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STATIONERY  a, CATALOGUE PRINTINC

GRAND RAPIDS,MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  7,  1904 

Number 1107

S P E C I A L   F E A T U R E S .

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Page. 
2.  W indow   Trim m ing.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  D ry  Goods.
7.  Out  of  W ork.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Men  W ith  Programme.
12.  Butter  and  Eggs.
13.  Meat  Market.
14.  Fru its  &   Produce.
15.  N.  Y .  Market.
16.  Reasons  for  Success.
17.  Dangers  of  the  A ir.
18.  Clothing.
20.  Model  Store.
22.  Buckw heat  Production.
23.  Borrowed  Brains.
24.  Even  Unto  Death.
26.  Looking  Backward.
28.  W om an’s  W orld.
30.  Makes  as  W ell  as  Mars.
31.  T h e   Death  Penalty.
32.  Shoes.
36.  Men  W ith  ideas.
37.  Hardw are  and  Crockery  Quotations. 
40.  Com m ercial  Travelers.
42.  Drugs.
43.  Drug  Price  Current.
44.  Grocery  Price  Current.
46.  Special  Price  Current.

A U ST R IA   AN D  IT A L Y .

The  relations  existing  between  the 
Kingdom  of  Italy  and  the  Empire  of 
Austria-Hungary  have  not  been  over­
cordial  for  a  long  time. 
It  is  true 
that  both  countries  are  parties  to 
the  agreement  known  as  the  Triple 
Alliance,  but,  as  is  well  known,  that 
arrangement,  which  figured  so  large­
ly  during  Bismarck’s  time,  plays  but 
a  very  minor  part  in  inter-national 
relations  in  Europe  at  the  present 
day.  The  septennial  period  during 
which  this  alliance  runs  is  nearing  its 
end,  and  it  is  certain  that  Italy  at 
least  will  not  renew  it.

Where  the  general  relations  be­
tween  two  countries  are  the  reverse 
of  cordial  it  does  not  take  a  very  big 
incident  to  create  a  crisis.  Such  an 
incident  has  occurred  in  the  recent 
rioting  at  Innsbruck,  Austria,  where 
a  large  number  of  Italian  students 
have  been  attacked  by  the  populace, 
and  the  situation  became  so  serious 
as  to  compel  the  police  to  charge 
upon  the  people  with  bayonets,  injur­
ing  many  and  killing  several.

consulates 

This  incident  has  aroused  the  bit­
ter  feeling  entertained  towards  Aus­
tria  in  Italy  to  fever  heat,  and  at­
tacks  upon  Austrian 
in 
Italy  are  likely.  Of  course,  the  Ital­
ian  students  attacked  are  not  Italian 
subjects,  but  natives  of  those  Italian 
provinces  which  are  under  Austrian 
rule.  The  Italians  have  always  felt 
keenly  the  fact  that  Austria  should 
retain  her  hold  on  provinces  which 
should  be  an  integral  part  of  the  Ital­
ian  kingdom. 
It  is  safe  to  assume 
that  the  great  mass  of  the  Austrian 
Italians  would  prefer  to  be  under 
Italian  rule,  and  the  Austrian  gov­
ernment  has  not  made  any  special 
efforts  to  conciliate  these  Italian  sub­

jects  so  as  to  reconcile  them  to  their 
rather  unnatural  allegiance.

With  Italy  entertaining pretty much 
the  same  feeling  with  respect  to  her 
former  provinces  which  France  feels 
towards  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  it  is no 
great  wonder  that  the  sentiments  en­
tertained  towards  Austria  are  at  no 
time  over-cordial, 
they 
should  become  dangerously  near  an 
open  exhibition  of  hostility  under 
such  provocation  as 
Innsbruck 
riots.

that 

and 

the 

trade  antagonism 

to 
Nothing  has  actually  occurred 
indicate  that  a  rupture  is  near 
at 
hand,  but  it  would  be  foolish  to  ig­
nore  the  fact  that  the  situation  is  so 
delicate  as  to  cause  apprehension that 
a  crisis  may  arise  at  any  time.  Aside 
from  the  racial  and  national  preju­
dices  at  the  bottom  of  the  present 
situation  of  affairs,  there  is  also  an 
important 
to  be 
taken  into  account.  Hungary  is  jeal­
ous  of  large  Italian  imports  into  Aus­
tria,  particularly  Italian  wines  and 
breadstuffs,  which  compete  with Hun­
garian  products.  Trade  antagonism 
is  in  its  way  quite  as  powerful  as 
race  prejudices,  and  it  is  not  improba­
ble  that  Hungary  would  welcome 
anything  that  would  tend  to  check 
Italian  trade  with  Austria.  A  war 
with  Italy  would  be  popular  with  the 
ruling  classes  in  Hungary,  and would 
no  doubt  tend  to  knit  together  the 
warring  races  and  nationalities  of the 
dual  Empire.  Such  a  war,  however, 
would  be  a 
affair,  as 
both  powers  have  large  armies  and 
good  navies,  and  they  are  so  close 
together  as  to  permit  of  sharp  and 
quick  campaigns.

formidable 

John  D.  Rockefeller  is  using  some 
of  his  money  in  the  suppression  of 
the  liquor  traffic  in  Tarry town  on the 
Hudson,  where  he  has  a  large  estate. 
There  is  a  man  who  keeps  a  saloon 
which  Mr.  Rockefeller  is  obliged  to 
pass  and  which  is  objectionable 
to 
him.  He  has  tried  to  buy  the  man 
out  and  to  have  his  license  cancelled, 
and  having  failed  is  buying  all  the 
property  in  the  neighborhood  so  that 
the  saloonkeeper’s  patrons  are  stead­
ily  decreasing,  and  in  time  he  will  be 
forced  to  quit  on  Rockefeller’s  terms.

St.  Louis  is  shocked  by  the  discov­
ery  that  a  man  living  within  twenty 
miles  of  that  city  had  not  heard  of 
the  Exposition  which  came  to  a  close 
yesterday.  St.  Louis  will  forgive this 
man,  but  it  will  not  forgive  the  mil­
lions  who  did  hear  about  the  Exposi­
tion,  but  did  not  attend.  The  Expo­
sition  has  repaid 
the  Government 
loan,  and  will  be  able  to  settle  all 
claims,  but  will  make  no  return 
to 
those  who  subscribed  to  the  fund 
used  in  the  erection  of  the  buildings, 
etc.

G EN ERAL  TR A D E   REVIEW .
Although  the  present  term  of  im­
provement  in  trade  has 
continued 
some  months  there  has  been  no  time 
when  favorable  reports  were  so  gen­
eral. 
In  almost  every  line  increasing 
demand  is  putting  more  at  work  and 
this  in  turn  increases  the  capacity  to 
buy.  The  principal  factor  in  support­
ing  these  conditions,  of  course,  is the 
enormous  volume  of  agricultural pro­
ductions.

With  such  support  the  course  of 
the  stock  market  values  is  necessari­
ly  upward.  Predictions  are  that such 
a  long  advance  will  have  serious  in­
terruptions,  and  efforts  of  bean  oper­
ators  to  bring  them  about  have  ef­
fect  in  occasional  slight  reactions, but 
rallies  are  very  prompt  and 
the  gen­
eral  movement  is  almost  steadily  up­
ward,  reactions  being  confined  to  a 
few  speculative  lines.  The  average 
value  of  sixty  principal  railway  stocks 
is  making  a  marked  advance,  com­
ing  within  $9  of  the  record  of  1902, 
an  advance  of  over  $4  for  the  week. 
Earnings  continue  to  show  gains  over 
last  year  and  the  outlook  for  divi­
dends  has  grown  proportionately 
brighter. 
Sales  of  stocks  are  just 
about  double,  day  by  day,  as  com­
pared  with  the  business  of  a  year ago.
industries  are  uni­
Reports  from 
some 
formly  favorable 
branches  of  textiles. 
Increasing  ex­
pansion  of  railway  business  is  bring­
ing  many  orders  for  rails  and  other 
equipment  and  all  lines  of  iron  and 
steel  production  are  on  the  increase. 
The  approach  of  winter  is  bringing 
a  more  favorable  condition 
in  the 
labor  market.  There  are  more  than 
usually  favorable  reports 
the 
textiles  field,  demand,  especially  for 
woolen  goods,  being  good,  but 
the 
cost  of  raw  materials  is  not  yet  sat­
isfactory. 
In  cotton  there  is  yet the 
unsettled  condition  of  the  market for 
the  staple  and  resumption  of  Fall 
River  operatives  is  slow.  Footwear 
orders  are  abundant,  but  the  cost  of 
hides, 
stockyards 
the 
strikes,  is  still  increasing.

except 

owing 

from 

to 

in 

After  being  idle  a  very  long  time 
the  mills  of  Fall  River  are  starting 
up  and  some  of  them  are  doing  a 
good  deal  of  work.  The  strikers, al­
though  they  have  had  considerable 
outside  help,  have  still  suffered  griev­
ously  from  lack  of  work  and  wages. 
To  many  the  hardship  has  been  very 
severe. 
Some  have  gone  to  other 
places  and  found  work.  The  pre­
diction  is  that  before  Christmas  the 
mills  will  practically  be  running again 
as  they  were  before  the  strike  and 
without  any  advance 
in  pay.  The 
closing  of  the  great  Fall  River  mills 
has  prevented  a  large  amount  of  cloth 
from  being  thrown  upon  the  market, 
still  further  to  depress  it.

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

« p   W i n d o w  
^   T r i m m i n g   J |

Holiday  Window  Exhibits  and  One  ' 

of  Different  Character.

If  one  had  kept  no  definite  track 
of  the  calendar  he  could  tell  that 
Christmas  is  approaching  by 
the 
placards  in  the  windows,  as  nearly 
every  store  in  town  has  from  one 
to  half  a  dozen  cards  calling  atten­
tion  to  its  goods  as  appropriate  for 
presents  useful  or  otherwise.

*  *  *

Some  of  the  shoe  stores  have  a 
window  almost  wholly  devoted 
to 
slippers.  Witness  Mayhew’s  display 
in  the  window  nearer  the  Morton 
House.  Here  is  housewear  for  all 
ages  of  boys— from  young  boys  5 
years  old  up  to.  old  boys  70  years 
old.  Next  to  a  child’s  red  slipper re­
poses  a  black  one  big  enough  for  the 
man  whose  domain  Jack  the  Giant 
Killer  started  out  to  investigate.  ’Tis 
a  whale  of  a  slipper. 
I  don’t  remem­
ber  ever  to  have  seen  a  foot  large 
enough  to  wear  it.

Slippers  are  always  practical,  sen­
sible  presents  and  a  man’s  family are 
reasonably  certain  to  include  those in 
the  gifts  for  Paterfamilias  if  he  needs 
— or  soon  will  need— a  new  pair.  Of 
course  a  clerk  sells  such  goods  know­
ing  full  well  that  half  of  them  will  be 
likely  not  to  fit  the  recipient  and  he  j 
will  have  the  work  of  adjusting  mat­
ters  before  New  Year’s  rolls  around. 
But,  then,  there  was  no  fitting  to  be 
done  at  the  time  of  purchase,  so 
things  even  themselves  up.

Mayhew’s  has  a  sidewalk  show case 
filled  with  woolen  slippers  of  various 
sorts,  bearing  this  suggestion:

Warm
Wooley
Woolens.

Shoes  to  walk  in 

or  sleep  in.

You  would  find 

Them  very  comfortable 

These  cold  nights.

If  the  store’s  card  writer  had  put 
a  little  more  time  on  the  lettering  of 
the  above  he  would  have  spelled  the 
second  word  “woolly.”

The  western  Mayhew  window  dis­
plays  a  sample  of  ladies’  shoes  of 
dozens  of  varieties.  These,  also,  like 
the  slippers  opposite,  are  of  all  sizes, 
from  those  scarcely  large  enough  for 
a  good  sized  doll  to  big  mannish- 
looking  shoes  for  the  athletic  girl 
of  the  period.

Buttoned  shoes  are  once  more  hav­
ing  their  innings,  and  right  good  they 
seem  for  a  change. 
It  will  be  hard 
to  get  used  to  them  once  more,  but 
dealers  are  pushing  them  for  all  they 
are  worth  and  it  won’t  be  long  before 
we  shall  see  as  many  of  them  as  of 
the  laced.

With  the  ladies’  shoes  goes 

this 

short  announcement:
Shoes
for

all  ages.
*  *  *

At  Christmas  time  people  are  going 
to  indulge  in  the  purchase  of  dain­

tier  articles  for  gifts  for  friends  or 
relatives  than  at  any  other  season of 
the  year.  Steketee  has  borne  this in 
mind  and  carried  out  the  idea  in  the 
arrangement  of  the  east  window.  In 
it,  among  other  delicate  things,  are 
a  number  of  the  frailest  of  long -wide 
chiffon  scarfs,  also  several  of 
the 
finest  crepe  de  chine.  Some  of  these  I 
have  roses  printed  on  the  ends  and 
some  have  embroidery  at  the  hem. 
They  require  the  most  careful  han­
dling  on  the  part  of 
the  wearer. 
Rough  usage  would  mean  their  ruin. 
Some  could  wear  them  a 
lifetime, 
while  a  single  evening  would  perish 
them  in  the  hands  of others.

Of  interest  to  every  one— and  es­
pecially  so  to  zoologists,  hunters and 
others  who  love  to  study  the  habits 
of  animals— is  a  large  block  of  wood 
in  Steketee’s  fur  exhibit  section.  This 
block  is  in  the  shape  of  a  tree  trunk 
almost  gnawed  in  two,  the  work  of 
beavers.  The  top  chunk  hangs  at 
an  angle  of  45  degrees  to  the  lower 
and  larger  piece,  and  it  looks  as  if 
at  any  moment  the  top  would 
fall 
off.  The  bark  has  been  almost  com­
pletely  removed  and 
the.  separate 
pieces  have  each  been  gnawed  away 
until  they  are  cone  shaped,  joined  at 
the  apices. 
If  some  humans  possess­
ed  an  iota  of  the  patience  here  shown 
by  these  rodents  life  with  them would 
be  a  most  pronounced  success.

One  naturally  reads  the  card  which 
rests  near  the  demolished  tree  trunk: 

Stump  of  an  ash  tree 

cut  by  beavers, 

found  on  the  west  branch 

of  the

Manistique  River,  Schoolcraft  Coun­

ty,  Michigan,

November  24th,  1904, 

by

John  M.  Steketee.

*  *  *

When  such  devices  as  this  are  util­
ized  by  city  storekeepers  to  attract 
attention  it  does  seem  strange  that 
more  country  dealers  do  not  resort to 
similar  methods.  Every  one  of 
the 
latter  must  possess  some  queer  relic 
or  perhaps  freak  of  nature— or  if  he 
has  them  not  in  his  own  home  he 
knows  some  one  on  whom  he  could 
draw  for  such— and  always  occasions 
arise  when  such  objects  are  peculiar­
ly  apropos.  Then  his  name  is  sure 
to  be  mentioned  in  the  same  breath 
and  he  gets  advertising  for  just  the 
same  as  nothing.

stock— for 

Then,  too,  so  many  attractive  con­
from 
ceits  may  be  manufactured 
everyday  articles  in 
in­
stance,  soap.  If  Muir’s  arrangement of 
common  Castile  soap  is  in  the  west 
window  next  time  the  general  dealer 
visits  Grand  Rapids  let  him  take  the 
time  and  trouble  to  hunt 
it  up—  
northeast  corner  Monroe  and  Ottawa 
streets— and  take  a  hint  from  the  in­
genious  presentation.  Oblong  bars 
of  white  Castile  soap,  long  strips  of 
paper  marked  like  a  railroad 
track, 
some  drug­
half-staves  from  kegs, 
gists’  twine,  a  few  little  sticks, 
a 
small  pasteboard  car,  a  frog  or  two, 
and,  lo  and  behold,  a  long  viaduct  is 
formed  with  a  railroad  underneath.

What  could  be  simpler?  And  any 
small  boy  with  gumption  can  con­
struct 
exhibit— probably

such 

an 

could  be  secured  for  just  the  honor 
of  having  his  name  attached  to  the 
work,  and  would  consider 
it  mere 
fun!  ■

Live  up  to  your  opportunities— get 

out  of  a  rut.  Make  the  most  ordi- ^ 
nary  goods  in  your  store  show  off in 
your  windows  in  some  extraordinary 
way  not  likely  to  be  thought  of  by 
your  competitor  and  you  will  get 
your  store  talked  about  without in­
curring  any  extra  expense.

In  a  word  be  different  from  your 

neighbors.

for 

Review  of  the  Hardware  Market. 
General  Hardware— The  constant­
general 
ly  improving  demand 
hardware  is  resulting  in  the  establish­
ment  of  higher  prices  for  heavy  and 
shelf  goods  which  are  naturally  af­
fected  by  the  increased  cost  of  iron, 
steel  and  copper.  Trade  is  unusually 
active  in  all  lines  and  the  prospects 
are  excellent  for  an 
exceptionally 
prosperous  winter  season.  The  heav­
iest  buying  among  the  domestic  job­
bers  and  retailers  is  naturally  in  the 
lines  which  have  not  yet  been  ad­
vanced  in  value,  but  which  will  sell 
at  considerably  higher  figures  within 
the  ensuing  month.  While  the  de­
mand  is  growing  in  this  country  the 
movement  of  domestic  hardware  to 
foreign  countries  is  also  assuming 
large  proportions  and  promises  to 
give  the  business  of  the  present  year 
a  commanding  position  in  the  statis­
tics  of  foreign  trade.  Despite  the  ob­
stacles  in  the  form  of  the  preferen­
tial  tariff  business  with  Canada 
is 
growing  rapidly  and  trade  with  South 
American 
increasing 
daily.

countries 

is 

Wire  Products— Although  the  re­
cent  advances  in  the  prices  of  wire 
nails  and  other  wire  products  excit­
ed  considerable  comment  at  the  time 
they  were  made,  it  is  generally  under­
similar  ad­
stood  that  these  and 
vances  recently  announced  by 
the 
various  manufacturers  are  of  minor 
importance  compared  with  those that 
will  be  made  before  Jan.  1.  Among 
the  most 
of 
prices  recently  made  are  the  advances 
of  $3  per  ton  or  15  per  cent,  per  hun­
dredweight  in  the  quotations  on  gal­
vanized  sheet  steel,  the  advance  of 
$2  per  ton  in  black  sheet  steel  and 
the  advance  of  7r/ic  in  copper  rivets, 
burrs,  brass  shoe  nails 
and  other 
brass  goods.

important 

revisions 

Winter  Goods— The  strictly  cold 
weather 
lines  are  the  most  active 
at  present,  and  big  orders  are  being 
filled  daily  in  sleds,  skates  and  snow 
shovels.  Business  in  builders’  hard­
ware,  registers,  stoves,  furnaces  and 
other  accessories  has  been  record- 
breaking  for  the  past  month  and  con­
tinues  heavy  owing  to  the  continu­
ance  of  favorable  building  weather 
and  the  increasing  prosperity  of  ag­
ricultural  communities.

Pig 

Iron— Founders,  pipe,  stove 
and  steel  makers  have  placed  many 
orders  for  various  grades  of  pig  iron 
within  the  past  few  days,  aggregating 
more  than  200,000  tons,  and  as  their 
requirements  for  the  next  half  year 
are  only  partially  covered  the  present 
activity  is 
continue 
throughout  the  winter  and  well  into

expected 

to 

the  spring  of  next  year.  The  demand 
for  many  of  the  low  silicon  and forge 
grades  has  reached  such  enormous 
proportions  that  the  available  supply 
of  the^e  brands  is  almost  exhausted, 
and  exorbitant  prices  are  obtained 
by  all  producers  who  are  able 
to 
book  contracts  for  deliveries  within 
the  first  quarter  of  1905.  Bessemer 
iron  is  also  being  purchased  freely, 
although  the  bulk  of  the  business  is 
in  basic  foundry  grades.  The  Re­
public  Iron  &  Steel  Co.  made  one  of 
the  largest  recent  purchases  of  Bes­
semer  last  week,  amounting  to  25,000
tons.

cover  prospective 

Steel— Convinced  that  prices 

of 
steel  plates  will  be  advanced  about 
$2  per  ton  at  the  expected  meeting 
of  the  pool  on  Dec.  20,  pressed  steel 
car  and  shipbuilding  manufacturers 
continue  to 
re­
quirements  in  this  class  of  finished 
steel  at  prevailing  figures.  The  plac­
ing  of many  contracts  for  bridges  and 
new  buildings  is  also  leading  to  a big 
volume  of  business  in  all  kinds  of 
structural  material,  which 
is  still 
quoted  at  premiums  of  $i@2  per  ton. 
As  it  is  a  foregone  conclusion  that the 
official  price  of  standard  steel  rails 
will  be  maintained  at  $28  per  ton  the 
interest  of  the  trade  is  now  centered 
in  the  extent  of  the  advance  which 
will  be  made  in  the  values  of  other 
lines  of  steel  products. 
In  view  of 
the  advance  of  $3  per  ton  recently 
made  in  the  prices  of  the  iron  bars 
produced  by  the  Republic  Iron  & 
Steel  Co.,  it  is  likely  that  there  will 
be  a  readjustment  in  the  prices  of 
both  iron  and  steel  bars  in  order  to 
re-establish  the  parity  formerly  exist­
ing  in  quotations.  An  active  demand 
is  also  noted  in  track  supplies,  includ­
ing  splice  and  angle  bars,  spikes  and 
bolts.  The  largest  railroads  are  now 
lines 
covering  their  needs  in  these 
for  1905  and  are  also  planning 
to 
place  heavy  orders  for  standard  rails 
as  soon  as  the  official  price  is  an­
nounced.  The  requirements  of  all 
the  roads  in  the  ensuing year  are  esti­
mated  at  3,000,000  tons  of  Bessemer 
rails,  $40,000,000  worth  of  steel freight 
cars  and  about  $80,000  worth  of  new 
steel  and  iron  bridges.
Copper— The  decided 

increase 

for 

continue 

in 
the  domestic  demand,  which  is  now 
reaching  a  magnitude  almost  equal 
to  that  of  the  European  and  Oriental 
manufacturers,  has  caused  a  further 
stiffening  of  the  market  for  American 
copper  within  the  past  few  days, and 
unless  there  is  an  unexpected  dimin­
ution  in  the  present  volume  of  orders 
the  present  upward  movement  of 
values  will 
several 
months,  until  the  17c  mark  is  again 
reached.  So  large  are  the  require­
ments  of  the 
equipment 
makers  and  brass  founders  in  this 
country  that  producers  are  now  com­
pelled  to  curtail  the  size  of  their  for­
eign  business  in  order  to  fill  home 
needs  before  seeking  another  outlet 
for  their  output.  As  many  of 
the 
contracts  with  the  Chinese  and  Euro­
pean  consumers  were  made  several 
months  ago  the  tonnages  pledged  to 
these  purchasers  will  not  be  reduced, 
but  the  volume  of  orders  to  be  book­
ed  in  future  with  these  foreign  deal­
ers  will  be 
smaller.

considerably 

electrical 

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W ATCH  IT  GROW

Our  New  Home

WORDEN  GROCER.  COMPANY

Corner  Island  and  Ottawa  Streets

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

IT   A round  T l 
g  T h e  S t a t e   ^

Movements  of  Merchants.

Rapid  City—Joseph  Ruttan  has 

opened  a  new  meat  market.

Hartford— Simpson,  Martin  & Ford 

have  opened  a  new  meat  market.

Mt.  Pleasant—The  Peak  Grocery 

Co.  is  closing  out  its  grocery  stock.

Hersey— Charles  Magher  succeeds
A.  J.  McFarlane  in  the  meat  business.
Gaylord— A.  J.  Smith,  merchant 
tailor,  is  to  succeed  Alfred  A.  Ed­
gar.

Ishpeming—J.  A.  Voelker  has 
opened  a  bazaar  stock  in  the  Gylling 
block.

South  Boardman— Frank  Labar has 
sold  his  meat  market  to  Mrs.  R.  M. 
Doherty.

Breckenridge— E.  O.  Sperry  has 
purchased  the  B.  H.  Thompson jewel­
ry  stock.

Muskegon— C.  S.  Ensinger  has 
opened  a  notion  store  at  96  W.  West­
ern  avenue.

Newberry— A.  E.  Lafkas  has  open­
ed  a  confectionery  store  in  the  Ros­
enthal  building.

Cheboygan— L.  Sheik  will 

close 
out  his  jewelry  stock  and  remove to 
Portland,  Oregon.

Henderson— A.  T.  Baker  succeeds 
Milo  Crane  as  Secretary  of  the  Hen­
derson  Butter  Co.

Clio— Will  G.  Goodrich  is  to  con­
tinue  the  grocery  business  of  Good­
rich  &  Armstrong.

Greenville— J.  T.  Ridley  will  short­
ly  begin  the  work  of  rebuilding  his 
egg  and  poultry  warehouse.

Greenville— Frank  S.  Gibson  has 
purchased  the  furniture  and  crockery 
stock  of  W.  G.  Nelson  &  Co.

Pomona— E.  Maine  has  purchased 
the  general  stock  of  Crandall  &  Cran­
dall  and  has  taken  possession.

Holland— Notaras  &  Spero  will 
the 

open  a  confectionary  store  in 
Slagh  &  Zuidewind  building.

Traverse  City— Peter  Schneider has 
opened  a  meat  market  at  the  corner 
of  Union  and  Fourteenth  streets.

Saginaw— Wm.  F.  Schaper,  who 
formerly  conducted  a  meat  market, 
is  to  be  succeeded  by  Peters  Bros.

Bay  City— Robert  C.  Bialy,  dealer 
in  hardware  and  paints,  is  to  be  suc­
ceeded  by  the  Bialy  Hardware  Co.

Kalkaska— C.  Lannin  has  purchas­
candy 

ed  the  Ketzbeck  &  Clapp 
kitchen  and  has  taken  possession.

Port  Huron— C.  E.  Mudford  will 
open  a  retail  cigar  store  in  the  store 
now  occupied  by  Miller’s  coal  office 
on  Huron  avenue.

Spring  Lake— John  A.  Bolt  has pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  Kos- 
ter  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Lakeview— Sheriff-elect  J.  W.  Gaf- 
field  has  sold  his  half  interest  in  the 
grocery  and  meat  business  of  Robin­
son  &  Gaffield  to  J.  Bretz.

St.  Clair— The  L.  Goldstein  dry 
goods  stock  will  be  sold  at  public 
auction  at  2:30  p.  m.,  Dec.  13,  by  or­
der  of  the  Referee  in  Bankruptcy.

Ann  Arbor— Michael  Staebler  is to 
be  succeeded  in  the  hotel  business  by 
Staebler  &  Johnson,  who  will  carry  a 
line  of  implements,  coal  and  bicycles.
Paris— C.  B.  Fuqua  has  purchased 
the  Wm.  E.  Dockry  drug  stock,  at 
Big  Rapids,  and  removed  it  to  this 
place,  where  he  has  resumed  busi­
ness.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— M.  J.  Weaver has 
sold  the  Peck  confectionery  store on 
Ashmun  street  to  W.  B.  Sprague,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
stand.

Mackinaw  City— G.  M.  Harris  has 
purchased  the  dry  goods,  clothing 
and  shoe  stock  of D.  W.  Willetts  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

St.  Johns— W .  J.  Gonderman,  of 
Loraine,  Ohio, 
formerly  of  Flint, 
has  purchased  the  New  York  Racket 
store  and  moved  an  additional  stock 
of  goods  here.

Chatham— Alfred  Olson  and  R.  J. 
Burrows,  of  Munising,  have  purchas­
ed  the  J.  H.  Gatiss  store  building 
here  and  will  engage  in  the  drug  and 
general  merchandise  business.

Detroit— C.  W.  Restrick,  the  well- 
known  lumber  dealer,  has  purchased 
ground  east  of  Russell  street 
and 
north  of  the  Michigan  Central  Rail­
road,  to  be  utilized  for  a  new  lumber 
yard.

Northport— H.  E.  Gill  has  sold his 
groceries,  crockery  and 
to 
Kehl  Bros,  and  will  go  out  of  those 
lines  entirely  and  devote  his  time  to 
his  other  mercantile 
lines  and  his 
produce  business.

stoves 

Lowell— Chas.  H.  Alexander  and 
Frank  G.  Taylor  have  retired  from 
the  grocery  and  produce 
firm  of 
Chas.  McCarty  &  Co.  The  business 
will  be  continued  by  the  remaining 
partner  under  the  style  of  Chas. Mc­
Carty.

Holland— The  firm  of  Slagh  & 
Brink  has  dissolved  partnership.  Mr. 
Brink  will  take  the  stock  of  books 
and  move  into  the  DenHerder  build­
ing  on  River  street  and  Mr.  Slagh 
will  continue  in  the  paint  and  wall 
paper  business  at  the  old  stand.

Manistique— E.  N.  Orr  will  enlarge 
the  room  now  occupied  by  his  drug 
store  by  utilizing  space  which  will be 
left  by  the  First  National  Bank  when 
the  new  bank  building  on  the  corner 
of  Cedar  and  Walnut'  streets  is  ready 
for  occupancy. 
In  carrying  out  this 
plan  almost  a  third  more  room  will 
be  secured.

Port  Huron— The  Pingree  Shoe 
Co.,  on  behalf  of  itself  and  two  other 
firms,  with  alleged  claims  aggregat­
ing  $2,000,  has  filed  a  petition  in  the 
United  States  District  Court  to  have
B.  C.  Farrand,  the  Water  street  shoe 
dealer,  adjudged  a  bankrupt.  Chas. 
B.  Sawyer  has  been  appointed  receiv­
er  on  a  $12,000  bond.

Traverse  City— Frank  Gannett  has 
sold  his  interest  in  the  Johnson Drug 
Co.  to  W.  T.  Roxburgh,  manager  of 
the  store.  Mr.  Gannett  will 
retire 
from  the  drug  business.  He  has  re­
turned  from  Chicago,  where  he  com­
pleted  arrangements  to  take  the  man­
agement  of  the  Midland  Accident As­
sociation  for  Northern  Michigan, with 
headquarters  in  this  city.

Flint— The  furniture  stock  of  B. F. 
Cotharin  at  522  South  Saginaw street 
has  been  purchased  by  H.  W.  Wat­
son,  Jas.  Martin  and  W.  J.  Pegg,  all 
of  this  city,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  old  stand  under  the 
firm  name  of  the  People’s  Furniture 
Co.  The  business  will  be  carried  on 
under  the  personal  direction  of  Mr. 
Pegg,  who  has  had  thirty-five  years 
of  actual  experience  in  the  furniture 
line.

Pontiac— O.  H.  Pike  has  disposed 
of  his  grocery  business  on  South 
Saginaw  street  to  O.  E.  Pike,  and 
hereafter  the  store  will  be  known 
as  The  Strand.  Mr.  Pike  was 
formerly  senior member  of  the  firm of 
Pike  &  Aldrich,  which  established the 
business  at  77  South  Saginaw  street. 
Mr.  Aldrich  later  retired  and  the  busi­
ness  has  since  been  conducted  by 
Mr.  Pike  who  now  retires  because  of 
failing  health  in  favor  of  his  son.

Pontiac— Ike  Walters,  who  former­
ly  conducted  the  Huron  street  meat 
market,  has  purchased  the  W.  A.  Lin- 
abury  market  at  7  South  Saginaw 
street  and  is  now  in  possession.  A 
short  time  ago  W.  A.  Linabury  dis­
posed  of  the  market  to  D.  E.  Windi- 
ate,  Mr.  Linabury  retiring  to  devote 
his  attention  to  other  business.  Mr. 
Windiate  retained  possession  until 
this  week,  when  he  disposed  of  the 
business  to  Mr.  Walters.  The  latter 
has  long  been 
identified  with  the 
meat  business  here.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Mattawan— The  American  Fruit 
Juice  Co.  (Ltd.),  manufacturer,  has 
filed  a  chattel  mortgage  for  $2,117.

Big  Bay— The  old  mill  of  the  Big 
Bay  Lumber  Co.  was  destroyed  by 
fire  last  week.  The  flames  had  their 
origin  in  sparks  from  the  new  mill.

Frankfort— The  Frankfort  Furni­
ture  Co.  has  changed  hands,  Mr.  Nay 
having  purchased  the  interest  of  his 
partner,  W.  E.  Wilson,  and  he  will 
conduct  the  business  at  the  old  stand.
Sagola— The  Sagola  Lumber  Co. 
has  installed  air  blast  grates  in 
the 
fireboxes  in  its  boiler  room  for  the 
purpose  of  burning  green  sawdust 
and  grindings, 
thereby  saving  the 
slabs  for  market.

Alpena— Eli  Gittelson,  who  for the 
past  four  years  has  been  engaged in 
the  manufacture  of  cigars  on  Second 
ayenue,  has  sold  his  business  to  his 
brother,  Meyer  Gittelson,  who  will 
continue 
the  business  at  the  old 
stand.

South  Boardman— S.  A.  Wellman 
&  Co.,  manufacturers  of  cant  hook 
handles,  have  purchased  the  stock  of 
general  merchandise  of  O.  J.  Legg, 
who  has  given  the  purchasers  a  long­
time  lease  of  the  building,  but  will re­
main  as  head  clerk  of  the  store.

Detroit— Press  of  business  has 
caused  the  Pingree  Co.  to  prepare 
for  the  erection  of  a  temporary  two- 
story  building  adjoining  its  shoe  fac­
tory  on  Jefferson  avenue,  for  manu­
facturing  purposes.  The  site  is  that 
of  the  old  Michigan  Exchange  build­
ing.

Saginaw— The  C.  Merrill  &  Co. saw­
mill,  idle  the  past  two  years,  has been 
dismantled,  the  mill  frame  being now 
in  process  of  demolition.  The  mill

was  built  in  1880  on  the  site  of  the 
old  mill  built  in  1853.  The  machin­
ery  was  purchased  by  Wickes  Bros, 
and  was  taken  out  last  spring.

Munising— W.  H.  Acker  has  finish­
ed  cutting  his  timber  holding  at  Six­
teen  Mile  Lake,  near  this  place.  Mr. 
Acker  has  not  yet  determined  upon 
his  future  movements,  but  he  ex­
pects  to  purchase  a  tract  of  timber 
at  some  favorable  point  and  to  re­
move  the  mill  to  the  new  location.

Saginaw— Fire  destroyed  the  plant 
of  the  Berst  Manufacturing  Co.  Dec. 
1. 
It  was  a  three-story  building  on 
the  corner  of  Maple  and  Toothpick 
avenues,  and  was  used  for  the  manu­
facture  of  toothpicks  and  wooden 
butter  dishes.  The  cause  of  the  fire 
is  unknown  at  present.  The  loss  is 
estimated  at  $25,000  to  $30,000.

Ontonagon— Joseph  Atkinson  has 
sold  his  heading  and  stave  factory, 
sawmill  and  other  property  here  to 
James  Bowls,  of  Sarnia,  Ont.  The 
deal  was  closed  last  week  and  Mr. 
Bowls  has  assumed  charge.  Mr.  At­
kinson  purchased  the  plant  in  1902 
from  L.  Groesbeck  &  Son  and  great­
ly  improved  and  enlarged  it.

Cheboygan—T he  completion  of the 
Detroit  &  Mackinac  Railway,  through 
to  Cheboygan  will  result  in  that  line 
handling  a  large  quantity  of  forest 
products  north  of  this  place. 
It  will 
haul  2,500,000  feet  of  manufactured 
lumber  just  sold  here  to  Detroit  par­
ties,  and  the  company  is  figuring  on 
extending  a  branch  into  400,000,000 
feet  of  fine  hardwood  timber  tribu­
tary  to  the  road.  There  will  also  be 
from 
considerable 
other  Lake  Huron  points  over 
the 
road  during  the  winter.

shipped 

lumber 

The  scandalmonger  is  always  sure 

of  an  audience.

is 

rich 

A  GOOD  INVESTMENT
W e  have  for  sale  6,000  acres  of  land  in 
the  Upper  P eninsula  of  M ichigan.  This 
land  is  well  tim bered  w ith  red  birch,  elm. 
bass,  hemlock,  maple,  cedar  and  spruce, 
th a t  will  cut  upw ards  of  6M  to  th e  acre. 
50  per  cent,  of  tim ber  being  red  birch 
and  hemlock.  V ,»e  land 
clay 
loam,  level  and  slightly  rolling  and  con­
veniently  located  to  railroads  w ith  a  12 
cent  rate  to  Chicago  and  M ilwaukee  on 
forest  products.  R ailroads  pay  25  cents 
for  hemlock  ties  on  th e ir  right-of-w ay. 
The  copper  and  iron  m ines  consum e  vast 
quantities  of  tim ber  th a t  can  not  be  used 
in  the  m anufacture  of  lum ber.  There is 
also  a  good  m arket  for  cord  wood.  The 
price  we  ask   for  our  land  is  $10  per  acre. 
Men  who  are  inform ed  on  prices  of  tim ­
ber  lands  north  of  G rand  R apids 
and 
Saginaw   will  note  th e  difference  in  price 
per  acre,  and  we  are  able  to   obtain  a 
b etter  freight  ra te   to   Chicago  and  Mil­
waukee  than  Low er  M ichigan  points north 
of  G rand  R apids  and  Saginaw  
to 
the 
sam e  points.  W e  have 
several 
sold 
tracts  of  land  to  Southern  M ichigan  lum ­
berm en  during  th e  last  year,  and  we  can 
furnish  references  in  regard  to  our  esti­
m ates  being  correct.

C H O C O L A Y   L A N D   CO.,  L T D ., 

Marquette,  Mich.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  Ltd

Widdicomb  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Detroit Opera  house  Block,  Detroit
Good  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec- 
tum.

letters. 

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ed  very  much  by  the  Christmas  sea­
son.

Coffee— Brazilian  grades  are strong 
and  tending  higher.  Options  have 
advanced  about  30  points  and  actual 
coffee  has  moved  up  about  %c.  This 
applies,  however,  only 
to  Brazils. 
Mild  coffees  are  very  firm,  but  with­
out  change,  and  Javas  and  Mochas 
are  in  the  same  position.  The  cause 
of  the  advance  is  the  fact  that 
the 
time  for  heavy  receipts  is  over,  cou­
pled  with  anticipations  of  a  decline 
in  the  world’s  visible  supply  for  No­
vember.  Further  than  this  the  ex­
pectation  that  the  visible  supply  will 
show  a  continuous  falling  off  during 
the  balance  of  the  crop  year— seven 
months— aids  to  make  the  situation 
very  strong.  The  demand  for  coffee 
is  seasonable.

Rice— The  low  range  of  prices  has 
attracted  more  than  ordinary  atten­
tion,  as  they  afford  opportunities  for 
good  margins  and  at  the  same  time 
extend  the  volume  of  trade.  This 
increase  of  consumption  has  been 
particularly  noticeable  with 
those 
who,  in  their  distribution,  make  their 
prices  fairly  relative  to  present  cost, 
instead  of  adhering  to  the  old  scale 
established  a  decade  or 
two  ago. 
Honduras  styles  are  well  assorted 
and  the  low  prices  at  which  Japan 
sorts  are  obtainable  have  quickened 
demand.  Advices  from 
the  South 
note  fair  movement  on  the  Atlantic 
coast.  Prices  are  more 
in  accord 
with  competing  markets  and  as  a 
consequence  there  is  less  accumula­
tion  of  stock  than  at  the  same  period 
last  year.  At  New  Orleans  the  mar­
ket  is  strong  with  good  demand.

Dried  Fruits— Peaches  are  selling 
fairly  well  at  prices  that  are  still  un­
changed  in  secondary  markets.  The 
coast,  however,  is  stiffening.  Apri­
cots  are  unchanged,  but  the  fancy 
grades  are  in  better  demand  than the 
cheap.  The  demand  is  only  moder­
ate.  Seeded  raisins  are  much  quieter 
than  they  should  be  at  this  season. 
Eastern  markets  still  rule  J4 c  be­
low  the  coast  quotations.  Loose  rais­
ins  are  in  fair  demand,  but  also  rule 
below  the  coast  basis,  although  not 
J4 c  below.  Currants  are  quiet,  so  far 
as  spot  business  is  concerned.  Fu­
ture  contracts  are  now  being  filled. 
Prunes  are  in  fair  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.  There  seems  to  be 
no 
immediate 
change  except  on  30’s.

indication  of  any 

Canned  Goods— Corn  is  considered 
quite  cheap,  but  it  is  not  moving  par­
ticularly  well  at  present.  Retailers 
have  their  initial  orders  in  and  will 
not  be  in  the  market  for  large  quan­
tities  again  until  present  stocks  are 
exhausted.  Tomatoes  are  less  active 
than  they  were,  due  in  a  large  part 
to  the  past  and  the  approaching  holi­
day  season.  They  are  too  common­
place  to  attract  attention  just  now. 
Other  vegetables  show  no  change of 
importance.  Canned  pumpkin  is 
in 
good  demand.  Peas,  beans,  aspara­
gus,  etc.,  are  all  moving  in  moderate 
volume.  The  fall  pack  of  salmon has 
turned  out  better  than  expected  and 
it  is  possible  that  prices  on  some  va­
rieties— reds,  for 
instance— will  not 
be  so  high  as  predicted.  Sardines are 
firm,  but  are  moving  quite  well.

The  Grocery  Market.

it 

south 

Sugar— London  cable  advices  re­
port  beet  sugar  firm  and  rising,  with 
December  showing  an  advance  of 34d 
and  January  i}4 d up.  Cane  is  also firm 
with  little  offering.  The  American 
market  shows  a  firm  tone,  in  view  of 
the  advancing  tendency  abroad  and 
Cuban  sellers  show  a  disposition  to 
hold  for  very  firm  prices. 
In  many 
cases  it  is  reported  that  offerings of 
Cuban  sugar  for  January  shipment 
have  been  withdrawn,  but  as  Cuba has 
sold  about  all  the  sugar  she  can  con­
veniently  handle  for  January  ship­
ment,  it  is  the  general  opinion  that 
she  can  hold  back  and  await  develop­
ments.  On  the  other  hand, 
is 
pointed  out  that  most  of  the  sugar 
which  has  already  been  marketed has 
been  sold  by  moneyed  interests  on 
the  north  side  of  the  island,  while  the 
smaller  planters  on  the 
side 
have  held  off  in  anticipation  of  higher 
prices. 
In  case  of  a  break  in  the  Eu­
ropean  market  it  is  probable  that  the 
latter  interests  would  force  the  mar­
ket.  The  market  for  refined  is  dull 
and  featureless.  The  American  Sugar 
Refining  Co.’s  list  is  as  follows:
Crystal  Domino  .............................7  70
Eagle  tab le ts........................................6 65
..........................................6  10
Crushed 
Cut  loaf 
......... 
6  15
Mould  A 
........................................5  85
...........................5  7°
Eagle  powdered 
..............................................5  70
Cubes 
X X X X   powdered  ......................... 5  60
Coarse  powdered 
......................... 5  55
.............................5  45
Fruit  powdered 
Powdered  ...................................... .5  55
Eagle  fine  gran.................................... 5 45
Coarse  gran...................................   5  45
Standard  gran........................................5 45
Extra  fine  gran.................................... 5 45
Conf.  gran..............................................5 65
2-tb.  c’r’n.  fine  gran.............................5 60
2-lb.  bags  fine  gran........... ........... 5  60
5-tb.  bags  fine  gran.............................5 60
Diamond  A  .................................... 5  45
Confectioners’  A  ...........................5  30
........................... 5  20
(1)  Columbia  A 
(2)  Windsor  A 
.............................5  20
(3)  Ridgewood A .............................5 20
(4)  Phoenix  A 
.............................5  15
(5)  Empire  A 
5  to
...............  
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
ix 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 

...........................................................5 05
...........................................................5 00
.......................................................... 4 90
...4 85
4  80
.....................................................4  7°
.......................................................... 4 65
.............................................•---- 4  60
.......................................................... 4 60
........................................  
...........................................................4 60

4  60

 

 

Tea— The  tea  market  is  strong  and 
higher  grades  are  very  likely  to  go 
higher.  That  is  all  that  can  be  said 
of  the  general  condition  of  the  mar­
ket. 
in­
creased  demand  for  the  finest  grades 
of  goods,  supposedly  for  the  holiday 
trade,  although  this  is  one  of  the  sta­
ple  lines  that  are  not  usually  affect­

Some  jobbers  report  an 

Syrups  and  Molasses— There  seems 
to  be  no  longer  any  doubt  that  the 
refiners  have  effected  a  truce  and are 
going  along  together.  The  demand 
for  compound  syrup  is  fair.  Sugar 
syrup  is  in  excellent  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.  Molasses 
is  un­
changed,  but  the  demand  is 
very 
good.  Fine  goods  are  still  scarce, 
but  so-called  fine  molasses  is  quoted 
at  all  sorts  of  prices. 
It  is  impossi­
ble,  however,  to  get  any  concessions 
on  good  molasses.

Fish— The  market  is  extremely dull 
throughout.  There 
is  no  demand 
for  any  line,  and  will  be  little  or 
none  until  after  the  turn  of  the  year. 
Mackerel  shows  no  change  in  price 
and  not  much  demand.  Trade 
is 
very  dull.  Codfish,  hake  and  had­
dock  are  still  maintained  on 
the 
former  high  basis,  although  in  very 
light  demand.  Sardines  are  quoted 
at  varying  prices,  although  in  small 
demand.  The  bottom  seems  to  be 
$2.80  for  quarter  oils,  Eastport.  Lake 
fish,  whitefish,  herring,  etc.,  are  all 
very  dull  at  unchanged  prices.

the  bankruptcy 

Geo.  Bignall,  the  Corunna 

shoe 
dealer,  has  uttered  a  chattel  mortgage 
on  his  stock,  securing  creditors  to 
the  amount  of  about  $3,600.  The  cred­
itors  are  divided  into  classes,  which 
would  probably  be  construed  as  a 
violation  of 
law. 
Either  the  mortgage  must  be  dis­
charged  and  a  new  one  placed  on  rec­
ord  or  those  creditors  who  are  in 
class  3  will  throw  the 
into 
bankruptcy.  The  stock  is  claimed  to 
be  worth  about  $3,800.  Bignall  re­
serves  his  exemption,  stipulating  that 
it  be  paid  out  of  the  book  ac­
counts.

estate 

The  trustees  of  the  mortgage  ut­
tered  by  Deatsman  &  Mapes,  of  Sun- 
field,  have  sent  out  checks  represent­
ing  20  per  cent,  of  the  claims  secured 
under  the  mortgage.  Some  of  the 
creditors  are  reported  to  have 
re­
turned 
the  checks  and  others  are 
holding  them  for  developments.

Nearly  all  the  creditors  of  the  Far­
rell  &  Host  Co.  have  agreed  to  ac­
cept  the  30  per  cent,  settlement  offer­
ed  by  the  members  of  the  company. 
If  the  acceptances  of  all  are  secured 
by  Friday  of  this  week  the  public 
sale  advertised  for  that  date  will  be 
rendered  unnecessary.

Gaylord— J.  Lee  Morford  has  sold 
an  interest  in  his  furniture  and  un­
dertaking  stock  to  Arthur  W.  Green.
A.  D.  Fisher  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  445  Lyon  street  to  Harry 
Van  Dam.

Tiefenthal  &  Worm  have  arranged 
to  engage  in  general  trade  at  Dorr. 
The order for the  dry goods  stock has 
been  secured  by  the  Grand  Rapids 
Dry  Goods  Co.

It  is  no  use  praying  that  all 

the 
world  may  have  the  bread  of  life 
when  your  own 
life  has  about  as 
much  nourishment  in  it  as  a  brick­
bat.

Land,  this  love!— the  more  I  see 
of it the better  I  like— boarding-house 
biscuit.

Another  Deception  Practiced  by  A r­

mour  &  Co.

for 

fresh 

Thomas  A.  Reagle,  local  represen­
tative  for  Armour  &  Co.,  has  been 
soliciting  orders 
eggs, 
claiming  that  they  are  from  Kansas. 
The  price  made  is  lower  than  local 
dealers  could  offer,  being  3@5c  be­
low  the  cost  of  fresh  eggs  at 
the 
present  time.  When  the  eggs  were 
delivered  it  was  found  that  they were 
storage  eggs  and  not 
stock, 
having  been  held  so  long  that  they 
were  badly  shrunken  and  rattled  like 
peas  in  a  bladder.  The  dealers  who 
were  thus  victimized  kept  the  goods, 
as  a  rule,  but  they  were  not  up 
to 
grade  and  did  not  comply  with  the 
terms  of  sale.

fresh 

The  retail  trade  of  Michigan  has 
come  to  expect  anything  but 
fair 
treatment  at  the  hands  of  Armour  & 
Co.,  who  apparently  regard  the  re­
tailer  as  a  football,  to  be  tossed  and 
kicked  about  at  the  will  of  the  Chi­
cago  monopolists.  A  few  years  ago 
Armour  &  Co.  sent  out  a  letter  to 
their  soap  salesmen,  instructing  them 
to  cater  to  the  department  stores 
and  ignore  the  regular  retailer.  The 
Tradesman  exposed  the  fallacy  of  this 
policy  at  the  time,  and  the  elder  Ar­
mour— now  deceased— published 
a 
card  in  the  Tradesman,  disavowing 
the  stand  taken  by  his  house  on  this 
question  and  agreeing  that  the  policy 
previously  pursued  by  the  soap  de­
partment  would  be  reversed.  The 
Tradesman  evidently  was  not  circu­
lated  in  the  soap  factory  of  Armour 
&  Co.,  because  the  original  policy 
was  not  reversed,  but  pursued  more 
relentlessly  than  ever,  in  consequence 
of  which  no  self-respecting  retailer 
will  permit  any  article  bearing 
the 
Armour  name  to  remain 
on  his 
shelves.

Chattel  Mortgage  Sale.

By  virtue  of  a  chattel  mortgage, 
executed  by  the  Farrell  &  Host  Co., 
a  corporation  of  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids,  to  Peter  Doran,  Trustee,  of 
the  city  of  Grand  Rapids,  dated  at 
Grand  Rapids the  12th  day  of  Novem­
ber,  A.  D.  1904,  and  filed  in  the  office 
of  the  Clerk  of  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids  on  the  12th  day  of  November, 
in  the  year  aforesaid,  and  upon  which 
default  has  been  made,  I  have  taken 
and  shall  sell  the  property  therein 
mentioned  and  described,  to-wit:  All 
its  stock  of  merchandise,  consisting 
of  men’s,  women’s  and  children’s 
clothing,  hats  and  furnishings,  mer­
chant  tailoring  goods,  in  bulk  and  in 
course  of being made  up  into  suits, all 
store  furniture  and  fixtures,  shelving, 
counters,  one  fire-proof  safe,  and  all 
book  accounts,  notes  and  debts  due 
to  said  corporation,  all  of  which  said 
above  described  property  is  now  at 
their  store,  at  31,  33  and  35  Canal 
street,  in  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.,  at  public  auction,  at 
the 
front  door  of  their  store,  known  as 
31,  33  and  35  Canal  street,  in  the 
city  of  Grand  Rapids,  on  Friday,  the 
9th  day  of  December,  A.  D.  1904,  at 
10  o’clock  in  the  forenoon  of  said 
day. 

Peter  Doran,  Trustee.

Dated  at  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Nov. 

29.  1904.

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

tism  in  their purchases, hoping, appar­
ently,  that prices  will  be more  in  their 
favor  later  on.  This  belief  has  been 
strengthened  to  some  extent  by  cer­
tain  jobbers  and  importers  who  were 
light  buyers  in  the  early  part  of  the 
year,  not  believing  that  prices  would 
advance,  and  are  now  anxious  to  fill 
in  short  stocks.  Reports  from  the 
markets  abroad  all  point  to  a  main­
tenance  of  present  prices,  and.  as 
certain  mills  are  curtailing  their  out­
put,  owing  to  the  high  prices 
of 
yarns,  there  does  not  seem  to  be  any 
reason  for  an  accumulation  of  stock. 
Demand  from  other  countries  outside 
of  the  United  States  has  been  good, 
and  in  some  instances  better  prices 
have  been  paid  than  are  obtainable 
in  this  market.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  stocks  in  both  the  agents’  and 
jobbers’  hands  are  smaller  than  usual. 
High  prices  in  the  markets  abroad 
resulted  in  small  purchases,  and with 
a  good  spring  season  ahead  supplies 
are  not  believed  to  be  sufficient  to 
cover  all  requirements.  New  goods 
can  only  be  obtained 
at  present 
prices  and  may  mean  a  long  wait  for 
deliveries.  Fine  goods  are  well  to 
the  front  for  spring,  and  if  they  prove 
as  important  a  factor  in  the  demand 
as  present  indications  would  lead one 
to  believe,  there  is  more  than  a  pos­
sibility  of  prices  advancing.  Dress 
linens  are  considered  exceptionally 
good  property,  and  agents  have  been 
busy  making  large  deliveries  on  or- 
I  ders  placed  several  months  ago,  to 
j jobbing  houses  in  all  sections  of  the 
j country.  Retailers  have  not  as  yet 
begun  to  make  heavy  purchases  for 
the  coming  spring  and  summer  sea­
sons,  but  are  due  to  enter  the  market 
shortly.  What  is  termed  the  cutting- 
up  trade  has  placed  some  sizable  or­
ders  for  linen  dress  goods,  which  are 
now  being  made  up  into  shirt  waist 
suits  and  costumes  for  next  year.

Plushes— Are  a  very  popular  up­
holstery  fabric.  Some  grades  are  not 
especially  mohair 
in  large  supply, 
plushes.  The  demand 
for  mohair 
dress  goods  has  taken  an  unusual 
amount  of  raw  material  and  caused 
an  advance  in  prices.

Table  and  Couch  Covers— Are  a 
line  which  this  branch  of  the  trade 
find  profitable  and  the  public  to-day 
is  being  tempted  by  a  very  alluring 
display  of  fabrics  ranging  in  retail 
price  from  $i-50@5  and  above. 
In 
the  goods  Oriental  designs  and  col­
orings  are  popular.

Upholstery— Business 

in  covering 
materials  continues  quiet,  but  many 
large  manufacturers  have  other  class­
es  of  goods,  which  move  better  and 
to  which 
they  are  devoting  more 
time  at  present.  When  cotton  and 
yarn  prices  become  settled  for 
the 
season  the  manufacturer  and  jobber 
will  be  able  to  undertake  more  busi­
ness.

Rugs— Rugs  in 

tapestries,  velvet,
! Wiltons  and  Axminsters  are  continu- 
| ing  in  public  favor,  although  reports 
| from  some  localities  indicate  a  ten­
dency  to  return  to  ¿4  goods.  The 
popular  size  is  9x12  feet.  Wiltons are 
selling,  wholesale,  at  about  $30  each, 
tapestries  at  $ I 2 @ I 4 ;   velvets,  $I5@  
17-  Of  the  smaller  sizes  27x63  inches 
sell  well.  Among  the  many  lines  of

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin- j

cipal  Staples.

Ginghams— A 

change  has  been 
made  in  the  status  of  the  staple  ging­
hams  by  the  receipt  of  reorders  for 
spring  lines.  There  have  been  lines 
that  sold  well  from  the  opening  of 
the  season,  because  of  a  fresh  and 
new  tone  to  their  patterns;  but  as  a 
general  thing  the  movement  of  ging­
hams  of  all  classes  and  grades  has 
been  somewhat  below  the  average ] 
up  to  the  present  month. 
In  the 
orders  that  have  come  to  hand  re- j 
cently  the  staple  checks,  stripes  and 
plaids  in  browns,  greens,  blues  and 
blacks  have  not  been  accorded  much 
attention.  The  future  business  on 
staple  ginghams  for  the  spring  sea­
son  is  counted  on  to  absorb  the  small 
stocks  in  first  hands.  For  the  fine 
dress  ginghams,  that  range  from 
@ io^ c  at  present  market  prices, the 
demand  from  jobbers  shows  an  im­
provement  and  the  yardage  for 
the 
year  is  stated  to  be  up  to  the  average 
the 
of  recent  seasons.  A  phase  of 
business  as  now  conducted  is 
the 
large  quantity  of  goods 
that  are 
placed  on  the  market  under  various 
titles,  although  in  construction 
they 
are  ginghams.  The  mills  that  have 
made  the  greatest  departures  in  pro­
ducing  special  fabrics  have  for  several 
years  kept  their  looms  busy,  and  have 
not  felt  the  decline  in  business 
that 
mills  have  which  kept  close  to  their  ! 
old  lines.

expected 

Knit  Goods— A  majority  of  manu­
facturers  of  hosiery  and  underwear 
as  well  as  many  buyers  have  been 
disposed  to  await  the  appearance  of | 
the  Government’s  cotton  crop 
re­
port  before  accepting  or  placing  large 
orders.  This  report  is  expected  to 
Saturday  forenoon,  is 
to J 
have  a  decided  effect  upon  the  cotton  j 
and  yarn  markets.  A  Government  j 
report  indicating  a  yield  above  n,- 
500,000 bales  would  mean  lower  prices 
for  cotton  and  yarns  than  have  ruled  j 
for  the  past  month,  although  it 
is 
believed  that  a  large  crop  estimate  j 
has  been  pretty  well  discounted  on 
the  cotton  exchanges.  But  despite 
the  bearish  trend  of  the  cotton  mar­
ket,  last  week  spinners  of  cotton  were 
not 
inclined  to  make  any  general 
concessions  on  yarn  prices,  as  they 
had  not  been  convinced  by  the  pre­
liminary  ginning  reports  from 
the 
Census  Bureau  that  the  cotton  crop 
would  be  any  in  excess  of  demand 
af  prices  which  would  justify  holding 
yarns  on  the  present  basis.  Natural­
ly,  under  such  conditions  there  has 
been  a  hesitation  all  along  the  line 
from  manufacturer  to  consumer.  To 
add  to  the  hesitation  caused  by  un­
certainty  as  to  cotton  prices  reports 
are  current  that  certain  lines  of  un­
derwear  and  hosiery,  especially  the 
former,  had  been  offered  in  the  West 
at  concessions  from  the  generally  ac­
cepted  quotations  for  standard  goods.
linen 
goods  are  showing  -more  conserva­

Linens— Retail  buyers  of 

We
Do  Not 
Blame

the retail merchant for growing just a 
little bit weary  of  these  oft  repeated 
statements  of  the  salesman  and  ad. 
writer:  “I  am the largest," “I am the 
best,"  “You cannot do business with­
out me,” etc.

You  Are  The  Man  Who 

Pays  The  Bills

left to your  judgment, 
out of  a merchant with a corkscrew.

We do not want an

and  in  the  conduct  of  your  business 
some few things  at  least  ought  to  be 
order  that  we  have  to  take

Puritan  Corsets

Are all right, they are guaranteed and  they will pay  you  a  better  profit 
than any other  line  you  can  buy.  That  is  our  side  of  the  story  and 
about all there is of  it.  So  far  as  you  are  concerned  you  are the “coy 
maiden,’’ we have made the  proposal,  it’s  up  to  you  to  accept  and  be 
forever happy or reject and make it necessary for us to talk some more.

PURITAN  CORSET  CO.

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

é  

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

Collars  and  Cuffs

W e  make  it  our  special  aim  to  carry  in  stock  all  the 
staple  and  best  styles  of  linen  and  w aterproof  collars  and 
cuffs.  Do  you  need  any?

Grand  Rapids  Dry  G oods  Co.

Exclusively  Wholesale

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M erchants’  H alf  F are  Excursion  R ates  every  day  to   G rand  Rapids. 

Send  for  circular.

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small  rugs  shown  this  season  is  a 
new  line  of  what  are  called  bath  rugs 
of  a  reversible  cut  pile  fabric,  plush 
surface,  in  handsome  two-toned  ef­
fects.

Carpets— Heavy  purchases  by 

re­
tailers  from  certain  sections  o f ' the 
country  at  the  recent  auction 
sale 
have  for  the  time  being  caused  them 
to  entirely  withdraw  from  the  mar­
ket  and  until  the  goods  purchased 
have  to  some  extent  gone  into  con­
sumption,  these  retailers  will  remain 
out  of  the  market.  Others,  however, 
who  were  not  large  purchasers  have 
taken  fair  quantities  of  spring  goods 
and  judging  from  the  nature  of these 
orders  buyers  anticipate  an  advance 
in  prices  at  an  early  date.  Certain 
mills  are  reported  to  have  reduced 
their  output,  owing  to  the  high  cost 
of  raw  material  and  the  comparative­
ly  low  prices  of  carpetings,  while 
manufacturers  having  supplies  of  car­
pet  wool  on  hand  have  in  some 
in­
stances,  it  is  stated,  sold  it  to  woolen 
manufacturers  at  a  handsome  profit, 
rather  than  put  it  into  carpets.  Man­
ufacturers  of  carpet  yarns  complain 
that  although  they  have  been  com­
pelled  to  pay  heavy  advances 
for 
wool  they  have  been  unable  to  ob­
tain  a  sufficient  advance 
their 
yarns  to  cover  themselves.

for 

Recent  Trade  Changes  in  the  Hoo- 

sier  State.

Bloomington— F.  R.  Carmichael, 
druggist,  is  to  be  succeeded  by Chas. 
Boldin.

Bloomington— Luther  Brown 

is to 
carry  on  the  grocery  business  former­
ly  conducted  by  F.  M.  Fodrill.

Edwardsport— W.  Hollingworth  & 
Co.  are  to  be  succeeded  by  J.  W. 
Hedrick  &  Co.,  who  will  conduct  a 
general  store.

Indianapolis  —   The  Indianapolis 
Hardware  Co.,  wholesale  and  retail 
dealer,  has  gone  out  of  business.

Logansport— The 

Sturkin-Nelson

Cabinet  Co.  succeeds  John  A.  Stur- 
kin,  manager  of  the  novelty  works.

Rochester— H.  J.  Kistler  succeeds 

L.  C.  Kistler,  grocer.

Winslow— Elmer  Dyer  is  to  suc­
ceed  G.  W.  Brenton  in  the  grocery 
business.

Explaining  the  Decrease.

