brilliant  luster,  com­
bined  with  the  silvery  sheen  given  by 
the  white  weft,  produces  an  effect 
that  is  ineffablt. 
In  some  numbers 
the  center  is  the  palest  shade,  border­
ing  on  white,  and  the  tones  merge 
rapidly  toward  the  darkest 
shade, 
with  black  on  the  edge.  There  are 
hair-stripped  glace  taffetas,  brilliant 
with  cordon  net  edges,  and  the  same 
in  ombre  effect;  satin  taffeta  glace 
with  small  jacquard  pin  dots  in  all 
shades;  a  crochet  pattern  on  a  gran­
ite  ground,  and  many  similar  effects.
Underwear— Stocks  of  knit  goods 
are  not  large.  Especially  will  it  be 
found  that  in  low  grades  of  ladies’ 
cotton  ribbed  and  children’s  cotton 
fleeced  and  ribbed  there  will  be  a 
shortage.  Merchants  will  do  well  to 
act  with  decision 
these 
lines;  in  fact,  to  hesitate  to  supply 
any  line  of  knit  goods  for  fall  and 
winter  is  unwise.  The  demand  has 
not  yet  developed  for  worsted  lines, 
but  the  market  is  very  firm,  and  it

regarding 

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for 

is  almost  assured  that  worsted  knit 
goods  will  be  higher. 
It  may  be 
accepted  that  the  fall  and  winter  knit 
goods  lines  are  settled  as  to  prices 
and  it  only  remains 
for  merchants 
to  supply  their  needs  and  do  it  with 
alacrity.  The  consideration  now is 
spring  lines.  Should  the  present high 
prices  of  cotton  be  maintained  there 
will  be  continued  firmness  in  spring 
lines. 
In  the  last  few  days  buyers 
have  been  acting  more  freely 
re­
garding  spring  lines  of  knit  goods 
and  a  much  better  feeling  is  apparent 
on  their  part.  Up  to  the  present  time 
the  feeling  has  been  that,  while  prices 
are  right,  yet 
some  development 
might  occur 
that  would  cause  a 
break.  The  consensus  of  opinion  is 
that  spring  goods  have  been  quoted 
at  prices  that  could  not  go  much 
lower  and  leave  a  profit 
the 
manufacturer.  Balbriggan  goods  are 
in  good  demand.  Earlier  in  the  sea­
son  it  was  feared  that  a  considerable 
deficit  in  the  volume  of  knit  goods 
business  for  1904  was  probable.  This 
feeling  has  gradually  subsided.  Knit­
ted  porous  linen  undersuits,  both  in 
unions  and  two-piece  garments,  are 
dividing  attention  with  woven  linen- 
mesh  productions.  In  the  latter  class 
there  are  more  than  two  dozen  differ­
ent  brands  in  evidence.  For  spot  de­
livery  nainsook  sleeveless  shirts  and 
jean  trunks  are  prominent 
factors. 
Bathing  suit  sides  have  reached  the 
high-water  mark. 
Representative 
houses  say  this  season  is  the  “best 
ever,”  and  the  sales  are  daily  mount­
ing.  A  brisk  demand  is  noted  for 
Havana  brown 
in 
drop-stitch  treatment.  Leading  ¡sell­
ers  in  knit  wool  gloves  include  plain 
effect.  Cotton  and  wool  mixtures  are 
commanding  the  greatest  attention in 
sweater  sales.  Some  excellent  values 
in  this  style  garment  are  offered  to 
retail  at  popular  prices.  Features  of 
these  goods  are  concave  shoulders 
and  hand-fashioned 
collars.  Union 
suits  are  shown 
in  finer  construc­
tion.  Flat  goods  in  union  garments 
are  now  regarded  approvingly  by the 
better  trade.

lisle  undersuits, 

tan 

Hosiery— Half  hose  leaders  for au­
tumn  and  winter  are  heather  mix­
tures.  Plaited  grounds  are  most  in 
demand  with  jacquarded 
figures  or 
stripes  and  spots.  There  are  many 
black  grounds  embroidered  with  fig­
ures. 
Iron  grey,  dark  gun-metal, 
champagne,  olive,  prune  bordeaux, 
gendarme  and  seal  brown  make  up 
most  handsomely.  When 
is 
sought  it  is  always  the  deep  shades. 
Dropstitch  and  plain  silk  with  self 
clocks  hold  their  places.  Bracelet 
this 
hose,  which  were 
spring,  promise  to  be  a  factor 
in 
shepherd’s  check 
sales.  Some  have 
bracelets,  while  others  have 
lace 
bracelets  just  underneath  the  rib  at 
the  top.  Heavy  accordion  ribs,  dark 
tan,  gun-metal,  navy,  black  and  myr­
tle  in 
colors  are  also 
shown.  Black  silk  French  handsome 
half-hose  are  selling  at  $5  a  pair- 
Rich  self  checks  enhance  the  natural 
beauty  of  these  goods. 
In  medium 
priced  solid  color  men’s  hosiery  the 
following  are  meeting  with  success: 
Navy,  cardinal.  Burgundy,  beaver, 
electric  blue,  golf  green,  salte  and

introduced 

iridescent 

good— tans 

the  like,  either  in  lisle  or  silk  blend­
ings.  All  are  pleasing.  Of  men’s 
knit  gloves  greys,  tan  and  beaver 
shades  are 
especially. 
Solid  colors  seem  to  lead.  For  golf 
and  sporting  generally  white  and  red 
stitched  with  black  are  still  used. 
Scotch  plaids  and  washable  wool 
gloves  find  a  ready  sale  in  the  college 
set  and  the  best  trade  everywhere. 
Buyers  may  take  knit  gloves  with  the 
assurance  that  they  will  sell  in  nor­
mal  quantities  in  fine  goods.

Novel  Sofa  Pillows  Shown  This Sea­

son.

for  utility 

There  are  pillows  for  show  and 
in  abundance 
pillows 
shown  in  the  shop  windows.  To  the 
former  class  belong  those  which seem 
to  be  more  popular,  and  an  eccentric 
craze  for  the  bizarre  in  decorating 
these  pillows  is  the  latest  fad. 
In­
stead  of  using  cord  and  tassels  to 
give  the  desired  finish,  all  sorts  of 
odd  ornaments  are  conspicuously em­
ployed,  and  the  corners  appear  gro­
tesque.

A  white  satin  pillow  with  a  ping- 
pong  table,  and  an  almond-eyed maid­
en  at  each  end  of  it,  has  tiny  ping- 
pong  balls  hanging  from  the  corners 
on  slender  gilt  cords.

Another  pillow— the 

tennis  girl’s 
favorite— shows  an  athletic  maid  at 
one  of  her 
out-of-door 
sports.  Each  corner  of  the  pillow  has 
a  cluster  of  miniature  tennis  racquets 
depending  therefrom.

favorite 

green  burlap, 

A  prime  factor  in  a  cozy  corner is 
a  cushion  of 
em­
broidered  with  red  raffia.  The  design 
is  of  clusters  of  cherries.  The  real­
ism  of  this  pillow  is  further  carried 
out  by  having  the  corners  finished 
with  large  bunches  of  natural-look­
ing  velvet  cherries  on  a  green  wire 
stem.

Even  the  yachting  girl  has  her 
cushion.  One  made  of  green  denim 
has  a  coil  of  rope,  an  anchor  and  a 
pretty  yachting  maid  on  it.  The  edge 
is  finished  with  a  manila  rope,  which 
is  knotted  at  the  corners,  and  from 
which  hang  tiny  Indian  canoes  and 
paddles.

A  Japanese  sofa 

cushion,  which 
shows  a  pagoda  design,  has  the  cor­
ners  finished  with 
little  Jap  dolls, 
three 
in  a  group.  Their  broad  scar­
let  sashes  of  ribbon  are  tied  kimono 
fashion,  and  extend  around  the  entire 
pillow,  finishing  it  with  an  immense 
bow  at  one  corner.

A  pine-needle  pillow  is  of  tinted 
brown  cloth,  and  has  brown  cones 
It  has 
and  needles  worked  on  it. 
the  legend,  “May  thy 
slumber  be 
sweet  as  the  balmy  fir.”  To  empha­
size  this  wish,  long  clusters  of  pine 
cones  hang  from  the  corners  of  the 
pillow.

Marine  pillows  have  seashell  orna­
ments  at  the  corners,  and  some  of 
them  are  quaintly  pretty,  even  if  they 
are  not  practical. 
the 
shells  are  made  into  a  fringe  to  or­
nament  the  cushion.

Sometimes 

Nor  is  the  grotesque  alone  favored. 
An  artistic  cushion  is  of  white  satin 
with  violets  embroidered  on  it,  with 
ribbons.  At  each 
a  big 
bunch  of  ribbon  violets,  well  scent­
ed,  is  attached  to  carry  out  the  illu­
sion.  Violet  velvet  ribbon 
is  tied

corner 

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Robes, Blankets and 
Fur Coats

We  carry  the  most  extensive  line 

in the State.

Would  be  pleased  to  have  you 

look  over our line, or to send 

list  and  prices.

Sherwood  Hall  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

about  the  stems  in  long  loops  and 
ends.

A  fancy  pillow,  which  has  a  paint­
ed  wreath  of  this  blossom  on  a  pale 
pink  surface,  has  clusters  of  pansies 
at  the  corners,  and  a  garland 
of 
pansies  festooned  on  ribbon  caught 
from  corner  to  corner.

A  good  beginning  is  good;  but  a 
good  ending  is  also  to  be  desired. 
Observe  the  difference,  for  example, 
between  spiritual  and  spirituous!

Percival  B.  Palmer  &  Company

Manufacturers  of

Cloak«,  Suits and  Skirts 

For  Women,  Misses and  Children 

197-199  Adams Street,  Chicago

Wrappers  and 

Kimonas

Those ihit are  interested in  wrappers  and  kimonas 
would  do  well  to  inspect  our  line  before  placing 
an order  Our  wrappers  are  well  made,  best  of 
material  and  full  sweep,  at  $900  and  $12  00  the 
dt zen.  Kimona*  are made  in the latest styles, prices 
$4  50 and $6 00 the dozen.  Ask our  agents  to  show 
you their lines.

P.  STEKETEE  &   SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W h o le sale  D ry   Ooods

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

for  circular. 

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Watchword  of  Progress

’"pH E   vital  point  in  the  selection  of  a  H eating
System  is  to  get  a  boiler  which  is  tried  and 
true,  embodying  the  latest  mechanical  achieve­
ments  as  applied  to  the  science  of  heating.

That’s  just  what  you  get  when  you  buy  a 
“ R apid  H eater.”  W e  don’t  ask  you  to  take 
our  word  for  it.  Drop  us  a  postal  if  you’re  in­
terested,  and  we’ll  mail  you  a  book  of  endorse­
ments  from  many  representative  business  men  of 
Michigan.  No  trouble  for  us  to  furnish  estimates, 
just  write.

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

C o m m e r c i a l
Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 

President,  Michael  Ho warn,  Detroit; 
Secretary,  Chaa.  J.  Lewis,  Flint;  Treas­
urer,  H.  JS.  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.

M AN LY  MEN.

Tenderness  and  Faithfulness  Most To 

Be  Prized.

When  a  girl  is  engaged  to  be  mar­
ried,  it  is  then  too  late  to  give  coun­
sel;  one  can  only  offer  congratula­
tions.  But  if  my  girl  friends  talk 
over  with  me  the  interesting  future 
unknown,  I  always  advise  them  in 
choosing  a  husband  to  marry  the 
man  whose  faults  to  the  individual 
girl  will  be  endurable.  Some  time 
ago a young friend of mine  announced 
to  me  his  engagement  to  a  certain 
“What  do  you  think  of 
joung  girl. 
it?”  he  asked. 
“Well,”  I  replied,  “to 
be  frank with  you,  an  intelligent  host­
ess  would  not  send  you  down  to  din­
ner  together,  and  yet you  contemplate 
an  eternal  union.”  She  had  all  the 
faults  of  character  which  he  particu­
larly detested, and  she  was equally im­
patient  of his  shortcomings.  A kindly 
fate  threw  them  sufficiently  together, 
however,  to  quarrel  all  that  attraction 
for  each  other  away,  and,  luckily  for 
both,  the  engagement  ended.

Another  girl  of  my  acquaintance, 
modern  (the  word  is  used  in  its  best 
sense),  who  had  read  and  thought 
deeply,  said  to  me: 
“When  I  marry 
I  shall  demand  from  the  man  purity 
of  life. 
I  have  a  right  to  it— every 
woman  has  a  right  to  it— but  unless 
I  find  such  a  man  I  will  not  marry.” 
She  fcund  her  ideal,  and  a  true  and 
beautiful  union, blessed with charming 
children,  has  been  the  result. 
Is  he 
perfect?  No,  he  is  vain  and  terribly 
self-centered,  but  he  has  a  lofty  and 
noble  mind,  a  deeply  affectionate  na­
ture,  and  she  got  what  she  demanded 
— a  man  with  a  clean  and  wholesome 
past.

It  is  said  a  man  loves  through  his 
eyes  and  a  woman  through  her  ears. 
Certainly  orators,  preachers,  states­
men  and  actors  have  great  attractions 
for  women.  But  so  have  soldiers  and 
men  of great action.  The man  on  the 
loftiest  pinnacle  is  a  man  of  courage 
and  determination;  if  these  two  qual­
ities  are  united  with  patience,  judg­
ment  and  tenderness,  then  you  have 
a  nearly  perfect  man.  Physical  cour­
age  is  fine  and  most  admirable,  and 
if  a  man  gives  his 
leading 
troops  or  some  deed  of  valor,  he 
gives  all  that  he  has;  he  hopes,  how­
ever,  even  against  all  odds  to  come 
out  alive,  and  an  uplifting  spirit  of 
exaltation  seizes  and  carries  him  on, 
but  he  is  not  so  brave  as  he  who  en­
dures  daily  some  hidden  torture  and 
conquers  in  the  end.  A  man  giving 
a  dinner  party  at  a  fashionable  hotel 
happened  to  look  at  the  stock  ex­
change  news  in  the  hall  and  he  saw 
that  every  penny  he  had 
in  the

life  in 

world  was  swept  away.  He  said  not 
a  word  to  his  guests— the  dinner  was 
voted  a  wonderful  success.  He  was 
not  recklessly  gay  or  depressed,  but 
quietly  self-controlled.  This  was  a 
high  order  of  courage.  One  of  the 
guests,  a  millionaire,  when  he  heard 
of  the  catastrophe  afterwards,  was  so 
impressed  by  the  pluck  of  his  host 
that  he  lent  him  $20,000,  and  a  sec­
ond  fortune  was  made.

The  courage  of  mind  over  matter 
is  perhaps  the  finest  of  all.  For  ex­
ample,  a  man  who  was 
terribly 
burned  as  a  boy,  his  lower  lip  turned 
almost  on  the  outside  by  a  long  scar, 
his  cheek  under  the  eye  drawn,  mak­
ing  visible  the  red  inside  of  the  eye­
lid,  and  other  terrible  scars  marring 
the  face,  was  one  of  the  most  fasci­
nating  of  men.  He  dressed  exquis­
itely,  was  radiantly  clean,  a  brilliant 
and  witty  talker,  and  his  manners 
were  exquisite,  polite,  sympathetic, 
charming  and  deferential  to  women. 
He  married  two  beautiful  women  and 
was  adored  by  his  children,  which 
goes  to  prove  that  perhaps  a  woman 
does 
love  through  the  ears.  That, 
however,  depends  upon  the  woman. 
The  handsomest  man  I  ever  saw  was 
dry  and  uninteresting,  and  not  even 
a  flirt;  his  wife,  who  was  plain  and 
clever,  adored  him.  He  was  a  good 
officer  and  danced  exquisitely.

