Twenty-Second  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  17,  1905

Number  1130

We  Bay  aad  Sell 

Total  Issues

of

State, County,  City,  School  District, 

Street  Railway  and  Gas

BONDS

Correspondence  Solicited.

H.  W.  NOBLE  & COMPANY 

BANKERS

Union  Trust  Buildings 

Detroit, Mich.

W illiam   Connor,  Proo. 

J oat oh  8.  Hoffman,  lo t V lo t-P ra t.

W illiam  Aldon 8m lth,  2d  ¥ loo-Proo. 
df.  C.  Huggott,  8ooy-Troaouror

The  William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE  CLOTHING 

MANUFACTURER*

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

Our Spring  and  Summer  samples  for  1905  now 
showing.  Kvery kind ready made clothing for  all 
ages.  A ll our goods made under our own  inspec­
tion.  Mail and  phone  orders  promptly  shipped 
Phones,  Bell,  1282;  Citizens, 
1957.  See  our 
children's  line.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  tw-
Widdicomb (Building, Grand Rapids 
Detroit Opera House  Block,  Detroit

'•  Good  but  slow  debtors  pay 
upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
letters.  Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  offices  for  collec­
tion.

Collection  Department

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids 

Collection  delinquent  accounts;  chi  -p.  ef­
ficient,  responsible;  d irect  dem anu  sys­
tem .  Collections  m ade  everyw here  for 
every  trader.  C.  E.  McCRONE,  M anager.

Have Invested  Over  Three  Million  Dol­

lars For Our Customers in 

Three Years

Twenty-seven  companies!  We  have  a 
portion of each company’s stock  pooled  in 
a trust for the  protection  of  stockholders, 
and in case of failure  in  any company you 
are  reimbursed  from  the  trust  fund  of  a 
successful  company.  The  stocks  are  all 
withdrawn from sale with the  exception of 
two and we have never lost  a  dollar  for  a 
customer.
Our plans are worth  investigating.  Full 
information furnished  upon  application  to 

CURRIE  &  FORSYTH  

Managers of  Douglas,  Lacey  &   Company 

1023 Michigan Trust Building,

Orano Rapids, Mich.

g t e   S i a d c j  m a n

IL L U S T R A T IO N S   O F   A L L   K IN D S  
STATIONERY  &CATALÛCUE PRINTING

CMND RAPiDS,MICHIGAN.

SPECIAL  FEATURES.

Page.
2.  Renovated  B utter.
4.  Around  th e  State.
5.  G rand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W indow  Trim m ing.
7.  New  York  M arket.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Some  Strange  Foods.
11.  Chain  Badly  Needed.
12.  Food  A dulterants.
14.  Coarse  M anners.
16.  Clothing.
18.  Taking  Chances.
20.  S tandard  of  Food.
23.  M ystery  Mongering.
24.  W om an’s  W orld.
26.  T he  Man  Beautiful.
28.  Success  in  Life.
30.  H ardw are.
32.  Shoes.
36.  Hiring  a  New  Man.
40.  Commercial  Travelers.
42.  Drugs.
43.  Drug  Price  C urrent.
44.  Grocery  Price  C urrent 
46.  Special  Price  C urrent.

Recent  Business  Changes 

in 

the 

Buckeye  State.
Athens— G.  L.  Putnam 

suc­
ceeded  by  Millihan  &  Hickle  in  the 
jewelry  business.

is 

Bowling  Green— R.  &  F.  &  A.  G. 
Mercer  are  succeeded  in  the  grocery 
business  by  D.  Mercer  &  Son.

Cleveland— Wm.  J.  Schroeder,  of 
the  firm  of  Sheahan  &  Schroeder,  has 
sold  his  interest  in  the  metal  works 
to  his  former  partner,  Martin  Shea­
han,  who  will  continue  the  business.
Columbus— E.  J.  Adams,  grocer,  is 

succeeded  by  Adams  &  Watson.

Dayton— Rueben  Schendler 

suc­

ceeds  Chas.  C.  Francisco,  druggist.

Dayton— Elwood  E.  Rice  has  merg­
ed  his  medicine  manufacturing  busi­
ness  into  a  stock  company  with  an 
authorized  capital  stock  of  $10,000. 
The  new  corporation  will  do  business 
under  the  style  of  the  Indian  Medi­
cine  Co.

Dayton— The  Irvin  Paint  &  Glass 
its  capital  stock 

increased 

Co.  has 
to  $125,000.

Dayton— The  Pretzitiger  Catarrh & 
Balm  Co.  has  been  incorporated  under 
the  same  style  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $200,000.

Dayton— The  Sachs-Pruden  Co. has 
been  incorporated  for  the  purpose  of 
manufacturing  mineral  waters  and 
soft  drinks.  The  company  has  an  au­
thorized  capital  stock  of  $150,000.

Findlay— The  Glessner  Medicine 
Co.  has  been  incorporated  under  the 
same  style.

Findlay— P.  W.  Harris, 

formerly 
engaged  in  the  grocery  department 
at  the  C.  F.  Jackson  store,  and  Ora 
Neeley,  a  clerk  at  the  Ulsh  grocery, 
have  purchased  the  grocery  of  An­
drew  Hartman  at  the  corner  of South 
Main  and  Lincoln  streets.  Mr.  Hart­
man  has  retired  from  trade  on  ac­
count  of  ill  health.

Defiance— Judgment  on 

cognovit 
for  $586  has  been  rendered  against 
the  Gold  Leaf  Baking  Powder  Co.

Lima— C.  A.  Negelspach  has  filed  a 
chattel  mortgage  for  $1,800  in  favor 
of  the  Metropolitan  Cigar  Co.

Lima— The  Bowers  Manufacturing 
Co.  and  the  Indianapolis  Roofing  & 
Corrugating  Co.  have  formed  a  con­
solidation  and  will  manufacture  sheet 
metal  specialties.

Lucasville— C.  J.  Moulton 

is  suc­
ceeded  by  Moulton  &  Kline  in  the 
general  store  business.

Millersburg— Smith  &  Schott  are 
succeeded  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
business  by  the  Smith  &  Schott  Co.

Peebles— W.  W.  Davis  will  continue 
con­

the  lumber  business  formerly 
ducted  by  Davis  &  Co.

Ravenna— A.  C.  Williams,  manu­
facturer  of  sad  irons  and  house  furn­
ishing  specialties,  is  succeeded  by  the
A.  C.  Williams  Co.

Springfield— The  drug  store  former­
ly  conducted  by  A.  C.  Miller  has  been 
sold  by  John  L.  Zimmerman,  receiv­
er,  to  John  Morrow,  John  N.  Garver 
and  George  C.  Lynch,  of  this  place, 
and  Jacob  Koblegard,  of  Weston, 
West  Virginia.  The  purchasers  will 
form  a  stock  company  and  continue 
the  business.  Mr.  Morrow,  who  has 
been  a  druggist for  over  twenty  years, 
will  take  the  management  of  the  busi­
ness.  The  stock  was  appraised 
at 
$6,700  and  the  purchase  price  was 
$4 -5 0 0 .

Springfield— Herman  Kastens 

is 
succeeded  by  B.  B.  Jones  in  the  con­
fectionery  and  grocery  business.

Toledo— B.  A.  Stevens,  of  the  B.  A. 
Stevens  Co.,  which  manufactures  re­
frigerators  and  butchers’  supplies, 
is 
dead.

Cleveland— The  creditors  of 

the 
Eclipse  Brass  Manufacturing  Co. have 
filed  a  petition  in  bankruptcy  and  a 
receiver  has  been  appointed.

Dayton— A  petition  in  bankruptcy 
has  been  filed  by  the  creditors  of  A.
G.  Myers,  retail  grocer.

St.  Mary’s— A  petition  in  bankrupt­
cy  has  been  filed  by  the  creditors  of
H.  J.  T.  Nietert,  dealer  in  flour  and 
feed.

Springfield— E.  L.  Arthur  has  been 
appointed  assignee  for  J.  W.  Har­
wood  &  Co.,  grocers.

Most  publishers  take  little  interest 
in  the  advertising  problem  further 
than  to  manifest  their  desire  to  sell 
white  space.  Yet  mere  space  counts 
for  very  little,  either  bought  or  sold. 
It  is  the  stuff  in  the  space  plus  the 
circulation  of  the  medium  that  alone 
can  make  good  for  the  advertiser. 
You,  sir,  appear  to  be  an  exception, 
as  is  shown  by  your  intelligent  analy­
sis  of  the  situation;  but  even  you 
don’t  quite  seem  to  see  why 
you 
should  send  us  your  paper  until  Bro. 
Somebody  has  begun  largely  to 
in­
crease  his  space;  in  default,  whereof, 
you  not  unnaturally  suggest  that  we 
would  better  take  a  little  space  our­
selves.

GEN ERAL  TR A D E   REVIEW .
There  have  been  enough  of  con­
flicting  conditions  in  many  fields  af­
fecting  speculative  values  to  keep  the 
average  of  prices  from  going  much 
either  above  or  below 
the  general 
level.  Sensitiveness  to  reports  of  ad­
verse  weather  affecting  seeding,  to 
political  complications  affecting  Eu­
ropean  nations  in  their  far  eastern  in­
terests  and  the  various 
local  dis­
turbances,  such  as  labor  in  Chicago, 
questions  of 
regulation,  etc., 
seem  to  prevent  any  continued  up­
ward  movement.  However,  the  gen­
eral  trend  is  toward  a  general  recov­
ery  in  prices,  and  if  this  is  more  de­
liberate  than  some  might  wish  it  will 
he  better  for  general  trade  in  the  long 
run.

rate 

continue  at 

There  is  nothing  in  the  situation 
to  materially  affect  general  trade  dis­
tribution  beyond  the  slight  interrup­
tion  of  a  wet  month  and  its  increase 
of  attention  to  the  work  of  seeding 
conditions  permit. 
when  weather 
Railway  earnings 
the 
highest  and  the  work  of  increasing 
railway  equipment 
is  being  urged 
everywhere.  No  small  factor  in  the 
railway  situation  is  a general  boom in 
structural  operations  of  all  kinds. 
These  are  being  pushed  as  the  season 
advances  without  abatement  in  every 
section  and  the  demands  on  trans­
portation 
something 
tremendous.

facilities  are 

Fortunately  during  the  period  of 
speculative  reaction  there  has  been 
plenty  of  ready  money  to  meet  all 
needs.  This  has  operated  to  aid  in­
dustrial  expansion  as  in  structural  in­
crease  and  enlargement  of  plant  and 
to  afford  the  means  of  keeping  opera­
tions  in  the  greatest  activity.

Tn  iron  and  steel  the  long  contin­
ued  increase  in  production  seems  at 
last  to  have  overtaken  the  volume  of 
demand,  so  that  a  slight  increase  in 
stocks  is  reported.  This  is  better  for 
the  general  situation  as  it  gives  as­
surance  of  there  being  no  undue  in­
crease  in  prices. 
In  the  great  tex­
tile  industries  there  is  no  diminution 
of  activity  and  in 
the  manufacture 
and  distribution  of  footwear  dealers 
are  coming  to  accept  the  increase  in 
prices  as  an  inevitable  condition  of 
the  trade  and  orders  are  being  placed 
with  the  utmost  freedom.

When  you  go  into  mixed  company, 
the  air  you  should  carry  with  you 
there  is  that  of  fearing  no  one  and 
wishing  to  offend  no  one.

The  homely  girl  with  one  beau 
usually  gets  married  sooner  than  the 
pretty  girl  who  has  half  a  dozen  on 
the  string.

The  man  who  hates  to  see  another 
happy  is  certainly  safe  from  catching 
it  himself.

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

R EN O V A TED   BU TTER.

face  abundant  evidence  that  one  of 
its  purposes  is  to  prevent  the  inter-
Regulations  of  Department  of  Agri-  state  transportation  and  sale  of  proc-
ess  or  renovated  butter  unless  proper 
j ly  stamped,  labeled,  etc.

culture  Upheld.

An  important  decision  has  been 
handed  down  by  the  District  Court  of 
the  United  States,  Northern  District 
cf  New  York— U.  S.  vs.  Mott  Green-- 
oil  demurrer  to  an  indictment  charg­
ing  the  defendant,  a  dealer  in  butter, 
with  the  crime  of  having  removed,  at 
Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  the  words  ‘‘reno­
vated  butter,”  also  the  stamps  and 
caution  notices  from  original  pack­
ages  of  that  article  manufactured  and 
sold  to  the  defendant  in  Ohio  and 
brought  into  the  State  of  New  York 
for  sale  and  there  sold  after  the  re­
moval  of  the  stamps  and  brands.

The  defendant  demurred  on 

the 
ground  that  such  act  of  removal  of 
brands  and  stamps  does  not  consti­
tute  a  crime.

The  demurrer  was  overruled  and 
the  indictment  verified,  Judge  Ray 
writing  the  decision.

Judge  Ray  cites  from  the  Oleomar­
garine  Act  of  May  9,  1902,  all 
sec­
tions  defining  renovated  butter,  im­
posing  taxes  thereon,  prescribing  the 
branding  of  the  article  and  delegating 
to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  cer­
tain  powers  of  supervision  of  manu­
facture,  formulation  of  rules,  etc.  He 
cites  also  the  portions  of  previous 
laws  referring to  the  inspection  of live 
cattle,  etc.,  by  the  Secretary  of  Agri­
culture  which  were  made  applicable 
to  renovated  butter  by  the  Act  of 
May 9,  1902.

Judge  Ray  declares  it  evident  that 
the  means  of identification  of  all  these 
articles  and  products— the  marks, 
stamps,  or  labels— are  to  attend,  go 
with  and  be  attached  to  them  until 
they  have  reached  the  hands  of  the 
consumer.  He  says:

The  Oleomargarine  Act,  approved 
May  9,  1902,  not  only  provides  that 
renovated  butter  and  the  packages 
containing  the  same  shall  be  marked 
with  the  words  “renovated  butter” or 
“process  butter,”  but  that  it  shall  not 
be  transported  or  shipped  into  any 
state  or  territory  or  any  foreign  coun­
try  other  than  that  of  its  manufac­
ture,  until  it  has  been  so  marked.  Sec­
tion  5  of  that  Act  also  imposes  a  pen­
alty  for  the  shipment,  transportation 
or  removal  of  such  renovated  butter 
to  another  state  or  territory  if  such 
provision  for  marking  or 
labeling 
shall  not  have  been  complied  with.

Congress  evidently  had  a  purpose 
in  providing in  Section  5  that  all  parts 
of  the  act  for  an  inspection  of  meats, 
etc.,  and  above  referred  to,  applicable 
to the  subjects  and  purposes  described 
in  the  Oleomargarine  Act  should  ap­
ply  to  process  or  renovated  butter.

The  provisions  in  the  Oleomargar­
ine  Act  providing  for  inspection  and 
the  making  of  needful  rules  and  reg­
ulations  for  carrying  the  act  into  ef­
fect,  etc.,  correspond,  as  to  purpose, 
etc.,  with  the  provisions  of  Section  1, 
2  and  3  of  the  act  for  inspection  of 
live  cattle,  etc.,  approved  March  3, 
1891,  and  as  subsequently  amended.

“for 

reached 

Is  it  necessary,  proper,  or  advisable 
that  the  stamps,  marks,  labels,  etc., 
upon  renovated  or  process  butter  or 
the  packages  containing  same  shall 
not  be  removed,  altered  or  defaced 
until  such  article  has 
the 
hands  of  the  consumer?  Evidently 
so.  Otherwise  at  any  time  after  the 
process  or  renovated  butter  has  left 
the  factory on  its  way  to another state 
or  territory  the  labels  and  marks  may 
be  removed  with  impunity  and  espe­
cially  after  such  renovated  butter  has 
reached  another  state  is  the  person 
transporting  it  at  liberty  to  remove 
all  such  marks. 
Its  identity  as  proc­
ess  or  renovated  butter  is  then  de­
stroyed  and  it  may  be  sold  and  re­
sold  in  the  state  or  territory  to  which 
shipped  as  genuine  butter,  or,  as  ap­
plied  to  this  case,  the  renovated  but­
ter  manufactured  in  Ohio,  and  being 
a  subject  of  inter-state  commerce and 
having  entered  into  inter-state  com­
merce,  having  been  shipped  to  and 
received  in  the  State  of  New  York  by 
a  dealer  in  butter and  not  a  consumer, 
is  with  the  marks  removed  placed  up­
on  the  market  as  genuine  butter,  and. 
with  the  marks  to  identify  it  as  proc­
ess  or  renovated  butter  removed,  may 
be  transported  to  the  State  of  Con­
necticut  or  any  other  state  or  to  a 
foreign  country  as  genuine  butter.  If 
the  marks,  etc., 
identification” 
have  been  removed  the  Government 
can  not  follow  it  even  while  remain­
ing  an  article  of inter-state  commerce. 
If  such  stamps,  labels,  etc.,  may  be 
removed  then  the  purpose  of  the  law, 
aside  from  the  payment  of  the  orig­
inal  tax  imposed  upon  such  a  product, 
is  absolutely  defeated. 
It  is  evident 
that  Congress  intended  to  incorporate 
and  has  incorporated  into  the  Oleo­
margarine  law,  the  act  approved  May 
9.  1902,  Section  4  of  the  act  approved 
March  3,  1891,  being  “An  Act  to  pro­
vide  for  the  inspection  of  live  cattle, 
hogs  and  the  carcasses  and  products 
thereof,  which  are  the  subjects  of  in­
ter-state commerce,  and  for other  pur­
poses,”  as  amended,  so  far  as  appli­
cable,  and  Section  4  as  amended  is 
applicable  and  pertinent  and  neces­
sary  to  carry  into  full  force  and  effect 
the  purpose  of  the  Oleomargarine law 
which  applies  to  renovated  or  process 
butter.  Applying  the  provisions  of 
Section  4 of  the  Act  of  March  3,  1891, 
as  amended,  to 
the  Oleomargarine 
law  and  we  would  have  that  section 
incorporated  therein  read  as  follows: 
“That  said  examination  shall  be 
made  in  the  manner  provided  by rules 
and  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and  aft­
er  said  examination  all  process  or 
renovated  butter  found  to  be  whole­
some.  sound  and  fit  for  human  food 
shall  be  marked,  stamped  or  labeled 
for  identification  as  may  be  provided 
by  said  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture.  Any  per­
son  who  shall  forge,  counterfeit,  sim­
ulate,  imitate,  falsely  represent  or  use 
without  authority  or  knowingly  and 
wrongfully  alter,  deface  or  destroy 
any  of  the  marks,  stamps  or  other  de­
vices  provided  for  in  the  regulations 
of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  of 
any  such  process  or  renovated  butter, 
or  who  shall  forge,  counterfeit,  simu­
late,  imitate,  falsely  represent  or  use 
without  authority,  or  knowingly  and 
wrongfully  alter,  deface  or  destroy 
any  certificate  or  stamp  provided 
in 
said  regulations, 
shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  con­
viction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a 
fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dol­
lars  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding 
one  year,  or  b_y  both  said  punish­
ments,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court

they  occur,  and  insert  in  lieu  thereof  been  paid,  the  process  or  renovated
butter  so  marked  or  labeled  is  distin­
the  words  “process  or  renovated  but 
guished  from  all  other.  Other process 
ter.”
or  renovated  butter  made  in  the  same 
factory  and  equally subject to the law, 
but  not  inspected,  marked,  labeled  or 
stamped,  may  be  shipped  into  another 
state  at  the  same  time.  Has  the  Gen­
eral  Government  lost jurisdiction  over 
the  latter  because  of  Section  1  of  the 
Act  in  question?  May  not  the  Gov­
ernment  officials  follow  it?  Can  in­
spection  or  tax  or  both  be  avoided 
by  shipping  it  over  the  border  -of  the 
state?  Has  not 
the  Government 
marked  and  labeled  or  caused  to  be 
marked  and  labeled  that  which  was 
examined  and  inspected  and  on  which 
the  tax was  paid,  for purposes  of  iden­
tification,  for  the  purpose  of  distin­
guishing  it  from  that  not  inspected 
and  examined  and  on  which  the  tax 
has  not  been  paid?  Has  not  the  Gov­
ernment  the  right  to  demand  that 
such  marks  and 
labels  and  stamps 
shall  remain  until  the  article  reaches 
the  ultimate  consumer,  or  at  least  un­
til  it  has  passed  to  a  purchaser  in  the 
state  to  which  taken  and  has  become 
commingled  in  the  common  mass  of 
property  in  the  state?  Does  not  the 
purchaser  who  takes  the  article  from 
one  state  to  another  take 
it  with 
knowledge  of  the  law,  and  does  he 
not assent to  the  proposition  that such 
marks,  etc.,  shall  remain?

It  seems  to  this  court  self  evident 
that  the  plain  intent  and  purpose  of 
Congress  was  to  make  it  a  criminal 
offense  and  punishable  to  forge, coun­
terfeit,  simulate,  imitate,  falsely  repre­
sent  or  use  without  authority,  or 
knowingly  and  wrongfully  alter,  de­
face  or  destroy  any  of 
the  marks, 
stamps  or  other  devices  provided  for 
in  the  regulations  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  of  any  process  or  reno­
vated  butter,  or  to  forge,  counterfeit, 
simulate,  imitate,  falsely  represent,  or 
use  without  authority,  or  to  knowing­
ly  and  wrongfully  alter,  deface  or  de­
stroy  any  certificate  or  stamp  provid­
ed  in  said  regulations,  and  to  declare 
either  of  such  offenses  a  misdemeanor 
and  to  provide  a  punishment  on  con­
viction  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one 
thousand  dollars  or  imprisonment  not 
exceeding one  year,  or both  in the  dis­
cretion  of  the  court. 
Instead  of  in­
corporating  the  language  of  the  act 
of  March  3,  1891,  as  amended  March
2,  1895,  into  the  Oleomargarine  law, 
said  act  was  referred  to,  and  it  is  ex­
plicitly  provided  that  “all  parts  of  an 
act  providing  for  the  inspection  of 
meats  for  exportation,  approved  Au­
gust  30,  1890,  and  of  an  act  to  pro­
vide  for  the  inspection  of  live  cattle, 
hogs  and  the  carcasses  and  products 
thereof,  which  are  the  subjects  of  in­
ter-state  commerce,  approved  March
3,  1891,  and  of the  amendment  thereto 
approved  March  2,  1895,  which  are  ap­
plicable  to  the  subjects  and  purposes 
described  in  this  section,  shall  apply 
to  process  or  renovated  butter.”
It  follows  necessarily  that,  if 

In  considering  the  point  of  distri­
bution  at  which  the  article  ceases  to 
be  a  subject  of  inter-state  commerce 
Judge  Ray  comes  to  no  very  definite 
conclusion.  He  cites  various  deci­
sions  bearing  upon  the  question  and 
seems  to  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  articles  must  be  considered  sub­
jects  of  inter-state  commerce  until 
at  least  one  sale  has  been  made  with­
in  a  state.  He  says:

above 

law 

referred  to, 

the 
purposes  of  the  Oleomargarine  law 
are  substantially  the  same  as  the  pur­
poses  of  the  meat  and  cattle  inspec­
tion 
the 
provision  above  referred  to  making 
it  a  crime  to  remove  or  deface  the 
stamps,  marks,  etc.,  has  been  incor­
porated  in  and  must  be  read  into  and 
as  a  part  of  the  Oleomargarine  law. 
Congress 
is  not  supposed  to  have 
used  the  language  it  did  in  Section  5 
of  the  Oleomargarine  act  without  a 
purpose,  and  the  language  used  either 
incorporates  the  criminal  provisions 
referred  to  into  that  act,  or  fails  to 
incorporate  any  part  of  the  cattle  and 
meat  inspection  law into the  Oleomar­
garine  Act,  and  the  language  of  Sec­
tion  5,  referred  to,  becomes  meaning­
less  and  inoperative.

Judge  Ray  later  considers  the  bear 
ing  of  Section  1  of  the  Oleomargarine 
Act  upon  the 
circumstances  under 
which  process  or  renovated  butter  is 
to  be  regarded  as  an  article  of  inter­
state  commerce.

Section  1  provides  that  all  articles 
known  as  oleomargarine,  butterine, 
process,  renovated  or  adulterated  but­
ter,  etc.,  etc.,  transported  into  any 
state  or  territory  and  remaining there­
in  for  use,  consumption,  sale  or  stor­
age  shall,  upon  arrival  within  such 
state  be  subject  to  the  operation  and 
effect  of  the  laws  of  such  state  in  the 
same  manner  as  though  produced  in 
that  state  and  shall  not  be  exempt 
therefrom  by  reason  of  being  intro­
duced  therein  in  original  packages.

Judge  Ray  does  not  agree  that  this 
provision  wholly  divests  the  articles 
named— including  renovated  butter—  
of  their  character  as  subjects  of  inter­
state  commerce  immediately  on  their 
arrivel  in  a  state  other  than  that  of 
their  production,  at  least  to  the  extent 
of  permitting  the 
removal  of  all 
marks,  labels,  etc.,  required  by 
the 
National  law  to  be  affixed  to  an  arti­
cle  of inter-state  commerce.  He  says:
Marked  and  labeled  by  order  of  the 
General  Government  “for  identifica­
tion”  and  stamped,  the  tax  having

Without  going  into  the  numerous 
cases  bearing  to  some  extent,  even 
though  indirectly,  on  the  question, 
this  court  is  of  the  opinion  that  in 
making  “process”  or  “renovated  but­
ter”  transported  into  a  state  and  re­
maining  therein  for  use,  consumption, 
sale  or  storage  therein,  subject  on  ar­
rival  in  such  state,  to  the  operation 
and  effect  of  the  laws  of  such  state 
enacted  in  the  exercise  of  its  police 
powers  to  the  same  extent  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  though  such  articles 
had  been  produced  in  such  state,  and 
declaring  that  same  should  not  be  ex­
empted  from  such  laws  by  reason  of 
being  introduced  into  such  state 
in 
original  packages  or  otherwise,  Con­
gress  did  not  intend  to  confer  any 
power  and  has  not  conferred  any 
power  on  any  person  to  remove  the 
marks,  labels,  stamps,  etc.,  from  proc­
ess  or  renovated  butter.  When  the 
packages  are  used  the  marks,  stamps, 
etc.,  are  to  be  destroyed.  New  York 
has  passed  no  law  allowing  this  to  be 
done  and  it  is  not seen  that  such  a  law 
could  be  passed  in  the  ligitimate  ex­
ercise  of the  police power  of the  State. 
Section  1  of  the  Oleomargarine  Act 
was  not 
intended  to  abrogate  any 
penalty  imposed  for  the  violation  of 
the  penal  provisions  referred  to,  or  to 
permit  the  acts  therein  forbidden,  or 
to  empower  a  state  to  make  any  law 
interfering  with  the  operation  of such 
laws  unless  there  should  arise  a  con­
flict  between  the  laws  of  the  United 
States  and  those  of  the  state  passed 
in  the  legitimate  exercise  of  its  police 
power. 
It  is  perfectly  clear  that  to 
permit  the  removal  of  the  stamps, 
marks,  labels,  etc.,  on  packages  of  a 
food  product  of  this  character,  and 
specifically  authorized  by  law  while 
such  articles  remain  an  article  of  in­
ter-state  commerce,  or  even  thereafter 
when  we  consider  the  objects  and 
purposes  of  the  law,  would  not  only 
defeat  the  objects  and  purposes  of  the 
legislative  body,  as  to  inspection,  etc., 
but  open  the  doors  wide  to  frauds  on 
the  revenue.  The  placing  of 
the 
marks,  etc.,  on  the  packages  implies 
they  are  to  remain.

In  the  Oleomargarine  Act  we  find 
no  provision  making  it  a  criminal  of­
fense  to  forge,  counterfeit,  etc.,  or  to 
knowingly  and  wrongfully  alter,  de­
face  or  destroy  any  of  the  marks, 
stamps  or  other  devices  provided  for 
in  the  regulations  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture or in  the law,  but we must 
conclude,  and  it  is  evident,  that  there 
is  as  much  necessity  for  such  a  pro­
Substantially  the  only  change  nec­
vision  in  regard  to  renovated  or  proc­
essary  to  be  made  in  Section  4  in 
ess  butter  as  in  reference  to  meats, 
order  to adapt  it  to  the  Oleomargarine 
etc.,  intended  for  human  consump­
Act  is  to  strike  out  the  words  “car­
tion.  Butter  is  used  largely  for  hu-
man food,  and  the  act  bears  on  its  casses  or  other  products”  wherever

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I  Buy,  Make  and  Sell
BUTTER

In  Fact,  I  Have  Been  Doing  This  Same  Thing 

Almost  Exclusively  for  29  Years

I  do  not  care  a  snap  about  your  poultry  or  eggs  or  eat  or  packing  stock; 
neither  do  I  come  out  with  a  couple  of  pages  of  cheap  local  advertising  trying 
to swell  up  like a  toad  in  my  own  mind  and  telling  you  about  the  played-out 
firms  I  used  to  work  for,  or  how  many  years  since  I  was  born,  or  whom  I went 
to  school to  or  how  many lickings  I  got  (fact  was,  I  got  lots  of  ’em),  or  where  I 
was  born,  or  who  my  folks  were.  BUT,  if  you  have  any

Fresh,  Sweet Dairy  Butter

more  than  your  trade  requires—I  am  always  glad  to  name  you  a  cash  price  on 
same—give  you  exactly  what  it  weighs  on  arrival,  net,  with  two  per  cent,  addi­
tional  towards  any  shrinkage  that  may  come  in  handling  on  the  road,  and  send 
you  check  same as  I  have  done  for  the  past  twenty years.

Use  parchment  liners  now  always  and  do  not  use  cloth  or  cheap  paper 
over  the  butter  during warm  weather  if  you  wish  to  avoid  heavy  shrinkage. 
Write  now—ship  your  butter  tome.

E. F. Dudley, Owosso, Mich.

Not an  Incorporated  Company  at  All,  Just  Plain 

DUDLEY,  but GOOD Just the  Same

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A r o u n d

The  S t a t e

Movements  of  Merchants.

Benton  Harbor— Percy  Lewis  suc­
ceeds  Warman  Bros,  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Rosebush-—Wm.  Calkins 

suc­
ceeded  in  the  meat  business  by  John 
Coyne.

is 

Kalamazoo— Wm.  L.  Wood,  gro­
cer,  is  succeeded  in  business  by  Ar­
thur  Upson.

South  Haven— M.  Van  Alstyne,  late 
of  Manchester,  Iowa,  has  opened  a 
new  cigar  store.

Newberry— The 

kitchen 
owned  by  A.  Lafkas  has  been  remov­
ed  to  Negaunee.

candy 

Alpena— James  Bowden  is  succeed­
ed  in  the  clothing  business  by  Mar­
tinson  &  Stafford.

Ravenna— W.  E.  Patterson  has 
bought  the  grocery  stock  and  meat 
business  of  John  Sturtevant.

Union  City— The  Miller  Drug  and 
Grocery  Co.  succeeds  M.  Odren  in 
the  drug  and  grocery  business.

Ann  Arbor— C.  J.  Sweet  has  leased 
half  of  the  Goodspeed  shoe  store  and 
engaged 
in  the  cigar  and  tobacco 
business.

Gaylord— George  W.  Ellwanger 
will  continue  the  grocery  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Wm.  Ellwan­
ger  &  Son.

Athens— J.  F.  Culp  has  sold  his j 
drug  stock  to  Fred  R.  Ashley,  who 
has  been  head  clerk  in  the  store  for 
several  years.

North  Lansing— J.  H.  Wallace  has 
rented  a  store  at  North  Lansing  and 
will  stock  the  same  with  millinery 
and  dry  goods.

the 
South  Haven— The  name  of 
drug  store  formerly  known  as 
the 
Crown  Drug  Co.  has  been  changed 
to  the  City  Drug  Store.

Flint— A  petition  in  bankruptcy has 
been  filed  by  the  creditors  of  A.  W. 
Hixson,  who  formerly  conducted  a 
drug  and  grocery  store.

Three  Rivers— The  Manufacturers’ 
Clothing  Co.,  of  Hillsdale,  has  opened 
a  branch  store  here  under  the  man­
agement  of  F.  M.  Stanton.

Morenci— B.  M.  Heimer,  of  Tole­
do,  has  opened  a  dry  goods  store  in 
the  building  just  east  of  E.  W.  Sco­
field’s  furniture  establishment.

Shelby— R.  B.  Hanchett  &  Son  are 
closing  out  their  mercantile  business 
at  Floodville  and  will  confine  their 
attention  to  their  store  here.

Gladwin— Dr.  A.  D. 
representative 

Salisbury, 
formerly 
the 
from 
Gladwin-Midland  district,  has  again 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Mid­
land.

Coldwater— The  Milnes  Supply Co. 
is  preparing  to  build  an  addition  to 
the  rear  of  its  grocery  store,  which 
will  give 
them  considerable  more 
room.

Woodmere— Theodor  Harms  & 
Son  will  remodel  and  enlarge  their 
hardware  store  by  extending  it  to 
the  lot  line  and  putting  in  plate  glass 
windows,  which  will  be  a  great  im­
provement.

Clare— Elmer  A.  Anderson  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  conducted  un­
der  the  style  of  the  City  Drug  Store 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Lansing— H.  M.  Meloche,  of  Ish- 
peming,  has  purchased 
the  Opera 
House  drug  store  of  F.  H.  Williams 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Middleville— A.  E.  Mulholland  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  of  W.  H. 
Goodyear,  taking  possession  May  4. 
Mr.  Mulholland 
is  an  experienced 
drug  man  of  Alma.

Grand  Ledge— Robert  Astley  has 
bought  the  implement  stock  of  J.  H. 
Walsh  and  Mr.  Walsh  will  hereafter 
conduct  the  elevator  recently  owned 
by  E.  C.  Astley  &  Son.

St.  Johns— O.  P.  DeWitt  will  re­
move  his  wholesale  grocery  establish­
ment  to  the  ground  floor  and  base­
ment  of  the  three-story  building  now 
being  erected  by  the  Odd  Fellows.

Bowens  Mills— Jay  T.  Hoard  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  Minerva 
Goodspeed  in  the  general  stock  of 
Goodspeed  &  Hoard  and  will  contin­
ue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Battle  Creek— W.  J.  Wait  will  em­
bark  in  business  at  this  place  and 
will  be  a  launcher  of  the 
firm  of 
Haigh  Bros.  &  Wait,  which  will  deal 
in  hay,  grain,  buggies,  coal  and  wood.
Monroe— B.  W.  Hurd,  Chas.  Phin- 
ney  and  Wm.  Hurd  have  purchased 
the 
interest  of  Henry  and  George 
Beisel  in  the  grain,  hay  and  builders’ 
supply  business  of  the  Geo.  E.  Hurd 
Co.

Manistique— Robt.  Rubin  has  sold 
his  stock  of  hardware  to  Ida  McDon­
ald,  who  will  continue  in  business  in 
the  Quick  building  on  Oak  street.  The 
business  will  be  managed  by  M.  J. 
McDonald.

St.  Joseph— The  Howard  &  Pearl 
drug  stock  has  been  purchased  by 
Cornelius  Crawford  and  Frank  T. 
Gillespie,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Frank  T. 
Gillespie  &  Co.

Union  City— The  Coleman  Drug 
Co.,  of Lawton, has purchased the W il­
kins  drug  stock  and  will  continue the 
business  as  a  branch  of  the  Lawton 
establishment  under  the  management 
of  Shell  Coleman.

Saginaw— The  Lane  Chemical  Co. 
has  been  incorporated  for  the  pur­
pose  of  dealing  in  drugs  and  chemi­
cals,  with  an  authorized  capital  stock 
of  $10,000,  of  which  $8,000  is 
sub­
scribed  and  paid  in  in  cash.

Belding— J.  Bricker  has 

received 
into  partnership  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  his  son,  Wm.  F.,  and  the  name 
of the  firm  will  be  J.  & W.  F.  Bricker. 
The  meat  market  will  be  closed  and 
the  room  used  as  a  store  room.

Coldwater— Frank  Fisk  has  made 
an  offer  for  the  Hemingway  grocery 
stock  and  it  has  been  accepted  by 
Receiver  Adams,  subject  to  the  ap­
proval  of  Judge  Yaple.  As  soon  as 
this  can  be  secured  the  transfer  will 
be  made.

Detroit— The  Milburn  Scale  Com­
pany  has  been  incorporated  for  the 
purpose  of  dealing  in 
and 
weighing  devices,  with  an  authorized 
capital  stock  of  $50,000,  $25,000  com­

scales 

Rhoades  will  be  paid  by  the  new  firm, 
and  all  claims  due  said  old  firm  are 
to  be  paid  to  Lord  &  Rhoades.

Detroit— The  Michigan  Shoe  Co. 
has  secured  a  long-time  lease  of  the 
double  store  at  144  and  146  Jefferson 
avenue,  just  south  of  Griswold street, 
50x100,  five  stories  and  basement, 
which  is  now  being  put  in  shape  for 
it  to  move  into.  The  location  is  a 
very  much  better  one,  all  the  subur­
ban  cars  passing  the  door,  and  is  in 
the  heart  of  the  jobbing  district  and 
within  a  block  of  Woodward  avenue. 
The  change  will  take  place  about 
June  15.

Eagle— Harvey  Godfrey,  who  has 
been  in  this  place  the  past  year,  is  in 
financial  difficulties.  He  came  here 
to  run  the  hotel  and  feed  barn  and 
brought  with  him  a  stock  of  buggies. 
A  short  time  ago  the  owner  of  the 
buggies  found  that  Godfrey  had mort­
gaged  them,  and  took  a  chattel mort­
gage  on  Godfrey’s  stock  of  groceries 
to  square  matters.  No  further  pay­
ments  were 
last 
week  the  entire  stock  was  taken  over 
by  Fred  L.  Francis,  one  of  the  many 
creditors.  Late 
last  week  Godfrey 
disappeared,  leaving  his  family  in  ig­
norance  as  to  his  movements.

forthcoming  and 

Mt.  Clemens— The  Business  Men’s 
Association  has  agreed  to  close  the 
business  places  of  this  city  at  6 
o’clock  after  September  1.  The  plan 
is  already  meeting  with  objection, and 
it  is  stated  by  those  favoring  the 
keeping  open  of  shops  in  the  evening 
that  Mt.  Clemens  has  lost  much  of 
the  farmers’  trade,  and  that  the  fact 
that  the  country  stores  in  the  imme­
diate  vicinity  are  becoming  so  pros­
perous  is  due  partially  to  this  policy 
pursued  last  winter  and  up  to  May
1.  Secretary  Waterbury,  of  the  As­
sociation,  declares  that  he  is  heartily 
in  favor  of  the  early  closing  plan, 
except  for  three  of 
summer 
months.

the 

Houghton— Walter  McVicar  and 
Peter  Falvey,  the  new  proprietors  of 
the  Houghton  Cash  grocery  store, 
assumed  charge  of  the  business  and 
will  hereafter  conduct  it  under  the 
firm  name  of  McVicar  &  Falvey.  Mr. 
McVicar,  the  senior  member  of  the 
firm,  was  for  six  years  past  employed 
by  E.  W.  Bronsall,  the  retiring  pro­
prietor.  Mr.  Falvey  has  been  a  resi­
dent  of  Houghton  for  about  a  week. 
He  was  employed  for  sixteen  years 
with  Hatfield  &  Bradfield,  at  Copper 
Falls,  where  he  made  a  splendid  repu­
tation  as  a  progressive  salesman  and 
capable  groceryman.  For  seven  years 
Mr.  Falvey  has  been  manager  of  the 
general  stores  at  Allouez  for  J.  P. 
Petermann.

*>*

mon  and  $25,000  preferred;  $50,000 
has  been  subscribed  and  paid  in  in 
property. 

Montgomery— P.  D.  Woodring  has 
rented  the  store  room  of  F.  M.  Kel­
so  at  Clear  Lake  and  will  conduct  a 
grocery  during  the  summer  season. 
C.  G.  Gormley,  of  Metamora,  Ohio, 
is  expected  to  arrive  about  June  1  to 
take  charge.

Escanaba— Brauns  &  Van,  whole­
sale  fruit  and  produce  dealers  of 
Green  Bay,  have  established  a  branch 
warehouse  in  this  city.  Jesse  Owen, 
for  ten  years  employed  by  Erickson 
&  Bissell,  has  taken  the  position  of 
local  manager.

Battle  Creek— Isaac  Dowsett  has 
re-opened  the  drug  store  at  n o   Cal­
houn  street,  formerly  run  by  Claude 
C.  Jones,  under  the  style  of  A.  Dow­
sett  &  Co.  Mr.  Jones  will  soon  re­
open  the  Charles  E.  Humphrey  drug 
store  in  his  own  name.

Benton  Harbor— Lewis  Haas,  the 
Yore  block  grocer,  has  leased  the 
room  adjoining  his  store  at  155  Terri­
torial  street  and  will  have  an  arch 
cut  between  the  two  large 
rooms 
and  install  a  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  in  the  new  store.

Plainwell— John  R.  Schoonmaker 
has  sold  his  drug  stock  to  John  Mil­
ler,  formerly  engaged  in  the  drug  bus­
iness  at  Monroe,  and  Anthony  Miller, 
formerly  with  the  Charles  Drug  Co., 
at  Paw  Paw.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known  as  the  Miller  Drug  Co.

Coldwater— Will  Smith  Chandler 
and  his  brother-in-law,  Herbert  Lee, 
have  purchased  the  Chandler  hard­
ware  stock  and  business  and 
the 
east  store  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  as  Chandler  &  Lee.  Miss  Alice 
Chandler  takes  the  west  store.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  C.  E.  Davis 
Co.  has  purchased  the  furniture  stock 
of  J.  Vanderhook  and  will  consoli­
date  same  with  its  old  stock  and  con­
tinue  the  business.  Mr.  Vanderhook 
will  retire  from  the  furniture  busi­
ness  but  will  continue  as  an  under­
taker.

Grand  Blanc— A  corporation  has 
been  formed  for  the  purpose  of  con­
ducting  a  general  telephone  service 
under  the  style  of  the  Grand  Blanc 
Telephone  Co.  The  company  is  capi­
talized  at  $4,000,  of  which  amount 
$1,120  has  been  subscribed  and  paid 
in  in  cash.

Portland— Bert  Badgley,  who  has 
been  in  the  coal  and  wood  business 
here  for  a  number  of  years  and  in 
the  ice  business  for  three  years,  has 
disposed  of  his  entire  interests 
to 
James  L.  Case,  of  Greenville,  in which 
city  Mr.  Case  has  been  conducting 
a  feed  barn.

Charlotte— Kinsman  Bros,  have
sold  their  drug  stock  to  H.  A.  Black- 
mar,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.  Mr.  Blackmar 
was  a  druggist  here  many  years  pre­
vious  to  selling  out  to  Jas.  Bryan 
seven  years  ago.  Since  then  he  has 
resided  in  Owosso  and  Saginaw.

Newberry— A.  A.  Klinglund  has 
sold  his  interest  in  the  firm  of  Kling­
lund  &  Rhoades  to  B.  A.  Lord  and 
the  new  firm  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Lord  & 
Rhoades.  All  debts  due  and  owing 
by  the  old  firm  of  Klinglund  &

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ern  is  now  in  market,  commanding 
$2  per  crate.

Celery— $1  for.. California.
Cucumbers— The  market  is  steady 

at  $1  per  doz.

Eggs— Local  dealers  pay  about 
T4J'2@i5c  for  case  count,  holding can- 
died  at  16c.  The  receipts  are  run­
ning  liberal,  but  the  storage  people 
are  still  picking  up  the  good  stock 
for  putting  away  and  they  keep  the 
price  at  about  the  same  level.  The 
consumptive  demand 
large,  also. 
Enough  poor  eggs  are  coming  in  to 
necessitate  the  candling  of  nearly  all 
the  receipts.

is 

Grape  Fruit— Florida 

stock  com­
mands  $5.50  per  box  of  either  64  or 
54 
$1 
cheaper.

size.  California 

stock 

Green  Onions— 15c  per  doz. bunch­
es for home grown.  The stock is  fine. 

is 

Green  Peas— $1.35  per  bu.  box. 
Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  io@ 

12c  and  white  clover  at  I3@ ISC- 

Lemons— Messinas  have  advanced 
to  $2.75@3  per  box.  Californias  have 
declined  to  $2.50.

Lettuce— Hot  house  is  in  large  de­

mand  at  8c  per  lb.

New  Potatoes— $1.25  per  bu. 

for 

Southern.

Onions— $2  per  crate  for  Bermudas. 
Oranges —  California  Navels  are 
steady;  $3.25 for choice, $3.50 for fancy 
and  $3.65  for  extra  fancy.  Strawber­
ries  have  cut  into  the  orange  trade 
in  some  degree  the  past  week,  but 
there  is  still  a  very  fair  movement. 
Several  cars  of  excellent  fruit  have 
been  received  during  this  past  week. 
Their  flavor  is  unusually  good  and 
the  jobbers  anticipate  no  trouble  in 
moving  them.  Prices  are  unchanged 
all  along  the  line.  Assortments  are 
ample  as  far  as  sizes  are  concerned. 

Parsley— 25c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Parsnips— $1.25  per  bbl.
Pieplant— 60c  for  40  lb.  box.
Pineapples------Prices  are  steady,
ranging  about  as  follows:  Crate  of
18,  $3.75;  24>  $3-6o;  30,  $3-35;  36,  $3 25; 
4-'.  $3-

Plants— Tomato  and  cabbage  fetch 

75c  per  box  of  260.

is 

Pop  Corn— q o c   for  rice.
Potatoes— The  market 

fairly 
steady  on  the  basis  of  I5@20c  per bu.
Poultry— The  market  is  strong  and 
high,  live  commanding  the  following 
prices:  Chickens,  I2@i3c;  fowls,  11 
@T2c;  young  turkeys,  I5@ i 6c;  old 
turkeys, 
I2@i4c. 
Dressed  fetches  ij.4@2c  per  lb.  more 
than 
lb.; 
squabs,  $2  per  doz.

Broilers,  25c  per 

14(0)150; 

ducks, 

live. 

Radishes— 20c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

either  round  or  long.

Sweet  Potatoes— $3.50  per  bbl.  for 

kiln  dried  Illinois.

in 

Strawberries— $2@2.25  per  case  of 
24  quarts  for  good  stock.  There  have 
been  heavy  rains 
the  Southern 
strawberry  district  and  the  fruit  got 
wet.  arriving  in  this  market  in  more 
or  less  damaged  condition.  This  is 
not  to  be  taken  as  indicating  that  all 
the  fruit  is  bad,  however,  as  some 
very  good  stock  has  come  in,  but  the 
abundance  of  the  poor  stock  has  a 
bad  effect  on  the  whole  market. 

Tomatoes— $2.75  per  6  basket  crate. 
W ax  Beans— $2  per  bu.  hamper. 
New  Beets— $1.50  per  bu.  box.

The  Grocery  Market.

the 

Sugar— As  foreshadowed  by 

the 
Tradesman  last  week,  a  decline  has 
occurred,  although  the  suddenness of 
the  change  caused  some  excitement. 
Were  it  not  for  the  fairness  of  the 
refiners  this  decline  would  have  been 
a  heavy  blow  to  the  jobbers,  who 
have  large  quantities  of  contract  sug­
ar  still  undelivered.  All  this  sugar 
was  bought  about  six  weeks  ago  at 
the  high  price,  and  the  refiners  could 
probably  have  compelled  the  buyers 
to  take  it  had  they  chosen  to  do  so. 
Contemporaneous  with  the  decline, 
however,  came  a  notice  that  the  job­
bers  would  be  allowed  to  take  their 
undelivered  sugar  at 
reduced 
price,  provided  they  take  it  at  once. 
How  much  of  a  concession  this  is 
becomes  evident  when  it  is  known 
that  the  refiners  hold  between  500,- 
000  and  1,000,000  barrels  of  sugar  still 
undelivered.  There  are  two  reasons 
why  the  refiners  have  not  before  seen 
fit  to  reduce  the  price  of  refined  sug­
ar.  One  was  in  order  to  protect  them­
selves,  as  they  bought  large  quanti­
ties  of  high-priced  raw  sugar,  which 
is  now  coming  in  and  being  worked 
up.  Until  this  was  used  up  the  low 
prices  now  prevailing  could  do 
the 
refiners  little  good.  The  other  rea­
son  was  philanthropic— the  protection 
of  the  wholesale  grocery  trade,  al­
though  there  was  an  element  of  self- 
interest  here  also.  About  the  first 
of  April  the  Trust  represented  that 
the  sugar  market  was  about  to  ad­
vance  and  advised  large  buying.  The 
jobbing  trade 
accordingly  bought 
sugar  so  heavily  that  the  aggregate 
sales  around  that  time  are  believed 
to  be  a  million  barrels.  True 
to 
prophecy,  the  market  did  advance, 
but  a  large  part  of  tlfe  sugar  sold 
then  is  still  unsold  or  undelivered, 
and  the  Trust  felt  that  if  it  declined 
prices  with  this  unsold  sugar  still 
charged  against  the  jobbers  at  the 
high  price  at  which  it  was  bought, 
a  tremendous  hue  and  cry  would  go 
up,  for  nearly  all  jobbers  would  be 
affected.  At  the  end,  however,  the 
decline  had  to  come  with  the  sugar 
still  undelivered.

Tea— There  have  been  no  develop­
ments  of  any  character  except  possi­
bly  a  little  better  feeling  all  around 
on  account  of  the  larger  distribution. 
May  is  showing  a  much  better  de­
mand  for  tea  than  April  did.  There 
is  a  strong  undercurrent  to  the  mar­
ket  and  will  be  until  the  naval  situa­
tion  is  decided.

Coffee— There  have  been  no  devel­
opments  of  particular  importance,  ex­
cept  that  some  of  the  jobbers  have 
advanced  their  low  grades 
J^c  or 
so  to  conform  with 
the  package 
goods  and  the  generally  higher  tone 
to  the  market.  The  movement  is  ex­
cellent.  The  advance  of  a  half  last 
week,  coupled  with  the  strong  talk 
that  has  been  indulged  in,  has  given 
the  trade  confidence  in  the  market 
and  coffee  is  being  bought  more  lib­
erally,  perhaps,  than  at  any  time  for 
several  months.

Canned  Goods— Corn  is  doing  well, 
but  not  so  well  as  tomatoes.  The  de* 
mand  for  corn  is  not  influenced  by 
the  presence  of  the  green  vegetable 
just  now,  as  is  that  for  tomatoes  and

Trompen  &  Kloet  are  closing  out 
their  grocery  stock  at  358  East street.
H.  J.  Minali  succeeds  Kuipers  & 
Welmers,  who  formerly  conducted  a 
hardware  business  on  Grandville  ave­
nue.

W.  P.  Manning  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Byron  Center.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

J.  J.  Kinsey  has  engaged  in 

the 
drug  business  at  Three  Rivers.  The 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  furn­
ished  the  stock.

Albert  Martin  has  arranged  to  open 
a  drug  store  at  Fowler.  The  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the  or­
der  for  the  stock.

C.  E.  Brewster  and  Mr.  Daily, who 
formerly  conducted  a  fuel  and  feed 
business  at  1  Robinson  avenue  under 
the  style  of  the  East  End  Fuel  & 
Feed  Co.,  are  succeeded  by  C.  M. 
Bradford.

The  hospitals  of  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids  render  a  quiet  and  unostenta­
tious  but  helpful  service  to  mankind 
which  ought  to  be  thoroughly  appre­
ciated  by  our  citizens.  The  manage­
ment  of  these  great  institutions  de­
volves,  in  the  main,  upon  the  loyal 
and  sympathetic  women  of  this  com­
munity  and  their  efforts  to  bring  the 
service  up  to  the  highest  efficiency 
should  meet  with  the  generous 
co­
operation  of  the  people  of  Grand 
Rapids.  Saturday  and  Sunday  are 
hospital  days  in  this  city.  Upon them 
the  richest  and  the  poorest  citizens 
have  an  opportunity  to  show  their ap­
preciation  of  the  great  work  being 
done  here,  and  it  is  the  earnest  wish 
of  the  Tradesman  that  employer  and 
employe  in  this  community  will  vie 
with  one  another  in  doing  all  that 
they  can  in  helping  to  maintain  these 
creditable  institutions  and 
the  effi­
cient  corps  of  nurses  provided  by 
them.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Spies  and  Russets  com­
mand  $2.50,  while  Baldwins  and  Ben 
Davis  varieties 
fetch  $2.25.  While 
the  season  for  apples  is  fast  waning 
there  is  still  a  fair  business  in  some 
lines.  The  demand 
is  better  than 
the  average  for  the  season  and  with 
berries  so  cheap.

Asparagus— 65c  per  doz.  bunches.
Bananas—$1  for  small  bunches and 
$1.50  for  large.  The  supplies  are  lib­
eral  and  nothing  but  the  abundance 
of  strawberries 
limits  the  trade  as 
much  as  it  is,  as  the  figures  are  at­
tractive  enough.

Beets— 40c  per  bu.
Butter— Creamery  has  declined  to 
22c  for  choice  and  23c 
for  fancy. 
Receipts  are  large,  especially  of dairy 
grades,  which  are  running  fine  as  to 
quality.  No.  1 
is  firm  at  20@2ic. 
Packing  stock  is  steady  at 
i s @ i 6 c . 
Renovated  is  firm  at  2I@22C.

Cabbage— Home  grown  is  in  mod­
erate  demand  at  65c  per  doz.  South-

peas.  Peas  are 
selling  very  well. 
This  is  the  time  when  the  trade  that 
can  not  afford  the  green  peas  takes 
to  the  canned  goods  and  the  demand 
is  thus  made  large.  The  same  is  true 
to  a  certain  extent  of  string  beans 
and  some  other  vegetables.  Canned 
fruits  are  doing  about  as  well 
as 
usual.  This  applies  particularly  to 
cheaper  grades  of  apples,  peaches, 
cherries  and  berries  for  pie  material. 
Gallon  apples,  which  were  scarce  a 
while  ago,  are  once  more  abundant 
in  this  market.  Opening  prices  on 
Columbia  River  salmon  have  been 
made  and  they  are  practically  the 
is 
same  as  last  year.  The  situation 
very  interesting,  however,  as 
the 
packers  have  already  booked  as much 
as  the  whole  pack  last  year.  Sar­
dines  are  selling  fairly  well  at  un­
changed  prices.  The  market  is  firm
Dried  Fruits— Peaches  are  dull 
and  unchanged.  Some  packers  have 
named  future  prices.  Seeded  raisins 
are  very  quiet  at  unchanged  prices. 
Loose  raisins  are  still  firm,  by  rea­
son  of  generally  light  stocks.  The 
demand  is  quiet.  Apricots  are  scarce 
on  spot  and  the  situation  is  steady. 
Futures  are  quiet,  but  slightly  high­
in 
er.  Currants  are  unchanged  and 
fair  demand.  Prunes  are  in 
slow, 
hand-to-mouth  demand.  There  is no 
change  as  to  price,  the  firm . future 
outlook  having  had  as  yet  no  effect 
on  spot  values  whatever.  No  future 
price  has  as  yet  been  named,  except 
a  2c  basis  price,  which  was  with­
drawn  when  the  crop 
came. 
Only  a  few  were  sold  on  that  basis.
Molasses  and  Syrups— The  situa­
tion  is  utterly  devoid  of  any  exciting 
features.  Retailers  have 
in 
their  summer  supplies  pretty  wrell and 
the  movement  is  confined  to  small 
lots.  Corn  syrups  are  steadier 
than 
two  weeks  ago,  as  the  market  has 
adjusted  itself  to  the  new  level  of 
prices.  Demand  is  good.  Maple  syr­
up  is  selling 
comparatively 
speaking.

freely, 

taken 

scare 

Rice—The  market  is  a  shade  firmer, 
but  not  enough  so  to  affect  seriously 
the  prevailing  prices.  Demand 
is 
lighter 
advances. 
Stocks  are  of  ample  dimensions  and 
the  outlook  for  the  summer’s  busi­
ness  is  good.

season 

the 

as 

Fish— Cod,  hake  and  haddock  are 
dull  and  easy.  Salmon  shows  noth­
ing  new,  except  that  some  of  the 
Columbia  River  packers  have  with­
drawn  prices,  having  sold  as  much 
as  they  care  to.  Lake  fish  and  white- 
fish-are  both  quiet  and  unchanged. 
Mackerel  is  unchanged  for  the  week 
and  dull.  Prices  are  fully  maintain­
ed,  however.  Sardines  are  quiet  and 
nominally  unchanged,  although  some 
sales  are  said  to  have  been  made  by 
outside  packers  at  slight  concessions.

Wm.  G.  L.  Vincent,  dealer  in hard­
ware,  staple  and  fancy  groceries,  hay, 
feed  and  seeds,  Luther: 
I  enclose 
check  for  $2  for  one  year’s  subscrip­
tion.  Your  paper  is  worth  more than 
that  amount  per  year  to  any 
live 
merchant  and  I  have  always  consid­
ered  it  a  welcome  visitor  at  my  store.

It  is  a  noble  thing  to  die,  but  it  is 
usually  harder  and  more  noble  to  live.

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

Window 
Trimming

Sporting  Goods  Exhibit  of  Interest 

To  Hardwaremen.

When  the  man  on  the  Rialto  has 
experienced  that  tired  feeling 
that 
comes  along  with  spring  days, the en­
nui  that  makes  him  out  of  love  with 
the  continual  strain  of  much  accumu­
lation  of  stocks  and  bonds,  when  his 
mind  reverts  unceasingly  to  the  old 
farm  home  of  his  boyhood,  and  par­
ticularly  to  that  fishpole  up  in  the  at­
tic,  or  on  the  wall  out  in  the  wood­
shed,  with  which  he  was  wont 
to 
sneak  off  to  the  lake,  accompanied 
with  his  faithful  dog  and  an  old  tin 
can  of  angleworms  he  had  surrepti­
tiously  unearthed  behind  the  barn— I 
say,  when  the  business  man  gets  this 
irresistible  feeling  for  the  old  amuse­
ment  of  his  childhood  days,  he  utters

a  jerrymiade  on  his  present  deplora­
ble  condition  and  again 
“makes  a 
sneak”  for  the  “haunts  of  Nature  in 
her  mildest  mood,”  where  he  essays 
to  entice  the  “wily  denizen  of  the  lim­
pid  deep.”

Mr.  Arthur  A.  Haines  must  have 
had  in  mind  this  predilection  when  he 
so  cleverly  arranged  the  west  win­
dow  of  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  down 
on  Campau  Square.

All  the  dummies  are  not  women,  as 
here  we  see  a  handsome  brunette 
man-dummy,  arrayed  in  the  comforta­
ble  togs  of  fishingdom,  with  rod  in 
hand,  as  if  in  the  act  of  casting  the 
line.  He  is  supposed  to  be  a  man 
indefatigable  at  his  desk— in  fact, one 
who  “was  chained  to  business.”  But 
he  “broke  away  and  is  going  fishing!”

There  are  also  other  sporting  fea- j 
tures  introduced  in  the  window:  base 
ball  goods  at  the  right— chest  pro­
tector  (looks  like  two,  but  one  is  the 
reflection  of  the  other  in  the  large 
mirror  on  the  wall),  bats,  gloves  and 
mitts.  Then  come 
things— 
netting,  racquets  and  balls— tempt­
ingly  disposed.  All  the  rest  of  the 
space  is  given  up  to  the  display  of

tennis 

articles  calculated  to 
heart  of  the  aquatic  sportsman.

gladden 

the 

One  often  hears 

the  expression, 
“He’d  rather  fish  than  eat!”  The 
person  addicted  to  the  pleasures  of 
the  table  but  not  to  those  of 
the 
stream  finds  it  impossible  to  enter 
into  the  enthusiasm  of  the  devotee 
of  the  rod,  who,  perhaps,  furnishes 
him  with  toothsome  samples  of 
the 
delicious  edible.  The  former  will not 
concede  that  there  is  any  other  sport 
on  earth  half  so  enjoyable  as  this 
one. 
I  was  on  an  excursion,  two  or 
three  years  ago,  which  took  in  the 
northern  points 
and 
among  the  party  were  a  number  of 
the  most  ardent  of  lovers  of  the  di­
version,  who,  at  every  possible  op­
portunity,  dropped  a  line,  on  several 
occasions  narrowly  missing  connec­
tion  with  train  or  boat,  so  preoccu­
pied  were  they  with  their  pleasure.

interest, 

of 

Four  square  dipnets  12x12  and  one 
14x14,  all  being  of  1%  inch  mesh,  are 
festooned  across  the  entire  front  of 
the  window  and  back  and  forth  to  the

extreme  background,  making  a  most 
attractive  “stage 
setting,”  as  you 
might  call  it.  At  regular  intervals 
all  along  the  front  edge  of  the  net 
are  different  sizes  and  sorts  of  troll­
ing  hooks,  giving  the  appearance  of a 
fringe.

rodholder. 