Former  Senator  George  F.  Ed­
munds  recently  visited  one  of  the 
mountain  hamlets  in  Vermont,  where 
he  had  not  been  for  many  years. 
Despite  the  fact  that  it  was  near  a 
railroad  it  appeared  not  to  have  in­
creased  in  size  or  changed  a  whit  in 
thirty  years.

“What’s  your  population  now?”  the 
local  hotel 

the 

Senator  asked  of 
keeper.

“Oh,  somewhere  between 

and  fourteen  hundred.”

twelve 

“Why,  this  place  used  to  have near­

ly  two  thousand,  didn’t  it?”

“Yep,  that’s  so. 

’Tain’t  so  big  as 

’twas.”

“Well,  I  guess  babies  aren’t  born 

here  very  frequently,  are  they?”

“Oh,  ’bout  once.”

Some  men  are  too  busy  to  make 
to 

friends  and  others  are  too  lazy 
make  enemies.

OUT  O F  W ORK.

Place  Where  Employment  Is  Always 

To  Be  Found.

Ann  Arbor,  Dec.  6— Realizing  that 
it  is  beyond  the  scope  of  the  Trades­
man  to  give  space  to  extended  discus­
sion  of  subjects  which  do  not  per­
tain  to  the  mercantile  field,  I  desire 
to  briefly  state  a  few  facts  and  add a 
few  suggestions  which  may  be  help­
ful  to  those  who  are  at  times  in  dis­
tress  through  being  unable  to  secure 
remunerative  employment.

their 

cultivate 

farms  or 

The  agricultural  press  asserts  that 
there  is  a  great  demand  through  all 
the  country  for  help  at, farm  work, 
both  in  the  field  and  in 
the  house, 
and  I  know  that  it  is  true  in  this 
part  of  Michigan.  The  young  men 
and  young  women  are 
constantly 
leaving  the  farm  to  seek  their  for­
tunes  in  the  cities,  and  farmers  are 
unable  to  secure  sufficient  help  to 
fully 
to 
properly  secure  the  crops  which  they 
succeed 
in  planting  without  help. 
Women  help  their  husbands,  fathers 
and  brothers  in  the  field,  and  in  con­
sequence  have  to  give  up  buttermak­
ing  and  send  the  milk  to  the  cream­
eries,  cheese  or  condensed  milk  fac­
tories,  and  buy  butter  for  the  fami­
ly’s  own  use.  Women  drive  the  teams 
on  the  binders,  hay  rakes,  hay  ted­
ders,  hay  loaders,  horse  forks.  They 
pick  fruit,  work  in  the  garden,  pick 
up  potatoes,  husk  corn,  fork  beans, 
load  wood  in  winter,  butcher 
help 
hogs,  milk  cows,  feed  stock  and, 
in 
fact,  do  every  kind  of  work  that  they | 
are  able  to  do  whenever  they  can 
possibly  be  spared  from  the  necessary 
housework.

is  demand  for  at 

Men  receive  from  $25  to  $28  per 
month  and  board  and  washing  on  the 
farm,  and  girls  from  $2  to  $3  per 
week  at  housework,  and  are  treated 
with  all  due  respect  and  equality. 
There 
least  ten 
girls  where  one  can  be  found  to  do 
housework.  Day 
receive 
$1.25  and  upward  per  day  and  meals. 
Many  fine  apples  have  been  left  un­
picked  this  year  because  help  was 
so  scarce  and  the  price  offered  by 
buyers  would  not  pay  for  picking  and 
hauling  to  market.

laborers 

live 

Comfortable  cottages  with  ample 
garden  spots  may  be  rented  at  $3 to 
$5  per  month,  and  with  a  cow,  a  small 
flock  of  hens,  a  garden  and  opportu­
nity  to  work  on  the  farms  many  a 
family  could 
in  comfort  who 
must  often  face  distress  in  the  cit­
ies. 
I  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  many  men  who  are  strong,  able 
and  understand  farm  work  prefer  to 
fight  for  a  chance  to  work  in 
the 
cities;  that  others  do  not  know  or 
realize  the  opportunities  which  are 
open  in  the  country  to  any  man  or 
woman  who  is  willing  to  work  for 
living  wages.

Now,  just  one  or  two  thoughts  of 
the  many  suggested  by  reading  recent 
articles  in  the  Tradesman:  The  suf­
fering  or  distress  of  women  appeals 
strongly  to  men,  but  very  few  mar­
ried  men  can  help  a  woman  in  any 
way  without  making  trouble  in  their 
own  homes.  There  is  no  use  of  dis­
cussing  why  this  is  so.  Just  let  a  man 
try  it  and  if  he  doesn’t  stir  up  a  hor­

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Lace  Curtains,  Ribbons,  Fancy 
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our  line.

net’s  nest  his-  wife  is  an  exception, 
that’s  all.

The  young  man  who  was  out  of 
his  regular  work  for 
six  months 
learned  a  valuable  lesson.  He  blam­
ed  no  one  for  his  condition,  but frank­
ly  admitted  his  own 
improvidence. 
The  woman  who  faced  starvation  for 
two  years  does  not  acknowledge  any 
fault  of  her  own,  while  cherishing 
rebellion  and  murder  in  her  heart. 
Coarse  features  may  be  so  transform­
ed  by  a  submissive, 
spirit 
that  employers  and  associates  come 
almost  entirely  to  forget  their  exist­
ence.

truthful 

Benevolent  people  who  make  care­
ful  investigation  usually  find  in  every 
case  of  distress  some  fault  or  failure 
in  the  person  which  they  will  not 
try  to  remedy, 
even  when  made 
known  to  them.  No  one  of  ordinary 
intelligence  and  physical  ability,  will­
ing  to  work,  need  be  long  out  of 
employment  in  such  times  as 
the 
present.  The  one  who  is  so  devoted 
to  some  particular  line  of  work  that 
he  distrusts  his  own  ability  to  do 
anything  else  is  deserving  of  sym­
pathy,  and  might  be  helped  by  en­
couragement  to  make  an  earnest  at­
tempt  at  whatever  opportunity  pre­
sents.  Such  a  one  was  a  printer  of 
ten  years’  experience  who  was  com­
pelled  by  ill  health  to  give  up  his 
position  as  foreman.  His  physician 
started  him  out  with  a  few  bills  to 
collect. 
In  a  short  time  he  secured 
accounts  from  several 
others  and, 
with  soliciting  subscriptions  to  pa­
pers  and  occasionally  a  few  days  at 
typesetting,  he  made  a  decent  living 
for  his  family,  kept  up  his  life  insur­
ance  and  paid  the  interest  on  indebt­

edness  on  his  little  home  for  three 
years  until  other  opportunities  came. 

Country  Merchant.

Little  Things  Count.

The  smallest  accommodation  may 
be  the  means  of  securing  a  perma­
nent  customer  for  your  store.  Little 
accommodations  are  appreciated,  and 
we  know  of  one  merchant  whose 
large  trade  in  his  juvenile  department 
is  due  in  a  large  extent  to  the  fact 
that  he  never  misses  an  opportu­
nity  to  do  little  favors  for  the  wom­
en  who  trade  there.  When,  for  in­
stance,  a  woman  comes  into  his  store 
carrying  an  armful  of  bundles,  the 
salesmen  are  instructed  to  see  that 
the  many  small  packages  are  wrap­
ped  together  in  one  large  one.  If the 
purchases  in  that  store  are  to  be 
offers  to 
delivered 
salesman 
send  the  other  packages  at 
the  same 
time. 
If  it  is  a  warm  day  the  wom­
an  is  offered  a  fan  and  a  glass  of  ice 
water,  and  under  any  circumstances 
comfortable  chairs  are  always  at 
hand.  Some  of  the  larger  stores  go 
so  far  as  to  have  a  maid  in  attend­
ance,  and  it  is  excellent  advertising. 
Think  some  of  these  things  over, 
then  go  thou  and  do  likewise.— Amer­
ican  Clothier.

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part  of  some  women  to  blush.

How  the 

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T H E   RUSSIAN  PE O PLE .

is  as 

century 

If,  as  has  been  asserted,  the  surviv­
al  of  autocracy  in  the  Europe  of  the 
twentieth 
singular 
a  phenomenon  as  would  be 
the 
browsing  of  mastodons  in  John  Ball 
Park,  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  existence  of 
that  monstrous 
anomaly  in  Russia  is  made  possible 
by  the  fact  that  the Russian peasantry 
is  still  in  the  Middle  Ages. 
It  may 
be  that  the  result  of  the  present war 
may  compel  serious  changes  in  the 
existing  Muscovite  system;  but  who­
ever  may  have  the  work  of  reorgani­
zation  in  hand  may  well  hesitate  be­
fore  he  decides  just  where  to  begin 
and  where  to  leave  off.  The  great 
mistake  made  by  the  supreme  rulers 
of  Russia  is  their  refusal  to  take  the 
steps  necessary  to  prepare  the  people 
gradually  for  the  enjoyment  of  con­
stitutional 
is  al­
ways  a  danger  that  the  hands  of  an 
absolute  government  will  be  forced 
and  that  when  the  deluge  comes  it 
w-ill  sweep  away  all  the  muniments 
of  order.  That  is  the  lesson  of  the 
Terror  in  France.  The  French  peas­
antry  had  been  brutalized  by  centur­
ies  of  repression  and  oppression,  and 
it  is  not  strange  that  it  took  a  brutal 
revenge  when  the  opportunity  came. 
Even  the  more  intelligent  classes  in 
the  French  cities  were  wholly  inex­
perienced 
self-government,  and 
were  easily  led  away  by  visionaries 
and  sanguinary  demagogues.  But the 
France  of  the  Revolution  was 
in 
many  respects  far  more  advanced 
than  the  Russia  of  to-day.

freedom.  There 

in 

“Atlas,  however, 

Russia  is  still  pre-eminently  an ag­
ricultural  country.  The  mujik— the 
Russian  peasant— says  that  brilliant 
publicist,  Calchas,  in 
the  London 
Fortnightly  Review,  is  the  Atlas  who 
bears  the  vast  orb  of  Slav  fate  upon 
his  shoulders. 
so 
far  from  being  nourished,  is  being 
slowly  bled  to  death.  The  peasants 
are  becoming  more  and  more  impov­
erished  from  year  to  year.  The  fer­
tility  of  the  soil  is  being  reduced.  The 
export  of  wheat  is  to  a  large  extent a 
forced  and  unnatural  export,  which 
creates  artificial  starvation.  Peasants, 
to  meet  the  demands  of  the  Treasury, 
and  to  finance  Imperial  policy,  from 
Crenstadt  to  Port  Arthur,  are  com­

pelled  to  sell  for  money  what  they 
should  keep  for  food.  The  consuming 
power  of  the  nation  as  a  whole  is  de­
clining  faster  than  the  population  in­
creases. 
In  other  words,  what  exists 
within  M.  de  Witte’s  prohibitive  sys­
tem  is  a  shrinking  home  market,  and 
one  which,  under  present  fiscal  condi­
tions,  must  continue  to  shrink,  and 
will  shrink  alarmingly  in  case  of  the 
disastrous  conclusion  of  the  war  in 
the  Far  East.  This  is  the  problem 
of  problems  for  Russia— to  relieve the 
peasant  from  part  of  the  weight  of 
economic  oppression  which  is  crush­
ing  him  to  the  earth— to  squeeze  less 
revenue  out  of  him,  and  to  use  more 
of  it  for  his  benefit.”

that 

insisted 

If  this  review  were  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  Czar  and  his  advisers 
they  would  enquire  how  the  military 
establishment  of  Russia 
could  be 
maintained  with  a  diminished  revenue 
when  the  existing  revenue  is  barely 
sufficient.  To  talk  about  diminishing 
revenue  just  now,  in  the  midst  of  a 
great  war,  would  seem  to  them  espe­
cially  absurd.  Russia  owes  its  rank 
and  influence  as  a  great  power  to  its 
immense  population  and  the  contin­
uity  of  its  vast  domain.  But  it  is  in 
reality  very  poor,  and  must  remain 
so  until  its  material  resources  are 
more  adequately  developed.  M.  de 
Witte  favored  a  policy  of  industrial 
development.  He 
to 
maintain  her  place  among  the  leading 
j  nations  of  the  modern  world  Russia 
must  become  a  great  industrial  and 
commercial  country.  But 
the  ad­
vance  made  in  that  direction,  while 
his  advice  prevailed,  was  soon  check­
ed  by  the  opposing  influence  of  the 
late  Minister  von  Plehve,  who  argued 
that  the  diversion  of  Russian  energy 
into  industrial  channels  would  be,  in 
effect,  an  attack  upon  the  autocratic 
system.  To  convert  a  considerable 
part  of  the  Russian  peasantry 
into 
factory  hands  would  be  to  build  up a 
dangerous  class— a  class  peculiarly 
susceptible  to  the  influence  of 
that 
revolutionary  propaganda  which  has 
made  such  alarming  headway  with 
the  proletariat  in  almost  every  other 
European  country.  At  the  same  time 
another  dangerous  class  would  be 
built  up— a  middle  class  composed of 
manufacturers  and  capitalists,  whose 
power  over  the  people  and  over  the 
source  of  the  nation’s  strength  would 
steadily  grow  until  at  last  the  nobles, 
great  and  small,  would  be  forced  into 
the  background. 
In  short,  he  believ­
ed— and  it  may  be  he  was  right— that 
industrialism,  once  introduced  on  a 
great  scale,  would  speedily  subvert 
the  whole  existing  system  of  social 
organization  and  government  in  Rus­
sia.

The  Postoffice  Department  is  now 
sending  out  its  winter  stamps.  Few 
know  that  there  is  a  difference  be­
tween  winter  stamps  and 
summer 
stamps. 
In  the  cold  months  the  gum 
on  the  stamps  is  a  little  thinner  and 
softer,  while  that  on  those  to  be 
used  during 
the  summer  and  in 
Southern  States  is  not  so  easily  af­
fected  by  heat.

Many  a  man  has  spoiled  a  good 

cook  by  marrying  her.

A   TR YIN G   TIM E.

is 

From  certain  signs  and  omens  in 
the  commerical  sky  it  is  not  difficult 
to  conclude  that  there 
squally 
weather  ahead  and  that  now  if  ever 
is  the  time  for  a  firm  hand  on 
the 
helm  and  a  watchful  eye  on  the  de­
ceitful  trade  winds. 
If  we  can  rely 
upon  the  weather  prophet  there  has 
been  growling  all  along. 
It  began 
early  and  has  been  keeping  at  it.  In 
other  presidential-election  years  busi­
ness  has  been  at  a  standstill  under 
the  plea  of  trimming  the  sails  and 
getting  the  ship  ready  for  whatever 
might  come;  but  for  the 
last  few 
months  there  has  been  nothing  of 
that.  Assurance  has  taken  the  place 
of  doubt— that  battle  was  fought  in 
the  public  mind  a  year  ago— and  with 
the  political  horizon  everywhere  clear 
there  has  been  undue  haste  in  buy­
ing  because  prices  are  on  the  rise, 
a  result  due  to  speculation  upon  ex­
pected  values.  While  there  are  too 
many  mounds 
commercial 
graveyard  to  call  for  more  than  a 
timely  caution,  there  is  great  dan­
ger  of  allowing  that  to  go  too  far. 
With  the  financial  policy  of  the  coun­
try  settled  for  the  next  four  years 
at  a  time  when  prosperity  has  be­
come  a  fixed  thing  retklessness  el­
bows  prudence  out  of  the  way  and, 
insisting  that  disaster  is  impossible, 
ignores  the  fact  that  cost  and  wages 
and  prices  have  been  too  high  and 
that  the  adjustment  needed  to  awak­
en  and  sustain  demands  proportion­
ate  to  the  supply  in  the  various  lines 
of  production  has  not  yet  been  effect­
ed.  Until  this  has  been  done  indus­
try  and  trade  will  drag  and  what­
ever  depends  upon  them  will 
find 
safety  in  conservatism.

the 

in 

safe. 

The  non-responsible  in  trade  lines 
will  laugh  at  this.  Conservatism 
in 
speculation?  Stuff  and  nonsense! 
The  two  are  as  antagonistic  as  black 
and  white  are. 
In  modern  parlance 
speculation  is  only  a  synonym  for 
poker;  and  does  a  gamester  sit  be­
hind  his  chips  with  conservatism fore­
most  in  his  mind  and  expect  to  get 
up  from  the  table  with  the  scooped 
pot  his?  Let  us  be  honest  once  in 
our  lives  and  admit  that  we  are  gam­
bling.  The  odds  are  in  our  favor. 
The  financial  confidence  of  the  coun­
try  renders  deals  in  futures  safe—  
that  is,  comparatively 
The 
crops  are  harvested.  The  prosperity 
of  the  past  four  years  is  to  continue 
four  years  longer,  business  has  al­
ready  started  off  with  a  rush,  prices 
are  rapidly  rising,  “First  come  first 
served,”  the  big  buyer  to-day  is  to­
day  the  big  seller  with  an  enormous 
profit  as  his  reward.  Shuffle  the cards 
and  hurry  up  about  it;  what  a  pity 
it  is  that  dealing  wastes  so  much 
time!  and  yet  a  leading  authority  in 
finance  says  with  a  great  deal  of earn­
estness,  “There  is  danger  in  the  hasty 
speculation”— hasty  speculation;  will 
the  reader  kindly  mind  that?— that 
has  begun  and  is  supported  rather by 
anticipations  and  an  easy  money mar­
ket  than  by  substantial  results  al­
ready  achieved  in  productive  indus­
try  and  profitable  trade. 
It  is  time 
for  keeping  the  head.

That  opinion  is  a  sound  one  and

comes  not  from  the  gambler  in  fu­
tures  but  from  the  genuine  specula­
tor.  There  is  little  or  nothing  of the 
uncertain  about  it.  Everybody  knows 
that  the  country  has  before  it  an­
other  period  of  business  activity  and 
general  prosperity;  but  it  is  not  com­
ing  with  a  rush. 
Its  progress  will be 
slow  and  sure  and  it  comes  to  stay; 
and  so  long  as  a  proper  conservatism 
is  adhered  to  financial  affairs  are  like­
ly  to  follow  one  general  direction 
towards 
expanding 
business  and  securing  better  times. 
What  the  conditions  promising  this 
prosperous  future  are  hardly  needs 
im­
recounting.  The  country  has 
mense  wealth  which  is  steadily 
in­
creasing.  There  is  a  constantly 
in­
creasing  supply  of  money.  The  crops 
are  abundant,  railroad  earnings  are 
large  and  growing  larger  and 
the 
industrial  is  moving  with  a  greater 
intensity  than  it  has  for  a  year  or 
more.  This  is  speculation  and  has  as 
little  to  do  with  gambling  as  it  has 
with  theft.

improvement, 

it 

in  the 

resumption  of  prosperity 

Such  speculation  intelligently  car­
ried  out  can  lead  to  but  one  result— 
a 
that 
promises  to  be  the  equal  of  the  great­
est  the  country  has  enjoyed;  and  that 
promised  prosperity  is  dimmed  by a 
single  shadow— a  wild 
speculation 
boom  with  the  usual  boom  effect. 
Whether  this  effect  can  be  averted 
remains  to  be  seen. 
“The  bankers 
have 
in  their  power,”  says  one 
recognized  authority,  “to  avert  the 
impending  evil.”  They,  if  they  will, 
can  discourage  and  thwart  the  spirit 
of  speculation  abroad 
land, 
while  on  the  contrary  if  they  encour­
age  this  spirit  they  will  do  much  to 
hinder  the  coming  of  prosperity  mov­
ing  this  way.  After  all,  it  may  be 
questioned  whether  the  bankers  can 
do  much  to  hinder  the  gambling  rank 
and  file  that  are  already  at 
the  front. 
There,  if  anywhere,  the  whole  matter 
rests  and  if  the  spirit  of  the  gam­
bler  prevails  the  result  of  over-spec­
ulation  can  be  looked  forward  to  with 
certainty.
There 

is  every  reason  for  confi­
dence  in  the  business  affairs  of  the 
future.  Our  food  stuffs  are  every­
where  in  demand  and  foreign  mar­
kets  are  buying  more  freely  than  ever 
of  our  manufactured  products.  There 
will  be  no  radical  departure  from  the 
sound  policies  which  have  been  large­
ly 
forwarding  the 
material 
interests  of  the  country. 
While,  however,  there  are  good  and 
sufficient  reasons  for  confidence 
in 
affairs  financial  there  is  every  reason 
for  believing  that  the  best  and  surest 
way  out  of  the  trying  time  before  us 
is  the  observance  of  a  rational  con­
servatism  which  has  been,  is,  and  will 
continue  to  be  the  leading  element 
in  all  that  pertains  to  the  affairs  of 
this  United  States.

instrumental 

in 

The  debts  of  the  nations  of 

the 
world  are  now  figured  at  $32,500,000.- 
000. 
In  1793,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Napoleonic  wars, 
they  were  but 
$2,500,000,000.  If  every  century makes 
an  equally  large  addition  the  world 
is  likely  to  become  hopelessly  insol­
vent.

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

9

MEN  W ITH   PROGRAMME.

Greatest  Need  of  the  Country  at This 

Time.

The  processes  of  the  development 
of  our  country  in  the  present  are 
not  the  processes  of  the  past.  Our 
development 
heretofore  has  been 
marked  by  century  periods.  But  our 
first  century  was  devoted  to  getting 
a  foothold  on  the  continent;  the  sec­
ond  was  used  up  in  getting  rid  of 
the  French,  and  the  third  was  occu­
pied  in  the  making  of  the  nation,  and 
now  we  are  in  the  fourth  century  of 
our  development.

We  feel  that  we  do  not  have 

to 
prove  that  we  are  the  greatest  coun­
try  in  the  world,  but,  like  the  lawyer 
in  the  story,  we  admit  it.  Hereto­
fore  we  have  been  in  the  process of 
making;  we  have  just  come  out  of 
our  youth,  and  we  are  imbued  with 
all  the  audacity  of  youth,  and  some­
times,  I  fear,  with  some  of  its  in­
discretions.  We  have  had  three  cen­
turies  of  beginnings,  and  what  we 
need  now  is  not  the  original strength, 
but  the  finished  education.

What  we  need  to-day  is  not  irregu­
lar  strength;  we  want 
tested  and 
schooled  strength.  We  have  princi­
ples  enough  and  ideals  enough;  what 
we  need  now  is  the  method  to  apply 
our  principles.  We  have  been  toler­
ably  good  mechanics,  and  we  now 
are  in  the  way  to  become  skilled  ar­
tists.  Our  task  is  to  round  off  the 
product,  to  show  it  in  its  finished 
state.

The  man  of  to-day  must  have  a 
programme.  Take  the  trust  ques­
tion,  for  instaqgp. 
If  our  efforts  are 
to  be  confined  to  “trust  busting”  we 
must  approach  the  matter  not  only 
from  the  standpoint  of  wanting  to 
wipe  out  a  thing  because  it  hinders 
us,  or  because  it  grips  us  here  and 
there.  That  is  the  essence  of  selfish­
ness,  and  we  shall  never  arrive  at 
anything  by  that  route.

That  subject,  like  all  others,  must 
be  considered  in  a  spirit  of  fairness; 
fairness  to  capital  as  well  as  to  labor. 
W e  should  no  more  seek  to  deprive 
a  man  of  his  accumulated  wealth  than 
to  deprive  the  laborer  of  the  fruits 
of  his  labor.  If  you  want  me  to  con­
sider  you  witty  I  may  ask  you  to 
make  a  joke;  if  you  want  me  to  con­
sider  you  wise  I  will  ask  for  some 
other  show  of  that  wisdom  than your 
mere  claim  to  it. 
If  we  are  groping 
to-day  we  are  groping  not  for  prin­
ciples,  but  for  a  way  to  apply  those 
principles  which  we  have  in  plenty.

It  is  not  Americanism  to  know  my 
job  better  than  you  know  yours,  but 
to  help  you  with  my  knowledge  to 
make  you  know  your  job  better.  We 
have  plenty  of  men  who  are  skilled 
and  selfish.  What  we  need  is  men 
who  are  skilled  and  patriotic.

Any  man  can  be  a  reformer. 

It  is 
easy  enough  to  get  into  the  chronic 
state  of  finding  fault  with  existing 
conditions,  but  it  is  quite  another 
thing  to  put  forth  an  applicable  rem­
edy. 
If  you  want  to  make  the  re­
former  understand  this  ask  him 
to 
frame  a  bill,  and  after  he  has  worked 
at  it  night  after  night  he  will  be 
likely  to  tell  you  that  he  knows  just 
exactly  what  he  wants,  but  he’ll  be

I  consider  that  it  is  nothing 

hanged  if  he  knows  how  to  express it.
less 
than 
immoral  for  a  man  to  advo­
cate  pulling  a  structure  down  when 
he  can  not  tell  you  what  to  put  up 
in  the  place  of  what  he  has  or  would 
destroy.

If  the  cry  so  often  heard  of  late 
that  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States  is  not  held  in  the  veneration 
and  esteem  of  years  ago  means  that 
it  is  not  interpreted  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  as  it was 
interpreted  when  the  fathers  had just 
framed  it,  then  the  critics  are  right. 
There  is  no  reason  why  it  should be 
so  interpreted.  The  constitution was 
not  made  to  fit  us  like  a  straitjacket.
In  its  elasticity  lies  its  chief  great­
ness.  There  were  blank  pages  in  it, 
into  which  could  be  written  passages 
that  would  suit  the  exigencies  of the 
day. 
It  is  constructed  like  one  of 
our  great  modern  buildings,  where 
the  nuts  and  bolts  are  so  formed  that 
they  give  sufficiently  to  the  strain 
put  upon  them.

As  Kipling  writes  in  his  story  of 
“The  Ship  That  Found  Herself,” the 
different  parts  of  the  machinery  cry 
to  each  other  to  give  just  a  little 
under  the  tremendous  pressure,  until 
finally  the  ship  sails 
a 
great  and  harmonious  whole,  with 
every  part  working  smoothly  with 
every  other  part,  because  the  con­
struction  had  been  such  as  to  allow 
it.  The  constitution  was  not  made 
to  hinder  us,  but  to  help  us. 
If  it 
were  not  so  we  would  long  ago  have 
snapped  the  cords.

into  port 

The  difficulty  of  approaching  a sub­
ject  from  the  broad  standpoint, from 
the  unselfish  view,  is  aptly  illustrated 
by  the  story  of  the  Englishman  who 
said  it  was  perfectly  absurd  for  the 
French  to  call  bread  “pain.”  He  was 
told  that  it  was  no  more  absurd  than 
for  the  English  to  call  it  “bread,”  to 
which  he  replied: 
“But  it  is  bread.”
If  we  need  one  thing  more  than 
anything  else  it  is  to  rid  ourselves of 
our  provincialism.  Local  pride 
is 
only  a  pleasant  way  of  referring  to 
local  provincialism.  I  remember some 
years  ago,  when  I  was  at  that  stage 
that  I  felt  as  if  I  had  arrived.  I  made 
my  first  trip  to  the  West,  and 
I 
found  out  there  were  few  things they 
could  not  tell  me  there  better  than 
I  could  tell  them  myself. 
I  came 
back  with  a  broader  conception  of 
Americanism.

To  rid  our  young  men  of  provin­
cialism  I  would  have  every  young 
man  of  the  North  educated  in  the 
South,  and  every  young  man  of  the 
South  educated 
I 
would  have  every  young  man  of  the 
West  educated  in  the  East,  and,  al­
though  it  is  manifestly  impossible  to 
carry  out  the  matter  to  its  conclu­
sion,  every  young  man  of  the  East 
educated  in  the  West.

the  North. 

in 

The  man  who  travels  across  the 
continent  in  an  express  train  does 
not  see  the  country  or  know  it.  He 
must  feel  the  people,  feel  the  com­
munity,  feel  the  country  to  know  it, 
and  your  so-called  traveled  man  has 
his  erudition  largely  on  the  surface. 
I  must  look  at  a  map  of  the  United 
States  every  week  to  feel  sure  that

the  Mississippi  River  is  in  the  middle 
of  the  country.  That  may  arise  from 
the  fact  that  I  have  only  crossed  it 
twice,  and  it  seems  to  me  so 
far 
away  it  is  almost  impossible  to  be- j 
lieve  the  Pacific  is  quite  as  far  from 
it  as  is  the  Atlantic.

We  to-day  are  in  the  position  of 
arriving,  and  we  will  arrive  all  the 
sooner  and  will  do  our  work  better 
when  we  are  free  from  that  provin­
cialism  which  now  mars  us.

Woodrow  Wilson.

Integrity  as  a  Credit  Basis.

If  we  may  judge  by  the  views  of 
credit  men  expressed 
in  addresses 
and  articles  written  for  publication 
the  wholesale  business  world  is  con­
stantly  becoming  more  particular 
about  credits.  Time  was  when  a  re­
tail  merchant’s  credit  was  established 
when,  having  sufficient  means  to  han­
dle  the  business  in  which  he  was  en­
gaged,  he  paid  his  bills  promptly.  If 
he  discounted  his  bills  his  credit  was 
“high.”  Enquiries  related  mainly  to 
the  amount  of  capital  and  whether  or 
not  his  obligations were discharged at 
maturity.  Thus  it  was  that  men  who 
were  disposed  to  take  undue  advan­
tage  of  a  creditor  and  pursue  a  policy 
not  strictly  in  accordance  with  honest 
teachings  were  rated  as  good  credit 
risks  merely  because  they  had  suffi­
cient  capital  and  did  not  permit  bills 
to  become  delinquent.

During  the  past  decade  a  change 
has  been  taking  place.  Capital  is  still 
the  first  consideration,  but  enquirers 
ask  not  only  as  to  the  time  when 
bills  are  paid  but  as  to  how  they  are 
paid.  Are  they  paid  in  full,  or  does 
the  merchant  make  deductions  to 
which  he  is  not  entitled?  Does  he 
make  demand  for  allowances  not due 
him?  Does  he  abide  by  the  terms  of 
contract?  Does  he  deduct  discounts 
after  the  discount  period  has  passed? 
Does  he  remit  local  checks  on  which 
heavy  collection  charges  are  assess­
ed  against  the  payee?  Year  by  year 
the  disposition  to  enquire  into  the 
dealer’s  reputation  on  these  points  is 
growing.  To  be  a  good  credit  risk 
he  must  be  right  in  these  respects.

Wholesale  factors  realize  that  their 
best  interests  require  them  to  give 
and  obtain  information  to  and  from 
each  other  and  this  sort  of  reciprocity 
is  growing  in  popularity.  The  dealer 
who  has  dealt  unfairly  with  any  of 
his  creditors 
generally I

becomes 

girl?

known  as  one  to  be  watched.  It  does 
not  always  follow  that  credit  is  ac­
tually  withheld  from  him,  although 
that  happens  to  some  well-rated  men, 
but  to  be  watched  means  to  be  re­
quired  to  pay  top  prices;  to  be  charg­
ed  prices  that  will  in  some  measure 
absorb  the  unjust  deductions  if  any 
are  made. 
It  means  to  be  ignored 
when  it  is  within  the  power  of  the 
creditor  to  put  some  of  his  customers 
“on  the  ground 
as 
stated,  it  sometimes  means  the  rejec­
tion  of  his  orders  unless  accompan­
ied  by  cash. 
It  pays  now  more  than 
ever  to  conduct  one’s  business  in  a 
strictly  honest  manner  and  to  com­
ply  with  the  provisions  of  a  contract 
when  not  in  conflict  with  one’s  statu­
tory  rights.— Farm  Implement  News.

floor.”  And, 

the 

reading 

“I’ve  been 

A  Pointer  From  “The  Simple  Life.” 
‘Simple 
Life,’ ”  said  a  man  who  employs  a 
good  many  other  men,  “and  I’ve  been 
impressed  particularly  by  what  Pas­
tor  Wagner  says  about  the  little  mat­
ter  of  responsibility  for  repairing  the 
damage  done  by 
of 
others.  These  are  his  words: 
‘Chil­
dren  indignantly  cry: 
“I  did  not 
throw  that  object  down,  and  I  shall 
not  pick  it  up!”  And  the  greater 
part  of  men  reason  in  the  same  way. 
That  is  logical.  But  it  is  not  the  sort 
of  logic  that  turns  “the  world.” ’ 

the  neglect 

in  my  day, 

“And  the  pastor  might  have  added 
a  few  remarks  about  clerks  such  as 
I’ve  employed 
if  he’d 
known  about  them. 
It’s  a  common 
failing  to  hold  the  notion  that,  be­
cause  some  other  fellow  has 
left 
something  undone,  it’s  got  to  stay 
I that  way  until  he  comes  around  to 
attend  to  it  himself.  Now  and  then 
you  see  a  man  who  likes  to  do  things 
for  the  sake  of  seeing  them  done 
I right,  no  matter  whether  it  is  in  his 
especial  line  of  duty  or  not.  When 
I you  see  a  fellow  like  that  you  see 
one  who  has  the  sort  of  logic  that 
gets  ahead  in  the  world,  whether 
it 
turns  it  or  not.  Take  my  word  for 
it.”

Not  Named  Yet.

Caller— What’s  your  name, 

little 

Little  Girl— Dorothy.
Caller— But  what’s  your  last  name? 
Little  Girl— I  don’t  know  what  it 

will  be. 

I’m  not  married  yet.

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

Piles=Fistulae  Cured

Without  Chloroform,  Knife  or  Pain

In  Bed  For  Three  Months  Before  Coming  ] 

Fam ily  Physician  Did  Not  W ant  Her  to 

Fo r  Treatment.

thought 

they  kept  m e 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
i
D ear  D octor:— 
1  suffered  w ith  protruding  and  bleed-  I 
ing  piles  betw een  15  and  20  years.  F o r  j 
th e  last  eight  years  I  followed  railroad 
office  w ork  and  I 
they  would  | 
not  bother  me  a t  th a t  kind  of  work,  but  j 
I  found 
it  m ade  no  difference.  E very  j 
tim e  I  would  ask  a  doctor  about  it  all 
the  satisfaction  I  could  get  would  be 
th a t  I  would  have  to  get  them   cu t  out,  I 
and  as  th a t  w as  a   dread  to  me,  I  kept  | 
letting  them   go  and  all  the  tim e  I  got  j 
worse.  L ast  O ctober  I  w as  taken  down 
w ith  them   and  could  not  walk.  A t  last  I 
about  the  first  of  Jan u a ry   I  had  to  go  j 
to  bed  and 
there  until  I 
M arch  seventh.  D uring  this  tim e  I  suf- 
fered  everything  and  tried  all  th e  p a t­
ent  m edicines  ever  heard  of  w ith  no  re-  > 
to   G rand  j 
lief.  On  M arch  7th  I  w ent 
R apids  and  saw   Dr.  Burleson.  Upon  ex-  | 
am ination  he  found  th a t  I  had  tw o  large 
ulcers.  He  treated  m e  w ithout  pain  and 
cured  me.  To  say  th a t  I  w as  grateful  to  j 
him   is  puttin g   it  mild. 
It  is  a   pleasure 
to   go  to  his  office,  as  his  m ethod  is  pain- 
less  and  he  is  a  gentlem an  in  every  re- 
spect.  H is  charges  are  very  reasonable 
and  he  w ants  no  pay  until  cured. 
I 
have  been  w orking  on  a  farm   all  sum m er 
and  have  not  tried  to  protect  m yself  in 
least  and  can  safely  say,  “I  am   j 
the 
cured.”
To  anyone  who  has  th e  piles,  let  me 
urge  you  to  go  to   Dr.  Burleson,  as  there 
is  no  use  in  w asting  tim e  and  money  j 
on  medicines. 

I  am .

Yours  truly,
J.  E.  HARTER,

R.  F.  D.  4.

Shelby,  Mich.,  Sept.  19,  1904.

Come.

Vermontville,  Mich.,  Sept.  18,  1904. 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:—
I  am   only  too  glad  to  do  anything  I 
can  for  you  to  show  m y  gratitu d e  for 
the  great  benefit  you  have  brought  me 
and  to  bring  others  suffering  as  I  was 
to  receive  th e  sam e  relief.
I  have  suffered  w ith  piles  for  about 
eight  years  and  have  a t  intervals  of  a 
week  or  ten  days  been  unable  to  leave 
my  bed,  and  suffered  intensely.  W ith ­
out  exaggeration  I  have  used  a t  least  50 
boxes  of  “Pyram id  Pile  C ure,”  as  well 
as  num erous  other  “cure-alls,”  w ithout 
receiving  perm anent  relief.  A t  last  there 
was  no  relief  for  m e  except  through  an 
operation. 
I  had  often  seen  your  adver­
tisem ent  and  in  fact  had  w ritten   you  and 
received  one  of  your  little  books  of  te sti­
m onials.  etc.,  but  your  claim s  and  cures 
seemed  so  impossible  th a t  I  could  hardly 
credit  it.  My  brother,  however,  who 
was  aw ay  from  home  and  w as  sen t  for, 
being  obliged  to  w ait  in  G rand  Rapids 
for  some  time,  im proved  th e  opportunity 
to  call  on  you,  and  w as  very  favorably 
im pressed  by  you  and  cam e  home  w ith 
the  determ ination  th a t  I  go  to  you  for 
treatm en t 
immediately.  Therefore,  on 
the  first  of  May,  last,  ag ain st  the  advice 
of  my  physician  and  all  my  friends  I 
w ent  to  G rand  R apids  and  took  the  first 
of  19  daily  treatm ents.  T he  relief  was 
im m ediate,  as  from   th e  first  I   did  not 
suffer  one-half  w hat 
had 
suffered 
nearly  every  hour  of  th e 
three  weeks 
preceding,  and  from   th e  fifth  treatm en t 
on  I  felt  m ore  com fortable  than  I  had 
for  the  g reater  p a rt  of  the  tim e  in  eight 
years,  and  fa r  from   being  painful,  the 
treatm en ts  w ere  actually 
I 
have  had  no  recurrences  of  th e  trouble

soothing. 

I 

| 

. 

. 

Bad  Case  Cured  in  Tw o  Treatments. 
Ionia,  Mich.,  Oct.  20,  1904.

G rand  Rapids.  Mich.
, 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
My  D ear  Sir: 
, __
W ith  reference  to  your  treatm ent  roi 
rectal  diseases,  will  say  th a t  a  m em ber 
of  my  fam ily  w as  afflicted  w ith  a  very 
severe  case  of  protruding  piles 
for  a 
num ber  of  years  and  suffered  intensely. 
All  kinds  of  medicine  and  several  doc- 
to is  were  tried,  but  to  no  avail.  We 
heard  of  your  «rood  work  in  curing-  such 
cases,  and  w ithout  the  adm inistration  of 
anaesthetics,  and  we  decided  we  would  j 
try   your  new  painless  dissolvent  tre a t­
m ent.  This  was  done  with  some  m is­
givings,  but  we  are  now  very  thankful 
th a t  we  did,  for  after  tw o  of  your  tre a t­
the 
m ents 
patient  is  in  b etter  health  th an   before 
in  years. 
,
I  never  lose  an  opportunity  to  speak 
a   good  word  for  you  and  your  tre a t­
m ent,  and  will  gladly  answ er  any  in ­
quiry. 

th e  piles  are  all  gone  and 

Yours  very  truly,

treatin g   me  for  piles. 

H ERBERT  W.  EVEREST.
Could  Not  W alk.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:—
W ords  cannot  express  my  appreciation 
of  your  kindness  to  me.  and  your  skill 
I  had  been 
in 
troubled  for  12  years  and  for  the  past 
few  years  had  suffered  all 
the  time.  I 
could  not  work  or  even  walk  w ithout  my  | 
piles  coming  out. 
I  bad  driven  team   for 
the  past  few  w inters  and  m any  a  day 
when  the  w eather  was  below  zero  I  had 
to  lie  on  m y  load,  face  down,  in  order 
to  keep 
inside.  Although  I 
suffered  m uch  from   the  cold  and  nearly 
froze  to  death  m any  tim es.  I  chose  it 
as  the  lesser  of  the  tw o  evils,  for  w hen  j

.  ie  piles 

„  

. 

Brick.

Nervous  W reck  Cured  In  One  Treatment.

GOODRICH  &  STANLEY, 

M anufacturers  of  Cem ent  Blocks  and 

th e 

T raverse  City,  Mich.,  Sept.  24,  1904. 

th e 
injecting 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Sir  and  F riend:—
I  had  suffered  w ith  bleeding  and  pro­
truding  piles  for  20  years  and  they  grew 
worse  all 
tim e,  w as  operated  on 
tw ice  by 
tum ors,  which 
alm ost  took  m y  life.  U sed  all  kinds  of 
ointm ents  and  suppositories  to  no  effect. 
My  nerves  becam e  so  w recked  th a t  I  was 
obliged  to  go  out  of  business. 
In  some 
way  I  saw   Dr.  B urleson’s  advertisem ent 
and  decided  to  try   once  m ore  to  get  re­
lieved. 
I  did  not  expect  to   get  cured. 
But  I  w as  cured  w ith  one  treatm en t  and 
have  been  able  to  do  any  kind  of  hard 
work  since. 
I  would  advise  any  sufferer 
from  piles  to  go  a t  once  and  see  Dr. 
Burleson  and  not  spend  your  money  as 
I  did  for  salves  and  on  quacks. 
I  will 
gladly  answ er  any  questions  of  anyone 
w riting  me,  for  I  know  th a t  Dr.  B urle­
son  can  cure  you.

Y ours  respectfully,

E.  STANLEY, 
1119  W .  F ro n t  St.

Swindled  By  a  Quack.

I 

tried 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Rockford.  Mich.,  (R.  F.  D.  28.)  Oct.  10. 
Dr.  W illard  M.  B urleson,
D ear  D octor:—
For  years  X  w as  a   sufferer  from   pro­
truding  piles,  w hich  caused  m e  no  end 
of  suffering  and  often  incapacitated  me 
from  doing  my  work. 
to  find 
some  medicine  th a t  would  cure  me,  but 
failed.  Several  years  ago  I  w as  treated 
by  a  specialist  in  your  city,  b u t  he  only 
took  my  money  and  did  m e  no  good. 
It 
took  me  some  tim e  before  I  realized  th at 
I  had  run  up  ag ain st jl  quack,  and  then 
I  I  quit.  T his  experience  m ade  m e  sus- 
!  Dicious  and  I  w as  slow  to  try   it  again, 
j  but  I  was  finally  driven  to  do  som ething 
and  know ing  of  some  cases  th a t  you  had 
cured,  decided  to  go  to  you.  You  cured 
me  w ith  the  g reatest  ease  and  I  never 
had  a   bit  of  protrusion  a fte r  the  first 
treatm ent.
to  a   num ­
ber  of  m y  friends  and  you  have  cured 
all  of  them   as  easily  as  you  cured  me.
!  R efer  anybody  to   me,  it  alw ays  gives 
!  m e  pleasure  to  say  a   good  word  for  you.

I  have  recom m ended  you 

G ratefully,

F R E D   ZIMMERMAN.

Cured 

in  One  Treatm ent  W ithout  Pain.

P asto r’s  Study,  M.  E.  Church. 

to  do 

list.  You 

accom plished 

in  m y  case.  Really, 

C harles  H ayw ard,  P astor. 
B eaverton,  Mich.,  Oct.  11,  1904.
G rand  R apids,  Mich.

|  Dr.  W illard  M.  B urleson,
My  D ear  Dr.  B urleson:—
I  can  cheerfully  add  m y  testim onial  to 
your 
all  you 
claimed 
I 
felt  th a t  I  m ust  tak e  tim e  and  see  for 
myself  w hether  your  w ork  w as  a   suc­
cess,  but  I  m ust  confess  th a t  I  cannot 
see  any  signs  of  retu rn in g   trouble.  For 
years  I  w as  afflicted  w ith  protruding  and 
bleeding  piles,  also  a   prolapse  and  you 
cured  me  in  one  painless  treatm en t  by 
your  New  Painless  D issolvent  Method 
You  are  welcome  to   use  m y  nam e 
in 
I  any  capacity  in  w hich  it  will  do  good.
I  am   gratefully  yours, 

REV.  CHAS.  HAYWARD.

Protruding  Piles  Cured.

D r  W illard  M.  B urleson  cured  m y  wife 
of  a  very  bad  case  of  protruding  piles. 
T1 e  treatm en t  w as  painless  and  caused 
her  no  ap p aren t  discom fort.
I  hope  to  be  able  to   convince  m any  suf­
ferers  of  his  g reat  success. 
M.  JEN SE N , 
Greenville.  Mich.

__,

October  1,  1904.

Bad  Ulcer  Cured. 

.
Dr  W illard  M.  Burleson  cured  me  of 
a  very  painful  R ectal  Ulcer,  and  I  am 
pleased  to  recom m end  his  treatm en t  to 
others 
Oct.  21,  1904. 
Albion,  Mich.

MRS.  W.  E.  PORR.

Fistulae  Easily  Cured.

Sebewaing,  Mich.,  Sept.  16.  190*. 

T his  is  to  certify  th a t  I  w as  afflicted 
bout  one  year  ago  w ith  a   fistula  (a 
>rm  of  piles)  w hich  got  to   be  m ore  ana 
lore  aggravating,  so  th a t  last  spring  i 
cmsulted  Dr.  Burleson  and  consented  to 
reatm ent,  w hich  h as  given  m e  very  sat- 
sfactory  resu lts  and 
tend  him  
those  persons  sim ilarly
D i n u A D i   .  TUT A P T l N l .

I  gladly 

to 

F o r 

On  H is  W ay  to  Have  Them   Cu t  Out.
the  benefit  of  anyone  suffering 
from   piles,  I  would  like  to  recommend 
Dr.  B urleson’s  New  Painless  Dissolvent 
T reatm ent  as  being  sure,  quick,  cheap 
and  practically  painless. 
In  fact,  every- 
th in g   he  claim s  for  it.
I  had  suffered  w ith  piles  for  a  num ber  ; 
of  years,  and  as  m y  w ork  (th a t  of  dray-  j 
m an)  w as  ra th e r  hard,  thev  caused  me 
m uch  inconvenience,  becom ing  so  painful  , 
a t  last  th a t  I  starte d   for  Ann  A rbor  to  j 
be  operated  on,  b u t  w as  advised  by  a 
friend  to  stop  in  G rand  R apids  and  see 
Dr.  Burleson. 
I  did  so  and  have  been 
thankful  a   thousand  tim es  th a t  I  did._  I  . 
was  ra th e r  skeptical  a t  first,  the  th in g  
seemed  so  simple  th a t  I  could  not  be-  ; 
lieve  the  cure  could  be  perm anent.  B ut  ] 
it  is. 
I  w as  operated  on  early  in  M arch,  : 
the 
tim e  consum ed  not  being  over  an 
hour  and  th e  operation  being  practically 
painless,  and  cam e  home  and  w ent  to 
work.  My  w ork  was  unusually  h ard  the 
first  few  days  and  I  noticed  a  slight  re ­
turn  of  th e  old  trouble  and  w ent  back. 
(L et  m e  say  rig h t  here  th a t  the  doctor 
had  explained  to  m e  th a t  I  m ight  have  to 
take  a   second  treatm en t.)  The  second 
operation  did  not  occupy  m ore  than  ten 
m inutes  and  I  have  never  felt  a  trace  of 
th e  old  trouble  since.  As  th a t  was  six 
m onths  ago  and  I  have  been  lifting  hard 
and  w orking  in  all  positions  and  on  a 
wagon  from  12  to   15  hours  every  w orking 
day  since,  I  am   now  positive  th e  cure 
is  perm anent,  and  can  h eartily  recom ­
mend  it  to  anyone  suffering  from   piles.
In  addition  I  would  like  to  say  th a t 
a  patien t 
receives  m ost  kindly  and 
courteous  treatm en t  and  th a t 
th e  cost 
is  very  little  com pared  w ith  th e  bene­
fit  one  receives.

Yours  very  truly.

MARK  CRAW.

254  W ashington  St.
T raverse  City,  Mich.

Oct.  1.  1904. 

ments.

Suffered  14  Years;  Cured 

in  2  T re a t­

the 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Oct.  10,  1904. 

D ear  Doctor—D uring 

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,  City:
the  w inter  of 
taken  w ith  slight  hem or­
1890,  I  w as 
rhoids,  which  were,  I  believe,  only  a g ­
g ravated  by  th e  use  of 
so-called 
drug  store  pile  cures,  a t  any  ra te   they 
continued 
to   grow   w orse  until  I  w as 
in  such  condition  th a t  it  w as  impossible 
to   get  a   good  n ig h t’s  rest.  W ith  some 
degree  of  suspicion  I  finally  decided  as  a 
la st  reso rt  to  try   your  treatm en t,  and  I 
am   now  happy  to  state   th a t  after  tw o 
treatm ents.  I  believe  m y 
to  be 
cured.  All  suffering  from   hem orrhoids 
of  any  form   can,  I  confidently  believe,  be 
cured  by  your  method. 

case 

Yours  truly.
A.  GREEN,

Engineer  Dep’t   G.  R.  &  I.  Ry.

EVERY  CASE 

CURED

relieve 

since  and  from   m y  own  experience  as 
well  as  personal  observation  of  other 
cases  fa r  worse  th an   mine,  I  am   th o r­
th a t  you  can  do  all 
oughly  convinced 
you  claim,  while 
th e  extrem e  reason­
ableness  of  your  term s 
is  sufficient  to 
convince  anyone  th a t  you  are  w orking 
to 
the  sufferings  of  hum anity 
and  not  to  becom e  a  “Croesus.”  and  no 
one  need  h esitate  on  account  of  lack  of 
funds.
I  would  m ost  heartily  advise  anyone 
suffering  w ith  piles 
to  you  for 
treatm en t  im m ediately  and  it  will  be  a 
pleasure  to  m e  to  give  th e  particulars 
of  m y  case  and  answ er  any  inquiries  of 
anyone  desiring  inform ation. 

to   go 

I  am , 

Yours  m ost  sincerely,
MRS.  MYRAH  C.  B EN N ETT.

the  piles  were  out  they  pained  me  so  I 
could  not  stand  it,  and  bled  so  much  th a t 
it  m ade  me  very  weak. 
I  had  not  gone 
home  from  my  w ork  a   night  in  years 
w ithout  blood  in  m y  shoes  from   the  in­
fernal  piles.  No  one  who  has  not  had 
these  cursed  things  can  realize  w hat  I 
suffered.
to  you,  you  exam ined 
me  and  told  me  th a t  you  could  cure  my 
case,  and  I  am   glad  to  say  th a t  you  had 
no  trouble  in  keeping  your  word. 
I  have 
regained  my  health  and  can  now  do  more 
work  than  I  could  before  in  years,  I  feel 
very  thankful  to  you  for  your  kind  tr e a t­
m ent  and  gladly  recommend  you  to  all 
sufferers  of  rectal  trouble. 

W hen  I  w ent 

I  am.
Your  friend. 

HOMER  M ILLER, 
Sherm an  City  Mich.

Oct.  1,  1904.

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Piles  20  Years;  Cured  in  One  Treatment.
j  Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
|  D ear  D octor:—
I  cannot  than k   you  enough  for  w hat 
i  you  have  done  for  me. 
I  suffered  for 
|  tw enty  years  w ith 
th e  protruding  and 
bleeding  piles. 
I  w as  in  m isery  all  the 
i  tim e  and  could  hardly  work,  but  I  am 
i  thankful  to  say  th a t  I  am   now  well  and 
j  you  cured  me  in  one  painless  treatm ent, 
j  I  am   alw ays  pleased  to   relate  m y  ex­
perience 
to  other  sufferers  w ith  piles. 
I  had  spent  hundreds  of  dollars  for  m ed- 
I  icines  and  w ith  other  doctors,  but  got 
|  no  relief. 
I  would  not  take  a   thousand 
I  dollars  and  be  back  in  th e  condition  I 
j  w as  before  coming  to  you.
W ishing you  success  in  your good  work, 
I  am . 
Sept.  10,  1904.

WM.  BERG,

Yours  truly,

Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  R.  F.  D.

Piles  Have  No  Terrors  For  Him.

I  am   beginning 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.,

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  Doctor:—
The  piles  have  no  m ore  terrors  for  me. 
I  know  w here  I  can  get  relief  if  they 
ever  return. 
to  feel 
w hat  it  is  to  be  a   well  m an  again,  thanks 
to  you  and  your  method.
I  have  had  a  very  pleasant  summer. 
I  spent  some  tim e  in  D etroit  and  St. 
the 
Louis  and  now  I  am   teaching  in 
little  village  of  New  Era.
It  will  be  a   pleasure  to  speak  a   good 
word  for  you  whenever  possible. 
I  have 
g reat  faith  in  your  method  and  I  know 
th a t  you  are 
ju st  w hat  you  represent 
yourself 
th a t  you  will  do 
w hat  you  say  you  will  do. 

I  am.
Very  respectfully  yours.

to  be  and 

FR ED   KERR,

Shelby,  Mich.

Oct.  7. 

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

11

Don’t   ask   some  one  who  know s  no 
more  about  it  th an   you  do.  D on't  ask 
some  doctor  who  is  try in g   to   get  you 
to  subm it  to  th e  knife.  H e  is  all  one­
sided  and  can  see  nothing  b u t  th e  knife ! 
and  a  sm all  prospective  fee.  The  ex-  i 
perience  of  A.  J.  W hite,  as  told  in  his 
testim onial, 
of  i 
this.  H e  investigated  for  him self,  how ­
ever,  and  then  did  th e  only  th in g   any 
sensible  person  could  do—come 
to  me 
and  was  cured  w ithout  subm itting  to   a 
barbarious  surgical  operation.

is  a   good 

illustration 

Any  person  who  investigates  honestly 
and  carefully  would  not  thin k   of  subm it­
ting  tc  any  other  m ethod  of  treatm ent.

Guarantee

I  guarantee  to  cure  piles  and  all  other 
diseases  of  the  rectum  or  accept  no  pay 
for  my  services.  A n y   person  who  doubts 
my  ability  to  cure  need  not  pay  one  cent 
until  satisfied  that  I  have  done  all 
I 
IF  I  F A I L   T H E R E   W I L L   B E  
claimed. 
NO  C H A R G E . 
I  R E Q U I R E   N O   D E ­
PO SIT  OR  W R I T T E N   C O N T R A C T .

W rite  and  ask  any  of  the  people  whose 
testimonials  appear  here  If  m y  guarantee 
Is  not  good. 
If  your  trouble  ever  returns 
after  I  cure  you,  I  guarantee  to  cure  you 
again  free  of  charge.

T estim onials  and  References
I  have  hundreds  of  other  testim onials 
of  cured  patients  which  I  have  not  room 
to  publish  here. 
I  can  also  refer  you  to 
m any  prom inent  people  who  have  known 
me  for  years.
I  would  say  for  th e  benefit  of  out-of- 
tow n  people  th a t  I  am   a   perm anent  resi­
dent  of  G raad  Rapids  and  have  practiced 
medicine  in  th is  city  for  vears.
The  enorm ous  practice  I  enjoy  is  con­
clusive  proof  of  my  success

B ew are  of  F akes

Every  successful  institution  and  method 
have  their  im itators,  and  mine  is  no  ex­
ception  to  the  rule.  E very  day  I  hear  of 
quacks,  and  even  doctors  of  some  m erit 
right  in  this  city,  claim ing  th a t  they  have 
my  m ethod  and  can  apply 
it  ju st  as 
successfully  as  I  can
These  claim s  are  all  false,  as  I  have 
never  instructed  anyone  in  m y  method 
and  I  am  the  only  person  who  has  ever 
successfully  applied  electricity  in  the cure 
of  rectal  diseases.
The  best  proof  I  have  to  offer  of  the 
above  statem ents  is  th e  results  obtained 
by  these  im posters.  They  either  get  no 
results  at  all  o r  nearly  kill  th e  patient.
From   one  to  three  treatments  by  my 
m ethod  is  all  th a t  is  necessary  to  cure 
a   ease  of  piles. 
If  they  cannot  com plete 
a   cure  in  this  num ber  of  treatm ents,  it 
is  conclusive  proof  th a t  they are  faking.

Dr.  Burleson  is  Editorially  Praised

In  a   L ead in g  M edical  Journal  on  th e  M erits  of  His  W o rk.

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“A!l roads lead to Rome.”  This  was  trite in  the 
time of  the  Roman  Empire.  Rome  was  the  center 
of  civilization  and all  roads  led  to it.  But  we  are 
living  in  the time of American civilization  and  we 
live far differently from what they did in the Roman 
times.  Competition is greater;  die  strain  of  life  is 
more intense; social demands are more exacting and 
household cares are more trying, and from out of it 
aU  we find that all roads  of  modern  existence  lead 
but to one end.
While the fiat of life is inexorable, and from ulti­
mate death there is no escape, many  a one is sleep­
ing  the  long  sleep  under  the  leaves  to-day,  who 
would have been well and healthy had they consulted 
some  reputable  specialist,  in  chronic  diseases,  be­
fore the hour when the final breakdown came. Thou­
sands of brave men and fair women are dying to-dav 
even here in Grand Rapids, who longed for life anil 
yet did not enjoy it, and over the graves soon can be 
written the words: "Died Because They Had a Pre­
judice Against Consulting a Specialist.”
In medicine, as in everything else, it is the special­
ist who devotes his time, his energy, his  intelligence 
and  his  skill  to the  study  and  cure of  certain  dis­
eases ;  who applying to their treatment  aU the  new 
remedies, appliances and apparatus, begotten of the 
progress of the age, who succeeds, and whose cures 
of cases, given up by the family physician, border on 
the  miraculous.  All  this  being  true,  the  Chicago 
Journal  of Health  offers  no excuse  for  introducing 
to its thousands of  readers the eminent medical ex­
pert,  Dr. Willard M.  Burleson.  That  he  is master 
of  bis  profession  is  universally  admitted.  Having 
had years of training and experience in the greatest 
hospitals of  the  world,  besides being a  graduate of 
medical colleges  of  unquestioned  authority.  In his 
extended and successful treatment erf piles, the repu- 
*ation  he enjoys, not  only  with his  brethren  of the 
rofession in Grand  Rapids,  is as  flattering as  it  is

well deserved.  Dr.  Burleson has probably treated a 
greater number of patients during his residence here 
than were ever before treated by any one physician. 
His success has been phenomenal, but richly merited.
The thorough  knowledge  of  anatomy  and  thera­
peutics possessed by Mr. Burleson, acquired through 
his practical experience in the great hospitals of the 
world,  enables him to diagnose and  treat  piles  with 
greater success than those who profess to, but do not 
possess the foregoing qualities.
In the interest of suffering humanity, this editorial 
is  written.  It  is not  a paid  advertisement;  in  fact, 
Dr. Burleson was not even consulted before this was 
written.  What  we  have  said  here  has  been  called 
forth from a personal knowledge of the greatness of 
his skill and ability, and on inclination to benefit the 
thousands of  our  readers,  who may desire  to enjoy 
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WORTH  TRYINO.

stomach'.
you want to make it palatable.

Try  swallowing  saliva  when  troubled  with  sour 
Try  taking your  cod-liver oil  in  tomato  sauce  if 
If the  air  of  the  cellar  is  damp  it  may  be  thor­
oughly dried  by placing'in  it  a peck  of  fresh  lime 
in an  open box.  A  peck of  lime  will  absorb about 
seven pounds, or more than three quarts,  of  water, 
and in this way a cellar may soon be dried, even in 
the hottest weather.

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these  reports,  as  paid  advertisements  are  not  al­
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the selfish interests of anyone.

Try buttermilk for removal of freckles,  tan, and 

butternut stains._____

Bad  Case  of  Prolapsus  Cured.

On 

and  prolapsus, 

C hatsw orth,  111.,  Sept.  19,  1904.
G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  D octor:—
In  consideration  of  the  lifelong  bene­
fits  I  have  received  a t  your  hands,  I 
deem  it  no  m ore  th an   hum an  g ratitude 
to  w rite  thanking  you  for  the  services 
you  have  rendered  me,  and 
tru st  you 
m ay  be  able  to  use  this  letter  in  a   m an­
ner  th a t  will  enable  others  who  are  suf­
ferers  as  I  w as  to  secure  a  lasting  cure 
as  you  have  accom plished  in  my  case.
I  suffered  for  upw ards  of  th irty   years 
w ith  hem orrhoids 
and 
trying  suppositories  and 
lotions  of  all 
kinds,  and  being  treated   by  doctors  and 
receiving  no  perm anent  benefits,  m y state 
of  health  had  become  alm ost  unbearable 
from   intense  suffering  and  loss  of  blood. 
I  w as  unfitted  for  business  of  any  kind 
on  account  of  the  nervous  condition  into 
which  the  pain  and  inconvenience  I  had 
suffered  had  gotten  me.  Through 
th e 
kindness  of  a   m utual  friend  I  learned  of 
you  and  your  unparalled  success  in  th e 
treatm en t  of  rectal  troubles. 
the 
seventh  day  of  April  I  m anaged  to  get 
to  your  office  in  G rand  Rapids.  The  fol­
lowing  day  you  operated  upon  me.  Ten 
days  later  you  perform ed  a   second  opera­
tion,  and  w ithin  a   m onth  a fte r  th e  tim e 
of  the  first  operation  I  returned  to   my 
home  in  C hatsw orth,  cured  of  th e  te r­
rible  trouble  which  had  m ade  th e  g reater 
p a rt  of  m y  life  alm ost  a  burden  to  me.
I  am   happy  to  be  able  to  add  th a t  the 
cure  is  a  perm anent  one  and  do  not  be­
lieve  th a t  I  will  ever  again  be  annoyed 
by  the  old  trouble.
D uring  th e  tim e  I  w as  under  tre a t­
m ent  by  you,  I  m et  and  conversed  w ith 
num erous  patients  who  said  they  were 
suffering  w ith  com plaints  of  a   n atu re 
sim ilar  to  mine,  and  for  whom  you  ef­
fected  a   cure  in  m uch  less  tim e  than 
you 
the 
years  of  suffering  which  I  endured,  I 
consider  the  m onth  I  spent  under  your 
care  to   be  th e  “ best  sp en t”  m onth  of 
m y  entire  life,  as  I  am   now  enjoying  a 
state   of  health  and  freedom  from   pain 
and  Inconvenience  form erly  unknow n  to 
me.
You  are  a t  liberty  to  use  th is  letter 
in  any  m anner  you  m ay  desire  tow ards 
th e  wonderful 
letting  others  know  of 
cure  you  have  accom plished  for  me, and 
I  will  gladly  refer  any  “Doubting  T hom ­
ases”  to 
innum erable  of  m y  personal 
friends  who  are  fam iliar  w ith  th e  facts 
regarding  th e  cure  you  accom plished  for 
me. 

to  cure  me.  B ut  a fte r 

Yours  truly,

took 

JAM ES  A.  SMITH.

little 

received 

rem edies,  but 

tw o  m onths  ago 
to  quit  w ork  and  go 

Piles  10  Years  Cured  in  60  Minutes.
I  was  a  sufferer  for  m ore  th an   10  years 
case  of  protruding, 
with  a  very  bad 
I  tried  m any  of  the  so- 
bleeding  piles. 
called 
If 
any  benefit  from   them . 
I  w as  told  by 
several  physicians  th a t  th e  only  w ay  I 
could  get  relief  was  by  an  operation  and 
even  then  they  would  not  g u arantee  a 
cure.  About 
I  w as 
to  bed. 
obliged 
calling  in  the  fam ily  physician,  who  rec­
ommended  Dr.  Burleson. 
I  took  his  ad ­
vice  and  I  am   well  and  strong  again. 
Dr.  Burleson  cured  me  com pletely  with 
one 
treatm ent,  and  no  one,  except  he 
who  has  suffered  in  the  sam e  way,  knows 
w hat  a   relief  it  is  to  be  free  from   this 
painful  and  aggravating  disease.
I  gladly  recom m end  Dr.  Burleson  and 
will  gladly  answ er  any 
in ­
quiry  th a t  m ay  be  addressed  to  me.
O ctober  1,  1904. 