The  indefiniteness  of  sex  is  one  of 
the  least  attractive  thing  in  man,  that 
is,  feminine  and  masculine  qualities in 
the  same  character.  Justin  McCarthy 
once  said  of  a  brilliant  statesman  and 
member  of  parliament  that  he  had 
all  the  bad  qualities  of  a  woman,  and 
all  the  bad  qualities  of a  man,  and  the 
If  a  man 
good  qualities  of  neither. 
has  so-called  feminine  qualities, 
it 
makes  him  much  more  difficult  to  un­
derstand,  because  they  do  not  really 
belong  to  a  masculine  nature— they 
are  excrescences.  Petty  mindedness, 
narrowness,  prejudice,  curiosity  and 
love  of  gossip  are  all  much  more  ex­
cusable  in  woman  than  in  man;  her 
secluded  life  away  from  the  real  con­
tact  of  the  world  (for  no  woman 
knows  the  world  at  its  true  value, 
save  those  who  have  worked  to  live) 
prevents  her  mind  from  broadening 
and  developing;  but  if  a  man  in  the 
daily  struggle  and  contact  with  his 
fellow  beings 
small 
minded  and  narrow,  there  is  no  hope 
for  him.  Principle 
is  necessary  in 
every  character,  but  the  strictest prin­
ciples  can  exist  coupled  with  under­
standing as  deep  as  a  well.

remains 

still 

all 

all 
pray 

temptation, 
and  I 

The  most  terribly  wronged  woman 
cf my acquaintance  said  to me  a short 
time  ago,  “I  haven’t  seen  my  hus­
band  for  years;  I  am  going  to  set 
him  this  spring,  for  I  have  forgiven 
him  everything  My  own  suffering 
has  been  so  great  that  I  now  under­
stand 
sin. 
I 
pardon.”  Her 
face,  when  she  said  it,  looked  like 
It  is  the  good  and  wom­
an  angel’s. 
anly  woman  who  forgives. 
It  is  the 
strong  and  broad  minded  man  who 
pardons. 
The  wife  of  a  doctor  ran 
away  from  him,  he  divorced  her; 
when  death  approached and  she  was 
deserted  and alone he  went  to  her,for­
gave  her,  nursed  her,  and  she  died in 
his  arms.  Only  a  man  is  capable  of

If  anything 

such  forgiveness.  He  said:  “She  was 
not  like  other  women;  to  understand 
her  was  to  forgive  her.”  And  yet 
for  ten  years  she  had  darkened  his 
life  and 
left  him  almost  bereft  of 
hope.  To  him  she  represented  a  type 
of  woman  who  call  to  us  for  pity  and 
for  help. 
could  have 
saved  this  doomed  creature  it  was the 
man  she  married,  but  generations  of 
other  men  had  made  her  what  she 
was— vain,  restless,  eager  for  amuse­
ment,  bristling  with  vitality,  and  no 
education,  no  drudgery  to  drill  the 
mind 
into  obedience,  to  direct  the 
misdirected  powers  into  a  legitimate 
activity.  For  only  now  do  women 
begin  to  have  a  separate  individuality 
from  men;  they  are  demanding  edu­
cation,  professions,  trades.

W it  and  cleverness  are  delightful 
qualities,  but  tenderness  and  faithful­
ness  in  man  are  more  to  be  prized. 
The  big  simple  nature  that  appeals 
to  the  maternal  instinct  in  woman 
and  arouses  the  best  that  is  in  her 
1«  the  man  to  marry.

One  of  my  favorite  heroes  in  lit­
is  Gabriel  Conroy.  Crude, 
erature 
uneducated,  siow  and  dull  of  wit,  he 
was  manly  in  body,  in  heart,  in  mind, 
and  the  very  soul  of  generosity  to 
women.  No  matter  how  clever  a 
woman  was,  he  somehow  felt  her  less 
fortunate  than  himself,  and  he  was 
all  tenderness  to  her  The  men  who 
do  not  even  understand  a  woman’s 
littleness  or deceit  have  a much  great­
er  advantage  than  those  who  do, 
for  a  great  nature  makes  her  feel 
ashamed;  she  does  not  want  to  be 
“found  out,”  and  so  involuntarily  she

makes  an  effort  to  reach  his  ideal.

If  he 

If  all  the  world  of  woman  had  a 
Col.  Newcome  for  a  father,  a  broth­
er  or  husband,  they  would  soon  be­
come  ennobled  by  the  contact  with 
so  perfect  a  nature. 
is  not 
the  cleverest  hero  in  fiction,  he  is 
the  most  lovable,  uniting,  as  he  does, 
courage  of  both  kinds:  physical,  for 
did  he  not  win  laurals  at  Argom  and 
Bhartpour,  and  moral  courage  of  so 
high  an  order  that at  the saddest per­
iod  of  his  life we wept  for him when 
he  did  not weep  for  himself?  He loved 
truth  and  he  had  the  heart  of  a  lit­
tle  child.

What  I  like  most  in  man  is  simplic­
ity,  courage,  heart,  tenderness,  loyal­
ty  and  truth.  And  they  are  to  be 
found,  for  I  have  known  more  than 
one  man  who  possessed  them  all.

Mrs.  C.  P.  O’Connor.

Short  prayers  bring  quick  returns.

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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.

PLANT  OF  S .   F.  BOW SER  A.  CO.  INC.

A L L

B O W S E R  

O I L   T A N K S

are sold under our positive guarantee that they  will  prove 
durable  and exactly as claimed for them.

r o u   HAVE  A  R I G H T

to ask before  you  buy what that guarantee amounts to.

You will readily see by looking at the above cut or by referring to Dun 
or Bradstreet,  that WE are in position to make good our guarantee.  We are 
not experimenting,  but are putting out the best goods possible to make and 
behind which we put our entire plant.  You take no  chances  in  ordering a

B O W S E R   O U T F 11

It  is  the  only  economical,  convenient,  clean  and  satisfactory  method 

of storing and handling your oil.

It will save you oil,  time,  labor and money.

Write now fo r  Catalog “   AI 

it w ill cost you  nothing.

S.  F.  BOWSER 

CO.  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.

Gripsack  Brigade.

S.  R.  Wigton,  formerly  with 

south  of  the  Porcupine  Mountains.
It  is  to  be  a  standard  gauge  rail­
the 
road.  Sixty-pound  steel  will  be  laid
Roseville  Pottery  Co.,  Zanesville,
Ohio,  will  from  now  on  represent  and  the  line  will  cross  the  Ontona- 
David  B.  De  Young  and  will  cover  gon  River  on  the  bridge  which 
the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  is 
the  Western  part  of  Michigan. 
Cornelius  Crawford  (Hazeltine  &  erecting  at  Ontonagon.  The  general 
Perkins  Drug  Co.)  is  jingling  a  bag  offices  of  the  company  will  be  at 
of  gold  this  week  which  he  won  at  Ontonagon.  The  road  will  have  nu- 
the  West  Michigan  State  Fair  last  merous  branches  and  will  tap  what 
Wednesday.  His  mare,  Camille, took  is  known  as  group  18,  one  of 
the 
first  prize  in  the  $500  purse  offered  finest  tracts  of  standing  pine  in  the 
by  the  Grand  Rapids  Brewing  Co.,  Upper  Peninsula,  besides  almost an 
winning  three  straight  heats. 

unlimited  quantity  of  other  timber.

its 

this 

timber  is 

Touch  Elbows.

is  recognized  as  one  of 

into  the  finished  product 

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  W. M. 

Negaunee  Merchants  Conclude  To 

The  building  of  this  road  will  re- 
Quinn,  one  of  the  best  known  and I  suit  in  much  benefit  to  Ontonagon, 
most  popular  traveling  salesmen  re-  as  it  means  that  at  least  the  greater 
siding  in  Marquette  county,  has  re-  portion  of 
to  be 
turned  from  Milwaukee,  where  he  brought  to  Ontonagon  and  manufac- 
procured  his  new  line  of  spring  sam-  tured 
in 
pies.  He  starts  out  within  the  next  the  Ontonagon  Lumber  &  Cedar 
few  days  on  his  eleventh  year  with  |  Co. s  mill.
Co
the  F.  Mayer  Boot  &  Shoe 
During  the  years  Mr.  Quinn  has  been 
with  the  Milwaukee  concern  he  has 
seen 
list  of  traveling  salesmen 
grow  from  sixteen  to  forty-four.  He 
also  has  observed  the  business  in­
crease  annually  until  now  the  con­
cern 
the 
strongest  shoe  houses  in  the  coun­
try. 
“The  record  and  history  of the 
Mayer  Co. are unique,” said Mr. Quinn 
yesterday. 
“F.  Mayer,  the  founder 
and  original  owner  of  the  concern, 
conducted  a 
‘cobbler  shop’  in  Mil­
waukee  nearly  a  half  century  ago. 
He  worked  along  at  his  bench  for 
years,  accumulating  a  little  money. 
One  of  Milwaukee’s  first  shoe  man­
ufacturing  concerns,  conducted  by a 
man  named  Goldberg,  failed 
some 
twenty-five  years  or  more  ago.  Mr. 
Mayer  bought  the  factory  at  an  auc­
tion  sale,  went  in  and  managed  the 
business,  making  a  success  of 
the 
start.  As  Mr. 
venture  from  the 
Mayer’s  sons,  George,  Adam 
and 
Fred,  grew  up  they  learned  the  busi­
ness,  and  after 
the  death  of  the 
father  they  became  sole  owners.

Negaunee,  Sept.  26— Replying  to 
your  enquiry  concerning  our  newly- 
organized  Retail  Merchants’  Associa­
tion,  I  beg  leave  to  state  that  we 
sent  out  a  call  to  the  retail  merchants 
of  the  city,  asking  them  to  meet  for 
the  first  time  on  Friday 
evening, 
July  19,  to  consider  the  advisability 
of  organizing  an  association.  About 
twenty-five  merchants  responded and 
formed  a 
temporary  organization. 
Committees  were  appointed  and  an­
other  meeting  called  for  Friday  even­
ing,  Aug.  19,  when  we  organized  with 
about  fifty  members,  which  is  near­
ly  all  the  merchants  in  the  city.  We 
are  now  in  good  working  order  and 
I  think  we  have  a  successful  organ­
ization  in  sight.  We  solicit  as  mem­
bers  only  merchants  who  are  engag­
ed  in  the  retail  merchandise  business. 
We  aim  to  combine  all  merchants, 
manufacturers,  etc.,  of  the  city  into 
an  association  for  our  mutual  bene­
fit,  as  well  as  a  benefit  to  the  city  as 
a  whole.  The  officers  of  our  asso­
ciation  are  as  follows:

New  Railway  Line  Out  of  Ontona­

gon.

Ontonagon,  Sept.  26— At  a  meet­
ing  of  the  stockholders  of  the  On­
tonagon  &  Southwestern  Railway 
Co.,  held  at  this  place  recently,  the 
final  details  in  the  organization  of 
the  company  were  perfected.  The 
directors  are:  W.  E.  Tyler,  of  Chi­
cago;  Thomas  G.  Sullivan,  of  De­
troit;  Timothy  Nester,  of  Saginaw, 
tnd  John  Hawley  and  D.  J.  Norton, 
of  Ontonagon. 
Following  are  the 
officers  elected:

President— Timothy  Nester.
Vice-President  and  General  Mana­

ger—-John  Hawley.

Secretary  and  Treasurer— D. 

J. 

Norton.

The  company  has  a  capitalization 
of  $200,000  and  its  object  is  building 
and  operating  a  railroad  southwest 
from  Ontonagon  for  a  distance  of 
twenty-five  miles  and  perhaps  far­
ther  to  tap  the  vast  forest  in  that 
locality.  Engineers  are 
to 
make  the  survey  for  the  proposed 
road  and  it  is  expected  that  some 
work  will  be  done  this  fall.  The 
road  will  run  almost  directly  south­
west  from  Ontonagon  for  five  or 
six  miles  and  then  swing  more  to 
the  west,  extending  along  to  the

about 

President— John  Shea.
Vice-President— S.  S.  Mitchell.
Treasurer— Isaac  Rosen.
Secretary— Thomas  H.  Harris.
Board  of  Directors— John  Shea, 
Isaac  Rosen,  S  S.  Mitchell»  Thomas 
H.  Harris,  H.  G.  Muck,  T.  L.  Col­
lins  and  John  F.  Allison.

I  thank  you  for  your  enquiry  and 
hope  you  will  be  of  use  to  us  in 
pushing  the  good  work  along  and 
trust  we  may  be  of  use  to  you.

T.  H.  Harris,  Sec’y.

Compelled  To  Change  Name.
Green  Bay,  Wis.,  Sept. 

19— Be­
a 
cause  of  the  prior  existence  of 
company  of  the  same  name,  the Wis­
consin  Hardware  Co.,  organized  at 
Green  Bay  and  Saginaw,  Mich.,  to 
buy  for  $200,000  the  property  of  the 
Gotfredson  Hardware  Co.,  of  this 
city, 
the  company  has  changed  its 
name  to  the  Morley-Murphy  Co., 
with  R.  C.  Morley,  of  Saginaw,  as 
President.

C. 

A.  Van  Denberg,  general  deal­

er,  Howard  City:  We  want 
the 
Tradesman  as  iong  as  we  continue  in 
business.

A   man  can  not  have  his  interest  in 

sin  and  keep  his  principle  clean.

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

R E PR E SE N TA TIV E   RETA ILERS. 
the  Charlevoix  Dry 
A.  Goldfarb, 

Goods  Dealer.

A.  Goldfarb  was  born  in  Southern 
Russia,  Oct.  4,  1861.  Not  wishing 
to  join  the  Russian  army,  as  one  is 
obliged  to  do  at  the  age  of  21,  he 
immigrated  to  America  with  his 
wife  and  two  small  children  in  De­
cember,  1881,  and  settled  in  a  lumber 
town  called  Provemont,  near  Trav­
erse  City.  He  remained  at  this  place 
two  years,  working  among  the farm­
ers  in  summer  and  in  camps  in  the 
winter,  making  railroad  ties.

Gradually  picking  up  the  English 
language  and  being  naturally  inclin­
ed 
toward  mercantile  business,  he 
purchased  a  stock  of  notions  and 
started  peddling,  going  from  town to 
town  through  the  Grand  Traverse

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patrons,  always  doing  as  he  adver­
tises,  and  always  considering  quality 
first,  then  price.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  firm  but  unchanged.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— There  will  be  no change 

until  after  the  bark  sale  on  Oct.  6.

Carbolic  Acid— While  unchanged in 
price,  the  article  is  very  firm  and  has 
been  advanced  in  the  primary  mar­
kets  on  account  of  large  orders  for 
Japan.

Cantharides  —   Russian  have  ad­
vanced  this  week  60c  per  pound. 
They  are  tending  higher  and  there 
is  very  little  to  be  had.  Chinese  are 
also  scarce  and  high.

Lycopodium— Is  is  very  light  sup­
ply  and  has  advanced  and  is  tending 
higher.

Menthol— It  is  believed  bottom has 
been  reached  and  reaction  has  taken 
place.

Santonine— On  account  of  short­
age  in  new  crop,  it  has  again  ad­
vanced  and  is  tending  higher.

Sassafras  Bark— Is  very  scarce and 

has  advanced.

Elm  Bark— Has  advanced and will 

be  very  high  this  winter.

Oil  Cloves— Has 

al­
though  a  lower  price  is  not  warrant­
ed  by  the  position  of  the  spice.

declined 

Oil  Wormwood— Is  in  small  stock 

and  has  advanced.

