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Twenty-Second  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  24,  1905

Number  1131

William  Connor,  Proo. 

Joooph  8.  Hoffman,  lot Vloo-Proo. 

William Aldon 8mlth,  2d  Vloo-Proo.
M.  C.  Hugg&tt,  8eoy-Treasurtr

The  William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE  CLOTHING 

MANUFACTURER?

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Our Spring  and  Summer  samples  for  1905  now 
showing.  Every 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 
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Commercial 
Credit  Co.,

. 

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upon  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
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every  trader.  C.  E.  McCRONE,  M anager.

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of

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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withdrawn from sale with the  exception of 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.
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GRAND RAP/DS,MICHIGAN.

SPECIA L  FEATURES.

Page.
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4.  Around  th e  State.

G.  R.  Gossip.
Clerk’s  Corner. 
Editorial.
Commercial  M orality. 
New  York  M arket. 
Value  of  T act.
Back  to  the  Farm . 
Clothing.
M eat  Market. 
H ardw are.
E thics  of  the  Street. 
W om an’s  W orld.
Shoes.
T he  T urning  Point.
Dry  Goods.
Commercial  Travelers. 
Drugs.
Drug  Price  C urrent. 
Grocery  Price  C urrent. 
Special  Price  C urrent.

TH E   N E U T R A L IT Y   OF  FRANCE.
That  France  has  done  Russia  an  in- 
calcuable  service  and  has,  therefore 
wrought  Japan  a  corresponding  in­
jury,  is  now  perfectly  plain.  Without 
the  hospitality  accorded  Admiral  Ro- 
jestvensky’s  squadron  in  the  French 
ports  of  Madagascar,  and  later  on  of 
Indo-China,  it  would  have  been  utter­
ly  impossible  for  the  Russian  fleet 
to  have  reached  the  Far  East  in  con­
dition  to  engage  in  mortal  combat 
with  the  Japanese  with  any  chance  of 
success. 
It  is  now  not  denied  that 
the  Russian  ships  were  permitted  to 
refit  and  drill  their  crews  in  Madagas­
car  waters. 
It  is  also  not  denied  that 
Admiral  Rojestvensky  has  been  al­
lowed  to  coal  his  ships,  clean  their 
bottoms  and  take  on  provisions  in  the 
harbors  of  French  Indo-China. 
It  is 
true  that  the  French  Government, 
acting  under  pressure,  issued  instruc­
tions  to  the  colonial  authorities 
in 
China  to  prevent 
the  violation  of 
French  neutrality,  but  as  the  Russians 
paid  no  attention  to  the  warnings, and 
as  France  had  no  force  sufficient  to 
compel  obedience,  no  actual  effort 
was  made  to  interfere  with  Rojest­
vensky.

of 

having 

A  few  days  ago  a  Socialist  Deputy 
in  the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies 
interpellated  the  government  on  the 
subject  of  neutrality  and  accused  the 
Ministry 
permitted 
France’s  ports  to  be  used  for  bel­
ligerent  purposes. 
In  reply  to  the 
statement  that  French  officials  were 
instructed  to  insist  upon  neutrality 
being  maintained,  the  Deputy  men­
tioned  claimed  that  the  government 
was  under  obligation  to  enforce  its 
orders.  The  Premier  then  appealed 
to  the  Deputy  to  drop  the  subject  on 
patriotic  grounds,  and  when  he  re­
fused  a  vote  of  confidence  was  sought 
and  received,  the  Chamber  sustaining 
the  Ministry  by  an  overwhelming 
majority.  While  the  government’s 
course  was  approved,  the  fact  was 
established  that  France  has  not  en­
forced  neutrality  against  Russia,  and 
that  to  attack  that  action  is  consider­
ed  unpatriotic.

Of  course,  this  open  aid  to  Russia

is  certain  to  bring  consequences,  and 
the  French  government  is  already  be­
coming  alarmed  as  to  the  future  of 
Indo-China.  Should  Japan  finally  de­
feat  Russia,  she  will  be  in  a  position 
to  menace  Indo-China,  although there 
is  no  indication  that  such  is  her  in­
tention,  but  France’s  fears  have  be­
come  aroused.

Once  beyond  the  limits  of  French 
Indo-China,  the  Russian 
fleet  can 
hope  for  no  further  assistance  until 
it  reaches  Vladivostok.  Just  when  and 
where  it  will  encounter  the  Japanese 
fleet  no  one  can  say,  but  Admiral 
Toga  will  probably  wait  until 
the 
friendly  French  coast  has  been  left 
far  distant,  so  that  in  the  event  of  de­
feat  no  friendly  asylum  will  be  avail­
able.  So  large  a  fleet  as  that  now  with 
Admiral  Rojestvensky  consumes  an 
enormous  quantity  of  coal  and  stores, 
and  the 
stops  made  at 
French  ports  prove  that  this  ques­
tion  of  supply  is  causing  trouble.  At 
the  best,  the  fleet  can  make  barely 
more  than  seven  knots  per  hour, 
hence  even  if  not  interrupted  by  the 
Japanese  there  is  a  long  stretch  yet 
to  be  sailed  before  Vladivostok  is 
reached.

frequent 

I  wish  I 

“I  do  not. 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  the  famous  in­
ventor,  was 
recently  asked  if  he 
thought  that  the  numerous  discover­
ies  now  coming  into  use  made  the 
world  any  better  or  happier,  and  re­
plied: 
could 
answer  all  questions  so  easily  and 
so  sincerely. 
I  don’t  know  what  we 
are  here  for,  and  I  don’t  know  where 
I  wish  I  could  tell 
we  are  going. 
you.  What  does 
rush 
mean ?  W hy is this age going at such  a 
headlong  pace?  Why  have  we  re­
placed  the  beautiful  and  the  simple 
with  the  commercial  and  the  scien­
tific?  One  man  leaves  all  and  goes 
about  the  world  hunting  butterflies. 
I  don’t  understand  him.  Would  he 
understand  me? 
I  do  not  think  so.”

this  mad 

Vice-President  Fairbanks,  with  an 
eye  to  the  campaign  of  1908  and  the 
farmer  vote,  remarks  as  he  goes  to 
the  country  for  the  summer: 
“I  like 
farming,  and  I  have  gone  through  it 
from  top  to  bottom. 
It  is  the  life, 
after  all,  that  makes  the  blood  flow 
and  gives  a  real  charm  to  life.  One 
never  gets  nearer  nature  than  when 
he  is  engaged  in  cultivating  the  soil 
and  harvesting  its  products.”

It  never  comes  amiss  to  know  a 
good  trade.  A  minister  in  Pennsyl­
vania,  unable  to  get  enough  salary  to 
support  his 
family  of  eleven  chil­
dren,  has  left  the  pulpit  and  gone  to 
work  as  a  blacksmith,  a  trade  he 
learned  when  a  boy,  and  at  which 
he  can  earn  $3  to  $4  per  day.  Many 
a  good  blacksmith  has  been  spoiled 
to  make  a  poor  preacher.

JAPAN ’S  RESOURCES.

immense 

When  the  Mikado  went  to  war 
against  the  Czar  a  good  many  peo­
ple  thought  more  of  his  courage  than 
they  did  of  his  discretion.  Japan  is a 
little  country,  very 
little  compared 
with  all  the  Russias.  Some  thought 
that  the  bear  would  crush  his  oppo­
nent  and  practically  destroy  him.  The 
proposal  to  pity  soon  gave  way 
to 
admiration,  first  at  the  accomplish­
ments  of  the  Japanese  navy  and  then 
at  the  victories  of  the  Japanese army. 
It  takes  an 
amount  of 
money  successfully  to  conduct  a  war. 
A  million  dollars  is  but  a  bagatelle. 
struggle  progressed 
Even  as 
fears  were  entertained 
its 
friends  that  Japan  would  find  the 
financial  problem  too  hard  to  solve 
successfully,  but  as  it  has  gone  along 
from  week  to  week  and  month  to 
month  it  has  actually  appeared  that 
Russia,  big  and  wealthy  as  it  is,  has 
had  more  difficulty 
in  negotiating 
loans  and  obtaining  funds  than  the 
little  kingdom  of  Japan.  That  has 
been  one  of  the  marvels  of  this  re­
markable  campaign.  The  Mikado and 
his  advisers  evidently  understood  the 
situation  better  than  their  sympa­
thizers.

among 

the 

income 

It  is  true  that  the  working  people 
of  Japan  get  small  wages  compared 
with  those  paid  in  America,  but  its 
treasury  department  was  on  a  good 
basis  at  the  beginning. 
So  far  as 
possible  there  were  financial  as  well 
as  military  and  naval  preparations, 
but  no  nation  has  money  enough  in 
its  vaults  stored  up  in  advance 
to 
carry  on  an  extended  wav.  The  Jap­
anese  have  proved  themselves  won­
derfully  patriotic  and  public  spirited. 
Internal  loans  have  been  over  sub­
scribed  and  the  Japanese  credit 
is 
good.  Count  Okuma  reckons  that  bis 
people’s  wealth  is  in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  eight  billions  of  dollars  and 
that  their  annual 
is  about 
eight  hundred  millions,  with  an  an­
nual  outlay  that  leaves  over  two  hun­
dred  million  yearly  surplus.  The  Jap­
anese  derive  their  principal  income 
from  agriculture,  fisheries,  mining and 
silk  worm  growing. 
Its  investments 
in  purely  manufacturing  enterprises 
are  comparatively  small,  hence 
the 
drain  made  upon  the  young  and  mid­
dle  aged  manhood  does  not  so  seri­
ously  interfere  with  income  produc­
ing.  The  very  young  and  the  very 
old  men,  with  the  aid  of  the  women, 
can  carry  on  a  goodly  proportion  of 
the  industries,  and  last  year  fortune 
favored  them  with  unusually  good 
crops.  The  wealth  producing  power 
of  Japan,  despite  the  heavy  drain 
made  by  the  war,  continues  nearly 
normal.  It  is  believed  that  its  money 
raising  facilities  have  been  nowhere 
near  taxed  to  their  utmost,  and  that 
they  can  continue  to  raise  all  the 
funds  promptly  when  needed.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Win d o w  
T r i m m i n g

Two  Easy  Exhibits  of  More  Than 

Ordinary  Interest.

Who  is  it  you  notice  more  on  the 

street,  be  it  man,  woman  or  child?

Is  it  the  person  of  mediocre  ap­
pearance,  the  one  who  looks  just  like 
everybody  else— “as  alike  as  two  peas 
in  a  pod,”  as  the  saying  is— or  is  it 
the  person  who,  by  something  out  of 
the  ordinary  in  dress,  manner  or  car­
riage,  stands  apart  from  the  multi­
tude?

attract 

If  you  would 

attention, 
either  to  yourself  or  the  store  the 
reins  of  whose  destiny  you  hold  in 
your  hands,  in  some  way  be  different 
or  do  things  differently 
the

from 

druggists  at  the  intersection  of  Mon­
roe  and  Division  streets,  develop the 
idea  of

“The  old  oaken  bucket 
That  hung  in  the  well.” 
Imitation  grass  is  strewn  in 

accessories— wax 

the 
bottom  of  the  window  for  the  floor 
covering,  the  sort  to  be  procured  of 
manufacturers  who  make  all  kinds  of 
window 
figures, 
pedestals,  nickel  standards  and  artifi­
cial  trees,  vines,  etc. 
I  presume  a 
druggist  could  grow  his  own  grass— 
take  fine  excelsior  and  tint  it  a  lively 
green  with  diamond  dyes  or  other 
chemicals.  W hy  not?

In  the  center  of  Peck  Bros.’  im­
provised  grass  plat  is  a  very  good 
imitation  of  an  old-fashioned  well, 
the  curb,  posts  and  hood  being  fash­
ioned  of  the  rough  boards.  Depend­
ing  from  the  center  of  the  hood,  and 
visible  to  the  windowgazer, 
is  a 
to  overflowing  with
bucket  filled 

dow  given  up  to  wooden-board  “bul­
letins,”  as  they  might  be  called,  such 
as  are  being  eagerly  scanned  by  the 
curious  who  stop  at  The  Giant  win­
dow  here  shown  in  halftone.

Each  board,  with  the  single  excep­

tion  of  the  one  in  the  center  (which I 
might  be  denominated  the  motif  of 
the  window-picture),  carries  a  color­
ed  or  figured  shirt,  in  anticipation  of 
the  coming  season’s  demand.  These 
are  so  deftly  nailed  to  the  pine  sup­
ports  with  pins  that  one  has 
to 
look  twice  to  see  how  the  attach­
ment  is  accomplished.  Half  of  the 
units  slope  towards  the  left  and  the 
other  half  lean  to  the  right.  Each 
has  the  proper  collar  buttoned  on  to 
the  neckband  and  each  displays  a 
silk  four-in-hand  harmonizing  or con­
trasting  with  the  general  tone  of  the 
garment.  These  the  window  trimmer 
has  allowed  to  hang  in  easy 
and 
graceful  lines.

We

Carry in Stock

a  large  line  of

Top  Buggies 

Driving Wagons 

Spring Wagons 

Surreys, etc.

W e  make

Prompt  Shipments

Brown  &  Sehler  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Wholesale  Only

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Reduces friction  to  a  minimum.  It 
saves  wear  and  tear  of  wagon  and 
harness.  It  saves  horse  energy.  It 
increases  horse  power.  Put  up  in 
i  and  3  lb.  tin  boxes,  io ,  15  and  25 
lb.  buckets  and  kegs,  half  barrels 
and  barrels.

Hand  Separator  Oil

is  free  from  gum  and  is  anti-rust 
and  anti-corrosive.  Put  up  in  *4 , 
1  and  5  gal.  cans.

Standard  Oil  Co.

The Michigan Furnace

manufactured by us

is equipped  with  the  latest  improvements 

in  the

Hot  Air  Heating  Line
Every furnace put in by us 

has proved a success.

Let  us figure  with you.  We  will 

save you money.

The  boards  rest  on  the  floor  easel- 

wise,  either  standing  against  a  regu­ Weatherly  &  Pulte

97  & 99  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

lar  copper  window  fixture  or  tilted

Announcement of  Dissolution  of  Co-Partner­

ship  and  Change  of Firm  Name

Please  notice  that  on  M arch  1st,  1905,  the  firm of H opson-H aften- 
kam p  Co.  was  dissolved  by  mutual  consent,  Mr.  H aftenkam p 
having  disposed  of  his  interest  in  said  firm.  T he  business  w ill be con­
tinued  as  in  the  past,  assum ing  its  former  name  of  W .  C.  H op  on  &
!Co.  The  new  firm  assum es  all  the  obligations  and  w ill  collect  all  the 
| accounts 

V ery  respectfully,

W.  C.  HOPSON  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We have the facilities,  the  experience,  and,  above  all,  the  disposition  to 

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produce the best results in working up your

We pay charges both ways on bills of $5 or over.

If we are not represented in your city write for prices and particulars.

T H E   YO U NG   RUG  C O ..  KALAM AZO O .  M IC H .

pasteboard  cartons  of  Wood’s  Sarsa­
parilla,  put  up  by  the  Pecks. 
In  the 
background  runs  a  miniature  picket 
fence,  while  in  all  directions  are  rows 
of  the  packages,  and  a  pyramid  of 
them  as  high  as  a  man  is  built  at 
the  bend  in  the  glass  next  to  the 
store  entrance.

The  well  curb  and  the  roof  bear, 
in  brush  work,  numerous  announce­
ments  extolling  the  efficacy  of  this 
special  Sarsaparilla, 
small 
white  card  some  six  by  ten  inches 
floats  from  one  corner  of  the  roof 
by  a  thread.  On  it  one  reads:

and 

a 

Well,

I  see  you  need  a 

spring  tonic!

The  idea  underlying  this  window  is 
very  simple,  but  is  cleverly  carried 
out.

♦   *  *

I  can  not  recall  ever  having  seen 
in  Grand  Rapids  another  entire  win-

commonly-accepted  order  of  matters.
Of  course,  such  an  one  lays  him­
self  and  his  methods  open  to  more 
criticism  than  the  plodding  person 
who  hasn’t  the  nerve  to  “cut  a  dash,” 
but  if  the  one  under  the  limelight 
acts  along  right  lines  he  need  never 
fear  the  criticism  he  will  receive— it 
will  be  simply  the  critique  of  betters. 

*  *  *

Two  local  stores  this  week  show 
originality  in  design,  and  yet  that 
originality 
is  accomplished  through 
the  medium  of  the  very  commonest 
of  common  materials—just  wooden 
boards  such  as  may  be  obtained  by 
any  city  windowman  or  crossroads 
general  dealer  by  taking  a  hammer 
and  knocking  small  boxes  to  pieces 
or  sawing  boards  from  larger  ones 
into  lengths  to  fit  the  space  or  meet 
the  fancy!

*  *  *

Peck  Bros.,  the  wholesale  and  retail

at  the  desired  angle  by  small  pieces 
of  wood  nailed  to  the  back  in  the 
shape  of  a  triangle.  A  hammer  and 
nails  on  the  floor  in  the  foreground 
and  a  saw  in  the  rear  (which  does  i 
not  show  in  the  photograph) 
indi­
cate  to  the  observer  the  tools  used 
to  produce  the  result  he  beholds.

The  spelling  on  the  bulletin  boards 
is  phonetic,  and  if  a  person  on 
the 
other  side  of  the  glass  has  the  time 
he  doesn’t  leave  until  he’s  gone  over 
every  blessed  one  of  ’em!

To  facilitate  reading  I  give  them 
here.  They  all  emphasize  the  fact 
that  it’s  a  Shirt  Sale,  call  attention 
to  the  collars  and  neckties  and quote 
prices.

The  motif  reads:
Get

Aboard
Fare
$1.50

Quick  Sail 

A.  May  &  Sons

This  board 

very  humorous, 
showing,  as  it  does,  a  droll  drawing 
of  the  proprietors  of  The  Giant.

is 

Others  are  as  follows:
You  Won’t 
Get  seasick 

If  you 
Patronize 
This  Sail
Mony  Bak 
If  you  donte 
Go  this  trip

Summer
Shirts
and

Some  Are  Ties

Summar 
Collers 
2  for  a 
Quarter

Excursion  to 

Kumfort  Town 

Dollarn  Haf

Fashionabell

Scarfs

50c

More 
Shurtz 

Inside  the 

Bote

This  last  is  obscured  in  the  picture 

by  the  board  in  front  of  it.

Stilish 
Shurtz 

This  Muche

A  novel  feature  of  this  sign  is  the 
whittling-out  of  a  circle  just  the  size 
of  a  dollar  and  a  fifty-cent  piece  and 
the  gluing  or  fitting  in  these  depres­
sions  of  silver  money  to  correspond 
with  the  price  of  the  shirt  pinned  to 
this  particular  board.
These 
Shirts 
Be  all 
Rite
Jump 
Aboard 
$1.50  A 
Jump

Noo  Tiz 
$1.00  or 
4  Bitz

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3

Shurt
Sale

Hustel  upp 
Don’t  git 

Lefft

The  polished  floor  is  unmarred  by 
any  drapery.  Over  the  ledge  in  the 
background  hang  natural  branches 
covered  with  pink  tissue  apple  blos­
soms— or  they  would  be  apple  blos­
soms  if  they  had  five  petals  instead  of 
four.

Altogether  an  admirable  window—  
one  especially  adapted  to  stick 
in 
people’s  minds  and  cause  them  to  ad­
vertise  the  firm  name.

Reads  All  the  Postals.

Talking  with  a  party  of  friends  at 
a  downtown  cafe  the  other  afternoon, 
a  traveling  man  told  of  a  new  experi­
ence  he  encountered  in  a  little  vil­
lage  not  far  from  Grand  Rapids  on 
his  last  trip  out.  He  was  standing at 
the  window  of  the  postoffice  in  this 
village  while  the  mail  was  being  dis­
tributed,  when  he  noticed  that 
the 
postmistress— who  was  certainly  old 
enough  to  know  what  she  was  about
— put  the  letters  as  she  came  to  them 
in  their  proper  boxes,  but  placed  all 
the  postal  cards  in  a  pile  together 
on  a  shelf.

“What  are  you  saving  the  postals 

for?”  asked  the  traveler  at  last.

“Oh,  I’ve  got  to  read  ’em  all  first,” 

was  the  reply.

“Got  to!”  exclaimed  the  traveler, 
the 

with  an  accent  of  surprise  on 
verb. 

“Why,  how’s  that?”

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we  will  be  glad  to  see  all  our 
automobile  friends  and  intend- 
ing  purchasers  at  our  new 
garage  on  North  Division  St., 
nearly  opposite  the  Majestic 
theatre.

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47-49  N.  Division S t. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich

“ I  have  to  read  ’em,  every  one,” 
said  the  postmistress,  “to  see  that 
they  contain  nothing  improper. 
It’s 
a  rule  of  the  department.”  And  she 
went  on  placidly  with  her  distribu­
tion.

Depew  on  the  W it  of  Women.
Senator  Depew,  at  a  dinner 

in 
Washington,  was  praising  the  wit  of 
women.

M R .  G R O C E R

Of course you love your wife.  Then m ake h e r labors  easy  and  save  h er  many 
step s to  and from  th e pantry.  T he m ost sensible proposition  ev er offered.  W ell  built 
and substantially put to g eth er.  H as tw o  la r g e  bins w h ic h  swing on a  pivot  and  work 
as easily  when louded as  when em pty.  Finished in A ntique Oak.  Top, 24x48.  Heistht, 
30 inches.  One kneeding board 22x24, one m eat board  11x22.

“Against  this  wit,”  he  said,  “we 
men  are  powerless.  Even  when  all 
the  right  and  logic  of  an  argument 
are  on  our  side,  woman,  with  her  wit, 
will  nine  times  out  of  ten  put  us  to 
shame.

“Thus  a  man  once  found  that  his 
wife  had  bought  a  few  puffs  of  false 
hair.  This  displeased  him.  He  hid 
one  day,  and,  just  as  the  lady  was 
fixing  the  false  puffs  upon  her  brow, 
he  darted  in  upon  her.
said 

reproachfully, 
‘why  do  you  put  the  hair  of  another 
woman  on  your  head?’

“ ‘Mary,’  he 

“ ‘Why,’  his  wife  answered,  ‘do  you 
put  the  skin  of  another  calf  on  your 
hands?’ ”

Percival  B.  Palmer  &  Company

Manufacturers  of

Cloaks,  Suits  and  Skirts 

For  Women.  Misses  and  Children 

197-199  Adams  Street,  Chicago

CORL,  KNOTT  &  CO.

Jobbers of Millinery and manufacturers of

Street and  Dress  Hats

20*26  N.  Division S t   GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

WOOLSON  SPICE  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A r o u n d  
T h e   S t a t e

Benton  Harbor— The  M.  A.  Price 
Cigar  Co.  has  been  incorporated  for 
the  purpose  of  manufacturing  and 
authorized 
selling  cigars  with 
an 
capital  stock  of  $3,000, 
of  which 
$2,060  has  been  subscribed  and  $800 
paid  in  in  cash  and  $1,200  in  prop­
erty.

Muskegon— The  Superior  Bag  & 
Novelty  Co.  has  been  incorporated 
for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
and  selling  silk  and  chamois.  The 
corporation  has  an  authorized  capi­
tal  stock  of  $10,000,  of  which  amount 
$6,100  has  been  subscribed  and  $3,100 
paid  in  in  cash.

in 

Sturgis— F.  L.  Burdick  has  pur­
chased  a  one-third  interest 
the 
Forrister  &  Cheeney  Manufacturing 
Co.,  wholesale  manufacturer  of  knit 
gloves  and  mittens,  at  Detroit.  A.  B. 
representing  Mr.  Bur­
Tennent  is 
dick’s 
interest 
in  the  management 
of  the  business.

Munising— The  Superior  Veneer  & 
Cooperage  Company’s  plant  will  cut 
9,000,000  feet  of  logs  this  year.  Of 
this  amount  5,000,000  feet  is  hemlock, 
which  will  be  manufactured  into  lum­
ber  and  shipped 
to  Detroit.  The 
stave  factory  will  use  4,000,000  feet  ol 
elm  this  season.

Saginaw— The  C.  S.  Bliss  sawmill 
has  been  dismantled  and  the  machin­
ery  sold.  Mr.  Bliss  is  operating  his 
shingle  mill  and  is  working  off  the 
stock  of  lumber  he  had  on  hand  at 
his  yard  and  about  3,000,000  feet  man­
ufactured  during  the  winter  at  But­
man,  Gladwin  county.

Marquette— The  South  Arm  Lum­
ber  Co.  has  started  operations  at  its 
Dead  River  mill,  with  a  crew  of 
eighty  men.  Of  the 
lumber  sawed 
this  season  75  per  cent,  will  be  pine, 
the  remainder  being  equally  divided 
between  hemlock  and  hardwoods, the 
total 
10,000,000 
feet.  As  in  former  years  the  lumber 
will  be  shipped  largely  by  water,  the 
bulk  of  the  cut  going  to  Tonawanda, 
N.  Y.  The  mill  will  be  in  operation 
five  months.

cut  approximating 

Kalamazoo— The  Kalamazoo  Beet 
Sugar  Co.  has  made  a  final  settle­
ment  with  the  stockholders  and  dis­
banded.  The  settlement  was  made 
on  the  basis  of  7-10  of I  per  cent.  The 
company  was  organized  here  in  1899 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $300,000  and 
a  large  factory  built  just  outside  the 
city. 
three 
years  at  a  loss  and  then  closed  down. 
A  majority  of  the  stockholders  live 
here  and  are  heavy  losers  by  reason 
of  the  venture.

It  was  operated  about 

Geert  Gringhuis  has  uttered  a  chat­
tel  mortgage  for  $400  on  his  bakery 
stock.

St.  Johns— The  Abner  Furtney shoe 
stock  was  purchased  at  auction  sale 
by  Mrs.  Susanna  Eby,  of  Berlin,  Ont., 
whose  bid  was  $1,128.50.

Upton  Works— Gates  &  Selby, gro­
cery  and  meat  dealers,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  the  business  to  be  con­
tinued  by  Frank  F.  Gates.

Hancock— Baer  Bros.,  meat  dealers 
of  this  place,  Calumet  and  Dollar Bay, 
anticipate  establishing  a  branch  of 
their  business  at  South  Range.

Mayville— The 

furniture  and  un­
dertaking  business  formerly  conduct­
ed  by  Norris  S.  Stilson  will  be  con­
tinued  in  the  future  by  Stilson  & 
Coverdale.

Thompsonville— J.  W.  Slater  has 
sold  his  stock  of  house  furnishing 
goods  to  J.  W.  Hilliker,  of  Grawn, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at the 
same  location.

Battle  Creek— Otto  Gemsch  has 
purchased  the  meat  market  connected 
with  S.  F.  McKay’s  grocery,  on  Cal­
houn  street,  and  will  continue  in  busi­
In  point  of 
ness  at  the  same  stand. 
active  service,  Mr.  Gemsch 
is  the 
oldest  butcher  in  the  city.

Alpena— Budde  &  Tollison  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock 
to  David 
Watson  and  Harry  Rix,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Watson  &  Rix.

Port  Huron— Horace  E.  Runnels 
and  Edward  Runnels  have  purchased 
the  jewelry  stock  formerly  owned  by 
the  late  J.  W.  Goulding  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

St.  Joseph— Fred  J.  Stowell  and 
Edward  Lane  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  for  the  purpose  of  engaging 
in  the  grocery  business  in  the  King 
building  about  June  1.

Cheboygan— J.  H.  Barrowcliff 

is 
having  the  building  recently  occupied 
by  Greenless  &  Son  as  a  fish  market 
moved  to  a  lot  he  purchased  some 
time  ago  on  Court  street  and  will 
open  up  a  grocery  store.

Battle  Creek— F.  B.  Coates,  of  the 
firm  of  Pittman  &  Coates  Hardware 
Co.,  has  purchased  the  interest  of  F. 
I*.  Pittman,  the  senior  member,  and 
will  continue  the  business.  The  firm 
name  will  not  be  changed.

Sanilac  Center— The  Anketell Lum­
ber  &  Coal  Co.  has  been  incorporat­
ed  for  the  purpose  of  doing  a  general 
lumber  and  coal  business.  The  com­
pany  has  an  authorized  capital  stock 
of  $10,000,  all  of  which  is  subscribed 
and  paid  in  in  cash.

Clare— The  Clare  Hardware  Co. 
has  filed  a  trust  mortgage  with 
the 
Fletcher  Hardware  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
to  cover  liabilities  aggregating  $10,- 
000.  C.  W.  Calkins,  the  owner,  will 
continue  in  charge  of 
the  business, 
paying  a  stipulated  sum  per  month  to 
all  creditors.  These  conditions  were 
brought  on  by  the  crop  failure  last 
year  and  consequent  short  collections.
Marquette— The  Marquette  Prod­
uce  Co.  is  a  new  concern  which  has 
been  organized  to  cover  the  Upper 
Peninsula  territory  from  this  city, 
and  which  has  opened warerooms  and 
a  distributing  station  at  112  Spring 
street.  The  business  will  be  conduct­
ed  under  the  direction  of  I.  Zemur- 
ray,  formerly  of  New  Orleans,  La., 
and  J.  F.  J.  O’Conner,  formerly  con­
nected  with  the  C.  B.  Metzger house. 
Both  these  gentlemen  have  had  ex­
tensive  experience  in  the  produce  and 
commission  business  and  have  estab­
lished  trade  connections  that  they  ex­
pect  to  make  advantageous  to  their 
Upper  Peninsula  patrons.

Eaton  Rapids— E.  D.  Goodrich, 
who  has  been  the  bone  and  sinew 
of  the  co-operative  store  since  its  or­
ganization  four  years  ago,  has  dis­
covered  that  the  work  is  beginning 
to  tell  on  his  nervous  forces  and  that 
the  confinement  is  not 
just  what 
agrees  with  him  best.  He  will  there­
fore  spend  the  most  of  his  time  out 
of  town  this  summer  and  will  ulti­
mately  probably  return  to  his 
first 
love,  that  of  traveling  for  a  whole­
sale  shoe  house.  D.  P.  Smith  and 
Silas  Godfrey  will  have  charge  of 
the  store  hereafter. 
It  has  also  been 
decided  by  the  management  to  dis­
continue  the  Brookfield  branch  store.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit— The  Pioneer  Woolen Mills 
has  increased  its  capital  stock  from 
$150,000  to  $250,000.

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of 

the 
Zenner  Disinfectant  Co.  has  been  in­
creased  from  $50,000  to  $75,000.

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of  the 
Sylph-Form  Corset  Co.  has  been 
increased  from  $10,000  to  $20,000.

Lansing— Chas.  P.  Lesher’s  Sons, 
manufacturers  of  cigars,  will  conduct 
business  in  the  future  under  the  style 
of  the  Lesher  Cigar  Co.

Greenville— J.  J.  Bale  and  other 
Lakeview  stockholders  in  the  Cogs­
well  Wheel  and  Hub  Co.  have  made 
a  proposition  to  business  men  here 
to  locate  their  plant  in  this  city.

Mears— Ward  &  Walker  have 

in­
stalled  a  “farmers’  kitchen”  in  con­
nection  with  their  store,  where  hot 
coffee,  sugar  and  cream  are  served 
to  the  patrons  of  the  store.  The 
room 
is  furnished  with  tables  and 
chairs,  affording  a  convenient  resting 
place  for the weary mothers with tired 
babies,  who  appreciate  accommoda­
tions  of  this  description.
the 

of 
paints  and  varnishes  heretofore  made 
for  general  store  trade  by  the  Mc­
Lennan  Paint  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  will  be 
manufactured  in  this  city,  the  Detroit 
White  Lead  Works  having  bought 
the  formulae,  trade  marks  and  labels 
formerly  employed  by  the  Buffalo 
concern  in  manufacturing  and  mar­
keting  the  goods  mentioned.

Detroit— Hereafter 

line 

Sturgis— H.  L.  Allard  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Shoecraft  &  Allard, 
and  Mr.  Shoecraft  will  continue  the 
business  of  manufacturing  the  steel 
stepladders  for  which  the  factory  is 
being  equipped.

Marquette— A  corporation  has  been 
formed  under  the  style  of  the  Su­
perior  Lumber  Co.  to  deal  in  logs, 
timber  and  lumber.  The  company  is 
capitalized  at  $50,000,  all  of  which  is 
subscribed  and  $25,000  paid 
in 
cash.

in 

Vestaburg— The  Vestaburg Cream­
ery  Co.  has  been  incorporated  for the 
purpose  of  manufacturing  butter  and 
other  dairy  products.  The  corpora­
tion  has  an  authorized  capital  stock 
of  $5,000,  all  of  which  has  been  sub­
scribed  and  paid  in  in  cash.

Movements  of  Merchants.

Adrian— A.  Peaney  has  re-engaged 

in  the  grocery  business.

Calumet— G.  D.  Grammas  has

opened  a  confectionery  store.

Lansing— Chas.  W.  Derk  has  dis­

continued  his  bazaar  business.

Alpena— Watson  &  Rix '  succeed 
Budde  &  Tollson  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Detroit— A  receiver  has  been  ap­
pointed  for  the  Soluble  Dessicated 
Egg  Co.

Kalkaska— Chas.  Harroun 

suc­
ceeds  Mrs.  N.  Peach  in  the  bazaar 
business.

West  Branch— Curtis  J.  Winslow  is 
in  the  drug  business  by 

succeeded 
Floyd  J.  Wren.

Eaton  Rapids— E.  B.  Dodge  suc­
ceeds  Lewis  &  Dodge  as  owner  of 
the  Hunch  Cigar  Co.

Atwood— Smallegan  &  Smith  are 
succeeded  in  the  general  store  busi­
ness  by  Henry  Kooster.

Jackson— Frederick  W.  Kirkland, of 
the  firm  of  Fuller  &  Kirkland,  gro­
cers  and  bakers,  is  dead.

Buchanan— Henry  R.  Adams 

is 
succeeded  by  Wm.  Roantree  in  the 
lumber  and  coal  business.

Lowell— Thos.  Welch  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Spencer-Welch  stock 
of  goods  to  A.  L.  Spencer.

South  Boardman— Howard  Leach 
&  Co.  are  closing  out  their  stock  of 
dry  goods,  groceries  and  boots  and 
shoes.

Hastings— A.  E.  Mulholland  suc­
ceeds  Wm.  H.  Goodyear,  who  form­
erly  carried  a  stock  of  drugs  and 
books.

Detroit— The  National  Salvage  Co., 
of  which  Harry  Jacobs  is  proprietor, 
has  changed  its  style  to  the  National 
Clothing  Co.

Kalkaska— The  grocery  business 
formerly  conducted  by  W.  H.  G. 
Phelps  will  be  continued  in  future  by 
Burt  Wright.

Manistee— The  hardware  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Zielinski  & 
Kretzer  will  be  continued  in  future by 
Albert  Kretzer.

Hartford— Frank  Greenfield 

suc­
ceeds  Elgin  J.  Root,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  harness  business  here 
for  many  years.

Fountain—W .  M.  Boughner  &  Son 
will  continue  the  grocery  and  produce 
formerly 
business 
by 
Boughner  &  Merritt.

conducted 

Lansing— The  Michigan  Distribut­
ing  Co.  has  uttered  a  chattel  mort­
gage  for  $99,000  on  its  stock  of  ag­
ricultural  implements.

Benton  Harbor— Cryan  Bros,  are 
opening  a  branch  meat  market  in  the 
store  formerly  occupied  by  William 
Haydon’s  jewelry  store.

Flint— J.  L.  Levy  &  Co.  have 
bought  the  dry  goods  stock  of  E.  O. 
Pierce  &  Sons,  who  recently  went 
into  bankruptcy.  The  offer  of  5° 
cents  on  the  dollar  was  confirmed 
in  the  United  States  Court  at  Bay 
City.

G r a n d  Ra p id s ,

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— The  market  is 

firm  and 
choice  stock  has  advanced  to  $2.5o@
3  per  bbl.

Asparagus— 65c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Bananas— Have  been  moving  free­
ly  the  past  week  at  prices  practically 
the  same  as  a  week  ago— $1  for  small 
bunches  and  $1.50  for  large.

Beets— New 

box.

command  $1.50  per 

for 

Butter— Creamery  has  declined  to 
20C  for  choice  and  21c 
fancy. 
Dairy  has  slumped  to  16c  for  No.  1 
and  14c  for  packing  stock.  Renovat­
ed  is  steady  at  19c.  The  production 
is  large  and  there  is  no  disposition 
on  the  part  of  the  handler  to  hold 
any  stock,  so  the  market  being  full 
of  sellers,  the  price  has  naturally  de­
clined.  The  trade  in  creameries  has 
picked  up  within  the  week,  as  the  re­
tailers  now  take  them,  where  foim- 
erly  dairies  were  all  they  could  sell, 
owing  to  the  high  prices.  Packing 
stock  is  in  excellent  demand  at  the 
quoted  price.

Cabbage— Southern  commands  $2 

per  crate.

Carrots— New  fetch  $1.25  per  box. 
Cucumbers— 75c  per  doz.  for South­

Eggs— Local  dealers 

ern  and  90c  for  home  grown.
pay 

about 
I4i4@i5c  for  case  count,  holding  can- 
died  at  16c.  The  receipts  are  liberal, 
but  not  quite  so  large  in  volume  as 
a  few  days  ago.  The  big  packers 
are  in  the  market  for  apparently  un­
limited  quantities,  at  a  certain  figure, 
and  they  take  all  that  are  offered  at 
that  price. 
It  looks  as  if  the  hold­
ings  of  the  meat  packers  would  be 
very  large,  while  commission  men 
will  store  a  fair  quantity.  A 
few 
years  ago  it  would  not  have  been 
considered  safe  to  store  eggs  at  16c. 
but  that  is  about  what 
are 
mostly  going  in  at  this  year.

they 

Grape  Fruit— Florida 

stock  com­
mands  $6  per  box  of  either  64  or 
54 
is  $2 
cheaper.

size.  California 

stock 

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

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

12c  and  white  clover  at  I3@i5c- 

Lemons— Messinas  have  advanced 
to  $3@3-25  per  box.  Californias  have 
been  marked  up  to  $2.75-

Lettuce— ioc  is  now  the  ruling price 

for  hot  house  stock.

Onions— $1.65  per  crate  for  Bermu­
das;  $1.75  per  crate  for  Texas;  $1.65 
per  70  lb.  sack  for  Louisiana;  $3.50 
per  n o   !b.  sack  for  Egyptian.

Oranges— California  Navels 

are 
steady  at  $3.25  for  choice,  $3.50  for 
fancy  and  $3.65  for  extra  fancy.  Med­
iterranean  Sweets,  $3@3-25'> 
Seed­
lings,  $2.75@3-  The  supplies  of  Med­
iterranean  Sweets  are  increasing  and 
the  stock  arriving  is  of 
excellent 
quality.  Navels  are  not  quite  so  nu­
merous,  but  still  plentiful  enough. 
Parsley— 25c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Pieplant— 60c  for  40  lb.  box.

Pineapples  —   Prices  are 

steady, 
ranging  about  as  follows:  Crate  of 
18,  $3-75!  24,  $3.50;  30,  $3-255  36,  $3; 
42,  $2.50;  48,  $2.35.

Plants— Tomato  and  cabbage fetch 

75c  per  box  of  200.

Pop  Corn— 90c  for  rice.
Potatoes— The  market  on  old  stock 
is  stronger  and  a  firmer  feeling  per­
vades  the  potato  region.  No  short­
age 
is  expected,  however,  nor  has 
anyone  the  temerity  to  predict  much 
higher  prices  than  are  now  ruling. 
New  potatoes  are  selling  in  very  lim­
ited  quantities  at  $1.40  per  bu.

the 

commands 

Poultry— The  demand  is  strong  and 
all  varieties  are  scarce.  Live  poultry 
readily 
following 
prices:  Chickens,  I2@i3c;  fowls,  11 
@i2c;  young  turkeys 
old 
turkeys, 
I3@i5c.  Dressed  fetch  2c 
per  lb.  more  than  live.  Broilers,  22@ 
25c  per  lb.;  squabs,  $i-75@2  per  doz.
Radishes— 18c  per  doz.  bunches for 

,i s @ i 6 c ; 

round  and  20c  for  long.

Strawberries— Tennessee  command 
$2  per  case  of  24  qts.;  Illinois  fetch 
$2.25;  Indiana  range 
from  $2.35(0) 
2.50.  The  finest  fruit  is  now  coming 
in  from  Illinois.

Tomatoes— $2.50  per  6  basket  crate. 
Turnips— $1.25  per  box.
W ax  Beans—$2  per  bu.  hamper.

The  Grain  Market.

Cash  wheat  market  has  been  quite 
active  the  past  week.  The  May  op­
tion  in  Chicago,  which  is  practically 
cash  grain,  has  had  an  advance  of 
eight  cents  per  bushel,  while  cash 
wheat  in  Detroit  has  shown  an  ad­
vance  of  two  cents  per  bushel  for  the 
same  period.  There  has  been  a 
nervous  feeling  on  the  part  of  op­
erators,  due  largely  to  the  poor  crop 
reports  being  sent  out 
the 
Southwest  and  other  sections.  While 
the  growing  crop  has  undoubtedly 
suffered  to  some  extent  from  rust  and 
fly  in  some  sections,  the  condition 
as  a  whole 
is  very  favorable,  and 
there  is  no  cause  for  alarm.  The  de­
mand  for  cash  wheat  is  very  good. 
The  visible  supply  showed  a  decrease 
in  wheat  of  2,123,000  bushels  as  com­
pared  with  a  decrease  of 645,000 bush­
els  for  the  same  week  last  year.

from 

Corn  market  continues  strong  with 
market  practically  unchanged  for  the 
week.  The  visible  supply  of  corn 
shows  a  loss  of  1,594,000  bushels,  or 
practically  the  same  as  for  the  same 
time  last  year.  There  is  a  fair  move­
ment  of  cash  corn,  but  demand  is 
not  quite  so  urgent 
for  domestic 
trade  as  might  be  expected.

The  oat  market  is  dull  and  has 
shown  very  little  response  to  the  re­
cent  advance  in  other  grains.  The 
visible  supply  made  a  loss  of  1,163,- 
000  bushels  compared  with  2,171,000 
bushels  decrease  last  week.  There 
have  been  free  deliveries  from  farm­
ers  and  prices  are  a  little  easier  with 
demand  only  moderate.

L.  Fred  Peabody.

Ralph  Smith  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business 
at  Luther.  The 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Henry  DeYoung  will  succeed Thos. 
Whalen  in  the  grocery  business  at 
167  Butterworth  avenue.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— Raws  have  declined  another 
}/&c  since  our 
last  report  and  the 
price  of  refined  grades  has  been 
marked  down  another  10  points.

Tea— The  only  development  dur­
ing  the  week  has  been  an  advance 
in  new  fine  Japans  of  ij4c  per pound, 
due,  apparently,  to  the  good  business 
done  in  them.  The  market  at  present 
is  steady  and  well  contained.  There 
is  some  concern  regarding  the  ship­
ments  of  new  Formosas.  The  mar­
ket  is  open  on  the  other  side  and  tea 
should  be  coming  forward,  but  has 
not  started  as  yet.  Delays  would 
probably  have  an  important  effect  up­
on  the  situation.

Coffee— The  statistical  position  is 
very  strong  and  on  it  those  holding 
coffee  are  building  great  hopes. 
It 
is  estimated  that  the  coming  crop  of 
Rio  and  Santos  will  run  in  the  neigh­
borhood  of  eleven  million  bags.  This 
is  about  a  million  larger  than 
the 
present  crop,  but  at  the  same  time 
it  will  fall  probably  a  million  short 
of  the  consumptive  requirements  if 
the  present  rate  of  increase  in  con­
sumption  is  maintained.

that 

there 

Canned  Goods— Gallon  apples  are 
firmer  and  some  of  the  trade  are 
asking  more  for  them,  as  the  outlook 
is  for  a  close  clean  up  before  the 
season  is  over.  The  demand  is  very 
good.  A  slightly  stronger  feeling  is 
reported  in  the  tomato  market,  but 
this  is  but  a  hint  of  firmness.  The 
fact  that  there  are  a  lot  of  tomatoes 
in  the  hands  of  the  packers  and  the 
trade  generally  and 
is 
scarcely  a  possibility  of  a  shortage 
works  against  much  strength.  While, 
of  course,  many  of  the  tomatoes  held 
are  not  of  the  highest  grade  there are 
enough  good  ones  to  “go 
’round,’’ 
with  a  few  to  spare,  in  all  probability. 
Corn  and  peas  are  selling  fairly  well, 
the  latter  doing  better  than  the  form­
er.  The  market  is  without  particular 
change.  Other  vegetables— except, 
possibly  string  beans— are  dull  and 
lifeless.  There  has  been  no  change 
in  the  salmon  situation.  It  is  charac­
terized  by  the  same  strength  that  it 
has  held  for  several  months.  Reports 
are  conflicting  from  the  canning  cen­
ters,  but  the  outlook  is  good  for  a 
fair  sized  pack.  The  demand  is  ex­
cellent  and  is  depleting  rapidly 
the 
already  short  stocks. 
Indications  are 
for  a  short  pack  of  French  sardines.

Fish— Cod,  hake  and  haddock  are 
quiet  and  easy.  Prices  on  higher 
grades  are  probably  a  cent  below  the- 
winter  basis.  Whitefish  and  lake  fish 
are  dull  and  unchanged.  Salmon  has 
developed  nothing  new.  although the 
demand  is  improving.  There  is  con­
siderable  speculation  over  what  the 
future  market  for  Alaska  and  sockeye 
fish  will  open.  No  change  has  oc­
curred  in  mackerel  during  the  week 
and  the  demand  is  quite  dull.  The 
market  is  fully  maintained,  as  the  en­
tire  stock  is  held  in  strong  hands. 
Sardines  are  very  soft.  There is some 
sort  of  a  squabble  for  control  of  the 
market  among  the  packers  and  the 
result  of  this  to  date  has  been 
a 
decline  in  oils  and  quarter  mustards 
of  20@25c  per  case.  The  average 
price  for  oils  to-day  is  $2.60,  f.  o.  b. 
Eastport,  the  lowest  price  ruling  for

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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some  time.  The  pack  of  new  sar­
dines  is  proceeding  fairly,  the  produc­
tion  during  May  being better  than  ex­
pected.  The  cut  in  price  touches  new 
goods  as  well  as  old.

Syrups  and  Molasses— The  glucose 
refiners  have  pocketed  their  fight  for 
the  time  being  and  have  advanced 
their  prices  10  points.  They  have  al­
so  advanced  compound  syrup  ic  per 
gallon.  The  demand  for  mixed  syr­
up  is  fair.  Sugar  syrup  is  in  fair  de­
mand  at  unchanged  prices.  Molasses 
is  quiet  and  rules  unchanged.

Dried  Fruits— Peaches  on  spot  are 
dull  and  lifeless.  As  reported 
last 
week,  some  packers  have  named  fu­
ture  prices,  but  very  little  business 
has  been  done  as  yet.  Apricots  are 
neglected  and  unchanged. 
Futures 
are  also  dull,  and  everything  points 
to  a  heavy  crop.  Seeded  raisins  are 
in  better  demand  and  prices  are  stiff- 
er  by  about 
Loose  raisins
are 
at  unchanged 
prices.  A  good  demand  has  develop­
ed  for  cleaned  currants  at  unchanged 
prices.  Prunes  are  quiet,  although 
the  demand  is  healthy.  Prices  show 
no  material  change.  No  new  prices 
have  been  named  as  yet,  although  the 
coast  is  talking  a  3c  basis,  which,  in­
cidentally,  is  just  twice  the  present 
spot  price.

low  supply 

in 

L.  F.  Baker,  who  recently  acquired 
the  interests  of  his  partners  in  the 
Davenport  Co.,  which  was  establish­
ed  about  two  years  ago,  will  hereafter 
continue  the  business  under  the  style 
of  Roy  Baker,  under  which  cognomen 
he  has  been  known  for 
the  past 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Baker  is  an  ener­
getic  salesman  and  careful  manager 
and  will  undoubtedly  achieve  a  com­
plete  success  in  his  new  undertaking.

Sol  Httfford,  L.  J.  Katz  and  John 
Roesink  have  gone 
to  Kalamazoo, 
Battle  Creek  and  Jackson  as  a  special 
committee  to  interest  the  grocers  and 
butchers  of  those  cities  in  the  State 
picnic,  which  will  be  held  August  5- 
Detroit,  Saginaw  and  Flint  have  al­
ready  accepted  the  invitation  and will 
come  here  with  special  trains.

Fred  W.  Fuller,  President  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation,  is  visiting  Chicago  for  the 
first  time  this  week.  He  took  E.  E. 
Hewitt  along  as  a  body  guard  to  pro­
tect  him  from  the  fury  of  the  human 
devils  who  are  obstructing  the streets 
in  carrying  out  the  instructions  of 
the  union  labor  leaders.

The  damage  suit  instituted  by Fred 
A.  Smith  (Petoskey  Grocery  Co.) 
against  Landlord  Adams,  of  Bellaire, 
was  noticed  for  trial  at  the  May  term 
of  the  Antrim  county  Circuit  Court, 
but  the  notice  was 
subsequently 
countermanded  by  Smith’s  attorneys, 
Halstead  &  Halstead,  of  Petoskey. 
This  postpones  the  matter  until  fall.
feed  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Dise  &  Keeg- 
stra,  702  and  704  Madison  avenue, 
will  be  conducted  in  future  by  B.  A. 
Dise.

The  grocery  and 

The  Grand  Rapids  Wood  Carving 
Co.,  which  conducts  its  business  at 
42  Seventh  street,  has  increased  its 
capital  stock  from  $25,000  to  $50,000.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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The  Restless  Period  Before  Vacation 

Time.

for 

About  this  time  in  the  year  there 
are  several  thousand  clerks  who  be­
gin  to  get  restless  over  their  work 
and  their  confinement  and  wonder 
when  they  are  going  to  have  a  vaca­
tion.  They  have  worked 
ten 
months,  or  more,  very  steadily,  and 
during  that  time  there  have  been  a 
great  many  hard  days  and  weeks  of 
struggling  to  get  rid  of  the  goods 
and  take  in  the  money.  There  is  un­
doubtedly  cause  for  tired  feeling  and 
a  desire  to  be  relieved  of  active  duty, 
and  there  are  many  plans  in  embryo 
for  the  doings  of  the  vacation  time 
that  is  co m in g .  Suppose  we  th in k   a 
bit  about  all  this  and  see  if  we  can 
not  find  something  better  to  control 
the  restless  feeling  and  something 
better  to  lay  out  for  vacation  doings 
than  have  been  done  before.

The  restless  feeling  is  not  a  good 
thing  for  either  the  clerk  or  the  store. 
To  be  continually  thinking  of  some­
thing  else  than  the  business  in  hand 
is  detrimental  to  the  business  and  is 
also  extremely  detrimental  to  the  in­
terests  of  the  clerk.  The  clerk  who 
is  thinking  of  excursions  and  sight­
seeing  and  visits  and  new  faces  and 
good  times  while  handling  gingham 
and  dress  goods  and  underwear  is  a 
long  ways  from  being  a  good  clerk. 
He  is  not  only  injuring  the  sale  of 
the  goods  he  is  handling,  because  of 
inefficient  attention,  but  he  is  also 
injuring  his  own  efficiency  as  a  clerk 
and  paving  the  way  for  the  boss  to 
refuse  him  a  raise  in  pay  when  the 
usual  raising  time  comes.

It  is  impossible  to  think  of  one 
thing  and  do  another  with  the  ex­
pectation  of  doing  that  other  thing 
the  best  it  is  possible  to  do  it.  The 
clerk  who  absently  pulls  a  suit  of 
clothes  from  the  pile  for  the  inspec­
tion  of  some  man  ready  to  buy  and 
lays  the  goods  down  while  he  thinks 
of  what  suit  he  will  wear  and  what 
he  had  better  pack  in  his  grip  when 
he  goes  on  a  vacation  has  pretty 
poor  prospect  of  making  a  sale,  or 
at  least  runs  a  risk  of  selling  ten 
dollars’  worth  when  he  might  sell fif­
teen.

and 

should, 

The  young  woman  who  shows  cor­
sets  and  gloves  to  a  good  customer 
and  keeps  thinking  of  how  she  will 
have  that  vacation  dress  trimmed  and 
what  hat  she  had  better  take  along 
to wear  with  it  is  not  attending  to  her 
business  as  she 
the 
chances  are  that  the  customer  will 
decide  that  she  wants  some  brand  of 
corset  not  kept  and  a  pair  of  gloves 
jtist  a  little  different  in  shade  than 
those  she  has  been 
shown.  The 
young  woman  absently  assents  to  the 
objection  offered,  meanwhile  contin­
uing  to  think  about  her  own  outfit 
and  what  she  is  going  to  do  with  it. 
ft  is  not  impossible  that  she  ha»  been 
so  mechanical  with  the  customer  that 
she  really  can’t  tell  inside  of 
five 
minutes  what  the  customer  wanted  to

the 

aisles 

see,  and  it  may  be  that  the  customer 
will  be  gone  before  the  clerk  realizes 
that  she  has  missed  a  fair  opportunity 
to  make  a  good  sale  at  a  good  profit.
Then,  too,  there  are  the  usual store 
discussions  down 
and 
across  the  counters  as  to  what  all 
are  going  to  do  when  vacation comes. 
There  are  the  usual  elaboration  of 
plans  and  the  usual  exaggeration  of 
schemes  and  prospects.  The  one who 
has  planned  a  modest  vacation  at  a 
small  cost  and  one  that  will  contain 
a  maximum  of  rest  and  recreation  at 
a  modicum  of  effort  is  made  to  think 
that  she  had  better  change  her  plans 
and  go  in  a  little  deeper  for  “fun” 
and  a  “good  time.” 
Instead  of  sav­
ing  about  ten  dollars  on  an  outfit, she 
wants  to  be  next  to  some  other  clerk 
who  is  going  to  have  a  lot  of  new 
clothes.  She  blows  something 
she 
for  a  purpose 
really  can’t  afford 
which  will  undoubtedly  be  distasteful 
to  her  in  the  end,  because  she  has 
not  planned  for  anything  of  the  kind 
and  because  her  desires  for  vacation 
time  do  not  run  in  that  direction.