S  G.  PIERCE.

Alma,  Mich.

letters  of 

ment.

Piles  Many  Years;  Cured  in  One  T re a t­

Toledo,  Ohio,  Sept.  17,  1904. 

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dr.  W illard  M.  Burleson,
D ear  D octor:—
I  w as  afflicted  w ith  protruding  piles 
for  m any  years—so  m uch  so  th a t  I  had 
g reat  difficulty  a t  tim es  about  doing  m y 
work. 
tried  num erous  remedies,  but 
nothing  helped  m e  perm anently  until  I 
w ent  to  you,  m ore  th a n   a  year  ago.
I  cheerfully  recom m end  your  painless 
m ethod  of  treatm en t. 
It  h as  done  w on­
ders  for  me.  Shall  alw ays  feel  grateful 
to  you  for  th e  benefit  received.  W ish­
ing  you  success  and  again  thanking  you, 
I  am ,

I 

Yours  very  truly,

MRS.  C.  S.  FORD, 
(Form erly  of  C edar  Springs,  Mich.)

432  W estern  Ave.

Willard M. Burleson, M. D.

Rectal  Specialist.

Originator  of  the  New  Painless  Dissolv­
ent  Method  of  Treatm ent  for  the  Cure 
of  Piles  and  all  other  Diseases  of  the 
Return.

103  Monroe  St.

Charges and Terms

My  charges  are  alw ays  reasonable  and 
are  for  a   com plete,  perm anent  and  g u ar­
anteed  cure.  T he  exact  am ount  can 
only  be  determ ined  upon  a   com plete  ex­
am ination.  A ny  person  who  is  n o t  pre­
pared  to   pay  th e  entire  fee  a t  once  will 
be  allowed  to  m ake  paym ent  as  his  con­
venience  perm its.

A n y  person  who  is  too  poor  to  pay  will 
be  cured  absolutely  free  of  charge  and 
will  receive  as  careful  attention  as  though 
he  paid  the  largest  fee.  .1  w ant  no  person 
to  be  kept  from  the  benefits  of  m y  won­
derful  discovery  for  financial  reasons. 
.
W rite  any  of  th e  people  whose  te sti­
m onials  appear  here  and  ask  
if 
they  w ere  satisfied  w ith  my  charges  and 
term s.

them  

The  Method

I  cure  Piles  by  a   N EW   PA IN LESS 
DISSOLVENT  M ETHOD,  w hich 
is  my 
own  discovery,  no  other  person  using  It 
or  know ing  w hat 
it  is.  No  hazardous 
operation  of  any  kind  is  employed  and 
no  knife  or  chloroform   used.  M any  bad 
cases  are  cured 
tre a t­
m ent  and  few  cases  require  m ore  than 
tw o  weeks  for  a   com plete  cure.  The 
PA T IE N T   CAN  A TTEN D   TO  BUSINESS 
DURING  T H E   COURSE  O F  TR E A T ­
MENT.

in  one  painless 

I  have  a   booklet  explaining  my  m ethod 
m ore  fully  th an   I   can  explain  it  here, 
and  I  am   pleased  to  send  th is  booklet  to 
anyone  who  will  a sk   for  it.

Any  sufferer  solicitous  for  his  own  w el­
fare  would  not  think  of  subm itting  to 
any  other  m ethod  of  treatm en t, 
after 
investigating  m y  Painless  D issolvent 
M ethod  for 
th e  cure  of  Piles  and  all 
other  D iseases  of  th e  Rectum .

SEND  FOR  BOOKLET.  IT  CONTAINS 

MUCH  VALUABLE  INFORMATION.

How to  Find  Out

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

Dr.  Willard  M.  Burleson

Rectal  Specialist

103  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

No  Market 
Excels 
Buffalo
Predict fancy 

g S S f i f c J "  ™

 

^

chiefly  upon  the  weather  conditions 
at  this  season;  and  while  the  quanti­
ty  of  refrigerator  eggs  to  be  car­
ried  into  the  period  of  greatest  un­
certainty  will  evidently  be  less  than 
was  considered  probable  earlier 
in 
the  season,  it  is  certainly  enough to 
last  until  there  is  a  reasonable  ex­
pectation  of  getting  fair  supplies  of 
new.

Considerable  interest  is  now  being 
centered  in  the  South,  whence 
the 
first  increase  in  collections  of  fresh 
eggs 
is  naturally  expected.  Texas 
is  shipping  a  few  scattering  lots  this 
way,  but  so  far  they  have  proven 
of  poor  average  quality  and  evidently 
consist  largely  of  stale  goods. 
It  is 
nearly  time,  however,  for  some  in­
crease  in  the  lay  of  eggs  in  Texas 
and  the  production  of  that  State  is 
likely  to  be  a  factor  of  considerable 
importance  in  another  month.

There  is  evidently  a  moderate  pro­
duction  in  Tennessee  and  Kentucky, 
for  while  the  eggs  from  that  sec­
tion  are  more  or  less  badly  mixed 
some  of  them  are  beginning  to  show 
a  fair  proportion  of  new  stock.  But 
no  material  increase  can  be  expected 
from  that  section,  or 
from  other 
Southwestern  points,  until  the  holi­
days,  and  then  only  if  weather  con­
ditions  are  fairly  favorable  in 
the 
meantime.

As  the  season  approaches  when the 
Northern  markets  naturally  depend 
more  and  more  upon  receipts  from 
Southern  States  it  will  be  well  for 
Southern  collectors  to  cater  to  the 
requirements  of  our  buyers  and  put 
their  eggs  up  in  shape  to  meet  the 
wants  of  the  better  classes  of  trade. 
It  will  pay  to  candle  the  collections 
before  shipment,  keeping 
first 
grade  free  from  very  weak,  watery, 
and  badly  shrunken  eggs,  as  well  as 
from  very  small  and  dirty;  it  wilLal- 
so  pay  to  use  good,  new  No.  2  cases 
and  pack  with  care. 
If  this  is  done 
there  should  be  no  difficulty  in  get- | 
ting  top  prices.— N.  Y.  Produce  Re­
view.

the 

Failures  in  Business.

Inferior  goods  are  responsible  for 
many  failures,  because  there  are  too 
many  retailers  who  put  more  stress 
on  price  than  on  quality,  and  there­
fore  lose  the  confidence  of  consum­
ers.  They  do  not  seem  to  grasp the 
fact  that,  unless  the  food  sold  gives 
the  buyer  satisfaction,  confidence  is 
shattered  and  the  customer  does  not 
become  a  “repeater,”  and  it  is  repeat­
ers  that  a  store  needs  to  win  suc­
cess.

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

Will pay highest price F.  O.  B.  your  station.  Cases returnable.

C.  D.  CRITTENDEN,  3 N.  Ionia St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Wholesale Dealer la Butter, Eggs. Fruits and Produce 

Both Phones 1300

Distributor  in this territory for Hammell Cracker Co.,  Lansing,  Mich.

Butter,  Eggs  and  Cheese

Consignm ents  solicited.

H ighest  M arket  Prices  and  Prom pt  Returns.

HENRY  FREUDENBERG 

104  South  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Citizens Telephone,  6948;  Bell,  443 

Refer b" Permission to Peoples  Savings  Bank.

W e  are  the  larbest  distributors  of  eggs  in  this 
part  of  the  country.  W e  can  handle  all  the 
eggs  you  w ill  ship us.  W e  want  regular  ship­
pers  to  send  us  any  amount  every  week.

W rite  us.

L.  0 .  SNEDECOR  &  SON,  Egg  Receivers

36  Harrison  St.,  New  York

Egg  C ases  and  Egg  C ase  F illers

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

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

Butter,  Eggs,  Apples,  Pears,

Potatoes,  Beans and  Onions
I  am in the market all the time and will  give  you  highest  prices  and  quick 

returns.  Send me all your shipments.

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

W.  C.  Rea 

a . J. Witzlg

REA  &  WITZIG

PRODUCE  COMMISSION

104-106  West Market St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Observations  of  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
The  month  of  November  showed 
a  considerable  shortage  of  egg  re­
ceipts  at  the  leading  markets,  com­
pared  with  the  very  moderate  arriv­
als  for  November,  1903,  as  follows:
1903.
131,916
80,866
51,671
68,946

1904.
New  York  ........ ....... 123,720
Chicago 
........... ........  73.573
Boston 
............. .......   45,967
... ........  38,868
Philadelphia 

Totals 

................. 282,128  333,399
The  Philadelphia  receipts  last  year 
were  partly  estimated  and  were,  lat­
er,  found  to  have  been  overstated; 
but  even  if  the  decrease  there  has 
been  no  greater  in  proportion  than 
in  the  other  markets 
there  is  a  very 
considerable  reduction  which  no  one 
could  reasonably  have  anticipated.

There  seems  to  have  been  a  very 
good  consumptive  demand  for  eggs 
in  all  parts  of  the  country  and,  so 
far  as  fresh  production  is  concern­
ed,  the  demands  at  interior  cities have 
absorbed  so  much  of  the  stock  as  to 
leave  but  a  small  amount  for  ship­
ment  to  the  seaboard  markets.  The 
scarcity  of  fresh  gods  has  opened 
an  unusually  wide  outlet  for  refriger­
ator  eggs,  and  although  the  output 
from  September  1  to  October  15  was 
very  small  we  think  the  rate  of  move­
ment 
latter  date  to  the 
present  time  has  never  before  been 
equaled  in  the  same  length  of  time.
Present  information  indicates  that 
the  November  output  of 
storage 
stocks  in  Chicago,  New  York,  Bos­
ton  and  Philadelphia  will  amount to 
no  less  than  about  40  per  cent,  of 
the  stock  on  hand  Oct.  31,  and  the 
total  remaining  stock  in  these  four 
markets  has  therefore  been  reduced 
to  about  650,000  cases.

from  the 

The  remarkably  rapid  movement of 
refrigerator  eggs  during  the  past six 
weeks  has  put  a  much  brighter  face 
on  the  storage  situation  than  it  had 
before  the  extremely  small  scale  of 
receipts  was  developed. 
It  is  now 
evident  that  if  the  December  output 
of  storage  goods  should  equal  that of 
November  the  total  holdings  to  car­
ry  into  1905,  although  liberal,  would 
not  be  excessive.

It  is  to  be  remembered  that,  apart 
from  the  possible 
influence  of  ex­
treme  cold  weather,  we  are  now  at 
about  the  lowest  point  of  egg  pro­
duction;  also  that  there  are  plenty  of 
storage  goods  to  supply  the  present 
liberal  rate  of  consumption  up 
to 
the  time  when,  with  moderate  weath­
er,  the  production  of  eggs  in 
the 
South  and  Southwest  would  increase 
materially. 
re­
quirements  are  usually  somewdiat  less 
in  December  than  in  November,  un­
less  encouraged  by  a  lower  level  of 
prices,  so  that  on  the  present  basis 
of  values  we  can  hardly  expect  as 
heavy  an  output  of  refrigerator  eggs 
during  December  as  we  enjoyed dur­
ing  November.

consumptive 

The 

The  future  of  the  market  depends

R EFEREN CES

Beans and  Potatoes.  Correct and prompt  returns.

We  solicit  consignments  of  Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Live  and  Dressed  Poultry, 

I 
I  Marine N ational Bank,  Commercial  Agents,  Express  Companies  Trade  Papers  and  H undreds  of

The  first  feature  that  strikes  the 
observer  in  many  cases  is  the  untid­
iness  of  the  small  store,  the  appear­
ance  of  which  is  far  from  being  sug­
gestive  of  that  absolute  cleanliness 
which  is  necessary  if  a  purveyor  of 
food  products  is  to  enjoy  the  confi­
dence  of  the  people  he 
to 
serve.  An  untidy  store  may  have 
on  its  shelves  the  very  highest  grade 
of  goods,  but  the  general  untidiness 
is  a  libel  on  the  stock  and  under­
mines  faith  in  the  store  service.  That 
lost,  success  can  not  be  attained.—  
American  Grocer.
A  wise man  swallows  his  tongue. W illiam   Andre,  Grand Cedge,  Itticbigan

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

Poultry Shippers

Established  1873

Shippers

seeks 

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which  the  sleigh  should  run  can  eas­
ily  be  imitated  with  salt,  and  a  snow 
scene 
is  always  attractive.  Or  he 
may  be  shown  shoving  a  turkey  in 
each  of  a  row  of  stockings  hung over 
an  easily  made  fireplace.  A  comic 
window  could  be  made  by  having  a 
wooden  chimney,  properly  painted, of 
course,  in  the  center  of  the  window, 
with  Santa  Claus  trying  to  push  down 
the  flue  a  goose  or  turkey  too  big 
for  the  purpose. 
In  fact,  there  are | 
any  number  of  displays  that  could  be 
arranged  in  a  simple  manner.  A  more 
elaborate  show,  which  I  think  well 
of,  would  be  to  have  the  window  fix­
ed  up  as  a  miniature  butcher  shop, 
with  Santa  Claus 
long  white 
apron  acting  as  the  butcher.  Such 
an  exhibit  is  easily  made  and  would 
undoubtedly  attract  attention.  For a 
card  I  would  have  something 
like 
one  or  more  of  the  following  verses, 
or  any  other  jingles  you  can  think of:

in  a 

C hristm as  comes  but  once  a  year;
E a t  and  drink  and  have  good  cheer.
Buy  your  m eat  and  poultry  here;
E at  your  fill  and  have  no  fear.
Peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  men.
C hristm as  tim e  has  come  again.
Buy  a   turkey  from   this  bunch.
Good  for  dinner,  breakfast,  lunch.
In  buying  m eats  for  C hristm as  day.
Listen  to  w hat  we  have  to  say:
No  b etter  in  the  tow n  you’ll  find,
Or  cheaper,  either,  bear  in  mind.
S anta  Claus  is  a   wise  old  cuss.
One  day  he  says,  says  he  to  us:
T he  people  of  th is  tow n  should  eat
No  other  kind  but  your  good  m eat.
So  much  for  this  week  on  Christ­
mas.  Next  week  I  will  try  to  give 
you  some  more. 
In  one  of .your  let­
ters  the  writer  says  he  likes  to  bank 
up  his  windows  all  right,  but  such a 
display  shuts  off  his  light  too  much. 
That  is  true  in  most  cases,  and  can 
not  be  avoided  entirely.  However,  I 
once  saw.a  window  that  I  think  could 
be  used  in  the  meat  trade  as  a  sub­
stitute  for  the  banking  up.  Fill  the 
roof  of  the  window  with  small  but 
strong  screw  hooks— not  screw  eyes. 
Cut  quite  a  number  of  fine  strong 
line 
cords— fishing 
is  best— and  tie 
a  good  sized 
loop  on  the  end  of 
each.  Have  the  strings  of  various 
lengths.  Hang  each  string  by  the 
loop  to  one  of  the  books.  Then  tie 
poultry,  hams,  legs of lamb, etc., to th 
ends  of  the  strings,  and  you  have  a 
window  apparently  full  from  top 
to 
bottom  without  shutting  out  all  of 
the  light. 
I  would  suggest  that  the 
strings  be  blackened  for  this  pur­
pose.  They  are  invisible  at  a  short 
distance,  and  are  nearly  so  close  up, 
especially 
if  shown  against  a  dark 
background.  The  apparent  suspen­
sion  in  midair  without  visible  means 
of  support  should  arouse  the  curiosi­
ty  of  the  ladies,  who, 
told, 
sometimes  possess  that  attribute.—  
Butchers’  Advocate.

I  am 

Do  It  Now!

Do  it  now!
Do  it  now;

W hen  you’ve  got  a   job  to  do,
If  it's  one  you  wish  w as  through 
If  you’re  sure  th e  job’s  your  own,
You  ju st  tackle  it  alone;
Do  not  hem   and  haw   and  groan— 

Do  it  now!

Do  it  now!
Do  it  now!

Don’t   p u t  off  a  b it  of  work,
F o r  it  never  pays  to   shirk,
If  you  w ant  to   fill  a   place
And  be  useful  to  th e  race,
Ju st  get  up  and  tak e  a   brace—

Do  it  now!

F ran k   Farrington.

Christmas  Trims  Adapted  to  Butch­

ers’  Windows.

“I  see  by  the  letters  you  show  me 
and  the  questions  you  ask  that  my 
little  talks  seem  to  interest  the  re­
tail  butchers,”  said 
the  Advocate’s 
window  dressing  expert. 
“I  notice 
that  some  of  them  ask  me  how  I 
would  dress  their  particular  windows.
I  would  like  to  be  able  to  tell  them, 
but  that’s  an  impossible  proposition 
without  knowing  the  location  of  the 
store,  the  size  and  shape  of 
the  win­
dows  and  the  character  of  the  trade 
catered  to.  Dealers  should  remem-1 
ber  that  these  talks  are  only  sug­
gestions,  to  be  adopted  or  improved 
upon  by  them. 
I  am  perfectly  will­
ing,  however,  to  make  special  sugges­
tions  for  special  displays.  For 
in­
stance,  if  anything  big  is  going  on 
in  a  town,  I  shall  be  glad  to  do  my 
best  to  suggest  a  window  appropriate 
for  the  occasion.  But  in  every  case 
my  arrangement  has 
to  be  adapt­
ed  to  the  particular  window  in  which 
it  is  used.  So,  if  your  readers  have  a 
fire  parade  or  a  carnival,  or  anything 
else  in  their  town,  tell  them  to  say 
the  word  and  I  will  try  to  help  them  | 
out  with  a  display  scheme.  Well, I 
suppose  that,  Thanksgiving  being 
over,  it  is  time  to  dig  up  a  scheme 
for  Christmas  windows.  There  are 
two  kinds  of  displays  of  this  charac­
ter.  One  is  the  exhibit  arranged  sev- | 
eral  weeks  before  Christmas  and  con­
tinued  without  change  until  after that  I 
holiday.  For  such  a  display  in 
the  I 
meat  line,  it  would  be  necessary  to 
use  imitation  meats  and  poultry,  as 
it  would  not  do  to  use  the  fresh 
articles  so  long  a  time.  Right  here 
I  might  say  that  dealers  will  find 
these  property  meats,  etc.,  come 
in 
mighty  handy  for  window  displays, 
especially  during  the  summer,  and  | 
it  is  a  good  scheme  to  buy  them  as 
needed  and  put  them  away  carefully 
when  a  change  of  window  puts  them 
temporarily  out  of  business.  A  per­
manent  display  of  this  kind  can  nat­
urally  be  made  more  elaborate  than 
one  which  is  only  to  last  a  few  days. 
The  main  feature  of  it  should,  of 
course,  be  a  figure  of  Santa  Claus, 
except  in  rare  cases.  I  know  children 
don’t  buy  meat  as  a 
except 
when  they  are  sent  for  it.  But  you 
get  up  a  good  Santa  Claus  window, 
and  I  will  wager a  box  of  Smokadoras 
against  a  bunch  of  Fumigatorettes 
that  the  youngsters  of  the  town  will 
not  alone  see  it  themselves,  but  will 
drag  their  mothers  to  your  place  to 
see  it,  too.  That’s  what  a  window 
display  is  for— getting  the  mothers 
to  look  at  your  store.  Having  set­
tled  on  old  Santa  as  the  central  fig­
ure,  it  remains  to  present  him  in a 
way  that  will  draw  attention  to  what 
you  want  to  sell.  For  a  sample  dis­
play  he  might  be  shown  with  several 
turkeys  slung  across  his  back  instead 
of  the  usual  bag.  Or  he  may  be 
shown  in  a  sleigh  loaded  up  with 
meats  and  poultry.  The  snow  on

rule, 

For fifteen years  I  have  worked  to  build  up  a

Michigan Cheese 

Good

Trade

I  have  it.  Last  year  I  manufactured  at  my  own 
factories  25,462  boxes  of  cheese,  1,016,000  pounds, 
selling  in  Michigan  23,180  boxes,  or  over  91  per 
cent,  of my  total output. 
I  solicit  trial  orders  from 
trade  not  already  using  Warner’s  Oakland  County 
Cheese.  Stock  paraffined  and  placed  in  cold  stor­
age  if desired.

Fred M.  Warner,  Farmington,  Mich.

Butter

I  would  like  all  the  fresh,  sweet  dairy 

butter  of  medium  quality  you  have  to 

send.

E  F.  DUDLEY,  Owosso, Mich.

B U T T E R

W e  can  furnish  you  with

FRESH -CH URNED

FA N C Y

BUTTER

Put  up 

in  an  odor-proof  one  pound 

package.  W rite  us  for  sam ple  lot.

If  you  want  nice  eggs,  write  us.  W e 

can  supply  you.

WASHINGTON  BUTTER

AND  EGG  CO .

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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be  suitable  for  marmalades  and  other 
preserves,  and  among  them  two  spec­
imens  were  selected  as  the  most  val­
uable  and  useful  breakfast 
fruits. 
They  resemble  the  Japanese  pomelo 
very  closely,  and  Secretary  Wilson 
and  Dr.  Galloway  are  convinced that 
they  will  rapidly  become  popular and 
pay  large  profit  to  the  growers.

Several 

These  two  new  fruits  have  been 
christened  as  “the  Rusk”  and  “the 
Willett,”  in  honor  of  the  late  Secre­
tary  Rusk  and  the  late  Assistant  Sec­
retary  Willetts,  of  the  Department 
thousand 
of  Agriculture. 
young  trees  wil  be  distributed 
free 
of  cost  among  the  experimental  sta­
tions,  reliable  nurserymen  and  com­
petent  fruit  growers  in  the  Southern 
States,  and  it  is  expected  that  the 
Rusk  and  the  Willett  will  find  their 
way  into  the  Northern  markets  in a 
few  years.

“They’re  a  go,”  said  Secretary  Wil­
son. 
“They  can  be  grown  in  every 
back  yard  south  of  the  Ohio  and  Po­
tomac  Rivers,  and  will  make  an  ex­
cellent  home  fruit  as  well  as  an  or­
chard 
fruit,  and  a  popular  foliage 
plant  as  well  as  a  money-getter.”

This  fall  more  of  the  seedlings are 
fruiting,  thus  increasing  still  further 
the 
the  variety  of  the  products  of 
union  between  the  Japanese  and 
the 
Indian  River  oranges.  Among  the 
various  freaks  the  officials  of 
the 
Agricultural  Department  were  de­
lighted  to  find  several  large,  luscious, 
sweet  oranges,  full  of  juice  and  of a 
flavor  equal  to  any  that  were  ever 
grown  in  Florida  or 
the  Western 
States.  Samples  were  received  just 
Secretary  Wilson’s 
in 
Thanksgiving  dinner,  and  he 
re­
gards  them  as  sufficiently  important 
to  have  been  mentioned  in  the  Presi­
dent’s  Thanksgiving  proclamation.

time 

for 

from 

While  the  returns  are  not  yet  suf­
ficient  to  justify  predictions,  he 
is 
convinced  that  the  plant-breeders  of 
the  Department  have  produced  a sub­
stitute  for  the  Indian  River  orange 
that  will  be  just  as  palatable  and 
tough  enough  to  endure  any  frost 
that  may  ever  visit  the  Gulf  States. 
Samples  have  come 
regions 
where  the  ordinary  Florida  orange 
co u ld   not  p o ssib ly   survive,  and  if the 
convictions  of  Dr.  Galloway  and  his 
assistants  prove  to  be  well  founded 
another  valuable  staple  has  been  dis­
covered  which  will  add  to  the  wealth 
of  all  the  states  south  of  Mason  and 
Dixon’s  line.  The  young  trees  have 
in 
already  endured 
which 
frequently 
went  as  low  as  six  degrees  above 
zero,  without  suffering  the  slightest 
injury,  and  that  will  bring  them  with­
in  the  reach  of  all  the  South  Atlantic 
and  Gulf  States  and  the  lower  alti­
tudes  of  Tennessee,  Kentucky  and 
Arkansas.

four  winters, 

temperature 

the 

“When  we  cross  different  kinds of 
plants,”  said  Dr.  Galloway,  “the  re­
sult  is  the  same  as  will  occur 
in 
crossing  different  kinds  of  human  be­
ings.  No  two  men  or  women  are 
alike;  no  two  horses  nor  dogs  are 
alike;  and  there  is  just  as  great  a  va­
riety  among  plants.  Our  experience 
in  the  propagating  gardens  teaches 
us  to  expect  most  anything  in  hy­
bridizing.  Some  of  the  results,  and

Scientists  Develop  Oranges  That 

Will  Withstand  Cold.

and 

Secretary  Wilson had a new kind of 
orange  for  his  Thanksgiving  dinner, 
and  he  ate  it  with  great  satisfaction, 
because  it  represented  six  years  of 
labor,  care 
cultivation.  The 
“great  freeze”  of  1896  destroyed more 
than  half  of  the  orange  groves  of 
Florida  and  wiped  out  nearly  half 
the  wealth  of  that  State. 
It  taught 
a  great  lesson  and  convinced  those 
'who  were  in  the  fruit  business  that 
the  future  prosperity  depended  upon 
the  discovery  of  an  orange  that  could 
endure  cold  weather.  One  of 
the 
first  official  acts  of  Secretary  Wilson, 
when  he  came  into  the  Agricultural 
Department  in  1897,  was  to  confer 
with  Dr.  Galloway,  Chief  of  the  Bu­
reau  of  Plant  Industry,  and  instruct 
him  to  undertake  the  duty  of  finding 
a  frost-resistant.  Experiments  began 
at  once.  The  hopes  of  Secretary 
Wilson  and  Dr.  Galloway  were  based 
upon  the  possibilities  of  a 
little, 
hardy  plant,  a  native  of  Japan,  which 
bears  a  worthless  fruit,  but  has  lots 
is 
of  vitality  and  endurance,  and 
throughout 
used  extensively 
the 
North  for  hedges. 
It  grows  rapidly 
in  any  kind  of  soil  and  will  survive 
any  amount  of  cold,  and  is  familiar 
as  the  Japanese  orange,  the  mock 
orange,  the  Trifoliata  orange,  and  by 
several  other  names.

The  plant-breeders  of  the  Agricul­
tural  Department  took  that  as  the 
mother  and  the  sweet  navel  orange 
of  the  Indian  River  as  the  father, 
and  sprinkled  the  pollen  of  one  upon J 
the  blossoms  of  the  other.  The  re­
sult  was  a  series  of  hybrids  of  many 
variations  and  peculiarities.  Some of 
the  children  were  evergreen,  like the 
orange  trees  of  Florida;  others  shed 
their  foliage  in  the  fall  like  the  Jap­
anese  hedges. 
short 
thorns,  some  long  thorns,  and  some 
had  no  thorns  at  all.  Some  had 
trifoliage  leaves,  while  the  leaves of 
the  others  were  round,  oblong  and 
oval.

Some  had 

Between  25,000  and  30,000  seedlings 
were  transplanted  from  the  Washing­
ton  propagating  houses  to  the  warm 
soil  of  Florida,  and  in  1900,  as  soon 
as  they  were  large  enough,  the  trees 
were  distributed  throughout  the  Gulf 
States  and  the  Carolinas  to  test their 
endurance  of  cold  as  low  as  zero.  In 
order  to  hasten  their  fruiting  growing 
trees  were  budded  and  grafted  and 
all  of  the  tricks  known  to  botanists 
and  nurserymen  were 
to. 
Last  year  they  began  to  bear  fruit, 
and  produced  a  great  variety  in  size, 
shape,  color,  fiber  and  flavor.  Near­
ly  all  of  those  so  far  produced  are 
palatable,  but  most  of  them  are  tart 
and  have  a  bitter  tang  resembling 
the  Japanese  pomelo  more 
closely 
than 
the  American  orange.  The 
pomelo  resembles  the  grape  fruit,  and 
is  a  great  favorite  on  the  breakfast 
tables  of  Japan.  Almost  all  of  the 
fruit  produced  last  year  proved  to

resorted 

often  most  of 
them,  are  entirely 
worthless,  and  we  are  always  thank­
ful  when  we  get  hold  of  something 
useful  and  valuable.  Hybridizing al­
ways  produces  freaks  and  plants  of 
marked  individuality.

“Our  orange  experiments  we  con­
sider  remarkably  successful.  Only  a 
portion  of  our  trees  have  fruited,  and 
we  do  not  know  what  we  shall  get 
when  the  returns  are  all  in;  but  thus 
far  we  have  four  distinct  results  that 
are  extremely  gratifying  and  of  un­
In  the  first 
usual  economic  value. 
place  we  have  a 
tart  and  bitter 
orange  that  is  not  suitable  for  the  ta­
ble,  but  makes  the  best  marmalade 
you  ever  tasted.  Second,  we  have 
a  tart  fruit  with  a  beautiful  flavor 
that  is  every  bit  as  good  as  grape­
fruit,  and  will  be  quite  popular  for 
table  use.  Third,  we  have  a  fruit as 
sour  as  a  lemon  and  full  of  juice  of 
equally  good  flavor,  which  will  make 
a  good  substitute 
lemon 
which  is  now  imported  from  Sicily. 
And,  finally,  we  have  a  sweet,  juicy 
orange  with  as  good  a  flavor  as  that 
produced  on  the  banks  of  the  Indian 
I  River,  and  it  can  be  grown  anywhere 
south  of  the  thirty-fifth  parallel.  We 
propose  to  distribute  the  trees  as  fast 
as  we  can  grow  them,  but  it  takes 
several  years  for  such  fruit 
to  ma­
ture,  and  the  public  must  have  pa­
tience.”

the 

for 

The  plant-breeders  of  the  Agricul- 
I  tural  Department  have  produced still 
another  new  fruit  for  breakfast  use, 
which  is  sure  to  be  popular  and  will 
be  distributed  in  the  same  way. 
It 
is  the  result  of  the  marriage  of  the 
j  pomelo  of  Japan  and  the  tangerine 
of  Algiers.  The  fragrance  of 
the 
Mediterranean  and  the  hardy  vitality 
of  the  Northern  Pacific  Ocean  have 
met  and  the  result  is  “the  Tangelo,” 
which  has  the  flavor  of  the  tangerine 
and  the  size  of  the  pomelo  and  can 
be  grown  in  any  kind  of  soil  and  in 
any  climate  where  the  temperature 
does  not  go  below  zero.

The  department  is  introducing  the 
mango  tree  from  India  and  the  Phil­
ippines  and  is  trying  to  breed  that 
up  to  endure  the  climate  of 
this

country. 
It  is  a  delicious  fruit,  both 
for  table  use  and  for  preserving,  but 
it  is  now  too  delicate  to  survive  our 
It  is  hoped,  however, 
frosty  winters. 
that  it  can  be  crossed  with 
some 
hardier  plant  that  can  endure  our 
climate.— Wm.  E.  Curtis  in  Chicago 
Record-Herald.

She  is  a  foolish  woman  who  calls 
a  spade  a  spade— if  the  spade  ob­
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Room 606, 87 Washington St. 

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Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Dec.  3— We  are  having 
our  first  real  snow  storm.  The  weath­
er  to  date  has  been  fine  and  the  holi­
day  spirit  is  in  almost 
full  blast. 
Stores  are  crowded  and  everybody 
seems  to  have  money  enough  to meet 
present  requirements  at  least.

Lower  grades  of  coffee  this  week 
seem  to  have  occupied 
the  major 
share  of  attention.  Stocks  of  such 
goods  are  said  to  be  in  comparatively 
light  supply  and  held  in  few  hands, 
so  that  it  seems  easy  to  control  the 
market.  Aside  from  this  there 
is 
nothing  much  to  nòte  in  the  market. 
Large  receipts  are  now  looked  for 
at  Rio  and  Santos  and,  accordingly, 
speculators  are  keeping  rather  <}uiet. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are  4,051,057 
bags,  against  2,281,409  bags  at 
the 
same  time  last  year— a  supply  that 
hardly  warrants  the  hope  of  any  im­
portant  advance.  The  receipts  of  cof­
fee  at  Rio  and  Santos  from  July .1  to 
Dec. 
1  aggregate  6,983,000  bags, 
against  7,367,000  bags  during 
the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild  grades are 
hardly  as  firmly  sustained  as  a  week 
ago  and  buyers  take  only  small  quan­
tities.  Sellers  are  not  disposed  to 
make  concessions,  however,  and  good 
Cucuta  is  still  worth  g^c  and  good 
average  Bogotas  11c.  East  Indias 
show  little  change  and  are  firm.

Quietude  prevails  in  the  tea  mar­
ket,  as  most  of  the  attention  is  given 
to  goods  of  a  holiday  character.  Sup­
plies  are  ample  for  present  require­
ments  and  quotations  are  well 
sus­
tained.  About  the  same  condition is 
looked  for  during  the  remainder  of 
the  year.

Hardly  a  bit  of  new  business  has 
been  done 
in  the  sugar  trade  and 
not  a  great  deal  under  old  contracts. 
Prices  are  very  firm  and  the  outlook 
for  some  time  ahead  seems  to  be  one 
decidedly  in  favor  of  higher  quota­
tions.

Quietude  prevails  in  the  rice  trade 
and,  while  prices  seem  to  be  quite 
stable,  they  are  on  the  low  level  that 
has  so  long  prevailed  and  there  seems 
to  be  little  immediate  prospect  of  im­
provement.

There  has  been  a  fair  amount  of 
business  done  in  spices  during 
the 
week:  in  fact,  more  activity  than  has 
been  shown  for  some  time.  Purchases 
have  not  been  very  large  in  any  case, 
but  there  have  been  a  good  many  of 
them  and,  in 
they 
amount  to  a  handsome  total.  Quota­
tions  are  well  sustained.

the  aggregate, 

There  is  a  firm  and  steady  molasses 
market.  The  market  is  well  cleaned 
up  and  sellers  seem  to  be  having mat­
ters  their  own  way.  The  call  is  most­
ly  for  the  better  sorts,  and  low  grade 
goods,  which  were  doing  so  well  a 
month  ago,  are  biding  their  time— the 
turn  of  the  year.  Syrups  are  steady 
and  firm.

Dried  fruits  are  firm  and 

fancy

stock  for  holiday  demands  is  selling 
freely  at  full  quotations.  Currants 
are  very  firm,  both  for  cleaned  and 
uncleaned.

There  is  a  fairly  legitimate  amount 
of  business  going  forward  in  canned 
goods  and  yet  jobbers  are  not  tak­
ing  very  large  amounts,  as  the  time 
of  stocktaking  is  so  close  at  hand. 
Tomatoes  are  unsettled  and  goods 
can  be  found  at  “any  old  price.” 
Really  desirable  corn  is  wanted  and 
will  fetch  full  figures.  Peas,  string 
beans  and  other  vegetables  are  quiet. 
No  special  activity  is  looked  for,  al­
though  some  improvement  may  come 
atfer  the  new 
year.  Considerable 
activity  exists  in  the  salmon  market, 
although  orders  generally  are 
for 
small  quantities;  in  fact,  no  buyer  is 
taking  a  great  amount  of  any  kind  of 
goods.

Butter  remains  very  firm  and, with 
lighter  supplpies,  the  situation  favors 
creamery,  26@ 
the  seller. 
Extra 
26%c;  seconds  to 
firsts,  22(8)25 J^c. 
There  is  a  good  call  for  grades  from 
21 @230  and  the  market 
is  pretty 
closely  sold  up  in  lines  of  this  charac­
ter. 
i6^2@20c; 
Western  factory,  i 6 @ i 7 c ;  renovated, 
i6@I9J^c.

Imitation  creamery, 

Cheese  is  fairly  active  and  slightly 
advanced.  There  is  a  better  demand 
and  quotations  are  now  on  the  basis 
of  12c  for  full  cream,  small  size; large 
sizes,  1 2 % @ 1 2 % C .

The  supply  of  nearby,  fresh  gather­
ed  eggs  is  not  nearly  equal  to  the 
demand  and  the  40c  mark  has  been 
reached  easily.  Finest  Western,  3i@ 
32c,  and  average,  29@30C.

in  England  when 

When  Is  a  Cheese  Not  a  Cheese?
The  answer  to  this  conundrum  de­
pends  on  the  country  in  which  it  is 
propounded.  Thus  in  Germany  and 
Scandinavia  a  cheese  made  from  new 
milk,  half  skimmed,  quarter  skim­
med  or  separator  skimmed  milk  is  a 
cheese  for  a’  that.  On 
the  other 
hand, 
the  word 
cheese  is  used,  it  implies  that  it  is 
made  from  new  unskimmed  milk, 
and  from  a  legal  standpoint  a  cheese 
made  from  skimmilk  is  not  a  cheese. 
Although  several  cases  (which  went 
against  dealers  in  the  lower  courts 
for  selling  as  cheese  half-skims  with 
only  14  to  15  per  cent,  fat)  were  re­
versed  in  the  higher  courts,  the  Dan­
ish  dairy  agent  advises  his  country­
men  not  to  send  any  cheese  with 
less  than  20  or  25  per  cent,  of  fat, as 
“It 
“cheese,”  and  he  further  says: 
is  not  legal  in  England  to  sell 
a 
cheese  in  the  shape,  appearance  and 
name  of  any  kinds  known  in  the  mar­
less  per­
ket  with  any  appreciable 
for 
centage  of  fat  than  customary 
that  particular  kind  of 
cheese.” 
“Skimmed  milk  cheese”  must  be  sold 
as  such  and  so  must  “separated  milk 
cheese;”  in  short,  these  cheese  are 
not  cheese,  and  must  not  be  sold  as 
“cheese.” 

J.  H.  Monrad.

Mary  Managed  It.

M ary  had  a  little  ring,
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in  the  current  of  traffic. 
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times  makes  a  great  difference wheth­
er  you  are  on  the  right  side  of 
the 
street  or  not.  The.  current  of  traffic 
often  changes  from  one  side  of  a 
street  to  the  other  in  an  inexplicable 
way.  This  is  such  a  powerful  factor 
that  it  often  makes  a  store  on  one 
side  of  the  street  worth  almost  dou­
ble  what  it  would  be  worth  opposite. 
It  is  easy  to  say  that  there  is  no 
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Young  merchants  often  make great 
mistakes  in  locating.  They  start out 
with  limited  capital,  and  will  often 
take  stores  on  side  streets  because 
they  think  the  rent  will  be  much  less, 
and  they  reason  that  they  will  be 
able  to  deflect  the  traffic  and  atrract 
the  tide  of  customers  to  their  stores, 
but  many  a  young  merchant  has  met 
his  ruin  in  trying  to  draw  trade  out 
of  its  natural  channels. 
It  makes  a 
great  difference  whether  you  take ad-1 
vantage  of  the  natural  current 
of 
trade  or  depend  upon  the  tributaries 
of  the  side  streets  and  unfrequented 
thoroughfares.  A  store  right  in  the 
current  of  traffic  and  on  a  great 
thoroughfare  may  be  cheaper  at  $50,- 
two 
000  rental  than  one  at  $3,000 
blocks  away  on  a  side  street. 
It  may 
be  better  for  you  to  pay  what  seems 
an  enormous  rent  in  the  right  loca­
tion  than  to  get  rent  free  in  a  bad 
location.

You  may  not  know  the  pulling 
power  there  is  in  an  attractive  en­
trance. 
If  patrons  must  ascend  sev­
eral  steps  to  enter  your  store  it  may 
be  a  serious  drawback. 
In  some sec­
tions  of  one  large  city  it  has  been 
found  that  even  three  or  four  steps 
may  keep  away  hundreds  of  custom­
ers,  since  people  do  not  like  to  climb 
steps. 
Is  your  store  badly  lighted or 
poorly  ventilated?  This  has  a  great 
deal  to  do  with  your  patronage. 
Everything  that  makes  your  store  a 
pleasant  place  to  visit  and  makes  ex­
amining  goods  there  easy  and  satis­
factory  is  important  and  every  de­
fective  arrangement  kills  trade.

your 

There  are  a  thousand  and  one  rea­
sons  why  a  customer  goes  to  one 
store  and  does  not  go  to  another. 
Make  it  a  study  to  find  out  the  rea­
sons,  and  you  will  be  able  to  apply I 
the  remedy  needed  in 
case.  I 
Many  a  patient  who  has  died  might 
have  averted  the fatal disease if he had 
had  the  courage  to  ask  for  a  proper 
diagnosis  by  a  specialist,  but  he did 
not  dare  to.  He  was  afraid  that  it 
would  be  unfavorable, 
that 
knowledge  of  the  fatal  fact  would 
kill  him.  The  actual  knowledge  of 
what  the  trouble  is  in  your  business, 
a  scientific  diagnosis  of  what  is  caus­
ing  the  falling  off  of  trade,  no  mat-

and 

ter  how  unpleasant  or  how  humiliat­
ing  it  may  seem,  may  save  you  from 
something  worse.

One  of  the  dangers  to  a  large  es- 
I tablishment  comes  from  the  fact  that 
the  immense  volume  of  business,  the 
vast  number  of  employes  and 
the 
infinite  detail  make  it  difficult  to  rec­
ognize  the  thousand  and  one  enemies 
which  are  indirectly  undermining  its 
growth  and  healthy  progress.  By 
ceaseless  study  of  methods  and  com­
parison  with  your  competitors  you 
will,  however,  be  able  to  meet 
the 
situation,  and  putting  your  lessons in­
to  practice  you  will  soon  discover 
that  you  are  a  more  progressive  mer­
chant.  People  will  say  that  every­
thing  has  a  more  up-to-date  appear­
ance  about  your  store;  that 
is 
j neater,  more  attractive  and  more  or­
derly;  that  you  have  a  better  class 
of  clerks  than  you  used  to  have;  that 
they  are  more  polite  and  more  ac­
commodating;  that  they  are  more  in­
clined  to  please;  that  there  is  evi­
dence  of  new  blood  in  your  business, 
and  they  will  wonder  whether  you 
have  taken  in  new  partners  or  new 
capital,  or  gotten  a  new  lease  of  life 
yourself,  because  all  these  things  are 
evidences  of  excellence  and  business 
ability,  and  reputation  for  these  w ill! 
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it 

I  Recent  Business  Changes 

in 

the 

Buckeye  State.

Belle  Valley— Hazard  &  Bass,  gen­
eral  store  managers,  are  succeeded  by 
Hazard  &  Davidson.

Coaldale— German  &  Smith  are  to 
continue  the  grocery  business  form­
erly  conducted  by  Jesse  German.

Dayton— Edward  &  Leo  Focke are 
to  succeed  Edward  Focke,  retail  meat 
dealer.

Dayton— Samuel  Heater, 

grocer, 

has  discontinued  business.

Dayton— Mrs.  Anna  Holme  has 

sold  her  grocery  stock.

Dayton— Frank  Poffenberger,  who 
formerly  conducted  a  grocery  store, 
has  gone  out  of  business.

Dayton— John  Stengle  &  Co.,  fur­
niture  manufacturers,  have  reincor­
porated  with  a  capital  of  $100,000  and 
will  do  business  under  the  style  of 
The  John  Stengle  Co.

is 

Rudolph— J.  M.  Holdridge 

to 
be  succeeded  by  Holdridge  &  Jud- 
son,  who  will  carry  a  grocery  stock.
the 
Ideal  Foundry  Co.  have  filed  a  pe­
tition  in  bankruptcy.

Ashtabula— The  creditors  of 

Ashtabula— A   petition  in  bankrupt­
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C.  A.  Williams,  dealer  in  bicycles  and 
sewing  machines.

Cleveland— The  creditors  of  Philip 
Rogen,  dealer  in  clothing  and  dry 
goods,  have  filed  a  petition  in  bank­
ruptcy.

Columbus— A  petition  in  bankrupt­
cy  has  been  filed  by  the  creditors  of 
the  merchants’  Premium  Stamp  Co.
Kent— The  Phillips  Canning  & 
Pickling  Company’s  creditors  have 
filed  a  petition  in  bankruptcy.

Toledo— A   receiver  has  been  ap­
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DANGERS  OF  T H E   AIR.

Difficulties  of  Defense  Against 

Its 

Unseen  Occupants.

In  the  war  which  mankind  is  wag­
ing  against  disease  science  is  con­
stantly  scoring  new  victories. 
It be­
gins  to  look  as  if  we  might  some 
day  live  in  comfort  and  do  all  man­
ner  of  imprudent  acts— overfeed  and 
overheat  and  overexert  ourselves, de­
pending  upon  the  strong  arm  of  sci­
ence  to  rescue  us  from  peril,  with 
little  damage  to  our  constitutions, 
while  surgery  has  already  proved her­
self  quite  capable  of  putting  us  nice­
ly  together  again,  no  matter  how 
sadly  we  are  shattered  in  accidents 
incident  to  modern  traffic,  and  can 
even  help  us  to  get  along  without 
certain  organs  hitherto  considered of 
prime  importance,  like  stomachs  and 
lungs  and  livers.  What  with  anti­
septics  and  a  vast  and  growing  reme­
dial  pharmacopeia, with official super­
vision  over  the  purity  of  the  drinks 
and  foods  we  take  into  our  system, 
with  sanitary  plumbing  and  sanitary 
underwear,  and  sanitary  footgear, and 
with  half  of  our  early  training  de­
voted  to  the  upbuilding  of  a  perfect 
physical  system  that  shall  enable us 
to  resist  disease,  it  really  begins  to 
look  as  if  we  might  some  day  have 
all  bodily  ailments  safely  sealed  up 
again  in  that 
little  casket  of  Pan­
dora’s,  whence  tradition  tells  us  that 
they  issued.  Fortified  within  and 
without,  we  would  need  give  our­
selves  little  concern  about  the  possi­
bility  of  sickness  were  it  not  for  a 
in
certain  great  theater  of  action 

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

1?

themselves, 

is  the  atmosphere 

which  these  mischievous  germs  con­
tinue  to  disport 
and 
science  can 
where  all  the  weapons 
to  get  at 
forge  seem  unavailing 
them.  This 
in 
which  we  live  and  breathe  and  have 
our  being,  and  which  the  physicists 
tell  us  stretches  forty  miles  above 
us,  a  vast  breeding  and 
exercise 
ground  for  these  enemies  of  the  hu­
man  body.

It 

for 

corrosive 

A  writer  in  the  Saturday  Review 
tells  of  the  unavailing  attempts  to  get 
rid  of  these  bacteria. 
is  easy 
enough  to  destroy  them,  inasmuch as 
they  yield  up  their  lives  readily 
to 
dry  heat;  many  of  them  even  sicken 
and  die  when attacked with such very 
commonplace  chemicals  as  alcohol, 
carbolic  acid, 
sublimate, 
while  few  of  them  can  survive  a  bath 
in  water  that  has  reached  the  boil­
ing  point;  but  no  way  has  yet  been 
hit  upon  by  which  these  harmful bac­
teria  can  be  rounded  up 
the 
slaughter  like 
jackrabbits  of 
Fresno.  A  few  millions  out  of  count­
less  myriads  are  slain  by  the  process­
es  of  fumigation,  spraying  and  dis­
infecting,  resorted  to  in  the  case  of 
houses  which  deadly  and  contagious 
disease  has  entered,  but  it  is  pointed 
out  that  the  entrance  of  a  single 
person  into  a  house  or  hotel  or  pub­
lic  lecture  hall  may  introduce  enough 
bacteria  to  contaminate  the  air  of the 
entire  building  and  set  all  these  pre­
cautions  at  naught.  Towns  are  sim­
ilarly  infected,  although  this  infection 
is  considerably  qualified  by  exposure 
to  sweeping  winds,  wherein  lies  San 
“How­
Francisco’s  main  protection. 

the 

ever  man  may  improve  the  sanitation 
of  his  water  supply  and  drainage,  and 
see  to  the  cleanliness  of  his  house 
and  his  person,  he  can  not  tame  the 
roving  air,  that  brings  with  it 
in 
dancing  motes 
the  myriad  wind­
blown  spores  it  has  collected.  *  *
Wherever  human  beings  live  in  the 
close  contact  that  city  life  involves 
the  air  will  be  inevitably  contaminat­
ed.”  This  is  the  writer’s  final  judg­
ment,  summing  up  the  verdict  of  sci­
ence  itself.

it, 

to 

It  is  sometimes  well  to  face  the 
ultimate.  So  long  as  one  is  perpet­
ually  running  from  uncharted 
ter­
rors,  not  knowing  what  moment  the 
enemy’s  hand  may  be  laid  on  his 
shoulder,  there  is  small  chance  for 
a  sturdy  resistance. 
It  is  when  man 
brings  up  against  a  wall,  with  his 
back 
that  he  has  the  best 
chance  to  take  the  measure  of  his 
enemy  and  to  test  his  own  strength. 
In  this  case  we  may  take  heart  from 
two  or  three  very  pertinent 
facts: 
One  of  these  is  that  most  of  these 
germs  are  very  short  lived.  Another 
is  that  they  each  have  their  own  un­
relenting 
germ 
kind— kindly  bacteria,  which  also fly 
through  the  air  and  are  constantly 
on  the  trail  of  the  mischief  workers. 
Another  very  philosophical 
reflec­
tion  is  that  ever  since  man  was  born 
into  the  world  these  microscopic  or­
ganisms  have  been  preying  upon him, 
and  that  to-day  he  represents  the  sur­
vival  of  the  fittest  of  a  long  line  of 
germ-bombarded  ancestry, 
so  that 
he  must  carry  in  his  own  body  an 
immense  storage  of  resistance.

enemies 

among 

The  other  day 

some  European 
scientists  of  note  experimented  up­
on  a  healthy  convict.  They  shut 
him  up  in  a  room  whose  air  was 
absolutely  freed 
from  germs,  and 
they  permitted  no  air  to  enter  which 
was  not  absolutely 
sterilized.  His 
food  and  drink  were  subjected  to 
sterilizing 
The  man 
promptly  sickened  and  died,  proving 
conclusively  that  a  certain  allowance 
of  germ  life  is  essential  to  man’s well 
being.

processes. 

We  may  escape  harmful  bacteria 
by  betaking  ourselves  to  the  hills, 
where  disease  is  unknown  and  the 
air  is  unpolluted  by  its  microscopic 
breeders.  Whenever  the  constitution 
is  weakened  from  any  cause,  making 
it  susceptible  to  their  insidious  at­
tacks,  this  would  seem  the  only  ra­
tional  refuge.  As  the  most  of  us  find 
it  necessary  or  convenient  to  dwell 
in  towns  for  the  best  part  of  our 
lives,  our  only  resource  is  to  rely up­
on  the  services  of  the  bacteria  help­
ful  to  the  race,  giving  them  all  the 
aid  we  can 
in­
roads  of  the  vicious  mites  by  right 
living  and  a  courageous  spirit,  which 
will  not  yield  supinely  but  maintain 
its  mastery  of  the  enemy  while  our 
wee  auxiliaries  are  engaged  in  under­
taking  their  annihilation.

in  combating  the 

It  is  an  unreasonable  voter  that ex­
pects  a  man  to  live  up  to  his  cam­
paign  oratory.

Life  does  give  some  of us  benefits—  
and  then  euchres  us  out  of  all  of  the 
proceeds.

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the  first  six  months  of  this  year  over  the 
corresponding  months  of  last year.

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fashions 

styles  and 

haphazard  method  of  advertising 
would  meet  with  equally  good 
re­
sults.  There  must  be  system  and 
thoroughness  in  the  methods  adopt­
ed.  There  must  be  newness  and  the 
latest 
in  the 
goods  to  be  advertised,  not  “any  old 
thing”  can  be  worked  as  an  attrac­
tive  advertisement. 
Rotten  apples 
may,  in  some  way— if  you  “come  and 
count  ’em— serve  a  purpose,  but  they 
would  not  afford  very  much  attrac­
tion  on  the  table.  The  fruit  must  be 
ripe  and  fresh  to  create  a  desire  for 
it,  and  so  with  clothing  and  furnish­
ings. 
If  they  are  old-fashioned  in 
general  appearance  no  application of 
printer’s  ink  can  possibly  make  them 
attractive  and  desirable.

We  notice  that  the  small  produc­
tions  of  retail  advertising  are  always 
read,  and  where, the  change  is  daily 
made  people  get  into  the  habit  of 
looking  for  the  advertisement  as  reg­
ularly  as  the  morning  or  evening  pa­
per  appears.  This  method  gives  the 
retailer  an  advantage  over  his  com­
petitor  that  pursues  the  method  of 
column 
advertisements  containing 
something  about  everything  he  has 
in  the  store.

If  a  merchant  has  an  extra  fine 
coat  to  sell  he  compiles  a  neatly 
worded  advertisement  and  obtains 
an  appropriate  cut  for  it,  and  sends 
it  out  through  his  daily  paper  to 
do  its  work.  The  largest  retail  cloth­
iers  and  furnishers  in  New  York  and 
Chicago  use  ten  of  these  little  pro­
ductions  to  one  of  a 
larger  kind. 
They  rarely  exceed  three  inches 
in 
length,  and  are  column  width.  The 
type  used 
very 
plain.

is  good  size  and 

One  idea  is  usually  presented  at a 
time,  but  not  the  same  idea  twice 
in  the  same  form. 
If  a  hat  is  to  be 
presented  it  would  not  be  good  taste 
to  associate  with  it  in  one  of  those 
small  productions  a  suit  of  clothes. 
The  hat  is  a  type  of  all  hats,  and  in 
advertising  one  the  whole  stock  is 
made  known.  The 
same  is  true  of 
a  suit  of  clothes,  and  so  on  with other 
articles  of  men’s  wear.

lack 

Whatever  may  be  done  by  using 
small  products,  care  should  be  taken 
not  to  crowd  the  matter.  Artistic 
beauty .is  not  the  thing  to  be  aimed 
at,  but  a  strong  presentation  of  the 
idea  is  the  chief  characteristic  to  be 
kept  before  the  mind. 
In  many  cases 
your  cut  can  interpret  the  produc­
tion,  and  that  of  itself  affords  pleas­
ure  to  the  mind,  which  begets  atten­
tion  and  interest,  without  which  your 
effectiveness. 
products  would 
The  retailer  that  practices 
a 
while  the  making  up  of  these  small 
advertisements  will  be  astonished  at 
the  ease  with  which  ideas  come  to 
his  aid. 
It  will  not  take  him  long 
to  acquire  the  art  and  the  science 
necessary  to  write  sprightly  and in­
teresting  advertisements  for  his  use.
You  are  doing  some  advertising— 
why  not  give  the  windows  a  chance? 
Not  of  necessity  every  time  the  dis­
play  is  changed,  but  from  time 
to 
time,  as  special  goods  are 
shown. 
Many  a  business  man  or  shopper  is 
passing  the  corner  and  would  be 
prompted  to  go  a  few  steps  out  of 
the  way  to  see  the  window  as  adver­

for 

the 

idea 

the 
tised.  Merchants  in  many  of 
prominent  centers  of 
clothing 
and  furnishing  goods  trade  are  be- 
gining  to  entertain  this 
and 
adapt  it  to  their  advertising.  The gen­
eral  utility  of  the  window 
thus 
brought  to  serve  an  extra  purpose.  It 
is  a  well-known  fact  that  there  are 
many  people  who  would  go  a  con­
siderable  distance  to  see  an  article 
in  the  window  with  the  price  marked 
on  it,  sooner  than  go  into  a  store 
and  ask  for  it.

is 

Bring  it  home  to  yourself; you may 
feel  the  need  of  some  garment  or 
apparel, 
other  article  of  wearing 
know  where  you  think 
it  may  be 
bought  and  still  have  a  timidity  about 
going  into  the  store  to  ask  for  it. 
Should  you  know  where  it  is  on  ex­
hibition  in  a  window,  however,  you 
will  stop,  even  go  out  of  your  way, 
to  see  if  it  is  what  you  wish,  and, 
if  so,  will  doubtless  go  into  the  store 
for  a  closer  inspection.  Let  us  re­
member  this  in  preparing  the  next 
copy  for  the  regular  newspaper  ad­
vertisement. 
Invite  people  to  note 
the  window.  Tell  something  about 
the  goods  there  displayed  and 
the 
prices  attached  to  the  same.  Try this 
and  the  window  will  soon  grow  in 
importance  to  your  business.

Now  that  we  have  transgressed our 
subject,  let  us  ask  a  question:  Do | 
you  think  the  display  in  the  interior j 
of  the  store  should  be  changed  a 
little  oftener?  Every  day  is  not  too 
often  to  mean  considerable  saving in j 
merchandise—every  day  is  not 
too I 
often  to  mean  additional  attractive­
ness  to  your 

customers.  Try 

to 1

Fur  Coats

W e  have th e  largest  assortm en t  in 
the  State.  W rite  us  and  we  will 
send  you  full  particulars  regarding 
our  line  of  fur  and  fu r  lined  coats.

B R O W N   &   S E H L E R

GRAND  RAHIDS

I  L A R G E  AND  R O O M Y a n d \\ 
I   A  P E R F E C T   F I T T E R   \\
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THEBEST,sJif MARKET.  '  ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER)
IPS^rioT^ro

Hints  on  Proper  Advertising  of  a 

Clothing  Store.

in 

The  merchant  that  has  procured in 
the  market  the  finest  stock  imagina­
ble  to  place  upon  his  shelves  must 
busy  himself  at  once  to  let  the  pub­
lic  know  what  his  store  consists  of. 
His  goods  may  lie  for  weeks  and  i 
months  and  grow  old  on  his  shelves 
if  he  does  not  let  the  public  share 
his  secret.  He  must  throw  open his 
store  and  show  everything 
it. 
This  he  can  do  for  the  benefit  of 
himself  and  his  immediate  neigh­
bors,  but  the  public  at 
large  will 
know  nothing  of  the  treasures  buried 
in  his  store  until  he  advertises.  He 
must  reach  the  people  through  his 
town  newspapers,  by  presenting 
a 
few 
in  a  way  to 
suggest  others  not  mentioned,  and by 
following  a  system  of  this  kind  day 
by  day  he  will  soon  have  planted 
seeds  that  will  grow  and  bloom  and 
ripen  into  fruitful  knowledge  of  the 
many  good  things  he  has  to  offer  | 
the  public.

leading  features 

A  number  of  people  advertise  ex­
tensively— as  they  think— and  receive 
no  returns  or  increase  in  their  busi­
ness.  Such  are  apt  to  jump  to  the 
conclusion  that  advertising  does  not 
pay.  They  do  not  stop  to  investi­
gate  their  methods  of  advertising to 
see  whether  there  is  something 
in  | 
that,  but  lay  the  whole  blame  to  the 
practice  of  advertising.  The  right 
kind  of  advertising  pays  and  there 
is  no  mistake  in  that,  and  when  no 
returns  come  from  an  advertisement 
one  may  rest  assured  that  it  is  due 
to  the  method  and  makeup  of 
the 
advertisements,  and  perhaps  the  class 
of  goods  are  not  of  the  latest,  or i 
the  advertiser  has  become  a  back 
number  in  the  trade  by  allowing  his 
conservatism  to  kill  any  natural  in­
clination  and  desire 
to  push  new 
ideas  and  new  things  in  his  trade.

In  the  early  part  of 

It  is  not  often  that  a  man  in  busi­
ness  lays  his  plans  so  as  to  test  the 
real  value  of  advertising,  but 
the 
writer  recently  met  in  his  travels a 
man  taking  up  the  work  in  a  sys­
tematic  way  to  make  sure  of  his 
ground. 
the 
year  he  concluded  to  advertise  and 
set  apart  $250  a  month  for 
the  pur­
pose,  but  the  amount  was  not  all  re­
quired.  He  has  pursued  his  plan  for 
six  months  persistently  and  judicious­
ly,  with  results  as  follows:  The per­
centage  of  increase  over  the  business 
of  last  year  was 
112 
per  cent.;  April,  144  per  cent.;  May, 
163  per  cent.;  June,  109  per  cent.; 
July,  100  per  cent.;  August,  109  per 
cent.  When  our  conversation  took 
place,  on  September  25,  in  Paris,  this 
man’s  business 
to 
date  was  nearly  3  per  cent,  increase 
over  any  two  months  of  the  previous 
year— and  he  was  a  Frenchman  at 
that

for  September 

in  March, 

The  above  facts  in  a  most  emphatic 
way  prove  the  .value  of  advertising, 
but  it  by  no  means  follows  that  any

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make  your  inside  display  as  strong 
as  your  windows.  Make  solid  shows. 
— Clothier  and  Furnisher.

Spring  Demand  Slow  on  Underwear 

Lines.