Linseed  Oil— Is  lower,  due  to  com­

petition  among  crushers.

funds  to 

Keeps  the  Graft  Up  Just  the  Same.
San 
Under  the  auspices  of  the 
the 
Francisco  Labor  Council  and 
Building  Trades  Council 
various 
unions  of that  city are  each  week  call­
ed  upon  to  donate 
the 
“striking”  millmen  at  Fort  Bragg. 
Thousands  of  dollars  have  been  sub­
scribed  and  seni  on  to  some  one  who 
is  making  a  fine  thing  out  of  it  all. 
There  is  neither  a 
a 
union  at  Fort  Bragg.  Every  mill  is 
uinning  full  blast with non-union men 
at  work  in  all  departments  and  there 
is  not  a  semblance  of  unionism  about 
the  place.  The  union  which  struck 
two  years  ago  has  passed  away,  and 
only  one  or  two  walking  delegates 
remain  there  because  of  the  graft 
that  comes  to  them  week  after  week 
from  the  dupes  at  San  Francisco.

strike  nor 

Tecumseh— The  Tecumseh  maca­
roni  factory  has  started  and  is  now 
employing  ten  men  and  expects 
to 
use  several  more  in  the  course  of a 
few  weeks.  At  the  rate  the  factory 
is  running  now  from  twenty-five  to 
thirty  barrels  of  the  macaroni  are 
made 
in  a  day.  The  factory  will 
soon  be  able  to  keep  ten  or  twelve 
girls  busy  packing.

Manistee— The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
Lumber  Co.  has  platted  a  proposed 
village  at  the  northern  terminus  of 
its  Manistee  River  branch  in  W ex­
ford  county,  to  be  known  as  W ex­
ford.  Many  lots  have  already  been 
sold  and  the  enterprises  to  be  lo­
cated  there  will  include  a  steam  saw­
mill  and  a  broom  handle  factory.

It  is  always  easier  to  fight  the  dead 
sins  of  yesterday  than  to  face  the 
living  ones  of  to-day.

A.  Goldfarb

region.  He  continued  this  business 
for  two  years,  doing  well,  when  he 
moved  to  Traverse  City— then  a 
town  of  1,400— and  took  a  position 
with  Julius  Levinson,  with  whom he 
remained  two  years,  when  Mr.  Lev­
inson  moved 
to  Petoskey.  Mr. 
Goldfarb  then  secured  a  position  with 
Julius  Steinberg,  with  whom  he  re­
mained  seven  years,  from  1886  to 
1893,  when  he  resigned  to  go  into 
business  for  himself.

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in 
business  at  Elk  Rapids.  The  hard 
times  which  prevailed  then  all  over 
the  country  did  not  miss  Elk  Rap­
ids.  The  town  was  dead,  but  Mr. 
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small  capital  which  he  possessed, 
gained  the  confidence  of  the  people 
and  gradually  worked  up  a  good 
trade.  He  now  owns  the  store  build­
ing  which  he  occupies  and  has  been 
doing  business  at  the  same  stand for 
ten  years.

Mr.  Goldfarb  is  the  father  of  seven 
children,  five  sons  and  two  daugh­
ters.  One  daughter  is  the  wife  of
J.  Walter  Levie,  a  prosperous  mer­
chant  of  Wolverine.

Mr.  Goldfarb  is  a  member  of  the
K.  O.  T.  M.,  K.  P.,  O.  B.  A„  and  is 
Past  Grand  Master  of 
I.  O. 
O.  F.

the 

Mr.  Goldfarb  attributes  his  suc­
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in  each  state  existing  acts  with  those 
similar  to  the  model  pharmacy  law 
approved  by  the  American  Pharma­
ceutical  Association  in  1900.  To  ac­
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many  years  of  patient  waiting  and! 
unremitting  effort,  for  reasons  which 
are  patent  to  all  those  who  have  had 
experience  with 
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may  be  accepted  in  any  other  state 
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But  there  must  first  be  a  far  more 
settled  conviction  among  pharma­
cists  of  the  necessity  of  reciprocal 
registration  than  has  as  yet  been 
made  manifest. 

W.  R.  Ogier.

9  0  9

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their  responsibility  or  are  amenable 
to  improper  influences  may  succeed 
in  passing  unfit  candidates.  This  is 
bad  enough  for  a  single  state,  and  it 
ought  not  to  be  made  possible  to 
afflict 
forty  other  commonwealths 
in  like  manner.

judicial, 

executive. 

7-  With  all  our  assertions  of  na­
tional  unity,  the  United  States  is  but 
n  federation  of  many 
sovereignties. 
The  autonomy  of  the  states  is  recog­
nized  as  paramount  in  the  complete 
system  of  state  governments,  legis­
lative, 
Each 
makes  and  executes  laws  for  the  gov­
ernment  of  its  own  citizens  and  the 
supremacy  of  <hese 
is  universally 
conceded  except  in  those  rare 
in­
stances  wherein  some  state  enact­
ment  comes  in  collision  with  funda­
mental  principles  inimical  to  national 
unity  and  stability.  This  idea,  call 
•it  what  you  will,  is  so  deep  seated 
as  to  operate  unfavorably  upon  any 
plan  of  interstate  registration  based 
upon  justice  and  equality.  To  illus­
trate,  why  does  the  agreement  for in­
terstate  registration  now  existing  be­
tween  boards  of  pharmacy  in  a  few 
states  provide  a  standard  for  can­
didates  in  excess  of  the  grade  by 
which  the  candidate  was  passed  in 
his  own  state?

8.  The  best  pharmacists  are  not 
nomads  and  the  agitation  for  recip­
rocal  registration  does  not  emanate 
from  this  class.  The  public  well-be­
ing  is  best  conserved,  and  profession­
al  standards  are  maintained  at 
a 
higher  average  point,  by  requiring 
those  who  are  much  “on  the  road” 
to  submit  to  frequent  examination.

9. 

It  is  not  a  difficult  matter  for a 
well  qualified  pharmacist  of  good 
standing  in  any  state,  when  finding 
it  necessary  to  remove  to  another 
state,  to  demonstrate  his  competency 
to  the  members  of  any  board  of 
pharmacy  competent  to  discharge  its 
duties,  without  undergoing  a  severe 
ordeal;  but  all  others  should  be  re­
quired  to  pass  a  rigid  examination.

10.  Prolonged  discussion  of 

the 
policy  of  reciprocity  in  certificates to 
teach  in  the  public  schools  has  not 
developed  any  satisfactory  plan  by 
which  a  school  teacher  licensed  in 
one  state  may  be  given  like  privi­
leges  in  another  state  without  exam­
ination.

11.  No  evidence  of  moral  charac­
ter  is  required  by  any  state  law  or 
any  board  of  pharmacy,  so  far  as  this 
writer  is  aware,  and  there  is  growing 
complaint  from  pharmacists  of  the 
incompetence  of  clerks  through 
in­
Such  complaints 
temperate  habits. 
are  the  most  grievous  which 
reach 
boards  of  pharmacy,  and  while  inter­
state  registration  would  not  change 
this  state  of  affairs,  nevertheless  the 
narrower  the  field  of  action  possible 
to  men  unfit  to  practice  pharmacy 
through  immoral  practices,  the  soon­
er  they  may  be  eliminated  entirely 
from  the  ranks  of  pharmacists.  This 
objection  might  be  overcome  by  re­
quiring  preliminary  evidence  of  mor­
al  character,  if  such  evidence  would 
be  of  any  practical  value.

The  first  step  towards  reciprocal 
registration  should  be  taken 
-a 
spontaneous  effort  towards  uniform­
ity  in  pharmacy  Jaws  by  displacing

in 

Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy.
P resid e n t—H en ry   H eim ,  Sag in aw .
S e cre tary ,—A rth u r  H .  W ebber,  C adillac.
T re a su re r—J .   D.  M uir,  G ran d  R ap id s.
C.  B .  Stod dard,  Monroe.
S id   A .  E rw in ,  B a ttle   C reek.
S e ssio n s  fo r  1904.
G ran d  R ap id s—N ov.  1  an d   2.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­

tion.

P resid e n t—W .  A.  H all,  D etroit.
V ice-P resid en ts—W .  C.  K irc h g e ssn e r, 
S t. 

G ran d  R a p id s;  C h arles  P .  B a k e r, 
Jo h n s ;  H .  G.  Sprin g ,  U nionville.
S e cre ta ry —W .  H .  B u rk e,  D etroit.
T re a su re r—E .  E .  R u ssell,  Ja c k so n .
E x e cu tiv e   C om m ittee—Jo h n   D .  M uir, 
G ran d  R a p id s;  E .  E .  C alkin s.  Ann  A rb o r; 
Li.  A .  Seitzer,  D etro it;  Jo h n   W allace,  K a l­
am azo o ;  D.  S.  H a lle tt,  D etroit.
th re e -y e ar 
term —J .   M.  Lem en ,  Shepherd  a n d   H . 
D olson,  S t.  C harles.

T rad e   In te re st  C om m ittee, 

Why  Reciprocal  Registration  Is  Not 

Practicable.

Some  good  things  have  been  said 
in  favor  of  reciprocity  in  the  regis­
tration  of  pharmacists.  When  con­
sidered  simply  as  a  theory  the  argu­
ments  advanced  in  favor  of  the  prop­
osition  are  not  easily  controverted. 
But  the  difficulties  in  the  way  of  put­
ting  it  into  effective  and  equitable 
operation  are  so  numerous  that  small 
promise  is  given  for  its  speedy  ac­
complishment.  A  few  of  these  are 
suggested :

x.  State  laws  relating  to  pharmacy 
differ  in  essential  particulars,  many 
of  them  radically.  Nor  is  uniformity 
in  these  laws  in  sight,  for  the  reason 
that  there  is  small  agreement  among 
pharmacists 
themselves  on  vital 
points,  and  they  are  the  ones  who 
in  such  a 
must  take  the  initiative 
movement. 
also 
shown  that  legislative  bodies  are  not 
to  be  counted  upon  to  make 
laws 
to  order  on  any  given  subject.

Experience  has 

2.  There  is  reason  to  believe  that 
the  opinions  of  members  of  boards 
of  pharmacy,  in  so  far  as  they  have 
been  formed  at  all,  have  not  crystal­
lized  toward  a  uniform  agreement 
for  reciprocal  registration.

3.  Boards  of  pharmacy 

change 
their  personnel  so  frequently  as  to 
preclude  any  settled  policy  on  im­
portant  questions.

5. 

4-  Under  the  imperfect,  not  to  say 
vicious,  system by which some boards 
of  pharmacy  are  created  and  perpet­
uated,  it  is  not  to  be  expected  that 
the  best  qualified  men  for  this  impor­
tant  position  are  to  be  obtained  with 
the  result  that  the  sort  of  examina­
tions  prepared  by  what  are  regarded 
as  our  best  boards  are  far  from  ideal.
If,  by  extraordinary  effort,  a 
superior  board  is  obtained  for  any 
state,  its  labor  in  securing  for  the 
citizens  of  such  state  a  class  of  phar­
macists  of  more  than  average  quali­
fications  may  be 
largely  nullified 
when  men  registered  in  other  states 
with  a  lower  standard  are  admitted 
on  certifiicates,  and 
this  objection 
will  not  be  obviated  by  uniformity  in 
legislation.

6.  There  is  some  room  for  belief 
that  the  methods  of  some  boards  in 
passing  candidates  for  examination 
are  not  always  above  suspicion.  One 
or  two  men  on  any  board  of  phar­
macy  who  have 
lax  notions  as  to

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..........   75©100
60 
Ammoniac  ............  55(
40
Chenopodlum 
....  25©  SO 
Assafoetida 
.........  851
Dlpterlx  Odorate.  80®100
500  85
Benzotnum 
Foenlculum 
.......  ©  18
15 
Catechu,  Is.. 
14 
Foenugreek,  po  ..  7©  9
Catechu,  Vis. 
Lint 
.....................  4© 
If 
Catechu,  Vis. 
6
SO 
Llnl.  grd  ...bbl  4  8© 
Camphorae 
. 
6
40
................  75©  80
Lobelia 
Euphorbium 
jlOO
Pharlaris  Cana’n. 
9®10
Galbanum
Rapa 
...................  5© 
Gamboge  . ...po...1 2501 85 
6
Slnapis  Alba  ....  7©  9
Guaiacum 
. .po. 35  O  35
Slnapis  Nigra  ....  9©  10
Kino  .........po. 75c 
0   76
Maatic  .................  
0   00
Myrrh  .......po.  50.  @  45
Frumentl  W D.. ..2 00@2 60
Opll 
.....................3 00®3 10
Frumenti  ............1 25@1 50
................  60#  05
Shellac 
Juniperls  CoOT.165@2 00 
Shellac,  bleached  65©  70
Juniperls  Co 
.... 1 75©3 50 
Tragacanth 
.......   70@100
Saccharum N E  . .1 90© 2 10 
Spt  Vlnl  Galll  ...176@6 60
26
Absinthium,  os  pk 
Vlnl  Oporto  ....... 1  25@2 00
Eupatorlum  ox  pk 
20
Vlnl  A lb a.............1 25@2 00
Lobelia  ....o x  pk 
25
Sponges 
Majorum 
..ox  pk 
Florida  sheeps' wl
23
Mentha  Pip ox pk 
carriage 
25
Mentha  Vlr  ox pk 
Nassau  sheeps’ wl
Rue  .............ox  pk 
39
carriage 
Tanacetum  V....... 
--
Velvet  extra  slips’ 
Thymus  V ..o sp k  
25
wool, carriage  ..
Magnesia
Extra yellow slips’ 
Calcined,  Pat.......
wool,  carriage  .
Carbonate,  Pat.  . 
Grass  sheeps'  wl,
Carbonate  K-M..  184
carriage 
...........
Carbonate 
.........
Hard,  slate  use...
Oleum
Yellow  Reef,  for 
Absinthium 
...... 3  75@4  00
slate  use  .........
Amygdalae,  Dulc.  50©  60 
Syrups
Amygdalae  Ama. .8 0008 26
Acacia 
...............
Anis?  ...................1 75© 1 85
Auranti  Cortex
Auranti  Cortex  . .2 2002 40
Zingiber  ..............
Bergamll 
............ 2 85@3 25
Ipecac 
.................
Cajlputi 
.............1 10©115
Ferri  Iod  ............
........140 @1  50
Caryophylli 
Rhei  Arom  ........
Cedar  ....................   35© 70
Smilax  Offl’s  ...,
........  ©2 00
Chenopadll 
Senega 
...............
Cinnamonli  .........1 10©1 20
Scillae  .................
Citronella 
............   489 45
Scillae  Co  .........,
Conlum  Mac.........  80© 90
Tolutan 
..............
Prunua  vtrg 
....
8SB&

...........2  50@2 75
...........2  50© 2 75
@150 
@1 25
©100 

@1 40
©  50 
©  50 
©  50 
60 
50 
50 
69 
50 
50 
50 
60 
68

@1 00

Splrltus

10® 
7© 

Herba

Tinctures
Aconltum  Nap’s R 
Aconitum  Nap’s  F 
Aloes 
................... 
Aloes  &  Myrrh  .. 
Arnica  ................. 
Assafoetida  ......... 
Atrope  Belladonna 
Auranti  Cortex  .. 
Benzoin 
.............. 
Benzoin  Co  ......... 
Barosma  .............. 
Cantharides 
....... 
Capsicum 
........... 
Cardamon 
........... 
Cardamon  Co  .... 
Castor 
.................  
Catechu 
.............. 
Cinchona 
............  
Cinchona  Co  .... 
Columba 
............  
Cubebae  .............. 
Cassia  Acutifol  .. 
Cassia  Acutifol Co 
Digitalis 
.............. 
Ergot  .......•........... 
Ferri  Chlorldum.. 
.............. 
Gentian 
Gentian  Co  ......... 
................ 
Guiaca 
Guiaca  ammon  .. 
Hyoscyamus  .......  
Iodine 
.................  
Iodine,  colorless.. 
K g »   ..................... 
.................  
Myrrh 
Nux  Vomica  ....... 
Opil.  comphorated 
Opil,  deodorized  .. 
Quassia  ................ 
Rhatany  .............. 
f*hei 
..................... 
Sanguinaria  ......... 
Serpentarla  ......... 
Stromonium......... 
Tolutan 
..............  
Valerian  .............. 
Veratrum Verlde.. 
Zingiber 
.............. 