There  is  the  young  man  who  in­
tended  to  skip  for  the  country  and 
have  a  time  of  rest  and  genuine  lazi­
ness,  of  the  kind  that  comes  with  a 
change,  on  somebody’s  farm.  He has 
thought  of  long  sleeps  in  a  room 
that  is  away  from  the  noise  of  the 
house  and  is  in  the  stillness  that  is 
found  only  in  the  country;  but  some 
other  fellow  has  planned  to  go  to 
the  big  city  and  spend  a  couple  of 
weeks  seeing  the  sights.  He  is  con­
vinced  that  country  life  is  too  tame 
and  old-fashioned,  so  he  changes  his 
mind  and  gets  ready  to  blow  about 
fifty  dollars  to  the  one  he  intended 
and  knows  he  can  afford,  and  all  for 
something 
that  will  be  distasteful 
to  him  at  the  time.

Another  clerk  has  planned  a  trip 
to  the  city  for  the  purpose  of  having 
an  insight  into  how  things  are  be­
ing  done  there,  but  he  comes  in  con­
tact  with  another  one  who  is  going 
to  the  mountains  with  “a  crowd”  and 
is  persuaded  to  go  along  with 
he 
them. 
It  will  be  a  disappointment 
to  him  and  he  will  regret  the  change 
for  a 
long  time— probably  for  the 
year  to  come.  And  so  it  will  go 
throughout  the  store.  The  schemes 
and  plans  for  something  that  is  com­
ing  a  couple  of  months  ahead  will 
be  talked  to  a  frazzle  and  discussed 
to  the  extent  that  the  business  of  the 
store  will  be  more  or  less  forgotten, 
and  that  needlessly.

It 

is  well  to  think  of  all  these 
plans  before  the  time  when  they  are 
ready  to  be  carried  into  execution, 
but  it  is  not  well  to  allow  them  to 
take  supersedence  over  the  work  of 
the  store,  or  over  that  time  which 
should  be  devoted  to  the  work  of 
the  store.  To  be  able  to  know  what 
you  are  going  to  do  is 
all  well 
enough,  but  there 
is  no  necessitv 
which  calls  for  a  neglect  of  store  du­
ties  to  plan  for  vacation  larks. 
It 
keeps  you  unsettled,  dissatisfied  and 
inattentive  to  the  work  for  which 
you  are  receiving  your  pay.

It  is  a  custom  in  some  stores,  and 
I  believe  it  to  be  a  splendid  policy 
for  all  stores,  to  have  the  vacation 
schedule  arranged  several  weeks  be­

fore  it  is  to  begin.  That  obviates  the 
necessity  of  settling  disputed  dates 
and  the  desires  of  too  many  clerks 
to  be  away  at  the  same  time. 
If 
the  initiative  has  not  been  taken  by 
the  men  who  employ  you,  I  suggest 
that  a  good  thing  for  you  clerks  to 
do  will  be  to  ask  the  permission  of 
the  firm  to  arrange  among  yourselves 
your  vacation  schedules  and  submit 
them  for  approval,  first  finding  out 
the  periods  to  be  allowed  and 
just 
when  they  can  begin.  Such  an  ar­
rangement  will  do  away  entirely with 
the  possibility  of  disappointments 
that  will  surely  come— always  do 
come— when  a  hit  and  miss  plan  of 
independent  date-making  is  followed.
Having  arranged  your  periods  and 
the  dates  when  you  can  go,  why  not 
apply  a   little  sense  to  the  arranging 
of  plans  and  be  a  little  more  logical 
about  where  and  how  the  days  ahead 
are  to  be  spent  and  occupied? 
I 
knew  a  young  woman  who  had  been 
ill  during  the  winter  and  needed  at 
least  three  weeks  of  quiet  and  com­
plete  rest  to  have  an  elaborate  out­
fit  made  and  go  to  a  fashionable  sea­
side  resort  where  she  had  to  play 
lady  every  minute,  simply  because 
she  had  been  invited  to  do  so  by 
wealthy  relatives.  She  reasoned  that 
it  cost  her  nothing  and  was  a  “great 
opportunity.” 
spent 
nearly  a  hundred  dollars  for  outfit 
and  expenses  that  she  felt  called  up­
on  to  incur  because  of  the  company 
she  was  in,  and  she  came  home  nearly 
exhausted.  The  firm  gave  her  an­
other  three  weeks  for  recuperation, 
the  most  of  which  she  spent  in  bed, 
and  she  came  back  to  work,  finally, 
in  worse  condition  than  when  she 
started  out.

She  actually 

You  all  say,  “How  foolish!”  yet  I 
believe  that  many  of  you  are  thinking 
of  something  equally  foolish  and  ab­
surd  and  would  consider  it  so  if  you 
saw  it  in  the  plans  of  someone  else.

A  young  man  who  had  had  trouble 
with  his  eyes  for  a  year  accepted  an 
invitation  to  become  one  of  a  hunt­
ing  party  and  was  gone  two  weeks 
where  he  was  in  the  bright  sunlight 
for  every  light  hour  of  the  day.  The 
sunlight  undoubtedly  did  his  body 
good,  but  he  came  back  almost blind 
and  was  unable  to  work  for  three 
months.  That,  too,  was  foolish,  but 
some  of  you  are  preparing  to  do 
things  equally  as  detrimental.

Then,  too,  you  lose  sight  of  the 
best  uses  you  can  make  of  your  va­
cation  time.  You  forget  that  you 
need  it  for  recreation  and  put  in  the 
most  strenuous  work  of 
the  year, 
work  that  you  would  absolutely  re­
fuse  to  do  if  imposed  upon  by  your 
employers. 
I  do  not  mean  to  decry 
wholesome  exercise  and  the  attempt 
to  work  off  the  stagnation  of  a  year 
behind  the  counter,  but  I  mean  that 
you  should  exercise  good  judgment 
in  what  you  do  and  not  foolishly  at­
tempt  to  exceed  either  strength  or 
reason.

You  are  the  best  judge  of  what 
you  can  personally  accomplish  and 
be  rested  and  recuperated  thereby. 
I 
know  a  man  who  always  takes  a  long 
railway  journey  when  he  is  exhausted 
with  his  work.  He  has  even  gone 
across  the  continent  and  back  within

two  weeks  and  returned  to  his  work 
feeling  fresh  and  willing.  How  many 
people,  think  you,  could  do  the  same 
I  know 
thing  with  the  same  result? 
another  man  who  dons 
tramping 
clothes,  puts  a  camp  outfit  on  his 
back  and  plunges 
into  the  woods 
alone  for  two  weeks,  coming  back 
fresh  and  ready  for  many  months 
of  struggle  in  an  office.  You  and  1 
could  not,  probably,  find  any  pleas­
ure  or  recreation  in  that.  A  woman 
goes  down  to  the  seashore  and  lies 
deep  in  the  sand  for  days  at  a  time, 
declaring  that  she  finds  more  rest 
and  pleasure  and  recuperation  in that 
than  in  anything  she  has  ever  tried.

Because  these  people  do 

these 
things,  we  must  not  contend  that  we 
can  also  do  them  with  benefit.  Nor 
must  we  be  willing  to  be  led  from 
plans  for  our  own  good  to  plans 
that  others  have  made,  when  those 
latter  plans  are  neither  to  our  liking 
nor  beneficial.  The  object  of  the  va­
cation  is  to  drop  business,  to  get 
away  to  something  new,  to  change 
the  subject  of  life;  and  nobody  can 
accomplish 
exhausting 
himself  uselessly  in  other  directions.
to  business  while 
business  is  before  you,  and  think  not 
that  your  main  trouble  at  present  is 
to  get  ready  for  a  vacation  that 
is 
weeks  ahead.  You  are  working  no 
harder  than  others,  and  your  period 
of  rest  is  neither  more  deserved  nor 
more  necessary.  Restlessness  begets 
uselessness. 
Inattention  to  business 
begets  an  invitation  to  move  to  some 
other  store.— Drygoodsman.

Pay  attention 

this  when 

Too  Much  Territory.

Ex-Congressman  Tucker,  of  Vir­
ginia,  during  a  recent  visit  to  Balti­
more,  repeated  a  story  of  a  Virginian 
who  had  been  indulging  too  freely in 
the  flowing  bowl,  and  who  did  be­
come  overconfident  of  his  own great­
ness.  Looking  around  at  his  com­
panions, 
Virginian  boasted: 
“Gentlemen,  I  can  lick  any  man  in 
Richmond.”  Nobody  took  up 
the 
challenge,  and  the  Virginian  returned 
to  the  charge.

the 

“Gentlemen,”  he  said,  “I  can  lick 
any  man  in  the  whole  State  of  Vir­
ginia.”

“The  words  were  hardly  uttered,” 
the  narrator  said,  “before  a  tall,  lean, 
sinewy  man  from  the  western  part 
of  the  State  gave  the  boaster  a thrust 
that  sent  him  sprawling  on  the  floor. 
Like  Owen  Wister’s  nameless  hero, 
this  Virginian  had  a  sense  of  humor, 
and  as  he  slowly  picked  himself  up 
he  turned  to  the  group  and  drawled: 
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CO N STAN T  T A L K   O F  W AR.
While  all  the  nations  of  the  earth, 
with  the  exception  of  Russia  and  Ja­
pan,  are  at  peace  each  with  the  others, 
there  is,  nevertheless,  so  general  an 
uneasiness  among  them 
that  every­
where  the  most  engrossing  subject 
among  statesmen  of  the  various  pow­
ers  is  that  the  most  urgent  duty  de­
volving  upon  them  all  is  to  prepare 
for  war.

All  this  is  seen  in  the  European 
press.  For  instance,  the  London  Na­
tional  Review  for  April  contains  an 
article  from  an  officer  of  the  German 
General  Army  Staff,  showing  how 
Germany  has  little  to  fear  in  a  war 
with  England,  and  could  easily  in­
vade  and  humble  the  United  States. 
The  English  Fortnightly  for  May  has 
an  article  on  “German  Foreign  Pol­
icy,”  showing  Germany’s  hostility  to 
England  and  France,  while  the  Lon­
don  Nineteenth  Century  for  May  is 
filled  up  with  articles  on  the  danger 
of war  in  Europe  and  the  unprepared­
ness  of  England  for  defense  against 
any  serious  attack,  while 
the 
French  Parliament  is  being  discuss­
ed  with  great  earnestness  the  need 
of  defending  the  French  colonies  of 
Cochin  China  from  expected  attacks 
of  the  Japanese.

in 

The  German  periodicals  are  con­
stantly  discussing  the  necessity  felt 
by  Germany  for  a  great  navy  and 
for  foreign  colonies,  while  there  is 
no  little  talk  in  all  countries  of  the 
possibility  in  Asia,  after  the  Russians 
shall  have  been  expelled  from  Man­
churia,  of  a  combination  between  Ja­
pan,  China  and  India  to  drive  the  Eu­
ropeans  from  Asia.  Any  such  mili­
tary  development  in  China  and  India 
as  has  been  exhibited  by  Japan  would 
accomplish 
undertaking 
without  serious  difficulty.

such 

an 

The  doctrine  of  the  balance  of pow­
er  in  Europe  grows  out  of  the  neces­
sity  for  preventing  any  one  of  the  na­
tions  there  from  securing  an  undue 
degree  of  power  and  control.  When 
Europe  was  dominated  by  Rome  the 
other  nations,  which  had  been  con­
quered  singly,  were  in  no  condition 
to  make  any  combination  for  resist­
ance,  and  the  result  was  that  Rome 
the  Goths, 
remained  supreme  until 
the  Huns  and 
from 
Western  Asia  swarmed  into  Europe

the  Vandals 

conquered 

and  overthrew  the  universal  Empire 
of  the  Caesars.  There  was  after  the 
fall  of  the  world’s  greatest  empire  a 
great  deal  of  fighting  in  Europe,  but 
no  nation  made  any  progress 
to­
wards  gaining  general  control  until 
Napoleon 
Italy,  Spain, 
Germany  and  Russia,  and  balked  only 
at  an  attack  on  England.  The  Rus­
sian  campaign  wrought  the  destruc­
tion  of  Napoleon’s  power,  but  so  far 
as  victories  were  concerned  his  in­
vasion  of  Russia  was  a  triumph,  his 
downfall  having  been  wrought  by 
the  ice  and  snows  and  the  frightful 
rigors  of  winter.

For  a  long  time  after  the  fall  of 
Napoleon  there  seemed  to  be  no  na­
tion  in  Europe  that  aimed  at  general 
control,  unless  such  designs  could 
have  been  attributed  to  Russia.  But 
Russia’s  ambitions 
led  her  towards 
the  East  rather  than  the  West,  and 
into  Asia  instead  of  Europe. 
It  is 
true  that  the  injunction  in  Peter  the 
Great’s  will,  to  the  effect  that  Rus­
sia  must  possess  Constantinople,  has 
always  been  held  up  before  the  eyes 
and  fears  of  Europe,  and  more  than 
once  England  joined  with  the  con­
tinental  nations  to  prevent  the  expan­
sion  of  Russia  in  the  Southeast.

of  Japan 

Since  then  Russia  has  turned  her 
attention  to  Asia,  and  her  conquests 
have  advanced  eastward  until  the  oc­
cupation  by  her  of  Manchuria,  the 
most  northeastern  province  of  China, 
and  her  threatened  seizure  of  Corea 
aroused  the  fears 
and 
brought  on  the  present  terrible  war 
in  the  Far  East. 
If  Russia  is  to  con­
tinue  to  suffer  defeat  at  the  hands  of 
Japan,  both  on  sea  and  land,  the  once 
mighty  Colossus  of  Northern  Europe 
will  have  to  be  counted  out  of  all  cal­
culations,  and  with  this  fact  the  bal­
ance  of  power  in  Europe  is  most  se­
riously  disturbed, 
for  with  Russia 
out  of  the  way  Germany  looms  up 
as  the  most  powerful  figure  among 
the  nations.

Prussia,  before  the  organization  of 
the  German  Empire,  had  successfully 
made  war  upon  Austria  and  Denmark. 
Then  came  the  Empire 
itself,  and 
then  Germany  was  ready  for  the  vic­
torious  assault  on  France  in  1870, and 
the  defeat  and  humiliation  and  dis­
appointment  of  that  proud  nation. 
The  sudden  rise  of  Germany  after  the 
war  with  France  has  been  rapid  in-1 
deed.  Enriched  by  the  enormous  in- j 
demnity  fund  exacted  from  France, 
Germany  possessed  the  means  to  be­
come  a  great  manufacturing  country, 
as  well  as  to  build  a  formidable  navy, 
and  thus  Germany,  with  a  population 
50  per  cent,  greater  than  that  of 
France,  has  come  to  be  the  most 
prominent  and  ambitious  country  on 
the  European  continent,  and  is  eager 
for  conquest  in  both  the  New  and  the 
Old  World,  while  Japan  is  at  the  head 
of  affairs  in  the  Far  East.

In  the  meantime  the  great  Republic 
of  the  New  World,  growing 
con­
stantly  and  enormously  in  popula­
tion,  in  wealth  and  in  all  the  elements 
of  material  power,  is  sought  a§ '  a 
friend  and  ally  by  all  the  European 
nations.  A  writer  in  the  Nineteenth 
Century  for  May,  speaking  on 
the 
subject,  says:

“During  the  last  few  weeks  various

writers  have  eloquently  recommend­
ed  that  the  Anglo-Japanese  Alliance 
should  be  renewed  in  the  form  of  an 
unrestricted  and 
long-termed  offen­
sive  and  defensive  alliance,  which, 
especially  if  the  United  States  should 
join  in,  would  prove  an  irresistible 
combination.  The  idea  of  an  offen­
sive  and  defensive  Anglo-Japanese 
or  of  an  offensive  and  defensive 
Anglo-American-Japanese 
alliance 
strongly  appeals  to  a  lively  imagina­
tion.  but  it  is  to  be  feared  that  it  will 
remain  a  picturesque,  but  very  un­
practical,  idea.

“The  United  States  are  so  strong 
for  their  defense,  and  they  need  so 
little  fear  attack,  that  they  require 
no  alliance  whatever.  Consequently 
the  United  States  would  hardly  be 
prepared  to  conclude  an  alliance  eith­
er  with  Great  Britain  or  with  Great 
Britain  and  Japan  combined,  as  they 
could  not  see  the  advantage  of  such 
an  alliance.  The  United  States  are 
the  only  nation  in  the  world  which 
can  afford  to  live  in  splendid  isola­
tion,  and  they  have  no  reason  to  tie 
themselves  to  any  power  or  combina­
tion  of  powers  and 
thus  hamper 
their  freedom  of  action.”

T H E   CH ICAGO  STRIK E.

The  strike 

in  Chicago  resembles 
one  phase  of  the  war  between  Japan 
and  Russia  which  a  few  weeks  ago 
attracted  general  attention  and  com­
ment.  There  were  rumors  that  peace 
was  coming  within  a  day  or  two  and 
then  something  occurred  to  postpone 
its  arrival.  The  dispatches  of  one 
day  differed  from  those  of  the  day 
before,  alternating  between  prophe­
cies  of peace  and  continued  war.  That 
is  about  the  way  it  has  been  of  late 
in  Chicago.  A  settlement  has  been 
reported  close  in  sight  and  the  next 
day  the  telegraphed  news  announced 
the  determination  to  keep  on  fighting. 
Shea,  the  venal 
and  unscrupulous 
president  of  the  teamsters’  union,  like 
the  Czar  of  Russia,  leans  one  way  to­
day  and  another  to-morrow.  Nor do 
all  the  accounts  published  on 
the 
same  day  agree.  The  last  of  the  week 
it  was  said  that  the  strike  was  to  be 
called  off  and  ended.  Dispatches  since 
then  indicate  that  the  strike  is  not 
only  still  on,  but  that  it  has  been 
considerably 
The  dis­
patches  of  to-day  and  to-morrow  will 
probably  differ  and  disagree,  as  their 
predecessors  have  done.

extended. 

This  Republic  needs  no  alliances, 
such 
and  should  keep  clear  of  all 
It  can  use  its  pow­
entanglements. 
erful  influence  in  favor  of  peace,  but 
its  chief  mission  is  to  guard  and  seek 
the  welfare  of  the  nations  of 
the 
Western  Hemisphere.  Our  business 
is  to  be  prepared  for  self-defense  at 
all  times  and  at  all  points,  and  if  we 
attend  strictly  to  our  duty  there  will 
be  plenty  to  do,  and  there  will  be 
more  or  less  of  fighting  at  that.  No 
great  nation,  however  peaceably  dis­
posed,  can  go  through  its  career  of 
world  duty  without  sometimes  being 
embroiled  in  war. 
It  should  do  all 
that  is  right  and  good  which  makes 
for  peace,  but  it  must  fight  for  its 
own  honor  as  well  as  for  self-defense 
whenever  it  shall  become  necessary.

Glasgow  is  a  city  where  municipal 
ownership  of  public  utilities  has  been 
attended  by  considerable  success, but 
even  there  it  is  admitted  that 
the 
plan  has  its  dangers.  Sir  John  Prim­
rose,  lord  provost  of  Glasgow,  refers 
to  one  of  them  as  the  tendency  of 
city  employes  to  vote  together  and 
thus  dictate  to  the  city  the  terms  of 
their  employment  and  the  rate  of 
their  wages.  To  counteract  this  ten­
dency,  which  has  manifested 
itself 
in  sensible,  conservative  Glasgow,  Sir 
John  recently  suggested  in  a  public 
address  that  the  city  withhold 
the 
franchise  on  all  municipal  matters 
from  city  employes.  .

the 

The  gains  of  a  first  rate  American 
jockey  are 
large,  but  it  may  be 
doubted  whether  they  equal  those  of 
a  Spanish  toreador  of 
same 
grade  in  his  calling.  This  reflection 
is 
suggested  by  the  retirement  of 
“Bombita,”  perhaps  the  greatest,  as 
he  is  also  one  of  the  youngest,  of  the 
toreadors.  He  withdraws 
finally 
from  the  arena  at  30  years  of  age 
with  a  fortune  of  $400,000,  without 
counting  jewels  worth  about  $80,000 
more,  presented  to  him  by  admiring 
enthusiasts.

The  common  sense  of  the  situa­
tion,  the  right  and  the  justice  of  it.
I are  all  in  favor  of  peace.  The  team­
sters  had  nothing but  a  so-called  sym- 
| pathetic  grievance  at  the  outset.  They 
made  no  complaint  about  their  hours 
or  wages.  They  struck  because  they 
were  forced  to  do  so  by  a  gang  of 
grafters  who  foment  strikes  solely for 
the  purpose  of  levying  blackmail  on 
employers  of  labor  and  drawing strike 
benefits  from  the  international  treas­
ury  by  means  of 
fictitious  names 
which  they  place  on  the  membership 
roll  of  the  local  union.  As  a  result 
several  lives  have  been  lost  and scores 
of  people  have  been  seriously  injur­
ed,  and  many  of  those  assaulted  had 
no  connection  whatever  with  the  dis­
turbance  and  were  citizens  passing 
peacefully  along  the 
streets.  Busi­
ness  has  been  greatly  interfered  with 
and  thousands  of  men  have  been 
thrown  out  of  work  and  thus  their 
families  have  been  deprived  of  the 
support  which  their  wages  would 
furnish.

Labor  troubles  are  more  numerous 
and  fiercer  in  Chicago  than  in  any 
other  American  city.  Earnest  efforts 
have  been  made  to  bring  about  a  sat­
isfactory  conclusion  of  this  strike, but 
in  vain.  The  city  will  suffer  far  be­
yond  the  amounts  directly  involved, 
because  retailers  all  over  the  West, 
being  unable  to  buy  goods  and  have 
them  delivered  from  Chicago 
firms, 
will  buy  elsewhere  and  may  continue 
to  buy  elsewhere  when  peace  is  re­
stored. 
If  the  strike  continues,  with 
outbreaks  of  violence  and  rioting,  the 
State  militia  and  perhaps  the  Federal 
troops  will  be  sent  to  the  scene,  that 
order  may  be  restored.  From  all  ac­
counts  and  all  appearances  the  strik­
ers  have  no  chance  to  win  and  the 
welfare  of  the  city  as  well  as  of 
themselves  will  be  promoted  by  an 
early  surrender.

While  you  are  waiting  for  business 
to  come,  it  may  be  entertaining  your 
competitor  in  your  prospect’s  parlor.

COM M ERCIAL  M O RALITY.

The  Development  of  the  Good  Faith 

of  Men.

in 

Commercial  morality  is,  of  course, 
simply  the  application  of  the  princi­
ples  of  universal  morality  to  commer­
cial  relations.  The  world  of 
the 
twentieth  century  is 
its  affairs 
doubtless  more  under  the  control  of 
commercial  men  than  at  any  previous 
period  of  its  history. 
It  would  be 
difficult  to  say  whether,  with  the  in­
creasing  complexity  of  human  rela­
tions,  of  commercial  conditions,  and 
of  the  factors  that  make  up  civiliza­
tion  there  has  been  an  increase  or  a 
the 
decrease  in  the  development  of 
good  faith  of  men,  in  securing 
the 
foundations  of  what  we  call  commer­
cial  morality.

In  the  early  days  of 

commerce, 
when  written  instruments  were  the 
exception  rather  than  the  rule,  it  was 
necessary  for  men  to  rely  largely  up­
on  the  spoken  word,  that  is  to  say, 
upon  the  good  faith  of  the  other  fel­
low.  We  find  the  great  Venetian 
publisher,  Aldus  Manutius, 
about 
1500,  sending  his  books  on  credit  to 
individual  scholars  as  far  away  as 
Britain.  The  Fuggers  carried  on  an 
enormous  banking  and 
transporta­
tion  business  largely  on  credit.  To­
day  business  transactions  are  general­
ly  (with  a  few  noteworthy  excep­
tions  in 
ex­
changes)  protected,  so  to  speak,  or 
at  least  recorded,  by  the  written  doc­
ument.  This  has  the  advantage  of 
avoiding  misconception;  but  on  the 
other  hand,  the  fact  that  there  has 
been  an  attempt  to  state  the  agree­
ment  in  detail  tends  to  give  to  either 
party  the  feeling  that  irrespective  of 
the  original  understanding  he  is  justi­
fied  in  taking  any advantage  that  may 
not  have  been  specifically  blocked by 
the  written  word  of  the  contract.

financial 

regard 

to 

in  protecting 

Such  chicanery  in  the  form  of  in­
terpretation  of  agreements  has  been 
much  furthered  and  developed  under 
the  influence  of  the  legal  profession. 
The  lawyer  of  one  class  is,  of  course, 
to  be  credited  with  most  important 
services 
the  citizen 
against  loss  through  blunders.  The 
lawyer  of  another  class  should  be 
debited  with  a  seriously  bad  influence 
in  the  enlargement  of  the  crooked­
ness  of  business  relations,  in  teaching 
his  clients  to  press  technical  claims, 
and  even  to  plan  in  advance  for  tech­
nical  advantages  which  are  outside 
the  spirit  and  purpose  of  the  original 
arrangement. 
I  am  inclined  to doubt 
whether  the  development  of  the  or­
ganization  of  modern trade, with  this 
perplexity  encouraged  and  increased 
by  the  influence  of  the  lawyer,  marks 
any  advance ;  whether,  in  fact,  it does 
not  mark  a  decided  retrogression  in 
the  morality  and  soundness  of  human 
relations  as  compared  with  the  con­
ditions  obtaining  in  the  middle  ages 
or  in  ancient  times.

It  seems  to  me  that  the  modern 
community,  and  more  particularly the 
United  States,  is  under  grave  risk to­
day  through  the  demoralizing  influ­
ence  of  two  great  groups  of  dealers, 
or  traders.  On  the  one  hand,  capi­
talists,  working  through  the  medium 
of  share-holding  associations,  not  in­
frequently  bring  their  organizations

MICHIGAN  TEADESMAN

9

livelihood  of 

to  profitable  development  by  opera­
tions  carried  on  with  absolute  disre­
gard  of  the  rights,  the  interests,  the 
possibilities  of 
their 
competitors.  Their  actions  are  crim­
inal,  and  they  escape  the  penalties  of 
crime  only  through  the  clever  guid­
ance  of  lawyers  selected  because  they 
know  how  to  evade  the  law.  These 
concerns  control 
legislatures, 
sometimes  by  direct  bribery,  some­
times  by  allowing  legislators  a  share 
in  their  nefarious  profits.  Not  con­
tent  with  this,  they  bring  undue  in­
fluence  to  bear  upon  the  National 
Government  and  undertake  to  shape 
its  policy  so  as  to  work  for  their 
own  enrichment,  in  place  of  strength­
ening  the  interests  of  the  community 
as  a  whole.

state 

It  is,  of  course,  true  that  by  far  the 
larger  number  of  trusts  which  have 
undertaken  to  stamp  out  competition 
and  fix  final  prices  could  not  have 
maintained  themselves  if  they  did  not 
work  behind  the  tariff  wall.  The  re­
moval  of  the  tariff  would  compel 
them  to  meet  the  prices  of  the  world 
market.

Other  combinations,  however,  have 
grown  up  outside  the  tariff.  Such  are 
those  controlling  the  production  and 
sale  of  petroleum  and  beef,  two  arti­
cles  essential  for  the  whole  commu­
nity.  Consumers  have  a  right  to  ex­
pect  that  the  prices  charged 
shall 
represent  fairly  the  amount  and  risk 
re­
of  investment  plus  an  adequate 
turn  for  management  and 
capital. 
Any  producer  who  has  the  necessary 
technical  knowledge  ought  to  be  at 
liberty  to  build  up  a  business  in these 
products  and  to  be  assured  that  his 
operations  will  not  be  exposed  to 
freebooting  assaults  or  to 
crushing 
oppression.  The  history  of  the  petro­
leum  combination  shows  that  it  ruin­
ed  competitors  by  methods  immoral 
in  purpose,  brutal  in  action,  inequita­
ble  in  results.

The  monopoly  managers  point  out 
that  the  community  is  paying  less for 
its  oil  than  during  the  time  of  com­
petition,  and  naturally  assume  all  the 
credit.  There  is  no  possibility  of 
making  a  trustworthy  comparison.  In 
this  particular  case  it  is  very  possibly 
true  that  the  community  has  not  suf­
fered  through  any  addition  in 
the 
price  paid. 
It  is  assuredly  true  that 
the  community  has  suffered  enor­
mously  in  its  moral  standard,  in 
its 
whole  theory  of  business  action,  in 
the  disrespect  caused  for  the  authori­
ty  of  a  Government  that  could  permit 
the  actions  through  which  this  co­
lossal  business  has  achieved  its  enor­
mous  wealth,  actions  which  are 
in 
line  with  the  practice  of  mediaeval 
pirates.

Such  combinations  as  those  speci­
fied  are  based  upon  commercial  im­
morality.  Their  work  can  be  carried 
on  only  in  communities  in  which  the 
principles  of  commercial  morality  are 
not  permitted  to  control  public  opin­
ion  or  state  or  national  action.  These 
organizations  are  in  themselves great 
educations  in  commercial  immorality. 
They  represent  the  spirit  of  barbar­
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throw  off  the  control  exercised  by 
such  combinations  over  governmen­
tal  action,  the  community  can  not  be 
said  to  possess  any  assured  moral 
standard.

There  is  an  enormous  difference  be­
tween  the  working  of  the  business 
conscience  of  the  individual  and 
the 
conscience  of  a  group  of  individuals 
who  have  associated  themselves  to­
gether  in  a  corporation. 
It  would 
almost  seem  as  if  the  act  of  incor­
poration  had  been  decided  upon  in 
some  cases  in  order  to  free  the  indi­
vidual  merchant  from  the  responsi­
bility  of  his  conscience.  The  old 
phrase  that  “Corporations  have  no 
soul,”  is  certainly  very  largely  true.

On  the  other  hand,  the  associations 
which  have  for  sale  not  goods,  but 
the  work  of  their  hands,  the  associa­
tions  known  as  the labor unions, are, 
on  their  part, just  as  unwilling to  con­
cede  “a  fair  deal.”  They  are  assert­
ing  with  continual  and  increasing  em­
phasis  their  right  to  determine  not 
conditions  under  which 
only  the 
their  own 
labor  shall  be  sold,  but 
those  under  which  laborers  not  be­
longing  to  their  associations 
shall 
make  sale  of  their  labor,  or  rather, 
be  prevented  from 
it.  The 
contention  of  labor  unions  that  they 
should  dictate  to  employers  terms  of 
agreement  with  men  outside  of 
the  I 
unions,  and  that  if  such  dictation  be 
not  accepted  the  outside 
laborers 
must  incur  the  risk  of  having  their 
heads  broken  and  the  property  of the  j 
employer  must  be  subjected  to  de­
struction,  is  a  claim  which,  in  so  far 
as 
indicates 
that  the  Government  has  abdicated 
its  functions.

it  has  been  exercised, 

selling 

The  readiness  of  our  legislators  to 
truckle  to  the  claims  of  labor  unions 
is  equally  in  gravity  to  the  feebleness 
of  the  same  legislators  in  resisting the 
demoralizing  influence  of  the 
trust. 
It  is  my  belief  that  this  demoraliza­
tion  of  the  Government  in  its  failure 
to  resist  the  wrongful 
influence  of 
capital  on  the  one  hand,  and  of  or­
ganized  labor  on  the  other,  has  been 
largely  brought  about  by  the  pernic­
ious  influence  of  the  protective  sys­
tem.  This  system  itself  rests  upon  a 
wrong  idea  of  the  functions  of  the 
state. 
It  is  the  idea  that  the  citizen 
can  secure  through  Government  ac­
tion  some  help  in  his  business  at  the 
disadvantage  of  his  competitors,  and 
at  the  expense  of 
community 
that  has  had  so  much  to  do  with  the 
wrongful  use  of  Government  authori 
ty  for  the  issue  of  fiat  money,  for  the 
institution  of  trusts,  for 
the  undue 
recognition  of  labor  unions.

the 

“Honesty  is  the  best  policy,”  we 
are  told.  True  enough,  but  the  mills 
of  the  gods  grind  slowly.  We  may 
as  well  admit  that  for  the  lifetime  of 
any  one  man  dishonesty  frequently 
pays.  But  there  are 
limitations  to 
the  game.  The  individual  who  comes 
to  be  known  as  a  liar  has  thrown 
away  a  capital  that  it  is  almost  im­
possible  to  build  up  again  within  any 
one  man’s  lifetime.

George  Haven  Putnam.

It  gives  a  man  a  moral  squint  to 
look  more  at  condition  than  at  char­
acter.

Ministering  to  a  Mind  Diseased.
The  doctor’s  telephone  bell  rang. 
“Hello!”  he 

said,  applying 

the 

“phone  to  his  ear.

Is  that  Dr.  Kewrum?” 

“Hello! 
“Yes.”
“This  is  Mrs.  Ollerzill.  Oh,  doc­
tor,  I  have  such  a  tickling  in  my 
throat. 
I  just  can’t  endure  it.  I wish 
you'd  come  over  as  quick  as  you  can 
and  see  what  is  the  cause  of  it.”

“The  old  hypochondriac!”  he  mut­
tered.  “There  is  nothing  on  earth the 
matter  with  her,  but  I  suppose  I’ll 
have  to  go  as  usual.  Madam,”  he 
continued,  raising  his  voice,  “what did 
you  have  for  dinner?”

“Thicken  pot  pie.”
“All  right. 

I’ll  be  there  in  a 

few 

minutes.”

When  he  visited  his  patient  a  quar­
ter  of  an  hour  later  he  found  her 
coughing  and  wheezing,  and  appar­
ently  in  great  pain.

“No  relief  yet,  madam?”  he  asked. 
“Not  a  (cough)  bit,  doctor! 
It’s 
(cough)  getting  worse  (cough)  every 
(cough)  minute!”

“Well,”  he  said,  opening  his  case 
and  taking  out  a  small  steel  instru­
ment  with  a  long  handle,  “we’ll  soon 
remove  the  cause.  People  are  often | 
troubled  in  this  way  after 
eating 
chicken  pot  pie.  May  I  ask  you  to 
suspend  your  coughing  for  a  mo­
ment,  and  open  your  mouth?”

“Will  it  hurt,  doctor?”
“Not  a  particle.  Now  close  your 

eyes,  please.”

She  complied,  and  he  inserted  the 

instrument.

“I  see  what  it  is,  madam.  Hold | 

still.  There— that’s  all.”

“ Is  it  over,  doctor?”
“Yes,  you  may  open  your  eyes.” 
“Did  you  find  anything?”
“I  should  say  I  did.  Do  you  see 

this?”

Hereupon  he  showed  her  a  chicken 
feather,  which  appeared  to  be  in  a 
remarkable 
state  of  preservation, 
everything  considered.

“Is  the  tickling  all  gone,  madam?” 
“Yes,  it’s  all  gone,  doctor. 
I  don’t 
feel  it  a  bit  now. 
I  just  happened  to | 
think,  though,  that  I’ve  made  a  mis- | 
take. 
It  wasn’t  chicken  I  had  for 
It  was  roast  pork. 
dinner,  doctor. 
Oh,  dear! 
I  can  feel  it  coming  on 
(cough,  cough)  again!”

Then 

the  doctor’s  patience  gave 

way.

“Confound  it,  madam!”  he  exclaim­
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If  you’d  told  me  that  at  first  I  would 
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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 
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of  peas  at  55@6oc  is  limited,  and  new 
goods  will  find  the  market  almost 
bare  of  1904  stock.  A  good  pack  of 
small  fruits  is  looked  for  as  the yield 
will  be 

large.

There  is  a  good  demand  for  top 1 
grades  of  butter,  and  while  arrivals 
are  much  larger  than  last  year  the 
market  keeps  up  well  and  dealers feel 
quite  encouraged.  At  the  close  best 
Western  creamery  is  held  at  22@ 
ig@2i@ | 
22J-2C;  seconds  to 
2ij4c; 
i 8@ 20c ;  | 
seconds,  17c;  Western  factory,  i6@ 
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extra.

firsts, 
imitation  creamery, 

The  cheese  market  is  steady.  The 
supply  of  small  new  stock  is  as  yet 
moderate  and  quotations  are  well sus­
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The  pasturage  up-State  is  most  ex­
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of  a  large  season’s  output  this  year.

The  egg  market shows little change. 
Arrivals  of  moderate  sorts  continue 
abundant  and  prices  are  a  little  un­
steady.  Storage  selections  of  West­
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thirds,  i5J^@i6c.

Telephones  Responsible  for  Higher 

Meat  Prices.

The  most  original  and  amusing rea­
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of  the  recent  advance  in  meat  prices 
comes  from  Atchison,  Kan.  Here  it 
is:  “A  well  known  butcher  says  that 
the  telephone  is  responsible  for  the 
high  prices  of  meat.  On  Saturday 
last  a  woman  telephoned  his  market 
and  ordered  5  cents’  worth  of  head 
cheese  sent  up  to  her  house,  ‘right 
away.’  It  was  not  advisable  to  offend 
the  woman,  so  the  wagon  and  driver 
were  sent  ten  blocks  with  a  5-cent 
purchase.  Nearly  everything  is  de- 
I  livered  now.  Naturally  the  butcher 
must  have  something  to  pay  for  de­
livery.  The  butcher  says  much  less 
meat  is  sold  in  Atchison  than  former­
ly.  People  are  not  eating  as  much 
meat  as  they  formerly  did. 
In  the 
old  days  the  leading  market  sold  as 
high  as  130  beeves  a  month  at  his 
Atchison  market;  seldom  less  than  a 
hundred  a  month.  Now  the  leading 
market  sells  thirty  beeves  a  month. 
The  butcher  says  he  can’t  figure  it 
out  any  other  way;  people  are  eating 
a  great  deal  less  meat.  There  are 
meat  markets  in  Atchison  that  are 
selling  only  a  fourth  as  much  meat  as 
they  formerly  sold.  Expenses  are  as 
high  as  they ever  were,  but  sales  have 
greatly  fallen  off;  in  addition,  the  tel­
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market  here  which  will  not  have  a 
telephone  and  which  will  not  de­
liver. 
It  is  said  such  a  market  could 
legitimately  cut  present  prices  20  per 
cent.”

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New  York,  May  20— We  have  at 
the  close  of  the  week  a  fairly  steady 
coffee  market,  although  there  have 
been  a  few  ups  and  downs  during  the 
past  few  days,  neither  buyer  nor  sell­
er  seeming  to  evince  much  interest 
and  both  are  simply  waiting  to  see 
what  the  future  has  in  store.  Sales 
are  generally  of  small  quantities,  and 
quotations  remain  on  about  the  last- 
noted  basis  of  8c  for  Rio  No.  7. 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  4,025,465 
the 
bags,  against  2,851,568  bags  at 
same  time  last  year. 
In  mild  coffees 
there  is  a  decided  lack  of  animation 
and  hardly  an  average  trade  is  being | 
be  I 
done,  although  matters  might 
about  un-1 
worse.  Quotations  are 
changed,  with  good  Cucuta  at  g%@ 
gxA c  and  good  average  Bogota  at
io $4@ i i c .

The  sugar  market  is  getting  into 
better  shape  and  a  pretty  fair  vol-1 
ume  of  business  has  gone  forward  in 
withdrawals  under  previous  contract 
as  well  as  in  new  business.  The 
weather  has  been  rather  unfavorable 
for  a  sugar  campaign  so  far  as  con­
sumers  are  concerned,  but  with  some 
hot  waves  arriving  we  shall  see  daily 
improvement  of  course.

There  is  a  steady  tea  market  and 
little  else  can  be  said.  Supplies  are 
not  abundant,  but  there  seems  to  be 
enough  to  go  around  and  prices  are 
fairly  well  sustained.

Rice  is  doing  better.  Prices  here 
are  unchanged,  but  at  the  South  are 
said  to  be  firm  and  higher. 
Indica­
tions  still  continue  very  favorable 
tc  the  seller  as  acreage  will  be  light 
and  stocks  well  reduced.  Prime  to 
choice  domestic,  3§^@4c.

There  is  a  continued  firm  market 
for  spices,  although  the  volume  of 
jobbing  trade  is  not  very  large.  Sing­
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Other  lines  are  unchanged,  but  there 
is  certainly  no  tendency  at  the  mo­
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black  pepper,

Deliveries  of  molasses  under  old 
contracts  have  been  sufficiently  nu­
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business  and  the  market  upon 
the 
whole  closes  in  a  satisfactory  man­
ner.  Supplies  are  not  overabundant, 
although  there  seems  to  be  enough 
to  meet  all  requirements.  Syrups  are 
steady,  and  exporters  have  been  do­
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some 
time.  Good  to  prime  in  round  lots, 
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There  is  a  better  tone  to  the  can­
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salmon  industry  is  getting  into  bet­
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better  outlook  and  the  tendency  is 
toward  a  slightly  higher  basis. 
It  is 
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offered  at  less  than  this  figure  are 
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V A L U E   O F  T A C T .

Advantage  of  Rubbing  People  the 

Right  Way.

Of  the  forty-nine  articles  of  suc­
cess  not  rubbing  people  the  wrong 
way  should  be  put  anywhere  among 
the  first  three.

“Tact  is  better  than  smartness; take 
on  civility  and  a  certain  dignity,  and 
with  hard  work  you  are  bound  to 
win,”  is  the  aphorism  in  which 
a 
great  railroad  President  has  summed 
up  his  advice  to  young  men.

One  of  the  greatest  factors  in  the 
success  of  Herbert  H.  Vreeland  has 
been  his  affability  and  genial  good 
humor.  He  was  fortunate  enough  to 
be  born  with  a  sanguine 
tempera­
ment  and  genial,  cheery .good  nature. 
“He  has  smiled,  and  toiled,  and  suc­
ceeded,”  is  the  way  one  of  his  biog­
raphers  has  put  it,  and  it  was  owing 
to  his  obligingness  and  popularity, 
and  to  the  fact  that  he  was  inca­
pable  of  taking  umbrage  that  was  due 
one  of  the  turning  points  in  his  ca­
reer.

It  was 

in  the  .early  days  of  his 
youth  on  the  New  York  and  North­
ern  that  he  made  a  mistake  of  some 
technical  character  that  resulted  in 
his  discharge.  He  was  so  far  from 
being  daunted  at  this  mishap  that  he 
returned  and  applied  for  a  position 
in  the  same  company  in  a  less  im­
portant  place.

He  not  only  got  back  his  old  posi­
tion,  but  he  was  so  obliging  about 
doing  other  men’s  work  that  he  was 
considered  almost  a  soft  mark.  One 
day  the  New  York  capitalists  who 
owned  the  road  decided  upon  a  tour 
of  inspection.  There  was  a  great 
brushing  and  cleaning  up  and  put­
ting  in  shape  of  details  on  the  road 
after  the  time  of  their  arrival  was  tel­
egraphed.  The  visit  was  made  sud­
denly,  however,  and  there  was  a great 
deal  of 
information  that  the  divi­
sion 
it 
would  be  well  to  possess  which  they 
did  not  have  time  to  equip 
them­
selves  with.  The  intricate  facts  of 
railroading  are  not  easily  crammed.

superintendents 

that 

felt 

Question  after  question  was  fired 
at  the  men  who  were  conducting  the 
party  of  inspection.  The  matter  was 
invariably  referred  to  one  of 
the 
young  men  in  the  background.  “Oh, 
Vreeland  knows;  ask  him.”  They ask­
ed  about 
rolling 
stock,  and  to  everything  the  pleasant 
faced  and  raw  boned  youth  seemed 
to  have  an  easy  and  pleasant  as  well 
as  an  intelligent  answer.

tracks,  stations, 

“Who  is  he?”  asked  Mr.  Whitney.
“He  is  a  brakeman,  station  man, 
conductor,  or  any  old  thing,”  was  the 
answer.  Later,  when  he  was  sum­
moned  by  Mr.  Whitney  to  go  to  New 
York,  the  directions  were  to  find  the 
“pleasant  faced  and  pleasant  manner­
ed  young  man”  who  had  answered 
the  questions  of  the  party  on  its  re­
cent  trip.

In  all  his  business  positions  Mr. 
Vreeland  is  genial.  He  is  as  affable 
in  his  dealings  with  the  men  under 
him  as  he  is  with  his  superiors.  From 
the  first  he  has  interested  himself  in 
the  affairs  of  all  his  men.  He  knows 
every  man  who  has  been  on  the  road

for  a  year  or  longer  and  he  encour­
ages  them  to  talk  with  him.

To  this  pian  have  been  attributed 
the  wonderful  results  of  his  reorgani­
zation  of  the  Metropolitan  road.  Few 
employes  are  either  dissatisfied  or dis­
charged,  and  it  is  Mr.  Vreeland’s  own 
statement  . that  he  has  seldom  had 
a  complaint.  Yet  each  one  knows 
that  he  can  see  him  and  that  he  will 
be  cordially 
received.  They  have 
learned  that  he  is  a  last  resort,  but 
if  they  have  not  received  satisfaction 
after  taking  their  complaints through 
the  proper  channels  Mr.  Vreeland  de­
sires  and  invites  the  presence  of  any 
one  in  his  service.

There  is  seldom  so  specific  a. call—  
with  a  large  salary  attached— for  tact 
and  good  nature  as  there  has  been 
in  the  case  of  Chauncey  M.  Depew. 
There  are  few  men  who  have  won 
success  in  life  as  he  has.  He  has 
been  successful  in  many  more  ways 
than  one.  He  is  a  senator  from  the 
greatest  state  in  the  union  and  he  is 
a  man  of  wealth,  and  most  of  his 
success  has  been  due  to  one  thing—  
his  good  nature.  Many  great  corpor­
ations  have  need  of  a  popular,  kindly 
man  to  act  as  a  buffer  between  them 
and  the  public,  and  of  all  holding 
such  positions  Depew  is  the  ideal.  He 
is  also  one  of  the  best  paid.  He  has 
a  perfect  control  of  his  temper,  a 
wonderful  faculty  of  rubbing  off  the 
rough  edges,  and  has  done  a  great 
deal  of  good  in  positions  in  which 
a  less  tactful  man  might  have  done 
harm.

There  is  probably  no  one  of  all  the 
successful  men  of  the  present  who 
have  throughout  exercised  more  of 
this  quality  than  Thomas  R.  Walsh. 
The  treatment  which  he  gave  to  men 
in  the  old  Leadville  days,  often  to 
men  without  a  cent,  excelled  if  any­
thing  in  kindness  and  cordiality  that 
with  which  he  met  people  who  were 
better  off.  His  treatment  of  the  men 
under  him  and  his  preparations  for 
their  comfort,  his  thoughtfulness  of 
their  needs,  were  first  considered  an 
example  in  philanthropy,  but 
have 
since  been  regarded  as  a  working 
principle  in  labor  economics.  That a 
strike  is  unknown  among  his  men 
is  not  only  the  boast  of  Mr.  Walsh, 
but  to  it  and  the  fact  that  he  has  had 
the  best  work  out  of  them  that  was 
possible  he  attributes  much  of  his 
rapid  success.

It  is  said  of  him  that  he  never  for­
gets  a  friend  or  a  service,  and  that 
his  “luck”  has  never  turned  his  head. 
Prosperity  has  smiled  and  he  smiles 
back,  and  in  the  meantime  he  has 
not  forgotten  the  old  friends  of  his 
Leadville  days.  There 
is  no  one 
more  welcome  at  his  table,  or  no  one 
that  he  receives  more  cordially,  and 
they  are  given  to  understand  that 
they  are  expected  to  be  his  guests 
while  they  are  in  the  metropolitan 
city.

Joseph  H.  Choate,  in  making  a  mil­
lion  dollars  out  of  the  law,  has  found 
his  strongest  aid  in 
the  kindliness 
which  he  has  exercised  toward others. 
A  late  biographer  has  described  his 
amiability  as  of  a  kind  that  awakens 
friendliness  in  turn  and  begets  trust 
for  trust.

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casm  there  is  not  a  more  kindly man 
in  the  world  than  Mr.  Choate.  His 
innate  kindness  of  heart  was  display­
ed  in  the  tribute  which  he  paid  to 
Roscoe  Conkling  when  Conkling  ap­
peared  against  him  in 
the  Pacific 
Railroad  case.  It  was  just  after  Con- 
kling’s  bitter  defeat  in  the  United 
States  Senate.  Choate  said:

“ However  we  may  differ,  we  owe 
the  Senator  one  debt  of  gratitude  for 
standing  always  incorruptible  in  the 
halls  of  corruption.  Shadrach,  Me- 
shach  and  Abednego  won  immortal 
glory  for  passing  one  day 
the 
burning,  fiery  furnace;  but  he  has 
been  twenty  years  there 
and  has 
come  out  without  the  smell  of smoke 
upon  his  garments.”

in 

It  was  a  gracious  speech  and  Con­
kling  remembered  it  gratefully  to  his 
dying  day.

Of  himself  Mr.  Choate  has  said: 
“I  have  made  it  a  rule  never  to  neg­
lect  a  case,  no  matter  how  unimpor­
tant  it  may  seem.  A  doctor  owes  it 
to  the  dignity  of  his  profession  to 
treat  a  cut  finger  successfully  just 
as  he  would  a  fractured  skull.  The 
same  thing  is  true  of 
lawyer, 
though,  unfortunately,  all  attorneys 
do  not  appreciate  this  fact.”

the 

It  is  due  to  this  devotion  to  the 
interests  of  even  the  humblest  clients 
that  Mr.  Choate  has  won  a  greater 
percentage  of  the  cases  he  has  ap­
peared  in  than  any  other 
lawyer 
known.  His  unfailing  courtesy  of 
manner  has  been  as  helpful  in  de­
manding  his  rights  as  it  has  in  ob­
taining  for  him  his  popularity.  On 
one  occasion,  when  he  was  address­
ing  a  bench  on  which  Judge  Van 
Brunt  was  sitting,  the  judge  turned 
his  chair  around  and  began  talking 
to  one  of  his  associates.  This  habit, 
not  unusual  on  the  bench,  is  an  an­
noyance  to  lawyers  which  it  is  often 
part  of  their  policy  to  ignore.  When 
Van  Brunt,  surprised  at  the  hush  in 
the  court  room,  looked  around,  Mr. 
Choate  said: 
“Your  honor,  I  have 
just  twenty  minutes  in  which  to  make 
my  arguments. 
I  shall  need  every 
second  of  the  time  and  also  the  un­
divided  attention  of  the  court.”

“And  you  shall  have  it,”  replied 
instantly  acknowledging 

judge, 

the 
the  justice  of  the  appeal.
David  R.  Francis,  a 

“self-made 
man,”  has  always  been  of  singularly 
pleasing  address.  The  success  with 
which  he  has  handled  his  numerous 
administrative  positions  in  Missouri, 
and  the  remarkable  way 
in  which 
he  directed  the  fortunes  of  the  Louis­
iana  Purchase  Exposition,  which  de­
pended  upon  him  more  than  on  any­
thing  else  for  its  success,  have  been 
due  largely  to  his  tact,  his  great  gift 
of  handling  men,  and  to  his  populari­
ty  and  pleasing  manner.  Especially 
did  this  urbanity  make  an  impression 
during  his  famous  European 
trip 
which  saved  his  cause.  This  was  only 
a  small  part,  however,  which  his 
popularity  has  played  in  his  success.
When  he  was  a  small  boy  in  the 
river  house  in  St.  Louis  the  pleasing 
manners  of  “Davy”  Francis  were  re­
sponsible  for  more  than  one  promo­
tion.  Later,  when  as  a  poor  young 
man,  he  won  one  of  the  wealthiest 
and  most  accomplished  girls  in  St.

It  has  helped  him 

Louis  for  his  bride,  his  popularity 
again  helped  him  to  break  down  all 
opposition. 
to 
every  position  to  which  he  has  risen, 
and  it  has  made  of  him  an  idol  among 
those  with  whom  he  has  lived  and 
who  have  been  the  recipients  of  his 
cordiality.

smoothness 

Much  of  this  same  quality  is  shown 
at  times  by  James  R.  Keene.  At 
times  showing  the  irascibility  which 
he  has  developed  with  his 
life  of 
speculation,  his 
and 
pleasantness  of  manner  have  been 
many  times  in  his  earlier  life  the  se­
cret  of  his  entering  into  success.  It 
only  needs  something  connected  with 
his  old  time  life  to  bring  out  a  court­
liness  and  cordiality  of  maner  which 
surprises  his  associates, 
confounds 
his  enemies,  and  makes  those  who 
come  to  him  his  firm  friends  for  life.
One  day  the  sound  of  a  woman’s 
voice  requesting  an 
interview  was 
heard  in  the  outer  office.  The  clerk 
was  receiving  her,  or,  rather,  get­
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Mr.  Keene  appeared  in  the  doorway, 
discovered  a  woman  in  poverty  strick­
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B A CK   TO   T H E   FARM.

Problems  for  City  Man  Who  Seeks 

Rural  Occupation.