The  voluminous  rubber  coat  in the 
center  of  the  picture  ensures  protec­
tion  against  inclement  weather.  Near 
it  is  a  large  tin-lined  lunch  basket, to 
provide  for  the  sustenance  of 
the 
inner  man,  and  in  front  of  it  rests  a 
wicker  fishbasket,  in  which  to  bring 
back  something  to  verify  the  length 
and  breadth  of  the  stories  to  be  told 
later  on.  At  the  right  of  this  is  a 
| handled 
fore­
ground  at  the  left  is  a  flybook  and 
above  it  is  a  landingnet.  This  hardly 
shows  against  the  drapery  of  brown 
cotton  flannel,  which  is  also  employ­
ed  at  the  right  behind  the  base  ball 
outfit.  Immediately  in  the  rear  of  the 
sportsman’s  right  leg  is  a  big  min- 
nowpail,  and  above  at  the  left  is  a 
receptacle 
fishingtackle.  Hang­
ing  above  these  are  placards  bearing 
reference  to  the  Saturday  base  ball 
game— Terre  Haute  vs.  Grand  Rap­
ids.  But  the  “piece  de  resistance” of

the 

for 

In 

the 

the  whole  window  is  the  sleeping- 
blanket  below 
innings  board, 
wool-lined,  the  outside  made  of  mate­
rial  impervious  to  moisture,  so  that 
a  man  encased  therein  could  sleep 
in  a  marsh  if  the  opening  around  the 
neck  were  above  the  waterline.  A 
hood  covers  the  head,  just  leaving 
room  for  the  face. 
It  fastens  close- 
lv  under  the  chin  with  a  substantial 
button.  The  sheep’s-wool 
lining  is 
so  arranged  that  it  can  be  taken  out 
of  the 
the 
weather  is  too  warm.  Scattered  on 
the  desk  are  small  articles  consider­
ed  necessary  for  a 
trip— nu­
merous  time-cards,  maps  and  resort 
pamphlets,  to  assist  in  laying  out  a 
route.

sleeping-blanket  when 

fishing 

Altogether  the  window  is  such  as 
to  appeal  especially  to  the  longing 
Tzaak  Walton;  and  it  even  enkindles 
in  the  breast  of  the  layman  an  em­
phatic  affirmative  response  to  the  per­
tinent  interrogation:

“Why  don’t  you?”

Queer  Facts  About  Steel.

Although  the  steel  and  iron  indus­
try  is  one  of  the  mightiest  of  the 
world  and  offers  such  rewards  that 
some  of  the  greatest  chemists  and 
other  scientists  study  nothing  else, 
there  are  lots  of  apparently  simple 
puzzles  about  it  that  no  one  has  been 
able  to  solve  yet.  The  man  who 
discovers  the  right  answer  to  one  or 
more  of  them  may  make  $1,000,000 
out  of  it.

Everyone  who  handles  steel  knows 
that  it  gets  “tired”  at  times.  After 
a  piece  of  steel  has  been  subjected 
to  a  severe  strain  for  a  certain  period 
it  may  suddenly 
show  a  decided 
weakness.  Then  the  experts  say  that 
it  is  tired;  and  so  it  is,  for  if  it  is 
allowed  to  rest  a  while  it  regains  its 
old  strength.

Recently  it  has  been  found  that  a 
steel  beam  can  be  made  stronger  by 
increasing  the  load  on  it  gradually— 
in  other  words,  by  exercising  it  just 
as  a  man  exercises  his  muscles  when 
he  wishes  to  make  them  stronger.

Very  often  new  steel  will  not  pass 
tests  that  it  should  pass,  but  after  a 
few  weeks  it  is  found  that  it  has 
grown  better  and  passes  the  tests 
beautifully.  Then,  again,  steel  that 
was  perfect  when  it  was  tested  often 
gets  “sick.” 
It  cracks  or  becomes 
brittle,  although  other  steel  made  at 
the  same  time  in  the  same  way  re­
mains  perfectly 
sound.  No  man 
knows  to-day  why  these  things  hap­
pen,  but  lots  of  people  are  trying  to 
find  out.

educated  gentlem en  who  are  salesm en 
good  habits.  Experienced  in  all  b rand 
of  th e  profession.  W ill  conduct  any  k i  
of  saie  but  earnestly  advise  one  of  < 
New  Idea  sales,  independent  of aucti 
to  center  trad e  and  boom  business  al 
profit,  or  entire  series  to  get  out  of  bu 
ness  a t  cost.

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Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

been 

New  York,  May  13— Speculators  in 
coffee  in  Wall  Street  have  been  li­
quidating  during  the  past  few  days 
and  the  volume  of  stock  offered  has 
been  greater  than  the  buying  public 
could  easily  digest.  The  result  has 
been  something  of  a  decline,  and 
when  such  an  event  takes  place  buy­
ers  hesitate,  thinking  the  reaction will 
be  still  greater.  European  advices 
were  weaker,  too,  and  this  did  not 
help  matters  here.  No  trading  of 
importance  has 
done  with 
roasters  and  the  market  is  simply  a 
waiting  one.  The  decline  seems  to be 
a  speculative  move,  purely,  as  sup­
plies  in  Brazil  continue  moderate, and 
prices  there  for  roasting  grades  are 
fractionally  higher  than  here.  At the 
close  the  rate  for  Rio  No.  7  is  8c.  In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  4,072,673 
bags,  against  2,517,493  bags  at 
the 
same  time  last  year.  Sympathizing 
with  Brazil  grades,  milder  sorts  have 
suffered  some  reaction  and  buyers 
show 
interest,  although  prices 
are  practically  without  change— good 
Cucuta,  9J2C  and  good  average  Bo- 
io^i@ n% c;  East  Indias  are 
gotas, 
quiet  and  unchanged.

less 

Teas  are  doing  a  little  better  this 
week,  and  some  interest 
is  being 
shown  by  both  local  and  out-of-town 
buyers.  Formasas  are  quite  well 
sustained  and  offerings  are  becoming 
more  and  more  limited.  Line  busi­
ness  is  fairly  active.

The  big  drop  in  sugar,  instead  of 
creating  any  rush  for  the  article,  has 
caused  buyers  to  hold  off  for  a  furth­
er  drop.  The  little  business  done 
consisted  almost  exclusively  of with­
drawals  under  old  contracts  and  new 
business  has  been  limited 
the 
smallest  possible  proportions.

to 

The  rice  market  shows  steady  al­
though  slight  improvement,  and  hold­
ers  feel  more  encouraged  than 
for 
several  weeks. 
Prices  remain  on 
about  the  same  level  as  last  noted.

in 

There  are  no  changes 

spices. 
Pepper  is  well  sustained  on  the  basis 
of  the  last  quotations,  but  sales  of  al­
most  all  sorts  of  spices  are  limited 
to  the  smallest  possible  lots.

Grocery  grades  of  New  Orleans 
molasses  have  been 
in  quite  good 
call  and  with  no  great  supply  in  sight, 
the  situation  being  in  favor  of  the 
seller.  Foreign  grades  are  at 
the 
moment  in  quite  limited  supply,  and 
it  would  be  very  difficult  to  fill  orders 
of  much  extent  from  stocks  on  hand 
here.  Syrups  are  steady  and  without 
change  in  any  particular.

lost,  and  of  all  times 

Canned  goods  are  not  being  specu­
lated  in.  Oh,  no!  The  man  who  spec­
ulates  is 
it 
would  seem  as  if  the  present  was 
about  the  worst  time  in  the.  history 
of  the  trade  to  carry  a  stock  greater 
than  the  every-day  demand  needs. 
So  many  things  have  operated  “agin” 
canned  goods  during  the  past  few

years  that  it  would  seem  as  if  there 
would  be  some  halt  in  the  building 
of  factories,  but  there  is  a  sort  of 
fascination  about  “seeing  the  wheels 
go  round,”  and  the  output  of  “tinned” 
stock  this  year  will  be  as  large  in  all 
probability  as  ever.  Standard  Mary­
land  tomatoes  in  carlots  are  being 
offered  at  65c  delivered  in  New  York. 
Low  grade  peas  and  corn  are  seem­
ingly  in  lighter  supply  than  a 
few 
weeks  ago,  and  this  is  well.  The  less 
goods  sold  at  47^@Soc  per  dozen 
the  better  for  all  concerned.  Salmon 
is  unchanged,  but  there  seems  to  be 
increasing  confidence  in  the  article.
Little  interest  is  displayed  in dried 

fruits  and  quotations  drag.

We  are  having  freer  arrivals  of  but­
ter  and  the  market  is  easier.  Best 
Western  creamery 
is  worth  26® 
265^0 ;  seconds  to  firsts,  24@25J^c; 
Western  imitation  creamery,  23@25c; 
Western  factory,  22@24c  and  reno­
vated,  22@25c. 
is  thought  that 
next  week  we  shall  have  still  larger 
receipts  and  prices  will  be  lower.

It 

Old  cheese  is  in  very  limited  sup­
ply,  and  it-is  impossible  to  name  any 
correct  figures  on  the  goods  as  it  is 
a  matter  of  “dicker.”  New  stock  is 
selling  on  the  basis  of  about  I2^c 
for  small  full  cream  goods.

While  arrivals  of  eggs  are  seem­
ingly  ample,  there  is  no  over-abun­
dance  of  really  desirable  stock,  and 
such  goods  are  selling  fairly  well  at 
20@2ic  for  near-by  stock;  best West­
ern,  i8@i8}4c; 
firsts, 
iy]4 @iSc  and  from  this  down  to  14 
@i5c.

seconds 

to 

Be  Decisive,  But  Not  Deceptive.
A  retail  hardware  dealer  at  a  re­
cent  convention  said,  “In  its  broad­
est  sense  success,  whether  it  be  mer­
cantile  or  professionel,  depends  on an 
intelligent  and  decisive  disposition  of 
a  subject  when  presented,”  and  this  is 
good  logic.  This  dealer  gave  an  il­
lustration  as  follows:

“When  I  show  Mr.  Black  a  cast 
iron  hammer  for  25  cents,  he  says: 
‘This  is  guaranteed?’  I  say,  ‘No,  sir, 
it  is  cast  iron  and  you  may  break  it 
in  driving  in  a  3°d  nail.’ 
If  Black 
takes  the  hammer  he  will  never  re­
turn  it  if  it  breaks. 
If  I  had  said  in 
reply  to  the  same  question,  ‘Well,  I 
think  you  will  find  it  all  right,’  three 
out  of  six  would  return  the  hammer 
if  broken.”

If  all  dealers  would  be  as  deci­
sive  they  would  not  only  save  them­
selves  much  annoyance,  but  gain  the 
confidence  of  the  people,  and  the  con­
fidence  of  the  people  of  the  commu­
nity  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  as­
sets  of  any  man’s  business.  The  de­
sire  to  make  a  sale  too  frequently  in­
duces  the  salesman  to,  if  not  exact­
ly  misrepresent  goods,  at  least  make 
a  reply  which  is  in  effect  the  same 
thing.  The  salesman  who  gains  the 
confidence  of  his  customer  can  usual­
ly  induce  him  to  buy  an  article  that 
the  salesman  can  recommend.— Im­
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Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
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saves  wear  and  tear  of  wagon  and 
harness.  It  saves  horse  energy.  It 
increases  horse  power.  Put  up  in 
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lb.  buckets  and  kegs,  half  barrels 
and  barrels.

Hand  Separator Oil
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New Oldsmobile

Touring  Car $950.

N oiseless,  odorless,  speedy  and 
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kinds  of  roads  and  in  all  kinds  of 
weather.  B uilt  to  run  and  does  it. 
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Wednesday,  May  io,  1905

TW ICE -TO LD   TALE .

The  May  number  of  the  Review  of 
Reviews  tells  a  straight  short  story 
of  ungarnished  fact  and  the  world, 
commercial  and  uncommercial,  reads 
and  wonders  at  it.  Thirty-four work­
men,  dissatisfied  with  the  returns  of 
their  labor,  took  each  a  $100  share 
and  went  into  business  for 
them­
selves.  The  thirty-four  shares  are 
now  in  the  hands  of  five  of  the  orig­
inal  stockholders,  the  others  having 
taken  up  other  business  enterprises 
of  their  own.  The  other  day  the  firm 
of  five  were  confronted  with  their 
striking  workmen  and  the  five  ut­
terly  refused  to  grant  the  demanded 
conditions;  and  the  reading  public 
look  at  each  other  with  expressions  of 
wonder  and  astonishment,  because 
the  complaint  of  the  workmen  was 
the  same  as  that  which  made  pro­
prietors  of  the  old-time  strikers  and 
which  those  same  proprietors  have 
utterly  refused  to  grant.

To  the  public  who  are  over-weary 
of  these  costly  strikes,  every  one  of 
which  they  have  to  pay  for  in  money 
and  in  inconvenience,  amounting 
to 
suffering,  this  labor  story  has 
little 
It  is  more  than  an  old 
consolation. 
and  tiresome  narrative  with 
“trim- 
min’s”  and  like  trimmin’s  generally 
they  beget  disgust. 
In  free  and  inde­
pendent  America  the  plain  fact  can 
never  be  covered  up.  We  have  here 
many  instances.  Poverty  place?  her 
gaunt  hands  upon  the  hut-born  boy, 
not  unkindly.  She  gives  him  scant 
food  and  a  hard  bed  and  thriving 
upon  both  a  robust  boyhood  comes 
and  goes,  leaving  him  a  strong  frame 
and  lusty  sinews.  Better  than  that 
she  has  taught  him  to  depend  upon 
himself  for  whatever  he  hopes 
to 
have.  There  is  but  one  way  to  suc­
cess  and  he  wants  no  other.  So  with 
his  hope  and  strength  he  begins.  He 
works  and  saves. 
In  time  the  money 
earned  increases  and,  still  working, 
he  turns  his  savings  to  practical  ac­
count. 
In  due  time  comes  his chance. 
He  improves  it.  He  “sets  up  for  him­
self.”  He  has  his  own  little  front 
office  in  the  back  room.  His  business 
thrives  and  grows  and  he  grows  with 
it.  His  working  force  grows,  too, 
from  one— and  that  one  himself— to 
ten— twenty— to  two  hundred  and  fif­
ty— to  a  thousand  men.  Success  has

crowned  him  and  his  and  his  busi­
ness  is  looked  upon  as  the  mainstay 
of  the  town,  which  it  has  helped  to 
build  up.  Then  his  thousand  men 
come  in  a  body  to  inform  him  that 
they  have  decided  upon  an  increase 
of  wages  and  a  decrease  of  time,  and 
he  finds  to  his  astonishment  that  his 
men  are  going  to  run  his  business 
with  his  money;  that  they  are  going 
to  take  charge  “right  now;”  and  that 
he  has  either  to  give  up  or  shut 
down.  He  gives  up  and  his  exultant 
thousand  find  when  too  late  that  it  is 
the  old  way  only  that  succeeds;  that 
through  toil  and  sweat  and  anxious 
experience  thrift,  and  then  prosperity, 
come  and  that  the  modern  methods, 
little  less  than  robbery,  end  only  and 
can  end  only  in  the  very  ruin  they 
are  determined  to  avert.

It  is  not  the  intention  to  discuss 
here  and  now  any  particular  phase  of 
this  question  that  seems  destined  to 
be  always  with  us;  but  it  does  seem 
desirable  to  emphasize  the  fact  that 
the  sooner  the  party  most  interested 
in  the  outcome  understands  that  work 
only,  plodding,  persistent,  old-fash­
ioned  work,  with  intelligence enough 
to  turn  to  practical  account  the  re­
sults  of  that  work,  the  better  it  will 
be  for  the  workman  and  the  commu­
nity  in  which  that  workman 
lives. 
Nobody  wants  him  to  be  oppressed, 
nobody  wants  him  to  be  down-trod­
den.  Everybody  on  the  contrary  not 
only  wants  but  insists  that  he  shall 
exercise  to  the  utmost  limit,  unhin­
dered,  every  sterling  quality  he  pos­
sesses  to  win  the  success  he  longs 
for,  whether  he  works  with  muscle 
or  brain  or  both;  but  one  of  eighty 
millions  he  must  remember  the  equal 
rights  of  others  and  depend  for  his 
success  alone— what  success  has  al­
ways  depended  on— on  those  qualities 
which  must  always  be  depended  upon 
for  the  rewards  which  the  applauding 
world  bestows.

It  is,  as  it  has  been  said  already, 
more  than  a  twice-told  tale,  as  the 
workman  in  the  story  found  and  as 
the  workman  will  always  find  if  he 
enters  the  lists  for  the  world’s  prizes; 
they  are  there  and  he  can  get  them 
if  he  will,  but  he  must  get  them  ac­
cording  to  the  old  order  of  things, 
and  not  by 
the  highway-robbery 
processes  which  are  resorted  to  to­
day.

As  was  to  be  expected,  the  wreck  at 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  has  suggested  the 
question  whether  railroads  should 
haul  as  ordinary 
freight  high  ex­
plosives  such  as  that  which  made  the 
accident  mentioned  so  great  a  cal­
amity.  The  agitation  which  will  in­
evitably  follow  will  doubtless  residt 
in  some  changes.  Already  a  number 
urge  that  explosives  should  be  carried 
by  special  trains  and  with  extra  pre­
cautions.  The  information  is  given 
that  crews  of  freight  trains  are  al­
ways  averse  to  handling  cars  contain­
ing  dynamite  or  other  explosive  ma­
terial  and  that  the  risk  taken  is  a 
hazardous  one. 
It  is  certain  that  if 
the  dynamite  had  not  been  present 
the  Harrisburg  wreck  would  have 
been  much  less  fatal.

Faith  can  not  feed  on  fireworks.

for  wrecking 

AN  UN LEARNED  LESSON.
A  few  years  ago  the  President  of 
one  of  the  largest  banks  in  Ohio  got 
up  a  corner  on  wheat  and  went  to 
the  penitentiary 
the 
bank.  Not  so  very  long  ago  one  of 
the  lake  cities  opened  the  morning 
paper  to  find  in  startling  headlines 
that  a  distinguished  citizen  had  made 
an  attempt  at  the  cornering  business 
and  had  escaped  the  righteous  con­
sequences  by  an 
extensive  check 
from  his  father’s  check  book.  Now 
Wisconsin  comes  to  the  front  with 
another  bank  president  who  has  set 
up  a  corner  and  tried  to  get  around 
it  at  the  expense  of  the  men  and 
women  who  trusted  him  and  he  is 
going  to  see  how  the  world  looks 
through  prison  bars.  Each  of  these 
cities  with  a  head-toss  has  exclaimed 
— its 
are
others,”  and  the  world  waits  with 
anxiety  for  the  “Next.”

defense— “There 

only 

supposed 

They  who  feel  this  anxiety  most 
are  asking  with  an  ominous  head- 
shake,  “Will  men  never  learn?”  Can 
it  be  that  they,  who  have  by  pain­
ful  exertion  clambered  to  the  tower­
ing  heights  of  success  and  have 
learned  or  are 
to  have 
learned  that  these  heights  are  gain­
ed  and  kept  only  by  constant  and  de­
termined  well  doing,  have  forgotten 
that  stealing  is  just  stealing— noth­
ing  more,  nothing 
that 
even-handed  justice  with  blinded  eyes 
administers  the  merited  punishment 
irrespective  of  persons? 
It  would 
seem  so,  and  yet  the  roll-call  of  theft 
for  lo!  these  many  years  has  been 
constantly  increasing  and 
they  who 
head  the  list  were,  until  the  crime  was 
in  the 
discovered,  the  leading  men 
community  whose  citizenship 
they 
have  so  shamelessly  disgraced.

less— and 

Public  opinion  is  not  now  troubling 
itself  much  over  the  reason. 
It  is 
known  already  and  has  been  for  a 
long  time.  The  man  whose  income  is 
a  good  many  millions  a  year  is  the 
Napoleon  of  finance.  His  brain  is  a 
double-decker.  He  has  the  rare  ge­
nius  of  making  other  men  work  for 
him.  He  screws  the  wage-point  down 
to  the  lowest  living  notch  and  sells 
their  wage-product  at  fabulous  prices. 
Understanding  the  full  force  of  the 
proverb,  “There  is  nothing  so  suc­
cessful  as  success,”  he  pushes  him­
self  and  gets  himself  pushed 
into 
commanding  positions  where  his 
greed  gains  sway,  and 
then  with 
other  people’s  money  he  “corners the 
market,  and  another  thief  furnishes 
an  illustration  to  the  lesson  that  dis­
honesty  is  determined  not  to  learn.

The  result  is  that  the  people  are 
lighting  up  their  lanterns  and,  Diog­
enes-like,  are  searching  every  corner 
for  an  honest  man.  They  need  him. 
He  is  in 
constant  demand.  They 
want  him  in  their  business  and  out  of 
it  and  more  than  all,  in  season  and 
out  of  season,  they  want  him  where 
they  can  put  their  hands  on  him.  The 
woeful  fact  is  that  he  can  not  be 
found.  He  is  not.  He  has  become 
extinct  and  high  finance  and 
low  fi­
nance  are  wondering  where  to 
look 
for  the  much-needed  article— men  to 
take  care  of  other  people’s  money 
and  other  people’s  property  and  make 
a 
faithful  and  honest  accounting.

Credit  is  the  mainspring  of  modern 
business  and  confidence  is  the  power 
that  keeps  it  in  motion.  There  can 
be  no  confidence  without  honesty and 
faithfulness  and  under  the  appalling 
circumstances  the  only  thing  to  be 
done  is  to  train  men  from  youth  up 
for  the  places  calling  loudly  for  them 
even  now,  so  train  them  in  these  so 
far  unlearned  lessons  that  they  will 
learn  practically  that  honesty  is  the 
best  policy  because  aside  from  “poli­
cy”  it  is  right.

for 

The  all-important  question  now  is, 
“Who  is  to  do  the  training?”  Who 
is  to  see  to  it  that  the  unlearned 
lessons  are  to  be  put  off  no  longer? 
With  the  daily  object-lesson  on every 
hand  it  ought  not  to  be  difficult  so 
to  train  the  learner  as  to  make  it 
possible 
the  main  idea  to  sink- 
deep.  So  far  the  school  room  has 
been  depended  on  and  it  has  failed. 
The  pulpit  has  been  hammering 
away  on  the  sixth  commandment  for 
ages  to  find 
itself  beating  the  air 
and  the  thief-market  is  full.  There  is 
but  one  resource  left.  The  home  with 
the  man  and  the  woman  at  the  head 
of  it  has  got  to  come  down— come 
down!— to 
sterling 
qualities  of  life  and  living  which sup­
port  not  only  that  home  but  the  so­
ciety  and  the  civilization  depending 
upon  it. 
idea 
must  be  crushed  and  the  home  is  the 
only  place  to  do  it.  There  the  task 
is  comparatively  easy.  The  method 
is  as  old  as  the  hills.  Line  upon  line; 
precept  upon  precept;  here  a 
little 
and  there  a  little,  all  of  it  illustrated 
by  an  example  which  can  come  only 
from  a  parent’s  daily  upright 
life. 
The  trifling  bet,  the  getting  some­
thing  for  nothing,  the  stealing  of  a 
ride  on  street  car  or  train— these  and 
the  countless  practices  which  children 
see  every  day  of  their  lives  are 
in 
themselves  trifles.

The  get-rich-quick 

teaching 

those 

It  is  a  hard  thing  to  say,  but  it  is 
the  home  training  which  too  often 
turns  out  the  thief. 
It  is  the  home 
that  winks  at  the  result  and  it  is  the 
home  that  must  rectify  the  evil.  The 
law  can  do 
something,  punishment 
can  do  something;  but  unless  the  fa­
ther  and  the  mother  in  the  quiet  sanc­
tity  of  home  teach  thoroughly 
the 
unlearned  lesson  that  honesty  and 
truth  and  uprightness  alone  make  a 
life  worth 
living,  the  wrong-doing 
will  still  go  on  and  an  honest  man, 
“the  noblest  work  of  God,”  will  con­
tinue  to  be  as  it  is  to-day,  the  want 
of  an  otherwise  prosperous  nation.

Tt  is  said  that  King  Alfonso  of 
Spain  will  only  visit  during  his  forth­
coming  tour  the  nations 
that  have 
been  united  to  Spain  by  close  re­
lations  and  a  feeling  of  constant  sym­
pathy  since  the  middle  ages.  Thus 
it  may  be  safely  said  that  only  a  few 
countries  will  be  visited  and 
the 
United  States  will  not  be  among 
them.

The  trouble  about  greeting  misfor­
tune  with  a  smile  is  that  it  never 
smiles  back.

It  is  always  more  humiliating  to 
own  up  to  a  mistake  than  to  make 
one.

Indian 

covered, 

In  Arizona 

To  Be  Good.

SOME  STRAN GE  FOODS.

Rattlesnakes  and  Skunk  Meat  Said  t 

That  civilized  man  has  missed 

and  eaten  for  food.  On  Lake  Chaleo 
a  certain  sedge  is  cultivated  on  which 
the  eggs  of  a  species  of  fly  are  de­
posited.  Bundles  are  made  of  these 
. 
and  placed  in  Lake  Texcoco  for  the 
some  of  the  most  toothsome  dainties  j 
purpose,  and,  when 
the 
, 
goes  without  saying,  and  it  is  evi- 
sedge  is  beaten  over  pieces  of  cloth 
dent  that  prejudice  enters  largely  into  ; 
and  the  eggs  secured.  These  are  col­
this.  Thus,  in  California,  the  best  ] 
lected  and  ground  into  a  meal,  also 
, 
fish,  it  is  said,  is  the  sculpin,  but  in 
called  ahuatl,  and  are  in  great  de­
the  East  this  fish  goes  begging  on  j 
mand  on  fast  days  when  fish  is  re­
account  of  its  disagreeable  appear-  ( 
quired,  the  insects  or  eggs  not  being 
, 
ance. 
children 
considered  flesh,  as  they  come  from 
may  be  seen  catching  ants  and  eating 
, 
the  water.  The  food  is  made  into 
them,  and  in  Mexico  the  honey  ant  is 
small  cakes  and  tastes  not  unlike 
, 
eagerly  sought  after  by  the  natives, 
caviare.  Not  only  the  eggs,  but  the 
who  eat  the  well-rounded,  currant­
larvae,  themselves 
a  disagreeable­
like  abdomen. 
In  South  America the 
looking  worm,  are  used  as  food  un­
large  lizard,  the  iguana,  is  a  delicacy,' 
der  the  name  of  puxi.
not  to  speak  of  the  larger  snakes, 
which  in  taste  are  like  chicken.  The 
ordinary  rattlesnake,  it  is  said,  is  ex­
cellent  eating  if  one  can  overcome 
the  inborn  prejudice.  Americans are 
inclined  to  regard  the  Chinese  as  a 
race  of  rat  eaters  and  denounce  the 
animal  as  unclean,  at  the  same  time 
consuming  tons  yearly  of  the  most 
loathsome  of  all  animals— the  hog 
The  rat  is  careful  of  its  toilet,  clean­
ing  itself  constantly,  but  the  hog  is 
the  only  animal  of  so-called  intelli­
gence  that  revels  in  filth  and  prefers 
it 
common 
skunk,  owing  to  its  peculiar  and  of­
fensive  glands,  will  never  be  popular 
as  food,  yet  its  flesh  is  not  only  good, 
but  delicious,  according  to  various 
connoisseurs  who  have  eaten  it.

The  civilized  man,  perhaps,  turns 
from  such  food  with  disgust,  but  it 
is  well  to  remember  that  epicures  in 
many  countries,  and  especially 
in 
England  and  America,  are  particu­
larly  fond  of  cheese  when  inhabited 
by  the  larvae  of  a  very  common  fly. 
In  the  United  States  the  large  octo­
pus  or  squid,  common  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  offends  the  American  palate, 
but  the  Italian,  Frenchman  or  Por­
tuguese  eats  it  with  avidity  and  con­
siders  it  a  delicacy.  The  meat  is  clear 
and  white  like  chicken,  and  has  the 
flavor  of  crab.  The  question  of  na­
tional  tastes  is  an 
interesting  one, 
and  the  contrast  between  those  of 
China  and  America 
remarkable. 
The  objects  displayed  in  the  Chinese 
quarter  as  dainties  are  often  repug­
nant  to  Americans. 
It  is  common  to 
find  the  Chinaman  selling  eggs  of  un­
known  age,  especially  ducks’  eggs 
containing  ducklings 
to  be 
hatched.  Shark  fins— a  tough,  dis­
agreeable  food— are  in  demand, while 
deer  horns  in  the  velvet  and  lizards 
of  various  kinds  are  eaten.

cleanliness. 

to 

The 

is 

ready 

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

9

Did  you  Know  coffee  was  used  1,000 
years  ago  in  Abyssinia  and  was  brought  to 
England 
in  the  year  1600?  And  did  you 
Know  that in  1903 there was consumed  in this 
country  457,533  tons  (not  pounds)?  ThinK of 
that,  for  it  means  1 1 ^   pounds  to  each  man, 
woman  and  child.

Its  increase  in  use  has  been  on an  aver­
age  20,000,000  pounds  per  year  lately,  and 
the  sale  of  our

Quaker  Coffee

has  increased  in  the  sam e  ratio.  Why?  Be­
cause  dealer  and  consumer  Know 
it  to  be 
The  Best—“Q.  E.  D.”

W o r d e n  (" ¡ r o c e r  C o m p a n y

D is tr ib u to r s

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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

Send  for  circular.

That  insects  do  not  enter  more  in­
to  the  food  supplies  of  nations  is  due 
to  prejudice.  Grasshoppers  are  eaten 
by  some  Western  tribes.  Ground  up 
they  make  a  meal  that  is  said  to  be 
most  nourishing  and  agreeable.  Many 
a  white  man  has  pressed  through  a 
country,  believing  himself  nearly 
starving  as  large  game  was  not  to 
be  had,  when  worms  and  various  in­
sects  were  at  hand.  During  the  flight 
of  locusts  Indians  sometimes  collect 
them  in  bags,  wash  them  and  cook 
them  for  a  meal.  The  most  singular 
food,  in  all  probability,  is  the  larvae 
of  a  fly,  common  in  certain  portions 
of  California,  and  known  as  Ephy- 
dra.  This  insect  is  found  in  such 
vast  quantities  in  Lake  Mono,  Cal., 
that  it  is  washed  upon  the  shores 
in  vast  windrows  and  can  be 
col­
lected  in  bushels.  The  water  of 
Mono 
very 
heavy  and  smooth  like  oil;  so  much 
so  that  it  resists  ordinary  wind  and 
refuses  to  become  ruffled.  When  the 
larvae  begin  to  appear  the  Indians 
gather  from  far  and  near  and  scrape 
them  up,  place  the  worm-like  crea­
tures  on  cloths  and  racks  in  the  sun 
and  dry  them,  when  they  are  beaten 
up  and  husked,  looking 
like 
rice.  The  Indians  call  the  food  koo- 
chah-bee,  and  many  bushels  are  col­
lected  at  this  time;  that  larvae  is  nu­
tritious  is  shown  by  the 
condition 
of  the  Indians,  who  soon  grow  fat 
on  the  rich  diet.  Many  birds  are  at­
tracted  by 
larvae  and  gorge 
themselves  with  the  singular  food.

is  singular,  seemingly 

then 

the 

On  Lake  Texcoco,  in  Mexico,  a  cu­
rious  fly  is  found,  which  also  is  eaten 
by  the  natives,  and  known  as  ahuatl; 
the  eggs  of  the  insect,  which  are  de­
posited  on  sedges,  are  also  collected

is  nearly  worth 

least  $100,000  per 

The  nest  of  the  swallow,  with  its 
bedded  secretion  of  the  mouth  glands 
of  the  birds, 
its 
weight  in  gold.  Trepang,  the  tough, 
impossible  holothurian,  is  eaten,  and 
its  collection  is  an  important  indus­
try  along  the  Malay  coast,  valued  at 
at 
In 
France  the  sea  anemone  is  used  as 
food;  stuffed  like  peppers  and  boiled 
it  calls  to  mind  crab  or  crayfish.  The 
echini  of  various  species  is  also  used, 
cooked  in  the  shell,  like  an  egg,  and 
eaten  with  a  spoon. 
In  nearly  all  of 
the  old  countries  of  Europe  of  the 
type  of  Spain  and  Italy  the  poor  are 
so  poor  that  everything  in  the  na­
ture  of  food  is  utilized.

annum. 

Absolutely  nothing  is  wasted,  and 
meat  is  rare.  The  surprise  of  an 
Italian  fisherman,  who  landed  in  Cal­
ifornia  after  a  trip  around  the  Horn, 
is  better  imagined 
than  described. 
He  was  amazed,  not  at  the  country, 
but  at  the  abundance  of  food.  He 
found  his  countrymen  eating  meat 
twice,  perhaps  three 
times  a  day, 
when  he  rarely  had  it  once  a  month. 
He  saw  hundreds  of  pounds  of  fish 
wasted  and  discarded  merely  because 
the  people  did  not  care  for  it,  when 
in  Italy  even  the  heads  would  be 
boiled  and  eaten.  He  saw  big  tun­
nies  towed  out  to  sea  and  thrown 
away  because  they  were  tough, when 
in  his  own  land  every  scrap  of  this 
fish  was  saved.

Are  positively  the  best  five  cent  cigars  m anufactured  and  have 
always  proven  to  be  good  sellers.  T h ey  are  the  cigars  that 

W ise  Men  Sm oke,
W ise  M erchants  Sell.

W o r d e i v  Q r o c e r  C o m p a n y  

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Distributors  for  W estern  Michigan

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drop  of  that  downpour  without  the 
help  of  that  “chair” 
“to 
teach  graduates  how  to  get  a  job. ’
R.  M.  Streeter.

endowed 

The  Nimble  Penny.

Quite  a  common  error  with  the 
small  retailer,  particularly  the  young 
retailer,  is  taking  too  liberal  advan­
tage  of  quantity  prices.  The  extra 
discount  on  a  big  order  in  one  line  is 
a  big  temptation,  but  it  is  the  nim­
ble  penny  that  catches  the  money. 
Many  a  store  and  many  a  business  is 
loaded  down  with  these  same  large 
orders,  bought  at  a  big  discount  and 
kept  at  a  great  expense  of  tied-up 
capital  while  they  are  being  unloaded. 
It  costs  less  freight,  but  the  interest 
on  the  money  invested  is  more  than 
enough  to  cover  the  extra 
freight. 
Freight  only  has  to  be  paid  once, 
while  interest  is  a  constant  expense, 
whether  it  applies  to  tied-up  or 
to 
| borrowed  capital.  How  many  men 
have  seen  opportunities  of  some  spe­
cial  nature  escape  that  they  would 
most  gladly  have  embraced  if  they 
had  felt  able  to  afford  it;  opportuni­
ties that  only required  perhaps  a small 
part  of  the  idle  capital  represented 
by  many  an  unwise  purchase!

One  fact,  like  the  beggars,  we  have 
always  with  us;  that  some  unwise 
purchases  will  surely  be  made.  The 
best  of  buyers  have  often  to  regret 
their  liberality  in  some  direction;  sel­
dom  is  any  buyer  worthy  of  the name 
I called  on  to  seriously  regret  his  par­
simony.  Big  discounts  are  a 
fine 
thing  for  those  who  can  afford  them, 
but  let  the  little  fellow  rather  aim 
to  keep  his  capital  rolling  over 
so 
actively  that  it  will  earn  him  greater 
interest  than  the  discounts  represent. 
It  can  be  done.  W hy  not  do  it?

Take  your  religion  as  a  dose  and 

expressions 

home-taught 

the 
of 
speech  until  contact  with  the  world | 
has  taught  them  the  real  grammar. 
They  will  spell  or  not  as  duty  bids 
and  in  the  meantime  with  diploma 
forgotten  they  will  draw  deeply  upon 
such  training  as  the  schools  have been 
able  to  furnish,  while  holding  the  job 
secured  without  the  help  of  the  much 
reeded  chair.

led  him 

It  is  remarkable  how  many  gradu­
ates  have  managed  to  get  along  with­
out  this  chair.  Consider  the  attempts 
of  a  certain  well  known  graduate  of 
Harvard,  “From  night 
till  morn, 
from  morn  till  dewy  eve,”  strenuous­
ly  striving  to  find  the  opening  which 
has 
finally  to  the  White 
House.  What  a  help  it  would  have 
been  for  the  Secretary  of  State  had 
he  with  his  college  course  behind 
him  been  fitted  into  the  place  which 
in  after  years  was  to  crown  him  the 
prince  of  diplomats.  What  a  boon  it 
would  have  been  for  the  Rhode  Is­
land  farm  boy  if  he  could  have  pass­
ed  from  the  graduating  platform  of 
the  First  Baptist  church  at  Brown 
University  at  once  to  his  masterful 
presidency  of  our  State  University 
through  the  agency  of  “the  chair.” 
What—but  there  is  no  need  of  going 
on  with  this.  The  world  is  moving 
and  improving  as  she  moves. 
Intelli­
gence  is  the  law  of  the  land  and  not 
an  enterprise  with  success  at  the  end 
of  it,  but  is  calling  for  trained  intelli­
gence  to  man  it.  Chance  and  guess 
have  either  gone  out  of  business  or 
are  getting  ready  to  put  up  their 
blinds.  Labor  of  all  kinds  makes  es­
timates  now  and  draws  up  plans  be­
fore  beginning  a  job.  The  end  is 
seen  at  the  beginning  or  the  work  is 
not  entered  upon.

All  these  demands  are  met  by  the 
teacher,  somewhere  along  the  line—  
once  anywhere,  but  now  after  com­
mencement  mostly.  Cutting  cross­
lots  into  the  store  is  frowned  upon. 
The  once  careless  grocer  has  made 
up  his  mind  that  his  delivery  man 
with  considerable  schooling  behind 
him  is  dollars  better  than  the  letter­
less  clown  that  neither  reads  nor 
writes.  The  manufacturer  is  getting 
over  the  once  deeply  rooted  idea  that 
a  human  machine  at  fifty  cents 
a 
inanimate  affair 
week  can  run  the 
from  the  manufactory. 
“Show  me 
your  school  record,”  is  the  require­
ment  now  when  work  is  asked  for 
and  the  statements  there  will  settle 
the  question,  together  with  the  wages 
going  with  it.
,  With  this  fact  understood  the  out­
pour  of  the  schools  is  not  a  matter 
of  much  concern.  The  diploma-car­
rier  is  always  wanted 
somewhere, 
and  as  long  as  intelligent  work  is  to 
be  done  he  will  always  be  in  demand. 
That  is  what  the  schools  are  for  and 
the  colleges  are  for— to  furnish  with­
out  limit  the  trained  brains  that  the 
vocations  of  life  with  out-stretched 
hands  are  calling  for.  The  calling 
is  going  on  to-day  and  it  will  not 
stop  in  June.  The  boys  are  wanted; 
the  girls  are  wanted.  Exactly  as  the 
thirsty  grain  fields  of  the  Great  West 
long  for  the  rain  in  dry  weather  so 
the  industrial  fields  the  country  over 
are  longing  for  the  graduate  down­
pour,  and  they  will  appropriate  every

From  Factory  to  Home
I O  those  of  you  who  live  in 

your  country  home,  on  the 
farm  or  in  the  smaller  villages, 

where  you  assume  you  must  do 
without  certain  modern  conve­
niences because you can  not  afford 
them,  or because you think  that  it 
is not possible to  have  them  out­
side  of  the  large  cities,  perhaps 
for the reason that  there  is  not  a 
sewer  or  water  system,  etc.,  we 
say—get away  from  such  an  im­
pression!  Hundreds  of  our  farm 
homes have  all  the  conveniences 
that a first-class system  of  plumb­
ing  affords,  and  you  can  have 
them for considerably  less  money 
than they paid for theirs.

Do you think it is a convenience, 
or even  a  pleasure,  to  haul  in  a 
wash tub when you want to  bathe, 
and then wait an  hour for a  couple 
of kettles of  water  to  heat  before 
your bath is ready?
Do you think it is a convenience, 
or even a pleasure to pick  up  your 
tin  wash  basin,  go  to  the  pump 
with 
it,  wind  yourself  getting 
enough water to  perform  your  ablutions,  then  back  to  the  tea  kettle 
to warm it up a little,  and then out to the bench in the wood shed, where 
you complete your  toilet,  after  which  you  must  sit  down  and  rest  a 
moment?  Certainly you do not!  And you will not tolerate such  condi­
tions if you are wise.
Would  it not be handy?  Would it not be a pleasure  to  have  one  of 
our white enameled iron lavatories,  one of our white enameled iron  bath 
tubs,  and one of our low down tank  closet  combinations,  in  your  bath 
room,  or any other convenient place in your home?

What would you say to one of  our  white  enameled  sinks  with  en­

ameled back and ash drip board in your kitchen?

Do you not think it is worth your while to drop us a card, and let us 
tell you all about these  goods,  and  what  they  will  cost  you?  We  are 
always glad of an opportunity to quote prices,  whether  you  buy  or  not. 
and,  further than that,  we will furnish estimates  on  plumbing  and  heat­
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11

are  still  unprovided  for.  To  give  spe­
cial  point  to  the  joke  why  not  ask 
the  President  of  the  Ann  Arbor  fac­
ulty  how  many  students  from  all  the 
departments  who  were  graduated  in 
June  are  still  eating  the  bread  of  idle­
ness  because  after  making  all  due 
effort  they  are  yet  in  the  ranks  of 
the  unemployed?  With  the  question 
to 
thus  started  suppose  it  be  sent 
every 
country 
worthy  of  the  name.  What  in  all 
probability  will  be  the  result?  That | 
to  a  man  they  have  entered  and  are i 
filling  with  more  or  less  success  the 
positions  they  had  little  or  no  trou­
ble  to  secure.

institution  of 

the 

Would  it  be  news  to  the  reader  or 
to  even  the  author  of  the  pleasantry 
quoted  to  be  told  that  this  condition 
of  things  has  always  been  so?  Ad­
mit,  for  the  sake  of  the  argument, 
that  some  of  last  year’s  “grist”  have 
not  yet  been  provided  for.  How about 
the  year  before  last  and  the  preceding 
years?  There  are  none;  or,  if  some 
are  counted  as  such,  the  misfortune 
is  due  to  no  fault  of  the  schools— a 
condition  of  things  not  calling  loudly 
for  the  getting-a-job  chair.

This  would  b**  the  place,  if  any­
where,  to  beat  over  again  the  oft- 
tur..ed  and  just  as  oft-beaten  old 
straw;  but  there  is  use  neither  of 
turning  nor  beating.  Perfection  has 
not  yet  been  reached  nor  has  it  yet 
so  been  claimed.  Graduates  can  not 
and  will  not,  until  practice  gives  them 
sufficient  experience,  add  rapidly  and 
correctly  the  column  of  figures,  long 
or  short.  They  will  continue  to  use

ESiAeUSHCO • 1872

CH AIR  B A D L Y   NEEDED.

One  Which  Enables  Graduates  To 

Get  a  Job.
W ritten  for  th e  T radesm an.

The  same  old  criticism  comes  a 
little  earlier  this  year  and  by 
a 
change  of  key  makes  an  attempt  to 
hold  up  to  ridicule  one  of  the  main 
hopes  of  the  American  republic. 
It 
has  had  its  laugh  at  the  sweet  girl 
graduate  and  her  wisdom-refusing 
It  has  made  all  sorts  of 
brother. 
fun  of  the  diploma  and 
its  pretty 
lute-string  ribbon. 
It  has  asserted 
with  a  vehemence  as  senseless  as  it 
is  uncalled  for  that  the  sheep  skin 
and  its  absurd  statements  stand  only 
for  pads  and  frills. 
It  has  declared 
until  its  throat  is  dry  and  its  voice 
husky  that  the  owner  after  years  of 
schoolgoing  can  not  add  correctly 
the  average  ledger  column  of  figures; 
he  can  not  talk  his  own  language  in­
telligently  and  correctly  and  so  far 
as  writing  it  is  concerned  it  has  long 
been  given  up  as  a  hopeless  case.  The 
“m-hm”  of  public  opinion  has  not 
been  at  all  comforting  and  now  by 
beginning  in  season  he  hopes  to  cre­
ate  a  laugh  against  the  holder  of  the 
beribboned  diploma  and  begins  with 
this:

“I’m  going  to  endow  one  of  the 
the  millionaire; 

universities,” 
“going  to  establish  a  chair.”

said 

“Chair  of  what?”  asked  a  friend.
“Well,  I  don’t  know  what  you’d 
call  it  for  short,  but  it’s  a  chair  that’s 
badly  needed— a  chair  to  teach  grad­
uates  to  get  a  job.”

There  are  statistics,  if 

they  are 
wanted,  to  show  how  many  of  these 
graduates  are  let  loose  upon  the  in­
dustrial  world  every 
year.  They 
come  from  the  universities  and  the 
colleges  in  crowds  and  the  number 
from  the  high  schools  of  the  coun­
try  makes  up  an  army  of  no  mean 
proportions. 
are 
yearly  increasing  and  if  a  chair  to 
teach  them  to  get  a  job  is  to  be  es­
tablished  it  can  not  be  established  a 
minute  too  soon.

These  numbers 

Before  any  appeals  are  made  to  the 
proper  authorities  it  may  be  well, 
however,  to  ascertain  to  what  extent 
applications  of 
this  character  have 
been  made.  Does  the  university  feel 
any  embarrassment  on  account  of  the 
graduates  still  clinging  to  the  alma 
mater  gown?  Has  the  State  Univer­
sity  felt  the  need  of  “the  chair?”  Is 
the  Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Educa­
and 
tion  deliberating  upon  ways 
means  for  lessening 
the  graduate 
supply? 
If  the  reports  from  these 
sources  are  to  be  at  all  relied  upon 
there  is  no  “shutting  down”  of 
the 
works.  The  toddler  of  the  primary 
goes  home  with  the  joyful  fact  that 
he  has  “passed.”  There  are  millions 
in  the  ninth  grade  looking  forward 
to  the  high  school  entrance  even  now 
with  the  brightest  anticipations,  and 
the  seniors  there— are  they  at  all  in 
doubt  about  the  future  after  that  one 
red-letter  day  in  June  and  longing 
for  the  services  of  the  badly  needed 
chair  to  teach  them  to  get  a  job?

It  may  be  pertinent  just  here  for 
the  leading  city  of  Western  Michigan 
to  ask  the  city  Board  of  Education 
how  many  of  last  year’s  left-overs

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FOO D  A D U LTER A N TS.

Methods  By  Which  They  Can  Be 

Detected.

following 

It  would  be  impossible  in  an  arti­
cle  like  the 
to  attempt 
to  give  a  comprehensive  account  of 
the  various  methods  used  by  analyti­
cal  chemists  in  examining  the  innu­
merable  substances  which  are  brought 
to  them  for  investigation,  but  there 
are  certain  substances  whose  pres­
ence  in  an  article  of  food  or  drink 
absolutely  brings  it  under  the  ban as 
far  as  the  State  food 
law  is  con­
cerned,  and  the  recognition  and  iden­
tification  of  which  is  a  comparative­
ly  easy  matter,  even  to  one  whose 
knowledge  of  analytical  processes  is 
very  slight.

The  so-called  “pure  food  crusades” 
which  are  so  frequently  heralded  by 
the  newspapers  and  the  trade  jour­
nals,  and  which  are  made  to  serve 
as  the  target  of  many  bad  jokes,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  malignant  attacks 
to  which  those  persons  who  are  en­
gaged  in  enforcing  the  laws  are  so 
often  subjected,  are  simply  the  occa­
sional  attempts  on  the  part  of  the 
authorities  of  the  State  to  enforce 
the  laws  which  are  on  the  statute 
books,  and  which  should  be  enforced 
all  of  the  time  if  they  are  to  have 
any  salutary  effect  whatever.

There 

is  no  use  in  arguing  the 
question  as  to  the  real  harm  in  the 
prohibited  substances,  as  it  is  after 
all  not  so  much  a  question  of  the  in­
jury  to  health  as  a  question  of  fraud­
ulently  manipulating 
inferior  prod­
ucts  /so  as  to  enable  the  seller  to 
obtain  the  price  of  a  much  higher 
class  of  goods.

The  cry  of  “salicylic  acid”  has  so 
influenced  the  popular  mind 
that 
many  persons  are  under  the  impres­
sion  that  the  substance  in  question 
is  an  injurious  product  of  solely  ar­
tificial  origin  and  that  its  physiologi­
cal  effect  is  but  slightly  less  injurious 
than  that  of  arsenic  itself. 
It  would 
no  doubt  surprise  many  of  these  per­
sons  to  learn  that  an  ordinary  winter- 
green 
as  much 
salicylic  acid  (combined  as  methyl 
salicylate)  as  the  average  tumbler of 
jelly  which  has  been  preserved  with 
this  substance;  but  such  is  certainly 
the  case,  as  any  one  who  desires may 
verify  for  himself.

lozenge  contains 

The  presence  of  aniline  colors  and 
salicylic  acid  being  most  important 
then,  from  the  standpoint  of  compli­
ance  with  the  food  law,  more  prose­
cutions  being  based  on  these  sub­
stances  than  on  all  others  put 
to­
gether,  many  persons  feel  entirely 
safe  from  prosecution  when  assured 
of  the  absence  of  these  products from 
the  articles  which  they  are  handling, 
and  it  is  the  object  of  this  article  to 
show  the 
retail  druggist  how  he 
can  readily  and  effectually  determine 
the  presence  or  absence  of  these  sub­
stances  at  least.

In  looking  for  the  presence  of  ani­
line  colors  in  articles  of  food  and 
drink,  it  will  be  remembered  that  the 
range  of  colors  which  it  is  customary 
to  use 
limited,  being 
confined  principally  to  the  reds,  yel­
lows  and  browns,  very  few  articles

is  somewhat 

of  this  nature  being  colored  either 
green  or  blue.

The  first  step  in  the  operation  of 
testing  for  the  presence  of  aniline  or 
coal-tar  color 
is  the  selection  and 
preparation  of  some  fat-free  woolen 
goods.  For  this  purpose  a  good  quali­
ty  of  nun’s  veiling  is  obtained  and 
freed  from  fat  by  boiling  it,  first  in 
a  5  per  cent,  solution  of  sodium  hy­
droxide  for  a  few  minutes,  and  then 
repeatedly  in  pure  water  until  the 
alkali  has  been  entirely 
removed. 
This  material  is  then  cut  into  strips 
of  a  uniform  size  (about  1x2  inches) 
and  preserved  in  a  wide-mouth,  glass- 
stoppered  bottle  until  it  is  to  be  used.
The  material  to  be  tested,  if  a  li­
quid,  is  to  be  diluted  with  an  equal 
volume  of  water;  if  it  is  a  solid  or  a 
semi-solid 
is  to  be  dissolved  in 
about  four  times  its  weight  of  water 
and  the  liquid  strained 
remove 
particles  of  fruit  pulp  or  cellular  tis­
sue,  which  would  adhere  to  the  wool 
and  interfere  with  the  results.  About 
ioo  c.c.  (or  4  fi.  07.)  of  the  liquid  is 
placed  into  a  beaker,  4  c.c.  (or  1  fl. 
dr.)  of  diluted  hydrochloric  acid  (10 
per  cent.)  is  added,  a  single  strip  of 
the  woolen  gods  is  immersed  in  the 
liquid  and  the  contents  of  the  beaker 
are  then  boiled  for  five  minutes.  The 
cloth  is  then  removed,  washed 
in 
cold  water,  and  then  boiled  for  five 
minutes 
in  water  which  has  been 
slightly  acidulated  with  hydrochloric 
acid.

to 

it 

If  the  coloring  matter  be  of  fruit 
or  vegetable  origin  the  cloth  will 
either  be  uncolored  or  will  be chang­
ed  to  a  very  faint  pink  or  brown 
tint. 
If  coal-tar  or  aniline  colors 
have  been  used,  the  cloth  will  be 
dyed  a  bright  pink,  red,  yellow  or 
brown,  according  to  the  color  pres­
ent.  To  confirm  the  results,  remove 
the  cloth  from  the  acidulated  liquid, 
wash  it  well  in  water,  place  it  in  a 
beaker  with  a  little  water  and  add 
a  few  drops  of  stronger  ammonia 
water.  Vegetable  or  fruit  colors  will 
not  dissolve,  but  will  change  to  a 
green,  purple  or  yellow  color.  Ani­
line  or  coal-tar  colors  will  not  be 
changed 
in  color,  but  will  be  dis­
solved,  especially  when  the  solution 
is  heated  to  boiling,  after  which,  up­
on  the  removal  of  the  cloth,  acidify­
ing  as  in  the  original  dyeing  test,  in­
serting  a  fresh  piece  of  cloth  and 
boiling  as  before,  the  color  will again 
be  deposited.

This  second  dyeing  test  is  consid­
ered  an  absolute  proof  of  the  pres­
ence  of  added  coloring  matter,  as  no 
fruit  colors  have  yet  been 
found 
which  will  be  deposited  upon  the 
wool  the  second  time,  while  aniline 
colors  will  always  be  so  deposited.

When  cochineal  is  present  a  bright 
color  is  obtained  with  the  first  dye­
ing  which  might  be  mistaken  for  an 
aniline  color,  but  when  the  ammonia 
water  is  added  in  preparing  it  for  the 
second  dyeing,  the  red  color  changes 
to  purple,  and  the 
second  dyeing 
comes  out  practically  ‘colorless.

In  testing  for  salicylic  acid  the  ma­
terial  is  to  be  prepared  as  in  testing 
for  coloring  matter,  except  that  it  is 
to  be  acidulated  with  sulphuric  acid 
instead  of  hydrochloric  acid.  After 
acidulating,  about  50  c.c.  (or  2  fl.  oz.)

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

Ceresota  Flour

During  the 

“ Pure  Food 
Show”  this  question  was  fre­
quently  asked  by  ladies  at  the 
‘ ‘ Ceresota  Booth

What  will  I  do  to have  my 

bread  always  alike?

The  answer  was;  Buy  and 
use  “  Ceresota  Flour.”  Uni­
formity  of  quality— results  al­
ways  the  same— is  the  secret 
of 
increasing 
sales.

constantly 

the 

Ceresota  will  make  forty  pounds  more  bread  to 
the  barrel  than  other  brands.  Have  you  a  customer 
who can  resist  that?

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Consolidated  Milling  Co.

Minneapolis,  Minn.

JUDS0N  GROCER  CO.,  Distributors,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

You Remember

what  we  said  years  ago  about 
making  a  flour  that  was  so  good 
that  all  the  people  would  want  it?
Well,  it looks  to  us  as  if  it  were 
so,  for  the  constantly  increasing 
demand  for

Hew  Silver  Ceaf  Flour

has  compelled  us  to  increase  our 
facilities  for  mauufacturing  a  num­
ber  of  times  since  then,  and  we 
are  adding  new  customers  to  our 
list every  day.

Have  you  ever  tried  selling  this 

flour ?

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There  are  more 

in  India  to-day  there 

idols  shipped  to 
India  than  to  any  other  country,  be­
a 
cause 
is 
greater  demand  for  gods  than 
in 
Japan  and  China. 
In  every  home 
there  is  a  favorite  god;  if  the  family I 
is  one  of  moderate  circumstances each 
member  of  the  family  has  his  little 
god,  and  when  the  god  is  made  of 
plaster  there  are  many  broken  and 
these  are  immediately  replaced.  Thus 
the  trade  in  idols  is  ever  flourishing.
However,  no  matter  how  many 
idols  are  turned  out  at  the  factory 
per  day,  there  are  three  figures  that 
are  never  made  there.  These  are  the 
figures  belonging 
the  Trinity. 
Never  are  these  figures  made  in other 
metal  than  bronze,  and  that  in  India, 
for  so  sacred  are  they  to  the  people 
that  foreign  workmanship  defiles  and 
insults  each.  But  without  these  three 
figures  there  are  so  many  wonderful, 
big,  queer-looking  dolls  in  this  fac­
tory’s  different  departments  that  one 
believes  himself  to  be  in  a  waxworks 
rather  than  an 
factory.  That 
such  a  vast  number  of  idols  as  line 
the  shelves  around  the  rooms  can  be 
made,  shipped  and  sold  to  foreign 
countries  is  almost  beyond  belief. 
The  average  shipment  of  idols  to  va­
rious  countries  is  from  three  to  nine 
hundred 
figures  a  month.— China, 
Glass  &  Potterv  Review'.

idol 

to 

Rice  Lands  Grow  in  Value. 
Since  the  fiscal  year  1898-99 

the 
acreage  devoted  to  rice  culture  in this

IF

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Minneapolis,  Minn.

of  the  liquid  is  placed  in  a  tall  cylin­
drical  stoppered  graduate  (a  tall  cy­
lindrical  bottle  will  answer  the  pur­
pose)  and  a  layer  of  ether  poured  on 
the  top  (about  one-fourth  as  much 
ether  as  the  liquid  to  be  extracted). 
The  contents  of  the  cylinder  are then 
mixed  by  inverting  it  a  number  of 
times,  taking  care  not  to- agitate  the 
contents  too  violently,  which  would 
cause  the  formation  of  an  emulsion.
After  complete  separation  of  the 
ethereal  layer  has  taken  place  about 
io  c.c.  (or  2  fl.  dr.)  are  cautiously 
removed  by  careful  decantation  or 
the  use  of  a  pipette,  transferred  to  a 
watch  glass  and  the  ether  allowed  to 
evaporate  at  a  low  temperature.

If  salicylic  acid  be  present  in  nota- 
hie  quantities  the  residue  upon 
the 
watch  glass  will  be  distinctly  crys­
talline;  if  but  small  quantities  are 
present,  the  residue  will  have 
the 
appearance  of  small  oily  drops  of 
water  and  a  drop  of  dilute  solution 
of  ferric  chloride  (a  dilute  solution 
of  ammonio-ferric  alum  is  preferred 
by  some)  will  develop  the  character­
istic  purple  color  of  ferric  salicylate, 
which 
the 
presence  of  salicylic  acid.

is  positive  evidence  of 

If  a  flesh-colored  precipitate  is  ob­
tained  in  this  test  instead  of  a  vio­
let  coloration,  it  is  proof  of  the  pres­
ence  of  benzoic  acid,  the  processes 
for  the  extraction  of  these  principles 
being  identical.

the 

thus  obscure 

When  the  liquid  which 

is  to  be 
tested  for  salicylic  acid  contains  tan­
nin,  it  will  be  necessary  to  change  the 
preliminary  manipulation  somewhat, 
as  tannin  would  be  extracted  by  the 
ether  and 
ferric 
salicylate  reaction. 
In  cases  of  this 
kind,  the  liquid,  instead  of  being  acid­
ulated  with  sulphuric  acid  at  the  out­
set.  is  treated  with  solution  of  lead 
subacetate,  which  precipitates  tannin, 
coloring  principles,  etc. 
It  is  then 
filtered  and  sufficient  sulphuric  acid 
is  added  to  the  filtrate  to  precipitate 
the  excess  of  lead  and 
it 
slightly  acid.  After  filtering  out  the 
insoluble  lead  sulphate  the  liquid  is 
treated  according  to  the 
foregoing 
directions. 

C.  H.  La  Wall.

render 

Idol  Factory  in  New  York.

Although 

The  largest  idol  factory  has 

idols  are  not  generally 
used  in  this  country,  New  York  City 
is  yet  the  principal  manufacturing 
center  of  the  world  of  these  curiously 
wrought  and  fashioned  gods.  The 
supply  is  amazingly  large  and  varied.
its 
main  office 
in  East  Ninety-sixth 
street,  but  the  manufacture  of  idols 
is  carried  on  in  several  different parts 
of  the  city.  The  plaster  department 
is  in  East  Twenty-third  street,  near 
the  ferry  slip;  the  aluminum  depart­
ment 
is  in  the  metal-spinners’  dis­
trict  in  Grand  street,  and  the  papier 
mache  work  is  done  in  Eighth  avenue. 
An  artist  is  employed  in  the  house 
to  supply  new  and  attractive  designs 
for  idols.

Every  idol  sent  to  India,  China  and 
Japan,  for  instance,  is  made  strictly 
in  accord  with  the  figures  that  belong 
to  the  religions  of these  people.  When 
an  aluminum  idol,  for  example,  has 
been  completed  and  is  placed  beside  a 
bronze  and  bejeweled  Buddha  original

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it  requires  an  expert  in  metals  to  dis­
cern  the  difference  between  the  orig­
inal  and  the  copy.  At  one  time  a 
firm  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  had  some 
small  traffic  in  idols,  but  it  has  been 
found  that  the  American  manufactur­
er  of  idols  can  supply  the  god  at  a 
price  so  much  lower  that  it  is  not 
worth  the  Scotchman’s  while  to  make 
images.

country  has  almost  cfoubled;  the yield 
having  advanced  in  about  the  same 
proportion  from  250  million  to  470 
lands 
million  pounds.  Texas 
have  increased  in  value  during 
the 
same  period  from  the  low  level  of  25 
cents  to  $1.50  per  acre,  up  to  the

rice 

present  average  for  improved  lands 
of  $12.50  per  acre.  Similar  progress 
is  reported  from  the  prairie  lands  of 
Louisiana  bordering  upon  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.

The  firm  in  faith  never  stand  still.

Sleepy  Eye  Flour

Builds  Up  Businesses
Sleepy  E ye  is  a  trade  puller  from  the
and  EFFECTIVE
start—  the
advertising proposition that  goes with
Sleepy E ye  F lour will  not only increase
sales,  but advertise your
your 
whole  business.

attractive

flour

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Distributing  Agents

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CO ARSE  M ANNERS.

They  Spoil  Many  a  Sale  of  Magni- 

W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

tude.

“Straws  show  which  way  the  wind 
blows,”   and  when,  for  one  reason  or 
another,  a  dealer  indulges  in  ridicule 
at  the  expense  of  a  customer,  or  a  j 
possible  patron,  that  merchant  is help- j 
ing  to  dig  his  own  grave.

The  average  person  can  stand  a 
reasonable  amount  of  fun  at  his  cost j 
if  it  is  all  goodnatured,  but  when  the j 
laugh 
is  accompanied  with  a  sneer 
the  raillery  is  anything  but  agreeable 
to  the  one  it  is  aimed  at.

People  coming 

into  stores  often j 
make  mistakes  about  curious  or  un­
usual  articles,  but  it  grates  on  their j 
sensitiveness  to  have 
those  errors 
noticed  and  made  much  of  by  some I 
miserable  little  jackanapes  of  a  clerk I 
who  has  missed  his  calling,  as  serving j 
the  public  who  bring  in  pocketfuls  of j 
money  to  scatter  as  they  go  from i 
place  to  place  in  the  establishment,  j 
and  should  tie  himself  to  some  em- i 
ployment  which  does  not  call 
for 
suavity  of  manners,  interested,  kindly 
speech  and  courteous 
little  deeds 
which  not  only  indicate  gentle  breed-  j 
ing  on  the  part  of  the  one  exhibiting 
them  but  also  show  a 
lively  con­
cern  for  the  material  advancement  j 
of  the  man  he  looks  to  for  his  weekly 
pay-envelope,  that  delightful  little  bit  i 
of  folded  and  sealed  paper  which 
means  so  much  to  so  many  laborers 
in  the  field  of  duty.