60
50
«o
60
50
50
60
50
60
50
50
75
50
75
75
100
§0
50
60
go
go
50
50
go
50
35
50
60
50
60
50
75
75
50
50
50

50
1 go
go
50
50
50
50
60
60
50
50
20

Miscellaneous

.......

Aether,  Spts Nit 3  30 
Aether,  Spts Nit 4  34 
Alumen,  gr’d po 7 
3
Annatto 
..............  40
Antimonl.  po  __  
4
Antlmoni  et Po T  40
Antipyrin  ............
Antifebrin 
Argentl  Nltras,  os
Arsenicum  ...........  10
Balm  Gilead  buds  45
Bismuth  S  N __ 2 20@2 3
Calcium  Chlor, Is  © 
Calcium  Chlor, Vis  ©  1 
Calcium  Chlor. Vis  ©  1 
Cantharides,  Rus.  @17
Capslci  Fruc’s af..  ©  2 
Capsid  Fruc’s po..  ©  2 
Cap’i  Fruc’s B po.  ©  1 
....  25©  2 
Caryophyllus 
Carmine,  No  40... 
@ 30
Cera  Alba............   50©  6
Cera  Flava  .........  40©  4
Crocus.................. 1  75@1  8
Cassia  Fructus  ..  ©  3
............  ©  1
Centrarla 
Cetaceum 
...........  @  4
Chloroform 
.........  55©  g
Chloro’m,  Squlbbs  @ 1 ] 
Chloral  Hyd  Crst.l 35@1  6
Chondrus  ............   20©  2
Cinchonidine  P-W  38©  4 
Cinchonid’e  Germ  38®  4
Cocaine  ...............4 05@4 2
Corks  list  d  p  et. 
1
Creosotum  ...........  @  4
Creta  .........bbl  75  ©
Creta,  prep  ......... 
a
Creta,  precip  .... 
9©  ]
Creta.  Rubra  ....  @
Crocus.................i 75@i j
Cudbear................  @  5
Cupri  Sulph  .......  
6©
Dextrine 
............  
7, *
Ether Sulph.........  78'
Emery,  all  Nos..
Emery,  po 
.........
Ergota  .......po  90  85
Flake  White 
....  12
Galla 
...................
Gambler  .............. 
8
Gelatin,  Cooper  ..
Gelatin,  French  ..  35 w 
Glassware,  fit  box  75  A  
Less  than  box  ..
Glue, brown.........  1 1 ©
Glue,  white  ...........  15©
Glycerina.............16  ©
Grana  Paradisi  ..  @
Humulus 
..............  26©
Hydrarg  Ch  Mt.  @ 
Hydrarg  Ch  Cor  .  ©
Hydrarg  Ox  Ru’m  @1
Hydrarg  Ammo’l .  @ 1
Hydrarg  Dngue’m  50© 
Hydrargyrum 
...  ©
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  9001
Indigo 
..................  75@1
Iodide,  Resubl 
. .3 8504
Iodoform 
.......... 4 10@4
.................   @
Lupulin 
Lycopodium  ........   90®1
...................   65©
Mads 
Liquor  Arsen  et 
Hydrarg  Iod  ...  ©
Liq  Potass  Arsinit  10© 
Magnesia,  Sulph..  2©
Magnesia,  Sulh bbl 
f  ]

44

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

Cotton  Wndsor

Cotton  Braided

Galvanized  Wire 

50  ft................................1 30
•0  f t   ............................1 44
70  ft. 
..........................1  80
•0 f t ............................. 2 00
40  ft.  ............................  96
50  fL  ............................1 36
60  f L ............................. 1 65
No.  20,  each  100  ft long.l 90 
No.  19,  each  100  ft long.2 10 
COCOA
Baker’s 
.........................  38
Cleveland 
.....................  41
Colonial,  14s  ................  85
Colonial,  14a  ................  33
Epps 
..............................  42
..........................   46
Huyler 
Van  Houten,  14a  .........  12
Van  Houten,  14a  .........  20
Van  Houten,  14s  .......   40
Van  Houten,  Is  ...........  72
............................  31
Webb 
Wilbur,  1 4 s...................   41
Wilbur,  14s  ..................  42
I Dunham’s  %s ..........  26
70  Dunham’s 14s & 14s..  2614
80  Dunham’s  %s *.........  27
14s .........   28
Bulk  ..........................   12
20  !b.  bags  ..................  214
Less  quantity 
............ 3
Pound  packages  .........4

COCOANUT

Index to  Markets

By  Columns

Col

Axle  G rease...................  1

Bath  Brick  ...................   1
Brooms 
..........................  1
Brushes  ..........................  1
................  1
Butter  Color 

Confections  ..................... 11
Candles  ..........................   1
Canned  Goods 
.............  1
Carbon  Oils 
..................  1
Catsup  ............................  2
Cheese  ............................  2
............   2
Chewing  Gum 
Chicory  ..........................   2
Cheodate 
.......................  2
Clothes  Lines  ................  2
Cocoa  .............................   2
..............................  2
C oeoanut 
Cocoa  Shells  ..................  2
Coffee  .............................   2
Crackers  ........................   2

Dried  Fruits  ..................  4

Farinaceous  Goods  ....  4
Fish  and  Oysters  ...........10
Fishing  Tackle  ............   4
Flavoring  extracts  .......   5
Fly  P ap er.......................
Fresh  Meats  ..................  6
Fruits  ................................11

Gelatine  ..........................  5
Grain  Bags  ...................   5
Grains  and  Flour  .........  5

Herbs  .................
Hides  and  Pelts

....  5
....  5

__   5
....  6

Indigo  ...

Jelly  ---

Lloorlce
Lye 

........

M
M eat  E x tr a c ts
M o lasses 
...........
M u stard  
...........
N

1

J

L

O

Nuts  ...............................  11

Hives  .............................   6

8

Pipes  ...............................  8
Pickles  ............................
Playing C ards................  6
Potash  ...............'...........   6
Provisions 
.....................  6
Uoe
Salad  Dressing  ............
Saler&tus 
.......................
Sal  Soda 
..................
Sait  ................. : . . . . ----
Salt  Fish  .......................  7
Seeds 
.............................
Shoe  Blacking  ..............
Snuff  ..............................
Soap 
...............................
Soda  ...............................
Spices  .............................
Starch 
Sugar 
Syrups 
Tea 
Tobacco 
Twine 
Vinegar
Washing  Powder  .........  9
Wlcklng 
.........................  9
Wooden ware  ..................  9
Wrapping  P a p e r............ 19

............................  8
............................  8
..........................   8
..............................       8
.........................  9
............................  9

W

T

Yeast  cake

10

Plums

gre
600
4 26 
900 
• 00

AXLE  GREA8 E 
dx
....................56
Aurora 
.............55
Castor  Oil 
Diamond 
................ 50
Frazer’s 
..................75
IXL  Golden  ...........76
BAKED  BEANS 
Columbia  Brand 
90
lib.  can  per  doz.  ...
21b.  can  per doz................. 1 40
31b.  can  per  doz........... 1  80
American 
.....................  75
English  ..........................   85
No. 1  Carpet 
...............2  76
No.  2  C arpet....................2 85
No.  3  Carpet  ............... 2 15
No.  4  Carpet  ............... 1 75
Parlor  Gem  ..................2 40
Common  Whisk 
.........  85
Fancy W hisk.....................1 20
Warehouse  ....................2  00

BATH  BRICK

BROOMS

BRUSHES 

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

.110 

Solid  Back,  8  in  .........  76
Solid  Back,  11  In  .......   95
Pointed  E n d s................  85
.  75 
No.  3 
No.  2 
.176
No.  1
No.  8 
............................ 190
.180 
..........................
No.  7 
.1 70 
No.  4  ............................
.1 90
No.  3 
..........................
B U T T E R   COLOR 
W.,  R.  &  Co.’s,  15c slze.l 25 
W.,  R.  & Co.’s,  25c size.2 00 
Electric  Light,  Ss  ....  9ft 
Electric  Light,  16s  ....lO
Paraffine,  6s  ................9
Paraffine,  12s  ................ 9%
Wlcklng 
...................... 28
CA N N ED   GOODS 
Apples

C A N D LES 

lb .  S ta n d a r d s ..  75@  80
Gals.  Standards  . .2 00@2 25 
Blackberries
85
Standards 
...........
Beans
80@1 SO
Baked  ...................
Red  Kidney  .........
70@1  15 
Strin g.....................
75@1 25
Wax  .....................
Blueberries 
@  1  40
Standard...........

Brook  Trout

Com

Clams

Clam  Bouillon

 
French  Peas

2  lb.  cans. Spiced.
1 90
Little  Neck,  1  lb.1 00@1  25 
Little  Neck,  2  lb. 
150 
Burnham’s,  %  pt..........1 92
Burnham’s,  pts  ..........3 60
Burnham’s,  qts  ..........7 20
Cherries 
Red  Standards.. .1 30@1 60
W hite...................  
160
Fair................................ 1  25
Good  ............... .............135
Fancy  ............  
.160
Sur  Extra  Fine............   22
Extra  Fine 
...............  19
..............................  15
Fine 
Moyen 
..........................  11
Gooseberries
Standard  .......................  90
Hominy
Standard  .......................  85
Lobster
.2  15 
Star,  %lb............
.3 75
Star.  1  lb............
Picnic  Tails................... 2  60
Mackerel 
.1 80 
Mustard,  1  lb 
..
.2 80
Mustard,  2  lb....
Soused.  1  lb.................. 180
Soused,  2  lb.................. 2 80
Tomato,  1  lb..............1 8 0
Tomato.  2  lb...................2 80
Hotels  ..................  18®  20
Buttons  ................  22@  25
Oysters
.0   90
Cove,  lib............. 
_
Cove,  21b...................... #1 70
Cove,  1  lb.  Oval 
1 60
Peaches
.................... 1  1001  15
Pie 
..............1  65@2  00
Yellow 
Pears
...........  @1  35
Standard 
Fancy 
  @2  00
Peas
Marrowfat 
.........  90 @1 00
Early Ju n e .........9601 
60
1 66
Early June  Sifted.. 

Mushrooms

........ 

. 

1 40S12% 
12 
@22 @10%

Rio

Salmon

COFFEE 

Russian  Cavler

COCOA  SHELLS

Plums 
..........................  85
Pineapple
Grated      ............1  25@2  75
Sliced  .................1  35@2  55
Pumpkin
Fair 
.....................
Good  .....................
Fancy  ...................
100 | Dunham’s 
Gallon...................
225 
Raspberries
9   90
Stan dard............
14  lb.  c a n s......................3 75
14  !b.  cans  ....................7 00
1  lb  can  ....................... 12 00
Col’a  River,  tails.  @1  75  | Common........................11%
Col’a  River,  flats.l  85@1  90
Red  Alaska....................1  50
Pink  Alaska  . . .   @ 9 5
Sardines
Domestic,  %s 
..  3%@  3% 
Domestic,  %s  .... 
Domestic,  Must’#.. 
California,  %s  ... 
California,  %s  ... 
French,  %s  ........... 
French,  %s  ......... 
Shrimps
Standard 
Succotash
F a ir ......................
Good  ...................
................
Fancy 
Strawberries
............
Standard 
Fancy  ...................
Tomatoes
Fair 
...................  850  95
Good 
...................  
115
Fancy 
............... 1  1501  50
Gallons.................2  50@3  00

Fair................................ 13
Choice 
..........................15
..........................18
Fancy 
, Santos
Common.........................12
Fair.................................13%
Choice............................ 15
Fancy.............................18
Peaberry  ......................
Maracaibo
Fair................................ 15
Choice 
..........................18
Mexican
..............  
Choice 
Fancy  ...........................19
Guatemala
Choice 
........................ 15
Java
African 
........................12
Fancy  African 
...........17
O.  G...............................26
P.  G...............................31
Mocha
...........‘...........21
Arabian 
Package

.5
6@  9 
11@14
17024
7@14
18028
............ 1 2001 40

CARBON  OILS 

1  50 
1  60
110 

 

16%

Extract

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

CRACKERS

Brands 
Butter

@14 
@13% 
@34 

New  York  Basis.

CHEWING  GUM 

CHEESE
............   @11

Holland,  %  gro  boxes.  95
Felix,  %  gross  ............ 115
Hummel’s  foil,  % gro.  8o 
Hummel’s  tin,  %  gro.l 43 
National Biscuit Company’s 

Arbuckle....................... 13  50
Dilworth 
................... 13  00
Jersey 
........................ 13  50
Lion  .............................. 13  00
McLaughlin’s  XXXJC 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX sold 
to  retailers  only.  Mail  all 
orders  direct 
to  W.  F.
I McLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.

Barrels
Perfection 
.........
Water  White  ...
D.  S.  Gasoline  ..
Deodor’d  Nap’a...
Cylinder 
............29
...............16
Engine 
Black,  winter 
..  9 
CATSUP
.4 60
Columbia,  25  pts.. 
Columbia,  25  %pts... .2 60
Snider’s  quarts  .......... 3 25
Snider’s  pints 
............ 2 25
Snider’s  %  pints  ....... 180
Acme  .................   @10%
Peerless 
Carson  City  ....  @10%
Elsie 
..................  @10%
Emblem 
............   @  9%
Gem......................   @12
Ideal  ...................   @  9
jersey 
@ 11
Riverside..............  @11%
Warners  ............   @10%
Brick.....................  @11
Edam  ..................  @90
Leiden 
..............  @15
Limburger  .........  @11
Pineapple 
.........40  @60
Swiss,  domestic  .  @15
Swiss,  imported  .  @23
American  Flag  Spruce.  55
Beeman’s  Pepsin  .......   60
Black  Jack 
..................  55
Largest  Gum  Made 
..  60 
Sen  Sen
Sen  Sen  Breath  Per’e .l 00  Assorted  ¿¿kë
Sugar  Loaf
Yucatan 
Bulk 
Red 
Eagle 
Franck’s 
Schener’s 

Seymour  Butters  ......... 6
N  Y  Butters  ................ 6
Salted  Butters 
.............6
Family  Butters 
........... 6
Soda
N B C   Sodas  ................ 6
Select 
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •   8
Saratoga  F lak es.......... 13
Oyster
Round  Oysters  .............6
Square  Oysters 
........... 6
Faust 
.............................
........................... ..
A rgo 
Extra  Farina  ............   7%
Sweet  Goods
Animals  ........................ 10
10
Bagley  Gems  ................ 8
Belle  Rose  ..................... 8
Bent’s  Water  ..............16
Butter  Thin  ................. 13
Chocolate  Drops 
... .16
Coco  Bar 
.....................10
Cococanut T affy .......12
Cinnamon B a r ..........  9
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C. .10
Coffee  Cake,  Iced  ---- 10
I Coeoanut Macaroons  .. 18
......................16
........................  21 Cracknels 
...........................   41 Currant  Fruit  ...............10
... 16 
..........................  35 chocolate  Dainty
...  9
.............................   28 I Cartwheels
Dixie  Cookie 
..............  8
Fluted  Coeoanut  .........10
....... 8

..............................  5 1
...............................   7
............................  4 1
......................   7
..................... 
6
C H O CO LA TE 
W alter  Baker  A   Co.’s