W ritte n   fo r  th e   T ra d e sm a n .

thus 

increased; 

An  article  in  a  recent  issue  of  the 
Tradesman  on  the  “Comparative  Ad­
vantages  of  City  and  Country  Life” 
brings  up  a  most  interesting  subject. 
It  is  one  which  receives  much  atten­
tion  from  various  writers,  and  from 
the  agricultural  press  in  particular. 
The  continual  exodus  of  young  peo­
ple  from  the  farm  affects  many  in­
terests.  The  laboring  class  feels  the j 
competition 
the  I 
statesman  views  it  as  a  serious  prob­
lem;  the  philanthropist  regards  it  as 
almost  a  calamity;  parents  feel  the 
loss  of  their  children’s  help  and  so- | 
ciety;  farmers  are  handicapped  bj' j 
scarcity  of  help;  country  churches  are 
enfeebled  by  the  departure  of 
the 
young  and  enthusiastic;  civil  authori­
ties  are  in  no  small  measure  con­
cerned  because  of  the  congested  con-1 
ditions  which  result  from  the  flock­
ing  to  the  cities  of  the  American-born 
and  the  constant  influx  of  foreigners,  j 
It  is  a  matter  which  concerns  every  j 
one  interested  in  the  welfare  of  his ¡ 
country  and  his  fellows,  and  there­
fore  an  appropriate  theme  for  even 
a  journal  devoted  to  mercantile  in­
terests.

In  all  towns  and  cities  throughout | 

our  country  and  in  various  occupa­
tions  in  life  may  be  found  a  great 
number  of  people  who  were  reared 
on  a  farm.  Not  all  such  left  the  farm 
because  of  dislike  of  farm  work  or 
country  life.  Some,  indeed,  with  e x -! 
aggerated  ideas  of  their  own  ability j 
and  a  desire  for  what  they  consider- | 
ed  a  grander,  nobler  or  more  conge­
nial  occupation,  gladly  embraced  the I 
first  opportunity  to  break  away  from 
home  and  farm 
life.  Others,  with 
no  vain  or  selfish  ambition,  but  with 
a  desire  for  improvement  and  to  fit 
themselves  for  the  station  for  which 
they  were  best  adapted,  have  with | 
reluctance  separated  themselves  from | 
surroundings  with  which  they  were 
content  and  have  gone  out  to  take 
up  their  duties  in  the  world.

Various  are  the  reasons  why  peo­
ple  leave  the  country  and  seek  the 
cities,  and  various  are  the  conditions 
of  success  or  failure  to  which  many 
attain.  Some  benefit  themselves  and 
their  fellowmen  and  succeed  in  great­
er  or  less  degree  in  their  aspirations; 
many  are  doomed  to  disappointment 
and  to  lives  of  anxious 
struggle. 
Some  realize  their  unfitness  for other 
professions  and  return  to  the  life for 
which  they  are  best  adapted.
Many,  even  if  successful  in 

their 
early  aims  and  ambitions,  as  they  ap­
proach  middle  life  begin  to  tire  of  the 
ceaseless  bustle  and  activity  of 
the 
cities  and  look  with  longing  toward 
the  peaceful  and  quiet  life  of 
the 
country  which  was  theirs  before  they 
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social  obligations,  or  other 
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and  business  must  be  given  up,  or 
financial  reverses  cut  them  loose  so 
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change 
life 
a  score  of  years  may  make!  How 
handicapped  is  one  who  begins 
in 
middle  life,  to  learn  the  business  of 
farming!  Even  if  youthful  days  were 
spent  in  faithful  work,  very  little  may 
have  been  learned  of  planning  and 
management.  One  is  confronted  by 
entirely  new  conditions,  new  imple­
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soil,  of  sowing  and  of  harvesting. 
There  are  problems  without  number 
that  the  boy  on the farm never dream­
ed  of  which  must  be  correctly  solved 
in  order  to  succeed.

Suppose  a  man  decides  to  leave  the 
city and  go  to  farming.  He  needs  the 
hearty  co-operation  of  his  family.  He 
needs  to  select  a  farm  adapted  to  the 
particular  kind  of  farming  he  prefers, 
whether  stock  raising,  grain,  fruit  or 
mixed  farming.  He  may  not  know 
until  he  has  tried  which  will  suit  him 
best  or  would  be  most  profitable.  On 
a  large  farm  he  needs  many  modern 
implements  and  machines,  and  he 
must  know  not  only  how  to  direct 
the  work  of  employes  to  the  best  ad­
vantage,  but  must  have  tact  to  keep 
them  contented  and  unanimous.  He 
may  become  a  bankrupt  before  he has 
learned  the  road  to  success. 
If  he 
buys  a  small  farm  and  undertakes  to 
do  all  or  the  most  of  the  work  him­
self,  he  may  find  that  he  is  physically 
unable  to  do  so. 
In  any  case,  he  is 
quite  apt  to  realize  within  a  year  or 
two  that  he  knows  but  little  about 
farming.

The  most  successful  farmers  find 
| it  a  difficult  matter  in  these  days  to 
i  profitably  employ  labor. 
It  is  often 
a  question  whether  it  will  be  a great­
er  loss  to  let  land  remain  idle  or  to 
employ  help  at  present  rate  of  wages; 
whether  a  crop  will  bring  enough  to 
pay  for  cost  of  labor  expended  on  it, 
leaving  entirely  aside  any  account  of 
return  from  money  invested  in  land.

Merchants, Hearken
We are business builders and 
money  getters.  We  are  ex­
perienced  W e  succeed with­
out  the  use  of  hot  air.  We 
don't  slaughter  prices.  If  we 
can't  make  you 
reasonable 
profits,  we  don't  want  your 
sale.  No company  in  our  line 
can  supply  better  references.  W e  can  convert 
your stock, including  stickers,  into  cash  witho  t 
loss.  Everything treated confidentially.

Note our tw o places o f business, and  address us

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Don’t  Got  Behind 
tbe  Procession

It  will  be  hard  to 
Keep  ahead. 
catch  up  if  the  other  fellow  gets 
too  far  in  the  lead.  To  stay  in 
the  game  you  must  have  the  best 
goods— the  goods  that  hold  your 
old  trade  and  bring  you  new  cus­
tomers.

Hew  Silver  Ceaf  Flour

is  just  this  kind.  Dealers  who 
have  sold it say  so— why  not  you ?
If  you  want  to  know  all  about 
this  flour ask  your  jobber or  write 
to us.

Muskegon  milling  Co.,  Muskegon,  Mich,

IF

Were  not  the  best  Flour on  earth  could  we  sell it under 

our liberal  guarantee to the consumer

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The  man  with  a  farm  paid  for,  good 
buildings,  money  in  the  bank  and  all 
modern  machinery  and  improvements 
hires  help  by  the  month  or  year  be­
cause  he  can  afford  it,  the  same  as  he 
does  other  luxuries;  but  the  man  in 
debt  or  the  one  who  pays  rent-money 
must  do  all  the  work  he  can  himself 
and  get  along  as  best  he  may  with 
little  or  no  hired  help. 
like 
going  begging  to  seek  for  day  labor­
ers. 
If  one  could  secure  help  a  few 
days  at  a  time  occasionally  when 
needed  he  could  plan  to  have  all  his 
land  under  cultivation  with  some  as­
surance  of  being  able  to  gather  his 
crops  when  ready  for  harvesting.  In­
stead  he  must  plant  only  so  much  as 
he  can  properly  cultivate  and  secure 
with  the  help  of  his  own  family,  or 
men  hired  by  the  season.

It  is 

a 

time.  With 

Enough  might  be  said  of  the  disad­
vantages  and  the  almost  insurmounta­
ble  obstacles  in  the  way  of  a  city- 
bred  man  attempting  farming  to  dis­
courage  any  such  from  the  undertak-1 
ing.  But  there  is  another  side  to  the 
ciuestion.  Good  business  ability  is 
one  of  the  most  important  qualifica­
tions  for  a  successful  farmer  at  the 
present 
thorough 
knowledge  and 
rotation  of  crops, 
judgment  of  stock,  best  methods  of 
care  and  feeding,  economical  manage­
ment  of  help,  and  all  other  qualifica­
tions  necessary  to  bring  farm  prod­
ucts  to  a  condition  for  market,  one 
may  fail  for  lack  of  knowing  how, 
where  and  when  to  sell.  An  illustra­
tion  of  this  is  a  case  known  to  the 
writer,  where  a  graduate  of  an  agri­
cultural  college,  given  the  superin­
tendency  of  a  farm, 
the 
amount  of  his  salary  in  making  the 
farm  pay  expenses.  His  greatest mis­
take  seems  to  be  in  holding  produce 
for  higher  prices  when  the  market 
is  unusually  good,  and  then  selling 
after  a  decline  takes  place.

fails  by 

The  one  who  is  successful  in  all  his 
business  undertakings  will  succeed  in 
farming.  He  will  succeed  because  he 
does  not  undertake  any  new  enter­
prise  without  carefully  investigating 
the  matter  and  deciding  that  he  can 
fulfill  all  the  requirements.  The  spe­
cialist  in  any  occupation  should  also 
be  a  specialist  if  he  becomes  a  farm­
er.  One  branch  of  farming  at  a  time 
should  be  mastered  by  the  novice.

the 

The  moral  welfare  of  one’s  family 
should  be  given  preference  of 
all 
other  considerations;  and  next  to  this 
Intellectual 
is  the  matter  of  health. 
and  social  advantages  of 
city 
might  well  be  sacrificed  for  a  period 
at  least,  if  one  is  fully  persuaded that 
a  residence  in  the  country  would  se­
cure  the  first-mentioned  objects.  One 
who  has  overcome 
obstacles 
which  confront  the  beginner  and  at­
tained  to  a  position  where  he  can 
give  his  family  a  comfortable  home 
and  a  substantial 
a 
farm  should  feel  amply  repaid  for 
all  he  has  relinquished  in  city  life.

livelihood  on 

the 

Disordered  nerves, 

insomnia  and 
brain-fag  can  be  overcome  by  vigor­
ous  manual  labor  if  undue  mental  ex­
ertion  is  given  up.  Active  outdoor 
occupation  can  make  life  tolerable  for 
even  a  chronic  dyspeptic.  Heavy 
work  and  exposure  to  extremes  of 
heat  or  cold  are  not  good  for  heart

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

disease,  but  fresh  air  is  always  bene­
ficial.

In  no  other  occupation 

is  one 
brought  in  so  close  a  touch  with  na­
ture  as  on  the  farm.  To  the  devout 
mind  there  is  i  constant  reminder  of 
the  saying: 
to­
gether  with  God.”  E.  E.  Whitney.

“We  are  workers 

Buyers  and  Shippers of

P O T A T O E S
in carlots.  Write or telephone ns.
H.  ELMER M08ELEY & CO.

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

15
ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Lata  Mata  Pood  CommlMlonar 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
3331 flafestlc  Building, Detroit,  filch

R e a so n   fo r  W a n tin g   R ain .

Rev.  Mr.  Livingston,  of  Georgia, 

told  this  story:

“A  friend  of  mine  down  in  one  of 
the  small  towns  of  Georgia  has many 
proteges  among  the  people 
in  the 
mountain  country  near.  Several years 
ago  there  was  a  long  dry  spell 
in 
Georgia.  At  about  the  beginning  of 
it  the  wife  of  one  of  the  mountain­
eers  died.  The  disconsolate  husband 
followed  her  to  the  grave  and  was 
the  last  to  leave  the  burying  ground. 
His  footprints  remained,  large  and 
distinct,  in  the  clay  beside  the  grave. 
Six  weeks  afterward  my  friend  drove 
out  to  see  how  the  widower  was  do­
ing.  He  was  sitting  in  the  door  of 
his  cabin,  staring  hopelessly  at  the 
cloudless  sky.

“ ‘Ef  hit  would  only  turn  in  an’ 
rain,’  he  said,  T  wouldn’t  ask  nothin’ 
of  nobody.’

“ ‘The  dry  weather  is  bad  for  the 

crops,’  the  visitor  remarked.

“ ‘ ’Tain’t  crops,’  said  the  widower, 
She 
‘hit’s  Miss  Seliny  Johnson. 
swears  she  won’t  marry  me  until  it 
rains.

“ ‘She  ’lows  it  wouldn’t  be  showing 
proper  respect  for  my  first  wife  to 
marry  before  my  tracks  in  the  grave­
yard  are  washed  out.  I  shore  do  wish 
it  would  turn  in  an’  rain. 
I’ve  been 
courtin’  her  six  weeks.  Good  Lord, 
a  man  kain’t  wait  on  the  weather 
forever.’ ”

To  do  the  things  we  know  to-day] 
will  mean  to  know  the  things  to  do j 
to-morrow.

“ You have tried the rest now use the b e st/'

Cen  Reasons  UJby  You  Should  Buy

Golden  Rom  

Flour
Reason no. 3.-Scientific  milling

M illing  is  a  science;  rather,  right  m illing  is. 

It  is  the  art 
of  knowing  how  to  make  good  Flour  and  then  doing  it.  W e 
know  how  to  do  it.  O ur  m illers  have  spent  the  best  part  of 
their  lives  in  the  study  of  good  m illing;  hence,  it  has  becom e  a 
science  w ith  them.  T h ey  are  able  to  select  the  best  wheat  for 
m illing.  T h ey  understand  the  operation  of  their  m achinery. 
T h ey  have  learned  the  requirem ents  of  the  trade.  T h e y   test 
the  run  of  the  m ill  frequently  so  that  it  is  kept  uniform .  T h ey 
make  daily  com parative  baking  tests.  T h ey  know  how  to  make 
G O L D E N   H O R N   F L O U R   just  as  good  as  it  is  possible  to 
make  flour.

One  more  good  reason  w hy  you  should  buy  it.

M anufactured  by

Star $ Crescent milling €©♦, Chicago, 111,

Che Tincst mill on Earth

Roy Baker,  ******Bapws, mich.

D istributed  by

Sp ecia l  P rice s  on  C a r  to a d   Cots

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

attractive

flour

Is  it  Not  Worth  Your  While  to  W rite  Us  for  the  Exclusive  Agency?
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tures  of  this  window  was  a  light­
house,  constructed  of  granite-colored 
material,  with  brown  goods  arranged 
at  the  base  to  resemble  rocks.  The 
tower  was  illuminated  at  night  by  a 
red  incandescent  light.  At  the  back 
and  side  of  the  window  was  a  dis­
play  of  men’s  outing  suits  and  boys’ 
sailor  suits,  while  the  placard 
an­
nouncements  contained  a  clever  play 
upon  the  word  “sail.”

Their  own  make  of  men’s  linen  col­
lars  was  cleverly  featured  by  one 
firm  recently  by  a  representation,  in 
their  big  window,  of  a  Puritan  cot­
tage  with  vines  clambering  over  it, 
and  through  the  open  door  glimpses 
of  an  old-time  cleanly  kitchen.  A 
live,  flesh-and-blood  girl,  dressed  as 
“Priscilla,”  the  Puritan  maiden,  sat 
outside  the  door  diligently  sewing  on 
the  collars.  An  old-fashioned  spin­
ning  wheel,  with  a  hank  of  flax  on 
the  spindle,  stood  beside  her.  All 
parts  of  the  unfinished  collar  were 
shown,  and  particular  attention  was 
called  to  the  fact  that  the 
lining 
was  thoroughly  shrunk  before  being 
made  up.  All  the  strong  points  of 
the  collar  were  dwelt  upon  by  the 
placards  shown,  and  made  doubly 
impressive  by  the  display,  which  was 
most  appropriate  to  the  brand  name 
of  the  collar.

A  very  unique  idea,  originated  by 
one  firm,  was  a  big  window  display 
of  neckwear,  of  every  variety  of  sea­
sonable  style,  arranged  in  as  many 
different  ways  as  the  ingenuity  of  the 
window  trimmer  could  conceive,  and 
with  panel  mirrors  placed  at  many 
different  angles  so  as  to  still  further 
heighten  the  illusion  of  the  number 
of  ties  shown.  To  draw  attention  to 
these  goods,  a  placard  announced 
that  a  first  prize  of  a  lady’s  hand­
some  gold  bracelet,  a  second  prize 
of  a  ten-dollar  gold  piece,  and 
a 
third  prize  of  a  fine  silk  umbrella 
would  be  given  to  the  three  ladies 
who  guessed  nearest  to  the  exact 
number  of  ties  in  the  window.  The 
prizes  were  also  conspicuously  dis­
played.  Only  ladies  were  to  be  eli­
gible  for  the  prizes,  and  the  only 
string  to  the  offer  was  that 
each 
contestant  must  make  her  estimate 
on  a  blank  which  would  be  furnished 
to  each  purchaser  of  a  tie  at  this 
store.  Folders 
showing  a  photo­
graph  of  this  w;indow  and  containing 
particulars  of  the  offer  and  much  in­
formation  about  their  goods,  were 
mailed  to  customers  in  and  out  of 
town,  and  sweethearts,  sisters  and 
wives  forthwith  proceeded  to 
con­
vince  their  special  male  property  that 
the  ties  sold  by  this  firm  were  the 
very  nobbiest  thing  in  the  market.—  
Clothier  and  Furnisher.

If  you  have  no  desire  to  spend  any 
money  on  printers’  ink,  you  can  at 
least  make  the  store  look  attractive. 
By  all  means  make  some  kind  of  a 
window  display.  A  poor  display  is 
better  than  none,  but  a  neat  one  can 
be  arranged  with  very  little  effort  and 
expense.  People  will  trade  with  the 
merchant  who  appreciates  their  busi­
ness  enough  to  make  a  bid  for  it, 
and  the  fellow  who  is  asleep  will not 
be  disturbed  in  his  slumbers  except 
by  nightmares  of  sheriff’s  levies.

Trade  Pullers  Which  Have  Proven

Satisfactory.

Probably  the  most  forceful  “tips” 
as  trade  pullers  that  any  store  can 
make  use  of  just  at  this  particular 
season  are  by  means  of  the  show 
windows.  People  are  out  to  see  and 
admire  whatever  is  worth  seeing, and 
this  fine  spring  weather  makes  them 
more  disposed  to  enjoy  at  their  leis­
ure  the  attractions  the  windows  af­
ford.

in 

trim 

A  store  having  a 

large  trade  in 
what  they  call  their  “blue  ribbon” 
hats  had  a  window 
recently 
which  must  have  given  the  sale  of 
these  goods  a  decided  boost.  Blue 
ribbon  streamers  spread  from  a  cen­
tral  point 
the  decorated  ceil­
ing  to  every  hat  in  the  window.  The 
little  placards  on 
the  hats  were 
blue,  with  white  figures.  Attached 
to  the  glass  inside  were  a  number  of 
handsomely 
certificates, 
with  a  bow  of  blue  ribbon  in  one 
corner  of  each,  guaranteeing  the  hats 
to  be  the  very  best  that  could  be 
obtained  for  the  money,  and  offering, 
if  not  found  satisfactory  in 
every 
way,  to  replace  with  a  new  hat  or 
refund  the  money  if  notified  within 
thirty  days  from  purchase.  This  sug­
gests  an  idea  for  a  trim  for  some 
patriotic  occasion,  when  red,  white 
and  blue  streamers  might  be  similar­
ly  used  with  striking  effect.

engraved 

A  football  match 

felt,  chalked  off  as 

in  miniature 
made  one  clothing  and 
furnishing 
goods  store  window7  the  center  of 
attraction  for  the  uninitiated  as  well 
as  enthusiasts  of 
the  game.  The 
floor  of  the  window  was  covered with 
grass-green 
a 
regulation  gridiron. 
Figures  about 
twelve  inches  in  height,  dressed  in 
football  costumes,  were  lined  up  as 
opposing  teams,  and  arranged 
in 
playing  positions,  with  a  ball  in  the 
center  of  the  field,  apparently 
just 
ready  to  be  kicked  off.  The  oppos­
ing  teams  wore  the  Harvard  and  Yale 
colors,  respectively,  with 
rival 
pennants  suspended  above.  Several 
pithy  placards  were  displayed,  such 
as,  “ In  the  great  game  of  business 
we  fear  no  rivals,”  “If  you  have  any 
kick 
to  make  regarding  any  pur­
chase  made  in  our  store,  please  make 
it  direct  to  us,”  “A  glance  over  our 
stock  will  show  that  w7e  have  scor­
ed  again  in  our  $15 
suits,” 
etc.

spring 

the 

A  yachting  window  was  a  big  at­
traction  for  weeks  last  summer 
in 
the  height  of  the  yachting  season.  A 
good-sized  yacht  was  placed  in  the 
center,  while  a  very  fair  representa­
tion  of  the  sea  was  formed  by  sea- 
green  material  arranged  over  a  bil­
lowy  framework  beneath 
form 
wraves.  Lettered  on  the  bows  of  the 
boat  wras  the  name  of  the  clothing 
house,  “The  Pioneer,”  while  each  of 
the  sails  bore  the  name  of  some 
quality  claimed  for  their  goods,  such 
as 
“Superior 
Workmanship,”  etc.  One  of  the  fea­

“Quality,” 

“Style,” 

to 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Greens  and  Reds  the  Favorite  Au­

tumn  Colors.

Gauged  by  the  time  that  salesmen 
have  been  out  with  fall  sample  lines, 
the  new  season  is  now  advanced 
about  ten  days.  According  to  the  or­
ders  already  sent  in,  and  those  taken 
“at  home”  before  the  men  started, 
olive  and  hunter  greens  and  wine  and 
maroon  reds  are  the  preferred 
au­
tumn  colors.  In  grades  at  from  $4.50 
up  the  three-inch  four-in-hand  is  the 
choice  scarf. 
In  the  best  grades 
folded  four-in-hands  continue  in  re­
quest. 
In  sewed  scarfs  the  French 
seam  is  best  in  fine  grades.

Monotones  and  two-toned  mixtures 
in  plain  and  semi-fancy  weaves  and 
self-figured  designs  comprise  a good 
part  of  the  autumn  showings  in  all 
grades  to  sell  at  from  popular 
to 
high  prices,  and  the  makers  are  con­
fident  that  the  heaviest  business  will 
be  done  on  this  class  of  goods.  Ef­
fort  is  making  to  introduce  all-over 
jacquard  designs 
large  patterns, 
and  with  some  success.  The  pret­
tiest  in  the  new  ranges  of  heavily  fig­
ured  goods  are  the  patterns  in  self 
and  sister  tones— the  latter  a  dark 
ground  with  the  pattern  in  a  lighter 
shade  of  the  same  color,  and  the 
reverse  of  this  blending  of  two  shades 
of  the  same  color.

in 

The  foregoing  outlines  the  tenden­
cy  for  autumn.  The  cravatmakers 
have  bought,  from  the  silk  mills  and 
importers  of  scarfings,  considerable 
greens  and  reds  in  solid  and  two- 
color  weaves,  and  it  is  understood 
that  they  propose  pushing these.  They 
have  also  bought  the  most  varied  of 
silks  for  the  new  season,  and 
the 
showings  include  the  greatest  variety 
of  scarf  silks  ever  displayed.  In  fact, 
it  is  the  story  of  the  tie  silk  makers 
that  the  cravat  people  have  ordered 
more  patterns  and  fabrics  than  ever, 
and  include  in  their  purchases every­
thing  that  has  struck  their  fancy  as 
at  all  serviceable  for  a  scarf,  even 
including  dress  silks.  Thus,  while  the 
early  indications  point  to  another  sol­
id  color  season, 
things 
may  change  to  a  variety  season.

eventually 

Although  the  spring  season  at  retail 
is  ahead  of  last  year,  yet  owing  to 
the  cool  weather  which  prevailed  in 
April,  business  at  best  is  only  fair, 
and  retailers  have  entered  the  pres­
ent  month  with  large  stocks  of  spring 
neckwear.  The  duplicate  orders  are 
consequently  light.

Summer  goods,  however,  have  far­
ed  pretty  well,  although 
advance 
business  has  been  heaviest  on  cot­
ton  goods,  which  the  silk  houses  fear 
will  cut  into  the  sale  of  silks  once 
the  warm  weather  sets  in.  The  sale 
of  white  cotton  goods  at  retail  has 
already  been  large.  And  if  the  de­
mand  continues  as  it  has  begun  we 
may  look  for  a  white  season  in  neck­
wear.

No  previous  season  has  given  a 
better  start  to  Rumchundas  of  im­
ported  quality.  And  yet  the  domestic 
twills  produced  for  the  summer  have 
never  shown  so  much  quality  as  char­
acterizes  the  new  weaves.  However, 
when  it  comes  to  buying  twills  of 
quality  the  finish  of  the 
imported 
English  twills  is  so  vastly  superior 
that,  even  although  the  prices  of  the

domestic  article  have  been  cut  early, 
the  competition  this  has  caused  is 
not  feared  by  the  handlers  of  the  im­
ported  grades.  When  a  gentleman 
buys  a  twill  he  wants  a 
scarf  of 
quality,  and  only  the  best  imported 
goods  are  perspiration  proof.  This 
year  the  genuine  English  twills  are 
obtainable  in  solid  colors  of  fashiona­
ble  hue,  as  well  as  in  pretty  block 
patterns.  And  the  old-fashioned  pol­
ka  dot  is  still  as  staple  as  a  twill.

Other  summer  silks,  on  which  the 
advance  orders  have  been  satisfac­
tory,  are  Cantons  in  extracted  and 
block  printed  patterns.  Pongees  are 
again  well  up  front,  and  selling  in  all 
the  season’s  colors.  Grenadines have 
been  revived  in  goodly  variety,  and 
are  obtainable 
fancy 
weaves  in  four-in-hands  and  Wind­
sors.

in  plain  and 

a 

specialty 

immensely 

Houses  making 

of 
Windsors  are 
gratified 
with  the  amount  of  business  already 
secured,  and  although  this  scarf  has 
hitherto  been  the  summer  favorite  of 
the  South  and  West,  the  way  it  has 
taken  hold  in  the  East  leads  many  to 
believe  that  it  will  be  more  generally 
worn  throughout  the  country 
this 
summer  than  for  some  time  past. 
Its  sale  will  doubtless- be  assisted by 
the  turndown  collar,  of  which  great 
expectations  are  entertained  with  the 
advent  of  warm  weather.  The  notice­
able  tendency  in  dress  this  spring  is 
a  disposition  to  follow  the  careless 
negligee  of  the  country,  and  the  turn­
down  collar  and  Windsor  tie  are both 
synonymous  with  negligee  dress.
Neckwear  comprised  one  of 

the 
chief  items  in  Easter  retailing,  and 
much  surprise  was  expressed  be­
cause  of 
for 
squares.  There  was  more  than  the 
usual  amount  of  high-price  neckwear 
sold,  and  retailers  in  the  large  cities, 
who  reported  that  they  ran  out  of 
some  lines  during  the  Easter  Satur­
day  business,  say  that  this  shortage 
came  heaviest  on  scarfs  at  from  $3.50 
to  $5.  An  idea  of  how  much  better 
the  good  qualities  were  selling  than 
the  poor  was  had  in  the  department 
stores,  where  the  cheap  stuff,  piled 
on  center  aisle  tables 
for  bargain 
hunters,  remained  almost  untouched, 
while  the  costlier  stocks  were  most 
affected.

large  demand 

the 

The  favored  colors  in  the  Easter 
demand  were  white,  gray,  lavender, 
ecru  and  dark  buff.  Self-colored fan­
cies  went  best,  although 
in  grays 
every  combination  of  black  and  white 
and  pearl  was  in  request.— Apparel 
Gazette.

Judge  Dugro  of  New  York  has  just 
rendered  a  decision  which  exemplifies 
the  wisdom  of having uniform  divorce 
laws  in  this  country  and  having  them 
administered  by  a  federal  court.  By 
the  decision  mentioned  the  plaintiff 
in the  case  finds  herself a single  wom­
an  in  one  state  and  married  in  an­
other.  This  is  not  the  first  time  such 
a  complication  has  arisen  and  there 
is no  obstacle  to prevent a  recurrence, 
unless  the  question  of  divorce,  as  it 
should  be,  is  made  amenable  to  laws 
that  are  the  same  the  country over.

Some  men  think  they  are  saints be­
cause  they  have  heavy  laundry  bills.

An  Attractive 

Proposition

O wing  to  greatly  increased  facilities  for 
the  m anufacture  of  our  product,  we  wish  to 
extend  the  territory  in  which

( ( Clothes  of  Quality 99

are  sold.  W e  will,  upon  application  from 
merchants  in  towns  where  our  garm ents  are 
not  now  handled,  make  one  of  the  most  lib ­
eral  advertising  propositions  ever  offered  to 
a  seller  of  clothes.

An  advertising  schem e  representing  the 
outlay  such  as  we  propose  could  not  be  made 
unless  we  had  unbounded  confidence  in  the 
m erits  of  our  clothes.

B etter  write  to-day— your  rival  m ay  to­

morrow.

The  Best  Medium-Priced  Clothes  in  the World

M AD E  IN   B U F F A L O

M.  Wile  &   Company

ESTAB LISH E D   1877

H.  H.  Cooper  &  Co.

Utica,  N.  Y.

M anufacturers  and  W holesale  D ealers  in

Medium

and

Fine  Clothing

Perfect  Fitting

W ell  Made  and  Good  Materials

Our  Garments  Always  Handle  with  Satisfac­

tory  Results

The  Right  Kind  of  Clothing  at 

Right  Prices

Represented  by

J.  H.  W ebster

No.  472  Second  Ave.,  Detroit  Mich.

L8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Legal  Aspect  of  the  Open  Shop.
In  the  present  struggle  between the 
employers  and  employes  in  regard  to 
the  “open  shop”  question,  both  sides 
have  attempted  to  justify  their  con­
duct,  and  fortify  their  demands  on 
moral  and  economic  grounds.

Neither  of  the  contending  parties, 
not  even  the  innocent  third  party,  the 
suffering  public,  has  ever  thought  of 
looking  to  the  law  “which  governs 
us  all”  for  a  solution  of  this  vexed 
problem.  Unless  this  problem  is  solv­
ed  in  a legal  way,  it  will  not  be  solved 
at  all,  without  danger  to  our  institu­
tions.

is  anxious  to  avail 

It  is  true  that  in  a  general  way 
both  parties  claim  that  their  demands 
are  sanctioned  by  law,  but  neither  of 
them 
itself  of 
legal  protection  by  the  ordinary  legal 
methods.  Both  sides  are  anxious  to 
succeed,  and  in  their  eagerness  they 
sometimes  make  use  of  violent  meth­
ods  out  of  court  and  only  resort  to 
the  courts  for  extraordinary 
legal 
remedies.

As  the  labor  unions  seem  to  be  on 
the  offensive  in  the  present  struggle, 
it  would  be  well  to  analyze  their  de­
mands,  and  see  how  many  of  them 
are  legally  warranted,  and  to  fix  the 
point,  if  possible,  where  the  law  says, 
“Thus  far  shalt  thou  go,  but  no 
farther.”

The  one  unyielding  demand  of  la­
bor  is  the  right  of  organization  into 
a  trades  union,  which  involves  the 
right:

To  fix  a  minimum  scale  of  wages.
To  fix  a  schedule  of  working  hours
To  unionize  the  employes  in 
the 

shop.

To  deal  with  the  employer  through 

a  representative.

And  as  a  means  to  gain  these  ends 
the  right  to  strike,  which  involves  the 
right:

To  cease  working.
To  get  other  employes  to  cease 

working.

To  prevent  other  workmen  from 

taking  their  places.

To  punish  the  employer  by  all  pos­

sible  means,  to-wit:

By  inducing  his  customers  to cease 

their  patronage.

his  customers.

By  inducing  others  not  to  become 

By  boycotting  the  employer  and,  if 
necessary,  by  boycotting  those  who 
continue  to  patronize  the  employer 
after  warning.

The  question  presents  itself,  there­
fore,  are  any  or  all  of  these  methods 
employed  by  labor  to  gain  its  ends 
favored  or  condemned  by  law?

The  right  of  labor  to  organize  into 
unions,  although  considered 
illegal 
less  than  a  century  ago  and  punished 
as  a  conspiracy,  is  now  sanctioned  by 
statute,  both  in  this  country  and  in 
England.

Section  170  of  the  Penal  Code  of 
New  York  provides  that  “the  orderly 
and  peaceable  assembling  or  co-oper­
(
ation 
any 
ation  of  persons  employed  in 
calling,  trade  or  handicraft  for 
the 
purpose  of  obtaining  an  advance  in 
the  rate  of  wages  or  compensation 
or  of  maintaining  such  rate,  is  not  a 
conspiracy.”

And  the  highest  court  of  the  State

Indeed,  it  must  be 

of  New  York  has  held  “that  the  or­
ganization,  or  the 
co-operation  of 
workingmen  is  not  against  any  pub­
lic  policy. 
re­
garded  as  having  the  sanction  of  the 
law,  when  it  is  for  such  legitimate 
purposes  as  that  of  obtaining  an  ad­
vance  in  the  rate  of  wages. 
is 
proper  and  praiseworthy,  and,  per­
haps,  falls  within  that  general  view 
of  human  society  which  perceives  an 
underlying  law 
should 
unite  to  achieve  that  which  each  by 
himself  can  not  achieve, 
can 
achieve  less  readily.”

that  men 

or 

It 

The  Court  of  Appeals  of  New 
York,  through  Chief  Justice  Parker, 
has  also  decided  in  the  recent  case 
of  National  Protective  Association vs. 
Cummings,  that  “workingmen  have 
the  right  to  organize  for  the  pur­
pose  of  securing  higher  wages,  short­
er  hours  of  labor  or  improving  their 
relations  with  their  employers.  They 
have  the  right  to  strike;  that  is 
to 
cease  working  in  a  body  by  pre-ar­
rangement  *  *  * 
in  order  to  se­
cure  any  lawful  benefit  to  the  several 
members  of  the  organization  as, 
for 
instance,  to  secure 
re-employ­
ment  of  a  member  they  regard  as 
improperly  discharged, 
having  been 
and 
for 
other  members  of  their  organization, 
although  the  effect  will  be  to  cause 
the  discharge  of  other  employes  who 
are  not  members.”

employment 

secure 

the 

to 

The  right  of  an  employe  to  insist 
that  none  but  union  men  shall  be 
employed  in  the  same  shop,  under 
the  penalty  of  a  strike,  is  also  sanc­
tioned  by  the  court  in  the  same  deci­
sion,  for  the  reason  that  as  the  law 
compels  the  employe  to  bear  the  bur­
den  of  the  injury  caused  by  his  fel­
low  workingmen,  he  has  the  right  to 
demand  that  he  shall  not  be  compell­
ed  to  work  with  men  who  have  not 
applied  for  admission  or  whom  he 
has  not  deemed  fit  to  admit  into  his 
union.

In  view  of  the  decisions  and  of  the 
express  legal  enactments,  no  one will 
now  seriously  question  the  right  of 
the  employes  to  promote  their  inter­
ests  by  organization;  the  difference 
of  opinion  seems  to  exist  as  to  the 
legality  of  the  means  by  which  they 
seek  to  gain  their  ends.

In  the  course  of  a  strike  the  em­
ployes  may  singly  or  as  an  organiza­
tion  publish  broadcast,  both  to  the 
general  public  and  to  the  patrons  of 
the  employer,  the  nature  of  the  evils 
sought  to  be  remedied  by  the  strike 
and  request  them  not  to  deal  with 
such  employer  until  their  differences 
have  been  adjusted.

They  may  persuade  other  employes 
to  leave  the  service  of  their  employer 
and  dissuade  other  workmen 
from 
seeking  employment  from  him.  They 
may  also  refuse  to  deal  with  their 
employer  and  may  even  refuse  to 
patronize  those  who  deal  with  their 
employer  during  the  strike.

All  these  means  may  be  used  peace­
ably,  and  no  cause  of  action  accrues 
to  the  employer,  if  the  strikers  suc­
ceed  in  preventing  him  from  getting 
other  workmen  to  take  their  places, 
or  if  his  customers  are  dissuaded from 
doing  any  business  with  him.

But  to  gain  these  ends  the  strikers

If  You  Want  for  Fall,  1905

i t

The Best Medium Priced Clothing 

in the United States”

Wait for  our  Salesman,  or send  for  a  Sample  Line  at 

our expense.  The  Quality  is  right.

The  Fit  is  the  best  ever shown  at  $7  to  $12.

HERMAN  W ILE  &  CO.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

New  York 

Chicago 

Minneapolis

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Wholesale  Ready Made  Clothing

For  Men,  Boys  and  Children

M anufactured  in  our  own  facto ry   and  under  our  personal  supervision.  Our  fall  and 
w inter line for  comini;  season  1905-6  is  making a g re a t hit,  being of  very b est  quality', 
m ake and  fit,  and  biggest  line  by  long  odds  shown  in  M ichigan  a t  equitable  prices, 
reasonable term s and one price as usual  to   all.  Many  retailers  p re fe r  to   com e  here 
and m ake selections,  but  w e  will  gladly-  send  our  rep resen tativ e  if  so  desired.  Mail 
and phone  orders  prom ptly  shipped.  Bell  phone  1282—Citizens  1957.  T he  founder  of 
this business established 26 years.  W e  still  have  a  nice  line  of  Spring  and  S um m er 
goods  to   select  from.

THE  WILLIAM  CONNOR  CO.

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

F o r  convenience  of  retail  tra d e  w e  a re  providing  fo r  a  special  o rd er  d ep art- 

m ent  fo r  fall  trade.

e -ty .

J

Opportunity Occasionally  Knocks  at  Your 

Door.

What good does it do you unless you are  prepared  to  grasp  it?

Be  Prepared!

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more than 85,000 subscribers in the  State of Michigan and with 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

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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.

The  Most  Popular

The  Best  Advertised

The  Highest  Grade

(FOR  THE  MONEY)

The  Lowest  Priced

Line  of  U nion  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 

.

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Write  for  Samples

  $7.50 
7.00

Regular  Terms

may  not  prevent  other  workmen from 
taking  their  places  by  force  or  threats 
of  violence;  they  have  no  right  to 
enter  the  employer’s  premises  and 
disturb  his  trade,  or  obstruct  access 
to  those  premises  or  block  the  side­
walk  and  prevent  the  passers-by from 
entering  their  employer’s  premises 
on  business  purposes.

All  use  of  force,  violence,  threats 
or  intimidation  is  illegal  and  will  be 
enjoined  and  punished  by  the  courts.
“A  man  has  a  right  to  start  a  store 
and  to  sell  at  such  reduced  prices  as 
to  drive  the  other  store-keepers  out 
of  business.  *  *  *  Nor  could  the 
store-keeper  be  prevented  from  car­
rying  out  his  scheme  because,  instead 
of  hiding  his  purpose,  he  openly  de­
clared  to  those  store-keepers  that  he 
intended  to  drive  them  out  of  busi­
ness  in  order  that  he might  later  prof­
it  thereby.  *  *  * ”

“A  labor  organization  is  endowed 
with  precisely  the  same  legal  right 
as  an  individual  to  threaten  to  do  that 
which  it  may  lawfully  do.”

important 

Such  in  substance  have  been  the 
decisions  of  the  courts  whenever  the 
opportunity  has  been  offered  to  them 
to  pass  upon  the 
legal 
questions  involved.  The  great  diver­
sity  of  legal  decisions  exists,  because 
in  most  cases  the  judges  are  asked  to 
decide  questions  of  fact  peculiar  to 
every  case,  and 
the  decisions  are 
based  on  the  evidence  and  local  con­
ditions  surrounding  each  particular 
suit. 

Louis  Lande.

Marked  Increase  in  Expense  of  Run­

ning  a  Store.

Within  the  last  few  years  the  cost 
of  running  a  dry  goods  or  department 
store  has  increased  in  a  marked  de­
gree.  This  increase  is  visible  in more 
than  one  direction. 
these  days 
everything  about  a  store  is  far  more 
elaborate  than  was  the  case  a  few 
years  ago.  The  store  itself  is  larger. 
Merchants  will  not 
the 
crowded  conditions  which  they  at  one 
time  were  content  to  put  up  with.

tolerate 

In 

Store  buildings  also  are  more  cost­
ly.  This  is  due  rather  to  the  greater 
attention  paid  to  fireproof  construc­
tion  than  to  a  tendency  to  ornament 
and  ginger-bread  work. 
In  fact,  the 
big  stores  now  being  erected  show 
a  tendency  to  excess  of  plainness, and 
it  is  questionable  whether  in  the  de­
sire  to  avoid  dust  and  dirt-catching 
ornamentation  their  buildings  do  not 
err  on  the  side  of  severity.  The  ten­
dency  to  erect  enormous  store  struc­
tures,  however,  is  apparent,  and  it  is 
clear  that  the  interest  on  such  build­
ings,  as  well  as  on  the  sites,  must 
reach  an  enormous  figure.

When  we  come  to  store  fittings  and 
equipment  we  find  even  greater  lav­
ishness  in  expenditure.  The  impor­
tance  of  having  beautiful  as  well  as 
convenient  fittings  has  become 
so 
thoroughly  recognized  that  no  mer­
chant  who  deserves  the  epithet  of 
progressive  is  content  with  old-fash­
ioned  and  inconvenient  fixtures.

In  addition,  an  increasing  amount 
of  floor  space  is  devoted  to  purposes 
other  than  those  of  keeping 
stock 
and  selling.  Resting  rooms  for  wom­
en  visitors,  more  or  less  elaborately 
fitted  up,  are  essential  to  the  modern

store.  There  is  also  the  restaurant 
or  tea  room,  which  may  or  may  not 
prove  a  directly  paying  proposition.
Many  stores  devote  a  large  amount 
of  space  to  the  comfort  of  their  em­
ployes, 
and 
recreation  rooms  or  places  where 
meals  can  be  eaten,  whether  the  food 
is  served  by  the  house  or  not.

in  the  shape  of  rest 

Another  source  of  expense  is  the 
delivery  of  packages.  Competing 
merchants  vie  with  each  other  in  the 
promptness  of  delivery,  as  well  as 
in  style  and  appointments  of 
their 
wagons.  The  distance  which  pack­
ages  are  delivered  free  of  charge,  es­
pecially  during  the  summer,  when 
many  of  the  customers  are  staying 
at  nearby  resorts,  represents  a  decid­
ed  increase  in  expenses.

The  advertising  appropriation  has 
also  grown,  and  many  stores  which 
formerly  used  a  small  advertisement 
now  take  a  newspaper  page  every day 
in  the  year.  Other  forms  of  publici­
ty,  such  as  booklets  and  circulars, 
have  assumed  a  more  expensive char­
acter,  all  this  being  a  direct  result  of 
the  more  general  recognition  of  the 
fitness  of  things  and  of  the  desire 
on  the  part  of  the  merchant  to  have 
everything  connected  with  his  store 
assume  the  best  and  most  up-to-date 
appearance.

Another  item  of  expense  is 

the 
purchase  of  high-class  costumes  and 
millinery  which  are  shown  at  the  be­
ginning  of  each  season  with  a  view 
to  attracting  trade  and  sold  without 
profit,  and  in  many  cases  at  an  actual 
loss.

To  go  still  farther,  we  may  cite  the 
entertainments  of  various  kinds  now­
adays  provided  by  stores  which  cater 
to  the  medium  and  popular  trade.

About  these  various  forms  of  ex­
pense  there  is  no  question.  They have 
not  only  attracted  customers,  but 
have  imbued  the  public  with  a  desire 
for  better  merchandise. 
In  exerting 
this  influence  the  merchant  has  been 
aided  by  the  general  prosperity  of 
the  country,  which  has  greatly 
in­
creased  the  purchasing  power  of  the 
public.

increase 

With  the 

in  expense 

it 
seems  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the 
public  are  paying  relatively  more  for 
their  merchandise  than  they  did  a  few 
years  ago.  To  determine  this  with 
any  degree  of  accuracy  would  be  a 
difficult  matter. 
In  fact,  any  state­
ment  that  might  be  made  on  the  sub­
ject  would  be  based  on  guess-work. 
One  thing,  however,  is  certain,  and 
that  is  that  we  seldom  see  the  sen­
sational  price-cutting  conflicts  which 
a  decade  ago  were  everyday  matters.
Nor  is  this  an  occasion  for  regret. 
Retailing  to-day  is  conducted  on  far 
more  scientific  lines,  and  while  mer­
chants  may  be 
lavish  in  some  re­
spects,  they  are  wholly  averse  to fool­
ing  away  money  as  they  did  in  the 
more 
days.— Dry
Goods  Economist.

happy-go-lucky 

GRAND  RAPIDS 
INSURANCE  AGENCY

FIRE 

W.  FRED  McBAIN,  President

Qrand Rapida, Mich. 

The Leading Agency

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

hope  that  some  day  we  shall  have  a 
large  shop. 
I  will  go  to  business 
college  and  learn  to  keep  books  and 
use  the  typewriter  and  then  I  shall 
take  care  of  everything  in  the  office.” i
It  was  a  far cry 
from  the  poor  little  shop,  and  the 
poor  little  maid  in  her  long  white 
apron,  to  the  fine  place  of  which  she 
was  dreaming.

Anna  was  brave. 

I  have 

As  Anna  learned  to  cut  meat  from 
her  father  the  steaks  were  so  notice­
ably  improved  that  it  became  a  pleas­
It  was  also  a  pleas­
ure  to  eat  them. 
ure  to  buy  them. 
In  time  the  sci­
ence  of  meatcutting  was  mastered by 
the  little  butcher  girl  and  Anna’s suc­
cess  was  assured. 
seen 
countless  instances  that  proved  that 
Anna  was  cut  out  for  nothing  but  a 
business  woman,  and  that  it  would 
be  a  shame  to  spoil  so  good  a  busi­
ness  woman  by  letting  her  go 
to 
through  and 
school  until  she  was 
then  sit  around  doing  petty 
little 
household  duties  until  some  fortu­
nate  person  of  the  male  persuasion 
came  along  to  carry  her  off  and  in­
stall  her  as  manager  in  his  own house.
I  bought  a  good  deal  more  meat 
after  Anna  began  in  the  shop  than 
I  did  formerly.  When  things  looked 
exceedingly  blue  and  I  had  lost  con­
fidence  in  things  earthly  I  would  sud­
denly  discover  that  I  wanted  a  cer­
tain  kind  of  meat  for  supper.  A  visit 
to  my  little  butcher  girl  always  put 
me  in  good  humor.  Finally,  we  got 
very  friendly,  this  charming 
little 
meat  maiden  and  myself,  and  I  used 
to  drop  in  a  great  many  times  when 
I  bought  nothing  at  all  and  sit  gen­
tly  swinging  on  one  of  the  revolving | 
stools  in  front  of  the  counter— the 
end  stool  so  that  I  wouldn’t  be  in 
the  way— and  watch  the  girl  at  her 
work.

With 

the  utmost  diplomacy  she 
worked.  Was  Mrs.  Jones’  steak  of 
yesterday  not  of  the  best?  Too  bad! 
The  little  butcher  girl  sympathized 
with  Mrs.  Jones  in  the  most  charm­
ing  manner  but— and  this  made  her 
valuable  as  a  business  woman— did 
not  offer  to  make  the  omission  good. 
Not  she.  Still,  she  had  the  happy  fac­
ulty  of  sending  Mrs.  Jones  off  feeling 
not  the  least  bit  dissatisfied. 
It  was 
this  rare  quality  that  made  her  so 
valuable.  Without  losing  any money 
she  was  able  to  placate  any  complain­
ing  customer  with  her  winning  smile 
and  confidential  manner;  and,  what 
made  these  transactions  a  good deal 
more  interesting  and  pleasing  to  an 
onlooker  like  myself,  the  little  wom­
an  was  as  unconscious  of  what  she 
was  doing  as  could  be.  Her  sympa­
thy  was  genuine  and  she  sympathiz­
ed  in  such  an  agreeable  manner  that 
it  would  be  a  very  disgruntled  per­
son  indeed  who  would  not  be  paci­
fied  by  her.

If  Anna  was  unaware  of  her  busi­
ness  talents  so  was  her  father.  They 
ran  the  little  business  together,  and 
it  flourished  and  prospered  daily  and 
the  two  went  calmly  along  congratu­
lating  themselves  upon  their  good 
luck.  As  Anna  became  more  profi­
cient  in  the  art  of  conducting  the 
shop  it  took  less  of  her  time  for  rou­
tine  duties  and  so  she  found  time  to 
add  a  thousand  little  improvements

The  Little  Butcher  Girl  Scores  a 

Success.

W ritte n   fo r  th e   T ra d e sm a n .

There  is  a  little  business  woman 
that  I  know  that  is  going  to  amount 
to  something  some  day  in  the  busi­
ness  world.  Her  name  is  Anna;  or, 
more  strictly  speaking,  it  might  be 
Anna  but  it  isn’t.  This  little  wom­
an  is  about  fifteen  or  sixteen  years 
old  but  has  good  farseeing  business 
sense  and 
a 
butcher  girl.

lots  of  it.  Anna 

is 

But  first  a  little  about  what  led 
up  to  Anna’s  becoming  a  butcher 
girl— which,  by  the  way,  is  rather  a 
peculiar  and  unique  position 
for  a 
girl  to  hold:

Anna,  like  a  great  many  other  in­
teresting  people,  is  the  daughter  of 
poor  but  honest  parents.  That  they 
are  not  particularly  refined  or  par­
ticularly  well  educated 
is  neither 
here  nor  there.  Anna’s  father  is  a 
Pole  and,  by  some  hook  or  crook 
becoming  possessed  of  a  small  sum 
of  money,  he  decided at once to go in 
business  for  himself  and  accordingly 
purchased  a  small  meat  market.

Things  went  along 

indifferently 
well,  and  I  was  watching  the  progress 
of  the  new  business,  as  I  passed 
daily,  with  a  good  deal  of  interest.

One  day,  as  I  passed  and  threw 
my  casual  glance  into  the  shop,  a 
pleasant  surprise  awaited  me:  There, 
in  spotless  white  apron  and  face  shin­
ing  with  the  expectant  light  of  one 
who  awaits  a  new  experience,  was 
a  girl. 
I  went  on  to  the  office— and 
thereafter  my  family  wondered  at my 
sudden  desire  to  purchase  the  meat 
for  the  family.  Our  regular  meat­
man  was  also  astonished  at  the  sud­
den  cessation  of  orders  at  No.  blank 
Blank  street.  All  this  led  to  explana­
tions  and  soon  the  whole  family  was 
as  interested  as  myself  in  watching 
the  growth  of  this  new  worker  in  the 
busy  business  field.  To  be  sure,  the 
steaks  were  a  little  doubtful  in  ap­
pearance  and  rather  ragged  around 
the  edges  at  first,  but  a  remark  of  re­
monstrance  refused  to  leave  the  lips 
when  Anna  smiled  with  a  dazzling 
display  of  white  teeth.  As  I  grew 
acquainted  with  the  peculiarities  of 
Anna’s  steaks  I  grew  acquainted with 
Anna,  and  was  pleased  to  note,  for 
Anna’s  sake  as  well  as  my  own,  that 
the  steaks  grew  more  like  their  old 
selves.

As  I  grew  to  know  more  and  more 
about  Anna  I  learned  many  things 
from  her:  How  her  father  had  not 
the  money  to  hire  some  one  to  stay 
in  the  shop  while  he  was  on  a  string 
butchering  expedition  through 
the 
country;  how  Anna  had  to  give  up 
her  school,  where  she  was  an  apt 
pupil;  how  she  had  cried  at  the  pros­
pect  of  leaving  the  school  room  to 
enter  the  shop.
la s t  sh e  

to ld   m e  w istfu lly , 
a n d  
little   w o m a n  
c o m in g   to   th e   fro n t,  sh e   a d d ed ,  “ B u t 
I  like  it  here;  it’s  so  businesslike.  I

th e   b ra v e  

th e n , 

T h is  

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

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

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

Wholesale Dealer la Batter, Eggs.  Fruits and Produce 

Both Phones 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  yonr shipments.

R.  HIRT, JR..  DETROIT.  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 5t.,  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 5. Division SL,

Reference 

5 t h   N a t i o n a l   B a n k  

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 ltzlg

REA  &  WITZIG
104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N.  Y.

PRODUCE  COMMISSION

W e   solicit  con sig n m en ts  of  B u tter,  E g g s .  C heese,  L iv e  a n d   D re sse d   P oultry, 

B eans a n d   P otatoes.  C orrect a n d  p ro m p t  retu rn s.

. 

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rivaled 

about  the  place  which  her  business 
instinct  prompted.  Among  the  taste­
ful  things  I  saw  her  do  was  to  ar­
range  choice  cuts  of  meat  about  the 
shop  where  they  would  catch  a  cus­
tomer’s  eye  pleasingly.  Not  content 
with  the  possibilities  of  the  counter, 
she  introduced  a  new  feature  that  was 
as  dainty  as  it  was  novel:  From  home 
table 
she  brought  a  medium-sized 
and  a  tablecloth  that 
the 
snow  in  whiteness.  Some  white  dish­
es  were  also  procured.  They  were 
very  clean  and  very  shiny  and  they 
had  the  prettiest  little  pale  green 
vine  running  around  them  as  a  deco­
ration.  The  effect  was  pleasing  be­
yond  description.  With  this  aid  and 
some  choice  cuts  of  meat  Anna  set 
her  table.  When  the  whole  was  fin­
ished  the  result  was  all  that  could 
be  desired. 
It  was  immaculateness 
personified,  and  helped  to  gain  and 
keep  customers  for  her  shop  as well 
as  make  the  old  ones  more  solid. 
When  a  customer  would  come 
in 
and  say  to  Anna’s  question  as  to  her 
wants,  “Oh, 
I  don’t  know,”  and 
glance  hopelessly  around  the  shop  in 
the  wish  of  finding  something  to  do 
away  with  the  vexatious  question  of 
what  to  get  for  dinner  Anna  would 
say,  “Perhaps  there  is  something here 
you  would  like.”  Then,  in  her  irre­
proachable  white  apron,  she  would 
place 
exquisitely-wholesome- 
looking  self  behind  the  table  and  with 
a  flash  of  her  white  teeth  and  black 
eyes  quietly  wait— it  usually  did  not 
take  the  customer  long  to  decide.

her 

When  things  were  at  this  stage  I 
was  forced  by  circumstances  to  leave 
town. 
I  very  much  hated  to  do  this; 
and  one  of  the  reasons  was  that  I 
hated  to  leave  my  little  butcher  girl 
at  this  very  interesting  stage  of  her 
career. 
I  had  to  go,  however,  and  I 
did  not  come  back  for  three  years. 
What  I  found  upon  my  return  I  will 
tell  in  an  early  issue  of  the  Trades­
man. 