Just  such  a  little  thing  as  the  fol­

lowing  turned  the  tide  of  a  rich girl’s  I 
favor  to  a  store  not  so  accessible  but  j 
where  the  employes  all  vie  with  each  | 
other  to  see  who  can  get  the  largest 
following  of  representative  citizens:

I  was  standing  in  the  entrance  of  a 
certain  Grand  Rapids  shoe  store,  the I 
other  day,  during  the  recent  warm  j 
spell.  The  door  stood  open,  and  the 
people  coming  and  going  seemed  in 
a  happy-go-lucky  mood,  pleased with 
the  evidences  of  a  warmer  season,  j 
Many  came  in  to  buy,  while  some ] 
wandered 
in  “on  shopping  bent”—  j 
merely  to  look  around.

It’s  somehow  a  theory  of  mine  that 
every person  entering a  mercantile  es- ! 
tablishment  should  be  treated  in  the | 
light  of  a  buyer;  should  be  accorded 
every  courtesy  that  would  be  given 
the  person  whose  money  was  expect­
ed  to  be  left  there  when  he  took  his 
departure.  But  how  many,  many 
times  is  the  reverse  exemplified  in the j 
indifference,  the  positive  rudeness  o f ! 
those  employed  to  secure  willing  dol­
lars  and  endeavor,  by  every  known 
legitimate  bewitchment,  to  entice  re­
luctant 
the  public’s 
pursestrings.

shekels 

from 

I  may  be  wrong  in  these  premises 
but  am  of  the  opinion  that  they  are 
shared  by  several  others.

With  the  crowd  that  thronged  the 
store  I  mention  came  two  young  la­
dies  I  particularly  noticed,  because 
with  one  of  them  I  am  slightly  ac­
quainted.  They  were  very  stylishly I 
dressed  and  altogether  the  sort  a  fel­
low  likes  to  be  seen  speaking  to.  The 1 
girl  I  know  bowed  and  smiled 
as 
they  entered,  saying  a  word  or  two 
of  bright  greeting  and  tossing  me  a 
smile,  as  she  passed,  that  I  haven’t j

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forgotten  yet— you  know  some  peo-  have  it,  I  don’t  know  a  girl  that  I m 
pie’s  ways  are 
from  prouder  to  walk  down  the  street  with, 
others’  that  they  have  a  trick  of  re- j My  sister's  so  devilish  handsome  and 
maining  in  your  memory! 

so— well,  what  the  French  call  chic

so  different 

The  young  ladies  were  in  the  store  — that  she  cuts  a  dash  everywhere 
such  a  short  time  that  I  thought  to  she  goes.  Everybody  turns  around to 
myself  they  could  not  have  found  | look  at  her.
goods  to  their  taste. 

“You'd  like  to  know  her  better?
their  hurried  exit  j Well,  come  up  to  the  house  some 
came  out  a  few  days  later,  and  reach-  evening,  old  fel,  and  I’ll  see  to  it  that 
roundabout  way 1 she’s  at  home.  She’s  much  in  de- 
ed  my  ears  in  a 
through  the  brother  of  the  older  pret-  j mand.  though,  and  I  may  have  to  use 
ty  girl. 

a  little  strategy  to  keep  her  there.

The  secret  of 

’ 

j 

Said  he  (we  were  talking  of  shoe 

"But  I  was  going  to  tell  you  how 
stores  in  general  and  this  one  in  par-  an  impudent  clerk  cheated  his  em- 
ticular): 
ployer  out  of  $25.— By  the  way,  my
“ My  sister  Dorothv  caught  a  tartar  sister  £aid  she  saw  y °u  E n d in g  in 
of  a  clerk  in  Blank’s  shoe  store  the  the  doorway  when  she  stepped  into 
other  day. 

Blank s.

"She  went  there  to  get  fitted  out 

*'As  I  say,  she  entered  the  store

W H EN  T H E Y   B R IN G   HIM  HOME.

“O,  mercj',  what  has  happened  to  him?”
“He’s  been  slugged,  mum.”
"Slugged?  What  for?”
“ He  didn't  belong  to  the  union,  mum.”
"But  surely  they  wouldn’t  slug  him  for  that,  would  they?” 
"No,  mum,  but  he  was  tryin’  to  work.”— Chicago  Tribune.

her 

summer 

footwear— high j  expecting  to  lay  in  her  summer  sup­
for 
walking  boots,  Oxfords,  house  shoes, j  ply  of  foot-coverings,  as 
she  was 
dancing  slippers,  and  the  Old  Nick  pleased  with  the  looks  of  the  shoes 
only  know s  how  many  more,  I  don't, j displayed 
in  the  big  window.  Of 
She’s  a  great  girl  to  get  things  by the  course,  the  clerk  who  came  to  wait 
quantity.  She  says  she  generally buys  on  her  could  not  know 
she 
at  a  better  figure  by  so  doing  and, | meant  to  leave  a  quarter  of  a  hun- 
also,  she  saves  herself  a  lot  of  run- j dred  dollars  under  that  very 
roof, 
ning  around  on  an  occasion  when  she j and  so  he  was  not  careful  to  conceal 
can  ill  afford  to  take  the  time. 
her  idea,  and  a  good  one,  too.  She j 
“Pausing  a  moment  at  a  small 
has  her  own  income  and  she’s  a  ju-  stand  in  the  front  of  the  store,  on 
least j  which  were  a  number  of  stunning 
dicious  buyer. 
mite  stingy,  but,  on  the  other  hand, | new-  ideas  in  shoes,  my  sister  picked 
she  isn’t  a  bit  wasteful. 
up  one  of the  street  boots  for  a  closer

It’s I his  risibilities  a  little  later  on. 

She’s  not  the 

that 

' 

“She’s  a  slick  dresser,  I  tell  you. j inspection  of  its  stylish  cut.

“ ‘Now,  I  admire  that  shoe,’  she 
She  purchases  the  best  of  everything, 
keeps  her  clothes  in  fine  order  and j exclaimed,  hurriedly  taking  in 
the 
always  makes  a  good  appearance.  If j  blucher  cut  and  one  or  two  minor 
she  is  my  sister,  and  ‘I  do  say  it  that  points  and  then  holding  it  at  arm’s 
shouldn’t,’  as  the 
country  women  | length  for  the  general  effect;  ‘only,’

she  quickly  added,  ‘I  don’t  want  such 
a  heavy  sole.’

it  afterwards— she  took 

“And  with  this— she  told  me  all 
about 
the 
shoe  in  both  hands,  without  a  farther 
glance  at  it,  and  tried  to  bend 
the 
sole.

“Her  eye  w'as  on  her  girl  compan­
ion  just  then,  and,  too,  as  a  matter 
of  fact,  she  hadn’t  so  much  as  peeped 
inside  the  shoe. 
It  was  laced  up  to 
the  top  and  looked  like  any  other 
shoe  you  might  pick  up  from  a  bunch 
on  the  ledge  of  any  store  in  town.

“ ‘Oh,  my!  That  sole’s  entirely  too 
heavy;  and  the  vamp  is  too  stiff,  also. 
That’s  stouter  ieather  than  I  want.’

“And  then  my  sister  laid  the  shoe 
down  without 
further  examination 
and  as  if  that  ended  it  with  her  as 
far  as  that  special  shoe  was  concern­
ed.  Picking  up  another,  she  essayed 
to  bend  that  sole,  also,  thinking  an­
other  might  be  lighter  in  weight.

“With  that  a  look  of  utter  con­
tempt  spread  itself  broadly  over  the 
clerk’s  face  and  he  gave  way  to  a 
loud  sarcastic  laugh.

“My  sister  shot  a  look  that  em­
braced  all  the  customers  in  the  im­
mediate  vicinity  and  a  hot  flush  man­
tled  her  cheeks.

“She  could  not  see  that  she  had 
done  or  said  anything  to  warrant  un­
seemly  behavior  on  the  part  of  the 
man  waiting  on  her,  and  was  cha­
grined  to  be  the  mark  of  enquiring 
eyes  around  her.

“Then  appeared  the  reason  of  the 

clerk’s  actions:

“ ‘That  shoe,  Miss,’  he  shouted,  so 
that  every  one  in  the  store  could  not 
but  hear,  and  then  he  uttered  an­
other  guffaw,  ‘that  shoe,  Miss,  has got 
a  last  in  it!  And  so  have  all  the  rest 
of  ’em  on  this  here  table— you  could­
n’t  bend  ’em  in  a  thousand  years!’

“Well,  you  can  imagine  how  my 
sister  felt  to  have  that  fellow  adver­
tise  her  mistake  to  fifteen  or  twenty 
people!

“She  left  her  $25  in  a  store  farther 
down  the  street  where- the  clerks  are 
gentlemen.” 

Larry  Brown.

No  Union  Labor  and  Good  Shipping 

Facilities.

Manistee,  May 

16— Manistee  has 
bonded  for  the  purpose  of  encourag­
ing  manufacturing  industries  to  lo­
cate  here.  The  city  affords,  proba­
bly,  the  most  desirable  location  for 
industries 
manufacturing  and  other 
employing  labor  of  any  place 
in 
Western  Michigan,  being  practically 
free  from  labor  troubles,  with  good 
shipping  facilities,  both  by  water  and 
rail,  within  a  night’s  run  of  Chicago 
and  Milwaukee,  with  daily  boat  lines 
between  these  two  cities. 
It  is  also 
situated  on  the  Manistee  &  North­
eastern  Railroad,  Pere  Marquette 
Railroad,  Manistee  &  Grand  Rapids 
Railroad,  the  latter  connecting  with 
the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad. 
Good  live  industries  having  an  estab 
I lished  business  and  employing  con­
siderable  labor,  desiring  to  change lo­
cations,  will  rtceive  liberal 
induce­
ments.  They  should  correspond  with 
the  Manistee  Development  Co.

T.  G.  Trimble,  Ass’t  Sec’y.

Fast  people  do  not  stand  fast.

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Try  “Booming”

any  really  worthy  article  and  you  will 
be  surprised  at  the  steady  sale,  even 
after  you  think  the  “ boom"  has  worn 
off.  The  boom  never  wears  off  an 
article  the  public  finds  it  needs.  That’s 
the  way  with  Quaker  Oats.  Grocers 
who  are  cutting  down  their  oatmeal 
stock  to  consist  of  Quaker  Oats  alone 
are  winning out.  They  know  w hat 
they’re  handling.  So  does  the 
public.  That’s  the  permanent  “ fea­
ture”  value  of

\
j!
j

QUAKER  OATS  j

“ Vou have tried the rest now use the best.”

Cen  Reasons  Ulbv  Vou  Should  Buy

Golden horn 

Flour

Reason no. 2.—Che Best of ttlbeat

T here  are  m any  varieties  of  wheat  and  a  great  difference  in 
grades.  G rades  are  determ ined  by  weight,  color  and  condi­
tion.  G ood  flour  can  be  made  only  from  best  of  w heat.  Much 
poor  wheat  is  ground  into  flour  and  offered  for  sale.  O nly  an 
expert  can  judge  w hat  grades  of  wheat  w ill  produce  the  best  of 
results  when  m illed.

W e  g u a r a n t e e   t h a t   G o l d e n   H o r n   F l o u r   i s   m a d e   f r o m
TH E  CHOICEST  GRADES  OF  SELECTED  WHEAT,  FREE  FROM  ALL  ADU L­
TERATION,  AND  IS  ALWAYS  UNIFORM  AND  RELIABLE

Another  good  reason  w hy  you  should  buy  it.
G ive  us  your  orders  and  we  w ill  satisfy  you.

M anufactured  by

Star $ Crescent milling Co., Chicago» 111* 

Che Tinest mill on Earth

Roy Bdkct%  grand flapids, wiich.

D istributed  by

S p ecia l  P rice s  on  C a r  Load  Cots

Base  Deceptions

No,  friends,  this  is  not  a  title  of  a  Fireside  Companion,  continued-in-our-next novelette. 

It  has  to  do  with  a  most  important  feature  of  show  case  construction.

The  value  of  a  case  is  largely  determined  by  its  base.

If  you  wanted  to,  you  couldn’t  put  French  plate  and  solid  mahogany  frames  on  a  cheaply  or 

unscientifically  constructed  base,  and  guarantee  your  work.

W e  are  wood-working  scientists.
We  know  what  wood  will  warp,  how  it  will  warp,  and  why  it  will  warp.  The  same  regarding 

its  wearing  qualities.

Our  base  is  actually  stronger  than  if  it  were  carved  out  of  a  solid  log.  W e’ve  really  im­

proved  on  nature.

Another  thing:  We  made  the  first  receding  base.
Is  it  likely  that  our  bases  are at least the equal  of  any  other,  or  not?
You  say.

Grand  Rapids  Fixtures  Co.

South  Ionia  and  Bartlett  Streets
Grand  Rapids»  IHich*

Dew  York: 
724  Broadway

Boston:

125  Summer  St.

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salesmen  are  meeting  with 
the  un­
qualified  approval  of  buyers  and  the 
trade  in  general,  which  seems  to  ap­
preciate  the  radical  changes  which 
have  been  made  in  styles.  The  most 
marked  difference  from  the  garments 
of  last  season  is  of  course  in 
the 
length  of  the  coats;  this  being  in  the 
case  of  sack  coats  from  two  to  four 
inches.  The  coats  are  built  with  mod­
erately  broad  shoulders  and  do  not 
fit  the  figure  as  closely  as  heretofore. 
The  lapels  and  collar  are  wider.  The 
idea  of  the  designer  seems  to  have 
been  to  produce  a  roomy,  comforta­
ble  garment,  with  plenty  of  style  to 
it,  and  in  this  he  has  succeeded  ad­
mirably,  as  the  styles  are  all  of pleas­
ing  appearance  and  will  be  worn  with 
satisfaction  by  the  most  careful  and 
conservative  dressers.

The  overcoat  season  promises  to 
be  one  of  attractive  styles,  and  the 
preparations  which  have  been  made 
by  the  manufacturers  certainly  seem 
to  be  ample  to  meet  any  possible  de­
mand.  In  the  higher-priced  garments 
surtouts,  paddocks,  paletots  will  no 
doubt  be  the  more  popular  garments. 
The  Chesterfield  is  always  popular, 
and  will  continue  to  be  so  during  the 
coming  season.  Fine  Meltons,  Ker­
seys,  as  well  as  some  of  the  rougher 
finished  materials,  will  be  used exten­
sively  in  making 
garments. 
Next  in  grade  will  come  the  semi­
ulster  or  great  coat,  and  this  promises 
to  be  the  popular  garment  for  the  me­
dium-priced  grades.  Made  of  heavy 
Scotch  plaids,  and  constructed  with 
broad  shoulders  and  roomy  body  of 
good  length,  it  is  the  ideal  garment 
for  general  wear,  and  its  popularity 
is  assured.

these 

H.  H.  Cooper  &  Co.

Utica, N. Y.

M anufacturers  and  W holesale  D ealers  in

Medium

and

Fine  Clothing

Perfect  Fitting

Well  Made  and  Good  Materials

Our  Garments  Always  Handle  with  Satisfac­

tory  Results

The  Right  Kind  of  Clothing  at 

Right  Prices

Represented  by

J.  H.  Webster

No.  472  Second  A v e .,  D etroit  M ich.

Early  Opening  of  the  Fall  and  Win-

ter  Season.

the 

From  all  parts  of 

country 
comes  the  news  of  the  early  opening 
of  the  fall  and  winter  season.  De­
spite  the  fears  of  a  portion  of  the 
v/holesale  trade,  the  traveling  repre­
sentatives  who  left  for  their  territor­
ies  as  early  as  April  i  found  that  the 
retail  merchant  was  ready  and  willing 
to  look  over  the  new  sample  lines 
and  begin  the  work  of  selecting  his 
heavyweight 
fall  and 
winter  season  of  1905  will  hereafter 
be  noted  for  the  fact  that  the  sea­
son  opened  nearly  six  weeks  earlier 
than  any  previous  season,  and 
from 
the  very  start  salesmen  have  met with 
encouragement  in  the  shape  of  good- 
sized  advance  orders.

stock.  The 

It  has  been  the  desire  of  manufac­
turers  for  some  years  past  to  get  as 
early  a  start  as  possible  each  season, 
but  they  have  been  handicapped  by 
the  fact  that  it  was  necessary  to  show 
full  lines  of  finished  garments.  When 
it  is  taken  into  consideration 
that 
these  lines  sometimes  numbered  over 
five  hundred  styles,  the  work  of  pre­
paring  the  garments  was  enormous. 
A  few  seasons  ago  the  idea  was  in­
troduced  of  showing  one  garment  of 
a  style,  and  the  rest  of  the  shades  or 
patterns  of  that  particular  fabric 
in 
swatches.  At  first  buyers  did  not 
take  kindly  to  the  innovation,  but  it 
has  gradually  gained  ground,  and 
manufacturers  in  general  have  now 
adopted  the  plan.  Not  alone  does  it 
save  an  immense  amount  of  expense 
in  the  reduction  of  baggage  for  the 
traveling  salesmen,  but  it  has  allowed 
the  manufacturer  to  create  h is  sam­
p le  g a rm e n ts ,  a n d   b e fo re  
th e   s a le s­
m en   a re   re a d y   to   leav e  on  th e ir   trip s  
add  to  the  line  the  swatches  of  the 
sample  pieces  which  have  lately  ar­
rived,  and  which  would  cause  a  de­
lay  of  weeks  if  sample  garments  had 
to  be  constructed  from  them.

in 

The  early  opening  of  the  season  re­
acts  in  another  and  if  possible 
a 
more  important  part  of  the  business 
the  volume  of 
For  several  years 
ready-made  clothing  used 
this 
increasing  at  an 
country  has  been 
enormous  rate.  Under  the  old  sys­
tem  all  of  these  garments  had  to  be 
made  within  about 
three  months’ 
time.  Great  as  are  the  manufactur­
ing  facilities  they  were  stretched  to 
the  utmost,  and  as  a  last  resort,  in 
order  to  manufacture  the  garments 
needed  to  meet  the  deliveries  the  fac­
tories  were  run  night  and  day,  at  an 
enormous  additional  expense.  This 
night  work  can  now  be  eliminated  by 
extending  the  season,  and  allowing 
manufacturers  this  extra  time  in  pro­
ducing  the  stock  needed  for  fall  de­
liveries.  This  will  of  course  react 
in  a  beneficial  way  to  the  consumer. 
More  time  will  be  devoted  to  the 
tailoring  departments,  and  better  gar­
ments  will  therefore  be  produced.

The  new  samples  which  are  being 
shown* to  the  trade  by  the  traveling

The  need  of  the  automobilist  has 
been  appreciated  by  makers  of  ready- 
to-wear  garments,  and  for  fall  and 
winter  there  are  several  houses  who 
are  devoting  their  entire  attention  to 
the  construction  of  jackets,  trousers 
a n d   o v e rc o a ts   d e sig n e d   sp ecially  
to  
m e e t  th e   n e ed s  o f  th e   m o to rist.  T h e  
wholesaler  whose  line  is  the  regular 
styles  of  suits  and  overcoats  has  also 
recognized  the  demand  for  auto cloth­
ing,  and  in  nearly  all  of  the  lines  be­
ing  shown  for  fall  and  winter  are 
samples  which  are  designed  for  the 
motorist.  So  popular  has  the  auto 
become  that  nearly  every  town  can 
boast  of  at  least  one  or  two  enthusi­
asts.  To  the  retail  merchant  who  ca­
ters  to  the  needs  of  the  few  is  open­
ing  a  special  and  profitable  depart­
ment  which  in  an  incredibly 
short 
space  of  time  will  be  catering  to  the 
needs  of  many.

The  traveling  salesmen  who  repre­
sent  manufacturers  of 
children’s 
clothing  are  all  on  the  road  with  the 
new  samples  for  fall  and  winter  wear 
Never  have  such  care  and  attention 
been  given  to  the  productions  of suits 
and  overcoats,  and  the  result  is  innu­
merable  pleasing  styles.  The  new 
samples  show  a  great  variety  of  new 
fabric  effects.— Clothier  and  Furn­
isher.

When  a  man  tries  to  hide  his  re­

ligion  he  is  sure  to  lose  it.

You  will  not  lose  any  true  friends 

by  loving  your  enemies.

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Wearables.

scattered 

Those  retailers  who  took  the  Easter 
week  of  last  year  to  compare  with 
the  Easter  week  of  this  season  re­
port  gratifying  gains 
in  business. 
T his  year  the  trade  did  not  concen­
trate  on  Easter  Saturday  to  do  most 
of  the  buying,  but 
their 
purchases  through  the  week,  so  that, 
taking  the  week’s  record  from  day 
to  day,  there  were  big  daily  increases, 
and  Saturday  was  only  a  normally 
fair  business  day.  Yet  the  season  has 
been  an  active  one.  The  weather  has 
been 
ideal  for  the  sale  of  woolen 
and  worsted  suits  and  top  coats,  as 
well  as  reefers  for  young  people,  and 
for  this  much  the  retail  merchants 
are  grateful.  While  every  style  of 
garment  in  the  calendar  of  juvenile 
apparel  has  sold,  on  all  sides  as­
tonishment 
the 
record  sales  made  by  the  Norfolk 
suit.  As  previously  noted  in  these 
reports,  the  present  popularity  of  the 
Norfolk  makes  it  an  excellent 
fall 
style,  and  the  advance  autumn  orders 
show  that  it  is  winning out  again very 
satisfactorily.

is  expressed  over 

Following  the  Easter  week  trade 
there  was  a  noticeable  lull  in  retail 
departments  for  a  while.  This  brief 
let-up  gave  buyers  an  opportunity 
to  look  to  their  wash  goods  stocks. 
Such  stock  as  they  carried  over,  aug­
mented  by  “pick-ups”  obtained  in  the 
market,  were  sold  out  quite  clean 
early  in  the  season,  when  the  advance 
sales  of  tub  goods  were  pushed  for­
ward.  Now  that  the  actual  wash 
goods  season  is  at  hand,  we  find  re­
tailers  cleaned  out  of  old  goods  and 
freshened  for  business  with  new  mer­
chandise.  Conspicuous  in 
the  new 
lots  are  woven  and  printed  shep­
herd  check  suits,  which  will  doubt­
less  meet  with  as  ready  sale  in  the 
lighter  weight  cottons  as  they  did 
in  the  woolens  and  worsteds  which 
have  been  a  feature  of the  spring  sell­
in g   season.  T h e   makers  of  c h ild re n ’s 
lines,  noting  the  reception  accorded 
plaids  and  checks  this  season,  have 
already  planed  to 
in 
their  spring  showings  for  1906,  and 
have  instructed  the  mills  that  check 
and  plaid  goods  will  be  in  request.

include  these 

Most  of  the  salesmen  for  the  repre­
sentative  houses  have  been  calling 
on  their  retail  customers  now 
for 
several  weeks,  the  latest  to  get  away 
having  departed 
last  week.  There 
has  been  a  fair  amount  of  fall  busi­
ness  already  taken,  and,  according 
to  these  orders  and  the  reports  sent 
in  by  salesmen,  retailers  are  feeling 
good.  Where  the  pulse  of  the  trade 
has  been  taken  the  indications  of  a 
healthy  fall  and  winter  are  evident, 
and  travelers  report  that  their  trade 
is  imbued  with  great  confidence  in 
the  future  development  of  business. 
They  are  buying  full  general 
lines. 
This  is  significant  of  expected  busi­
ness  and  that  old  stocks  are  extreme­
ly  light.

The  long  suit  coat  is  generally  fav­
ored  for  boys,  youths  and  young men. 
For  the  latter  it  runs  to  31  inches, 
and  the  double-breasted  sack  is  go­
ing  remarkably  well.  Early  orders 
show  that  its  position  is  even  better 
than  it  was  a  year  ago,  when 
the

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WHY WE  MANUFACTURE  THE LARGEST LINE ?F

6 INCH  STORM

COLLAR

BUTTONHOLES

LOWER

In  the 

sales  were  said  to  be  as  three 
to 
five. 
large  cities  this  pro­
portion 
is  reported  now  to  be  as 
four  in  five.  The  very  “smart”  sack, 
long  and  generously  loose  through­
out,  yet  slightly  shaped  at  the  waist, 
is  meeting  with  a  good  reception  in 
the  large  cities  with  the  buyers  of 
nobby  styles.  Country  trade,  it  is 
feared,  may  be  afraid  of  the  new 
style,  yet  it  is  not  extreme  enough  to 
be  hazardous.  The  shaped  coat  will 
be  fairly  well  established,  no  doubt, 
by  the  end  of  the  summer,  and 
its 
more  general  adoption  will  be  likely 
for  autumn.  The  fall  sack  will  be 
similar  in  model  to  the  shaped  sack 
shown 
last  April,  although  not  so 
extreme  in  length.

The  representative  manufacturers 
of  young  men’s  clothing  have  intro­
duced  the  paddock  and  surtout— sin­
gle  and  double  breasted  skirted  over­
coat— for  fall  with  cuff  effects  for 
the  sleeves,  and  in  self  and  velvet  col­
lars.  The  same  garments  have  also 
been  brought out for youths  and  boys, 
and  will  be  seen  in  rainproofed  and 
light  weight  fabrics  for  early  autumn 
wear,  as  well  as  in  the  heavy  weight 
overcoatings  for  winter  service.
respects 

the 
tourist,  double  breasted  and  Chester­
field  overcoats  will  be  somewhat  sim­
ilar  in  style  to  last  season’s  models, 
the  very  latest  for  dressy  young  men 
will  be  the  shaped  Chesterfield,  about 
46  inches  in  length.

Although  in  many 

little  folks 

is  the  reason 

The  reception  accorded  fur  coats 
for 
for 
bringing  out  more  extensive  and 
varied  lines  of  fur  garments  for  the 
winter  season,  and  manufacturers are 
showing  more  comprehensive  lines of 
furs  now 
than  ever  before.  The 
prices  asked  for  some  of  these  fur 
garments 
low, 
considering  that  the  fur  overcoat  for 
the  boy  has  hitherto  been  considered 
an  expensive 
luxury.  The  favorite 
for  juveniles  is  the  beaver  cloth  or 
in  white, 
sh a g g y   n a p p ed   g a rm e n t 
c re am   white,  g ra y   and  other  seasona­
ble  colors.  These  are  less  expensive 
than  the  genuine  zibelines.— Apparel 
Gazette.

astonishingly 

are 

Wanted  the  Job.

One  of  the  Southern  Senators  re­
counts  a  conversation  that  once  took 
place  between  a  friend  of  his— a  busi­
ness  man  in  Mobile— and  a  colored 
man  who  had  made  application  for 
work:

“Well,”  said  the  business  man,  aft­
er  the  recital  had  been  made  of  the 
darky’s  qualifications,  “I  should  like 
to  give  you  the  place,  but  I’m  afraid 
I  can’t  do  so,  for  I  understand  you 
are  married.  For  special  reasons  I 
desire  for  this  place  a  single  man.”

An  expression  of  the  deepest  dis­
appointment  came  to  the  dusky  coun­
tenance  of  the  applicant. 
Finally, 
after  a  short  silence,  during  which 
he  mumbled  to  himself  by  way  of 
reflection,  he  said,  hopefully  and  eag­
erly:

“Well,  boss,  if  dat’s  de  only  trou­
ble,  I  think  I  kin  arrange  a  divorce 
all  right.”

Some  people  never  pray  “forgive 
us  our  debts,”  except  when  the  offer­
ing  is  being  taken.

F A C T O S l a ? —
W H O L E S A L E   M A N U F A C T U R E R S .
G r a n d   R a p i d s ,  M i c h

18

T A K IN G   CHANCES.

It  Sometimes  Leads  To  Great  Suc­

cess.

The  willingness  to  chance  it  is,  to 
a  certain  extent,  a  factor  in  success. 
There  are  numberless  cases  in  which 
the  giving  up  of  a  sure  thing  to  fol­
low  the  path  of  difficult  uncertainties 
has  proved  the  entrance  to  the  road 
to  wealth.

The  willingness  to  take  chances, 
however,  is  not  always  the  reckless 
course  and  challenge  to  fate  that  it 
appears  to  be.  Instead  it  is  a  putting 
of  the  known  forces  within  against 
the  unknown  ones  without. 
It  is  a 
careful  reckoning  of  the  strength  of 
desire,  ambition  and  determination, 
and  putting  them  in  their  place  as  a 
factor  against  difficulty.

“Chopping’s  pretty  sure,  Jim,”  said 
the  brother  of  Hill,  the  railroad  mag­
nate,  when  he  decided  to  forsake  his 
life  as  a  woodman  and  start  out  West.
“I’m  going  to  take  my  chance  and 
give  it  up,  just  the  same,”  said  young 
Hill.  Although  he  could  not  see  the 
future,  events  since  leave  no  room 
for  doubt  that  the  young  man  took 
a  sweeping  inventory  of  his  energies 
before  he  made  this  answer.

When,  as  a  small  boy,  Andrew  Car­
negie  got  a  chance  to  leave  the  cot­
ton  factory,  it  was  to  take  the  re­
sponsibility  of  running  a  large  en­
gine,  an  art  of  which  he  knew  noth­
ing.  He  did  not  refuse  his  opportu­
nity  on  this  account,  but  took  the 
chance  of  making  good  by  his  own 
exertions  afterward.

“The  firing  of  the  boiler  was  all 
right,”  says  Mr.  Carnegie,  in  his  au­
tobiography,  “for,  fortunately,  we  did 
not  use  coal,  but  wooden  chips.  But j 
the  responsibility  of  keeping  the  wat­
er  right,  running  the  engine  and  the 
fear  of  making  a  mistake,  caused  too 
great  a  strain,  and  I  awoke  often  to 
find  myself  sitting  up  in  bed  trying j 
the  gauges.”

“He  never  told  them  at  home  what 
a  tussle  he  was  having,”  says  one  of j 
Mr.  Carnegie’s  biographers,  who  sees 
in  this  story  the  key  to  his  success. 
“It  is  the  revelation  of his  whole  char­
acter.  He  never  hesitated  to  take 
a  chance  when  promotion  was 
in  | 
sight.  He  did  not  wait  until  he  had 
mastered  an  occupation  or  situation 
before  accepting  it.  He  accepted  it 
first  and  then  mastered  it.  He  was 
an  engineer  before  he  knew  anything 
about  boilers,  to  say  nothing  of  en­
gines.  The  same  is  true  of  the  suc­
cessive  duties  which  he  assumed.”

The  way  Mr.  Carnegie  planned  to 
resources  he  possessed 
use  what 
when  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
messenger  boy,  he  tells  again  in  his 
autobiography:

that 

“My  only  dread,”  he  says,  “was that 
I  should  some  day  be  dismissed  be­
cause  I  did  not  know  the  city,  for  it j 
was  necessary 
a  messenger | 
should  know  the  names  and  addresses j 
of  those  men  in  Pittsburg  who  were 
in  the  habit  of  receiving  many  mes­
sages,  and  I  was  a  stranger  in 
the 
city.  However,  I  made  up  my  mind 
that  I  would  learn  to  repeat  succes­
sively  each  business  house 
in  the 
principal  streets,  and  was  soon  able 
to  shut  my  eyes  and  begin  at  one

side  of  Wood  street  and  call  every 
firm  successively  to  the  top,  and  pass 
| to  the  other  side  and  call  every  firm 
to  the  bottom.  Before  long  I  was 
able  to  do  this  with  the  business 
streets  generally.”

A  more  recent  instance  of  the  abili­
ty  to  take  chances  the  greatness  of 
which  was  only  equaled  by  his  bound­
in 
less  determination,  was  shown 
the 
young  Mr. 
Heinze  had  a  few  years  ago  with  the 
Standard  Oil  Company.

encounter  which 

Heinze  made  the  claim  that  he 
could  follow  the  course  of  a  copper 
claim  which  he  held  and  which  lay 
between  two  other  mines,  so  that  he 
could  trace  the  dip  of  his  own  vein 
even  where  it  went  into  the  others. 
The  men  in  charge 'of  the  other  prop­
erties  laughed  at  the  idea.  He  went 
and 
into  the  courts,  brought  suits 
succeeded 
injunctions 
enough  to  tie  up  the  work  of  the  two 
great  mines.

getting 

in 

So  embarrassed  were  the  operations 
at  the  other  mines  owned  by  Stand­
ard  Oil  that  they  thought  it  worth 
while  to  compromise.  So  Mr.  Rogers 
sent 
for  Mr.  Heinze.  The  young 
man  came  and  the  two  went  into  con­
sultation.

“Now,  Mr.  Heinze,”  said  Mr.  Rog­
ers,  “you  know  that  we  can  ruin  you.
If  we  carry  this  thing  to  the  end  we 
can  strip  you  of  all  you  have.  But 
we  have  some  plans  which  are  inter­
fered  with  by  these  suits,  and  I  have 
sent  for  you  to  talk  business  with 
you.”

“ I  am  always  ready  to  listen  to  a 
business  proposition,”  was  the  young 
man’s  answer.

“ How  much  do  you  want  to  quit?” 
The  young  man  smiled.  “I  did  not 
come  here  to  make  a  proposition,  Mr. 
Rogers.  You  sent  for  me  you  know.
I  am  here  to  listen  to  you.”

“We  will  give  you  $250,000  cash 
to  settle  all  your  claims.  We  will  give 
it  to  you  this  afternoon,”  he  added 
impressively.

The  young  man  looked  at  the  older 
man  with  a  smile. 
“I  thought  you 
were  a  man  of  broad  views  and  used 
to  great  negotiations,”  he  said.

“In  the  name  of  heaven,  how  much 

do  you  want?”  was  the  answer.

“Ten  million  dollars,”  said  Heinze. 
That  the  young  man  had  at  least  a 
good  idea  of  the  difficulties  which lay I 
before  him  when  he  refused  the  offer 
to  name  his  price  can  not  be  doubted. 
That  he  made  no  mistake  in  measur­
ing  his  own  fighting  qualities  as  able 
to  cope  with  them  was  proved  a  lit­
tle  over  a  year  ago,  when,  after  end­
less  suits,  a  decision  was  granted  in 
the  Montana  courts  which  practically 
gave  him  the  victory  over  the  great 
company  he  had  been  fighting.  It  al­
so  turned  the  Minnie  Healy mine  over 
to  him,  worth,  it  was  estimated,  just 
$10,000,000.

Giving  up  a  certainty  for  the  sake 
of  a  wider  field  is  one  of  the  chances 
which  men  take,  which  are  made  to 
some  extent  matters  of  certainty  by 
the  intensity  of  their  ambition.

Few  young  men  have  been  better 
situated  than  was  Lewis  Nixon 
in 
1890.  He  had  just  been  transferred 
to  the  staff  of  the  navy,  and  had  been 
put  in  the  construction  corps.  During

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

The  Most  Popular

The  Best  Advertised

The  Highest  Grade

(FOR  THE  MONEY)

The  Lowest  Priced

Line  of  Union  Made

Men’s  Clothing

For  Fall  1905

Ranging in  Price  from  $6.50  to $13.50

Special  Leaders

50  in.  Black  Frieze  Overcoat 
Venetian  Lined  Black Thibet  Suit 

- 

- 

- 

$7.50
7.00

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Removal Notice

About  June  ist  we  will  be  located  in  our  large 

new  quarters in  the  heart of  the  wholesale  district,

31  North  Ionia  St.

Barnhart  Building

We carry  a very  large  stock  ready  for  immediate 
delivery  at  our  salesrooms  in  Men’s,  Boys’  and 
Children’s  Clothing,  also  Cloth  and  Tailors’ 
Trimmings  from  the cheapest  to  the  very  best.  Our 
variety  is  larger  than  ever  before.

Our goods  are  legitimate  values,  and  submitted 
on  that basis  to  dealers who  appreciate  straightfor­
ward representation.

Mail  and phone orders  promptly  attended  to.
Citizens  phone  6424. 

If  preferred  will  send  rep­

resentative.

Grand  Rapids  Clothing  Co.

Makers of  Up-to-date  Clothing 

At  present in the  Pythian Temple  Building

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

One of  the strong features  of  our line— suits  to  retail at  $10  with a 

good profit to the dealer.

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the  summer  of  this  year  he  was  given 
charge  of  the  design  of  the  battle­
ships 
Indiana,  Massachusetts  and 
Oregon.

a 

let  he  received 

A  few  weeks  after  these  contracts 
were 
telegram 
from  Charles  H.  Cramp,  the  Presi­
dent  of  the  Cramp  Company,  asking 
him  to  take 
lunch  with  him.  His 
acceptance  brought  the  offer  of  a 
position  with  the  Cramp  Company. 
He  was  only  29  years  old,  and  had 
far  more  pay  and  higher  rank  than 
any  of  the  classmates  who  had  grad­
uated  with  him  at Annapolis.  He  had 
an  honorable  position,  with  good  pay, 
for  life,  and  retired  pay  in  old  age. 
He  took  the  chance  of  the  unlimited 
life,  with  the  opportunities  that  the 
business  opened  to  him.

Senator  Depew  tells  of  the  advice 
given  to  him  by  Salmon  P.  Chase 
when  early 
life  he  talked  with 
him  about  getting  a  Government  po­
sition:

in 

“When  I  graduated,”  said  Mr.  De­
pew,  “I  had  no  money,  no  friends 
who  were  able  to  assist  me,  and  the 
world  looked  singularly  dark  and  un­
promising. 
I  came  to  Washington to 
secure  a  clerkship  in  one  of  the  de­
I  had  letters  to  a  cabinet 
partments. 
minister.  He  said  to  me: 
‘Young 
man,  I  can  give  you  a  clerkship,  but 
if  I  do  your  career  will  be  closed. 
You  think  you  only  want  it  tempor­
arily;  that  you  will  save  money  and 
then  go  out  and  get  your  profession 
at  the  law,  but  you  will  acquire  hab­
its,  you  will  become  more  and  more 
dependent  upon  your  salary,  you  will 
more  and  more 
lose  initiative,  and 
more  and  more  fear  to  let  go  of  the 
certainty  which  you  have,  until  your 
energy  and  ambition  will  be  so  sap­
ped  that  you  can  never  be  anything 
else  than  a  Government  employe.’

“If  I  had  refused 

that  advice  I 
would  now  be,  unless  removed  by 
politics,  still  a  clerk  in  the  Treasury 
Department.  But  I  secured  a  small 
school  and  suffered  the  usual  hard­
ships  of beginners  while  studying  law. 
I  went  through  the  usual  early  years 
of  few  clients,  small  pay  and  many 
privations.  Finally,  though  gradually, 
came  success  and  the  discipline  has 
made  me  what  I  am.”

G.  R.  Clarke.

Some  of  the  Tricks  of  the  Shoplifters.
“I  tell  you  some  of  the  women  cus­
tomers  down  here  are  the  smoothest 
propositions  when  it  comes  to  sur­
roundings  things  that  you  could  pic­
ture  in  a  hurry,”  remarked  a  pretty 
little  dark-eyed  shop  girl  in  a  big 
downtown  store. 
She  was  sorting 
dainty  lace  stocks  as  she  spoke,  and 
used  them  in  her  gesticulating  for  the 
better  emphasis  of  her  righteous  in­
dignation.  “Why,  some  of  them,” she 
went  on  earnestly,  “would  freeze  you, 
simply  freeze  you.  They 
look  all 
right,  style  and  all  the  rest  of  it,  and 
I’ll  bet  they  have  money  in 
their 
pockets,  but  they  steal!  Oh,  my,  how 
they  steal!  Anything  they  can  lay 
their  hands  on,  whether  they  want  it 
or  not.

“Of  course,  the  old  dodge  of  put­
ting  on  gloves  and  taking  up  hand­
kerchiefs  and  walking  off  with  them 
is  played  out;  so  is  the  careless  drop­

ping  of  a  muff  on  a  counter  and  then 
carrying  off more  than  the  muff.  They 
don’t  do  those  old-fashioned  ‘stunts’ 
much  nowadays.  Our  detectives  have 
arrested  too  many  of 
them.  See, 
there’s  our  head  detective  now!”  She 
pointed  out  a  stout,  middle  aged wom­
an,  dressed  in  neat  black,  who  was 
examining  colored  embroideries  at an 
adjoining  counter  with  an  attention 
which  seemed  complete.

“She’s  great,”  rattled  on  the  pretty 
shop  girl.  “Spots  them  every  time—  
that  is,  whenever  it’s  possible  to  spot 
them.  But,  say!  How  would  you 
spot  a  woman  who  hauled  things  off 
the  counters  and  dropped  them  in  a 
little  heap  on  the  floor  hidden  by  a 
skirt,  and  picked  them  up  under  the 
pretence  of  tying  her 
shoe?  And 
sometimes  when  you  spot  them  you 
can  not  arrest  them,  and  half  the 
time  you  can  not  get  the  things  back. 
I  saw  a  woman  take  a  fifteen-dollar 
lace  collar  the  other  day,  fold  it  up 
nicely  inside  her  coat,  and  go  off  with 
it.  Well,  that  lace  we  got  back,  for 
we  sent  a  detective  out  to  the  front 
of  the  store,  and  when  my  lady  sailed 
out  he  walked  up  as  polite  as  you 
please,  and  requested  her  to  forward 
the  lace!

“But  the  case  that  got  me  was  the 
ostrich  boa  affair  we  had  here  yes­
terday. 
I  had  a  pretty  lot  of  boas 
tied  on  to  a  show  stand,  with  tags 
attached.  Well,  this  fine  lady  strolled 
up  and  examined  them.  I  do  not  know 
how  she  managed  it— they  being  tied 
on  and  all— but  she  certainly  got  one 
of  the  ostrich  boas  off  that  stand  and 
round  her  neck  and  without  a  soul 
spotting  her.  Then she marched off, if 
you  please,  and  the  boa  looked mighty 
becoming— all  but  the  tag  hanging 
down  her  back!

“She  had  a  black  dress  on,  and  the 
little  square  of  cardboard  did  look 
so  queer  and  white  hanging  down 
behind.  Two  of  our  men  detectives 
followed  her  down  the  street.  You 
could  track  that  white  tag  a  mile  and 
three-quarters  away.  She  went  into  a 
restaurant.  But,  do  you  know,  they 
couldn’t  arrest  that  creature.  They 
had  nothing  but  our  word  to  go  on, 
and  they  do  not  accept  salesladies’ 
testimony  against  customers’,  appar­
ently,  in  the  law.”  The  pretty  girl 
sniffed  and  pushed  a  tray  of 
gay 
neckwear  under  the  glass  top  of  the 
counter. 
“And  although  they  could 
see  the  boa  and  see  the  tag,  they 
could  not  have  her  up,  and  we  never 
saw  that  feather  boa  again.

“I  do  not  believe  any  one  has  any 
idea  of  how  much  shoplifting  goes  on 
in  the  big  houses.  It  simply jars  you 
silly.  But,  as  I  say,  what  gets  me  is 
that  half  the  time  they  get  off  scot 
free,  and  keep 
Yes, 
ma’am,  did  you  say  you  wanted  a 
feather  boa?”  and  she  turned  to  smile, 
with  a  certain  veiled  suspicion,  upon 
an  innocent  looking  customer.— New 
York  Herald.

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STAN DARDS  O F  FOOD.

What  Certain  Foodstuffs  Should  Be 

Composed  of.

The  Secretary  of  Agriculture  has 
been  establishing  tentative  standards 
for  food  products  from  time  to  time. 
These  are  submitted  to  the  parties  in­
terested  for  comment  and  criticism. 
Some  time  ago  several  new  standards 
were  published  and  a  recent  bulletin 
by  the  Department  gives  the  follow­
ing  additional  definitions  of  what  cer­
tain 
foodstuffs  should  be  compos­
ed  of:

Meats.

1.  Meat  is  any  sound,  dressed  and 
properly  prepared  edible  part  of  ani­
mals  in  good  health  at  the  time  of 
slaughter.  The  term  “animals.”  as 
herein  used,  includes  not  only  mam­
mals,  but  fish,  fowl,  crustaceans,  mol- 
lusks  and  all  other  animals  used  as 
food.
2.  Fresh  meat  is  meat  from  ani­
mals  recently  slaughtered  or  pre­
served  only  by  refrigeration.

made  from  milk  from  which  any  por-1 
tion  of  the  fat  has  been  removed.

4.  Cream  cheese  is  cheese  made 
from  milk  and  cream,  or  milk  con­
taining  not  less  than  six  (6)  per  cent, 
of  fat.

Sugars.

1.  Sugar 

is  the  produce  chemi­
cally  known  as  sucrose  (saccharose) 
chiefly  obtained  from  sugar  cane,  sug­
ar  beets,  sorghum,  maple  or  palm.

2.  Granulated  loaf,  cut,  milled  and 
powdered  sugars  are  different  forms
j  of  sugar  and  contain  at  least  ninety- 
I nine  and  five-tenths  (99-5)  Per  cent, 
of  sucrose.
3.  Maple  sugar  is  the  solid  produce 
resulting  from  the  evaporation  of ma-
pie  sap.
4.  Massecuite,  melada,  mush  sug­
ar  and  concrete  are  products  made  by j 
evaporating  the  purified  juice  of _  a 
sugar-producing  plant,  or  a  solution 
of  sugar,  to  a  solid  or  semi-solid  con­
sistence  in  which  the  sugar  chiefly 
exists  in  a  crystalline  state.

Molasses  and  Refiners’  Syrup.

in 

and 

'  "v  r  c 

(“treacle”) 

combination,  r 

3.  Salted,  pickled 

2.  Refiners’  syrup 

Manufactured  Meats.
iuaiiui4t,iu.ou 

ts  are  unmixed  meats  preserveu  —  

smoked 
meats  are  unniixed  meats  preserved
sugar,  vinegar,  spices  .  or 
by  salt 
smoke,  singly  or 
whether  in  bulk  or  in  packages.

1.  Molasses  is  the  product  left aft­
er  separating  the  sugar  from  masse­
cuite,  melada,  mush  sugar  or  concrete, 
and  concrete,  and  contains  not  more 
than  twenty-five  (25)  per  cent,  of
/_•,  „ 1
:  * 
and  not  more  than  five  (5)  per
cent,  of  ash.
is 
the  residual  liquid  product  obtained 
1  in  the  process  of  refining  raw  sugars
1.  Manufactured  meats  are  meats i  an(j  contains  not  more  than  twenty- 
>t  included  in  paragraphs  2  and  3,  five  (35)  per  cent,  of  water  and  not 
cimnlp  nr  mixed,  whole  or I  nlore  than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of  ash.

not  ...------—  —  i ----L7- w —
whether  simple  or  mixed,  whole  or 
comminuted,  in  bulk  or  packages, 
with  or  without  the  addition  of  salt,
1.  Syrup  is  the  product  made  by! 
oils j  ptlrifying  and  evaporating  tne  juice 
sugar,  vinegar,  spices,  smoke, 
purifying  and  evaporating  the  juice
or  rendered  fat. 
a  sugar-producing  plant  without 
If  they  bear  names 1 
descriptive  of  composition  they  cor- j  rt.m0ving  any  of  the  sugar  and  con-
respond  thereto  and  when  bearing j
tains  not  more  than  thirty  (30)  per 
such  descriptive  names,  if  force  or |  cent 
water  and  not  more  tnan  twe 
1  cent,  of  water  and  not  more  than  two
flavoring  meats  are  used,  the  kind j  an(j  five-tenths  (2.5)  per  cent,  of  ash 
(¡„mr-eanp  «min  is  svmn  made
„ 
and  quantity 
_.  Sugar-cane  syrup  is  syrup  made | 
known.
I by  the  evaporation  of  the  juice  of  the ; 
!  sugar  cane  or  by  the  solution  of  sug- j 
i ar-cane  concrete.
3.  Sorghum  syrup  is  syrup  made I 
I by  the  evaporation  of  sorghum  juice
| or  by  the  solution  of  sorghum  con- j 
I crete.
!  the  evaporation  of  maple  sap  or  by
j the  solution  of  maple  concrete.

1.  Lard  is  the  rendered  fresh  fat 
from  slaughtered,  healthy  hogs, 
is 
free  from  rancidity,  and  contains  not 
more  than  one  (1)  per  cent,  of  sub­
stances,  other  than  fatty  acids,  not 
fat.  necessarily  incorporated 
there­
with  in  the  process  of  rendering.

4.  Maple  syrup  is  syrup  made  by | 

are  made 1 

thereof 

Syrups.

Lard.

2.  Leaf  lard  is  lard  rendered  at 
moderately  high  temperatures 
from 
the  internal  fat  of  the  abdomen  of 
the  hog,  excluding  that  adherent  to 
the  intestines,  and  has  an  iodin  num­
ber  not  greater  than  sixty  (60).

5.  Sugar  syrup  is  syrup  made  byi 
j  dissolving  sugar  to  the  consistence  of
| a  syrup.

Glucose  Products.

in 

two 

Butter.

low  temperatures.

3.  Neutral  lard  is  lard  rendered  at | 

1.  Starch  sugar  is  the  solid  prod- 
! uct  made  by  hydrolyzing  starch  or  a 
j starch-containing  substance  until 
the 
greater  part  of  the  starch  is  convert-
1.  Butter  is  the  product  made  by  ed  into  dextrose.  Starch  sugar  ap-
gatliering  in  any  manner  the  fat  of 1  pears  in  commerce 
forms, 
fresh  or  ripened  milk  or  cream  into j  anhydrous  and  hydrous.  The  former, 
a  mass,  which  also  contains  a  small  crystallized  without  water  of  crystal- 
portion  of  the  other  milk  constitu- j  fixation,  contains  not  less  than  nine- 
ents,  with  or  without  salt  and  con- j  ty-five  (95)  per  cent,  of  dextrose  and 
tains  not  less  tfian  eightv-two  and  not  more  than  eight-tenths  (0.8)  per 
five-tenths  (S2.5)  per  cent.'  of  butter j  cent,  of  ash.  The  latter,  crystallized 
fat.  By  acts  of  Congress  approvedj  with  water  of  crystallization,  is  of 
August  2.  1SS6,  and  May  9,  1902,  but- j two  varieties— 70  sugar,  also  known 
ter  may  also  contain  additional  color-  as  brewers’  sugar,  contains  not  less 
I than  seventy  (70)  per  cent,  of  dex-
ing  matter. 
2.  Renovated  or  process  butter  is |  trose  and  not  more  than  eight-tenths 
the  product  made  by  melting  butter!  (0.S)  per  cent,  of  ash:  80  sugar,  cli- 
and  reworking,  without  the  addition  max  or  acme  sugar,  contains  not  less 
or  use  of  chemicals  or  any  substances  than  eighty  (80)  per  cent,  of  dextrose 
except  milk,  cream  or  salt,  and  con- j  and  not  more  than  one  and  one-half 
tains  not  more  than  sixteen  (16)  per  (1.5)  per  cent,  of  ash.
cent,  of  water  and  at  least  eighty-two |  The  ash  of  all  these  products  con- 
and  five-tenths  (S2.5)  per  cent,  of but- |  sists  almost  entirely  of  chlorids  and 
ter  fat. 
2.  Glucose,  mixing  glucose,  or con-
1.  Cheese  is  the  solid  and  ripened  fectioner’s  glucose,  is  a  thick,  syrupy,
product  made  by 
the  colorless  product  made  by  incomplete 
casein  of  milk  by  means  of  rennet  or  hydrolyzing  starch,  or  a  starch-con- 
acids.  with  or  without  the  adition  of |  taining  substance,  and  decolorizing 
ripening  ferments  and  seasoning.  By  and  evaporating  the  product. 
It  va- 
act  of  Congress,  approved  June  6.  ries  in  density  from  forty-one  (41''  to 
1S06.  cheese  may  also  contain  addi-  forty-five  (45)  degrees  Baume  at  a 
tional  coloring  matter. 
(100)
cream  deg.  Fahrenheit  (37-7  deg.  C.),  and 
2.  Whole  milk  or 
these 
cheese  is  made  from  milk  from  which  conforms 
in  density,  within 
is 
it 
no  portion  of  the  fat  has  been  re-,  limits,  to  the  degree  Baume 
moved  and  contains, 
in  the  water-  claimed  to  show,  and  for  a  density 
free  substance,  not  less  than  fifty  (50) j of  forty-one  (41)  degrees  Baume  con-
tains  not  more  than  twenty-one  (21)
per  cent,  of  butter  fat. 
tains  not  more  man  twenty-one  mn
is  a  cheese j per  cent;  for  a  density  of  forty-five
3.  Skim-milk  cheese 

temperature  of  one  hundred 

coagulating 

sulphates.

-*■   • — — 

Cheese. 

full 

. 

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

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

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

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

Wholesale Dealer la  Batter,  Bn»,  Fruit* end Produce 

Both Phouee 1300

Butter,  Eggs,  Potatoes  and  Beans

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.

We  Want  Your  Eggs

We want to hear from shippers who can  send us eggs every week.
We pay the highest market price.  Correspond with us.
L.  O.  SNEDECOR  &  SON,  Egg  Receivers

36  Harrison  S t.,  New  York

We  Want  Eggs  and  Poultry

We pay highest  prices  all  the  year  around 

Phone  or wire  us.

GRAND  RAPIDS  PRODUCE  CO .,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

40 S. Division St.,

Reference 

5th  National  Bank 

Citizens Phone  3083
Long  Distance  Phone 465

Butter

I  would  like  all  che  fresh,  sweet  dairy 

butter  of  medium  quality  you  have  to 

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

W .  C.  Rea 

a .  J.  W itzlg

REA  &  WITZIG

PRODUCE  COMMISSION

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

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

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(45)  degrees  not  more  than  fourteen 
(14)  per  cent,  of  water. 
It  contains 
on  a  basis  of  forty-one  (41)  degrees 
Baurae  not  more  than  one  (1)  per 
cent,  of  ash,  consisting  chiefly  of 
chlorids  and  sulphates.

3.  Glucose  syrup  or  corn  syrup  is 
glucose  unmixed  or  mixed  with  syr­
up,  molasses  or  refiners’  syrup  and 
contains  not  more  than  twenty-five 
(25)  per  cent,  of  water  and  not  more 
than  three  (3)  per  cent,  of  ash.

Candy.

1.  Candy  is  a  product  made  from 
a  saccharine  substance  or  substances 
with  or  without  the  addition  of  harm­
less  coloring  flavoring,  or  filling  ma­
terials,  and  contains  no 
terra  alba, 
barytes,  talc,  chorme  yellow  or  other 
mineral  substances,  or  poisonous  col­
ors  or  flavors,  or  other  ingredients  in­
jurious  to  health.

mixture  of  these  spices,  and  contains 
not  more  than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of 
total  ash  and  not  more  than  two  (2) 
per  cent,  of  sand.

15.  Cloves  are  the  dried 

flower 
buds  of  Caryophyllus  aromaticus  L. 
which  contain  not  more  than  five  (5) 
per  cent,  of  clove  stems;  not 
less 
than  ten  (10)  per  cent,  of  volatile 
eth?r  extract;  not  less  than  twelve 
(12)  per  cent,  of  quercitannic  acid; 
not  more  than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of 
total  ash;  not  more  than  five-tenths 
(0.5)  per  cent,  of  ash  insoluble 
in 
hydrochloric  acid  and  not  more  than 
ten  (10)  per  cent,  of crude  fiber.

16.  Coriander  is  the  dried  fruit  of 

Coriandrum  sativum  L.

17.  Cumin  seed  is  the 

Cuminum  cyminum  L.

18.  Dill  seed 

is 

the 

Anethum  graveolens  L.

fruit  of 

fruit  of 

Honey.

(Apis  mellifica). 

1.  Honey  is  the  nectar  and  saccha­
rine  exudations  of  plants  gathered, 
modified,  and  stored  in  the  comb  by 
honey  bees 
It  is 
laevo-rotatory,  contains  not  more 
than  twenty-five  (25)  per  cent,  of 
water,  not  more  than  twenty-five hun­
dredths  (0.25)  per  cent,  of  ash,  and 
not  more  than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of 
sucrose.

2.  Comb  honey  is  honey  contain­

ed  in  the  cells  of  comb.

3.  Extracted  honey  is  honey  which 
has  been  separated  from  the  uncrush­
ed  comb  by  centrifugal  force  or  grav­
ity.
4.  Strained  honey  is  honey  remov­
ed  from  the  crushed  comb  by  strain­
ing  or  other  means.

Spices.

1.  Spices  are  aromatic  vegetable 
substances  used  for  the  seasoning  of 
food  and  from  which  no  portion  of 
any  volatile  oil  or  other  flavoring 
principle  has  been  removed  and  which 
are  sound  and  true  to  name.

2.  Allspice  or  pimento  is  the  dried 
fruit  of  Pimenta  pimenta  (L.)  Karst, 
and  contains  not  less  than  eight  (8) 
per  cent,  of  quercitannic  acid;  not 
more  than  six  (6)  per  cent,  of  total 
ash;  not  more  than  five-tenths  (0.5) 
per  cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  hydro­
chloric  acid,  and  not  more  than  twen­
ty-five  (25)  per  cent,  of  crude  fiber.
3.  Anise  is  the  fruit  of  Pimpinella 

anisum  L.

4.  Bay  leaf  is  the  dried  leaf  of 

Laurus  nobilis  L.

5.  Capers  are  the  flower  buds  of 

Capparis  spinosa  L.

6.  Caraway  is  the  fruit  of  Carum 

carvi  L.

Cayenne  and  Red  Peppers.

7.  Red  pepper  is  the  red,  dried ripe 

fruit  of  any  species  of  Capsicum.

8.  Cayenne  pepper  or  cayenne  is 
the  dried  ripe  fruit  of  Capsicum  fru- 
tcscens  L.,  Capsicum  baccatum  L.,  or 
some  other  small-fruited  species  of 
Capsicum,  and  contains  not  less  than 
fifteen  (15)  per  cent,  of  nonvolatile 
ether  extract;  not  more  than  six  and 
five-tenths  (6.5)  per  cent,  of total  ash; 
not  more  than  five-tenths  (0.5)  per 
cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  hydrochloric 
acid;  not  more  than  one  and 
five- 
tenths  (1.5)  per  cent,  of  starch,  and 
not  more  than  twenty-eight  (28)  per 
cent,  of  crude  fiber.

9.  Celery  seed  is  the  dried  fruit  of 

Apium  graveolens  L.

10.  Cinnamon  is  the  dried  bark  of 
any  species  of  the  genus  Cinnamo- 
mum  from  which  the  outer 
layers 
may  or  may  not  have  been  removed.
11.  True  cinnamon  is  the  dried  in­
ner  bark  of  Cinnamomum  zeylanicum 
Breyne.
12.  Cassia  is  the  dried  bark  of  va­
rious  species  of  Cinnamomum,  other 
than  Cinnomomum  zeylanicum,  from 
which  the  outer  layers  may  or  may 
not  have  been  removed.
13.  Cassia  buds  are  the  dried  im­
mature  fruit  of  species  of  Cinnamo­
mum.
14.  Ground  cinnamon  or  ground 
cassia  is  a  powder  consisting  of  cin­
namon,  cassia,  or  cassia  buds,  or  a

19.  Fennel  is  the  fruit  of  Foenicu- 

lum  foeniculum  (L.)  Karst.

20.  Ginger  is  the  washed  and dried 
or  decorticated  and  dried  rhizome  of 
Zinziber  zinziber  (L.)  Karst,  and  con­
tains  not  less  than  forty-two  (42)  per 
cent,  of  starch,  not  more  than  eight 
(8)  per  cent,  of  crude  fiber,  not  more 
than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of  total  ash, 
not  more  than  one  (1)  per  cent,  of 
lime  and  not  more  than  three  (3)  per 
cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  hydrochloric 
acid.
is 
whole  ginger  coated  with  carbonate 
of  lime  and  contains  not  more  than 
ten  (10)  per  cent,  of  ash,  not  more 
than  four  (4)  per  cent,  of  carbonate 
of  lime,  and  conforms  in  other 
re­
spects  to  the  standard  for  ginger.

21.  Limed  or  bleached  ginger 

22.  Horse-radish 
is  the  root  of 
Roripa  armoracia 
(L.)  Hitchcock 
either  by  itself  or  ground  and  mixed 
with  vinegar.
23.  Mace  is  the  dried  arillus  of 
Myristica  fragrans  Houttuyn  and  con­
tains  not  less  than  twenty  (20)  nor 
more  than  thirty  (30)  per  cent,  of 
nonvolatile  ether  extract,  not  more 
than  three  (3)  per  cent,  of  total  ash, 
not  more  than  five-tenths  (0.5)  per 
cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  hydrochloric 
acid  and  not  more  than  ten  (10)  per 
cent,  of  crude  fiber.
24.  Macassar  or  Papua  mace  is the 
dried  arillus  of  Myristica  argentea 
Warb.
the  dried 
arillus  of  Myristica  malabarica  La­
marck.

25.  Bombay  mace  is 

26.  Marjoram  is  the 

flower 
and  branch  of  Majorana  majorana 
(L.)  Karst.
27.  Mustard  seed  is  the  seed  of 
Sinapis  alba  L. 
(white  mustard), 
Brassica  nigra  (L.)  Koch  (black  mus­
tard),  or  Brassica  junycea  (L.)  Cos: 
son  (black  or  brown  mustard).

leaf, 

28.  Ground  mustard  is  a  powder 
made  from  mustard  seed,  with  or 
without  the  removal  of  the  hulls  and 
a  portion  of  the  fixed  oil,  and  con­
tains  not  more  than  two  and 
five- 
tenths  (2.5)  per  cent,  of  starch  and 
not  more  than  eight  (8)  per  cent,  of 
total  ash.
29.  Nutmeg  is  the  dried  seed  of 
Myristica  fragrans  Houttuyn  deprived 
of  its  testa,  with  or  without  a  thin 
coating  of 
lime,  and  contains  not 
less  than  twenty-five  (25)  per  cent, 
of  nonvolatile  ether  extract,  not  more 
than  five  (5)  per  cent,  of  total  ash, 
not  more  than  five-tenths  (0.5)  per 
cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  hydrochloric 
acid,  and  not  more  than  ten  (10)  per 
cent,  of  crude  fiber.