Initial  demand  on  lines  of  under­
wear  for  the  coming  spring  season 
has  proved  disappointing  to  both  the 
agent  and  manufacturer. 
It  is  felt, 
however,  that  this  will  ultimately  re­
sult  in  large  reorders,  after  buyers 
have  felt  their  ground  and  assured 
themselves  regarding  the  position  of 
the  market.  Their  reasons  for  this 
are  based  on  the  belief  that  stocks 
are  low,  not  only  with  the  jobber  but 
also  with  the  retailer.  Last  season’s 
conservative  policy  regarding  pur­
chases  has  resulted  in  having  little 
on  hand  in  the  way  of  duplicate stock 
on  which  to  draw.  Consequently  the 
that  with  prosperous 
seller  figures 
conditions  facing  the 
country  and 
little  stock  in  retailers’  hands,  busi­
ness  will  be  done  on  new  goods, and 
to  meet  this  anticipated  demand  the 
retailer  must  soon  begin  to  place  or­
ders.  The  jobber  has  placed  only 
light  first  orders  and  is  awaiting  de­
velopments,  after  which  he  must 
place  duplicate  orders  to  meet  his  re­
quirements.  The  high  cost  of  raw 
material  and  the  uncertainty  of  future 
prices  on  the  manufactured  goods has 
also  had  more  or  less  effect  in  re­
stricting  orders.  Although  the  man­
ufacturer  is  a  firm  believer  in  present 
prices  being  maintained,  even  if  no 
advance  becomes  necessary,  the  buyer 
is  in  many  instances  inclined  to  be­
lieve  that  lack  of  demand  may  result 
in  lower  figures.  For  this  reason  he 
has  refrained  from  placing  his  orders 
until  the  actual  force  of  requirements 
compels  him  to.  Current  requirements 
with  the  jobber  have  been  of  a  fair 
volume,  but  scarcity  of  goods,  due  to 
the  same  old  policy  of  conservatism, 
prevents  in  many  instances  filling  the 
same.  Ribbed  goods  have  sold  well 
for  fall  with  the  retailer,  and  supplies 
insufficient  to  meet  the 
have  been 
demand.  Fleeces  have  also  sold 
to 
some  extent,  but  not  as  largely  as  in 
former  seasons.

On  spring  lines  of  hosiery  demand 
has  not  started  up  as  yet  to  an  ex­
tent  that  will  permit  of  much  predict­
ing  on  the  final  outcome  of  the  sea­
son.  Here,  as  on  underwear  lines,  in­
dications,  however,  seem  to  point  to 
good  orders  to  come.  The  brown 
shades  have  held  first  place  well  into 
the  fall,  but  it  is  not  believed  that 
these  shades  will  be  in  favor again for 
the  coming  spring.  Fancy  hosiery  is 
considered  by  many  as  good  property 
for  the  new  season,  while,  on  the 
other  hand,  there  are  just  as  strong 
supporters  to  be  found  of plain  goods. 
Jobbers  have  placed  but  light  first 
orders,  awaiting  developments.  Man­
ufacturers  claim  that,  with  the  price 
of  yarns  advancing  duplicate  orders 
can  only  be  secured  at  an  advance, 
while  in  other  directions  agents  have 
not  shown  lines,  not  caring  to  name 
prices  before  being  sure  that  their 
mills  were  supplied  with  raw  material 
at  prices  that  would  insure  a  margin 
of  profit.

Lack  of  Uniformity  in  Underwear 

Prices.

If, 

as 

from 

ahead. 

little  confidence 

Much  quiet  comment 

is  heard 
among  underwear  agents  regarding 
the  reported  concessions  granted  by 
certain  manufacturers  from  prices 
announced  at  the  opening  of  their 
new  lines  for  the  coming  fall  sea­
son.  With  this  condition  of  affairs 
sees  much 
facing  him  the  agent 
reported, 
trouble 
Western  buyers  have 'succeeded 
in 
obtaining  contracts  at  prices  <as  low 
as  $3-35  f°r  I2K   to  13-pound  fleeces 
which  were  opened  at  $3.50,  this  ac­
tion  on  the  part  of  the  mills,  or- 
their  agents,  will  undoubtedly  serve 
to  entirely  upset  the  market  for some 
time  to  come.  Other  buyers  will 
have  but 
in  any 
quotations  that  may  be  made,  and,  if 
purchasing  at  all,  will  do  so  in  a  most 
conservative  manner,  pending  further 
developments.  Ribbed  goods,  espe­
cially  in  women’s  wear,  are  also  re­
ported  to  have  come  in  for  a  share 
of  these  reductions,  concessions  hav­
ing,  it  is  claimed,  been  made  from 
last  season’s  prices.  One  agent  in 
the  market  speaking  of  the  present 
situation  said: 
“With  yarns  at  pres­
ent  prices,  I  do  not  see  how  any 
manufacturer  can  consistently  see his 
way  clear  to  make  any  reduction  in 
the  price  of  manufactured  goods.  In 
the  majority  of  instances  the  manu­
facturer  buys  his  yarns 
the 
spinner.  Any  one  familiar  with  the 
situation  knows  that  cotton  yarns are 
not  cheap.  Spinners  are  not  over 
well  covered,  and  any  talk  of  conces­
sions  from  present  yarn  prices  will 
be  met  with  a  prompt  refusal  on  the 
part  of  the  spinner  to  do  business. 
Wool  and  merino  lines  are  not  en­
tirely  open  as  yet,  but,  where  open, 
business  has  been  done  at 
last  year’s 
figures.  The  manufacturer  accepting 
these  orders,  unless  he  purchased  his 
raw  material  at  the  beginning  of  the 
year,  which  is  not  probable,  will  be 
compelled  either  to  deliver  his  goods 
at  a  loss,  or  cancel  the  orders.  Buy­
ers  had  been  brought 
to  a  point 
where  they  freely  expected  to  pay 
an  advance.  Now  it  will  be  difficult 
to  secure  even  last  season’s  figures.”
Practically  the  entire  range  of fall 
hosiery  lines  has  now  been  opened. 
Initial  orders  have  not  been 
large, 
but  better  results  are  looked  for  from 
now  on.  Woolen  and  worsted  goods 
show  an  advance  of  from  5  to  10  per 
cent,  over  last  year’s  figures,  due  to 
the  steady  advance  and  present  high 
cost  of  raw  material.  Cotton  goods 
remain  practically  at 
season’s 
figures,  although  in  some  instances 
heavyweight  goods  show  slight  re­
ductions  and  concessions  of  from  4 
to  5  per  cent,  are  reported  to  have 
been  made  in  order  to  interest 
the 
buyer.  Spring  business  continues to 
move  along  in  somewhat  moderate 
channels.  On  goods  for  current re­
quirements,  however,  jobbers  report 
difficulty  in  meeting  buyers’  orders. 
Retailers  held  their  orders  down  to 
an  exceptionally  conservative  basis 
and  are  now  endeavoring  to  fill  in 
for  the  purpose  of  meeting  pressing 
requirements.

last 

A  plain  face  needs  no  chaperon.

Fate  is  Fortune’s  mother-in-law.

Style in j 
Clothes

M.WILE& COMPANY
— M A K E R S  —m

,CLOTHESv0rrQUALITY”

M.  W ile  &  Com pany  have  always 
been  known  as  creators  and  leaders 
in  the  clothing  world.

E very one  of  their  garm ents  shows 

the  art  of  a  knowing  designer.

( i Clothes  of  Quality 9 »

possess  a  charm  that  is  pleasing  to 
the  wearer  which  grows  day  by  day.
Retain  your  custom ers  by  selling 

this  justly  famous  clothing.

O U R   S A L E S M E N   A R E   IN   Y O U R   S T A T E  

D o  you  want  to  see  one?

M.  Wile  &   Company

High-grade,  Moderate-priced  Clothes for  Men and Young  Men 

MADE  IN  BUFFALO

W illiam  A iden S m ith, 2nd V ice-P res.  M .  C . H u p g e tt, Sec’y, T reas. and Gen. M an. 

W illiam  C onnor, P res. 

Jo sep h  S.  H offm an,  1s t V ice-P res.

Colonel B ishop, E d w .  B.  B ell,  D irectors

The  William  Connor  Co.

Wholesale  Ready  Made  Clothing 

Manufacturers

28-30  S.  Ionia St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  Founder  E stablished  25  Years.

O ur  Spring  and  Sum m er  line  for  1905  includes  sam ples  of  nearly  every­
thin g   th a t’s  m ade  for  children,  boys,  youths  and  men,  including  sto u ts  and 
slims.  B iggest  line  by  long  odds  In  M ichigan.  Union  m ade  goods  if  re ­
quired;  low  prices:  equitable  term s;  one  price  to  all.  References  given  to 
large  num ber  of  m erchants  who  prefer  to  come  and  see  our  full  line;  but  if 
preferred  we  send  representative.  Mail  and  phone  orders  promptly  shipped.
We  carry  for  immediate  delivery  nice  line  of  Overcoats,  suits,  etc.,  for 
W inter  trade.

Bell Phone, riain, 1283 

Citizens’  1957

Merchants’ H alf Fare Excursion  Rates to Grand Rapids every day.  W rite for circular.

THEY  FIT

Gladiator  Pantaloons

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Clapp Clothing  Company

Manufacturers of Gladiator Clothing

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

and  the  West  Michigan  Lumber  Co., 
at  Woodville.  The  first  year  Mr. 
Holmes  was  in  charge  of  the  business 
the  sales  were  $42,000.  This  year the 

sales  will  aggregate  $150,000,  plainly J 

demonstrating  the  wonderful  devel­
opment  of  the  business  under  the 
guidance  and  control  of  a  competent 
manager.  The  sales  from  July  1  to 
Nov.  1  of  this  year  show  a  gain  of 
$14,000  in  volume  over 
corre­
sponding  period  last  year.

the 

The  roster  of  the  store  is  as  fol­

lows:

M O DEL  STORE.

Mitchell  Brothers  Company’s  Busi­

ness  Building  at  Jennings.

Mitchell  Brothers  Company’s  new 
store  building  at  Jennings,  which was 
constructed  during  the  past  summer

The  basement  is  also  to  be  used  for 
storing  surplus  stock.  The  building 
rests  on  a  cement  foundation,  is  well 
painted  and  finished  inside  and  out, 
and  has  been  completed  at  a  cost  of 
It  will 
about  ten  thousand  dollars. 
be  heated  with  steam, 
lighted  by

T H E   O L D   S T O R E ,  N O W   U S E D   A S   O P E R A   H O U S E .

Ole  Hutchins,  grocery  and  hard­

Robt.  Blackburn,  grocery  and  hard­

ware.

ware.

G.  A.  Wilson,  pharmacist.
B.  L.  Curtis,  cattle  buyer.
A.  W.  Milks,  meat  cutter.
Forest  Samis,  drayman.
Allan  Johnston,  janitor.

Value  of  Organization  in  Store  Man­

agement.

No  argument  is  required  to  prove 
that  organization  is  to  be  preferred  to

season,  is  not  only  one  of  the  largest I 
in  the  State,  but  probably  the  largest { 
lumbering  company 
th e ! 
United  States. 
It  is  60  feet  wide  by 1 
135  feet  long,  two  stories  high,  with 
a  basement  60x75  feet.  The 
lower 
floor  is  divided  into  a  24x60  foot gro- ; 
eery  department,  a  60x60  foot  dry I

store 

in 

electric  lights,  fitted  with  cash  car­
riers,  and  have  every  convenience  of 
a  modern  city  store.  About  seven­
teen  clerks  are  employed,  including 
a  registered  pharmacist  for  the  drug 
department.  Cement  walks  have  been 
laid  on  the  north  and  east,  the  streets 
graded  and  graveled,  and  with  its  60

H O M E   O F   T H E   M A N   A G E R ,  D A V ID   H O L M E S .

chaos,  and  that  system  is  far  supe-
D.  Holmes,  manager. 
|  rior  to  a  lack  of  it  in  the  management
H.  J.  Anderson,  book-keeper. 
Alvin  W.  Mitchell,  cashier. 
of  a  store  or  any  business.  Yet  how
M.  F.  Nackerman,  stenographer.  many  firms  are  there  that  do  fully
C.  Z.  Robinson,  manager  dry  goods  realize  how  great  might  be  the  in­
crease  in  the  efficiency  of  their  store
L.  H.  Campbell,  dry  goods  depart-  or  business,  did  they  but  possess  a 
I  system  of  organization  and  manage-

ment-________________ 

department. 

T H E   N E W   S T O R E .

in  the  rear 

goods  and  furnishing  department,  a 
3°x35  foot  meat  market,  a  20x30  foot 
flour  room  and  a  22x60  storage  room. 
In  the  center  are  Manager  Holmes’ 
office  and  the  cashier’s  and  stenog­
rapher’s  desks  and 
a 
freight  elevator.  On  the  second floor 
in  front  is  a  well  lighted  room,  60 
feet  square,  used  as  a  furniture, stove 
and  crockery  salesroom.  The  rear 
of  the  second  floor  is  divided  into 
several  different  rooms  to  be  used 
for  storage  purposes  and  such  other 
uses  as  the  business  may  demand. I

foot  glass  front  the  new  building  pre­
sents  a  very  fine  appearance.  The 
old  store  building  opposite  will  now 
be  used  as  an  opera  house  and  will 
be  suitably  refitted  and  furnished.

The  store  business  was  established 
I about  ten  years  ago  by  A.  C.  Mc- 
Nitt.  Two  years  later  the  store  and 
stock  were  purchased  by  Mitchell 
Brothers,  who  fortunately secured the 
services  of  Mr.  David  Holmes,  who 
had  previously  acted  as  manager  of 
the  mercantile  departments  of  the 
Elk  Rapids  Iron  Co.,  at  Elk  Rapids,

A N   IN T E R IO R   V I E W   IN  T H E   N E W   S T O R E .

Myrtle  Hardy,  dry  goods  depart­

ment.

Jno.  J.  Gage,  grocery  and  hardware.
Yorgan  Hanson,  grocery  and hard­

ware.

Claude  Perry,  grocery  and  hard­

ware.

ment  which  would  tend  to  that  ideal 
condition  where  every  man,  salesman 
and  manager  is  constantly  working 
to  the  common  end— “the  good  of the 
proprietor?”  A  vital  element  in  the 
make-up  of  the  industrious  merchant 
is  the  application  of  energy  along the

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lines  where  the  greatest  results  can  I 
be  accomplished,  and  the  elimination 
of  all  waste  which 
interferes  with 
such  results.

One  morning  last  year  a  clothing 
merchant,  who  is  gifted  with  fore­
sight,  and  who,  we  might  add,  is  a 
multi-millionaire  and  occupies 
the 
“personal  touch”  position  in  a  busi­
ness  doing  several  millions  a  year, 
called  to  the  manager  of  his  store 
and  told  him  to  send  the  “boys”  in­
to  his  office  a  few  at  a  time.  When 
the  first  lot  were  assembled,  all  timid 
and  displaying  signs  indicating  their 
timidity,  he  turned 
them  and |

to 

history  of  that  concern.  The  months 
of  August,  September  and  October, 
unpromising  in  their  returns  for many 
clotheirs,  have  all  shown  gains  here. 
The  organization  in  this  store,  one 
of  the  largest  in  the  country,  is  the 
best  we  know  of. 
Its  atmosphere  is 
wholesome  and  there  is  not  an  un­
comfortable-being  in  the  staff,  from 
the  stock  clerks  up.

At  this  store  a  system  is  followed 
out  that  is  well  worth  emulation. 
Salesmen  are  salesmen,  stock  clerks 
are  stock  clerks,  and  each  one  to  his 
place,  with  the  salesmen  on 
turn. 
Not  even  during  the  rush  hours  of

only  can  give  you  the  good  service I 
you  expect  to  receive.

At  this  clothing  store  referred  to  I 
one  of  the  floor  men,  and  there  are  J 
several,  greets  you  as  your  entrance 
is  announced  by  the  boy  who  opens 
the  door  for  you. 
If  your  special 
salesman  or  all  the  salesmen  are  en­
gaged  the  floor  man  gives  you  a  chair 
and  requests  you  to  be  seated,  that 
you  may  await  a  salesman  and  get j 
service  from  one  experienced  in  the 
handling  of  customers  and  the  stock. 
That  store  wants  you  properly  wait­
ed  upon,  that  you  may  leave  satisfied. 
It  takes  no  chances  of  having  you  |

You 

time  that  you  are  apparently  hard 
to  please. 
leave,  dissatisfied, 
without  making  a  purchase,  and,  per­
haps,  go  elsewhere.  A  stock  clerk 
is  forced  into  service  to  keep  down 
expenses.  At  the  end  of  the  year  his 
salary  is  increased  by  a  dollar.  An­
other  stock  clerk,  who  kept  his  place 
and  did  not  sell  every  customer  he 
got  a  chance  to  serve,  asks  for  a 
raise.  The  “boss”  says,  “Why,  you 
haven’t  earned 
it.  There’s  Johnny 
Jones,  who  sold  $6,000  last  year;  he 
earned  his  raise.” 
“But  you  hired 
me  as  a  stock  clerk;  I  didn’t  know 
you  wanted  me  to  sell  goods. 
I’ll

S O M E   IN T E R IO R   V I E W S   O F   M I T C H E L L   B R O T H E R S ’  N E W   S T O R E   A T   JE N N I N G S ,  M ICH.

said:  “Well,  gentlemen,  we  have had 
a  bad  year  of  it,  business  has  been 
bad,  very  bad;  worse  than  I  have 
known  it  to  be  in  a  great  many  years. 
But  it  is  not  your  fault.  You  have 
all  done  your  best. 
I  will  advance 
all  your  salaries  five  dollars  a  week. 
Now  go  back  and  pull  up  good  and 
strong  next  year.”

This  was  repeated  until  all 

in 
turn  had  passed  before  the  “boss.” 
Did  they  go  back  and  pull  up?  Was 
there  harmony  in  that  sales  force? 
Was  each  one  feeling  comfortable in 
mind?  The  year  now  drawing  to  a 
close  has  been  the 
largest  in  the

Saturday,  when  business 
is  at  its 
height  and  customers  stand  or  sit 
about  awaiting  service, 
is  a  stock 
clerk  or  one  other  than  a  salesman 
permitted  to  wait  upon  a  customer.

When  you  go  into  a  high-class  res­
taurant  and  seat  yourself  at  table 
one  of  the  supernumeraries  approach­
es  your  table,  hands  you  your  nap­
kin,  places  a  glass  of  water  before 
you  and  extends  you  the  bill  of  fare. 
He  has  given  you  the  service  he  is 
engaged  to  perform.  He  would  not 
take  your  order.  Only  the  experi­
enced  waiter  is  so  privileged.  He

get  poor  service  through  an  ineffi­
cient  stock  clerk.

At  another  store,  where  they  have a 
large  and  efficient  force  of  salesmen 
for  service  during  the  week,  when 
the  Saturday  rush  comes  stock  clerks 
are  pressed  into  service  to  wait  upon 
customers.  You  enter  as  a  customer 
intent  on  buying  clothing  to 
the 
amount  of  thirty  or  forty  dollars. 
Your  regular  salesman  is  busy  sell­
ing  a  pair  of 
trousers.  You  are 
turned  over  to  an  incompetent  stock 
clerk.  To  begin  with,  you  are  dis­
appointed.  The  boy  does  not  know 
the  stock  and  you  learn  for  the  first I

“Yes;  but,  my 
do  it  hereafter.” 
dear  boy,  we  want  money 
in  the 
cash  drawer,  and  if  you  help  tp  put 
it  there  you’ll  get  along.”— Apparel 
Gazette.

Once  upon  a  time  there  were  two 
men,  both  striving  to  arrive.  One 
worked  his  way  gradually  up,  while 
the  other  worked  men.  When  the 
first  was  half  way  up  the  ladder  he 
glanced  at  the  top.  Lo,  the  man  who 
had  started  with  him  was  already 
there  resting.

Destiny  is  a  dope  peddler.

of  the  case  held  th a t  th e  action  of 
the  union  w as  illegal,  and  said:

“To  proclaim  a  business  or  the  pro­
prietors  thereof  unfair  in  this  man­
ner  is  as  infamous  as  to  proclaim  be­
fore  a  private  dwelling  that  the  in­
mates  thereof  are  prostitutes.  The 
acts  complained  of  are  breaches  of 
the  peace,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
if  met  by  personal  violence  on 
the 
part  of  the  boycotted,  did  he  so  elect, 
he  would  be  justified  by  a  jury. 
It 
is  the  opinion  of  the  court  that  no 
one  may  promenade  before  the  place 
of  business  of  any  other  person  bear­
ing  signs,  placards  or  printed  no­
tices  of  any  kind  reflecting  on 
the 
honor  or  fairness  of  the  business  it­
self  or  the  proprietors  thereof.”

to  

look  at 

T o   realize  the  absolute  justness  of 
this  decision  it  is  only  necessary  for 
the  unionists 
the  o th er 
side  and  im agine  an  em ployer  send­
ing  m en  w ith  such  signs  to   parade 
before  union  head q u arters  w ith  ex­
pressions  to  the  effect  th a t  the  union 
m em bership  w as  m ade  up  of  ro b ­
bers,  assassins  and 
and

crim inals 

In  such  a  case 

warning  all  employers  against  hiring 
them. 
the  unions 
would  take  action  without  delay.  And 
yet  why  is  sauce  for  the  goose  not 
sauce  for  the  gander?

Union  lawlessness  has  been  toler­
ated  until  unions  have  come  to  be­
lieve  that  they  are  a  lew  unto  them­
selves,  and  that  others  have  no 
rights  to  be  respected.  But  there 
has  been  a  great  change 
in  public 
sentiment  in  the  past 
few  years. 
Unions  can  not  expect  to  be  treated 
as  unruly  children  all  the  time  and 
must  learn  sooner  or  later  to  modi­
fy  their  claims  and  allow  other  peo­
ple  to  enjoy  to  a  reasonable  degree 
the  inalienable  rights  of  life,  liberty 
and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.— Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.

Advantages  of  a  Good  Education. 

W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

Education  is  for  the  development 
of  our  faculties  and 
formation  of 
our  character.  Fortune  may  be  left 
to  us  by  our  parents  or  relatives, but 
we  can  not 
learning.  We

inherit 

must  struggle  for  it  ourselves,  and, 
while  fortune  may  be  gained  in  ad­
vanced  life,  education  must  be  ob­
If  not  it  will  be 
tained  in  youth. 
almost  impossible 
to  make 
it  up. 
And  it  must  be  by  hard  work  of the 
brain.  When  Dionysius,  the  tyrant 
of  Syracuse,  wished  Archimedes  to 
instruct  him  in  geometry  by  an  eas­
ier  method  than  common,  the  phi­
losopher  replied,  “I  know  of  no  royal 
road  to  geometry.” 
It  is  education 
that  makes  civilized  nations  and  to 
it  the  possessor  thereof  owes  the 
superiority  that  he  has  over  his  fel­
low  creatures  more  than  to  any  ad­
vantage  of  nature.  There  are  many 
persons  who  would  have  risen  high 
had  they  been  educated.  Some  peo­
ple  do  not  appreciate  the  value  of 
having  education  and,  therefore,  do 
not  obtain  it;  but  as 
the  country 
grows  older  it  is  valued  more.

L.  Harrison.

When  things  are  bluest  it  is  mighty 
little  consolation  to  think  that  they 
might  be  blacker._______________

22
B U C K W H E A T   PROD UCTION - 
Statistics  Compiled  by  the  Govern­

ment.

Government  figures  on  the  buck­
wheat  crop  bear  out  the  reports  made 
by  our  correspondents,  as  published 
in  our  October  issue.

Preliminary  returns  to  the  chief of 
the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the  De­
partment  of  Agriculture  make 
the 
average  yield  per  acre  18.9  bushels, 
against  an  average  yield  of  17.7 
in 
1903,  18.1  bushels  in  1902  and  a  ten- 
year  average  of  i 7-9  bushels.  The 
average  for  quality  is  91.5  per  cent., 
against  91.4 
in 
1902. 
In  other  words,  both  the  pro­
duction  and  quality  are  slightly  high­
er  than  last  year.

last  year  and  88.1 

The  buckwheat  crop  of  1903  (14,- 
243,644  bushels)  was  a 
fairly  good 
one,  although  below  those  of  1902 
(14,529,770  bushels)  and 
(15,- 
125,939  bushels).  The  1903  crop was, 
however,  above  the  ten-year  aver­
age.

1901 

The  largest  single  year’s  produc­
tion  during  the  past  ten  years  was 
in  1895,  when  15,341,399  bushels  of 
buckwheat  were  harvested.  With the 
exception  of  that  of  1901,  this  was  I 
the  only  crop  that  went  over  15,000,-
000  bushels  in  the  ten  years  under 
review.

In  point  of  value  to  the  farmer  the 
record  crop  was  not  equal  to  those 
of  the  last  three  years.  The  farm 
value  of  the  1895  crop  on  December
1  was  $6,936,325,  while  those  of  1901, 
1902  and  1903  were  valued  at  $8,523,- 
317,  $8,654,704  and  $8,650,733,  respec­
tively,  on  corresponding  dates.
the 

The  opening  prices  on 

1904 
crop  were  high,  in  sympathy  with 
the  prices  of  other  grains.  An  ex­
amination  of  Government 
figures 
shows  that  as  a  rule  the  price  of 
buckwheat  is  determined  largely  by 
influences  other  than  the  size  of  the 
crop  itself.  In  1866,  when  we  produc­
ed  22,791,839  bushels,  the  price  was 
67.6  cents  per  bushel.  The  following 
year  the  production  dropped  to  21,- 
359,000  bushels  and  the  price  advanc­
ed  to  78.7  cents,  but  in  1868,  when 
the  crop  was  19,863,700  bushels,  the 
average  price  per  bushel  was 
78 
cents.  The  lowest  price  on  record 
was  in  1897,  when  the  crop  was  14,- 
997,451  bushels  and  sold  at  42.1  cents 
per  bushel.  The  other  extreme  was 
in  1881,  with  a  crop  of  9,486,200  bush­
els  and  an  average  price  of  86.5. 
In 
1883  the  yield  was  only  7,668,954 
bushels,  the  shortest  crop  on  record, 
but  the  price  was  only  82.2  cents  per 
bushel.— American  Miller.

A  Notable  Boycott  Decision.

A  decision  of  special  interest  con­
cerning  labor  union  policies  comes 
from  California,  where 
the  unions 
have  been  having  things  their  own 
way  for  some  time  past.  A  firm  of 
grocers  in  San  Francisco  protested 
against  a  boycott  ordered 
by  the 
stablemen’s  union  because  the  gro­
cery  firm  refused  to  discharge  non­
union  stablemen  from 
employ. 
The  union  forces  carried  placards 
and  transparencies 
“unfair 
firm;  don’t  patronize,”  and  the  firm 
brought  legal 
the 
union.  The  judge  reviewing  the  law

against 

labeled 

action 

its 

M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

Hot
Buckw heat
C akes

With sausage and gravy. 

Isn’t that compensation enough for  crawl­

ing out of a warm bed on a cold morning?

Blessings  on  the  head  of  the  man  who  first  discovered  them—he 

knew what real breakfast food is.

Good old fashioned buckwheat flour is again coming to the front and 
the breakfast food fad is dying—for the winter, anyway.  This is the time 
of year when the average man prefers good hot buckwheat cakes.

There s nothing like them for making a  man  feel  warm,  comfortable 

and well fed on a cold  morning.

We  have  the  buckwheat.
It  has  the  real,  genuine  buckwheat  flavor. 

It  makes  rich,  brown 
cakes—not the white  livered,  pale,  pasty  things  which  never  saw  real 
buckwheat,  but the brown colored, luscious kind that mother made  when 
we were boys.

We put it up in 5,  10,  \2%  and  25  pound  sacks  so  you  can  easily 

hand  out any quantity a customer wants.

It sells like “hot cakes” and now is the time to push your buckwheat 
sales.  You  have no idea how much you can sell if you put a little ginger 
into your selling campaign.

Let us have an order  NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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BO RRO W ED  BRAINS.

They  Are  No  Aid  To  a  Man  in  the 

End.

A  London  paper  tells  of  a  young 
man  at  Birmingham  who  has  recent­
ly  been  discharged  from  an  impor-  ! 
tant  official  position  because  it  was 
discovered  that  he  had  secured  first 
place  in  the  examination  by  a  pecur 
liar  fraud.  He  had  been  coached  by 
what  was  curiously  called  a  “brain 
syndicate,”  and  he  only  succeeded  in 
obtaining  a  second  class  position  at 
the  preliminary  trial;  then,  when  the 
final  examination  was  reached, 
the 
syndicate,  according  to  their  agree­
ment,  sent  a  substitute  to  sit  in  the 
young  man’s  place.  Thus  it  was  that 
his  name  figured  at  the  top  when 
the  results  were  published.

And  this  kind  of  thing  appears  to 
be  taking  place  more  frequently  than 
is  generally  known,  and  has  been 
going  on  for  some  years  past.  So 
far  back  as  1899  there  occurred  a 
similar  case  to  the  foregoing,  where-  I 
in  a  young  man,  who  was  not  only 
dull  witted  but  illiterate,  obtained  a 
position  of  much 
importance  and 
trust  with  a  large  firm  through  the 
brain  work  of  another;  but  when  he 
entered  upon  his  duties  it  was  dis­
covered  he  was  utterly  unfitted  for 
the  post,  and  it  was  at  once  felt  by 
his  employers  that  a  grave  mistake 
had  somehow  been  made,  and  ulti­
mately,  after  he  had  been  removed, 
and  given  a  humbler  position  needing 
less  ability,  the  truth  leaked  out  that 
a  great  deception  had  been  made  up­
on  the  examiners  who  had  reported

upon  the  merits  of 
the  candidates 
qualifying  for  the  post.  A  double 
had  gone  through  the  examination 
and  carried  off  the  honors  of  first 
place,  which  had  won  for  the  dullard 
the  coveted  situation,  for  which  he 
had  turned  out  so  unsuitable.

considerable 

Another  case  of  more  recent  oc­
currence  was  that  of  a  young  wom­
lucrative  position, 
an  obtaining  a 
which  needed 
clerical 
ability;  and  she  secured  it,  so  it  was 
supposed,  with  the  highest  possible 
honors,  the  girl  being  far  and  away 
above  all  the  other  competitors.  But 
when 
it  came  to  the  performance 
of  the  duties  it  was  quickly  noticed 
that  she  fell  far  behind  what  was 
expected  and  required  of  her,  after 
such  a  searching  test  of  her  abilities, 
and  it  created  much  surprise.  And 
she,  knowing  how  unequal  she  was I 
to  the  task  which  she  had  to  per­
form,  became  worried,  and  at 
last 
confessed  that  she  had  obtained  the 
berth  by  proxy— the  examining tests 
had  all  been  borne  by  another.  A 
female 
friend  of  great  ability  had 
not  only  worked  out  the  written  an­
swers  to  the  qualifying  papers,  but 
had  actualy  sat  at  the  examiner’s  ta­
ble  for  her  for  the  final  trials.

Then,  again, 

these  methods  of 
mental  help  have  found  their  way 
i  into  school,  when  the  old  fashioned 
“cribbing”  has  not  proved  sufficient 
I for  the  lazy  boy,  and  by  this  means 
he  has  obtained  a  certificate  for  com­
petency  after  various  high  grade  ex­
aminations  to  which  he  was  in  no­
wise  entitled.

I  have  just  been  informed  of 

a

sat 

case  where  a  lad 
two  years 
through  a  certain  course  of  study and 
failed  each  time.  The  parents  al­
most  despaired  at  his  backwardness, 
but  later  he  came  out  on  top,  to  the 
surprise  of  all  who  knew  him.  Some 
time  after  it  was  proved  that 
the 
work  put  in  was  not  his;  not  a  sin­
gle  bit  of  it  had  he  done. 
It  had  all 
been  accomplished  by  a  substitute.

But  aids  to  a  weak  brain  are  much 
more  prevalent  in  America  just  now 
than  in  any  other  country  in 
the 
world.  Here  mental  helps  of  various 
kinds  abound.  Almost  any  examina­
tion  can  be  sustained  for  you  by 
another.  Mental  institutions  public­
ly  profess  to  be  able,  and  do  offer, 
to  help  you 
into  prominence  and 
wealth;  so  that  the  dullest  and  laz­
iest  need  not  despair. 
It  only  needs 
a  little  cash  to make  the  first  payment 
and  your  fame  is  won  for  you.

In  its  way  the  idea  is  excellent, 
from  the  point  of  view  of  the  candi­
date;  but  it  is  unfortunate  that  the 
brain  syndicate  can  not  endow 
its 
clients  with  intellect  to  sustain  the 
positions  which 
fraudulently 
gain. 

John  A.  Howland.

they 

Taking  Bumps.

You  can’t  knock  sense  into  some 
people’s  pate  with  a  baseball  bat. 
After  you  have  given  them  a  good 
all 
straight  crack  they  will  spend 
their  time  discussing  the  way 
the 
message  has  been  delivered  and  im­
puting  motives  to  the  person  who 
has  delivered  it.  When  you  get  a 
good  straight  tap  on  the  head  don’t 
finding
i stand  rubbing  the  spot  and 

standing 

fault  with  the  fellow  that  hit  you. 
Ask  yourself  what  it  means  and what 
business  you  had 
there 
when  you  got  it. 
In  every  riot  it  is 
the  fools  who  stand  and  look  on  who 
get  done  up  by  the  policemen’s  clubs. 
Get  out  of  the  way  of  sinners  and 
judgments  will  not  fall  on 
then 
you. 
Instead  of  criticising  Solomon 
and  sneering  at  his  philosophy  quit 
some  of  those  things  that  he  hits. 
Every  time  you  find  a  man  who 
is 
sore  on  the  question  of  what  some 
one  says  about  his  wickedness  you 
have  a  rascal  or  a  fool— in  the  one 
case  a  fellow  who  will  not  quit  his 
villainy,  in  the  other  one  who  will 
not  forsake  the  company  of  those 
who  make  light  of  evil.  Remember 
this: 
“A  reproof  entereth  more  into 
a  wise  man  than  a  hundred  stripes 
into  a  fool.”  How  do  you  take  your 
bumps?  Do  you  quit  the  evil  thing 
or  hate  those  who  are 
interested 
enough  to  rebuke  you?

Any  bright  man  can 

sell  most 
things.  To  sell  shoes  successfully 
requires  more  than  average  bright­
ness. 
It  takes  that  plus  the  qualities 
of  perseverance  and  often,  too,  of 
diplomacy.

Never  attempt  to  substitute  som e­
thing  else  for  what  a  customer  asks 
for,  unless you  are  sure  he  will  be  bet­
ter  suited.  Give  him  what  he  wants 
and  you  will  make  a  friend  of  him.

Because  a  woman  has  kittenish 
ways  is  no  sure  proof  that  she  is  a 
cat.

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E V E N   UN TO  DEATH .

Woman  Who  Remained  Steadfast To 

the  End.

W ritten   for  the  Tradesm an.

There  are  in  Manton  all  told  nine 
It  is  a  community 
hundred  souls. 
which  thinks  very  kindly  of  itself and 
considers  it  a  commendable  fact  that 
for  the  last  generation  or  two  the 
population  has  remained  in  the  close 
vicinity  of  nine  hundred.  This  nine 
hundred  in  regard  to  sex  is 
very 
nearly  equally  divided  and  another 
feature  which  is  peculiarly  Manton- 
esque  is  that  while  all  of  them  are 
interested  in  the  domestic  affairs  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Maybury,  the 
man  side  of  the  community  gives  its 
hearty  encouragement  and  good  will 
to  “Tom,”  while  his  commendable 
wife  is  certain  of  the  moral  support 
of  her  sex  in  the  good  town  of  Man- 
ton.

things 

This  condition  of 

is  very 
easily  and  very  satisfactorily  explain­
ed.  Some  thirty-five  years  ago  when 
Tom  was  about  ready  to  cast  his first 
vote  the  mature  life  of  the  village 
did  not  and  could  not  look  with  ap­
proval  upon  much  that  Tom  May­
bury  did.  He  got  tired  of  going  to 
Sunday  school  too  soon.  He  had  dif­
ferences  with  the  ruling  powers  at 
the  school  house  and  left  before  he 
had  learned  to  read  and  spell.  He 
grew  big  too  fast  and  brought  to  a 
sudden  close  an  interview  he  had  with 
his  father  in  the  woodshed  by  seizing 
that  good  man  by  the  wrists  and 
holding  him 
immovable  until  he 
promised  not  to  try  to  whip  him 
again.  He  got  into  a  crowd  of  fel­
lows  of  his  size  and  not  of  his  age 
too  soon,  and  early  learned  the  es­
sential  points  of  high-low-jack-and- 
the-game  and  put  his  knowledge  into 
immediate  and  constant  practice  to 
the  great  scandal  of 
the  Manton 
church-goers.  His  mother  found  vis­
ual  and  nasal  proof  in  his  pockets  of 
what  was  and  is  sold  as  “plug.”  His 
breath  was  not  always  “the  breath 
of  the  kine”  the  poet  sings  about  and 
when  the  quiet  of  the  very  early 
hours  of  the  morning  at  Manton were 
disturbed  by  the  rattling  wheels  of a 
rapidly  driven  buggy,  the  disturbed 
sleepers  of  the  village  turned  upon 
their  pillows  with  execrations  against 
that  Tom  Maybury  and  the  parents 
that  “put  up  with  such  goings  on.”

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  young 
fellow  was  a  bad  one,  and  just  at 
the  time  when  outraged  Manton  be­
gan  with  lifted  eyes  and  cold  should­
ers  to  give  Tom  Maybury  an  idea 
of  what  they  thought  of  him,  what 
does  Mary  Shelton  one  fine  June day 
do  but  ride  over  to  Clinton  with  him 
and  come  back  as  his  wife.  Worse 
than  that  she  had  the  impudence  to 
“come  out  bride”  the  next  Sunday, 
and  what  was  far  worse  she  looked 
the  indignant  villagers  in  the  face 
with  a  look  on  her  own  which  meant 
“You  kindly  mind  your  own  business 
and  I'll  mind  mine.”

They  did;  but  it  was  under  pro­
test.  The  very  next  sewing  society 
at  the  parsonage  was  crowded— an 
event  in  its  history— and  when  the 
one  all-absorbing  topic  of  conversa­
tion  was  at  its  height  who  should

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

in,  bland  and  smiling  as 

a 
come 
summer  morning,  but  Mrs.  Thomas 
Maybury,  Jr.,  ready  with  thread  and 
needle,  thimble  and  scissors,  to  go 
on  with  her  share  of  the  work  in  be­
half  of  the  heathen.

Her  opening  sentence  as  a  set-back 
in  sewing-circle 
remains  unequaled 
history: 
“You  needn’t  stop  talking 
nor  change  the  subject  because  I’ve 
come  in,  because  I’ve  come  over  to 
talk  about  just  that  and  nothing  else.
I  married  Tom  for  the  same  reason 
that  each  of  you  married  her  hus­
band  and  I  love  him  because  he  has 
those  manly  qualities  which  a  large 
majority  of  your  husbands  haven’t.  I 
was  born  here  and  brought  up  here 
and  I  know.  He,  my  Tom,  is  a  man 
clear  through.  He  isn’t  lazy.  He 
isn’t  dishonest.  He  isn’t  a  fool.  He 
loves  me  and  I  love  him  and  we  are 
going  to  show  the  most  of  you  here 
in  Manton  how  a  man  and  wife  can 
live  together  without  quarreling.  You 
think  I’m  taking  a  great  risk.  You 
can’t  help  that  and  I’m  not  going  to 
ask  you  to;  but  I  am  going  to  sug­
gest  to  you  that  I  am  taking  the  risk 
not you,  and  that  you  won’t  help  mat­
ters  by  constantly  talking  about  it. 
The  end  of  it  all  is  going  to  be  the 
best  man  citizen  in  Manton  and  long 
before  ten  years  are  over  you’re  go­
ing  to  see  that  I  am  right.

“ Long  before  Tom  left  the  Sunday 
school  I  knew  what  was  going  on. 
He  was  getting  hide-bound  and  re­
belled.  He  wasn’t  born 
to  drive 
oxen  any  more  than  he  was  born  to 
go  fishing.  He  broke  out  in  the  only 
way.  Take  him  at  his  worst  and  he 
has  done  openly  what  the  men  here 
in  Manton  have  done  under  cover, 
with  a  difference:  they  have  never 
gotten  over  it  and  he  will;  and  just 
as  a  bit  of  caution  I  want  to  say  to 
you,  while  I’m  here  and  we  are  talk­
ing  about  it,  if  I  hear  too  much  about 
Tom’s  carrying  on  I’ll  set  a  back  fire 
of  some  of  the  things  I  know  about 
the  Manton  husbands.”

Then  that  impudent  thing  began 
to  talk  about  the  prospects  of  a  new 
organ  and  did  it  so  successfully  that 
the  gossips  went  home  with  that  idea 
on  their  tongues  and  ever  afterwards 
if  some  venturesome  woman  hinted 
a  word  about  Tom  Maybury  she was 
met  by  a  glare  and  the  suggestion 
that  Mary  Maybury  was  married  with 
her  eyes  wide  open  and  that  it  would 
be  time  enough  to  talk  about  her 
affairs  when  Tom  turned  out 
the 
good-for-nothing  that  everybody  pre­
dicted  he  was  going  to  be.

sooner 

Time  went  by  and  the  people  of 
Manton  soon  concluded  there  wasn’t 
to  be  any  “ I  told  you  so”  about  Tom 
Maybury.  He  didn’t  drive  oxen,  but 
he  could  and  did  trade  and  the  big 
corner  lot  in  the  heart  of  Manton  was 
soon  his  and  much 
than 
“they”  expected  there  was  built  on 
it  a  likely  house  with  “a  piazza  all 
round  it.”  Thrift  followed  everything 
he  touched.  He  had  the  best  house 
and  the  best  barn  and  the  best  team 
in  the  county,  and  that  was  saying  a 
good  deal.  Children  were  born  to 
them  “and  they  were  good  children.” 
Tom,  Jr.,  showed  signs  about  the 
same  age  Tom,  Sr.,  did  of  feeling

hide-bound;  but  his  dad  took  him in 
hand  in  season  and  he  was  soon  cur­
ed,  although  according  to  the  Manton 
idea  “it  was  scandalous.”

Young  Tom  was  hardly  turned  16 
when  he  and  his  father  were  seen 
riding  off  together  “on  a  Sunday  aft­
ernoon  each  leaning  back  and  smok­
ing  a  cigar  for  all  he  was  worth,”  and 
Philander  Collins  told  his  mother that 
when  he  and  a  lot  of  fellers  were 
over  at  Clinton  Tom  Maybury  would­
n’t  touch  a  glass  of  beer  because  his 
father  said  beer  was  “low-down,”  and 
that  when  he  really wanted something 
to  drink  he  should  help  himself  to 
the  wine  on  the  sideboard.  The  re­
sult  was  that  with  such  things  at 
home— “If  you’ll  believe  it  Tom  and 
Mary  both  play  cards  with  the  chil­
dren!”— they  didn’t  care  about  them 
anywhere  else  and  when  the  time 
came  the  children  were  married  and 
were  in  homes  of  their  own,  prosper­
ous  and  happy;  and  then  when  they 
ought  to  have  known  better,  Manton 
was  shocked  to  its  center  to  learn 
that  Tom  and  Mary  Maybury  were I 
going  to  be  divorced!

That  is  why  Manton  was  divided, 
the  men  standing  “pat”  for  Tom  and 
the  women  for  Mary.  To  young Tom 
only would  his  father  open  his  mouth, 
and  as  the  story  went  on,  pitiful  as  ! 
it  was,  the  son  soon  saw  that  it  was  j 
going  to  be  a  war  to  the  knife  and ! 
the  knife  to  the  handle.

“But,  father— ”
“No  use  talking,  Tom,  I  won’t.  I’ve 
given  up  everything  but  that,  but 
right  there  I  draw  the  line.  For  al- 
most  forty-five  years  I’ve  had  my ci- ! 
gar  and  my  cigar  I’m  going  to  have i 
in  spite  of  any  human  being  on  the 
face  of  the  earth.  So  don’t  say  a 
word  to  me.  I’ve  put  my  foot  down 
and  down  it’s  going  to  stay.”

The  son  knew  and  everybody  knew 
that  it  was  going  to  be  that  way.  So 
Mary  Maybury knew;  but,  womanlike, 
she’d  see.  There  was  no  peace  for I 
the  wicked  and  the  wicked  now  in- ! 
eluded  the  smoker,  and  she  went  at 
it  in  the  way  that  experience  had 
taught.  When  mild  means  failed  she 
used  stronger  ones  and  when  finally 
she  settled  down  to  the  continual 
nag,  nag  it  was  with  a  capital  N  and 
she  announced  it  was  to  be  that  to I 
the  finish.  Hence  the  talk  of  divorce. 
Hence  the  opposition  of  the  children 
and  hence  the  unusual  consumption 
of  what  Mary  called  “the  woman’s 
enemy;”  and 
fading 
strength  and  energy  of  Tom  May­
bury,  Sr.,  who,  smoking  now  upon 
principle,  smoked  for  a  little  more 
than  he  was  worth.

hence 

the 

Of  course  it  told  on  him;  but  he 
kept  determinedly  at  it.  He  smoked 
himself  into  his  easy  chair  and  thence 
to  his  bed,  and  when  it  was  too  evi­
dent  what  the  end  was  going  to  be 
and  that  a 
fast  approaching  one, 
young  Tom  determined  to  make  a 
final  effort  to  restore  harmony  and 
so  recovery  by  a  last  appeal.  Armed 
by  the  physician’s  verdict,  that  unless 
there  was  an  immediate  change  the 
end  could  not  be  far  off,  he  entered 
the  sick  man’s  chamber,  his  mother 
listening  at  the  chamber  door  ajar.

“Now,  father— ”

“Stop  right  where  you  are,  Tom. 
My  mind’s  made  up. 
I’m  going  to 
smoke  and  if  I  can’t  do  it  in  peace 
here,  the  sooner  I  get  where  I  can 
the  better!”

the 

It  was  a  solemn  moment.  Tom, 
Jr.,  felt  that  he  was  standing  in  the 
presence - of  death;  but  for  all  that 
he  laughed.  Not  so 
listening 
Mary.  Eternity— and  that  particular 
place  in  it— and  her  smoking  Tom 
shocked  and  appalled  her.  Like  a 
flash  she  flew  to  Tom’s  den,  took 
from  his  choice  box  one  of  the  “de­
lights”  she  found  there,  had  young 
Tom  light  it  and  then  with  her  own 
hands put  it into  her  husband’s mouth. 
A  look  of  ineffable  peace  came  into 
his  face  and  stayed  there.  Young 
Tom  stole  quietly  away  and  left  the 
old  lovers  together,  and  to-day,  five 
years  after,  as  I  look  out  of  my 
window  the  two  are  enjoying  the  In­
dian  summer  afternoon  on  their  pi­
azza,  Tom  smoking with  all  his might.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

The  Philosophy  of  Work.

There  is  a  growing  tendency  mani­
fested  in  various  ways  to  regard work 
merely  a  means  of  reaching  a  state 
of  idleness.  The  prevailing  mental 
attitude  seems  to  be  that  the  only 
standard  of  success  is  riches,  and  that 
the  only  way  to  attain  happiness  is 
with  the  least  possible  exertion  to  be­
come  a  man  of  leisure,  and  to  be 
able  to  dawdle  through  life  with  noth­
ing  to  do. 
It  requires  but  little  ex­
amination  of  the  real  basis  of  happi­
ness,  or  knowledge  of  human  nature 
and  the  conditions  under  which  we 
are  placed  where  we  are,  to  show  the 
falseness  of  this  position.

and 

linger 

lies 
labor, 

Man  is  constituted  an  active  being, 
seeking  expression  of  his  character 
and  tastes,  and,  if  he  would  continue 
labor. 
to  exist  and  progress  must 
in  hon­
His  highest  dignity 
est 
faithful 
and 
through 
it  alone  can  he  find  scope 
for  the  exercise  of  his  best  faculties 
or  for  the  adequate  expression  of  his 
individuality.  When  we 
in 
admiration  before  a  great  work  of 
art  it  is  not  so  much  for  what  is  rep­
resented  as  because  we  recognize  that 
the  artist  has  put  into  it  something 
of  himself,  showing  us  how  some  one 
who  sees  better  than  we  has  looked 
at  something,  and  the  loving,  careful, 
painstaking  toil  he  has  bestowed 
in 
representing  it.  Nowhere  does  char­
acter  come  out  more  unmistakably 
than  in  the  daily  task,  it  matters  not 
how  trivial  it  may  seem,  and  from 
no  other  source  does  there  come  so 
genuine  satisfaction  as  from  the  con­
sciousness  of  work  well  and  thor­
oughly  done. 
It  matters  not  whether 
it  is  the  painting  of  a  picture,  the 
I preparation  of  a  law  case,  the  keep­
ing  of  a  set  of  books,  the  making  of 
a  pair  of  shoes  or  the  cooking  of  a 
dinner.  Whoever  does 
the 
best  way,  with  love  for  his  work  and 
honest devotion  to  it, will  get the  best 
results  and  find  his  reward  in  it.

in 

it 

Yes,  this  is  the  real  reason  why 
some  men  get  drunk— Eve  offered 
Adam  an  apple 
in  the  Garden  of 
Eden!

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LO O K IN G   BACKW ARD .

Boy’s  First  Journey  Into  the  Great 

Wide  World.
Chapter  VI.

Social  diversions  other  than  being 
a  boarder  in  the  home  of  my  boss 
were  open  to  me  at  Omaha  during 
the  merry  winter  season. 
I  was  a 
popular  young  fellow  in  my  set;  so 
one  Saturday  night  I  cut  out  the keg 
and  shop  stories  to  be  among  those 
present  at  a  Polish  wedding.  Up  to 
that  time  I  never  had  witnessed  a 
marriage  ceremony,  but  was  more  or 
less  familiar  with  some  of  the  dire 
re su lts.

in 

Murder,  failure  to  provide,  suicide, 
and  alimony,  I  knew,  often  followed 
the  golden  chime  of  the  wedding  bell; 
but  that  was  the  fault  of  the  news­
papers.  They  had  no  Advice 
to 
Lovers,  no  department  of  Health 
Stunts  for  Girls  and  How  to  Manage 
Husbands 
those  uncouth  days. 
The  high  contending  parties  knew 
little  of  each  other’s  moods  and  tem­
peraments,  and  so  rushed  blindly  in­
to  compacts  productive  of  much  woe. 
Thanks  to  the  benign  ideas  of  mod­
ern  journals  and  the  industry  of  their 
matrimonial  dope  compilers,  we  sel­
dom  hear  of  troubles  in  that  line. 
All  hands  now  live  happily  ever  after.
The  gentleman  who  took  the  count 
in  this  instance  was  an  honored  mem­
ber  of  our  staff  in  the  foundry,  and 
the  only  Pole  in  the  bunch.  With 
keen  insight  into  social  requirements 
of  his  set,  Mr.  Blevitsky  arranged 
his  nuptials  for  Saturday  night.  This 
is  an  open  date 
the  workaday 
world,  leaving  guests  the  whole  of 
next  day  to  sleep  off  the  effects  of 
weddings  and  other  functions.

in 

Mr.  Blevitsky  was  a  nice  but  un­
healthy  looking  young  man.  He  had 
a  nose  like  a  window  awning  and  no 
chin  to  speak  of.  For  days  prior 
to  the  ceremony,  and  while  toiling 
in  the  shop,  he  did  nothing  but 
laugh.  What  it  was  about  I  never 
did  learn.  No  doubt  Mr.  Blevitsky 
It  behooved  any  man 
knew  his  part. 
in  his  position  to  lay  up 
laughs 
against  a  time  when  this  form  of  di­
version  becomes  naught  but  a  mel­
ancholy  memory.

Everything  in  the  saloon  was  free 
by  courtesy  of  Mr.  Blevitsky.  Large 
numbers  of  married  men  were  there, 
accompanied  by  their  invalids,  and 
scores  of  little  children  played  among 
the  sawdust  and  cigar  butts  on  the 
floor.  There  were  young  people,  too, 
but  I  didn’t  know  any  Poles  or  Pol­
ish.  However,  Mr.  Blevitsky  pressed 
me  to  his  white  waistcoat  and  treat­
ed  me  to  a  bottle  of  pink  pop  in 
the  presence  of  the  multitude,  which 
put  me  in  right  with  the  elite.  The 
bridegrom  was  quite 
and 
bleary,  yet  affable  withal.

drunk 

His  bride  was  a  sm all,  s w a rt  maid­
en,  with  a  little  face  and  big  hair, 
and  she  had  on  all  the  clothes  she 
owned— a  habit  they  acquire  com­
ing  over  in  the  steerage.  When  Mr. 
formally  presented  me 
Blevitsky 
the  bride 
arose,  made  a  weary 
bow,  and  sank  limply  into  her  seat. 
Mr.  Blevitsky  beamed  with 
love, 
beer  and  tenderness. 
Placing  one 
arm  around  my  neck,  he  drew  me 
aside  and  told  me  about  the  bride  in 
accents  that  left  no  doubt  of  his  ab­
sorbing  passion.

She  was  tired,  he  said.  According 
to  her  wont,  and  against  his  ex­
press  order,  she  had  gone  out  at  5 
o’clock  that  morning  with  a  gunny 
sack  to  pick  up  coal  on  the  railroad 
track.  But  what  could  a  man  do? 
She  had  come  back  with  more  than 
a  bushel,  and  they  were  married  at 
10  o’clock.  Moreover,  he  had  se­
cretly  inspected  the  coal,  and  there 
wasn’t  a  single  clinker  among  it. 
In 
a  further  burst  of  sloppy  confidence, 
Mr.  Blevitsky  opined  his  wife  was 
a  jewel— a  woman  of  whom  any  man 
might  be  proud.

superintended 

Everybody  danced,  after  a  fash­
ion,  and  then  sidestepped  to  the  bar 
the  minute  the  band  gave  out.  Mr. 
Blevitsky 
the  whole 
business,  and  sopped  up  most  of the 
loose  liquid  on  the  counter  with  the 
sleeves  of  his  wedding  trousseau.  He 
was  the  life  of  the  party.  For  mine, 
I  rubbered  and  soaked  up  impressions 
that  cling  to  me  still.

Along  toward  midnight  I  became 
absorbed 
in  a  bean  colored  young 
woman— to  her  own  notion  the  happi­
est  one  in  all  the  glad  throng.  She 
sat  midway  at  one  side  of  the  hall  op­
posite  the  bar,  wearing  that  expres­
sion  of  proud  and  defiant  agony  seen 
in  pictures 
of  Christian  martyrs 
burned  at  the  stake.  Her  symptoms 
-had  puzzled  me  for  an  hour  or  so 
when 
it  dawned  that  she  was  the 
woman  with  the  High  Insteps.  Like 
a  statue  she  posed— her 
slippered 
feet  thrust  forward  so  as  to  star  the 
insteps.  The  tension 
limbs 
necessary  to  arch  the  feet  was  so 
great  I  could  see  the  muscles  bulg­
ing under  the  ball  dress,  and  the  loose 
hair  about  her  temples  was 
sub­
merged 
in  moisture.  Many  a  man 
has  stumbled  over  the  high  instep 
to  his  everlasting  sorrow,  but  instead 
of  falling  in  love  with  the  maiden, 
I  yearned  to  hand  her  a  couple  of 
swift  kicks  on  the  ankles.

in  her 

Nature  and  cramps  at  length  called 
a  halt  in  this  exhibition  of  maidenly 
charms.  The  high 
instep  woman 
keeled  over  in  a  faint,  and  the  en-

to  distinguish 

My  unfortunate  shopmate  perpe-j 
in 
trated  his  wedding  in  a  saloon 
setlement.  There  was 
the  Polish 
the  saloon 
nothing 
from  places  of  similar  resort  which 
are  built  by  the  mile  and  sawed  off 
in  sections  to  suit  the  needs  of  pub­
licans,  grocers,  shoe  dealers,  and  hab- 
'erdashers  in  new  towns.  Mr.  Blev­
itsky  chartered  the  place  for  a  long 
term  of  hours  and  installed  a  band 
consisting  of  two  cornets  and  one 
slide  trombone.  The  happy  man had 
served  one wedding breakfast, dinner, 
and  supper,  and  had  set  out  the  saus­
age  and  ice  cream  for  another  break­
fast  Sunday  morning  when  the  police 
felt  obliged  to  be  among  those  pres­
ent.

The  nuptial  feast  raged  all  day 
Saturday  and  had  several  laps  to  go 
when  I  butted  in  at  io  o’clock  that 
night.  Yellow 
lights  blinked  dimly 
in  the 
foggy  atmosphere,  and  the 
bridegroom’s  special  band  was  toot­
ing  away  on  an  independent  scale.

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tire  assemblage  of  Poles,  big  and  lit­
tle,  talked  at  the  same  time. 
In  the 
confusion  incident  to  this  divertise- 
ment  a  furtive  Swede,  unbidden  to 
the  feast,  drew  from  beneath  his chair 
an  immense  accordion  and  started  to 
drag  therefrom  a  dismal  tune.  Some­
body  threw  a  cream  puff  which  hit 
the  Swede  in  the  eye.  The  pastry 
stuck  just  long  enough  for  me  to 
observe  how  much  the  Swede  looked 
like  a  watch  repairer  at  work;  then 
hostilities  became 
a 
fusillade  of  food  and  furniture  put 
the  pacificoes  to  flight.

general 

and 

There  'wasn’t  much  furniture  avail­
able  for  long  range  fighting,  so  the 
combatants  drew  on  the  larder.  The 
three  Polish  musicians  and  the  Swede 
mixed 
it  hand  to  hand  with  their 
instruments,  and  the  guests  hurling 
victuals  toward  this  common  center 
soon  involved  the  whole  company. 
Mr.  Blevitsky,  with  a  boiled  ham  in 
each  hand,  battled  nobly  for  a  cause 
shrouded 
It  was 
time  for  trouble,  and  solely  on  that 
account  the  bridegroom 
in 
and  did  the  best  he  could.

in  some  doubt. 

sailed 

When  the  lights  were  all  knocked 
out  the  fighting  shifted  to  the  side­
walk  and  was  still  raging  when  the 
police  got  there  and  cracked  a  lot 
of  skulls.  The  Swede  escaped  and 
the  Polish  orchestra  was  among  those 
locked  up. 
It  is  ever  thus.  The  man 
who  butts  in  and  makes  trouble  for 
others  manages  to  slip  out  unhurt. 
Still,  Mr.  Blevitsky’s  wedding  was  a 
huge  and  unqualified  success.  They 
took  nine  stitches  in  his  scalp.  And 
the  lady  with  the  High  Insteps  never 
knew  she  had  put  her  feet  in  it,  so 
to  speak.

Early  next  morning,  impelled  by 
that  morbid  curiosity  ever  dominant 
in  the  student  of  human  moods  and 
passions,  I  strolled  past  the  scene  of 
the  late  nuptial  disaster.  There was­
n’t  much  doing,  yet  I  felt  repaid  by 
a  glimpse  of  the  saloon  proprietor 
wrestling  with  the  aftermath.  Mount­
ed  on  a  stepladder  and  armed  with  a 
putty  knife,  he  was  scraping  lemon 
meringue  pie,  layer  cake,  and  cheese 
from  the  building  front,  meanwhile 
discoursing  to  himself  in  quaint  Pol­
ish  accents.

It  may  be  fitting  to  observe  here 
that  while  social  gayeties  epidemic 
in  Omaha  at  that  time  were  not  so 
recherche  as  similar  affairs  at  New­
port  and  on  Fifth  avenue,  they  were 
not  without  interest  to  the  police. 
A f  one  they  batter  heads,  at the other 
the  cops  repel  souvenir  seekers  who 
would  rip  the  garments  off  the  bride 
or  bite  chunks  from  the  iron  rail­
ings  in  front  of  the  church.

The  only  place  a  fellow  can  get 
wedded  without  police  surveillance  is 
in  one  of  those  spots  untouched  by 
the  blight  of  civilization.  Be  he  a 
millionaire  or  mutt,  this  getting  mar­
ried  is  a  dangerous  operation,  which 
should  only  be  attempted  as  a  last 
extremity  when  ill  or  out  of  work. 
In  time  I  may  lose  my  number  and 
decide  to  pay  some  good  woman  a 
salary  to  make  trouble  for  me,  but 
that  possibility  is  too  remote  to  wor­
ry  about.

After  the  wedding  I  aplied  myself

large 

to  molding  with  renewed 
industry. 
One  of  my  first  plays  was  to  pick 
out  a  preceptor— a  sedate  and  finish­
ed  mechanic  of  mature  years,  whose 
mode  a  youngster  might  copy  and 
thus  become  perfect.  Mr.  Spruce, 
champion  all  around  sand  pounder, 
the  man  who  made  the 
fly­
wheels  and  dry  sand  cylinders,  filled 
the  bill  to  my  notion,  and  I  copied 
him. 
In  two  months  I  was  a  second 
edition  of  this  Royal  Arch  molder 
in  mechanical  grace,  style  and  exe­
I  even  spat  like  Mr.  Spruce.,
cution. 
Anything  he  did  I  did  and  felt  I 
couldn’t  go  wrong.  Mr.  Spruce  saw 
he  had  scored  a  touchdown  back  of 
goal  with  a  lobster,  and  the  knowl­
edge  pleased  him,  for  he  hypnotized 
me  with  tales  about  an  engine  bed 
plate  he  once  cast  in  Sacramento that 
weighed 
tons.  Helpers 
hoisted  him  in  and  out  of  the  sand 
mold  with  a  derrick  for  a  couple  of 
weeks,  he  said,  and  when  the  plate 
was  cast  they  had  to  tear  the  shop 
down  to  get  it  outside.

sixty-four 

That  job  placed  him  in  the  front 
row  of  the  peach  class,  and  I  beg­
ged  Mr.  Spruce  for  his  photograph. 
What  Henry  Irving  is  to  the  stage 
butler  this  master  molder  was 
to 
me,  and  I  fairly  worshiped  the  sand 
he  handled.