German  Sweet 
Premium 
Vanilla 
Caracas 
Eagle 

60  ft,  8  thread,  extra. .1 00 I Frosted  Creams 
72  fL  3  thread,  extra  ..1 40  Ginger  G®ms 
___ N  B  C  7
90  fL  3  thread,  extra  . .1 70 | 5fA?§?!IL.
Grandma  Sandwich  ..  10
60  ft,  6  thread,  extra  . .1 29 
Graham  Crackers  --- 8
72  fL  6  thread,  extra  ..
Honey  Fingers, Iced..  12
60  f t   .............................. ..  75
Iced  Happy  Family  ...11
............................ ..  90
72  f t  
............................ . .1 05
90  f t  
120  ft................................ ..1 50
____  Cotton  Victor
tê  ft- 
............................... .1  10
.............................. .1  35
6Ö  tt. 
79  ft  ................................ .1  90

Indiana  Belle  ...............15
Jersey  Lunch  ................ 8
iL a d v   F in g e rs 
................12

...........  23 i __ ____  __

C LO T H E S   L IN E S  

................
CH ICO RY

_ 
Sisal

Jute

Milk  Biscuit  ..................8

Lemon  Biscuit  Square.  8
I ,-mnn  Wafer  .......    16
Lemon  Snaps  .............12
Lemon  Gems  ..............16
Lem  Yen 
.....................10
Marshmallow  ................16
Marshmallow  Cream.. 16 
Marshmallow  wainut. 16
Mary  Ann  ..................... 8
Malaga 
........................ 10
Mich  Coco  Fs’d  honey.12
Mich Frosted Honey  ..  12
Mixed  Picnic  ................11%
Molasses  Cakes.  Sclo’d  8
Moss  Jelly  Bar.............12
Muskegon  Branch, Iced 10
Newton 
........................12
Oatmeal  Crackers  ...'.  8
Orange  Slice  ............... 16
........... 
Orange  Gem 
v
Penny  Assorted  Cakes.
Pilot  Bread 
..................7
Pineapple  Honey  ....... 16
Ping  Pong  ..................  9
Pretzels,  hand  made  ..  8 
Pretzelettes,  hand  m’d  8 
Pretzelettes,  mch.  m’d  7
Revere  .......................... 14
Rube  Sears  ....................8
Scotch  Cookies 
...........10
Snowdrops 
...................16
Spiced  Sugar  Tops  ...  8 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  8
Sugar  Squares 
.............8
Sultanas  .......................15
Spiced  Gingers  ............. 8
Urchins 
.......................10
Vienna  Crimp  ...............8
Vanilla  Wafer  ..............16
W averly........................9
Zanzibar 
.....................  9
Barrels  or  drums  ...........29
Boxes..................................30
Square  cans......................32
Fancy  caddies................... 35

CREAM  TARTAR

Peel

Beans

Farina

Apples

Raisins

Hominy

California  Prunes

2%
1   4% 
@  6 
9   6 
@  6% 
@  7%
ocases
@15

DRIED  FRUITS 
Sundried.................... @
Evaporated............6%@7
100-125  251b.  boxes.
90-100  25 Ib.bxs.,
80-90  25  lb.  bxs.
70-80  25 lb. bxs.
60-70  251b.  boxes.
50-60  25 lb. bxs.
40-50  25 lb. bxs.
30-40  25 1b. bxs.
%c  less  in  bv 
Citron
Corsican...............
Currants 
Imp’d,  lib.  pkg.  .
7%
Imported  bulk  . . . 6%@  7 
jemon  American  ......1 2
Orange  American  .......12
1  90 
London  Layers  3 cr 
1  95 
T.ondon  Layers 3  cr 
.  2  60
Cluster  4  crown. 
Loose  Muscatels,  2  cr..  5% 
Loose  Muscatels,  3  cr..  6 
Loose  Muscatels,  4  cr..  6% 
L.  M.  Seeded.  llb..7%@7% 
L.  M.  Seeded.  %lb. 5%@" 
Sultanas,  bulk.  ... 
8
Sultanas,  package. 
8% 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  Lima  ................... 6
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  lb.  sack  ----1  00
Pearl,  200  lb.  sack  ...4  00 
Pearl,  100  lb.  sack  ...2   00 
Maccaronl  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic,  10  lb.  box  .  60
Imported,  25  lb.  box  ..2  50 
Common..........................2  60
Chester........................... 2  75
Empire 
2  50
Green,  Wisconsin,  bu.l  25
Green,  Scotch,  bu.........1  40
Split,  !b.......................... 
4
Rolled  A\enna  bbls...4  75 
Steel  C it,  1001b.  sacks  2  50
Monarch,  bbl..........  ...4  50
Monarch,  101b.  sacks  .2  10
Quaker,  cases  .............2  10
East  India 
....................o%
German,  sacks  ... ......... 3%
German,  broken  pkg  .  4 
Flake,  1101b.  sacks  ....  4% 
Pearl.  1301b.  sacks 
..3% 
Pearl,  24  1Tb.  pkgs. . . . 6  
Cracked,  bulk  .............. t%
24  2  lb.  packages  ___2  50
FISHING  TACKLE
%  to  1  In  ...................  
6
1%  to  2  In  .................. 
7
1%  to  2  In  ...................  
9
1  2-3  to  2  i n ................  11
2  in  ...............................  15
3  in 
.............................   20
Cotton  Lines
No.  1,  10  feet  ............  
5
No.  2,  15  feet  ............  
7
No.  3.  16  feet  ............  
9
No.  4,  15  feet  ..............  10
No.  5,  15  fe e t..............   11
No.  6.  15  feet  ............   12
No.  7,  15  feet  ..............   15
No.  8.  16  feet  ..............  18
No.  9,  15  feet  ..............  20

Pearl  Barley

Rolled  Oata

.......... 
Peas

Tapioca

Wheat

Sago

 

Linen  LI nee
............................  90
Small 
.......................  96
Medium 
..........................   14
Large 
Poles
Bamboo,  14  fL,  pr  dx..  59 
Bamboo,  16  fL,  pr  dx.  65 
Bamboo,  18  ft.,  pr  dx.  86
FLAVORING  E X T R A C T S  
Foote  A   Jenke 
Coleman’s 
Van.  Lem.
2os.  Panel...........1  99 
76
3oz.  Taper...........2  09  1  50
No.  4  Rich.  Blake. 2 09  1  60

Jennings

Terpeneless  Lemon

No. 2 D. C. pr ds  ... .  75
No. 4 D. C. pr dz  ... .1  60
No. 6 D. O. pr  (dz  .... .2  00
Taper D. C. pr dz  ... . 1   50
No. 2 D. C. pr dz  ... -i  20
No. 4 D. C. pr ds  ... .2  00
No. 6 D. C. pr dz  ... .2  00
Taper  D. C. pr dz  ... .2  00

Mexican  Vanilla

GELATINE

Knox’s  Sparkling, dx.  1  20 
Knox’s  Sparkling, gro.14  00 
Knox’s  Acidu’d.,  doz.  1  20 
Knox's  Acidu’d,  gro  .14  00
Oxford 
........................  T*
Plymouth  Rock  ....... 1  20
Nelson's 
.....................1  60
Cox’s,  2  qt.  size  ....... 1  61
Cox’s,  1  qt.  size  .........1  10
Amoskeag,  100  In  b’e.  19 
Amoskeag,  less than b.  19% 
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

GRAIN  BAGS 

Wheat 

Old  Wheat.

No.  1  White  ................1  15
No.  2  R e d ..................... 1  15

Winter  Wheat  Fleur 

Local  Brands

Brand

Spring  Wheat  Flour 

Patents........................... 6  40
Second  Patents............. 6  00
Straight 
.......................5  80
Second  Straight...........5  40
Clear.............................. 4  80
Graham........................... 5  50
Buckwheat......................5  00
Rye................................. 4  20
Subject  to  usual  cash 
discount.
Flour  In  bbls.,  25c  per 
bbl.  additional.
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Quaker,  paper...............5  60
Quaker,  cloth................ 5  80
Pillsbury’s  Best,  %s  . .6  60 
Pillsbury’s  Best,  %s  . .6  50 
Pillsbury’s  Best,  %s  ..6   40
Lemon  &   Wheeler  Co.'» 
Wingold.  %s...................6  80
Wingold.  %s  ................ 6  70
Wingold,  %s  ................ 6  60
Judson  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Ceresota,  % s ................7  00
Ceresota  %s  ................ 6  90
Ceresota,  %s  ...............6  80
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel,  %s,  cloth  ........6  80
Laurel,  %s  cloth  ........6  70
Laurel,  %s & %s paper6  60
Laurel,  %s  .................. 6  60
Bolted..............................2  90
Golden  Granulated.  __3  00
St.  Car  Feed screened 22  50 
No.  1  Corn  and  Oats  22  50 
Corn  Meal,  coarse.  . .22  50
Oil  Meal....................... 28  00
Winter  wheat  bran  ..20  00 
Winter  wheat mid’ngs23  00
Cow  feed......................21  00
Car  lots........................33%

Feed  and  Miuetuffs 

Meal

Oata
Con»

Corn.............................57
No.  1  timothy  car lota. 19  60 
No.  1  timothy ton lots. 13  50

Hay

HERBS

JELLY

INDIGO

LICORICE

..............................  19
Sage 
Hops  ..............................  15
Laurel  Leaves 
...........  15
Senna  Leaves  ............   96
Madras.  5  lb.  boxes  ..  66 
S.  F„  2, 8, 5 lb. boxes..  66
5tb.  palls,  per  Ass  ..1  T9
151b.  palls 
..................  It
301b.  pails  .....................   96
Pure  ..............................  69
Calabria 
......................    29
Sicily 
............................  14
Root 
..............................  11
Condensed,  2  dx  ......... 1  90
Condensed,  4  dx  ......... 6  00
Armour’s,  2  o x ..............4 45
Armour’s  4  ox  .............9  10
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  2 ox.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  4 ox.6  60 
Liebig's,  Imported,  t os. 4  96 
Liebig’s,  imported 4 oz 8  50

MEAT  EXTRACTS

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SOAP

M OLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy  Open  Kettle  ...  40
Choice 
................-.........  35
F a ir ...............................   26
Good 
............................  22
MINCE  MEAT 

Half  barrels  2c  extra 

O LIV E S

M USTARD

Columbia,  per  case.  ...2  75
Horse  Radish,  1  dz  ...1  75 
Horse Radish,  2 dz  ... .3  50 i 
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  dz  ..
Bulk,  1 gal.  kegs  -----1  00
Bulk,  3  gal kegs..........  95
Bulk,  5  gal  kegs.........   90
Manzanilla, 7  o z ......... 
80
.............. 2  35
Queen,  pints 
Queen,  19  oz 
...........4   50
Queen, 28 o z .....................  7 00
Stuffed,  5  oz 
............   90
Stuffed,  8  oz  ................ 1  45
Stuffed,  10  oz  .............2  30
Clay,  No.  216 
.............1  70
Clay,  T.  D., 
Cob,  T 'o.  3  ...................   85

P IP E S

SA LAD   DRESSIN G

Columbia,  %  pint.........2  25
Columbia,  1  pint......... 4  00
| Durkee's,  large,  1  doz.4  50 
Durkee’s  small, 2 doz. .5  25 ' 
Snider’s,  large,  1  doz..2  35 
Snider’s,  small,  2 doz..1  35 |

SA LER A TU S 

Packed  60  Tbs.  in  box 

Arm  and  Hammer  ...3  15
Deland’s 
.......................3  00
Dwight’s  Cow  ............ 3  15
.......................2  10
Emblem 
L.  .P ...............................3  00
Wyandotte,  100  %s 
..3  00
SA L  SODA

Granulated,  bbls  .........  85
Granulated,  100Tb cases. 1  00 
Lump,  bbls...................   75
Lump,  1451b.  kegs  ....  95

Diamond  Crystal 

SA LT

Table

Cases,  24 3Tb. boxes  ...1  40 
Barrels,  100 3!b. bags  . .3  00 
Barrels,  50 6Tb. bags  ..3  00 
Barrels,  40 71b. bags  ..2  75
¡Barrels,  320  lb.  bulk  ..2  65 
Barrels,  20 14Tb. bags  . .2  85
Sacks,  28  lbs 
............   27
Sacks,  56  lbs................  67

Butter

full  count  65

PICKLES
Medium

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

Barrels,  1,200  count  . .6  50 
Half  bbls.,  600  count  . .3  75 
Barrels,  2,400  count  . .8  00 
Half bbls.  1,200 count  ..4  75 
No.  90,  Steamboat  ...  85  ! 
No.  15,  Rival,  assortedl  20 | 
No.  20,  Rover  enameledl  60 I
No.  572,  Special  ......... 1  75
No.  98,  Golf, satin flnish2  00
No.  808,  Bicycle  .........2  00
No. 632,  Tournm’t whist2  25 | 

POTASH 

48  cans  In  case

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

..................... 4  00 I

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork
...........  

 

1 
1 

Lard

Sausages

Smoked  Meats 

Dry  Salt  Meats

Mess 
13  50
Back  fat  ..................... 15  00
Fat  Back  ................... 15  00
Short cut...................... 14  00
..............................18  00
Pig 
Bean 
...........................13  00
Brisket 
....................... 16  50
Clear  Family  .............13  00 i
Bellies  ..........................9%
S  P  Bellies  ..................10%  I
Extra  Shorts  ...............  9
Hams,  12  lb.  average.. 12 
Hams,  14  lb.  average.. 12 
Hams,  16  lb.  average.. 12 
Hams,  20  lb. average. 11%
Skinned  Hams...............13%
Ham,  dried  beef  sets. 15 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut) 
Bacon,  clear. 
..11  @12
California  Hams  ..........  9
Picnic  Boiled Ham.  ..14%
Boiled  Hams..................18%
Berlin  Ham  pr's’d  ...  9
Mince  Ham  ..................10
Compound.........................6
Pure  .............................   8%
60  lb.  tubs, .advance.  % 
80  lb.  tul», .advance.  % 
50  lb.  tins, .advance.  % 
20  lb.  palls, .advance.  % 
10  lb.  palls, .advance.  % 
5  lb.  pails. .advance. 
8  lb.  palls, .advance. 
Bologna.............................5%
Liver 
..........................  6%
Frankfort......................... 7%
............................  8%
Pork 
Veal 
................................8
Tongue 
.......................... 9%
Headcheese  ................  6%
Beef
Extra  Mess  .............. 10  50
Boneless.............. 
11  50
Rump,  new  ................11  75
%  bbls................................. 1 15
%  bbls.,  40  lbs..................1 85
%  bbls.  .........................3  75
.........................7  76
1  bids. 
Kits,  16  lbs  ................ 
70
%  bbls.,  40  l b s .........  1  25
%bbls.,  80  lbs  .........  2  60
Hogs,  per  lb.................  
JJ
Beef  rounds,  set  .........  15
Beef  middles,  set 
......  46
Sheep,  per bundle.......  70
Solid,  dairy..........  @10
Rolls,  dairy 
Corned  beef,  2 ..................2 50
Corned  beef,  14  ......... 17  50
Roast  beef,  2@  ...........2  50
.... 
Potted  ham,  %a 
45
Potted  ham,  %s  .......  
85
....  45
Deviled  ham,  %s 
Deviled  bam,  %s 
....  85
Potted  tongue,  %s  ... 
45
Potted  tongue.  %s  .. 
85
Screenings 
...........  @2%
Fair  Japan  ...........
Choice  Japan 
Imported  Japan
Fair  Louisiana  hd.
Choice  La.  hd.......
Fancy  La.  hd.... 
Carolina  ex.  fancy.