30.  Macassar,  Papua,  male,  or  long 
nutmeg,  is  the  dried  seed  of  Myristica 
argentea  Warb,  deprived  of  its  testa.
31.  Paprica  is  the  dried  ripe  fruit 
of  Capsicum  annuum  L.,  or 
some 
other  large-fruited  species  of  Capsi­
cum.

Pepper.

32.  Black  pepper 

is the dried, im­
mature  berry  of  Piper  nigrum  L.  and 
contains  not  less  than  six  (6)  per 
cent,  of  nonvolatile  ether  extract, not 
less  than  twenty-five  (25)  per  cent, 
of  starch,  not  more  than  seven  (7)

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Eggs
Poultry

Packing  Stock  Butter 

and

Butter-fat  in  Cream

Empire  Produce  Company

Port  Huron,  Mich.

EGGS

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For storage  and present  use.
Phone,  wire  or  write  us.

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per  cent,  of  total  ash,  not  more  than 
two  (2)  per  cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in 
hydrochloric  acid,  and  not  more  than 
fifteen  (15)  per  cent,  of  crude  fiber. 
One  hundred  parts  of  the  nonvolatile 
ether  extract  contain  not  less  than 
three  and  one-quarter  (3.25)  parts  of 
nitrogen.  Ground  black  pepper  is the 
product  made  by  grinding  the  entire 
berry  and  contains  the  several  parts 
of  the  berry  in  their  normal  propor­
tions.

33.  Long  pepper  is  the  dried  fruit 

of  Piper  Iongum  L.

34.  White  pepper  is  the  dried  ma­
ture  berry  of  Piper  nigrum  L.  from 
which  the  outer  coating  or  the  outer 
and  inner  coatings  have  been  remov­
ed  and  contains  not  less  than  six  (6) 
per  cent,  of  nonvolatile  ether 
ex­
tract,  not  less  than  fifty  (50)  per  cent, 
of  starch,  not  more  than  four  (4)  per 
cent,  of  total  ash,  not  more  than  five- 
tenths  (0.5)  per  cent,  of  ash  insolu­
ble  in  hydrochloric acid,  and  not more 
than  five  (5)  per  cent,  of  crude  fiber. 
One  hundred  parts  of  the  nonvolatile 
ether  extract  contain  not  less 
than 
four  (4)  parts  of  nitrogen.

35.  Saffron  is  the  dried  stigma  of 

Crocus  sativus  L.

36.  Sage  is  the  leaf  of  Salvia  offi­

cinalis  L.

37.  Savory  or  summer  savory  is 
the  leaf,  blossom  and  branch  of  Satu- 
reja  hortensis  L.

38.  Thyme  is  the  leaf  and  tip  of 
blooming  branches  of  Thymus  vul­
garis  L.

Cocoa  and  Cocoa  Products.

1.  Cocoa  beans  are  the  seeds  of 

the  cacao  tree,  Theobroma  cacao  L.

2.  Cocoa  nibs,  or  cracked  cocoa, 
is  the  roasted,  broken  cocoa  bean 
freed  from  its  shell  or  husk.

3.  Chocolate,  plain  or  bitter,  or 
chocolate  liquor,  is  the  solid  or  plas­
tic  mass  obtained  by  grinding  cocoa 
nibs  without  the  removal  of  fat  or 
other  constituents  except  the  germ, 
and  contains  not  more  than  three  (3) 
per  cent,  of  ash  insoluble  in  water, 
three  and  fifty  hundredths  (3.50)  per 
cent,  of  crude  fiber,  and  nine  (9)  per 
cent,  of  starch,  and  not  less  than  for­
ty-five  (45)  per  cent,  of  cocoa  fat.

4.  Sweet  chocolate  and  chocolate 
coatings  are  plain  chocolate  mixed 
with  sugar  (sucrose),  with  or  with­
out  the  addition  of 
cocoa  butter, 
spices,  or  other  flavoring  materials, 
and  contain  in  the  sugar  and  fat-free 
residue  no  higher percentage  of  either 
ash,  fiber  or  starch  than  is  found  in 
the  sugar  and 
residue  of 
plain  chocolate.

fat-free 

5.  Cocoa  or  powdered  cocoa 

is 
cocoa  nibs,  with  or  without  the  germ, 
deprived  of  a  portion  of  its  fat  and 
finely  pulverized,  and  contains  per­
centages  of  ash, 
fiber  and 
crude 
starch  corresponding  to 
in 
those 
chocolate  after  correction  for  fat  re­
moved.
6.  Sweet  or  sweetened  cocoa  is  co­
coa  mixed  with  sugar  (sucrose),  and 
contains  not  more  than  sixty  (60)  per 
cent,  of  sugar  (sucrose),  and  in  the 
sugar  and  fat-free  residue  no  higher 
percentage  of  either  ash,  crude  fiber 
or  starch  than  is  found  in  the  sugar 
and  fat-free  residue  of  plain  choco­
late.

Vinegar.

twenty-five  hundredths 

1.  Vinegar,  cider  vinegar  or  apple 
vinegar  is  the  product  made  by 
the 
alcoholic  and  subsequent  acetous  fer­
mentations  of  the  juice  of  apples,  is 
laevo-rotatory,  and  contains  not  less 
than  four  (4)  grams  of  acetic  acid, 
not  less  than  one  and  six-tenths  (1.6) 
grams  of  apple  solids,  and  not  less 
than 
(0.25) 
gram  of  apple  ash  in  one  hundred 
(100)  cubic  centimeters.  The  water- 
soluble  ash  from  one  hundred  (100) 
cubic  centimeters  of  the  vinegar  re­
quires  not  less  than  thirty  (30)  cubic 
centimeters  of  decinormal  acid 
to 
neutralize  the  acidity  and  contains 
not  less  than  ten  (10)  milligrams  of 
phosphoric  acid  (P2O5).

2.  Wine  vinegar  or  grape  vinegar 
is  the  product  made  by  the  alcoholic

is 

and  subsequent  acetous 
fermenta­
tions  of  the  juice  of  grapes  and  con­
tains,  in  one  hundred  (100)  cubic  cen­
timeters,  not  less  than  four  (4)  grams 
of  acetic  acid,  not  less  than  one  and 
four-tenths  (1.4)  grams  of  grape  sol­
ids,  and  not  less  than  thirteen  hun­
dredths  (0.13)  gram  of  grape  ash.

3.  Malt  vinegar 

the  product 
made  by  the  alcoholic  and  subsequent 
acetous  fermentations,  without  distil­
lation,  or  an  infusion  of  barley  malt 
or  cereals  whose  starch  has  been  con­
verted  by  malt  and  is  dextro-rotatory 
and  contains,  in  one  hundred  (100) 
cubic  centimeters,  not  less  than  four 
(4)  grams  of  acetic  acid,  not 
less 
than  two  (2)  grams  of  solids  and 
not  less  than  two-tenths  (0.2)  gram 
of  ash.  The  water-soluble  ash  from 
one  hundred  (100)  cubic  centimeters 
of  the  vinegar  requires  not  less  than 
four  (4)  cubic  centimeters  of  deci­
normal  acid  to  neutralize  its  alkalinity 
and  contains  not  less  than  nine  (9) 
milligrams 
acid
(P2O5).
the  product 
made  by  the  alcoholic  and  subsequent 
acetous  fermentations  of  solutions  of 
a  sugar,  syrup,  molasses  or  refiners’ 
syrup,  and  contains,  in  one  hundred 
(100)  cubic  centimeters,  not  less  than 
four  (4)  grams  of  acetic  acid.

4.  Sugar  vinegar  is 

phosphoric 

of 

5-  Glucose  vinegar  is  the  product 
made  by  the  alcoholic  and  subse­
quent  acetous  fermentations  of  solu­
tions  of  starch  sugar,  glucose  or  glu­
cose  syrup,  is  dextro-rotatory  and 
contains,  in  one  hundred  (100)  cubic 
centimeters,  not  less  than  four  (4) 
grams  of  acetic  acid.

6.  Spirit  vinegar,  distilled  vinegar, 
grain  vinegar,  is  the  product  made 
by  the  acetous  fermentation  of  dilute 
distilled  alcohol  and  contains,  in one 
hundred  (100)  cubic  centimeters,  not 
less  than  four  (4)  grams  of  acetic 
acid.

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painting  the  pump.

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Grass  Seeds— Field Seeds

Medium,  Mammoth,  Alsyke,  Crimson,  Alfalfa,  White  Clover,  Timothy,  Blue  Grass, 

Redtop, Orchard Grass, Millet, Hungarian, Buckwheat,  Rapeseed,

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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 purchasar.  Also Excelsior, Nails  and  Flats 
constantly in stock.  Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.  Warehouses ana 
factory on Grand River, Eaton  Rapids, Michigan.  Address

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/

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Four Kinds  of Coupon Books

are manufactured  by  us  and  all  sold  on  the  same 
basis,  irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  denomination.
Free  samples  on  application.

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Michigan  Gasoline  Gas  Machine

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Until you  get our prices.

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A ny  of 

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the  above  sizes 
with  Iron  Clad  H am es  or 
with  Brass  B all  H am es  and 
B rass  Trim m ed.

Order  a  sam ple  set,  if  not 
satisfactory  you  may  return 
at  our  expense.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We  make  a  specialty  of  store,  office 
j and  residence  awnings.  Our  1905  Im­
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market.  No ropes to cut the cloth and a 
sprocket chain that will not  slip.  Prices 
on tents, flags and covers for the  asking.

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II  and  9  Pearl St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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Is really the only device known that will  catch and 
hold both the fly and the germ and coat them over 
with  a  varnish  from  which  they  cannot  escape 
preventing  their reaching your person or food.

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The  Bullfrog=Compoiind=Goldfield  Mining Company
By acting quickly you can  get in on  the  ground  floor of a new  com­
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This company owns 40 acres in  Goldfield and 60 acres in Bullfrog.  Stock 
full paid  and non-assessable.  No  personal  liability—no  debts.  Bank 
and commercial  references.  First offering  of  stock  at  2 54c  per  share 
(par value  $1.00).  Only  a  small  block  of  stock  at  this  low  price. 
$12.50 will  buy 500 shares,  par value $500; $25 will buy $1,000 worth; $100 
will buy $4,000 worth,  but you will have to pay more unless you hurry.
Write today for booklet,  pictures,  maps,  etc.,  and tell us how  many 

shares to reserve,  pending your investigation.

Southwestern  Securities  Company
5th  Floor V.  W .  Heilman  Bldg.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.

for  the  moment  appears  to  be  im­
pressive.

This  social  mystery  mongering  has 
a  great  effect  on  people  of  limited 
intelligence.  Over  and  over  again 
have  I  been  informed  that  I  ought i 
to  know  Mrs.  Somebody,  because she 
is  “such  a  remarkable  woman;”  and 
when  I  have  come  to  know  her  I  have 
found  that  she  is  simply  a  quite  or­
dinary  person  with  a  mysterious j 
manner.  Three-quarters  of  the  world 
judge  by  manner  rather 
than  by 
words.  Say  a  brilliant  thing  in  a ] 
careless,  casual  way  and  the  chances | 
are  that  it  will  not  be  heeded;  but 
say  “Pass  the  mustard”  impressively, 
mysteriously,  with  bated  breath  and 
rolling  eye,  and  your  acquaintances 
will  go  away  saying,  “How  clever  he 
is!  So  original!  Pass  the  mustard!
I  should  never  have  thought  of  that.
I  should  have  said,  ‘Hand  the  must­
ard;’  but  he  is  so  unusual;  puts  things 
so  wittily.”

Think  over  your  acquaintances and 
friends.  Are  not  some  of  them  mys­
terious,  and  are  n<">t  they  highly  con­
sidered,  are  not  they  called  “interest­
ing”  on  that  account?  There  are 
many  spurious  things  in  the  social 
world,  but  few  things 
are  more 
spurious  than  that  reputation  for  be­
ing  interesting  which  is  gained  by the 
mysterious  manner. 
It  is  easy  to  be 
portentous,  but  it  is  difficult  to  be 
brilliant— unless  you  happen  to  be I 
born  so.  Now,  many  people  want | 
to  be  thought  brilliant.  The  splutter­
ing  candle  frequently  aspires  to  be 
thought  a  searchlight.  And  so  man­
ners  come  into  being.  The  failure 
tries  to  mask  his  impotence  with  a | 
successful  manner,  the  dull  dog  is 
mysterious  about  nothing,  the  foolish 
body  cultivates  a  weighty,  bow-wow 
address,  and  mouths  his  twaddle  as 
if  it  came  from  Bacon’s  mind  or  was 
conceived  by  the  brain  of  Goethe. 
And  half  the  world  at  least  is  tricked. 
For  every  day  perkiness 
called 
brilliance,  mystery  wisdom,  assurance 
greatness,  and  the  puppet  in  the  mask 
a  giant  in  the  sunshine.

is 

M YSTE R Y  MONGERING.

Its  Effect  on  People  of  Limited  In­

telligence.

Many  people  assume  certain  man­
ners  as  they  assume  certain  clothes, 
and  change  these  manners  more  sel­
dom  than  they  change  their  clothes. 
Some  think  it  ingratiating  to  be  per­
ky.  They  bridle  and  nod,  flutter their 
hands,  affect  a  birdlike  turn  of  the 
head,  clip  their  words,  wink  their  eye­
lids,  move  as  if  on  wires,  and  cackle 
without  cessation.  And  they  have 
their  reward  when  they  hear 
them­
selves  called  “bright.”  Others  think 
it  more  graceful  to  be  drooping  and 
melancholy,  to  gaze  wistfully,  walk 
mournfully,  and  sit  as  if  before  the 
baked  meats  of  a 
feast. 
Others,  again,  are  determinedly  intel­
lectual.  Even  the  noses  of  these  per­
sons  look  learned.  Their  hair  seems 
to  bristle  with  erudition,  and  when 
one  meets  them  abroad  in  the  early 
hours'  one  feels  certain  that  they  are 
birds  gathering  bookworms.  But  of 
all  the  people  who  indulge  in  travesty 
I  think  I  get  most  amusement  out  of 
the  mysterious  people.

funeral 

Bated,  forever  bated,  is  the  breath 
of  the  mysterious  person.  Directly 
he  comes  into  the  room  you  are  con­
scious  of the  presence  of the  unuttera­
ble,  and  know  that  it  will  speedily 
be  uttered  into  your  most  private  ear. 
When  he  speaks  to  you  he  “takes  you 
aside,”  so  that  none  other  may  know 
that  he  is  telling  you  that  the  weather 
is  damp  and  that  there  is  a  deal  of 
influenza  about.  Put  a  guard  upon 
your  lips.  Do  not  betray  the  precious 
confidence.  Even  those  of  us  who 
are  not  priests  should  respect  the  se­
crets  of  the  social  confessional.  His 
voice  is  low  and  thrilling,  his  manner 
suggests  Udolpho.  The  touch  of  his 
hand  is,  or  ought  to  be,  if  he  knows 
how  to  do  the  thing  properly,  elec­
tric.  As  he  discusses  with  you  such 
dreadful  subjects  as  the  price  of  hob­
nailed  boots, 
fluctuations  of 
stocks,  the  merits  of  President  Roose­
velt  and  the  economies  of  the  admin­
istration,  his  head  approaches  yours, 
his 
eyes 
glance  round  warily  to  make  sure 
that  no  one  is  within  earshot  to  be­
tray  him  and  you.  The  gallows  is 
surely  in  his  memory.  He  wishes  to 
avoid  it.  He  wishes— kindly  wretch! 
— to  save  you  from  it  also.  Meet him 
halfway. 
It  is  such  fun  to  do  that. 
He  responds  sensitively  to  the  slight­
est  mysterious  encouragement  and 
thinks  he  is  impressing  you  and  that 
you  believe  him  to  be  a  strange  and 
remarkable  personage,  and  that  you 
will  go  away  and  say,  “Glad  I  met 
John  Smith. 
Interesting  man.  Not 
every  day  you  come  across  a  man 
like  that.”

lips  pout  secretively,  his 

the 

large,  plumed 

Many  women  are  mysterious. 

In­
deed,  I  have  met  more  mysterious 
women  than  mysterious  men.  The 
mysterious  woman  is  often  small, but 
her  hats  are 
like  a 
hearse,  and  generally  black  as  night. 
Pale  is  her  face  and  languid  her  man­
ner.  She  tries  to  look  consumptive 
and  succeeds  surprisingly  often.  As 
a  rule  she  has  little  to  say,  but  says 
it  in  such  an  awful  manner  that  it 
takes  on  a  fictitious  importance  and

Robert  Hichens.

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A  BEE

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Insoluble  Mystery  Woman  Will 

Never  Understand.

A  magazine  has  recently  made  the 
assertion  that  eight  women  out  of 
every  ten  who  married  were  disap­
pointed  in  their  husbands.  This 
is 
true,  but  it  does  not  mean,  as 
it 
seems  to,  that  eight  men  out  of  ten 
are  wicked  Bluebeards  who  delight in 
torturing  their  wives.  Neither  does 
it  prove,  as  one  might  suppose,  that 
eight  husbands  out  of  ten  have  seri­
ous  faults  that  render  them  disagree­
able  as  matrimonial  partners.

No  man  marries  a  woman  with  a 
set  purpose  of  making  her  miserable. 
On  the  contrary,  every  man’s  desire 
and  his  belief  is  that  he  can  make 
the  woman  he 
leads  to  the  altar 
happy,  and  he  doesn’t  find  out  what 
a  difficult  job  he  has  tackled  until  it 
is  too  late  to  back  out. 
In  taking  a I 
wife  a  man  assumes  heavy  responsi­
bilities;  he  curtails  his  freedom  and 
gives  up  his  liberty,  and  lets  himself 
in  for  a  lifetime  of  doing  what  some­
body  else  wants  him  to  do  instead  of 
what  he  wants  to  do  himself,  and  it 
is  foolish  to  suppose  that  any  man 
would  make  these  sacrifices  for 
a 
woman  that  he  was  not  doing  his 
best  to  please  and  satisfy.

This  being  the  case,  and  no  one 
can  deny  that  the  majority  of  men | 
spend  their  days  toiling  and  slaving 
to  support  their  wives  and  make  them 
comfortable  and  happy,  why  are  so 
many  women  disappointed  in 
their 
husbands?  W hy  is  there  so  much 
waste  motion  of  men’s  good  inten­
tions,  so  to  speak?

The  average  woman  who  finds  the 
gilt  off  the  ginger  bread  of  matri­
mony  does  not  charge  any  overt  of­
fense  against  her  husband.  She  sel­
dom  complains  that  he  neglects  her, 
or  is  cruel  to  her,  or  that  he  beats 
her  or  starves  her,  but  the  crime  on 
his  part  that  has 
love’s 
young  dreams,  that  has  stripped  the 
halo  and  the  glory  from  her  ideal, 
that  has  turned  marriage  from  poet­
ry  into  prose,  and  that  is  the  blight­
ing  disappointment  of  her 
life, 
is 
that  he  does  not  understand  her.

shattered 

That  is  her  grievance,  and  it might 
be  his,  too,  for  women  no  more  un­
derstand  men  than  men  understand 
women.  Each  speaks  a  tongue  that 
the  other  does  not  comprehend.  Each 
is  moved  by  impulses  that  the  other 
can  not  anticipate,  and  out  of 
this 
lack  of  understanding  grow  most 
of  the  sorrows  that  tear  poor  human 
hearts.

feminine  peculiarities 

That  men  do  not  understand  wom­
en  is  not  so  remarkable  as  that  wom­
en  do  not  understand  men,  for  men 
have  never  devoted  as  much  time  to 
studying 
as 
women  have  to  trying  to  probe  the 
mysteries  of 
the  masculine  mind. 
Long  ago  man  gave  woman  up  as  a 
conundrum  that  he  could  never solve, 
and  quit  guessing  about  her,  but  a 
woman’s  privileges  and  perquisites 
have  depended  upon  how  nearly  she

could  read  the  riddle  of  man,  and  so 
she  is  kept  working  at  it.

And  the  funny  part  of  it  all  is  that 
the  reason  she  has  never  found  the 
answer  is  because  it  is  so  easy— so 
plain— so  apparent.  The  thing  that 
baffles  woman  in  man,  the  thing  she 
can  never  understand,  is  his 
sim­
plicity.

There  is  an  old  story  told  of  a 
diplomat  whose  cunning  and  subtlety 
were  so  great  that  no  one  among  his 
compeers  could  compete  with  him. 
At  every  turn  he  foiled  and  outwitted 
his  opponents.  They  could  never  an­
ticipate  his  next  move,  or  form  any 
conjecture  as  to  what  position  he 
would  take,  while  his  every  word  was 
regarded  as  so  cryptic  that  they spent 
hours  in  debating  its  inner  meaning 
it 
and  attempting  to  forecast  what 
might  portend.  At 
the 
diplomat  was  aged  and  feeble,  and 
had  retired  from  public 
life,  some 
one  went  to  him  and  asked  him  what 
was  the  secret  of  this  marvelous  skill 
that  he  possessed.  To  which  the  dip­
lomat  replied  that  he  had  always 
spoken  the  exact  truth,  and  always 
told  precisely  what  he  intended  to 
do,  and  this  simplicity  was  so  im­
possible  to  his  rivals  that  they  were 
utterly  unable  to  understand  him 
or  deal  with  it.

last,  when 

This  illustrates  as  nearly  as  possi­
ble  man’s  and  woman’s  attitude  to­
wards  each  other.  A  woman  can not 
comprehend  a  man’s  simplicity,  and 
when  she  fails  to  understand  it  she 
thinks  that  he  is  very,  very  deep, and 
“devilish  sly,”  as  Joey  Bagley  used 
to  say  in  Dickens’  story.  Take  the 
matter  of  love,  for  instance.  When a 
man  tells  a  woman  he  loves  her,  and 
marries  her  to  prove  it,  and  offers 
additional  evidence  daily  on  the  sub­
ject  by  toiling  to  support  her,  he  re­
gards  the  matter  as  placed  beyond 
argument. 
It  no  more  occurs  to him 
that  any  one  could  question  his  affec­
tion  than  they  could  question  his sol­
vency  if he  owned  a  bank  and  a  block 
of  buildings.  The  thing  is  there  to 
show  for  itself.

Neither  does  he  question  his  wife’s

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love  for  him.  There  was  no  reason 
for  her  to  marry  him  unless  she  pre­
ferred  him  to  any  other  man,  he 
thinks,  in  his  simplicity,  nor  does  it 
occur  to  him  that,  having  once  loved 
him,  she  will  ever  cease  loving  him. 
Wherefore  he  takes  love  in  peace 
and  restfulness.

to  understand 

Now  it  is  utterly  impossible  for  a 
woman 
this  simple 
masculine  point  of  view  on  the  sub­
ject.  She  can  not  comprehend  that 
anybody  can  accept  a  fact  as  a  fact, 
and  let  it  go  at  that.  Her  feeling 
about  love  is  like  that  of  a  child  with 
a  flower— she  must  be  continually 
digging  it  up  to  see  if  it  is  growing. 
So,  when  a  husband  ceases  to  tell 
her  he  loves  her,  because  it  seems  to 
him  idle  to  Aiention  such  a  palpable 
thing,  she  immediately  begins  to  ar­
gue  that  he  has  ceased  to  love  her.  It 
is  true  that  he  is  still  as  domestic  as 
the  house  cat,  and  that  he  is  kind  and 
considerate,  but  that  only  impresses 
her  as  something  extraordinarily  sub­
tle  and  inexplicable. 
“Why  should 
he  be  so  good  to  me,  when  he  has 
stopped  telling  me  that  he  loves  me?” 
she  asks  herself,  and  she’s  as  likely 
as  not  to  work  the  answer  out  to  be 
“ Remorse  of  Conscience,”  whereas 
the  real  solution  of  the  enigma  is 
that  the  man  is  good  to  her  because 
he  loves  her,  and  is  trying  in  his 
simple  masculine  way  to  show  it.

The  first  place  where  a  man  disap­
points  his  wife  is  in  his  simple  ac­
ceptance  of  love  as  a  fact,  instead  of 
a  subject  for  debate  and  vivisection. 
The  next  is  when  he  fails  to  regard 
herself  and  himself 
as  mysteries. 
This  also  is  the  result  of  his  simplici­
ty.  The  ordinary  man  has  absolutely 
no  psychological  point  of  view  about 
his  wife  or  himself.  To  him  a  spade 
is  a  spade.  To  her  it  is  frequently 
a  parlor  ornament,  with  a  hand- 
painted  blade  and  a  blue  ribbon  tied 
around  the  handle.  When  she  has 
vague  purple  yearnings  after 
the 
whatness  of  the  ain’t,  he  suggests 
liver,  and  she  turns  mournfully  away 
to  shed  bitter  tears  in  secret  because 
she  is  married  to  one  who  does  not 
understand  her  higher  nature.  What 
she  would  adore  in  him  would  be  his 
seeing  in  her  a  strange,  weird  nature, 
altogether  different  from  other  wom­
en,  full  of  mysterious  impulses— one 
who  could  be  a  genius  if  she  would— 
and  when  he  only  sees  in  her  an  or­
dinary  woman,  who  does  not  know 
her  own  mind  two  minutes  at  a  time, 
she  can  not  forgive  him  for  it.

A  woman’s 

ideal  of  a  perfectly 
happy  marriage  is  one  in  which  the 
husband  and  wife  sit  up  the  entire 
time  analyzing  their  emotions,  and 
when  she  finds  that  a  man  does  not 
do  things  for  occult  reasons,  but  sim­
ply  and  solely  because  it  was  handy, 
or  convenient,  or  profitable  to  do 
them  that  way,  it  baffles  her  com­
pletely. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that 
men  are  never  either  as  good  or  as 
bad  as  women  think  them.  The  men 
that  break  women’s  hearts  are  not  the 
deep,  dark,  designing  villains 
that 
women 
imagine.  They  are  merely 
careless.  When  a  woman  engages in 
a  flirtation  from  the  very  first  she  has 
visions  of  wrecking  a  life  by  her  co­
quetry,  and  of  the  man  journeying his

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lonely  way  through  life  because  of 
her  perfidy.  But  when  a  man  makes 
love  to  a  pretty  girl,  it  is  simply  and 
merely  because  she  happened  to  be 
near,  and  it  was  a  moonlight  night 
and  he  felt  sentimental,  and  he  has 
no  sinister  purpose  whatever.

in  point  of 
The  same  difference 
financial 
in 
view  may  be  noticed 
that 
thing 
transactions.  The  one 
surprises  every  married  woman 
is 
that  her  husband  was  able  to  keep 
out  of  the  poorhouse  before  she  took 
charge  of  his  pocketbook,  and  she 
can  not  understand  how  it is  that  men 
are  able  to  get  along  when  they  are 
so  extravagant.  She  esteems  a  man 
criminally  wasteful,  because  he  buys 
the  thing  he  wants,  when  he  wants 
it,  instead  of  waiting  and 
getting 
something  he  did  not  want  and  did 
not  need,  because  it  had  been  marked 
down  from  its  original  price,  which 
is  her  complicated  way  of  economiz­
ing.

it 

Perhaps  men  and  women  will 
never  understand  each  other.  Per­
haps 
is  not  desirable  that  they 
should,  and  truly  they  are  never  so 
interesting  to  each  other  as  when 
they  keep  each  other  guessing;  but 
certainly  the  great  insoluble  mystery 
of  man  that  woman  will  never  under­
stand  is  his  simplicity.

Dorothy  Dix.

states 

A  press  dispatch 

that  a 
wealthy  retired  druggist  of  Manches­
ter,  N.  H.,  was  so  bashful  that  he 
kept  putting  off  his  proposal  to  his 
sweetheart  for  thirty-two  years.  And 
all  the  time  the 
lady  was  willing. 
Finally  the  poor  druggist  was  seized 
with  a  grievous  illness,  and  whether 
it  was  the  tonic  effect  of  the  medi­
cine  or  what,  but  anyway  he  sent  for 
the  lady  and  proposed  forthwith and 
was  accepted.  A  hurry  call  was  sent 
for  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  the 
marital  knot  was  tied  in  a  twinkling. 
And  the  dispatch  adds  that  the  drug­
gist,  two  hours  later,  died  in  peace.  It 
is  not  explained  whether  the  peace­
fulness  of  his  end  was  due  to  the  fact 
that  he  was  married  or  that  he  had 
been  married  but  two  hours.

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

T H E   MAN  B E A U TIFU L.

Business  Has  Neither  Time  Nor  Use 

for  Him.

If  you  are  a  matinee  actor  it  will 
pay  you  to  be  beautiful  if  you  are  of 
the  male  persuasion  as  to  sex;  other­
wise  not.  Business  is  cruel,  common 
and  sordid,  and  it  has  neither  time 
nor  use  for  the  man  beautiful.  A 
pretty  man  may  be  all  right  as  a 
business  man,  but  it  is  pretty  hard 
to  convince  any  pretty  good  business 
man  that  the  pretty  man  is 
ever 
anything  than  a  pretty  man.

It  is  not  that  common,  ordinary 
good  looks  are  against  a  man.  Oh, 
no.  Even  grumpv  old  curmudgeons 
of  employers  like  to  have  the  men 
under  their  charge  prepossessing  in 
appearance.  But  when  a  man  fairly 
radiates  in  the  fashion  that  the  girls 
like  to  describe  as  “pretty,”  then  that 
man  is  all  out  of  luck.  He  may  get 
a  chance  to  prove  that  his  prettiness 
is  something  that  should  not  be  held 
up  against  him,  but  the  chances  are 
that  he  will  not,  if  it  is  some  practi­
cal  form  of  business  that  he 
at­
tempts  to  enter.

The  pretty  man  has  troubles. 

It is 
really  and  truly  a  thing  against  a 
man  to  be  exceptionally  handsome. 
In  a  business  way  he  is  looked  down 
upon  and  in  other  ways— well,  there 
are  annoyances.

There  is  one  man,  a  salesman,  in 
Chicago  who  is  really  pretty.  He  is 
not  the  ordinary  good  looking  man. 
He  is  more  than  that,  he  is  nearly 
beautiful.  His  features  are  all  small 
and  delicately  molded  and  his  com­
plexion  is  such  as  to  excite 
envy 
among  those  members  of  the  fair  sex 
who  must,  perforce,  resort  to  rouge, 
powder,  and  other  troublesome  arti­
cles  when  they  are  to  appear  to  the 
best  advantage.  Add  to  this  large 
blue  eyes  and  brown  hair  that  curls 
just  a  little  at  the  temples  and  you 
have  the  complete  article,  a  pretty 
man.

As  a  specimen  of  the  matinee  arti­
cle  this  man  would  be  the  proper 
thing  and  there  would  be  much  ex­
citement  in  the  hearts  of  the  young 
fair  ones  who  paid  money  to  see  him. 
But  he  is  not.  On  the  contrary,  he 
has  no  inclination  toward  the  stage, 
and  he  has  a  real,  man-sized 
con­
tempt  for  the  matinee  actor  and  his 
ways.  Effeminate  he  is  not  in  any 
sense  of  the  word,  but  it  is  hard  to 
look  at  his  face  and  curls  and  be­
lieve  it.

He  started  out  in  life  as  a  collector 
for  a  wholesale  grocery  house,  a  po­
sition  secured  for  him  through  the 
influence  of  his  father. 
It  was  his 
first  position  and  hitherto  he  had 
never  supposed  that  his 
“beauty,” 
which  had  ever  been  a  source  of  jok­
ing  at  home  and  at  school,  would 
hinder  him  in  a  business  way.  But 
it  did.  The  storekeepers  from  whom 
he  was  to  collect  looked  at  him,  not­
ed  the  pretty  face  and  the  curly  hair, 
and  after  he  was  gone  telephoned his 
firm: 
“W hy  don’t  you  have  a  man 
to  do  your  collecting?  Somebody 
will  take  that  doll  you’ve  got  out 
now  and  spank  him  and  take  his 
money  away.”

At  first  this  was  not  noticed  by  his

employers,  but  after  half  a  dozen such  ether  places  I  was  told  that  they  did 
calls  and  a  few  letters  had  been  re-  not  want  any  one  just  then, 
“I  finally  had  to  whip  a  man  to 
ceived  the  head  of  the  house  looked 
up  the  new  collector.  The  head  was  j  get  a  job.  This  is  how  it  was: 
I 
of  the  gruff  old  type  of  business I  had  answered  advertisements  until  I 
man,  and  the  pretty  fellow  was  taken  had  gotten  sick  of  being  turned down, 
off  the  collection  route.  He  was  of-  and  finally  one  day,  when  I  saw  that 
fered  a  position  in  the  office,  but  in-  a  large  cigar  manufacturer  was  adver- 
side  work  is  not  to  his  liking,  so  he  tising  for  a  salesman,  experience  un­
resigned. 
necessary,  I  determined  to  make  a

, 

. .   .  play  strong  enough  to  land  the  job.

That  was  only  the  beginning,  but

that  is  a  first  class  example  of  the  i 
“I  made  my  play  all  right,  confess- 
way  people  regarded  me  before  I  be- j ed  that  my  being  good  looking  was 
came  known,”  says  he.  “I  was  ‘pret-  against  me,  but  the  cigar  maker  did 
ty,’  that  was  all;  that  was  enough.  I  not  warm  to  me  at  all. 
I  told  him  I 
applied  for  positions  as  insurance  so-  was  not  as  pretty  as  I  looked.  He 
licitor,  collector,  salesman, 
freight  insinuated  that  it  wouldn’t  do  any 
claim  agent,  and  solicitor,  even  as  a  | good  to  fit  me  out  with  a  case  of  sam-

The  Crowd  in  the  Country  Store.

There  are  m any  things  th e  cities  m iss 
T h at  country  a ir  and  country  space 
B ut  of  all  the  schem es  th a t  m en  devise 
T here’s  nau g h t  can  furnish  half  so  m uch 

In  th e  din  and  busy  strife,
Provide  fo r  resistless  life;
F or  re st  and  fun  galore.
As  the  crowd  in  th e  country  store.
’Tis  th ere  the  w eather  gets  its  start.
And  Providence  som etim es  gets  the  blam e 
’Tis  th ere  religious  views  are  fixed,
Shrines  and  creeds  knocked  galleywest, 

And  storm s  the  crowd  predict,
And  oft  Professor  Hicks.
And  doctrines  to m   pell-mell,
W ith  th e  bottom   kicked  out  of  hell.

I  The  best  m an  living  in  th e  town,
And  grandam ,  m atron,  maid.
The  honest  clergy  a t  his  desk.
The  teacher  w ith  good  conduct  staid, 
The  pompous  Ju stice  of  the  Peace,
The  constable,  Billy  Moore,
Are  hauled  across  th e  coals  each  day 
By  the  crowd  in  th e  country  store.

The  daily  papers  bring  no  new s;
The  best  m agazines  are  frauds.
For  th e  little  news  th a t’s  furnished, 
For  different  news  is  relished 

The  rural  m ail  does  worse;
And  each  one  h as  been  cursed 
And  th eir  w eakness  they  deplore,
By  th e  crowd  in  the  country  store.

The  knowledge  on  th e  deepest  them es 
To  those  w ho  g ath er  in  th a t  store 
W here  hundred  others  did  th e  sam e 
Upon  th e  boxes,  barrels,  and  steps 

Is  not  a   circum stance 
And  polish  up  th eir  pants 
F o r  fo rty   years  or  m ore 
About  th e  country  store.

The  latest  horse  trad e  in  th e  tow n;
How  m uch  did  W eaver’s  last  hog  weigh?
Jones  paid  too  m uch  for  th a t  sorrel  m are;
He  only  drives  h er  when  th ere’s  not 

W here  W ilson  bought  his  cow;
W ho  goes  w ith  th a t  girl  now?
She  balks  and  he  feels  sore—
A  crowd  a t  th e  country  store.

The  points  th a t  puzzle  diplom ats 
Amid  the  cares  of  state—
The  Presidential  nominee 
Is  alw ays  on  the  slate.
All  troubles  from   th e  Isthm us 
To  the  Klondyke’s  icy  shore 
Are  settled  to  perfection
By  the  crowd  in  the  country  store.

The  knotty,  ugly  legal  points 
T h at  fill  th e  nation’s  craw  
Are  decided  right  beyond  appeal 
From   M aine  to   Panam a,
By  all  those  wont  to  congregate 
And  a ir  th eir  m ystic  lore.
To  all  those  who  come  and  go 
W ith  the  crowd  in  the  country  store.
Lee  Howard.

street  car  conductor,  and  was  turned 
down,  because  of  my  misfortune. 
I 
landed  the  conductor’s 
might  have 
job  if  I  agreed  to  grow  a  beard,  but 
I  don’t  have  to  cover  my  face  with 
hair  for  anybody. 
I  have  a  mustache 
now,  and  that  helps  to  lend  an  air 
of  fierceness  to  my  aspect,  but  that  is 
as  far  as  I  will  go.

pies,  because,  even  if  I  could  sell  ci­
gars,  it  wouldn’t  be  long  before some­
body  stole  me. 
I  called  him  a  liar. 
He  said,  ‘Who’s  a 
liar?’  Then  we 
clinched,  as  is  usual  under  those  cir­
cumstances, 
got 
through  I  had  made  the  man,  who  is 
now  my  employer,  see  the  error  of 
his  judgment.

and  before  we 

“ Before  I  raised  the  mustache, and 
before  I  got  to  be  known  anywhere, 
I  certainly  had  a  time  making  a  living 
in  the  way  I  wanted  to  make  it. 
I 
could  have  secured  work  as  a  sales­
man  in  men’s  furnishing  stores  or  in 
the  big  department  stores,  but  I  did 
not  feel  like  working  for  boy’s  wages, 
so  did  not  take  those  jobs. 
In  most

“I’ve  had  to  keep 

fighting  ever 
since,  because  people  will  try  to  pre­
sume  on  the  ‘pretty  man.’ 
I’m  not 
particularly  stuck  on  my  present  job, 
but  I’m  dead  scared  to  throw  it  up 
and  try  for  something  else,  because  I 
remember  the  time  I  had  before  I 
landed  this  one.  So,  if  your  face  be­
gins  to  show  any  signs  of  growing

‘pretty,’  begin  patronizing  barber 
schools. 
It’ll  be  less  trouble  in  the 
end.”

An  employer  does  not  like  to  hire 
a  pretty  man,  and  he  has  well  de­
fined  reasons  for  his  prejudice.

“When  a  man  is  so  blamed  good 
looking  he  generally  has  it  on  his 
mind  so  hard  that  he  hasn’t  time  for 
anything  else,”  says  one  employer. 
“By 
‘pretty’  I  don’t  understand  to 
be  meant  just  plain  good  looks.  The 
young  fellow  with  a  pleasant,  regu­
larly  featured  face  will  get  a  job  with 
me  any  time  that  I  have  an  opening. 
But  the  fellow  who  runs  James  K. 
Hackett  a  hard  second  for  looks,  him 
I  can’t  use.  Why?  Oh,  well,  it’s 
against  him,  being 
‘pretty.’  Maybe 
he  can’t  help  it,  but  then  again,  may­
be  he’s  done  a  whole  lot  toward  mak­
ing  it  possible,  caring  for  his  com­
plexion,  etc.  Anyhow, 
it  generally 
proves  to  be  the  case  that  when  a  fel­
low’s  exceptionally  good  looking  he 
isn’t  much  good  for  anything  else.  A 
man  worrying  about  his  looks  don’t 
make  for  the  good  of  a  firm’s  busi­
ness.

“Suppose  you  have  a  pretty  young 
male  thing  selling  windmills  or  plows 
for  you.  When  men  come  in  to  buy 
windmills  or  plows  they  want  to talk 
with  some  one  that  looks  as  if  he 
knew  something  about  these  things, 
not  with  a  fellow  who  looks  as  if  he 
ought  to  be  making  love  to  a  stage 
It  may  be  that  the  good 
heroine. 
looking  chap  knows  more 
about 
plows  or  mindmills  than  any  one else 
i i i   the  world,  but  he  does  not  look 
like  business.  And  appearances  go a 
long  way  in  business,  but  they  have 
to  be  the  right  kind.”

‘pretty’ 

Another  pretty  man 

contributes 
this  howl:  “A  man  who  is  what  peo­
ple  are  pleased  to  term 
is 
never  given  credit  for  having  any 
hard,  common  sense.  He  may  be the 
most  sensible  fellow  in  the  world, but 
his  looks  are  against  him.  Every­
body  imagines  that  he  is  sort  of  a 
male  imitation  of  the  female  flirt,  and 
that  the  great  worry  on  his  mind  is 
the  shape  of  his  necktie  and  the  win­
ning  of  female  hearts.  Many  men 
do  not  like  to  make  friends  with  him, 
and  will  you  believe  me,  many  of  my 
plain  friends  who  are  married  will 
never 
their 
wives ?

invite  me  out  to  see 

“They  know  me  well  enough 

to 
know  that  they  have  no  reason  to 
fear  that  they  will  ever  have  to  be 
jealous  of me,  but  they are  prejudiced. 
And  this  on  top  of  the  recognized 
prejudices  of 
the  business  world 
against  the  pretty  man.  No,  the  life 
of  the  pretty  man  is  one  not  to  be 
envied.”

So  if  you  are  extremely  plain  as  to 
appearance  you  can  console  yourself 
by  reflecting  upon  the  troubles  of the 
fellow  who  is  just  the  opposite.

Percy  Cling.

His  Advantage.

Gritty  George— Lady,  will  yer
please  give  me  some  of  yer  hus­
band’s  old  clothes? 
I  know  he  is 
rich.

The  Lady— That’s  the  trouble.  He 
is  rich  enough  to  wear  old  clothes 
himself-

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

Perpetual

Half Fare

Trade Excursions
To  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Good  Every  Day  in  the  Week

The  firms  and corporations  named  below,  Members of  the  Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Trade,  have 
established  permanent  Every  Day Trade  Excursions  to  Grand  Rapids  and  will  reimburse  Merchants 
visiting  this  city  and  making  purchases  aggregating  the  amount  hereinafter  stated  one=half  the  amount  of 
their railroad  fare.  All  that  is  necessary  for any  merchant  making  purchases  of any  of the firms  named  is  to 
request  a  statement of the  amount of his  purchases in  each  place  where  such  purchases  are  made,  and  if  the 
total  amount  of same  is  as  statedbelow the Secretary of the Grand Rapids  Board of Trade, 89 Pearl St.,
will  pay  back  in  cash  to  such  person  one=half actual railroad  fare.

If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living 
If  living

Amount of Purchases  Required
purchases  made  from  any  member  of  the  following  firms  aggregate  at  least.......................  $100  oo
and  over 
50, purchases made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate............................  
150  00
and  over 
?0o  00 '
75, purchases  made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate............................ 
and  over 
100, purchases made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate..............................  2so  00
and  over  125,  purchases  made  from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate................ 
.. ..  300  00
and  over  150,  purchases  made  from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate..................' ! ........ 3so  00
and  over 
175, purchases made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate.............................   400  00
and  over  200, purchases  made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate............................   4150  00
and  over  225, purchases made from  any  of the  following  firms aggregate................................ 500  qq
i V t f r   M a n i a c   as  purchases  made of any other  firms  will  not  count  toward  the  amount 
D p « i/ {  
l \ C C lU   V C U C l U l i y   H ie  i l d i n e f e   of purchases  required.  Ask for  “ Purchaser’s  Certificate”  as  soon  as
you  are  through  buying  in each 

50  miles 
75  miles 
100  miles 
125  miles 
150  miles 
175  miles 
200  miles 
225  miles 
250  miles
a t *  ( l i t  t W at 

within
within
within
within
within
within
within
within
within

place.

Automobiles

Adam s  &  H art 
Michigan  Automobile  Co. 
R lchm ond-Jarvis  Co.
Bakers 
National  Biscuit  Co.
Belting  and  Mill  Supplies
J.  M.  Hayden  &  Co.
F.  Raniville  Co.
Studley  &  Barclay 
Bicycles  and  Sporting  Goods 
W.  B.  Jarv is  Co.,  Ltd.

Billiard  and  Pool  Tables 

and  Bar  Fixtures 

Brunswick-Balke-Collander  Co. 
Books,  Stationery  and  Paper 
Central  Michigan  Paper  Co. 
Grand  Rapids  S tationery  Co. 
Grand  Rapids  Paper  Co.
M.  B.  W.  Paper  Co.
Mills  P aper  Co.

Confectioners 

A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.
Putnam   Factory,  NatM Candy Co 

Clothing and  Knit  Goods 

Clapp  Clothing  Co.
W m.  Connor  Co.
Ideal  Clothing  Co.
Commission— Fruits,  Butter, 

Eggs  Etc.

C.  D.  C rittenden 
J.  G.  Doan  &  Co.
Gardella  Bros.
E.  E.  H ew itt 
Vinkem ulder  Co.

Cement,  Lime  and  Coal 

S.  P.  B ennett  &  Co.  (Coal  only) 
C entury  Fuel  Co.  (Coal  only)
A.  Himes 
A.  B.  Knowlson 
S.  A.  Morman  &  Co. 
W ykes-Schroeder  Co.

Cigar  Manufacturers

G.  J.  Johnson  C igar  Co.
Geo.  H.  Seym our  &  Co.

Cigars  and  Tobaccos 

The  Woodhouse  Co.
Crockery,  House Furnishings
H.  Leonard  &  Sons.
Drugs  and  Drug  Sundries 
H azeltlne  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.

Dry  Goods

Grand  Rapids  Dry  Goods  Co.
P.  Steketee  &  Sons.

Electrical  Supplies 
Grand  Rapids  Electric  Co.
M.  B.  W heeler  Co.

Flavoring  Extracts  and 

Perfumes

Jennings  M anufacturing  Co.
Grain,  Flour  and  Feed 

Valley  City  Milling  Co.
Voigt  Milling  Co. 
W ykes-Schroeder  Co.
Grocers

Clark-Jew ell-W ells  Co.
Judson  Grocer  Co.
Lemon  &  W heeler  Co. 
M usselman  G rocer X o.
W orden  Grocer  Co.

Hardware 

C lark-R utka-W eaver  Co.
Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.

Jewelry 
W.  F.  W urzburg  Co.
Liquor  Dealers  and  Brewers 
D.  M.  Amberg  &  Bro.
F urniture  City  Brewing  Co. 
Grand  Rapids  Brewing  Co. 
K ortlander  Co.

Music  and  Musical 

Instruments 

Julius  A.  J.  Friedrich

Oils

Republic  Oil  Co.
S tandard  Oil  Co.

Paints,  Oils  and  Glass

G.  R.  Glass  &  Bending  Co. 
H arvey  &  Seym our  Co.
H eystek  &  Canfield  Co.
Wm.  Reid
Pipe,  Pumps,  Heating  and 

Mill  Supplies
Grand  Rapids  Supply  Co.

Saddlery Hardware 

Brown  &  Sehler  Co.
Sherwood  Hall  Co.,  Ltd.

Plumbing  and  Heating 

Supplies

Ferguson  Supply Co.,  Ltd.
Ready  Roofing  and  Roofing 

Material

H.  M.  Reynolds  Roofing  Co.

Safes

T radesm an  Company
Seeds  and  Poultry  Supplies 
A.  J.  Brown  Seed  Co.
L.  F.  Jones  Seed  Co.

Shoes,  Rubbers  and  Findings 
H erold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.
H irth,  K rause  &  Co.
Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.
Rindge,  K alm 'h,  Logie & Co.  Ltd

Show  Cases  and  Store 

Fixtures

Grand  Rapids  Fixture  Co.
Grand  Rapids  Show  Case  Co.

Tinners’  and  Roofers’ 

Supplies

Wm.  Brum m eler  &  Sons 
Hopson  Co.

Undertakers’  Supplies 

Durfee  Em balming  Fluid  Co. 
Powers  &  W alker  C asket  Co.

Wagon  Makers 

Belknap  W agon  Co.
H arrison  W agon  Co.

Wall  Finish

A labastine  Co.
A nti-K alsom ine  Co.

Wall  Paper
H arvey  &  Seym our  Co.
H eystek  &  Canfield  Co.

If you leave  the city without  having  secured  the  rebate on  your  ticket,  mail your  certificates  to  the  Grand  Rapids  Board 

of Trade  and  the  Secretary will  remit  the  amount  if sent  to him  within  ten  days  from  date  of certificates.

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

I 

have  had  an  experience  of  this 

SUCCESS  IN  LIFE.

It  Is  Largely  a  Matter  of  Compari­

son.

Comparisons  are  odious,  but  we 
are  always  making  them.  We  can 
not  help  it.  With  all  respect  to  the 
people  who  declare  we  should  not 
indulge  in  them,  I  say  that  the  advice 
is  about  as  excellent  as  a  recommen­
dation  that  a  man  should  not  wear 
himself  out  by  allowing  his  blood  to 
circulate.  The  one  is  as  natural  and 
as  necessary  as  the  other.
■  “Without  making 
comparisons,” 
said  Thackeray,  “one  would  remain 
a  simpleton  all  one’s  days.  The  only 
thing  against  the  occupation  is 
that 
some  people  employ  themselves  in  it 
to  make  themselves  bigger  simple­
tons  than  they  were  before.”

They  do  that  with  everything,  in­
cluding  food  and  drink.  Women sum 
themselves  up  by  other  women.  To 
arrive  at  a  conclusion  as  to  whether 
they  are  pretty,  clever,  well  dressed, 
fortunate,  they  survey  the  crowd  and 
themselves.  A  man  does  just  the 
same  thing.  A  modiste  told  me  of 
a  society  beauty  who  had  secured  a 
wonderful  costume.  The  dress  was  to 
outdazzle  everybody  else,  and  every­
one  who  was  privileged  to  see  it  be­
fore  the  great  event  went  into  ecsta­
sies  over  it.  The  wearer  was  bent 
on  a  great  triumph.  She  was  disap­
pointed,  however.  At  the  reception 
there  were  three  other 
costumes, 
which,  in  her  judgment,  eclipsed  hers, 
and  when  she  arrived  home  she  could 
not  compose  herself  sufficiently  to 
go  to  sleep  until  she  had  taken  a 
pair  of  scissors  and  snipped  the  now 
despised 
It 
came  back  to  the  modiste  like  that, 
packed  in  a  nice  pasteboard  box,  the 
next  morning, with the beauty’s  com­
pliments  written 
in  a  handwriting 
that  quivered  with  disappointment 
and  rage.

into  small  bits. 

“rag” 

All  my  male 

friends  who  have 
heard  of  the  incident  agree  that  the 
woman  was  exceedingly  foolish,  and 
they  believe  that  no  man  would  act 
so  absurdly. 
I  have  never  known  a 
man  to  cut  up  his  frock  coat  or  de­
stroy  his  top  hat  because  some  one 
else  had  a  better,  but  I  have  known 
them  to  do  equally  ridiculous things. 
Among  the  secret  possessions  of  one 
of  our  most  popular  artists  is  an  oil 
painting  with  a  huge  hole  in  the  mid­
dle  of  it.  He  showed  it  to  me  one 
day,  and  having  asked  my  opinion 
of  it  I  replied  that  the  hole  in  it  was 
magnificent,  but  as  to  the  picture  it 
was  impossible  to  express  an  opinion 
when  so  much  of  it  was  obliterated. 
Tt  was  one  of  his 
achieve­
ments,  he  told  me.  and  having  ex­
pended  infinite  pains  upon  it  he  had 
sent  it  in  to  an  exhibition,  where  it 
was  rejected. 
Its  return  plunged him 
into  profound  despair.  The  news 
that  “that  ass  X ”  had  had  his  pic­
ture  accepted  overwhelmed  him.  He 
put  his  foot  through  the  painting.  “I 
afterward  thought  what  a  fool  I  had 
been,”  he  told  me,  “and  I  kept  the 
thing  as  a  warning  to  me  not  to  be 
a  fool  in  the  future.”

early 

The  truth 

is  that  save  for  com­
paring  things  we  certainly  should 
know  nothing. 
“How  would  you

know,  sir,”  asked  Darwin  of  a  man 
who  had  irritated  him  by  some  ab­
surd  remarks  upon  the  futility  of com­
parisons— “how  would  you  know,  sir, 
whether  you  ought  to  have  one  head, 
three,  or  four,  save  by  comparing 
yourself  with  other  men  and  seeing 
that  they  have  each  only  one?  How 
would  you  know  you  ought  not  to 
be  nine  feet  high?”

It  is  by  comparing  ourselves  with 
others  that  we  either  learn 
some­
thing about  ourselves  or  become  more 
ignorant  about  ourselves  than  ever. 
You  can  achieve  either  result. 
It will 
depend  upon  how  the  comparison  is 
performed.  If you  have  to  make  your 
own  living  it  is  worth  while  to  de­
vote  some  thought  to  the  compari­
son  drawing  operation.  Failure 
in 
it  is  responsible  for  the  greater  part 
of  the  non-success  of  so  many.  Com­
parison  in  practical  ability 
to  do 
something  useful  would  awaken  them 
to  bigger  efforts  to  make  themselves 
of  some  value.

One  of  the  great  drawbacks  of 
country  life  appears  to  me  to  consist 
in  the  limited  means  it  often  sup­
plies  for  measuring  one’s 
self  by 
comparison  with  others.  A  young 
fellow  may  be  an  Admirable  Crich­
ton  in  a  village  and  find  himself  on 
emerging  into  a  wider  field  outclass­
ed  all  around.

language,  nor  speak  a 

lately,  when  my  aid  was  invoked  by 
the  parents  of  a  youth  to  get  him 
“something”  in  town. 
I  had  a  glow­
ing  description  of  his  abilities  and  ac­
quirements.  He  was  excellent 
in 
French  and  German 
among  other 
things.  In  the  literature  of both these 
languages  I  have  found  him  well 
stocked  with  knowledge.  But  he 
could  not  write  a  business  letter  in 
either 
sen­
tence  which  a  foreigner  could  com­
prehend.  He  is  naturally  keen  and 
smart— it  is  my  experience  that  the 
countryman  is  as  well  equipped  as 
any  one  in  intelligence— but  he  has 
come  from  a  place  where  he  has 
been  remote  from  any  opportunity  of 
discovering  that,  compared  with  other 
young  men  of  his  age,  he  is  about 
two  years’  work  deficient.  How  can 
a  man  answer 
the  question,  How 
much  am  I  worth  in  the  market with­
out  knowing  what  there  is  “going” 
in  the  market?  A  false  and  inade­
quate  standard  of  sufficiency  is  readi­
ly  attained  when  one  has  little knowl­
edge  of  the  real,  practical  standard 
in  vogue.

A  short  time  ago  a  young  friend 
of  mine  upon  a  visit  to  the  city  de­
sired  a  game  of  billiards  with  “a  real­
ly  good  player.”  I  could  not  myself 
satisfy  him,  for  when  I  confessed  I 
played  a  humble  game  he  despised  me 
in  a  marked  fashion.  He  had  beaten 
all  the  players  around  his  home.  But 
I  undertook  to  get  him  a  worthy 
antagonist.  He  lost  each  game  by 
over  fifty  points  in  a  hundred.  He 
was  not  a  bad  player,  but  there  were 
hundreds  better.

In  character  we  compare  inevita­
bly.  We  are  always  putting  one  per­
son  beside  another  and  saying  which 
is,  in  our  opinion,  the  better;  and  as 
there  is  no  one— as  M.  de  Montaigne 
observes— whom  we  are  so  interested

in  as  ourselves  we  are  always  com­
paring  ourselves  with  others.  We can 
make  all  manner  of  mistakes  in  this 
work,  and  our  comparisons  are  apt 
to  be  drawn  wrongly.  A  chaplain 
connected  with  a  great  prison  told 
me  of  a  convict  he  had  under  his 
care  who,  having  received  a  sentence 
of  eight  years  for  a  considerable  of­
fense,  yet,  while  admitting  his  crime, 
by  no  means  appeared  endued  with 
proper  humility.  My  friend  was  puz­
zled,  for  the  man  was  by  no  means 
thoroughly  bad  or  a  fool.  He  learn­
ed  the  secret  of  it  one  day  when  the 
prisoner  said:  “That  chap”— indicat­
ing  the  man  in  the  right  hand  cell—  
“has  ten  years,  and  that  bloke”— the 
man  in  the  left— “has  twelve.  I  guess 
I’m  a  kind  of  innocent  here!”

From  the  iniquity  of  his  compan­
ions  he  extracted  a  species  of  testi­
monial  to  his  own  innocence!  People 
do  that  outside  prisons  as  well  as  in 
them.  A  worthless  fellow  will  set  a 
standard  for  comparison  among  his 
associates  which  will  put  every  one 
wrong.

for 

I  know  many  who  make  just  as 
ridiculous  excuses 
themselves. 
When  I  pointed  out  to  an  acquaint­
ance  how  foolish  he  had  been 
to 
throw  away  $50  that  he  could  not 
afford  over  a  horse  race  he  replied 
that  he  knew  a  man  who  lost  $500. 
He  did  not  consider  himself  a  gam­
bler. 
It  is  the  same  in  other  things. 
In  the  formation  of  character  I  have 
great  belief  in  self-comparison  with 
the  highest 
real  personages.  No 
child  will  ever  be  kept  from  lying 
through 
that  Washington 
never  told  a  lie.  He  will  only  arrive 
at  the  conclusion  that  Washington 
was  clever  enough  to  tell 
lies  and 
not  be  found  out  and  will  try  to 
tread  in  his  steps. 
I  doubt  whether 
that  story  of  Washington  has  not 
been  responsible  for  more  lying  than 
any  other  fiction  ever  invented.

the 

lie 

“Compare  yourself  with  a  high 
standard,  but  not  with  an  impossible 
“Never 
one,”  said  John  Stuart  Mill. 
compare  yourself  with  an 
inferior 
standard.”  It  is  excellent  advice.  The 
first  leads  only  to  absurd  self-depre­
ciation  and  a  sense  of  abject  failure 
which  makes  one  give  up  the  strug­
gle  in  despair,  and  the  latter  only 
leads  to  self-complacency.  One  need 
not  go  far  for  characters  which  are, 
if  not  good  all  round,  in  some  one 
respect  or  another  higher  than  one’s 
own. 
If  one  has  not  them  among 
one’s  friends  one  has  selected  friends 
badly.

for 

friends 

can  not 

“There  are  many  people,”  said  T. 
see 
P.  O’Connor,  “who 
Oliver  Cromwell  for  the  wart  on  his 
cheek.”  There  are  people  who  can 
never  see  their 
some 
trifling  defect  in  them  which  blinds 
them  to  everything  else  in  their  char­
acter. 
In  that  case  self-comparison 
with  them  becomes  mere  self-flattery.
One  naturally  compares  one’s  suc­
cess  in  life  with  that  of  others.  One 
is  bound  to  do  so. 
If  one  man  gets 
$25  for  a  piece  of  work  I  should  be 
a  simpleton  not  to  try  and  get  as 
much  for  the  same  piece  of  work 
performed  by  myself. 
If  another  is 
remarkably  prosperous  in  my  busi­
ness  I  naturally  sum  myself  up  with

him  and  wonder  how  it  is  I  fail. 
In 
this  comparison,  however,  there  is  a 
vast  opportunity  for  making  mistakes. 
In  the  first  place,  while  we  will  not 
admit  that  we  are  not  as  clever  or  as 
worthy  of  success  as  any  we  know, 
we  are  apt  in  regard  to  success  to 
see  only  those  who  exceed  us.  Of 
course,  we  ascribe  the  inequality  of 
things  to  sheer  perverse  fortune. 
It 
is  wonderful  how  few  people  I  meet 
who  are  not  “the  most  unfortunate 
people  in  the  world.”  L,ast  week  I 
met  three  samples  of  them.  One  had 
shares 
the 
Japanese  and  would  lose  $25,000  over 
it.  Another,  an  actor,  had  an  engage­
ment  at  $150  a  week  when  he  “ought 
to  have  had  $200.”  The  third  had 
missed  a  berth  at  $15  a  week  which 
he  had  made  certain  of  getting. 
I 
have  known  a  man  to  become  “the 
most  unfortunate  man  in  the  world” 
over  a  hard  boiled  egg  at  breakfast.

in  a  ship  captured  by 

in 

In  reckoning  up  success 

life, 
poor  and  humble  are  the  ones  we  are 
inclined  to  ignore.  To  be  blind  to 
the  qualifications  of  others  and  blind 
to  the  calamities  of  the  rest  is  all 
that  is  wanting  to  enable  us  to  make 
a  comparison  by  which  we  can  be­
come  convinced  past  all  shaking  that 
we  are  “the  most  unfortunate  people 
in  the  world.”  That  does  not  help 
us  to  be  more  fortunate.

John  A.  Howland.

The  Deft  Hand  of  the  Mistress.
The  repetition  of  flavors  and  in­
gredients  is  one  of  the  commonest 
and  grossest  errors  in  dinner  giving. 
A  placidly  ignorant  hostess 
some­
times  serves  a  suffering  epicure  with 
tomato  soup,  croquettes  with  toma­
to  sauce  and  tomato  salad  all  at  the 
same  meal,  and  the  woman  is  familiar 
everywhere  who  offers  us  celery  sal­
ad  after  celery  has  been  on  the  table 
all  through  the  meal.

A  particular  place  for  tripping  up 
is  on  the  sauces.  Tartare,  mayon­
naise,  suedoise  and  verte  all  bear  a 
strong  resemblance  to  one  another, 
and  should  not  be  used  at  the  same 
meal.  All  sauces  flavored  with  Ma­
deira  or  sherry  bear  a  likeness  to  one 
another,  so  that  but  one  should  ap­
pear  at  a  given  dinner.