One  evening 

after  work  Mr. 
Spruce,  being  a  fatherly  man  with  a 
good  heart  and  kindly  impulses,  ask­
ed  me  to  his  home  to  supper.  As  we 
left  the  shop  on  the  outskirts  of  the 
town  a  freight  train  came  along.  We 
climbed  to  the  top  and  rode  half  a 
mile  or  so  to  the  place  where  Mr. 
Spruce  got  off. 
Instead  of  descend­
ing  the  iron  ladder  and  swinging  to 
the  ground  after 
the  manner  of 
brakemen,  he  moved  that  we  spring 
to  the  roof  of  a  lonely  box  car  stand­
ing  on  a  parallel  track  and  descend 
at  leisure.  I  said,  “All  right,”  and  he 
led  the  way.

Anybody  but  a  lobster  in  the  can 
knows  a  brisk  run  on  leaping  from  a 
moving  train  is  necessary  to  main­
tain  a  dignified  equilibrium,  but  I 
was  in  the  clutch  of  a  master  mind. 
Two  seconds  after  Mr.  Spruce  hit 
the  roof  of  the  stationary  car  he 
was  due  to  jump  off  at  the  far  end, 
going  full  speed.  He  arrived  on 
schedule  time  and  so  did  I,  one  lap 
behind.  The  fall  on  the  frozen  ties 
below  telescoped  Mr.  Spruce’s  spinal 
column,  and  I  broke  my  own  nose 
and  three  of  his  ribs  plunging  down 
on  top  of  him.

Thus  did  an  iconoclastic  box  car, 
painted  red,  shatter  my  first  and  only 
idol.  Mr.  Spruce  went  to  the  hospi­
tal,  and  when  my  nose  subsided  so I 
could  see  around  it 
I  pulled  my 
freight  for  the  warm  belt  in  Dixie. 
We  never  met  again.  Since  then  I 
have  traveled  on  the  inside,  outside 
and  underneath  box  cars  without  a 
chaperon,  and  never  got  hurt.  This 
mention  is  made  not  as  a  proud  boast 
but  as  part  of  a  mottled  career.

Charles  Dryden.

A  little  sympathy  that  gets  into  our 
feet  is  worth  a  whole  lot  of  sorrow 
that  never  soaks  deeper  than  our 
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points  of view,  and  that  men  do  spend 
more  freely  than  women.  Take  the 
matter  of  treating,  for  instance.  A 
man  feels  that  he  must 
treat  his 
friends,  and  set  up  the  drinks,  or  the 
cigars,  even  though  he  is  behind  in 
his  rent  and  owes  the  butcher,  and 
banker,  and  candlestick  maker.  He 
must  do  it  to  maintain  his  character 
of  liberality,  and  so  it  often  happens 
that  he  is  generous  before  he  is  just 
or  honest.  He  will  give  although  he 
will  never  pay.  A  woman  reverses the 
process.  She  will  pay,  even  if  she 
never  gives.  Colonel  Bluster  always 
heads  the  published  subscription  list 
of  all  the  Booriboola  Gha  charities 
in  town;  he  is  a  liberal  man  and  he 
throws  a  $5  bill  down  on  the  bar  and 
invites  all  the  loafers  present  to  come 
up  and  take  a  drink;  he  contributes 
to  the  campaign  fund,  and  spends 
money  like  water  to  elect  his  candi­
date  from  the  ’Steenth  Ward,  even 
if  his  family  have  to  go  on  short 
rations,  and  pinch  and  pinch  to  pay 
for  it.  Mrs.  Colonel  Bluster  is  ac­
counted  a  close  woman.  She  takes 
no  stock  in  any  such  liberality.  An 
unpaid  bill  is  to  her  like  a  nightmare; 
Mrs.  Jones  might  go  without  soda 
water  forever  if  she  waited  for  her 
to  treat  her  while  Mary  needed  a 
new  frock  or  Johnny  lacked  shoes, 
and  if  a  candidate’s  election  to  office 
in  a  woman’s  club  depended  on  her 
friends  putting  up  money  for  it,  she 
would  never  get  into  the  president’s 
chair  in  the  world.

to 

The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that 
whether  liberality  is  a  crime  or  a 
virtue  depends  altogether  on  circum­
stances.  How  often  do  we  celebrate 
the  generosity  of  this  or  that  young 
man.  He  never  asks  the  price  of 
things,  he  never  neglects 
send 
flowers  to  his  hostess  or  bonbons  to 
the  debutantes,  and  he  insists  on  pay­
ing  everybody’s  way  on  an  excursion. 
How  parsimonious  beside  him  ap­
pears  his  sister,  who  counts  every 
penny,  and  washes  her  handkerchiefs 
in  her  room  and  dries  them  on  the 
mirror,  and  who  lets  her  friend  pay 
her  own  street  car  fare!  But  then 
some  day  we  hear  that  in  his  expan­
sive  way  of  doing  things  the  open- 
hearted  young  man  has  embraced 
the  contents  of  his  employer’s  cash 
drawer,  and  is  a  fugitive  from  jus­
tice,  and  then  we  wonder  if  there 
are  not  times  when  honesty  is  as 
good  as  liberality.

self-sacrifice— the  very 

When  it  comes to real generosity—  
the  generosity  that  means  self-denial 
and 
finest 
flower  of  it  may  be  found  among 
women.  A  woman  may 
insist  on 
having  the  worth  of  her  money,  she 
may  refuse  to  treat  or  pay  the  way 
of  those  who  are  perfectly  able  to 
pay  for 
it 
comes  to  a  question  of  real  want  her 
hand  is  the 
first  and  quickest  to 
give. 
It  is  the  mites  that  women 
save  by  scrimping  here  and  pinching 
there  that  build  the  churches  and 
sustain  the  charities  and  send  mis­
sionaries  to  the  heathen.

themselves,  but  when 

Among  the  women  against  whom 
this  charge  is  oftenest  brought  up is 
the  woman  who  keeps  a  boarding 
house.  Mrs.  Slimdiet’s  stinginess has

Women  Clo£e  and  Stingy  Only 

in 

Money  Matters.

W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

An  English  paper  has  recently  been 
devoting  much  space  to  a  discussion 
of  the  question  whether  woman  is 
stingy  or  not,  and,  unfortunately,  the 
general  concensus  of  opinion  seems to 
be  that  whatever  her  other  and  man­
ifest  virtues  when  it  comes  to  money 
matters  she  is  decidedly  close  and 
mean.  Various  things  were  brought 
forth  in  support  of  this  theory— wom­
an’s  passion  for  the  bargain  counter, 
her  inability-to  buy  anything  without 
first  trying  to  beat  down  the  price, 
the  adamantine  and  unshakable  atti­
tude  she  takes  towards  the  giving  of 
tips,  and  so  on.

less  money 

Every  woman  who  reads  this  will 
feel  like  entering  a  vigorous  protest 
against  such  an  unjust  accusation, and 
will  deny  the  charge  in  toto.  We  are 
not  stingy,  and  if,  as  a  sex,  we  are 
less  free  with  our  money  and  more 
given  to  a  cheeseparing  policy  than 
men  it  is  for  the  very  sufficient  rea­
son  that  we  have 
to 
spend.  Man,  as  a  general  thing,  is 
the  money  earner.  He  carries  the 
pocketbook  and  may  do  as  he  pleases 
with  his  own,  without  giving  an  ac­
count  to  anyone.  Woman  seldom 
has  any  money  of  which  she  has  ab­
solute . control.  What  is  given  her 
for  housekeeping, 
for  clothes  and 
necessary  expenses  is  the  very  least 
with  which  the  desired  and  expected  I 
results  can  be  accomplished,  and  she 
must  needs  look  well  to  every  cent 
and  see  that  she  gets  the  worth  of 
her  money. 
It  is  this  necessity  that 
makes  her  the  victim  of  the  bargain 
counter,  and  the  trading  stamp,  and 
the 
sell  make-believe 
goods,  where  you  get  something 
for 
nothing.  She  has  literally  nothing to 
“blow  in”  on  things  that  are  a  mere 
gratification  of  the  moment.

fakirs  who 

As  a  matter  of  fact  women  are  not 
expected  to  spend  much  on  purely 
personal  indulgences,  and  so  it  seems 
doubly  hard  for  them  to  be  accused 
of  stinginess.  A  man  thinks  nothing 
of  ordering  a  lunch  that  will  cost  a 
dollar  or  two.  His  wife  may  be  just 
as  hungry,  and  would  enjoy  it  just 
as  much  as  he  does,  but  she  hesitates 
before  she  treats  herself  to  a  glass  of 
5-cent  soda.  No  intelligent  female 
stomach  hankers  for  cream  puffs  and 
pie,  as  so  many  seem 
suppose. 
Women  simply  order  them  because 
they  are  satisfying  and  cheap,  and 
that  not  because  of  stinginess,  but  be­
cause  it  was  all  they  felt  they  could 
afford. 
If  any  woman  spent  as  much 
money  on  the  gratification  of  a  pure­
ly  individual  taste  as  a  man  does  on 
cigars  she  would  be  held  up  as  a 
warning  to  young  men  about  to  com­
mit  matrimony.  Nobody would  speak 
of  her  as  a  liberal  woman.  They 
would  say  she  was  recklessly,  ruin­
ously  extravagant.

to 

It  can  not  be  denied  that  men  and 
women  look  at  money  from  different

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been  the  subject  of  the  cheap  wits 
for  generations,  who  have  rung  the 
changes  on  ancient  butter  and  the 
centipede  legs  of  the  boarding house 
chicken  ad  nauseam.  We  have  seen 
her  pathetic  striving  held  up  to  ridi­
cule,  her  economies  made  mean  and 
sorid,  but  no  one  has  said  anything 
about  the  other  side  of  the  question 
— of  the  hundreds  and  hundreds  of 
times  when  she  has  given  shelter 
and  home  to  poor  girls  out  of  work, 
and  of  the  weeks  and  months  she 
has  let  a  board  bill  run  along  for 
some  young  fellow  who  has  lost  a 
job,  and  who  but  for  her  would  have 
neither 
food  nor  shelter.  No  one 
whose  fate  has  not  taken  them among 
such  people  has  any  idea  of  the  ex­
tent  of  the  generosity— the  generosi­
ty  that  does  pot  even  meet  the  poor 
reward  of  a  thank— that  such  women 
bestow. 
It  is  given  out  of  poverty, 
and  hard  work,  and  bitter  striving 
and  one  girl  so  kept  off  of  the  street, 
one  man  saved  from 
tramping  or 
desperation  is  more  real  generosity 
and  worth  more  than  a  line  of  col­
leges  and  charitable  institutions built 
from  here  to  the  Canadian  line.

Behind  the  apparent  stinginess  of 
many  a  woman  lies  a  pathetic  little 
story  that  the  world  never  knows. 
Sometimes  she  is  a  well-to-do  wom­
an,  who  is  cloaking  her  husband’s 
miserliness  to  her.  Sometimes  we 
see  her  niggardly,  and  the  servants 
tell  us  tales  of  pinching  and  scrimp­
ing,  and  we  can  not  know  that  she 
is  heroically  standing, 
like  a  lonely 
and  deserted  sentinel,  over  wretched 
and  ruined  fortunes,  trying  to  keep 
up  appearances  until  the  girls  are 
married  or  the  boys  in  business. 
It 
is  to  his  mother’s  so-called  stinginess 
that  many  a  poor  boy  owes  his  col­
lege  education,  and  his  career 
in 
life.  His  father  had  not  the  courage 
not  to  be  liberal,  because  he  could not 
afford  it.  He  must  belong  to  lodges 
and  pay  his  part  for  expensive  floral 
designs  when  Pat  Doolan  died,  and 
contribute  to  the  band  when  some 
idiot-  suggested  presenting  a  medal 
to  the  leader.  He  was  esteemed  the 
soul  of  generosity,  and  the  neighbor­
hood  pitied  him  for  having  a  stingy 
wife.  “They  do  say  she  can  make  five 
pies  out  of  three  blackberries,”  they 
whispered  and  tittered  behind  her 
back.  But  she  went  unmoved  on  her 
way.  She  stinted  the  coffee  here and 
saved  on  the  sugar  there,  and  prac­
ticed  a  thousand  heart-breaking  econ­
omies,  but  she  gave  her  boy  an  edu­
cation  and  a  start  in  life.

Stingy?  No! 

It  is  an  unfounded 
charge.  Women 
careful  of 
money;  they  are  just  with  it,  and 
when  there  is  need  they  are  liberal.

are 

Dorothy  Dix.

clothing,  Centreville: 

W.  L.  Thomp,  dealer  in  dry  goods 
and 
“The
Tradesman  is  worth  three  times  its 
price,  especially  in  its  helpfulness  to 
the  salespeople  alone.”

What  is  the  good  of  telling  the 
whole  truth  when  only  half  of  it  is 
pleasant?

Some  of  the  cleverest  men 

are 

absent-minded.

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

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customers.

Our opinion  has never changed 

Our confidence  in it is greater now  that  ever 

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they 
lack  the  mainspring 
to  action— en- 
I thusiasm.

The  boy  who  becomes  the  leader 
of  his  classmates  at  school  and  on 
j  the  playground  is  the  one  who  sug­
gests  a  game  or  some  sport,  and  then 
goes  at  it  with  heart  and  soul.  When 
he  graduates  and  starts  out  in  life 
that  lad  wins  the  recognition  of  his 
employers  by  going  about  his  work 
as  if  he  took  a  personal  interest  in 
its  accomplishment.

thought 

There  comes  to  mind  the  case  of 
a  country  boy  who  came 
to  New 
\ork  “to  make  his  fortune.”  He  was 
one  of  the  enthusiastic  type  of  be­
ings.  His  first  attempts  to  find  em­
ployment  were  unsuccessful. 
In  ap­
pearance  he  was  uncouth,  and  busi­
ness  men 
that  under  the 
I rough  covering  the  lad  himself  was 
of  no  better  quality.  After  several 
a 
days’  fruitless  search  he  found 
typewriter  concern  that  wanted 
a 
boy  to  deliver  machines  in  the  city. 
He  was  big  and  strong  for  his  age 
and  met  the  requirements.  Three 
days  after  he  had  started  to  work 
there  was  a  complaint  made  against 
him  by  the  other  delivery  boys.  They 
I  declared  that  he  worked  too 
fast, 
that  they  could  not  keep  up  with 
him.  The  truth  of  the  matter  was 
that  when  he  had  anything  to  do  he 
did  it  promptly  and  with  the  evident 
desire  to  get  it  out  of  the  way  so 
| as  to  turn  to  some  other  work.  For 
fifteen  years  he  has  kept  his  mind 
on  work  during  business  hours  and 
now,  a  man  of  thirty,  he  is  entrusted 
with  one  of  the  departments  in  the 
concern  with  which  he  started  as 
an  errand  boy.

So  in  any  advice  that  can  be  given 
to  young  men  who  have  their  for­
tunes  to  make  it  is  safe  to  include 
enthusiasm  as  a  valuable  asset.  There 
!  is  no  royal  road  to  success  except 
that  of  persistent  labor.  This  being 
the  fact,  every  boy  and  man  should 
ask  himself 
this  question:  Who 
among  the  world’s  workers  achieve 
success  that  raises  them  above 
the 
ordinary  men  of  their  time?  Upon 
reading  the  life  history  of  men  of 
eminence  it  will  be  found  that,  while 
they  may  not  have  done  more  work 
than  others,  or  in  instances  work of 
a  lesser  degree  of  merit,  whatever 
they  undertook  was 
accomplished 
with  a 
light  heart;  or,  as  Kipling 
states  it,  they  worked  “for  the  joy 
of  the  working.”

Retains  His  Intelligence.

He— Believe  me,  that  dog  of  mine 

is  a  very  intelligent  animal.

She— Oh,  then  you  haven’t  owned 

him  very  long?

Come,  let  us  draw  down  the  shades 
and  keep  the  sunshine  out,  so  the 
furniture  will  make  a  brave  showing 
at  our  funerals.

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until  it  had  broken  the  heart  and has­
tened  the  death  of a husband  of whom 
she  was  utterly  unworthy.

But  the  tragedies  of  marriage  are 
not  more  frequent  than  the  tragedies 
of  every  other  human  institution,  of 
every  human  career.  Matrimony  is 
not,  as  some  of  the  scribbling .bache­
lors  seem  to  think,  an  overadvertised 
patent  medicine  for  the  cure  for  all 
human  ills. 
In  the  ordinary  individ­
ual  it  doubles  the  cares  of  life,  while 
it  doubles  it  satisfactions;  it  gives 
one  more  to  think  about,  but  more 
to  enjoy.  You  are  an  unlucky  hus­
band  if  your  wife  does  not  feel  your 
successes  and  failures  more  keenly, 
more  passionately,  than  you  do  your­
self,  while  if  you  have  children  you 
may  find  life  a  hard  struggle  as  their 
limbs  grow  longer  and  their  needs 
larger,  but,  on  the  other  hand,  you 
are  a  poor  creature  if  you  ever  grow 
old.  For  the  youth  of  your  children 
is  your  youth;  it  spreads  from  them 
like  a  contagion;  the  young  hopes, the 
young  ambitions  round  you  will  stay 
the  withering  hand  of  old  age  like  a 
charm.

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  a  great mis­
take  to  take  it  for  granted  that  all 
men  and  women  are  fit  subjects  for 
matrimony. 
It  would  not  be  for  the 
benefit  of  the  race  that  all  women

should  find  husbands,  or  that  all  men 
should  find  wives.  So  far  from  en­
couraging  either  sex  to  rush  headlong 
into  matrimony,  I  would  say:  Do  not 
marry  until  marriage  is  inevitable.  If 
you  can  not  make  up  your  mind,  if 
you  feel  doubt  or  difficulty,  remain 
unwed.  The  inevitable  marriage 
is 
seldom  a  mistake,  and  if  it  is  you 
have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that 
there  was  no  help  for  it.

If  the  bachelor  feels  that  marriage 
is  a  handicap,  that  he  can  get  on 
better  without  it,  why  should  he  not 
enjoy  his  freedom  unmolested?  I can 
not  see  why  there  should  be  such  a 
rage  for forcing him  into  bonds  which 
he  wants  to  escape.  For,  no  matter 
how  loudly  some  bachelors  may  cry 
that  they  are  pursued,  that  they  are 
haunted,  that  they  can  not  find  rest 
for  the  clamors  of  those  who  wish to 
force  them  into  matrimony,  the  fact 
remains  that  their  abstention 
from 
marriage  will  not  mean  the  extinction 
of  the  race,  nor  will  it  even  mean  its 
deterioration.

With  all  the  counter  attractions  of 
absolute  freedom  on  the  one  hand, 
and  of  temporary  ties  on  the  other, to 
draw  them  away  from  the  matrimo­
nial  net,  it  is  certain  that  most  of 
them  end  by  falling  into  it,  and  by

getting  on  comfortably  in  their  cap­
tivity.

Full  w ell  have  w e  thrashed  out  this 
perennial  subject,  and  amply  have we 
poured  out  our  views,  our  prejudices, 
our  experiences  into  the  common  ear. 
But  have  we  done  with  it  yet?

Not  a  bit  of  it.  Politics  grow  stale 
from  generation  to  generation;  sci­
ence  undergoes  a  complete  transfor­
mation  every  decade  or  so;  even  re­
ligion  changes  its  aspect  in  an  aston­
ishing  way.

But  from  century  to  century  men 
remain  men,  and  women  women,  and 
the  children  come,  and  bring  with 
them  the  opening  of  a  new  world 
every  time.  And  so,  just  as  surely 
as  the  leaves  turn  red  and  brown next 
autumn,  the  topic,  the  eternal  topic 
of  marriage,  will  bob  up  again;  there 
will  be  nothing  new  for  us  to  say, 
nothing  unwritten  for  us  to  write. 
But  we  shall  write  it  all  over  again, 
and,  either  contemptuously  or  sym­
pathetically,  we  shall  read  it,  too.

Florence Warden.

Destiny 

laughs  at  the  man  who 
despises  a  dimple— seeing  his  finish. 
That  he  is  making  straight  for  the 
arms  of  some  female  suffragist.

Truly  she  **  a  stupid  woman  who 
would  not  swap  wisdom  for  a  dimple.

M A K E S  A S  W E L L   A S  MARS.

Matrimony  Not  a  Cure  for  A ll  Hu­

man  Ills.

Once  again  has  autumn  brought 
around  the  eternally  interesting  topic, 
which,  first  under  the  title  “Is  Mar­
riage  a  Failure?”  then  under  various 
other  headings,  and  now  that  of  “The 
Marriage  Handicap,”  has  revealed  a 
large  number  of  prejudicial  opinions 
upon  the  relation  of  the  sexes  rather 
than  any  serious  and  sane  discussion 
of  the  question  first  raised.

There  runs  through  a  great  deal  of 
the  present  day  discussion  a  vein  of 
firm  belief  that  absolute  and  perfect 
happiness  is  possible  in  this  world  to 
all  of  us,  and  that  by  their  plunge 
into  marriage  the  writers  have  miss­
ed  it.

But  is  this  belief  borne  out  by 
common  experience? Are  all  the  bach­
elors  happy  and  all  the  benedicts mis­
erable?  Would  the  weak  kneed  men 
who  bewail  their  wives’  extravagance, 
or  the  dismal  women  who  take  tht 
world  into  their  confidence  about  the 
selfishness  of  their  husbands,  have 
been  happier  in  the  single  than  in the 
married  state?

It  may  be  permitted  to  doubt  it.  A 
little  backbone  is  as  necessary  to  the 
unmarried  as  to  the  married,  and  the 
men  and  women  who,  married,  whim­
per  over  the  expense  of  a  family 
would  have  whimpered,  single,  over 
the  extortions  of  the  bookmaker  and 
the  bonnet  maker,  who  would  have 
been  the  most  likely  people  to  profit 
by  their  spare  cash.

Not  that  one  can  deny  the  hard-  j 

ships,  the  risks,  attendant  upon  mar­
riage,  or  the  fact  that  an  unhappy 
marriage  may  be  the  ruin  of  a  life. 
Of  such  cases  undoubtedly  the  worst 
is  that  of  a  man  with  a  drunken  wife, 
and  with  a  family  of  children  whose 
mother  she  is.  One  first’s  thought,  in 
such  a  case,  is  that  the  law  should 
step  in  to  his  assistance;  but  I  be­
lieve  it  would  almost  always  be found  j 
that  the  husband, 
cases 
where  he  is  himself  blameless  and  de­
serving  of  all  sympathy,  would  suffer 
any  misery  rather  than  expose  this 
domestic  shame,  or  suffer  the  woman 
who  bears  his  name  to  sink  any  lower.
Fortunately,  in  these  extreme  cases, 
the  disease  usually  ends  by  proving 
its  own  remedy;  but  I  own,  with  sor­
row,  that  I  have  known  two  cases  in 
which  the  wife’s  vice  did  not  kill  her

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late  the  condemned  from  the  outside 
world  that  it  becomes  impossible  for 
the  condemned  to  heroize  himself, 
and  the  public  learns  nothing  of  the 
scenes  at  his  execution.

If  the  wardens  of  penitentiaries and 
the  sheriffs  of  jails  were  permitted  to 
frame  a  new  international  criminal 
law  there  would  be  lacking  all  pro­
visions  for  the  death  penalty.  Prison 
officials  and  students  of  penology  tell 
us  that  the  murderers  are  the  most 
trustworthy  and  reliable  of  prisoners.
Life  imprisonment,  we  have  been 
told  by  prison  officials,  is  worse  than 
death,  the  murderer  confined  and see­
ing  as  the  years  go  by  prisoners  come 
to  places  behind  bars,  and 
seeing 
others  as  constantly  going  out 
to 
freedom.  Life  imprisonment  is  safest 
for  the  state  and  for  the  convicted, 
with  prison  work  to  help  in  the  sup­
port  of  the  unfortunates  of  society 
in  the  world  outside.  Abolish  the 
death  penalty  and  lynching  will  abol­
ish  itself.

The  world  persists  in  getting  at the 
wrong  end  of  things,  especially  of 
social  evils.  The  horse  always  gets 
out  before  the  world  fixes  its  barn 
door. 
It  is  queer  that  the  world  is 
taking  so  much  time  just  now  on  the 
subject  of  divorce;  it  ought to  turn  its 
attention  to  marriage.  Right  employ­
ment  in  business,  adaptability  in  mar­
riage,  and  correct  environment— these 
are  elements  at  the  foundation  of  an 
ideal  society.

We  persist  in  charging  our  fore­
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the  death 
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May  not  our  posterity  a  hundred 
years  hence  call  us  inhuman  and  bar­
barous 
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Society  is  improving;  the  world  is 
growing  better.  More  humanity  is 
creeping 
in.  But  anthropology,  or 
rather  social  science,  has  not  passed | 
its  elemental  stage.

A  tooth  for  a  tooth,  an  eye  for  an 
eye,  and  a  life  for  a  life,  has  been  long 
placed  among  the  relics  of  barbarism 
— excepting  the  phrase,  a  life  for  a 
life. 
If  the  former  clause  is  of  this 
among  the  first  of  criminal  laws  are 
void,  then  the  enquiring  mind  may 
reasonably  ask:  Why  not  also  do 
away  with  the  death  penalty  for  those 
who  murder?

The  ancients  punished 

inanimate 
objects  for  injury  to  man;  an  ax  cut­
ting  a  chopper  was  thrown  beyond 
the  boundary  of  the  province.  The 
horse 
injuring  a  person  was  tried 
by  jury  and,  when  found  guilty,  the 
animal  was  killed  or  confiscated  to the 
state. 
In  bygone  ages  the  captured 
murderer  was  surrendered  to  relatives 
or  friends  of  the  deceased  to  kill,  tor­
ture  or  release,  as  they  liked.  In  our 
day,  witnesses  other  than  relatives 
or  friends  of  the  deceased  seem  re­
luctant  to  testify  when  conviction in 
the  trial  carries  the  death  penalty.  Of 
course,  exception  exists  when  public 
conscience  has  long  been  aroused  and 
public 
reached  a 
high  pitch,  as  in  the  case  of  the  many 
murders  committed  by  union  men  in 
Colorado  a  few  months  ago.  Albeit 
there  is  an  untoward  acceptance  of 
the  allegation  that  severity  of  punish­
ment  fails  to  restrain  others  from  the 
commission  of  similar  crimes.  The 
states  providing 
imprisonment 
have  not  more  murders  than  other 
states  carrying  the  death  penalty.

indignation  has 

life 

Less  than  ioo  years  ago  the  human 
race  had  about  ioo  different  offenses 
which  were  punishable  by  death.  This 
number  has  decreased 
to  possibly 
three,  or  less,  in  civilized  countries. 
Treason  does  not  usually  bring  death 
as  its  punishment  except  when 
the 
nation  is  actually  engaged  in  war.

Everywhere  it  is  growing  more dif­
ficult  to  get  a  jury  that  will  recom­
mend  the  death  penalty.  A  new  law 
in  one  of  the  Northeastern  States pro­
vides  that  each  juryman  must  sign a 
special  clause  to  be  added  to  their 
verdict,  recommending  the  death  pen­
alty,  otherwise  the  punishment  can 
be  no  worse  than  life  imprisonment. 
New  York  and  two  or  three  other 
states  have  substituted  -the  electric 
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This  is  a  step  towards  the  abolition 
of  the  death  penalty  from  our  crimin­
al  codes.  As  the  extreme  penalty for 
murder  China  chops  the  head  off; 
Russia  exiles  to  Siberia;  Germany 
uses  both  the  ax  and  the  guillotine: 
France  guillotines;  England  hang': 
the  United  States  imposes  sentences 
from  life  imprisonment  to  electrocu­
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With  the  reduction  of  capital crimes 
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children’s  will  occupy  the  other,  etc., 
but  the  arrangement  has  to  be  modi­
fied  where  there  is  but  one  window.
I  In  this  case  it  is  advisable  to  raise 
the  back  floor  of  the  window  by  a 
low  step  or  terrace,  using  the  two 
sections  as  though  they  were  sepa­
rate  windows.  Then  carry  out  the 
above  program  as 
follows:  Make 
your  special  display  of  men’s  goods 
in  the  front  section,  the  first  week, 
with  the  women’s  and  children’s foot­
wear  on  the  raised  floor  in  the  rear. 
The  week  after  put  a  strong  display 
of  women’s  shoes  in  front,  relegating 
the  men’s  to  the  rear,  and  thus  work­
ing  out  the  plan  as  though  you  pos­
sessed  two  windows  instead  of  one.

Unless  you  have  a 

fashionable 
shop,  with  a  fashionable  class 
of 
patrons,  never  make  the  mistake  of 1 
putting  shoes  in  the  window  that are 
not  ticketed  with  their  price.  Many 
a  man  has  turned  away  from  the 
show  window  because  he  feared  the 
price  of  a  shoe  he  admired  was  more j 
than  he  could  afford  to  pay.  And  he 
was  backward  about  going  inside  and | 
learning  what  the  price  was.

Of  course,  if  all  your  styles  are 
I one  price  a  prominent  card  in  the 
window  announcing  that  fact  is  suffi­
cient. 
In  fact,  it  is  an  improvement 
on  having  every  shoe  ticketed.

“M” 

is  to  stamp  fancy 

One  of  the  new  ideas  of  the  sea­
son 
initials  on 
the  heavy  soles  of  men’s  footwear. 
The  initial  indicates  the  occupation I 
of  the  wearer.  Thus  an 
is 
stamped  on  motormen’s  shoes;  “M.
C.”  on  mail  carriers’ ;  “C.”  on  con­
ductors’ ;  “P.”  on  policemen’s, 
etc. 
Oddly  enough,  the  shoes  are  becom­
ing  popular  with  this  class  of  trade, 
the  heavy,  metallic  monogram 
on 
the  sole  giving  an 
appearance  of 
strength  to  the  shoe  and  pleasing 
the  prospective  wearer.  A  Brook­
lyn,  N.  Y.,  shoe  dealer  is  pushing 
the  fad  for  all  it  is  worth,  alternat­
ing  his  sales  of  policemen’s  and  mo­
tormen’s  boots.  When  the  former 
are  advertised  in  the  morning  papers 
he  places  a  large  card  reading  “Po­
lice  Shoes”  in  the  center  of  his  win­
dow,  and  surrounds  it  with  a  dis­
play  of  the  footwear,  adjusting  the 
majority  of  the  shoes  so  that  the  | 
initial  on  the 
sole  will  be  visible. 
On  other  days  he  features  his  mo­
tormen’s  boots  in  like  manner.  The 
police  shoes  are  being  purchased  by 
many  who  have  no  connection  with 
the  “force,”  which  fact  will  puzzle 
amateur  detectives  this  winter,  who 
will  endeavor  to  ascertain  a  man’s 
occupation  by  examining  his 
foot­
prints.

“Winter  Tans  Will  Be  as  Popular 
as  Summer  Tans”  is  the  announce­
ment  on  a  window  card  in  a  Boston 
shoe  store.  The  statement  is  an  ex­
aggeration,  as  all  shoe  men  know; 
nevertheless  it  shows  that  a  strong 
effort  is  being  made  to  make  win­
ter  tans  popular.  The 
in 
these  shoes  is  far  superior  to  that  in 
the  summer  goods. 
It  is  non-porous, 
and  therefore  proof  against  water. 
Many  of  the  winter  tans  are  splendid 
high  cuts,  extending  well  over 
the 
ankle,  and 
stormy  weather 
shoes  range  in  price  from  $3.50  to 
$12  per  pair.  They  are  popular  with

leather 

these 

Most  Effective  Method  of  Window 

Trimming.

Shelves  against  the  sides  of 

the 
show  window  are  desirable, 
since 
they  add  nearly  50  per  cent,  to  the 
display  space.  Have  them  of  glass, 
six  inches  wide  and  about  one  foot 
apart.  They  are  excellent  for 
the 
display  of  babies’ 
footwear— which 
always 
looks  out  of  place  on  the 
floor  of  the  window— and  for  slip­
pers.  Some  shoe  dealers  use  these 
shelves  exclusive  for  their  findings. 
Shoe  trees,  paste,  polish, 
rubber 
heels,  etc.,  which  invariably  destroy 
the  harmony  of  a  display  on  the  win­
dow  floor,  appear  to  splendid  advan­
tage  on  the  shelves.  Those  in  boxes 
can  be  arranged 
in  pyramids  and 
turret  effects  that  will  add  considera­
bly  to  the  attractiveness  of 
the  win­
dow.

A  good  plan  is  to  vary  the  dress­
ing.  In  one  trim  give  the  shelves  ex­
clusively  to  shoe  trees;  in  another 
to  bedroom  slippers;  another  to  pol­
ishes;  another  to  heel  cushions;  an­
other  to  rubber  heels,  etc. 
It  is  a 
fact  that  the  public  is  more  impress­
ed  with  a  display  of  one  commodity 
than  with  a  jumble  of  twenty-five  or 
thirty.  Experienced  window 
trim­
mers  are  well  aware  of  this  and  that 
is  why  the  modern  department  store 
window  exhibits  the  merchandise  of 
one  department,  and  not  the  products 
of  several,  as  was  the  case  twenty 
and  thirty  years  ago.  Shoe  dealers 
should  take  a  lesson  from  this.  The 
old  style  retailer  who  has  two  win­
dows  piles  a  heterogeneous  display 
of  men’s,  women’s 
children’s 
goods  into  both,  with  the  nooks  and 
corners  filled  in  with  findings,  and 
imagines  that  he  has  done  well 
in 
showing  the  public  a  sample  or  two 
of  every  item  of  stock  he  carries.  As 
a  matter  of  fact  his  windows  are  un­
attractive  because  there  is  too  much 
in  them.  The  pedestrian  scans  the 
variety  and  fails  to  be 
impressed 
with  any  one  thing.

and 

A  wiser  arrangement  would  be  to 
devote  one  of  the  two  windows  to 
special  displays.  The  first  week  try 
men’s  goods  exclusively.  As  a  re­
sult  every  man  and  woman  who 
looks  into  the  window  will  be  im­
pressed  with  the  fact  that  you  car­
ry  certain  nobby  styles  of  men’s 
shoes  at  very  reasonable  prices.  The 
next  week  display  women’s  footwear 
in  that  window  exclusively,  and  the 
third  week  children’s.  The  effect  will 
be  a  hundred  per  cent,  better  than 
the  old  method  of  exhibiting  all  to­
gether,  and  it  will  show  in  the  sales. 
On  the  fourth  week  give  the  window 
over  to  findings,  arranged 
the 
most  artistic  manner  you  can  invent, 
and  see  if  the  sales  of  these  articles 
do  not  receive  an  impetus.

in 

The  above  suggestions  are  intend­
ed  for  dealers  possessing  two  show 
windows.  When  men’s  goods  appear 
in  the  special  window,  women’s  and

men  who  will  not  bother  with  rub­
ber  footwear.

Enterprising  shoe  dealers  are quick 
to  catch  any  fad  or  folly  of 
the 
passing  season  and  utilize  it  as  an 
advertisement  for  their  business.  A 
Washington,  D.  C.,  retailer  is  making 
use  of  chrysanthemums. 
In  the  cen­
ter  of  his  window  is  a  beautiful  cut- 
glass  flower  stand  in  which  he  keeps 
eight  or 
ten  magnificent  ball-like 
’mums.  The  flowers  make  the  most 
attractive  kind  of  a  centerpiece,  con­
trasting  in  pleasing  fashion  with  the 
surrounding  display  of 
and 
with  the  hardwood  floor  and  walls 
the  window.  They  are  rented 
of 
from  a  neighboring  florist  at 
small 
expense,  fresh  ones  being  supplied 
every  morning.

shoes 

Another  retailer  in  the  same  city 
keeps  a  jar  of  the  flowers  on  his 
findings  case,  presenting  a  bloom  to 
every  female  customer.

learning, 

A  shoe, dealer  located  in  a  college 
town  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
there 
is  bitter  football  rivalry  between  two 
institutions  of 
is  making 
capital  out  of  the  situation.  Recent­
ly  he  delighted  the  students  of  both 
schools  by  dressing  his  show  win­
dows  with  their  colors.  One  win­
dow  was  resplendent  with  the  red 
and  white  of  one  institution,  while 
the  other  was  heavily  festooned  with 
the  favorite  red  and  black  of 
the 
second  school.  Prominent  in  each 
display  were  fifty  small  pennants,  ad­
mirably  adapted  for  waving  from  a 
grand  stand  on  a  football  field.  These 
red-and-black  and  red-and-white flags 
were  new  in  the  town  and,  in  fact.

Bob  the  B l a c k s m i t h

Bob  the  blacksm ith  is  h earty   and  hale. 
M akes  shoes  for  horses  th a t  never  fail, 
W ears  shoes  th a t  are  shoes  upon  his feet, 
T h at  don’t   set  him   crazy  on  account  of 

the  heat.

They  are  m ade  by  a   firm  who  calls  them  

H A R D -P A N

And  they  are  never  bunched  w ith 

the 

“Also  R an.”

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.

5  and 5  Per  Cent.

Below  prevailing  trust  prices have  made  our  stock 
of  Lycomings,  Woonsockets  and  Keystones  go 
some  the  past  week.  A  good  assortment  left. 
Speak  quick  if  you  are  looking  for  genuine  bar­
gains.  Terms  30  days.

As  we  are  now  State  Agents  for  the  Celebrated

Hood  Rubbers
We  will  close  out  all  our  stock  of

Lycomings,  Woonsockets  and  Keystones 

At  Once

Hustle  in  your  orders  and  get  them  filled  while 

our  stock  is  large.

Geo.  H.  Reeder &   Co.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

O u r store is on th e  w ay to U nion D epot and w e a re  alw aya pleased 

to  see our friends and custom ers.

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

Send  for  circular.

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than  ever  deplore  the  passing  of  the 
good  old  times  when  every  woman 
was  her  own  shoe-blacker.

Wanted  It  Congratulated.

Kitty  was  dining  at  a  neighbor’s 
and  when  she  was  offered  the  sugar 
cubes  for  her  coffee  she  said  shyly:

“No,  thank  you;  I  don’t  care  for

sugar  unless  it’s  congratulated.”

33

Getting  His  Half.

“George  looks  happy  since  his un­
leave  him  a 

cle  died  and  didn’t 
cent.”

“Yes.  The  lawyer  for  the  estate 
lias  promised  him  half  if  he’ll  contest 
the  will.”

Cupid  is  an  orphan  that  no  young

couple  can  afford  not  to  adopt.

were  made  by  a  flag  maker  by  order 
of  the  shoe  dealer.  When  the  dis­
plays  first  appeared  students  of  both 
colleges  besieged  the  retailer  asking 
him  to  put  a  price  on  the  pennants, 
which  they  wished  to  carry  to 
the 
annual  football  contest  between  the 
two  schools  that  was  to  occur  a  week 
later.  But  the  shoe  dealer  replied 
to  all: 
in  the  window  to­
morrow.  You  will  then  learn  howto 
obtain  one.”  This  card  appeared  in 
each  window  on  the  following  morn­
ing:

“Look 

Carry  a 
Pennant

Containing  Your  Favorite 

Colors  to  the 
Football  Game

Next  Week.  Every  Purchaser  of  a 

Pair  of  $3  Shoes  Will  Be 

Presented  With  One.

the 

enthusiasm  of 

There  is  nothing  to  compare  with 
the 
collegian. 
Young  men  and  women  who  had 
three,  four  and  five  pairs  of  shoes  in 
their  wardrobe  hastened 
the 
store  to  obtain  one  of  the  coveted 
trophies.  Before  the 
the 
third  day  the  last  of  the  fifty  pen­
nants  was  given  out  and  the  shoe 
dealer's  gratification  was  marred  by 
only  one  regret— that  he  had  not  fif­
ty  more.

end  of 

to 

At  this  time  his  daughter,  who was 
a  student  in  one  of  the  schools,  gave 
him  a  suggestion  and  he  again  vis­
ited  the  flag  maker.  As  a  result  two 
large  banners  measuring  six  feet  by 
three  and  one-half  were  made  and 
delivered  to  the  shoe  dealer  on  the  | 
day  before  the  big  game.  He  prompt­
ly  hung  them  in  the  rear  of  each 
window  and  that  night  sent  an  in-I 
vitation  to  the  athletic  association  of 
each  college  asking  to  have  a  com­
mittee  sent  to  his  store  on  the  fol­
lowing  morning,  as  he  had  a  presen­
tation  to  make  to  them.  The  boys 
appeared  early  in  the  day,  and  each 
college  received  its  flag.  These  were 
mounted  on  poles  and  carried  at  the 
head  of  the  procession  of  cheering 
students  at  the  game  that  afternoon, 
who  did  not  forget  to  bring 
in  a 
cheer  for  the  enterprising  shoe  deal­
er.  His  “college  trade”  has  received 
a  decide  impetus.— Shoe  Trade  Jour­
nal.

Fashion  That  Will  Be  a  Long  Time 

Getting  Popular.

shoe 

The  following  account  of  a  Balti­
more  fashion  in 
shining  de­
scribes  a  custom  that  will  not  be­
come  popular  in  a  long  time.  Ladies 
who  can  afford  generous 
tips  to 
darky  bootblacks  can  afford  to  have 
their  shoes  polished  elsewhere  than 
on  the  public  street.  Put  just  the 
gentlest  imaginable  emphasis  on  the 
word  “ Ladies.”  Even  accepting  a 
free  shine  in  the  seclusion  of  a  store 
is  objectionable  to  a  great  many  la­
dies— which  is,  perhaps,  a  fine  thing 
for  the  shoe  merchant.

She  was  sitting  in  a  bootblack’s 
chair  at  the  corner  of 
two  busy 
streets,  and  as  the  bootblack  busied 
himself  polishing  up  her  footwear 
she  took  in  the  landscape  with  a 
blase  air.  There  was  no  doubt  that 
she  was  attracting  a  great  deal  of at­

tention,  but  it  seemed  not  to  make a 
particle  of  difference  to  her.

When  both  small  boots  were  shin­
ing  like  mirrors  and  could  not  possi­
bly  be  improved  upon  she  stepped 
from  her  exalted  seat,  and,  handing 
the  boy  io  cents,  walked  away  up  the 
street,  without  heeding  the  curious 
crowd  which  was  standing  on 
the 
corner,  ostensibly  waiting  for  a  car, 
but  really  consumed  with 
curiosity 
over  this  unusual  scene.

“This  is  the  second  woman  I  have 
seen  lately  in  a  bootblack’s  chair  on 
the  street,”  said  one  of  the  men  who 
paused  to  stare.  “I  saw  another  one 
only  yesterday,  in  another  chair,  hav­
ing  her  boots  cleaned,  and  I  thought 
maybe  she  was  paying  off  a  wager of 
some  sort. 
If  it  had  been  after  elec­
tion  I  would  have  been  sure  she  was, 
but  I  see  now  it  is  only  another  fem­
inine  fad”— and  he  did  not 
look 
pleased.

To  tell  the  truth,  this  thing  of  sit­
ting  in  a  bootblack’s  chair  in  a  pub­
lic  street  is  a  new  thing  for  the  Bal­
timore  woman,  although  for  a  long 
time  she  has  been  having  her  foot­
wear  polished  in  exactly  the  same 
fashion  as  her  brother  has  his.
The  day  of  the  bottle  of 

liquid 
blacking  wfth  its  tiny  sponge  on  the 
end  of  a  long wire  has  well-nigh  gone 
past.  When  the  bottle  is  used  now 
if  is  oftener  for  freshening  up  black 
straw  hats  which  have  become  dull 
and  dusty  than  in  any  other  capaci­
ty.  Every  shoe-shop  where  women’s 
footwear  is  sold  has  among  its  para­
phernalia  one  or  more  chairs  for  its 
feminine  customers  to  use  while  hav­
ing  their  shoes  blacked,  and  one  or 
more  colored  boys  to  do  this  very 
important  work.

These  young  men  use  paste  black­
ing  and  liquid  blacking,  and  brushes 
and  pieces  of  flannel,  and  elbow  ef­
fort  (which  sounds  more  decent than 
elbow  grease),  and  when  they  get 
through  their  labors  they  are  reward­
ed  with  a  coin  of  greater  or 
less 
value.

One  colored  youth  said  the  other 
day  that  women  were  much  more 
generous  than  men— though,  to  be 
sure,  he  said,  occasionally  a  woman 
came  in  and  had  her  shoes  blaclceffed 
and  never  gave  him  a  cent;  but  he 
admitted  that  such  was  an  exception. 
Of  course,  the  boys  never  blacken 
the  heels  of  the  women’s  shoes  any 
more  than  they  do  those  of 
the 
men’s,  but  then  that  is  merely  one of 
their  pleasing  idiosyncrasies.

It  is  because  the  shoe-shop  inaug­
the  conve­
urated  these  chairs  for 
nience  of  their  patrons  that  women 
first  gave  up  the  bottle  of  blacking 
which  they  used 
themselves,  and 
which  was  sometimes  used  as  dye 
and  sometimes  as  ink,  as  occasion de­
manded,  and  there  were  those  old- 
fashioned  folk  who  thought  that  it 
was  unpleasantly  mannish 
for  the 
members  of  the  gentler  sex  to mount 
a  chair  with  footrests  and  let  a  col­
ored  boy  work  away  at  their  feet; 
but  if  this  matter  of  sitting  on  a  chair 
on  an  open  street  becomes  a  regular 
proceeding  the  respectable  people  of 
the  town  will  have  their  sensibilities 
shocked very often, and they will more

Which Storm Would You Rather Face

Your  trade  wants  the  best. 
It’ s  the  G love  Brand.

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M erchants’  H alf  F are  Excursion  R ates  every  day  to   G rand  Rapids.

Send  for  circular.

Lest  You  Forget

W e  say  this  for  your  benefit  and  your  advantage  in  knowing 
of  one  place  where  your  orders  w ill  have  the  very  best  atten­
tion  possible,  and  where  goods  w ill  be  shipped  same  day  as 
receipt  of  order.  T he  time  for  replenishing  and  sizing  up 
your  rubber  stock  w ill  soon  be  here  and  our  stock  of

Banigan  and 

W  oonasquatucket

A s  well  as

Wool  Boot  and  Stocking  Combinations

Lumbermen's  with  Leather  Tops

Tennis  and  Gymnasium  Shoes

w ill  be  yours  to  draw  on.

Complete  Assortment

B e  sure  to  specify  toes  and  widths  when  ordering.

G EO .  S.  M ILLER ,  Selling  Agent

131-133  M arket  St.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

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

Thanksgiving  Day  Celebration  in  a 

Shoe  Store.

Speaking  of  peculiar  observances of 
the  last  Thursday  in  November,  we 
certainly  had  one  here  this  year. 
It 
came  about  in  this  way.  At  the  meet­
ing  of  the  Lasterville  Boot  and  Shoe 
Retailers’  Club  the  idea  was  broach­
ed  of  all  having  our  Thanksgiving 
dinners  together.  Some  of  the  mem­
bers,  however,  are  pretty  strong  fam­
ily  men,  and  make  a  great  feature 
of  carving their  own  turkeys  for  their 
own  families.  Others  had  invitations 
to  family  reunions,  etc.,  so  the  idea 
was  given  up.

It  was  decided  to  have  the  regular 
meeting  on  the  night  before  Thanks­
giving,  with 
light  refreshments,  in­
stead.

This  meeting  was  a  great  success, 
and  more  than  the  stories,  and 
the 
light  refreshments,  and  the  good  fel­
lowship  which  made  it  such  a  success, 
was  something  which  the  Lasterville 
shoe  dealers  did  which  was  unique, I 
think.

Old  Mr.  Ball  proposed  it. 

It  must 
have  been  either  he  or  Mr.  Laster, 
and  as  it  chanced  the  idea  occurred 
to  Mr.  Ball  so  that  all  that  Mr.  Las­
ter  could  do  was  to  endorse  it  quick.
It  came  about  in  this  way:  Mr. 
Izensole  was  lamenting  the  accumu­
lation  of  old  styles  and  shop-worn 
goods. 
in  spite 
mit  everydings,”  he  said.

“They  accumulate 

Mr.  Tanner,  of  Oaks,  Tanner  & 
Hyde,  said  that  he  did  fairly  well  by 
always  having  a  bargain  counter,  on 
which  he  put  all  of  his  shop  keep­
ers  for  customers  to  pick  among with 
the  price  cut  away  down.

“My  indire  sdore  is  bargains  coun­

ters,”  said  old  Izensole.
At  which  everybody 

for 
Izensole’s  frailty  in  the  matter  of  job 
lots  is  well  known;

smiled, 

“The  way  to  keep  from  having rem­
nants  of  lots  and  old  styles,”  said the 
young  Mr.  Kidder,  “is  to  drop  the 
price  to  cost  on  extreme  styles  and 
odd  sizes  before  they  get  to  be  shop 
keepers,”  which  everybody 
enjoyed 
very  much,  for  Mr.  Kidder  has  been 
in  business  for  himself  only  a  little 
over  a  year.

“I’ll  tell  you  what  would  be  a  de­
lightful  thing  to  do,”  said  Mr.  Ball, 
finally,  “and  that  would  be  to  get  rid 
of  them  all  in  a  lump.”

“How?”  queried  Mr. 

Izensole, 
scenting  a  purchase  of  all  the  shelf 
worn  stock  in  Lasterville  for  a  great 
bankrupt  sale.

“Why,  give  it  away  at  Thanksgiv­
ing  time,”  said  Mr.  Ball,  not  more 
than  half  meaning  what  he  said.

Old  Izensole  sank  back  into  his 

chair,  with  a  grunt  of  disgust.

“Well,  now,  it’s  not  such  a  bad 
idea,”  insisted  Mr.  Ball. 
“Nothing 
makes  a man  feel  so  good  along about 
Thanksgiving  time  or  the  holidays as 
to  do  something  nice  for  somebody.”
“That’s  so,”  said  Mr.  Tanner.  “We 
might  each  make  a  list  of  all  of  our 
poor  customers. 
I  mean,  of  course, 
our  good  customers  who  are  poor, 
and  make  them  each  a  present  of  a 
pair  of  shoes,  a  little  out  of  style, 
perhaps,  but  which  are  still  servicea­
ble.”

“No,  not  that,”  said  Mr.  Laster.

an 

“Let  us  not  make 
advertising 
scheme  of  it  or  anything  of  the  sort. 
Let  us  do  it  as  a  club,  and  each  do­
nate  to  the  deserving  poor  of  Las­
terville  and  vicinity  all  of  the 
‘cats 
and  dogs’  which  are  cumbering  our 
stocks.”

“ ‘He  that  giveth  to  the  poor  lend- 
eth  to  the  Lord,’ ”  said  Mr.  Tanner, 
solemnly.

“Not  quite  correctly  quoted,”  said 
Mr.  Ball,  but  an  excellent  sentiment.
“ ‘The  poor  we  have  with  us  al­
ways,’ ”  remarked  Hi  Ball,  unhesitat­
ingly.

“ I’ll  bet  a  dollar  that’s  the  only 
verse  he  ever 
learned  at  Sunday 
school,  and  he  learned  that  because 
it  was  short,”  whispered  young  Sizer 
to  me. 
“Gee,  I  wish  I  could  think 
of  one,”  he  added.

“ ‘Unt  of  all  that  Thou  shald  geef 
me,  I  vill  surely  geef  the  denth  undo 
Thee.’ ”  It  was  old  Izensole  who  said 
it,  and  as  he  spoke,  sitting  there  be­
fore  the  fire,  gazing  straight  ahead 
into  the  coals  of  the  great  “Alaska” 
stove  that  heats  our  store,  with  his 
long,  thin  beard  hanging  down 
in 
spare  strands  to  be  grasped  by  his 
knotted  fingers,  his  face  set  and stern, 
he  seemed,  someway,  to  be  for  the 
moment,  not  Izensole  of  the  job  lots, 
but  a  twentieth  century  representa­
tive  of  the  patriarchs.

“Well,  what  do  you  think  of  that,” 
whispered  young  Sizer,  “from  one of 
them  people?”

“Hush,  you  fool,”  I  hissed  back at 
the 

him,  “don’t  you  know  they’re 
most  charitable  race  on  earth?”

And  so,  after  more  discussion  it 
was  all  settled,  and  every  dealer  went 
through  his  stock  with  a  fine  tooth 
comb.

When  we  got  them  all  together, 
it  was  a  motly  sight.  There  were 
thirty-nine  pairs  of  men’s  needle  toes, 
some  of  them  in  calf  and  cordovan 
and  half  of  them  strictly  hand-sewed 
bench  work.  There  were  three  pairs 
of  curacoa  kid,  and  over  half  of them 
had  pink  kid  top 
linings.  All  but 
five  pairs  were  No.  3  C,  but  that  is a 
minor  matter.  There  were  twenty- 
six  pairs  of  children’s  shoes,  with 
heels  of  assorted  styles  and  makes, 
and  there  were  just  forty  pairs  of 
women’s  serge  congress,  with 
the 
rubber  stretched  out.  There  were 
three  pairs  of  mismated,  copper-toed 
boys’  boots,  and  one  pair  that  wasn’t, 
and  there  were  seven  pairs  of  18S3 
low  cut,  round-toed  women’s  opera 
slippers,  with  all  white  linings,  much 
soiled,  and  which  had  been  dressed 
over  so  many  times  to  cover  the  red 
sheen  which  blushed  through 
the 
original  color,  that  they  looked 
like 
a  widower  who  was  whisker-dying 
for  a  second  wife.

And,  oh,  what  a  lot  of  shoes  there 
were  which  had  been,  inadvertently 
left  in  the  window  trim  in  the  hot 
sun  so  long  that  the  sap  had  run  out 
of  them,  and  hardened,  and  what  a 
lot  more  there  were  which  had  been 
soiled  by  much  trying on,  or  had  been 
brought  back  after  being  worn  “only 
just  a  little,  not  enough 
to  hurt 
them.”

We  just  had  a  jolly  time  sorting 
them  out  and  getting  the  stock 
in 
shape,  but  when  it  came  to  dispos­

ing  of  our  gifts  we  had  to  call  in the 
ladies— the  women  of  the  Lasterville 
Associated 
charities— and  we  put 
everything  in  their  hands  to  handle 
as  they  would.

They  would  not  hear  to  doing such 
a  thing  without  giving  due  credit, so 
an  article  which  made  us  blush  ap­
peared  in  all  of  the  local  papers, with 
the  names  of  each  of  our  firms,  and 
on  the  day  before  Thanksgiving  the 
distribution  was  made.  The 
ladies 
got  the  use  of  the  big  meeting  room 
at  the  village  building,  and  applica­
tions  were  received  for  several  days 
before,  and  every  application  thor­
oughly  investigated  as  to  worthiness 
by  the  energetic  ladies.  Where  the 
applicant  was  found  worthy  a  card 
with  the  applicant’s  name  on  it  was 
the 
given  out,  to  be  presented  at 
village  hall  on  the  day  appointed. 
I 
didn’t  quite  like  the  idea  of  forcing 
unfortunate  people  to  parade  their 
poverty,  but  the  ladies  couldn’t  seem 
to  manage  it  in  any  other  way.

Representatives  from  every  store 
were  detailed  to  help  fit  out  the  ap-

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B E T T E R   IN  F IT  

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Sold  to  th i  consumer  for  $2  50, 
it  gives  more  all  around  foot 
satisfaction  than any other every 
day  shoe  intended  for  hard  out­
door  serv.ce  that  is  manufac 
factured.

W e  are  the  original  makers  of 
this  genu:ne  Hard  Pan  Shoe. 
Our  trade  mark  on  the  sole  is 
our  guarantee  to  the  wearer.

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RUBBER  CO.  we  have  the  largest  and  most  complete  stock  of  Rubber 
Footwear  in  the  State,  all  fresh  new  goods.  Old  rubbers  are  dear  at  any 
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plicants.  Sizer  and  I  went  over  for 
our  store,  and  Sizer  said  that  he 
never  knew  customers  to  be  so  easily 
pleased.  There  was  a  shortage  of 
shoes  for  boys  and  misses,  but  that 
didn’t  matter.  Anything  answered.  I 
sent  one  boy  of  fourteen  away,  hap­
py,  in  a  pair  of  hand-sewed,  button, 
needle-toed  cordovan,  No.  9  B.  He 
certainly  looked  funny,  but  he  didn’t 
mind,  and  I’ll  bet  his  feet  will 
be 
warmer  and  dryer  this  winter  than 
they  have  been  for  many  a  season.

The  women’s  3  C’s  went  off  like 
hot  cakes,  many  of  them  to  misses 
who  ought  to  have  been  wearing  13s, 
and  there  were  many  heart  burn­
ings  because  there  were  so  few  pairs 
of  boys’  mismated  copper-toed  boots.
But  the  old  ladies.  Ah,  there  was 
it  wrung  our  hearts.  The 
where 
serge 
congress,  with 
rubber 
stretched  out,  was  what  they  coveted. 
Mr.  Laster  knew  just  what  to  do 
about  that.  One  of  our  own  poor, 
old  lady  customers  had  told  him,  and 
he  sent  me  over  to  the  dry  goods 
store  to  buy  two  pieces  of  the  wid­
est  rubber  tape,  and  to  every  old  lady 
we  gave  a  half  a  yard  and  told  her 
how 
to  edge 
fit  snugly  up  around  their  thin,  old 
ankles.

it  edge 

sew 

the 

to 

It  would  take  too  long  to  tell  all 
about  it,  of  how  old  Izensole  rubbed 
his  hands  and  chuckled,  and  worked 
like  a  beaver  in  fitting  the  poor  peo­
ple  out  with  the  greatest  bargains  he 
had  ever  handled,  and  of  how  every­
thing  was  disposed  of  except  a  few 
pairs  which  wouldn’t  fit  anybody,  and 
were  donated  to  the  mission  barrel 
of  the  Ladies’  Aid  Society  of  the 
Methodist  church,  and  of  how  the  dry 
goods  men,  and  the  clothing  men,  and 
the  gents’  furnishing  goods  men  saw 
how  we  were  enjoying  ourselves  and 
how  good  it  made  us  feel,  said  we 
were  a  selfish  lot  not  to  tell  them 
about  it,  instead  of  sneaking  off  to 
enjoy  ourselves  that  way,  and  of  how 
we  promised  that  next  time  we’d 
take  them  all  in  and  clean  their  old 
stuff  out  for  them,  and  show  them 
how  to  make  Thanksgiving 
seem 
more  as  though  we  in  a  little  meas­
ure  deserved  what  we  were  giving 
thanks  for.  There  are  a  great  many 
deserving  poor  in  Lasterville. 
I  sup­
pose  they  are  everywhere.— Ike  N. 
Fitem  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

A  Lost  Invention.

rediscover 

Fame  and  fortune  await  the  lucky 
individual  who  can 
the 
combination  of  metals  from  which 
the  Egyptians,  the  Aztecs  and  the 
Incas  of  Peru  made  their  tools  and 
arms.  Although  each  of  these  na­
tions  reached  a  high  state  of  civili­
zation,  none  of  them  ever  discovered 
iron,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the 
soil  of  all  three  countries  was  large­
ly  impregnated  with  it.  Their  sub­
stitute  for  it  was  a  combination  of 
metals  which  had  the  temper  of  steel. 
Despite  the  greatest  efforts,  the  se­
cret  of  this  composition  has  baffled 
scientists  and  has  become  a 
lost 
art.  The  great  explorer  Humboldt 
tried  to  discover  it  from  an  analysis 
of  a  chisel  found  in  an  ancient  Inca 
silver  mine,  but  all  that  he  could  find 
out  was  that  it  appeared  to  be 
a

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combination  of  a  small  portion  of 
tin  with  copper.  This  combination 
will  not  give  the  hardness  of  steel, 
so  it  is  evident  that  tin  and  copper 
could  not  have  been  its  only  com­
ponent  parts.  Whatever  might  have 
been  the  nature  of  the  metallic  com­
bination,  these  ancient  races  were 
able  so  to  prepare  pure  copper  that 
it  equaled  in  temper  the  finest  steel 
produced  at  the  present  day  by  the 
most  scientifically  approved  process. 
With  their  bronze  and  copper  instru­
ments  they  were  able  to  quarry  and 
shape  the  hardest  known  stones,  such 
as  granite  and  porphyry,  and  even cut 
emeralds  and  like  substances.  A  re­
discovery  of  this  lost  art  would  rev­
olutionize  many  trades  in  which  steel 
at  present  holds  the  monopoly. 
If 
copper  could  thus  be  tempered  now 
its  advantage  over  steel  would  be 
very  great  and  it  would  no  doubt  be 
preferred  to  the  latter  in  numerous 
It  is  a  curious  fact  that 
industries. 
although  this 
lost  secret  still  baf­
fles  modern  scientists  it  must  have 
been  discovered 
independently  by 
the  three  races  which  made  use  of 
it  so 
long  ago.— New  York  Her­
ald.

Tribute  to  the  Kentuckyian.

“Man  born  in  the  wilds  of  Ken­
tucky  is  of  feud  days  and  easy  virtue. 
He  fisheth, 
cusseth,  and 
fighteth  all  the  days  of  his  life.

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“He  shunneth  water  as  a  mad  dog 

and  drinketh  much  moonshine.

“When  he  desireth  to  raise  hell he 
planteth  a  neighbor,  and— lo!— he 
reapeth  twentyfold.

“He  riseth  even  from  his  cradle to 
seek  the  scalp  of  his  grandsire’s  ene­
my,  and  bringeth  home  in  his  car­
cass  the  ammunition  of  his  neighbor’s 
wife’s  cousin’s  uncle’s  father-in-law, 
who  avengeth  the  dead.

“Yea,  verily,  his  life  is  uncertain 
and  he  knoweth  not  the  hour  when 
he  may  be  jerked  hence.

“He  goeth  forth  on  a  journey  ‘half­
shot’  and  cometh  back  on  a  shutter 
shot.

“He  riseth  in  the  night  to  let  the 
cat  out,  and  it  taketh  nine  doctors 
three  days  or  one  doctor  twenty-sev­
en  days  to  pick  the  buckshot 
from 
his  person.

“He  goeth  forth  in  joy  and  glad­
ness,  and  cometh  back  in  scraps  and 
fragments.