Burton  Allen.

He  Showed  the  Butcher  Some  Clean 

Tricks.

loudly.  Between 

An  old  man,  his  shoulders  bent 
with  age,  entered  a  market  on  Third 
avenue.  The  proprietor  was  waiting 
on  a  lady  customer.  A  little  boy  who 
had  fallen  down  and  torn  his  pants 
was  crying 
his 
bursts  of  grief  and  fear  of  what  was 
likely  in  waiting  for  him  when  he  got 
home,  he  managed  to  say  he  wanted 
a  pound  of  chopped  beef.  The  old 
man,  sizing  up  the  situation, 
sug­
gested  to  the  butcher  that  he  be  per­
mitted  to  chop  the  meat  and  end  the 
agony  of  having  to  listen  to  the  dis­
tressing  sobs  of  young  America.  The 
butcher  looked  at  the  speaker  doubt­
“I  had  a  market  once,”  he  ex­
fully. 
plained. 
“ I  knew  how  to  handle  the 
cleavers,  too,  and  could  drum  as fine 
an  accompaniment  to  a  street  organ 
as  you  ever  heard.”  He  picked  up  a 
cleaver  by  the  end  of  the  handle, 
tossed  it  a  few  feet  in  the  air,  at  the 
same  time  giving  it  a  revolving  mo­
tion,  and  as  it  came  turning  over  and 
over  in  its  descent,  deftly  caught  the 
extreme  end  of  the  implement  on  the 
palm  of  his  hand  and  balanced  it, 
while  the  butcher  looked  on  in  aston­
ishment.  This  butcher  is  one  of those

at 

satisfaction 

In  this  case,  while  his 
the 

silence-and-fun  gentlemen.  He  en­
joys  things  without  saying  so.  He  is 
as  sparing  of  his  words  as  of  his  dol­
face 
lars. 
showed 
old 
man’s  performance,  he  did  not  utter 
one  syllable,  but  picking  up  a  chunk 
of  beef  laid  it  on  the  block  and  went 
back  to  the  customer  he  was  serving.
In  the  meantime  the  crying  of  the 
boy  was  growing  less  violent,  and the 
sudden  bursts  of  woe  were  less  fre­
quent.  The  old  man  picked  up  an­
other  cleaver,  clashed  the  flat  sides 
of  the  two  blades  together  and  then 
brought  them  both  down 
into  the 
beef.  Then  he  began  the  chopping, 
slow  at  first,  and  then  faster  and fast­
er,  until  it  gave  the  effect  of  a  loco­
motive  tearing  along  at  a  mile  a  min­
ute.  Then  he  began  to  drum.  He 
was  a  magician  with 
the  cleavers. 
Suddenly  the  rapid  drumming  ceased, 
and  in  its  place  came  a  sound  like the 
clatter  of  horses’  hoofs  on  the  pave­
ments,  that  effect  made  so  popular  a 
few  years  ago  in  Bronson  Howard’s 
“Shenandoah.”  Then  came  his  best 
imitation,  that  of  a  pile  driver.  The 
imitation  started  with  the  solid  piece 
of  iron  ascending,  and  was  made  with 
a  tattoo  of  the  cleavers,  first  slowly 
and  gradually 
it  had 
reached  the  place  where  it  is  released 
for  the  descent.  The  release  effect is 
produced  by  clashing  the  blades  to­
gether  sharply.  Then  the  cleavers 
are  worked  rapidly  into  the  meat  to 
give  the  effect  of  the  iron  descending 
and  the  sound  of  the  iron  pounder 
hitting  the  log  is  made  by  stamping
the  foot  sharply  on  the  floor.

faster,  until 

By  this  time  the  meat  was  well 
chopped,  and  the  old  man  laid  down 
the  cleavers.  The  boy  had  stopped 
crying.  The  lady  customer  was  look­
ing  on  in  wonder,  and  the  butcher 
was  lighting  a  cigar.  “ It  isn’t  so  much 
what  you  were,  it’s  what  you  are  to­
day,”  said  the  old  fellow,  “and  I’m  as 
good  a  man  to-day  as  any  of  ’em, but 
I’m  in  hard  luck.  There’s  a  job wait­
ing  for  me  in  Newark,  and  I  need 
twenty  cents  to  get  there. 
It  ought 
to  be  -worth  that  to  you.  I’ve  chopped 
your  meat  and  soothed  the  boy,  and 
showed  you  some  tricks.  Do  I  get 
it?”  He  got  it.— Butchers’  Advocate.

No  man  ever  lost  any  time  in  the 
heavenly  race  by  stopping  to  help 
another.

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.

EGGS

That’s  what  we  want.
For storage  and  present  use.
Phone,  wire or write  us.

COYNE  B R 0 5 .

C H IC A G O

R eferences M ichigan T radesm an and Egg R eporter.

We are car load receivers and distributors of

Strawberries

Also  Bananas,  Oranges,  Lemons,  Pineapples,  and all  kinds of 
TH E  V IN K E M U LD E R   C O M P A N Y  
14-16  O TTA W A   S T ..  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

Early Vegetable.

S E E D   CORN

T h e  seed  Corn  offered  by  us  is  grown  especially  for seed purposes. 
It  not  only  scores  high  but  shows  a  germ inating  test  of  90%  and 
better.  We have  liberal  stocks  of  the  standard  varieties,  also  Fodder 
and  Sw eet  Corn.  “Ask  for  prices.”

A LFR E D   J.  BROW N  SEED   CO.

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

Egg  Cases and  Egg  Case  Fillers

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

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

SEND  US  YOUR  ORDERS 

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

Office and Warehouse and Avenue and Hilton Street. 

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, iai?

Field  Peas,  Seed  Corn.

Make  Your  Own  Oas

FROM  GASOLINE

One quart lasts  18 hours, giving  ioo  candle  power 

light  in  our

Brilliant  Oas  Lamps

Anyone can use them.  Are  better than  Kerosene 
or  Gas  and can be run for less  than  half  the 
pense;  the average cost is

15  Celts  a  Month

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W e call special attention to our Diamond 
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store fronts and make attractive  signs.
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M I C H I G A N  

T E A D E S M A N

for 

we  should.  There  is, 
instance, 
that  of  hot  air  heating.  This  is  a 
line  that  should  net  us  a  substantial 
profit. 
It  is  one  in  which  catalogue 
house  competition  does  not  cut  a  per­
manent  figure.  Therefore,  if  we  do 
not  make  a  profit  it  is  because  we  cut 
each  other’s  throats.  So  much  de­
pends  on  having  this  work  properly 
done  that  the  customer  is  willing  to 
pay  for  that  knowledge. 
In  order  to 
make  a  success  of  hot  air  heating  it 
is  absolutely  necessary  that  you know 
how.  Properly  managed,  I  find  it  is 
a  line  that  grows  very  nicely  after 
being  well  started.  One  thoroughly 
satisfied  customer  sells  several, while 
one  dissatisfied  can  kill  the  business 
completely  in  that  locality.

in 

If  you  do  furnace  work  be  sure  it  is 
done  right. 
I  have  seen  plants  in­
stalled  by  men  who  did  not  know  the 
first  principle  of  air  circulation  and 
their  work  showed  it.  What  is  the 
result?  Owner  says,  It  does  not heat, 
burns  lots  of  coal,  but  little  or  no 
heat  to  speak  of  except 
some 
parts  of  the  house. 
I  once  lived  in  a 
locality  where  several  plants  like  this 
had  been 
installed,  and  I  found  it 
was  almost  impossible  to  get  a chance 
to  talk  hot  air  to  the  prospective 
builder.  The  moment  you  mentioned 
the  subject  he  would  say,  “No;  I  will 
burn  stoves  rather  than  invest  $175 
or  $200  for  a  rig like Neighbor Jones’, 
and  then  not  get  any  benefit.”  It  was 
almost  impossible  to  persuade  those 
men  that  it  was  the  fault  of  the  in­
stallation  and  not  the  furnace  itself.
In  the  tinshop,  as  well  as  the  rest 
of  the  store,  talk  quality  first,  last!

It’s  System

On  the W agon!

It’s  System

On  the  W alk!

It’s  System

Over  the  C ounter!

It’s  System

At  th e  Phone!

It’s the  McCaskey  System  Everywhere

If  your  Driver takes an order on  the Wagon,  it does not have to be 
re-written or copied,  it’s ready for filing,  it’s a bill complete in itself and 
he  has  made  a  copy  of  it  for the  Customer  with  Only  One  W riting 
showing  all  the items and  the  Amount;  also  the  Balance  brought  for­
ward and the Total to  Date.

It’s  just the same as it  would  be  if  taken  over  the  Phone,  or  over 
It’s  the  Easy 
the Counter,  or  on  the  Walk  in  front  of  your  Store. 
and  Natural  way. 
It’s  the  Sensible  way.  You  don’t  have  to  carry 
your total to the foot of  the slip or carry it to  the  top.  You  don  t  have 
to serve time in  a  Business  College  to  be  able  to  handle  accounts  on 
The  McCaskey  Register.

You  See  It  ALL.  You  Know  it  ALL.

Your  Accounts  Can  Be  Protected  From  Fire.

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Michigan  Gasoline  Gas  Machine

The  above  illustration  shows  our system  for  home  lighting  and  water  heat­

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MICHIGAN  BRICK  AND  TILE  MACHINE  CO.,  Morenci,  Mich.

Some  Changes  Which  Have  Come 

To  the  Tin  Shop.

During  the 

last  decade  or 

two 
every  line  of  business  has  undergone 
great  changes.  Few  if  any  lines  of 
industry  have  seen  more 
radical 
changes  than  that  of  the  sheet  metal.
I  can  remember  as  a  boy  watching 
the  tinner  forming  with  what  seemed 
akin  to  magic  the  sheets  of  tin  into 
the  shining  tinware.  Now  all  that  is 
changed.  Modern  machinery  does 
these  things  so  much  better  and 
cheaper  that  we  would  not  go  back 
to  the  old  method  if  we  could.

What,  then,  are  we  to  do?  Shall 
we  close  the  tinshop  entirely,  or shall 
we  adjust  ourselves  to  changed  con­
ditions? 
I  am  aware  of  the  fact  that 
many 
successful  hardware  dealers 
have  no  tinshop.  Yet  most  of  us 
have  some  kind  of  a  shop,  so  that  the 
question  is  not  so  much,  Shall  we 
have  it?  as,  How shall we make it pay?
First  of  all,  the  tinner  must  be  dif­
ferent  from  the  one  of  twenty  years 
ago.  The  old  saying,  “that  it  is  hard 
to  teach  an  old  dog  new  tricks,”  ap­
plies  quite  forcibly  to  the  tinsmiths 
of  the  old  school.  They  sigh  for  the 
“good  old  days”  when 
tinner 
never  dreamed  of  doing  a  piece  of 
work  other  than  that  strictly  in  his 
line.

the 

Those  of  us  who  read  one  of  our 
trade  journals  a  few  years  ago  will 
remember  what  bitter  discussion 
there  arose  in  the  tinshop  department 
of  that  journal  over  a  workman  ask­
ing  his  brother  tinners  for  informa­
tion  regarding  the  erection  of  wind­
mills.  Here  was  a  man  who  found 
that  his  particular  locality  demanded 
that  he  know  how  to  erect  a  wind­
mill  and  went  to  work  to  find  out.

The  old  school  tinner  hurled  his 
abuse  on  the  fellow  who  was  simply 
following  as  closely  as  possible  the 
demands  of  his  particular  trade. 
It  is 
a  long  way  from  the  bench  to  the 
windmill,  it  is  true,  yet  most  of  us 
sell  pump?,  and  it  is  only  a  short 
step  from them to windmills. The ideal 
tinner  for  the  shop  of  which  I  speak 
must  then  be  a  mechanic  of  broad  ex­
perience.  He  need  not  necessarily  be 
an  adept  in  the  use  of  the  raising 
hammer  and  some  other  tools  of  ob­
solete  sheet  metallurgy,  but  there  are 
numberless  other  lines  that  he  can 
take  up  with  profit  to  his  employer 
which  require  no  less  skill.  He  must 
be  able  and  willing  to  turn  his  hand 
to  such  work  as  bicycle 
repairing, 
pumps,  the  simple  forms  of  plumbing 
and  even  windmills,  if  his  trade  de­
mands  it.  The  tinner  who  is  not  will­
ing  to  adjust  himself  to  these  chang­
ed  conditions  will  have  to  move  or 
be  a  back  number.  Personally  I  find 
the  pump  and  windmill  line  one  of 
the  most  profitable  I  handle.  How­
ever,  up  to  the  present  time  I  have 
had  work  enough  for  my  tinner  with­
out  his  doing  this.

Then  there  are  many  phases  of  the 
tinshop  trade  that  we  do  not  push  as

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' what,  shall

and  all  the  time. 
If  you  have  to  fig­
ure  so  low  that  you  must  sacrifice 
quality  better  let  the  other  fellow  get 
it;  keep  the  standard  of  goods  and 
workmanship  so  high  that  your  firm 
name  will  be  with  the  public  a  syn­
onym  of  quality. 

E.  L.  Garden.

The  Catalogue  House  Situation  in  a 

Nutshell.

the 

In  my 

judgment 

catalogue 
houses  have  declared  war  on  the  le­
gitimate  retail  dealers  and  are  pour­
ing  shot  and  shell  into  us  on  every 
side.  They  have  already 
sentinels 
stationed  at  every  point  where  there 
is  business.  These  sentinels  and  car­
riers  are  paid  by  Uncle  Sam.  The 
catalogues  are  their  munition  of  war 
and  are  at  work  seven  days  in  the 
week,  beginning  Sunday  morning  and 
working  continuously  until  the  fol­
lowing  Saturday  night,  every  day  and 
every  night,  365  days  in  the  year, 
day  in  and  day  out,  year  in  and  year 
out,  working  all  the  time,  while  the 
retail  merchant  goes  to  his  store  at 
8  o’clock,  looks  over  his  mail,  and 
watches  around  to  see  how  business 
is  going  and  hears  his  clerks  tell  of 
a  few  sales  they  have  lost  from  cata­
logue  house  competition.  He  goes  to 
dinner  at  12  o’clock,  back  at  1:30, 
goes  to  the  bank  and  looks  up  a  few 
delinquents,  tells  his  clerks  to  keep 
their  eyes  on  the  gun,  goes  home  at 
5  or  6  o’clock,  having  worked  about 
eight  hours,  while  our  competitors, 
the  catalogue  houses,  put  in  sixteen 
or  more,  every  minute  of  which  is 
used  in  one  direction,  advertising 
good  goods  and  cheap  goods, 
the 
very  thing  to  induce  people  to  trade 
with  them,  while  the  retail  merchant 
gives  about  one-sixteenth  per  cent,  of 
his  time  to  trade  getting.

I  think  we  retail  merchants  should 
march  out  and  line  up  as  in  battle. 
We  should  stand  together  as  a  unit. 
We  should  say  to  the  jobber,  “If  you 
want  our  business 
stop  furnishing 
ammunition  to  our  enemies,  and  sup­
ply  us  with  such  goods  as  we  need 
to  fight  competition,”  pledging  our­
selves  at  the  same  time  individually 
to  the  jobber  that  we  will  use  such 
goods  for  that  purpose  only,  and  then 
advertise  those  goods 
along  with 
other  things,  the  same  as  the  cata­
logue  houses  do.  They  offer  a  few 
items  at  cost  and  catch  the  trade. 
We  should  do  the  same,  and  as  the 
catalogue  competition  gets  stronger 
the  closer  we  must  deal.  Stop  say­
ing  yes  to  those  who  want  credit 
and  tell  them  why,  that  you  can  not 
meet  catalogue  house  competition  and 
sell  on  credit;  find  out  who  among 
your  customers  buy  from  catalogue 
houses,  make  a  list  of  them  and  you 
will  be  ready  for  them  when  they 
want  credit.

Some  of  these  people  are  buying 
from  their  home  merchants  on  time 
and  sending  their  money  away.  You 
can  stop  your  part  of  that 
if  you 
know  who  they  are.  Let  them  know 
that  the  fight  is  on  and  that  you  are 
in  the  battle  to  win.  Meet  any  cata­
logue  price  (quality  considered). 
I 
regard  home  competition  one  of  the 
contending 
greatest  drawbacks 
with  catalogue  competition. 
am 
afraid  to  make  a  fight  on  catalogue

in 

I 

M I C H I G A N  

houses,  for  fear  my  home  competitor 
will  reduce  the  price  on  nails,  an  item 
we  do  not  need  to  cut  the  price  on. 
If  I  say  to  a  man,  “I  can’t  credit  you 
because  you  send  your  money  away 
to  catalogue  houses,”  that  man  will 
go  to  my  competitor  and  get  credit. 
It  my  customer  sends  to  a  catalogue 
house  and  buys  all  his  builders’ hard­
ware  for  a  building  and  then  comes 
to  me  for  nails,  I  would  like  to  charge 
him  a  profit,  but  my  competitor  sells 
him  nails  at  cost  in  order  to  get  him 
for  a  customer. 
retailer 
would  join  their  retail  dealers’  asso­
ciation  and  attend  their  annual  meet­
ings  and  get  in  line,  read  the  hard­
ware  journals,  get  in  step  and  fire  at 
every  command,  it  would  not  take 
long  to  control  the  situation.  Do  not 
try  to  stop  the  catalogue  houses. 
If 
you  are  behind,  catch  up  and  get  in 
the  lead;  if  you  are  in  the  lead,  work 
to  stay  there.

If  every 

I  sum  it  up  about  like  this: 

If  the 
manufacturers  think  more  of  the  cata­
logue  houses  than  they  do  of  the 
jobbers,  let  them  sell  the  catalogue 
houses  exclusively;  the  jobbers  can 
attend  to  that. 
If  the  jobber  thinks 
more  of  the  catalogue  house  trade 
than  he  does  of  the  retailer’s,  let  him 
sell  to  the  catalogue  house  exclusive­
ly  and  let  the  retailer  see  to  that.  If 
the  manufacturer  wants  to  sell  to  us, 
and  sells  cheaper  than  the 
jobber, 
then  it  is  the  duty  of  the  jobber  to 
cut  prices  to  meet  the  manufactur­
er’s  the  same  as  we  retailers  have  to 
cut  prices  to  meet  catalogue  com­
petition.  Make  every  dealer 
and 
manufacturer 
themselves. | 
Start  at  the  head:  let  the  jobber  see! 
that  the  manufacturers  confine  their 
sales  to  the  jobbing  trade  and  let  the 
retailers  see  that  the  jobbers  confine 
their  sales  to 
legitimate  hardware 
dealers,  and  when  this  is  done  we  re­
tail  dealers  will  understand  better 
how  to  dodge  the  bullets.  But  when 
they  are  pouring  hot  lead 
into  us 
from  every  side  we  do  not  know 
whether  to  stand  or  run:  but  when  we 
know  the  source  of  the  firing  I  think 
we  can  fortify  ourselves  and  make  a 
winning.

declare 

Everyone  knows  that  the  fight  is  to 
be  made  by  the  retail  dealers,  and  if 
the  jobbers  will  furnish  us  the  right 
kind  of  ammunition  and  we  do  not 
waste  it  for  profit  makers,  we  will 
certainly  win  the  battle. 
It  takes 
united  action  to  accomplish  anything. 
The  retail  dealers,  jobbers  and  man­
ufacturers  should  handle  this  cata­
logue  proposition  through  their  re­
spective  associations,  and 
in  order 
to  do  that  successfully  every  one  in 
sympathy  with  us  must  enlist.

. 

H.  J.  Hellekson.

Nothing  but  art  on  the  menu  is  an 

aggravation  to  the  appetite.

There  is  no  service  without  a  sense 

of  the  sacredness  of  things.

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Often  Imitated
Never  Equaled
Known
Everywhere
No Talk  Re­
quired to Sell  it

Good  Grease 
Makes  Trade

Cheap  Grease 
Kills  Trade

» !

FRAZER 
Axle  Grease

FRAZER 
Axle  Oil

FRAZER 
Harness  Soap

FRAZER 
Harness  Oil

FRAZER 
Hoof  Oil

FRAZER 
Stock  Food

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

E TH IC S  O F  T H E   STREET.

Influences  Which  Tend  To  Pauperize 

the  Soul.

’  Whene’er  I  take  my  walks  abroad,
I  am  fain  to  remark,  not  how  many 
poor  I  see,  for  in  that  respect  the 
cities  of  the  United  States  do  not 
appear  unduly  freighted,  but  rather 
how  many  and  how  potent  are  the 
street  influences  which  tend  to  pau­
perize  the  soul.

The  school,  the  home;  on 

these 
two  foundations,  we  constantly  are 
told,  the  welfare  of  this  great  repub­
lic  rests;  and  that  the  assertion  is  far 
from  being  so  much  barren  rhetoric 
is  amply  proved  by  the 
enormous 
sums  spent  on  public  education  to  a 
luxurious  degree,  and  by  the  pure 
ideal  of  domesticity  to  which  the pri­
vate  lives  of  candidates  for  high  office 
at  the  people’s  hands  are  required  to 
testify.  Many  and  admirable,  also, 
are  the  schemes  of  public  and  pri­
vate  enterprise  that  seek  to  carry hu­
manizing  influences  into  the  crowded 
tenement,  bridging so far  as  they  may 
the  gap  between  the  standards  of  the 
classroom  and  the  illiterate  or  alien 
homes  in  which  such  vast  numbers 
of  the  commonwealth’s  school  chil­
dren  dwell.  But  there  remains  still  a 
third  factor  to  be  reckoned  with;  a 
middle  ground  in  the  child’s  life;  one 
which  has  yet  to  be  fully  recognized 
for  its  true  value  in  the  formation  of 
character,  the  moulding  of  citizens. 
The  larger  education  of  mankind 
comes  from  contact  with  the  world—  
and  the  world,  for  city  children,  is the 
street.

Let  us  take  a  walk  abroad  with 
eyes  not  introspectively  turned  upon 
cur  own  personal  concerns,  nor  dull­
ed  to  our  objective  surroundings  by 
accustomedness,  but  open  and  sensi­
tively  alert  to  note  in  what  fashion 
we  are  serving  the  ends  of  enlighten­
ment  in  respect  to  the  gods  we  set 
up  in  the  marketplace,  the  influences 
we  invoke  or  suffer  to  preside  over 
the  thoroughfares  our  children 
trav­
erse  passing  to  and  from  their school, 
the  pictures  and  legends  with  which 
we  are  wallpapering  and  adorning this 
their  larger  nursery,  their  unrestrict­
ed  playground,  their  outdoor  home, 
the  street.

fix 

The  hoardings  are  gay  with  adver­
tisements,  many  of  them  no  mean 
examples  of  decorative  art,  and  all 
expressly  contrived  to  arrest  atten­
tion,  catch  the  fancy  and 
the 
memory  with  phrase  and  symbol  that 
shall  create  a  want,  or  arouse  desire 
for  some  commodity.  Take  any  ran­
dom  mile  of  such  devices,  and  then 
with  closed  eyes  try  to  recall  the 
general  impression  produced  by their 
illustrated  messages.  You  will 
find 
the  average  result  to  be  a  ser es  of 
statements  persuasive,  authoritative; 
that  it  is  a  grinding  necessity  and  a 
good  thing  to  spend  one’s  substance 
on  whisky,  cigars,  cigarettes,  tobac­
co,  chewing-tobacco,  chewing-gum, 
corsets,  liquors,  soap,  whisky,  cigars, 
washing-powder,  tooth  powder,  face 
powder,  tobacco,  whisky,  gas  stoves, 
corsets, 
whisky, 
clothes,  cigars,  whisky,  patent  medi­
cines,  champagne,  comic  opera,  pills, 
breakfast  food,  whisky,  tobacco, con-

transportation, 

cigars, 

densed  milk-or-rural-drama-impossi- 
ble-to-distinguish-which,  hats,  whis­
ky, 
artificial 
limbs,  corsets,  other  things,  whisky, 
cigars,  cigarettes,  tobacco, 
tobacco, 
cigarettes,  cigars  and  whisky!

foldingbeds, 

And  the  blazonry! 

It  is  the  excess  of  space  allotted 
them  in  the  commercial  exposition  of 
the  highways  that  renders  them  a 
baneful  influence;  the  hideous  dis­
proportion  to  the  needs  of  life 
in 
which  we  allow  their  virtues  to  be 
blazoned  on  the  city  walls.
*  * 

*  See
these  rows  on  rows  of  besotted-look­
ing  creatures  depicted  in  the  act  of 
mixing,  proffering,  drinking,  with  an 
air  of  specious  bonhomie  designed  to 
foster  the  corrupting  notion  that  in 
reciprocity  of  tipples 
lies  good-fel­
lowship;  these  rows  on  rows  of  inde­
cently  clad  women 
recommending 
some  bottled  or  capsuled  remedy  for 
the  effects  of  a  debauch!

Breakfast  foods:  these  at  least  are 
innocuous,  you  say,  in  their  bid  for 
notoriety.  Not  invariably  so.  When­
ever  a  foodstuff  makes  a  merit  of  its 
theft  of  nature’s  honest  industries  by 
announcing  itself  as  predigested, 
it 
stands  a  self-convicted  sinner  against 
the  natural  moralities.

To  the  thinking  adult  these  repre­
sentations  are  only  so  much  adver­
tisement,  to  be  deprecated 
from  an 
aesthetic  standpoint,  but  no  eyesore 
to  the  blunted  ethical  vision.  But 
how  is  the  child  of  the  street  to  dis­
criminate  between  legitimate  munici­
pal  decoration  and  the  labels  of  pri­
vate  enterprise?  To  him  these  illus- j 
trated  statements  stand 
for  mental 
furnishings,  impressions  of  life,  rank­
ing  in  authority  with  the  inscription 
on  the  monument,  the  statue  of  the 
patriot,  the  map  and  motto  on  his 
classroom  walls,  the  text  and  banner 
of  his  Sunday 
chaining 
his  remembrance  with  a  hundredfold 
the  distinctness  and  allure  of 
these 
because  of  the  appeal  they  make  to 
his  playful  fancy,  the  intimate  collo­
quial  note  they  strike.

school, 

Innumerable 

It  is  the  positive  thing  that  counts 
with  a  child. 
repeti­
tions  of  stern  Don’ts  can  not  equal 
in  compelling  power  one  delusively 
attractive  Do.  Of  what  avail,  then, 
for  the  city  in  school  hours  to  lay 
down  the  principles  of  physiology 
with  their  ominous  burden  of  inhibi­
tion,  when  at  every  turn  the  city’s 
walls  gainsay  such  teachings  in  rain­
bow  colors, 
in  optimistic  phrase? 
How  vital  an  impression  does  it  pro­
duce  upon  a  girl  to  tell  her  that  tight 
lacing  is  injurious,  while  misshapen 
forms  are  presented  as  objects  of 
fashionable  elegance  for  her  emula­
tion  during  recreation  hours?  Of 
what  use  is  it  to  warn  the  boy  that 
nicotine  and  alcohol  are  bad  for  him, 
so  long  as  the  city  covers  the  walls 
of  his  great  playground  with  dazziing 
invitations  to  smoke  and  drink,  at  the 
same  time  jocosely  assuring  him that 
all  possible  unpleasant  consequences 
will  be  pleasantly  averted  by  the  ac­
tion  of  a  candy  bolus  while  he  sleeps?
Put  up  in  the  marketplace  some ex­
quisite  example  of  the  sculptor’s craft 
in  classic  nudity,  and  with  what 
sweeping  denunciations  of 
im­
morality  of  art  does  the  welkin ring!

the 

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What  a  storm  of  outraged  protest  is 
aroused  by  any  humanitarian  move­
ment  that,  by  taking  into  considera­
tion  the  social  need  which  the  saloon 
supplies,  endeavors  to  give  a  poor 
man’s  thirst  due  dignity  and  measure!  . 
But  blind  are  these  censors,  single 
and  incorporate,  to  the  shameful  fact 
staring  us  forever  in  the  face,  that 
lessons  are  being  inculcated  into  the 
city’s  children  daily,  after  the  most 
approved  pedagogic  methods,  pictor- 
ially,  and  by  endlessly  varied  itera­
tions  of  one  theme— lessons  in  intem­
perance  and  immodesty— by  the  un­
licensed  proclamations  on 
city 
walls!

the 

A  small  boy  acting  in  the  same 
theatrical  company  with  his  mother, 
not  long  since,  was  haled  to  court, 
examined,  remanded,  committed,  be­
cause  he  was  found  to  be  under  certi­
fied  years.  The  mother,  poor  soul! 
had  lied  about  his  age  because  her 
earnings  alone  would  not  suffice  to 
support  the  two;  besides,  to  have  her 
child  traveling  with  her 
is  all  the 
home  a  wandering  actress  may  call 
her  own;  and  to  the  child  this  filial- 
maternal  comradeship  and  working 
partnership  are  infinitely more a home 
than  any  of  the  host  of  institutions 
passing  by  the  name.  However,  to 
keep  the  law  the  lad  must  now  be 
committed  to  some  such  organization, 
or  become  a  charge  on  unwilling  rel­
atives  for  the  period  of  his  scholastic 
liability,  until  at  sixteen  he  will  be 
turned  loose,  practically  orphaned,  to 
drift,  if  he  so  elect,  back 
the 
stage.  At  eleven,  under  his  mother’s 
wing,  tutored  in  the  crude  but  definite 
morality  of  the  melodrama,  there was 
nothing  harmful  in  the  child’s  bread- 
winning  connection  with  the  theater. 
He  is  far  more  likely  to  be  endanger­
ed  by  it  at  sixteen,  but  of  that  hu­
man  aspect  of  the  case  the  law  takes 
no  cognizance.  Neither  does  it  con­
cern 
that  the 
most  degrading  feature  of  the  play­
house,  the  poster  of  so-called  comic 
opera  and  farce,  with  its  ever  recur­
rent  variation  on  the  motif  of  marital 
duplicity,  the  elderly  fool  in  evening 
dress  wantoning  with  high  kickers  of 
the  ballet,  is  offered  year  in  and  year 
out  for  the  contemplation  of  the  city 
children  in  the  street! 
I  doubt  if  one 
child  in  thousands  ever  came  to  moral 
shipwreck  by  being  on  and  of  the 
real  stage.  Can  it  be  doubted 
that 
thousands  are  being  coarsened,  if  not 
corrupted,  all  the  time  by  the  pic­
tures  on  the  walls?

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The  exposure  of  dead  animals  to  the 
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The  press  always  should  be,  and 
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children,  the  poor,  the  weak.  Yet 
has  the  press  a  few  sins  to  answer 
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trict,  although  a  far  from  poor  one. 
We  come  upon  a  knot  of  small  girls* 
seated  at  an 
table  on 
which  are  displayed  pin-wheels  and 
paper  dolls  for  sale.  The  proceeds, 
they  proudly  inform  us,  are  destined 
to  swell 
such-and-such  a  paper’s 
Fresh-Air  Fund.  How 
sweet  and 
touching  that  sounds:  children  work­
ing  that  less  fortunate  children  may 
enjoy!  But  as  we  further  chat  with 
them  we  discover 
that  Fresh-Air 
Fund  is  as  empty  a  term  to  them  as 
Borrioboola-Gha.  All 
know 
about  it  is  that  a  reporter-gentleman 
has  promised  that  the  one  who  hands 
him  the 
largest  contribution  shall 
have  her  picture  in  the  paper!  Next 
day  we  buy  that  paper,  and  there, sure 
enough,  is  the  portrait  of  the  most 
ac­
forth-putting  little  saleswoman, 
companied  with  a  letter 
that  does 
great  credit  to  the  inventiveness  of 
the 
positively 
lisping  the  joy  the  little  heroine feels 
in  aiding  the  sick  babes  of  this  noble 
charity!  A  love  of  cheap  notoriety 
is  one  of  the  most  pernicious  teach­
ings  of  the  street.

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Still  further  downtown  we  encoun­
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preparing  to  board  an  Atlantic  liner. 
The  aggressively  vulgar  quality  of 
their  good  humor  astounds  us  when 
we  are  told  that  they  are  school­
teachers.  Astonishment,  however,  is 
modified  on  learning  these  to  be  win­
ners  of  a  newspaper  contest  that  be­
stows  a  vacation  in  Europe  on  the 
ten  most  popular  educators  of  a  cer­
tain  district;  this  spurious  popularity 
being  purchased  by  the  suffrages  of 
their  pupils  on  newspaper  coupons. 
Clearly  not  the  most  popular,  but  the 
least  particular,  members  of 
their 
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nf  the  authorities  who  allow  the  dig­
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the  misrepresentation  of  a 
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education  was  supposed  to  be  vested 
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hours;  but,  so  long  as  in  their  capaci­
ty  of  educators  they  lend  themselves 
to  advertisement,  they  aim  a  mortal 
blow  at  the  ethics  of  the  street.

In  a  public  park  we  fall  in  with  a 
bright-faced  company  of 
shopgirls 
eagerly  devouring  an  extra  which 
contains  news  of  one  of  their  asso­
ciates.  The  heading  reads,  “Love 
Laughs  at  Locksmiths.  Cupid  De­
fies  Cruelty.  Pretty  Miss  Outwits 
Stern  Parents  and  Goes  Off  With  the 
Man  of  Her  Heart!”

The  facts  of  the  incident  happen to 
be  known  to  one  of  us.  The  girl  was 
not  pretty— although,  for  that  matter, 
she  might  have  been.  She  was  an 
anaemic  weakling,  lacking  even 
the 
fresh-skinned  comeliness  of  youth. 
The  cruelty  of  her  parents,  worthy 
souls,  consisted  in  their  loving  efforts 
to  cure  her  of  her  infatuation  for  a 
middle-aged  man  who  had  been  turn­
ed  out  of  a  reputable  profession  and 
divorced  by  a  good  wife.  But  the 
press  with  jaunty  unmorality  gave 
the  crooked  situation  the  twist  that 
made  it  read  like  spirited  romance, 
with  the  effect— so  great  the  power  of 
the  printed  word!— that  at  the  mo­
ment  any  one  of  those  decent  girls 
would  have  levanted  with  even  a bad 
bargain  of  a  man  for  the  pleasure  of 
seeing  herself  described  as  Dashing 
Brunette  or  Dainty  Blonde  in  print!
“Pretty  Stenographer  Corrals  An­
other  Woman’s  Husband!”  Natural­
steals  another 
ly  the  woman  that 
woman’s  man  may  be  expected 
to 
possess  some  weapon  of  added  beau­
ty,  or  superior  attraction,  of  one  sort 
or  another.  This,  however,  is  not go­
ing  to  save  her  from  miserable  con­
sequences  in  the  long  run.  But  of 
that' ephemeral 
literature  takes  no 
heed;  and  so  long  as  with  flattering 
emphasis  it  urges  such  possession  as 
condonation  for 
simply 
makes  the  first  step  of  the  easy  de­
scent  still  easier  for  the  children  of 
the  street.

error, 

it 

These  children  are  not  ignorant.  A 
bald  statement  of  the  facts  of  life  can 
not  harm  them,  for  in  one  form  or 
another  they  know  all  there  is 
to 
tell. 
It  is  the  meretricious  coloring 
imparted  to  these  facts  that  counts 
for  ill;  the  suppressions  that  ignore 
violated  faith,  make  light  of  legiti­
mate  ties;  the  perversions  employed 
at  all  costs  to  get  a  hurrah  headline 
for  a  domestic  tragedy.

We  fear  the  judgment  of  the  man 
in  the  street,  not  because  we  can  not 
rely  on  his  solid  understanding,  but 
because  we  have  learned  to  rate  that 
understanding  individually  low.  We 
tremble  lest  collectively  his  inflamma­
ble  passions  should  be  roused,  know­
ing  well  that  the  brute  in  him  will 
demand  a  victim  before  law  and  order 
may  resume  their  sway.  We  grieve 
over  the  fallacies  with  which  we  see 
him  clog  his  own  progress,  delaying 
by  centuries  the  day  when  the  mighty 
truth  shall  prevail  in  his  life.  But 
do  we  sufficiently  assume  our  share 
of  responsibility  for  him  when  we 
thus  grossly  overlook  the  fact  that 
the  child  in  the  street  is  the  father  of 
the  man  in  the  street  with  all  our 
sins  of  omission  and  commission  on 
his  head?

A  day will  come  when  the  common­

wealth  will  realize  that  the  character 
of  its  citizens  is  its  valuable  com­
mercial  asset  and  that 
the  mural 
areas  of  the  highways  are  too  prec­
ious  to  the  nation’s  higher  life  to  be 
given  over  to  the  exploitation  of  mer­
chandise.  Advertising  will  then  be 
relegated  to  an  urban  supplement, as 
in  magazines,  and  a  high  restricting' 
license  fee  will  be  charged,  not  only 
to  those  who  sell  liquor,  but  also  to 
those  who  advertise  that  and  all other 
articles  in  which  mankind  is  tempted 
to 
injurious  excess,  while  the  city 
walls  will  be  preserved 
suggest 
great  thoughts,  commemorate  good 
deeds  and  announce  the  latest  inven­
tions  destined  to  benefit  mankind.

to 

That  of  course  will  be  Utopia— but, 
after  all,  why  not  Utopia?  Mean 
while  public  sentiment  can  be  up  and 
doing.  Nowadays  it  is  a  common  oc­
currence  to  see  a  frail  woman  stand­
ing  in  the  road,  compelling  a  burly 
truck-driver  to  relieve  his  overladen 
cattle,  or  causing  some  poor  chafed 
and  goaded  beast  to  be  unharnessed 
and  mercifully  cared  for.  Schools, li­
braries 
fresh-air 
funds  and  private  charities,  all  are 
doing  vital  work  along  the  lines  of 
neighborliness.  Let  us  hope,  then, 
for  a  speedy  betterment  of  the  influ­
ences 
street.— Marguerite
Merington  in  Atlantic.

settlements, 

and 

the 

of 

Employed  Girl  Should  Dress  Prop­

erly  for  Her  Work.

W ritten  for  th e  Tradesm an.

the  plain 

When  will 

common 
American  working  girl  learn  to  dress 
properly  for  the  everyday  part  she 
plays  in  life?

As  a  general  thing,  she  attends the 
theater  with  a  degree  of  regularity, 
where,  if  she  opens  her  eyes  wide 
enough  to  see  beyond  her  nose,  she 
may  observe  the  actors  dressed  for 
the  part  they  are  claying.  If  the  play 
is  a  society  drama  the  leading  lady 
is  not  found  wearing  the  garb  of  a 
servant,  and  the  maid  will  be  neatly 
gowned 
in  print  or  gingham,  with 
white  apron  tied  around  her  shapely 
waist  in  a  big  bow  and  a  coquettish 
little  cap  perched  on  her— more  or 
less--devoted  head.  Neither  usurps 
the  costume-rights  of  the  other.  And 
the  villain  dresses  according  to  his 
station. 
Fathers  and  mothers  are 
clad  as  such  and  not  as  young  flib­
bertigibbets.  The  doctor  will  dis­
play  clothes  that  befit  his  dignified 
bearing,  while  the 
lawyer  will  don 
the  elegant  suit  looked  for  in  his 
profession.

And  not  only  to  his  clothes  does 
the  conscientious  actor  pay  the  great­
est  of  heed— his  make-up  must  be  in 
strictest  accord  with  the  part  he  es­
says  to  play.  His  face,  his  hair,  all 
the  little 
tricks  of  manner  and 
speech— everything  about  the  charac­
ter  he  represents  is  given  the  most 
earnest  study  to  render  a  perfect 
whole.

If,  then,  those  who  tread  the  boards 
“dress  the  part”  with  such  fidelity 
to  detail,  why  can  not  the  ordinary 
office  and  shop  girl  learn  a  lesson 
in  this  regard  from  the  “show  folks” 
if  they  possess  not  enough  common 
sense  to  know  for  themselves? 
If 
they  did  we  would  not  see,  in  the

in 

their 

Sensible 

low-heeled 

morning  when  they  go  to  their  la­
bor,  so  many  hundreds  of  working 
girls  trigged  out  in  the  bravery  of  all 
the  colors  of  the  rainbow.  Jet  col­
lars  of  alarming  proportions  would 
be  left  in  their  bureau  drawers  and 
fussy  lace-betrimmed  dresses  would 
be  hanging  up 
closets, 
where  they  belong  during  working 
shoes 
hours. 
would  encase  their  tired  feet 
and 
French-heeled 
footwear  of  perisha- 
bly-fine  leather  would  be  saved  for 
the  dressy  occasions  for  which  they 
are  etl  regie.  Fancy  ribbon  bows 
and  elaborately  beaded  stocks  would 
be  tabooed  and  white  kid 
gloves 
would  be  kept  to  bring  out  on a Sun­
day.  A  nice  coat  would  be  used  “for 
best,”  instead  of  switching  it  out  in 
the  rain,  and  frilly  parasols  of  airy 
fluffiness  would  be  reserved  for  gar­
den  fetes  and  like  functions.  And all 
accessories  senseless 
themselves 
and  tasteless,  not  to  say  hideous,  as 
personal  adornment  would  be  “con­
spicuous  by  their  absence.”

in 

’tis 

in  the  selection  of 

The  ordinary  girl  wage  earner  ap­
pears  verily  possessed  with  the  spirit 
of  pile-on-ativeness. 
She  seems  to 
go  on  the  principle  of  “the  more  the 
merrier,” 
gar­
ments  and  the  “fixin’s”  to  accom­
pany  the  same.  With  her,  dress  dis­
cretion  looks  to  be 
the  unknown 
quantity— the  algebraic  x.  Every­
thing  goes  on  at  once  and  the  more 
kaleidoscopic  the  array  of  colors  the 
more  self-satisfied  she  strikes  one  as 
being  with  herself. 
“ ’Tis  pity,  and 
’tis  true”  that  there  is  a 
pity 
prominent  lack  of  intuitiveness  con­
tinually  observable  on  the  part  of  the 
employed  girl,  in  the  matter  of  her 
apparel. 
In  every  city  in  the  land 
there  should  be  some  sort  of  night 
school— I  don’t  know  what  it  would 
be  called— which  any  girl  and  every 
girl,  self-supporting  or  drone,  could 
attend  and  “profit  by  the 
instruc­
tion”  there  to  be  obtained  on  the 
very  important  subject  of  dress.  I feel 
strongly  on  this  subject— really  it  is 
a  pitiful  one  when  sifted  down-—and, 
being  a  working  girl  myself*  I  know, 
from 
observation, 
whereof  I  speak.

close  personal 

Several  times  in  this  preachment 
“ordinary 
have  I  used  the  words 
working  girl.”  Please  don’t 
infer 
from  the  expression  that  I  deprecate 
labor  or 
its  necessity.  All  honest 
labor  is  not  only  honorable  but  it 
serves  the  very  good  purpose  of 
keeping  us  out  of  the  mischief  that 
Satan  finds  for  the  idle  manus  to  do. 
I  employed  the  word  “ordinary”  in 
the  meaning  of  “average,”  “normal.”
am 

I 
through  with  this  little  homily:

One  thought  more 

and 

If  the  wage-earning  young  woman 
ever  gets  away  from  her  work  of  an 
afternoon  sufficiently  long  to  stroll 
through  the  downtown  store  district, 
she  will  be  surprised  at  the  plain 
gowns  of  the  ultra  fashionable,  the 
acknowledged 
society. 
Their  elaborate  dresses  are  not  seen 
on  the  street,  and  the  general  tone 
of  their  shopping  costumes  is  quiet.
And  always  remember  this,  wher­
It  is  better  to  be 

ever  you  may  go: 
under  than  overdressed.

leaders 

in 

Ethel  E.  Clarke.

How  the  Book  Salesman  Sold  Dr.

Andrews.

Dr.  E.  Benjamin  Andrews,  Chan­
cellor  of  Nebraska  University,  recent­
ly  figured  in  a  humorous  incident  il­
lustrating  the  quick  repartee  bred  by 
experience  in  a  veteran  book  agent. 
Notwithstanding  the  glaring  protru­
sion  at  the  entrance  of  the  main  uni­
versity  building  of  the  usual  plac­
ard,  “No  canvassers,  peddlers  or  so­
licitors  allowed,”  the  unabashed book 
man  had  boldly  entered  the  learned 
halls  and  by  cleverly  utilizing  the  in­
termissions  between 
lectures  had 
managed  to  secure  an  audience  with 
each 
in  the  building— in 
most  instances  with  successful  result. 
After  having  practically  finished  his 
visit  he  had  pushed  his  way  into  the 
executive  office,  where  he  greeted  the 
occupant  with  effusive  cordiality.

instructor 

“Didn’t  you  see  that  sign  as  you 
came  in?”  interrogated  Dr.  Andrews, 
sharply.

“What  sign?  I  saw  no  sign,”  came 

the  reply.

“Why,  the  sign  prohibiting  solicit­
ors  and  canvassers  from  entering  the 
building.”

“Was  there  such  a  sign?”  queried 
the  visitor. 
“Well,  I  am  sorry  I 
didn’t  notice  it,  for  I  should  certainly 
have  observed  it,  but  I  have  com­
pleted  my  rounds  here  and  have  sold 
nearly  everybody.  If  you  want  me  to 
obey  the  sign  now  I  will  do  so.  Be­
fore  I  go,  however,  may  I  not  know 
of 
with  whom  I  have  the  honor 
speaking?  No  one  else  has 
ven­
tured  to  tell  me  I  am  not  wanted  in 
the  building.”

“I  am  the  Chancellor,”  quietly  re­

sponded  Dr.  Andrews.

“You  are 

the  Chancellor!”  ex­
claimed  the  astonished  book  agent. 
But,  then,  quickly  regaining  his  com­
posure,  “Not  Chancellor  Andrews? 
Not  Dr.  E.  Benjamin  Andrews? 
Well,  well,  I  never  would  have 
thought  it.  Dr.  E.  Benjamin  An­
drews!  Why,  you  know,  I  canvassed 
for  one  of  your  books,  your  history 
of  the  United  States,  and 
told 
every  one  T  sold  what  a  great  scholar 
you  were  and  what  a  fine  fellow  you 
were  and  sold  lots  of  those  books. 
But  I  never  would  have  thought  it—  
that  the  author  of  that  book  should 
one  day  tell  me  I  must  not  sell books 
in  the  same  building  with  him. 
It’s 
really  too  bad!”

I 

And  the  story  is  that  the  reminis­
cent  book  agent  had  an  order  from 
Dr.  Andrews  before  he  closed  his 
day’s  labor.

A  Copper  Roach  Powder.
Ansil  Moffat,  city  chemist  of 

In­
dianapolis,  recommends  the  following 
formula  for  a  cockroach  extermina­
tor:  Dissolve  i  pound  of  copper sul­
phate  in  hot  water;  add  a  pint  of  the 
cheapest  molasses  and  half  a  can  of 
concentrated  lye  dissolved  in  a  little 
water;  boil  the  whole  and  a  red  pow­
der  will  settle;  wash  this 
in  fresh 
water  a  time  or  two,  drain  on  a  cloth, 
and  dry  by  exposure  to  heat  or other­
wise.  When  dry  put  it  through 
a 
sieve  and  for  use  mix  one  part  with 
two  parts  of  powdered  mustard,  and 
dust  around.

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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  stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids  Board of Trade, 89 Pearl St.,

w ill  p ay  back  in  ca sh   to su ch   person  one=half a ctu a l railroad fare.

Amount of Purchases Required

If  living  within  50  miles  purchases  made  from  any  member  of  the  following  firms  aggregate  at  least.......................... $100  00
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate............................  150  00
If  living  within  75  miles  and  over  50,  purchases  made 
If  ljving  within  100  miles  and  over  75,  purchases  made 
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate..........................  200  00
If  living  within  125  miles  and  over  100,  purchases  made 
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate.............................  250  00
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate...............................300  00
If  living  within  150  miles  and  over  125,  purchases  made 
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate.............................  350  00
If  living  within  175  miles  and  over  150,  purchases  made 
If  living  within  200  miles  and  over  175,  purchases  made 
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate...........................   400  00
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate..........................  450  00
If  living  within  225  miles  and  over  200,  purchases  made 
If  living  within  250  miles  and  over  225,  purchases  made 
from  any  of  the  following  firms  aggregate  .   
500  00

|^e a (j  £ a|*ef|||ly 
you  are  through  buying  in  each 

Automobiles

Adam s  &  H art 
R ichm ond-Jarvis  Co.

Bakers
N ational  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

Brunsw lck-Balke-Collander  Co.

Books,  Stationery  and  Paper 
Grand  Rapids  S tationery  Co. 
Grand  Rapids  P aper  Co.
M.  B.  W.  P aper  Co.
Mills  P aper  Co.

Confectioners

A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.
Putnam   Factory,  N at‘1 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 
V inkem ulder  Co.

N flfllC S  as  purchases  made of  any  other  firms  w ill  not  count  toward  the  amount
of purchases  required.  A sk  for  “ Purchaser’ s  Certificate”   as  soon  as

place.

Cement,  Lime  and  Coal 

S.  P.  B ennett  &  Co.  (Coal  only) 
Century  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.

Crockery,  House Furnishings
H.  Leonard  &  Sons.
Drugs  and  Drug  Sundries 
H azeltine  &  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

C lark-Jew ell-W ells  Co.
Judson  Grocer  Co.
Lemon  &  W heeler  Co. 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.
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.
A le x a n d e r  K en n edy

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.

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  Casket  Co.

Wagon  Makers

Belknap  W agon  Co.
H arrison  W agon  Co.

Wall  Finish 

A labastine  Co.
A nti-K alsom lne  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  w ill  rem it  the  amount  if  sent  to  him  w ithin  ten  davs  from  date  of  certificates.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

»Wo m a n 's W o r l d

Love,  a  Virtue,  Changed 

Into  a 

Vice.
If  men  were  put 

through 

their 
catechism  and  the  question  asked, 
“What  is  the  chief  end  of  woman?” 
they  would  reply 
“To 
love.”  And  in  this  they  would  be 
merely  expressing  the  universal  pub­
lic  sentiment  on  the  subject.

chorus, 

in 

From  time  immemorial  it  has  been 
held  that  it  was  woman’s  sacred  mis­
sion  to  furnish  the  most  of  the  visi­
ble  capital  of  affection  on  which  the 
world  was  run,  while  man  drew  most 
of  the  dividends.  Love  has  ever been 
held  up  before  woman  as  a  career 
and  a  reward,  a  steady  business  and 
a  holy  duty.  Her  obligation  to  love 
has  been  preached  to  her;  her  ability 
to  love,  with  reason  or  without  it, 
has  been  extolled  as  her  greatest 
charm;  her  faithfulness  in  loving  the 
unlovable  has  been  exploited  as  her 
greatest  virtue,  and  it  has  generally 
been  felt  that  she  was  most  an  orna­
ment  to  womanhood  when  she  was 
so  full  of  love  that  she  could  fes­
toon  her  affections  about  anything 
that  was  handy.  For  woman  it  has 
been  love,  love,  love  that  made  the 
treadmill  go  round.

This  abnormal  development  of  a 
single  faculty  is  the  greatest  misfor­
tune  that  has  ever  befallen  the  fem­
inine  sex,  for  in  the  majority  of  cas­
es  woman’s  enlargement  of  the  heart 
has  crowded  out  her  brain  and  back­
bone,  and  the  result  has  been  dis­
astrous  both  for  herself  and  society. 
It  is  her  superabundant  supply  of 
affection,  which,  like  an  overful  lake, 
seeks  any  outlet,  that  causes  her  to 
fancy  herself  in  love  with  any  make­
shift  man  and  is  at  the  bottom  of 
half  of  the  divorce  cases. 
It  is  her 
inability  to  see  straight  or  use  any 
judgment  where  her  heart  is  concern­
ed  that  leads  her  to  make  mistakes 
in  h e r   family  that  are  criminal. 
It 
is  because  she  is  long  on  affection 
and  short  on  self-respect,  where  a 
question  of  love  is  involved,  that  she 
so  often  bankrupts  herself  in  life.

It  is  our  way  to  think  that  love  is 
one  of  the  good  things  of  which 
we  can  not  have  too  much.  This  is 
a  mistake.  Nothing  is  more  easily 
overdone  and  women  are  the  chief 
offenders  in  this  respect.  With  them 
love  is  a  virtue  changed  into  a  vice, 
a  flower  gone  to  seed  and  degenerat­
ed  into  a  noxious  weed. 
If  it  were 
not  for  the  sanity  of  men  in  matters 
of  the  affections  we  should  live  in  a 
bedlam  peopled  by  crazy  Juliets  and 
Romeos.

The  mere  fact  that  a  broken  heart 
is  a  peculiarly  feminine  complaint 
shows  how  much  wiser  men  are 
about  love  than  women.  A  man  sel­
dom  ruins  himself  for  love  of  a  wom­
an,  but  you  can  not  pick  up  any 
newspaper  without  reading  of  some 
woman  who  has  thrown  away  every­
thing  for  love  of  a  man.  Men  take 
love  calmly,  as  they  do  any  other 
fortune. 
If  it  comes  to  them,  well

and  good. 
If  it  does  not  come,  also 
well  and  good.  They  are  cheerfully 
aware  that  there  are  a  number  of 
other  things  worth  having  beyond 
the  doubtful  joy  of  loving  and  being 
loved;  but,  to  a  woman,  to  have  miss­
ed  la  grande  passion— never  to  love 
or  to  be  loved— is  the  supreme  trage­
dy  of  existence.