Suedoise  is  new  and  is  a  combina­
tion  of  mayonnaise  and  horseradish, 
and  is  especially  liked  for  boiled  fish 
of  any  kind.  The  use  of  this  at  a 
dinner  precludes  horseradish 
sauce 
with  the  fillet,  and  thus  one  dainty 
prohibits  another,  and  in  the  midst 
of  all  these  intricacies 
the  house­
keeper  feels  the  truth  of  the  state­
ment  that  dinner  giving  is  an  art  de­
manding  care  and  study.

It  is  attention  to  the  minor  matters 
that  makes  dinner-giving  an  art  and 
elevates  the 
labor  of  the  mistress 
above  the  labor  of  the  maid.

is  that  it 

The  great  trouble  with  many 

a 
is  more  anxious 
church 
about  the  steam  that  runs  to 
its 
whistle  than  about  that  which  runs 
the  works.

It’s  a  queer  mind  that  persuades 
itself  it  is  working  for  the  Lord  when 
it  is  only  working  the  church.

Moral  masks  deceive  no  one  but 

their  wearers.

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Your  brain  has  a  limited 
capacity.  Remove  one- 
half  its  load  and  the  re­
mainder is handled twice 
as well.  The  five  greatest 
troubles  of  a  merchant—  
the handling of cash sales, 
credit  sales,  money  re­
ceived on account, money 
paid  out  and  m oney 
changed  for  customers—  
are  taken  care  of  by  a 
National  Cash  Register.

Michigan  Tradesman

J\[.  C.  1&.  Company,  D ayton,  Ohio.

I  would like to know how a National  Cash Register 
Iam sending this coupon 
wipes out a  retailer s troubles. 
with the understanding that it puts me  under  no  obliga­
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their  view  who  has  the  coin  is 
trade.

the 

More  or  less  of  the  hardware  trade 
buy  some  goods  of  them.  But  let 
me  ask you  what  class  of merchandise 
do  you  get?  Do  you  ever  go 
to 
them  when  you  want  a  good  article? 
My  advice  is  to  buy  your  cheap  egg 
beaters,  tinware  and  sundry  articles 
from  the  houses  that  carry  your  lines 
in  full,  even  if  you  have  to  pay  in 
a  few  cases  1  or  2  per  cent,  more  on 
a  few  cheap  articles. 
I  know  you 
will  be  better  satisfied  in  the  end, 
and  you  help  to  build  up  the  houses 
that  are  trying  to  protect  you,  and 
not  the  ones  who  issue  catalogues 
to  your  grocer,  butcher,  department 
store,  etc.

Any  manufacturer  or  wholesaler in 
your  line  who  will  send  his  net  prices 
and  catalogues  to  all  classes  of  trade 
is  doing  you  as  much  damage  as  the 
catalogue  houses  that  sell  direct  to 
the  consumer.  The  grocer  buys  a 
stove,  the  dry  goods  man  wants  a 
little  builder’s  hardware,  and  so  on 
down  the  line,  and  you  are  helping 
these  cheap  catalogue  houses  to  build 
up  a  business  that  is  ruining  yours. 
I  learn  from  good  authority  that  there 
are  500,000  traveling  salesmen  in  the 
United  States,  drawing  on  an  average 
of  $3,000  each 
for  salary  and  ex­
penses,  making  the  enormous  amount 
of  $1,500,000,000  a  year. 
If  our  em­
ployers  thought  they  could  put  this, 
yes  10  per  cent,  of  it,  on  the  credit 
side  of their  ledgers  and  do  away  with 
the  traveling  salesman,  our  resigna­
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them  instantly  and  see  every  detail  of  the  Account,  not  only  the 
Total,  but the Items and  who sold the goods.

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dispensable.

The  history  of  all  of  our  mercan­
tile  business  methods  is  evolutionary, 
and  our  present  methods  are  a  fair 
illustration  of  the  survival  of 
the 
fittest.

In  times  past  our  jobbers,  m  many 
cases,  have  been  induced  here  and 
there  to  try  this  or  that  experiment 
or  innovation,  but  invariably 
they 
have  eventually  sifted  out  the  wheat 
from  the  chaff— the  prime  considera­
tion  always  being  results  accomplish­
ed.  And,  after  all,  results  are  al­
ways  the  end  in  view— results  not 
only  for  the  seller,  but  for  the  buyer 
as  well.

I  wish  at  the  outset  to  be  under­
stood  to  be  absolutely  an  advocate 
of  the  retention  always  of  the  trav­
eling  salesman  as  against  the  cata­
logue  method.

Not  long  ago  I  read  an  article  by 
C'has.  N.  Clewdson.  He  said:  “Sales­
manship  is  the  business  of  the  world; 
it  is  about  all  there  is  to  the  world  of 
business.  Enter  the  door  of  a  suc­
cessful  wholesale  or  manufacturing 
house  and  you  stand  on  the  threshold 
of  an  establishment  represented  by 
first-class  salesmen.  They  are  the 
steam  and  a  big  part  of  the  engine 
that  makes  business  move.”

A   very  fine  tribute  to  the  traveling 
salesman  and  one  which  I  think  tells 
the  story  in  a  nutshell.

The  traveling  salesmen’s  mission 
on  the  road  is  not  entirely  to  reap 
in  the  shekels  for  their  employers, 
but  to  keep  the  buyers  in  touch  with 
their  houses,  to  introduce  new  goods, 
show  their  advantages,  keep  the  deal­
ers  in  line,  etc.

Many  manufacturers  and 

jobbers 
have  tried  to  reach  the  buyer  by 
catalogues,  circulars,  etc.,  and  have 
met  with  poor  success,  many  with 
entire 
failure.  Every  mail  brings 
you  catalogues  and  circulars  from 
some  manufacturer  or  wholesaler, and 
I  can  safely  say  that  90  per  cent,  of 
them  are  relegated  to  the  waste  bas­
ket  or  stove,  many  of  them  never 
having  any  more  than  a  glance.  Had 
these  same  companies  sent  a  sales­
man  he  would  have  shown  up  their 
superior  points  in  his  majestic  way, 
and  no  doubt  made  many 
sales. 
Speaking  from  experience  I  do  not 
receive  one  order  in  four  from  cata­
logues  that  I  have  been  requested  to 
send,  and  do  not  miss  selling  one  in 
four  where  I  go  in  person  to  answer 
the  enquiry.

As  a  rule,  buyers  do  not  buy  goods 
that  they  know  nothing  of 
from 
catalogues  unless  they  appeal  to them 
as  being  cheap,  and  if  they  do  buy, 
purchase  but  a  sample,  and  samples 
never  bring  the  results  that  a  line 
assortment  will.

There  are  one  or  two  jobbers  in 
your  lines  who  depend  entirely  on 
their  monthly  catalogues  to  reach  the 
buyer. 
I  say  buyer,  as  every  one  in

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But  the  traveling  salesman  is  like  the 
rudder  to  a  vessel— they  need  us  to 
steer  them  into  the  different  chan­
nels  of  trade.

This  great  expense  does  not  come 
out  of  the  dealers’  pockets;  it  is  a 
saving  to  them. 
If  there  were  no 
traveling  salesmen  the  buyers  would j 
be  compelled  to  go  to  the  market 
at  least  once  or  twice  a  year  or  de­
pend  on  catalogues.  And  you  all 
know  you  spend  much  more  money 
while  in  the  market  places  than  you 
do  on  the  traveling  salesmen  when 
they  are  in  your  town.

The  total  expense  of  your  trips 
would  be  at  least  double  what  it  costs 
the  wholesalers  and  manufacturers 
to  send  their  representatives  to  you.
I  believe  the  majority  of  buyers 
are  better  posted  on  what  they  need, 
quantity  they  want  and,  last  but  not 
least,  prices,  when  on 
their  own 
stamping  ground.  There  they  have 
their  stocks  before  them  and  prices 
to  refer  to. 
I  have  heard  many  good 
merchants  say  that  they  become con­
fused  when  buying  away  from  home.
A  buyer  does  not  realize  how  little 
he  knows  until  he  meets  those  who 
know  more.

They  generally  have  those  know- 
more  men  at  headquarters,  or  think 
they  do.

I  have  had  described  to  me  some 
of  the  old-time  Western  hardware 
stores,  back  in  the  forties,  before  the 
era  of  the  traveling  salesmen,  when 
the  buyers  went  to  the  markets  once 
a  year  (sometimes),  or  depended  up­
on  catalogues.  One  can  picture  in 
his  mind  what  kind  of  stocks  were 
carried,  and  then  look  at  the  aver­
age  up-to-date  hardware  store  of  to­
day,  with  its  well  assorted  and  shelv­
ed  stock  that  is  visited  from  two  to 
twelve  times  a  year  by  the  traveling 
salesman,  who,  each  trip,  offers  you 
something  new,  brings  you  advanc­
ed  ideas,  gives  you  a  “hunch”  on  the 
coming  advances, 
the 
best  method  of  displaying  your  wares, 
comes  in  handy  now  and  then 
in 
the 
convincing  your  customers  that 
chimney  has  the  draft,  not 
the stove, 
helps  you  many  times  in  figuring  or 
selling  special  articles  that  you  are 
not  posted  on,  and  then  ask  yourself 
do  you  want  to  go  back  to  the  old 
way  of  doing  business?  Do  not  mis­
understand  me  that  I  advocate  doing 
away  with  catalogues.  Catalogues 
should  be  kept  for  reference  and every 
dealer  should  have  some  system  of 
filing  them  away,  so  when  he  has  a 
call  for  something  he  is  out  of,  or 
not  carried  in  stock,  he  could  turn 
to  his  index  and  find  it  at  once.

shows  you 

When  you  find  a  square  and  honest 
traveling  salesman,  who  carries 
the 
lines  that  please  you,  stay  by  him, 
even  if  he  does  not,  in  every  case, 
strike  the  bottom  price.  For  if  he 
is  on  the  square  he  will  protect  you, 
and  at  the  end  of  the  year  you  will 
find  that  you  are  the  gainer.

building  and  maintenance  of  your 
business  as  your  family  doctor  or 
your  lawyer.

He  has  studied  the  wants  and  the 
requirements  of  your  business,  he 
knows  the  varieties  and  the  qualities 
demanded  by  your  trade,  and  his  ob­
servations  elsewhere  enable  him 
to 
advise  and  to  counsel  with  you  help­
fully  and  intelligently.

Therefore,  I  feel  that  my  conclu-1 
sion  is  in  line  with  the  universal  ex­
perience  of  both  jobber  and  retailer, 
when  I  say  that  the  traveling  sales­
man  is  indispensable  to  both.

A.  J.  Collins.

Furniture  That  Tells  No  Tales.
The  woman  in  a  fashionable  furni­
ture  store  looked  the  new  sideboard 
all  over,  but  seemed  so  indifferent 
that  the  salesman  despaired  of  a sale. 
He  was  preparing  to  accept  the  usual 
“will  call  again”  when  an  idea  oc­
curred  to  him.  Opening  a  cabinet 
on  the  side  intended  for  cruet  bot­
tles,  he  touched  a  spring.  To  the 
astonished  customer  was  revealed  a 
secret  drawer,  large  enough  to  hold 
a  dozen  letters  or  so,  a  bank  book 
and  a  few 
salesman 
closed  the  drawer.

jewels.  The 

“Now  you  open  it,”  he  said  to  the 

customer.

She  tried  in  vain.  She  asked  the 
salesman  to  show  her  how.  He  said 
he  would  with  pleasure  if  she  bought 
the 
it  was 
against  the  rules  of  the  house.

sideboard,  otherwise 

is  sure  to 

“This  is  an  evolution  of  the  secret 
drawers  in  writing  desks,”  he  said 
to  an  on-looker. 
“It  is  not  up-to 
date  now  to  put  secret  compartments 
is  the  first  place 
in  desks.  That 
for  hidden  docu­
anybody  seeking 
ments 
look.  But  they 
never  think  of  searching  in  a  folding 
bed  or  a  dining  room  sideboard. 
It 
is  the  women  who  run  most  strongly 
to  this  freak  feature  in  furniture.  A 
man  has  his  fire-proof  deposit  vault 
or  a  safe  place  in  his  office  for  any 
papers  he  wants  to  keep  out  of sight. 
A  woman  seldom  has  anything  but  a 
desk  at  home,  that  is  as  available  to 
everybody  else  in  the  family  as  it  is 
tc  her.  She  never  knows  what  mo­
ment  her  cherished  little  secrets  may 
be  uncovered  and  laughed  at.  With 
such  a  compartment  as  the  one  in  that 
sideboard  she  need  never  worry.”
The  lady  took  the  sideboard.

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My  universal  experience  has  been, 
and  I  am  firmly  of  the  opinion,  that 
the  true  and  tried  traveling  salesman 
of judgment  and  experience,  who  has 
gained  your  confidence  through  his 
integrity  and  good judgment,  is  as  in­
dispensable  an  ally  for  you  in  the  up­

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Mr. Merchant— Compare  the  Stan­
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M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

soling  yourself  meanwhile  with  the 
thought  that  male  fuddy-duddies  are 
far  more  disagreeable  customers.  In 
this,  as  in  all  other  matters  pertain­
ing  to  the  store,  study  human  nature 
without  prejudice;  regard  personal 
idiosyncrasies  philosophically.

Whether  you  employ  male  or  fe­
male  salespersons,  see  to  it  that  all 
are  competent.  Keep  an  eye  on  the 
too  free  young  fellow  who  is  inclin­
ed  to  rush  in  “where  angels  fear  to 
tread,”  and  to  indulge  his  propensity 
for  fun  at  the  expense  of  a  modest 
customer’s  feelings.

Says  an  experienced  shoe  retailer: 
“Beware  of  the  joking  clerk.  He  is 
always  an  element  of  danger  to your 
trade.  Like  the  frolicsome  colt,  he 
may  mean  well,  but  his  antics  may 
make  trouble. 
In  a  shoe  store  ‘this 
fellow  of  infinite  jest’  is  inferior  to 
one  of  infinite  patience  and  tact.  The 
quick-tempered, 
salesman 
you  do  not  want  in  your  store  at  all, 
of  course. 
at 
times,  for  the  even-tempered  clerk to 
control  himself  under  trying  condi­
tions.”

It  is  hard  enough, 

irascible 

It  is 

The  well-seasoned  clerk  who  fol­
lows  Mr.  Meagle’s  advice  to  “Tatty- 
coran,” 
to  “count  five-and-twenty,” 
will  conquer  the  crankiest  customer 
that  ever  brought  a  No.  5  foot  to  be 
fitted  to  a  No.  4  shoe. 
a 
“tough  proposition”  sometimes,  but 
it  must  be  remembered  that  those 
who  “pay  the  freight”  can  always 
dictate  terms,  even  if  they  are  one­
sided.  The  battles  of  the  shoe  store 
are  not  those  of  the  “give  and  take” 
sort.  The  dealer  must  always  stand 
on  the  defensive.  His  success  de­
pends  upon  his  ability 
satisfy 
every  customer  and  see  that  he  leaves 
the  store  a  contented  purchaser.—  
Shoe  Retailer.

to 

Character  in  Shoes.

in 

“shoeology.”  He 

A  certain  shoemaker  is  a  firm  be­
liever 
says: 
“Worn  shoes  go  ahead  of  the  art  of 
fortune-telling  from  the  lines  of  the 
In  one  shoe,  for  instance,  I 
hand. 
see  irresolution,  changeableness, 
in­
clination  to  slovenliness  and  occa­
sional  fits  of  ill-humor.

“Show  me  any  person’s  footgear 
after  two  months’  wear,  and  I  will 
describe  the  character  of  the  person.
“If  the  soles  and  heels  are  worn 
evenly,  then  the  wearer  is  a  reso­
lute,  able  business  man,  with  a  clear 
trustworthy  official  or  an 
head,  a 
excellent  wife  and  mother. 
If  the 
sole  is  worn  on  the  outside,  the  wear­
er  is  inclined  to  adventurous,  uncer­
tain,  fitful  deeds,  or,  if  a  woman,  to 
bold,  self-willed,  capricious  tricks.

“The  sole  being  worn  on  the  inner 
side  shows  hesitation  and  weakness 
in  a  man  and  modesty  in  a  woman.”

The  men  who  have  lifted  the  world 
have  never  been  too  great  to  touch 
it  with  their  hands.

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Little  Courtesies  Which  Transient

Patrons  Appreciate.

While  it  would  be  suicidal  business 
policy  to  in  any  way  neglect  an  old 
and  permanent  customer  of  a 
shoe 
store,  on  the  assumption  that  he 
“does  not  object  to  waiting  awhile,” 
that  others  may  receive  attention,  it 
does  not  follow  that  he  should  be  ac­
corded  more  than  his  just  share  of 
time  and  attention.  There  is 
the 
transient  visitor  to  be  given  consid­
eration  at  all  times.  And  although 
he  has  put  fewer  dollars  in  your  till 
than  the  well-known  “steady,”  he 
represents  possibilities  worth  devel­
oping.  There  may  be  “pay  dirt”  in 
this  new  field,  which  can  be  discover­
ed  only  when  the  crust  is  broken and 
you  get  below  the  surface.

transients 

Remember  that  your  “old  reliables” 
did  not  become  such  in  a  day,  or 
even  a  year.  They  achieved  their 
designation  by  very 
slow  degrees. 
They  were 
themselves 
once.  You  helped  to  make  each  of 
them  a  call-again  customer,  until  he 
became  confirmed  in  the  habit  of 
coming  to  you  for  shoes.  Put  forth 
sustained  effort  on  present  transients, 
to  make  them  permanents.  Manifest 
no  relaxation  of  courtesy  or  of  pa­
tience  with  their 
trying 
peculiarities  and  seeming  unreasona­
bleness  in  demanding  unsuitable  fits. 
What  you  have  done  in  all  your  busi­
ness  career  to  make  converts  to  your 
house  you  can  continue  to  do  ad  in­
finitum.  Of  course  you  can  not  ex­
pect  to  secure  all  transients;  you  will 
have  to  make  a  discount  for  those 
that  your  popular  competitor  will 
gather  in  his  net  by  similar  methods. 
Rut  each  new  customer  counts  one, 
and  your  business  support  is  compos­
ed  of  units.

sometimes 

“I  try  to  get  next  to  the  strang­
er  who  enters  my  store,”  said  an  old 
shoe  dealer,  “so  that  he  may  have  his 
first  greeting  and  welcome  from  me, 
which  I  invariably  make  as  cordial 
as  possible,  without  being  effusive  or 
unnatural;  for  while  we  may  not  lit­
‘entertain  an  angel  unaware,’ 
erally 
it 
is  the  stranger’s  first  reception 
that  makes  or  mars  the  possibility  of 
converting  him  or  her  into  a  regular 
customer.”

in 

Some  dealers 

their  excessive 
gallantry  toward  women  patrons  are 
apt  to  go  a  little  too  far  toward  the 
other  extreme  in  serving  men.  They 
reason  that  masculine  shoe  buyers 
will  stand  for  a  little  less  courtesy 
from  the  retailer  or  his  clerk. 
It  is 
well  to  look  at  this  subject  from  a 
strictly  business  standpoint,  and  while 
according  to  the  feminine  contingent 
every  polite  attention  in  your  power,, 
do  not  make  the  mistake  of  supposing- 
that  men  are  indifferent  to  the  little 
courtesies  which  are  so  much  appre­
ciated  by  the  fair  sex.  Take  no stock 
in  the  stereotyped  and  stale  refer­
ences  to  the  capaciousness  of  wom­
en.  Submit  to  their  whims  as grace­
fully  as  your  nature  will  permit, con­

The  Ruling  Passion

“ T a n s”

In  Oxfords  and  High  Cuts 

For  Summer  Wear

Tans are  bound  to  be the thing this summer.  We have  a 
full  line—all  grades— all  styles— all  prices— up to-the-minute 
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OXFORDS

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811  Men’s Russia Calf Blu Ox., Bronx Cap Toe, Goodyear W elt, 3, 4 and 5 wide  —   2 25
809 Men's Russia Calf Blu Ox., Lenox Cap Toe. Goodyear Welt, 4 and 5 wide..........  2  15
806  Men’s Russia Calf Blu Ox., College Cap Toe,  Goodyear W elt.  4 and 5 wide.......  1  75
804  Men’s Russia Calf Blu Ox., College Cap Toe,  54 D.  S., M.  S„ 5 w id e....................  1  50

HIGH  CUTS

972 Men’s Russia Calf Blu Bai, Bronx Cap Toe, Goodyear W elt,  4 and 5 wide........ $2  50
966 Men’s Chocolate Kid Bai, York Cap Toe, Goodyear W elt, 4 and 5 w id e..........  2 50
956  Men’s Russia Calf Blu Bai, Lenox Cap Toe, Goodyear Welt, 4 and 5 wide..........  2  15
938  Men’s Russia Calf Blu Bai, College Cap Toe,  54 D. S., M.  S., 5 w id e....................   1  75
923  Men’s Russet Grain Blu Bai. College Cap Toe, 54 D. S., M. S„  5 wide..................   1  50

Be  up-to-date  and carry a line  of  TANS  to  meet  the  demand  of  your 
trade.  We also carry a swell line of  Boys’ , Youths’  and  Little Gents’  Tan 
Shoes  and  Women’s,  Misses’  and  Children’s  Tan  Oxford,  Ties  and 
Strap Sandals.  Don’t forget we are  headquarters for good things in  shoes. 

Try us  and get your money’s worth.

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Mention  this paper  when  ordering.

Our  “ Custom  Made”  Line

Of

Men’s,  Boys’  and 

Youths’ Shoes

Is  Attracting  the  Very  Best  Dealers  in  Michigan. 

WALDRON,  ALDERTON  &< MELZE

Wholesale  Shoesjand  Rubbers

State  Agents  for  Lycoming  Rubber  Co. 

SAGINAW,  MICH

You Are  Out of 

The  Game

Unless you  solicit  the  trade  of  join- 

local  base  ball  club

They Have to 
Wear  Shoes
Order  Sample  Dozen

And  Be  in  the  Game

SH0 LT0   WITCHELL 

Everything in Shoes

Sizes  in  Stock 

Majestic  Bid.,  Detroit 

Protection to the dealer my  “ motto.”   No  goods «old at  retail.

Local and  Loaf Distance Phone M  2226

Stories  Related  by  Shoe  Salesmen  at 

Detroit.

There  were  four  of  us  at  the  Cadil­
lac  that  night—rail  from  the  East. 
It 
was-  one  of  those  nasty  nights  when 
a  comfortable  room  and  lots  of  pipe 
ammunition  inspired  those  tales  of the 
road  which  traveling  men  so  well  en­
joy  relating.  Big  Harry  Smith  had 
been  telling  us  what  a  big  fool  he 
was  and  what  big  fools  we  were  to 
start  out  with  fall  samples  in  Febru­
ary,  and  to  change  the  programme  he 
suggested  that  I  tell  the  rest  of  the 
boys  a  story— and  intimating  that  if 
I  did  he  would  tell  them  one  himself 
later  on.

‘‘Did  I  ever  tell  you  about  the  man 
in  Holy­
in  Massachusetts— down 
oke?”  I  asked. 
In  the  negative  reply 
there  was  an  invitation  to  proceed. 
So  I  proceeded.

“It  was  my  first  trip  out,  and  I  was 
as  green  as  anybody  possibly  could 
be. 
I  had  made  a  good  customer  in 
Holyoke,  and  the  business  looked  so 
easy  just  at  that  moment  that  I  felt 
as  if  I  was  the whole  thing.  The  next 
man  I  visited,  a  solemn  looking  chap, 
a  few  blocks  up  the  street,  heard  my 
little  song  and  dance,  and  consented 
to  look  at  a  misses’  spring  heel  shoe 
on  which  we  were  having  a  pretty 
good  run.

“ But  he  didn’t  buy.  He  said  that 
he  could  use  the  line  a  little  later,  but 
for  the  present 
season  would  be 
obliged  to  order  from  stock.  So,  aft­
er  a  few  more  words  and  a  promise 
to  call  on  my  next  trip,  I  bade  him 
good-bye,  supplementing  my  adieu 
with  an  invitation  to  go  over  to  the 
other  side  of  the  street  and  let  me 
buy  him  a  drink.

“Well,  you’d  ought  to  have  seen 
‘Young  man,’  he 
how  he  lit  on  me. 
said,  ‘if  you  think  to  get  any  business 
by  bribing  me  you  are  very  much 
refuse  your 
mistaken. 
scandalous  invitation,  but  shall 
re­
quest  you  not  to  call  at  this  store,  as 
you  promised,  on  your  next  trip.’

I  not  only 

in  every 

“I  found  out  later  that  he  was 
prominent  in  church  matters,  the  su­
perintendent  of  a  Sunday  school,  and 
a  fine  man 
respect.  Of 
course,  I  have  learned  better  since, 
but  the  lesson  taught  me  to  be  care­
ful  in  inviting  customers  to  lubricate.”
“All  of  which,”  chipped  in  Harry, 
“reminds  me  of  a  chap  down  in  Indi­
ana  who  always  expected  the  pitcher 
would  be  filled  before  he  could  find 
the  time  or  desire  to  order  shoes,  or 
even  talk  about  them.

“He  was  a  big,  good  natured  Ger­
man,  well  rated,  and  a  liberal  buyer. 
This  information  had  been  furnished 
to  me  in  advance,  but 
the  pitcher 
game  was  new  so  far  as  I  was  con­
cerned,  and  not  being  on,  I  opened up 
the  tray  (I  was  gripping  it  that  day) 
and  commenced  my  oration.

“He  listened  attentively  enough  for 
a  few  minutes,  but  was  anything  but 
responsive. 
I  commenced  to  wonder 
what  I  was  up  against,  even  with 
Hans,  the  clerk,  bobbing  his  head  to­
wards  a  mammoth  pitcher  on  a  shelf 
near  the  samples.

“Well,  it  seemed  to  me  that  I  talk­
ed  about  an  hour  without  receiving 
as  much  as  a  grunt  from  the  shoe 
dealer.  Finally  he  must  have  gotten

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weary.  He  walked  over  to  where the 
pitcher  was,  lifted  it,  looked  inside 
and  turned  to  me  after  putting  it 
back  on  the  shelf,  remarking as  he  did 
so,  ‘Mein  Gott,  I  am  so  dry  vot  I 
can’t  speak.’  And  then  I  tumbled. 
When  Hans  returned  with  the  pitcher 
the  ‘prospective’  found  it  easier 
to 
talk,  and  I  got  away  with  a  juicy  or­
der.”

“I  should  say  that  was  a  good  deal 
cheaper  way  of  entertaining  than  to 
have  a  shoe  buyer  hold  you  up  for  a 
ten 
from 
Brockton,  one  of  the  quartette.

sighed  Jackson 

spot,” 

“There’s  one  robber  in  Chicago—  
and  perhaps  more,” 
said  Jackson, 
“who  always  wanted  to  borrow  ten 
dollars  from  me  before  I  got  his  or­
der.  He  always  got  it,  little  as  T 
could  afford  it,  and  never  paid  it  back, 
either.  But,  of  course,  that  was  his 
little  game,  and  some  time  when  I am 
not  so  confounded  sleepy  I  will  tell 
you  how  he  lost  his  job.  He’s  clerk­
ing  out  in  Iowa  now  for  about  $10 
per  week.”— Shoe  Retailer.

The  Weapons  of  Unionism.

W.  H.  Price,  a  non-union 

tinner, 
was  recently  assaulted  by  union  tin­
ners  and  lies  at  the  point  of  death. 
His  body  was  burned  by  acid  and  he 
was  unconscious  when  found.  He  had 
failed  to  see  his  two  assailants  until 
they  were  within  a  few  feet  of  him. 
He  kept  them  at  bay  until  he  had 
secured  telephone  connection  with 
his  employer,  when  he  was  knocked 
senseless.  The  police 
found  Price 
tied  hand  and  foot.  Several  jars  of 
tinners’  acid  had  been  poured  upon 
his 
into  the 
flesh.

limbs  and  had  eaten 

Boycotting  Another  Exposition.
The  Seattle  Trades  Assembly  has 
adopted  resolutions  condemning  the 
action  of  the  management  of 
the 
Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition  in  deter­
mining  upon  the  open-shop  policy and 
threatened  to  boycott  the  big  fair  of 
this  summer.

Faith  has  a  way  of  looking  right 

over  the  top  of  facts.

The  Old 

National  Bank

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

O u r  C e r tific a te s   o f  D e p o sit 

are  p a ya b le  on  dem and 

and  d raw   in terest.

Blue  Savings  Books

are  th e  b est  issu ed . 

In terest  C om p ou n d ed  

Assets  over  Six  Million  Dollars

Ask  for  our

Free  Blue  Savings  Bank

Fifty years corner Canal and Pearl Sts.

No.442

M en’s  Kangaroo 

Bellows  Tongue  Bal 

y2  D .  S.  Standard  Screw 

French  Toe  Plain

This  Shoe  is  Made  for  Hard  Service 

Nothing  to  equal  it  at  the  price

$ 1.60

Hirth,  Krause  (S
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

b   Co.

ALWAYS  A  LEADER 

IN  FASHION

$3.50

Top-Round

$4.00

The sole  leather 
and  counter  of  a 
shoe  is  its  founda­
tion,  and  unless 
they  are  of  the 
best grade the shoe 
will  soon  go  to the 
bad.  Top-Round 
shoes  have oak  soles  and  counters  in  them,  and 
we  guarantee  every  stitch  in  them.  Write  now  for 
stock  catalogue.

0  0

White-Dunham  Shoe  Co.,  Brockton, Mass.

Michigan  Representative,  W.  J.  Marshall,  Detroit.

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

Working  Up  Trade  During  Circus 

Week.

“The  arrival  of  a  circus  in  any  city, 
be  it  big  or  little,  is  always  hailed 
with  delight  by  small  children  of  the 
place,  and  also  by  a  good  many  of 
the  grown-up  people,  but  the  mer­
chant  fails  to  see  where  there  is  to be 
any  benefit  to  him. 
It  is  true  that  it 
attracts  people  from  the  surrounding 
country,  but  it  takes  so  much  money 
out  of  the  city  that  there  is  always 
a  perceptible  dropping  off  in  business 
for  a  couple  of  weeks,  which  means 
that  old  shoes  are  being  made  to 
last  a  little  longer,  on  account  of  the 
show,  when  they  would  otherwise  be 
discarded  as  worthless,”  remarked  a 
wide-awake  shoe  retailer  recently.

“I  had  been  through  the  mill  a 
good  many  times  in  my  life,  and  had 
always  joined  the  other  retailers  in 
deploring  the  fact  that  the  circus  was 
robbing  us  of a  good  deal  of  business, 
and  finally  our  town  was  visited  by 
three  separate  and  distinct  mammoth 
organizations  of  that  kind  in  one  sea­
son;  and  when  the  bills  were  being 
posted  for  the  third  one,  I  made  up 
my  mind  that  was  not  only  applying 
the  wrong  kind  of  medicine,  but  was 
rubbing  it  in,  and  decided  to  figure 
out  some  way  of  taking  advantage  of 
the  situation. 
It  was  apparent  that  I 
would  lose  trade  in  the  city,  from  the 
advent  of  this  circus,  just  as  I  had 
with  the  past  two  that  season,  so  the 
only  way  I  could  conceive  to  come 
out  even,  let  alone  getting  ahead,  was 
to  catch  a  lot  of  business  from  the 
surrounding  country.

“My  first  move  was  to  advertise 
the  circus 
in  my  own  advertising 
space  for  two  weeks  before  the  show 
came,  calling  attention  to  the  fact 
•  that  I  had  the  different  kinds  of  sea­
sonable  goods  that  would  attract  the 
country  trade,  and  that  if  they  did 
not  visit  the  store  before  circus  day, 
they  could  come  in  early  that  day, 
buy  their  shoes,  leave  their  packages 
with  us  while  attending  the  show,  and 
do  their  shopping  and  sight-seeing 
at  the  same  time.  My  next  move 
was  to  have  10,000  tickets  printed,  on 
the  same  cardboard,  and  in  appear­
ance  very  close  to  the  circus  tickets. 
These  read  something  like  the  fol­
lowing:

FREE  T IC K E T  

Good  for

One  Box  Shoe  Polish,

Tf  presented  at  the  City  Shoe  Store.

1026  S.  Main  St.

JOHN  SMITH,  Proprietor. 

(Over.)

“On  the  back  was  printed:

One  of-these  tickets  will  be  ac­
cepted  as  payment  for  one  box  of 
shoe  polish,  when  purchasing  a 
pair  of  shoes  at  this  store.  Not 
good  except  when  shoes  are  be­
ing  purchased.

We  want  you  to  see  our  stock, 
whether  ready  to  purchase  or not, 
and  upon  presentation  of 
this 
ticket  you  will  be  entitled  to  not 
only  look  at  anything  and  every­
thing  that  may  interest  you,  but 
also  get  a  free  shine  at  our  boot- 
black  stand. 
JOHN  SMITH.
“With  this  preparation  I  awaited

the  coming  of  the  crowd,  for  they 
always  come  to  a  circus,  no  matter 
how  hard  the  times,  or  what  else 
they  have  to  do  without.  The  morn­
ing  of  the  circus  I  found  people  wait­
ing  to  get  into  the  store  when  it  was 
opened  at  8  a.  m.  That  was  the  effect 
of  my  advertising,  and  I  noticed  that 
none  of  the  other  stores  in  the  city 
were  troubled  with  the  early  crowd. 
That  convinced  me  that  advertising 
at  the  same  time  the  circus  did  was 
a  good  plan,  and  the  amount  of trade 
we  enjoyed  before  the  parade  showed 
me  that  I  had  struck  the  right  idea 
when  I  told 
in  my  advertisements 
that  we  would  take  care  of  their 
packages.  The  result  was  that  the 
entire  back  end  of  our  store  was 
piled  full  of  all  kinds  of  parcels,  as 
well  as  buggy  whips,  lap  robes,  quilts, 
lunch  baskets,  etc.,  but  there  was  a 
pair  of  shoes,  or  some  purchase,  in 
every  bunch  of  stuff  we  had  to  take 
care  of.  That  showed  me  that  the 
way  to  get  next  to  the  trade  of  the 
farmer  was  to  do  him  some  favor 
when  he  came  to  town.  The  leav­
ing  of  his  packages  at  our  store  was 
little  trouble  to  us,  for  we  had  pre­
pared  for  it  in  advance,  and  it  was  a 
great  convenience  to  him, 
for  he 
would  have  little  time  for  shopping 
in  the  evening,  and  would  not  want 
to  buy  in  the  morning  if  he  had  to 
carry  the  goods  around  with  him  all 
day.  Then  it  was  taking  a  load  off 
his  shoulders  to  get  rid  of  the  wraps 
and  bundles  they  brought  along,  in­
cluding  the  whip,  which  was  sure  to 
be  stolen,  if  it  was  a  good  one  and 
left  in  the  buggy.

“When  I  looked  over  my  cash,  be­
fore  starting  to  dinner,  I  found  that 
we  had  done  more  business  up  to  that 
time  than  we  had  ever  done  in  an 
entire  day  when  a  circus  was  in  town. 
That  was  encouraging. 
I  had  pre­
pared  a  stand  near  the  grounds,  so 
the  crowd  would  have  to  pass  it,  and 
1  put  a  man  there  and  had  him  shout 
‘Free  Tickets!’  This  was  a  particu­
larly  interesting  shout,  especially  for 
the  farmers.  They  gave  him  a  call, 
to  see  what  he  had,  and  as  a  result 
carried  off  the  tickets  by  the  hun­
dreds,  as  they  knew  they  were  good 
for  something.

“W e  did  not  close  the  store  that 
evening  until  the  usual 
Saturday 
night  closing  time,  or  until  after  the 
show  had  closed,  and  we  then  wound 
up  the  heaviest. day’s  business  we 
had  ever  done,  and  there  was  not  a 
man  in  the  store  that  was  not  thor­
oughly  tired  out.  When  I  counted 
up  my  cash  I  found  that  twenty-three 
of  the  tickets  had  been  brought  in by 
shoe  purchasers,  and  that  the  shoe 
shining  department  had  taken  in near­
ly  a  hundred  of  them.

“I  figured,  of  course,  that  this  big 
day  would  not  compensate  the  short 
business  of  the  next  two  weeks,  and 
it  did  not,  but  it  was  such  an 
im­
provement  over  previous  circus  days 
that  it  made  me  resolve  never  to  al­
low  another  circus  to  come  without 
utilizing  it  to  bring  business  to  my 
store.  Then,  while  I  did  not  expect 
much  of  a  return  from  the  tickets,  I 
felt  sure  they  would  be  kept,  because 
they  had  a  value,  an  dthat  the  young 
fellows  in  the  country  would  show

Our  Salesmen A re  Now 

Out W ith  Our  Fall  Line

S A V M n v

It  will  pay  you  to  look  it  through  carefully.
Our  shoes  not  only  look  right,  but  are  right. 

Right in  price,  style  and  extreme  durability.

Our  shoes  on  your  shelves  mean  fair  profits, 

quick  sales  and  a clean  stock.

Rmdge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  <§b  Co.,  Ltd. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Women’s
Oxfords

Black— T an— Patent

We  Have  Them  in  Stock  for  Immediate  Shipment

tie ............................................$1.00
2478—W omen’s  Kid  Sandal,  ribbon 
W omen’s  Kid  Sandai,  4   s tra p ........................................  
2806— 
.80
2807— 
W om en’s  Kid  Sandal,  4   s tra p .....................................   1.10
2809—W omen’s  Kid  Blucher  Oxford,  patent  tip .................................80
W omen’s  Kid  Blucher  Oxford,  p aten t  tip ................   1.10
2480— 
W omen’s  Kid  Blucher  Oxford,  patent  tip ................. 1.00
2481— 
2378—W omen’s  Kid  Oxford,  p aten t 
tip ............................................  1.00
2805—W omen’s  Dongola  Tan  O xford.................................................   1.00
2472—W omen’s  Calf  Tan  O xford................; .....................................  1.15
2813— 
W om en’s  P aten t  Vamp  O xford......................................   1.20
2814— W om en’s  Vici  Blucher  Oxford,  p aten t  tip .........................  1.20
2439—W om en’s  Vici  Blucher  Oxford,  patent  tip ...........................  1.60
2444— W.omen’s  Vici  Tan  Oxford,  patent  tip .................................  1.60
2446—W omen’s  P aten t  Button  Oxford,  light  w elt.........................  1.85
2503— 
W omen’s  Russia  Calf  Oxford,  w elt...........................   2.00
2504— W om en’s  P aten t  Colt  Oxford,  w elt.......................................  2.00

We  know  you  will  be  pleased  if  you  buy  any  of  the 

above. 

T r y   I t .

G eo.  H .  R eed er  &   Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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them  to  each  other  as  a  souvenir  of 
their  trip.

“You  can 

imagine  my 

surprise 
when  I  tell  you  that  those  tickets 
were  brought  for  redemption  for  the 
next  three  or  four  months,  and  that 
while  over  1,000  of  them  were  given 
for  shines,  while  only  about  300  were 
presented  at  the  time  shoes  were  pur­
chased,  they  were  most  of  them  pre­
sented  by  strangers  to  the  store,  and 
we  took  occasion  to  show  them  the 
kind  of  shoes  that  interested  them, 
and  also  our  shoe 
findings  depart­
ment,  so  we  could  figure  on  business 
in  the  future.  Of  those  who  bought 
shoes,  of  course  a  good  many  would 
have  made  their  purchases  at  my 
store  anyway,  still  there  was  a  large 
percentage  who  would  not,  so  I  con­
sidered  my  experiment  a  good  one. 
The  country  trade  more  than  made 
up  for  what  I  lost  on  account  of  dull 
business  in  town,  and  it  gave  me  a 
start  with  a  class  of  business  I  had 
been  wanting  to  get  in  touch  with.

“I  found  the  note  on  the  back  of the 
tickets  was  a  great  deal  more  of  an 
attraction  than  I  had  anticipated,  as 
it  gave  the  ticket  holder  the  opinion 
that  he  had  a  right  to  be  shown 
around,  and  he  got  better  acquainted 
with  the  goods  we  had  to  offer  than 
he  would  otherwise  have  become  in 
years,  when  depending  upon  an  occa­
sional  glance  at  the  window, 
and 
what  we  could  make  him  read  in  the 
It 
advertising  pages  of  the  papers. 
made  him  feel  that  he  had 
some 
rights  in  the  store,  and  we  were  al­
ways  careful  to  find  out  where  each 
ticket  holder  was  from,  and  to  tell 
him  that  any  time  he  came  to  town 
he  was  welcome  to  leave  his  pack -1 
ages  with  us  until  ready  to  start  out 
again.  This  was  a  point  I  had  de­
cided  to  keep  as  a  permanent  attrac­
tion  to  the  country  trade,  and  I  have 
never  regretted  the  decision. 
I  had 
some  shelves  erected  in  the  back  of 
the  store,  so  each  man  had  special 
space,  and  these  shelves  were  devot­
ed  to  that  express  purpose.  Now 
there  are  many  people  that  come  in 
from  the  country  each  week, 
and 
their  first  objective  point  is  my  store, 
where  they  leave  their  bundles. 
Is  it 
likely  these  people  will  do  their shoe 
or  findings  buying  in  any  other  store? 
Not  by  a  good  deal.  There  is  no 
man  appreciates  a  favor  more  than 
the  average  farmer,  and  he  likes  to 
trade  with  some  one  he  is  acquainted 
with.  That  is  '.-here  I  come  in.  I  get 
personally  acquainted  with  every  one 
of  these  people  who  use  my  shelves 
to  store  their  packages."— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

The  Dutchman’s  Revenge.

The  Lidgerwood,  N.  D.,  Broadaxe 
tells  of  a  Dutchman  who  refused  to 
pay  35  cents  fare  to  Hankinson.  He 
stated  that  before  he  would  pay  more 
than  25  cents  he  would  get  off  and 
walk.  The  conductor 
stopped  his 
train  and  put  him  off.  The  Dutchman 
ran  ahead  of  the  engine  and  started 
to  walk.  The  engineer  began 
to 
blow  the  whistle.  The  Dutchman 
said: 
“You  can  vissle  all  you  vant 
to,  I  von’t  come  pack.”

Religion  gets,  its  rating  in 
world  on  the  basis  of  its  reality.

this 

Quick  W it  Saved  a  Life.

“Quick  wit  is  of  more  value  to  an 
officer  than  being  a  good  shot,”  said 
a  policeman  in  Kansas  City,  Kan.,  re­
cently. 
“I  know  a  negro  policeman 
who  saved  a  woman’s  life  by  know- 
1 ing  what  to  say  at  the  right  minute. 
It  was  this  way:  A  man  became  crazy 
one  morning  with  a  knife  in  his hand 
and  he  ran  into  the  kitchen  where  his 
wife  was  at  work.  The  woman  ran 
into  the  yard,  screaming 
for  help. 
I The  crazy  husband  caught  her  and 
was  standing  over  her,  with  upraised 
knife,  when  a  negro  policeman  came 
around  the  corner  about  twenty  feet 
away.  He  could  not  reach  the  man 
in  time  to  save  the  woman,  for  the 
knife  was  in  the  act  of  descending, 
and  to  shoot  might  result  in  injury 
10  the  woman.

“ ‘God  Almighty  tells  me  to  kill 

you,’  the  crazy  man  said.

“ ‘Stop!’  cried  the  negro  policeman. 
to 

‘I’m  God,  and  I  command  you 
stop!’

“The  knife  fell  from  the  hand  of 
|  the  insane  man,  as  he  turned  his  eyes 
to  the  sky  whence  he  really 
sup­
posed  the  voice  had  come.  Before he 
learned  how  he  had  been  tricked  the 
policeman  had  handcuffs  on  him.”

The  Glory  of  Unionism.

The  eight  principal 

industries  of 
Princeton,  Ind.,  have  closed  down  in­
definitely  on  account  of  the  demands 
of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor 
that  unskilled  employes  get  $1.75  a 
day  instead  of  $1.50.  The  business 
of  the  city  is  practically  paralyzed.

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chines,

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And  you  m ay  bet  with  all  your  might 
W hat  he  says  is  surely  right,
And  if  you  bet  you  can  not  lose.
For  Mack  says  H A R O -P A N   are 

the 

shoes  to  use.

Dealers  who  handle  our  line  say 
than 

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we  make 
other  manufacturers.

W rite  us  for  reasons  why.
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I Makers of Shoes 

Grand Rapids, Mich

Does  It
Ring

True?

There are  hundreds  of  retail 
shoe  merchants  ever  alert  and 
eager  to  improve  their  show­
ing.  They  want better shoes— 
better values.  Some are blinded 
and misled by the  glare  of  ex­
travagant  claims,  mistaking 
boasts for  true  worth.  Others 
put on  their smoked glasses and 
seek  pure  merit and values.

Sometimes it is  confusing  to 
separate  the  wheat  from  the 
chaff .  Ask yourself  this  ques­
tion—‘ ‘does it ring true?”   Ex­
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telling  it.  To such dealers as desire  the highest degree of  shoe perfection,  our

SKREEMER  SHOES

are full of interest and promise.  We invite your  investigation  of  our  proposi­
tion to one dealer in a town. 
If  you will  signify your willingness  we  will  send 
a salesman to see you.

MICHIGAN  SHOE  CO.,  Distributors 

DETROIT,  MICH.

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HIRING  A  N EW   MAN.

A  Pebble  Sometimes  Changes  the 

River’s  Course.

W ritten   for  th e  Tradesm an.

After  Danielson  went  away 

the 
Branford  Company  had  been  suffer­
ing  for  the  want  of  an  efficient  man 
to  take  his  place.  Of  course  they 
wanted  all  the  virtues  of  a  dozen 
likely  men  concentrated  in  one,  but, 
what  does  not  follow  as  a  matter  of 
course,  they  were  perfectly  willing 
to  pay  for  these  twelve  virtues  the 
twelve  salaries  of  the  dozen  men 
from 
possessing  them.  They  knew 
considerable  painful  experience 
the 
difficulty  of  the 
finding  and  were 
willing  to  undergo  a  good  deal  more 
than  a  fair  share  of  inconvenience 
until  the  right  man  was  found.  They 
had  the  traditional  dread  of  all  pros­
perous  commercial  houses  of  taking 
outsiders  for  what  they  considered 
their  choice  places  and  found 
less 
risk 
in  promoting  from  the  ranks 
those  men  who  seemed  to  have  in 
them  the  essential  qualities.

it 

to 

couple 

loose.  W e’ve 

They  didn’t  find  what  they  wanted. 
is 
The  average  clerk— oh,  well, 
best 
say  without  farther  com­
ment  the  “average”  clerk— did  not 
awaken  any  enthusiasm  as  the 
list 
of  supposed-to-be-available  material 
was  gone  over  in  the  office  and  re­
luctantly,  very  reluctantly,  they  con­
cluded  to  call 
in  an  outside  man. 
“We  can  tether  him,”  Uncle  Jerry 
remarked;  “so  that  he  can’t  do  any 
great  mischief  and  if  he  turns  out  a 
lightning-striker,  well  and  good. 
If 
not,  we’ll  keep  him  until  the  right 
man  shows  himself  and  then  turn 
a 
him 
of 
youngsters  on  hand 
that  promise 
fairly  and  some  day  after  each  has 
had  his  chance  we’ll  use  him  if  we 
can.  That  young  Wheeler  isn’t  to 
be  laughed  at.  Oh,  you  needn’t  lift 
your  eyebrows,  Vinton.  The  boy’s 
like  all  boys.  He’s  got  to  have  his 
run. 
I  wouldn’t  give  shucks  for  a 
horse,  much  less  a  colt,  who  wouldn’t 
and  didn’t,  when  the  harness  is  taken 
off  and  he  is  turned  out  into  the  pas­
ture,  kick  up  his  heels,  lie  down  and 
roll  over,  and  give  himself  a  shake 
before  he  begins 
feeding.  That’s 
Wheeler.  He  has  a  good  deal  of  the 
kick  and  roll  over  in  him  but  with 
it  all  he  has  also  the  business  quality. 
He  has  a  lot  of  experience  to  buy 
and  pay  for  and  I  think  he’s  sharp 
enough  not  to  pay  too  much  for  it. 
That’s  his  affair  and  not  ours— well, 
to  an  extent.  He’s  on  my  list  any­
way,  his  fate  is  in  his  own  hands  as 
every  boy’s  fate  is,  and  he’s  going 
to  stand  or  fall  as  the  man  in  him 
settles  the  business.  He’s  a  good 
kid  to  have  around  and  I’m  free  to 
say  that  I’d  be  willing  to  give  him 
just  a 
little  boost  should  he  ever 
need  it.

“Another  young  one  I  want  you  to 
help  me  watch  is  Kin  Osborne. 
I 
can’t  make  up  my  mind  about  him. 
In  one  sense  he’s  a  condensed  cy­
clone,  but  when  I  get  him  sifted 
down  I  never  have  found  the  slight­
est  indication  of  meanness. 
It’s  only 
a  bit  or  burst  of  rollicking  fun  that 
upsets 
everything 
without  harm.  He’s  quicker  than  a

everybody  and 

cat  and  the  way  he  walks  into  things 
when  they  have  to  be  looked  after 
is  a  caution  to  us  older  heads  with 
our  staid  ideas  of  doing  things.  He’s 
been  lately  developing  an  intense  cu­
riosity 
in  regard  to  the  forbidden. 
He  wants  to  know,  you  know!  He 
isn’t  going  to  have  the  other  fellow 
telling  about  ‘last  night’  with  leering 
eye  and  significant  head-toss.  He 
wants  to  be  able  to  say  with  wise, 
head-shaking  experience, 
‘That’s  all 
very  well,  Kid;  but  that  isn’t  going 
to  pan  out  in  paying  quantities.  Bet­
ter  go  slow  and  keep  your  tongue 
still.  T  knew  a  boy  once  who  had 
to  hint  at  breakfast  of  the  roaring 
time  he  had  last  night  and  it  cost 
him  his  position.’ 
I  have  him  corall- 
ed  so  he  can’t  get  out  of  range  of 
my  field-glass  and  I’m  having  con­
siderable  fun  over  him.  He’s  got 
pretty  well  along  for  a  nineteen- 
year-older  and  he’s  developing  pretty 
fair  common  sense.  He’s  found  out 
that  smoke  and  drink  and  billiards 
are  side 
in 
about  as  often  as  an  intelligent  man 
wants  to  go  to  the  circus;  that  buck­
ing  the  races  is  a  fair  sign  of  financial 
imbecility;  that  a  sweet-faced, sweet- 
tempered  girl  whom  his  mother  will 
be  glad  to  be  introduced  to  is  good 
enough  for  him,  and  that  he  can  get 
fun  enough  out  of  his  daily  work  to 
make  him  and  keep  him  interested. 
Nineeen 
is  a  ticklish  age,  though; 
more  than  one  boy  has  met  his 
Waterloo  right  there,  and  so  I’m 
watching  Osborne  for  all  he’s  worth. 
Neither  of  the  boys  is  old  enough  or 
ready  yet  for  the  place,  and  we  shall 
have  to  take  the  best  man  we  can 
find  and  take  him  right  off.”

issues,  to  be 

indulged 

If  there  ever  was  a  man  who  ought 
to  consider  himself  fortunate  it  was 
Hal  Brady  when  he  came  into  the 
the  Branford 
position  offered  by 
“You  have  been  recom­
Company. 
mended  to  us  highly  by  men 
in 
whose  opinion  we  place  every  confi­
dence;  but  after  all  the  test  of  the 
pudding  lies  in  the  eating,”  said  the 
senior  partner  whose  decision  had 
settled  the  question. 
“We  want  you 
to  feel  that  the  position  is  close  to 
the  office,  that  in  a  sense  you  repre­
sent  us  socially  as  well  as  financially, 
and  for  that  leason  we  have  made 
your  salary  sufficient  to  make  side 
issues  unnecessary.  These  side 
is­
sues  we  frankly  mention  because  we 
can  not  afford  to  have  our  men  in­
terested 
in  no 
instance  to  have  anything  to  do  with 
bets,  directly  or  indirectly.  We  trust 
your  acquaintances,  men  and  women 
alike,  will  be  worthy  of  the  house 
collectively  and 
individually.  Your 
friends  say  that  your  character  is  in 
ever}"  way  commendable  and  we  have 
every  reason  to  believe  it  will  be 
found  so.  Should,  however,  we  find 
ourselves  mistaken  in  any  of  these 
lines,  we  shall  not  hesitate  to  close 
your  connection  with  the  house  at 
once.  Mr.  Vinton  is  waiting  to  talk 
over  matters  with  you.  You  have 
my  heartiest  good  wishes.  Good 
morning.”

in  them.  You  are 

The  position  and  the  fine  salary 
and  the  good  will  that  went  with 
it  were  of  no  avail.  The  man  was 
worthy  of  neither,  and  a  month  dis­

closed  the  fact  that  he  was  a  delin­
quent 
in  each  of  the  requirements 
plainly  stated  to  him.  He  was  drop­
ped  and  it  was  up  to  Uncle  Jerry  to 
find  his  successor.

“ It’s  a  darned  risky  piece  of  busi­
ness,  but  I’ll  be  hanged  if  I  want 
any  more  men  with 
recommenda­
tions  in  their  hands.  Nineteen  is  a 
shaky  period  fo>-  responsibility,  but 
it’s  better  to  put  in  men  that  you 
know  and  can  control  than  to  de­
pend  on  strangers.  There’s  Wheeler 
and  there’s  Osborne.  They're  boys, 
but  they  are  our  boys.  We  know 
them  fairly  well.  They  seem  to  be 
all  right;  but  even  if  they  are,  how’s 
$5,000  for  salary  going  to  affect boys 
of  that  age?  I  might,  I  suppose,  take 
the  one  home  and  play  daddy  to  him 
for  a  year  or  two;  but  if  a  man  had 
tried  that  game  with  me  when  I  was 
nineteen  he'd  have  had  a  time  of  it! 
Besides,  that  sort  of  coddling  isn’t 
what  it’s  sometimes  cracked  up  to 
be.  No,  the  man’s  got  to  stand  on 
his  own  feet.  He’s  got  to  fight  his 
own 
fight  wth  his  own  two  fists. 
If  he  hasn’t  sense  enough  to  stand 
the  downpour  of  a  five-thousand  dol­
lar  salary,  all  he’s  got  to  do  is  to  let 
it  wash  him  away.  Such  temptations 
have  got  to  come  sooner  or  later  if 
God  is  the  affectionate  Father  we  all 
hope  He  is,  and  if  it  is  too  much  at 
nineteen  they  are  young  enough  to 
get  out  of  the- wet  and  the  dirt  and 
try  it  again.”

The  man  was  alone  in  the  office 
and  he  stopped  talking  to  himself 
and  looked  out  of  the  window.  Fate 
was  holding  the  balance  with  young 
Wheeler’s  life  on  one  scale  and  Os­
borne’s  on 
the  other,  and  as  the 
man  watched  the  rising  and  the  fall­
ing  of  the  scales  he  went  on  think­
ing  aloud:  “It  doesn’t  depend  on  me 
after  all.  I  know  what  the  boy  needs 
who  is  going  to  have  the  place.  He’s 
got  it  in  him  now  and  he’ll  show  it. 
All  I  have  to  do  is  to  watch  for  it, 
and  I  suspect  it’ll  be  a  mighty  little 
thing  that’ll  settle  the  question. 
‘A 
pebble’— how  is  it  that  goes?—-‘A  peb­
ble  in  the  streamlet  scant  has  turned 
the  course  of  many  a  river;  a’— some­
thing  in  the  something  some— ‘has 
dwarfed  the  giant  oak  forever.’ 
I’ll 
watch  for  the  pebble  and  the  ‘some­
thing’— strange  I  can’t  recall  that—  
and  govern  myself  accordingly.”

A  makeshift  was  made  in  regard 
to  the  vacancy  and  Uncle  Jerry  went 
poking  around  in  season  and  out  of 
season  in  the  establishment  and  out 
of  it  where  he  could  see  and  hear 
things  for  and  against  the  young  men, 
who  without  knowing  it  were  stand­
ing  in  the  white  light  that  beat  upon 
them  as  they  revealed  in  word  and 
action  the  motive  of  the  manhood 
that  inspired  them.

So  winter  went  by  and  the  “etherial 
mildness”  which  claims  the  spring  as 
her  own  had  come,  creating  in  the 
buying  crowds  the  desire  for  some­
thing  new.  The  usual  jokes  of  the 
Easter  hat  were  abroad  and  strange 
as  it  may  seem  and  sound  the  influ­
ence  of  Eve  had  been  so  exerted 
that  even  the  man  side  of  humanity 
began  to  take  thought  for  raiment, 
to  consider  the  lilies  of  the  field  how

they  grow  and  like  them  to  outdo 
Solomon  in  all  his  glory.

It  hardly  need  be  said  that  Wheel­
er  and  Osborne  were  deeply  touched 
with  the  prevailing  fever.  They were 
much  together  now  and  the  “Daffo­
dils,  that  come  before  the  swallow 
dares,”  had  hardly  pierced  the 
lin­
gering  snows  with  their  green  blades 
when  the  two  were  seen  standing 
before  the  tailors’  windows,  discuss­
ing  cloths  and  styles.  As  the  season 
advanced  and  the  time  came  for  or­
ders  to  take  the  place  of  talk,  the 
two  young  men,  almost  as  earnestly 
as  their  mothers  and  sisters,  did  not 
confine  the  all-absorbing  topic  to  the 
street.  Wherever  chance  brought 
them  together  they  were  at  it  and 
one  afternoon  when  the  front  office 
door  was  open  and  Uncle  Jerry  was 
sitting  alone,  pondering  his 
all-im­
portant  thought,  the  boys  began  ex­
pressing.  theirs.

“What’s  the  use  of  waiting  until 
everything  we  want  is  taken.  Let’s 
stop  on  our  way  home,  leave  our 
measures  and  have  our  suits  when 
other  people  have  theirs  and  be  like 
folks,”  came  through  the  office  door 
in  Wheeler’s  rapid  speech  and  eager 
tone.

“I  don’t  want  to  leave  any  orders 
until  I  can  afford  to  pay  for  the 
suit,”  came  Osborne’s  deliberate  an­
swer.

“What’s  that  got  to  do  with  it,  I 
should  like  to  know? 
If  we  pay  for 
them  by  the  time  they  are  worn  out 
that  will  satisfy  Blum  and  us. 
I 
never  expect  to  pay  until  I’m  tired 
of  being  dunned  and  that’s  in  time 
to  order  a  new  suit.  Come  on. 
If 
we  hurry  up  we’ll  find  him  open.”

“I’ll  go  along  with  you,  but  I’ll 
I  guess  I’m  silly  and  old-fash­
wait. 
ioned;  but  somehow 
I  don’t  be­
lieve  I  could  go  around  with  another 
man’s  clothes  on,  and  they  wouldn’t 
be  mine  until  I  paid  for  them.  The 
last  thing  they  said  to  me  when  I 
left  home  was, 
‘Earn  your  money 
before  you  spend  it’  and  sister  Lue 
added, 
‘and  pay  the  washer  woman 
promptly  if  you  want  to  enter  the 
kingdom  of  heaven!” ’

“That’s  good  advice  enough  if  any­
body  wants  to  follow  it;  but  at  that 
rate  I  never  should  have  anything 
to  wear.  How 
long  before  you’ll 
leave  your  order?”

“By  another week.  I  suppose you’ll 
laugh,  but  I  don’t  care. 
I  put  by 
something  every  pay-day  and  when 
anything  like  a  suit  is  needed  I  put 
by  a  little  for  that  long  enough  be­
forehand  to  pay  when  the  order  is 
filled  and  in  that  way  I  keep  even 
with  the  world. 
I  don’t  want  a  col­
lector  following  me  up  with  a  bill, 
and  the  only  way  to  prevent  that  is 
to  pay  for  my  goods  when  I  take 
’em.”

“What  was  that  you  said  about  put­
ting  something  by  every  pay-day? 
You  don’t  pretend  to  say,  do  you, 
that  you  are  keeping  up  anything 
like  that?  Great  Scott!  It  always 
finds  me  in  the  hole  a  dollar  or  two, 
and  I  don’t  know  the  time  when  I 
didn’t  owe  somebody.  What’s  your 
idea?”

"Oh-h,  I  don’t  know  as  I  have  any 
in

like  to  have  a  dollar 

I 

idea. 

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

Hardware Price  Current

AMMUNITION

Caps

G  D.,  full  count,  per  m ......................  40
Hicks’  W aterproof,  per  m ....................  50
Musket,  per  m ....................... 
75
Elly's  W aterproof,  per  m ........................  60

 

 

Cartridges
per 
per 

22 short, 
m .....2 50
22 long, per  m .................................... 3 00
32 short, 
m .....5 00
32 long, per  m .....................................5 75

No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 

Prim ers

No.  2  IT.  M.  C..  boxes  250,  per  m ........ 1  60
No.  2  W inchester,  boxes  250,  per  m ..l  60

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

4
4
4
4
4Í4
4%
3
3
3%
3%
3%

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

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  th an   B ..........1  85

Shot

A ugurs  and  Bits

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

.........................................................  
.................................. 
50

60
25

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

Barrows

Railroad.......................................................... 15 00
Garden.............................................................33 00

Bolts

Stove 
.....................................................
C arriage,  new  list.............................
Plow.........................................................

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

70
70
50

Well,  plain..................................................4  50

Buckets

B utts,  C ast

Chain

C ast  Loose  Pin,  figured  ...................  
W rought,  narrow ..................................... 

  70
60

% in  5-16 in.  %  in.  %  in.
Common.......... 7  c .,,.6   C ....6   c ....4 % c
BB.....................8%c___ 7 % c ....6 % c ____6  c
BBB..................8%c_______ 7% c-6%c----- 6%c

Crowbars

C ast  Steel,  per  Tb.......................................  

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

 

 

5

65
65
65
65

Elbows

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

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

40
25

Files—New  List

New  Am erican  ........................................ 70&10
................................................ 
Nicholson’s 
70
H eller’s  H orse  R asps.............................. 
70
Galvanized  Iron

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

16 

15 

12 

17

Discount,  70.