“He  calleth  his  fellow  man  a  liar, 
and  getteth  himself  filled  with  scrap 
iron,  even  to  the  fourth  generation.

“A   cyclone  bloweth  him  into  the 
bosom  of  his  neighbor’s  wife,  and his 
neighbor’s  wife’s  husband  bloweth 
him  into  the  bosom  of  his  Father 
Abraham  before  he  hath  time  to  ex­
plain.

“He  emptieth  a  deijohn 

into  him­
self,  and  a  shotgun  into  his  enemy, 
and  his  enemy’s  son  lieth  in  wait, 
and— lo!  the*  coroner  ploweth  up  a 
forty  acre  field  to  bury  that  man.”

The  devil  has  many  a  way  to  work 
a  woman,  but  a  compliment  is  the 
path  that  leads  to  them  all.

Self-love  is  that  undying  kind  of 
so 

affection  about  which  we  hear 
much.

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MEN  W IT H   IDEAS.

They  Mark  the  Real  Progress  of the 

World.

It  seems 

In  the  conduct  of  all  rational  and 
civilized  men  there  are  always  three 
things:  First,  the  emotion,  then  the 
idea  and  then  the  act. 
In  the  con­
duct  of  the  lower  animals  there  are 
in­
always  two  things,  emotions  or 
stincts,  and  actions. 
to  be 
man’s  divine  and  glorious  prerogative 
to  create  this  middle  term— the  idea 
or  the  thought.  The  skillful  and  in­
genious  beaver  who  will  work  next 
summer  in  the  Lake  of  the  Woods 
far  North,  constructing  his  winter 
home,  plastering  the  mud  walls  ever 
so  thickly  in  order  to  afford  a  pro­
tection  against  the  wind  and  the  cold 
of  the  coming  season,  does  not  think. 
God  thinks  for  the  beaver,  and  we 
say  the  beaver  does  his  skillful  work 
through  instinct.  There  is  in 
the 
beaver,  so  far  as  man  can  determine, 
the  feeling  or  the  instinct,  and  then 
immediately  follows 
the  action.  The 
great  builder,  Michael  Angelo,  who 
was  planning  at  the  close  of  the 
middle  ages  one  of the  greatest  pieces 
of  architecture  in  the  entire  world, St. 
Peters  at  Rome,  before  he  laid  a 
stone  or  brick  or  timber,  was  obliged 
to  fashion  this  stupendous  building 
in  his  own  mind— the 
length  and 
shape  of  every  beam,  the  measure­
ments  for  each  girder,  the  junction 
of  every  groin,  the  form  and  size  of 
the  scaffolding  to  be  used,  the  shape 
of  each  stone  and  brick— all 
these 
things  were  ideas  before  they  ever 
became  realized  in  the  great  architec­
tural  pile.  So,  as  we  study  the  con­
trast  between  man  and  the  animal 
that  is  beneath  man,  we  find  that 
that  which  seems  to  give  him  his 
supreme  place  is  the  fact  that  he  is 
able  to  construct  this  middle  term  be­
tween  the  primitive  emotion  and  the 
ultimate  act  of  his  life.

Now,  it  may  seem  to  be  unneces­
sary  to  spend  any  time  in  referring 
to  the  power  of  thought;  and  yet, 
just  think  for  a  single  moment  of 
the  age  in  which  we  live,  the  age  in 
which  the  young  people  are  to  do 
their  work  in  the  world! 
It  is  in- 
deed  a  splendid  age.  To  be  living 
in  an  age  like  this  is  a  magnificent 
and  a  sublime  thing.  There  are  so 
many  forces  to-day,  both  material 
and  spiritual,  that  are  making  for  the 
progress  of  humanity;  and  yet  our 
age,  great  and  splendid  as  it  is,  is not 
without  its  dangers.

What  is  the  one  word  that  is  be­
ing  used  to-day  more  than  any  other, 
and  which  characterizes  this  age  in 
which  we  live?  It  is  the  word  “com­
mercial.”  They  tell  us  in  magazine 
and  newspaper,  and  in  sermon  and 
in  lecture,  that  this  is  a  commercial 
age— an  age  in  which  the  commercial 
spirit  is  finding  expression  in  every 
one  of  our  manifold  and  complex  ac­
tivities;  and  in  such  an  age  the  ten­
dency  is  always  strong  to  forget  that 
the  thinker  is,  after  all,  the  man  of 
greatest  influence  in  the  world  and 
in  history.  We  speak  to-day  of  our 
corn  kings  and  our  cotton  kings  and 
our  oil  kings  and  our  coal  barons  and 
our  railroad  magnates;  and  yet  I  wish 
to  remind  you  that  the  true  king  of

wharves;  outside  there  are  the  clang­
ing  of  the  locomotive  bell  and  the 
coming  and  going  of  long  lines  of 
freight  cars;  outside  there  are 
the 
tremendous  bustle  and  activity  of  the 
material  civilization,  and 
this 
quiet  man,  unknown  and  unlettered 
and  undoctored  although  he  be,  sit­
ting  in  his  little  room  upstairs,  will be 
remembered  long  after  the  merchan­
dise  and  vessels  and  freight  trains 
shall  have  forever  vanished  from  the 
scene.

yet 

Four  hundred  years  before  Christ 
the  city  of  Athens  was  one  of  the 
great  cities  of  the  world.  There was 
the  shouting  of  the  slaves,  there  was 
the  mingling  of  the  merchants,  there 
was  the  bawling  of  the  orators,  there 
was  the  noise  of  ship  and  market­
place  and  of  field;  and  yet,  the  mer- 
the  orators 
I  chants  have  vanished, 
have  disappeared,  all  signs  of 
the

golden 

gone,  the  temple  itself  is  gone,  the 
,  ark  of  the  covenant  is  gone,  the  sev­
candlesticks  were  all 
en 
I thrown 
into  the  River  Tiber,  they 
tell  us,  never  to  be  discovered  again, 
the  walls  of  Jerusalem  razed  to  the 
ground  by  the  power  of  Rome,  Rome 
itself  was  conquered  and  overcome 
by  the  barbarians  of  the  North;  but 
down  through the centuries there have 
come,  with  increasingly  vital  power, 
the  ideas  of  the  lowly  Nazarene— this 
peasant,  who  was  followed  by  bare­
footed  peasants  himself.

If  history  teaches  any  one 

su­
preme  lesson  that,  it  seems  to  me,  in 
this  age  and  generation  we  are  to 
remember,  it  is  this  great  truth,  that 
the  mind  of  man  really  is  the  ruler. 
The  great  potentate  to-day,  and  every 
day,  is  the  man  of  thought,  is  the 
man  with  the  idea,  is  the  man  who 
understands  the  secret  things  in  the

M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

them  all  is  the  man  of  earnest  and 
honest  and  persistent  thought— not 
the  man  with  the  dollar,  not  the  man 
with  the  “pull,”  not  the  man  with  so­
cial  influence,  but  the  man  with  the 
idea,  if  he  but  know  how  to  make 
himself  the  living  embodiment  of that 
idea,  is  the  great  man,  is  the  quiet 
influence,  is  the  effective  power 
in 
the  world  to-day.

There  sits  in  a  little  room  upstairs 
a  quiet  man  in  the  heart  of  some 
great  bustling  city.  He  is  thinking 
his  way  deep  down  to  some  of  these 
fundamental  principles  that  have  to 
do  with  the  life  of  the  individual  or 
with  the  life  of  society.  Outside  in 
the  street  there  is  the  rumbling  of 
heavy  drays  as  they  drag  along  their 
loads  of  freight  or  merchandise;  out­
side  there  is  the  unloading  of 
the 
the  merchants’
great 

vessels 

at 

it 

these 

through 

centuries 

influences 

intense  lives  lived  in  that  day  have 
entirely  gone  from  the  Athens  of 
to-day.  Yet  there  has  come  down  to 
us 
the 
thought  of  that  one  man— the  man 
Socrates— and 
the 
thoughts  and  councils  of  men  to-day.
There  was  that  other  great  city, 
Jerusalem. 
It  was  the  meeting-place 
for  merchants  from  Tarsus  and  Da­
mascus  and  from  Babylon  and  Alex­
andria.  There  was  Herod  with  his 
unrestrained  power  and  his  danger­
ous  lust  for  gain;  there  were  the  high 
priest  and  his  great  multitude  of  fol­
lowers;  there  was  the  great  temple; 
there  was  the  ark  of  the  covenant; 
there  were  the  seven  golden  candle­
sticks;  there  were  all  the  wonderful 
symbols  that  belong  to  the  race  of 
the  Hebrew  people;  and  yet,  to-day 
Herod  is  gone,  the  chief  priests  are

great  world  that  we  call  mental  or 
moral  or  spiritual.

Think,  if  you  will,  how  this  truth 
may  be  applied  to  the  world  of  in­
vention  and  practical  discovery,  the 
world  of  material  things.  Everything 
that  man  has  ever  consciously  made 
has  always  been  a  thought  before  it 
became  a  thing.  A  thing  is  simply the 
outside  of  a  thought;  or,  to  put  it  in 
the  contrary  form,  a  thought  is  only 
the  inside  of  a  thing;  and  that  is  ab­
solutely  true,  from  the  tiny  pin  that 
you  hold  in  your  hand  to  the  Gov­
ernment  under  which  we  live  and  the 
great  institutions 
that  make  our 
country  or  any  country  truly  to  be 
reverenced.

thing; 

The  man  with  the  idea  is  the  man 
who  in  this  world  of  invention  and 
discovery  has  been  the 
leader,  has 
been  the  great  benefactor,  has  made 
possible  the  comforts  and 
luxuries, 
has  made  possible  a  wider  world  and 
a  larger  life  and  a  happier  existence 
for  millions  and  millions  of  people 
the  whole  world  round.  I  never think 
of  this  subject  without  thinking  of 
Charles  Goodyear,  that  man  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  who  for  eleven 
years  worked  unceasingly  to  make 
a 
|  India  rubber  a  practical 
man  who  was  put  into  prison 
for 
debt,  a  man  who  was  overwhelmed 
j  literally  by  his  poverty,  a  man  whose 
child  died  one  day  and  he  hadn’t 
J  money  to  bury  it,  not  even  money 
j  to  keep  the  remaining  five  children 
from  starvation,  and  the  neighbors 
turned  their  backs  upon  him  because 
I  of  his  neglect  of  his  family,  and  they 
called  him  by  every  scornful  name—  
insane,  crank,  fanatic;  but  the  time 
came  at  the  end  of  eleven  years, when 
Charles  Goodyear  accomplished  the 
great  end  toward  which  he  had  been 
India 
working,  the  vulcanizing  of 
rubber— something  that 
to-day 
used  in  500  different  applications  in 
the  industrial  world,  a  thing  that  to­
day  gives  employment  to  thousands 
and  tens  of  thousands 
of  people 
throughout  the  civilized  world.

is 

The  man  with  the  idea— thank  God 
that  you  can  not  put  beside  him, 
with  any  fair  degree  of  comparison, 
any  other  man  of  the  whole  world 
and  expect  he  will  stand  forth  as 
great,  as  sublime,  as  wonderful  as 
this  man,  unknown  although  he  may 
have  been  in  his  youth,  illiterate  al­
though  he  has  been,  poor,  harrassed 
by  death  and  sickness  oftentimes;  the 
man  who  nevertheless  has  persistent­
ly  and  earnestly  worked  toward  the 
realization  in  the  living  concrete thing 
of  the  idea  that  possessed  his  own 
mind  and  enthused  his  own  heart.

this 

in  the 

But  you  may  apply 

great 
truth  in  still  a  different  sphere,  and 
as  we  look  back  over  the  page  of 
history  we  find  all  the  great  progres­
sive  movements 
life  of  so­
ciety  have  always  proceeded  from the 
idea  in  the  mind,  somewhere,  of some 
few,  some  little  group  of  people.  Car­
lisle,  you  know  it  is,  who  says,  “ It 
is  never  the  age  that  leads  in  prog­
ress;  it  is  always  the  individual.” 
I 
suppose  he  means 
the  great 
movements  in  our  age,  or  any  age, 
what  we  call  progressive  movements, 
can  be  traced  back  in  the  latest  analy­
sis  to  their  starting  point,  to  some

that 

idea  out 

one  mind,  some  one  man  or  woman 
possessed  of  a  great 
of 
which  this  beneficent  movement  in 
the 
life  of  society  has  come.  We 
say,  as  we  look  around  us,  what  is 
one  man  in  a  generation  of  men? 
What  is  one  mind  among  the  multi­
tude  of  diverse  or  opposing  minds? 
We  say,  what  is  one  opinion  or  idea, 
when  perhaps  all 
the  opinions  of 
that  generation  are  in  contradiction 
to  this  one  opinion  or  this  single 
idea? 
If  history  proves  anything  it 
proves  that  the  one  man,  that  the 
one  mind,  that  the  one  opinion,  that 
the  single  idea  may  mean  everything 
in  the  life  and  progress  of  humanity 
— everything!

The  man  with  the  idea— it  is  dem­
onstrated  in  every  century  of 
the 
world’s  history— is  the  great  man,  is 
the  true  king,  is  the  mightiest  power, 
is  the  immortal  influence  after  all. 
Think  of  another  example  history  af­
fords,  if  you  will,  and  this  in  the 
sphere  of  moral  progress— that  un­
known  and  illiterate  monk  from  the 
Orient  who  one  day  broke  into  the 
Roman  arena  and  tried  to  prevent  a 
deathly  combat  between  gladiators. 
Although  at  command  of  a  heartless 
ruler  he  was  stricken  down  by 
the 
men  with  whose  murderous  work  he 
in  his  weakness  had  interfered,  his 
declaration  that  such  monstrous and 
horrible  exhibitions  were  wrong  was 
the  beginning  of  their  downfall.

There  are  some  people  now  living 
who  can 
look  back  in  memory  to 
that  time  when  there  dwelt  in  this 
nation  two  opposing  spirits.  One was 
the  spirit  of  the  Old  World  that was 
seeking  to  establish  in  this  new  land 
the  institutions  and  customs  of  the 
Old  World.  The  other  was  the  new 
spirit  that  was  trying  to  establish 
here  the  institutions  and  customs that 
could  thrive  best  in  this  new  atmos­
phere.  The  one  spirit  despised  labor 
and  the  other  spirit  magnified  labor; 
the  one  spirit  looked  with  scorn  upon 
the  laboring man,  the  other  spirit  dig- 
■ nified  him  wherever  it 
found  him. 
The  one  spirit  believed  in  the  fact 
that  men  are  not  born  free  and  equal; 
the  other  spirit  believed,  and  sought 
earnestly  to  realize,  the  great  truths 
of  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the 
fatherhood  of  God;  and  you  know 
how  these  spirits 
gradually 
more  and  more  into  conflict.  Back 
fifty  or  sixty  years, 
in  New  Eng­
land 
there  was  a  little  group  of 
people  who  said,  scarcely  above their
breath  at  first,  “Slavery  is  wrong—  
slavery  is  wrong— slavery  is  wrong!” 
The  years’  went  by  and  people  from 
platform  and  pulpit  tried  to  prove 
that  slavery  was  justifiable.  Minis­
ters  from  the  pulpit,  with  their  Bi­
bles  in  hand,  sought  to  justify  this 
inhuman  institution.  Still  this  little 
group  of  people,  growing  larger  and 
larger,  and  uttering  more  clearly  by 
pen  and  word  their  views,  kept  on 
saying,  “It  is  wrong.  Nevertheless, 
it  is  wrong.  Let  statesmen  argue,  let 
preachers  talk,  let  magazine  editors 
write— nevertheless  we  dare 
stand 
and  say,  this  is  wrong,  and  slavery 
ought  not  to  exist  in  our  land  nor  in 
any  place  on  the  face  of  God’s  globe.” 
And  you  know  how  the  day  came at 
last  when  those  people  in  the  North-

came 

M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

Hardware Price  Current  |

A M M U N IT IO N

Caps

G  D„  full  count,  per  m ......................  40
H icks’  W aterproof,  per  m ....................  50
M usket,  per  m ...........................................   75
Ely’s  W aterproof,  per  m ........................  60

m .....2 50
No.  22  short, 
No.  22  long,  per  m .................................... 3 00
No.  32  short, 
m .....5 00
No.  32 
long, per  m .....................................5 75

Cartridges
per 
per 

No.  2  TJ.  M.  C.,  boxes  250,  per  m ........1  60  |
No.  2  W inchester,  boxes  250,  per  m . .1  60  i

Primers

Gun  W ads

Black  Edge,  Nos.  11  &  12  U.  M.  C...  60
Black  Edge,  Nos.  9  &  10,  per  m ........  70
Black  Edge,  No.  7,  per  m .....................   80

Loaded  Shells

New  Rival—For  Shotguns

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

Drs. of oz.  of
Powder Shot

P er
100
$2  90
2  90
2  90
2  90
2  95
3  00
2  50
2  50
2  65
2  70
2  70
Discount. one-third and five  per cent.

Gauge
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

Size
Shot
10
9
8
6
5
4
10
8
6
5
4

1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1
1
1%
1%
1%

4
4
4
4
4%
4%
3
3
3%
3%
3%

Paper  Shells—N ot  Loaded

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

Gunpowder

Kegs,  25  lbs.,  per  keg.............................  4 90
%  Kegs,  12%  lbs.,  per  %  k e g ................2 90
%  Kegs,  6%  lbs.,  per  %  k e g ................1 60

In  sacks  containing  25  lbs 

Drop,  all  sizes  sm aller  than  B ..........1  85

Shot

Augurs  and  Bits

Snell's 
Jennings'  genuine  ....................... 
Jennings’  im ita tio n ........................... 

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

  60
25
50

Axes

F irst  Quality,  S.  B.  B ro n z e .................   6 50
F irst  Quality,  D.  B.  Bronze.................9 00
F irst  Quality,  S.  B.  S.  Steel..................7 00
F irst  Quality,  D.  B.  Steel.........................10 50

R ailroad...........................................................15 00
Garden.............................................................33 00

Barrows

Iron

B ar  Iron  ..............................................2  25  rate
: ....................................3  00  rate
L ight  Band 
Door,  m ineral,  Jap. 
. . . .   75
Door,  Porcelain,  Jap.  trim m ings  . . . .   85

Knobs— New  List

trim m ings 

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

Levels

Metals— Zinc

600  pound  casks  ........................................  8
P er  pound 

..................................................  8%

Miscellaneous

Bird  Cages 
.................................................   40
Pum ps,  C istern..........................................75&10
..................................  85
Screws,  New  L ist 
Casters,  Bed  and  P l a t e .................50&10&10
Dam pers,  A m erican................ 
50
Molasses  Gates

Stebbins’  P a tte rn  
............................... 60&10
E nterprise,  self-m easuring......................  30

 

 

Pans

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

Patent  Planished  Iron

“A ”  W ood’s  pat.  plan’d.  No.  24-27..10  80 
“B”  W ood's  pat.  plan’d.  No.  25-27..  9  80 

Broken  packages  %e  per  lb.  extra.

Planes

40
50
40
45

Ohio  Tool  Co.’s  fan cy ............................ 
Sciota  Bench 
............................................ 
Sandusky  Tool  Co.’s  fan cy ..................  
Bench,  first  quality.................................. 

Nails
Advance  over  base,  on  both  Steel  &  W ire
Steel  nails,  base 
....................................  2  35
W ire  nails,  base  ......................................  2  15
20  to  60  a d v a n c e ................................... Base
5
10  to  16  advance........................................ 
8  advance  .................................................
20
6  advance 
................................................ 
4  advance 
................................................ 
30
3  advance  .................................................. 
45
70
2  advance  .................................................. 
50
Fine  3  advance.......................................... 
Casing  10  advance 
  15
............................. 
25
Casing  8  advance.................................... 
Casing  6  advance...................................... 
35
Finish  10  advance.................................... 
25
....................................  35
Finish  8  advance 
Finish  6  advance 
....................................  45
.............  
85
B arrel  %  advance 

 

 

Iron  and  tinned 
Copper  R ivets  and  B urs  ....................  

Rivets
......................................  50
45

Roofing  Plates
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  Dean 
........ ........... 7  50
14x20  IX,  Charcoal,  D ean  ....................9  00
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  D ean 
................15  00
14x20,  IC,  Charcoal.  Alla w ay  G rade.  7  50 
14x20  IX,  Charcoal,  Alla way  Grade  ..  9  00 
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  Alla w ay  G rade  .. 15  00 
20x28  IX,  Charcoal,  Alla way  Grade  .. 18  00 

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

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

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

9%

50

Solid  Eyes,  per  t o n ................................28  00

Sheet  Iron
.............................................3  60
............................................. 3  70
.............................................3  90
3  00
4  00
4  10
All  sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30 

Nos.  10  to 14 
Nos.  15  to 17 
Nos.  18  to 21 
Nos.  22  to  24  ................................ 4  10 
Nos.  25  to  26  .............................. 4  20 
No.  27 
............................................ 4  30 
inches  wide,  not  less  than  2-10  extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

F irst  Grade,  Doz  ..................................... 5  50
Second  Grade,  Doz....................................5  00

Solder

%@%  ................................................. -,  .21
The  prices  of  the  m any  other  qualities 
of  solder  in  the  m arket  indicated  by  p ri­
vate  brands  vary  according  to  compo­
sition.
Steel  and  Iron  ..................................... 60-10-5

Squares

T in — Melyn  Grade

10x14  IC,  Charcoal..........................................10 50
14x20  IC,  Charcoal  .................................. 10  50
12  00
10x14  IX,  Charcoal 
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  $1.25 

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

T in — Allaw ay  Grade

10x14  1C,  Charcoal  ..................................  9  00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal 
................................  9  00
1 jxl4  IX.  Charcoal  ................................ 10  50
14x20  IX,  Charcoal  ................................ 10  50
E ach  additional  X   on  this  grade,  $1.50 

Boiler  Size  T in   Plate 

14x56  IX,  for Nos.  8  &  9  boilers,  per  lb  13

Traps

W ire

Steel,  Game 
................................................  75
Oneida  Community,  N ewhouse’s 
. .40&10 
Oneida  Com’y,  H awley  & N orton’s . .  65
Mouse,  choker,  per  doz.  holes  .......... 1  25
Mouse,  delusion,  per  doz........................1  25

Bright  Market  ........................................  60
Annealed  Market  ..................................   60
Coppered  Market  ................................. 50&10
Tinned  M arket  ........................................ 50&10
..................?__   40
Coppered  Spring  Steel 
B arbed  Fence,  Galvanized 
..................2  75-
Barbed  Fence,  P ainted 
........................2  45

W ire  Goods
B right 
.......................................................... 80-10
Screw  E yes 
...............................................80-10
.......................................................... 80-10
H ooks 
G ate  Hooks  and  E y e s ............  ...............80-10
Wrenches
B axter’s  A djustable,  Nickeled 
..........   30
Coe's  Genuine 
............................................  40
Coe’s  P a te n t  A gricultural,  W rought, 70410

37

Crockery and  Glassware

STONEW ARE

B utters

Stewpans

............ ___120

Fine  Glazed  Milkpans 

% gal.  per  doz.................................. ........  48
1 to  6  gal.  per  doz.......................... ........ 
6
.................................... ........   56
8 gal.  each 
................................. ........   70
10 gal.  each 
12 gal.  each 
.................................... . 
. ..   84
15 gal.  m eat  tubs,  each 
20 gal.  m eat  tubs,  e a c h ................ ___  1  60
25 gal.  m eat  tubs,  each  .............. ___  2  25
30 gal.  m eat  tubs,  each 
............ ___  2  70
Churns
2 to  6  gal,  per  gal............................ . . . .   6%
Churn  D ashers,  per  doz 
.......... ........  84
Milkpans
%  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  per  doz.  48 
1  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  each  ..  6
%  gajt.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  per  doz.  60 
1  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  each  .. 
6
%  gal.  fireproof,  bail,  per  doz  ..........  85
1  gal.  fireproof  bail,  per  doz  .......... 1  10
%  gal.  per  doz.............................................  60
%  gal.  per  doz.............................................  45
1  to  5  gal.,  per  g a l................................  7%
Sealing  W ax
5  Tbs.  in  package,  per  lb........................ 
2
LAMP  BURNERS
No.  0  Sun  ................................... 
 
31
....................................................  38
No.  1  Sun 
No.  2  Sun 
....................................................  50
....................................................  8>
No.  3  Sun 
1'ubular  ..........................................................  50
........................................................  50
N utm eg 
MASON  FRUIT  JARS 
W ith  Porcelain  Lined  Caps

P er  gross
P ints  ...............................................................4  25
Q uarts 
........................................................... 4  40
%  gallon  ....................................................... 6  00

F ru it  J a rs   packed  1  dozen  in  box. 

Jugs

 

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

P er  box  of  6  doz.
No.  0  Sun 
.................................................1  60
.............................'..................... 1  72
No.  1  Sun 
No.  2  Sun  ..................................................... 2  54

X X X   Flin t

F irst  Quality

Each  Chimney  in  corrugated  carton

Anchor  C arton  Chimneys 
.................................... 

No  0  Crim p 
....1 7 0
No.  1  Crim p  ................................................1  90
No.  2  C rim p .................................................2  90
crim p top, w rapped &  lab.  1  9i
No.  0  Sun, 
No.  1  Sun, 
crim p top, w rapped &  lab.  2  00
No.  2  Sun, 
crim p top, w rapped &  lab. 3  00
No.  1  Sun,  crim p  top,  w rapped  &  lab. 3  25 
No.  2  Sun.  crim p  top,  w rapped  & .lab.  4  10 
No.  2  Sun.  hinge,  w rapped  &  labeled 4  25
No.  1  Sun,  w rapped  and  labeled  . .. .4   60
No.  2  Sun,  w rapped  and  labeled   
  5  30
No.  2  hinge,  w rapped  and  labeled,. ..  .5  10 
No.  2  Sun,  “sm all  bulb,”  globe  lam ps  80 
No.  1  Sun,  plain  bulb, per  doz  ............1  00
No.  2  Sun,  plain  bulb, per  doz  ............1  25
No.  1  Crimp,  per  doz ..............................1  3a
No.  2  Crimp,  per  doz.................................1 60
1 Lime (65c  doz.)  .............................3  50
No. 
No. 
2 Lim e (75c  doz.)  .............................4  00
No. 
2 F lin t (80c  doz)  .............................. 4  60
Electric
No.  2  I,ime  (70c  doz.) 
..........................4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c  doz.)  ..............................4  60

Pearl  Top

Rochester

LaBastie

O IL  C A N S
1  gal. tin  cans  w ith  spout, 
per  doz.  1 20
1  gal.  galv.  iron w ith  spout,  per  doz.  1 28
2  gal.  galv.  iron w ith  spout,  per  doz.  2 10
3  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  peer  doz.  3  15
5  gal.  galv.  iron w ith  spout,  per  doz.  4 15
3  gal. galv.  iron  w ith  faucet,  per  doz.  3 75
5  gal. galv.  iron  w ith  faucet,  per  doz.  4 75
5  gal.  T ilting  cans  ..................................  7  00
5  gal.  galv.  iron  N a c e fa s ......................  9  00
No.  0  Tubular,  side l i f t ..........................  4  65
No.  2  B  T ubular  ........................................6  40
No.  15  Tubular,  dash  ............................  6  50
No.  2  Cold  B last  L a n te r n ....................  7  75
No.  12  Tubular,  side  la m p ....................12  60
No.  3  S treet  lam p,  e a c h ......................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  00 
No.  0  Tub.,  B ull's  eye,  cases 1 dz. each!  25 

L A N T E R N   G L O B E S

L A N T E R N S

B E S T   W H I T E   C O T T O N   W IC K S  
Roll  contains  32  yards  in  one  piece. 

No. 0  % 
No. 
No. 
No. 

roll.  25
in.  wide,  per  gross or 
1, % in.  wide,  per  gross or 
roll.  30
roll  45
2, 1  in.  wide,  per  gross or 
3. 1%  in.  wide,  per  gross  or roll  80

C O U P O N   B O O K S

50  books,  any  denom ination 
........... 1  50
........... 2  50
100  books,  any  denom ination 
500  books,  any  denom ination  ......... 11  50
1000  books,  any  denom ination  ......... 20  00
Above  quotations  are  for  either  T rades­
man,  Superior,  Economic  or  U niversal 
grades.  W here  1,000  books  are  ordered 
at  a 
receive  specially 
printed  cover  w ithout  ex tra  charge.

tim e  custom ers 

Coupon  Pass  Books

Can  be  m ade  to  represent  any  denom i­
nation  from   $10  down.
50  books  ..................................................  1  50
100  books  .................................................   2  50
500  books  .................................................. 11  50
1000  books 
................................................20  00
Credit  Checks
500,  any  one  denom ination  ..............  2  00
1000,  any  one  denom ination  ................ 3  00
2000,  any  one  d en o m in a tio n ................... 5  00
7f
Steel  punch 

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

. 

70 
70 
BO

70
60

.. 

. 
. 
. 

5

65
65
65
65

Bolts

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

Buckets

Well,  plain................................
Butti.,  C ast
C ast  Loose  Pin,  figured  ...
W rought,  narrow ...................

Chain

Crowbars

Chisels

C ast  Steel,  per  lb...................

Snfikpt  F irm er..........................
Socket  Fram ing......................
Socket  Corner.........................
Socket  Slicks.............................

Elbows

Common...........7  c __.6  c ..
BB..................... 8%c___ 7% c..
BBB...................8% c___ 7% c..

% in  5-16 in. %  in. % in.
.6  c .. ..4% c
-6% c.. . .6  c
• 6% c.. ..6% e

Com.  4  piece,  6in.,  per  doz..........net. 
75
Corrugated,  per  doz.............................. 1  25
A djustable 
..................................... dis.  40&10
Expansive  Bits

C lark's  small.  $18;  large,  $26.............. 
Ives’  1,  $18;  2,  $24;  3,  $30  .................. 

40
25

Files— New  List
New  A m erican  ........................................70&10
...............................................  
70
Nicholson’s 
H eller’s  H orse  R asps.............................. 
70

Galvanized  Iron

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27,  -6  
17
L ist 

12 

16 

13 

14 

15 

Discount,  70.

Gauges

Glass

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era  States  who  had  been  made  to 
feel  the  wrongfulness  of  the  institu­
tion  of  slavery  sent  to  the  White 
House  that  great  man.  He  came  to 
us  from  the  people,  he  lived  in  clos­
est  contact  with  the  people,  and  he 
died  most  gloriously  for  the  sake  of 
the  people.  Ah!  if  ever  a  man’s  face 
glowed  with  a  super-earthly  joy,  it 
must  have  been  the  face  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  as  he  bent  over  the  paper 
where  that  emancipation  proclama­
tion  was  taking  form  and  shape,  giv­
ing  to  those  millions  of  dusky-hued 
brothers  and  sisters 
liberty, 
their  freedom,  as  God’s  children and 
as  man’s  brothers  everywhere.  The 
men  with  ideas  in  the  moral  world, 
as  well  as  in  the  material  or 
the 
intellectual  world,  have  always  been 
the  men  who  have  slowly  and  yet 
surely  and  steadily  led  humanity  on­
ward  and  upward.

their 

study— but 

What  is  the  practical  message  to 
the  people  of  to-day?  It  seems  to  me 
that  the  message  is  think,  think;  ob­
in  God’s 
serve;  study, 
name,  think!  The  old  proverb 
is 
true,  as  applied  to  the  mind— Satan 
finds  mischief  still  for  idle  minds  as 
well  as  idle  hands.  Do  not  let  your 
mind  lie  fallow. 
It  is  our  great priv­
ilege;  nay,  more,  it  is  our  high  duty, 
to  demonstrate  to  God  and  man,  for 
all  time,  our  right  to  the  name  man­
hood  and  womanhood,  because  we 
know  how  to  fashion  an  idea,  be­
cause  we  have  learned  how  to  think, 
because  we  have  discovered  the  se­
cret  of  the  process  we  call  mental.

In  the  second  place  I  believe  our 
message  is,  Think  for  yourself.  Look 
back  over  the  page  of  history  and 
what  do  we  discover?  Who  were  the 
men  and  women  that  have  lived  in 
the  past  and  are  honored  and  rever­
ed  to-day?  They  are  simply  the  men 
in  any  age  and  clime  who  have  dared 
to  think  differently  from  somebody 
else,  who  have  dared  to  stand  out 
apart  from  the  common  crowd  and to 
think  their  own  thoughts  and 
to 
solve  the  great  problems  of  society, 
of  politics,  of  religion  and  of  science 
for  themselves;  not  bound,  not  dic­
tated  to  by  any  of  the  traditions  of 
the  past.  Think  of  the 
treatment 
those  men  have  received— forsaken 
by  their  friends,  hated  by  their  ene­
mies,  ostracized  by  society,  anathe­
the 
matized  by  the  church,  put  into 
dungeon  cell,  subjected 
torture, 
many  times  to  physical  death! 
It  is 
simply  because  they  dared  have ideas. 
Yet  there  can  be  no  shadow  of doubt 
that  we  are  what  we  are  to-day;  that 
we  are  where  we  are  to-day,  in 
the 
great  upward,  progressive  movement 
of  humanity,  just  because  back  there 
in  the  past,  back  there  in  every  age, 
there  have  stood  those  heroic  souls 
who  have  dared  to  do 
their  own 
thinking.

to 

Shall  I  vote  just  as  my  father  vot­
ed  politically,  simply  because  he  vot­
ed  that  ticket?  Not  unless  I  am  a 
weak  man. 
If  I  vote  a  certain  politi­
cal  ticket  let  it  be  because  in  my  own 
thought  and  mind  I  have  decided  that 
that  is  where  I  ought  to  cast  my  bal­
lot.  Shall  I  believe  religiously  just 
what  my  father  and  mother  believ­
ed,  simply  because  they  believed  it?

Not  unless  I  am  a  weak  man.  Let 
me  think  for  myself,  reverencing  the 
truth  of  the  past  but  believing  that 
the  light  that  shines  from  heaven up­
on  my  head  to-day  is  the  light  that 
is  to  guide  me  in  my  thought  and 
discovery  in  religious  things.  Shall  T 
follow  the  vocation  which  my friends 
would  like  to  have  me  follow,  sim­
ply  because  they  wish  me  to  do  that 
work,  or  wish  me  to  fit  myself  for 
that  place  in  life?  Not  unless  I  am 
a  weak  man. 
I  must  fit  myself  and 
my  ability  to  my  talent  and  my  op­
portunity  and  my  age  and  the  open 
door  before  me;  and  if  I  have  any 
independence  or  strength  within  me 
I  must  decide  where  I  shall  cast  my 
lot,  what  place  I  shall  seek  to  fill, 
the  kind  of  work  I  shall  endeavor  to 
do  in  the  world.  Ah,  young  men and 
women,  let  me  say  to  you,  as  one 
of  the  great  lessons  of  the  past,  learn 
to  think  for  yourselves.

lives!  Does  not  it 

In  the  third  place  the  message  for 
us  is  this:  Think  of  the  great  prob­
lems  of  life.  Oh,  the  tragedy  of  so 
many 
lie  here 
that  so  many  men  and  women  who 
have  gone  through  high  school  and 
gone  through  college  and  university 
go  out  into 
life  and  use  the  gray 
matter  of  the  brain,  use  their  mental 
energy,  in  thinking  about  things  that 
are  minor  and  trivial,  comparatively 
unimportant,  as  compared  with 
the 
great  things  and  the  great  subjects 
and  the  great  problems  that  confront 
us  to-day  and  every  day?  Oh,  think 
of  the  great  problems!  No  scholar, 
I  care  not  how  wise  he  be;  no 
professor,  I  care  not  how  great  his 
learning: 
genius,
I  care  not  how  wonderful  the  ability 
with  which  heaven  has  endowed  him, 
has  a  mortgage  on  any  problem  or 
any  set  of  truths.  They  are  yours 
and  mine,  and  every  man  and  every 
woman,  thank  God,  stands  just  as 
near  the  throne  of  truth  as  any  other. 
Think  of  the  great  problems 
and 
your  life  and  character  will  take  on 
a  breadth  and  symmetry  and  a  great­
ness  such  as  can  never  come  to  the 
life  that  spends  its  mental  energy in 
dealing  simply  with  the  minor,  im­
material 
everyday  life 
about  us.

newspaper 

things 

no 

of 

Then,  again,  the  more  practical 
the  message  is,  think 
the  problem 
through  to  the  end.  How  many  peo­
ple  are  sidetracked  in  life— pessimists 
we  call  some  of  them,  cynics  we  call 
others,  skeptics  many  of  them  be­
come.  Men  and  women  think  a  lit­
tle  way  into  the  mystery,  may  think 
a  little  about  the  problems,  and  then 
they  become  confused,  or  perhaps 
discouraged;  or  it  may  be  that  some 
of  them  become  a  little  frightened, 
and  they  say,  “ I  must  stop  thinking,” 
and 
to 
something  else,  and 
they  become 
side-tracked— unable  to  go  on  in their 
mental  growth  or  development,  una­
spiritual 
ble 
great 
heights  that  lie  beyond, 
towering 
above  every  man  and  woman,  be­
cause  they  do  not  think  the  problem 
through.  The  conclusion  to  which 
you  come  may  not  be  the  final  con­
clusion  for  the  world;  but  I  do  say 
it  will  be  your  conclusion,  and  it  will

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of 

form  the  basis  of  your  own  philoso­
phy;  and  it  will  be  a  solid  foundation 
in  your  own  thought,  and  you  will 
be  able  to  accomplish  greater  things  I 
because  you  have  your  own  philoso­
phy  and  because  you  have  come  to 
some  conclusion  in  your  mind.  Think 
the  problem  through  to  the  end.  The  ! 
study  which  graduates  j 
course  of 
have  completed  at  the  end 
a  I 
school  year— what  has  been  its  real 
purpose  after  all?  Has  it  been  mere-  ; 
ly  to  fill  these  minds  with  a  certain 
amount  of  facts,  simply  to  furnish 
these  minds  with  a  certain  amount 
of  knowledge?  Ah,  back  of  these 
things,  which  are  good  and  necessary 
in  themselves,  I  believe  the  great  pur- 
pose  underlying  our  system  of 
in- j 
struction 
in  this  country  to-day— I 
believe  the  great  aim  and  end  that 
these  teachers  and  instructors  have 
had  constantly  before 
own 
minds,  is  the  training  of  these  young 
men  and  women  to  think,  to  use 
their  own  minds,  to  go  forth  into life 
possessed  not  simply  of  a  certain 
amount  of  information,  but  to 
go 
forth  into  life,  wherever  they  may 
take  their  places,  possessed  of  the 
power  that  makes  a  man  a  man; that j 
lifts  man  above  the  animal— the  pow­
er  to. fashion  an  idea  and  create  this 
middle  term  between  the  primitive 
emotion  of  instinct  and  the  ultimate 
action.

their 

literature; 

Do  not  think,  then,  that  the  prob- j 
lems  are  all  solved.  The  greatness j 
of  the  past  is  but  the  faintest  prom-  j 
ise  of  the  greatness  that  shall  be. j 
Profounder  philosophies  must  be j 
written;  truer  histories  must  yet  be 
penned;  nobler  fiction  must  yet  be 
written  in 
loftier  poems 
must  yet  be  sung.  The  great  domain 
of  mystery  that  lies  about  us  has 
only  been  entered  simply 
the 
threshold  by  the  wonderful  power 
that  we  call 
science.  The  million 
problems,  political  and  social,  press­
ing  upon  our 
country— they  must, 
aye,  and  thank  God  they  shall!  find 
some  solution.  For  the  man  who 
is  able  to  think  the  true  and  noble 
thought,  for  the  man  or  woman  who 
is  able  to  be  possessed  of  a  great 
idea,  and  to  make  himself  or  herself 
the  living  embodiment  of  the thought 
or  the  idea— for  this  man  and  for 
this  woman  our  age,  like  every  age, 
most  earnestly  waits.

at 

In  closing  I  desire  to  reproduce the 
lofty  sentiment  of  Edward  Rowland 
Sill,  which  ought  to  lift  our 
lives 
above  the  plane  of  the  commonplace 
and  keep  them  forever  in  the  places 
of  dignity  and  grandeur: 
“Forenoon 
and  afternoon,  and  night;  forenoon 
and  afternoon,  and  night;  forenoon, 
and  what?  The  empty  song  repeats 
itself  no  more— yea,  that is  life.  Make 
this  forenoon  sublime,  this  afternoon 
a  psalm,  this  night  a  prayer,  and  time 
is  conquered  and  thy  crown  is  won.” 

J.  Herman  Randall.

Your  “Front”  As  An  Asset.

“A  good  many  young  men  under­
estimate  the  value  of  what  is  com­
monly  called  a  ‘front,’ ”  remarked  a 
merchant  the  other  day.  “I  am  well 
aware  that  a  great  deal  is  to  be 
said  about  how 
that 
count’  and  how  the  contents  of  a

‘it’s  brains 

man’s  head  are  more  important  than 
the  covering;  but,  just  the  same,  this 
is  not  a  world  of  mind-readers,  and 
people  are  mighty 
likely  to  judge 
by  mere  appearances  when  they  are 
iii  a  hurry.  All  other  things  being 
equal  the  neat  young man  with  ability 
is  going  to  outstrip  the  ‘brainy’  slov­
en.  Sometimes  he  will  when  he  does 
not  know  as  much.

This  is  particularly 

true  of  a 
young  man  looking  for  work.  I’m  a 
firm  believer  in  the  hypnotic  quality 
of  an  outward  semblance  of  prosper­
ity— not  necessarily  the  Fifth-avenue- 
on-sunshiny-afternoons  standard,  but 
the  best  the  young  man  can  afford. 
If  I  were  a  young  fellow  in  search 
of  a  job  and  had  only  fifty  dollars,
I  believe  I’d  spend  forty  dollars  of 
it  for  a  ‘front’  and  trust  to  luck  to 
worry  along  on  the  other  ten.  And 
then,  when  I’d  found  my  chance  to 
prove  that  I  was  good  for  something 
besides  a 
clothes-rack,  maybe  I’d 
economize  a  bit;  but  I’m  not  even 
sure  about  that.

“If  we  could  tell  at  a  glance  just 
what  a  man  is  really  worth  it  would 
be  different.  But  we  are  busy  with 
our  own  troubles.  We  go  on,  more 
or  less  unconsciously,  judging  by the 
outward  and  visible  semblance  and 
sort  of  taking  the  inward,  invisible 
|  grace  for  granted;  and  we  like  to  see 
people  who  look  as  if  they’d  been 
able  to  get  along  in  the  world.  Get­
ting  a  chance  is  more  than  half  the 
[ battle,  and  a  neat  appearance  is  a 
j big  help  toward  getting  the  chance.”

Victims  of  Old  Fogy  Notions.
“My  wife  and  myself,”  said  a  gro­
cer  jobber,  “took  an  automobile  run 
■  to  Ionia.  She  was  the  chauffeur.  We 
did  not  return  by  the  same  road. 
I 
don’t  know  how  many  hens  we  ran 
over  going  and  coming.  We  did  not 
stop  to  count.

“ It  is  dry  time  and  the  roads  are 
dusty.  So  much  the  worse  for  the 
hens. 
I  suppose  it  is  different  with 
hens 
in  the  cities  and  towns,  but 
along  the  country  roads  they  have 
not  yet  learned  to  make  proper  cal­
culations  for  escape  from  the  auto- 
| mobile.  The  hen  is  of  a  mathemati­
cal  turn  of  mind.  She  rolls  in  the 
dust  of  the  highway  and  no  horse- 
drawn  vehicle  was  ever  known  to  run 
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She  figures  closely  but 
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The  horse  is  not  there  and  she  falls 
under  the  wheels  of  the  juggernaut, 
a  victim  to  old  fogy  notions  not  in 
accord  with  modern  speed  devices.”

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

Com m ercial0 

Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip. 

P resident,  M ichael  H ow arn,  D etroit; 
Secretary,  Chas.  J.  Lewis,  F lin t;  T reas­
urer,  H.  E.  B radner,  Lansing.
United  Commercial  Travelers  of  Michigan 
G rand  Counselor,  L.  W illiams,  De­
tro it;  G rand  Secretary,  W .  F.  Tracy. 
Flint. 
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T .
Senior  Counselor,  S.  H.  Sim m ons;  Sec­
retary   and  T reasurer,  O.  F.  Jackson.

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Rules  To  Be  Followed  By  the  Road 

Man  of  To-Day.

In  this  era  of  progress  and  go, 
a  man  on  the  road,  in  order  to  be 
successful  in  his  vocation,  must  be  up 
with  the  pace  of  modern  times,  must 
be  alert,  quick  to  decide  and  must 
always  “be  up  and  doing.”

The  knight  of  the  grip  of  old  was 
a  jolly,  round-faced  man,  with  lots  of 
good  cheer  and  an  endless  amount  of 
humor  and  lots  of  loose  change.  But 
to-day,  although  these  are  desirable 
requisites,  they  are  non-essential  re­
quisites  to  his  pack.

Sound 

judgment,  persuasive  talk, 
stick-to-it-iveness,  coupled  with  per­
sistent  hard  work,  are  some  of  the 
characteristics  of  the  modern  sales­
man.

laurels.  So 

Notice  in  the  present  war  of  the 
little  Japs,  occupying  but  a  small  is­
land  in  comparison  to  the  size  of 
the  opposing  force,  and  in  wealth and 
equipment  having  but  a  knapsack  full 
in  comparison  to  the  Russians’  trunk­
ful,  how  courage,  pluck,  energy  and 
unceasing  vim  triumph  and  capture 
the 
it  is  the  salesman 
with  his  tact  can  capture  orders  even 
gigantic  in  size,  when  another  would 
not  even  try,  complaining  that  his 
line  was  inferior,  that  the  other  fel­
low  had 
the  advantage  over  him, 
satisfied  to  bag  the  little  ones.  Can 
we  get  a  more  striking  example where 
determination  and  work  can  under­
mine  the  most  obstinate  difficulties,' 
can  climb  seemingly  insurmountable 
heights  of  success?  Work!  Work! | 
Work  hard!  Work  harder  still!

I  asked  a  young  man  who  was  my 
senior  in  selling  what  was  his  aim  in 
life,  what  he  expected  to  accomplish 
here.  He  said  that  all  he  wanted 
was  to  fulfill  his  own  desires,  and  that 
he  lived  for  his  own  self  alone.  He 
is  out  of  a  job  to-day,  and  I  told 
him  that  I  could  get  fifty-seven  jobs 
to-morrow,  representing  other  firms, 
if  I  was  desirous  of  doing  so.

The  knight  of  the  grip  should  not 
follow  his  line  of  work  for  the  mone­
tary  consideration  alone.  His  work 
will  be  a  source  of  pleasure  to  him 
if  he  goes  at  it  in  the  right  spirit. 
If 
he  makes  up  his  mind  to  do  all  the 
g o o d   to  his  fello w   m e n   th a t  h e   can, 
to  make  his  brothers  h a p p y   a n d   con­
tented,  to  alleviate  the  struggle  of 
those  who  think  they  are  burdened 
with  troubles,  he  will  unconsciously 
become  a  friend  to  his  people,  and  a 
man  who  can  win  the  confidence  of 
his  trade  is  the  one  who  is  going  to 
to  leave  with  the  big  orders.

given  you  his  confidence.  The  art  of 
pleasing  men  is  necessary  before  a 
sale  can  be  made.  You  never  will 
sell  a  man  a  bill  of  goods  who  is  in  a 
fit  of  rage  with  you.

It 

is  not  necessary  to  “blow  in 
your  money”  on  your  trade  unless  it 
will  bring  you  into  more  intimate  ac­
quaintance  with  • them.  To  treat  a 
buyer  just  because  he  has  given  an 
order  to  you  makes  him  feel  that  he 
has  done  you  a  favor  and  you  are 
now  rewarding  him.

If  you  visit  your  trade  periodically, 
whenever you  approach  your welcome 
should  be  the  glad  hand  and  hearty 
greeting.  Your customer should wear 
the  expression: 
“Well,  here  comes a 
man  that  I  like,  here’s  a  fellow  that  I 
admire.”

You  will  like  the  road  because  you 
like  to  get  around  to  your  friends, 
if  your  trade  is  what  it  should  be.

Cheerfulness  reacts  upon  the  giver 
as  sunshine  upon  the  flowers.  Cold 
and  morose  dispositions  are  the  fore­
runners  of an  icy reception.  Be pleas­
ant;  be  free;  wear  a  smile,  even  if  it 
is  a  borrowed  smile.  Be  a  rainbow 
even  if  you  are  dishearened  and 
blue.  The  cheerful  man  will  be  not 
ouly 
the 
healthier  in  mind  and  body.

the  successful  one,  but 

The  niggardly,  grumbling,  avar­
icious  nature  crops  out  in  the  vis­
age,  leaves  the  scar  of  a  frown  on 
the  face,  and  even  the  voice  utters 
a  harsh,  guttural  sound  instead  of  a 
pleasant  orotund;  therefore,  let kind­
ness, 
courteous  man­
ners  and  industry  be your possessions. 
— Albert  L.  Trostler  in  Salesmanship.

generosity, 

Just  for  Show.

A  well-known  traveling  man  was 
recently  obliged  to  spend  the  night 
in  a  humble  hotel— the  best  in 
the 
town.  The  bill  of  fare  at  dinner  time 
was  not  very  elaborate,  but 
the  trav­
eler  noticed  with  joy  that  at  the  bot­
tom  of  the  card,  printed  with  pen 
and  ink,  was  a  startling  variety  of 
pies.

He  liked  pies,  and  here  were  cus­
tard,  lemon,  squash,  rhubarb,  Wash­
ington,  chocolate,  mince,  apple  and 
berry  pies  and  several  other  varie­
ties.  He  called  the  waitress  to  him.
“Please  get  me  some  rhubarb  pie,” 

he  said.

“I’m  afraid  we  ain’t  got  any  rhu­

barb  pie,”  she  drawled.

He  took  another  glance  at 

the 
“Well,  get  me  some  squash  pie, 

list. 
please.”

“We  haven’t  got  that  either.”
“Berry  pie?”
“No.”
“ Lemon  pie?”
“No.”
“Chocolate  pie?”
“ I’m  sorry,  we— ’”
“W ell,  w h a t  o n   e a rth   a re   th e y   all 
w ritte n   d o w n   h e re   for-?  O n   to -d a y ’s 
bill  o f  fa re ,  to o !”

“Well,  I’ll  tell  you,”  said  the  girl, 
apologetically,  “that 
always 
written  down  there  for  show  when we 
have  mince  pie,  because  when  we 
have  mince  pie  no  one  asks  for  any­
thing  else.”

list  is 

Get  a  man  to  tell  you  his  troubles 
and  you  will  generally  be  on  the 
right  side  of  him,  for  he  will  have

Mighty  few  women  would  be 
jealous  of  their  husband’s  first  love 
if  they  could  see  her.

“Giving  Them  Away.”

A  good  story  is  going  the  rounds 
concerning  a  young  American  wom­
an  who  wished  to  be  presented  at 
the  court  of  the  late  King  of  Sax­
ony.  The  high  officials,  having  en­
quired 
into  her  social  standing  at 
home,  objected.  They  represented to 
her  that  the  King  could  scarcely  re­
ceive  the  daughter  of  a  man  who 
sold  boots  and  shoes.  The  young 
woman  cabled  home  and  told  her 
father  the  situation.  The  next  morn­
ing  she  received  his  answer:  “Bosh! 
selling.  Practically  giving 
It  isn’t 
them 
See  advertisement.” 
That  solved  the  difficulty.  She  was 
presented  as  the  daughter  of  an  emi­
nent  philanthropist.— Footwear.

away. 

No  Choice.

A  traveling  man  who  drove  across 
the  country  to  a  little  town  in  West­
ern  Kansas,  the  other  day,  met  a 
farmer  hauling  a  wagon  load  of  wa­
ter.

“Where  do  you  get  water?”  he 

asked.

“Up  the  road,  about  seven  miles,” 

the  farmer  replied.

“And  you  haul  water  seven  miles 

for  your  family  and  stock?”

“Yep.”
“Why,  in  the  name  of  sense,  don’t 

you  dig  a  well?”  asked  the  traveler.

“Because  it  is  just  as  far  one  way 

as  the  other,  stranger.”

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HOTEL

The  steady  improvement  of 

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w riting room unequaled  in  Michigan, 
its large  and  beautiful  lobby,  its  ele­
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popularity and patronage.

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GRAND  RAP.DS,  MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS 

FIRE  INSURANCE  AGENCY

W. FRED  McBAIN,  President

Grand R apid ., M ich. 

T h e Leading  A gency

He  swore 

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out  his  threat  that  very  day 
by 
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253 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Every  Stock  Owner

Uses  Stock  Food
Think,  Mr.  Merchant,  how  many  of  your 
customers are stock owners and  how  naturally 
their trade would come to yon if you handled

Superior 
Stock  Food

which is conceded by  all  the  first-class  stock- 
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Put up in attractive packages which are  easily 
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Superior Stock  Food Co.,  Limited 

Plainwell, Mich.

M a n   Fire  and  (narine  IDSIIRfflCe  Com pii

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

Established  1881.

Cash  Capital  $400,000.
Surplus  to  Policy  Holders  $625,000.
O FFICERS
E. J.  BOOTH,  Sec’y 

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G E O .  E.  LA W SO N ,  A .s ’t  Tress. 

H -  W H IT N E Y , Vice  Pres.  M.  W .  O’B R IE N .  Treas 

E. P . W EBB, A s.'t S w ’y

Assets  $1,000,000.
Losses  Paid  4,200,000.

DIRECTORS

D.  M. Ferry,  F. J. Hecker,  M. W . O’Brien,  Hoyt  Post,  W alter  C  Mack  Allan

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One  Initiation  and  Three  Applica­

tions  on  File.

Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  3— The  United 
Commercial  Travelers  of 
city 
met  in  regular  session  this  evening 
at­
with  a  large  and 
enthusiastic 
tendance  and  proceeded  at  once 
to 
business.

this 

Applications  were 

from 
three  travelers  for  admission  and Ar­
thur  M.  Stow,  of  45  Kellogg  street, 
Grand  Rapids,  was  initiated.

received 

One  of  the  features  of  the  evening 
was  the  discussion  of 
the  many 
wrecks  on  the  Pere  Marquette  Rail­
road  and  the  gross  carelessness  of 
the  employes  or  the  niggardliness  of 
the  officials  of  the  road  in  curtailing 
the  amount  of  help  and  thereby  de­
creasing  the  efficiency  of  those  em­
ployed.  The  boys  propose  to  find out 
why  the  officers  of  the  law  have  so 
long  closed  their  eyes  to  what  has 
been  transpiring  or  have  winked  so 
hard  at  it  that  their  sight  has  become 
impaired.

The  monthly  entertainments  at the 
rooms  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Council 
are  being  largely  attended,  and  all 
those  who  have  participated  express 
themselves  in  the  highest  terms  of 
received. 
the  enjoyment  they  have 
The  gatherings  are 
informal  and 
homelike,  minus  any  frills  or  flounces, 
and  therefore  the  more  pleasurable. 
Another  one  will  be  given  some  time 
this  month  and  we  are  authorized  to 
state  that  they  are  not  exclusively 
for  the  U.  C.  T.’s  and  their  families, 
but  all  friends  of  the  members  will 
be  giadly  welcomed.

A  special  committee  was  appointed, 
consisting  of  Charley  Reynolds, Har­
ry  Gregory  and  Fred  Beardsley,  to 
arrange 
for  a  dancing  party  some 
time  in  February. 
It  is  unnecessary 
to  make  any  comments,  as  the  per­
sonnel  of  the  committee  is  sufficient 
guarantee  that  it  will  be  something 
fine. 

Nuff  Sed.

Drastic  Action  by  Durand  Merchants.
Durand,  Dec.  3— At  the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Durand  Business  Men’s 
Association  the  following  resolution 
was  unanimously  adopted:

Whereas— The  American  Cereal 
Co.  has  devised  and  adopted  a  system 
of  coupons  to  be  used  in  connection 
with  premiums,  and  which  would 
prove  detrimental  to  all  persons  en­
gaged  in  a  retail  business;  therefore 
be  it

Resolved— By  the  Durand  Business 
Men’s  Association  that  the  members 
will  refuse  to  buy  or  offer  for  sale 
any  product  of  the  American  Cereal 
Co.  until  at  such  time  as 
it  shall 
withdraw  its  catalogues  and  coupons.

A.  B.  Freeman,  Sec’y.
O ffe rs  T o   D isc o n tin u e   S chem es.
C h icag o ,  D ec.  5— S o m e  w eek s  ag o  
we  proposed  through  Fred  Mason, 
Secretary  of  the  National  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association,  to  agree  to  stop 
the  use  of  all  premiums  in  connec­
tion  with  cereal  products,  providing 
all  other  manufacturers,  distributors 
and  wholesale  dealers  would  do 
likewise.

This,  the  first  practical  step  toward 
the  elimination  of premiums,  was  tak­
en  by  us  as  soon  as  the  retail  deal­

ers’  objections  were  unmistakably 
known.

To  this  proposal  many  manufactur­
ers  readily  acceded,  but  one,  the  orig­
inator  of  coupon  premium  schemes in 
connection  with  cereal  products,  the 
Great  Western  Cereal  Co.,  refused 
to  enter  the  agreement,  claiming  the 
conditions  were  not  practical 
and 
proposing  a  modification  of  present 
premium  plans.

Certain  trade  papers  have  intimat­
ed  that  our  offer  was  not  made 
in 
good  faith  as  the  execution  of  it  was 
impossible  owing  to  the  large  num­
ber  of  interests  involved.

Our  desire  is  to  meet  the  wishes 
of  the  retailers  in  this  matter  square­
ly.  We  believe  them  to  be  emphati­
cally  opposed  to  all  coupon  premium 
plans.  Any  modification  of  present 
schemes  will  only  result  in  the  even­
tual  return  to  the  conditions  exist­
ing  to-day  or  perhaps  more  objection­
able  ones.

Heartily  sharing  in  the 

retailer’s 
view  and  in  order  to  prove  that  our 
offer  was  made  in  good  faith,  we 
propose  the  following  practical  way 
of  accomplishing  the  desired  result:

We  will  on  January  1,  1905,  or  any 
other  date  agreed  upon,  do  away with 
all  coupons,  checks  or  printed  offers, 
either  in  the  packages,  printed  on the 
labels,  or  in  the 'Cases  of  all  of  our 
products,  provided  the  H-O  Com­
pany  and  the  Great  Western  Cereal 
Company  will  do  the  same.

As  most  of  the  other  cereal  man­
ufacturers  have  expressed  a  willing­
ness  to  co-operate  along  these  lines, 
with  the  assent  of 
the 
thing  is  accomplished.

the  above 

American  Cereal  Co.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Cedar  Springs— C.  A.  Johnson  & 
Co.  have  engaged  John  Carten,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  as  salesman  in  their 
dry  goods  department,  and  Mindon 
Culver  has 
the  position  of 
Frank  Purdy  in  their  grocery  de­
partment.

taken 

Gladstone— J.  H.  Uglo,  a  pharma­
cist  employed  at  Powell’s  drug  store, 
narrowly  escaped  being 
seriously 
burned  by  the  explosion  of  a  bottle 
of  benzine.  He  had  gone  to 
the 
basement  and  in  the  darkness  it 
is 
supposed  that  he  overturned  the  bot­
tle  of  benzine  and  the  cork  falling 
out  the  liquid  spread  over  the  floor. 
Mr.  Uglo  was  forced  to  go  to  the 
basement  again  within  a  few  min­
utes  and  in  order  to  find  his  way 
struck  a  match,  instead  of  turning  on 
the  electric 
the  result 
that  instantly  there  was  an  explo­
sion.  Flames  filled  the  basement un­
til  the  benzine  had  been  consumed, 
but  when  the  fire  department  arriv­
ed  the  fire  had  nearly  extinguished 
itself.  The  d ru g g is t  w a s 
p a in fu lly  
burned  about  the  hands.

light,  with 

Hudson  Gazette: 

Charles  Mor- 
ford,  of  Evart,  has  accepted  a  posi­
tion  with  the  Hudson  Manufacturing 
Co.,  and  will  begin  his  labors  Janu­
ary  1.  Mr.  Morford  is  a  man  of  ex­
tensive  and  varied  experience  as  a 
traveling  salesman,  and  will  be 
a 
valuable  addition  to  the  Hudson Man­
ufacturing  Co.’s  force  in  that  line  of 
work.

Christmas  Money  and  How  To  Get 

It.

A  lot  of  money  will  be  spent  this 
Christmas  by  a  lot  of  people  who  are 
now  worrying  themselves  thin 
to 
know  what  to  get.  These  good  peo­
ple  have  warm  and  generous 
im­
pulses,  and  a  vast  amount  of  money 
during  the  next  few  weeks  is  going 
to  burn  holes  in  a  good  many  pockets 
before  it is  spent.  Retail  shoe  dealers 
ought  to  use  their  wits  to  get  as 
much  of  this  money  as  possible  in­
stead  of  letting  it  be  spent  in  things 
far  less  useful  and  valuable 
than 
shoes  and  slippers.

In  this  connection  we  know  of  no 
better  method  of  getting  Christmas 
money  than  by  getting  a  stock  of the 
clever  shoe  certificates.