No  old  bachelor  commiserates him­
self  or  feels  that  his  life  has  been  a 
failure  just  because  he  didn’t  marry; 
but  in  the  secret  chambers  of  an  old 
maid’s  heart  there  are  always  dust 
and  ashes  on  the  altar  and  she  feels 
that  her 
lighted  in 
vain. 
It  is  this  false  value  that  wom­
en  put  on  love,  this  making  it  the 
whole  instead  of  a  part  of  life,  that 
is  responsible  for  half  the  woes  and 
disappointments  that  they  suffer.

lamp  has  been 

Primarily,  it  is  the  reason  for  more 
unsuitable  and  uncongenial  marriages 
than  all  other  causes  combined.  No 
thinking  person  can  fail  to  see  that 
our  glorification  of  woman’s  love—  
our  great  exaggeration  of  its  power 
and  its  influence  and 
its  beauty—  
makes  thousands  of  women,  intoxi­
cated  with  sentiment  and  romance, 
rush  into  heedless  marriages  with ut­
terly  unworthy  men 
just  because 
there  is  a  fool  tradition  that  a  woman 
is  bound  to  have  somebody  to  love. 
And  in  this  crime  we  aid  and  abet 
them. 
Instead  of  erecting  barriers 
before  our  daughters’  hearts  so  high 
and  so  strong  that  it  would  take  a 
Cupid  with  a  jimmy  and  a  dark  lan­
tern  and  a  ton  of  blasting-powder 
to  get  into  them,  we  throw  all  the 
doors  wide  open  so  that  any  ma­
rauding  thief  who  chances  to  pass 
that  way  may  walk  in  and  purloin 
the  treasure  of  their  affections.

From  the  minute  a  girl  baby  is  old 
enough  to  understand  anything  we 
teach  her,  directly  or  indirectly,  that 
love  is  to  be  the  business  of  her  life; 
it  is  assumed  to  be  the  one  thing 
for  which  she  is  being  prepared.

is 

Her  emotions  are  cultivated  instead 
of  her  reason.  Every  appeal  is  made 
to  her  feelings  instead  of  to  her  judg­
ment.  To  an  inherited  talent  for lov­
ing  we  add  a  cultivated  facility  and 
the  result 
inevitable.  The  girl 
grows  up  simply  bubbling  over  with 
affection,  and  this  excess  of  sentiment 
she  is  dying  to  expend  upon  some 
man,  it  does  not  matter  much  whom. 
Like  the  “pretty  maidens”  in  “Floro- 
dora,”  she  is  ready  to  cry  to  every 
youth  she  meets,  “I  must  love  some 
one,  and  it  might  as  well  be  you,” 
not  because  the  youth 
in  question 
rouses  any  particular  thrill  of  passion 
in  her  breast  but  because  she  is  over­
stocked  with  love  that  she  must  un­
load  on  some  one.  All  of  the  talk 
about  awakening  a  maiden’s  heart 
is  nonsense.  From  the 
she 
wears  her  hair  in  pigtails  and  is  in 
short  frocks  every  girl’s  heart  is  a 
watch-tower  with  a 
lookout  from 
which  she  scans  the  horizon  in  search 
of  somebody  on  whom  to  bestow  her 
affections.  She  has  been  told  that 
woman’s  destiny  is  to  love,  it  is  what 
she  is  here  for,  and  so  eager  is  she 
to  give  away  her  heart  that  she  does 
rot  take  the  trouble  to  see  that  the 
applicant  is  worthy.  She  is  like  a 
child  with  a  coin  in  its  purse— mis­

time 

erable  until  it  is  spent  and  too  ignor­
ant  to  see  if  she  is  given  a  fair  re­
turn  for  its  value.

Nor  is  this  folly  confined  to  youth. 
There  is  no  other 
such  pathetic 
phase  of  this  overdeveloped  ability  to 
love  and  this  over-anxious  craving 
for  love  as  that  which  leads  educat­
ed  and  refined  women,  when  they 
see  spinsterhood  creeping  upon  them, 
to  throw  themselves  away  upon  the 
lame,  the  halt  and  the  blind  just  be­
cause  they  must  have  some  object 
upon  which  to  lavish  their  affection. 
How  often  do  you  see  a  cultivated 
old  maid  marrying  an  ignorant  boor, 
a  dainty  aristocrat  condescending to 
a  parvenu,  one  delicately  reared  and 
used  to  luxury  becoming  the  house­
hold  slave  of  the  widower  with  many 
children  just  because  they  feel  that 
a  woman  ought  to  have  somebody  to 
love.  Be  sure  that,  if  women  had 
only  been  taught  that  love  is  not  the 
whole  aim  of  life,  the  noble  army  of 
martyrs  would  have  missed  most  of 
its  feminine  recruits.

Next  to  the  fatal  theory  that  every 
woman  must  love  is  the  equally  mis­
chievous  doctrine  of  the  power  of 
woman’s  love.  One  of  the  greatest 
and  the  crudest  delusions  practiced 
in  this  world  is  that  which  leads  us 
to  make  a  generous  and  enthusiastic 
woman  believe  that  she  can  change 
a  man  by  loving  him. 
It  is  what 
induces  a  woman  to  marry  a  man 
on  trust  instead  of  on  appraisement. 
She  never  looks  at  what  he  is.  She 
only  contemplates  the  miracle  that 
she  is  going  to  work  by  her  affec­
tion. 
If  he  has  no  money,  no  busi­
ness  training,  no  way  of making  a  liv­
ing,  it  does  not  matter;  she  is  sure 
that  people  in  love  are  never  hun­
gry,  anyway,  and  that  her  love  will 
inspire  him  with  financial  sagacity. 
If  he  drinks  it  does  not  matter  either. 
She  is  anxious  to  make  a  Keeley  cure 
If  he  has  a  past  she 
of  herself. 
shuts  her  eyes  to 
She  knows 
that  he  will  never  sin  again  when 
she  places  her  little  hand  in  his,  and 
it  is  only  after  she  has  brought  mis­
ery  on  herself  that  she  finds  out 
that  the  efficacy  of  a  woman’s  love 
is  a  fairy  story  and  that  as  a  reforma­
tory  agent  it  is  not  worth  a  row  of 
pins.  You  can  not  love  a  lazy  man 
into  being  industrious  or  a  drunken 
sot  into  sobriety— and  that  is  all there 
is  to  it.

it. 

Another  place  where  woman’s 
chief  virtue  in  loving  is  her  undoing 
is  in  its  faithfulness.  Women  and 
dogs  are  the  only  creatures  that  pos­
sess  the  faculty  of  loving  what  is  un­
lovable  and  of  keeping  on 
loving, 
through  mere  force  of  habit, 
long 
after  all  cause  for  affection  is  gone, 
and  that  is  the  reason  they  both  get 
so  many  kicks.  They  make  their 
love  cheap  and  men  do  not  value  it. 
When  a  woman  once  loves  a  man 
he  knows  he  can  not  lose  her  and 
so  he  takes  no  trouble  to  keep  her. 
All  over  the  country  there  are  thous­
ands  of  physical-culture  classes 
in 
which  middle-aged  wives  are  hopping 
solemnly  around  on  one  foot  and  tee­
tering  about,  trying  to  keep  the  waist 
measure  and  the  lithe  figure  they  had 
in  their  youth,  in  order  that  they  may 
retain  their  husbands’  affection;  but

0

nobody  ever  heard  of  a  fat,  bald,  red­
faced,  middle-aged  man  being  mas­
saged  for  his  complexion  so  that  he 
might  present  to  his  wife  the  same 
attractive  appearance  that  he  did 
when  she  fell  in  love  with  him  in  his 
youth.

We  recognize  that  a  man’s 

love 
may  be  killed  by  unworthy  conduct 
or  worn  out  by  friction,  but  we  look 
for  no  such  aberration  in  a  woman’s 
devotion.  We  expect  her  to  go  on 
loving  those  who  have  a  legal  right 
to  her  affections,  no  matter  how  they 
ill-use  and  despitefully  treat  her.  And 
she  seldom  disappoints  our  expecta­
tions.  Earth  has  no  greater  marvel 
than  the  tenacity  of  a  woman’s  affec­
tion  and  the  way  it  will  cling  to  a 
brutal  husband  or  an  unworthy  son 
or  brother.  Disgrace  will  not  alien­
ate  it,  cruelty  will  not  kill  it,  ingrati­
tude  and  treachery  will  not  harm  it. 
It  needs  no  more  sustenance  than  the 
?ir-fed  orchid  and  will 
cling  and 
bloom  on  the  stone  walls  of  a  prison 
as  well  as  it  will  in  the  hothouse  of 
a  millionaire.

“He  was  very  good  to  me,  judge,” 
said  a  poor  wretch,  defending 
the 
drunken  hoodlum  who  had  beaten 
her;  “he  never  hit  me  where  the 
blows  would  show.”

“John  was  heartbroken  because he 
couldn’t  come,”  lies  the  society  wom­
an  whose  husband  neglects  her  and 
shames  her  with  his  open  attentions 
to  other  women,  “but  he  had  an  ap­
pointment  that  he  couldn’t  neglect. 
He’s  such  a  slave  to  business.”

a 

It  is  the  same  old  story  of  woman’s 
love  that  we  have  heard  a  thousand 
times,  and  shall  hear 
thousand 
times  again— unrequited,  unappreciat­
ed,  but  deathless  as  the  God  who 
made  it.  When  men  were  done  with 
quixotic  chivalry  they  passed  it  on 
tO'  women,  and  the  world  is  full  of 
wives  and  mothers  who  not  only  cast 
the  cloak  of  their  love  around  some 
man’s  weakness  but  throw  it  in  the 
mud  for  him  to  trample  upon.

full  duty  by  them  by 

Women  also  add  to  their  trans­
gressions  in  love  by  loving  not  wisely 
but  too  much.  As  long  as  a  woman 
is  perfectly  devoted  to  her  family 
she  feels  that  the  mere  state  of  her 
feelings  justifies  any  sin  of  omission 
or  commission  against  it.  Her  chil­
dren  may  be  the  most  unmannerly, 
neglected  and  ill-reared  in  the  com­
munity,  but  she  feels  she  has  done 
her 
loving 
them  so  well  she  can  not  make  them 
behave. 
She  may  spend  her  time 
nagging  her  husband,  wasting  his 
hard-earned  money  and  neglecting 
his  comfort,  but  so  long  as  she  knows 
she  would  die  for  him,  if  necessary, 
she  esteems  herself  a  model  wife. 
Many  a  man,  worn  out  with  his  wife’s 
senseless  demands  and  lack  of  reason 
and  wearied  of  the  protestations  of 
affection  that  never  bore 
tangible 
fruit,  must  have  felt  like  exclaiming 
with  Solomon— who  was  also  a  mar­
ried  man,  with  probably  a  thousand 
devoted  wives— “Stay  me  with  flag­
ons,  and  comfort  me  with  apples,  for 
I  am  sick  of  love.”

The  final  vice  of  woman’s 

love, 
however,  is  when  it  is  selfish.  Then 
it  is  the  thing  on  earth  most  to  be 
dreaded. 
she

Sometimes,  because 

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credit  sales,  money  re­
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loves  a  man,  a  woman  keeps  him  tied 
to  her  apron-string  and  lets  oppor­
tunity  go  by  him.  Sometimes  she 
loves  her  daughters  so  well  she  will 
not  let  them  marry.  Sometimes  she 
loves  her  sons  so  well  she  binds 
them  to  uncongenial  tasks  and  mea­
ger  chances,  instead  of  letting  them 
go  forth  into  the  world  to  seek  their 
fortunes  and  take  their  place  among 
men.  There  are  crimes  committed 
in  the  name  of  love  before  which 
malice  would  hide  its  face  ashamed.
Women  need  a  newer  and  broader 
light  on  the  subject  of  love,  and  to 
realize  that  affection  is  not  enough 
just  of itself.  It must  be  wise,  it must 
be  unselfish,  it  must  be  controlled,  it 
must  have  the  gentle  brooding  of  the 
dove,  the  wisdom  of  the  serpent,  the 
faithful  strength  of  the  watchdog,  if 
it  is  to  bless  the  world  and  not  curse 
it.  Lacking  these,  love  is  often  a 
crueler  thing  than  hate.

Dorothy  Dix.

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Outside  the  door  there  was  a  sign 
announcing  rooms 
rent.  The 
woman  went  up  the  steps  and  rang 
the  bell.

for 

Finally  a  man  opening  the  door 
asked  her  what  she  wanted.  He  was 
a  dark  complexioned  man  with  bias 
eyes  and  straight  hair  plastered  care­
fully  down  on  each  side  of  his  head. 
The  woman  thought  he  seemed  to  be 
fatigued.

“I  should  like,”  she  said  politely, 

“to  see  a  furnished  room.”

“We  rent  rooms 

to  gentlemen,” 

said  the  man,  “never  to  women.”

“Why?”  asked  the  woman.
The  man  shrugged  his  shoulders.
“I  don’t  know,”  he  answered,  “ex­

cept  that  we  prefer  men.”

Then,  although  he  still  stood  there, 
he  maintained  a  silence  so  profound 
that  the  only  thing  for  the  woman 
to  do  was  to  take  her  leave,  which 
she  did.

She  went  to  another  place  on  the 
same  street.  A   little  touseled  girl 
opened  the  door.

“Sit  down,  will  you,”  she  smiled, 

“while  I  go  for  mamma?”

But  the  woman  seeing  nothing  to 
sit  down  on  but  a  wabbly  tabouret 
and  the  hatrack  concluded  to  stand.
Mamma  presently  put  in  her  ap­
pearance  from  the  other  end  of  the 
hall.  She  had  been  washing  her  hair. 
She  apologized  because  it  was  not 
dry.  The  woman  said  it  didn’t  mat­
ter,  then  asked  about  the  room.

“We  haven’t  a  room  to  rent  in  the 
“Not  a  single 

house,”  said  mamma. 
room.”

The  woman  wished  to  ask  a  few 
questions  that  ran  through  her  head. 
One,  if  she  happened  to  have  any 
outside  the  house  for  rent— on 
the 
roof,  perhaps,  or  in  the  garden  some­
where— why,  if her house was full  she 
didn’t  take  the  sign  off  the  door; 
but  concluding  that  it  was  hardly 
worth  while  she  said  good  morning 
and  went  out  into  the  street  examin­
ing  the  advertisement  in  that  day’s 
paper  concerning  rooms  in  that  par­
ticular  house,  and  discovering  that  it 
read: 

“Gentlemen  preferred.”

She  wended  her  way  wearily  to  an­

other  house,  this  time  a  building  of 
flats,  where,  ringing  the  bell 
and 
groping  through  a  long,  dark,  narrow 
hall,  she  ascended  stairs  after  stairs 
until  somebody  said: 
“Here!”  and 
she  halted  abruptly.

She  stood  a  moment  looking  at  a 
small,  wiry  woman,  who  looked  back 
at  her.

“I  see  by  the  paper,”  the  woman 
began,  “that  you  have  a  furnished 
room  for  rent.”

“Yes,”  was  the  reply,  “one— a large 
room  with  an  alcove.  But  you  are  a 
woman.”

“Yes,”  returned  the  woman,  in  a 
melancholy  way,  “ I  am,”  and  hung 
her  head.

“And  I  would  prefer  to  rent  my 
room  to  a  man.  When  I  had  a  large 
house  I  didn’t  mind  women  so  much. 
I  took  a  few  of  them.  But  now  I 
much  prefer  men  since 
so 
cramped  for  room.”

I  am 

“Why?”  asked  the  woman.
“Well,  for  one  thing,  because  a man 
isn’t  half  the  trouble  about  a  house 
that  a  woman  is.  He  never  wants  to 
putter  around  half  the  day  ironing 
handkerchiefs  or  neckties  and  burn­
ing  the  gas  just  for  the  fun  of  it,  as 
a  woman  does,  and  he  isn’t  always 
trying  to  find  out  how  much  rent  you 
pay  and  whether  you  have  paid  it  or 
not,  or  how  much  the  other  roomers 
pay  or  whether  they  have  paid  it  or 
not.”

“But  they  are  not  all  like  that,  are 
they?”  interposed  the  woman.  “Sure­
ly  not!”

“Nearly  all,”  decidedly. 

“That  is, 
all  I’ve  ever  had  anything  to  do  with. 
A  man  is  different,  you  see.  For  one 
thing,  he  is  hardly  ever  about  the 
house  at  all.”

“Well,”  reasoned  the  woman,  “a 
woman  who  is  out  at  work  all  day 
long,  who  isn’t  about  the  house  at  all,

she  wouldn’t  be  more  trouble  than  a 
man,  would  she?”

“You  never  know  when  they  are 
coming  snooping  in  to  see  what’s go­
ing  on.  You  can’t  count  on 
them. 
Now,  when  a  man’s  away  he’s  away. 
And  while  he  is  away  you  have  the 
It’s  nearly  always 
use  of  his  room. 
the  same  as  if  it  wasn’t  rented. 
It’s 
yours  until  he  comes  home  again  at 
night,  and  that’s  a  mighty  good  thing, 
I  can  tell  you,  to  have  the  use  of 
your  rented  room  all  day  when  you 
are  cooped  up  in  a  little  flat.  A  wom­
an  is  mean.  She  always  wants  to  get 
the  use  of  her  money.  Because  she 
has  rented  a  room  she  wants  to  stay 
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every  blessed  day  and  night  she 
wants  to  stay  in  it.  Women  are mean. 
Eut  you  can  look  at  the  room  if  you 
like,  as  long  as  you  are  here,”  she 
finished.

But  the  woman  said  it  was  hardly 
worth  while  and  maybe  she  would 
call  again,  and  went  down  the  steps 
and  through  the  long,  dark  hall,  half 
ashamed  of  her  sex  for  being  so

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mean  as  to  want  to  stop  in  a  room 
all  day  long  and  night,  too,  just  be­
cause  she  paid  for  it.

She  rang  an  old-fashioned  bell  at 
a  house  this  time,  and  an  old-fashion­
ed  woman  opened  the  door.

“I  should  like  to  see  your  rooms,” 
an 

she  said,  smiling  pleasantly  in 
apologetic  way.

The  old-fashioned  woman  looked at 

her  hard.

“Be  you  one  o’  them  actress  wim- 

min?”  she  queried.

The  woman  started  back  with  a 
suppressed  cry.  She wished she had  a 
looking  glass  to  see  what  was  the 
matter  with  her  hat  or  her  dress  to 
make  the  old-fashioned  woman  ask 
her  that,  but  there  was  not  a  glass  in 
sight.

“Why?”

“No,”  she  answered. 
“ You  sort  of  had  the  look  of  one,” 
explained  the  old-fashioned  woman. 
“Yes,  we’ve  rooms,  but  we  don’t  take 
nobody  but  gentlemen.  You’re  less 
liable  to  accidents  with  gentlemen. 
Now,  you,  you  earn  your  own  living, 
don’t  you?”

The  woman  had  to  own  that  she 

did.

“And  I  suppose,  earnin’  your  own 

livin’,  you  are  often  hard  up?”

It  was  the  truth.  The  woman  had 

to  acknowledge  it.

“And  T  suppose,  earnin’  your  own 
livin’,  you  have  money  in  the  bank 
now?”

The  woman  shook  her  head  sadly. 

“None,”  she  said.

“Then  what  would  you  do  if  you 
should  happen  to  get  sick  on  my 
hands?”

“There  are  hospitals,”  returned  the 
woman,  stubbornly.  She  had  been  in 
one.

“ But  the  trouble  and  the  worry  and 
the  expense,”  objected  the  old-fash­
ioned  woman,  “of  getting  you  off  to 
a  hospital.  Think  of  that.  And  all 
falling  on  me.  No.  We  don’t  take 
women  here.  We  take  men.”

And  the  door  suddenly  shut.
The  woman  went  slowly  down  the 
steps,  and,  seeing  a  sign  of  furnished 
rooms  on  the  other  side  of  the  street 
with  a  full-grown  tree  in  front,  she 
crossed  over  and,  going  up  the  steps, 
rang  the  bell. 
It  was  a  neat  house. 
The  steps  showed  much  evidence  of 
scrubbing.  The  window  panes  glis­
tened.  The  curtains  hung  as  spotless 
and  white  as  much  washing 
could 
make  them.

The  woman  loved  cleanliness.  She 
was  so  busy  rejoicing  in  this  immacu­
late  spot  that  she  failed  to  hear  the 
opening  of  the  door.  Soon  a  voice 
said  impatiently: 
“Well!”  and  look­
ing  around  she  saw  an  old  lady  in  a 
white  apron.

The  old  lady’s  hair  was  white.  Her 
cap  was  white.  She  kept  the  house 
in  neatness.

The  woman  kept  thinking  to  her­
self,  “This  is  the  place  for  me.  If  I 
can  find  a  room  here  I  camp  here  for 
life,”  and  there  was  joy  in  her  eye 
and  a  smile  on  her  lips  as  she  re­
peated  her  formula  in  regard  to  a 
room.

“We  don’t  usually  rent  rooms  to 
wimmin,”  said  the  old  lady,  looking 
critically  at  her  over  her  spectacles, 
“but  if  you  are  a  steady  going  busi­

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ness  woman  and  behave  yourself,  I 
don’t  mind.”

The  woman  said  very  meekly  that 
she  tried  to  behave  herself,  where­
upon  the  old  lady  seemed  to  melt.

“That’s  right,  that’s  right,” 

she 
said  briskly. 
“A  woman’s  got  to  be­
have  herself  or  she  can’t  stay  in  this 
house  a  minute,  not  a  single  minute. 
I  won’t  have  none  o’  them  there 
painted  and  powdered  wimmin  here 
a  settin’  round;  I  won’t.”

The  woman  couldn’t  help  laughing, 
and  there  was  where  she  made  her 
mistake.

“Do  the  men  always  behave  them- 

r elves?”  she  asked,  making  another.

“Of  course  they  do,”  flashed  the  old 
lady. 
“They  go  out  in  the  morning 
and  come  back  at  night  and  that’s  all 
there  is  to  it.  Now,  are  you  a  mar­
ried  woman?”

The  woman  was  meeker  than  Mos­

es  by  now.

foreboding. 

“ No,”  she  said,  “I  am  a  widow.”
“A  widder!”  repeated  the  old  lady 
in  a  tone  which  filled  the  woman’s 
soul  with  dire 
“Well! 
this  room  I’ve  got  wouldn’t  suit  you. 
I  know  it  wouldn’t.  Not  at  all. 
It 
costs  too  much  for  a  widow  woman. 
If  you  had  a  husband  now  bringing 
:n  money  all  the  time  you  might  af­
ford  to  take  it,  but  a  widow  with  no­
body  to  support  her!  No.  The  room 
wouldn’t  suit  you  at  all.”

“But  suppose  I  am  able  to  earn 
my  own  living,”  interposed  the  wom­
an.  “What  then?”

The  old  lady  was  not  to  be  ap­

peased.

It’s  a  man’s 

“No,”  she  reiterated,  “this  is  no 
widow’s  room. 
room.” 
The  woman  kept  wondering  what  the 
difference  was,  but  didn’t  dare  to  ask. 
“It’s  a  man’s  room,”  the  other  de­
clared.

“How  much  is  it?”  questioned  the 

woman.

The  old  lady 

fixed  her 

firmly 

through  the  glitter  of  her  glasses.

“Sixteen  dollars!”  she  replied.
“A  week?”  frowned  the  woman.
“A  week,”  replied  the  old  lady.
“With  board?”  further  questioned 

the  woman.

“Without  board,”  said  the  old  lady 
with  a  clank  of  lips  which  served  to 
end  the  interview.
The  door  then 

closed 

the 

on 

woman.

All  the  doors  appeared  to  have shut 
on  her.  She  didn’t  know  whether  to 
She  wished  she 
laugh  or  to  cry. 
!  might  sit  down  on  the  steps  a  min- 
|  ute  and  find  out,  but  she  was  too 
much  afraid  of  the  lynx  eye  of  the 
old 
lady  to  do  that.  She  thought 
I  she  saw  it  peer  out  at  her  through 
the  snowy  lace  of  the  curtains,  so  she

went  down  the  steps  and  along  the 
street,  wondering  what  was  to  be­
come  of  the  women  who  wanted  furn­
ished  rooms,  and  nearly  wishing  she 
were  a  man  and  done  with  it,  so  she 
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are  required  for  tanning,  all  depend­
ing  on  the  thickness  of  the  hides. 
To  supply  the  sweet  bark  liquors  for 
tanning  large  quantities  of  bark  are 
ground  up  in  iron  mills,  and  in  this 
ground  condition  conveyed  in  endless 
elevator  belts  to  great  tanks,  called 
leaches,  which  hold  from  eight  to  ten 
tons  of  ground  bark.  Each  tannery 
contains  a  number  of  such  leaches, 
and  each  new  one  receives  the  liquor 
of  the  next  one  in  strength,  so  there 
is  a  great  pumping  all  the  time  all 
around. 
In  a  few  hours  the  tannin 
in  the  bark  is  dissolved,  the  plug 
pulled,  and  the  liquor  run  to  large 
pits  called  coolers,  and  from  there 
pumped  as  necessary  to  the  tan  pits.
In  making  what  is  known  as  vitriol 
or  acid  sole  leather  the  handlers  arc 
not  used,  as  this  early  work  is  done 
in  vats  containing  a  mixture  of  sul­
phuric  acid  and  water,  in  which  the 
stock  remains  forty-eight  hours.  This 
acid  water  is  very  weak,  and  its  pur­
pose  is  to  swell  and  plump  the  fiber 
of  the  hide  so  as  to  put  it  in  shape 
for  being  fed  by  the  tan  liquors.

Sweat  sole  leather  is  made  from 
dry  hides  which  are  thoroughly  soak­
ed  and  softened  in  water,  and  then 
hung  in  rooms  with  thick  walls  and 
roofs,  which  are  dampened  and  mod­
erately  warm.  When the  doors  of such 
rooms  are closed  after  hides  are  put 
in  them,  decomposition  sets  in,  and 
in  a  few  days  the  hair  of  the  hide 
yields  to  the  pressure  of  the  fingers. 
The  hides  are  then  taken  away  to  be 
unhaired. 
process 
makes  hides  feel  very  thin  and  soft, 
yet  after  being  pumped 
in  vitriol 
and  given  good  tan  liquor  they  thick­
en  up  and  yield  good  weight 
in 
leather.

sweating 

The 

The  preliminary  or  beam-house 
work  for  oak  and  hemlock  sole  leath­
er  are  alike,  so  far  as  soaking,  liming, 
leaching  and  unhairing  are  concerned. 
Hides  for  oak  tanning  are  plumped 
in  the  handlers,  and  not  suspended  in 
vitriol  vats.  Union  sole  leather  is 
plumped  in  sour  tan  liquors,  and  tan­
ned  by  ordinary  hemlock  bark 
li­
quors,  with  this  difference— that  as 
each  side  of  leather  is  laid  away  it 
receives  a  heavy  coat  of  ground  oak 
bark.  By  degrees  the  oak  bark  mod­
erates  and  tempers  the  action  of  the 
hemlock  liquors,  and  explains  what 
the  term  union  means— mellow  and 
easy  sole  leather.

These  are  brief  outlines  of 

the 
making  of  sole  leather,  but  the  best 
results  are  only  obtainable  when 
every  step  is  carefully  studied.  Suc­
cessful  tanners  make  a  point  of 
bunching  hides  of  about  the  same 
weight  together  through  the  different 
processes.  Few  tanners  would  be  so 
negligent  as  to  put  light  and  heavy 
hides  in  one  pack,  and  thus  run  the 
risk 
of  producing  unsatisfactory 
leather.

After  tanning  the  leather  is  hauled 
out  and  allowed  to  drain,  and  then 
scrubbed  with  plenty  of  water  with 
a  strong machine  and  sent  to  the  dry­
ing  loft.  Here  the  surface  is  smear­
ed  with  a  mixture  of  oil  and  water, 
and  the  leather  hung  up 
to  dry, 
which  takes  about  a  week.  Each  side 
is  now  sprinkled  with  water,  or  dip­
ped  in  a  water  tank,  and  put  away  in

The  Making  of  Good  Sole  Leather.
One  of  the  maxims  of  the  trade  is 
that  good  leather  can  only  be  made 
from  good  hides.  Damaged  green- 
salted  hides  or  sunburned  dry  hides 
are  not  good  material 
leather 
making.  Give  me  plump  green-salt­
ed  hides,  and  I  will  guarantee  to  re­
turn  them  as  first-class  marketable 
sole  leather.

for 

The  tanning  of  sole  leather  is  com­
paratively  simple. 
It  has  been  de­
scribed  as  a  gentleman’s  business. 
No  dressings,  blackings  or  stains  are 
required,  as  the  leather  itself  is  all 
that  is  wanted.

After  the  hides  reach  the  tannery 
they  are  thrown  into  a  pit  of  cold 
water.  They  are  pulled  out  the  next 
day,  the  dirty  water  withdrawn  and 
fresh  water  run  in,  and  the  hides 
again  immersed. 
In  two  or  three 
days  the  hides  are  thoroughly  soft­
ened  and  fairly  freed  from  blood  and 
dirt.  They  are  now  placed  on  a  con­
vex  beam,  and  the  adhering  pieces 
of  fat  and  flesh  pulled  off  by  a  two- 
handled  dull  knife  worked  by 
a 
beamsman.  There  are  excellent  ma­
chines  for  fleshing  hides,  and  they are 
largely  used.  After  fleshing  the  hides 
are  put  in  pits  of  lime  water  and 
hauled  from  one  to  the  other 
for 
about  three  days,  and  this  results  in 
swelling  the  fiber  so  that  the  hides 
when  pulled  up  on  a  convex  beam 
and  worked  by  hand  or  machine  can 
be  readily  deprived  of  the  hair.  After 
this  process  they are  thrown  into cold 
water  again,  and  twelve  hours  later 
are  hauled  out  and  again  worked  on 
the  grain,  so  as  to  force  out  as  much 
lime  as  possible.  Some  tanners  bate 
hides  after  liming  so  that  the  lime 
may  be  more  thoroughly  expelled.

The  dirty  and  odorous  hides  which 
we  began  working  a  few  days  ago 
are  now  clean  and  white  on  both 
sides,  and  smell  sweet  enough  to  be 
put  into  a  dairy. 
Instead  of  a  dairy, 
however,  the  hides,  which  .may  be 
whole  or  split  from  face  to  tail,  are 
now  put  into  vats  containing  very 
weak  and  sour  tan  liquor.  There  is 
little  tannin  in  this  liquor,  as  it  was 
drawn  from  a  vat  to  make  way  for 
fresh  tan  liquor.  These  handlers  are 
the  nursery  of  what 
is  known  as 
non-acid  sole  leather,  and  the  hides 
are  handled  or  rocked  in  these  sour 
liquors  for  about  a  week.  The  skill­
ful  tanner  sees  that  the  liquors  are 
mild  and  clean,  so  that  the  fiber  of 
the  hide  when  ready  for  the  fresh  or 
sweet  tan  liquor  is  in  proper  condi­
tion  to  receive  it.  The  hides  are  now 
placed  in  a  vat  of  fresh  bark  liquor, 
commonly  spoken  of  as  “sweet”  li­
quor,  and  left  there  for .a  week  or  ten 
days.  At  the  end  of  that  time  this 
liquor  is  quite  sour,  and  is  pumped 
to  the  handlers  to  feed  new  or  “green 
stock,”  and  a  fresh,  sweet  liquor  is 
given  for  the  second  lay-away.

In  like  manner  the  third  and fourth 
lay-away  are  given,  and  probably 
from  two  and  a  half  to  four  months

Womens
Oxfords

Black— Tan— Patent

We  Have  Them  in  Stock  for  Immediate  Shipment

W omen’s  Kid Biucher Oxford, 
W omen’s  Kid Blucher Oxford, 

2478—W omen’s  Kid  Sandal,  ribbon  tie ............................................. $1.00
W omen’s  Kid  Sandal,  4  s tra p .............................................. 80
2806— 
W omen’s  Kid  Sandal, 4  s tra p .........................................   1.10
2807— 
tip .................................. 80
2809—W omen’s  Kid  Blucher Oxford, p aten t 
p aten t tip ....................  1*10
2480— 
2481— 
p aten t tip ....................  1.00
2378—W om en’s  Kid  Oxford,  p aten t  tip .............................................  1.00
2805—W om en’s  Dongola  T an  O xford..................................................  1-00
2472—W om en’s  Calf  T an  O xford........................................................  1.15
2813— W om en’s  P aten t  Vamp  O xford.................................................   1.20
2814— 
W omen’s  Vici  Blucher Oxford, p aten t  tip .....................  1.20
2439—W omen’s  Viel  Blucher  Oxford,  p aten t  tip ............................  1.60
2444—W omen’s  Vici  T an  Oxford,  p aten t  tip ..................................1.60
2446—W omen’s  P aten t  B utton  Oxford,  light  w elt..........................  1.85
2503— 
W omen’s  Russia  Calf Oxford, w elt...................................  2.00
W om en’s  P aten t  Colt Oxford,  w elt.............................   2.00
2504— 

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

above.  T ry  It.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Nowhere  Else

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than  from  us  can  you  get  the  original  and  genuine

Hard  Pan  Shoe

SAYAVnV

There are  other  shoes  that  look  like it,  but  none 

other for  more  money  or less that will  wear as well.

Our  trade  mark on  the  sole  is  our  guarantee  of 

shoe  satisfaction  to  your customer.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,  Ltd.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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a  damp  and  cool  place  to  mellow,  or 
sammy.  Two  days  later  it  will  be 
found  that  the  water  has  penetrated 
the  fiber  of  the  leather  and  given  it 
a  certain  elasticity,  which  yields  and 
flattens  under  the  presence  of the  roll­
ing  machine.  The  brass  roller  not 
only  makes  the  leather  firm  and  solid, 
but  also  gives  it  a  fine  polish.  After 
being  suspended  for  a  few  hours  the 
leather  is  re-rolled,  and  is  then  ready 
to  be  weighed,  sorted  and  shipped  to 
market.

for  making 

I  have  not  said  anything  about the 
quick  processes 
sole 
leather,  that  has  to  stand  the  test 
of  time,  and  there  is  still  ready  sale 
for  sole  leather  made  in  the  slow,  old- 
fashioned  manner. 
It  should  not  be 
inferred  that  sole  leather  tanning has 
remained  stationary;  far  from  it.  The 
processes  are  being  better  understood 
and  less  time  is  employed  than  form­
erly,  but  it  should  not  be  forgotten 
that  it  takes  time  to  produce  mellow 
and  durable  sole  leather,  with  strong 
fiber  and  excellent  wearing  qualities. 
Some  tanners  use  extract  alone  for 
making  sole  leather,  and  many  others 
use  a  percentage  of  it.  Bark  extract 
does  good  work 
strengthening 
leach  liquors,  particularly  when  used 
with  heavy  hides.

in 

it 

if 

It  is  not  difficult  to  make  good 
leather,  and  it  is  also  easy  to  make 
bad  leather.  A  careless  tanner  may 
let  the  hides  soak  too  long  in  water, 
or  the  limes  may  be  so  strong  as  to 
swell  the  hide  fiber  unduly,  so  that 
when  it  goes  to  the  tan  liquors  the 
action  will  be  too  quick  and  pene­
trating,  and  brittle  material  will  be 
produced.  Or 
is  a  non-acid 
process  the  handler  liquors  may  be 
so  weak  that,  instead  of  feeding  the 
hides,  the  hides  will  feed  them. 
If 
liquors  are  too 
the  “sweet” 
weak  the  hides  will  suffer. 
If  per­
mitted  to  stay  too  long  in  tan  liquor 
which  has  turned  sour,  the 
leather 
will  be  dead  to  all  appearances  when 
it  goes  under  the  rolling  machine.  If 
leather  is  rolled  when  too  damp  it 
will  show  it,  and  if  rolled  when  too 
dry  will  always  be  unsatisfactory.

leach 

Many  buyers  and  sellers  of 

sole 
leather  and  bottom  stock  go  through 
the  world  from  year  to  year  without 
knowing  how  their  familiar  material 
is  changed  from  raw  stock.  While  it 
has  not  been  possible  to  do  more 
than  lightly touch  on  sole  leather  tan­
ning,  during  this  brief  article,  what  I 
have  said  may  possibly 
stimulate 
those  who  have  never  visited  a  sole 
leather  tannery  to  do  so  at  the  first 
opportunity,  and  they  will  be  well  re­
paid  for  their  enterprise.— Shoe  Trade 
Journal.

Footwear  for  June  Brides.

From  F.aster  time  to  June  there 
may  be  noticed  in  certain  factories 
an  occasional  pair  of  white  slippers 
marked  with  a  special  order  tag.  To 
the  average  mind  there  is  nothing 
out  of  the  ordinary  about  these  white 
slippers,  but  the  man  who  looks  for 
a  little  romance  in  his  industry  read­
ily  recognizes  the  footwear  as  bridal 
slippers.  The  fad  for  such  slippers 
is  growing  steadily.  Of  course,  for 
A  multitude  of  Easter  and  June brides 
the 
ready-made  white  kid  or  calf

in  the  retail 
slippers  to  be  found 
stores  are  very  satisfactory.  But  the 
particular  girl,  the  girl  who  wants 
“just  the  very  nicest”  for  trousseau, 
has  her  wedding  slippers  made  to  or­
der.

Particular  attention  is  paid  to these 
made-to-order  shoes,  partly  from  the 
fact  that  a  particular  price  is  paid  for 
them,  and  also  because  there  is 
in 
making  them  just  that  sentiment that 
makes  the  whole  world  akin,  and  the 
busy  shoemaker  wants  to  do  his best 
to  make  the  bride  happy,  even  al­
though  he  does  not  know  her.

Most  of  these  slippers  are  made 
up  in  white  kid  to-day.  Occasionally 
a  pair  of  slippers  of  white  satin  or  of 
some  material  to  match  a  dress,  is 
called  for.  Everything  about  these 
slippers  is  made  in  white,  and  special 
attention  is  paid  to  having  the  edges 
and  the  heels  i   pure  snowy  color.

As  long  as  men  can  trace  back  in 
this  civilization  white  has  been  the 
bridal  color,  the  symbol  of  innocence. 
T.ynn  shoemakers  have  been  making 
white  shoes  for  brides  since  the  early 
days  of  the  trade,  and  many  excel­
lent  specimens  of 
shoemaking  of 
cordwainers  of  other  days  are  pre­
served,  for  bridal  slippers  and  other 
wedding  fineries  are  handed  down  as 
heirlooms  in  many  a  family.

One  pair  of  these  old-time  wedding 
slippers,  which  has 
lately  come  to 
light,  was  made  probably  before  the 
war.  The  material  is  kid,  and  the 
linings  are  of  sateen  and  cotton.  A 
broad  bow  of  kid  ornaments  the  in­
step,  and  two  baby  ribbons  passed 
over  the  instep  to  hold  the  slipper 
on.  The  slippers  were  made  on  a 
straight  last,  and  they  had  broad,  al­
most  brick  square,  toes.  A  clever 
turned  workman  made  them  and  he 
skived  down  the  sole  and  sewed  it 
so  neatly  that  the  seam  between  the 
sole  and  the  upper  is  not  visible.  The 
vamp  was  also  sewed  by  hand,  and 
a  narrow  ribbon  binding  was  also 
sewed  in  the  same  manner.  The  work 
was  done  in  a  skillful  manner,  and 
it  is  doubtful  if  it  could  be  duplicat­
ed  to-day,  for  few,  if  any,  are  skilled 
in  “binding”  shoes  in  these  days  of 
labor-saving  machinery.

The  slippers  are  without  heels  or 
counters,  and  they  are  so  flexible that 
they  can  readily  be  doubled  up  so 
that  the  toes  touch  the  backstays.—  
Shoe  Retailer.

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with  Iron  Clad  H am es  or 
with  Brass  Ball  H am es  and 
Brass  Trim m ed.

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

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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IN FASHION

Top-Round 

$3.50

$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.

White-Dunham  Shoe  Co.,  Brockton, Mass.

Michigan  Representative,  W.  J.  Marshall,  Detroit.

No.442

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Men’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 <& Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Some  Sketches  of 

the  Customers 

Who  Chance  In.

“Did  you  ever  see  anything  so  ex­

aggerated  in  your  life?”

“No,  I  never  did;  you  never  run 
across  any  such  people  in  real  life.”
“I  would  think  they  would  try  and 
be  true  to  nature  in  their  characters. 
They  would  be  just  as  funny.”

the  actors  got 

These  were  some  of  the  expressions 
I  heard  in  coming  out  of  a  theater 
the  other  day,  where  an  attempt  at  a 
rural  play  was  being  made. 
It  was 
true  that  from  very  ignorance  some 
of 
inspira­
tion  of  rural  characters  entirely  from 
the 
which 
Sunday  papers  did  not  draw  very 
close,  but  it  was  surprising  how  close 
more  of  them  came  and  how  little 
real  exaggeration 
there  was,  even 
when  a  conscientious  attempt  had ev­
idently  been  made  to  exaggerate.

supplements 

colored 

their 

The  fact  of  the  matter  is  that,  to 
the  observing  person  in  a  shoe  store, 
rural  or  city,  it  does  not  make  much 
difference  a 
large  proportion  of 
the  characters  who  come  in,  if  they 
were  put  upon  the  stage  just  as  they 
were,  would  be  considered  as  over­
drawn,  incorrectly  made  up  and 
in 
every  way  without  duplicates  in  real, 
every-day  life.

Hi.  Ball  and  I  got  to  talking  about 
this  thing  after  I  got  back  from  my 
trip  to  the  city  and  the  theater,  and 
we  resolved  that,  for  half  of  a  day 
we  would  keep  close  track  of 
the 
characters  who  came  into  our  store 
who  were  a  little  out  of  the  ordinary, 
and  we  selected  last  Friday  morning 
for  it.

So  as  to  be  ready  for  all  hours  we 
got  down  quite  early,  to  the  great 
astonishment  of  little  Willie  Fitem 
and  A.  Small  Sizer,  who  were  sweep­
ing  out.  We  resolved  not  to  wait  on 
any  customers  ourselves  unless  we 
had  to,  but  just  to  keep  watch.

The  work  in  the  shoe  store  went 
on.  Willie  and  A.  Small  were  giving 
an  object  lesson  of  how  thoroughly 
they  did  their  morning’s  work, 
al­
though  I  am  uncharitable  enough  to 
fancy  that  their  efforts  were,  perhaps, 
a  trifle  exaggerated,  like  the  charac­
ters  on  the  stage,  because  of  the  pres­
ence  of  one  of  the  bosses  and 
the 
senior  clerk.

a 

We  waited  half  an  hour  before  the 
first  character  stepped  on  the  stage 
in  the  daily  drama  of  shoe  store  life, 
and  then  it  was  a  well-known  village 
celebrity,  “Misery  Miller.”  Now,  if 
any  of  the  theatrical  patrons  whom  I 
had  heard  criticising  could  have  seen 
“Misery”  just  as  we  saw  him  that 
morning,  only  taking  a  part  on  a  real 
stage,  they  would  have  insisted  that 
the  characterization  was 
libel. 
“Misery”  has  a  fringe  of  black  hair 
around  his  head,  which  has  never 
seen  a  comb.  The  top  and  back  of 
his  head  are  bald.  He  is  clean  shav­
en,  or  rather  was,  about  ten  days 
ago,  and  he  wore,  on  entering,  a  der- | 
by  hat  with  the  crown  so  low  that, 
if  you  saw  it  on  the  stage  you  would 
say  it  was  a  stage  hat,  made  espe­
cially  for  low  comedy  and  never  worn 
in  real  life.  His  coat  was  a  Methodist 
coat, 
minister’s  cast-off  distinctive 
cut  off  just  below  the  waist, 
and 
buttoned  tight  around;  that  is,  it  was

buttoned  where  there  were  buttons, 
and  where  there  were  no  buttons  it 
was  pinned.  And  it  was  pinned  so 
tight  that  I  strongly  suspected  that 
if  there  was  any  shirt  at  all  it  was 
only  a  wrapper  and  not  a  Sumatra 
wrapper  at  that.  His  trousers  must 
have  been  fished  out  of  the  bottom 
of  the  trunk  of a  man  who  was  a  dude 
eighteen  years  and  six  months  ago. 
They  must  have  been  tight  for  the 
original  owner,  but  on 
“Misery’s” 
plump  legs  they  fitted  like  fleshings. 
His  shoes  never  came  from  this store. 
If  they  did  I  won’t  admit  it.

But  he  was  not  a  customer,  after 
all.  His  entrance  was  prompted  en­
tirely  by  the  thought  of  a  possible 
nickel  loan  from  A.  Small,  for  whom,
I  have learned, he sometimes performs 
favors  with  the  furnace  ash  can  in 
the  cellar.

customers 

The  two  other 

came, 
both  of  them  the  sort  that  are  kept 
in  type.  Man  with  derby  hat,  mus­
tache,  cutaway  coat,  creased  trousers, 
stand-up  collar,  black 
four-in-hand 
tie,  and  lady  with  ready-made  cloth 
suit,  shovel  hat,  with  feathers  close 
down  and  a  teasing  veil.
another 

character 
sketch.  Uncle  William  Mauser, from 
Abrams  Forks.  Uncle  had  a  wool 
boot,  covered  by  an  arctic  on  one 
foot,  and  a  rubber  boot,  covered  by 
the  foot  part  of  a  ragged  old  arctic 
stocking  on  the  other.  One  trousers 
leg  was  outside  the  rubber  boot,  and 
the  other  was  inside  the  felt  boot.

Then 

came 

style, 

He  had  on  a  blue  army  overcoat 
with  cape  of  the  old 
tied 
around  the  middle  by  a  piece  of  wool 
twine,  and  a  straw  hat  with  a  narrow- 
brim  and  polka  dot  ribbon  band. 
I 
can  figure  where  he  got  the  other 
articles,  but  that  straw  hat  gets  me. 
Uncle  has  a  set  of  whiskers  which 
look  as  though  they  were  glued  onto 
his  chin  with  sorit  gum  and  that  a 
slight  pull  would  reveal  him  as 
a 
22-year-old,  made  up  as  a  farmer,  for 
his  eyes  are  blue  and  his  face  above 
his  chin  is  that  of  a  school  boy.  And 
would  you  believe  it,  Uncle  carried 
a  grip  made  of  carpet,  and  when  he 
opened  it  he  pulled  out  a  woman’s 
shoe,  size  8,  which  had  been  worn 
in  all  sorts  of  weather,  and  a  boy’s 
shoe,  size  4,  which  had  been  worn 
in  all  sorts  of  weather,  and  a  girl’s 
shoe,  size  13,  which  had  been  worn 
in  all  sorts  of  weather,  and  a  farm 
hand’s  plow  shoe,  which  had  been 
worn  in  all  sorts  of  weather,  and 
some  other  kinds  of  weather  be­
sides.  He  wanted  duplicates  of  each 
cne  of  them,  and  he  got  them  and 
paid  the  cash  without  much  conver­
sation  or  quibbling,  so  he  disgusted 
Hi.  and  me  because  he  didn’t  make 
any  sort  of  a  sketch  of  character.

But  he  hadn’t  wandered  out  of  the 
door  before  a  woman  came  in  with 
a  man’s  undercoat  on  for  a  jacket,  a 
skirt  which 
some  athletic  woman 
must  have  worn  once,  because  it  was 
very  short,  and  this  woman  must 
have  been  taller  than  the  other  wom­
an,  and  she  wore  a 
large  bustle, 
which  both  Hi.  and  I  were  sure  was 
never  worn  by  the  original  woman. 
She  had  a  hat  which  is  called  a  “felt 
shape”  by  milliners,  and  it  certainly 
was. 
It  had  been  a  trimmed  hat

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O X FO R D S

813  M en's  Russia  Calf  Blu Ox..  Rex Cap Toe, G oodyear W elt, 3. 4 and 5 w id e.........$2  50
811  M en’s Russia Calf Blu Ox.. Bronx C ap Toe. G oodyear W elt. 3, 4 and 5 wide  —   2  25
809  M en's Russia Calf Blu Ox.. Lenox Cap Toe. G oodyear  W elt. 4 and 5 w ide...........  2  15
806  M en’s Russia Calf Blu Ox.. College Cap Toe.  G oodyear W elt.  4 and 5 w ide.......  1  75
804  M en’s Russia Calf Blu Ox.,  College Cap T oe.  K D. S., M.  S.. 5 w id e .....................   1  50

H IG H   C U T S

972  M en’s Russia Calf Blu Bai, Bronx Cap Toe. G oodyear W elt,  4 and 5  w ide......... $2 50
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“Did— did  you  have  anything  to  do  with  it?”
“Of  course  not!  That  hurts  unionism  a  lot  more  than  losing  a  strike. 

The  officers  planned  it  and  paid  the  money.”

“The  money  paid  in  as  dues  by  you  and  your  friends?”
“Yes.”
“ How  do  these  bad  men  become  officers?”
“Oh,  they and  their  friends  attend  all  the  meetings  and  sort  of  run 

“But  there  are  a  great  many  more  good  men  than  bad  ones 

in  the 

things.”

union?”

“Yes.”
“ But  they  don’t  get  out  to  the 
“I  suppose  that’s  it.”
“Well,  what  are  you  and  your 

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meetings  and  sort  of  run  things?” 

friends  going  to  do  about 

it?”—

it  on,  but  our  model  didn’t  have  hair 
enough  for  that  purpose,  and  so  she 
had  sewed  on  rubber  tape,  such  as 
you  make  garters  of,  to  go  under  the 
knob  of  hair  on  the  back  of  her 
head,  and  had  also  pieces  of  soiled 
ribbon,  one  piece  white  and  one  piece 
light  blue,  tied  in  a  bow  under  her 
chin.  And  she  also  would  have  done 
nicely  as  a  character  on  the  vaude­
ville  stage  but  she  would  have  been 
called  an  exaggeration  on  real  life.

And  then  an  Indian  squaw  came 
in,  followed  by  a  Polander,  and  an 
Italian  and  the  regular  grind  of  the 
day’s  work  being  ready  Hi.  and  I  had 
to  stop  our  observations  and  begin

ported  records  in  egg  yield.  The  hen 
is  a  small  Plymouth  Rock  of  pure 
strain,  although  not  shaped  according 
to  the  standard  type.  She  is  not  only 
under  the  size  demanded  for  perfect 
specimens  of  the  breed,  but  her  wing 
barring  is  imperfect  and  her  neck  is 
too  slim  for  her  body. 
In  spite  of 
her  defects,  as  viewed  from  the  stand­
point  of  the  fancier,  she  is  in  actual 
performance  the  most  valuable  hen in 
the  world,  being  capable,  under  aver­
age  Maine  conditions,  of  returning to 
her  owner  a  net  profit  of  176  per  cent, 
a  year.”

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T H E   P R IC E   O F   SU CCESS.
It  is  not  stopping  when  the  fight  is  won;

It  is  not  resting  when  the  march  is  made—

But  it  is  pressing  ever  on  and  on.

It  is  not  ceasing  when  the  game  is  played 
Nor  folding  hands  when  one  task  has  an  end—

The  laurel  withers  and  the  bay  will  fade 

When  the  last  hill  is  climbed,  the  last  song  penned,

The  last  nail  driven,  the  last  girder  laid.

One  prize  achieved?  Ahead  then  glows  the  next;

He  who  would  win  must  make  the  further  quest.

Success  is  his  who,  wearied  and  perplexed,

Still  ever  onward  to  new  goals  has  pressed,
Who  sees  each  day more  misty heights  to  climb,

Who  feels  each  day  new  thrillings  in  his  breast,

Who  does  not  count  the  loss  of  thought  or  time 

That  brings  him  step  by  step  up  to  his  best.

W.  D.  Nesbit.

like 

feel 

tenor,”  exclaimed  the  astonished  and 
equally  delighted  Jack,  “what’s  to hin­
der  some  more  of  this  sort  of  thing 
sometime  when  we 
it? 
Good  night,  Damon,  my  sweet  sing­
er!  Good  night.  Gerald.  That  ‘Cra­
dle  of  the  deep’  always  makes  me 
think  of  my  own  cradle  and  the  face 
bending  over  me  in  it. 
I  hope  you’ll 
have  as  pleasant  dreams  as  I  know 
I’m  going  to  have.  So  long.”

“Joe  and  I  are  going  to  luncheon 
at  the  Home  Dairy,  Groverner,  and 
we  want  you  to  go  along,”  was  Jim’s 
invitation  a  few  minutes  before 
12 
o’clock  the  next  day. 
“W e’ve  been 
talking  over  last  night’s  soiree  and 
we  can’t  wait  until  night  without do­
ing  something  about 
it.  W e’ve  a 
piano  at  the  den  and  Joe  fancies  he 
can  play  on  the  fiddle.  W e’ve  a  lot 
of  stuff  we  like  to  run  over  once  in 
a  while  and  we  want  to  see  how  that 
‘Cradle  of  the  deep’  will  go  under 
more  favorable  circumstances.”
saloon 

song, 
that’s  a  fact;  but  it  wants  a  good  bar­
itone  to  lift  a  fellow  off  his  feet!”

“ ’Tisn’t  exactly  a 

“There’s  just  the  place  where  Joe 
comes  in,  or  thinks  he  does!  You 
ought  to  hear  him  and  you  will  if 
you  come  over 
to-night.  Do  you 
think  you  can?”

“Well,  I  guess! 