14 
13 
-  Gauges

Glass

my  pocket  and  I  like  to  feel  that  it 
belongs  to  me.  Somehow  there  is 
a  sort  of  independence  about  it  that 
I  like.  Then,  too,  the  time  is  com­
ing  someday  when  I  shall  have  a 
chance  to  turn  it  to  account  and  I 
want  it  handy. 
I  am  satisfied  with 
the  way  things  are  going  here,  but  if 
the  time  ever  comes  when  I  see  a 
chance  to  better  myself  a  few  un-1 
hampered  dollars  will  help  matters 
along  wonderfully.  Come  along, you 
poke.  You  prink  like  a  girl!”

“M-hm,”  remarked  a  satisfied  voice 
in  the  front  office,  “that  thing’s  set- 
tied;”  and  in  due  time  Kinkaid  Os­
borne  was  earning  and  enjoying  the 
$S,ooo  salary.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Recent  Business  Changes  in  the  Hoo- 

sier  State.

Anderson— Mallott  &  Shoemaker 
are  succeeded  by  S.  B.  Shoemaker  in 
the  dry  goods  and  grocery  business.
Atwood  —   The  grocery  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Edward  Per­
son  will  be  continued  by  Person  & 
Edler  in  the  future.

Bourbon— C.  E.  Gillespie  &  Co.  are 
succeeded  in  the  grocery  business  by 
James  H.  Matchett.

Cambridge  City— John  W.  Hall,  of 
the  Hall  Mercantile  Co.,  which  deals 
in  dry  goods  and  clothing,  is  dead.

Campbellsburg— John  Holland  suc­
ceeds  Christian  Prow,  dealer  in  gener­
al  merchandise.

Evansville— The  Evansville  Music 
Co.,  which  carried  a  line  of  pianos, 
has  sold  its  business  to  the  Smith  & 
Dixon  Piano  Co.

Greensburg  —   Swift  &  Hamilton 
succeed  Swift  &  Davis,  dry  goods 
merchants.

Hammond— J.  P.  Henderson,  drug­

gist,  has  discontinued  business.

Jamestown— P.  M.  Lewis,  dealer  in 
tin  and  hardware, is  succeeded  in  busi­
ness  by  A.  M.  Southwick.

Jonesville— Edwin  Wright  will  con­
tinue  the  general  merchandise  busi­
ness  formerly  conducted  by  H.  S. 
Quick.

Kossuth— A.  C.  Sutton  is  succeed­
ed  by  Sutton  &  Lockwood  in  the  gen­
eral  store  business.

Lochiel— H.  St.  Clair  succeeds  Jos. 
A.  Nixon,  dealer  in  general  merchan­
dise.

Loogootee  —   Bert  Wildman  suc­
ceeds  Louis  J.  Walker,  who  formerly 
conducted  a  restaurant.

Uniontown— Mrs.  T.  H.  Barnhill  is 
succeeded  by  Mrs.  T.  H.  Barnhill  & 
Son  in  the  general  store  business.  ,
Fort  Wayne— A  receiver  has  been 
appointed  for  Otis  B.  Fitch,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer.

The  Work  of  Union  Sneaks.

W.  E.  Cole,  an  open-shop  contract- 
>r,  who  did  some  cement  work  at the 
lew  United  Brethren  church  in  Sac- 
■ amento,  recently  found  that  a  ce- 
nent  step  he  made  in  front  of  the 
luilding  was  badly  damaged  while  it 
vas  in  the  course  of  construction, 
rhe  damage  was  done  by  union  men. 
3 n  three  different  occasions 
some 
me  knocked  big  holes  in  the  step  be 
ore  it  had  become  hard,  and  each 
:ime 
it  was  necessary  to  construct 
:he  entire  step  again.

Iron

B ar  Iron  ..............................................2  25  rate
......................................3  00  rate
Light  Band 

Knobs—New  List

Door,  m ineral,  Jap. 
. . . .   75
Door,  Porcelain,  Jap.  trim m ings  . . . .   85

trim m ings 

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

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

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

8

Levels

Metals—Zinc

Miscellaneous

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

Molasses  G ates

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

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

P aten t  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken  packages  %c  per  tb.  extra. 

37
Crockery and Glassware

STONEW ARE

B utters

%  gal. per  doz.............................................  48
1  to  6  gal.  per  doz.................................... 
6
8  gal. each 
................................................  56
................................................  70
10  gal. each 
12  gal. each 
................................................   84
15  gal.  m eat  tubs,  each 
....................1  20
20  gal.  m eat  tubs,  e a c h ........................  1  64
25  gal.  m eat  tubs,  each  ......................2  26
30  gal.  m eat  tubs,  each 
....................2  70
C hurns

2  to  6  gal,  per  gal....................................  6%
Churn  D ashers,  per  doz 
.....................  84
Milkpans

%  gal. 
1  gal. 

%  gal. 
1  gal. 

flat 
fiat or  round bottom , 

Fine  Glazed  Milkpans 
or  round 

fiat 
fiat or  round bottom , 

or  round  bottom , per  doz. 48

each  .. 

bottom , per  doz. 60

each  .. 

6

6

Stew pans

Jugs

%  gal.  fireproof,  bail,  per  doz  ..........   85
1  gal.  fireproof  bail,  per  doz  .......... 1  10

%  gal.  per  doz.............................................  <0
%  gal.  per  doz.............................................  4C
1  to  5  gal.,  per g a l...................................7%

Planes

Sealing  W ax

Ohio  Tool  Co.’s  fan cy ............................ 
Sciota  Bench 
 
Sandusky  Tool  Co.’s f a n c y ..;........................  40
Bench,  first  quality............................. 

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

40
60
46

 

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

Iron  and  tinned 
Copper  Rivets  and  B urs  ....................  

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

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

LAMP  BURNERS
 

5  tbs.  in  package, per  lb........................... 
>
No.  0  Sun  ......................................................  3t
No.  1  Sun  .........................  
38
 
No.  2  Sun  ....................................................  60
No.  3  Sun  ............................................. 
85
T ubular  ..........................................................  6b
........................................................  60
N utm eg 
MASON  FRUIT  JARS 
W ith  Porcelain  Lined  Caps
P er  gross
..............................................................5  00
............................................................5  25

P in ts 
Q uarts 
%  gallon................................................................8 00
Caps.........................................................................2 25

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

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

P e r  box  of  6  doz.

Anchor  Carton  Chimneys 

E ach  chim ney  in  corrugated  tube

No.  0,  Crim p  top................................................1 70
No.  1,  Crim p  top................................................1 75
No.  2,  Crim p  top................................................2 75

Fine  Flint  Glass  in  C artons

No  0,  Crim p  top................................................3 00
No.  1,  Crimp  top................................................3 25
No.  2,  CVrimp  top............................................4 10

Lead  Flint  Glass  in  C artons

..o .  0,  Crim p  top.............................................. 3 30
No.  1,  Crim p  top.............................................. 4 00
No.  2,  Crim p  top.............................................5 00

Pearl  Top  in  C artons

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

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

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

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

Sheet  Iron
...........................................3  60
...........................................3  70
...........................................3  90

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  th a n   2-10  extra. 

All  sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30 

3 00
4 00
4 10

Shovels  and  Spades

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

Solder

%@%  ...............................................................  21
The  prices  of  th e  m any  oth er  qualities 
of  solder  in  th e  m arket  indicated  by  p ri­
vate  brands  vary  according  to  compo­
sition.
Steel  and  Iron 

Squares
.................................... 60-10-5

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14  IC,  Charcoal..................................... 10 50
14x20  IC,  Charcoal  .................................. 10  50
10x14  IX.  Charcoal 
.............................. 12  00
E ach  additional  X  on  th is  grade,  $1.25 

Tin—Allaway  Grade

10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ..................................  9  00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal 
.................................. 9  00
10x14  IX,  Charcoal  .................................10  50
14x20  IX,  Charcoal  .................................10  50
E ach  additional  X   on  th is  grade,  $1.50 

Boiler  Size  Tin  P late 

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

T raps

No.  1,  w rapped  and  labeled..................4   60
No.  2,  w rapped  and  labeled.........................5 30

R ochester  in  C artons 

2, Fine Flint,  10  in.  (85c  d o z .)..4 60
2, F ine Flint,  12  in.  ($1.35  d o z.).7 50

9%

50

No. 
No. 
No.  2, Lead 
No.  2, Lead 

Flint, 10  in. (95c  d o z .)..5 60
Flint, 12  in. ($1.65  d o z.).8 75

Electric  in  C artons
No.  2,  Lime,  (75c  doz.) 
.......................4  2b
No.  2,  F ine  Flint,  (85c  doz.) 
...............4  60
No.  2,  Lead  F lint,  (95c  doz.)  ...............5  60

LaB astie

OIL  CANS

No.  1,  Sun  Plain  Top.  ($1  doz.)  .........5  70
No.  2,  Sun  Plain  Top,  ($1.25  doz.) 
..6   90 

1  gal.  tin  cans  w ith  spout,  per  doz.  1  2t
1  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  per  doz.  1 21
2  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  Bpout,  per  doz.  2 1(
3  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  peer  doz.  3 li
5  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout,  per  doz.  4  li 
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  c a n s ..................................7  00
5  gal.  galv.  iron  N a c e fa s ............ . 
9  00

LANTERNS

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  76
No.  12  Tubular,  side  la m p ....................12  60
No.  3  S treet  lam p,  each  ......................3  60

LANTERN  GLOBES

No.  0  Tub.,  cases  1  doz.  each,  bx. 10c.  66 
No.  0  Tub.,  cases  2  doz. each, bx. 15c.  50 
No.  0  Tub.,  bbls.  5  doz.  each,  per  bbl.2  00 
No.  0  Tub.,  Bull’s  eye, cases 1 dz. each l  26 

BEST  W H ITE  COTTON  W ICKS 
Roll  contains  32  yards  in  one  piece. 

0 %  in.  wide, per  gross  or  roll.  25
1, %  in.  wide, per  gross  or  roll.  30
2, 1 
in.  wide, per  gross  or  roll  45
3, 1%  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll  85

No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 

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

Single  Strength,  by  b o x ..................dis.  90
Double  Strength,  by  box 
..............dis  90
By  the  light  ........................................dis.  90

Ham m ers

Hinges

Maydole  &  Co.’s  new  list..............dis.  33%
Yerkes  &  Plum b’s ..........................dis.  40&10
M ason’s  Solid  C ast  S t e e l ___30c  list  70

Gate,  Clark’B  1,  2,  3........................dis  60&10

Hollow  W are

P ots................................................................ 50&10
K ettles........................................................... 50&10
Spiders...........................................................50&10
Au  Sable................................... dis.  40&10
Stam ped  Tinware,  new list.................  
70
Japanned  Tinw are....................................50&10

House  Furnishing  Goods

Horse  Nails

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

W ire
B right  M arket  ............................................  60
Annealed  M arket 
......................................  60
Coppered  M arket  .....................................50&10
Tinned  M arket  ........................................ 60&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel 
..........................   40
Barbed  Fence,  Galvanized 
..................2  75
B arbed  Fence,  P ainted 
........................2  45

W ire  Goods

B right..............................................................80-10
Screw  E yes...................................................80-10
H ooks...............................................................80-10
G ate  H ooks  and  E yes.............................. 80-10
B axter’s  A djustable,  Nickeled...............  30
Coe’s  Genuine................................................  40
Coe’s  P a te n t A gricultural, W rought,  70Ibl0

W renches

COUPON  BOOKS

50  books,  any  denom ination 
..........1  56
100  books,  any  denom ination 
.......... 2  50
500  books,  any denom ination  ............11  50
1000  books,  any denom ination  ............20  00
Above  quotations  are  for  eith er  T rad es­
m an.  Superior,  Econom ic  or  U niversal 
grades.  W here  1,000  books  are  ordered 
a t  a  
tim e  custom ers  receive  specially 
printed  cover  w ithout  e x tra   charge.

Coupon  P ass  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
............2  00
1000.  any  one  denom ination  ..............3  00
2000.  any  one  denom ination  ..............  5  00
Steel  punch  ........................................... ... 
75

500,  any  one  denom ination 

C redit  Checks

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M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

three  single  warp 
threads,  which 
gives  an  open  weave  and  the  contrast 
between  it  and  the  close,  firm  weave 
of  the  six  warp  threads  on  each  side 
gives  the  fabric  a  peculiar  look  that 
varies  with  the  direction 
in  which 
the  light  strikes  it.  Every  other  pair 
of  threads  that  divides  the  fabric  into 
stripes  is  red.  As  each  of  the  pair 
of  dividing  threads  occupies  the  cen­
ter  of  the  closely  woven  stripe,  they 
are  thrown  into  greater  prominence 
by  the  contrast.  This  fabric  retails 
at  $1.25  per  yard.

and 

is  50  warp 

Checks— A  very  pleasing  design  in 
browns  and  dark  steel  colors  is  a 
checked  fabric,  54  inches  wide,  which 
retails  at  $1.50  per  yard.  The  con­
struction 
filling 
threads  to  the  inch.  The  filling  is 
blue  and  black  twist  and  black  and 
white  twist,  and  the  warp  is  plain 
black  and  white  twist 
and  white 
printed  in  yellow  and  red.  A  repeat 
of  the  warp  pattern  contains  12  ends 
arranged  as  follows:  two  black  and 
white  twist  ends,  two  solid  black 
threads,  two  threads  printed  in  col­
ors,  two  solid  black 
two 
in  colors  and  two 
threads  printed 
solid  black  ends.  A  repeat  of  the 
filling  pattern  consists  of  12  blue  and 
black  twist  picks  and  one  black  and 
white 
twist  pick.  The  black  and 
white  twist  threads  clearly  define  the 
check  and  the  colored  printed  warp 
threads  add  pin  points  of  color, which 
appear  illusive,  yet  give  an  appear­
ance  of  warmth  to  the  fabric.

threads, 

gray,  blues 

Spotted  Effects— The  display  of 
spotted  effects  in  mohair  is  not  large 
this  season.  One  of  the  noticeable 
designs  in  steel 
and 
browns  has  a  construction  of  50 warp 
threads  and  50  picks  to  the  inch.  The 
fabric  is  46  inches  wide  and  retails 
for  $1.25  per  yard.  The  spots  are 
arranged  in  rows  across  the  fabric. 
Two  rows  constitute  a  repeat  of  the 
pattern.  The  rows  are  about  three- 
quarters  of  an  inch  apart,  and 
the 
spots  in  each  row  are  an  inch  apart. 
The  spots  on  one  row  are  directly 
opposite  the  center  of  the  plain  wov­
en  space  between  the  spots  on  the  ad 
jacent  rows.  Except  in  forming  the 
spots  the  weave  is  plain  or  one  up, 
one  down.  In  forming  the  spots  sev­
en  picks  and  seven  warp  threads  are 
used.  The  first  pick 
in  the  spot 
floats  over  three  warp  threads,  which 
remain  down  for  the  second  pick,  and 
a  warp  thread  on  each  side  is  added, 
making  five  threa ds  over  which  the 
second  pick  floats.  To  the  five  al­
ready  in  the  bottom  of  the  shed  an 
additional  one  on  each  side  is  added; 
the  three  succeeding  picks  float  over 
seven  threads.  The  two  succeeding 
picks,  which  complete  the  spot,  float 
over  the  same  warp  threads  that  the 
first  and  second  picks  do  and  in  the 
same  order.

Cotton  Underwear— The  number of 
reorders  in  most  lines  of  heavy  cot­
ton  underwear  was  very  large  during 
the  week,  but  owing  to  the  smallness 
of  the  sales  individually  the  aggre­
gate  was  nothing  unusual  in  size,  but 
nevertheless  more  than  up  to  expec­
tations.  This  business  helps  to  take 
a  large  amount  of  goods  off  of  the 
market  and  it  also  has  placed  the 
productions  of  several  mills  beyond

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

Mohair  Dress  Goods— The  display 
of  mohair  dress  goods  for  summer 
wear  is  large,  the  retail  price  ranging 
from  $1.25  to $1.75  per  yard.  A  popu­
lar  fabric,  54  inches  wide,  is  a  plain 
weave  with  a  hair-line  effect.  The 
fabric  contains  48  picks  and  the  same 
number  of  warp  threads.  The  ar­
rangement  of  the  warp  threads  is two 
black  and  one  black  and  white  twist 
threads,  which  gives  one  repeat  of 
the  pattern.  The  filling  is  of  black 
and  white  twist.  The  combination 
produces  a  steel  gray 
fabric  with 
broken  white  hair  line  stripes.  The 
pattern  and  construction  are  used 
in  other  colors,  as  pea  green,  blue, 
dark  and  light  browns.  The  goods 
retail  at  $1.50  per  yard.

in 

the  dividing 

Broken  Check 

Effect.— Another 
mohair  fabric,  45  inches  wide,  con­
tains  44  warp  threads  and  50  picks 
to  the  inch.  The  warp  pattern  con­
tains  six  blue  and  one  blue  and  white 
twist  threads  in  a  repeat  and  the  fill­
ing  pattern  is  six  blue  and  black 
twist  and  one  blue  and  white  twist 
threads.  The  combination  gives 
a 
dark  blue  fabric  divided  into  small 
checks,  of  which  the  dividing  lines 
are  broken  at  irregular  intervals  by 
the  white 
twist 
being  covered  by  the  colored  warp or 
filling  threads.  This  fabric  retails  at 
$1.50  per 
yard.  Another  broken 
check  effect  has  a  construction  of  48 
warp  and  the  same  number  of  filling 
threads  to  the  inch.  One  repeat  of 
the  warp  pattern 
eight 
black  and  blue  twist  threads  and  one 
white  cotton  thread  printed  with 
spots  of  yellow,  red  and  black.  The 
filling  pattern  is  the  same  as 
the 
warp  pattern.  Owing  to  the  fabric 
being  printed  in  three  colors  it  has 
the  appearance  of  being  divided  into 
checks  by  separate  threads  of  dif­
ferent  colors  and  when  the  dark  warp 
or  filling  threads  overlay  the  dark 
parts  of  the  printed  threads  the  out­
line  of  the  check  is  broken.  This 
design  is  produced  in  a  bottle  green, 
In both 
and  also  in  a  bronze  brown. 
cases  the  brown 
the 
green 
black 
threads 
twisted  with 
threads  to  get  the  desired 
shade. 
The  retail  price  of  these  patterns  is 
$i-7S  per  yard.

contains 

and 

are 

Stripes— A  pretty  stripe  effect  in 
mohair  dress  goods,  54  inches  wide, 
is  produced  in  dark  green,  bronze 
brown  and  blue.  The  fabric  contains 
the 
50  warp  and  48  filling  threads  to 
inch.  The  stripe  is  formed  by 
17 
warp  threads,  of  which  the  first  two 
are  light  green  drawn  in  on  the  same 
shaft  and  through  the  same  split  of 
the  reed.  The  other  15  ends  are  dark 
green,  and  six  are  drawn  in  in  pairs, 
through  three  splits  of  the  reed;  the 
next  three  are  drawn  in  single,  each 
occupying  a  split  of  the  reed,  and  the 
last  six . are  drawn  in  the  same  as 
the  first  six.  The  effect  is  a  longer 
float  of  the  filling  thread  over  the

Michigan  Paper  Company

of  Plainwell,  Michigan

Sale of  Treasury Stock  to  Erect  New  Building  and  Machinery 

Equipment for Further Enlargement of  the Business.
Some People Know a Good Thing 

Some do Not 

Investigate  and You Will

LIABILITIES

Cash Dividends paid in past 9 months  18 per cent.

At the price  this stock is offered, the new subscribers will not have a ¿»H*.  m0re 

in the business than the  present  stockholders.

You have never had a better opportunity for investment than the above.

J o h n   D .  W a g n e r ,  (Dry Goods,  Capitalist),  President 

J.  I.  B u s h ,  (Capitalist)

DIRECTORS

F r a n k   M.  S t o r m s ,  (Capitalist and Hardware  Merchant)

J o h n   W.  G i l k e y ,  General Manager 

C.  O.  G i l k e y ,  (Capitalist)

G.  E.  D u n b a r ,  (Mining Expert)

E d w a r d  J.  A n d e r s o n ,  (Attorney) 
E.  W.  B o w m a n ,  (Banker)

For Prices and Further Information Address Bowman’s Bank, Kalamazoo.

Capital  S t o c k , ......................................................... $56,100.00
................................................................ 50,157.00
Surplus, 
$106,257.00

-

ASSETS

Building,  Machinery  and  Water  Power, 
Cash  and  Cash  Assets, 

- 

- 

-  $75,000.00
31,257.00
$106,257.00

the  point  of  taking  any  more  orders 
for  heavyweights.  The  feature  of the 
week’s  business  was  the  continued 
interest  shown  in  standard  fleeces at 
$3-37/4  for  14-pound  goods.  A  ma­
jority  of  the  business  done  was 
in 
these  and  substandard  goods, 
but 
there  seems  to  be  a  difference  of opin­
ion  as  regards  the  regularity  of  the 
market  price  of  $3-37j4 .  From  the 
immense  business  that  has  been  done 
in  fleeces  it  would  seem  that  the  top 
price  would  not  be  questioned,  but  it 
is  nevertheless.  The  weakness  that 
has  been  shown  in  women’s  ribbed 
goods  is  disappearing  to  a  certain  ex- 
tt nt  and  during  the  past  few  weeks 
some  very  fair  orders  have  come  for­
ward.  Not  enough  business  has  been 
booked,  however,  to  give  this  end  of 
the  market  much  strength  and  it  does 
not  appear  that  enough  business  can 
be  obtained  before  the  close  of  the 
season  to  put  much  life  into  the  mar­
ket.  The  Treasurer  of  a  Pennsylvan­
ia  mill  turning  out  misses’  and  chil­
dren's  ribbed  goods  said  that  several 
months  ago  the  outlook  was  so  poor 
for  doing  business  without  a 
loss 
that  he  ordered  his  mill  shut  down 
until  business  could  be  done  at 
a 
profit.  His  mill  is  shut  down  at  the 
present  time,  but  it  will  be  started 
again  in  a  week  or  two,  as  he  has 
just  been  able  to  get  orders  that  will 
give  him  some  return  for  his  trouble. 
He  said  that  the  trouble  with  the knit 
goods  business  is  that  manufacturers 
continue  to  operate  their  mills  even 
when  a  loss  is  made  with  every  dozen 
garments  turned  out. 
If  they  would 
only  shut  their  mills  down  for  a  short 
time  and  wait  for  the  market  to  im­
prove  they  would  make  more  money 
in  the  end  and  at  the  same  time  it 
would  give  buyers  the  idea  that  they 
could  not  keep  prices  down  to  the 
lowest  point.  Further  than  this,  the 
Treasurer  stated  that  he  knew  that 
the 
fall 
by  a  large  number  of  underwear  man­
ufacturers  were  so  great  that 
they 
could  not  be  made  up  by  this  time 
and  it  looked  as  though  it  would  take 
a  very  prosperous  spring  business  to 
wipe  out  what  they  lost  months  ago. 
In  women’s  ribbed  goods  at  $1.75 
for  7-pound  goods  there  is  very  little 
money  for  the  knitter,  but  a  large 
business 
that  basis. 
There  is  a  good  deal  of  talk  being 
heard  concerning  the  time  for  open­
ing  the  spring  lines  for  1906,  but  it  is 
probable  that  knitters  will  delay  the 
opening  as  late  as  possible.  At  this 
writing  it  appears  that  spring 
lines 
will  not  be  opened  until  along  into 
the  middle  of  next  month  and  it  may 
be  possible  that  the  opening  can  be 
deferred  until  July. 
It  has  been  the 
usual  thing  to  open  spring  lines  be­
fore  the  first  of  June,  but  under  pres­
ent  conditions  it  will  be  more  profita­
ble  for  the  manufacturer  to  hold  un­
til  July  if  possible.  The  prospects 
for  a  good  business  for  spring  seem 
exceedingly  bright  and  further 
than 
that 
that  knitters 
would  be  able  to  quote  prices  on 
goods  where  a  much  better  margin 
would  be  shown  than  is  the  case  at 
the  present  time.

it  would  seem 

incurred  early 

is  booked  on 

losses 

last 

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

39

Tourist
Caps

Loud  Talk 

Lightning  isn’t  quite  so 
noisy, but it peels  off  more 
bark 
is  all 
right  at  a  pole-raising  or 
camp-meeting, but when  it 
comes  to  business  conversation  the  high  notes 
should  be  cut  out.  When  we  interest  a  mer-
chant  in

Puritan

Corsets

we  assist  him  in  distributing  a  quantity of  Plain 
Talk  advertising  among  his  customers,  which  is 
just  enough  different  from  the  average  corset 
advertising  so  that  it  attracts  attention  and sells 
goods.  From the  minute  your  order  is  received 
by us we take a personal interest in your business 
to  the  extent  of  helping  you 
in  every  way 
possible.

is, 

them 

for  Misses’  and  Ladies 
wear  are  the  big  sellers 
this  spring— fact 
it’s 
the  fad  of the  day.  We 
have 
black, 
white,  brown,  tan,  navy 
and  red  at  $4.50  per 
dozen.  Aside  from  that 
style  we  are  showing 
other  nobby  shapes  for

in 

Children’s,  Misses’  and 
Ladies’  wear  at  $2 00, 
$2  25,  $4.00 and $4.50 per 
dozen.  We  will  gladly 
make  up  a  sample assort­
ment of the  best  sellers  if 
you  say  so.  Order  to­
day  before  the  stock  is 
broken.

Grand
Rapids
Dry
Goods
Co.

Puritan  Corset  Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Exclusively Wholesale

Grand
Rapids
Michigan

40

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

Co m m e r cia l 

Travelers

Michigan  K nights  of  th e   Grip. 

President.  Geo.  H .  Randa..,  B ay  City; 
Secretary,  Chas.  J.  Lewis,  F lin t;  T reas­
u rer,  W .  V.  Gawley,  D etroit.

United  Commercial  T ravelers  of  Michigan 
Grand  Counselor,  L.  W illiams,  De­
tro it;  G rand  Secretary,  W.  F.  Tracy. 
Flint. 
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.
Senior  Counselor,  Thom as  E.  D ryden: 
S ecretary  and  T reasurer,  O.  F.  Jackson.

_______

Penalty  Paid  by  the  Salesman  for 

U ntruthfulness.

In  the  majority  of  stories  which 
are  told  to  instruct  or  entertain  man­
kind,  the  moral  is  sprung  on  the  un­
suspecting  reader  at  the  tail  end. 
If 
the  story  is  well  told  there  should 
be  no  need  of  reducing  the  moral  to 
If 
cold  type;  it  should  be  obvious. 
is 
the  story  is  not  well  told  there 
room  for  question  whether 
it  con­
tains  a  moral.  As  there  may  be  a

On  this  morning  he  was  seated  at 
a  desk  on  which  everything  was  ar­
ranged  in  exact  order.  Except  for 
the  blotter  and  inkwell,  it  might  be 
imagined  that  the  desk  was  new  and 
had  never  been  used  for  business.

Across  the  sliding  leaf  of  the  desk, 
in  a  comfortable  arm  chair,  sits  Mr. 
A.  Raymond  Hunter,  the  star  sales­
man  of  the  Beaming  Eye  Stove  and 
Range  Foundry.  Mr.  Hunter’s  name 
is  Abraham,  but  he  never  alludes  to 
it  if  he  can  at  all  help  it.  He  is  there 
to  sell  Mr.  Powers  stoves.  He  has 
been  there  before.  The  deal  hinges 
on  a  clause  in  the  contract  providing 
that  in  consideration  of  Powers  buy­
ing  a  certain  quantity  of 
stoves 
(about  half  the  concern’s  output  per 
year),  his  firm  is  to  have  the  sole 
sales  rights  both  wholesale  and  retail 
for  the  Beaming  Eye  stoves  in  the 
city  of  Detroit.  The  price  at  which 
the  stoves  are  to  be  put  on  board 
cars  at  the  foundry  of  the  said  stove 
manufacturing  company  is  also  a  mat­
ter  for  determination.  The  crucial 
point,  however,  is  the  matter  of  the

looking  the  other  full  in  the  eyes, 
and  then  said,  as  he  wrote  his  name 
across  the  upper  left-hand  corner  of 
the  paper,  “All  right,  Hunter,  as  you 
please.  Remember,  though,  that  this 
agreement  must  not  be  changed,  and 
must  be  returned  with  the  alterations 
suggested  in  two  days. 
If  it’s  all 
right,  I’ll  sign  it  and  return  it  to  your 
house  at  once.  You  can  then  begin 
the  shipments  as  per  the  schedule 
which  will  be  arranged  by  the  buyer 
in  our  hardware  department.”

“That  will  be  all  right,”  answered 

Hunter.

The  contract  came  back  in  the  late 
mail  next  day  and  Powers  found  it 
on  his  desk  the  following  morning.  It 
was  the  same  copy  that  he  had  mark­
ed  with  his  signature  in  the  corner; 
it  was  signed  with  the  seal  of  the 
Beaming  Eye  Stove  and  Range  Com­
pany,  but  the  offending  word  had 
not  been  stricken  out.

Powers  hardly  read  the  letter which 
accompanied  the  document,  convey­
ing  the  high  appreciation  of  the  Pres­
ident  of  the  stove  concern  at 
the

that  he  did  not  promise  you  the  ex­
clusive  agency.  He  says  that 
you 
asked  for  it,  and  that  you  wanted  to 
make  the  change 
the  contract, 
but  that  he  did  not  agree  to  it.” 

in 

“Would  you  know  the  voice  of  the 
worthy  Raymond  if  you  heard  it?” 
asked  Mr.  Powers.  He  was  holding 
his  anger  in  check.

“I  should  hope  so,”  answered  the 

stove'  President.

“Well,  listen,”  snapped  Powers. 
Touching  a  button,  and  consulting 
a  card  in  a  small  drawer  of  his  desk, 
he  said  to  the  office  boy  who  entered, 
“James,  please  bring  me  the  contents 
ct  drawer  No.  114.”

The  boy  reappeared  in  an  instant, 
bearing  a  small  drawer  containing 
four  cylinders  wrapped 
cotton. 
Taking  out  the  third,  he  opened  what 
was  apparently  a  nest  of  pigeon  holes, 
but  was  in  reality  a  false  panel.  The 
opening  disclosed  a  graphophone.

in 

“I  call  this  my  ‘liar’s  trap,’ ”  Pow­
ers  said,  smiling  grimly.  The  cylin­
der  placed  on  its  mandrel,  a  touch  of 
the  button  at  his  side  started  the

Traveling  Force  of  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.

doubt  as  to  which  of  these  classifica­
tions  the  tale  now  to  be  told  be­
longs,  we  will  change  the  time  hon- 
>red  custom,  and  repeat  the  moral 
irst. 
“ In  selling  a  man 
goods  it  pays  to  be  truthful.”

It  is  this: 

Powers  was  the  general  manager of 
one  of  the  largest  department  stores  | 
east  of  the  Mississippi.  He  was  a  suc­
cessful  man.  He  had  as  a  boy  enter­
ed  the  employ  of  the  importing  house 
.which  was  the  buying  end  of  the 
great  syndicate  of  which  his  store 
was  one  of  the  retailing  emporiums.

In  his  own  mind  he  never  applied  I 
this  name  to  the  enterprise  directly 
under  his  care;  to  him  it  was  merely 
a  store.  This  will  inform  the  reader 
at  once  that  he  was  not  troubled  at  j 
all  with  the  disease  “cephalus  mego- 
litis”— which  is  ordinarily  called  “the  I 
big  head.”

In  his  capacity  as  general  manager 
Powers  ordinarily  came 
in  contact 
with  no  salesmen.  He  had  a  well 
equipped  force  of  buyers,  who  were 
solely  responsible  in  their  respective 
departments.  Occasionally,  however, 
when  there  was  a  buying  deal  of  un­
usual  magnitude  on,  he  consummated 
it  personally  in  his  private  office.

sole  sales  agency.

The  battle  opens:
“Mr.  Hunter,”  begins 

Powers, 
lightly 
wheeling  in  his  chair  and 
touching  one  of  the  buttons  on  his 
desk,  “we  went  all  over  the  ground 
in  the  matter  of  this  contract  in  our 
interview  on  Thursday. 
If  you  will 
agree  that  I  shall  draw  my  pen 
through  the  word  N O T  in  this  clause 
covering  the  exclusive  sales  rights, 
and  if your  people  will  make  the price 
50  per  cent,  discount  from  list  f.  o.  b. 
your  factory,  I  am  ready  to  sign  up 
at  once.”

“All  right,  Mr.  Powers. 

I  have 
been  over  the  ground  so  far  as  thè 
stove  trade  in  this  city  is  concerned 
pretty  thoroughly  since  our  last  talk, 
and  I  guess  we  can  do  no  better  than 
to  accept  your  proposition.”  This 
from  Hunter.

“But  hold  on  a  minute,”  he  broke 
in,  as  Powers,  with 
characteristic 
promptness,  picked  up  a  pen  and  was 
about  to  strike  out  the  word  in  dis­
pute,  “let  me  return  the  paper 
in 
its  present  condition  to  our  people, 
and  let  them  make  the  changes;  the 
pill  will  be  less  bitter  to  swallow.”

Powers  hesitated  just  a  minute,

connection  with  the  great  department 
store,  and  saying  that  the  first  car 
would  go  forward  at  once  on  receipt 
of  the  signed  contract.  He  rang sav­
agely  for  the  stenographer  and  the 
letter  he  gave  her  addressed  to  the 
aforesaid  President  was  of  a  nature 
that  made  the  meek  little  girl  hesi­
tate  several  times.  Apparently  her 
word  signs  were  almost  inadequate 
to  the  task.  After  he  had  somewhat 
relieved  his  mind  he  concluded  by 
begging  to  return,  unsigned,  the  con­
tract  in  question,  and  he  trusted  that 
whenever,  hereafter, 
aforesaid 
stove  concern  were  looking  for  “suck 
ers”  they  would  please  remember  that 
no  fish  of  that  species  were  to  be 
found  in  that  particular  syndicate.

the 

third  day 

This  letter  was  answered  in  person 
by  the  President  of  the  stove  con­
thereafter. 
cern  on  the 
Powers 
the 
card  bearing  the  trade  mark  of  the 
Beaming  Eye  was  laid  on  his  desk 
by  the  office  boy.

flushed  angrily  when 

He  did  not  keep  the  President  wait­
ing.  The  conversation  which  ensued 
was  short,  sharp  and  to  the  point.

“Our  Mr.  Hunter,”  the  President 
began,  “writes  us  from  Indianapolis

mechanism,  and  the  astounded  stove 
official  heard  reproduced  the  entire 
conversation 
taken  place 
between  his  representative,  Abraham 
Raymond  Hunter,  and  Mr.  Power* 
just  a  few  days  previously.

that  had 

It  remains  only  to  add  that  when 
he  left  the  office  a  few  minutes  later 
with  the  signed  contract  in  his  pocket, 
the  offending  word  had  been  stricken 
from  it.  Mr.  Powers  smiled  grimly 
as  he  handed  back  the  cylinder  to 
James  and  closed  his  desk  before 
going  to  lunch.

At  the  telegraph  office  downstairs 
he  passed  the  worthy  President.  The 
latter  did  not  notice  him,  however. 
He  was  too  busy  writing  a  message 
to  one  A.  Raymond  Hunter  at  the 
Stuart  House,  Indianapolis.  He  was 
trying  his  hardest  to  make  the  ten 
words  convey  what  he  felt.  What 
finally  went  out  over  the  wire  were 
the  ten  words  contained  in  the  moral 
quoted  at  the  beginning  of  this  tale. 
And  the  President  afterwards  paid 
an  additional  twenty-five  cents  for an­
other  message  to  the  same  address 
“You 
containing  only  three  words: 
in 
are  discharged.”— J.  W.  Binder 
System. 
,

, 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Gripsack  Brigade.

Coopersville  Observer:  D.  Cleland 
resinned  his  duties  as  traveling  rep­
resentative 
for  the  Ideal  Clothing 
Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Monday,  after 
being  laid  up  all  winter  with  a  dis­
abled  foot  caused  by  a  heavy  trunk 
falling  on  it.

Traverse  City  Eagle:  Bert  Miller 
has  gone  to  Detroit  to  accept  a  posi­
tion  as  traveling  salesman  for  Lam­
bert  &  Lowman  of  that  city,  manu­
facturers  of  druggists’  supplies.  Mr. 
Miller  has  the  State  of  Minnesota  for 
his  territory.  Mrs.  Miller  will  join 
her  husband  later.

Sault  Ste.  Marie  Times:  E.  S. 
Royce  has  accepted  a  position  with 
Franklin  McVeagh  &  Co.,  of  Chica­
go,  as  traveling  salesman.  He  will 
make  the  Soo  his  headquarters  and 
sell  groceries  to  the  trade 
in  this 
part  of  the  country.  Mr.  Royce  is 
one  of  the  old  timers  and  has  a  large 
number  of  friends  in  mercantile  cir­
cles.

At  the  recent  annual  convention  of 
the  Indiana  Division  of  the  Travel­
ers’  Protective  Association,  an  organ­
ization  of  commercial  traveling  men, 
a  representative  of  the  State  Dairy 
Association  called  the  attention  of 
the  convention  to  the  fact  that  on 
many  hotel  tables,  especially  in  small 
towns,  oleomargarine  and  poor  but­
ter  are  commonly  served,  and  sug­
gested  on  behalf  of  the  Association 
that  a  systematic  effort  on  the  part 
of  the  traveling  public  would  do  much 
to  substitute  for  this  class  of  butter 
and  oleomargarine  a  first-class  article 
of  butter.  It  was  proposed  that  when­
ever  a  traveling  man  found  oleomar­
garine  or  poor  butter  he  respectfully 
register  with  the  landlord  his  protest 
and  request  that  good  butter  be  furn­
ished;  that  this  request  frequently re­
peated  by  the  traveling  public  would, 
in  a  great  many  instances,  bring  re­
sults  which  would  be  gratifying  to 
the  traveling  men.

The  Michigan  Shoe  Co.  (Detroit) 
writes  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  Mr. 
J.  B.  Rockwell,  of  Detroit,  and  Mr. 
V.  J.  DeCamp,  of  Leslie,  are  no  long­
er  in  our  employ.  The  territory  cov­
ered  by  these  two  men  has  been  di­
vided  up.  The  larger  part  of  that 
covered-by  Mr.  Rockwell  and  Mr.  De- 
Camp  is  taken  now  by  Mr.  R.  A.  Mc- 
Dougall,  of  North  Branch.  Mr.  Mc- 
Dougall  was  for  a  number  of  years 
with  the  Richardson  Shoe  Co.  and 
was  very  successful  with  them.  For 
the  past  year  he  has  been  at  home, 
having  practically  decided  to  give up 
the  road,  but  the  old  habit  got  the 
better  of  him  and  when  we  made  him 
the  offer,  he  was  glad  to  accept.  He 
has  been  on  the  territory  now  about 
thirty  days  and  is  proving  a  valuable 
addition  to  our  traveling  force.  With 
his  long  years  of  experience  on  the 
road  and  his 
large  acquaintance  in 
the  same  territory  which  he  is  now 
covering,  he  will  doubtless  be  very 
successful.  The  northern  part  of Mr. 
DeCamp’s  territory,  which  is  on  the 
western  side  of  the  State,  is  now 
covered  by  Mr.  Daron,  who  has  taken 
that  in  addition  to  his  other  terri­
tory.

East  Jordan  Enterprise:  A  travel­
ing  man  sat  in  a  Traverse  City  hotel

with  the  remainder  of  the  far  spent 
day  on  his  hands,  and  it  seemed  like 
a  good  time  to  clean  out  the  winter 
accumulation  of  old  papers  from  his 
pockets.  There  were  dozens  of  ex­
change  cards  of  other  traveling  men, 
opera  and  theater  programmes,  billet- 
doux  and  letters 
from  no  matter 
whom,  their  original  perfume  cor­
rupted  with  the  scent  of  tobacco,  giv­
ing  them  a  faded  smell.  Missives  of 
various  sorts  there  were,  each 
of 
which  with  a  cursory  curiosity  and  a 
mental,  “Oh,  yes,  I  remember,”  he 
tore 
into  pieces  and  enjoyed  their 
destruction.  At  last  it  was  complete 
and,  with  a  sense  of  relief,  he  was 
gazing  at  the  wreckage  when  his  eye 
rested  on  some  queer  green  frag­
ments  and  he  became  suddenly  inter­
ested.  He  had  torn  up  and  thrown 
away  a  $10  bill!  Wouldn't  that  break 
a  traveling  man’s  heart?  Some  time 
afterwards  he  spent  crouching  on  the 
floor  gathering  up  the  bits  of  paper 
and  finally  secured  enough  to  stand 
as  a  witness  to  the  United  States 
Government  for  redemption.  After 
all  spring  is  the  proper  time  for  the 
regular  annual  clean-up.

Agitation  in  Behalf  of  a  Public  Mar­

ket.

Marquette,  May  15— The  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Business  Men’s  Association 
was  largely  attended  and  much  enthu­
siasm  was  displayed  in  the  discus­
sion  of  the  question  of  a  market place 
for  farmers. 
It  was  the  unanimous 
opinion  that  the  proposition  possess­
ed  much  merit  and  was  fraught  with 
benefit  to  the  business  welfare  of the 
city.

The  advisability  of  establishing  a 
market  place  has  been  considered  in 
years  past,  but  the  enterprise  has 
never  been  pushed  to  a  successful 
issue.  At  the  meeting  last  night  it 
was  decided  to  take  vigorous  action 
in  furtherance  of  the  project,  and  to 
this  end  a  special  committee  was  ap­
pointed  to  lay  the  proposition  before 
the  Common  Council  at 
the  next 
regular  meeting  of  that  body.  Mayor 
Ward  and 
several  aldermen  were 
present,  and  the  advisability  of  the 
Council  joining  hands  with  the  As­
sociation  in  this  connection  was  dis­
cussed.

Regarding  the  location  for  the  pro­
posed  market  place,  an  available  site 
on  Baraga  avenue  was  favorably  con­
sidered.  This  is  the  Pendill  property, 
opposite  the  South  Shore’s  old  sta­
tion. 
It  is  proposed  to  construct  a 
set  of  platform  scales  and  also  pro­
vide  other  conveniences  for  farmers 
who  make  this  city  a  trading  center. 
A  petition  will  also  be 
circulated 
among  the  business  men  and 
en­
couragement  asked  for  the  enterprise.
There  has  been  and  is  at  the  pres­
ent  time  great  need  for  a  market 
place,  and  there  should  be  a  concerted 
effort  on  the  part  of  all  citizens  to 
aid  in  the  success  of  the  project.  The 
trade  of  the  farming  class  is  impor­
tant  to  Marquette  business  interests, 
and  it  should  be  encouraged  and  fos­
tered.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 
Saginaw'— Clarence  H.  Lowe,  who 
has  been  salesman  and  draper  for the 
Wm.  Barie  Dry  Goods  Co.  for  the

past  three  years,  has  taken  a  position 
with  the  La  Salle  &  Koch  Co.,  of 
Toledo.

for 

Ann  Arbor— Will  Birch, 

the 
past  year  head  clerk  at  Cushing’s 
pharmacy,  has  resigned  his  position, 
having  purchased  a  drug  store,  and 
will  set  up  in  business  for  himself 
in  Detroit.  Ray  Van  Doren  will suc­
ceed  to  his  position  with  Mr.  Cush­
ing.

Evart— Will  F.  Hogg  has  been  pro­
moted  to  the  place  made  vacant  by 
the  resignation  of  E.  W.  Becker with 
the  Birdsall  Hardware  Co. 
Bert 
Lambert,  of  Sears,  has  taken  Mr. 
Hogg’s  place.

Elk  Rapids— Keble  Lewis  has  ac­
cepted  a  position  as  cashier  with  the 
Musselman  Grocery  Co.,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  and  will  assume  the  duties  of 
his  new  position  June  x.  He  has  ten­
dered  his  resignation  to  the  Iron  Co., 
to  take  effect  on  that  day.  His  fam­
ily  will  probably  remove  to  Grand 
Rapids  later.

Howard  City— Frank  Stevens,  who 
is  employed  in  Bishop’s 
furniture 
store,  at  Grand  Rapids, 
spent  Sun­
day  with  friends  here.  After  he gets 
more  experience  in  the  new  line  he 
expects  to  take  a  position  on  the  road 
for  Skinner  &  Steenman.

Olivet— E.  A.  Rodston,  of  Casno- 
via,  is  the  new  man  in  charge  of  the 
Ainger  store.  He  is  a  young  married 
man,  with  several  years’  experience 
in  trade.  Mr.  Lane  will  take  a  little 
vacation  and  time  to  get  his  matters 
settled  up,  and  will  take  charge  of 
the  Lamb  &  Spencer  stock  at  Kala- 
mo  about  June  1.

The  Grain  Market.

There  has  been  a  decided  strength­
ening  in  values  all  along  the  line  the 
past  week.  Cash  wheat  seems  to  be 
scarce  and  held  at  a  strong  premium. 
The  flour  and  grain  trade  have  been 
waiting  for  a  reaction  in  prices,  but 
in  the  meantime  values  have  been 
advancing  rapidly.  May  wheat 
in 
Minneapolis  sold  yesterday  at  $1.20 
per  bushel,  that  market  being  practi­
cally  cornered  on  cash  wheat.  The 
change  in  the  visible  supply  the  past 
week  shows  a  decrease 
in  wheat 
stocks  of  2,105,000  bushels;  decrease 
in  corn,  2,301,000  bushels,  and  oats,
2.151.000  bushels.  This  places  our 
present  visible  supply  at  24,170.000 
bushels,  as  compared  with  28,038,000 
bushels  at  the  same  time  last  year 
for  wheat,  and  6,000,000  bushels  of 
corn,  which  is  practically  the  same:
10.653.000  bushels  of  oats,  or  3,600,000 
bushels  more  than  last  year.  While 
cash  wheat  and  the  near-by  option 
seem  to  be  excited  and  the  advance  is 
almost  sensational,  there  is  no  mate­
rial  change  in  the  condition  of  the 
growing  crop.  Some  sections  of  the 
country  report  damage  from  excess 
moisture  and  rust,  but  nothing  of  a 
serious  nature. 
From  the  present 
outlook  there  will  be  plenty  of  wheat 
by  September  to  satisfy  all  calls.

The  corn  market  is  very  strong. 
We  have  had  an  advance  of  3@5c 
per  bushel  in  cash  corn  the  past week. 
Wet  weather  will  delay  planting  and 
has  brought  about  a  decided  bullish 
feeling.  Deliveries  from  farmers  are 
light,  and  there  seems  to  be  an  in­

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the  part  of  elevator 
clination  on 
men  to  hold  back  what  little  surplus 
they  may  have  in  store.

The  oats  market  is  steady  and  a 
half  cent  higher,  in  sympathy  with 
other  grains.  The  growing  crop  is 
doing  finely  and  the  movement  from 
farmers  is  sufficient  to  care  for  all 
demands. 

L.  Fred  Peabody.

Merchants’  Daily  Excursion  to  Grand 

Rapids.

The  Wholesalers  Committee  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Trade  report 
that  much  interest  is  being  manifest­
ed  in  the  half  fare  trade  excursions 
and  that  every  day  a  goodly  number 
of  merchants  present 
their  certifi­
cates  at  the  Board  of  Trade  office,  89 
Pearl  street,  showing  that  the  requi­
site  amount  of  goods  were  purchased 
to  entitle  them  to  one-half  their  rail­
road  fare  being  returned  to  them  in 
cash.

This  plan  is  a  saving  to  merchants 
that  is  not  offered  by  any  other  job­
bing  city.  A  trade  excursion,  good 
every  day  in  the  year,  is  something 
worth  while  and  the  more  buyers that 
take  advantage  of  it  the  better  the 
jobbing  merchants  and  the  Board  of 
Trade  officers  are  pleased.

The  list  of  wholesalers  co-operating 
appears  on  another  page,  and  any  in 
the  city  not  represented  are  invited 
to  see  the  Board  of  Trade  and  have 
their  business  and  firm  name  added 
to  the  list  if  desired.  Only  jobbers 
with  travelers  are  eligible  to  the  plan.

the 

secured 

Detroit— C.  P.  Spicer,  of  the  De­
troit  Trust  Co.,  announces  that  the 
Trust  Company  has  qualified  as 
trustee 
in  the  bankruptcy  case  of 
William  Reid,  now  pending  before 
Referee  in  Bankruptcy  H.  P.  Davock. 
The  schedule  filed  by  Mr.  Reid’s  at­
torney  shows 
claims 
against  him  to  be  $378,000;  unsecured 
claims  $175,000,  and  contingent  liabil­
ity  as  indorser  on  paper  the  maker 
should  pay,  $41,500,  making  the  total 
schedule 
liabilities  $594.500. 
states  that  Mr.  Reid  holds 
about 
4,700  shares  of  stock  in  the  William 
Reid  Co.,  and  2,200  shares  in 
the 
Reid  Manufacturing  Co.,  all  of  which 
is  said  in  the  schedule  to  be  pledged 
as  collateral  for  obligations  included 
in  the  secured  creditors.  Mr.  Reid’s 
assets  are  given  as  $221,000,  consist­
ing  mostly  of  real  estate  and  life  in­
surance.

The 

The  Holland  Interurban-Graham  & 
Morton  passenger  service  from Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago 
unequaled. 
“Steamboat  Flyer”  leaves  daily  8 p. m.

is 

LIVINGSTON

HOTEL

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

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.

GRAND  RAPaDS,  MICH.

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

Michigan  Board  of  Pharm acy. 
P resident—H arry   Heim ,  Saginaw. 
Secretary—A rth u r  H .  W ehher,  Cadillac. 
T reasurer—J.  D.  Muir,  G rand  Rapids. 
Sid  A.  E rw in,  B attle  Creek.
W .  E .  Collins,  Owosso.
M eetings  for  1905—S tar  Island,  June  26 
and  27;  H oughton,  Aug.  16,  17  and  18; 
G rand  Rapids,  Nov.  7,  8  and  9.
Michigan  S tate  Pharm aceutical  Associa­

tion.

president-—W .  A.  H all,  D etroit.
Vice  P residents—W .  C.  K irchgessner, 
D etroit;  C harles  P.  B aker,  St.  Johns;  H. 
G.  Spring,  Unionville.

Secretary—W.  H .  Burke,  D etroit. 
T reasurer—E.  E.  Russell,  Jackson. 
Executive  Com m ittee—John  D.  Muir, 
G rand  R apids;  E.  E.  Calkins,  A nn  A rbor; 
L.  a .  Seitzer,  D etroit;  John  W allace,  K al­
am azoo;  D.  S.  H allett,  D etroit.
three-y ear 
term —J.  M.  Lemen,  Shepherd,  and  H. 
Dolson.  St.  Charles.

T rade  In terest  Com m ittee, 

Seasonable  Window  Displays.
For  house-cleaning  time,  an  Indiana 
druggist  colored  a  peck  of  sawdust 
with  green  dye,  spread  it  over  the 
bottom  of  the  window,  to  represent 
grass,  made  a  two-inch  wide  ditch 
winding  across,  and  filled  it  with  sand 
to  represent  a  road;  put  up  a  minia­
ture  rail  fence  of  short  sticks,  placed 
a  farm  house  and  barn  on  a  slight 
elevation,  with  walks,  shrubbery, etc 
A  guide  board  at  a  turn  in  the  road 
completed  the  view.  Draped  at  the 
rear  were  samples  of  wall  paper.  On 
the  barn  was  painted  a  wall  paper 
advertisement.

A  Brooklyn  druggist  made 

a 
ground  of  white  powder  with  a 
mound  on  one  side  and  a  lake,  form­
ed  of  a  small  piece  of  mirror,  on  the 
other.  A  miniature  railroad 
train 
stood  on  the  track  before  a  station,  j 
A  few  houses  suggested  a  suburban 
district.  On  a  pole  was  this  sign: 
“Boraxville;  pound  shares  for 
sale 
at  fifteen  cents  each.”

A  Philadelphia  druggist  took  small 
strips  of  board  and  painted  half  of 
each  with  a  different  kind  of  paint. 
Near  each  board  stood  a  can  of  the 
paint  used.  A  fine  display  of  paint 
brushes  filled  the  back  of  the  window 
and  small  price  cards  were  scattered 
around.

For  insecticides,  etc.,  arrange  moth 
balls,  camphor,  sulphur  candles,  bug 
powders,  roach  powders  and  the  im­
plements  to  apply  each.  Place  a  neat 
price  list  over  the  display.

Place  a 

large  “Morgue”  sign 

in 
front,  near  the  middle  of  your  win­
dow.  Place  bottles  and  packages  in 
front,  with  price  cards.  Behind,  on 
a  small  platform,  place 
images  of 
bugs  and  insects  on  their  backs,  and 
such  signs  as  these  near  each:  “Mr. 
Cockroach;  address,  Our  Kitchen;” 
“ Mr.  Bedbug;  address,  Our  Bed­
stead,”  etc.

For  spring 

tonics,  put  up 

easily  portable, 

two 
posts,  of  2x4,  each  standing  on 
a 
base.  Nail  boards  across,  making the 
whole  thing 
and 
about  three  by  four  feet  in  size.  Tack 
on  one  corner  a  sign:  “Post  No  Bills,” 
and  then  go  ahead  and  post  some, 
like  this: 
“It  makes  you  feel  good 
this  Spring  Tonic  of  Jones’.”  Pile 
around  some  of  the  tonic— the  more

the  better.  The  billboard  may  be 
used  in  other  displays.

it 

Stock  food  may  be  shown  under 
groups  and  signs,  tastefully  arranged. 
A  good  birdseed  display 
is  made 
by  taking  a  quantity  of  moss  with 
earth  attached,  sprinkling 
freely 
with  seed  and  setting 
it  aside  to 
sprout.  When  the  blades  have  as­
sumed  a  fair  size  sod  part  of  the  win­
dow  with  them  and  pile  boxes  of 
seed  in  the  remainder.  The  sign  is: 
“ It’s  easy  to  raise,  but  foolish  to 
gather  it  when  we  sell  it  for  ioc  a 
box.”

Formula  for  Making  Quinine  Pills.
No  difficulty  is  found  in  massing 
quinine  with  the  usual  liquid 
exci­
pients,  glucose,  glycerin,  glyceride of 
starch  or  tragacanth,  etc.,  all  giving 
a  plastic  and  adhesive  mass. 
If  a 
white  pill  is  desired,  only  a  white  or 
colorless  excipient  may  be  used  and 
the  most  scrupulous 
cleanliness  ob­
served,  both  with  the  hands  and  uten­
sils.  Even  then  a  very  free  use  of 
starch  as  a  dusting  powder  is  usually 
necessary.  Great  care  should  be  used 
in  working  in  a  minimum  quantity 
of  excipient,  otherwise  the  pills  will 
be  too  soft.

The  use  of  acids  as  excipients  for 
these  has  often  been  suggested, 
the 
purpose  being  to  obtain  smaller  pills. 
Tartaric  acid,  in  the  proportion  of one 
|  grain  to  six  to  ten  grains  of  the  qui­
nine,  citric  acid  in  about  the  same 
lactic  acid,  dilute  sul­
proportions, 
phuric  and  other  mineral  acids 
in 
quantities  sufficient  to  mass,  are  us­
ually  recommended.  These  all  make 
a  mass  which  is  very  plastic  and  easy 
to  work  at  first,  but  which  loses  its 
plasticity  very  rapidly  and  becomes 
hard  and 
that  rapid 
work  is  required  both  in  massing and 
rolling. 

immobile,  so 

J.  Morley.

The  Study  of  Materia  Medica.
I  think  it  can  be  truly  said  that,  as 
a  rule,  the  most  serious  gap  that  is 
left  in  a  modern  medical  education 
is  the  insufficient  knowledge  gained 
by  medical  students  of  such  an  im­
portant  subject  as  materia  medica.  It 
stems  most  deplorable  to  think  of  it, 
but  there  are  instances  where  classes 
have  graduated  from  supposedly first- 
class  medical  colleges  without  hav­
ing  received  any  course  in  materia 
medica  at  all.  One  case  in  particu­
lar  that  I  know  of  came  about  by  a 
change  which  resulted  in  the  inclu­
sion  of  the  study  of  materia  medica 
instead  of  the 
in  the  second  year 
third,  where  it  had  been  given. 
In 
this  way  the  class  which  had  finished 
the  second  year’s  work  and  continued 
with  the  third  received  no  instruc 
tion  in  this  subject  at  all.  Consider­
ing  the  poor  courses  generally  given 
in  this  subject,  I  think  that  often  the 
best  reason  why  so  many  doctors 
do  not  get  good  results  is  because 
they  do  not  understand  their  drugs 
well  enough.

Attilio  S.  Muscante,  Ph.  G.

It  may  be  a  greater  thing  to  lift 
up  another’s  heart  than  it  would  be 
to  carry  his  load.

True  patriotism  never  thinks  of  the 

premiums.

To  Remove  Tattoo  Marks.

for 

There 

removing 

is  no  entirely  satisfactory 
method  of  removing  tattoo  marks 
and  other  marks  due  to  the  deposit 
of  insoluble  color  substances  in  the 
skin.  The  principle  of  almost  all  of 
the  methods 
these 
marks  is  to  cause  their  destruction 
either  by  mechanical  means  or  by 
inflammatory 
the  production  of  an 
process  which  causes  a 
superficial 
eschar.  Small  marks  can  be  removed 
by  excision  or  by  electrolysis. 
In re­
moving  them  by  electrolysis  the  nee­
dle  attached  to  the  negative  pole  is 
inserted  parallel  to  the  surface  of  the 
skin  into  the  mark  and  a  current  of 
from  five  to  eight  milliamperes  (five 
to  ten  small  bichromate  cells)  is  pass­
ed  through  the  needle.  Several  such 
punctures  are  made  parallel  to  each 
other  until  the  surface  is  blanched. 
Usually  it  is  not  necessary  to  allow 
the  current  to  pass  for  more  than 
twenty  to  thirty  seconds  for 
each 
puncture. 
In  this  way  a  superficial 
eschar  is  formed  which  will  drop  off 
in  the  course  of  a  week  and  will 
leave  a  white  superficial  scar.  Of 
course,  neither  this  method  nor  ex­
cision  is  satisfactory  for  large  marks. 
For  all  but  the  smallest  marks  the 
method  of  treatment  is  to  produce  a 
violent  inflammatory  reaction  and  a 
superficial  eschar  by  the  use  of  a 
chemical.  Various  methods  of  doing 
this  have  been  suggested.  Perhaps 
the  best  of  these  is  Variot’s,  which 
as  follows:  First,  place  on  the 
tattoo  mark  a  strong  solution  of 
tannin  and  tattoo  this  into  the  sur­
face.  Then  the  surface  is  rubbed  vig­
orously  with  a  nitrate  of  silver  stick 
until  the  area  becomes  black  from 
the  formation  of  a  silver  tannate  in 
and  on  the  skin. 
In  the  course  of 
the  next  two  or  three  days  there  is a 
moderate  inflammatory  process  and a 
close  adherent  crust  forms.  Ordi­
narily  there  is  not  much  pain,  and 
after  the  third  or  fourth  day  this  al­
most  disappears,  except  on  motion 
of  the  parts,  unless  secondary  infec­
tion  should  occur.  After  about  two 
weeks  the  crust  comes  away,  leav­
ing  a  superficial,  pink  cicatrix,  which 
gradually  becomes  of  normal  color. 
After  about  two  months  the  scar  is 
hardly  noticeable.  Tt  may  be  neces­
sary  to  repeat  the  treatment  when  it 
has  not  been  vigorous  enough.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  weak  but  unchanged  in 

price.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— Manufacturers  have  again 
reduced  their  prices  ic  per  ounce  on 
account  of  higher  price  for  bark  at 
the  last  bark  sale.

Cod  Liver  Oil,  Norwegian— Has 
again  declined  and  is  tending  higher.
American  Saffron— On  account  of 
arrival  of  large  stocks  the  price  has 
been  reduced.

Gum  Camphor— Is  weak  on  ac­
count  of  competition  of  Japanese 
refined.  Prices  are  tending  higher.

Acetanilid  Good  for  Toothache  and 

Chills.

Nine  times  out  of  ten  you  can  re­
lieve  a  jumping  toothache  by  clean-

ing  out  the  cavity  and  packing  it with 
acetanilid.

Try  this  combination  to  head  off 
chills:  Acetanilid,  one  part;  capsi­
cum,  two;  quinine,  three.  Give  five 
or  ten  grains  of  this  mixture  four 
hours  before  the  chill 
is  due,  and 
follow  it  up  with  two  to  four-grain 
doses  every  hour  for  three  doses.

Base  Ball  Supplies

Croquet

Marbles,  Hammocks,  Etc.

Grand  Rapids  Stationery  Co. 

29  N.  Ionia  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

I

Specials

Dorothy  Vernon 

Sweet  Alsatian  Roses 

Kent  Violets 

Sweet  Arbutus

Harvard  Carnation 
Pink  Apple  Blossoms

Our  Inducement 

is  Quality

Which  Always  Brings 

Your Customers 
B a ck   for  M ore

You will make no mistake  if you  reserve your 

orders  for

Hammocks 

Fishing  Tackle 

Base  Ball  Supplies 
Fireworks  and  Flags
Our lines are complete  and  prices  right.
The  boys will  call'in  ample time. 

FRED  BRUNDAGE
Wholesale  Druggist 

Stationery  and  School  Supplies 

32-34 Western Ave.,  Muskegon,  Mich.

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—
Declined—Quinine,  Cod  Liver  Oil,  Saffron.

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

8 0
700

24
Sii
111
I 81
14(
141

Baccae
.......... 

11
3 00
66
40
15
3
76
7

Balsamum
......................  