 
Pig's  Feet

Uncolored  Butterlne

@4% 
<®3 % 
@4% 
@6% 
@ 6%

Canned  Meats

. ...10%@11% 

Casings

Tripe

RICE

Shaker
Butter

...........
Boxes,  24  2Tb 
Brls,  280  lbs,  bulk__
Linen  bags,  5-56  lbs 
Linen  bags,  10-28  lbs
Cotton  bags,  10-28  lbs  2 75
Bbls.,  280Cft>eebulk___ 2 40
5  barrel  lots,  5  per  cent, 
discount.
10  barrel  lots,  7%  per 
cent,  discount.
Above  prices  are  F.  O.  B. 
100  31b.  sacks  .............1  90
60  51b.  sacks  .............1  80
28  101b.  sa c k s............. 1 70
56  Tb.  sacks  ................  30
23  lb.  sacks  ................  15

Common  Grades

Warsaw

56 tb. dairy in drill bags 
28  Tb. dairy  In drill bags

Solar  Rock

56  lb.  sacks  ................
Granulated,  fine.............80
Medium  fine. 
.......  85

Common
 

SA LT   FISH  

Cod

@  6 @  5% 
7%@10 
@  3%

Large Whole  ....
Small  Whole__
Strips  or  bricks 
Pollock 
............
Halibut
........................15
Herring
Holland

Strips  ........................... 14%
Chunks 

White  Hoop,  bbls8  25@9  25 
White Hoop, %bbl4  25@5  00 
White  hoop,  keg.  57@  70
White  hoop mchs  @  75
Norwegian  ...................
Round,  100  lbs  ............3  60
Round,  40  tbs.............2  00
..........................  18
Scaled 

Trout

Whiteflsh
No 1  No. 2 
.........8  50
.........4  50
.........1  00
..........   82
S E E D S

No. 1, 100 Ibb.
1, 40 lbs.
No.
10 lbs.
1,
No.
1, 8  lbs.  .
No.
Mackerel
100  lbs.............. 12 00
Mess,
40  tbs...................5 30
Mess,
Mess,  10  lbs...................1 50
Mess,  8  Tbs.................... 1 26
No.  1,  100  lbs..............11 00
No.  1,  40  tbs.................. 4 90
No.  1,  10  lbs.................. 1 40
No.  1,  8  Tbs....................1 20
Fam 
3  50
2  10
52
44

100  lbs.
50  lbs.
10  Tbs.
8  lbs.
.15
Anise 
..
Canary. Smyrna.......... •  v%
.  2
Caraway
Cardamon, Malabar  .. 1  00
.......................10
Celery 
Hemp,  Russian  ...........4
................  4
Mixed  Bird 
Mustard,  white 
.........  8
Poppy 
.....................• ••  f
Rape  ............................. _4%
Cuttle Bone  .................25
Handy  Box,  large, 3 dz.2  50 
Handy  Box,  small  ....1   25 
Blxby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  85
Miller’s  Crown  Polish.  86 
SN U FF
Scotch,  in  bladders  ...  87 
Maccaboy,  in  Jars
Maccaboy,  in  jars  .... 
FrsMh  Eaprie,  la farai.

SH O E  B LA CKIN G  

brand.

Central  City  Soap  Co’s 
Jaxon  ........................... 2  85
Jaxon,  5  box,  del.........2  80
Jaxon,  10  box,  d el.....2  75 
Johnson  Soap  Co.  brands
................3  65
Silver  Ling 
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  75
Savon 
Imperial 
........3  10
White  Russian 
.........3  10
Dome,  oval  bars......... 2 85
Satinet,  oval  ................2  15
Snowberry. 
..................4  00
LAUIZ  BriUS.  8  GO.  BRANDS
Big  Acme  ................... 4  00
Acme,  100-%Ib. bars.. .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  o z ................... 4  00
Ivory,  10  oz  ................6  75
Star 
..............................3  10
Good  Cheer 
................ 4  00
Old  Country  ................3  40

A.  B.  Wrisley  brands

Scouring

Enoch  Morgans  Sons. 

Sapolio,  gross  lots  .... 9  00 
Sapolio,  half  gross  lots.4  50 
Sapolio,  single  boxes  . .2  25
Sapolio,  hand 
.............2  25
Boxes  ......... 
5%
Legs,  English  .............. 4%
Columbia........................3  00
Red  Letter.....................  90

SOUPS

SODA

 

SPICES 

Whole  Spices

Allspice  ........................   12
Cassia,  China in mats.  12 
Cassia,  Canton..............  16
Cassia,  Batavia, bund.  28 
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.  40 
Cassia,  Saigon, in rolls.  55
Cloves,  Amboyna  .......   23
Cloves,  Zanzibar.........  20
Mace  .............................   55
Nutmegs,  75-80 
.........  45
Nutmegs,  105-10 
.......   3a
Nutmegs,  115-20  .......   30
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  15 
Pepper,  Singp.  white  .  25
Pepper,  shot 
............   17
Allspice  ........................   16
Cassia,  Batavia  ...........  28
Cassia,  Saigon 
...........  48
Cloves,  Zanzibar  .......   23
Ginger,  African 
.........  15
Ginger,  Cochin  ............   18
Ginger,  Jamaica  .........  25
Mace 
 
65
M ustard........................  
18
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  17 
Pepper,  Singp.  white  .  28
Pepper,  Cayenne.........  20
Sage  .............................   20

Pure  Ground  in  Bulk

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

STARCH 

Common  Gloss

lib.  packages............. 4@5
3Ib.  packages  ..............  4%
61b.  packages  ................ 5%
40  and  50  lb.  boxes  .3@3%
Barrels........................   @3
20  lib.  packages  ........... 5
40  lib.  packages  ... .4%@7 

Common  Corn

SYRUPS 

Corn

Barrels  ......................... 23
Half  barrels 
.............. 25
20Tb  cans  % dz in case.l  60 
101b  cans %dz in case. .1  55 
51b  cans 2dz in case... .1  65 
2%!b.  cans 2dz in case.l  75 
F a ir ...............................   16
Good 
.............................  20
Choice 
..........................  25

Pure  Cane

TEA
Japan

Sundried,  medium  ....24
Sundried,  choice  ......... 32
Sundried,  fancy 
......... 36
Regular,  medium  ........24
Regular,  choice.............32
Regular,  fancy  .............36
Basket-fired,  medium  .31 
Basket-fired,  choice  . .38 
Basket-fired,  fancy 
..43
Nibs 
....................... 22@24
Siftings  ....................9@11
Fannings................ 12@14
Gunpowder
... .30
Moyune,  medium 
Moyune,  choice  ...........32
...........40
Moyune,  fancy 
Pingsuey,  medium  ....30
Pingsuey,  choice 
........30
Pingsuey.  fancy  ......... 40
Choice............................ 30
Fancy  ........................... 36
Formosa,  fancy  ...........42
Amoy,  medium  ............25
Amoy,  oholoe.............. 12

Young  Hyson

Oolong

Clothes  Pins

English  Breakfast

Plug

Tubs

India

Traps

Faucets

Smoking

Mop Sticks

Toothpicks

Wash  Boards

TOBACCO 
Fine  Cut

.......................20
Medium 
.......................... 30
Choice 
Fancy  ............................40
Ceylon,  choice  .............82
v«»»» 
. . -.  . .....49

Cadillac  .........................54
Sweet  Loma  ................ 33
Hiawatha,  5Tb.  pails  . .56 
Hiawatha,  101b.  pails  .54
Telegram......................29
Pay  C a r........................31
Prairie  Rose  ................49
Protection  ................... 40
Sweet Burley............... 42
Tiger 
............................40

Red  Cross  ................... 31
Palo  .............................. 3z
K y lo .............................35
Hiawatha 
....................41
Battle  Ax 
................. 37
....... 33
American  Eagle 
Standard  Navy  ...........37
Spear  Head  7  oz. 
...4 7  
Spear  Head  14 2-3  oz.,44
Nobby  Twist  ..............55
Jolly  Tar 
................... 39
Old  Honesty  ................43
Toddy  ...........................34
J-.T...................................
Piper  Heidsick 
....... 66
Boot  Jack  ...................go
Honey  Dip  Twist  __ 40
Black Standard........... 38
Cadillac  ........................ 38
Forge  ........................... 30
Nickel  Twist  ................50

Round head, 5 grosz bx.  56 
Round  head,  cartons  ..  76
Egg Crates
Humpty  Dumpty 
.... 2  40
No.  1,  complete..........   32
No. 2,  complete............   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
Palls
hoop  Standard.1 60
2- 
hoop  Standard.1 75
3- 
wire,  Cable  .1 70
2- 
wire,  Cable  .1 90
3- 
Cedar,  all  red,  brass  ..1  25
Paper,  Eureka  .............2  25
Fibre  ..............................2  70
Hardwood  .....................2  50
Softwood........................2 75
Banquet......................... 1 50
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,  spring...................  75
20-in.,  Standard,  No.  1.7  00 
18-in.,  Standard,  No.  2.6  00 
16-in.,  Standard,  No.  3.5  00 
I 20-in.,  Cable,  No.  1  ..7  50 
18-in.,  Cable,  No.  2  ..6  50 
16-in.,  Cable,  No.  3  . .5  50
No.  1  Fibre................ ,10  80
No.  2  Fibre  ..................9  45
>No.  3  Fibre  ................  8  55
Bronze Globe................2  50
[Dewey  .......................... 1  75
Double A cm e................2  75
Single  Acme  ................2  25
Double  Peerless  ......... 3  25
Single  Peerless.............2  50
Northern  Queen.......... 2  50
Double  Duplex  .............3  00
Good  Luck  ................... 2  75
Universal 
..................... 2  25
12  in................................1  65
114 in........ ........................1  85
16  in.................................2  30
11  in.  Butter  ................  75
13  in.  Butter  ............ 1  15
15 
in. Butter  ............2  00
17  in.  Butter 
............3  25
19 
in. Butter  ............ 4  75
Assorted  13-15-17  ........2  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  ....15 
Malt  White  Wine, 40 gr  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 gr.ll 
Magic,  3  doz...................1  15
Pure  Cider,  B & B 
Sunlight,  3  doz.............1  09
11 
Pure  Cider,  Red  Star. 11 
Sunlight,  1%  doz.........  50
Pure  Cider,  Robinson. 10
Yeast  Foam,  3  doz.  ...1   15 
Pure  Cider.  Silver  ___10
Yeast  Cream,  3  doz  ..1  00 
Yeast Foam,  1% doz.  ..  58 
W ASHING  PO W D ER
Diamond  Flake  ........... 2  76
Gold  Brick 
..................3  25
Per  lb.
Jumbo Whiteflsh  ,.11@12 
Gold  Dust,  24  large. 
..4 50
No.  1  Whiteflsh  ..  @ 9
Gold  Dust,  100-5c_____ 4 00
White fish ..............10@12
Kirkoline,  24  41b.............3 96
Pearline 
.......................3  75
Trout  ....................   @  9
Soapine  .....................] [4  79 I Black  Bass
Babbitt’s  1776 
.............3  75  Halibut................... 10@ 11
Roseine  ........................ 3  50  Ciscoes  or  Herring.  @  5
..................... 3  70  Bluefish  ..................11 @12
Armour’s 
Nine  O’clock 
..........¡ ” 3  35
Live  Lobster...........  @22
Wisdom 
.......................3  80
Boiled  Lobster.  ...  @23
Scourine  ................ , . ‘ j   50
I  C o d .......   ..............   @12%
Haddock  ................  @  8
Rub-No-More  .............. 3  75
No.  Pickerel..........  @ 9
Pike  ........................  @ 7
No.  0 per  g ro ss..........30
Perch,  dressed  ....  @ 7
No.  1 per  gross  ........40
Smoked  White  ....  @12%
No.  2 per  gross  .........50
Red  Snapper  .........  @
No.  3 per  gross  .........76
Col. River Salmonl5  @16
Mackerel  ................ 14@15

Sweet  Core  ..................34
Flat C a r.........................32
Great  Navy  .............." 34
Warpath 
..................... 26
Bamboo,  16  oz........... [25
I  X  T.,  5  Th................... 27
I  X  L,  16  oz.,  pails  . .31
Honey  Dew  ................ 40
Gold  Block  .................. 40
Flagman  ................ 
40
chips 
.........................; : 33
Kiln  Dried  ....................21
Duke’s Mixture.............39
Duke’s  Cameo  .............43
Myrtle  N av y ................ 44
Yum  Yum,  1  2-3  oz.  ..3 9  
Yum  Yum,  lib. pails  ..4 0
Cream  ............................
Corn  Cake,  2%  oz.  .. .'24
Corn  Cake,  lib.............. 22
Plow  Boy,  1  2-3  oz.  .139
Plow  Boy,  3%  oz.........39
Peerless,  3%  oz.............35
Peerless,  1  2-3  oz.  ...38
Air  B rak e................ 
as
Cant  Hook  ................  ‘ 30
Country  Club  ..'....32-34
Forex-XXXX  .............. 28
Good  Indian  ................ 23
Seif  Binder...............20-22
Silver  Foam  ................ 34
„  
Cotton,  3  ply................ 23
Cotton,  4  ply......... 
23
jute.  2  piy 
14
Hemp,  6  ply  ..............13
Flax,  medium 
.......... 20
Wool,  lib.  balls...........6%

WRAPPING  PAPER

W O ODEN W ARE

Window  Cleaners

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls

V IN EG A R

W ICKIN G

TW IN E

....  2% 

Baskets

O Y STER S

Cans

Per  can

Bradley  Butter  Boxes 

F.  H.  Counts
Extra  Selects..............
Perfection  Standards.
Bulk  Oysters.
F   H  Counts  ............
Extra  Selects  ...........

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  Standards
Willow  Clothes, med’m. 6  00 
.1  75 
Willow  Clothes,  small.5  60 
.1  60
.......... 1  40
2Tb.  size,  24  in  case  ..
72 i
68 Standards  ......... ...........1  25
3!b.  size,  16  in  case  ..
51b.  size,  12  in  case  .. 
63
101b.  size,  6  in  case  ..
60
Green  No.  1... ..........   8
No.  1 Oval,  260 in crate.
40 Green  No.  2... '..........7
No.  2 Oval,  250 in crate.
4b 1  Cured  No.  1... ..........   9%
50 I  Cured  No.  2... ..........   8%
No. 3 Oval,  250 in crate.
60 |  Calfskins,  green No.  1  11
No. 5 Oval  *50 in crate.
Calfskins,  green  No.  2  9% 
Barrel,  5  gal.,  each  ..2  40 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  1  12% 
Barrel,  10  gal.,  each  ..2  55 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  2  11 
Barrel.  15  gal.,  each  ..2  70
Steer Hides,  60Ibs.  over  9%

H ID ES  AND P E L T S

Butter  Plates 

Churns 

Hides

45

II
Pelts

Old W ool................
...................15@1  50
Lamb 
................ 25@60
Shearlings 
T allow
No.  1  .................   @4%
No.  2  .................   @3%
Washed,  fine  .......  @-
Washed,  medium  ..  @25
Unwashed,  fine 
..14@20 
Unwashed,  med........ 22@25

Wool

CONFECTIONS

Stick Candy

Pails
Standard 
.......................7%
Standard  H.  H.............. 7%
Standard  Twist  ......... 8
Cut  L o a f.......................  9
cases
Jumbo,  321b.................... 7%
Extra  H.  H...................9
Boston  Cream  ............ 10
Olde  Time  Sugar  stick 
30  lb.  c a s e ................ 12

Mixed  Candy

 

 