I  had  a  sort  of  a 
date  with  Miles;  but  that  will  keep, 
and  if  it  doesn’t  it’s  no  matter.”

So  the  three  went  over  to  the 
Home  Dairy  and  had  a  good  lunch­
eon  together.  They 
talked  music 
from  the  downsitting  to  the  uprising. 
They  found  as  all  music-lovers  find 
that,  while  each  has  his  favorites, 
they  agree  on  the  stand-bys  and  by 
the  time  they  got  back  to  business, 
the  evening’s  programme  was  made I 
out,  and  all  the  afternoon  long  each 
was  busy  with  “The  Song  He  Loved 
the  Best.”

“Shall  I  come  around  for 

you. 
Jack?”  asked  Miles  as  they  left  the 
store.  “You  know  this  is  the  night,” 
a  heavy  accent  on  the  “the.”

“I  know;  but  we  shall  have  to  give 
It’s 

it  the  go-by  to-night,  anyway. 
one  of  those  things  that’ll  keep.”

“Better  come  around  and  have  our 
after-dinner  cigar,  hadn’t  I?  I’ve  got 
a  banger  for  you.”

“I’m  afraid  not. 

“Have  got!”  The  New  England 
blue  blood  turned  up  its  critical nose.
I’m  urged  • to 
‘cir­
come  early  and  stay 
cumstances  over  which,’  and  so  forth, 
preclude,”  and  Gerald  and  Damon 
then  coming  up  the  three 
left  the 
store  together.

late  and 

That  trio  had  a  good  time 

that 
night.  They  began  with  “Rocked  in 
the  cradle”  and  they  made  a  magnifi­
cent  “go”  of  it.  The  first  bar  told 
each  of  them  he  had  found  what  he 
had  all  along  been  looking  for  and 
when  that  song  was  sung  they  had 
to  have  a  prolonged  session  of  the 
newly  formed  mutual  admiration  so­
ciety.  Of  course  the  “Stars  of  the 
Summer  Night”  followed  and  after 
that  the  real  fun  began.  They found 
they  all  knew  the  same  songs,  rag­
time  and  all,  and  they  had  hardly 
j finished  their 
selection  when 
there  was  a  gentle  rap  on  the  door, 
followed  by  the  request 
they 
would  “leave  the  door  open,”  if  they

that 

first 

didn’t  mind.  They  didn’t,  and 
the 
applause  that  came  thundering  up the 
stairway  was  received  as  gladly  as  it 
was  given.

That  wasn’t  the  best  of  it,  though 
They  got  tired  of  singing  after  a 
while  and  when  Damon  wondered 
how  a  little  instrumental  music  would 
go,  Gerald  thought  it  would  be  all 
right  and  taking  up  his  violin  began 
tuning  it.  At  that  Damon,  already  at 
the  piano,  began  to  turn  over  his 
music,  when  to  the  delight  of  the 
other  two  Groverner  took a flute case 
from  his  overcoat  pocket  and  began 
to  put  it  together.  After  that  I  guess 
it  was  “Begone,  dull  care”  and  no 
mistake!  For  two  good  hours  the  ears 
downstairs  and  the  stars  high  over­
head  were  equally 
interested;  and 
there  isn’t  any  doubt  but  that  the  ap­
that 
plause  below  was  surpassed  by 
above,  only  the  distance  was 
too 
great  to  be  overcome  in  the  last 
in­
stance!  Then  they  closed  the  door 
and  there  were 
refreshments— with­
out  beer,  thank  Heaven!— and  a  little 
wholesome  talk  of  matters  and  things 
that  had  drifted  into  their  daily  lives. 
Then  Jack  Groverner  went  home, 
saying  as  he  left  his  new  friends  at 
the  threshold,  “The  best  evening  I’ve 
had  outside  of  New  England,  thanks 
to  you  two.”

That  was  their  first  good  time  to­
gether,  but  it  was  by  no  means  the 
last.  The  fame  of  the  trio  spread, 
especially  Jack  Groverner’s  bass,  and 
the  basement  saloon  and  the  base­
ment  companions  never  knew  that 
singer  more.  No,  there  was  no  cut­
ting  nor  was  there  any  dodging.  Aft­
er  two  or  three  determined  attempts 
to  establish  the  old  relations,  Jack  in 
reply  to  Miles'  appeal  simply  said, 
“No,  I  guess  not. 
I  don’t  care  for 
I  know 
that  sort  of  thing  any  more. 
now  that  I  never  cared  for  it. 
I  was 
not  born  that  way  and  I  was  not 
brought  up  that  way.  We  Eastern 
fellows  admire  your 
from 
conventionalism 
your  breezy 
and 
manhood;  but  we  don’t  like  your  un­
bridled  animalism  and  that’s  a  fact. 
W e’ll  stand  toe  to  toe  with  you  on 
the  dividing  line  for  the  manhood 
on  both  sides  to  shake  hands,  but 
anything  more  for  me  degrades  and 
I’m  not  equal  to  it;”  and  so  each  went 
his  way.

freedom 

after 

One  evening  months 

the 
“Concert  Night,”  as  the  boys  always 
called  their  first  singing  together, the 
three were  making the  most  of  a  quiet 
their  pleasant 
Sunday  afternoon  in 
quarters,  for  their  rooms  were 
to­
gether  now  and  Jack,  sending  sky­
ward  a  tremendous  puff  of  fragrant 
blue  and  watching  its  graceful  curls, 
said:

“ I  guess  you  two 

fellows  don’t 
know  what  you  did  for  me  the  night 
vou  came  down  into  Grutchers’  and 
helped  me  out  with  ‘Rocked  in  the 
cradle  of  the  deep.’  I’d  got  so  I  did 
not  care  for  anybody  or  anything.  I 
got  to  going  with  Miles  and— well, 
he’s  rotten  clear  through  and  I know 
now  the  rotten  specks  were  coming 
out  pretty  thick  on  me.  Miles  had 
made  out  a  night  for  us,  and  he  was 
working  me  up  to  it  for  all  he  was 
I  had  reached  my  singing 
worth. 
line  and  sing  I  had  to. 
I  had  heard

T H E   T U R N IN G   P O IN T .

Two  Salesmen  Effect  Reformation  in | 

Fellow  Worker.

W ritten   for  th e  Tradesm an.

The  two  young  fellows  had  just 
come  out  of  the  Broadway. 
It  was 
“no  sn id e  of  a  play,”  as  one  of  them 
re m a rk e d ,  “but  while  those 
things 
are  always  fine,  and  ought  to  be  in 
stories  and  on  the  stage,  it  can  not j 
be  done  anywhere  else.— I’ve  a  let- 
ter  to  drop  into  the  postoffice.  Come | 
on  down. 
It  isn’t  so  very  late,”  and 
they  turned  down  Seventeenth street 
to  the  postoffice. 
“Here  is  a  cigar 
to  keep  you  awake.  There’s  no  mis­
take  but  that  play’s  a  dinger,  all 
right,  but  that’s  the  sort  of 
friend  I 
a  fellow  wants  if  he’s  going  to  have 
any;  but  it  isn’t  the  kind  that’s  hang­
ing  around  this  old  town.”

“Oh,  I  don’t  know.  You  can’t  al-1 
ways  sometimes  tell.  Pretty  tough 
outlook  when  all  that’s  good  is  dead 
and  the  world  goes  poking  along  any i 
old  way  towards  the  everlasting  bon­
fire! 
I  guess  you’re  off,  Jim.  Don’t 
get  pessimistic.  Friendship— the gen­
uine  thing— isn’t  lying  around 
loose 
anywhere,  but  it’s  right  here  in  ‘our j 
It’s  its  rarety j 
midst’  just  the  same. 
that  increases  its  value,  but  it  stands, 
Jim,  as  true  as  when  our  grandfather, 
ages  back,  said  it,  and  that  numerous 
army  of  grandchildren  of  ours  that 
are  going  to  rise  up  and  call  us 
blessed  are  going 
as 
strongly  as  we  do  that  ‘a  friend  in 
need  is  a  friend  indeed.’ ”

believe 

to 

“Let  us  hope  so.  There  will  be 
need  enough  of  it.  That  makes  me 
think  of  Jack  Grovener.  Do 
you 
know,  Joe,  that  he’s  one  of  the  best 
fellows  that  walks  with  two  legs?”

“M-no,  I  don’t.  He  gangs  it  too 
much  and  his  isn’t  the  right  sort  of 
gang.  When  he  first  came  here—  
that’s  something  over  a  year  ago—  
he  seemed  all  right— I  guess  he  was 
all  right— but  that  confounded,  dirty- 
lived  Miles  got  hold  of  him  and  the 
boy  isn’t  the  same  fellow.  He’s  been 
going  down  ever  since  the  intimacy 
began  and  it’s  a  question  in  my  mind, 
and  has  been  for  some  time,  whether 
the  time  isn’t  pretty  near  at  hand 
when  it’s  going  to  be  too  late  to 
mend.”

“What  was  it  you  said  a  minute 
ago  about  the  good’s  being  alive  all 
right?  W hy  not  bring  it  to  the  front 
and  see  how  it  works?  Jack  Grovern- 
er  is  going  to  the— well,  we’ll  say 
the  dogs— because  he’s • got  into  bad

company.  He’s  a  good  fellow  at 
heart;  is,  in  fact,  his  own  worst  ene­
my.  He  comes  from  his  far-off  home 
among  the  New  England  orchards 
with  a  mother’s  kiss  upon  his— brow 
sounds  best,  so  brow  it  is,  if  it  does 
interfere  with  the  facts— and  he  gets 
in to   b a d   c o m p a n y .  Down  hill  he 
goes,  when  just  as  he  gets  to  the 
ditch  at  the  bottom  of  the— hold  on! 
Did  you  hear  that? 
‘Rocked  in  the 
cradle  of  the  deep,’  that’s  Jack  Grov- 
erner’s  voice. 
Isn’t  it  grand!  He’s 
just  swallowed  his  third  drink.  What 
do  you  say  to  taking  him  in  hand  and 
save  him  for  himself— for  to-night 
anyway? 
I’ll  put  down  my  pessim­
ism,  I’ll  swap  it  for  your  optimism, 
and  let’s  try  the  truth  of  the  proverb 
on  Jack.  Faugh! 
the  idea  of  Jack 
Groverner’s  being  down  there  in  that 
hole!  Come  on,  brother  Samaritan, 
let’s  turn  up  trousers  and  wade  in!”

Down  the  wide  steps  they  went—  
“facilis  descensus  Averno”— Virgil's 
way  of  saying  that  the  way  to  the 
place  downstairs  is  easy— guided  by 
the  song  that  has  made  writer  and 
| composer  immortal,  and  they  entered 
| the  gorgeous  saloon  in  time  for  Jim 
;  Damon’s  rich  tenor 
to  harmonize 
j  with  the  magnificent  bass  that,  from 
I the  curtained  compartment  where 
| Jack  Groverner  and  his  party  were 
enjoying  themselves,  was  flooding the 
j beer-scented  air  with 
I 

“And  calm  and  peaceful  be  my  sleep
Rocked  in  th e  cradle  of  the  deep.”
“Jim  Damon,  by  all  that’s  good! 
and  down  here!  Let’s  have  him 
in 
i  here  and  sing  that  last  verse  over 
again.  Come  in,  you  Jim!”  shouted 
I the  basso,  and  to  the  utter  astonish­
ment  of  the  bibulous  party  in  came 
| the  “aristocrats,”  as  the  rest  of  the 
clerking  force  of  “Warman  &  W ye” 
dubbed  them.

In  this  mood  there  was  no  putting 
j  Groverner  off  and  up  from  that  base­
ment  clear  and  sweet  and  beautiful 
I rose  the  sacred  song.  The  effect  was 
I the  usual  one.  There  was  no  filling 
of  glasses  and  as  the  party  came from 
j the  compartment  Jim  and  Joe  flanked 
the  man  who  was  his  own  worst  ene­
my  and  went  off  with  him  up  Capitol 
hill,  singing  as  they  went,  more  than 
one  home-going  pedestrian, 
as  he 
climbed  the  hill,  stopping  to  listen 
j  to  the  “Stars  of  the  Summer  Night,” 
that  the  splendid  duet  poured  forth 
on  their  homeward  way.

“Heavens!  What  a  bass,  Jack!” 
exclaimed  the  other  two  as  the  song ! 
|  died  away;  “and  heavens!  what  a

come  down 

Damon’s  tenor  before  but  somehow 
I  got  the  notion  into  my  head  that 
you  two  were  high-flyers,  if  you  know 
what  that  means— something  a  good 
ways  above  human,  you  know— and 
the  idea  of  your  coming  down— that 
was  a 
indeed!— into 
Grutchers’  fairly  took  me  off  my  pins! 
It  was  your  taking  me  each  by  an 
arm  and  getting  me  out  of  there  that 
did  the  business  for  me. 
It  showed 
me  that  the  world  and  the  people  in 
it  are  not  so  bad  after  all. 
I  thought 
they  didn’t  care,  and  they  do;  that 
they  didn’t  care  for  me,  anyway, and 
then  you  two  took  me  in  hand  and 
showed  me  that  you  did;  that  friend­
ship  wasn’t  dead— hadn’t  even  gone 
to  sleep;  and  loony  as  I  surely  was 
that  night  when  you  took  me  home 
left  in  me  to 
I  had  sense  enough 
think  and  to  say  that 
‘a  friend  in 
need  is  a  friend  indeed’— say  nothing 
about  two  friends!

“That  was  the  turning  point  for  me, 
If  you  had  not  taken  me  in 
b o y s. 
‘a  goner,’ 
hand  I  s h o u ld   h av e  been 
as  Miles  is  now. 
If  you’ll  look  back 
you’ll  see  how  things  have  been  com­
ing  my  way  ever  since.  Two  promo­
tions;  and— what  do  you  think  Mr. 
Wye  said  only  the  other  day? 
‘We'd 
about  made  up  our  minds,  boy,  to 
give  you  the  grand  bounce  and  if  you 
hadn’t  stopped  just  as  you  did  we’d 
sent  you  overboard.’  So  here’s  to  the 
old  proverb  and  here’s  to  the  two 
fellows  who  proved  its  truth!”  and 
you  can  bet  your  bottom  dollar  that 
Jack  Groverner’s  toast  wasn’t  “done” 
in  beer!  Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

The  Morality  of  Business.

It 

the 

Exposed  in  all  its  nakedness,  what 
is  the  morality  of  “business”  under 
the  competitive  system? 
is  the 
morality  of 
flesh-eating  car­
nivora,  curbed  and  bitted,  so  far  as 
may  be,  by  those restraints of civiliza­
tion,  the  criminal  laws.  Men  call  its 
results  “the  survival  of  the  fittest,”  a 
phrase  borrowed  from 
laboratories, 
really  signifying  the  triumph  of ruth­
less  force  and  the  strongest  intellect 
unswerved  by  the  emotion  of  pity  or 
the  spirit  of  love.  The.  mere  phrase, 
so  common,  “business 
is  business,” 
exposes  the  low  moral  basis  of  the 
whole  fabric  of  our  industrial 
life. 
Widespread  is  the  belief,  especially 
in  the  highest  financial  circles,  that 
the  cleverest  lawyer  is  the  best  cus­
todian  of  business  morals,  because  he 
well  knows  the  hide-and-seek  convo­
lutions  of  the  criminal  code.  Great 
corporations  do  not 
retain  moral 
philosophers,  they  retain  the  best law­
yers;  and  the  question  they  ask  them 
is  not,  is  this  right,  but  is  it  within 
the  possible  pale  of  the  law? 
If  a 
thing  is  not  actually  and  specifically 
forbidden,  like  housebreaking, 
then, 
according  to  this  standard,  it  may be 
done.  And,  as  everybody  knows, 
what  is  forbidden  often  becomes  re­
spectable  provided  you  are  not  found 
out.  That  a  business  morality  of  this 
muddy  aspect  has  a  widespread  vogue 
no  one  can  deny,  although  we  should 
be  prompt  to  recognize  how  many 
honorable  men  of  never-failing  hon­
esty  there  are  in  all  the  walks  of busi­
ness  life.— Springfield  Republican.

Hardware Price  Current

AMMUNITION

Caps

G  D.,  full  count,  per  m ......................  40
Hicks’  W aterproof,  per  m ....................  50
M usket,  per  m .........................  
75
Ely's  W aterproof,  per  m .......................    60

 

No.  22  short, 
No.  22 
No.  32  short, 
No.  32 

m .....2 50
long, per  m .................................... 3 00
m ..... 5 00
long, per  m ..................................... 5 75

Cartridges
per 
per 

Prim ers

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

Gun  W ads

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

Loaded  Shells 

New  Rival—For  Shotguns

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

Drs.  of oz. of
Powder Shot

Per
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
4%
4%
3
3
3%
3%
3%

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

Paper Shells—-Not Loaded

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

Gunpowder

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

In  sacks  containing  25  Tbs 

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

Shot

Augurs  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
G arden.............................................................33 00

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

14 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 % e ....6 % c

Crowbars

Chisels

5

65
65
65
65

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

Socket  F irm er......................................... 
Socket  F ram ing.....................................  
Socket  C orner........................................ 
Socket  Slicks............................................ 

Elbows

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

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

40

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

Piles—New  List
...............................................  
Galvanized  Iron

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

12 

16 

13 

15 

70

25

Discount,  70.

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

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

Ham m ers

Maydole  &  Co.’s  new  list............. dis.  33%
Terkes  &  Plum b’s ..........................dis.  40&10
M ason’s  Solid  C ast  Steel  . . .  .30c  list  70 

Gate,  C lark’s  i,  2,  3 . .. . ................dis  60&10

Hinges

Hollow  W are

14 
Gauges

Glass

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Iron

S  B ar  Iron  ..............................................2  25  rate
......................................3  00  rate
;  Ligh t  Band 

Knobs—New  List

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

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.’s 

....d is . 

600  pound  casks 
Per  pound 

........................................  8

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

Levels

Metals—Zinc

Miscellaneous

..................................................  40
Bird  C ages 
Pumps.  C istern..........................................75&10
|  Screws,  N ew   L ist 
..................................  85
I  Casters.  Bed  and  P l a t e .................50&10&10
Dampers.  Am erican...................................  50

Molasses  Gates

j  Stebbins’  P attern  

.................................60&10
Enterprise,  self-m easuring......................  30
Pans

Fry,  Acm e 
........................................ 60&10&10
Common,  polished  ............................70&10

P aten t  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken  packages  %c  per  lb.  extra.

Planes

40
60
40
45

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

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

 

 

 

Cron  and 
Copper  Rivets  and  B urs 

tinned 

Rivets
......................................  60
45

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

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

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

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

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

9%

50

10 to 14 
15 to  17 
18 to  21 

Solid  Eyes,  per  ton  ................................28  00
j  Nos. 
Nos. 
Nos. 
Nos.  22  to  24  ............................... 4  10 
Nos.  25  to  26  .............................. 4  20 
!  No.  27 
........................................... 4  30 
inches  wide,  not  less  th an   2-10  extra.

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

Shovels  and  Spades

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

Solder

%@%  ..................................................   21
The  prices  of  the  m any  o ther  qualities 
of  solder  in  th e  m arket  indicated  by  p ri­
vate  brands  vary  according  to  compo­
sition.

Squares

Steel  and  Iron  .......................................60-10-5

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14  IC,  Charcoal.................................... 10  60
14x20  IC,  C h a rc o a l.................................. 10  50
...............................12  00
10x14  IX,  Charcoal 
Each  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
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  $1.50 

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 

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

Steel,  Game 
................................................  76
Oneida  Community,  Newhouse’s 
..40&10 
Oneida  Com’y,  H awley  &  N o rto n 's..  65
Mouse,  choker,  per  doz.  holes  .......... 1  25
Mouse,  delusion,  per  doz........................1  25

T raps

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
B arbed  Fence,  Galvanized 
................. 2  75
B arbed  Fence,  Painted 
....................... 2  45

W ire  Goods

37
Crockery and  Glassware

STONEW ARE

B utters

%  gal.  per  doz..........................................  48
1  to  6 gal.  per  doz...................................... 
6
............................................  56
each 
8  gal. 
............................................  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  60
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

Fine  Glazed  M ilkpans 

%  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  per  doz.  48 
1  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  each  ..  6
%  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  per  doz.  60 
1  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom ,  each  . .   t 
%  gal.  fireproof,  bail,  per  doz  ..........  86
1  gal.  fireproof  bail,  per  doz  .......... 1  10

Stew pans

Jugs

%  gal.  per  doz.............................................   60
Vi  gal.  per  doz.............................................
1  to  5  gal.,  per  g a l................................  7%

Sealing  W ax 
*
5  tbs.  in  package,  per  lb.
LAMP  BURNERS
No.  0  Sun  ...................................................  31
...................................................   38
No.  1  Sun 
No.  2  Sun 
  50
..............................................  
No.  3  Sun  ......................................  
85
 
Tubular  .........................................................   6b
N utm eg 
.......................................................   60
M ASO N  F R U IT   J A R S  
W ith   P o r c e la in   L in e d   C a p s
P e r  gro ss
....................................... 
5  00
P in ts 
Q uarts 
............................................................ 5  25
8  00
%  gallon.....................  
Caps.................................................................... 2 25

F ruit  Ja rs  packed  1  dozen  in  box. 

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

P er  box  of  6  doz

Anchor  Carton  Chimneys 

E ach  chim ney  in  corrugated  tube

No.  0,  Crimp  top..........................................1 70
No.  1,  Crimp  top................ 
1  75
No.  2,  Crimp  top......................................... 2  75

Fine  Flint  Glass  in  C artons

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

 

Lead  Flint  Glass  in  C artons

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

Pearl  Top  in  C artons

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

Rochester  In  C artons 

No.  2,  Fine  Flint,  10  in.  (85c  d o z .)..4  60
No.  2, 
Fine  Flint. 12  in.  ($1.35  d oz.).7 60
No.  2,  Lead  Flint, 10  in.  (95c  d o z .)..5 50
No.  2,  Lead  Flint, 12  in.  ($1.65  doz.) .8 75

Electric  in  Cartons
2, Lime,  (75c doz.) 
No. 
....................... 4  20
2,  Fine  Flint, (85c  doz.) 
No. 
..............4  60
No. 
2, Lead  Flint, (95c  doz.)  .............. 5  50
No.  1,  Sun  Plain  Top,  ($1  doz.)  ........ 5  70
No.  2,  Sun  Plain  Top,  ($1.25  doz.)  ..6   90 

La Bastie

OIL  CANS

per doz.  1  2i
1  gal.  tin  cans  w ith  spout, 
1  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout, 
per doz.  1  21
2  gal.  galv.  iron  w ith  spout, 
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,  e a c h ......................  8  50

LANTERN  GLOBES

No.  0  Tub.,  cases  1  doz.  each,  bx.  10c.  50 
No.  0  Tub.,  cases  2  doz.  each, bx.  15c.  60 
No.  0  Tub.,  bbls.  5  doz.  each,  per  bbl.2  00 
No.  0  Tub..  B ull's  eye, cases 1 dz. each l  26 

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

No.  0  %  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.  26 
No.  1,  %  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.  30 
No.  2,  1  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll  45 
No.  3,  1%  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll  86

COUPON  BOOKS

any denom ination 
any denom ination 

50  books, 
..........1  56
100  books, 
..........2  50
590  books, any  denom ination  ............. 11  60
1000  books, any  denom ination  ............. 20  00
Above  quotations  are  for  either  T rad es­
man,  Superior,  Economic  or  U niversal 
grades.  W here  1,000  books  are  ordered 
a t  a 
tim e  custom ers  receive  specially 
printed  cover  w ithout  ex tra  charge.

Coupon  P ass  Books

Can  be  m ade  to  represent  any  denoml-
nation  from   $10  down.
50  books  .................................................   1  50
...............................................   2  50
100  books 
500  books 
..................................................11  50
1000  books 
..................................................20  00
500,  any  one  denom ination  ............  2  00
1000,  any  one  denom ination  ..............3  00
2000,  any  one  denom ination  ..............  5  00
Steel  p u n ch  
75

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

Credit  Checks

P o ts........................................ ’. .....................50&10
K ettles...........................................................50&10
Spiders...........................................................50&10
Au  Sable........................................... dis.  40&10
Stam ped Tinware,  new  list................. 
  70
Japanned  Tinware.  ...........................60&10

House  Furnishing  Goods

Horse  Nails

B right..............................................................80-10
Screw  E yes...................................................80-10
H ooks...............................................................80-10
Gate  Hooks  and  E yes.............................. 80-10
B axter’s  A djustable, Nickeled.................   30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................  40
Coe’s  P a te n t A gricultural, W rought,  70IM0

W renches

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

these  points  bring  the  new  cloths 
quite  on  a  par  with  English  and 
Scotch  goods.  The  end  and  end  ef­
fects  in  the  cheaper  lines  of  goods 
are  taking  very  well  and  apron  ging­
hams  are  credited  with  a  large  busi­
ness.  There  is  a  demand  from  the 
exporters  for  standard  staple  ging­
hams  and  the  market 
is  decidedly 
firm  and  regular  in  regard  to  such 
goods.  The  sale  of  ginghams  from 
first  hands  within  the  past  month 
has  been  larger,  so  it  is  stated  by 
the  factors  in  the  trade,  than  was 
the  business  done  a  year  ago.

the 

Shirtings  and  Waistings— Gray and 
green  effects  in  shirtings  and  waist­
ings  are  beginning  to  show  more  or 
less  prominence 
in  the  designs  of 
cloths  that  are  in  demand,  and  these 
colors  correspond  with 
tones 
wanted  in  woolen  and  worsted  goods. 
In  shirtings  floating  warp  effects  in 
small  and  regular  motifs  are  taking 
well,  also  printed  warp-colored  wov­
en  goods.  The  cutting-up  trade  are 
buying  more  heavily  of 
shirtings 
than  was  anticipated  and  the  best 
lines  are  taking  as  well  as  the  cheap­
er  goods.  Waist  cutters  are  paying 
more  attention  to  staple  lines  than 
novelties,  although  monotone  novel­
ties,  such  as  brocades  and  poplins, 
are  quite  active.  Novelty  lines  must 
necessarily  hold  off  until  the  last mo­
ment,  owing  to  the  usual  trouble  that 
exists  in  finding  out  just  what  ideas 
are  favored  by  the  makers  of  fash­
ion. 
In  dress  flannels  the  demand 
promises  to  be  very  good,  both  for 
shirtings  as  well  as  waistings.

in­
Dress  Goods— While  in  many 
stances  there  is  not  room  for 
im­
provement— the  lines  being  well  sold 
up— there  are  many  other 
fabrics 
which  have  not  as  yet  attracted  their 
fair  share  of  business;  but  this  week 
has  seen  these  lines  placed  in  a  bet­
ter  light.  Duplicate  dress  goods  or­
ders  are  reported  as  being  placed 
with  more 
freedom.  The  buying 
trade,  up  to  the  present  time  being 
spring  business, 
busy  with  a  late 
have  been  uninterested 
dress 
goods.  It  is  now  reported  that  this 
condition  is  changing  and  that  in  the 
primary  market  increased  activity  is 
apparent.

in 

let-up 

in  the  demands 

Cotton  Underwear— There  seems to 
be  no 
for 
heavy  cotton  underwear.  This  state­
ment  does  not  necessarily  mean  that 
there  was  a  very  heavy  business done 
during  the  week,  because  there  was 
not.  A  very  good  business  was  done, 
nevertheless,  for  so  late  in  the  sea­
son,  and  there  promises  to  be  con­
siderable  done  next  week.  The  char­
acter  of  the  buying  done  was  of  a 
filling-in  kind  and  there  were  many 
buyers  who  bought  more  than  they 
usually  would  because  they  believe 
in  a  very  heavy  retail  demand  for 
cotton  goods.  Men’s  heavy  fleeces 
it  $3-37^2  were  bought  where  busi­
ness  could  be  taken  and  women’s-rib- 
bed  goods  were  more  active  than 
usual.  Some  fair  business  was  done 
in  seasonable  goods  with  manufactur­
ers  who  continue  to  operate  on light 
goods  year  in  and  year  out.  Concern­
ing  prices  on  spring  of  1906  goods, 
the  views  of  one  large  commission 
house  may  be  of  interest  in  this  con-

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

Bleached  Goods— The  shortage  of 
the  coarse  and  extremely  fine  lines 
ot  bleached  goods  in  jobbing  circles 
is  reflected  in  the  primary  markets, 
where  large  orders  are  being  con­
stantly  taken  for  jobbing  accounts. 
The  whole  bleached  goods  division 
is 
in  an  extremely  strong  position 
and  bleachers  have  given  out  no­
tices  that  further  business  will  be 
taken  at  full  values  only.  Spot goods 
are  being  sold  at  very  solid  prices 
and  buyers  do  not  care  so  much  at 
what  prices  goods  are  quoted 
as 
long  as  they  can  get  quick  deliveries. 
On  nainsooks,  batistes  and  cambrics 
the  trend  of  values  is  steady  and  the 
feeling  exists  that  the  coarser grades 
will  advance  before  the  very 
fine 
lines.  Fine  cambrics  have  advanced 
J4 c  during  the  past  four  weeks.

export 

Gray  Goods— The  gray  goods  mar­
ket  is  even  stronger  than  was 
the 
case  a  week  ago  and  it  is  more  diffi­
cult  to  place  orders  on  lines  that  are 
in  demand.  For 
accounts 
mills  are  either  sold  away  ahead  on 
3-yard,  3.25-yard  or  3.50-yard  sheet­
ings  and  drills,  or  they  are  busy  on 
goods 
lighter  than  3.50-yard  sheet­
ings.  Export  business  centers  now 
on  goods  lighter  than  4-yard  sheet­
ings,  and  mills  are  soon  to  experi­
ence  a  sold-up  condition  in  produc­
tions  on  these  goods  similar  to  what 
now  exists  with  heavy  goods.  Some 
business  is  being  done  for  Septem­
ber  and  October  delivery,  but  the 
majority  of  cases  show  that  deliver­
ies  can  not  be  made  as  early  as  this. 
Domestic  buyers 
the  market 
against  them,  but  they  do  not  seem 
to  comprehend  the  situation  concern­
ing  the  future  of  the  market,  for,  if 
they  did  they  would  have  come  in 
more  freely,  regardless  of  the  prices 
asked.  The  manufacturing 
trades 
have  bought  whatever  was  available 
in  the  market,  but  even  so  they  are 
sadly  in  need  of  a  great  deal  more 
goods.  The  bagging  trade  are 
in 
need  of  drills  and  duck  as  well  as 
osnaburgs  and  heavy  browns.

find 

Ginghams— On  fine  dress  ginghams 
and  ginghams  of  the  semi-fine  order 
a  very  excellent  showing  has  been 
made  in  fall  lines.  The  best  known 
mills  are  on  a  fair  road  to  being 
well  sold  up  and  are  not  seeking 
business  at  other  than  to-day’s  prices. 
The  styles  for  fall  and  for  spring 
are  very  much  different  from 
the 
styles  of  past  seasons’  goods  and the 
success  of  the  designers’  recent  skill 
is  already  assured. 
In  novelty  lines 
demand  are  tending  to  more  simple 
and  serviceable  cloths  and  less 
is 
seen  of  Persian  and  other  two-warp 
effects.  The  mercerized  and  part- 
silk  goods  are  showing  up  fairly 
well  at  this  early  date,  but  more 
stress  is  given  to  the  fine  cloths  of 
the  real  gingham  order.  Manufac­
turers  are  paying  more  attention  to 
finish  and  weave  than  they  were  and

W e  carry  a  big  line  of  M emorial  D a y   Decorations

Wool  Bunting  Flags,  Cotton  Bunting  Flags 

Cotton  Flags  on  Sticks  and  Silk  Flags

R anging  in  size  from  2  inches  to  36  feet  long.  A lso  red, 

white  and  blue  bunting  b y  the  yard.  W rite  for  prices.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Dry Goods

I

For  the  Benefit  of  Whom  It 

May  Concern:

For  Sale

Without  Reserves  and  in  Lots  to  Suit 

Big  or  Little  Buyers,  the

Entire  Stock

ofthe

Morse  Dept.  Store

Absolute  Dispersal  Sale  of Goods  Un­

injured  and  Those  Damaged  by 

Fire,  Smoke  and  Water

Craig,  Wright  &  Walker

Fire  Insurance  Adjusters

nection:  This  house  does  not  be­
lieve  that  values  will  be  any  higher 
than  usual,  whether  yarns  go  sky­
ward  or  the  bottom  drops  out  of  the 
market.  According  to  this  concern 
it  makes  no  difference  what  the  con­
ditions  are  in  the  market,  underwear 
generally  sells  around  the  same  fig­
ures. 
If  reports  are  circulated  that 
the  knit  goods  market  has  advanced  j 
25c  per  dozen  in  price,  then  it  can 
be  safely  said  that  the  most  of  the 
business  was  done  before  the  ad­
vance.  According  to  this  house,  the 
business  is  done  at  the  same  values 
as  usual  and  the  advances  are  made 
when  the  productions  are  all  or  near-  j 
ly  all  sold  up.  This  statement  fits 
well  with  the  trend  of  values  during 
the  present  season.  Reports  of  the 
heavy  business  done  in  woolen  and 
worsted  goods  have  hurt 
cotton 
goods  to  no  extent  whatever,  but  it 
remains  to  be  seen  what  will  be 
done  when  it  comes  to  the  decisions 
of  the  wearers  of  the  garments.  Sta­
tistics  will  tell  you  that  the  public 
are  gradually  coming 
to  a  point 
where  woolen  or  worsted  underwear 
will  be  wholly  discarded,  but  accord­
ing  to  the  manufacturers  of  woolen 
and  worsted  garments  the  demands 
are  increasing  rather  than  diminish­
ing.

Jacquard  Shirtings— Many  of 

the 
most  attractive  fancy  cotton  fabrics 
of  the  season  were  all  white  goods 
with  jacquard  figures.  For  instance, 
one  fancy  shirting  is  all  white  with  a 
groundwork  of  plain  weave  and a dia­
mond  shaped  figure  formed  by  warp 
and  filling  floats. 
It  is  this  figure 
which  makes  necessary  the  employ­
ment  of  a  jacquard  loom  in  weaving. 
Besides  the  figure  there  are  a  series 
of  four-line  stripes  formed  by  twisted 
yarns  giving  a  corded  effect.

some 

Carpets— So  far  as  announced,  the 
prices  for  the  new  season  are  not 
satisfactory  to  all  the  manufacturers. 
On  ingrains  the  advance  is  ostensi­
bly  2l/2c  a  yard.  This  does  not  cover 
the  increased  cost  of  the  raw  mate­
rials,  but  when  a  manufacturer  also 
spins  his  own  yarn  and  is  fortunate 
enough  to  have 
low-priced 
wool  on  hand,  by  mixing  the  low  and 
high  priced  wools  together  he  will 
be  able  to  put  his  goods  on  the  mar­
ket  at  a  small  profit.  All  carpet 
manufacturers  do  not  spin  yarn;  in 
fact,  the- great  majority  of  them  pur­
chase  all  the  yarn  they  use.  Spin­
ners  are  not  doing  business  for  pleas­
ure,  and  as  a  result  the  manufacturer 
who  has  to  buy  yarn  made  from 
all  new  wool  can  not  make  a  profit 
on  his  goods  unless  he  lowers  their 
quality  by  using  inferior  yarns.  Job­
bers  appear'to  be  well  satisfied  with 
the  new  price  list,  taken  as  a  whole. 
They  are  not  expecting  a  very  active 
opening,  in  fact,  they  think  it  will 
be  early  fall  before  business  shows 
much  activity.  The  past  season  has 
been  the  dullest  that  house-furnishing 
men  in  general  have  experienced  for 
several  years.  There  are 
incipient 
signs  that  the  dullness  is  passing,  but 
no  one  expects  any  great  revival 
during  the  warm  weather.  Dealers 
are  at  a  loss  to  account  for  the  dull­
ness.

M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

39

ANE W
LOT

of  leather  goods  just 
received.
W e desire to call  your 
special attention to the 
$2.25 and $4.50 per doz­
en  Hand  Bags,  which 
are exceptional values. 
We  also  have  grades 
at $4.2 5,  $g and  $ 12 per 
dozen.  Will  make  up 
an  assorted  lot  if  you 
say so.

Grand
Rapids
Dry
Goods
Co.

Exclusively Wholesale

Grand
Rapids
Michigan

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.

Puritan  Corset  Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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MÍCHÍGAN  t r a d e s m a n

Commercial^ 
1

T r a v e i l r s  

Michigan  Knights  of the  Grip. 

President.  Geo.  H .  Ran da..,  B ay  C ity; 
Secretary,  Chas.  J.  Lewis,  F lin t;  T reas­
urer,  W .  V.  Gawley,  D etroit.

United  Commercial  T ravelers  of  Michigan 
G rand  Counselor,  L.  W illiams,  De­
tro it;  G rand  Secretary,  W .  F .  Tracy, 
Flint. 
Grand  Raplda  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.
S e n io r   C o u n s e lo r,  T h o m a s   E .   D r y d e n :  
S e c r e t a r y   a n d   T r e a s u r e r ,  O .  F .   J a c k s o n .

_______

Commercial  Travelers  the  Real  Dip­

lomats  in  America.

Europeans  sometimes  say  that  we 
in  the  United  States  have  no  diplo­
mats,  that  we  have  not  trained  or 
grown  any,  that  we  do  not  know 
what  diplomacy  is,  says  an  American 
manufacturer.  Their  definition  of  di­
plomacy  is  to  obtain  what  you  want 
by  intrigue,  indirection  and  corrup­
tion,  and  they  confine  diplomacy  to 
politics  and 
statecraft.  This  half 
sneer  of  Europeans  is  true  if  we  look 
only  at  foreign  politics.  Our  foreign 
ministers  and  ambassadors  have  usu­
ally  wanted  little,  but  have  clearly 
known  what  they  wanted  and  have 
gone  straight  for  it  with  so  much 
vigor  that  the  other  side  generally 
yielded,  with  much  astonishment  at 
such  queer,  direct  methods.

foreign  politics, 

But  our  foreign  friends  have  made 
the  mistake  of  thinking  that  politics, 
and  particularly 
is 
with  us,  as  with  them,  a  life  interest. 
It  is  not.  When  it  becomes  neces­
sary  we  will  train  men  to  diplomacy 
or  take  them  out  of  the  vast  and 
growing  army  of  business  diplomats. 
To  business  has  our  talent— yes,  ge­
nius— for  diplomacy  turned,  and 
in 
business  have  we  trained  a  vast  and j 
growing  army  of  diplomats,  men  who 
travel  all  over  the 
selling 
goods,  closing  deals,  making  con­
tracts.  These  are  our  real  diplomats 
and  of  these  foreign  critics  know  lit­
tle.

country 

About  six  months  ago. my  business 
took  me  to  San  Francisco. 
It  is  a 
long  ride  and  for  two  days  we  met 
on  the  common  footing  of  the  sleep­
ing  and  dining  cars,  with  nothing  to 
do  but  talk,  play  cards,  write  an  oc­
casional  letter  and  eat.  The  second 
day  out  four  or  five  travelers  who  had 
got  well  acquainted  started  talking 
on  this  subject  of  business  diplomacy. 
It  could  easily  be  seen  that  all  were 
masters  in  the  art  of  adapting  them­
selves  to  each  other  and  to  circum­
stances. 
In  the  freedom  of  this  en­
forced  intimacy  and 
each 
spoke  candidly.

leisure 

One  was  selling  cloaks  and  dresses, 
representing  one  of  the  largest  man­
ufacturers  in  the  country.  He  said; 
“Why,  of  course,  I  give  presents,  or, 
if  you  prefer  to  call  it  so,  commis­
sions  and  bribes.  You  can’t  do  busi­
ness  in  any  other  way. 
I’m  not  paid 
a  salary  of  $10,000  a-year  to  hesitate 
at  a  little  check-giving  when  I  can’t 
get  the  business  otherwise.  They  all 
do  it.  You  know  the  case  of  Brown, 
who  bought  for  A.  &  B.  (mentioning 
one  of  the  largest  department  stores 
in  New  York  City).  He  used  to  turn

over  to  C.  &  D.  (a  prominent  manu­
facturer  of  cloaks  and  dresses)  busi­
ness  to  the  amount  of  $300,000  or 
$400,000  a  year.  They  gave  him  a 
brown-stone  house  uptown  in  New 
York,  where  he  lived  for  years.

“Everyone  knew  it,  and  it  is  said 
that  both  A.  and  B.  knew  it  at  the 
time,  but  they  said  they  did  not  care 
if  Brown  did  get  houses  and  money; 
that  he  had  made  his  department pay 
big  profits  and  that  was  what  they 
looked  at.  Later  on  C.  &  D.  actual­
ly  made  B ro w n   one  of  the  partners 
in  their  firm,  so  that  he  shared  in 
their  profits,  and  he  was  still  the  buy­
er  for  A.  &  B.”

Later,  when  others  had  talked,  he 
said:  “ I  have  an  understanding  with 
my  house  that  I  can  draw  up  to 
$25,000  a  year  and  no  questions  asked. 
I  always  carry  several  thousand  dol­
lars  with  me.”  And  here  he  showed 
a  roll  of  bills. 
“Ofttimes  I  meet  a 
squeamish  cuss  and  have  to  handle 
him  with  gloves. 
I’ll  get  him  around 
to  my  hotel  in  the  evening  and  we’ll 
have  drinks  and  cigars  served  and  a 
little  game  of  poker;  of  course,  I  al­
ways  lose.  Nothing  is  said,  but 
I 
book  a  good-sized  order  before  I  go, 
and  really  that  is  one  of  the  cheapest 
methods.  When  the  man  comes right 
out  and  asks  for  money  then  I  usually 
have  to  pay  a  big  price.

“Once,  after  I  had  lost  $300 

at 
cards,  the  buyer  wasn’t  going  to  give 
me  a  decent  order.  If  I  had  not  sug­
gested  that  his  boss  would  not  like 
to  know  how  heavily  he  had  played 
poker  with  me  I’d  have  lost  both  that 
order  and  my  money.  The  next  time 
I  went  to  his  city  he  came  to  my 
rooms  and  we  had  our  game  of  pok­
er,  but  I  can  play  when  I  want  to 
and  handle  the  cards  a  little.

“I  saw  that  he  drank  heavily,  and 
before  midnight  he  owed  me  $700. 
You  never  saw  such  a  scared  man. 
I 
got  his  I.  O.  U.’s  before  he  left.  Then 
I  persuaded  him  to  have  just  one 
more  round  and  I  lost  $100  to  him 
and  gave  him  back  part  of  his  signa­
tures.  The  next  morning  I  said  he 
need  not  worry,  but  pay  me  when  he 
could.  Then  I  got  him  to  my  sam­
ple  rooms,  and  when  we  got  half 
through  the  order  I  saw  it  was  not 
going  to  be  as  large  as  I  wanted,  so 
I  suggested  that  he  increase  this item 
and  add  that  other.

“He  looked  a  little  queer;  so  I  took 
out  one  of  the  I.  O.  U.’s  and  tore  it 
up  and  handed  it  to  him.  He  increas­
ed  the  order  as  I  wished,  and  before 
we  got  through  it  was  over  $10,000. 
1  then  tore  the  others  up  and  gave 
them  to  him;  he  was  mightily  reliev­
ed.  The  next  day  I  gave  him  three 
$100  bills.  Since  then  he  never  plays 
poker  with  me,  but  I  always  give  him 
money.”

There  was  silence  for  a  moment, 
and  then  an  elderly,  fine-looking  man 
said,  meditatively  “I  am  an  insurance 
adjuster,  and  you  would  not  think 
that  I  ever  had  to  use  money,  but  I 
do.  On  the  small  losses  and  in  the 
country  there  is  never  any  trouble, 
although  often  we  have  to  pay  far 
more  than  the  value  of  the  goods 
burned.  But  these  losses  I  do  not 
attend  to,  but  only  see  to  the  big 
ones  in  the  large  cities,  where  the

their 

to  hundreds  of 
loss  will  amount 
to  mil­
thousands  and  occasionally 
lions.  They  usually  get  one  of  these 
firms  of  adjusters— I  work  for  the 
companies— to  manage 
inter­
ests. 
If  I  only  had  the  principals  to 
deal  with  it  would  be  an  easy  matter.
“It  would  take  time,  because  the 
owners  naturally  think  their  property 
is  worth  more  than  it  really  is,  but 
tact  and  management  will  usually 
pull  the  toughest  matter 
through. 
Eut  when  one  of  these  infernal  Jew 
or  Yankee  adjusters  gets  hold  of  a 
big  loss  and  ties  up  the  owners  with 
a  contract  to  do  all 
the  business 
through  him  there  is  only  one  thing 
to  do,  and  that  is  to  buy  the  adjuster. 
Why,  in  that  big  fire  of —   hotel there 
was  only  a  partial  loss  and  we  hitch­
ed  and  haggled  how  much  it  should 
be  for  three  weary  weeks.

“That  adjuster  would  not  come  in­
to  the  open  and  say  how  much  he 
wanted;  if  he  had  I  would  have  gone 
straight  to  the  old  man  and  then  we’d 
have  had  a  row. 
I  did  suggest  one 
day  to  the  owner  that  the  adjuster 
was  crooked,  and  found  for  my  pains 
that  the  adjuster  had  informed  him 
that  I  wanted  a  bribe.  Well,  it  went 
on,  and  one  day  I  said  to  that  adjust­
er  that  if  he’d  settle  for  $250,000—■ 
tliey  wanted  $350,000— I’d 
leave  an 
envelope  at  his  hotel  in  the  morning. 
He  was  shrewd  and  replied: 
‘You 
leave  the  envelope  and  I’ll  see.’  So 
next  morning  I  left  an  envelope  with 
two  $1,000  bills  in  it.

“He  met  me  with  a  smile  and  said: 
‘Oh,  why  leave  so  small  an  envelope? 
Leave  a  larger  one.’ 
I  had  to  leave 
three  envelopes  containing  $15,000 
before  he  came  down,  and  I  positive­
ly  refused  to 
leave  any  more,  but 
said  that  it  could  go  to  the  courts. 
We  then  settled  for  a  little  more  than 
$260,000.  The  amount  over  the  $250,- 
000  was  put  on  to  save  my  friend’s 
face,  as  the  Chinese  say.  But  this 
was  really  a  saving  to  the  companies, 
as  they  had  planned  to  come  up  to 
$300,000  if  necessary. 
It  always hurts 
an  insurance  company  to  let  anything 
go  into  the  courts. 
Some  months 
after  I  accidentally  found  out  that the 
adjuster  had  got  over  $10,000  from 
the  old  man  to  use  as  a  bribe  for 
me.”— Independent.

Nothing  accrues  to  our  credit  with 
God  until  our  debts  to  man  have  been 
deducted.

There  is  no  merit  in  a  sullen  sacri­

fice.

LIVINGSTON

HOTEL

T h e   steady 

im provement  o f  the 
L iv in g sto n   w ith  its  new   and  unique 
w ritin g room unequaled  in  M ic h ig a n , 
its la rge  and  beautiful  lobby,  its  ele­
ga n t  room s  and  excellent  table  com- 
mends  it  to  the  tra ve lin g  public  and 
accounts for  its  wonderful  gro w th   in 
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton  and  Division  Sts. 

GRAND  RAP.DS,  MICH.

The  Old 

National  Bank

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Our  C ertifica tes  of  Deposit 

are  payable  on  dem and 

and  draw  interest.

Blue  Savings  Books

are  the  best  issued. 

Interest  Com pounded 

A ssets  over  S ix   M illion  Dollars

Ask  for  our

Free  Blue  Savings  Bank

F ifty  years corner C a n a l  and  Pearl  Sts.

Don’t  Buy  an  Awning

Until you  get our prices.

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

CHAS.  A.  COYE

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

— Kent  County 
Savings  Bank
O F G R A N D   RAPIDS,  MICH

H a s   largest  am ount  o f  deposits 
o f any S a v in g s  B a n k  in   W e stern  
M ic h iga n , 
ft  you  are  contem­
p latin g a change in your B a n k in g  
relations, or  think  o f  opening  a 
new   account,  call  and  see  us.

3 V i   Per  Cent.
Paid  on  Certificates of  Deposit

Banking By Mail

Resources  Exceed  2$£  Million  Dollars

A  Whole  Day  for  Business  Men 

in

Half  a day saved,  going and coming,  by 

New  York
taking  the  new

Michigan  Central 

“ Wolverine”

Leaves  Grand  Rapids  11:10  A.  M., 
daily;  Detroit  3:40  P.  M.,  arrives  New 
York 8:00 A. M.
Returning,  T h r o u g h   G ra n d   R a p id s  
S le e p e r   leaves  New  York  4:30  P.  M., 
arrives  Grand  Rapids  1:30 P.  M.
Elegant up-to-date equipment.
Take a trip on the Wolverine.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

41

Gripsack  Brigade.

Frank  Siebel,  the  Portland  printer, 
has  gone  on  the  road for the Hammell 
Cracker  Co.,  of  Lansing.  His  territory 
comprises  all  the  towns  on  the  Pere 
Marquette  between  Ludington  and 
Bay  City.

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  C.  W. 
Hall,  formerly  of  Marquette,  where 
he  was  connected  with 
local  dry 
goods  stores  for  a  number  of  years, 
was  in  the  city  this  week.  He  is  now 
on  the  road  as  a  representative  of  the 
manufacturing  department  of  Edson, 
Moore  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  of  which 
William  Pohlman  is  general  manager 
for  the  territory  of  Northern  Michi­
gan  and  Wisconsin.

The  sudden  death  of  Chas.  E.  Hall 
(National  Biscuit  Co.),  which  occur­
red  at  the  Halladay  Inn,  at  Battle 
Creek, 
sometime  during  Monday 
night,  will  be  greatly  deplored  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaint- 
ences.  The  deceased  had  been  on 
the  road  about  eighteen  years,  prior 
to  which  time  he  was  connected  with 
the  Muskegon  Baking  Co.  Before 
that  he  was  engaged  in  general  trade 
at  North  Muskegon.  The  remains 
will  arrive  here  to-day,  after  which 
the  funeral  arrangements  will  be 
made.

Samuel  R.  Evans,  who  has  covered 
Central  and  Eastern  Michigan  the 
past  seven  years  for  W.  F.  McLaugh­
lin  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  has  transferred 
himself  to  Renfro  Bros.  &  Co.,  tea 
jobbers  at  the  same  market.  He  will 
cover  the  entire  State  under  this  ar­
rangement,  continuing  to  make  Grand 
Rapids  his  headquarters,  the  same  as 
heretofore. 
‘‘Sammy”  has  been  led  to 
make  the  change  solely  for  financial 
reasons,  his  relations  with  his  former 
house  having  always  been  extremely 
pleasant,  as  well  as  profitable  to  both 
parties.

Divided  on  the  Location  of  Annual 

Outing.

Kalamazoo,  May  23— Much  busi­
ness  was  transacted  at  the  meeting 
of  the  Kalamazoo  Grocers’  Associa­
tion  at  the  Auditorium  last  evening. 
The  new  officers,  John  E.  Steketee, 
VanBochove, 
President;  John  E. 
Vice-President; 
Toonder, 
Treasurer,  and  Henry  Schaberg,  Sec­
retary,  were 
installed.  Mr.  Scha­
berg  was  chosen  both  Vice-President 
and  Secretary  at  the  election 
two 
weeks  ago,  but  last  night  he  resigned 
the  former  office  and  Mr.  VanBoc­
hove  was  chosen  in  his  stead.

Frank 

invitations 

Most  interesting  to 

the  grocers 
themselves  of  the  many  other  mat­
ters  discussed  was  that  of  the  annual 
excursion.  The  Association  has  re­
ceived 
from  the  Retail 
Butchers’  and  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciations  of  Grand  Rapids  to  come 
there  the  first  week  in  August,  at  the 
time  of  the  convention  of  the  Nation­
al  Butchers’  Association,  from  Otta­
wa  Beach  and  from  Belle  Isle  at  De­
troit.  An  informal  ballot  was  taken 
last  night  and  Ottawa  Beach  came 
out  first,  with  Grand  Rapids  a  close 
second.  No  decision  was  made, how­
ever,  because  during  the  evening  Sec­
retary  Schaberg  received  a  telephone 
message  from  Grand  Rapids  to  the  ef­
fect  that  the  Association  there  had

another  proposition  to  offer  and  that 
a  joint  committee  would  come  here 
to  confer  with  representatives  of  the 
local  Association  next  Wednesday 
evening  if  the  local  Association would 
wait  that  long  before  deciding.  The 
vote  was  thereupon  rescinded  and  a 
committee  was  appointed  for  the  con­
ference  consisting  of  H.  R.  Van­
Bochove,  chairman,  Walter  C.  Hipp, 
Oliver  Rasmus,  William  Moredyk and 
£.  Hoekstra.

The  Committee  on  Sunday  Closing 
reported  that  the  signatures  of  all  but 
three  of  the  grocers  and  butchers  of 
the  city  have  been  secured  to  the 
pledge  to  close  their  stores  and  shops 
all  day  Sunday.  The  Committee  was 
given  two  weeks  longer  to  try  and 
bring  the  recalcitrant  three  into  line. 
The  matter  of  closing  all  day  Deco­
ration  day  was  also  discussed  and, 
although  no  action  was  taken,  it  was 
the  general  sentiment  of  the  meeting 
that  it  was  the  proper  thing  to  do.

The  committee  in  charge  of  the  civ­
il  service  petition,  asking  Congress 
for  a  law  punishing  Federal  employes 
who  fail  to  pay  their  household  bills, 
reported  that  the  signatures  of  all 
but  two  of  the  grocers  in  the  city 
had  been  secured  and  that  those  two 
names  were  absent  simply  because 
the  committee  had  not  had  time  to 
sefe  the  men.  It  was  also  stated  that 
many  men  in  other  lines  of  business 
had  asked  to  be  allowed  to  sign  and 
it  is  probable  that  the  petition  will 
be  widely  circulated  outside  the  Gro­
cers’  Association.