26«|
42©
8®
s â
10©
42©
1 * 0
75®
380

Acldum
Acetloum 
............
Benzoicum,  G e r..
Boraclc 
................
Carbolicum  
........
C itricum .................
........
H ydrochlor 
N itrocum  
..........
............
Oxalicum 
Phosphorium ,  dii.
Salley Ileum 
........
. . . .
Sulphuricum  
Tannlcum   ............
T artaricum  
........
Ammonia
Aqua,  18  deg  . . .  
Aqua,  20  deg  . . .
l a
Carbonas 
............
ISO
Chloridum  ............
120
Aniline
Black 
................. 3  0009
Brown 
..................   8001
Red 
.........................  45$
Yellow 
................. 3  5001
Cubebae  . .  .po.  30  150
Juniperus 
  6 0
X anthoxylum  
. . .   300
Copaiba  ................   450
P eru 
0 1
Terabin,  C anada.  600
T olutan  ...................  150
Cortex 
Abies,  C an ad ian ..
Casslae 
................
Cinchona  F la v a .. 
Buonym us  a tr o ..
M yrica  C erifera.. 
Prunus  V irglnl  .. 
Quillaia.  g r'd   . . . .  
S assafras 
. .po 35
Ulmus 
..................
Extractum
G lycyrrhiza  G la..
G lycyrrhtza,  p o ..
H a e m a to x ............
H aem atox,  Is  . . .
H aem atox,  Vie  ..
H aem atox,  V¿s  ..
Ferru
C arbonate  Preclp.
C itrate  and Qulria
C itrate  Soluble  ..
Ferrocyanidum   S.
Solut.  Chloride  ..
Sulphate,  com ’l  .. 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl.  per  cw t  ..
Sulphate,  pure  ..
Flora
..................
Arnica 
............
A nthem ls 
M atricaria 
..........
Folia
B arosm a  ..............
Cassia  Acutifol,
. . . .
Cassia,  A cutifol.. 
Salvia  officinalis.
..
Uva  U r s i ..............
Gumml
Acacia,  1st  p k d ..
0   45 
Acacia,  2nd  p k d .. 
0   36
Acacia,  3rd  p k d .. 
0   38
Acacia,  sifted  sts. 
Acacia,  po  ..........   450  65
Aloe,  B a r b ..........   12 0   14
Aloe,  C a p e ..........  
0   35
0   45
Aloe,  Socotrl  . . . .  
Ammoniac 
...........  550  60
. . . . . .   350  40
A safoetida 
B en z o in u m ..........   500  56
. . . .  
C atechu,  Is 
0   18
C atechu,  V4»  . . . .  
0   14
0   16
. . . .  
C atechu, 
Cam phorae 
..........  81 @  85
Euphorbium  
. . . .  
0   40
G a lb a n u m ............  
0 1   00
G am b o g e___p o ..l  2501  85
0   85
G uaiacum   . .po 35 
K in o .......... po  46o 
0   45
M astic 
..................  
0   60
M yrrh 
........ po 50 
0   45
Opil............................ 3  1503 25
..................  400  60
Shellac 
Shellac,  bleached  450  50
........   7001  00
T ragacanth 
35
A bsinthium   os pk 
Eupatorium   os pk 
30
Lobelia 
. ...o z p k  
35
M ajorum  
..o z p k  
38
38
M entha  P ip oz pk 
26
M entha  Ver oz pk 
Rue  .............. oz pk 
39
T anacetum   V  . . .  
83
36
Thym us  V  oz pk 
M agnesia
Calcined.  P a t 
. .   660  60 
C arbonate,  P a t  ..  180  20
C arbonate  K -M .  130  30
...........  180  30
C arbonate 
Oleum
Absinthium  
.........4  9005  00
Amygdalae,  Dulc.  60 0   60 
Amygdalae  A m a.S  000 8  35
Anisi 
......................1  4501  50
A uranti  C ortex  .3  3002  40
B e rg a m ii................3  8508 35
Cajiputl  ................   860  10
Caryophilli  ..........   80@  85
Cedar 
....................   500  90
.........3  7504  00
Chenopadii 
Clnnam oni 
...........1  0001  10
C itronella...............   600  65
. . .   800  90
Conium  Mac 
Copaiba 
.1  1601  35 
.1  3001  M
Cubebae

11
150
320 26
300 85
300 S3
20
150
350 30

Vis  and  Vie 

30
130
80 10

Tm nevelly 

H erba

E vechthitos  ___ 1  0001  10
®r,*®«>n  ...............i   0001  10
G aultheria 
...........2  2502  35
Geranium  
. . . .  oz 
75
Gossippli  Sem  gal  50@  60
H edeom a 
........... 1  4001  50
Junipera  ..............  4001  20
..........   9002  75
Lavendula 
Llm onis  ................  9001  10
..3   7504  00 
M entha  P iper 
M entha  Verid  ...5   0005  60 
M orrhuae  gal. 
.. 1   250 1  50
M yrcia  ...................3  0003  50
Oily« 
....................  7503  00
Picis  Liquida  . . .  
10©  12
0   35
Plcis  Liquida  aral 
g icin a 
..................  92©  96
Rosmarin! 
..........  
@1  00
Rosae  oz 
...........5  0006  00
S u c c ln l..................  400  45
Sabina 
..................  9001  00
S antal  ....................2  25 
Sassafras 
............   90
Sinapis,  ess.  oz...
Tigltl 
.....................1  10
Thym e  ..................  40
Thym e,  opt  ........  
1
Theobrom as 
. . . .  
15 
Potassium

"

. . .  

........  13© 

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

®
10®0
I
15®
1 2 0

Bi-C arb  ................  15©  u
B ichrom ate 
15
Bromide 
..............  25®  30
Garb 
12®  15
Chlorate 
........po.  12©  14
Cyanide 
..............  34®  38
Bälde 
.....................3  600 3 65
Potassa,  B itart pr 
SO® 32
P otass  N ltras  opt 
7 0
10
P otass  N itras  . ..
60
8
P russiate 
. . . . . .
23#
26
Sulphate  po 
. . . .
15#
18
R a d ix
Aconitum 
..........   200  25
A lthae 
..................  300  33
..............  100  12
A nchusa 
Arum   po  .............. 
@  25
Calam us 
..............  200  40
G entiana  po  15..  120  15 
Glychrrhlzn  pv  15  16®  18 
H ydrastis,  C anada. 
1  90 
0 2   00 
H ydrastis,  Can.po 
Hellebore.  Alba.  120  15
Inula,  po 
............ 
18©  22
Ipecac,  po................2 0002 10
............  350  40
Iris  plox 
Jalapa,  p r  ..........  250  30
M aranta.  14s 
0   35
Podophyllum  po.  150  18
Rhei 
......................  7501  00
Rhei,  cut 
...........1  0001 25
Rhei,  pv 
............   7501  00
................  30®  35
Spigella 
Sanguinari,  po 24 
0   22
Serpentaria 
........   50®  65
Senega 
................  85®  90
Smilax,  offl’s  H
Smilax,  M  ........
Scillae  po  3 5 ... 
Sym ploearpus  ..
V aleriana  E ng  .
V aleriana,  Ger  .
Zingiber  a   ........
Zingiber  J ..........
Semen
0   16
Anisum  po.  2 0 ... 
Apium  (gravel’s).  13®  15
Bird,  I s ................ 
4 0  
6
. . . .   10®  11
Carui  po  15 
C a rd a m o n ............  700  90
Coriandrum  
. . . .   12®  14 
7
Cannabis  Satlva. 
Cydonium  ............  7501  00
. ..   250  30 
Chenopodlum 
D ipterlx  Odorate.  8001  00
Foenlculum 
........  
0   18
9
7 0  
Foenugreek,  p o .. 
Lint  ........................ 
4 0  
6
3 0  
Lint,  grd.  bbl.  2% 
6
L o b e lia ..................  76©  80
9 0   10
P harlarls  C ana'n 
60 
R apa  ...................... 
6
Sinapis  Alba  . . . .  
7 0  
9
Sinapis  N igra  . . .  
9®  10
Spiritus
Frum entl  W   D ..2   6002  56
Frum entl 
............ 1  2501  50
Junlperis  Co  O  T .l  6502  00 
Junlperls  Co  . ...1   7503  50 
Saccnarum   N   B .l  9002  10 
..1  7506  50
Spt  Vlni  Galli 
Vinl  Oporto  ___ 1  2502  00
V ina  Alba 
...........1  2502  00
Florida  Sheeps’  wl
c a r r ia g e ............3  00 0  3  50
N assau  sheeps’  wl
c a r r ia g e ............3  50 0  3  75
Velvet  ex tra  shps’ 
wool,  carriage  .
@2  00 
E x tra  yellow  shps’ 
0 1   25
wool  carriag e..
G rass  sheeps’  wl,
11  25 
carriage  ...........
)1  00
H ard,  slate use  ..
Yellow  Reef,  for
0 1   49
slate  use...........
Syrups
A cacia 
..................
A uranti  Cortex  ..
Z in g ib e r................
Ipecac  ....................
F erri  Iod  ............
Rhei  A ro m ..........
Sm ilax  Offl’s 
. . .
Senega 
................
S c illa e ....................
..........
Scillae  Co 
T olutan 
..............
P runus  virg 
. . .

Sponges

6® 

 

Tinctures
Acgnitum   N ap’sR 
A<:onitum  N ap’sF  
Aloes 
.................... 
A ttic a   ...........  
Aloes  &  M yrrh  .. 
A safoetida  ..........  
Atrppe  Belladonna 
A uranti  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 
F erri  Chloridum . 
G entian 
.............. 
G entian  Co. 
. . . .  
Gulaca  .................. 
Gulaca  ammon  .. 
Hyoscyam us  ___ 
Iodine 
.................. 
Iodine,  colorless.. 
Kino 
.................... 
Lobelia  .................  
M y r r h .................... 
N ux V o m ic a ........  
Opil  ........................ 
Opil,  cam phorated 
Opil,  deodorized.. 
Quassia  ................ 
.............. 
R hatany 
Rhei 
...................... 
Sanguinaria 
........ 
S erpentaria 
........  
Strom onium  
. . . .  
T olutan  ................ 
V alerian 
.............. 
V eratrum   Veride. 
Zingiber 
.............. 

60
50
go
50
60
50
60
50
60
50
50
75
50
75
75
1  00
50
50
60
50
50
50
50
50
50
35
50
60
50
60
60
75
75
50
50
50
50
75
50
1  50
50
50
50
50
50
60
66;-j
50
50
20

Miscellaneous

Aether,  Spts N it 3f 30®  35  | 
Aether,  Spts N it 4f 340  38 
4  I
Alumen,  grd po 7 
3® 
A n n a tto ................  40®  50  j
Antimoni,  po  . . . .  
5
4® 
Antim oni  e t  po  T   40®  50
A ntipyrln  .............  
@  25
.........  
A ntifebrin 
0   20
A rgentl  N ltras  oz 
®  48
Arsenicum 
..........  10®  12
Balm  Gilead  buds  60®  65 
..2   6002  85 
Bism uth  S  N 
0  
Calcium  Chlor,  Is 
9
#   10
Calcium  Chlor, %s 
Calcium  Chlor V4s 
0   12
# 1   75
Cantharide3,  Rus. 
©  20 
Capsicl  F ruc’s  af 
Capslci  F ruc’s po 
0   22 
Cap’l  F ruc’s B po 
®  15
Carophyllus  ___  20#  22
Carmine,  No.  40..  0 4   25
Cera  A lb a ............   500  55
Cera  Flava  ........  40®  42
Crocus 
................1  7501  80
Cassia  F ru ctu s  .. 
0   35
C entrarla 
0   10
............  
Cataceum   ............   @  35
Chloroform 
........  35®  45
Chloro’m,  Squihbs 
0   95 
Chloral  H yd  C rst 1  3501  60
Chondrus  .............   200  25
Cinchonidlne  P -W   38®  48 
Clnchonld’e  Germ  38®  4 8 1
.................4  05 0  4  25
Cocaine 
75
Corks  list  d  p  ct. 
Creosotum 
®  45
.......... 
C r e ta ..........bbl  75 
© 
2
5
0  
Creta,  prep  ........  
Creta,  preeip 
. . .  
9®  11
#  
Creta.  R ubra  . . .  
8
...................1  6001  70
Crocus 
Cudbear 
.............. 
0   24
Cupr!  Sulph 
8
. . . .  
6® 
D extrine 
7 0   10
.............. 
Em ery,  all  N os.. 
© 
8
Em ery,  po 
. . . .  
0  
6
E rgota 
....p o . 65  60©  65
E th er  Sulph  ___  70®  80
Flake  W hite  ___  12®  15  I
@  23
.................... 
Oalla 
.............. 
Gambler 
9
8® 
Gelatin,  Cooper  . 
@ 6 0
Gelatin,  French  .  350  60 
Glassware,  fit  box 
" 
75
70
Less  th a n   box 
Glue,  brown  . . . .   11®  13
Glue,  w h i t e ........   15®  25
Glycerina 
...........   15©  20
G rana  Paradis!  .. 
0   25
.............   35©  60  i
H um ulus 
H ydrarg  Ch  M t. 
0   95 
0   90 
H ydrarg  Ch  Cor 
H ydrarg Ox R u’m 
0 1   05
©1  15
H ydrarg  Ammo’l 
H ydrarg  TJngue’m  50®  60 
H ydrargyrum  
.. 
0   76
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  9001  00 |
Indigo 
..................  7501  00
Iodine,  Resubl  . .4  8504  90
Iodoform 
..............4  9005  00
Lupulin  ................ 
®  40
Lycopodium...........1  1501  20
M ade  ....................  66®  76
Liquor  A rsen  et 
@  26  I
H ydrarg  Iod  .. 
Llq  P otass  A rsinit  10®  12 
M agnesia,  Sulph. 
2® 
3
Magnesia,  Sulph bbl.  0   1%

.. 

M annia.  S  F ___   45®  59
M enthol 
..............2  4002  60
Morphia,  S P  & W2 3502 46 
M orphia,  S N  Y Q2 350 2 66 
Morphia,  Mai. 
..2   3502  60 
0   46 
M oschus  C anton. 
I  M yristica,  No.  1.  28®  30 
N ux Vomica po 15 
©  16
Os  S e p ia ..............   25©  33
Pepsin  Saac,  H   &
P   D C o .............. 
®1  66
Picis  Llq  N   N   H
©2  66
gal d o z .............. 
0 1  66
Picis  Liq  qts  . . . .  
®  60 
Picis  Liq.  pin ts. 
©  50
Pil  H ydrarg  po 80 
©  18
Piper N igra  po  22 
P iper  Alba  po  35 
©  30
P ix  B u r g u n ........  
® 
7
Plum b!  A cet  . . . .   12©  15
Pulvis  Ip’c  et  O plil 3001 50 
P yrethrum ,  bxs H
0   76 
&  P   D  Co.  doz. 
P yrethrum ,  pv  ..  20®  25
Q uassiae  .............. 
3©  10
Q uina,  S  P   &  W .  22@  32
Q uina,  S  Ger.......... 22®  32
Q uina,  N .  Y ............. 22®  32
R ubia  Tinctorum   12®  14 
Saccharum   L a’s.  22®  25
Salacin 
............... 4  5004  75
Sanguis  D rac’s  ..  40®  50
Sapo,  W  
............   12#  14

10®
204

DeVoes 

.......1V&® 
3® 
..........  3 %® 
0  

Sapo,  M ............ .
Sapo,  G ..............
Seidlitz  M ixture.
Sinapis 
0   18
................  
Sinapis,  o p t ........  
©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,
®  51
............  
®  61
Snuff,  S’h  DeVo’s 
Soda,  B o r a s ........  
9®  11
9®  11
Soda,  Boras,  po. 
Soda  et  P o t’s  T a rt  25®  28
Soda,  C arb 
2
5
Soda,  B i-C arb  .. 
Soda,  Ash 
4
Soda,  Sulphas 
.. 
2
..  ©2  60
Spts,  Cologne 
Spts,  E th er  C o ..  50®  55
0 2   00 
Spts,  M yrcia  Dom 
Spts,  Vinl  R ect bbl 
0  
Spts.  Vi’i R ect  %b 
® 
Spts,  Vi’i R’t  10 gl 
0  
Spts,  Vi’i R ’t  6 gal 
0  
Strychnia,  C rystall  0501 25
Sulphur  Subi  . . . . 2%®
4
Sulphur,  Roll  . .. 2V40 3V4
T am arinds 
..........
8 0
10
Terebenth  Venice
30
280
T h e o b ro m ae ........
450
50
V anilla 
............... 9  00®
Zinci  Sulph  ........  
7©

W hale,  w inter

bbl  gal 
70®  70

P aints 

43
Lard,  ex tra  ___  70®  80
Lard,  No.  1........   60®  65
Linseed,  pure  raw  47®  50 
Linseed,  boiled  ..  48®  51 
N eat’s-foot,  w s tr   66®  70 
Spts.  T urpentine.  61®  66
bbl  L 
Red  V enetian  ...1 %   2  @3 
Ochre,  yel  M ars .1%  2  ©4 
Ochre,  yel  Ber  ..1%   2  ®3 
P utty,  com m er’1.2%  2V403 
P utty,  strictly   pr2V4  2% 0 3  
Vermilion,  Prim e
........   13©  15
Vermilion,  E n g ...  75®  80
Green,  P aris 
.........14®  18
Green,  Peninsular  13®  16
Lead,  red 
7
Lead,  w hite 
7
W hiting,  w hite  S’n  ©  90 
W hiting  Gilders’ 
©  95 
W hite,  P aris  Am’r   @1  25 
W hlt’g  P aris E ng
®1  40
.................... 
U niversal  P rep ’d 1  1001  20

.............6%® 
. . . .   6% 0 

A m erican 

cliff 

V arnishes

No  1  T urp  Coach 1  1001  20
E x tra   T urp  ___1  6001  70
Coach  Body 
. .. .2   750 3  00 
No  1  T urp  F u rn l  0001  10 
E x tra  T  D am ar  .1  5501  60 
J a p   D ryer  No  1  T  70®

Drugs

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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.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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  cc untry  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of purchase

A D V A N C E D

D ECLIN ED

Cotton  Braided

Cotton  W indsor

Galvanized  W ire 

Oft.
60ft.
60ft.
70ft.
80ft
40ft.
50ft.......................................1  35
60ft..........................  .......... 1  65
No.  20,  each  100ft.  longl  90 
No.  19,  each  100ft.  long2  10 
COCOA
B aker’s 
............................   35
Cleveland 
........................  41
Colonial,  %s  ...........  
35
Colonial,  %s  ..................   33
E p p s ..................................   42
H uyler  ..............................  45
Van  H outen,  % s .........   12
V an  H outen,  % s ..........  20
V an  H outen,  % s ..........  40
V an  H outen,  I s ...........   72
................................   28
W ebb 
W ilbur,  % s  ...........................41
W ilbur.  %s 
..................  42
D unham ’s  % s ............  26
D unham ’s  % s & % s ..  26%
D unham ’s  %s 
..........  27
D unham ’s  %s  ............  28
Bulk 
..............................  13
COCOA  SH ELLS
201b.  b a g s ...........................2%
Less  q u a n tity ................3
Pound  p a c k a g e s ............4

COCOANUT

 

CO FFEE

Rio

Common..............................11
F a ir 
................................... 12
Choice 
..............................15
F a n c y ................................18
Santos
...........................11%
Common 
F a ir.......................................12%
Choice.................................15
F ancy................................. 18
P eaberry  ..........................
M aracaibo
F a ir........................*........... 15
..............................18
Choice 
Choice 
...............................16%
I  F ancy 
..............................19
G uatem ala
Choice 
..............................15
African 
............................12
F ancy  A frican  ..............17
O.  G.................................... 25
P.  G.................................... 31
Mocha
A rabian 
.......................... 21
Package 

Mexican

Jav a

New  York  Basis

A rbuckle............................ 13 50
.......................13  00
D ilw orth. 
Jersey ..................................13 50
.................................13  50
Lion 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold 
to  retailers  only.  Mail  all 
orders  direct 
to  W.  F. 
M cLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.
Holland.  %  gro  boxes.  95
Felix,  %  gross  ...............1  15
H um m el’s  foil,  %  gro.  85 
H um m el’s  tin.  %  gro.l  43 
N ational  Biscuit  Com pany’s 

CRACKERS

E x tract

B rands 
B utter

Soda

O yster

... 6 %
Seym our  B u tters  ..
N  Y  B u tters  ..........
... 6 %
Salted  B u tters  ----
Fam ily  B u tte r s ........ ... 6 %
N B C   S o d a s ............ ... 6 %
. ..   8
Select 
........................
.. .13
S aratoga  Flakes  ..
. . .   6%
Round  O ysters  . . . .
. .. 6 %
Square  O ysters  . . .
... 7 %
F au st 
........................
Argo 
..........................
E x tra  F arin a  ........
. . .   7%
Sw eet  Goods
...1 0
Anim als 
..................
...1 1
A ssorted  Cake  . . . .
. . .   9
Bagley  Gems  ........
. ..   9
Belle  Rose 
............
...17
B ent’s  W ater  ........
...1 3
B u tter  T h i n ............
...1 7
Chocolate  D rops  ..
...11
Coco  B ar  ................
...1 2
Cocoanut  Taffy  ...
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B. C..10
...1 0
Coffee  Cake,  Iced
Cocoanut  M acaroons  ..18
...16
C racknels 
................
...1 1
C u rran t  F ru it 
. . . .
...1 7
Chocolate  D ainty
. ..10
C artw heels 
............
Dixie  Cookie  ..................   9
F luted  Cocoanut  ...........11
F rosted  Cream s 
.............9
G inger  G e m s ..................   9
G inger  Snaps.  N B C   7% 
G randm a  Sandwich  ...11
G raham   C rackers  ...........9
.12
Honey  Fingers,  Iced 
Honey  Jum bles 
...........12
Iced  Honey  Crum pet 
.12
Im perials 
........................  9
Indiana  Belle  .................15
Jersey  Lunch 
..............   8
...............12
Lady  Fingers 
l j i i y   Fingers, hand mil 25 
Lem on  B iscuit  Square  9
Lem on  W afer 
...............16
Lemon  Snaps  .................12
Lem on  G e m s ...................10
Lem  Yen 
.........................IX

Van. I.em .

M arshm allow  
.................16
M arshm allow   C ream   ..17 
M arshm allow   W alnut  .17
M ary  A nn  ......................   8%
M a la g a ............ ..................H
Mich  Coco  F s’d honey. 12
Milk  B iscuit  ..................   8
Mich.  Frosted  H oney.12
M ixed  Picnic  .................. 11%
M olasses  Cakes,  Scolo'd  9
Moss  Jelly  B ar 
...........12
M uskegon  B ranch,  Iced ll
.............................12
N ewton 
O atm eal  C rackers 
. . . .   9
O range  Slice 
.................16
O range  Gem  ..................   9
Penny  A ssorted  Cakes  9
Pilot  B read  ....................  7
Pineapple  Honey  ......1 5
Ping  Pong  .........................9
Pretzels,  hand  m ade 
..8%  
Pretzelettes,  hand  m ’d  8% 
Pretzeleltes,  inch,  m ’d  7%
Revere. 
.-.........................15
R ichm ond........................... 11
Richwood 
Rube  S e a r s ......................  9
Scotch  Cookies 
.............10
Snowdrops  .......................16
Spiced  Sugar  Tops 
..  9 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  9
S ugar  Squares  ..............   9
...........................15
S ultanas 
Spiced  G in g e rs .................9
L rchins 
............................11
V ienna  Crim p.....................9
V anilla  W afer  ...............16
...........................10
W averly 
Z anzibar 
..........................10
B arrels  or  drum s  .............29
Boxes  .....................................30
Square  cans  .......................32
Fancy  caddies 
..................35

CREAM  TARTAR

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

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples

f%

Peel

Beans

F arina

California  Prunes

..12
.12
1  50
1  95
2  60

Sundried  ................4  ®  4%
E vaporated............6  0   7
100-125 251b boxes. @  3
90-100 25 lb boxes @ 3%
80-  90 251b boxes @ 4
70-  80 251b boxes
•* 4%
60  -70 251b boxes @ 5
0 5%
50-  60 251b boxes
40  -50 251b boxes
■ 6%
30-  40 251b boxes
0 7%
%c  less  in  501b cases.
Citron
015
Corsican..................
C urrants
Im p’d,  lib   pkg  ..  6%®  7 
Im ported  bulk  ..  6%@
Lemon  Am erican 
.
O range  A m erican 
.
Raisins
London  Layers,  3  cr 
London  L ayers  4  cr 
Cluster  5  crown  . . .
Loose  M uscatels,  2  c r . .  5 
Loose  M uscatels,  3  cr. .6 
Loose  M uscatels,  4  cr. .6% 
L.  M.  Seeded,  1  lb.6% ®7%  
L.  M.  Seeded,  %  lb 6  0 6  
Sultanas,  bulk  . . . .  
0 8  
Sultanas,  package  .  @8%
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  Lim a  .......................6%
Med.  Hd.  P k ’d.  .1  7501  85
Brown  Holland  .............2  25
24  lib .  packages...........1  75
Bulk,  per  100  tbs............3  00
Hominy
Flake,  501b  sack 
. .. .1   00
Pearl,  2001b.  sack  ___ 3  70
Pearl,  1001b.  sack  . . . . 1   85 
M accaronl  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic,  101b  box 
..  60
Im ported,  251b  box 
.. 2  50 
Pearl  Barley
Common..............................2  00
C hester 
.............................2  20
Em pire  ..............................3  25
Green,  W isconsin,  bu. .1  15 
Green,  Scotch,  bu. 
...1   25
Split,  lb ..............................  
4
Rolled  O ats
Rolled  Avenna,  bbls. 
.4  50 
Steel  Cut,  1001b.  sacks 2  10
M onarch,  bbl................... 4  00
M onarch,  1001b.  sacks  1  85
Q uaker,  c a s e s .................S  10
E a st  India 
.......................3%
Germ an,  s a c k s .................3%
G erm an,  broken  pkg.  4 
Flake.  1101b.  s a c k s ___3%
Pearl,  1301b.  sacks  . . .   3 
Pearl,  24  lib .  pkgs  . . . .   5 
Cracked,  b u l k ...................3%
24  21b  packages  ...........2  50
% 
......................   6
1% 
.....................  7
...................  9
1 % 
1%  to   2  I n ...........................11
  15
In 
2 
3  In 
30
No.  1, 10  feet  ..................  5
No.  2, 15  feet  ..................  7
No.  3, 15  feet  .................. 
•
No.  4, 15  feet  .................... 10
No.  5, 15  feet  .................... IX
No.  6, 15  feet  .....................12
No.  7. 15  feet  ..................  16
No.  8, 16  feet  .....................18
No.  9, 16  feet  .....................32
Linen  Linas
.....................................30
Sm all 

FISHING  TACKLE
to   1  In 
to  2  in 
to   2  In 

...........................  
.......  
Cotton  Lines

T apioca

W heat

Sago

Peas

 

|

1
:

Jennings

M edium 
............................ 36
Large  .................................. 34
Poles
Bamboo,  14  ft.,  per  doz.  55 
Bamboo,  16  ft.,  per  doz.  60 
Bamboo,  18  ft.,  per  doz.  80 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Foote  &  Jenks 
Colem an's 
2oz.  P anel 
...........1  20 
75
.......... J  00  1  50
3oz.  T aper 
No.  4  Rich.  BIake.2  00  1  50 

Terpeneless  Lem on 

M exican  V anilla

No.  2  D.  C.  per  d o z ....  75
No.  4  D.  C.  per doz........1  50
No.  6  D  C  p er  d o z ....2  00 
T aper  D.  C.  per  d o z ..l  50 
No.  2  D.  C.  per doz........1  20
No.  4  D.  C.  per  doz  ...2   00 
No.  6  D.  C.  p er  d o z ....3  00 
P aper D.  C.  per d o z ....2  00 
Amoskeag,  100  In  balel9 
Amoskeag,  less  th an   bl 19% 
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

GRAIN  BAGS 

W heat 

Old  W heat

Delivered

Roy  B aker’s  B rand 

Spring  W heat  Flour 

W inter  W heat  Flour 

No.  1  W hite...................   95
No.  2  Red  .............. . . . .  
95
Local  B rands
.............................5  70
P a te n ts 
Second  P a te n ts  .............5  30
S traig h t 
...........................5  10
Second  S traig h t 
...........4  70
..................................4  10
Clear 
G raham  
.............................4  50
B uckw heat 
.....................4  60
Rye........................................ 4 20
Subject  to   usual cash d is­
count.
Flour  In  barrels,  25c  per 
b arrel  additional.
W orden  G rocer  Co.’s B rand
Q uaker  paper 
...............5  20
.................5  40
Q uaker  cloth 
d ark -Jew ell-W ells  Co.’s 
Gold  Mine,  %s  cloth  6  10 
Gold  Mine,  %s  cloth  ..6   00 
Gold  Mine,  %s  cloth.  6  90 
Gold  Mine,  %s  p aper  . .5  95 
Gold  Mine.  %s  p aper  5  90 
Golden  H orn,  fam ily  . .5  SO 
G 'iden  H orn,  bakers  ..5   65
P ure  Rye,  light...............4  45
P ure  Rye.  dark 
...........4  40
Calum et 
............................5  25
D earborn 
.........................5  15
.Tudson  Grocer  Co.’s  Brand
.................6  55
Ceresota.  %s 
Ceresota.  %s 
.................6  45
.................6  35
Ceresota.  %s 
T-emon  &  W heeler’s  B rand
Wing-old.  %s 
.................6  30
W ingold.  %s  ...................6  30
W ingold.  %s  ...................5  80
W orden  Grocer  Co.’s  Bran*’
.........6  05
Laurel.  %s  cloth 
Laurel.  %s  cloth 
.........5  95
Laurel.  %  &  %s pap er  5  85
.......................5  85
Laurel  %s 
Sleepy  Eye.  %  cloth 
.5  90 
Sleepy  Eye,  %s  cloth  .5  80 
Sleepy  Eye,  %s  cloth  .5  70 
Sleepy  Eye,  %s  paper  5  70 
Sleepy  Eye.  %s  p aper  5  70 
Bolted..................................2  50
Golden  G ranulated  . . . .  2  65 
St.  C ar Feed  screened  21  00 
No.  1  Corn  and  O ats  21  00
Com.  cracked  ...............20  50
Com  Meal,  coarse  . ..  20  50
Oil  M eal  .........................27  00
W inter  W h eat  B ra n ..18  00 
W inter  w heat  m id’ngs 19  00
Cow  Feed  .......................18  50
C ar  lots 
.......................... 34%
Corn,  new  
.................. 56%
No.  1  tim othy  c ar lots 10  50 
No.  1  tim othy ton lots 12  50

W ykes-Schroeder  Co. 

Oata
Corn
Hay

Meal

HERBS

 

..1  

JE L L Y

LICORICE

Sage 
..................................   15
H o p s ...............................  15
Laurel  Leaves  ...............  15
Senna  Leaves 
..............   25
51b  palls, p er  doz 
70
751b  palls  ........................   35
301b  palls  ........................   65
80
............................... 
P ure 
...........................  33
C alabria 
Sicily 
.......................  
1*
Root 
..................................   11
Condensed,  2  doz 
. . .  .X  60
Condensed,  4  doz  .........3  00
A rm our’s,  2  oz  .............4  45
A rm our’s  4  oz  ...............8  20
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  3  oz.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago,  4  oz.5  60 
Liebig’s  Im ported, 2 oz.4  55 
Liebig's,  Im ported,  4 o*.8  60 

MEAT  EXTRACTS

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans
F ancy  Open K ettle 
40
Choice 
..............................   35
F a i r ................................  32
Good  ..................................   33
H alf  barrels  3e  extra. 

LYE

.. 

MINCE  MEAT 

Columbia,  per  m m  

..8   Tf

Index to  Markets

B y   Columns

Col

axle  Grease  ......................  1

B ath  B rick  ......................   1
..............................   X
Brooms 
Brushes 
..............................  1
B utter  Color 
...................  1

.........................XI
Confections 
..............................   X
Candles 
...............  X
Canned  Goods 
i
Carbon  Oils 
..................... 
C atsup  ................................  
I
Cheese 
...............................     2
I
Chewing  Gum 
..............  
Chicory-  ..............................   2
Chocolate 
..........................   2
Clothes  Lines  ..................   2
Cocoa 
..................................   2
Cocoanut  ............................  2
Cocoa  Shells  ....................   2
Coffee 
..................................  2
Crackers 
............................   2

Dried  F ru its  ....................   4

F

. . . .   4
Farinaceous  Goods 
Fish  and  O ysters  .............10
Fishing  Tackle 
..............   4
Flavoring  ex tracts  .........  B
Fly  P a p e r ..........................
Fresh  M eats  ....................   5
F ruits  .................................... XX

Gelatine  ..............................  6
G rain  B ags  ......................   ■
Grains  and  Flour  ...........  6

H

L

H erbs 
..................... 
Hides  and  P elts 

I
indigo  ............. 
J

Jelly 

.........  

 

 

.......... U

 

 

5

S

2

id corice  ..............................   B
Lye 
......................................  2

M
M eat  E x tra cts 
Molasses 
M ustard 

..............   2
.....................  
2
............................   4

 

N uts 

N
..............  
O

 

Hives  ..................................  

XX

ft

rip es  ....................................  <
tic k le s  ................................   4
Playing  C a r d s ..................   2
................................  2
Potash 
Provisions 
........................   2

~Uce

 

Salad  D ressing 
..............   7
S aieratus 
..........................   7
7
....................  
Sal  Soda 
S alt  ......................................   7
Salt  F ish 
...............  
7
Shoe  Blacking  ................   7
...................................   7
Snuff 
Soap 
....................................  7
....................................   8
Soda 
Spices  ..................................  8
S tarch 
...............................    8
Sugar 
................................   8
Syrups 
..............................   8

Tea 
Tobacco 
Twine 

......................................   8
............................   9
................................   2

V inegar

W ashing  Pow der 
...........  2
Wi eking 
.............................  9
W ooden w are 
.....................  9
W rappin g   P ap er  ...............19
V
T < w t  Cake  .........................12

T

W

AXLE  GREASE 

F razer’s

lib .  wood  boxes,  4  dz.  3  00  | 
lib .  tin   boxes,  3  doz.  2  35 
3%R>.  tin   boxes,  2  dz.  4  25 
101b  pails,  p er  doz. 
..6   00  ! 
151b.  pails,  per  doz 
. .7  20 
25It>.  pails,  per  doz  ..12  00 

BAKED  BEANS 
Columbia  B rand 

.........  
BROOMS

BATH  BRICK
 

lib .  can,  per  doz 
. . . .   91
. . . . 1   40 
21b.  can,  per  doz 
olb.  can,  per  doz  . . . . 1   80 
A m erican 
......................   75
English 
85
No.  1  C arpet  ................2  75
No.  2  C arpet  ................2  35
No.  3  C arpet  ................2  15
No.  4  C a r p e t..................1 75
P arlo r  Gem  .....................2  40
Common  W hisk 
..........   85
...............1  20
F ancy  W hisk 
W arehouse 
.....................3  00

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid  Back  8  In  ........   75
Solid  Back,  11  i n ..........   95
Pointed  e n d s .................     85
Stove
........................   75
No.  3 
........................1  10
No.  2 
.........................1  75
No.  1
Shoe
........................1  00
No.  8
No.  7 ................................... 1 30
No.  4  .................................1  70
No.  3 
.................................1  90
W „  R.  & Co’s, 15c size.l  25 
W .,  R.  & Co.’s,  25c stze.2  00 
CAN  -u E S  
E lectric  Light.  8s 
.  9% 
.10 
E lectric  L ight,  16s
.  9 
Paraffine,  6s 
........
.  9% 
Paraffine,  12s  ........
.20
W icking......................

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANNED  GOODS 

Apples

80

Corn

Blac  -errles

Clam  Bouillon

3 
lb.  S ta n d a rd s..  750 
Gals.  S tandards  .2  15(5)2 
85
S tandards  ............
Beans
Baked  ....................   8001  30
Red  K idney  -----  85@  95
S tring 
..................  7001  15
W ax 
......................   7501  25
Blueberries
1  40
S tandard  ............
Brook  T rout
5  76 
•Gallon....................
1  90
21b.  cans,  s.plced 
Clams
L ittle  Neck,  lib .  1  0001  25 
L ittle  Neck,  21b.. 
@1  50
B urnham ’s  %  p t  .........1  90
...........3  60
B urnham ’s,  p ts 
B urnham ’s,  qts  .............7  20
Cherries
Red  S tandards  . .1  3001  50
W hite 
..................  
1  50
F a ir.................................. 75® 90
Good  ...................................1  00
Fancy 
...............................1  25
French  Peas
Sur  E x tra Fine 
.............   22
..................   19
E x tra  Fine 
Fine 
..................................  15
11
Moyen 
.................. 
GooseDerrles
........................  90
S tandard 
Hominy
S tandard  ..........................  85
Lobster
Star,  % tb..........................2  15
S tar, 
lib ............................3  75
Picnic  Tails 
..................2  60
M ustard,  lib .....................1  80
M ustard.  21b.....................2  80
Soused.  1%....................... I  80
Soused.  21b........................ 2  80
lib ...................... 1  80
Tom ato 
Tom ato.  21b...................... 2  80
Mushrooms
H otels 
..................  15®  20
B u tto n s _______   22®  25
Oysters
Coe.  lib .................. 
@  90
Cove.  21b................ 
@1  70
Cove,  lib .  Oval  .. 
@1  00
Peaches
P i e ...........................1  10@1  15
Tellow......................1  6502  25
S tandard  ...............1  00® 1  35
@2  00
F ancy 
M arrow fat  ..........   90®1  00
Ju n e  .........  9001  20
j   n
------------  

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

Mackerel

P ears

Peas

 

Plum s

Russian  Cavier

80
1  00
0 2   00
®

Plum s 
..............................   85
Pineapple
G rated 
................. 1  2502  75
Sliced 
................... 1  3502  55
Pum pkin
......................................  70
F a ir  .. 
................  
Good 
..  ............  
Fancy 
................... 
Gallon
R aspberries
Standard  ..............  
%Tb.  c a n s ...............................3 75
%Ib.  cans 
.......................7  00
lib   cans 
.......................12  00
Salmon
Col’a   R iver, 
tails.  0 1   80
flats.l 8501  90
Col’a   River, 
Red  A laska  ........ 1  3501  45
®  95
P in k   A laska  . . . .  
Sardines
Dom estic,  %3 
..  3%@  3% 
Dom estic,  %s  .. 
5
Dom estic,  M ust’d  6  0   9 
California,  14s  . . .   11014
California,  % s ...l7   024
French,  %s  ........ 7  014
French,  %s  ........ 18  @28
Shrim ps
Standard  ............1  20® 1  40
Succotash
F a ir 
95
....................... 
Good  ......................  
1  10
F ancy  ....................1  2501  40
S tandard  ..............
1  10 
1  40
F ancy  ....................
Tom atoes
®  80
F a ir  .......................  
Good  ......................  
0   85
F a n c y ................... 1  1501  45
G a llo n s ................. 2  5002  60

Straw berries

CARBON  OILS 

CH EESE

B arrels
@10%
..........
P erfection 
01
W ater  W hite  . . .
013
D.  S.  Gasoline 
.
.@11%
Deodor’d  N ap’a  ..
0 3 4 %
Cylinder 
............   29
022
E ngine 
................. 16
Black,  w inter 
..  9 
0 1 0 %
CATSUP
.4  50
Columbia,  25  p ts .. 
Columbia,  25  % p ts ...2   60
Snider’s  q u arts 
.............3  25
Snider’s  pints 
...............2  25
Snider’s  % pints  ...........1  30
Acme......................
Carson  C i t y ----
Peerless................
Elsie 
....................
Em blem  
.............
G em ..........................
Ideal.......................
Jersey....................
............
R iv e rsid e 
............
W a rn e r's  
Edam  
................
Leiden 
................
L im b u rg r..............
Pineapple  .......... .40 
S ap  S ag o ..............
Swiss,  dom estic
Swiss,  im ported
A m erican  F lag  Spruce.  55
.........  60
B eem an’s  Pepsin 
B lack  Jac k  
.....................  55
L argest  Gum  M ade 
..  60
Sen  Sen 
..........................   55
Sen  Sen  B reath   P e rf .l  00
Sugar  Loaf  ....................   55
Y ucatan 
  55
Bulk 
5
..................................  
7
Red  ....................................  
E agle 
4
................................  
F ran ck ’s  .......................... 
7
........................ 
Schener’s 
6
W alter  B aker  &  Co.’s

015
014
0
016
@15%
@14%
@15
@15%
@14
@15
@90
@15
I®60
@19
@14H
@20

CHEW ING GUM

CHOCOLATE 

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

CHICORY

14%

G erm an  S w e e t..............   22
Prem ium  
........................   28
V a n illa ................................   41
C aracas  ............................  35
Eagle 
..................................   28

CLOTHES  LINES 

Sisal

3  thread,  e x tra .. 1  00 
3  thread,  ex tra. .1  40
3  thread,  ex tra.  1 
6  thread,  ex tra. .1  29 

GOft.
72ft.
90ft.
60ft.
72ft.  6  thread,  e x tra ..
«.Oft 
..................................  75
72ft.  ....................................  90
90ft. 
 
1  05
................................ 1  50
120ft. 
Cotton  V icto r
22ft.  .......................................1  10
M i .....................................1  3§

Ju te

6

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

45

.1  75 
..3  50

MUSTARD 
H orse  R adish,  1  dz 
H orse  Radish,  2  dz.
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  dz 
OLIVES
..1.00 
Bulk,  1  gal.  kegs 
Bulk,  2  gal  kegs 
.  95
Bulk,  5  gal  kegs. 
.  90
M anzanilla,  8  oz. 
.  90
Queen,  p in ts 
................ 2  35
Queen,  19  oz 
............... 4  50
Queen,  28  oz 
............... 7  00
Stuffed,  5  oz 
..............   90
Stuffed,  8  oz 
............... 1  45
Stuffed,  10  o z ................2 30
Clay,  No.  216 
............... 1  70
Clay,  T.  D.,  full  count  65
Cob,  No.  3  
85

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

P IP E S

.
.

PICK LES 
Medium

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

B a rre ls,  1,400  co u n t 
..I 
.5  00 
H a lf  bbls.,  600  co u n t 
.3  00
B a rre ls,  2,400  co u n t 
..7   00
H a lf  bbls.,,  1,200  co u n t  4  00 
No.  90  Steam boat 
. . .   85 
No.  16,  Rival,  assorted 1  20 
No.  20,  Rover  enam eledl  60
No.  572,  Special  ...........1  75
N o  98,  G oif.satin finish2  00
No.  808  Bicycle 
...........2  00
No.  632  T ourn’t   w hist 2  25 

POTASH 

48  cans  in  case

B abbitt’s   ...................... ..4   00
P enna  S alt  Co’s  — ..3   00

PROVISIONS
B arreled  Pork

Dry  S alt  M eats

Lard
.......................... 5%
%
%
%
%
%

Mess  .............................. .13  00
F a t  B ack.......................-.14  00
Back  F a t...............’-------.14  50
S hort  C ut 
.................. ..13  50
B ean................................. .12  75
................................ .18  00
P ig  
B risket..............................15  00
............ .12  50
Clear  Fam ily 
S  P   Bellies 
................ ■ •  9%
Bellies.............................. ..  9%
E x tra   S h o r ts .............. • •  8%
Smoked  Meats 
H a m s,  121b.  a v e ra g e . 
10% 
H a m s,  141b.  a v e ra g e . 
10% 
H a m s,  161b.  av e ra g e . 
10% 
H a m s,  181b.  a v e ra g e . 
10% 
S k in n ed   H a m s  
...........
11%
H am ,  dried  beef  sets. 13 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut) 
B acon,  c le a r 
. '. . . .  .10 @11
C alifo rn ia  H a m s ............. 7%
P icn ic  B oiled  H a m  
..11%
......................17
B oiled  H a m  
. . .   8
B erlin  H am   p r’s'd  
Mince  H am  
...................10
C om pound 
P u re ........................................  8
bOtb.
tubs. .advance
801b.
tubs
. .advance
601b.
tin s ..
advance
201b. pails
. . advance
101b. pails
. .advance
6tb. pails
1
. .advance
3 lb. pails
1
.  advance
Sausages
Bologna 
.............................  5
..............................   6%
Liver 
F ran k fo rt  ...........................7
P ork  .....................................6%
....................................  8
Veal 
Tongue 
...............................9%
H eadcheese 
....................   6%
E x tra   M ess  .....................9  50
Boneless 
.........................10  50
Rump,  new   ...................10  50
%  bbls  ...............................1  10
%  bbls.,  40Ibs..................1  85
%bbls.,  ...............................3  75
1  bbl...................................7  75
K its,  16  lbs.....................   70
%bbls.,  40  %s  ...............1  50
%bbls„  80!bs...................3  00
Hogs,  per  lb...................  28
Beef  rounds,  set............  16
Beef  middles,  set  .........  45
Sheep,  p er  bundle  . . . .   70 
Solid,  d airy   ............. 
@10
Rolls,  dairy. 
...10% @ U %  
Canned  Meats 
Corned  beef,  2 
.  2  50
Corned  beef,  14 
.17  50
R oast  Beef  ..
2  00@2  50
%9
P otted  ham ,
___  45
P otted  ham ,
%s
___  85
.
Deviled  ham ,  %s 
..  45
3 
Deviled  ham ,  %s 
..  85
3 
.
P otted  tongue,  %s 
45
S 
.
P otted  tongue,  %
..  85
s  .
RICE
..........
Screenings 
2@2%
F air  J a p a n ..........
@3%
@4
Choice  Jap a n   . . .
Im ported  Jap an   .
@4%
F a ir  L ouisiana  hd 
L
@3%
Choice  La.  hd.
@4%
Fancy  La.  hd  .  ..
@5%
C arolina  ex.  fancy
@6%
y
. .. .2   25
Columbia,  %  pint 
Columbia,  1  p int  ___ 4  00
D urkee’s  large,  1  doz.4  50 
D urkee’s  sm all,  2  doz. 5  25 
Snider’s  large,  1  doz...2   35 
Snider’s  sm all,  2  doz... 1  35 

SALAD  DRESSING 

Uncolored  B utterine

P ig’s  Feet.

Casings

Tripe

Beef

SALARATUS 

Packed  601bs.  In  box. 

A rm   and  H am m er  ....8 1 5

............................3  00
D elan d ’s 
D w ig h t's  C o w ........................3 15
|  E m blem  
............................ 2  10
L.  P ..............................................3 00
I  W y a n d o tte,  100  % s  ...3   00 

S A L  SODA

1  G ran u lated ,  bbls 
.........  85
!  G ran u lated ,  1001b  c a se s l  00
I  L um p,  bbls 
...................  75
. . . .   95
L um p,  1451b  k egs 

SA L T

Com m on  G rades

W a rsaw

..................1  95
100  31b  sa c k s 
60  51b  sa c k s  ..................1  85
28  10%  sa c k s 
............... 1  75
56 
lb.  sa c k s 
...............  30
28  lb   s a c k s .....................  
15
56  lb.  d a iry   in  d rill  b ag s  40 
28  lb.  d a iry  in drill b ag s  20 
S o lar  Rock
561b.  s a c k s .........................   20
Com m on
G ran u lated ,  fine 
...........  80
M edium   fine......................  85

S A L T   F ISH  

Cod

L a rg e   w hole 
S m all  W hole 
S trip s   o r  bricks.7% @ 11
P ollock 
S trip s .....................................14
C hu n k s 

. . . .  @ 7
. . . .   @  6%
@  3%

................. 
H alib u t

........................14%

H erring
H olland

W h ite  H oop,bbls 8  25@9  25 
W h ite  H oop,  % bbl4 25 @5  00 
W h ite   H oop, 
keg. 60@  70
@  75
W h ite   hoop  m c h s 
N o rw eg ian  
........... 
@
R ound,  lOOlbs 
................3  75
R ound.  40Ibs  ................. 1  75

T ro u t

.7 50
.3 25
90
75
13 50
.  5 so
,  1 65
.  1 36
,12 00
.  5 20
.  1 55
.  1 28

N o.  1,
lOOlbs 
........
N o.  1, 40!bs 
..........
N o.  1,
........
lOIbs 
N o.  1, 8lb s 
............
M ackerel 
M ess,
lOOlbs.............
M ess,
401bs..............
M ess,
lO tbs...............
M ess, 8 lb s.................
No. 
i,
lOOlbs...........
No.  1. 4 tb s.................
N o.  1,
lO tbs.............
N o.  1, 8 lb s ................
W hitefish 
N o.  1  No.  2 F am
5 50
.................... 9 50
..................... 5 00 2 10
52
..................... 1 10
44
90

1001b.
501b.
101b.
81b.

SEEDS

..15
A nise
Canary,  Sm yrna  ..........  6
Caraw ay  ..........................  8
Cardam om,  M alabar  .. 1  00
Celery 
.............................. 10
Hemp,  R ussian  ...............4
Mixed  Bird  ...................... 4
M ustard,  w hite  ...............8
..............................  8
Poppy 
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 
Scotch,  In  bladders 
. . .  .37 
Maccaboy,  in  ja rs  . . . .   35 
French  Rappie,  in  jars.  43 

SHOE  BLACKING 

SNUFF

SOAP

C entral  City  Soap  Co.

Johnson  Soap  Co.

Jaxon 
......................... . .   2  85
Boro  N aphtha  .............. 4  00
A jax 
..................................1  85
Badger 
............................ 3  15
Borax  ................................ 3  40
Calum et  Fam ily  ...........2  35
China,  large  cakes 
...5   75 
China,  sm all  cakes 
.. 3  75
E tna,  9  oz........................ 2  10
E tna,  8  o z ........................ 2  30
E tna,  60  cakes 
...........2  10
Galvanic 
.......................... 4  05
M ary  Ann 
...................... 2  35
M ottled  Germ an  ...........2  25
New  E ra  .......................... 2  45
Scotch  Fam ily,  60
cakes................................2  30
Scotch  Fam ily,  100
cakes................................3  80
Weldon 
..............: ...........2  85
Assorted  Toilet,  50  car­
tons  ................................3  85
A ssorted  Toilet,  100
cartons............................ 7  50
Cocoa  Bar,  6  oz 
. .. .3   25
Cocoa  Bar,  10  oz.......... 5  25
Senate  Castile  .............. 3  50
Palm   Olive,  t o i l e t ........4  00
Palm   Olive,  b a t h ........ 10  50
Palm   Olive,  bath  ....1 1   00
Rose  B o u q u e t................ 3  40
Am erican  Fam ily  .........4  05
Dusky  Diamond, 50 8oz 2  80 
Dusky  D’nd,  100 6oz...3  80
Jap   Rose,  50  bars  -----3  75
Savon  Im perial  .............3  10
W hite  R u s s ia n .............. 3  10
Dome,  oval  bars  ...........2  85
Satinet,  oval  .................. 2  15
Snowberry,  100  cakes.  4  00
LAU TZ  BROS.  &  CO.
Acme  soap,  100  cakes  2  85 
N aptha  soap,  100  cakes 4 00

J.  S.  K irk  &  Co.

Pails

........1  60
2 -  hoop S ta n d a rd  
3 -  hoop S ta n d a rd  
........1  75
2-  w ire. C able 
................ 1  70
3 -  w ire. C able 
................ 1  90
C edar,  a ll  red,  b ra s s   ..  1  25 
P a p e r,  E u re k a   . . . . . . . . 2   25
F ib re  
...................................2  70
Toothpicks

H ard w o o d  
S oftw ood 
B a n q u e t 
Id eal 

'.......................2  50
.......................... 2  75
............................ 1  50
.....................................1  50
T raps

M ouse,  w ood,  2  holes  .  22
M ouse,  w ood,  4  holes  .  45
M ouse,  w ood,  6  holes  .  70
M ouse,  tin ,  5  holes 
..   65
........................  80
R a t,  w ood 
R a t,  s p rin g   .....................   75

T  ubs

W ash  Boards

20-in.,  S ta n d a rd ,  N o.  1.7  00 
18-in.,  S ta n d a rd ,  N o.  2.6  00 
16-in.,  S ta n d a rd ,  N o.  3.5  00 
20-in.,  C able,  N o.  1. 
..7   50 
18-in.,  C able,  N o.  2. 
..6   50 
16-in.,  C able,  N o.  3. 
..5   50 
N o.  1  F ib re   ....................10  80
N o.  2  F ib re  
................ 9 45
N o.  3  F ib re   ................... 8 55
.............. 9, 50
B ro n ze  G lobe 
................................1 75
D ew ey 
.................2 75
D ouble  A cm e 
S ingle  A cm e  ................. ..2 25
D ouble  P ee rle ss 
...........3 50
...........2 75
S ingle  P ee rle ss 
N o rth e rn   Q ueen 
...........2 75
D ouble  D uplex 
........... .3 00
Good  L uck 
................... .2 75
U n iv ersal 
...................... .2 65
Window  Cleaners
in ..................................... 1
12 
14  in .................................. 1 85
In ................................. .2 30
16 

Wood  Bowls

11 
in.  B u tte r 
............ .
75
•» 15
13  in.  B u tte r  ..............
15  in.  B u tte r 
.................2 00
17  in.  B u t t e r ................. .3 25
19  in.  B u tte r 
............... .4 75
A sso rted .  13-15-17  ___.2
A sso rte d   15-17-19 
. . . .3 25

W RAPPING  PAPER

...........  1%
..  2% 

C om m on  S tra w  
F ib re   M anila,  w h ite  
F ib re   M anila,  colored  .  4
N o.  1  M an ila 
................. 4
C ream   M anila 
.............3
B u tc h e r's   M an ila  ___ 2%
W a x   B u tte r,  s h o rt c ’nt.13 
W a x   B u tte r, full co u n t 20 
W a x   B u tte r,  rolls 
....1 5

YEAST  CAKE

lb.

M agic,  3  doz................ ..1 15
S u n lig h t,  3  doz........... ..1 00
S u n lig h t.  1%  d o z ...
50
Y east  F oam .  3  doz  ..
.1 15
Y east  C ream ,  3  doz
.1 00
Y east  F o am .  1%  doz
58
FRESH  FISH

P e r 
Ju m b o   W h itefish   ..11@ 12 
. .   @ 9
N o.  1  W h itefish  
T ro u t 
@10
...................... 
H a lib u t 
.................  
@10
C iscoes  o r  H errin g .  &  5
B luefish.....................10%@11
L ive  L o b s t e r ___  
@25
B oiled  L o b ste r. 
@25
. 
Cod 
H ad d o ck  
...................   @  8
...........  @ 9
No.  P ick e rel 
P ik e  
............................  @ 7
P e rc h ,  d ressed  
. . . .   @ 7
S m oked  W h ite   ___   @12%
R ed  S n ap p er  ...........  @
Col.  R iv e r  S alm on.  @11 
M ackerel 
..................15@16

..............................  @12%

OYSTERS

Cans

F .  H .  C ounts

P e r  can 
.........  40

Bulk  O ysters

F.  H .  C o u n ts 

..................2  25

Shell  Goods
P e r  100
................................ 1  25
.............................. 1  25

C lam s 
O y sters 

HIDES  AND  PELTS 
Hides
G reen  N o.  1.....................   9
...
G reen  N o.  2. 
C u red   N o.  1 
C ured  N o.  2 
.
C alfsk in s,  g reen  
C alfsk in s,  g re e n   N o.  2.11%  
C alfsk in s,  cu re d  N o. 1 .  13% 
C alfskins,  cu re d  No.  2.  12 
S te e r  H id es.  60!bs,  o v e rl0% 

..........8
......... 10%
.......... 9%
No.  1213

Pelts

Old  W ool....................
L am b  
S h e a rlin g s 

.........................90@2  00
.............. 25@  80

Tallow
.....................  
..................  
Wool
fine 

N o.  1 
N o.  2 

@  4%
  @ 3 %

U nw ashed,  medium 22@ 30 
. ,18@23
U nw ashed, 

CONFECTIONS 

Stick Candy 

Pails
S ta n d a rd  
...........................  8
S ta n d a rd   H .  H ................ 8
S tandard  Tw ist 
C ut  Loaf 
9

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

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

cases

Jum bo,  321b.........................8
E x tra  H .  H ....................... 9
Boston  Cream 
...............10
Olde  Tim e  Sugar  stick 
.....................12

301b  case 

 

Mixed  Candy
 

G rocers................. 
6%
Com petition......................... 7%
.............................. 7%
Special 
Conserve  ........  
7%
Royal 
................................  8%
Ribbon  ...............................10
Broken 
............................  8
Cut  Loaf 
........................  9
Leader 
.......... 
K indergarten 
................10
Bon  Ton  Cream   ..........   9
F rench  Cream ................. 10
S ta r 
..................................11
H and  M ade  Cream  
.. 15 
Prem io  Cream   m ixed  13 
O  F   H orehound  Drop  11

8%

 

Fancy—In  Palls

D ark  No.  12 

Gypsy  H earts 
...............14
...........12
Coco  Bon  Bons 
Fudge  Squares 
.............12%
P ean u t  Squares 
..........   9
Sugared  P eanuts  ......... 11
Salted  P e a n u ts ............... 11
S tarlight  K isses............ 11
San  Bias  Goodies  ........ 12
Lozenges,  plain..............11
Lozenges,  printed  ___11
Cham pion  Chocolate  .. 11 
Eclipse  Chocolates 
. . .  13 
E ureka  Chocolates.  ...13 
Q uintette  Chocolates  ..12 
Cham pion  Gum  Drops  8%
Moss  D rops......................11
.................11
Lemon  Sours 
Im perials 
........................11
ital.  Cyeam  Opera 
.. 12 
Ital.  Cream   Bon  Bons
201b  pails  .....................12
Molasses-  Chews,  151b.
.............................12
cases 
Golden  Waffles 
.............12
Topazolas........................... 12
Fancy—In  51b.  Boxes
Lemon  Sours 
.................60
Pepperm int  D rops  ___ 60
Chocolate  Drops  ...........60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops 
..85 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
............ 1  00
B itter  Sweets,  ass’d 
..1  25 
B rilliant  Gums,  Crys.60 
A.  A.  Licorice  D rops  .. 90
Lozenges,  plain.............. 60
Lozenges,  printed.......... 60
Im perials  ..........................60
M ottoes 
  60
Cream   B a r .......................55
G.  M.  P eanut  B ar  __ 55
H and  M ade  Cr’ms.  80@9< 
Cream   Buttons,  Pep. 
..66
String  Rock 
...................60
W intergreen  B erries  ..60 
Old  Tim e  Assorted,  25
lb.  case  ......................2  7b
B uster  Brown  Goodies
30!b.  case 
...................... 3  50
U p-to-D ate  A sstm t,  32
lb.  case 
.......................... 3  76
Ten  Strike  A ssort­
m ent  No.  1.................... 6 50
Ten  Strike  No.  2 
. . . .  6  00
Ten  Strike  No.  3  ...........8  00
Ten  Strike,  Sum m er a s­
sortm ent........................6  75
Kalam azoo  Specialties 
H anselm an  Candy  Co.
Chocolate  Maize 
.........18
Gold  Medal  Chocolate
......................18
Chocolate  N ugatines  . .18 
.16 
Quadruple  Chocolate 
Violet  Cream   Cakes,  bx90 
Gold  Medal  Cream s,
..............................13%
Pop  Corn

and  W intergreen. 

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

Almonds 

NUTS—W hole 

Dandy  Smack,  24s  . . .   65
Dandy  Smack,  100s 
. .2  75 
Pop  Corn  F ritters,  100s  50 
Pop  Corn  Toast,  100s  50
C racker  Jack   ................3  00
Pop  Corn  Balls,  200s  .. 1  2f 
Almonds,  T arragona  .. 15
Almonds,  Avlca 
Almonds,  California  sft  .
shell,  n e w ........ 16  @16
B razils  ...................13  @14
Filberts 
@13
Cal.  No.  1 
.........14  @15
W alnuts,  soft  shelled. 
W alnuts,  Chili  . . . .   @12
Table  nuts,  fancy  @13
Pecans  Med.......... 
@10
Pecans,  ex.  large 
@11
Pecans.  Jum bos  . 
@12
Hickory  N uts  p r  bu
Cocoannts 
C hestnuts,  New  York

Ohio  new  .................... 1  75
......................  4

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

pails 

..........

State,  per  bu  ............

Shelled

Spanish  P eanuts  6%@  7% 
. . .   @45
Pecan  H alves 
@28
W alnut  H alv es.. 
@25
Filbert  M eats  . . .  
A licante  Almonds  @33
Jordan  Almonds  .  @47
Fancy,  H .  P.  Suns 
..  6 
Fancy,  H.  P.  Suns,
R oasted  ........................  7
Choice  H.  P.  Jbo.  @7% 
Choice,  H.  P.  Ju m ­

P eanuts

bo,  R oasted  . . .  

&

P ro c to r  &  G am ble  Co.

B ig  M aster,  100  b a rs   4  00 
M arseilles  W h ite   s o a p .4  00 
Snow   Boy  W a sh   P ’w ’r  4  00 
L enox 
.............................
.2 85
Ivory,  6  oz....................... .4 00
Ivory,  10  oz...................
.6 75
S ta r 
.................................
10
A.  B.  W risley
Good  C heer  ................... .4 00
Old  C o u n try  
................. .3 40

Soap  Powders 

C en tral  C ity  Coap  Co. 

Jack so n ,  16  oz  ...............2  40
Gold  D ust,  24  la rg e  
.. 4  50
Gold  D ust,  100-5c  ___ 4  00
K irkoline,  24  4!b............. 3  80
P e a r l in e ..............................3  75
..............................4  10
S oapine 
B a b b itt’s  1776  ..................3  75
R oseine 
..............................3  50
A rm o u r's 
..........................3  70
W isdom   ..............................3  80
Jo h n so n ’s  F i n e ................5  10
Jo h n so n ’s  X X X .............4  25
N ine  O 'c lo c k ....................3  35
R ub-N o-M ore 
..................3  75

Soap  C om pounds

S couring

E n o c h   M o rg an ’s   Sons.