Fancy—In  Palls 

Grocers  ................... . 
6
Competition  .................  7
Special 
........ .............. 7%
Conserve  ......  
7%
Royal 
...........................   8%
Ribbon  ..........................  9
Broken  .........................   8
Cut  Loaf.  ................  
  8
English  Rock 
...............9
Kindergarten.................. 8%
Bon  Ton  Cream  ..........  8%
French  Cream  ............ 9
Star 
............................. 11
Hand  made  Cream ....14% 
Premio  Cream  mixed. .12% 
O  F  Horehound  Drop..10
Gypsy  Hearts  ............ 14
Coco Bon  B on s............ 12
Fudge  Squares............12
Peanut  Squares  ..........  9
Sugared  Peanuts  .......11
Salted  Peanuts  ........... 12
Starlight  Kisses  ......... 10
San  Bias  Goodies.......12
Lozenges,  plain  .............9
Lozenges,  printed 
....10 
Champion  Chocolate  .. 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.
20  Tb.  p a ils................ 12
Molasses  Chews,  151b.
cases 
.........................12
Golden  Waffles  ...........12
Fancy—In  5tb.  Boxes
Lemon  Sou rs................50
Peppermint  Drops  .... 60
Chocolate  Drops  ......... 60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops  ... 85 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
Dark  No.  12  ............1  0«»
Brilliant  Gums,  Crys.60 
O.  F.  Licorice  Drops  .. 80
Lozenges,  plain.............55
Lozenges,  printed 
....60
Imperials 
..................... 55
Mottoes  ............. 
60
 
Cream  B a r ....................56
Molasses  Bar  .............. 55
Hand  Made  Cr’ms..80@90 
Cream  Buttons,  Pep. 
and  Wintergreen  ... 65
String  Rock 
...............60
Wintergreen  Berries  . .55 
Old  Time  Assorted,  25
Buster  Brown  Goodies
Up-to-Date  Asstmt,  32 

lb.  c a s e .......................2 50
301b.  case  ..................2  26
lb.  case 
....................3  50

Pop  Corn

Dandy  Smack,  24s  ...  65
Dandy  Smack,  100s  ... 2  75 
Pop  Com  Fritters,  100s  50 
Pop  Cora  Toast,  100s.  50
Cracker  Jack  .............. 3  00
Pop  Corn  Balls,  200s  .. 1  30

NUTS
Whole

Ohio  new 

Almonds,  Tarragona... 16
Almonds,  Ivica  ..........
Almonds,  California  sft 
shelled,  new  ..14  @16
Brazils 
.........................19
Filberts  .........................11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled.
Cal.  No.  1................14@lo
Table  Nuts,  fancy  ....IS
Pecans,  Med....................9
Pecans,  Ex.  Large  ...10
Pecans,  Jumbos  ......... 11
Hickory  Nuts  per  bu.
................1  75
Cocoanuts  ......................  4
Chestnuts,  per  bu.........
Spanish  Peanuts.  7  @7%
Pecan  Halves  .............38
Walnut H alves.............33
Gilbert  M eats...............26
Alicante  Almonds  .......36
Jordan  Almonds  ......... 47
Fancy,  H  P,  Suns.6%@7 
Fancy.  H.  P.,  Suns.
Roasted 
............... 7% @8
Choice.  H  P,  J ’be.  @  8% 
Choice, H.  P.,  Jum­
•   9%
bo,  l u l l s )   ....9  

Peanuts

Shelled

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AXLE  GREASE

C O F F E E
Reasted

Dwinell-Wrlght  Co.’s  Bds.

SOAP

Beaver  Soap  Co.’s  Brands

Mica,  tin  boxes  ..75  9  00
Paragon 
................55  6  00

BAKIN«  POWDER

Jaxen  Brand

Royal

341b.  cana,  4  dea.  case  45 
361b.  cans.  4  do*,  case  85 
1  R>.  cans.  3  do*,  easel  <0 
10c  size.  90 
34 lb cans  135 
(  oacans  190 
36 lb cans  250 
34 lb cans  875 
1   tb cans  480 
8  lb cans IS 00 
5  lb cans 2150 
Arctic  4 oz ovals, p gro 4 00 
Arctic  8 oz avals, p gro 6 00 
Arctic  16 oz ro'd, p gro 9 00 
Walsh-DeRoo  So.'s  Brands

B R E A K F A S T   FOOD 

BLUIN«

Sunlight  Flakes

Per  case  .....................34  00
Cases,  24  2  lb.  pack’s .32  00 

Wheat  Grits

CIBARB

Distnouted  by 

White  House,  1  lb.........
White  House,  3  lb...........
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  1  lb.. 
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  2  lb..
Tip  Top,  M  & J,  1 lb__
Royal  java  .....................
Royal  Java  and  Mocha.. 
Java  and  Mocha  Blend..
I Boston  Combination  .... 
Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids; 
National  Grocer  Co.,  De- I 
troit and Jackson;  F.  Saun- 
! ders  &  Co.,  Port  Huron; 
Symons  Bros.  &  Co..  Sagi­
naw;  Meisel  St  Goeschel. j 
Bay  City;  Godsmark,  Du­
rand  St  Co..  Battle  Creek; 
Fielbach  Co.,  Toledo.
C O F F E E   S U B S T IT U T E  

Javrll

2 doz. in case.................4  50

G.  J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.
Less  than  600..............88 00
500  or  more...................32 00
.1,000  or  more................81 00
Baker’s  Brazil  Shredded

COCOANUT

CONDENSED  MILK 

4  doz.  In  case
.6 40
Gail  Borden  Eagle..
Crown 
.......................
.5 90
Champion 
................
.4 52
Daisy  ........................
.4 70
Magnolia 
.................
.4 00
Challenge  .................
.4 40
Dime 
........................
.3 85
Peerless Evap’d Cream 4  uu 

S A FE S

70  341b  pkg,  par  case. .3  60 
85  3*!b  pkg.  per  case. .2  60 
38  34tb  pkg,  per  case. .3  60 
16  361b  pkg,  per  case..3  60 

FR E S H   M EAT8 

Beef

Pork

Carcass..................4  @  736
...  4  @  536 
Forequarters. 
...  6  @  836
Hindquarters. 
Loins...................9  @13
Ribs......................8  @11
Rounds..................6  @ 7
Chucks  ................   436 @  5
Plates 
................ 
4
Pressed..................  
@  6%
l.oins...................... 
@12%
@1036
Boston  Butts.  . . .  
Shoulders.............. 
@  936
l.eaf  Lard  ......... 
@  7%
Mutton
Carcass  ...............5  @  536
Iam bs 
.................  6  @  8
Carcass  ...............  536@ 8

Veal

A gro

CORN SYRUP

24  10c  cans  ................1  84
13  35c  cans 
.............. 3  30
6  50c  cans  ................ 3 30

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 

STO CK   FOOD.

Superior  Stock  Food  Co., 

Ltd.

3  .50  carton,  36  In  box.10.80 
1.00 carton,  18  in box.l0.M 
1236  lb.  cloth  sacks.. 
.84 
25  lb.  cloth  sacks...  1.65 
50  lb.  cloth  sack s....  3.15 
100  lb.  cloth  sack s....  6.00 
{ Peck  measure  ................90
1236  lb.  sack  Cal  meal 
.39 
25  lb.  sack  Cal  meal.. 
.75 
F.  O.  B.  Plainwel,  Mich.

136  bu.  measure.........1.80

100  cakes,  large  size.. 6  50 
50  cakes,  large  size. .3  25 
100  cakes,  small  size. .8  85 
50  cakes,  small  slze..l  95
Tradesman  Co.’s  Brand

Black Hawk,  one box..2  50 
Black  Hawk,  five  bxs.3 40 
Black  Hawk,  ten  bxs.3  35

T A B L E   SA U C ES

Halford,  large  .............3  76
Halford,  small  .............3  25

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B U SIN ESS  CH AN CES.

Bakery—Well  equipped  shop,  in  one  of 
the  best  little  towns  in  Illinois.  For  sale 
B.  B.  Patterson, 
cheap:  easy  terms. 
Viola,  111. 

888

For  Sale—Good,  clean,  up-to-date  stock 
of  groceries.  Fine  location,  good  trade. 
Address  No.  889,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

889

For  Sale—First-class  grocery,  meat 
market  end  fruit  stand;  an  old  estab­
lished  stand  of  thirteen  years;  good  lo­
cation;  always  made  money;  good  reason 
for  selling;  price  reasonable.  Write  517 
Wiiliams  St.,  Dayton.  Ohio. 

894

For  Sale  or  Rent—Forty-four 

For  Sale—One  nearly  new  nine  drawer 
$530  National  Cash  Register.  A.  S.  Gay­
lord,  Axtell,  Kansas. 

895
room 
hotel  and  hotel  barns for sale  or rent,  do­
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city  water and  electric lights  in  the  hotel, 
centrally  located.  For  particulars  write 
to  Box  424,  St.  Cloud.  Minn. 

896

We  have  some  good  farm  lands  for  ex­
change  on  cash  basis  for  stocks  of  gen­
eral  merchandise.  C.  N.  Sonnesyn  &  Co., 
Butterfield,  Minn. 

897

Will  sell  cheap,  one  National  acetylene 
gas  generator.  No.  0,  complete;  suitable 
for  lighting  large  storeroom  or  private 
residence;  good  as  new.  Address  J.  J. 
Bill,  Macielia,  Minn. 

898

Sell  your  real  estate  or  business  for 
cash. 
I  can  get  a  buyer  for  you  very 
promptly.  My  methods  are distinctly  dif­
ferent  and  a  decided  improvement  over 
those  of  others. 
It  makes  no  difference 
where  your  property  is  located,  send  me 
full  description  and  lowest  cash  price and 
I  will  get  cash  for  you.  Write  to-day. 
Established 
references. 
Frank  P.  Cleveland,  1261  Adams  Express 
Building,  Chicago. 

Bank 

1881. 

899

Natural  Gas  Plant  for 

sale  or  rent. 
Cheapest  power  in  the  city.  Desiring  to 
build  a  new  plant  at  our  Jackson  street 
location,  we  offer  for  sale  our  present 
factory  at  6th  and  A  streets,  with  or 
without  ground.  One  75  H.  P.  and  one 
35  H.  P.  gas  engine  with  4  gas  main  and 
line  shafting  to  suit  purchaser.  Can  be 
divided  into  two  small  plants.  For  full 
Bros. 
particulars 
Lumber  Co..  Louisville,  K y . 
900

to  Gernert 

apply 

For  Sale—Country  store  and  dwelling 
house,  also  $1,750  stock  general  merchan­
dise.  Address  No.  901,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

901

Business  Chance—Stamping  works, 
equipped  with  Bliss  machinery,  tools  and 
dies  for  making  dustpans;  also  patent 
on  foothold  dustpan;  a  bargain  if  sold 
soon.  Address John  T.  Adams,  Frankton, 
Ind. 

902

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.

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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. 

-_____________ 869

Furniture  and  Undertaking  for  S a le - 
Undertaking  alone  nets  $600  per  year.  A 
chance  for  a  man  with  small  capital. 
Address  No.  870,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

*70

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. 

879

confectionery  and  wholesale 

For  Sale—Good established money-mak­
ing 
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  cer.ts  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. 

874

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- 
eeries;  new  stock;  old  established  trade; 
best  town  in  Michigan;  other  business 
I.ock 
and  ill  health  reason  for  selling. 
Box  738,  Durand,  Mich. 
876
for 

stock  of  dry 
goods.  Would  buy  general  store.  Small 
plaoe  preferred;  invoice  $3,000  or  $4,000. 
E.  E.  Tice.  Paw  Paw,  Mich. 

«.anted—Location 

877

On  account  of  failing  health,  I  desire 
to  sell  my  store,  merchandise,  residence, 
two  small  houses  and  farm.  Will  divide 
to  suit  purchaser.  Address 
J.  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. 

850

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. 
Feyreisen,  167  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago.  887
bearing  orange 
grove  in  Riverside,  Cal.;  value  $15,000. 
Clear.  Want  stock  of  merchandise,  farm 
or  town  property.  Address  Drawer  J., 
Corning,  Iowa. 

To  Exchange—Fine 

_______ 852

lots.  etc. 

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

For  Sale—Best  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

stock, 

For  Sale—Hardware 

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
lunch  room,  small  grocery 
bard  oven, 
stock,  2  wagons,  one  horse,  located  in 
Owosso,  Mich.  Full  particulars,  address 
Ress  &  Cheney,  agents  for  all  kinds  of 
stocks.  Kalamazoo.  Mien. 
Wanted—Good  clean  stock  of  general 
merchandise.  Want  to  turn  in  forty-acre 
faim,  nearly  all  fruit,  close  to  Traverse 
City.  Address  No.  £70,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

815

6"0

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, 
Mich. 

860

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—Profitable  hardware  business 
in  prosperous  city,  Northern  Illinois.  In­
voice  $4,000.  Half  cash,  balance  gilt-edge 
real  estate.  Address  No.  788,  care  Michi­
788 •
gan  Tradesman. 
For  Sale—Small  amount  of  stock  and 
fixtures.  Retiring  from  clothing  business. 
Good  proposition.  Address  Lock  Box  65, 
Chesaning,  Mich. 

843

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

For  Sale—Bazaar  stock  $4,000  to  $5,000. 
Building  and  barn  $1,100  cash.  Land and 
“Poor  Health,” 
lots  to  trade  for  farm. 
care  Michigan  Tradesman. 

882

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. 

837
For  Sale—A  fine  bazaar  stock  in 

a 
lumbering  town  in  Northern  Michigan, 
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  buildings 
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 
with  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
man. 

89

619

Enquire 

For  Sale—A  modern  eight-room  house 
Woodmere  Court.  Will  trade  for  stock 
of  groceries. 
J.  W.  Powers, 
Houseman  Building,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Phone  1455.________________ _______ 498
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._________________  
For  Sale—Fourteen  room  hotel,  new 
and  newly furnished,  near Peioskey.  Fine 
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  West  Forest  Ave.,  Detroit,  Mich.  2

__________________ 835

A  firm  of  old  standing  that  has  been 
in  business  for  fifteen  years  and  whose 
reputation  as  to  integrity,  business  meth­
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 
established, 
fine-paying  business;  will 
sell  the  business  for  what  it  invoices; 
proprietor  is  old  and  in  feeble  health. 
Address  Jack  W.  James,  81  Madison  St.,
Mempnis.  Tenn.___________________ 736
implement  business, 
established  fifteen  years.  First-class lo­
cation  at  Grand  Rapids.  Mich.  Will  sell 
or  lease  four-story  and  basement  brick 
building.  Stock  will 
inventory  about 
$10,000.  Good  reason  for  selling.  No 
trades  desired.  Address  No.  67,  care 
Michigan  Tradesman._____________  67

For  Sale—Farm 

571

 

POSITION S  W AN TED.

890

Registered  pharmacist  desires  position. 
Single,  age  27, 
five  years’  experience. 
Can  furnish  excellent  references  regard­
ing  character,  habits  and  ability.  Ad­
dress  No.  890,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
Wanted—Position  by  registered  phar­
macist  of . twelve  years’  experience  as 
clerk  and  proprietor  of  retail  drug  stores. 
Want  lots  of  work  and  good  wages.  Ad­
dress  Lock  Box  214,  Marion,  Mich.  893 
Wanted—Position  as  bookkeeper  or 
stenographer  with  wholesale 
shippers 
preferred.  Address  Competent,  care  Mich­
igan  Tradesman. 
Wanted—Position  as  salesman  in  retail 
hardware  store.  Have  had  ten  years’ 
experience.  Address  Box  367,  Kalkaska, 
Mich. 

________ 903

______ 466

• 

H E LP   W AN TED .

Wanted—Salesmen  to  handle  our  table 
cutlery  as  side 
line  to  hardware  and 
bazaar  trade.  Goods  are  quick  sellers— 
commission  liberal.  Rodgers  Bros.  Cut­
lery  Co.,  Muskegon,  Mich.________891
Wanted—Drug  clerk  with  some  ex­
perience.  Address  Drugs,  care  Michigan
Tradesman._______________________ 892
energetic  men, 
who  are  interesting  and  convincing  talk­
If  you  have  ability,  you  can  b e tte r 
ers. 
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

Wanted—A m b itio u s, 

A U C TIO N EER S  AND  T R A D ER S

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  &  Licensed 
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.  Write  for 
terms,  particulars  and dates.  1414-16 Wa- 
oash  Ave.,  Chicago.  References,  Dun’s 
Mercantile  Agency._______________ 872

M ISCELLA N EO U S.