Here  is  the  scheme.  Every  retail 
shoe  dealer  should  not  only  adver­
tise  that  he  has  shoe  certificates  for 
sale,  but  should  explain  by  newspa­
per  advertisements  or  by  circular that 
people  can  select  the  kind  of  rubber 
or  leather  boots  or  shoes  or  slippers 
they  desire  to  present  to  their  friends. 
The 
the 
money  will  give  a  signed  certificate 
in  exchange,  on  which  the  name  of 
the  recipient  of  the  present  would  be 
written.

retailer  on  payment  of 

For  instance:  John  Brown  maybe 
anxious  to  give  William  Smith 
a 
welcome  and  valuable  present,  and 
after  learning  about  the  shoe  certifi­
cate  plan  might  jump  at  the  oppor­
tunity  to  visit  the  store  that  issues 
the  certificate  and  state  that  he wants 
to  give  his  friend  $3,  $4  or  $5  worth 
of  goods.  John  may  not  know  the 
size  or  width  of  William’s  foot  or 
the  kind  of  shoe  that  he  prefers,  and 
ordinarily  could  not  surprise  him with 
such  a  gift,  fearing  to  make  a  mis­
take.  By  the  shoe  certificate  scheme 
John  need  not  worry  over  the  matter, 
but  after  he  has  decided  to  surprise 
William  with  a  nice  pair  of  shoes  or 
slippers  all  that  is  necessary  to  do 
is  to  buy  a  certificate  at  the  shoe 
store,  and  on  Christmas  day  his 
friend  William  would 
this 
handsomely  engraved  certificate,  en­
titling  him  to  go  and  get  exactly  the 
style,  shape  and  size  of  shoe  or  slip­
per  desired,  and  the  certificate  would 
pay  for  it,  and  the  transaction  would 
be  concluded  to  the  satisfaction  and 
pleasure  of  all  concerned.

receive 

the 

shape  of 

Shoe  merchants  could  dispose  of 
many  of  their  goods  by  means  of 
these  Christmas  shoe  certificates.  It 
might  pay  them  to  suggest  the  cer­
tificate  plan  to  employers  of 
labor 
who  were  disposed  to  give  their  men 
and  women  employes  a  Christmas 
surprise  in 
shoes. 
Benevolent  and  generous  persons 
might  also  be  induced  to  make  up  a 
list  of  those  to  w h o m   a  present  of 
shoes  would  be  very  acceptable;  to 
them  the  certificates  would  be 
a 
great  blessing.  Shoes  are  about  the 
most  useful  presents  that  one  can 
receive.  No  one  has  too  many  of 
them,  and  it  is  a  positive  luxury  for 
people  to  own  two  or  more  pairs 
of  shoes,  so  that  they  can  wear  them 
alternately,  and  thus  prolong  the  life 
of  each  pair.

A  few  weeks  before  Christmas  is

the  time  for  suggesting to  people  how 
to  spend  Christmas  money  to  best 
advantage.  Merchants  who  sell  jew­
elry,  fancy  goods,  books  and  other 
articles,  useful  for  gifts,  advertise lib­
erally  before  Christmas,  well  know­
ing  that  the  people  are  anxiously 
looking  for  suggestions  in  regard  to 
purchasing  presents  for  their  family 
and  friends.  Shoes  would  share  in 
the  general  popularity  of  presents  at 
Christmas  were  it  not  that  we  do 
not  like to  invite  those  whom  we  wish 
to  surprise  pleasantly  to  enter 
a 
shoe  store  and  be  fitted.  The  true 
Christmas  pleasure  consists 
largely 
in  surprising  those  we  wish  to  favor. 
Vast  numbers  of  people  would  infi­
nitely  prefer  a  good  pair  of  shoes 
or  slippers  to  trinkets  and  useless 
things,  which 
look  pretty  but  are 
without  practical  use.

FOR

Here  is  a 

sample  advertisement 
which  might  be  displayed  promin­
ently  in  a  shoe  store  window  or  mail­
ed  as  circulars  to  a  selected  list  of 
people,  or  inserted  as  an  advertise­
ment  in  local  newspapers:

engraved  C ERTIFICA TES 

SHOES  ANJJ  SL IPPER S
CHRISTMAS  PR ESEN TS.

- 
Shoes  m ake  very  useful  and  acceptable 
presents.  Call  and  tell  us  w hat  kind  of 
shoes  you  would  like  your  friends  or em ­
ployes  to  have and  we will give you  SHOE 
CERTIFICA TES  to  th e  value  of 
the 
money  you  w ish  to  spend.  On  C hristm as 
m orning  vou  could  present  these  h an d ­
somely 
to 
whom  you  selcet  and  they  could  call  a t 
th eir  leisure  on  us  and  we  will  give  them  
shoes  to  the  value  of  th e  price  m arked 
on  the  CERTIFICATE,  and  th a t  would 
end  th e  transaction.  Your  friends  pay 
us  no  money  tout  sim ply  call  and  tell  us 
th a t  thev  w ant  shoes  to  th e  value  w ritten 
on  th e  CERTIFICA TE,  and  afte r  getting 
exactly  th e  size,  shape  and  quality  de­
sired  they  present  th e  C ERTIFICA TE  in 
full  paym ent.
Think  it  over.  No  one  can  have  too 
m any  pairs  of 
shoes.  T he  C E R T IFI­
CATES  are  very  handsom ely  engraved 
and  would  toe  appreciated  fa r  m ore  th an  
presents  of  trin k ets  and  other 
things 
w hich  would  be  fa r  less  welcome  than 
a  good,  strong  p air  of  shoes.
and 
others  who  wish  to  bring  joy  and  g ra t­
itude  to  deserving  people  a t  this  happy 
C hristm as  tim e  could  not  do  b etter  than 
purchase  SHOE  CERTIFICATES, 
and 
we  invite  them   to  call.
W hv  not  decide  to  m ake  th is  a   SHOF 
CHRISTMAS  so fa r as  you  are  concerned 
and  see  w hether  results  do  not  please you 
bevond  all  expectations?
— Shoe  Trade  Journal.

Em ployers,  benevolent  persons 

JON ES  &  CO.

Albert  Linaweaver,  who  covered 
Michigan  and  Ohio  fifteen  years  for 
Taylor,  Kirk  &  Co.,  but  who  has  re­
sided 
in  Philadelphia  for  the  past 
two  years  while  engaged  in  financing 
the  Montgomery  Gold  Mining  &  Re­
duction  Co.,  has  returned  to  his  old 
territory  as 
representative  of 
Longley,  Law  &  Alexander.

the 

Christmas

Umbrellas

You  may have a call for  som ething 
different from w hat  you  carry  in  the 
line of fine Christm as U m brellas  and 
Canes.  We  are  in  position  to  send 
you on short notice one-half dozen  or 
more  on  approval  if  you  state  the 
style,  s:ze  and  price  of  um brellas 
desired 
to 
select  from   at

T housands  of  styles 

Platte’s  Exclusive  Umbrella Store 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

and 

The  Drug  Market.

manganate  solution  subsiding 
showing  considerable  reduction.

The  quantity  of  permanganate  nec­
essary  is  in  direct  proportion  to  the 
impurities  existing  in  the  benzin.  The 
quantity  given  in  the  formula 
is  suf­
ficient  for  a  very  crude  article  and 
may  be  reduced  when  manipulating 
with  a  purer  distillate.

Martin  Neuss.

History  of  Insect  Powder.

It 

In  those  days 

Most  of  the  so-called  “Persian  in­
sect  powder”  now  sold  and  used  in 
this  country  is  the  product  of  a  sin­
in  extent  near 
gle  farm  300  acres 
is  derived 
Stockton,  California. 
from  a  plant  closely  resembling 
in 
appearance  the  common  field  daisy, 
and  it  is  now  known  to  depend  for 
I its  efficacy  upon  a  greenish  vegetable 
oil,  which,  although  harmless  to  other 
kinds  of  animals,  suffocates  insects. 
Not  so  very  many  years  ago  insect 
powder  cost  sixteen  dollars  a  pound, 
whereas  to-day  it  is  sold  for  forty 
cents  or  less. 
the 
source  of  supply  and  the  very  nature 
of  the  product  were  a  mystery. 
It 
had  been  in  use  in  Asiatic  countries 
for  centuries,  being  exported  from 
Transcaucasia,  where  the  natives did 
a  large  and  profitable  business  in  its 
manufacture.  Eventually  an  Arme­
nian  merchant  discovered  the  long- 
kept  secret,  which  was  simply  that 
the  powder  was  the  pulverized  flow­
er-heads  of  a  species  of  pyrethrum 
that  grew  wild  and  plentifully  among 
the  mountains.  Later  the  stuff  be­
came  an  important  article  of  export 
to  all  parts  of  the  world 
from  Dal­
matia.  Many  attempts  were  made 
to  introduce  the  plant  into  the  Unit­
ed  States,  but  at  first  without  suc­
cess,  because 
to 
Americans  had  been  previously  bak­
ed,  to  prevent  them  from  sprouting.

seeds  sold 

the 

Method  of  Frosting  Mirrors.

What  is  understood  in  the  arts  by 
this  term  is  the  permanent  frosting 
of  the  surface  of  glass  by  means  of 
rubbing  with  sand  or  the  application 
of  hydrofluoric  acid.

The  best  effects  in  the  temporary 
frosting  of  glass  surfaces  are  obtain­
ed  by  applying  a  simple  aqueous  so­
lution  of  epsom  salt  in  fairly  good 
concentration.  This  solution  is  ap­
plied  warm,  either  with  a  brush  or 
rag,  and  the  operation  must  be  con­
ducted  quickly  in  order  to  secure the 
best  effects. 
It  will  be  found,  too, 
that  the  addition  of  a  little  glucose 
or  acacia  to  the-  solution,  not  too 
much,  will  make  the  preparation  ad­
here  more  evenly  to  the  surface;  the 
surface  of  most  large  sheets  of  glass 
frequently 
enough 
grease  to  prevent  crystallization  oc­
curring  uniformly. 
Instead  of  aca­
cia  or  glucose,  either  of  which  is  apt 
to  retard  crystallization  to  some  ex­
tent,  the  salt  may  be  dissolved  in 
light  beer  and  so  applied.

contains 

just 

Thos.  Willets.

There  can  be  no  economy,  from  a 
woman’s  point  of  view,  without  hash 
for  breakfast  once  in  awhile.

Have  you  ever  noticed  what  a  lot 
first 

of  second  class  people 
class?

travel 

Opium— Is  steady.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  steady  and  will  not 
change  in  price  until  after  the  Am­
sterdam  bark  sale  Dec.  15.

Carbolic  Acid— Is  higher  abroad. 
Another  advance  is  looked  for  here.
Balm  Gilead  Buds— Have  again 

advanced  on  account  of  scarcity.

Bismuth  and  Bismuth  Preparations 
— Have  been  advanced  about  25  per 
cent,  on  account  of  higher  price  for 
metal.

Glycerine— Is  firm  on  account  of 

higher  foreign  market.

Lycopodium— Shows  another  ad­

vance  of  3c  per  pound.
are 

Menthol— Stocks 

very  large 
and  prices  are  lower. 
It  is  believed 
now  that  the  Japanese  government 
will  place  an  export  tax  on  the  arti­
cle.  If  it  does  higher  prices  will  rule.
Sassafras  Bark— Continues  in  very 

small  supply  and  prices  are  firm.

Wild  Cherry  Bark— Has  advanc­

ed  on  account  of  scarcity.

Oil  Cajeput— Has  advanced.
Oil  Cloves— Shows  a  slight  de­

cline.

Oil  Anise  and  Cassia— Are 

firm  and  tending  higher.

very 

Oil  Sassafras,  Natural— Is  hard 

to 
quote  as  there  is  from  i8@aoc  per 
pound  difference  in  price  asked  by 
different  holders.

Oil  Wormseed— Crop  is  small  and 

prices  have  advanced.

Refined  Camphor— Shows  two  ad­
vances  since  our  report  last  week, one 
of  2c  and  another  of  3c.  Crude  is 
very  scarce  and  another  advance 
is 
probable.

Gum  Mastic— It 

is  reported  that 
the  crop  is  a  failure  and  higher prices 
are  asked.

Linseed  Oil— Shows  two  advances 
this  week  on  account  of  higher  price 
for  seed.

Carbon  Points  for  Splitting  Glass.
1.  Dissolve  100  parts  of  gum  ara- 
bic  in  240  parts  of  water,  and  mix  the 
solution  with  a  paste  prepared  by 
triturating  40  parts  of  powdered  trag- 
acanth  with  640  parts  of  hot  water. 
Then,  having  dissolved  20  parts  of 
storax  and  20  parts  of  benzoin  in  90 
parts  of  alcohol,  strain  the  latter  so­
lution  and  add  it  to  the  mixed  mu­
cilage.  Finally  mix  the  whole  inti­
mately  with  240  to  280  parts  of  pow­
dered  charcoal,  so  as  to  be  uniform 
should 
throughout.  The 
previously  be  passed  through  a 
fine 
sieve.  The  doughy  mass  is  cut  into 
suitable  pieces,  which  are  rolled  be­
tween  two  boards  dusted  over  with 
coal  dust,  until 
strips 
about  1  centimeter  in  thickness  are 
formed,  which  are  allowed  to  dry 
slowly  between  blotting  paper.  When 
using  them  one  end  is  pointed  like 
a  lead  pencil  and,  after  having  pre­
viously  made  a  scratch  in  the  glass 
with  a  file  or  a  diamond,  the  heated 
and  glowing  end  of  the  pencil  is  car­
ried  along  the  line  in  which  the  glass 
is  intended  to  be  fractured.

cylindrical 

charcoal 

2.  Dissolve  8  to  10  parts  of  trag- 
acanth 
in  about  100  parts  of  hot 
water,  add  to  the  mixture,  under  stir­
ring,  30  parts  of  acetate  of  lead  and 
60  parts  of  finely  sifted  beechwood

charcoal  and  proceed  as  in  the  pre­
ceding  formula.

3.  Sticks  of  soft  wood  (willow  or 
poplar)  of  about  the  thickness  of  a 
finger,  which  must  be 
thoroughly 
dry,  are  immersed  for  about  one 
week  in  a  concentrated  solution  of 
acetate  of  lead,  after  which  they are 
again  dried.  When 
these 
sticks  are  said  to  burn  like  glazier’s 
charcoal.

ignited 

The  first  formula  is  said  to  yield 
the  best  product  as  it  burns  much 
slower  than  the  others.

Japan  As  An  Educator.

It 

is  stated 

Japan  as  a  skilled  student  and  imi­
tator  is  familiar.  Japan  as  an  exem­
plar  and  teacher  is  new.  Hindoos  now 
go  to  Japan  for  their  technical  educa­
tion.  The  departments  in  all  the  col­
leges  of  the  two  universities  of  To- 
kio  and  Kyoto  are  furnished  with 
all  the  most  improved  appliances,  and 
the  systems  of  education  are  found­
ed  on  the  best  models  of  Western 
countries. 
that  after 
j about  eight  months  in  Japan  Indian 
students  are  able  to  follow  the  lec­
tures  fairly  well.  The  students  are 
advised  to  have  acquired  the  English 
and  German 
languages  before  they 
leave  India,  so  they  may  be  able  to 
read  technical  books 
lan­
guages.  Students  arrive 
in  Japan 
three  months  before  the  beginning 
of  the  session  in  September,  during 
which  time  they  make  a  special  study 
of  the  Japanese 
language  and  also 
become  acclimated  and  accustomed 
to  the  habits  and  customs  of 
the 
country.  The  Indian  student  is  pre­
pared  for  a  severe  but  pleasant  winter 
and  a  hot,  trying  summer.  As  all 
the  departments  in  the  various  insti­
tutions  are  generally  overcrowded, 
students  are  advised  to  send  in  their 
applications  some  time 
beforehand 
through  the  President  of  the  Indo- 
Tapanese  Association.

in  these 

Got  His  Vacation.

“Well,”  said  the  old  doctor,  “you 

have  your  diploma  now.”

“Yes,”  replied  the  young  one,  “I 
worked  very  hard  for  it  and  now  I’d 
like  to  go  away  for  a  vacation,  but 
I  have  to  start  right  in  and  prac­
tice.”

“Well,  that  will  give  you  a  long 

and  much  needed  rest.”

You will make no mistake  if  you  reserve your 

orders  for

Valentines 

Fishing  Tackle 
Base  Ball  Supplies

Our lines are complete and  prices  right.  The 

boys  will  call  in  ample  time.  Late 

orders  and] re-orders  for
Holiday  Goods

promptly  fiUed.  W e  can  supply  your  wants 

till  the  last  hour.

FRED  BRUNDAGE
Wholesale  Druggist

Stationery,  School  Supplies  and[ Fireworks 

32.34 Western Ave„  Muskegon.  Mich.

Michigan  Board  of  Pharm acy. 
President—H enry  Heim ,  Saginaw. 
Secretary—A rth u r  H.  W ebber,  Cadillac. 
T reasurer—J.  D.  Muir,  G rand  Rapids.
C.  B.  Stoddard,  Monroe.
Sid  A.  Erw in,  B attle  Creek.

tion.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Associa­

P resident—W.  A.  H all,  D etroit. 
V ice-Presidents—W.  C.  K irchgessner, 
G rand  R apids;  C harles  P.  B aker, 
St. 
Johns;  H.  G.  Spring,  Unionville. 
S ecretary—W.  II.  B urke,  D etroit. 
T reasurer—E.  E.  Russell.  Jackson. 
Executive  Com m ittee—John  D.  Muir,  j 
G rand  R apids;  E.  E.  Calkins,  Ann  A rbor; 
L.  A.  Seitzer,  D etroit;  John  W allace, K al- 
am azoo;  D.  S.  H allett,  D etroit.
th ree-year 
T rade  In terest  Committee, 
term —J.  M.  Lemen,  Shepherd,  and  H.  ! 
Dolson,  St.  Charles.

times 

Proprietaries  Go  Up  in  Canada.
Canadian  druggists  are  much  wor­
ried  over  an  advance  in  price  of  im­
ported  proprietary  remedies  caused 
b/  the  “Anti-dumping  Clause”  of the 
new  Fielding  tariff  law.  The  object 
of  this  clause  was  to  protect  the  Ca­
nadian  market  against  those  foreign 
manufacturers  who  at 
send 
their  goods  and  wares  into  the  coun­
try  at  low  figures  to  the  ruination  of 
domestic  producers.  Patent  medicines 
are  affected,  but  it  is  argued  that the 
clause  should  leave  them  out  of  con- | 
sideration  for  the  reason  that  since 
they  are  trade-marked  preparations, 
they  can  not  be  duplicated  in  Cana- | 
da,  and  do  not  therefore 
interfere 
with  domestic  production.  Previous­
ly  it  was  the  practice  of  proprietors 
in  the  United  States  to  give  Canadian 
jobbers  a  rebate  equivalent  to 
the 
tariff,  thus  enabling  them  to  sell the 
goods  at  the  figures  which  obtain 
in  the  United  States;  and  it  is  this 
practice  which  has 
the 
goods  to  the  operations  of  the  “Anti­
dumping  Clause.”  The  goods  must 
now  be  sold  the  jobbers  at  full  prices, 
and  the  tariff  borne  by  them  also. 
They  have  passed  along  the  increase 
in  price 
the 
retailers  fear  that  they  may  not  be 
able  to  recoup  themselves.

to  the  retailers,  and 

subjected 

How  To  Deodorize  Benzin.

To  entirely  take  the  odor  from  ben­
zin  is,  perhaps,  impossible,  but  the 
following  process  will  give  a  fairly 
odorless  article:

Prof.  Loder  says:  Mix  together 
8  fluid  ounces  sulphuric  acid  and  56 
fluid  ounces  water,  and  when 
the 
mixture  cools  pour  it  into  a  two-gal­
lon  bottle;  add  1  av.  oz.  potassium 
permanganate  and  agitate  until  dis­
solved;  then  add  1  gallon  of  benzin 
and  thoroughly  agitate  and  allow  the 
mixture  to 
for 
twenty-four  hours,  frequently  agitat­
ing.  Separate  the  benzin  and  wash 
in  a  similar  bottle  with  a  mixture  of 
120  grains  of  potassium  permangan­
ate.  240  grains  of  caustic  soda  and  32 
fluid  ounces  of  water,  agitating  fre­
quently  during  several  hours.  Then 
separate  the  benzin  and  wash  it  thor­
oughly  with  water.

in  contact 

remain 

On  agitating  the  benzin  with  the 
acid  permanganate  solution  an  emul­
sion-like  mixture  is  produced  which 
separates  in  a  few  seconds,  the  per-

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

43

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—  
Declined—

.oz 

Evechthitos  ___1  00@1  10
E rigeron  ...............1  00@1  10
G aultheria 
...........2  40@3  60
Geranium  
.
75
Gossippii  Sem  gal  50®  60
Hedeoma 
............1  40@1  50
Junipera 
..............  40@1  20
..........  90@2  75
Lavendula 
'  imonis  ................  90@1  10
. .4  25@4  50 
M entha  Piper 
M entha  Verid  ...5   00® 5  50 
M orrhuae  gal 
..1  50®2  50
M yrcia  .................. 3  00@3  50
Olive 
....................  75@3  00
Picis  Liquida  . . .   10®  12
Picis  Liquida  sal  @  35
R icina 
..................  90®  94
R osm arini 
..........  @1  00
Rosae  oz 
...........5  00@6  00
Succini  ..................  40®  45
Sabina  ..................  90@1  00
S antal  ....................2  25@4  50
Sassafras 
............   90@1  00
Sinapis,  ess.  o z ...  @  65
Tiglil 
.................... 1  10@1  20
Thyme  ..................  40®  50
Thym e,  opt  ........ 
@1  60
Theobrom as 
. . . .   15®  20
Potassium

Bi-C arb  ................  15®  18
B ichrom ate 
........  13®  15
Bromide 
..............  40®  45
....................  12©  15
Carb 
Chlorate 
........po.  12®  14
Cyanide 
..............  34®  38
Iodide  .................... 3  05® 3  10
Potassa,  B itart pr  30®  32 
P otass  N itras  opt 
7®  10 
P otass  N itras  . . . .   6® 
8
P russiate 
............  23 @  26
Sulphate  po  ___  15®  18

Tinctures 
Aconitum  N ap’sR 
Aconitum  N ap’sF 
................
‘ Ides 
lea
es  &   M yrrh  ..
ioetida 
..........
ope  Belladonna 
a n ti  Cortex  ..
Benzoin 
..............
Benzoin  Co  ........
Barosm a  ..............
C a n th a rid e s ........
Capsicum 
............
..........
Cardam on 
Cardam on  Co  . ..
C astor 
..................
Catechu  ................
C in c h o n a ..............
Cinchona  Co  . . . .
Columba 
..............
Cubebae 
..............
Cassia Acutifol  ..
Cassia  Acutifol Co
Digitalis 
..............
....................
E rgot 
Ferri  Chloridum .
Gentian 
..............
G entian  Co...........
Guiaca  ..................
Guiaca  am m on  .. 
Hyoscyam us 
. . . .
Iodine 
..................
Iodine,  colorless..
Kino 
....................
Lóbelia  .................
M y r r h ....................
Nux V o m ic a ........
Opil  ........................
Opil,  cam phorated 
Opil,  deodorized..
Q uassia  ................
R hatany 
ihei 
......................
. 
Sanguinaria 
Serpentaria 
........  
Strom onium  
. . . .  
Tolutan  ................ 
.............. 
V alerian 
V eratrum   Veride. 
Zingiber 
.............. 

..........

Miscellaneous

M annia,  S  F   . . . .   45®  50
Menthol  ................ 3  50 @4  00
M orphia,  S P & W 2  35@2 60 
Morphia,  S N  Y Q2 35@2 60 
Morphia,  Mai. 
..2   35 0  2  60 
Moschus  C anton. 
@  40 
M yristica,  No.  1.  28®  30 
N ux Vomica  po 15  @  10
Os  S e p ia ..............  25®  28
Pepsin  Saac,  H   &
P  D C o .............. 
@1  00
Picis  Liq  N   N %
gal  d o z ..............  ®2  00
Picis  Liq  q ts  . . . .  
@1 00
Picis  Liq.  pints. 
@  60
Pil  H ydrarg  po 80  @  50
Piper N igra  po  22  @  18
P iper  Alba  po  35  @  30
P ix  B u r g u n ........  
7
Plum bi  Acet  . . . .   12®  15
Pulvis  Ip’c  et  Opiil 30@1 50 
P yrethrum ,  bxs H
&  P   D  Co.  doz.  @  75 
P yrethrum ,  pv  ..  20®  25
Quassiae  .............. 
8®  10
Quinia,  S  P   &  W.  25®  35 
Quinia,  S  Ger  . . .   25®  35
Quinia,  N.  Y.........   25®  35
Rubia  Tinctorum   12®  14 
Saccharum   L a’s.  22®  25
.................4  50® 4  75
Salacin 
Sanguis  D rac’s  ..  40®  50
Sapo,  W  
............  12®  14

@ 

bbl

DeVoes 

70® 80
10® 12 Lard,  ex tra  ___
Sapo,  M ................
0 15 Lard,  No.  1........
60® 65
Sapo,  G ................
20® 22 i.inseed,  pure  raw 45 ® 48
Seidlitz  M ixture..
46® 4!)
® 18 Linseed,  boiled  ..
................
Sinapis 
@ 30 N eat’s-foot,  w  s tr
65® 70
Sinapis,  o p t ........
58@ 63
Spts.  Turpentine.
Snuff,  Maccaboy,
@ 51
............
L
Paints
@ 51
Snuff,  S’h  DeVo’s
Red  V enetian  .. .1%  2  @3 
Soda,  B oras  . 
9®
11 
Soda,  Boras, po.
Ochre,  yel  M ars.1%   2  @4 
9@
11 
Ochre,  yel  Ber  ..1%   2  @3 
30 
Soda  et  P o t’s  T a rt  28@ 
P utty,  com m er’1.2%  2%@3 
1%@ 
Soda,  Carb 
2 
P utty,  strictly  pr2%  2% @3 
Soda,  B i-C arb 
5 
3@ 
Vermilion,  Prim e
4 
Soda,  Ash 
. . . .
3%@
........  13®  15
Soda,  Sulphas 
2
Vermilion,  E n g ...  75®  80
Spts,  Cologne 
@2  60 
.........14®  18
Green,  P aris 
50®  55 
Spts,  E th er  Co 
Green,  Peninsular  13®  16
Spts,  M yrcia  Dom 
@2  00
Lead,  red 
7
Spts,  Vini  R ect bbl 
w  
I.ead,  w hite 
. . . .   6%@  »7 
Spts,  Vi’i R ect  %b  @ 
W hiting,  w hite  S’n  @  90
Spts,  Vi’i R’t 10 gl  @ 
W hiting  Gilders’ 
@  95
Spts,  Vi’i R ’t  5 gal  @ 
W hite,  P aris  Am’r  @1  25 
Strychnia.  Crystal  90@1  15
W hit’g   P a ris Eng
Sulphur  S u b l........2%@ 
4
@1  40
.................... 
Sulphur,  Roll  ___ 2%@  3%
U niversal  P rep ’d 1  10@1  20
T am arinds  .......... 
8@  10
Terebenth  Venice  28®  30
T h e o b ro m ae ........  45®  50
V anilla 
Zinci  Sulph  ........  
8

............... 9  00®
7® 

..........  6%@ 

A m erican 

Varnishes

cliff 

No  1  Turp  Coach 1  10@1  20
E x tra   T urp  ___1  60@1  70
Coach  Body  ___2  75®3  00
No  1  T urp  F u rn l  00®1  10 
E x tra  T  D am ar  .1  55@1  60 
Jap   D ryer  No  1  T  70®

Oils
W hale,  w inter  ..

bbl  gal 
70®  70

Drugs

50  I
50
60
60
50
50
20

5@ 

Baccae
..........  
Balsam um
......................  

Acldum
Aceticum  
6®
............. 
Benzoicum,  G e r..  70@
@
................  
Boracic 
Carbolicum  
.........  26®
Cltricum  
..............   38@
3®
H ydrochlor 
......... 
N itrocum  
8®
............  
Oxalicum 
............   10®
0
Phosphorium ,  d il. 
........   42@
Salicylicum  
. . . .  1% @
Sulphuricum  
Tannicum   ............   75®
T artaricum  
........   38®
Ammonia
Aqua,  18  deg  . . .  
6
4® 
Aqua,  20  deg  . . .  
8
6@ 
Carbonas 
............   13 @  15
Chloridum   ............   12(g)  14
Aniline
Black 
..................2  00@2  25
..................   80@1  00
Brown 
Red  ........................   45®  50
Yellow 
..................2  50 @3  00
Cubebae  ...p o .  20  15®  18
Juniperus 
6
X anthoxylum  
. . .   30@  35
Copaiba  ................   45@  50
Peru 
@1  50
Terabin,  C anada.  60®  65
T olutan  ................   35 @  40
Cortex 
Abies,  C anadian..
C assiae 
................
Cinchona  F la v a ..
Buonym us  a tr o ..
M yrica  C erife ra ..
Prunus  V irgini  ..
Quillaia.  g r’d -----
S assafras 
. .po 25
Ulmus 
..................
E xtractum  
24@
G lycyrrhiza  G la .. 
G lycyrrhiza,  p o ..
H a e m a to x .............  11@
H aem atox,  Is   . . .   13@
H aem atox,  %s  ..  14@
H aem atox,  %s  ..  16@
Ferru
C arbonate  Preclp.
C itrate  and Q uina 
C itrate  Soluble  .. 
Ferrocyanidum   S.
Solut.  Chloride  ..
Sulphate,  com ’l  ..
Sulphate,  com’l,  by 
bbl.  per  cw t  ..
Sulphate,  pure  ..
Flora
15®
A rnica 
. . . : ........
............   22@
A nthem is 
M atricaria 
..........   30@
Folia
B arosm a  ..............
C assia  Acutifol,
Tinnevelly  ___
Cassia,  A cutifol..
Salvia  officinalis,
U va  U r s i ..............
Gummi 
Acacia,  1st  p k d ..
Acacia,  2nd  p k d ..
Acacia,  3rd  p k d ..
Acacia,  sifted  sts.
Acacia,  po  ..........
Aloe,  B arb  ..........   1
Aloe,  Cape  .
Aloe,  Socotri 
@
55®
Ammoniac 
.
A safoetida 
..........   35 @
B en z o in u m ..........   50®
C atechu,  Is 
®
. . . .  
@
C atechu,  %s  . . . .  
Catechu,  %s  . . . .
88®
........
Cam phorae 
Euphorbium  
. . . .
@
G albanum   ............
@ 1   00 
25@1  35 
Gamboge  , . . . p o . . l  
@  35 
G uaiacum   ..p o 3 5
@  45 
K in o .......... po  45c
@  60 
M astic 
..................
45
........ po 50
M yrrh 
Opil 
...................... 3  00@3  10
Shellac 
................   60®  65
Shellac,  bleached  65@  70
T rag acan th  
...........  70@1 00
Herba
A bsinthium   oz pk 
E upatorium   oz pk
Lobelia  ___oz pk
M ajorum  
. .oz pk 
M entha  P ip oz pk 
M entha  V er oz pk
Rue  ...............oz pk
T anacetum   Y  . . .
Thym us  V  oz pk 
M agnesia 
55®
Calcined,  P a t 
.. 
C arbonate,  P a t  ..
C arbonate  K -M .  18®
C arbonate 
..........   18(g)
Oleum
A bsinthium  
.........4  90@5 00
Am ygdalae,  Dulc.  50®  60 
A m ygdalae  A m a.8  00®8  25
Anisi 
.....................1  75@1 85
A uranti  C ortex  .2  20 @2  40
Bergam ii  ...............2  8503  25
C ajiputi  ................  85®  90
Caryophylli 
.........1  30 @1 40
C edar  ....................   50®  90
C h en o p a d ii..........  
@2  25
C innam oni  ...........1  1001 20
C itronella  ............   50®  60
. . .   80®  90
Conium  M ac 
Copaiba 
...............1  1501  25
Cubebae 
...............1  20® 1  30

30®  33
15@
25®
18®

14s  and  %s

45®

®

Radix
Aconitum 
..........  20@  25
..................  30®  33
A lthae 
Anchusa 
..............  10®  12
Arum  p o .............. 
®  25
Calam us 
..............  20®  40
G entiana  po  15..  12®  15
G lychrrhiza  pv  15  16®  18 
H ydrastis,  Canada 
1  75 
H ydrastis,  Can.po 
Hellebore,  A lba.
12 @ 15
18® 22
Inula,  po 
............
0002 10
Ipecac,  po.............. 2
Iris  plox 
35® 40
............
25® 30
@ 35
M aranta,  %s  __
15® 18
Podophyllum  po.
7501 00
00@1 25
Rhei,
7501 on
Rhei.
30® 35
0 22
Sanguinari,  po 24
50® 55
Serpentaria 
........
85® 90
Senega 
................
0 40
Smilax,  offi’s  H .
0 25
Smllax,  M  ..........
10® 12
Scillae  po  35___
0 25
Sym plocarpus  . ..  
@ 25
V aleriana  E ng  .. 
15® 20
V aleriana,  Ger  ..
12@ 14
Zingiber  a   ..........
16® 20
Zingiber  j  . . . . . . .
Semen 
Anisum  po.  2 0 ... 
Apium  (gravel’s).
Bird,  Is  ................
. . . .
C arni  po  15 
Coriandrum  
. . . .  
Cannabis  Sativa.
Cydonium  ............
Chenopodium 
...  
D ipterix  Odorate.
Foeniculum  
........
Foenugreek,  p o ..
Lini  ........................
Lini,  grd.  bbl.  2%
P h arlaris  C ana'n
Sinapis  Alba  . . . .  
Sinapis  N igra  . ..
Spiritus

@ 16
13® 15
6
4®
10® 11
70® 90
12® 14
7
5®
7501 00
25® 30
8001 00
@ 18
9
7®
4®
6
6
3®
75@ 80
9® 10
6
5®
9
7®
9® 10

Sponges

00@2  50
Frum enti  W   D. .2 
25®1  50
____ _ 
Frum enti 
............1
Juniperis  Co  O  T .l  65®2  00 
...1 7 5 0 3   50
-  
- 
Juniperis  Co 
______ _ 
_  E . l   90®2  10
Saccharum   N
Sot  Vini  Galli 
..1   75®6  50 
1  2502  00 
Vini  Oporto 
1  25 0  2  00
Vina  Alba
Florida  Sheeps’  wl
c a r r ia g e ........... 3  00@3  50
N assau  sheeps’  wl
carriage  ...........3  50@3  75
V elvet  ex tra  shps’ 
@2  00 
wool,  carriage  .
E x tra  yellow  shps’ 
@1  25
wool  carriag e..
G rass  sh'eeps’  wl,
@1  25 
carriage  ...........
H ard,  slate use  ..
@ 1   00
Yellow  Reef,  for
@1  40
slate  use...........
Syrups
50 
Acacia 
..................
50 
A uranti  Cortex  ..
50 
Z in g ib e r................
60 
Ipecac  ....................
50 
F erri  Iod  ............
50 
Rhei  Arom  ..
60 
Sm ilax  Offl’s
50 
Senega 
........
50 
S c illa e ............
50 
Scillae  Co 
..
50 
T olutan 
. . .  •
50
P runus  virg

50®

Aether,  Spts N it 3f 30@  35 
Aether,  Spts N it 4f 34®  38 
4
Alumen,  grd po 7 
3® 
A n n a tto ................  40®  50
Antimoni,  po  . . . .  
5
4® 
Antimoni  et  po  T  40®  50
A ntipyrin  .............  
®  25
.........  
A ntifebrin 
0   20
Argent!  N itras  oz 
®  48
Arsenicum  
..........  10®  12
Balm  Gilead  buds  60 @  65 
..2   8002  85 
Bism uth  S  N 
Calcium  Chlor,  Is  @ 
9
Calcium  Chlor, %s 
®  10 
Calcium  Chlor %s 
®  12 
C antharides,  Rus. 
®1  85 
®  20
Capsici  F ruc’s  a f 
Capsici  F ruc’s po  @  22 
Cap’i  F ruc’s B po 
®  15
C ary o p h y llu s___  25®  28
Carmine,  No.  40..  @4  25
Cera  A lb a ............  50®  55
Cera  F lava  ........   40®  42
Crocus 
................ 1  75@1 80
®  35
Cassia  F ructus  .. 
@  10
............ 
C entraría 
Cataceum   ............ 
®  35
Chloroform 
........  42®  52
Chloro’m.  Squibbs  @  95 
Chloral  Hyd  C rst 1  3501  60
Chondrus  .............   20®  25
Cinchonidine  P -W   38®  48 
Cinchonid’e  Germ  38®  48
Cocaine  ..................4  05@4  25
75
Corks  list  d  p  ct. 
Creosotum 
@  45
.......... 
C r e ta ..........bbl  75 
@  2
Creta,  prep  ........ 
5
® 
Creta,  precip 
. . .  
9®  11
@ 
Creta,  R ubra 
. ..  
8
Crocus 
................ 1  75® 1  80
Cudbear 
.............. 
®  24
Cupri  Sulph  ----  
8
6® 
7®  10
.............. 
D extrine 
Em ery,  all  N os.. 
0  
8
Em ery,  po 
----  
® 
6
E rgota  ___po. 65  60®  65
E th er  Sulph 
___   70®  80
Flake  W hite  ----   12®  15
Galla 
  ®  23
Gambler 
8® 
.............. 
9
®  60
Gelatin,  Cooper  . 
Gelatin,  French  .  35®  60
Glassware,  fit  box 
75
70
th an   box 
Glue,  brown  ___  11®  13
Glue,  w hite  ........  15®  25
Glycerina 
............  16 @  20
G rana  Paradisi  .. 
®  25
Hum ulus 
............  25®  55
H ydrarg  Ch  M t. 
@  95
H ydrarg  Cb  Cor 
®  90 
H ydrarg Ox R u’m  @1  05
H ydrarg  Ammo’l  @1  15
H ydrarg  Ungue’m  50®  60
H ydrargyrum  
®  75
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  9001  00
Indigo 
..................  75®1  00
Iodine,  Resubi  ..4   35®4  40
Iodoform  ..............4  1004  20
Lupulin 
®  40
Lycopodium  ....... 1  10® 1  20
Macis  ....................  65®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et 
@ 2 5
H ydrarg  Iod  .. 
Liq  P otass  A rsinit  10®  12
M agnesia,  Sulph. 
2® 
3
M agnesia,  Sulph bbl.  @  1%

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

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

Less 

.. 

.. 

We  are  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent  Medicines.

We  are  dealers 

in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

We  have  a  full  line  of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We are the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s 

Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We  always  have  in  stock  a  full  line  of 
Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  Wines  and 
Rums  for  medical  purposes  only.

We  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

All  orders  shipped and invoiced the same 

day  received.  Send  a trial order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

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M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These  quotations  are  carefully  corrected weekly, within  six  honrs  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

Galvanized  W ire 

Cotton  W indsor
..................................1  30
..................................1  44
1  80 
2  00
95 
1  35

50ft.
60ft.
70ft....................................
80ft...................................
Cotton  Braided
40ft....................................
50ft...................................
60ft.................................. 4-65
No.  20,  each  100ft.  longl  90 
No.  19,  each  100ft.  Iona#  10 
C O C O A  
B aker’s 
............................  38
Cleveland 
.............  
41
Colonial,  %s  ...........         35
Colonial,  %s  ..................   33
E pps  ...............................   
42
H uyler  ......................... ..  45
V an  H outen,  % s ........  
12
Va n  H outen, %s  .. .1 ., 
20
V an  H outen,  %s  . . . . . .   40
Van  H outen,  Is  . . . . . . . .   72
W ebb 
31
.........................  
W ilbur,  %s
41
W ilbur,  %s  ............. :,
42

*
 

 

COCOANUT
D unham ’s  % s ............
26
D unham ’s  %s &  VLs.‘.
?6%
D unham ’s  %s 
. . ___
27
D unham ’s  % s .......... .•
28
Bulk 
..............................  13
COCOA  SH ELLS
201b.  b a g s ...........  ...........2%
I  .ess  q u a n tity ................3
Pound  p a c k a g e s ............ 4

Rio

Santos
...........................12%
..................................13%
........................... 16
............................18

CO FFEE
Common 
..........................12
F a i r .................................. 13
Choice 
..............................15
F a n c y ......................  . . . .  18
Common 
F air. 
Choice. 
Fancy. 
P eaberry  ..........................
M aracaibo
................................ 15
F air. 
..............................18
Choice 
Choice 
...............................16%
F ancy 
..............................19
G uatem ala
..............................15
Choice 
A frican 
............................12
Fancy  A frican  ..............17
O.  G............................ ....... 25
P-  G. 
................................31
Mocha
A rabian 
.......................... 91
Package

Mexican

Jav a

New   York  B asis

A rbuckle.............................IS 50
D ilw orth 
.......................13  00
Jersey 
.............................13  50
L i o n ....................................13 50
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold 
to  retailers  only.  M ail  all 
orders  direct 
to  W .  F. 
M cLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.

E x tract

Holland,  %  gro  boxes.  95
Felix,  %  g r o s s ................ 1 15
H um m el’s  foil,  %  gro.  85 
H um m el’s  tin,  %  gro.l  43 
N ational  B iscuit  Com pany’s 

CRACKERS

O yster

B rands 
B utter
Seym our  B u tters 
...........6
N   Y  B u tte r s .....................6
Salted  B u tters 
...............6
F am ily  B u tters  ...............6
Soda
N B C   Sodas  ..............   6
Select 
...................................S
Saratoga  Flakes  ...........13
Round  O ysters  ..............   6
Square  O ysters  ............   6
F au st 
................................ 7%
Argo 
.....................................7
E x tra   F arin a  ................7%
Sw eet  Goods
A nim als 
...........................10
A ssorted  Cake  ...............10
Bagley  Gems  ................   8
Belle  Rose  ......................  8
B ent’s  W ater  .................16
B u tter  T h i n .....................13
......... 16
Chocolate  Drops 
Coco  B ar 
.........................10
Cocoanut  Taffy  .............12
Cinnam on  B ar  .................9
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C..10 
Coffee  Cake,  Iced 
....1 0  
Cocoanut  M acaroons  ..18
C racknels 
.........................16
C urran t  F ru it 
.............10
Chocolate  D ainty 
....1 6
C artw heels 
....................   9
_ .xie  Cookie  . . . . .  i . . . .   8
F luted  Cocoanut  ...........10
F rosted  C re a m s ............   8
G inger  G e m s ..................  8
Ginger  Snaps.  N.  B.  C  7 
G randm a  Sandwich  . . .  10 
G raham   C rackers 
. . . .   8 
Honey  Fingers,  Iced 
.12
Honey  Jum bles 
...........12
Iced  H appy  Fam ily 
..11 
Iced  Honey  C rum pet  .10
Im p e ria ls ..........................  8
Indian  Belle 
.................15
Jersey  Lunch 
..............   8
Lady  Fingers 
...............12
jLady  Fingers, hand md 25

Lemon  Biscuit  Square.  8
i/MBon  Wafer  ..............18
Lemon  Snaps  ..............11
Lemon  Gems  ...............18
Lem  Yen 
...................... 10
Marshmallow  ................ 18
Marshmallow  Cream ..  18 
Marshmallow  Wtunut.  18
Mary  Ann  .................... 8
Malaga 
..........................10
Mich  Coco  Fs’d  honey. 12
Milk  Biscuit  .................8
Mich  Frosted  Honey  ..  12
Mixed  Picnic  ...............11%
Molasses  Cakes.  Solo’d  8
Moss  Jelly  B a r..............12
Muskegon  Branch,  Iced 10
Newton 
......................... 12
Oatmeal  Crackers 
. . . .   8
Orange  Slice  .................16
Orange  Gem 
...........  
4
Penny  Assorted  Cakes.
...................1
Pilot  Bread 
Pineapple  Honey 
........15
Ping  Pong 
...................  9
Pretzels,  hand  made  ..  8 
Pretzelettes,  hand  m’d  8 
Pretzelettes,  inch,  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
........................10
Urchins 
Vienna  Crimp  ............... 8
Vanilla  W afer  ...............18
W averly  ...........................8
Zanzibar 
......................   9
Barrels  or  drums  ........... 29
Boxes....................................30
Square  cans.......................32
Fancy  caddies....................35

CREAM  TARTAR

DRIED  FRUIT8 

Apples

Beans

Farina

Raisins

Hominy

Currants 

.................. 6

............5%@7

0
California  Prunes 

Sun dried ................. 
Evaporated 
100-125  25lb.  boxes.
90-100  25 lb.bxs..
80-90  25  lb.  bxs.
70-80  25 lb.  bxs.
60-70  251b.  boxes.
50-60  26 R>. bxs.
40-50  25 !b.  bxs.
30-40  25 lb. bxs.
%c  less  in  bv  ...
Citron
Corsican................
Imp’d,  lib.  pkg.
Imported  bulk 
Peel
jemon  A m erican .........12
Orange  American  ........It
1 0  
London  Layers  I  cr 
1  95 
London  Layers  4  cr 
2  60
Cluster  5  crown  .. .  
Loose  Muscatels,  2  c r ..  5 
Loose  Muscatels,  3  c r ..  5% 
Loose  Muscatels,  4  c r ..  6 
L.  M.  Seeded,  1  lb.6%@7% 
L.  M.  Seeded,  %  lb 5  @6 
Sultanas,  bulk.  ... 
8
Sultanas,  package. 
8% 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  Lima 
Med.  Hd.  Pk’d.  ..2   00@2  lo
Brown  Holland  ............2  50
24 
lib.  packages.......... 1  75
Bulk,  per  100  lbs........... 3  00
Flake,  50  1b.  sack  . . . 4   00 
Pearl,  200  lb.  sack  ...4   00 
Pearl,  100  lb.  sack  ...2   00 
Maccaronl  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic,  10  lb.  box  .  60
Imported.  25  !b.  box  . .2  60 
Common........................... 2  60
Chester. 
........................ 2  75
Empire 
.......................... 2  50
Green,  Wisconsin,  b u ..l  25
Green.  Scotch,  bu......... 1  35
Split,  lb............................ 
4
Rolled  Avenna,  bbls  ..4  25 
Steel  Cut,  1001b.  sacks2  10
Monarch,  bbl...................4  00
Monarch,  101b.  sacks  4   90
Quaker,  c a s e s ............... 3  10
East  India 
Germ an,  sacks  ............... I f
German,  broken  pkg  .  4 
Flake.  1101b.  sacks  . . . .   4% 
Pearl,  1301b.  sacks  ....4  
Pearl,  24 
lib.  pkgs. . . . 6  
Wheat
Cracked,  bulk 
............... 8%
. . . . 8   50 
24  2  lb.  packages 
FISHING  TA CK LE
%  to  1  In  ....................  
4
7
1 %  to  2  In  ................... 
1 %  to  2  in  ....................  
9
1  2-3  to  2  in  ................. 
11
2  in  .................................   16
2 
..................................   90
Coiton  Lines
No.  1.  10  feet  .............  
5
No.  2.  16  feet  .............  
7
No.  2.  15  feet  .............  
0
No.  4.  15  feet  ...............  10
No.  6,  16  feet  ...............  U
No.  6,  15  feet  .............   12
No.  7.  15  feet  ...............   19
Wo.  *.  16  feet  ...............  
10
No.  9,  15  feet  ...............  20

Sago
...................*

Pearl  Barley

Rolled  Oats

Tapioca

Peas

in 

Linen  Unae
..............................  go
sm all 
.................. 
  M
Medium 
barge 
............................  m
Poles
Bamboo,  l i   f t ,   pr  d a.,  m  
samDoo,  16  f t ,   pr  a s.  m 
Bamboo,  18  f t ,  pr  da.  m> 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Coleman’s 
2os.  P a n e l...................... l   20 76
3oz.  T a p e r ............. 2  00  1  60
No.  4  Rich.  B lake.2  00  1  60 

Foote  A   Jenks 

Van. Lem.

Jennings

Terpeneless  Lemon 

GELATINE

Mexican  Vanilla 

Vo.  2  D.  C.  pr  da  . . . .   Ti 
No.  4  D.  C.  pr  da  . . . 4   56
No.  6  D.  C.  pr  d a ........2  00
Taper  D.  C.  pr  da  . . . 4   60 
. . . .  
No.  2  D.  C.  pr  da  . . . 4   20 
No.  4  D.  C.  pr  da  ....2   *0 
No.  6  D.  C.  pr  da  ....2   00 
Taper  D.  C.  pr  da  ....9   00 
Knox’s  Sparkling, da.  1  20 
Knox’s  Sparkling, gro. 14  00 
Knox’s  Acldu’d.,  doa.  1  20 
Knox’s  Acldu’d,  gro  .14  00
Oxford 
Plymouth  Rock 
........1  SO
Nelson's 
......................1  (0
Cox’s,  2  qt.  size  . . . . .   1   61
Cox’s,  1  q t  slse  ......... 1  10
Amoskeag,  100  In  b’e.  19 
Amoskeag.  less than b.  19% 
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

GRAIN  BAQ8  

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

Wheat 

Old  W heat

No.  1  White  ................ 1  14
No.  2  Red  .................... 1  14

Winter  Wheat  Fleur 

Txxal  Brands

to  usual 

Spring  Wheat  Flour

Patents 
......................... 6  20
Second  Patents  ...........5  80
Straight 
........................5  60
Second  Straight  .......... 5  20
Clear  .............................. 4  60
I Graham  ......................... 5  30
Buckwheat  .................... 5  20
Rye 
..............................4  60
Subject 
oasb 
discount
Flour  In  bbls.,  26e  per 
bbl.  additional.
I Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand 
I 
Quaker,  p a p e r............... 5  60
Quaker,  cloth  ............... 5  80
Piilsbury’s  Best,  %s  ..6   50 
Pillsbury’s  Best,  %s  . .6  40 
Piilsbury’s  Best,  %s  ..6   30 
Lemon  ft  Wheeler  Co. » 
Wingold,  % s ................. 6  60
Wingold.  %s  ................. 6  50
Wingold,  %s  ................. 6  40
.Tudson  Grocer  Co.'s Brand
Ceresota,  %s 
............... 6  60
Ceresota.  %s 
............... 6  50
Ceresota,  %s 
............... 6  40
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel,  %s,  cloth  __ 6  60
Laurel,  %s,  cloth  __ 6  50
Laurel,  %s &  %s paper6  40
Laurel,  % s .....................6  40

Brand

Meal

Bolted................................2  90
Golden  Granulated. 
. . . 8   00 

Feed  and  Miilatuffs 

St.  Car  Feed screened 22  00 
No.  1  Corn and Oats 22  00 
Corn  Meal,  coarse  ...22  00
Oil  Meal  .......................29  00
W inter  wheat  bran 
.19  00 
Winter  wheat  mid’ngs22  00
cow   fe e d .......................21  00
Oats
Car  lots 
33%
Corn
Com,  new  ....................50
Com,  old 
......................60
Hay

No.  1  timothy  car lots 10  50 
No.  1  timothy ton lots 12  50 

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

HERBS

JE L L Y

INDIGO

LICORICE

Sage 
...............................   U
Hops  ...............................   15
Laurel  Leaves 
...........  
I f
Senna  Leaves 
.............   26
Madras,  5  lb.  boxes  ..  56 
S.  F „  2. 3.  5 lb.  boxes..  85 
Stb.  palls,  per  das 
..1   78
15Tb.  pails 
...................  88
30tt>.  pails  ......................   85
Pure 
...............................   It
Calabria 
  28
..............................  14
Sicily 
Root 
...............................  
11
Condensed,  2  ds  ..........1  88
Condensed,  4  ds  ..........9  00
Armour’s,  2  o s .............. 4 46
Armour’s  4  os  ..............9  20
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  3 os.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago.  4os.S  50 
T »»»big’s.  Imported.  2 os.4  56 
Liebig’s, 
imported 4 oz 8  50 

MEAT  EXTRACTS

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

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy  Open  Kettle  . . .   40
............................  35
Choice 
F a i r .................................   26
.............................   22
Good 
MINCE  MEAT 

H alf  barrels  2c  extra 

Columbia,  per  case.  ...2   75

D

r

0

Index to Markets

By  Columns

Col

Axle  G rea se ....................   1

A

B

Bath  Brick  ....................   1
............................  1
Brooms 
Brushes  ...........................   1
Butter  Color 
.................  1
C
.......................11
Confections 
Candles 
............................  1
.............   1
Canned  Goods 
Carbon  Oils 
I
Catsup 
..............................  S
Cheese 
..............................  2
Chewing  Gum 
.............   2
Chicory 
............................  S
........................   2
Chocolate 
Clothes  Lines  .................  1
Cocoa 
...............................   S
Cocoanut  ..........................  9
I
Cocoa  Shells  ................... 
Coffee  ...............................   S
Crackers 
.......................... 
t

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

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

. . . .   4
Farinaceous  Goods 
Pish  and  Oysters  ............10
Fishing  Tackle 
.............   4
Flavoring  extracts  ........ 
■
Fly  P a p e r ........................
Fresh  Meats  ...................  S
Fruits  ................................. 11

Gelatine  ...........................   0
Grain  Bags  .....................  B
Grains  and  Flour  ..........  5

H

Herbs 
Hides  and  Pelts 

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

i
............10

1

indigo  ............................... 

I

Jelly 

J

.................................   9 j

L

Lloorloe  ............................  S
...................................  S
Lye 

M
Meat  Extracts 
.............   5
Molasses  ..........................  6
Mustard 
..........................  6

N

«

P

O

Nuts  ................................... II
Hives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   I\
Pipes  ................................. 
i
Pickles  .............................  
I
Playing  C a rd s .................  6
Potash 
.............................   6
Provisions 
......................   6
R

tU o e ......... ........................  0

Salad  Dressing  .............   7
S&leratus 
........................   7
Sal  Soda 
7
................... 
Salt  ...................................  7
Salt  Fish 
........................  7
...............................   7
Seeds 
Shoe  Blacking  ...............  7
................................   7
Snuff 
Soap 
.................................  7
Soda 
 
...................  
8
Spices  ....................... 
8
Starch 
.............................   8
..............................  8
Sugar 
Syrups 
............................  8

 
 

Tea 
Tobacco 
Twine 

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

Vinegar 

V

..........................   9

Washing  Powder  ..........  9
Wlaking 
..........................   9
Woedenware  ...................  9
Wrapping  P a p e r ........... 10

Yeast  Cake  .......................10

T

W

Y

A X L E   G R E A S E  
dz
.....................55
A urora 
C astor  Oil  ...............55
Diam ond  .................. 50
...................75
F razer’s 
IX L  Golden 
...........75
B A K E D   B E A N S  
Colum bia  B rand 
.. 
can,  p er  doz 
;n>.
can,  per  doz 
.. 
2It>.olb.
.. 
can,  per  doz 
B A T H   B R I C K
A m erican 
....................
English 
........................
B R O O M S
No.  1  C arpet  ............
No.  2  C arpet  ............
No.  3  C arpet  ............
No.  4  C a r p e t..............
P arlo r  Gem  ................
Common  W hisk  . . . .
Fancy  W hisk 
..........
W arehouse 
................

B R U S H E S  

Scrub

gro 
6  00

.  9) 
.1  40 
.1  80

.2  75 
.2  35 
.2  15 
.1  75 
.2  40 
.  85 
.1  20 
.3  00

Stove

........   75
Solid  Back.  8  in 
Solid  Back,  11  i n ..........   95
Pointed  e n d s ..................   85
No.  3 
No.  2 
No.  1
No.  8 
No.  7  . 
No.  4 
No.  3
W .,  R.  & Co’s,  15c size.l  25 
W .,  R.  & Co.’s, 25c size.2  00 
C A N w i.E S
E lectric  Light.  8s 
. . . .   9% 
E lectric  Light,  1 6 s ___10
Paraffine,  6s
9
Paraffine,  12s  ..............
9%
........................
W icking 
23
CANNED  GOODS 
Apples

B U T T E R   C O L O R  

 

1 00

Corn

Blac 

erries

Beans

Clam  Boullion

3  lb.  S tan d ard s..  7 5 0   80 
Gals.  S tandards  .1  90@2  00 
S tandards  ............  
85
Baked  ....................   80@1  30
Red  Kidney  ___  85 @  95
S tring 
.................  70@1  15
W ax 
........ .............  7501  25
Blueberries
S tandard  ............ 
@  1  40
Brook  T rout
Gallon.................... 
@  5  75
21b.  cans,  s.piced 
1  90
Clams
L ittle  Neck,  lib .  1  00@1  25 
L ittle  Neck,  21b.. 
@1  50
B urnham ’s.  %  p t  ___ 1  92
B urnham ’s,  p ts 
...........3  60
B urnham ’s,  q ts  .............7  20
Cherries
Red  S tandards  . 1   3001  50
..................  
1 5 0
W hite 
...............................85@90
F a ir 
Good  ............................. 
...............................1  25
F ancy 
French  Peas
Sur  E x tra   Fine 
..........   22
..................   19
E x tra  F ine 
Fine 
..................................  15
Moyen 
 
................  
  11
Goose Derries
Standard 
........................  90
Hominy
Standard  ..........................   85
Lobster
Star,  %R>............................... 2 15
Star, 
lib ................................. 3 75
Picnic  Tails 
M ustard,  lib ...........................1 80
M ustard,  21b...........................2 80
Soused, 
Soused,  21b..............................2 80
Tom ato 
lib .............................1 80
Tom ato.  21b............................ 2 80
Mushrooms
H otels 
..................   15 @  20
B uttons  ................  22@  25
Oysters
Coe,  lib ................
@
*  90
Cove,  21b..............
@1
Cove,  lib .  Oval  .
@1
Peaches
Pie  .
.................. 1 10@1
................ 1 65@2
Yellow 
S tandard  ............ 1 00@1
F ancy 
@2
M arrow fat 
90 @1
E arly   June 
90@1
E arly   Ju n e  S ifte d .. 

Pears
................
Peas
........
. . . .

....................... 1  80

...................2  60

M a eke re I

1  65

 

Plum s

Raspberries

Russian  Cavier

..............................  85
Pineapple
..................1  25@2  75
....................1  35@2  55
Pumpkin
70 
80 
1  00 
@2  00
@

Plum s 
G rated 
Sliced 
F a ir  . 
Good 
Fancy 
Gallon
S tandard  ..............  
%Tb.  c a n s ................ ........3  75
.......................7  00
%Ib.  cans 
...................... 12  00
lib   cans 
Salmon
Col’a   R iver, 
tails  @1 75
flats.l 85@1 90
Col’a   River, 
Red  A laska  .........1  35@1  45
@  95
P ink  A laska  ___ 
Sardines
Domestic,  %s 
..  3%@  3% 
Dom estic,  %s  .. 
5
Domestic,  M ust’d  6  @  9 
California,  %s  . . .   11 @14
California,  % s__ 17  @24
French,  %s  ...........7  @14
French,  %s  .........18  @28
Shrim ps
Standard  .............   1 
Succotash
95
F a ir 
......................  
1  10
Good  ......................  
F ancy  ....................1 
25@1 40
S traw berries
Standard  ..............
1  10 
F ancy  ....................
1  4C
Tom atoes
F a ir  .......................  
@  80
Good  ......................  
@  85
F a n c y .....................1  15 @1  45
50@2 60
G a llo n s ...................2 

20@1 40

CARBON  OILS 

‘ 

c a t s u p

@11%
@11
@13
@12
............... .16 @22

B arrels
P erfection 
........
W ater W hite  . ..
D.  S.  Gasoline
Deodor’d  N ap’a.
Cylinder 
............ .29 @34%
Engine 
Black,  w inter 
. .  9 @10%
Columbia,  25  pts..........4 50
Columbia,  25  % pts. . . 2  60
Snider’s  quarts  .......... 3  25
Snider’s  pints 
...............2  25
Snider’s  % pints 
.1  30
‘ 
■ T "  
CH EESE
A c m e ......................
@13
Carson  C i t y ........
@14
..............
Peerless 
@13%
.....................
Elsie 
@15
..............
Em blem  
@@14
Gem 
......................
@13%
ideal 
......................
Jersey  ....................
@13%
R iv e rsid e ..............
@13%
W arner’s  ..............
@13
....................
B rick 
@14
..................
Edam  
@90
Leiden 
..................
@15
L im burger 
..........
@13
Pineapple  ............ 40
@60
@14
Swiss,  dom estic  .
Swiss,  im ported  .
@20
A m erican  F lag  Spruce.  55
Beem an’s  Pepsin 
........   60
Black  Jack  
..................   55
L argest  Gum  M ade 
..  60
Sen  Sen 
..........................   55
Sen  Sen  B reath  P e rf .l  00
Sugar  Loaf  ....................   55
..........................   55
Y ucatan 
Bulk 
5
7
Red 
4
Eagle 
F ranck’s  .............  
  7
6
Schener’s 

..................................  
.................................... 
................................  
........................ 
W alter  B aker  &  Co.’s

 
CHOCOLATE 

CHEW ING  GUM 

CHICORY

G erm an  Sw eet  ..............   23
Prem ium   ..........................  31
V anilla  ..............................  41
C aracas  ............................  35
Eagle 
................................  28

 

CLOTHES  LINES 

e x tra .. 1 00
e x tra .. 1 40
ex tra.  1 70
ex tra. .1 29

Sisal
COft.  3 thread, 
72ft.  3 thread, 
90ft.  3 thread, 
60ft.  6 thread, 
72ft.  6 thread,  e x tr a ..
Ju te
••Oft................................  
75
 
72ft.  ....................................   90
90ft.........................................1 05
120ft.......................................1 50
Cotton  V ictor
50ft.........................................1 10
60ft 
................................... 1  35
1 0 f t ....................................1  60

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

MUSTARD 

OLIVES

H orse  R adish,  1  ds  . 
H orse  Radish,  2  dz  .. 
Bayle's  Celery.  1  dz 
Bulk,  1 gal.  kegs ___1  00
Bulk,  3  gal  kegs. ___   95
........   90
Bulk.  5  gal  kegs.
Manz&nilla,  7  oz  . ___ 
80
........ 2  35
Queen,  p in ts 
. . .
.........4  50  1
..
Queen,  19  oz 
Queen,  28  o z ........ ___7  00
........   90
..
Stuffed,  5  oz 
........ 1  45
Stuffed,  8  o z -----
........ 2  30
..
Stuffed,  10  oz 
P IP E S
........ 1  70
d a y .  No.  216 
..
Clay.  T.  D-,  full count  65
........   85
Cob,  r o .   3  ..........
PICK LES
Medium

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 

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

No.  90,  Steamboat  . . .   85
No.  15,  Rival,  assortedl  20 
No.  20,  Rover  enameledl  60
No.  672,  Special  ..........1  75
No.  98,  Golf,  satin finish2  00
No.  808,  Bicycle 
..........2  00
No.  682,  Tournm’t  whist2  25 

POTASH 

48  cans  in  case

Babbitt’s 
.......................4  00
Penna  Salt  Co.’s  ..........3  00

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Lard

Smoked  Meats 

..........................9

Dry  8aIt  Meats

Mess  .............................. 13  00
Back  fat  .......................15  00
Fat  back 
.....................15  00
Short  cut  .....................13  75
................................18  00
Pig 
Bean  .............................. 11  75
Brisket 
.................. 1.. 16  00
Clear  F a m ily ............... 12  50
Bellies 
S  P   Bellies 
................... 9%
: .......   8%
Extra  Shorts 
Hams,  12  lb.  average. 10»4 
Hams,  14  lb.  average. 10% 
Hams,  16  lb.  average. 10% 
Hams,  29  lb.  average. 10%
Skinned  H a m s ............ 11
Ham,  dried  beef  sets. 13% 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut) 
..1 1   @12
Bacon,  clear. 
California  Hams  ............7%
Picnic  Boiled  Ham  ....1 2
Boiled  Hams  ................. 16%
. . .   8
Berlin  Ham  pr’s'd 
Mince  H a m ................... 10
Compound.......................... 5%
Pure  .........................7%@8
60  lb.  tube, .advance.  % 
lb.  tube, .advance.  % 
80 
60 
tine, .advance.  % 
lb. 
20  lb.  palls, .advance.  % 
10  lb.  palls, .advance.  % 
i   lb.  pails, .advance. 
I  lb.  palls, .advance. 
Bologna...............................5%
Liver 
............................  6%
Frankfort........................... 7%
Pork  ...............................   7%
Veal 
Tongue 
............................ 9%
Headcheese 
.................  6%
Extra  Mess  .................  9  50
B on eless..........................10 50
Rump,  n e w .................... 10 50
%  bbls............................... 1 10
%  bbls.,  40  lbs................ 1 80
%  bbls............................... 3 75
r   bbls. 
.......................... 7  75
Kits,  15  tbs  ................. 
70
%  bbls.,  40  %s................ 1 65
%  bbls.,  80  lbs...............3 00
Casings
Hogs,  per  !b...................  28
Beef  rounds,  set 
15
Beef  middles,  set  ........  46
Sheep,  per  b u n d le........  70
Solid,  dairy........... 
Rolls,  dairy  __ 10%@11%
Canned  Meats
Corned  beef,  2  ..............2  60
.17  60 
Corned  beef,  14  . . .
..2  50 
Roast  beef,  2@  .. .
45
Potted  ham,  %s 
.
. 
Potted  ham,  %s  ..
86 
45 
Deviled  ham,  %s  .
85 
. 
Deviled  bam,  %s  .
45 
Potted  tongue,  %s 
86
Potted  tongue.  %s 

Oncolored  Butterlne

..................................8

Pig’s  Feet

Sausages

........  