SODA

W hole  S pices

Sapolio,  g ro ss  lo ts  ___ 9  00
Sapolio,  h alf  g ro ss  lo ts 4  50 
Sapolio,  single  boxes  . .2  25
Sapolio,  h a n d   ..................2  25
S courine  M an u fa c tu rin g   Co 
S courine,  50  ca k es 
..  1  80 
S courine,  100  cak es  .  3  50
Boxes 
..................................  5%
K egs,  E n g l is h ................. 4%
SO U PS
C olum bia 
..........................3  00
R ed  L e t t e r .......................   90
S P IC E S  
.............................. 

A llspice 
12
C assia,  C h in a  in   m a ts .  12
C assia,  C an to n  
.............  16
C assia,  B a ta v ia ,  b u n d .  28 
C assia,  Saigon,  b ro k en .  40 
C assia,  S aigon,  in  rolls.  55
Cloves,  A m boyna................ 18
Cloves,  Z a n zib ar  ................12
M ace  ....................................  55
N u tm eg s,  75-80  ...........   45
N utm egs,  105-10 
..........  35
N u tm eg s,  115-20 
..........  30
P epper.  S ingapore,  blk.  15 
P ep p er,  Singp.  w h ite .  2."*
P ep p er,  sh o t  ...................   17
A llspice 
..............................  16
C assia,  B a ta v ia  
...........   28
C assia.  S aigon  ...............  48
Cloves,  Zan z ib a r..................16
G inger,  A frican   .............  15
G inger,  C ochin 
.............  18
G inger,  J a m a ic a   ...........   25
I M ace  ....................................  65
I  M u stard  
............................  18
P ep p er,  S ingapore,  blk.  17 
P ep p er,  Singp.  w h ite  
.  28
P ep p er,  C a y e n n e ...........  20
Sage 
....................................  20

P u re   G round  in  B ulk

STA RCH  

Com m on  Gloss

lib   p a c k a g e s ................4@5
....................4%
3 lb  p ac k ag es 
61b  p a c k a g e s ......................5%
I 40  an d   50!b.  boxes  2%@3%
B a rre ls 
.........................  @2%
I  201b  p ac k ag es 
..................5
401b  p ac k ag es  ___ 4%@7

Com m on  Corn

Corn

S Y R U PS
.............................. 22
..................24

B a rrels 
H a lf  B a rre ls 
201b  ca n s  %  dz  in   c a se  1  55 
101b  ca n s  %  dz  in  c a se  1  50 
5Tb  ca n s  2 dz  in  c a se  1  65 
2%Ib  ca n s  2  dz in  c a se 1  70 

P u re   C ane

F a ir 
Good 
Choice 

....................................  16
....................................   20
................................  25

T E A
Ja p a n

S undried,  m edium   ___ 24
S undried,  choice  ..........32
S undried, 
fa n c y  
.......... 36
R egular,  m edium  
..........24
............32
R eg u lar,  choice 
R egular,  f a n c y ................36
B ask et-fired ,  m edium   .31 
B ask et-fired ,  choice  ..  .38 
B ask et-fired ,  fa n c y  
...4 3
N ibs 
............................ 22@24
S iftin g s 
........................9@11
F a n n in g s  
.................12 @14

G unpow der

M oyune,  m edium  
......... 30
M oyune,  choice  ..............32
M oyune,  f a n c y ................40
....3 0
P in g su ey , m edium  
......... 30
P in g su ey ,  choice 
P in g su ey , 
fa n c y  
..........40

Y oung  H yson

C hoice 
................................ 30
F a n c y   .................................. 36

Oolong
F o rm o sa, 
fa n c y  
..........42
A m oy,  m edium  
..............25
A m oy,  choice  ..................32

Sm oking

TOBACCO 
F in e  C ut
...........................54
C adillac 
S w eet  L om a 
..................34
..56 
H ia w a th a ,  51b  pails 
I  H ia w a th a ,  10lb  p ails  ..5 4
I  T e leg ram  
.......................... 30
i  P a y   C a r .............................. 33
|  P ra irie   R ose  ....................49
|  P ro te c tio n  
........................40
S w eet  B u rley  
................¿4
T ig e r 
...................................«0
Plug
R ed  C r o s s ..........................31
.................................... 35
P alo  
H ia w a th a  
......................... 41
K ylo 
.................................... 35
B a ttle   A x  .......................... 37
A m erican   E a g le  
........... 33
S ta n d a rd   N av> 
........... 37
S p ear  Plead  7  oz............47
S p ear  H ead.  14%  oz.  ..4 4
N obby  T w ist......................55
Jo lly   T a r. 
.................... ..39
Old  H o n esty  
..................43
T oddy 
................................ 34
J-  T .........................................38
P ip e r  H e id s ic k ................66
B oot  J a c k .......................... 80
H o n ey   D ip  T w is t 
....4 0
B lack   S ta n d a rd   ..............40
C adillac 
....................... . . 4 0
.................................. 34
F o rg e 
N ickel  T w i s t ....................52
M ill 
.......................................32
G re a t  N av y  
....................36
S w eet  C ore 
......................34
F la t  C a r...............................32
W a rp a th  
............................ 26
B am boo,  16  oz.................. 25
I  X   L,  51b 
I   X   L,  16  oz.  p a i l s ___ 31
H o n ey   D ew   ...................... 40
G old  B lock 
....................    40
F la g m a n  
............................ 40
C hips 
.................................. 33
K iln   D ried ...........................21
D u k e’s  M ix tu re  ..............40
..............43
D u k es’s   C am eo 
M yrtle  N av y  
..................44
Y um   Y um ,  1%  oz 
....3 9  
Y um   Y um ,  lib .  p ails  ..1 0
C ream  
.................................38
C om   C ake,  2%  oz........... 24
C orn  C ake,  l i b ................ 22
P low   Boy,  1%  oz. 
...3 9
P low   Boy,  3%  oz............39
P eerless,  3%  oz................35
P eerless,  1%  oz................38
A ir  B ra k e ............................ 36
C a n t  H ook.......................... 30
C o u n try   C lub................... 32-34
F o rex -X X X X  
..................30
G ood  In d ia n   ..................... 25
Self  B inder,  16oz,  8oz  20-22
S ilver  F o am  
....................24
S w eet  M arie  ....................32
R oyal  S m oke 
...............   42
C otton,  3  ply  ..................20
C otton,  4  ply  ..................20
...................... 14
J u te ,  2  p ly  
H em p,  6  p ly 
..................13
F lax ,  m edium  
................20
W ool,  lib .  b alls 
..............6

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

T W IN E

V IN E G A R

M alt  W h ite   W ine,  40gr  8 
M alt  W h ite   W ine,  80 g r l l  
P u re   C ider,  B  &  B  
. .11 
P u re   C ider,  R ed  S ta r. 11 
P u re   C ider,  R obinson.10 
P u re   C ider,  S ilver  ....1 0  

W IC K IN G

N o.  0  p e r  g ro ss 
............30
N o.  1  p e r  g ro ss 
............40
......... 50
N o.  2  p e r  g ro ss 
N o.  3  p e r  g ro ss  ..............75

27

W O O D E N W A R E

B ask ets

B u tte r  P la te s 

B radley  B u tte r  Boxes 

B u sh els........................................1 10
..  1  60
B ushels,  w ide  b a n d  
..............................  35
M a rk e t 
S plint,  la rg e  
....................6  00
S p lint,  m edium  
..............5  00
S plint,  sm all  ....................4  00
W illow .  C lothes,  large.7  00 
W illow   C lothes,  m ed ’m .6  00 
W illow   C lothes,  sm all.5  50 
21b  size,  24  in   c a se  ..   72 
31b  size,  16  in  ca se  ..   68 
51b  size,  12  in   c a se  . .   63 
101b  size,  6  in   ca se  . .   60
N o.  1  O val,  250  in   c ra te   40 
N o.  2  O val,  250  in   c ra te   45 
N o.  3  O val,  250  in  c ra te   50 
N o.  5  O val,  250  in  c ra te   60 
B arrel,  5  g al.,  ea ch  
..2   40 
B arrel.  10  gal.,  each  ..2   55 
B arrel,  15  gal.,  each '  ..2   70 
R ound  h ead.  5  g ro ss  bx  55 
R ound  head,  c a rto n s   ..  75
H u m p ty   D u m p ty  
.........2  40
N o.  1,  co m p lete 
...........  32
N o.  2  com plete 
...........  18
F a u c e ts

C lo th es  P in s

E gg  C ra te s

C h u rn s

C ork  lined,  8  in ............... 
65
C ork  lined,  9  in ...............  75
C ork  lined.  10  in ............. 
85
C edar,  ?  in ........................  55

E nglish  B re a k fa st

.............................. 20
M edium  
I  C hoice 
................................ 30
................................ 40
F a n c y  
India
..............32
Ceylon,  choice 
Fancy.  ............... . . . . . . . . 4 2

Mop  S tic k s

T ro ja n   sp rin g  
...............   90
E clip se  p a te n t  s p rin g   . 
85
N o.  1  com m on  ...............   75
N o.  2  p a t.  b ru s h   h o ld e r  85 
121b.  co tto n   m op  h e a d s 1  40 
Id eal  N o.  7.......................  90

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

S p e cia l  P rice  Current

We sell more 5  and  10 
Cent Goods Than Any 
Other Twenty  Whole­
sale  Houses  in 
the 
Country.

W H Y ?

Because our houses are the  recog­
nized  headquarters  for  these 
goods.

Because our prices are the  lowest.
Because our service is the best.
Because  our  goods  are  always 
exactly as we tell you they are.
the  largest 
assortment  in this  line  in  the 
world.

Because  we  carry 

Because our assortment  is  always 
kept up-to-date and  free  from 
stickers.

Because we aim to make  this  one 
of our chief lines  and  give  to 
it our best  thought  and  atten­
tion.

Our current catalogue  lists  the  most  com­
plete  offerings  in  this  line  in  the  world.
We shall be glad to send it to any merchant
who will ask for it  Send for Catalogue J.

BUTLER  BROTHERS

Whtlmltn  of Inrjtkiig—Bj  Catalogo«  Only 

New  York 

Chicago 

St. Louis

Get  our  prices  and  try 
our work when you need
Rubber  and 
Steel  Stamps 

Seals,  Etc.

Send  for  Catalogue  and  see  what 

we offer.

Detroit  Rubber Stamp Co.

99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit,  Mich.

For 25 Years

We  have  made  Barlows’ Pat.  Mani­
fold  Shipping  Blanks  for  thousands 
of  the largest  shippers in  this  coun­
try.

We  Keep  Copies of  Every 

Form  We  Print

Let  us  send  you  samples  printed 
for  parties  in  your  own 
line  of 
trade—you  m a y  get  an  idea—any­
way  it  costs  you  nothing  to  look 
and not much  more if you buy.

Barlow  Bros.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Bakery  Goods Made  on  the  Premises 

in  a 

Middleby  Oven  will  Increase your Trade

You a re n o t m aking all th e m oney th a t you can  m ake  from   your  business  unless  you  do 
I t is a m ost profitable investm ent and it will pay you handsom ely in th e   end. 

your ow n baking. 
L et us tell you w hat o th e rs have done.  Send fo r catalo g u e and full particulars.

Middleby  Oven  Manufacturing  Company

60-62  W . V a n   B u re n   S t.,  C h ica g o ,  III.

Leading  the World, as Usual

UPTONS

CEYLON TEAS.

St. Louis Exposition, 1904, Awards

GRAND  PRIZE  and  Gold  Medal  for  Package  Teas.

Gold  Medal  for  Coffees.

All  Highest  Awards  Obtainable.  Beware  of  Imitation  Brands. 

C hicago  O ffice,  49  W a b a sh   A v e.

1-lb.,  ^   lb., 34.lb.  air-tight cans.

Pork.

L o in s 
.....................  
D resse d  
................. 
B o sto n   B u tts   __  
S h o u ld ers................  
L e a f  L a rd ............... 
Mutton
C a rc a ss  
...............  
L a m b s....................... 

@11%
@  6%
@  9%
@  8%
@  7%

@  8%
@12

C a rc a ss 

Veal

.................   5%@  8

K

a

r o

© Úíñ&il  Wí/iMÍMt 1
10c c a n s   ....................1  84
25c c a n s 
................... 2  30
.................2  30
50c c a n s  

24 
12 
6 

C O F F E E
Roasted

D w in e ll-W rig h t  C o.’s   B ’ds.

A X L E   G R E A S E

M ica,  tin   boxes  . .  75 
P a ra g o n  
.................. 55 

9  00
6  00

BA K IN G  POW D ER

J A X O N
% lb.  ca n s,  4  doz.  c a s e ..  45 
% Ib.  c a n s,  4  doz.  c a s e ..  85 
lib .  c a n s,  2  doz.  c a se   1  60

Royal

10c  siz e   90 
% Ib c a n s  1 35 
6oz. c a n s 1 90 
% Ib ca n s 2 50 
% Ib  c a n s 3 75 
li b  c a n s  4 80 
31b  c a n s 13 00 
51b  c a n s  21 50

BLUING

A rctic,  4oz  ovals,  p g ro  4 00 
A rctic,  8oz  ovals,  p  g ro  6 00 
A rctic,  16oz  ro ’d, p  g ro  9 00

B R E A K F A S T   FOOD 

W alsh-DeRoo  Co.'s  Brands

W h ite   H ouse,  1Tb 
...........
...........
W h ite   H ouse,  2Tb 
..  
E x c elsio r,  M  &  J ,  1Tb 
E x celsio r,  M  &  J ,  21b.. 
T ip   T op,  M   &  J ,  lib  
.. .
R oyal  J a v a  
..........................
R oyal  J a v a   a n d   M o c h a .. 
J a v a   a n d   M ocha  B le n d .. 
B o sto n   C o m b in atio n  
. . . .
Ju d so n  
G rocer  Co.,  G ra n d   R a p id s; 
N a tio n a l  G ro cer  Co.,  D e­
tro it  a n d   J a c k s o n ;  F .  S a u n ­
d e rs  &  Co.,  P o rt  H u ro n ; 
S ym ons  B ros.  &  Co.,  S a g i­
n a w ;  M eisel  &  G oeschel, 
B a y   C ity ;  G o d sm ark ,  D u ­
ra n d   &  Co.,  B a ttle   C reek ; 
F ielb ach   Co.,  T oledo.

D istrib u te d  

b y  

S u n lig h t  F la k e s 

P e r   c a se  
..........................4  00
Cases,  24  2Tb  pack’s,.  2  00

W h e a t  G rits

CIGARS

G eo.  H .  S ey m o u r  &  Co. 

G.  J .  Jo h n so n  C ig a r Co.’s bd
L e ss  th a n   500...................   33  !
500  o r  m o r e .......................... 32
1,000  o r  m o re  ......................31
M orton  H o u se  B o u q u et  55  | 
M orton  H o u se  B o u q u et  70  j
In v in c ib le 
33
119 
........................................   30  i
L ittle   C h ick ....................       30  !
W o rd en   G rocer  Co.  b ra n d  

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

B en   H u r

........... 35

P e rfe c tio n  
............................ 35  ;
P erfe c tio n   E x tra s  
..................................35  |
L o n d re s 
L o n d res  G ran d .......................35 ¡
...............................35  j
S ta n d a rd  
P uritanos 
............................35
P a n a te lla s ,  F in a s .................35 |
Panatellas.  Bock  ..............35  |
Jo ck ey   C lub.............................35 ¡

CO CO AN U T

B a k e r’s   B ra z il  S h redded 

4  doz.  in   c a se 

G ail  B o rd en   E a g le   . . . . 6   40
C row n 
.................................5  90
C h am p io n  
..........................4  52
...................................4  70
D aisy  
............................4  00
M ag n o lia 
C hallenge 
.......................... 4  40
D im e 
....................................3  85
j P e e rle ss  E v a p ’d   C ream   4  00

G E L A T IN E

I C ox’s  1  q t.  s i z e ............. 1  10
! C ox’s  2  q t.  size 
...........1  61
| K n o x ’s  S p ark lin g ,  doz 1  20 
K n o x ’s   S p ark lin g ,  g ro  14 00 
j
K n o x ’s  A cidu’d.  doz 
.. 1  20 
K n o x ’s   A cidu’d.  g ro   14  00
.................... 1  50
{Nelson’s 
O xford...................................   75
P ly m o u th   R o ck ............... 1  25

SAFES

70  % lb   p k g ,  p e r  c a se   2  60 
35  % Ib  pkg,  p e r  c a se   2  60 
38  % lb  pkg,  p e r  c a se   2  60 
16  % lb  pkg,  p e r  c a se   2  60

FR ESH   M EATS 

Beef

C a rc a ss  
.................   7  @  9%
F o re q u a rte rs . 
. . .   6  @ 7  
H in d q u a rte rs   . . . .   8  @10
L o in s 
......................  9  @16
R ibs.......................... 8  @14
R o u n d s 
................. 8  @ 9
Chucks 
..................  5%@  6%
P lates....................... 
@ 4

sa fe s  k e p t 

F u ll  lin e  of  fire  a n d   b u rg ­
la r   p ro o f 
in  
s to c k   b y  
th e   T ra d e sm a n  
C om pany.  T w e n ty   d iffe r­
e n t  size s  on  h a n d   a t   all 
tim e s —tw ic e  a s  m a n y  sa fe s 
a s   a re   c a rrie d   b y  a n y  o th e r 
If  you 
h o u se  in   th e   S ta te . 
a re   u n ab le  to   v is it  G ran d  
R a p id s 
th e  
lin e   p erso n ally ,  w rite   for 
quotations.

in s p e c t 

a n d  

ST O C K   FOOD

Superior  Stock  Food  Co., 

Ltd.

t   .50  c a rto n ,  36  in   b o x   10.80 
1.00  c a rto n ,  18  in   box  10.80
12% lb.  clo th   s a c k s   . . . .   84
251b.  c lo th   s a c k s  
. . . .   1.65 
501b.  c lo th   s a c k s  
. . . .   3.15
1001b.  clo th   s a c k s .........6.00
P e c k   m e a s u r e ......................90
%  bu.  m e a s u r e ............... 1.80
12%Tb.  s a c k   C al  m e al 
.39
251b.  s a c k   C al  m eal 
.75
F .  O.  B.  P lain w e ll,  M ich.

SO AP

B e a v e r  S oap  C o.’s  B ra n d s

c a k e s, la rg e   s i z e ..6 50
100 
c a k es, la rg e   s iz e ..3 25
50 
ca k es, sm all  siz e . .3 85
100 
50 
ca k es, sm all  s i z e ..l  95
T ra d e sm a n   C o.’s   B ran d .

B la ck   H a w k ,  o n e  b o x   2  50 
B la ck   H a w k ,  five  b x s 2  40 
B la ck   H a w k ,  te n   b x s   2  25

T A B L E   SA U C E S

H alfo rd ,  la rg e  
H alfo rd ,  sm all 

...............3  75
...............2  25

Place  Your 
Business 

on a

Cash  Basis 
by using 

our

Coupon  Book 

System.

We

manufacture 
four kinds 

of

and

Coupon  Books 

sell them 
all at the 
same price
size, shape 

irrespective of 

or

denomination. 

We will 

be 
very 
pleased 

to

send you samples
if you ask  us. 

They are 

free.

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rtaldi

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47

BUSINESS-WANTS  DEPARTMENT

Advertisements  inserted  under  this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and. one  cent  a  word  for  each 

subsequent  continuous  insertion.  No  charge  less  than  25  cents.  Cash  must  accompany  all  orders..

BU SIN ESS  C H A N C ES.

W a n te d --L o c a tio n  

fo r  m e n 's   clo th in g  
an d   fu rn ish in g   goods.  W ill  re n t  fo r  te rm  
of  y ea rs.  W ould  b u y   sm all  s to c k   of  sam e. 
A d d ress  C lo th ier,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s-
m an,___________________________________582

lig h t, 

p h y sic ia n ’s 

telep h o n e.  A lso  resid e n ce 

F o r  Sale—A   ch a n ce  in  a   life  tim e  fo r 
a   p h y sician   o r  d ru g g ist,  n ew   d ru g   sto re  
office 
b u ild in g   an d   sto ck , 
room s,  la rg e   b asem en t.  C e n trally   lo cated  
in   th riv in g   to w n   of  600.  T h rifty   fa rm in g  
co m m u n ity .  R ailro ad .  F in e   re so rt,  elec­
tric  
if 
w an te d .  A d d ress  N o.  583,  c a re   M ichigan
T ra d esm an .___________________________583  _
F o r  S ale—B uilding  occupied  successfully 
fo r  s ix te e n   y e a rs   a s   g ro c e ry   a n d   m e a t 
m a rk e t.  O ne  of  th e   b e s t  b u sin ess  c o r­
n e rs   in   city.  P re s e n t  o cc u p a n t  w ill  lease 
p rem ises  fo r  a   y ea r,  if  p u rc h a s e r  desires. 
A d d ress  N o.  581,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s ­
m a n __________________________________ 581

T h e   only  v a rie ty   s to re  

to w n   of 
3,500;  11  fa c to rie s ;  good  fa rm in g   co u n try ; 
good  reaso n s  fo r  selling.  L ock  B ox  846, 
B elding,  M ich. 

in  a  

F o r  S ale—R etail  lu m b er  y ard .  L o cated  
in   fin est  a g ric u ltu ra l  d is tric t 
in  Ohio. 
L a rg e   te rrito ry .  A  good  in v e stm e n t.  A d­
d re ss  L ock  B ox  34,  J a c k s o n   C en ter,  Ohio.

580

579

578

C had ro n .  N eb rask a,  w a n ts  

fu rn itu re , 
d ry   goods a n d   g e n e ra l  m e rch an d ise  sto ck s. 
G re a t  open in g s  fo r  b u sin ess.  W rite   P.
B.  N e ls o n _______________  
.  F o r  Sale— B u tc h e r  a n d   m e a t  b u sin ess; 
p ro sp ero u s,  W e ste rn   P e n n sy lv a n ia   to w n ; 
$2,000  c a sh   sa v e d   each   y e a r  a fte r  k eep in g  
fam ily   a n d   p ay in g   all  expenses.  Good 
b ric k   b u ild in g ;  n ice 
liv in g   ro o m s;  good 
salesroom , 
S la u g h te r 
house,  w ith   s p rin g   w a te r  u n d e r  p re ssu re. 
E n tire   o u tfit  w ill  be 
sold  m uch  u n d e r 
value.  O w ner  w a n ts   to   re tire .  S.  M organ, 
F reed o m ,  P a . 

577
stock, 
$3.500.  L ive  tow n,  25  m iles  fro m   G rand 
R ap id s.  A pply  E .  D.  W rig h t,  c a re   M us- 
selm an   G rocery  Co.,  G ran d   R ap id s,  M ich.

F o r  Sale— F irs t-c la s s  

equipped. 

g e n e ra l 

w ell 

F o r  R e n t—S toreroom ,  tw o   floors,  38x99. 
S u ita b le  fo r  d ry   goods,  clo th in g ,  crockery, 
lig h t,  s te a m   h e a t, 
fu rn itu re ,  etc.,  good 
b est 
B ox  O,  L aG ran g e, 

la . A ddress
III._______________ 575

in   W a terlo o , 

lo catio n  

T o  E x c h a n g e —C hicago  su b u rb an , 

im ­
pro v ed   a n d   v a c a n t  re a l  e s ta te ;  a lso   tw o 
fa rm s   fo r  sto ck   of  m erch an d ise.  D escribe 
B ldg.,
y o u r  s to c k   fully. 
M em phis,  T en n . 
574

126 R an d o lp h  

a n d  
im p ro v ed   o r  v a c a n t 

T o  E x c h an g e— $16,000  w o rth   of  m a n u ­
fo rm u la 
fa c tu re d   m e rc h a n d ise  
to  
m a k e  a   su ccessfu l  b u sin ess  proposition. 
W a n t 
re a l  e s ta te , 
fa rm s  o r  tim b e r  la n d ;  d escrib e  fully  for 
an sw e r. 
126  R andolph  B ldg.,  M em phis, 
T en n . 

573

tin   shop, 

F o r  Sale—G ood  p a y in g   h a rd w a re   sto ck  
an d  
lo cated   a t   c o rn e r  O tta w a  
a n d   C oldbrook  s tre e ts ,  G ran d   R ap id s.  N o 
o th e r  h a rd w a re   s to re   w ith in   seven  blocks. 
S to ck   w ill  in v e n to ry   a b o u t  $1.600.  Good
re a so n s  fo r  selling.  E n q u ire   T.  S ta d t  & 
Sons,  319  W e st  L e o n ard   S t._________ 566

F o r  S ale—O ne  p a ir  of  h ig h   bred,  stro n g  
fo u r 
a n d   ra c y -b u ilt 
m o n th s  old,  $30  each   o r  $50  fo r  th e   p air. 
S a tisfa c tio n   g u a ra n te e d  
r e ­
funded.  J o e   Shill,  W in am ac , 

fox  h o u n d   pu p s, 

o r  m oney 

Ind.  565

A  firs t-c la s s  

a n d   u p -to -d a te   g en e ra l 
s to re   in   one  of  th e   b est  villages  in  W e s t­
in v e n to rie s  ab o u t 
ern   W isconsin;  sto ck  
$7,000.  N o  tra d e .  A lso  a   v e ry   nice  h a rd ­
w a re   sto c k   w ith   s to re   building,  w a re ­
house,  etc.,  a  ra re   ch a n ce  fo r  th e   rig h t 
m an . 
I t  w ill  ta k e   ab o u t  $8,000  to   h an d le 
th is,  b u t  it  is  b e tte r  th a n   a   b an k .  N o 
tra d e .  A  fine  o p ening  fo r  th e   rig h t  p a rty . 
W .  E.  W e b ste r,  H u d so n ,  W is.________ 568

$650  buys  ice  cream ,  lu n c h   a n d   b a z a a r 
b u sin ess.  R e n t  $2  p e r  w eek.  T h e   L ittle  
G em ,  S ta n to n ,  M ich.__________________567

G round-floor  m a n u fa c tu rin g  p ro p o sitio n ; 
O hio.  G ross  p ro fits  100  p e r  cen t.  P ro d u c t 
stap le,  d e m an d   enorm ous,  serv ices  o p ­
tio n al,  $3,000. 
F .  C.  B en jam in ,  R om eo, 
M ich.__________________________________ 569

S to ck s 

W e  a re   re tirin g   fro m   b u sin ess  a n d   o f­
fe r  fo r  sale  o u r  d e p a rtm e n t  sto re s.  T h e 
b e s t  p ay in g   s to re s   in   a n y   sm all  to w n   in 
S o u th e rn   M ichigan. 
co n sist  of 
clo th in g ,  shoes,  d ry   goods,  ca rp e ts,  m il­
lin ery ,  etc.  C an  be  red u ced   to   a b o u t  $10,- 
000.  W ill  sell  a ll  to   one  p a r ty   o r  d ry  
goods  o r  clo th in g   d e p a rtm e n t  s e p a ra te . 
A   b ig   ch a n ce  fo r  th e   rig h t  p a rty .  N o 
tra d e rs   n eed   apply.  T e rm s,  sp o t  cash.  If 
in te re s te d   a d d re s s   M.  H .  S.,  c a re   M ichi­
gan  Tradesm an. 

570

B est  w holesale  b ak e ry  

in   S o u th ern  
M ichigan,  doing  good  b u sin ess;  a ll  u p - 
to -d a te   m a ch in ery ,  in clu d in g   N o.  4  M id- 
dleby  oven.  W ill  sell  ch e ap   if  ta k e n   a t 
once. 
J.  L.  T h o m as,  190  W e st  M ain  St., 
Jack so n ,  M ich._______________________ 571

Shoe  S to ck s  W a n te d —W e  p ay   c a sh   fo r 
e n tire   sto ck s  of  shoes.  A d d ress  G.  M. 
M cK elvey  &  Co.,  Y oungstow n,  O hio.  584
C ash  fo r  your  stock.  Our  business  is 
closing  out  stocks  of  goods  or  m aking 
sales  for  m erchants  a t  your  own  place  of 
business,  private  or  auction.  W e  clean 
out  all  old  dead  stickers  and  m ake  you a 
profit.  W rite  for  inform ation.  Chas.  L 
Yost  &  Co..  D etroit.  Mich.________ 250

For  Sale—480  acres  of  cut-over  h ard ­
wood  land,  th ree  miles  north  of  Thom p- 
sonville.  House  and  barn  on  premises. 
Pere  M arquette  R ailroad  runs  across  one 
corner  of  land.  Very  desirable  for stock 
raising  or  potato  growing.  W ill 
ex­
change  for  stock  of  m erchandise.  C.  C 
Tuxbury.  28  M orris  Ave..  South.  G rand 
Rapids.  Mich.____________________  

835

F o r  Sale—G ood  clean   d ru g   sto ck ,  doing 
good  b u sin ess  a t  sm all  expense.  O w ner 
in  po o r  h ea lth ,  m u s t  q u it.  D on’t   w rite  
unless  you  h av e  m oney  a n d   m e an   b u s i­
ness.  A d d ress  N o.  555,  c a re   M ichigan 
T ra d esm an .______________________ 

555

F o r  Sale— A  sto c k   of  im p lem en ts  an d  
location,  s itu a te d   in   C e n tra l  K a n sa s,  15 
m iles  fro m   co u n ty   s e a t,  a n d   th e   only  Im ­
p le m en t  h o u se  th e re .  G ood  re a so n s  fo r 
selling.  W ill  give  tim e   to   s u it  p u rc h a se r, 
w ith   reaso n a b le   in te re s t. 
fu rth e r
in fo rm atio n   w rite   F .  T .  S t.  Jo h n ,  F re d ­
erick ,  R ice  Co..  K a n sa s.______________556

F o r 

a n d  

s to c k  

p la n ta tio n  

In v e stm e n ts—I  h a v e   g ilt-e d g e   oil. 

in ­
p ay in g
d u s tria l 
from   7  to   15  p e r  cen t,  d iv id en d s;  rig id   in ­
v e stig a tio n   co u rted . 
o th e r 
J .  F .  W a ite ,  S u ite  730, 
refe re n c e s  given. 
189  L aS alle  S t.,  C hicago, 
For  Sale—Cash  grocery;  good  location 
for  meat  also;  stock  $1,000.  Object  of 
selling,  change  of  business.  Box  445, 
Whiting.  Ind.____________________ 552

111.______553

B a n k  

a n d  

W e  h a v e   c a sh   cu sto m e r  fo r  good  m e a t 
m a rk e t  in   good  tow n.  N u m b er  of  fa rm s 
| to   tra d e   fo r  sto ck s  of  goods.  S to res  in 
good  to w n s  to   re n t.  C la rk ’s  B u sin ess  E x ­
ch an g e,  23  M onroe,  G ran d   R ap id s,  M ich.

551

A  N ew   Y ork  c o rp o ratio n   d e sire s  th e   a s ­
so ciatio n   of  a   m a n   of  e n e rg y   a n d   som e 
c a p ita l  to   ta k e   c h a rg e   of  local  te rrito ry  
fo r  a  
le g itim a te   m e rc a n tile   proposition. 
M erch an d isin g   Co., 
425  P u tm a n   A ve., 
B rooklyn,  N .  Y.______________________ 550

•F or  S ale—C lean  h a rd w a re   s to c k   e s ta b ­
lish ed   15  y ea rs.  O n  ex c elle n t  b u sin ess 
S to re  is  co n ­
c o rn e r  in   G ran d   R ap id s. 
du cted   in   co n n ectio n   w ith   la rg e   g en e ra l 
stock,  b u t 
S tock 
w ill  in v e n to ry   ab o u t  $4,000.  R e n t  of  sto re  
reaso n ab le. 
to   b e  ag re e d   upon. 
A ddress  N o.  545,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d e s- 
nm n.__________ ________________________ 545

in  s e p a ra te   building. 

T e rm s 

W a n te d —A  good  m a n  

lo c ate  h ere 
an d   b u y   live  stock.  N o  b e tte r  location 
in  M ichigan.  F o r  p a rtic u la rs   a d d re s s   E.
H .  W e sto n ,  o r  R .  D.  L e tts ,  B a n n iste r, 
M ich.__________________________________ 541

to  

F o r  Sale— S to ck   g en e ra l  m e rc h a n d ise   in 
b e st  m in in g   to w n  
in   M in n eso ta,  In v en ­
to ry in g   a b o u t  $20,000. 
to 
s u it  b uyer.  G ood  re a s o n s   fo r  selling.  W ill 
re n t  sto re.  A d d ress  N o.  547,  c a re   M ichi­
g a n   T ra d e sm a n . 

red u ce 

C an 

547

C alifo rn ia  d e p a rtm e n t  s to re  

fo r  sale ; 
lo c ated   in  one  of  th e   b e s t  c itie s  of  S o u th ­
ern   C alifo rn ia;  sto ck   $25.000;  n o   c a rp e ts  
o r  m illin ery ;  do in g   $300  ca sh   d aily   on 
I p ro fitab le  b a sis;  b e s t  c lim a te  on  e a rth ; 
good  reaso n s  fo r  selling.  A d d ress  H .  W . 
F .  L in to n ,  L os  A ngeles,  C al. 

557

F o r  Sale—Good  clean  sto ck   of  h a rd ­
w are. 
im p lem en ts,  fu rn itu re   an d   u n d e r­
ta k in g   in  a n   u p -to -d a te   N o rth e rn   M ichi­
g an  to w n   (L o w er  P e n in su la ).  M u st  close 
deal  in  five  w eeks.  S tock  a n d   re a l  e s ta te  
ab o u t  $5,000.  W ill  g ive  good  deal.  P a r ­
tic u la rs   a d d re s s   S.  B.  Co.,  M ichigan 
T ra d esm an . 

559

F o r  Sale— Shoe  a n d   m e n ’s  fu rn is h in g  
I s to re   in  one  of  th e   b e s t  to w n s  in  W e ste rn  
P en n sy lv an ia.  T ow n  of  8,000  p o p u latio n , 
iron  m ills  a n d   fo u n d ry   em ploying  3,000 
m en.  M onthly  p a y -ro ll  am o u n ts  to   $200, 
000.  S tock  a n d   fix tu res 
invoice  $8,500. 
A nnual  c a sh   b u sin ess  $22,000.  B e st  room  
on  m o st  p ro m in e n t 
tow n. 
$7,000  c a sh  
to   a   quick  b u y e r  ta k e s   th e  
sto ck   a n d   fix tu res.  R ea so n   fo r  selling, 
tim e   all  occupied  in   o th e r  b u sin ess.  A d­
d re ss  M.  E .  U n cap p er,  V a n d e rg rift,  W e s t­
m o re lan d   C ounty,  Pa. 

c o rn e r 

560

in  

F o r  R e n t—H a v in g   re tire d   from   b u s i­
ness,  I  w ill  re n t  m y  double  s to re s   fro n t­
ing  on  tw o  s tre e ts ;  b ric k   w ith   p la te -g la ss  
fro n t;  su ita b le   fo r  g e n e ra l  m erch an d ise 
b u sin ess;  one  room   25x100  feet,  double 
decked;  o th e r  room   25x28  feet,  fro n tin g  
on  side  s tre e t.  A d d ress  J .  T.  H a n n a fo rd ,  I 
M orrilton,  A rk.________________________499 
j
S to res  B o u g h t  an d   Sold—I  sell  sto re s  j 
an d  
I  ex ch an g e 
If  you  w a n t  to   buy,  sell 
s to re s   fo r  land. 
o r  exch an g e,  it  w ill  p ay   you  to   w rite   m e. 
F ra n k   P.  C leveland,  1261  A dam s  E x p re ss 
Bldg.,  C hicago,  111.____________________511

real  e s ta te   fo r  cash . 

F o r  Sale—A s  w e  w ish  to   giv e  o u r  e n tire  
a tte n tio n  
to   o u r  ele v a to r  b u sin ess,  w e 
w ill  sell  o u r  sto c k   of  sh o es  a n d   g roceries. 
N o  dead  sto ck ,  good  p ro fits,  a n d   a   m oney 
m ak er.  E lsie  is   th e   b e s t  to w n   in   C en­
tra l  M ichigan.  No 
considered. 
In v e s tig a te   if  you  a re   looking  fo r  a   p a y ­
in g   bu sin ess.  H a n k in s   B ros.,  E lsie,  M ich. 
_______________________________________ 412

tra d e s  

G eneral  sto c k s  b o u g h t  a n d   sold.  T h e 

B o sto n   S tore,  T ra v e rse   C ity,  M ich.  501

T ru s te e   Sale— T h e  sto ck   of  h a rd w a re  
goods 
la te ly   belonging  to   W .  H .  S ease  is 
now   fo r  sale  to   s a tisfy   claim   of  c red ito rs,  i 
L ocation  a   good  one.  D ouble  s to re   b u ild ­
in g   a n d   sm all  sto ck .  T e rm s  of  sale,  cash. 
F u r th e r   p a rtic u la rs   en q u ire  o r  w rite   C.  S. 
P a lm e rto n ,  T ru ste e ,  W oodland,  M ich.  500  I
fo r  exclusive  shoe  | 

W a n te d — L ocation 

an d   g e n ts ’  fu rn is h in g   sto re .  P o p u latio n
to   3,000.  B ox  33,  C apac,  M ich.  478
1,000 
W anted—To  buy  stock  of  m erchandise 
from   $4,000  to  $30,000  for  cash.  Address 
No.  253.  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.  253

F o r  Sale—A  s to c k   of  d ry   goods  an d  
g e n ts ’  fu rn is h in g   goods,  in   a   re s o rt  tow n. 
W ill  invoice  a b o u t  $4,500.  A d d ress  B.  C., 
c a re   M ichigan  T ra d e sm a n . 

528

S tock 

e sta b lish ed  

F o r  Sale—O ldest 

in   M ayfield,  K y. 
J a n . 

g ro cery  
P o p u latio n  
b u sin ess 
5,000. 
1905, 
1st, 
$3,000;  ca n   red u ce  to   $2,000  if  n e c essary  
for  p u rc h a se r.  Sold  $50,000  la s t  y e a r  fo r 
cash .  F o r  p a rtic u la rs   a d d re s s   R.  D.  R o b ­
e rtso n ,  M ayfield,  K y. 

invoiced 

526

F o r  S ale—A  $5,000  stock  of  clothing  and 
gen ts’  furnishing  goods  in  one  of  th e  best 
county  se a t  tow ns  in  Michigan.  Population
1.500.  No trades,  cash  only.  B est  of  reasons 
for  selling.  A ddress  No.  564,  ca re  Michigan 
Tradesm an._____________________________ 561

s to c k  

g e n e ra l 

F o r  Sale—C lean 

in  N o rth e rn   M ichigan, 

an d  
fra m e   s to re   building,  lo c ated   a t   ra ilw a y  
p o in t 
trib u ta ry  
to   g ro w in g   fa rm in g   co u n try .  O nly  sto re  
in  tow n.  S to ck   in v e n to rie s  a b o u t  $1,500. 
to   s u it  p u rc h a se r.  A d d ress  N o. 
T e rm s 
561,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d e sm a n . 
D rug  stock  in  hustling  town  of  600.  In-  | 
voice  $3,450. 
if 
taken  by 
June  1st. 
location  and  profitable  | 
business.  B est  reasons  for  retiring.  Ad­
dress  X,  care  M ichigan  T radesm an.  535

Price  $2.500 

Fine 

561

to  

W a n te d —C apable 

cover 
line.  H ig h   com ­
M ichigan  w ith   s ta p le  
m issions,  w ith   ad v a n ce  of  $100  m o nthly. 
P e rm a n e n t  p o sitio n   to   rig h t  m a n . 
Je ss.
H.  S m ith   Co.,  D etro it,  M ich.________ 524

sale sm an  

W a n te d — S e c re ta ry  

fo r  m in in g   e n te r­
p rise ;  re fe re n c e ;  only  p erso n s  o f  ab ility , 
push  a n d   c a sh   need  ap ply.  A d d ress  a t 
once.  L ock  B ox  291,  L a n sin g ,  M ich.  533 
S alesm an   W a n te d —A   sa le sm a n   by  a  
w holesale  g ro cery   h o u se  th a t  sells  d ire c t 
to   co n su m ers.  A d d ress  W holesale,  B ox 
487,  Ja c k so n .  M ich. 

___________543

A U C TIO N E E R S  AN D   TR A D ER S.

H .  C.  F e rry   &  Co.,  A u ctio n eers.  T h e 
lead in g   sale s  com p an y   of  th e   U .  S.  W e 
ca n   sell  y o u r  re a l  e s ta te ,  o r  a n y   s to c k   of 
goods,  in  a n y   p a r t  of  th e   c o u n try .  O u r 
m eth o d   of  a d v e rtis in g   “ th e   b e s t.”  O ur 
" te rm s ”  a re   rig h t.  O ur  m en  a re   g e n tle ­
m en.  O ur  sale s  a re   a   success.  O r  w e 
w ill  bu y   y o u r 
324 
D earb o rn   S t.,  C hicago,  111.___________ 490

sto ck .  W rite   us, 

M ISCELLAN EOU S.

T h e  K o e ste r  S ch o o l  of  W indow   D re ss­
ing,  1110  R epublic  B ldg.,  C hicago,  gives 
p erso n al  in s tru c tio n   in  w indow   trim m in g . 
D ay  an d   n ig h t  courses.  W rite   fo r  e ir-
cula r   a n d   te rm s._____________________ 572

Stop! 

If  o u t  of  w ork,  o r  n o t  satisfied  
w ith   y o u r  p re s e n t  p o sitio n   a n d   w ould  like 
to   m a k e  m ore  m oney,  sen d   fo r  o u r  fre e  
d esc rip tiv e   p o rtra it  c irc u la r  a n d   ta lk   to  
a g e n ts. 
“ C hes”  P ic tu re   Co.,  1053  M onroe
S t.,  C hicago.  III.______________________ 563

To  E x c h an g e— 80  a c re   fa rm   3V4  m iles 
so u th e a st  of  Low ell.  60  a c re s   im proved,  6 
a c re s  tim b e r  an d   10  a c re s   o rc h a rd   land, 
fa ir  house  an d   good  well,  c o n v e n ien t  to 
good  school, 
fo r  sto ck   of  g en e ra l  m e r­
ch a n d ise   s itu a te d   in  a   good  tow n.  R eal 
e s ta te   is  w o rth   ab o u t  $2,500.  C o rresp o n ­
d ence  solicited.  K onkle  A   Son,  A lto.
M ic H  

SMI

W a n t  A ds.  co n tin u ed   on  n e x t  p ag e

TH E   A U C TIO N EER   WHO 

N E V ER   HAS  HAD 

A  FAILU R E.

W e  g e t  th e   re a d y   c a sh   you 
need  in  y our  b u sin ess  an d  
do  n o t 
lo w er  y o u r  s ta n d ­
in g  
co m m u n ity . 
th e  
in  
W rite   to -d a y .

R.  H.  B.  M ACRORIE 

AU CTION  CO., 

_____ Davenport,  la.____

MAKE  US  PROVE  IT

F o r  Sale— H ouse  an d   lo t, 

also   b la c k ­
s m ith   shop  do in g   good  b u sin e ss;  reaso n  
fo r  selling,  poor  h ea lth .  A d d ress  A.  W . 
H.  L ad ew ig ,  B au er,  M ich. 

534

W a n te d —T o  re n t  fo r 

te rm   of  y ea rs, 
sto re  
fo r  g en e ra l  m e rch an d ise 
in  good 
to w n  
in  C e n tral  M ichigan.  W ould  p u r­
ch a se   sm all  sto c k   to   se cu re  location.  A d­
d re ss  N o.  532,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d esm an .

532

T o  E x c h an g e— F in e  

fa rm in g  
land.  W ill 
tra d e   a t   a c tu a l  c a sh   v alue 
fo r  s to c k   good 
o r 
h ard w are.  F o r  p a rtic u la rs   a d d re ss  E .  G. 
R einsch,  S tu ttg a rt,  A rk.  ___________ 531

clean   m e rch an d ise 

p ra irie  

F o r  R en t— S to re  room ,  tw o   floors.  38x90. 
S u ita b le  fo r  d ry   goods,  clo th in g ,  crockery, 
lig h t,  s te a m   h ea t, 
fu rn itu re ,  e tc .;  good 
b e s t  lo catio n  
la .  A d d ress 
B ox  O,  L a g ran g e.  111.________________ 522

in   W aterlo o , 

F o r  Sale—M ichigan 

p ecially  m aple,  elm   a n d   a sh . 
C adillac.  M ich.____________________ 

h ard w o o d s; 

e s ­
J .  S.  G oldie, 

558

F o r  S ale—S m all  sto ck   of  g ro ceries  a n d  
n o tio n s,  lo c ated   in  th e   th riv in g   to w n   of 
M artin ,  A llegan  C ounty.  G ood  reaso n  fo r 
selling.  W rite   o r  en q u ire  of  E d w a rd   J . 
A nderson,  P lain w ell,  M ich. 

539

H EL P  W ANTED.

W a n te d —A n  ag e n t,  e ith e r  sex,  in   each  
to w n   to   sell  h ig h   g ra d e   s h ir t  w a is t  m a ­
te ria ls   a n d   la d ies’  s u itin g s   by  th e   y a rd ;  it 
is  a   m oney  m a k e r  fo r  th e   a g e n t;  tr y   it. 
D ire c t  C loth  Co.,  2623  O live  S t.,  S t.  L ouis, 
Mo.____________________________________ 549

S ale sm an   to   c a rry   a   good  side  lin e th a t 
w ill  p a y   tra v e lin g   exp en ses. 
to  
h o u se  fu rn ish in g ,  g e n e ra l  a n d   h a rd w a re  
sto res.  P o c k e t  m odel  free.  S eason  now  
on.  N o v elty   Mfg.  Co.,  Ottawa,  111.  339

Sells 

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Battle  Creek,  May 

16— “Forward 
an 
march”  was  the  watchword  at 
enthusiastic 
largely  attended 
meeting  of  the  Battle  Creek  Business 
Men’s  Association.  The  meeting  was 
called  to  order  by  President  John  I. 
Gibson,  who  gave  a  most  interesting 
review  of 
the  work  accomplished 
during  the  past  year  and  read  ex­
tracts  from  numerous  letters  recently 
received 
large  manufacturing 
concerns  looking  to  Battle  Creek  as 
a  favorable  location  for  their business. 
These  letters 
that  Battle 
Creek  is  becoming  thoroughly  adver­
tised  and  most 
favorably  known 
through  the  well  directed  efforts  of 
the  Business  Men’s  Association  and 
its  active  and  energetic  President.  In 
the  audience  was  George  Dunham, 
Secretary  of  the  Big  Four  Printing 
Ink  Co.,  which  has  recently  located 
in  this  city  through  the  influence  of 
the  Business  Men’s  Association.  He 
was  called  upon  and  stated  that  he 
knew  well,  both  from  experience  and 
observation,  that 
the  Battle  Creek 
Business  Men’s  Association 
stands 
high  outside  of  Battle  Creek  and  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  progres­
sive,  enterprising  and  up-to-date  com 
mercial  organizations  in  the  country.
At  the  suggestion  of  the  President 
the  subject  of  the  rating  book  and 
the  collection  department  was 
con­
sidered  somewhat  at  length.  A  gen­
eral  discussion  followed  in  which  L 
W.  Robinson,  L.  M.  Schroder,  Aider- 
man  F.  C.  Wakeham,  F.  W.  Gage,  L.
B.  Anderson,  W.  D.  Farley,  L.  A. 
Dudley,  E.  L.  Branson,  Howard 
Kneeland  and  others  took  part.  The 
general  cansensus  of  opinion  devei- 
oped  was  that  the  rating  book  fea­
ture  of  the  Association,  while  present­
ing  some  difficulties,  is  a  valuable  ad­
junct  of  the  organization’s  work,  but 
that  the  collection  department  has 
proved  a  hindrance  to  its  usefulness 
and  should  be  abandoned.  According­
ly  a  resolution  providing  for 
the  dis­
continuance  of  this  department  was 
unanimously  adopted.  Occasionally 
in  the  discussion  some  one  would  in­
cidentally  refer  to  recent  rumors  that 
the  Business  Men’s  Association  was 
about  to  disband.  No  toleration  was 
given  to  this  thought  whatever.  On 
senti­
the  contrary,  the  unanimous 
ment  of  those  present  was  that 
the 
good  work  of 
“boosting  Battle 
Creek,”  which  has  been  done  by  the 
Association  in  the  past,  and  especially 
of  late,  shall  be  pushed  with  even 
greater  energy  than  ever  before. 
In 
harmony  with  this  determined  spir­
resolution  was  unanimously 
it,  a 
adopted  instructing 
the  Executive 
Board  to  at  once  formulate  definite 
plans  for  next  year’s  vigorous  cam­
paign  and  also  for  providing  adequate 
means  for  its  successful  prosecution.
The  resolution  also  instructed  the 
Board  to  include  in  its  plans  the  se­
curing  of  the  very  ablest  and  fittest 
men  to  be  found  for  properly  officer­
ing  the  Association.

When  the  resolutions  had  been 
adopted  Attorney  Burritt  Hamilton 
was  called  out  and  gave  a  rousing 
speech  in  appreciation  of  the  good

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

which  is  being  accomplished  by  the 
Business  Men’s  Association  and 
its 
faithful  and  aggressive  President, who 
has  loyally  devoted  to  the  interests  of 
the  city  months  of  valuable  time and, 
almost  without  resources,  has  adver­
tised  Battle  Creek  throughout  the 
country  as  this  city  never  has  been 
before  and  also  succeeded  in  locating 
in  our  midst  several  important  indus­
tries,  the  American  Cereal  Co., 
the 
Big  Four  Printing  Ink  Co.,  Lutz  & 
Schramm  pickiing  plant  and  others 
in  prospect,  all  of  which  are  of  last­
ing  benefit  to  all  classes  of  our  citi­
zens,  business  and  professional  men, 
real  estate  dealers,  manufacturers and 
working  men.

The  speaker  urged  the  importance 
of  the  work  of  the  Association  being 
systematized  and  enough  money  be­
ing  put  back  of  its  work  so  that  a 
regular  follow-up  card  system could 
be  installed  and  sufficient  stenograph­
ic  force  employed  so  that  every  en­
quiry  received  could  be  persistently 
kept  after  until  the  concern  making 
such  enquiry  should  become  an  estab­
lished  industry  of  our 
city.  The 
work  of  committees  should  also  be 
better  and  more  effectively  organized 
and  every  member  should  be  made 
to  feel  his 
individual  responsibility.
The  work  done  by  the  Business 
Men’s  Association  the  past  year,  at a 
low  estimate,  has  been  worth  $100,000 
to  the  people  of  Battle  Creek.  Should 
not  therefore  we  produce  the  paltry 
sum  needed  to  back  the  organization 
and  should  not  every 
loyal  citizen 
rally  to 
support  with  all  his 
strength,  mind,  might,  and  so  much 
of  his  money  as  may  be  necessary  to 
make 
the  Battle  Creek  Business 
Men’s  Association  the  most  active 
and  efficient  organization  of  its  kind 
in  the  country?  That  the  meeting 
was  in  hearty  accord  with  the  speaker 
was  shown  by  the  generous  applause 
that  punctuated  his  eloquent  periods.

its 

Look  Forward  To  a  Successful 

Year.

Kalamazoo,  May  15— At  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Kalamazoo  Grocers’ 
Association 
following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  coming  year:

the 

President— J.  A.  Steketee.
Vice-President— J.  E.  Van  Boch- 

ove.

Secretary— H.  J.  Schaberg.
Treasurer— Frank  Toonder.
Resolutions  were  passed  endorsing 
the  closing  Sunday  “all  day”  move­
ment;  the  State  Treasurer  for  send­
ing  a  man  here  from  his  department 
to  investigate  the  violations  of  the 
State  law  regarding  the  huckster and 
peddler  license;  the  discouragement 
of  the  “box  car”  merchants  and  the 
proposed  civil  service  bill  as  suggest­
ed  by  the  Retail  Grocers’  Protective 
Association  of  Washington,  D.  C.

The  meeting  was  well  attended  and 
the  Association  looks  forward  to  a 
very  successful  year.

H.  J.  Schaberg,  Sec’y.

A  man  must  be  short  on  character 
when  he  has  to  assert  himself  by 
clothes.

Half  an  evil  eye  can  see  more  in­
iquity  than  the  whole  of  an  innocent 
one.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Mancelona— Frank  Priest  has  en­
gaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars.
Plainwell— F.  H.  Robinson  has  en­
cigar  manufacturing 

gaged  in  the 
business.

Portland— E.  A.  Richards  has  open­
ed  a  cigar  factory  in  a  building  on 
Maple  street.

Detroit— The  Detroit  Steel  Prod­
capital 

ucts  Co.  has 
stock  from  $50,000  to  $75,000.

increased  its 

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of  the 
Pioneer  Woolen  Mills  has  been  in­
creased  from  $150,000  to  $200,000.

Port  Huron—The  Empire  Produce 
Co.  has  installed  machinery  for  the 
purpose  of  engaging  extensively  in 
the  manufacture  of  ice  cream,  which 
it  will  undertake  to  distribute  all  over 
the  State.

Escanaba— A   stock  company  is  to 
be  organized  to  manufacture  Blood- 
berry  gum,  first  put  on  the  market 
by  Sourwine  &  Hartnett.  This  gum 
has  been  a  good  seller  ever  since  it 
was  introduced.

Bay  City— John  Faulkner,  the pro­
moter  of  the  Solvay  Chemical  Co.  in 
St.  Louis,  is  here  to  establish  a  simi­
lar  plant  and  asserts  that  he  is  meet­
ing  with  no  trouble  in  securing  the 
necessary  $600,000  capital.

in  full  operation  employs  over  200 
hands.  The  institution  manufactures 
tubs,  pails,  packages,  etc.

Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry,  Beans  and  Po­

tatoes  at  Buffalo.

Buffalo,  May  17— Creamery,  20@ 
22c;  dairy,  fresh,  ig@ 2ic;  poor,  i6@ 
18c.

Eggs— Fresh,  I7@ i7/4 c.
Live  Poultry— Fowls,  14c;  ducks, 

I5@ i6c;  geese,  12c.

Dressed  Poultry— Turkeys,  i7@2oc; 
14(3)150;  old 

chicks,  I5@ i6c; 
cox,  11c;  ducks,  I5@ i 6c.

fowls, 

Beans.— Hand  picked  marrows, new, 
$2.75 @2.85;  mediums,  $2.15;  peas, 
$i .75@i .8o;  red  kidney,  $2.5o@2.6o; 
white  kidney,  $2.75@2.90.

Potatoes— Round  white,  25(3)300; 

mixed  and  red,  23@25c.

Rea  &  Witzig.

Habit  may  be  one  of  our  best 
allies  as.  well  as  one  of  our  worst 
enemies.

Sometimes  the  church  that  is  pray­
ing  for  showers  of  blessing  only needs 
a  thaw.

Gladstone— The 

South  Western 
Lumber  &  Box  Co.  has  been  incor­
porated  for  the  purpose  of  dealing I 
in  timber  and  logs,  with  an  authorized I 
capital  stock  of  $500,000,  of  which 
$250,000  is  subscribed  and  paid  in.

Hartford— Wm.  M.  Traver  has 
purchased  a  site  of  Charles  W.  Hil­
liard  on  the  north  side  of  the  Pere 
Marquette  tracks,  between  Center  and 
Maple  streets,  and  will  erect  a  third 
canning factory  here  in  time  for  oper­
ation  this  season.

Zeeland— A  corporation  has  been 
formed  under  the  style  of  the  Star 
Furniture  Co.,  which  will  manufac­
ture  furniture.  The  company  is  cap­
italized  at  $30,000,  of  which  $15,600 
is  subscribed  and  $1,320  paid  in 
in 
cash  and  $9,000  in  property.

Marshall— A  corporation  has  been 
formed  under  the  style  of  the  Foote 
Axle  Burr  Co.,  which  will  manufac 
ture  axles,  nuts,  tools  and  appliances. 
The  company  is  capitalized  at  $100, 
000,  of  which  amount  $60,000  has been 
subscribed  and  $13,000  paid 
in 
property.

in 

Pontiac— The  Pontiac  Cigar  Co. 
has  been  organized  and  is  now  doing 
business  at  39  North  Saginaw  street. 
The  members  of  the  firm  are  Charles 
PI.  Sipley  and  Wm.  C.  Alward, both 
w ell  known  cigar  men  who  have  been 
with  the  Mascotte  Cigar  Co.  for  a 
number  of  years.

Escanaba— The  Stack-Gibbs  Lum­
ber  Co.  has  been  incorporated  for the 
purpose  of  doing  a  general  lumbering 
business,  operations  to  be  carried  on 
at  Spokane,  Washington.  The  cor­
poration  has  an  authorized 
capital 
stock  of  $250,000,  all  of  which  has 
been  subscribed  and  paid  in  in  cash.
Bay  City— R.  Meister  &  Son  have 
purchased  the  American  Fibre  Co.’s 
plant  at  Saginaw  and  there  is  a  pros­
pect  that  the  machinery  will  be  re­
moved  to  this  city.  The  works  cover 
a  space  of  nineteen  acres  and  when

BU SIN ESS  C H A N C E S.

F o r  S a le —B akery.  Good  location.  Doing 
nice business.  Apply to  Judson G rocer Co.  589 
F o r  Sale—G rocery  a n d   m e a t  sto ck .  B e st 
s to re   in   c ity   of  P o n tia c .  B e s t  lo c atio n , 
b e s t  tra d e .  S to ck   a b o u t  $2,000.  R ea so n  
fo r  selling,  g o in g  o u t  W e st.  A d d ress  o r call
on  B.  V.  W oodw ard,  M an ag er._____ 587

F o r  S ale—150  c a ses  M aine  corn,  L ilac 
b ra n d ,  p ac k ed   b y   B a th   C a n n in g   Co., 
B ru n sw ick ,  M e.;  w ra p p e r  la b els  a n d   ti s ­
su e  w ra p p e d ;  th e re   is  n o   b e tte r   p ack ed . 
W rite   fo r  p ric es  to   R .  S ch eetz,  N o rris -
to w n ,  P a ._____________________________ 588

F o r  Sale—In   to w n   of  350  on  ra ilro a d , 
su rro u n d e d   by  fine  fa rm in g   c o u n try ;  tw o - 
s to ry   s to re   a n d   b a s e m e n t;  u p p e r  s to ry  
liv in g   room s,  h ard w o o d   finish,  b a th   room , 
p riv a te   w a te r  sy stem .  O ne  s to ry   office 
co n n ected   w ith   s to re ;  b o th   ste a m   h eated, 
a n d   lig h ted   by  a c ety le n e  g as.  H o rse  b a rn  
a n d   c a rria g e   h o u se  on  lo t,  a lso   s to ra g e   on 
tra c k . 
S u ita b le  fo r  h a rd w a re   o r  o th e r 
s to re   o r  p ro d u ce  b u sin ess.  G ood  opening. 
G raded  school  a n d   b an k .  R easo n   fo r  se ll­
ing,  o th e r  b u sin ess.  T e rm s   reaso n ab le. 
A d d ress  L.  T.  D .,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s ­
m a n ^ ________________________________ 350

la m p s  a n d   cro ck e ry , 

W a n te d — S to ck   of  g e n e ra l  m e rc h a n d ise  
o r  clo th in g   o r  shoes.  G ive  fu ll  p a rtic u ­
la rs.  A d d ress  " C a s h ,”  c a re   T ra d e sm a n .
_     _______________________________ 324
F o r  Sale—A   good  clean   sto c k   o f  g ro ­
in  
lo c ated  
ceries, 
in  
one  o f  th e   b rig h te s t  b u sin e ss 
to w n s 
C e n tra l  M ichigan.  H a s  
lig h ts, 
w a te r  w o rk s  a n d   telep h o n e  sy ste m ,  p o p u ­
la tio n   1,500  a n d   su rro u n d e d   b y   splen d id  
is  s itu a te d  
fa rm in g   co m m u n ity . 
on  p o p u la r  sid e  of  th e   s tre e t  a n d   o n e  of 
th e   fin est 
th e   s tre e t.  N o 
tra d e s   w ill  be  e n te rta in e d ,  b u t  re a so n s 
fo r  sellin g   w ill  be  e n tire ly   s a tis fa c to ry   to  
th e   p u rc h a s e r.  A d d ress  N o.  422,  c a re  
M ichigan  T ra d e sm a n . 

lo c atio n s  on 

e le c tric  

S to re  

422

M ining  In v e s to rs   A tte n tio n !  F o r  sale, 
u n liste d   tre a s u ry   sto c k s   o f  m e rit.  C h ris 
S lagle,  B ox  120,  P a rk   C ity,  U ta h . 

585

POSITION S  W A N TE D .

W a n te d —P o sitio n  

an d  
w indow   trim m e r.  A ll  a ro u n d   m a n .  E ig h t 
y e a rs ’  ex p e rien ce  in   sh o e  b u sin ess.  T h re e  
y e a rs   in   d ry   goods,  fu rn ish in g s,  etc .  A d- 
d re ss  L u th e r  A rm e n tro u t,  N ebo.  111. 
586

s a le sm a n  

a s  

Bankrupt  Sale

T he  S to ck   of  G eneral  H ardw are,  A gricul­
tu ral  Im plem ents,  W ire  Fencing.  S to re  F ix­
tures,  N otes  and  Book  A ccounts  of  Ivan  C. 
Elsbey,  bankrupt,  Rockford,  M ich., a re  offered 
fo r private  sale.  On  Ju n e  3d,  10  a. m „  a t  th e 
village  of  Rockford,  any  of  th e   above  prop­
erty  rem aining unsold,  and  th e  real  e s ta te   of 
bankrupt,  will be sold a t auction.

The stock  is  in  ex cellen t  shape. 

and appraisal m ay be seen  a t my office.

Inventory 

C. 

45  Pearl  S t. 

A.  RENWICK,  Trustee 
Grand  Rapids