Oddfellows.  K.  P’s,  Redmen,  wanted  to 
sell  our  gold  plated,  enameled  emblem 
buttons.  Send  25  cents  for  sample  and 
Fraternity  Emblem  Co.,
catalogue. 
Brockton,  Mass.___________________ 878
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  hundreds  of  merchants  and 
the  largest  wholesale  houses 
the 
West.  Write  us  to-day  for  further  in­
J.  H.  Hart  &  Co.,  242  Mar-
formation. 
ket  St.,  Chicago,  111._______________ 871
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._________ _________________  601
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

P E N A L T Y   O F  PR O SPE R ITY.

It  Does  Not  Excite  Comment  Like 

Disaster.

Written  for  the  Tradesman.

Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Sept.  26— When 
cne  stops  to  consider  the  question he 
realizes  that  the  life  of  a  community 
is  much  the  same  as  the  career  of  an 
individual. 
It  has  been  said  that 
when  a  man  starts  on  the  toboggan 
slide  of  failure  the  world  seems  to 
rest  from  its  other  labors  for  a  min­
ute  or  two  that  it  may  grease  the 
track  and  make  his  descent  more 
swift. 
In  every  sense  of  the  word 
this  may  not  be  true,  but  there  is 
no  denying  that  it  is  easier  to  slide 
than  to  climb  to  the  top.

Time  has  shown  that  when  dis­
aster  comes  to  cities  and  the  hand  of 
poverty  and  despair  clutches  at  the 
throats  of  the  people  the  remainder 
of  the  world  seems  to  lend  a  helping 
hand  in  the  work  of  destruction.  The 
world  takes  more  delight  in  reading 
of  gigantic 
than  of  suc­
cesses,  probably  because  the  failures 
are  more  spectacular  than  the  suc­
cesses.

failures 

A  few  months  ago  the  financial 
world  was  talking  about  the  great 
Soo  industries  and  people  were  read­
ing  in  the  newspapers  long  accounts 
of  the  doings  in  the  Twin  Cities  by 
the  St.  Mary’s  rapids.  All  this  stir 
was  occasioned  because  the  mighty 
Clergue  had  fallen,  because  the  Con­
solidated  Lake  Superior  Co.  had 
gone  on  the  rocks  and  the  “dreams” 
of  the  man  from  Maine  had  come  to 
naught.  The  newspapers  told 
of 
thousands  of  rioters  marching 
the 
streets,  howling  like  maniacs  and de­
manding  money  and  revenge  for  al­
leged  wrongs  that  had  been  commit­
ted.  People  climbed  over  each other 
in  the  scramble  for  papers— for  the 
toboggan  had  been  greased  and  one 
of  the  greatest  downward  slides  in 
the  history  of  the  world  had  com­
menced.

To-day  even  the  echoes  of 

the 
crash  have  almost  ceased.  Things 
the 
are  moving  in  the  circles  of 
great  corporation  and  plant 
after 
plant  is  resuming  operations.  The 
great  steel  miil  clouds  the  sky  with 
smoke  and 
leads  one  to  think  of 
Pittsburg.  Within  the  past  few  days 
a  record  has  been  broken,  600  tons 
of  rails  being  turned  out,  when  the 
capacity  of  the  mill  was  considered 
but  500  tons  a  day.  Nearly  a  thous­
and  men  are  already  employed  about 
the  plant  and  within  a  few  more 
days— possibly  by  the  time  this  arti­
cle  is  in  print— the  great  blast  fur­
nace  will  be  in  operation.  Mines  are 
being  worked,  the  woods  are  rapidly 
filling  with  men  and  it  is  estimated 
that  from  now  on  the  monthly  pay 
roll  in  the  Canadian  Soo  alone  will 
amount  to  $100,000.  The  income  of 
the  street  railway  and,  ferry  lines  is 
$400  a  day  and  increasing.

In  looking  over  present  conditions 
on  both  sides  of  the  river  one  must 
look,  also,  to  the  immediate  future, 
if  a  true  realization  of  the  situation 
is  to  be  obtained.  New  industries 
are  proposed  for  both  sides  of 
the 
river. 
In  the  Canadian  Soo  a  big 
stave  mill,  the  ground  for  which  has 
been  purchased  within  the  past  few

days,  will  be  erected  soon.  A   dy­
namite  factory  will  also  be  built  and 
smelters  are  soon  to  be  built  and 
operated.

In  the  Michigan  Soo  prospects 
were  never  brighter,  the  confidence 
of  business  men  is  restored  and  there 
is  every  reason  to  fee|  that  the  com­
ing  ten  years  will  be  the  most  pros­
perous  in  the  history  of  the  city.  The 
Clergue 
interests  will  establish  on 
this  side  of  the  river  an  immense 
coking  plant,  the  product  of  which 
will  be  used  in  the  steel  plant  across 
the  river.  This  industry  will  use  an­
nually,  according  to  a statement made 
both  by  Mr.  Clergue  and  his  attor­
ney,  about  350,000  tons  of  coal  and 
will  give  employment  to  several  hun­
dred  men.  The  city  will  be  piped 
for  gas  and  this  by-product  of  the 
plant  will  be  sold  to  consumers  un­
der  a  franchise 
granted. 
Work  on  the  plant  will  be  started 
this  fall,  as  the  franchise  calls  for  the 
laying  of  mains  within  thirty  days.

recently 

A  mill  for  the  manufacture 

of 
copper  wire,  bolts,  etc.,  is  another 
institution  that  will  be  established on 
this  side  of  the  river.  A  tract  of 
twenty  acres  of  land  has  been  set 
aside  for  the  industry  and 
I  have 
it  from  an  authoritative  source  that 
work  on  the  buildings  will  be  start­
ed  before  long,  possibly  within  thir­
ty  days.  Power  for  this  industry  will 
be  secured 
from  the  canal  of  the 
Michigan  Lake  Superior  Power  Co.

The  handling  of  ore  in  this  part  of 
furnaces  and 
the  country  in  blast 
a 
otherwise  calls  for  the  use  of 
high  grade  of  limestone. 
In  view  of 
the  increase  that  can  be  expected  in 
the  use  of  the  stone,  several  capital­
ists  have  purchased  land  in  the  lime­
stone  district  west  of  the  Michigan 
Soo  and  will  at  once  open  a  large 
quarry.  The  quarry  will  be  connect­
ed  with  the  South  Shore  Railway  by 
a  spur  and  ooerations  will  be  com­
menced  within  the  next  few  days. 
One  of  the  gentlemen  interested  in 
this  limestone  deal  is  also  interested 
in  the  wire  mill  proposition,  has  had 
charge  of  considerable  experimental 
work  in  perfecting  the  electric  smelt­
er,  and,  although  he  has  been  a  resi­
dent  of  the  Soo  but  a  few  months, 
has  shown  beyond  a  doubt  that  he 
is  here  to  stay  and  occupy  a  prom­
inent  position  in  industrial  circles.

In  citing  these  cases  of  renewed 
prosperity  and  the'  general  satisfac­
tory  indications  for  the  future,  I  do 
so  to  compare  the  present  situation 
the 
with  that  of  a  year  ago,  that 
reader  may  come  to 
realize 
that 
when  a  city  or  body  of  men  meet  re­
verses  the  whole  world  discusses  the 
condition  through  a  megaphone,  but 
when  the  sun  begins  to  shine  on  re­
newed  prosperity  half  the  world  nev­
er  hears  of  it.  Mighty  few  people 
outside  of  the  two  Soos  really  know 
wbat  is  going  on  here  at  the  present 
time  or  how  bright  the  prospects  are, 
but  a  year  ago  there  wasn’t  a  town 
in  the  United  States  that  didn’t  hear 
of  the  financial  crash  that  shook  the 
region  of  the  great  company’s  oper­
ations.

When  the  great  crash  came  every­
body  talked  about  it.  Men  whose 
features  were  adorned  with  luxuriant

arranged 

growths  of  Kansas-like  whiskers 
gathered  in  grocery  stores  all  over 
the  country, 
themselves 
along  the  tops  of  the  counters  and 
on  boxes  and  barrels  in  picturesque 
tashion,  and,  with  wisdom  seeming 
to  ooze  from  every  pore,  murmured, 
‘T  told  ye  so,  .b’  gosh.”

Headlines  of 

the  most  amazing 
size  fairly  shrieked  the  story  of  the 
collapse  of  the  Clergue  undertakings. 
Magazine  writers  vied  with 
each 
other  in  roasting  “The  Jason  of  Al- 
goma,”  “The  Wizard  of  the  West.” 
They  told  of  the  days  when  as  a  boy 
he  trudged  through  the  streets  of  a 
town  in  Maine,  dreaming  of  great 
things  to  come,  evolving  striking sen­
tences  relative  to  his  rise  from  ob­
scurity  to  the  head  of  a  corporation 
capitalized  at  more  than  a  hundred 
millions  of  dollars.  They  printed  his 
picture,  and  when  it  was  impossible 
to  obtain  a  picture  of  the  “Wizard,” 
pictures  of  other  people  were  used. 
Sometimes  he  had  a  mustache, some­
times  whiskers  At  other  times  he 
appeared  smooth  faced,  but  the  pub­
lic  was  pawing  the  air  for  Clergue 
news  and  pictures— and  they  were 
handed  out in large quantities, but oft- 
times  spurious.

Now  that  something  meritorious 
is  being  accomplished,  where  are  the 
people  who  climb  over  each  other 
to  hear  and  read  about  what  is  taking 
place?  No  answer  greets  the  query, 
for  the  gentle  readers  of  the-country 
have  turned  their  eyes  in  the  direc­
tion  of  the  Far  East,  where  blood 
luns  deep  on  fields  of  carnage.  Per­
haps  to-morrow  it  will  be  a  steam­
boat  or  railroad  disaster  that  will 
draw  the  eye  or  perhaps  a  new  di­
vorce  scandal  will  be  stirred  up  in 
the  exclusive  circles  of  the  effete 
East.

is

Why  do  the  people  take  so  much 
more  interest  in  the  operation 
of 
tearing  down  than  in  that  most  com­
mendable  of  occupations,  the  build­
ing  up  of  something  that  shall  result 
beneficially  to  mankind?  Man 
if  he  goes  wrong  or 
condemned 
makes  a  mistake  and 
the  world 
chases  after  him  in  much  the  same 
manner  that 
the 
street  follow  the  yellow  dog  with  a 
tomato  can  tied  to  his  tail.  But  if 
he  succeeds  in  doing  something  of 
value  he  passes  along  the  highway 
of  life  without  attracting  attention. 
Is  it  surprising,  then,  that  the  per­
centage  of  successful  people  is 
so 
small?  What  we  need  to  learn  is 
to  accomplish  something,  and  not 
spend  our  time  scouring  the  country 
in  search  of  human  wreckage.

the  urchins  of 

Raymond  H.  Merrill.

New  W ay  to  Make  Widows.

In  most  countries  where  civiliza­
tion  is  somewhat  backward  marriage 
is  apparently  regarded  as  the  neces­
sary  fate  of  every  woman.  This  is 
so  much  the  case  in  Russia 
that 
there,  when  the  parents  of  a  girl  see 
her  getting  on 
toward  old-maiden­
hood,  without  any  prospect  of  mar­
riage,  they  take  her  abroad  for  a 
time.  After  a  year  or  two  she  will 
reappear  among  her  old  friends  as  a 
widow,  and  although  they  may  sus­
pect  that  her  late  lamented  husband 
never  existed  outside  of  the  imagin­

ation  of  those  who 
invented  him, 
yet  the  fiction  is  useful  in  giving  her 
it  certain  status  in  society  and  en­
abling  her  to  avoid  the  mortifications 
of  the  “unappropriated  blessing.”

In  Bermuda,  on  the  other  hand, 
girls  are  often  prevented  from  mar­
rying  by  the  law  of  the  land,  which 
decrees  that  a  woman  who  marries 
a  foreigner  shall  not  only  lose  what 
property  she  may  happen  to  have, 
but  shall  also  become  incapable  of 
inheriting  any.

girls 
for 

re­
Sometimes  Bermudan 
nounce  their  birthright 
love’s 
sake;  but  as  a  rule  the  charms  of 
penniless  damsels  are  not  sufficient 
for  men  to  desire  them  for  wives, 
and,  therefore,  many  of 
them  are 
doomed  to  spinsterhood  by  the  law.

Small.

“ How  small  have  you  felt?”  she 

asked  anxiously.

“Well,”  he  replied,  “ I  have  felt  as 
small  as  a  man  in  the  presence  of 
the  head  plumber.”

“That  isn’t  enough.”
“I  have  felt  as  small  as  a  man  when 

his  wife  catches  him  in  a  lie.”

“That  isn’t  anything.”
“I  have  felt  as  small  as  the  man 
who  made  a  righteous  complaint  to 
the  President  of  a  trolley  line.”

She  shook  her  head  again  sadly. 
“That  isn’t  anything  to  the  way  I 
feel,”  she  said. 
“You  know  I  have 
never  been  to  Europe  and  I’ve  been 
talking  with  a  girl  who  has  just  re­
turned.”

Millersburg— The  lumber,  sawmill 
and  mercantile  firm  of  Lewis  &  Derry 
has  gone  to  the  wall.  Their  store 
has  been  closed  by  creditors,  their 
mills  and  camos  have  been  shut  down 
and  about  all  their  manufactured  lum­
ber,  personal  property  and  unincum­
bered  timber  lands  have  been  placed 
under  attachment  for  labor  and  other 
indebtedness.  The  failure  will  throw 
out  of  employment  fully  half  the  pop­
ulation  of  the  village  and  severely 
cripple  the  merchants,  who have hith­
erto  derived  their  support  from  the 
employes  of  Lewis  &  Derry.

B U SIN ESS  CH AN CES. 

large 

located 

Wanted—A 

second-hand 

____________  

fire 
proof  safe;  must  be  cheap. 
J.  M.  Perry,
Tustin,  Mich.___________________   904
in 
Wanted—A  stock  of  merchandise 
exchange  for  a  well 
improved 
farm.  Address  No.  906.  care  Michigan
Tradesman. 
For  Sale—One  of  the  best  outside  gro­
cery stores  in  i i in t   doing a good business. 
Inventory  $1,000.  Good  reasons  for  sell­
ing.  Write  or  call  1S13  N.  Saginaw  St.,
Flint,  Mich._______________________ 908
For  Sale—A  National  Computing  Scale, 
almost  new;  fan cy  design;  bottle  green; 
all  agate  bearing.  A  good  bargain.  For 
$5  will  send  subject  to  examination.  Ad­
dress  J.  D.  Humphrey  &  Son.  Lenox.  Ia.
____________________  
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
~
Wanted—Position  by  general  clerk; 
temperate  and  steady.  Address  “Referen- 
ces,”  care  Michigan  Tradesman. 

POSITIONS  W A N TED . 

907

 

H E L P   W AN TED .

Wanted—An 

experienced  up-to-date, 
hustling  dry  goods  clerk,  must  be  good 
salesman  and  stock  man.  Address  Lock 
P o x  No.  28,  Alma.  Mich.__________ 905
A U C TIO N EER S  AND  TR A D ER S.
J.  L.  McKennan  &  Co., 

‘The  Hoosier 
Hustlers,”  the noted merchandise  auction - 
eers,  carry  the  largest  book  of  refer­
ences  of  any  firm  in  the  United  States— 
now  selling  $8,000  general  stock  at  Mount 
Pleasant,  Iowa.  For  terms  and  reference 
book,  address Box 457. 

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