Tripe

Beef

@10

1 
1 

RICE

@ 2%
Screenings 
...........
@3%
Fair  Japan  ...........
@4
Choice  Japan 
. . . .  
@4%
Imported  Japan 
.
@3 %
Fair  Louisiana  hd. 
___
Choice  La.  hd........  @4%
Fancy  La.  h d ....  @6%
On vr*Hr»o  «t  fnnpv

SALAD  DRESSING 

Columbia,  %  pint. 
....2   25
Columbia,  1  pint..........4  00
Durkee’s,  large,  1  doz.4  60 
Durkee’s  small.  2 doz. .5  26 
Snider’s,  large,  1  doz..2  35 
Snider’s,  small.  2 d oz..l  35 

SALERATU S 
Arm  and  Hammer 

Packed  60  lbs.  in  box 

...S   15

..........................3  00
D eland’s 
D w ig n t8  Cow 
.............. 3  15
Em blem  
.......................... 2  io
L.  P .....................................3 00
W yandotte,  luu 
..3  Ou
G ranulated,  u o l s ........ ..  33
G ranulated,  luuib cases. 1  ou
Lum p,  Obis......................   7o
Luiup,  14elb.  kegs  . . . .   95

SAL  SODA

oA L I

Common  Grades

@  6%

W arsaw

100  3lu.  sacas  ...............1  95
00  310.  sacns  ...............i   83
28  10%.  sa c -a s ............... 1 75
¿ u
(90  I D .  d t t c iv a  
. . . . . . . . . .  
¿0  lb.  sacKa  ..................  
lo
66  lb.  dairy  in  a n a   bags  4b 
28  lb. dairy  ui a n il  nags  20 
56  lb.  sacks 
..................   22
G ranulated,  u u e .................80
Medium  Hue. 
.............   85
Cod

Solar  Rock
Common

SAL.T  FISH 

Large  W h o le ___ 
Small  W hole  . . . .   @ 6
Strips  or  bricks.  7%@10
Pollock 
Strips 
Chunks 

@  3%
................................14%

................ 
H alibut
............................15
Herring
Holland

Mackerel

W hite  Hoop,  bbls8  25@9  25 
W hite  Hoop,  %bbl4  25@5  00 
W hite  hoop,  keg. 
57@  70
W hite  hoop m chs 
@  75
Norwegian 
......................
Round,  100  lbs  .............. 3  60
lbs.................2 00
Round,  40 
Scaled 
..............................  18
T rout
No.  1,  100  lbs....................7 50
No.  1,  40  lbs..................3  25
lbs..........   90
No.  1,  10 
No.  1,  8  lbs..............  75
Mess,  100  lbs................ 13 00
Mess,  40  lbs.....................5 70
Mess,  10 
lbs.................... 1 60
Mess,  8  lbs  .................  1  34
No.  1,  100  lbs................11 50
No.  1,  40  l b s ....................5 10
No.  1,  10 
s ....................1 50
No.  1,  8  lbs 
................ 1  25
W hlteflsh 
No 1  No. 2  Fam
lbs.
100 
..........8  50
3  50
lbs.
50 
..........4  60
2  10
lbs.
10 
..........1  00
52
44
8  tbs.
............  82
SEEDS
..
Anise 
..16
Ca nary. Sm yrna. 
. .. ..  7%
C araw ay
..  8
Cardam on,  M alabar
..1  00
Celery 
.............................. 10
Hemp,  R ussian 
...............4
.....................4
Mixed  Bird 
M ustard,  w hite 
..........   8
Poppy 
........................   8
Rape  ..................................  4%
Cuttle  Bone  ...............25
H andy  Box,  large, 3 dz.2  50 
H andy  Box,  sm all  . .. .1   25 
Bixby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  85
M iller’s  Crown  Polish.  85 
»7
Scotch.  In  bladders
Wnccs.k.ov,  In  1* "  

SHOE  BLACKING 

SNUFF

.11*

SOAP

C entral  City  Soap  Co.

60
100

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

Johnson  Soap  Co.

9 85
Jaxon 
.......... .. .4 00
Boro  N aptha 
A jax  ....................  . .. .. .1 85
...................... ...3 15
B adger 
........................ ...3 40
Borax 
C alum et  Fam ily  — .. .2 35
China,  large  cakes . . .  .5.75-
..3 75
China,  sm all  cakes
..2 10
E tna,  9  oz..................
9 30
E tna,  8  oz..................
2 10
E tna.  60  cakes  ----
Galvanic....................... . . . 4 05
................ ...2 35
M ary  Ann 
M ottled  Germ an  . .. .. .2 25
New  E ra  .................... ...2 45
Fam ily,
Scotch 
9. 30
Family,
Scotch 
...................... ...3 80
cakes 
...................... . . . 2 85
W eldon 
A ssorted  Toilet,  50  car-
........   ............ ...3 85
tons 
100
A ssorted  Toilet,
50
7
cartons 
Cocoa  Bar,  6  oz  ---- 3  25
Cocoa  Bar,  10  oz  ........5  25
Senate  Castile  ............. 3  50
Palm   Olive,  toilet  -----4  00
Palm   Olive,  h a t h ........10  50
Palm   Olive,  bath 
...11  00
Rose  Bouquet  ................ 3  40
A m erican  Fam ily  -----4  05
D isky  Diamond. 50 8oz 2  80 
D usky  D’nd.,  100 6oz. 3  80
Jap   Rose 
........................3  75
Savon  Im perial  ........ ,  3  10
v ’hite  Russian  .............. 3  10
Dome,  oval  b ars  ............2  85
.-atinet,  oval  .................. 2  15
Snow berry 
...................... 4  00
Lau z  Bros. & Co.
B i g   A c m e ........................ \
Big  Master  . . . . . . . . . . .  4  00

J.  S.  K irk  &  Co.

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

P rocter  &  Gamble  Co.

8
Snow  Boy  Pd r   100  pk 4  00
M arselles 
........................ 4  00
Lenox  ................................ 2  85
Ivory,  6  oz  .....................4  00
................ 6  75
Ivory,  10  oz 
S tar 
..................................3  10
A.  B.  W risley
Good  Cheer  ...■...............4  00
Old  Country  .................. 3  40

Soap  Powders 

C entral  City  Soap  Co. 

Jackson,  16  oz..................2  40
Gold  Dust,  24  large  .. 4  50
Gold  D ust,  100-5C  ___ 4  00
Kirkoline,  24  41b............ 3  90
Pearline 
..........................3  75
Soapine  ............................ 4  10
B abbitt’s  1776 
.............. 3  75
Roseine 
........... 
3  50
........................3  70
A rm our's 
W isdom 
..........................3  80
Johnson’s  F i n e .............. 5  10
Johnson’s  X X X ............4  25
Nine  O’clock  ...........;..3   35
Rub-No-M ore  ................ 3  75

Soap  Compounds

Scouring

Enoch  M organ’s  Sons.

Sapolio,  gross  lots  ___ 9  00
S ipolio,  half  gross  lots 4  Go 
Sapolio.  single  boxes  ..2   25
Sapolio,  hand  ................ 2  25
Seourine  M anufacturing  Co 
Scourine,  50  cakes 
...1.80 
Seourine,  100  cakes  ...3.50 
Boxes  .........  
5%
Kegs,  English 
..............  4%

SODA

 

SOUPS

Columbia........................... 3  00
Red  L etter........................  90

Whole  Spices

SPICES 
Allspice 
............................  12
Cassia,  China in m ats.  12
Cassia,  Canton................  16
Cassia,  B atavia, bund.  28 
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.  40 
Cassia.  Saigon, in rolls.  55
Cloves,  Amboyna...........  22
Cloves,  Z a n z ib a r..........   20
Mace  ..................................  60
Nutm egs.  76-80 
..........   <5
N utm egs,  105-10 
.........  3»
Nutm egs,  115-20 
.........  30
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  16 
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite  .  25 
Pepper,  shot 
..............   17

Pure  Ground  in  Bulk

............................  16
Allspice 
Cassia,  B atavia  ............   28
Cassia,  Saigon 
............   48
Cloves,  Zanzibar 
........   23
Ginger,  A frican 
..........   15
Ginger,  Cochin  ..............  18
Ginger,  Jam aica  ..........   25
Mace 
$5
M ustard  ............................  18
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  17 
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite  .  28
Pepper,  C a y e n n e ..........  20
Sage 
..................................  20

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

 

STARCH 

Common  Gloss

lib.  packages............... 4@5
31b.  packages  ................  4%
Orb.  packages  ...................5%
40  and  50  It>.  boxes  .3@3%
B arrels.............................. @3
20  ltb.  packages  .............5
40  lib.  packages  . ...4% @ 7

Common  Corn

Corn

SYRUPS
............................ 22
.................24

B arrels 
H alf  B arrels 
20  lb  cans  % bz in case 1  55 
10  1b  cans  % dz in case 1  50 
51b  cans 2dz in c a s e ... .1  65 
2%  lb  cans  2 dz in case 1  70 
F air  ....................................  16
Good 
.................................  20
..............................  26
Choice 

Pure  Cane

TEA
Japan

. . . .  24
Sundried,  medium 
Sundried,  choice  ...........32
Sundried,  fancy 
...........36
Regular,  medium 
.........24
Regular,  c h o ic e ...............32
Regular,  fancy  ...............36
Basket-fired,  medium  .31 
Basket-fired,  choice 
..38 
Basket-fired,  fancy 
..43
Nibs 
.........................22 @24
Siftings 
.......................9@11
F a n n in g s ...................12@14

Gunpowder
. . .  .30
Moyune,  medium 
Moyune,  choice  .............32
Moyune,  fancy 
.............40
....3 0
Pingsuey,  medium 
Pingsuey,  choice 
.........30
Pingsuey.  fancy 
...........40
Young  Hyson
C h o ice................................ SO
Fancy 
............................... 36

Oolong

Formosa,  fancy  .............42
Amoy,  medium  ..............86
Vnio- 
82
Medium 
.......................... 20
Choice 
.............................. 30
Fancy  ................................ 40

English  B reakfast

India

Ceylon,  choice  ..............89
............................41
Faaay 
TOBACCO 
Fine  Cut

Plug

Cadillac  ..........................54
Sweet  Loma  ................. 33
Hiawatha,  51b.  pails  . .56 
Hiawatha,  101b.  pails  .64
Telegram 
...................... 30
Pay  Car  ........................ 33
Prairie  Rose  ................. 49
Protection  ..................... 40
Sweet  Burley  ............... 44
Tiger 
..............................40
Red  Cross  .....................31
Palo  ..............................v.
K y l o ................................35
Hiawatha 
......................41
Battle  A x 
...................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
J-. T.................................. ..
Piper  Heidsick 
........ 66
Boot  Jack  .....................80
Honey  Dip  Twist  __ 40
Black  Standard..............38
Cadillac  ....................  
3g
Forge 
............................ !30
Nickel  T w is t ................. 50

Smoking

Sweet  Core  ...................34
Flat  C a r .......................... 32
Great  Navy  ..................‘ 34
Warpath 
..................... ;j 6
Bamboo,  16  oz..........  25
i  x   1 ..  5  m .............
I  X   L,  16  oz.,  palls  ]!si
Honey  Dew 
................. 40
................... 40
Gold  Block 
Flagman 
..........................
Chips 
.......................!..!33
Kiln  Dried  ..................[[21
Duke’s  M ixtu re......... * I39
Duke’s  Cameo  ..............43
Myrtle  N a v y ...............  44
Yum  Yum,  1  2-3  oz.  ..3 9  
Yum  Turn,  lib.  pails  . .40
Corn  Cake,  2%  ¿¿.’ ” " .'2 4
Corn  Cake,  lib ............... 22
Plow  Boy.  1  2-3  oz.  . ’.39 
Plow  Boy,  3%  oz. 
. . . . * 9
Peerless,  3%  oz..............35
Peerless,  1  2-3  oz. 
...8 8
Air  B r a k e ................
Cant  Hook  ............... 
’ 30
Country  Club  ..........32I34
Forex-XXXX 
............... 28
................[23
Good  Indian 
Self  B in d er............... 20-22
Silver  Foam 
................. 34
-  
TW INE
Cotton,  3  ply  ................. 22
* * 99
Cotton,  4  p ly ... .  
jute.  2  piy  . . . . : : : : : ; ; i 4
Hemp,  6  ply  ..................
Flax,  medium 
...........  20
lib.  balls............6%
Wool, 
„   , 
VINEGAR
Malt  White  Wine,  40 gr.  8 
Malt  White  Wine,  80 g r.ll 
Pure  Cider,  B & B 
11 
Pure  Cider,  Red  Star! 11 
Pure  Cider,  Robinson. 10
Pure  Cider.  S ilv e r __ 10
„  
No.  0 per  g r o s s ............30
No.  1 per gross 
.......... 40
No.  2 per gross  ...........50
No.  3 per gross  ...........76

WICKiNG

WOODENWARE

Baskets
Bushels 
.......................... j   go
Bushels,  wide b a n d __ 1  25
Market  ...........................   35
Splint,  large  .............." g   00
Splint,  medium 
............5  00
Splint,  small  ................. 4  00
Willow,  Clothes,  large.7  25 
Willow  Clothes, med’m . 6  00 
Willow  Clothes,  sm all.5  50 
2!t>.  size,  24  in  case  ..  72
31b.  size.  16  in  case  ..  68
51b.  size,  12  in  case  ..  63 
101b.  size,  6  in  case  ..  60

Bradley  Butter  Boxes 

Butter  Plates

No.  1  Oval,  250  in  crate.  40 
I No.  2  Oval,  250  in  crate.  45 
No.  3  Oval,  250  in  crate.  50 
No.  5  Oval-  250  In  crate.  80 

Churns

Barrel,  5  gal.,  each 
..2  40 
Barrel,  10  gal.,  each  ..2  55 
Barrel.  15  gal.,  each  ..2   70 
Round  head.  5  gross  bx.  55
Rcund 
94

Clothes  Pins

Egg  Crates
. . . .  2  40
Humpty  Dumpty 
I  No.  1,  com plete...........   32
I No.  2.  com plete.............   18

Faucets

Mop  Sticks

Cork  lined.  8  i n .............  65
Cork lined.  9  i n .............   75
Cork  lined,  10  i n ...........   85
  55
Cedar.  8  in................... 
Trojan  spring 
.............   90
Eclipse  patent  spring  ..  85
No.  1  common  .............   75
No.  2  pat.  brush  holder.  85 
12!b.  cotton  mop  heads.l  25 
Ideal  No.  7 ....................   99

Palls

T raps

Toothpicks

..................
Tubs

2-  hoop  S ta n d a r d ......1  60
3-  hoop  S ta n d a r d ......1  75
2-  wire,  Cable  ............ 1  70
3-  wire,  Cable  ............ 1  90
Cedar,  all  red,  brass  ..1   25
Paper,  E u rek a  ...............2  25 j
F i b r e ................................2   70
H ardwood 
........................2  60
Softwood  .......................... 2  75
B a n q u e t..............................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
R at,  wood 
80
R at,  s p r in g .....................  75
20-in.,  Standard,  No. 1.7  00
18-in.,  Standard,  No. 2.6  00
16-in.,  Standard,  No.  3.5  00 
20-in.,  Cable,  No.  1 
..7   50 
18-in.,  Cable,  No.  2  ..6  50 
16-in.,  Cable,  No.  3 
..5   50
No.  1  F ib r e .....................10  80
No.  2  Fibre  .....................9  45
No.  3  Fibre  ..................  8  55
W ash  Boards
Bronze  G lo b e ...................2  50
Dewey 
...............................1  75
Double  A c m e ...................2  75
Single  Acme  ...................2  26
Double  Peerless 
...........3  25
Single  P e e rle s s ...............2  50
N orthern  Q u e e n ............2  50
Double  Duplex  ...............3  00
Good  Luck  .......................2  75
U niversal 
.........................2  25
W indow  Cleaners
12  in. 
..1 65
14  in.................................
1 85
16  in.................................
2 30
Wood  Bowls
11  In.  B u tter  ..............
75
13  in.  B utter  ............ . . 1 15
..........
in.  B u tter 
15 
17 
in.  B u tter 
.......... ..1 26
19  In.  B utter 
............ ..4 76
A ssorted  13-15-17  . .. ..2 25
A ssorted  15-17-19  . . . ..3 25
Common  Straw  
...............1%
Fibre  M anila,  w hite 
..  2% 
Fibre  M anila,  colored  .  4
No.  1  M anila  ................ 4
.............. 8
Cream   M anila 
B utcher’s  M anila 
W ax  B utter,  sh o rt  c’nt.13 
W ax  B utter,  full  count.20 
....1 6
W ax  B utter,  rolls 

W RAPPING  PA PER

. . . . ’........ ..

. . . .   2% 

YEAST  CAKE

Magic,  3  doz.....................1  15
Sunlight,  3  doz..............1  00
Sunlight,  1%  doz. 
. . . .   50 
Y east  Foam,  3  doz.  ...1   16 
Y east  Cream ,  3  doz  ..1   00 
Yeast  Foam ,  1%  doz.  . .   68

FRESH  FISH

P er  !b.
Jum bo  W hitefish  . .11@12 
No.  1  W hitefish 
..  @  9
T rout 
........................   @ 9%
Black  B ass  ............
H alibut 
.....................12@12%
Ciscoes  o  rH erring.  @  5
Bluefish 
...................11@12
Live  L o b s te r ..........  @22
Boiled  Lobster  . . . .   @23
Cod 
H addock  ..................  @  8
No.  Pickerel  ..........  @  9
Pike 
..........................  @  7
Perch,  d re s s e d ___  @ 7
Smoked  W h ite ___  @12%
.Red  S n a p p e r..........  @
Col.  R iver  Salm on. 13@14 
M ackerel  ...................1S@16

............................  @12%

OYSTERS

Cans

P er  can
F   H   Counts 
................  35
..............   28
E x tra  Selects 
Selects 
............................  23
Perfection  Standards  ..  22
A nchors 
..........................  20
S tandards  ............ '..........  18
F avorites 
........................   17

Bulk  Oysters.

.................. 1  75
F   H   Counts 
E x tra  Selects  .................1  60
Selects 
.............................1  50
Perfection  Standards  .1  20
Plain  S ta n d a rd s ............1  15
Clams 
1  25

 

...............  
Shell  Goods

P er  100
Clams  ................................ 1  25
O ysters 
............................ 1  25

Hides

HIDES  AND  PE LT S 
Green  No.  1 ....................  9
Green  No.  2  ..................  8
Cured  No.  1 .....................10%
Cured  No.  2  ..................  9%
Calfskins,  green  No.  1  12 
Calfskins,  green  No.  2  10% 
Calfskins,  cured  No  1  13% 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  2  12 
Steer  Hides.  60%s. overl0%  
Old  W o o l..................
L am b 
......................15 @1  50
............. 25 @  80
Shearlings 
Tallow
No.  1 
@ 4%
.................... 
No.  2 ...................... 
@ 3%

Pelts

Wool

W ashed,  fine 
Unwashed,  medium22@  27 
..11@20 
Unwashed, 
W ashed,  medium  ..  @ 3 2

........   @.

fine 

CONFECTIONS 

Stick  Candy

Mixed  Candy

Fancy—In  Palls 

.................9
................................. .11

Pails
S tandard 
........................  7%
S tandard  H.  H ..............   7%
.............8
S tandard  Tw ist 
Cut  Loaf  ..........................  9
cases
Jum bo,  32R>........................7%
E x tra  H.  H ......................9
Boston  C ream  
...............10
Ulde  Tim e  Sugar  stick
30  lb.  c a s e ...................12
Grocers 
............................  6
Com petition 
....................  7
Special 
...........................   7%
Conserve 
.........................   7%
...............................   8%
Royal 
Ribbon  ..............................  9
Broken 
.............................   8
C ut  Loaf.  ........................   8
English  Rock 
..............   9
K in d e rg a rte n .....................8%
Bon  Ton  C ream   ............  8%
F rench  Cream  
S tar 
H and  m ade  C re a m .... 14% 
Prem ia  Cream   mixed.. 12% 
O  F   H orehound  D rop.. 10
Gypsy  H earts 
...............14
Coco  Bon  B o n s ...............12
Fudge  S q u a re s ...............12
P eanut  Squares  ...........   9
Sugared  P ean u ts 
.........11
Salted  P eanuts  ..............11
S tarlight  K isses 
...........10
San  Bias  G o o d ie s........ 12
Lozenges,  plain  ............ t
Lozenges,  printed 
....1 0  
Cham pion  Chocolate  ..11 
Eclipse  Chocolates 
. .. I I  
Q uintette  C hocolates... 12 
Cham pion  Gum  D rops.  8
Moss  Drops  .......................9
Lemon  Sours 
...................9
Im perials 
...........................9
Ital.  C ream   O pera 
. . .  12 
Ital.  Cream   Bon  Bons.
2u  lb.  pails  ...................12
M olasses  Chews,  151b.
cases 
.............................12
Golden  W affles 
.............12
Fancy—In  51b.  Boxes
Lem on  S o u r s ...................60
Pepperm int  Drops  ....6 0
Chocolate  D rops  . . . . . .  60
H.  M.  Choc.  D rops  . . .  86 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
B rilliant  Gums,  Crys.60 
A.  A.  Licorice  Drops  .. 90
Lozenges,  p la in ...............55
Lozenges,  printed 
....6 0
Im perials 
.........................56
M ottoes 
.............................60
Cream   B a r .......................55
M olasses  B ar  .................55
H and  M ade  Cr’ms..80@90 
Cream   Buttons,  Pep. 
. . .  85
String  Rock 
.................60
W intergreen  B erries  . .66 
Old  Tim e  A ssorted,  25
B uster  Brown  Goodies
U p-to-D ate  A sstm t,  32

lb.  case  .........................2  50
301b.  c a s e .....................8  26
ib.  case 
.......................3  59
Kalam azoo  Specialties 
H anselm an  Candy  Co
Chocolate  Maize  ...........18
Gold  Medal  Chocolate
. _____18
Chocolate  N ugatines  . .18 
.15 
Quadruple  Chocolate 
Violet Cream   Cakes,  bx90 
Gold  Medal  Cream s,
pails  ......... , ...................13%
Dandy  Smack,  24s 
. . .   66
Dandy  Sm ack,  100s  ...2   75 
Pop  Corn  F ritters.  100s  50 
Pop  Corn  T oast.  100s.  59
C racker  Jack  
.................3  00
Pop  Corn  Balls,  200s  .. 1  30 

D ark  No.  12  ...............1  Of

and  W intergreen 

Pop  Corn

Almonds 

........ 

...15

shell,  new 

NUTS 
W hole
Almonds,  T arragona 
Almonds,  Ivica 
............
Almonds,  C alifornia  sft 
....1 5   @16
Brazils  ..................
l'ilb erts 
........................... .12
Cal.  No.  1 ............   14 @15
W alnuts,  soft  shelled. 
W alnuts,  new   Chili  @12 
Table  N uts,  faney  . . . .  IS
Pecans,  Med.....................10
Pecans,  Ex.  Large 
.. 11
Pecans,  -Jumbos 
H ickory  N uts  p er  bu.
Cocoanuts  ........................   4
Chestnut,  New   York
State,  per  bu..............

...............12
.............   ..1   75

Ohio  new 

Shelled

Spanish  P eanuts  6%@  7
Pecan  H alves  .................40
W alnut  H alves 
...........28
Filbert  M eats  ................25
A licante  Almonds  . . . .  .33
Jordan  Almonds  .......... 47
Fancy,  H.  P.  Suns  r*  6% 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns,
R oasted  ...........................@7%
Choice  H  P,  Jbfe ,  .  @7% 
Choice,  H.  P.,  Jum jV  V 
|  bo,  R oasted 
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Paraxon 
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Ml 
Black  Hawk,  five  bxs.2  40 
Black  Hawk,  ten  bxs.2  25

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Halford.  large  ............ 3  76
'•Ifnrd.  small  ............ 2  25

tklb.  oana.  «  dea.  eaae  46 
%Ib.  oana.  4  dos.  case  85 
t  Ib.  cana.  2  dos.  casal  60 

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10c  sise.  90 
M Ib cana  1*5
0  o* cans  100 
Vi Ib cana  260 
% Ib cans  375
1  Ib cans  480 
8  Ib cans 110o 
6  lb cana 2150

White  House,  1  !b........
White  House.  2  lb..........
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Java  and  Mocha  Blend.. 
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Wheat  Grits

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Crown 
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Champion 
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Daisy  ...........................4  70
I  Magnolia 
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Challenge  .................... 4  40
Dime 
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85  b ib   pkg.  per  case. .2  80 
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Beef

Carcass  ...........  3 %@  6Vi
Forequarters. 
...  4  @  5Vi
H indquarters  ___ 5  @  8
Loins 
....................  7%@12
Ribs 
.........................7  @10
R o u n d s .................... 5  @ 6
............... 4  <m  4%
Chucks 
I'lates 
................   @  3%
Pork
................  5 '4@  5%
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I  Full  line  of  the  celebrated 
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— twice  as  many  safes  as 
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26  !b.  Cloth  sacks...  1.85 
50  lb.  doth  sa ck s....  S.15
100  lb.  cloth  sacks__ 6.00
Peek  measure 
%  bu.  measure........ 1.80
12%  !b.  sack  Cal  meal 
25  !b.  sack  Cal  m eal.. 
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BUSINESS  CH AN CES.

For  Sale  or  R ent—T w o-story  corner 
brick  building 
tow n  of  3,000,  | 
suitable  for  grocery  and  feed  store.  Will 
sell  cheap.  Reasons  given.  Address  Dr. 
E.  B.  «.ogeis,  W aterloo,  Iowa._____ 65

in  Iowa 

D rug  stock  for  sale  in  one  of  the  best 
tow ns  in  M ichigan;  price  $2,000;  will  in-  I 
voice  $3,500.  W rite  or  call  E.  C.  H am er, 
115  Pipestone,  Benton  H arbor,  Mich.  66

F or  Sale—Old  established  dry  goods 
and  grocery  business  in  the  liveliest  town 
in  M ichigan.  Population  3,000.  County 
seat  and  rich  farm ing  territory.  Stock 
invoices  $8,000,  but  can  be  reduced 
to 
suit  purchaser.  B est  location 
in  town. 
B est  of  reasons  for  selling.  An  unusual 
opportunity  to  the  p arty   who  m eans 
business.  No 
trades  considered.  Cash 
deal  only.  Address  No.  69,  care  M.ichi- 
gan  Tradesm an._____________________ 69

F or  Sale—An  old,  large  and  w ell-estab­
lished  real  estate,  farm  
loan,  ab stract 
and  insurance  business.  C entral  M inne­
sota.  Only  set  of  a b stract  of  titles  in 
county.  A ddress  P.  O.  Box  3 a4,  Long
Prairie,  Minn._______________________ 70

64

J. 

72 

business, 

reasonable.  W ill 

F o r  R ent  in  W illiam sport,  Pa.,  modern 
corner  store  room,  45x80  feet,  w ith  gal­
lery;  eight  modern  show  windows,  best 
location;  43.000  inhabitants;  specially  de­
sirable  for  clothing,  dry  goods  or  first- 
class  m ercantile 
possession 
t  a.
M arch  1.  Abe  H art,  W illiam sport, 
______________________________________ 71
For  Sale—Stock  of  groceries,  will  in­
voice  $500.  Will  ren t  store  and  fixtures. 
Good  reason  given  for  selling.  Address 
No.  73,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
W e  have  a  complete  grophophone  o u t­
fit  for  correspondence  use  for  sale  a t  a 
t i.  B artlett  Co.,  Jackson,
bargain. 
Mich.________________________  
For  R ent—Good  tw o-story  brick  store 
building.  Good  location.  Electric  lights. 
R ent  reasonable.  Lively  business  tow n  | 
of  2,000  inhabitants.  B.  F.  Roe,  P ort-
land.  Mich.__________________________54
For  Sale—Second-hand  Black  Diamond 
baking  oven  $100—capacity  200  loaves.  J
E.  B artlett,  Jackson,  Mich._________ 53 _
For  R ent—F irst-class store,  easuy  fitted 
for  any  kind  of  business.  Address  par- 
tieulars  to  M.  E.  Davey,  Im lay  City.  52 
For  Sale—A  well-located  drug  store  in 
Grand  Rapids.  Good  trade.  Clean  stock. 
Invoice  about  $4,000.  A  bargain. 
In ­
vestigation  solicited.  Address  No.  50,
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.__________ 50
W anted—Fireproof  safe.  J.  E.  H yam es, 
Gobleville,  Mich. 
49
For  Sale—Old  established  drug,  paint, 
oil,  boot  and  shoe  business.  Only  other 
drug  stock  in  a  tow n  of  850  population, 
located  in  th e  southern  portion  of  M ichi­
gan.  Good  clean  stock,  located  in  brick 
building.  R ent 
sell 
cheap.  O ther  business  dem anding  a t­
tention,  reason  for  selling.  A ddress  No.
48.  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.______ 48
F or  Sale—F arm   im plem ent  and  buggy 
stock,  lots  and  buildings.  No  b etter 
farm ing  country  in  M ichigan.  The  only 
business  of  the  kind  here. 
I  will  sell  for 
cash  or  its  equivalent.  A  first-class  busi­
ness  chance.  Volney  Strong,  Clarksville,
Mich.________________________________ 46
F or  Sale—D rug  stock;  large,  live  Iowa 
tow n; 
thousand; 
daily  cash  sales  fifty  dollars.  Owner  re ­
tiring.  Bargain.  M innesota  R ealty  Co.,
Oakland,  Minn.______________________ 45
R are  O pportunity—D epartm ent  store— 
one  of  syndicate  business,  m ostly  cash— 
25  years’  successful  history.  Can  place 
two"  active  drygoods  m en  w ith  $15,000 
each  in  control  of  th is  store.  Location, 
“T hrifty  City”  n ear  New  York.  G reat 
opportunities  for  profitable  buying.  E. 
S.  Stull,  w ith  Tefft,  W eller  Co., 
330
Broadway,  New  York.______________ 44
B akery  for  sale  N orthern  Michigan. 
City  of  12,000.  Two  stores,  strictly  up- 
to-date.  T hree  rigs,  large  shipping  trade. 
Run  day  and  night. 
Invoice  $3,000.  For 
p articulars  address  No.  34,  care  Mich-
igan  Tradesm an.____________________ 34
lo­
cated 
in  Southern 
M ichigan.  Good 
trad e  location.  O ther 
business.  A ddress  No.  32,  care  M ichi­
gan  Tradesm an._____________________ 32
F or  Sale—The  new  W alloon  Hotel: 
modern  in  every  respect;  located  on  W al­
loon  Lake,  one  of  the  m ost  popular  re ­
sorts  in  N orthern  M ichigan;  sixty  rooms, 
w ater  works,  electric 
light  plant,  good 
trad e  established.  Call  or  address  A.  E.
H ass,  W alloon  Lake,  Mich._________ 62
F o r  Sale—Boilers  1  to  125  H.  P.,  tanks 
all  sizes.  Address  John  Crowley,  Jackson, 
Mich. 

For  Sale—Fresh  stock  groceries, 

invoice  about 

in  best  shop 

eight 

tow n 

40

tow ns  and  cities.  W e  have 

We  can  sell  your  property  for  cash 
and  do  it  quickly.  W e  have  offices  in 
800 
thou­
sands  of  buyers  monthly.  W e  sell  $15,- 
000.000  w orth  of  property  yearly.  W e 
can  sell  your  store,  your  stock  of  goods, 
your  mill,  your  mine,  your  factory,  your 
farm ;  in  fact,  property  of  any  kind,  any 
price,  anyw here.  W e  w ant  to  do  busi­
ness  for  you  and  can  convince  you  th a t 
we  know  our  business.  W rite 
to-day 
If  you  w ant 
for  our  plans  Do  r   now. 
to  buy  any  kind  of  property  w rite  us 
your  w ants  and  we  will 
take  pleasure 
in  filling  them .  A ddress  C entral  Asso-
ciation,  LaG range,  Ind.______________37
F or  Sale—A  good  paying  feed  business, 
including  com   meal  mill.  W ill  sell  or 
lease  property.  A ddress  Leidy  S.  Depue.
W ashington,  D.  C.__________________ 39
Flour  Mill—W ant  to  ren t  sm all  w ater 
power  mill;  if  suited,  would  buy  a t  end 
of  year; 
in  answ ering  kindly  give  full 
description,  price  and  term s,  location,  etc. 
M.  W.  M orton,  Kalam azoo,  Mich. 
For  Sale—A  good  clean  stock  of  h ard­
w are  w ith  tin  shop  in  connection  in  a 
town  of  1,500  population.  Good  surround­
ing  farm ing  country.  A  bargain  for  the 
right  man.  Address  A.  K.  7,  Michigan 
T r a d e s m a n .  G r a n d   R a p id s .  M ich . 
For  Sale—20  shares  of  1st  preferred 
stock  of  G reat  N orthern  Portland  Cem ent 
Co.  stock  for  $1,200.  Address  Lock  Box 
265  G ra  n d   1 .ed g e.  M ich  
W anted—To  buy  stock  of  general  m er­
chandise  from   $5,000  to  $25,000  for  cash. 
Address  No.  89.  care  M ichigan  T rades­
man^_______________ __________  
For  Sale—A  clean  new  stock  of  cloth­
ing,  shoes  and  furnishings  in  a   hustling 
tow n  of  1,300.  Two  good  factories  and  a 
prosperous  farm ing  country.  T rade  last 
year  over  $15,000  cash.  Stock  will  invoice 
about  $9,000. 
th e  cause  of 
selling  and  m ust  be  sold  quick.  Cash 
deal.  A ddress  No. 
t61,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 
For  Sale—Shoe  stock,  invoicing  $3,000. 
Splendid  opening  in  good  city.  B est  of 
for  selling.  Address  No.  955, 
reasons 
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an._________955

Ill  health 

961

S35

59

69

17

1881. 

Bank 

For  R ent 

a t  Holland,  Mich.—Brick 
store  20x80  inside.  P late  glass  front;  ex­
cellent  location  on  m ain  business  street. 
No.  47  E ast  8th  St.  H as  freight  ele­
vator;  now  occupied  by  5  and  10c  store. 
Possession  given  Nov.  1st.  Address  C. 
J.  DeRoo,  Cor.  O ttaw a  and  Grand  Sts.,
Lansing,  M i c h . _________________ 928__
For  Sale—Shoe  store,  all  new  goods. 
Location 
the  best.  W rite  or  see  John
Gysie.  Columbus.  Indiana._________976
Sell  your  real  estate  or  business  for 
cash. 
I  can  get  a  buyer  for  you  very 
promptly.  My  m ethods  are  distinctly  dif­
ferent  and  a  decided  im provem ent  over 
those  of  others. 
It  m akes  no  difference 
where  your  property  is  located,  send  me 
full  description  and  lowest  cash  price and 
I  will  get  cash  for  you.  W rite  to-day. 
Established 
references. 
F ran k   P.  Cleveland,  1261  Adams  Express
Building.  Chicago.__________________899
~  200  F errets  F or  Sale—B est  stock.  W rite 
for  price.  Lewis  DeKleine,  Jam estow n
Mich_______________________________ 936
For  Sale—480  acres  of  cut-over  h ard ­
wood  land,  three  miles  north  of  Thom p- 
sonville.  House  and  barn  on  prem ises. 
Pere  M arquette  R ailroad  runs  across  one 
corner  of  land.  Very  desirable  for stock 
raising  or  potato  growing.  Will 
ex­
change  for  stock  of  m erchandise.  C.  C. 
Tuxbury,  301  Jefferson  St.,  Grand  Rap-
ids._________________________________ 835
Foi  Sale—Stock  of  hardw are,  paints 
and  wall  paper,  invoicing  $1,500.  Town 
600  population,  surrounded  by  best  farm ­
ing  country  in  the  State.  B est  of  reasons 
for  selling.  Address  No.  969,  care  M ichi­
gan  T r a d e s m a n .__________________ 069
—For  Sale—Good  up-to -d ate  stock  of 
general  m erchandise;  store  building;  well 
estatlish ed   business.  Stock  will  inven­
tory  $5,000.  Located  in  hustling  N o rth ­
ern  M ichigan 
town.  A ddress  No.  744, 
m rp  Michigan  T radesm an. 
W anted—To  buy  clean  stock  general 
m erchandise.  Give  full  particulars.  Ad­
dress  No.  999,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.
_____________________________________999
im plem ent  business, 
established  fifteen  years.  F irst-class  lo­
cation  a t  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.  W ill  sell 
or  lease  four-story  and  basem ent  brick 
inventory 
building.  Stock  will 
about 
$10,000.  Good  reason 
for  selling.  No 
care 
trades  desired.  Address  No.  67, 
M ichigan  T radesm an. 
67
Cash  for  your  stock—Or  we  will  close 
out  for  you  a t  your  own  place  of  busi­
ness,  or  m ake  sale  to  reduce  your  stock. 
W rite  for  inform ation.  C.  L.  Y ost  &  Co., 
577  W est  F orest  Ave.,  D etroit,  Mich.  2

For  Sale—F arm  

744

J.  L.  M cKennan  &  Co., 

the  Hoosler 
H ustlers—the  noted  m erchandise  auc­
tioneers—carry   the  largest  book  of  ref­
erence  of  any  firm  in  the  U nited  States. 
Now  seuing  stock  for  F.  S.  Gold,  Strom s- 
buig.  Neb. 
M erchants—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  m erchants  and 
the  largest  wholesale  houses 
the 
W est.  W rite  us  to-day  for  fu rth er  in ­
form ation. 
J.  IT.  H a rt  &  Co..  242  M ar­
ket  St..  Chienero.  Til 

«71

in 

27

M ISCELLAN EO US.

Smallpox  Sure  Cure—In  from   three  to 
five  days.  Leaves  no  m arks.  Perfectly 
harm less.  Send  25  cents  for  particulars 
and  recipe.  Florentine  Supply  Co.,  108 
Shelby  St.,  New  Albany,  Ind.________31

B rother  M erchant—Your  hands  m ake 
you  a  living,  but  brains  m ake  you  money. 
A  postal  card  to  Box  353,  Crown  Point, 
Ind.,  brings  you  brainy  news. 

26

troubled  w ith  A s­
W anted—Everyone 
thm a  to  send  15  cents  for  a  sam ple  bottle 
of  A sthm a  Remedy. 
It  has  never  failed 
to  give  relief.  Address  W.  S.  W iderfelt, 
Florence,  Colorado. 

963

To  Exchange—80  acre  farm   3%  miles 
southeast  of  Lowell.  60  acres  improved.  5 
acres  tim ber  and  10  acres  orchard  land, 
fair  house  and  good  well,  convenient  to 
good  school,  for  stock  of  general  m er­
chandise  situated  in  a   good  town.  Real 
estate  is  w orth  about  $2,500.  Correspon­
dence  solicited.  Konkle  &  Son,  Alto, 
Mich. 

501
W ant  Ads  continued  on  next  page
Modern  Money Making Methods

J .  S .  T A Y L O R  

F .  M .  S M IT H

Absolutely  Perfect  Satisfaction  Guaranteed
“ M erchants"  wishing  to  reduce  or  close  out 
entirely  their  stocks,  our  up-to-date  methods  of 
advertising and selling are unequalled.  W e leave 
no “ odds and ends,” it costs you nothing to ascer­
tain this fact; write us at once  for  particulars  and 
dates.  TA Y LO R   &   SM ITH,  53  River  S t, 
j Chicago.  “ Bank references.”

For  Sale—Foundry  and 

cider  mill. 
E verything  in  running  order.  F irst class 
location.  H arrison  &  M oran,  Chelsea, 
Mich. 

945

Wanted-—Will  pay  cash  for  an  estab ­
lished.  profitable  business.  W ill  consid­
er  shoe  store,  stock  of  general  m erchan­
dise  or  m anufacturing  business.  Give 
full  p articulars  in  first  letter.  Confiden­
tial.  Address  No.  519,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an._________________________ 519

For  Sale  F or  Cash  Only—Stock  of  gen­
eral  m erchandise  w ith  fixtures.  E stab ­
lished 
ten  years.  Good  country  trade. 
Reason  for  selling,  other  business.  D on't 
w rite  unless  you  m ean  business.  C.  F. 
Hosm er,  M attaw an.  Mich.__________959

For  Sale—A  25  horse-pow er  steel  hori­
zontal  boiler.  A  12  horse-pow er  engine 
with  pipe  fittings.  A  blacksm ith  forge 
w ith  blower  and  tools.  Shafting,  pulleys, 
belting.  All  practically  new.  Original 
cost  over  $1,200.  W ill 
for  $600. 
Address  B-B  M anufacturing  Co.,  50  M a­
sonic  Temple.  Davenport,  Iowa. 

sell 

537

P O SITIO N S  W A N T E D .

first. 

Address Method, 

W anted  by  an experienced  m an, 

W anted—A  store  m anagem ent  by  a 
m an  of  all  around  business  qualifications, 
in  a   good,  active  M ichigan  town,  after 
care
Jan u ary  
Michigan  T radesm an. 
68
a  city
salesm anship  in  Grand  Rapids,  afte r  J a n ­
uary  first.  Address  A ctivity,  care  Michi-
gan  Tradesm an._________ ____________67
W anted—Position  as  salesm an  in  retail 
ten years'
hardw are  store. 
experience.  A ddress  Box  367,  K alkaska 
Mich. 
466

H ave had 

H E L P   W A N T E D .

city 

W anted—Experienced 

Man  to  Travel—References 

W anted,  about  Jan u ary   1st,  registered 
pharm acist,  one  w ith 
experience 
preferred.  Address  P.,  care  M ichigan
Tradesm an.__________________ _______73
required; 
salary  $21  per  week;  expenses  advanced. 
J.  S.  Zeigler  &  Co.,  328  D earborn  St.,
Chicago,  111._________________________ 63
W anted—Salesm en  to  carry  our  brooms 
as  side  line.  Good  goods  a t  low  prices; 
plenty  of  s.yles.  Liberal  commission.  Ad-  I 
dress  C entral  Broom  Co.,  Jefferson  City,
Mo.__________________________________ 51
lady  clerk,  one 
com petent  to  buy  and  keep  up  dry  goods, 
notion  stock.  Good  place  for  right  party. 
E.  A.  Bowman. Howell,  Mich. 
ladies  or 
energetic 
gentlem en 
represent  an  attractiv e 
proposition  in  fraternal  insurance.  A m eri­
can  Equity  A ssociation,  Owosso,  Mich.  56 
W anted—An  experienced  salesm an  in a 
clothing,  hat,  cap  and  furnishing  goods 
store.  An  A m erican,  unm arried,  of  good 
address,  a   good salesm an and 
keeper,  who 
in  decoration  and 
window  trim m ing,  a  bright,  genial,  ac ­
tive  worker.  Address,  giving  references 
statin g   salary  expected,  experience,  etc., 
H am ilton  Clothing  Co.,  Traverse.  City. 
Mich. 

____________________________38

W anted—B right, 

is  ap t 

stock-

to 

43

A U C T I O N E E R S   A N D   T R A D E R S

M erchants—Are  you  desirous  of  closing 
out  your  stock  or  having  a  reduction 
sale?  W e  positively  guarantee  a  profit 
on  all  reduction  sales  and  100  cents  on 
the  dollar  above  expenses  on  a   closing 
out  sale.  W e  can  furnish  you  w ith  ref- 
e  ".'nces  from   hundreds  of  m erchants  and 
ti e  largest  wholesale  houses  in  the  W est. 
W rite  us  to-day  for  fu rth er  inform ation. 
J.  H.  H art  & Co.,  242  M arket  St.,  Chicago,
1 1 1 . ___________________________ 871
Special  and  Auction  Sale  F acts—W e 
sell  the  stock.  W e  get  you  every  dol­
la r  your  stock  is  w orth.  A  record  of 
thirteen  years  th a t  stands  pre-em inent. 
W e  do  not  tell  you  one  thing  and  do 
another.  Our  reputation 
stake, 
therefore  good  service.  W e  are 
in­
structors  of  m erchandise  selling  a t  Jones’ 
College  of  Auctioneering  a t  Davenport, 
Iowa,  therefore  we  m ust  be  thoroughly 
com petent.  Look  us  up  there  as  well 
as  the  hundreds  of  m erchants  for  whom 
we  have  sold.  Our  free  advertising  sys­
tem   saves  you  m any  a   dollar.  W rite  us, 
we  can 
the  burden.  The  A.  W. 
Thom as  Auction  Co.,  477  W abash  ave.,
Chicago.______________________   ___30
H.  C.  F erry  &  Co.,  the  hustling  au c­
tioneers.  Stocks  closed  out  or  reduced 
anyw here 
the  U nited  States.  New 
m ethods,  original  ideas,  long  experience, 
hundreds  of  m erchants  to  refer  to.  W e 
have  never  failed  to  please.  W rite  for 
term s,  particulars  and  dates.  1414-16  W a­
bash  Ave.,  Chicago.  Reference,  D un’s 
M ercantile  Agency. 

is  a t 

lift 

872

in 

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M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Prices  range  from  $i-75@ 
2.25  per  bbl.,  according  to  quality 
and  variety.

Bananas— $i @ i .25  for  small bunch­
es;  $ i .50@ i .6o  for  Jumbos.  The  de­
mand  is  seasonable,  which  means that 
it  is  curtailed 
the 
weather.  The  first 
few  cold  days 
always  cut  down  the  fruit  trade.  Aft­
er  the  winter  is  an  established 
fact 
shipments  and  business  generally run 
along  more  smoothly.

somewhat  by 

Beets— 40c  per  bu.
Butter— Creameries  have  advanced 
ij^c,  being  now  strongly  held  on 
the  basis  of  26j4c  for  choice  and 
27J4c  for  fancy.  Dairy  grades  are  al­
so  stronger  and  about  ic  higher  than 
a  week  ago,  fetching  2 0 @ 2 ic   for  No. 
1  and  I 5 @ i6 c   for  packing  stock.  Ren­
ovated  is  in  active  demand  at  20(g) 
21c.

Cabbage— 35c  per  doz.
Carrots— 40c  per  bu.
Celery— 25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cranberries— Cape  Cods  are  strong 
at  $7.25  for  Late  Blacks  and  $8.25 
for  Howes.

Eggs— Receipts  of  strictly  fresh are 
so  small  that  they  cut  very  little  fig­
ure  in  the  aggregate  movement.  Nor 
do  receipts  grade  high. 
It  takes  per­
haps  four  cases  of  the  best  current 
receipts  to  make  one  of  “new  laid,” 
or  the  first  quality.  Then  the  price 
of  the  top  grade  is  getting  so  high 
that  the  demand  is  curtailed  consid­
erably.  So-called  fresh  command  24 
@250  for  case  count  and  26@27c  for 
candled.  Storage  is  moving  freely at 
2I@22C.

Game— Dealers  pay  $ i @ i .25 

for 

pigeons  and  $ i .2o@ i .35  fo r   rabbits.

Grapes— Malagas,  $5-50@6  per  keg.
Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  io@ 

12c  and  white  clover  at  I3@I5C.

Lemons— Verdillas  and  Messinas 
command  $3.75  per  box;  Californias 
fetch  $4.  This  is  the  beginning  of 
the  heavy  producing  season  and  the 
demand  is  naturally  lighter  with  cold 
weather.

Lettuce— Hot  house 

fetches 

15c 

per  lb.

Onions— The  price  is  strong  and 
higher,  choice  stock  fetching  85c  per 
bu.

Oranges— Floridas  fetch  $2.75;  Ja- 
maicas,  $2.50;  California  Navels,  $3. 
The  prospects  ^re  for  a  very  satisfac­
tory  season  in  the  orange  business. 
The  trust  has  dissolved  and  there 
will  probably  be  none  of  the  cut­
throat  competition  methods  that  de­
moralized  things  last  year.  Floridas 
are  on  the  market,  of  course,  and  are 
being  taken  by  the  trade  that  desires 
a  sweeter  orange  than  the  early  nav­
els.

radical 

Parsley— 25c  per  dozen  bunches.
Potatoes— The  price  ranges  from 
25@30C,  depending  on  local  competi­
tion  rather  than  outside  demand.  The 
chief  feature  of  the  market  is  dul- 
ness.  No 
fluctuations  are 
looked  for  before  spring.  At  that 
.  time  it  may  become  evident  that  the 
¿Scrop  is  running  short  or  over,  or  that 
ijs to c k   did  not  keep  and  then  prices 
Ijbsviit  change,  but  until  then  nothing 
»booking  for  but  a  possibly  gradual 
advance  as 
the  handling  becomes 
more  difficult.

Pop  Corn— 90c  for  old  and  50@6oc 

for  new.

Poultry— Receipts  are 

light  and 
the  demand  is  steady,  in  consequence 
of  which  the  market  is  strong.  Deal­
ers  pay  as  follows  for  dressed— drawn 
and  heads  off: 
Chickens,  n@ i2c; 
fowls,  io@ iic;  young  turkeys,  17 @  
18c;  old 
young 
ducks,  I3@i4c;  young  geese,  io@ i i c ; 
squabs,  $2@2.50.

i6 @I7 c; 

turkeys, 

Radishes— 25c  per  doz. 

house.

for  hot 

Squash— ic  per  tb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Illinois 

fetch  $2.75  per  bbl.

Turnips— 40c  per  bu.

In  the  face  of  all  this 

Detailed  Review  of  the  Grain  Market.
There  has  been  quite  a  change  in 
sentiment  with  regard  to  value  of 
wheat  since  our  last  report.  News  of 
damages  to  growing  crops  in  Argen­
tine  and  Australia,  continued  drouth 
in  the  South  and  Southwest  and  im­
proved  milling  demand  have  brought 
about  a  sharp  reaction  in  price  and 
an  advance  of  about  5c  per  bushel 
from  the  low  point  on  the  recent  de­
cline. 
the 
visible  supply  shows  an  increase  the 
past  week  of  1,265,000  bushels,  stocks 
of  wheat  at  Minneapolis  alone  being 
reported  as 
11,300,000  bushels,  as 
compared  with  7,727,000  bushels  at 
last  year.  The  re­
the  same  time 
ceipts  of  wheat,  however,  from 
first 
hands  have  been  comparatively  light 
and  sample  wheat  of  good  milling 
quality  has  been 
in  good  demand 
and  at  fair  prices.  One 
sale  of 
5,000  bushels  of  No.  4 hard  wheat was 
reported  in  Chicago  to  go  to  Kansas 
City,  which  was  practically  returning 
the  wheat  whence 
it  has  been 
shipped  the  past  three  or  four  months 
in  large  quantities. 
.Can  it  be  possi­
ble  that  the  Southwest  has  sold  itself 
short  of  its  requirements  for  the  re­
mainder  of  the  crop  year?

The  receipts  of  corn  have  been  in­
creasing  rapidly  and  the  quality  is 
much  improved.  At  the  same  time 
there  is  a  large  amount  of  poor  corn 
being  loaded  and  shipped  into  East­
ern  markets,  which  will  without  ques­
tion  arrive  out  of  condition.  Much 
depends  on  the  weather,  however, for 
should  the  weather  continue  mild 
throughout  December  much  of  these 
shipments  will  arrive  at  .destination 
practically  worthless. 
Great  care 
should  be  exercised,  therefore, 
in 
purchases  of  corn  for  the  next  month 
at  least.  Corn  continues  to  decline 
in  price,  showing  a  loss  of  about  2c 
per  bushel  for  the  week.

Oats  have  declined  slightly,  in  sym­
pathy  with  corn.  The  movement 
has  been  moderate  and  the  demand 
has  been  sufficient  to  take  care  of 
all  offerings.  Futures  have  shown  a 
loss  of  % c   for  the  week.

The  movement  of  beans  continues 
liberal,  but  the  quality  is  far  inferior 
to  early  deliveries.  Many  lots  offer­
ed  now  are  picking  heavy,  ten  to  fif­
teen  pounds,  while  the  earlier  offer­
ings  were-light  at  one  to  two  pounds 
loss  to  the  bushel.  The  price  has 
steadied  up  somewhat  and  the  de­
mand  is  good.  L.  Fred  Peabody.

Love  leaps  over  the  lines  of  liking.

Increase  in  Fire  Hazard  from  Holi­

day  Decorations.

The  use  of  Christmas  greens,  har­
vest  specimens,  and  other  inflamma­
ble  material,  such  as  draperies,  scen­
ery,  cotton  to  represent  snow,  and 
the 
in  connection 
with  electric  and  other  lights— is  a 
decided  increase  in  the  fire  hazard,  it 
being  impossible  to  make  displays of 
that  nature  perfectly  safe.

like— especially 

One  of  the  conditions  of  the  in­

surance  policy  is  that:

“This  entire  policy,  unless  other­
wise  provided  by  agreement,  endors­
ed  hereon  or  added  hereto,  shall  be 
void,  if  the  hazard  be  increased  by 
any  means  within  the 
control  or 
knowledge  of  the  assured.”

The  making  of  such  displays  would, 
therefore,  under  a  strict  interpreta­
tion  of  the  conditions  of  the  policy, 
render  the  contract 
insurance 
void,  unless  the  policy  were  endorsed 
with  a  special  permission  for  the  in­
creased  hazard,  which 
should  be 
granted  only  in  consideration  of  an 
additional  premium, 
commensurate 
with  the  hazard.

of 

To  guard  against  fire  with  its  con­
sequent  loss  of  life  and  property  and 
impairment  of  your  business 
is 
necessary  to  exercise  every  possible 
effort  to  avoid  it. 
It  is  recommended 
that  you  call  your  employes  together 
and  caution  them  along  the  follow­
ing  lines:

it 

1.  To  acquaint  themselves  with 
the  location  and  use  of  fire  apparatus 
in  the  store;  to  see  that  such  appa­
ratus  is  in  working  order,  that  same 
may  be  quickly  and  successfully  used 
in  case  of  fire.

2.  Do  not  attach  material  of  any 
kind  to  electric  wires;  allow  no  pa­
per  or  combustible  shades  to  be  at­
tached  to  globes  and  in  show  win­
dows  particularly  keep  material  of 
all  sorts  free  from  wire  and  globes. 
Any  changes  in  your  electrical  equip­
ment  should  be  approved  by  the  city 
electrician,  or  the  insurance  inspector.
refrain 
from  smoking  or  bringing  lighted  ci­
gars  or  cigarettes 
into  your  store. 
“No  Smoking”  signs  should  be  prom­
inently  displayed.

3.  Request  customers  to 

4.  Great  care  should  be  exercised 
as  to  disposition  of  paper,  boxes, rub­
bish,  packing  material  and  similar 
combustibles.

5.  You  should  arrange,  during  this 
busy  season,  to  have  all  packing  and 
surplus  boxes  and  paper 
removed 
from  premises  every  night.

6.  After  closing  for  the  day  an 
employe  should  be  detailed  to  go 
over  the  entire  building  and  report 
conditions  to  the  management,  and 
night-watchman  should  be  instructed 
to  make  a  similar  report.

7.  Do  not  store  stock  or  material 
on  stairways,  landing  or  steps;  keep 
bottom  of  elevator  shaft  clean  and 
free  from  combustible  material.

8.  See  that  fire  doors  and  shut­
ters  are  operative  and  if  not  auto­
matic  detail  an  employe  to  close  them 
before  leaving  premises  each  night.

o.  Carelessness  and  untidiness  es­
pecially  are  causes  for  many  fires, and 
immediate  attention  given  the  line  of

suggestions  contained  herein  may  be 
the  means  of  preventing  a  fire 
in 
your  peculiar  risk.

Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry,  Beans  and  Po­

tatoes  at  Buffalo.

Buffalo,  Dec.  7— Creamery, 

fresh, 
24@27c;  storage,  22j^@24j^c;  dairy, 
fresh,  i6@23c;  poor, 
roll, 
l 8@ 20C.

I2@ isc; 

Eggs— Candled,  fresh, 

32c;  cold 
storage,  2iJ^@22c;  at  mark,  20@2ic.
Ii@ i2c; 
i6 @I7 c; 

Live  Poultry  —   Chicks, 
turkeys, 

fowls, 
ducks,  I3@i4c;  geese,  I2 @ i3 c.

io@ioJ^c; 

Dressed  Poultry  —   Turkeys, 

19c;  chicks,  I2@i3c;  fowls, 
old  cox,  8@9c;  ducks,  I4@i5c.

i8@ 
io@i2c; 

Beans— Hand  picked  marrows, new, 
$2.75@2.85;  mediums,  $2(0)2.15;  peas, 
$i .8o@ i .9o ;  red  kidney,  $2.75;  white 
kidney,  $2.75(5)3.

Potatoes— Round  white,  43@5oc; 

mixed  and  red,  40@45c.

Rea  &  Witzig.

A  Keen  Retort.

He  was  one  of  those  men  who show 
the  animal  nature  by  forever  growl­
ing  over  their  meals.

“You  should  be  glad  to  have  such 
a  nice  wife,”  said  the  little  woman 
across  the  table.

“I  don’t  see  why,”  he  snarled.  “You 
were  husband-hunting  when  you  bag­
ged  me.”

His  wife  smiled  sardonically.
“I  used  to  think  I  was  husband­
hunting,”  she  retorted,  “but  now  I 
think  I  must  have  been  bear-hunt­
ing.”

Detroit— The  Rapid  Motor  Vehicle 
Co.,  formerly  a  co-partnership,  has 
filed  articles  of  association  with 
the 
county  clerk,  with  Albert  Marx,  Bar­
ney  Finn,  Celia  Grabowsky  and  Max 
Grabowsky  as  stockholders.  The cap­
ital  stock  is  $100,000,  of  which  $3,000 
has  been  paid  in  in  cash  and  $22,000 
in  other  property,  including  the  as­
sets  of  the  former  business.

Newberry—Southfield  Bros.,  who 
are  building  a  sawmill  along  the  Du­
luth,  South  Shore  &  Atlantic  Railway 
west  of  this  place,  expect  to  have  it 
in  operation  by  December  10.  The 
operators  will  purchase 
from 
farmers  and  will  also  cut  lumber on 
shares.  The  mill  will  manufacture 
principally  hemlock  and  hardwood 
lumber.

logs 

Religion  has  nothing  at  all  to  do 
with  life  when  it  has  not  something 
to  do  with  all  life.

BUSINESS  CH A N C ES.

For  Sale  Cheap—E legant  grocery  busi­
ness,  located  In 
suburban 
store  near 
large  factories  in 
rapid  grow ing  citv. 
Store  ren t  $8  per  m onth.  Reason  for 
selling  going  W est.  Address  No.  76. 
care  M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

76

For  Sale  or  exchange  for  farm ,  gonci 
m eat  business  in  good  town,  county  seat. 
Also  some  real  estate  in  sam e  town.  E n - 
quire  of  No.  77,  care  M ichigan  T rad es­
m an. 

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F or  Sale—Grocery and  m eat  m arket,  in- 
S laughter  house, 
voicii g  about  $2,500. 
team ,  harness,  wagon,  etc.  Location  in 
in 
Rustling 
Southern  M ichigan.  Reason  for  selling, 
other  business.  Address  No.  74, 
care 
M ichigan  Tradesm an. 
74

population, 

town 

1.200 

Money  W anted—$300  to  obtain  patents 
on  valuable 
inventions.  W ill  give  five 
for  one—th a t  is.  will  give  th e  first  *1,500 
realized  from   an  the  patents.  B alance 
to  be  mine.  C.  S.  Langton,  Olney,  111.

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