Other  matters  brought  up  were  the 
report  of  the  retiring  Treasurer,  H. 
R.  VanBochove,  who  stated  that  the 
Association  was  in  fine  shape  finan­
cially  and  that  a  good  balance  was 
in  the  treasury.  A  resolution  regard­
ing  the  annual  fishing  excursion  and 
contest  was  introduced,  but  was  ta­
bled  for  a  time.

Will  Work  tc  Increase  the  Member­

ship.

Lansing,  May  23—A t  the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Lansing  Business  Men’s  Association, 
the  subject  considered  was  that  of  in­
creasing  the  membership.  The  As­
sociation  now  numbers  four  hundred 
members,  and  the  Secretary  was  di­
rected  to  take  active  steps  to 
in­
crease  this  number  by  one  hundred  at 
least.  Personal  letters  and  interviews 
will  be  the  method  used  to  secure 
this  increase.

An  envelope  having  on  the  back  a 
map  of  the  city,  with  the  railroad 
connections,  and  some 
information 
in  regard  to  the  city,  was  shown  to 
the  members,  and  its  use  whenever 
possible  was  recommended 
the 
members  as  a  means  of  advertising 
the  city.

to 

Bay  City  Grocers  to  Picnic  at  Port 

Huron.

Bay  City,  May  23— The  Bay  City 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  has  de­
cided  to  hold  the  annual  picnic  in 
Port  Huron  this  year.  The  picnic  will 
be  given  during  August,  but  the  exact 
date  is  not  set.  A  special  meeting 
to  arrange  details  will  be  held  May 
31.

Plea  for  More  Brotherliness  Toward 

the  Drummer.

Let’s  make  a 

little  plea  for  the 
drummer.  Not  that  he  is  unable  to 
plead  for  himself,  but  that  he  is  not 
undeserving  of  a  little  friendly  as­
sistance  from  sources  other  than  his 
own.

About  this  time  of  the  year  he 
comes  to  your  store  when  you  are 
very  busy.  He  is  liable  to  strike  you 
on  a  rush  day,  or  at  a  time  when 
you  have  hardly  three  minutes  of 
your  own  all  day.  You  may  be  sell­
ing  goods  so  freely  that  you  think 
there  is  no  use  in  taking  any  time 
to  look  over  samples  and  that  you 
will  be  able  to  take  care  of  your 
trade  without  anything  new  for  some 
consequently 
time  to 
swing  the  drummer  off  with 
scant 
ceremony.

come.  You 

The  drummer  considers  that  your 
business,  and  he  is  willing  that  you 
should  be  the 
judge  of  what  you 
want,  but  he  is  entitled  to  the  best  of 
treatment  while  in  your  presence.  His 
time  is  not  only  valuable,  but  it  is 
really 
limited,  and  the  chances  are 
that  he  is  as  completely  driven  to 
find  time  to  do  all  his  work  as  are 
you.  He  knows  he  must  subserve all 
his  affairs  to  your  convenience  and 
pleasure,  and  he  is  prepared  to  do  it. 
All  he  wants  is  fair  and  gentlemanly 
treatment.

If  you  want  nothing  of  the  drum­
mer,  it  is  easy  to  tell  him  so  pleas­
antly— as  easy  as  it  is  to  jump  on 
him  for  some  past  error  on  the  part 
of  the  house,  and  cause  him  to  feel 
like  a  kicked  dog  that  wants  to  slink 
under  a  bench. 
If  you  make  an  ap­
pointment  with  him,  do  your  best 
to  keep  that  appointment,  even  al­
though  it  be  at  the  cost  of  something 
on  your  part,  for  the  drummer’s time 
is  as  valuable  as  yours,  and  he  has 
laid  aside  that  period  for  your  use, 
leaving  its  selection  to  you. 
If  he 
wants  to  get  away  on  a  certain  train 
in  order  to  make  another  town  to­
morrow,  do 
let  him 
out  at  that  time.

j'our  best  to 

Every  drummer  doesn’t  expect  that 
he  will  sell  to  every  retailer  upon 
whom  he  calls,  nor  does  every  drum­
mer  expect  the  soft  side  of  business 
as  represented  by  a  retailer  who  will 
put  aside  all  his  own  affairs  in  order 
to  accommodate  the  drummer,  but the 
house  is  watching  his  progress  even 
more  closely  than  the  retailer watches 
the  work  of  his  clerks,  and  the  drum­
mer  feels  the  uneasiness  that  comes 
with  the  knowledge  that  he  must 
make  good  at  every  corner.

He  comes  with  neither  a  begging 
plea  nor  whining  supplication 
(that 
is,  if  he  be  a  drummer  worthy  the 
calling),  but  he  comes  with  a  square 
business  proposition  which  you  can 
accept  or  reject  on  its  merits,  but  for 
which  he  knows  he  has  a  right  to  ex­
pect  honest  and  fair  consideration. 
He  is  a  fellow  who  fleeces  you  of 
good  orders  as  often  as  he  can,  but 
he  is  a  fellow  than  whom  you  have 
no  better  friend  and 
than  whom 
there  is  no  better  fighter  for  your 
rights  in  the  house  for  which  he  sells 
goods.

Any  drummer  who  is  insistent  be­
you

yond  reason,  tells  you  how 

should  and  should  not  conduct  your 
business,  or  conducts  himself  in  any 
other  than  a  square  business  manner 
is  not  worthy  of  your  consideration 
in  any  sense,  no  matter  what  his 
line  of  goods,  and  we  can  neither 
defend  him  nor  ask  for  your  better 
consideration.  Such  men  on  the  road 
are  few  and  their  days  are  always 
numbered.

Just  put  yourself  in  the  drummer’s 
place  for  one  busy  day,  and  you  will 
understand  why  we  plead  for  more 
brotherliness  toward  the  drummer.—  
Drygoodsman.

All  Hands  to  Take  a  Day  Off.
Clinton,  May  23— The  members  of 
the  Business  Men’s  Association  have 
agreed  to  close  all  their  places  of 
business  on  the  night  of  Tuesday, 
June  13,  and  not  open  them  again 
until  Thursday  morning,  June 
15, 
take  their  families, 
their  help  and 
their  families  and  all  go  to  Wampler’s 
Lake  for  an  outing  on  Wednesday, 
June  14.

All  business  men,  whether  mem­
bers  of  the  Association  or  not,  are 
cordially  invited  to  go  with  them  and 
have  one  of  the  good  old-fashioned 
picnic  days.

The  Association  has 

started  out 
right  in  making  it  a  point  to  have  a 
little  recreation  now  and  then,  and  if 
everyone  closes  up  there  will  be  no 
loss  to  anyone.

There 

is  only  one  thing  against 
their  having  a  good  time  and  that 
will  be  the  weather.  The  affair  is 
dated  far  enough  ahead  that  satisfac­
tory  arrangements  ought  to  be  made 
with  the  weather  man  for  a  favorable 
day.

Propose  To  Terminate  Local  Graft.
Eaton  Rapids,  May  22— At  the  last 
meeting  of  the  Eaton  Rapids  Busi­
ness  Men’s  Association  the  following 
resolution  was 
introduced  and  will 
be  voted  on  at  the  next  regular meet­
ing:

Resolved— That  no  member  of  this 
Association  shall  buy  a  ticket  or make 
a  donation  in  his  place  of  business 
or  advertise  in  any  program  or  pub­
lication  other  than  the  local  news­
papers,  without  the  sanction  of  the 
Advertising  Committee,  which  shall 
consist  of  three  members  of  the  As­
sociation.  to  be  appointed  by 
the 
President,  and  to  be  a  secret  com­
mittee,  known  only  to  the  President 
and  Secretary.

This  does  not  prohibit  any  member 
of  this  Association  from  buying  a 
ticket  as  an  individual  at  the  regular 
place  of  sale  or  advertising  in  any 
other  legitimate  way.  Any  member 
of  the  Association  who  violates  this 
agreement  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine 
of  $2.

Resolved— That  a  printed  copy  of 
this  resolution  shall  be  sent  to  each 
member  of  the  Association.

The  Holland  Interurban-Graham & 
Morton  passenger  service  from  Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago 
unequaled. 
“Steamboat  Flyer”  leaves  daily  8 p. m.

is 

To  storekeepers:  Make  your  win­
dows  work for you.  There  is  no frost 
on  the  glass  at  this  season  of  the 
year.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

prominent  position,  the  disfigurement 
of  the  surface  will  be  more  or 
less 
perceptible.

By  the  use  of  certain  alkaline  sul­
phides,  hair  can  be  readily  removed 
with  little  or  no  discomfort,  but  the 
application  has  to  be  repeated  from 
time  to  time.

Strontium  sulphide  is  an  efficient 
depilatory  when  in  its  normal  condi­
tion.  A  convenient  form  of  applying 
it  is  as  here  directed:

Strontium  sulphide 
............2  drs.
Zinc  oxide 
...........................3  drs.
Powdered  sta rc h .................. 3  drs.
Mix  well  and  keep  in  the  dry  state 
until  wanted  for  use,  taking  then  a 
sufficient  quantity,  forming  into 
a 
paste  with  warm  water  and  apply­
ing  to  the  surface  to  be  deprived  of 
hair.  Allow  to  remain  from  one  to 
five  minutes,  according  to  the  nature 
of  the  hair  and  skin;  it  is  not  ad­
visable  to  continue  the  application 
longer  than  the  last-named  period 
Remove  in  all  cases  at  once  when 
any  caustic  action  is  felt.  After  the 
removal  of  the  paste,  scrape  the  skin 
gently  but  firmly  with  a  blunt-edged 
blade  (a  paper  knife,  for  instance) 
j until  the  loosened  hair  is  removed. 
Then  immediately  wash  the  denuded 
surface  well  with  warm  water,  and 
apply  cold  cream  or  some  similar 
emollient  as  a  dressing.

P.  W.  Lendower.

I  Formula 

for  Preparing  Culinary 

Mustard.

A  mustard  for  the  table  is  extem­
poraneously  prepared  by  mixing  the 
ground  mustard  with  water  or  with 
a 
little  vinegar.  W e  suppose  you 
want  the  composition  of  the  French 
article,  which  comes  in  pots,  and 
keeps  a  long  time.

1.  Take  salt,  1% 

scraped 
horseradish,  1  lb.,  garlic,  2  cloves, 
boiling  vinegar,  a  gal.  Macerate  in 
a  covered  vessel 
twenty-four 
hours,  strain  and  add  sufficient  flour 
of  mustard.

tbs., 

for 

2.  Soyer’s  Table  Mustard— Steep  1 
pint  mustard  seed  in  1  quart  of  dis­
tilled  vinegar  for  eight  days.  Grind 
into  paste  and  put  in  pots,  thrusting 
a  red  hot  poker  into  each.

12 

oz., 

lbs., 

garlic, 

1  clove, 

3.  Lenormand’s  Mustard  —   Flour 
of  mustard,  2 
fresh  parsley, 
chervil,  celery  and  tarragon,  of  each 
Y 
salt 
anchovies;  grind  well  together,  add 
salt  1  oz.,  grape  juice  or  sugar 
to 
sweeten,  and  sufficient  water  to form 
the  mass  into  a  thin  paste.  When 
put  into  pots  a  red  hot  iron  is  mo­
mentarily  thrust  into  the  contents  of 
each,  and  a  little  wine  vinegar  added. 
The  addition  of  a  small  portion  of 
glycerine  would  also  be  an  improve­
ment,  as  it  would  prevent  the  rapid 
drying  of  the  paste.

Thos.  Willets.

The  Free  Trial  Bottle  Nuisance.
I  have  noticed  of  late  a  great  in­
crease  in  the  number  of  patent  medi­
cine  houses  that  offer  a  free  trial  of 
their  remedies  to  the  public,  with 
the  guarantee  of  a  cure  or  money 
back.  Unfortunately  there  are  many 
customers  who  come  back  for  their 
money,  especially 
in  chronic  cases. 
Then  we  have  to  refund  and  send  in 
the  return  guarantee  coupon  to  the

Michigan  Board  of  Pharm acy. 
P resident—H arry   Helm ,  Saginaw. 
Secretary—A rth u r  H.  W ebber,  Cadillac. 
T reasurer—J.  D.  Muir,  G rand  Rapids. 
Sid  A.  Erw in,  B attle  Creek.
W.  E.  Collins,  Owosso.
M eetings  for  1905—S tar  Island,  Ju n e  26 
and  27;  H oughton,  Aug.  16,  17  and  18; 
G rand  Rapids,  Nov.  7,  8  and  9.
Michigan  S tate  P harm aceutical  A ssocia­

P resident—W .  A.  H all,  D etroit.
Vice  Presidents—W .  C.  K irchgessner, 
D etroit;  Charles  P.  B aker,  St.  Johns;  H. 
G.  Spring,  Unionville.

S ecretary—W.  H .  Burke,  D etroit. 
T reasurer—E.  E.  Russell,  Jackson. 
Executive  Com m ittee—John  D.  Muir, 
Grand  R apids;  E.  E.  Calkins,  A nn  A rbor; 
L.  A.  Seltzer,  D etroit;  John  W allace,  K al­
amazoo;  D.  S.  H allett,  D etroit.
th ree-y ear 
term —J.  M.  Lem enr   Shepherd,  and  H. 
Dolson,  St.  Charles.

Trade  In terest  Committee, 

tio n .

Difference  Between  Koumyss,  Mat- 

zoon  and  Kephir.

the 

These  are  practically 

same 
thing  as  they  are  all  made  from  fer­
mented  milk,  although  there  may  be 
a  difference  in  taste  and  appearance. 
Originally  koumyss  was  prepared  ex­
clusively  from  goats’  milk,  kephir 
from  ewes’  milk  and  matzoon  from 
cows’  milk,  but  the  various  prepara­
tions  of  the  market  are  now  usually 
made  from  cows’  milk.

....io o o   cc.
.......  
5  cc.

Koumyss  is  best  made  according 
to  the  formula  for  fermented  milk 
given  in  the  National  Formulary, 
which  is  as  follows;
Cows’  milk,  fresh 
Yeast,  semiliquid 
Sugar 
Dissolve  the  sugar  in  the  milk  con­
tained  in  a  strong  bottle,  add  the 
yeast,  cork  the  bottle  securely  and 
keep  it  at  a  temperature  between  73.4 
to  89.6  deg.  Fahrenheit,  for  six hours, 
then  transfer  to  a  cool  place.

............................   35  gms.

Kephir  is  made  by  the  action  of  a 
special  kephir  grain  or  ferment  upon 
milk.  The  active  kephir  grains  are 
added  to  fresh  milk  kept  at  a  tem­
perature  of  70  to  80  deg.  Fahrenheit, 
until  the  effect  of  fermentation  be­
comes  apparent  by  the  rising  of  the 
grains  to  the  surface.  The  grains 
the 
may  then  be  strained  off  and 
milk,  which  now 
enough 
yeast  cells  to  insure  continuance  of 
the  fermentation,  left  to  itself  in  well- 
corked  bottles.

contains 

Matzoon  is  the  koumyss  of  the  Ar­
menians. 
It  is  a  thick,  curdy  liquid, 
which  is  probably  prepared  like  kou­
myss  or  kephir,  stopping  the  fermen­
tation  after  one  or  two  days  and  ex­
pelling  the  gas.  as  it  is  not  efferves­
cent  and  gas  is  emitted  when  the 
cork  of  the  bottle  is  drawn.

H.  W.  Sparker.

Simple  Method  of  Removing  Super­

fluous  Hair.

There  is  no  simple  method  of  re­
moving  the  hair  by  which  the  growth 
of  new  hair  will  be  prevented.  Elec­
trical  destruction  of  the  hair  bulb  is 
the  only  means  of  doing  this;  it  is 
not  always  certain,  we  believe,  and, 
what  is  worse,  carries  the  risk  of  dis­
figurement.  Each  introduction  of  the 
electric  needle  produces  a  minute 
scar,  it  is  said,  and  if  the  hair  is  in  a

manufacturer,  who,  after  a  certain 
amount  of  red  tape,  returns  the  actual j 
cost  of  the  goods. 
I  must  confess 
that  I  do  not  see  what  there  is  in  it 
for  the  druggist,  who  is  out  wrap- 
ping  paper,  twine,  freight  and  last, 
but  not  least,  his  time.  Unless  some 
concerted  action  is  taken  the  retailer 
will  speedily  be  swamped  with  this 
I  be-1 
doubtful  class  of  “business.” 
lieve  we  should  turn  down 
every 
proposition  that  has  not  the  proper 
ratio  of  profit  and 
insist  upon  no 
further  extension  of  the  free-trial- 
bottle  plan  on  which  our  direct 
profit  is  a  problematical  quantity.
City  Druggi  t.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— The  decline  in 

cost  has 
been  checked  and  an  advance  has 
taken  place  of  5c  per  pound.  Higher 
prices  are  looked  for.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  weak  and  on  the  de­
cline.  The  present  price  is  the  low­
est  it  has  been  in  years.

Oil  Peppermint— Continues  to  de­
cline  on  account  of  the  new  crop 
soon  to  be  distilled.

Oil  Wormwood— Is  in  better  sup­

ply  and  has  declined.

American  Saffron— Has  declined.
Gum  Camphor  —   Competition  of 
the  price 

refined  holds 

Japanese 
down.

Short  Buchu  Leaves— Are  tending 

lower.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  and  is 
tending  upward  on  account  of  higher 
price  for  seed.

When  a  man  really  knows  God  he 
always  rejoices  at  the  prospect  of  a 
chance  to  give.

V o u   w ill  m ake no m istake  if   you  reserve your 

orders  for

Hammocks 

Fishing  Tackle 

Base  Ball  Supplies 
Fireworks  and  Flags

O u r lines are complete  and  prices  right.
The  boys will  call1 in  ample time.

FRED  BRUNDAGE 
Wholesale  Druggist 

Stationery  and  School  Supplies 

32-34 Western  Ave.,  Muskegon.  Mich.

Special  Offer

For  June

The  Month  of  looses

Sweet  Alsatian 

Roses

P A C K E D

1  Pint  Sw eet  A lsatian  Roses 
16  Double  Sheets  M usic
2  Yards  R oses 
4  Plates  R oses 
50  Cards  M usic
Printed hangers and streamers 
A ll  in  carton  for  $5.00  net. 
Order  through  your  jobber  or 
direct.

The Jennings  Perfumery  Co. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Base  Ball  Supplies

Croquet

Marbles,  Hammocks,  Etc.

G rand  R apids  S tatio n ery   Co. 

29  N.  Ionia  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Invincible

119

As  good  as  cigars  can  be  made 
for  $33  and  $30  respectively. 
If 
you are not handling  these  brands 
include  a  sample  lot  in  your  next 
order.

Handled  by all  jobbers and by 

the  manufacturers

Geo.  H.  Seymour  &  Co.

Grand  Rapids

T h is  is  a picture o f A N D R E W  
B.  S P lN N t i i .   M.  D .  the  only 
D r. Spinney  in  this country.  Be 
has had forty-eight years experi­
ence in  the study and practice of 
medicine,  two  years  Prof, 
in 
the  medical college, ten years in 
sanitarium   work  and be  never 
fails in  his diagnosis.  Be giver 
special attention  to  throat  and 
lu n g  diseases  m a k i n g   some 
wonderiul cures.  A lso all form s 
of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St. 
V itu s dance,  paralysis, etc.  B e  I 
never faUs to cure plies.
There is  noth ing  know n  that 
!  he does  not use  for  private  diseases of  both  sexes,
;  and  by  h is  own  special  methods  he  cures  where 
; others fail. 
I f   you  would  like  an  opinion of your 
case  and  w hat  ft  w ill  cost  to  core  yon,  write  out  I 
a ll your sym ptom s enclosing stam p for yonr reply.
I 
P rop. Reed C ity Sanitarium , Reed City, M i d i   |

ANDREW  B.  SPINNEY. M.  D. 

i  PILES  CUREDl 

_-________________
DR. WILLARD  M.  BURLESON

Rectal  Specialist

103  Monroe  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Forest  City 

Paint

g iv e s  the  dealer  more  profit  with 
less trouble  than  any  other  brant? 
o f paint.

D ealets not carryin g paint at  tht 
think  ot 

present  time  or  w ho 
c h a n g in g  should w rite us.

O u r  P A I N T   P R O P O S I T I O N  
should  be  in  the  hands  o f  every 
dealer.

It ’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint

&  Varnish Co.

C le v e la n d ,  O h io

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—
Declined—Quinine,  Cod  L iver  Oil,  Saffron.

Acldum
..........  
.............. 

Aceticum 
9®
Benzoicum,  Ger..  710
Boracic 
A
.......  26©
Carbolicum 
Cltrlcum..............   430
Hydrochlor 
....... 
30
80
Nitrocum 
......... 
Ozalicum 
..........   100
0
Phosphorium,  dii. 
Salicylicum 
.......   430
Sulphurlcum 
. . . .  1% 0
Tannicum ..........   760
Tartaricum 
.......  380

Ammonia
Aqua,  18  deg  . . .  
40
Aqua,  20  deg  . . .  
<0
Carbonas 
..........   130
Chlorldum..........   130
Aniline
Black 
...............3  3001
Brown  ...............   8001
Red  ....................   460
fellow  .............. 3  6002

Cubebae  ...po. 30  160
Juniperus 
60
Xanthoxylum 
.. .  300 

Baccae
......... 

Baleamum
Copaiba  .............   460
Peru  ..................  
0 1
Terabin,  Canada.  COO
Tolutan  ..............  260

8 0

Tinnevelly 

24<
2il
111
121
14l
111

Vi»  and  Vis 

Cortex 
Abies,  Canadian..
Cassias 
.............
Cinchona  Flava.. 
Buonymus  atro..
Myrica  Cerifera..
Prunus  Virgini  .. 
Qulllaia,  gr'd  .. . .  
Sassafras 
. .po 35
Ulmus 
...............
Extra ctum
G iycyrrhlza  G la ..
Glycyrrhlza,  p o ..
H a e m a to x ............
H aem atox,  Is  . . .
H aem atox,  Vis  ..
H aem atox,  Vis  ..
F srru
C arbonate  Preclp.
C itrate  and Q ulna 
C itrate  Soluble  .. 
Ferrocyanidum   S.
Solut.  Chloride  ..
Sulphate,  com’l  ..
Sulphate,  com’l,  by 
bbl.  per  cw t  ..
Sulphate,  pure  ..
Flora
A rnica 
..................   160
.............  330
A nthem is 
M atricaria 
..........   200
Folia
B arosm a  . . .  .........  200
Cassia  Acutifol, 
. . . .   150 
Cassia,  A cutifol..  360 
Salvia  officinalis,
. .   130
Uva  U r a l .................. 
Gumml 
Acacia,  1st  p k d ..
Acacia,  2nd  p k d ..
Acacia,  3rd  p k d ..
Acacia,  sifted  sts.
Acacia,  po  ..........   45i
Aloe,  B a r b ...........  12i
Aloe,  C a p e ...........
Aloe,  Socotri  . . . .
Ammoniac 
..........   66i
...........  86i
A safoetlda 
B en zo in u m ...........  50
0   IS
C atechu,  Is 
. . . .  
Catechu.  Vis  . . . .  
0   14
0   10
Catechu.  V4s  . . . .  
Cam phorae  ..........  810  85
Euphorbium  
. . . .  
O   40
G a lb a n u m ............  
0 1   00
Gamboge  . . . . p o . . l   3501  85 
Guaiacum   ..p o 3 S  
®  86
K in o .......... po  46o 
O   46
M astic 
................... 
®  40
........ po SO 
0   46
M yrrh 
Opll..........................3  1603  35
Shellac 
............   4 0 0   60
Shellac, bleached  450 
60
T ragacanth  ........   7001  00
A bsinthium  
....... 4  50@4  60
Eupatorium   os pk 
Lobelia 
....o z p k  
M ajorum  
. .os pk 
M entha  P ip  os pk 
M entha  Ver os pk
Rue  ..............os pk
T anacetum   V  . . .  
Thym us  V  os pk 
M agnesia 
Calcined,  P a t 
.. 
C arbonate,  P a t  ..
C arbonate  K -M .  _
..........   12
C arbonate 
Oleum
A bsinthium  
. . . . .4  9905
Amygdalae.  Dulc.  SO®
A m ygdalae  A m a .1  90@9
Anisi 
................... .1  4501
A uranti  Cortex .2  2002
Bergam ii  ............ .2  8509
C ajiputi  .............. ■  85®
Caryophilli  ........ .  80®
.................. .  500
Cedar 
Chenopadii  ___ .3  7504
........ .1  0001
Cinnamon! 
Citronella............. .  600
.. .  100
Conium  Mae 
Copaiba 
.1  1501 
Cubebae 
.1  <901

1 10 

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

650
ISO
ISO

H erba

00 
85 H  
00 
66

4001 50

B vechthltoa 
. . . . 1   0 0 0 1  10
E rigeron  ...............l   0 0 0 1  10
G aultheria 
...........2  2502  35
Geranium  
. . .  .os 
75
Gossippii  Sem  gal  50®  60
Hedeom a 
............1 
Junípera 
..............  4 0 0 1  20
..........   9002  75
Lavendula 
Llm onis  ................  9001  10
. .3  7504  00 
M entha  Piper 
M entha  Verid  ...5   000 5  60 
M orrhuae  gal. 
. . 1   2 5 0 1  50
“ y™51*   ..................3  000 3  50
SKY*  -  V . - - ........   750 3  00
Piéis  Liquida  . . .  
10®  12 
0   35
Picis  Liquida  «al 
Kleina 
..................  92®  96
Rosm arini 
0 1   00
..........  
Rosae  os 
...........5 
0006 00
S u c c ln l.................    40®  45
Sabina  ..................  9001  00
S antal  ....................2  2504  50
S assafras 
............   9001  00
Sinapis,  ess.  o s ... 
0   65
1 0 0 1 20
Tiglll 
.................... 1 
Thym e  ..................  40®  50
Thym e,  o p t ........  
0 1   60
Theobrom as  ___  15®  20

..................  30Í

15® 
13® 
12® 
12® 

Petaeslum
Bi-C arb  ................ 
j j
........  
B ichrom ate 
15
Bromide 
..............  25®  30
Cafb 
................  . 
15
Chlorate 
........po. 
14
Cyanide 
..............  34®  33
Kdide 
.................... 3  6003  65
Potassa,  B itart pr 
P otass  N itras  opt 
P otass  N itras  . . . .
P russlate  ___ . . .
. . . .
Sulphate  po 
Radix
..........

Aconitum 
A lthae 
..............  10®  12
A nchusa 
©  26
Arum   p o .............. 
Calam us 
..............  20®  40
G entiana  po  15..  12®  15 
G lychrrhisa  pv  15  16®  18 
H ydrastis,  Canada. 
1  90 
H ydrastis.  Can.po 
0 2   00 
Hellebore,  Alba.  12®  15
Inula,  po 
............  18®  22
Ipecac,  po.............. 2  00®2  10
Iris  plox 
............  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r  ..........   25®  30
M aranta,  *4» 
. . .   @  35
Podophyllum  po.  15®  18
Rhei 
......................  7601  00
Rhel,  cut 
...........1  00®1  25
Rhel,  pv 
............   7501  00
Splgella  ................  30®  35
Sanguinarl,  po 24 
®  22
Serpentaria 
........   50®  65
Senega 
................  85®  90
Smllax,  offl’s  H . 
&  40
Smtlax,  M  .......... 
®  25
Scillae  po  3 5 ....  10®  12
Sym plocarpus  . . .   @  25
V aleriana  E ng  ..  @ 2 5
V aleriana,  Ger  ..  15®  20
Zingiber  a  ..........   12®  14
Zingiber  J ............  16®  29

Semen

4® 

5® 

Anisum  po.  2 9 ...  @  16
Aplum  (gravel’s).  13®  15
Bird,  I s ................ 
6
. . . .   10®  11
Carul  po  15 
C a rd a m o n ............  70®  90
Coriandrum  
. . . .   12®  14
7
C annabis  Sativa. 
Cydonium  ............  7501  00
Chenopodlum 
. ..   25®  30 
D ipterix  Odorate.  8001  00
@  18
........ 
Foeniculum 
7® 
Poenugreek,  p o .. 
9
Lint  ........................ 
4® 
6
SQ 
Linl,  grd.  bbl.  2% 
6
L o b e lia ..................  75®  20
9®  10
P harlarls  C ana'n 
5® 
R a p a ...................... 
6
Sinapis  Alba  . . . .  
7® 
9
Sinapis  N igra  . ..  
9®  19
Spiritus
Frum enti  W   D ..3   9002  69
Frum entl 
.............1  2501  50
Junlperls  Co  O  T .l  6502  00
Junlperls  C o ___1  7503  50
Saccharum   N  E  l   90@2  10 
Spt  Vlni  Galli 
..1   7506  50 
Vlni  Oporto 
. ...1   2502  00
Vina  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  5003  75
Velvet  ex tra  slips' 
@2  90 
wool,  carriage  .
E x tra  yellow  shps* 
@1  25
wool  carriag e..
G rass  sheeps’  wl,
|1  26 
carriage  ...........
H ard,  slate use  .. 
fellow   Reef,  for
slate  use...........
Syrups
A cacia 
..................
A uranti  Cortex  ..
Z in g ib e r................
I p e c a c ....................
F errl  Iod  ............
Rhel  A ro m ..........
Sm ilax  Offl’s 
. . .
................
Senega 
S c illa e ....................
..........
Scillae  Co 
Tolutan 
..............
Prunus  virg 
. . .

>1 00

Sponges

@1  49

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

43

F aints 

Lard,  ex tra 
. . . .   700  80
Lard,  No.  1........   60®  65
Linseed,  pure  raw   480  53
Linseed,  boiled 
...49©   54
N eat’s-foot,  w  s tr  650  70 
Spts.  Turpentine.  610  66
bbl  L 
Red  V enetian  ...184,  2  @3 
Ochre,  yel  M ars.1%   2  @4 
Ochre,  yel  B er  ..1%   2  @3 
Putty,  com m er’1.2V4  2Vi@3 
P utty,  strictly  pr2Vi  2%@3 
Vermilion,  Prim e
........   130  15
Vermilion,  E n g ...  75®  80
Green,  P aris 
.........14®  18
Green,  Peninsular  13©  16
Lead,  red 
7
7
Lead,  w hite 
W hiting,  w hite  S’n  @  90 
W hiting  Gilders’ 
@  95 
W hite,  P aris Am’r   @1  25 
W hit’g  P aris E ng
@1  40
.................... 
U niversal  P rep’d 1  1001  20

.............684® 
. . . .   684® 

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   7503  00 
No  1  T urp  F u rn l  0001  10 
E x tra  T  D am ar  .1  5501  60 
Jap   D ryer No  1  T   70®

10®
0
20®

Sapo,  M ................
Sapo,  G ................
Seidlitz  M ix tu re..
Sinapis 
................
Sinapis,  o p t ........
Snuff.  Maccaboy,
DeVoes  ■............
Snuff,  S’h  DeVo’s
Soda,  B o r a s ........
9 0
Soda,  Boras,  po.
9®
Soda  et  P o t’s  T a rt  25 @
Soda,  C arb  ........   lVi®
Soda,  B i-C arb  .. 
3 0
Soda,  Ash  .......... 3Vi®
Soda,  Sulphas 
..  @
Spts,  Cologne 
..  @2  60
Spts,  E th er  C o ..  50®  55
Spts,  M yrcia  Dom  @2  00 
Spts,  Vlni  R ect bbl  @ 
Spts,  Vi’i Rect  Vib 
0  
Spts,  Vi’i R ’t 10 gl  @ 
Spts,  Vi’i R ’t  5 gal  @ 
Strychnia,  C rystall  0501 25
Sulphur  S u b l........2%@ 
4
Sulphur.  Roll  ___2Vi®  3Vi
T am arinds 
8 0   10
Terebenth  Venice  28®  30
T h e o b ro m ae ........   45®  50
Vanilla 
Zlnci  Sulph  ........ 
8

............... 9  00®
7@ 

.......... 

Oils
W hale,  w inter  ..

bbl  gal 
700  70

M annia.  S  F ___  450  69
M enthol 
.............. 2  4002  60
M orphia.  S P A  W2 3502 69 
Morphia.  S N  T  Q2 350 2 69 
M orphia,  Mai. 
..2   3502  60 
Moschus  C anton.  @  49 
Myri8tlca,  No.  1.  280  30 
N ux  Vomica po 15  @ 1 9
Os  S e p ia ..............   25®  28
Pepsin  Saac.  H   &
P  D C o .............. 
@1  99
Picis  Liq  N   N   Vi
gal d o z .............. 
@2  90
Picis  Liq  q ts  . . . .   @1  99
0   60 
Ptcis  Liq.  pin ts. 
Pil  H ydrarg  po 80 
0   60
Piper N igra  po  22 
0   18
P iper  Alba  po  35 
®  30
P ix  B u r g u n ........  
7
0  
Plum bi  Acet  . . . .   120  15
Pulvis  Ip’c  et  O piil 3001 60 
Pyrethrum ,  bxs H
0   76 
&  P   D  Co.  doz. 
P yrethrum ,  pv  ..  200  25
Q uassiae  .............. 
8 0   10
Quina,  S  P   &  W .  220  32
Quina,  S  Ger..........  220  32
Quina,  N.  Y.............220  32
Rubia  Tinctorum   120  14 
Saccharum   L a’s.  22®  25
............... 4  5004  75
Salacin 
Sanguis  D rac’s  ..  40®  50
Sapo.  W  
............   12®  14

 

60
50
60
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
60
50
50
50
75
50
1  50
60
50
50
50
50
60
60
50
50
20

Tinctures
Aconitum  N ap’sR 
Aconitum  N ap’sF  
Aloes 
.................... 
A ttic a  
............. 
Aloes  &  M yrrh  .. 
A saioetlda  ..........  
Atrppe  Belladonna 
A uranti  Cortex  .. 
Benzoin 
. . . . . . . .  
Benzoin  Co  ........  
Barosm a  ..............  
C a n th a rid e s ........  
Capsicum 
............  
Cardam on 
.......... 
Cardam on  Co  . . .  
Castor 
.................. 
C a te c h u ................ 
C in c h o n a .............. 
Cinchona  Co  . . . .  
Columba 
.............. 
Cubebae 
..............  
Cassia  Acutifol  .. 
Cassia  Acutifol Co 
D igitalis 
..............  
.................... 
E rgot 
F erri  Chlorldum. 
G entian 
.............. 
G entian  Co........... 
Gulaca  .................. 
Guiaca  am m on  .. 
Hyoscyam us 
. . . .  
Iodine 
..................  
Iodine,  colorless.. 
Kino 
.................... 
Lobelia  .................  
M y r r h .................... 
N ux V o m ica........  
Opll  ........................ 
Opil,  cam phorated 
Opil,  deodorized.. 
Q uassia  . . . . . ___ 
R hatany 
.............. 
Rhei 
...................... 
Sangulnaria  ........ 
Serpentaria  ........  
Strom onium  
. . . .  
T olutan  ................  
V alerian 
..............  
V eratrum   Veride. 
Zingiber 
.............. 

Miscellaneous

. . .   20 

Aether,  Spts N it Sf 30 
A ether,  Spts N it 4f 34 
Alumen,  grd po 7 
3
A n n a tto ................
Antimonl,  po  . . . .
Antimonl  e t  po  T
A n tip y rin ................ 
1
.........  
A ntlfebrin 
1
Argenti  N itras  oz
Arsenicum 
..........  10
Balm  Gilead  buds  60 
B ism uth  S  N 
Calcium  Chlor,  Is 
Calcium  Chlor,Vis 
Calcium  Chlor Vis 
C antharides,  Rus.
Capsici  F ruc’s  af 
Capsici  F ruc’s po 
Cap’!  FYuc’s B po 
Carophyllus 
Carmine,  No.  40..  0 4   25
Cera  A lb a ............  50®  55
Cera  Flava  ........  400  42
.................1  7501 80
Crocus 
Cassia  F ructus  ..  @ 3 5
C entraria 
............ 
@  10
Cataceum   ............  
©  35
Chloroform 
........  350  45
Chloro’m,  Squihbs 
0   95
Chloral  Hyd  C rst 1  350 1  60
Chondrus  .............   20®  25
Cinchonidine  P -W   38®  48 
Cinchonid’e  Germ  38®  48
Cocaine  ................ 4  05 ©4 25
Corks  list  d  p  ct 
Creosotum 
.,
C r e ta ..........bbl  76
Creta,  prep  .
Creta,  preclp 
Creta,  R ubra
Crocus 
Cudbear 
............
Cupri  Sulph 
. . .
D extrine  ............
Em ery,  all  Nos.
Em ery,  po 
. . .
E rgota 
Either  Sulph  ..
Flake  W hite  ..
Qalla 
................
Gambler 
..........
Gelatin,  Cooper  .
Gelatin,  French  .  35® 
Glassware,  fit  box 
75
th an   box 
70
. . . .   11®  13 
Glue,  brown 
Glue,  w hite  . . . . .   15®  25
Glycerina 
...........   15®  20
G rana  Paradisl  ..  @ 2 5
H um ulus  .............   35®  60
H ydrarg  Ch  M t. 
@ 9 5  
H ydrarg  Ch  Cor 
©  90 
H ydrarg Ox Ru’m  @1  05
H ydrarg  Ammo’l  @1  15
H ydrarg Ungue’m  60®  60 
H ydrargyrum  
@ 7 5
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  90@1  00
Indigo 
..................  75@1  00
Iodine.  Resubl  ..4   85@4  90
............ 4  90@5  00
Iodoform 
Lupulin  ................ 
O  40
Lycopodium......... 1  1501  20
M ad s  ....................  66®  75
Liquor  A rsen  et 
@ 2 5
H ydrarg  Iod  . .  
Llq  P otass  A rslnit  10®  12 
M agnesia,  Sulph. 
2® 
3
~ 
Sulph bbl.  0   1H

...................1  2501

....p o . 65 

Less 

.. 

.. 

We  are  Importers  and  Jobbers  of  Drugs, 

Chemicals  and  Patent  Medicines.

We  are  dealers 

in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

We  have  a  full  line  of  Staple  Druggists’ 

Sundries.

We are the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s 

Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

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

We  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail 

orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

All  orders  shipped  and invoiced the same 

day  received.  Send  a  trial  order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

44

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These  quotations  are  carefully  corrected  weekly, within  six  hoars  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  ccontry  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of  purchase

ADVANCED

DECLINED

Index to  Markets

By  Columns

Col

ixi*  Ormo*

B ath  B rick 
Brooms 
Brushes 
B utter  Color 

......................   1
..............................   1
..............................  1
...................  1

Confections  .................    11
Candles 
..............................   1
Canned  Goods 
............  1
Carbon  Oils 
.................  8
Catsup  ..........................   2
Cheese  ..........................   2
Chewing  Gum 
............  2
Chicory 
.........................  2
Chocolate 
..........................   2
Clothes  Lines  ...............   2
. ................................   2
Cocoa 
Cocoanut  .......................  2
Cocoa  Shells  ....................   2
Coffee 
..................................  2
Crackers 
............................   2

Tied  Erutta  .................  4

Farinaceous  Goods  . . . .   4
Fish  and  OyBtors  ...........14
Fishing  Tackle 
............  4
Flavoring  extracts  .......  I
Fly  P a p er.....................
6
Fresh  Meats  ............. 
Fruits  ............................ 11

 

 

Gelatine  .............. 
I
Grain  Bags  ..................   B
Grains  and  flour  .........  5
B
..........IB

Herbs 
Hides  and  P elts 

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

indigo 

lelly 

.

Licorice 
Lye 
. . . .

Meat  Extracts 
............  B
Molasses  .......................   4
Mustard 
  4

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

Nuts 

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

 

11

N

O

Hives  ............................   Ä

 

rupee  .............  
I
Pickles  ..........................   4
Playing  C ard s...............  4
Potash  ..........................   4
Provisions 
....................  4

 

 

Uce

Salad  Dressing  ............  7
Saleratus 
.....................   7
gal  Soda 
7
................. 
Sait  ...............................   7
Salt  Fish  .....................   7
Seeds 
............................  7
Shoe  Blacking  .............   7
Snuff  .............................  7
Soap 
.............................   7
Soda  ..............................  8
Spices  ...................... 
  8
..........................   8
Starch 
Sugar 
..........................   8
Syrups 
.........................  8

T

Tea 
Tobacco 
Twine 

...............................   8
.......................   8
...........................  8

V

W

Vinegar 

.......................   B

........... 

Washing  Pow der 
•
W1 oklng 
.......................   B
.....................  B
Wooden w are 
Wrapping  Paper  ............ 14
Y

Traat  Cabs 

 

IB

AXLE GREASE 

F razer’s

lib .  wood  boxes,  4  dz.  3  00 
lib .  tin   boxes,  3  doz.  2  35 
3%Tb.  tin   boxes,  2  dz.  4  25 
101b  pails,  per  doz. 
..6   00 
151b.  pails,  per  doz 
. .7  20 
25R>.  pails,  p er  doz  .. 12  00 

BAKED  BEANS 
Columbia  B rand

 

Shoe

Stove

Scrub

BATH  BRICK

90 
lib .  can,  per  doz 
..1  40
21b.  can,  per  doz
. . . . 1  80
Sib.  can,  per  doz 
A m erican 
......................   75
English 
............................   85
BROOMS
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
Fancy  W hisk 
...............1  20
W arehouse 
.....................3  00

BRUSHES
Solid  Back  8  In 
........   75
Solid  Back,  11  I n ...........  95
Pointed  e n d s ................ - 
85
No.  3 
 
75
No.  2 
...............................1  10
No.  1  .1 ............................ 1 75
No.  8  ............................... 1  00
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 size.2  00 
E lectric  Light.  8s  . . . .   9%
E lectric  Light,  1 6 s -----10
ParafB re,  6s 
................   9
Paraffine,  12s  ................   9%
W icking. 
......................... 20
Apples

CANNED  GOODS 

BUTTER  COLOR 

CAN  . l ES

Blac  -errles

3  lb.  S ta n d a rd s..  75®  80
Gals.  S tandards  .2  15@2  25 
S ta n d a r d s ............  
85
B a k e d ....................   80@1  30
Red  K idney 
. . . .   85®  95
S tring 
..................  70®1  15
W ax 
......................   75@1  25
Blueberries
1  40
S tandard  ............
Brook T ro u t
6  75 
Gallon....................
1  90
21b.  cans,  s.plced 
Clams
L ittle  Neck,  lib .  1  00@1  25 
L ittle  Neck,  21b.. 
@1  50
B urnham ’s  %  p t  .........1  90
B urnham ’s,  p ts 
...........3  60
B urnham ’s,  q ts  .............7  20
Cherries
Red  S tandards  ..1   30@1  50
W hite 
..................  
1  60
F a ir................................. 75® 90
Good 
...................................1  00
Fancy 
...............................1  25
French  Peas
Sur  E x tra  Fine  ..........   22
E x tra  Fine 
..................   19
Moyen 
S tandard 

Clam  Bouillon

Beans

Corn

......................
Gooseberries
................
Hominy
Lobster

Plum s

Russian  Cavier

Plum s 
..............................   85
Pineapple
    .............. 1  25@2  75
G rated 
Sliced 
.................... 1  35®2  55
Pum pkin
70
F a i r ........................  
80
Good  ....................... 
F ancy  . . .  
............. 
1  00
Gallon 
®2  00
..................  
R aspberries
S tandard  ..............  
@
%Ib.  c a n s .........................3  75
% lb.  cans 
.......................7  00
lib   cans 
.......................12  00
Salmon
Col’a   R iver,  tails.  @1  80 
Col’a   River,  flats.l  85@1  90
Red  A laska  ........ 1  35@1  45
P in k   A laska  . . . .  
@  95
Sardines
Dom estic,  %s 
..  3%@  3% 
Domestic,  %s  .. 
5
Dom estic,  M ust’d  6  @  9 
California,  14s  . . .   11@14
California,  % s ...l7   @24
F rench,  %s  ........ 7  @14
French,  %s  ........ 18  @28
Shrim ps
S ta n d a r d ...............1 20® 1  40
Succotash
F a ir 
95
......................  
Good  ......................  
1  10
F ancy  ....................1 25@1  40
S tandard  ..............
Fancy  ....................
1  4C
Tom atoes
@  80 
F a ir  ........................
Good  .......................
@  85
F a n c y .....................1 15@1  45
G a llo n s ...................2 50® 2  60

1 10 

Straw berries

CARBON  OILS 

@10%
@1
@13

..................16 @22
CATSUP

B arrels
Perfection 
..........
. ..
W ater  W hite 
D.  S.  Gasoline 
.
Deodor’d  N ap’a  .. @11%
..............29 @34%
Cylinder 
E ngine 
..  9 @10%
Black,  w inter 
. .4  50
Columbia,  25  p ts ...
Columbia,  25  %  pts ..2   60
..3   25
Snider’s  q u arts  -----
..2   25
Snider’s  pints 
........
..1  30
Snider’s  % pints  ...
CH EESE
@15
Acme........................
@13
Carson  C ity 
. . . .
P eerless...................
@
@16
Elsie 
......................
@14%
Em blem ..................
@14%
Gem..........................
Iffili
Ideal 
.....................
@15
Jersey .....................
@14
Riverside  .............
@15
W arn er’s  .............
@15
B rick........................
@90
E dam  
..................
@15
Leiden 
..................
L im burgr....................
Pineapple  ............40 @60
Sap  Sago................
@19
@141«
Swiss,  dom estic  .
Swiss,  Im ported  .
@20
A m erican  F lag  Spruce.  55
B eem an’s  Pepsin  ........   60
B lack  Jack  
..................   55
60
11 L argest  Gum  M ade 
..
55
Sen  Sen 
..........................
90 Sen  Sen  B reath  P e rf .l  00
Sugar  Loaf  ....................
55
85 Y ucatan 
..........................
..................................
....................................
..............................
..........................
........................

CHEWING  GUM 

CHICORY

14%

5
7
4
7
6

Star.  % lb................. ___2 15 Bulk 
lib ................... ___3 75 Red 
Star, 
.......... . ...2 60 Eagle 
Picnic  Tails 

Mackerel

F ran ck ’s 
. . .1 80 Schemer’s 

22
28
41
35
28

CHOCOLATE

W alter  B aker  &  Co.’s

15@ 20 Eagle 
22@ 25

M ustard,  2Tb.^ . . . . . ...2 80
Soused.  1%............... ___1 80
Soused.  2lb................ ___2 80 G erm an  Sw eet  ..............
lib .............. ___1 80
Tom ato 
........ . ...2 80 V anilla  ..............................
Tom ato.  2Tb. 
Mushrooms
C aracas  ............................
H otels 
..................
................................
Buttons  ................
CLOTHES  LINES
Oysters
Coe,  lib ..................
Cove,  2Tb................
Cove,  1Tb.  Oval  ..
Peaches
Pie  ..........................1 10@1 15 72ft.  6  thread,  ex tra.
Yellow..................... 1  65@2  25
Pears
75
fiOft 
................................
S tandard  ..............1  00 @1  35
72ft.  ..................................
90
@2  00 90ft..................................... 1  05
Fancy 
...............
Peas
120ft................................... 1  50
90@1  00
Marrowfat  ........
■ arty  June  ...... fO01  69
.1  10

90 GOft.  3  thread,  ex tra. 1  00
@1 70 72ft.  3  thread,  extra. 1  40
@1  00 9('ft.  3  thread,  ex tra. 1  70
60ft.  6  thread,  extra. 1  29

1  mm ■ ML  .........................

Cotton  Victor

Sisal

Ju te

MM

Cotton  Braided

Cotton  W indsor

Galvanized  W ire 

•0ft.  .................................... 1  60
50ft.........................................1 30
60ft......................................... 1 44
70ft.......................................1  80
80ft.  .....................................2  00
40ft........................................  95
50ft......................................... 1 35
60ft......................................... 1 65
No.  20,  each  100ft.  longl  90 
No.  19,  each  100ft.  long2  10 
COCOA
B aker’s 
............................   35
........................   41
Cleveland 
Colonial,  %s  ..................   35
Colonial,  %s  ..................   33
E p p s ..................................   42
H uyler  ..............................   45
V an  H outen,  % s .........  12
V an  H outen,  V ^ s .........  20
V an  H outen.  > 4 » .........  40
Is  ...........  72
V an  H outen, 
W ebb 
................................   28
W ilbur,  % s .............. 
41
W ilbur,  %s 
..................   42
COCOANUT
D unham ’s  % s ............   26
D unham ’s  i |s &  U s--  86%
D unham ’s  %s 
..........   27
D unham ’s  % s ............   28
Bulk 
..............................   13
COCOA  SH ELLS
201b.  b a g s ...........................2%
le s s   q u a n tity ................ 3
Pound  p a c k a g e s ............ 4

 

CO FFEE

Rio

Santos
...........................11%
..................................12%

Common..............................11
F a ir  ................................... 12
Choice 
..............................15
F a n c y .................................18
Common 
F air. 
Choice................................. 15
F ancy................................. 18
P eaberry  ..........................
M aracaibo
F air. 
................................15
..............................18
Choice 
Choice 
...............................16%
..............................19
F ancy 
G uatem ala
Choice 
..............................15
A frican 
............................12
F ancy  A frican  ..............17
O.  G......................   .......... 25
P.  G.....................................31
Mocha
..........................21
Arabian 
Package 

Mexican

Jav a

New  T ork  B asis

A rbuckle.............................13 50
D ilw orth.............................13 00
Jersey ..................................13 50
Lion 
.................................13  50
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX 
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold 
to   retailers  only.  M ail  all 
orders  direct 
to  W .  F. 
M cLaughlin  &  Co.,  C hi­
cago.
Holland,  %  gro  boxes.  95
Felix.  %  g r o s s ................1 15
H um m ers  foil,  %  gro.  85 
H um m el’s  tin.  %  gro.l  43 
N ational  Biscuit  Com pany’s 

CRACKERS

E xtract

B rands 
B utter

Soda

O yster

Sw eet  Goods

Seym our  B u tte r s .......... 6%
N  Y  B u tters  .....................6%
Salted  B u tters  .................6%
Fam ily B u tte r s .................6%
N B C   S o d a s .....................6%
Select  ................................  8
Saratoga  Flakes  ...........13
Round  O y s te r s .................6%
Square  O ysters  ...............6%
F au st  ...................................7%
A r g o .....................................7
|  E x tra  F arin a  ...................7%
A nim als 
...........................10
A ssorted  Cake  ...............11
Bagley  Gems  ...................9
Belle  Rose 
.......................9
B ent’s  W ater  .................17
B u tter  T h i n .....................13
Chocolate  D rops  ...........17
Coco  B ar  .........................11
Cocoanut  Taffy  .............12
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C..10 
I  Coffee  Cake,  Iced 
....1 0  
Cocoanut  M acaroons  ..18
.........................16
C racknels 
C urran t  F ru it 
...............11
Chocolate  D ainty 
....1 7
C artw heels 
.....................10
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  Sandw ich  ...11
G raham   C ra c k e rs ........ 9
Honey  Fingers,  Iced 
.12
Honey  Jum bles 
...........12
Iced  Honey  C rum pet  .12
Im perials 
...........................9
Indiana  Belle  .................15
Jersey  L unch 
..............   8
...............12
Lady  F ingers 
Ijid y   Fingers, hand md  25 
Lem on  B iscuit  Square  9
Lemon  W afer 
...............16
Lemon  Snaps  .................12
Lem on  G e m s ...................10
Lem  Yen 
..................... ..11

4
M arshm allow  
.................16
M arshm allow   Cream   ..17 
M arshm allow   W alnut  .17
M ary  A nn  ......................   8%
M a la g a ...............................11
Mich  Coco  F s ’d honey. 12
Milk  B iscuit  ..................   8
Mich.  F rosted  H oney. 12
Mixed  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  H o n e y .......... 15
Ping  Pong  .........................9
Pretzels,  hand  m ade  ..8%  
P retzeiettes,  hand  m ’d  8% 
P retzelettes,  inch,  m 'd  7%
Revere................................. 15
Richmond. 
.......................11
Richwood 
.......................   8%
Rube  S e a r s .........................9
.............10
Scotch  Cookies 
Snowdrops  .......................16
Spiced  S ugar  Tops 
..  9 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  9
S ugar  Squares  ...........     9
...........................15
S ultanas 
Spiced  G in g e rs .................9
............................11
U rchins 
V ienna  Crim p.....................9
Vanilla  W afer  ...............16
W averly 
...........................10
Z anzibar 
..........................10
B arrels  or  drum s  .............29
Boxes  .................................... 30
Square  cans  .......................32
F ancy  caddies 
..................35

CREAM  TARTAR

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples

Peel

Beans

F arina

1  50 
1  95 
2  60

. . . .  12 
. . . .  12 

Sundried  ................4  @  4%
E vaporated............6  @ 7
California  Prunes 
100-125  25lb  boxes.  @  3 
90-100  251b  boxes  @  3% 
80-  90  251b  boxes  @  4 
70-  80  251b  boxes 
*  4% 
60  -70  251b  boxes  @  5 
50-  60  251b  boxes  @  5% 
40  -50  251b  boxes  @  6% 
30-  40  251b  boxes  @  7% 
%c  less  in  501b  cases. 
Citron
Corsican..................  
@15
C urrants
Im p’d,  lib   pkg  ..  6% @  7 
Im ported  bulk  ..  6%@  7% 
Lemon  A m erican 
O range  A m erican 
Raisins
London  Layers,  3  or 
London  L ayers  4  cr 
C luster  5  crown  . . .  
Loose  M uscatels,  2  c r . .  6 
Loose  M uscatels,  3  cr. .6 
Loose  M uscatels,  4  cr. .6% 
L.  M.  Seeded,  1  lb .6%@7% 
L.  M.  Seeded,  %  lb 5  @6 
Sultanas,  bulk 
. . . .   @8
Sultanas,  package  .  @8%
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  Lim a 
..................  6%
Med.  Hd.  P k ’d.  .1  75@1  85
Brown  Holland  .............2  25
24 
lib .  packages...........1  75
Bulk,  per  100  lbs............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 
Im ported,  251b  box  . .2  50
Pearl  Barley
Common..............................2  00
C hester 
.............................2  20
E m pire  ..............................3  25
Green,  W isconsin,  b u ..l  16 
Green,  Scotch,  bu. 
...1   25
Split,  lb ..............................  
4
Rolled  Oats
Rolled  Avenna,  bbls. 
.4  50 
Steel  Cut,  100Tb.  sacks 2  10
M onarch,  bbl................... 4  00
M onarch,  100Tb.  sacks  1  85
Q uaker,  c a s e s .................3  10
E a st  India 
.......................3%
Germ an,  s a c k s .................3%
Germ 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
FISHING  TACKLE
......................   6
%  to   1  In 
114 
to  2  In 
....................   7
1% 
...................  9
to   2 
in 
1%  to  2  i n ...........................11
in 
2 
................................   15
3  in 
.......................................80
Cotton  Lines
No.  1. 10  feet  .................    5
No.  2, 15  te e t  ..................  7
No.  3, 15  feet  ..................  9
No.  4, 15  feet  .....................10
No.  5, 15  feet  .....................11
No.  6. 16  feet  .....................18
No.  7. 15  feet  ..................  15
No.  8, 15  feet  .....................18
No.  9. 15  feet  ....................89
Linen  Lines
.....................................80
Small 

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

Peas

.. 60

Jennings

M edium 
............................ 26
I .arge  ..................................34
Poles
Bamboo.  14  ft.,  per  doz.  55 
Bamboo,  16  ft.,  per  doz.  60 
Bamboo,  18  ft.,  per  doz.  80 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Foote  A  Jenks 
Colem an’s 
Van.  Lem.
2oz.  P anel 
...........1  20 
75
.......... J  00  1  50
3oz.  T aper 
No.  4  Rich.  Blake.2  00  1  50 

Terpeneless  Lemon

M exican  Vanilla

No.  2  D.  C.  per  doz___  75
No.  4  D.  C.  p er doz........1  50
No.  6  D  C  p er  d o z ....2  00 
Taper  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.  per  d o z ....3  00 
P aper  D.  C.  per d o z ....2  00 
Amosk.-ag,  100  In  balel9 
Amoskt-ag,  less  th a n   bl 19 V. 
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

GRAIN  BAGS 

W heat 

Old  W heat

No.  1  W hite...................... 1  00
No.  2  Red...........................1  00

W inter  W heat  Flour 

Local  B rands
P a te n ts 
.............................5  70
Second  P a te n ts  .............5  30
S traig h t 
...........................5  10
Second  S traig h t 
...........4  70
Clear 
..................................4  10
G raham   .............................4  50
.....................4  60
B uckw heat 
Rye....................................... 4  20
Subject  to   usual cash dis­
count.
Flour  In  barrels,  25c  per 
barrel  additional.
W orden  G rocer  Co.’s B rand
Q uaker  paper  .................5  00
Q uaker  cloth  ..................5  20

Spring  W heat  Flour 
Roy  B aker’s  B rand 

Delivered

Golden  H orn,  fam ily  ..5   95 
Golden  H orn,  bakers  ..5   85
P ure  Rye.  light 
...........4  45
Pure  Rye,  dark 
.........4  30
Calum et 
.......................... 5  35
D earborn 
.........................5  25
d ark -Jew ell-W ells  Co.’s 
Gold  Mine,  %s  cloth  6  55 
Gold  Mine.  %s  cloth  6  45 
Golf  Mine.  %s  cloth  6  35 
Gold  Mine,  %s  paper  5  25 
Gold  Mine.  V s  paper  5  15 
Judson  Grocer  Co.’s  B rand
Cereeota,  %s 
................ 6  35
Ceresota.  %s 
................fi  25
................ 6  15
Ceresota,  %s 
lem o n   &  W heeler’s  B rand
W ingold.  %s 
................ 6  40
W ingold.  V s 
................6  30
................6  20
W ingold.  %s 
W orden  G rocer  Co.’s  Bran*
Laurel.  %s  cloth 
........ 6  40
Laurel,  VLs  cloth 
........ 6  30
Laurel.  Vis &  14s  paper fi  20
.................... 6  0
Laurel  %s 
Sleepy  Eye.  %s  cloth  .6  10 
Sleepy  Eye,  Vis  cloth  .6  00 
Sleepy  Eve.  %s  cloth  .5  90 
Sleepy  Eve,  Vis  paper  5  90 
Sleepv  Eve.  14 s  paper  5  90 
Bolted..................................2  50
Golden  G ranulated  . . . . 2   65 
st.  C ar  Feed screened 22  00 
No.  1  Com  and  O ats  21  00
Com.  cracked  ...............20  50
Corn  Meal,  coarse 
. .22  00
Oil  M eal 
.........................27  00
W inter  W heat  B ran . .18  00 
W inter w heat m id’ngs 19  00
Cow  Feed  .......................18  50
Oats
...........................34%
C ar  lots 
Corn
Cora,  new  
.......................56%
Hay
No.  1  tim othy  c ar lots 16  50 
No.  1  tim othy ton lots 12  50

W ykes-Schroeder  Co. 

Meal

HERBS

JE L L Y

LICORICE

Sage 
...................................  15
H o p s ..............................   15
Laurel  Leaves  ..............   15
Senna  Leaves 
..............   25
51b  pails,  p er  doz 
..1   70
751b  palls  ........................   35
301b  p a l l s ....................   65
..............................  
80
P ure 
...........................  23
C alabria 
Sicily 
................................   14
..................................   11
Root 
Condensed,  2  doz 
. .. .1   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,  2  oz.2  75 
Liebig’s.  Chicago,  4  oz.5  60 
Liebig’s  Im ported, 2 oz.4  55 
Liebig’s,  Im ported,  4 oz.8  50 

MEAT  EXTRACTS

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans
F ancy  Open  K ettle 
. .   40
Choice 
..............................   85
F a i r .................... ................  26
Good  ..................................   32

H alf  b arrels  2c  extra. 

LYE

MINCE  MEAT 

Columbia,  per  case 

..8   78

6

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

45

S tandard 
S tandard 
Cable  .1 70
Cable  .1 90

.1 60
.1 75

Jum bo,  321b.........................8
E x tra  H.  H ....................... 9
Boston  Cream   ...............10
Olde  Tim e  Sugar  stick 
.....................12

301b  case 

cases

English  B reakfast

Medium  .............................20
Choice 
...............................30
Fancy 
.............................. 40
India
Ceylon,  choice 
.............32
F ancy...................................42

Mop  Sticks

T rojan  spring 
..............   90
Eclipse  patent  spring  .  86
No.  1  common  ..............   76
No.  2  pat.  brush  holder  85 
12Tb.  cotton  mop  heads 1  40 
Ideal  No.  7.....................   90

...  8
Standard
.. ...8 ! Choice  H.  P. Jbo.
Standard H.  H. 
Standard T w ist  ... ...  8% Choice,  H.  P. Jum -
C ut  Loaf
. . .   9 

bo.  Roasted

j

@7%

9

MUSTARD

H orse  R adish,  1  dz  ...1   75 
H orse  R adish,  2  dz.  .. .3  50 
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  dz  .. 
OLIVES
. .  .1.00 
Bulk,  1  gal.  kegs 
. . . .   95
Bulk,  2  gal  kegs 
. . .   90  I
Bulk,  5  gal  kegs. 
M anzanilla,  8  oz...........  90
Queen,  p in ts 
.................2  35
Queen,  19  oz 
...............4  50  I
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  I

P IP E S

PICK LES
Medium

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

B arrels,  l,zo0  count 
..5   00 
H alf  bbls.,  600  count  ..3   00 
B arrels,  2,400  count  ..7   00  I 
H alf  bbls.,,  1,200  count  4  00  I 
No.  90  Steam boat 
. . .   85  I
No.  16,  Rival,  assorted 1  20 
No.  20,  R over  enam eledl  60
No.  572,  Special  ...........1  75
N a  98,  G olf,satin flnish2  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  I
P enna  S alt  Co’s  .........3  00

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Dry  S alt  Meats

Smoked  Meats 

Lard
......................  5%

Mess  .................................13  on
F a t  B ack......................... 14  00
Back  F a t.......................... 14  50
S hort  C ut 
.....................13  50
B ean 
................................12  50
...................................18  00
P ig  
B risket..............................15  00
Clear  Fam ily 
...............12  50
S  P   Bellies  ....................   9%
Bellies 
.............................   9%
E x tra   Shorts 
...................8%
H am s,  121b.  average.  10% 
H am s,  141b.  average.  10% 
H am s,  16tb.  average.  10% 
H am s,  181b.  average.  10%
Skinned  H am s 
.............11%
H am ,  dried  beef  sets. 13 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut)
Bacon,  clear  ...........10@11
C alifornia  H am s............... 7%
Picnic  Boiled  H am  
..11%
Boiled  H am   ...................17
. . .   8
B erlin H am   p r’s ’d 
Mince  H am  
...................10
Compound 
P u re......................................8
tubs, .advance 
601b. 
. .advance 
80!b.  tubs 
tin s ..  advance 
501b. 
201b.  pails  ..ad v an ce 
101b.  pails  ..ad v an ce 
51b.  pails  . .advance 
31b.  pails  .  advance
Sausages
Bologna 
. . .   5 
.....................
..........................
L iver 
..  <L&
F ran k fo rt  ................
. . .   7 "
............................ ... 6 %
Pork 
Veal 
............................ . . .   8
Tongue 
...................... . .. 9 %
H eadcheese 
.............. . . .   6%
Beef
E x tra   Mess  .............. ..  9  50
Boneless 
.................... ..10  50
Rump,  new  .............. ..10  50
%  bbls  ........................ ...1   10
%  bbls.,  401bs............ ...1   85
%bbls............................. . 
.3  75
1  bbl............................. ...7   76
K its,  16  IbB............... . . .   70
%bbls.,  40  %s  ........ ...1   50
%bbls„  80Tbs............. ...3   00
Hogs,  per  lt>............. . . .   28
Beef  rounds,  set.  .. . . .   16
Beef  middles,  set  .. . . .   45
Sheep,  per  bundle  . . . .   70
Solid,  dairy  ........  
Rolls,  dairy. 
...10%@ 11% 
Corned  beef,  2 ___ ..  2  50
Corned  beef.  14  . ..
..17  50
R oast  B e e f .......... 2  00 @2  50
. . .   45
P otted  ham ,  %s
. . .   85
P otted  ham ,  %s
...   45
Deviled  ham ,  %s
. . .   85
Deviled  ham ,  %s
P otted  tongue.  %s
. . .   45
. . .   85
P otted  tongrue,  %s
RICE
............. ■ 2@2%
Screenings 
F air  J a p a n ............
@3%
@4
Choice  Jap an   . . . .
Im ported  Jap an   ..
@4%
F air  Louisiana  hd.
@3%
@4%
Choice  La.  hd. 
..
F ancy  La.  hd  . . . .
@5%
Carolina  ex.  fancy
@ 6%
Columbia,  %  pint  . . . .  2  25 
Columbia,  1  pint 
. . . .  4  00 
Durkee’s  large,  1  doz.4  50 
D urkee’s  sm all,  2  doz.5  25 
Snider’s  large,  1  doz... 2  35 
Snider’s  small,  2  doz... 1  35 

SALAD  DRESSING 

Uncolored  B utterine

Canned  M eats

P ig’s  Feet.

Casings

Tripe

@19

SALARATUS 

Packed  601bs.  in  box. 

A rm   and  H am m er  ....1 1 5

...................... ..3 00
D eland's 
D w ight’s  C o w ............ ..3 15
Emblem 
...................... ..2 10
L.  P ................................. ..3 00
W yandotte,  100  %s  . . .3 00
Granulated,  bbls 
85
Granulated,  1001b  casesl  00
Lum p,  bbls 
..................  75
Lump,  1451b  kegs  ___  95

SAL  SODA 
. ..

SALT

Common  Grades

lb.  sacks 

100  31b  sacks  ............... 1  95
60  51b  sacks  ............... 1  85
28  10%  sacks  ..............1 75
56 
..............  30
28  lb  s a c k s ....................  15
56  lb.  dairy  in  drill bags  40 
28  lb.  dairy in drill bags  20 
Solar  Rock
561b.  sacks........................  20
Common
G ranulated,  fine 
..........   80
Medium  fine.....................  85

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

L arge  whole  . . . .   @ 7
Small  W hole  . . . .  
S trips  or  b ric k s.7%@11
Pollock 
................ 
Halibut
Strips.................................. 14
.........................14%
Chunks 
Herring
Holland

@ 6%
@  3%

W hite  Hoop,bbls 8  25@9  25 
W hite Hoop,  %bbl4 25@5 00 
W hite  Hoop,  keg.  60@  70
@  75
W hite  hoop  m chs 
Norwegian  .......... 
@
Round,  lOOTbs 
...............3  75
Round,  401bs  ...................1  75
Scaled 
........................   15
T rout
No.  1,  lOOlbs  ................ 7  50
No.  1.  40Ibs  ...................3  25
No.  1,  lOtbs 
..................  90
No.  1,  8ms  ...................  75
Mackerel
lOOlbs. 
M ess, 
...
. . . 1 3   50
.. .
M ess,  401bs. 
. . . .   5  80
lO lbs...........
M ess, 
. . . .   1  65
M ess,  81bs.............
.. 
.  1  36
, . . . 1 2   00
..
lOOlbs. 
N o.  1, 
___5  20
No.  1.  4 tb s............
N o.  1, 
lOlbs. 
...
. . . .   1  55
N o.  1,  8tb s................
. . . .   1  28
W hltefish
N o.  1 N o.  2 F am
100 1b ........................ .9 50  5  50
.5 00  2  10
501b........................
52
1 0 Tb........................... 1 10 
81b...........................
44
90 
SEEDS
.........15
A nise 
...................
........   6
C an a ry ,  S m y rn a
Caraw ay  .............
........   8
Cardam om,  M alabar  ..1   00
Celery 
.............................. 10
Hemp,  R ussian  ............   4
Mixed  Bird  ....................  4
M ustard,  w hite  ...............8
Poppy 
..............................  8
Rape 
................................  4%
Cuttle  Bone 
...................25
H andy  Box,  large,  3 dz.2  50 
H andy  Box,  sm all  . . . .  1  25 
Bixby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  85
85
M iller’s  Crown  Polish 
..37
Scotch,  in  bladders 
. 
35
Maccaboy.  in  Jars  . . .  
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  A nn  ...................... 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
............................ 2  85
Weldon 
Assorted  Toilet,  50  car­
tons  ................................ 3  85
A ssorted  Toilet,  100
cartons............................ 7  50
Cocoa  B ar,  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   . . . .  11  00
Rose  B o u q u e t.................3  40
American  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 ussian  ...............3  10
Dome,  oval  b a r s .......... 2  85
Satinet,  oval  ...................2  15
Snowberry,  100  cakes.  4  00
L A U T Z   BROS.  &  CO.
Acme  soap,  100  cakes  2  85 
N ap th a  soap,  100  cakes 4 00

J.  S.  K irk  &  Co.

P roctor  &  Gamble  Co.

Big  M aster,  100  bars  4  00 
M arseilles  W hite  so ap .4  00 
Snow  Boy  W ash  P ’w’r 4  00 
Lenox 
...............................2  85
Ivory,  6  oz........................ 4  00
Ivory,  10  oz..................... 6  75
S tar 
.................................. 3  10
A.  B.  W risley
Good  Cheer  .....................4  00
Old  Country  ...................3  40

Soap  Powders 

C entral  City  Coap  Co. 

Jackson,  16  oz  ...............2  40
Gold  D ust,  24  large  .. 4  50 
Gold  Dust,  100-5c  . . . .  4  00
Kirkoline,  24  41b.............3  80
Pearline  ............................ 3  75
............................ 4  10
Soapine 
B abbitt’s  1776  .................3  75
Roseine 
............................ 3  50
A rm our’s 
........................ 3  70
W isdom  ............................ 3  80
Johnson’s  F i n e ...............5  10
Johnson’s  X X X .............4  25
Nine  O’c lo c k ...................3  35
Rub-No-M ore  .................3  75

Soap  Compounds

Scouring

Enoch  M organ’s  Sons. 

Sapolio,  gross  lots  . .. .9   00 
Sapolio,  half  gross  lots 4  50 
Sapolio,  single  boxes  ..2   25
Sapolio,  hand  .................2  25
Scourine  M anufacturing  Co 
Scourine,  50  cakes 
.. 1  80 
Scourine,  100  cakes  .  3  50
Boxes  ................................  5%
Kegs,  E n g lis h ................  4%
SOUPS
........................ 3  00
Columbia 
Red  L e t t e r ......................  90
SPICES 

SODA

W hole  Spices

Allspice  ............................  12
Cassia,  China  in  m ats.  12
Cassia,  Canton 
............   16
Cassia,  B atavia,  bund.  28 
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.  40 
Cassia,  Saigon,  in  rolls.  55
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 18
Cloves,  Z anzibar  ...............12
Mace  ..................................  55
N utm egs,  75-80  ............   45
N utm egs,  105-10  ..........   35
Nutm egs,  115-20  ..........   30
Pepper.  Singapore,  blk.  15 
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite.  25
Pepper,  shot  ..................   17
Allspice  ............................  16
Cassia,  B atavia 
..........   28
Cassia,  Saigon  ..............   48
Cloves,  Z anzibar.................16
Ginger,  A frican  ............   15
Ginger,  Cochin 
............   18
Ginger,  Jam aica  ..........   25
Mace  ..................................  65
M ustard 
..........................  18
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.  17 
Pepper,  Singp.  w hite  .  28
Pepper,  C a y e n n e ..........   20
Sage 
..................................  20
Common  Gloss

Pure  Ground  In  Bulk

STARCH 

lib   p a c k a g e s ...............4@5
31b.  packages..................... 4%
61b  p a c k a g e s .....................5%
40  and  501b.  boxes  2%@3%
B arrels..........................  @2%
201b  packages 
40Tb  packages 
Corn

..............   5
___ 4% @7

Common  Corn

SYRUPS
.............................22
.................24

B arrels 
H alf  B arrels 
I  201b  cans  % dz  in  case  1  55 
10Tb  cans  % dz  in  case  1  50 
51b  cans  2 dz  in  case  1  65 
2%Tb  cans  2  dz in  case 1  70 
F air 
..................................  16
Good  ..................................  20
I Choice 
..............................  25

P ure  Cane

TEA
Japan

....2 4
Sundried,  medium 
Sundried,  choice  ...........32
...........36
Sundried,  fancy 
Regular,  medium  .........24
Regular,  choice 
...........32
Regular,  f a n c y ...............36
I  Basket-fired,  m edium   .31 
Basket-fired,  choice  .. .38 
Basket-fired,  fancy  ...4 3
Nibs 
..........................22@24
|  Siftings 
...................... 9@11
Fannings 
.................12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune,  medium 
.........30
Moyune,  choice  .............32
Moyune,  f a n c y ...............40
I  Pingsuey,  medium  . . . .  30
.........30
Pingsuey,  choice 
Pingsuey, 
fancy 
.........40
Young  Hyson
Choice 
.............................. 30
F a n c y ..................... 
36
Oolong
Form osa, 
.........42
fancy 
.............25
Amoy,  medium 
Amoy,  choice  ........... ...3 2

 

Smoking

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

TOBACCO 
Fine  Cut
...........................54
Cadillac 
Sw eet  Lom a  ...................34
H iaw atha,  5Tb  pails 
..56 
H iaw atha,  10Tb  pails  ..54
Telegram  
.........................30
P ay  C a r ............................ 33
P rairie  Rose  .......... .  ... 49
.......................40
P rotection 
Sweet  Burley 
...............44
T iger 
.................................*0
Plug
Red  C r o s s ........................ 31
Palo 
.................................. 35
H iaw atha 
........................41
Kylo 
.................................. 35
B attle  A x ........................ 37
...........33
A m erican  Eagle 
S tandard  Na v> 
...........37
Spear  Heart  7  oz...........47
Spear  Head.  14%  oz.  .. 44
Nobby  T w ist.....................55
. 
Joily  T ar. 
...39
Old  H onesty 
.43
Toddy 
.............................. 34
J.  T ...................................... 38
P iper  H e id sic k ...............66
Boot  J a c k .........................80
Honey  Dip  T w ist 
....4 0
B lack  S tandard  .............40
Cadillac 
............................ 40
Forge 
................................34
N ickel  T w ist  . . . . . . . . . . 5 2
Mill 
.................................... 32
G reat  N avy 
...................36 
Sweet  Core  .....................34
F la t  C ar.............................32
W arp ath   ...........................26
Bamboo,  16  oz.................25
I  X  L,  51b 
.......................27 
I  X  L,  16  oz.  p a i l s ___31
Honey  Dew  .....................40
Gold  Block 
.....................40
Flagm an 
...........................40
Chips 
................................ 33
Kiln  D ried.........................21
Duke’s  M ixture  .............40 
D ukes’s  Cameo 
.............43
M yrtle  N avy 
.................44
Yum  Yum,  1%  oz  ....3 9  
Yum  Yum,  lib .  pails  ..40
Cream  
.............................. 38
Corn  Cake,  2%  oz..........25
Corn  Cake,  lib ............... 22
Plow   Boy,  1%  oz. 
...3 9
Plow  Boy,  3%  oz.......... 39
Peerless,  3%  oz...............35
Peerless,  1 %  oz...............38
A ir  B rake.......................... 36
C ant  Hook.........................30
Country  Club................ 32-34
Forex-XX X X  
.................30
Good  Indian  ....................25
Self  Binder,  16oz,  8oz  20-22
...................24
Silver  Foam  
Sweet  M arie  .................. 32 
Royal  Smoke 
.................42
Cotton,  3  ply  .................20
Cotton,  4  ply  .................20
Jute,  2  ply 
.....................14
.................13
Hem p,  6  ply 
Flax,  m edium  
...............20
.............6
Wool,  1Tb.  balls 
M alt  W hite  W ine,  40gr  8 
M alt  W hite  W ine,  80 g r ll 
|  P ure  Cider,  B & B  
..11 
i  P ure  Cider,  Red  S tar. 11 
P ure  Cider,  Robinson.10 
P ure  Cider,  Silver  . . . .  10 
No.  0  per  gross  ...........30
No.  1  per  gross  ...........40
No.  2  per  gross 
.........50
!  No.  3  per  g r o s s ............75

VINEGAR

WICKING

TW IN E

WOODENWARE

B askets

in case .. 
in case .. 

B utter  Plates 

Bradley  B utter  Boxes 

Bushels..................................... 1 10
Bushels,  wide  band 
..1   60
i  M arket 
............................   35
Splint,  large  ...................6  00
Splint,  m edium   .............5  00
Splint,  sm all  ...................4  00
Willow,  Clothes,  large.7  00 
Willow  Clothes,  m ed’m.6  00 
Willow  Clothes,  small.5  50 
2tb  size,  24 
72
31b  size,  16 
68
51b  size,  12  in  case  ..  63
10Tb  size,  6  in  case  ..  60
No.  1  Oval,  250  in  crate  40 
No.  2  Oval,  250  in  crate  45 
No.  3  Oval,  250  in  crate  50 
No.  5  Oval.  250  in  crate  60 
B arrel,  5  gal.,  each 
..2   40 
B arrel,  10  gal.,  each  ..2   55 
B arrel,  15  gal.,  each  ..2   70 
Round  head.  5  gross  bx  55 
Round  head,  cartons  ..  75
H um pty  Dum pty  ........ 2  40
No.  1,  com plete  ..........   32
No.  2  com plete 
..........   18
Faucets
Cork  lined,  8  in..............  65
Cork  lined,  9  in..............  75
Cork  lined.  10  in...........  
85
Cedar,  f   in.......................  55

Clothes  Pins

Egg  C rates

Churns

Palls
hoop 
hoop 
wire, 
wire. 

2- 
3- 
2- 
3- 
Cedar,  all  red,  brass  .. 1  25
Paper,  E ureka  ...............2  25
Fibre 
.................................2  70
Toothpicks

H ardw ood 
...................... 2  50
Softwood 
.........................2  75
.......................... 1  50
B anquet 
Ideal  .................................. 1  60
T raps
Mouse,  wood,  2  holes  .  22
Mouse,  wood,  4  holes  .  45 
Mouse,  wood,  6  holes  .  70 
Mouse,  tin,  5  holes 
..  65
R at,  wood 
......................  80
R at,  spring  ....................  76
T ubs
20-in..  Standard,  No.  1.7  00 
18-in.,  Standard,  No.  2.6  00 
16-in.,  Standard,  No.  3.5  00 
20-in.,  Cable,  No.  1.  . .7  50 
18-in.,  Cable,  No.  2.  ..6   50 
16-in.,  Cable,  No.  3.  ..5   50 
No.  1  Fibre  ...................10  80
No.  2  Fibre 
................ 9 45
No.  3  Fibre  .................. 8 55
W ash  Boards
Bronze  Globe 
.............. 2 50
Dewey 
............................. 1 75
Double  Acme  .................2 75
Single  Acme  .................. 2 25
Double  Peerless 
........ ..3 50
Single  Peerless 
...........2 75
N orthern  Queen 
...........2 75
............,3 no
Double  Duplex 
Good  Luck 
.....................2 75
........................2 65
U niversal 
Window  Cleaners
in.................................. .1 65
12 
14  in................................... .1 85
16 
in.................................. .2 30

Wood  Bowls

..............   75
11  In.  B utter 
13  in.  B u tter 
.................1  15
15  in.  B u tter 
.................2  00
17  in.  B u t t e r ....................3 25
19  in.  B u tter 
.................4  75
Assorted,  13-15-17  ___ 2  25
Assorted  15-17-19  ___ 3  25

W RAPPING  PAPER

Common  S traw  
.............1%
Fibre  M anila,  w hite  ..  2% 
F ibre  M anila,  colored  .  4
No.  1  M anila  ................  4
Cream   M anila 
............ 3
B utcher’s  M anila  ____ 2%
W ax  B utter,  short c'nt.13 
W ax  B utter, full count 20 
W ax  B utter,  rolls  ....1 5

YEAST  CAKE

Magic,  3  doz.................... 1 15
Sunlight,  3  doz................ 1 00
Sunlight,  1%  doz........  50
Y east  Foam ,  3  d o z ____1 15
Y east  Cream ,  3  doz 
.. 1 00
Yeast  Foam .  1%  doz  ..  58

FRESH  FISH

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

P er  lb.
Jum bo  W hiteflsh  . .11@12 
No.  1  W hiteflsh  . .   @ 9
T rout 
....................  @10
H alibut 
@10
Ciscoes  or  H erring.  @  5
Bluefish...................10%@11
Live  Lobster  . . . .  
@25
Boiled  Lobster. 
@25
. 
Cod 
..................  @  8
H addock 
No.  Pickerel  ..........   @ 9
Pike 
..........................  @ 7
Perch,  d re s s e d ___  @ 7
Smoked  W h ite ___  @12%
Red  S n a p p e r..........   @
Col.  R iver  Salmon.  @11 
................15@16
M ackerel 

............................  @12%

I

I

I

I

OYSTERS

Cans

F.  H.  Counts

P er  can 
........   40

Bulk  O ysters

F.  H.  C o u n ts  .................2  25

Shell  Goods
P er  100
.............................. 1  25
............................ 1   25

Clams 
O ysters 

Hides

HIDES  AND  PELTS 
Green  No.  1....................  9
Green  No.  2......................  8
C ured  N o.  1 
....................10%
C ured  N o.  2 
...................   9%
C alfskins,  g reen   N o.  1  13 00 
C alfskins,  g re e n   No.  2.11% 
Calfskins,  cured N o.l.  13% 
Calfskins,  cured No.  2.  12 
S te e r  H ides,  601bs o v e rll%  
Old  Wool...................
Lam b 
Shearlings 
No.  1 
No.  2 

........................90@2  00
..............25@  80
@ 4%
@ 3%

Tallow
....................  
....................  

Pelts

Wool
U n w ash ed ,  m edium 30® 31 
. ..23@ 26
U n w ash ed ,  fine 

CONFECTIONS

Mixed  Candy

 

Grocers...............................6%
Com petition......................   7%
............................7%
Special 
Conserve  ........  ................ 7%
Royal 
...................................8%
Ribbon  .............  
10
Broken 
............................   8
Cut  L oaf 
...........................9
Leader 
.........  ..................
K indergarten 
.................10
Bon  Ton  Cream   .............9
F rench  C ream ................. 10
S tar 
.............................. , . l l
H and  M ade  Cream  
.. 15 
Prem io  Cream   mixed  13 
O  F   Horehound  Drop  11

Fancy—In.  Pails

Gypsy  H earts 
..............14
Coco  Bon  Bons 
..........12
Fudge  Squares 
.............12%
P ean u t  Squares 
.............9
Sugared  Peanuts  ........ 11
Salted  P e a n u ts ............. 11
S tarlight  K isses............11
San  Bias  G o o d ie s........ 12
Lozenges,  plain............... 11
Lozenges,  printed 
....1 1  
Cham pion  Chocolate  ..11 
Eclipse  Chocolates 
...1 3  
E ureka  Chocolates. 
. . .  13 
Q uintette  Chocolates  ..12 
Cham pion  Gum  Drops  8%
Moss  D rops......................11
.................11
Lemon  Sours 
Im perials 
.........................11
ltal.  Cream   Opera 
. .12 
Ital.  Cream   Bon  Bons
201b  pails  .....................12
Molasses  Chews,  151b.
.............................12
cases 
Golden  Waffles 
.............12
Topazolas........................... 12
Fancy—In  5tb.  Boxes
Lemon  Sours  .................60
Pepperm int  Drops  . . . .  60
Chocolate  Drops  ...........60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops 
.. 35 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
............ 1  00
B itter  Sweets,  a ss’d 
..1  25 
B rilliant  Gums,  Crys.60 
A.  A.  Licorice  D rops  .. 90
Lozenges,  plain.............. 60
Lozenges,  printed.......... 60
Im perials  ..........................€-0
M ottoes 
...........................60
Cream   B a r .......................55
G.  M.  P eanut  B ar  ....5 5  
H and  Made  C r'm s.  80@9< 
Cream   Buttons,  Pep. 
..65
and  W intergreen. 
S tring  Rock 
.............. ..60
| W intergreen  B erries
-.60
1  Old  Tim e  Assorted, 25
lb.  case  .................... .  2  75
B uster  Brown  Goodies
301b.  case 
.................. ..3   50
I  U p-to-D ate  A sstm t, 32
i  lb.  case 
...................... .  3  75
I  Ten  Strike  A ssort-
|  m ent  No.  1.............. ..6   50
|  Ten  Strike  No.  2 
.. ..6   00
I  Ten  Strike  N o.  3  . . . . ..8   00
T en  S trik e ,  S u m m e r a s -

D ark  No.  12 

pails 

s o rtm e n t......................
Kalam azoo  Specialties
H anselm an  Candy Co.
... ..18
I  Chocolate  Maize 
Gold  Medal  Chocolate
!  Almonds 
.................. ..18
1  Chocolate  N ugatines ..18
Q uadruple  Chocolate 
.15 
I  Violet  Cream   Cakes,  bx90 
Gold  Medal  Cream s,
..............................13%
Pop  Corn
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
I  Pop  Corn  Balls.  200s  . .1  V  
Almonds,  T arragona  .. 15
Almonds,  A vlca 
..........
Almonds,  California sft
shell,  n e w ........ 15  @16
Brazils  ...................13  @14
Filberts 
@ 13
Cal.  No.  1 
........14  @15
W alnuts,  soft  shelled. 
W alnuts,  Chili  . . . .   @12
Table  nuts,  fancy
@13
Pecans  Med..........
Pecans,  ex.  large 
I 
Pecans.  Jum bos  . 
H ickory  N uts  p r  bu 
Cocoanuts 
Chestnuts,  New  York

Ohio  new  . . . . . . . . . . . 1   7
......................  4

@10@11@12

NUTS—Whole 

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

State,  per  bu  ............

] 

Shelled
Spanish  Peanuts  6%@  7> 
Pecan  H alves 
. . .
@45
W alnut  H a lv es..
@28
Filbert  M eats  . . .
@26
I A licante  Almonds 
@33
I Jordan  Almonds  .
@47
P eanuts 
..  6
j  Fancy.  H.  P.  Suns 
. . .   7

R oasted  ...

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Special  Price  Current

AXLE  GREASE

Pork.
Loins 
..................
D ressed.................
Boston  B utts 
..
Shoulders.............
Leaf  L ard............
M utton

@ 10%  
@  7% 
@  9% 
@  8% 
@  7%

@12

@  8% 

STOCK  FOOD 

|  Superior  Stock  Food  Co.f 

Ltd.

3  .50  carton,  36  in  box  10.80 
1.00  carton,  18  in  box  10.80 
12%lb.  cloth  sacks  . . . .   84
25tb.  cloth  sacks 
. . . .   1.65 
501b.  cloth  sacks 
. . . .   3.15
1001b.  cloth  s a c k s ........ 6.00
Peck  m e a s u r e .................... 90
%  bu.  m e a s u r e .............. 1.80
12%lb.  sack  Cal  m eal 
.39 
251b.  sack  Cal  m eal 
.75 j 
F.  O.  B.  PlalnweU,  Mich.

Veal

C arcass 

................ 5%@  8

SOAP

B eaver  Soap  Co.’s  Brands

K

§

r o
CORN SYRUP

' 24  10c  cans  ....................1  84
112  25c  cans  ....................2  30
................2  30

6  50c  cans 

C O FFE E
Roasted

D w inell-W right  Co.’s  B'ds.

JgDNDEL

Tradesman  Company 

Grand  Rapids

New  York

Chicago

St.  Louis

F IR E W O R K S

Our  Special  Catalogue

cover design of which 
is  here  shown —  is 
ready 
for  mailing 
and  a  copy  is  any 
merchant’s  free  for 
the  asking.

“Yellow label”  goods 
are  famous  for  satis­
fying  both  user  and 
seller.  Why  risk 
other  makes  when 
we 
“  Yellow 
Label”  fireworks  for 

sell 

less  than  what  you’re  asked  for commoner  kinds?

Better  goods  and  lower  prices— how  can  we  give 
Immense  sales  and  a  saving  way  of  selling 
both? 
are  the  main  reasons.

Any one  of our  houses  alone sells more fireworks than 
the  next  largest  jobber,  while  the  “ mileage”  of  our 
catalogue  is  merely  a  postage  stamp  and  its  hotel 
bills  are  nothing at  all.

It’s  easy  to  prove  whether  we re  right  or  wrong  for 
in  our  special  catalogue  we  print  guaranteed  prices 
that  are  net  and  not subject  to  this  discount  for  one 
man  and  that  for  another.

Tell  us  to  send  you  our  Fireworks  catalogue,  get  the 
other  fellow’s  price  down  to our  N et  level  and  then 
compare— not  forgetting  that,  in  addition,  ours  are 
the  famous  “ Yellow  Label”  goods.

Mention  No.  J541  when  you write  and  we’ll  also  take 
your  name  for  our  complete  June  catalogue  now 
nearly  ready  to  mail.

Butler  Brothers

Wholesalers  of  Everything 

By Catalogne  Only

Mica,  tin   boxes  ..75 
Paragon  ................. 55

BAKING  POW DER
JAXON
341b.  cans.  4  doz.  c a s e ..  45 
%Ib.  cans,  4  doz.  c ase ..  85 
lib .  cans,  2  doz.  case  1  60

Royal

10c  size  90 
34lb cans 1 35 
6oz. cans 1 90 
%Ib cans 2 50 
%tb cans 3 75 
lib  cans  4 80 
31b cans 13 00 
51b cans 21 50 

cakes,  large  s iz e ..6 50
100 
cakes, large  s iz e ..3 25
50 
cakes, sm all  siz e ..3 85
100 
50 
cakes, sm all  s iz e ..l 95
T radesm an  Co.’s  Brand.

Black  H aw k,  one  box  2  50 
Black  H aw k,  five  bxs 2  40 
Black  H aw k,  ten  bxs  2  25

TABLE  SAUCES

H alford,  large  ............. 3  75
H alford,  sm all  ............. 2  25

Place Your 
Business 

on a

Cash  Basis 
by using 

our

Coupon  Book 

System.

W e

manufacture 
four kinds 

of

and

Coupon  Books 

sell them 
all at the 
same price

irrespective of 

size, shape 

denomination. 

or

W e will 

be 
very 
pleased 

to

send you samples
if you ask  us. 

They are 

free.

BLUING

Arctic,  4oz  ovals, p gro 4 00  I 
A rctic,  8oz  ovals, p gro 6 00 
Arctic,  16oz  ro'd, p gro 9 00

BREAKFAST  FOOD 

W alsh-DeRoo  Co.’s  Brands

. .. .  
W hite  House,  lib  
. .. .
W hite  House,  21b 
I  Excelsior,  M  &  J,  lib  
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  21b 
Tip  Top,  M  &  J,  lib
Royal  Jav a  
..................
I Royal  Jav a   and  M ocha 
I Jav a   and  M ocha  Blend 
| Boston  Com bination 
Juds
son
¡G rocer  Co.,  G rand  R apids;
P er  case  ........................   4  00, N ational  G rocer  Co.,  De-
| tro it and  Jackson;  F.  S aun­
ders  &  Co.,  P o rt  H uron;
« «
Symons  Bros.  &  Co.,  Sagi-
&  Co.,  Sagi­
naw ;  Meisel  &  Goeschel, 
B ay  City;  Godsm ark.  D u­
rand  &  Co.,  B attle  Creek; 
Fielbach  Co.,  Toledo.

Sunlight  Flakes
W heat  G rits 

Cases,  24  21b  pack’s,.  2  00  gers  & 

D istributed 

CIGARS

by 

_ 

* 

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

Geo.  H.  Seym our  &  Co. 

G.  J.  Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd
Less  th an   500..................  33
500  or  m ore  .........................32
1,000  or  m ore  .....................31
M orton  H ouse  Bouquet  55 
Morton  House  Bouquet  70
Invincible 
33
119  ......................................  30
L ittle  Chick......................   30
W orden  Grocer  Co.  brand 
Perfection 
...........................35
Perfection  E x tra s 
...........35
................................35
Londres 
Londres  G rand.....................35
S tandard 
.............................35
P uri tan os 
35
............  
Panatellas,  F in as...............35
Panatellas,  Bock  ..............35
Jockey  Club.......................... 35

Ben  H u r

 

COCOANUT

B aker’s  B razil  Shredded

70  341b  pkg,  per  case  2  60 
35  %lb  pkg,  per  case  2  60 
38  34lb  pkg,  per  case  2  60 
16  %lb  pkg,  p er  case  2  60

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

..................  7  @  9%
C arcass 
F orequarters. 
. . .   6  @ 7  
H indquarters  . . . .   8  @10
Loins 
.......................9  @16
Ribs.............................8  @14
Rounds 
...................8  @  9
Chucks 
..................  5%@  6%
P lates....................... 
@ 4

CONDENSED  MILK 

4  doz.  in  case

Gail  Borden  E a g l e ___6  40
Crown 
.............................. 5  90
Cham pion 
........................4  52
D aisy 
.................................4  70
..........................4  00
M agnolia 
Challenge 
.........................4  40
Dime 
................................. 3  85
Peerless  E vap’d  Cream  4  00

GELATINE

Cox’s  1  qt.  size  .............1  10
Cox’s  2  qt.  size  ...........1  61
K nox’s  Sparkling,  doz 1  20 
K nox’s  Sparkling,  gro 14 00 
Knox’s  Acidu’d.  doz  ..1   20 
K nox’s  Acidu’d.  gro  14  00
Nelson’s 
...........................1  50
Oxford.................................  75
Plym outh  Rock............... 1  25

SAFES

Full  line  of  fire  and  burg­
la r  proof  safes  kept 
in 
stock  by  th e  Tradesm an 
Company.  Tw enty  differ­
en t  sizes  on  hand  a t  all 
tim es—tw ice  as m any safes 
as  are  carried  by any other 
If  you 
house  in  th e  State. 
are  unable  to   visit  G rand 
R apids 
the 
line  personally,  w rite  for 
quotations.

inspect 

and 

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B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

F o r  S ale—C h an ce  in   a   lifetim e  to   rig h t 
p a rty .  F irs t-c la s s   b ak e ry ,  re s ta u ra n t,  ice 
crea m   a n d   so d a  fo u n ta in   b u sin ess.  T h riv ­
in g   M ichigan  to w n   of  1,800.  G ood  clean 
T w o -sto ry   b ric k   building,  seven 
stock. 
fu rn ish e d   room s.  W ill  re n t  o r  sell.  Good 
re a so n s  fo r  selling.  B an k   re fere n ce 
to 
an y o n e  concerned.  A d d ress  N o.  602,  care 
M ich ig an   T ra d e sm a n . 
602
W a n te d —A   p ra c tic a l  c a rria g e   m a n  

to  
bu y   s to c k   in   a   w e ll-estab lish ed   c a rria g e  
fa c to ry ;  th e   p re s id e n t  re tirin g   fro m   b u si­
n ess;  e sta b lish e d   1872;  in c o rp o ra te d   1904; 
open  shop.  T h e   J o h n sto n   C a rria g e   Co., 
O ak  P a rk ,  111._________________________ 591

ro d s  of 

F o r  Sale,  H o tel  P ro p e rty —S tea m  h ea ted , 
e lectric  lig h ted ,  21  room s,  $2  p e r  day.  N ew  
h o te l  w ith   plum bing,  c ity   w a te r,  etc.  C on­
v en ie n tly   lo c ated   in  one  of  th e   b e s t  to w n s 
in  N o rth e rn   M ichigan.  P o p u latio n   of  v il­
la g e  u p w a rd   of  2,000.  H o tel 
lo cated  
w ith in   a   few  
th e   w a te r—deep 
w a te r  tra n s p o rta tio n —a n d   n e a r  c e n te r  of 
b u sin ess.  H a s   th e   bulk  of  th e   com m ercial 
tra d e   a n d   is  tu rn in g   a w ay   b u sin ess  m uch 
of  th e   tim e. 
Is  now   ren ted ,  b u t  no  tim e 
lease.  T ow n  h a s  tw o   railro a d s,  excellent 
buildings,  w ate rw o rk s,  e lectric  lig h ts  an d  
is 
th o ro u g h ly   u p -to -d a te ,  w ith   th e   b e st 
of  fa rm in g   co u n try   su rro u n d in g   it.  $4,000 
c a sh   ta k e s   th e   p ro p erty .  A d d ress  N o.  590, 
c a re   M ichigan  T ra d esm an . 

590

is 

F o r  S ale— F o r  c a sh ;  a  clean   $7,500 sto ck  
d ry   goods,  sh o es  a n d   g ro ceries,  ce n tra lly  
lo c ated   in  splendid  co u n ty   s e a t;  p ro s p e r­
ous  fa rm in g   co m m u n ity ;  th e   o p p o rtu n ity  
of  a   lifetim e;  b est  of  reaso n s  fo r  selling. 
B ox  116,  R o ch e ster,  Ind.________  

592

new  

roofs 

F o r  S ale—Iro n   w o rk in g   p la n t,  m ach in e 
shops,  equipped  w ith   m odern  m ach in ery . 
F ou n d ry ,  la rg e   floor  sp ace,  co m p lete w ith  
all  ap p lian ce s.  W ood  w o rk in g   d e p a rt­
m en t,  all  new   a n d   m odern  m a c h in e ry ;  3 
la rg e   b rick   b u ild in g s; 
an d  
o th e rw ise   in  good  co n d itio n ;  tw o   80x160, 
one  a n d   tw o  s to rie s;  one  50x130  fo u n d ry ; 
w ith   7Vz  a c re s  g ro u n d ;  sw itch e s  ru n n in g  
th ro u g h   th e   sh o p s;  p la n t  w ith in   50  to   500 
y a rd s   of  fo u r  tru n k   lin es;  coal  m in es  in 
sw itc h in g   d ista n c e ;  bu ild in g s  h av e  th e ir 
ow n  lig h tin g   sy ste m ;  w ith   concession  of 
30  y e a rs ’  le ase  a t   $1  a   y e a r  re n ta l;  w a te r 
$ 1  a  y e a r;  c ity   of  8,0 0 0;  p re s e n t  con ces­
sio n aries  w holly 
in e xperienced  m en  and 
will  sell  a t  rig h t  price.  A ddress  L.  C. 
S pooner,  A gent,  G en eral  D elivery,  B lue 
M ound,  111.___________________  

5 93

Je w e lry   sto ck   fo r  sale  in  a  good  tow n, 
good  location,  fine  s to re   a n d   fix tu res;  no 
old  stock.  A  m o n e y -m a k e r;  ch e ap   and 
e a sy   te rm s.  A.  C.  C h itten d e n ,  M arsh all 
M inn. 

5 9 7

F o r  S ale  o r  T ra d e—O ne  h u n d red   s h a re s  
of  th e   W a tso n .  D u ra n d -K a sp e r  G rocery 
Co.’s   ca p ita l  sto ck ,  of  S alina.  E n q u ire  
W .  J.  H u g h es.  Box  367.  E n id .  O.  T.  598 

F o r  S a le —C lean  sto ck   h a rd w a re ,  invoic- 
m g   $3,000.  F irs t-c la s s   location.  T ow n  of 
2.000.  aliv e  w ith   oil  w orkers.  B e st  a n d  
m o st  p ro sp ero u s  fa rm in g   co m m u n ity  
in 
E a ste rn   In d ia n a .  T ra d e   will  be  co n sid e r­
ed.  _  T h is  is  a   m o n e y -m ak er.  R ea so n s  fo r 
selling,  o w n e r’s  oil  in te re s ts   dem an d   his 
exclusive  a tte n tio n .  F o r  p a rtic u la rs   a d - 
d re ss  G.  W .  W h ite m a n .  A lbany,  Ind.  600 

^'o r  Sale—A   sto c k   of  new   a n d   u p -to - 
d a te   sh o es  a n d   fix tu res.  A d d ress  No.  603
c a re   M ichigan  T ra d e sm a n .________  

603

W a n te d   L o catio n  

fo r  m e n ’s  clo th in g  
an d   fu rn is h 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 lothier,  c a re   M ich ig an   T ra d e s-
1X13,11. 
582
.  F o r  Sale—R etail  lu m b e r  y ard .  L o cated  
m   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,  O hio
579

.  _________  

C had ro n .  N e b ra sk a ,  w a n ts  

fu rn itu re , 
d ry  goods  a n d   g en e ra l  m e rc h a n d ise   sto ck s 
G re a t  open in g s  fo r  b u sin ess.  W rite   P  
5 7 g
B.  N elson. 
.„ F o r  S ale—F irs t-c la s s  
stock, 
W,5 U0.  L iv e  to w n ,  25  m iles  fro m   G rand 
R apids.  A pply  E .  D.  W rig h t,  c a re   M us- 
selm an   G ro cery   Co.,  G ran d   R apids,  M ich.

g en e ra l 

F o r  R en t—S toreroom ,  tw o   floors,  38s 
S u ita b le  fo r  d ry   goods,  clo th in g ,  crocke 
fu rn itu re ,  etc.,  good 
lig h t,  s te a m   he 
la .  A ddr 
b est 
B ox  O,  L aG ran g e,  111. 
5 7

in   W aterlo o , 

lo catio n  

a n d  
im proved  o r  v a c a n t 

T o  E x c h a n 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  fo r 
an sw e r. 
126  R an d o lp h   B ldg.,  M em phis, 
ie n n . 

5 7 3

B est  w holesale  b ak e ry  

in   S o u th e rn  
M ichigan,  doing  good  b u sin ess;  a ll  u p - 
to -d a te   m ach in ery ,  in c lu 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  S t.,
Ja c k so n ,  M ich.________________________ 571

S hoe  S to ck s  W a n te d —W e  p a y   c a sh   fo r 
e n tire   sto ck s  of  shoes.  A d d ress  G.  M. 
M cK elvey  &  Co.,  Y o ungstow n,  O hio.  584 
C ash  fo r  y o u r  stock.  O u r  b u sin ess  is 
closing  o u t  sto c k s  of  goods  o r  m a k in g  
sale s  fo r  m e rc h a n ts   a t   vo u r  ow n  p lace  of 
business,  p riv a te   o r  au c tio n .  W e  clean 
o u t  all  old  d ea d   stic k e rs   an d   m a k e   you a 
profit.  W rite   fo r  in fo rm atio n .  C has.  L  
Y ost  &  Co..  D etro it.  M ich. 

250

h

F o r  Sale— 480  a c re s   of  c u t-o v e r  h a rd ­
w ood  land,  th re e   m iles  n o rth   of  T horap- 
sonville.  H o u se  an d   b a rn   on  prem ises. 
P ere  M a rq u e tte   R ailro ad   ru n s   a c ro ss  one 
co rn e r  of  land.  V ery  d e sira b le  fo r stock 
ra isin g   o r  p o ta to   g row ing.  W ill 
e x ­
c h a n g e  fo r  sto ck   of  m e rch an d ise.  C.  C. 
T u x b u ry ,  28  M o rris  A ve.,  S o u th ,  G ran d
R apids,  M

. ____________ 835

i c

s to c k  

a n d   p la n ta tio n  

In v e s tm e n ts —I  h a v e   g ilt-e d g e   oil. 

in ­
d u s tria l 
p ay in g  
from   7  to   15  p e r  cen t,  d iv id en d s;  rig id   in ­
v estig atio n   co u rted . 
o th e r 
J .  F .  W a ite ,  S u ite   730,
re fere n ces  given. 
189  L aS alle  S t.,  C hicago,  HI.________ 553__
F o r  S ale—C ash   g ro cery ;  good  lo catio n  
for  m e a t  a lso ;  s to c k   $1,000.  O bject  of 
B ox  445,
selling,  ch a n g e   of  b u sin ess. 
W h itin g ,  Ind. 

______________________ 552

B an 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  to w 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

F o r  Sale—C lean  h a rd w a re   sto ck   e s ta b ­
lish ed   15  y ea rs.  O n  ex c elle n t  b u sin ess 
is  con­
co rn e r  in   G ran d   R apids. 
d u 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   a b o u t  $4,000.  R e n t  of  s to re  
reaso n ab le. 
to   b e  ag re e d   upon. 
A d d ress  N o.  545,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d e s ­
m an. 

S to re 
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  sto ck .  N o  b e tte r  location 
in  M ichigan.  F o r  p a rtic u la rs   a d d re ss  E.
H .  W e sto n ,  o r  R.  D.  L e tts ,  B a n n iste r,
Mich._______________________________ 541

545

to  

F o r  Sale— S tock  g en e ra l  m e rch an d ise  in 
b est  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  buyer.  G ood  re a so n s  fo r  selling.  W ill 
re n t  sto re.  A d d ress  No.  547,  c a re   M ichi­
g a n   T ra d e sm a n . 

red u ce 

C an 

547

F o r  Sale - Bakery.  Good  location.  Doing 
nice business.  Apply to  Judson G ~ocer Co.  589 
F o r  Sale—G rocery  an d   m e a t  sto ck .  B e st 
s to re   in  c ity   of  P o n tia c.  B est  location, 
b est  tra d e .  S tock  a b o u t  $2,000.  R eason 
fo r  selling,  going  o u t  W e st.  A ddress  o r "call 
on  B.  V.  W oodw ard.  M an ag er. 

587

W a n te d —T o  re n t  fo r 

te rm   o f  y ea rs, 
s to re   fo r  g en e ra l  m e rc h a n d ise  
in  good 
to w n   in  C e n tra l  M ichigan.  W ould  p u r­
ch a se  sm all  sto ck   to   secu re  location.  A d ­
d re ss  No.  532,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d esm an .
________________________________________532

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
ern   W isconsin;  sto ck  
in v e n to rie s - ab o u t 
$7,000.  N o  tra d e .  A lso  a   v e ry   n ic e  h a rd ­
w a re   sto ck   w ith   s to re   building,  w a re ­
house,  etc.,  a   ra r e   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 a n 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 en in g   fo r  th e   rig h t  p a rty .
W .  E .  W e b ster,  H u d so n ,  W is.________568

S to ck s 

W e  a re   re tirin g   fro m   b u sin e ss  a n d   o f­
fe r  fo r  sa le   o u r  d e p a rtm e n t  sto res.  T h e 
b est  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. 
c o n sist  of 
clo th in g ,  shoes,  d ry   goods,  c a rp e ts,  m il­
lin ery ,  etc.  C an  be  red u ced   to   ab o u t  $10,- 
000.  W ill  sell  a ll 
to   o ne  p a rty   o r  d ry  
goods  o r  c lo th in g   d e p a rtm e n t  s e p a ra te . 
A  big  ch a n ce  fo r  th e   r ig h t  p a rty .  N o 
tra d e rs   need  apply.  T e rm s,  sp o t  ca sh .  If 
in te re s te d   a d d re ss  M.  H .  S.,  c a re   M ichi­
g an  T ra d e sm a n . 

570

F o r  Sale—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   o r  m oney 
re - 
funded.  Jo e   Shill,  W in am ac ,  In d . 

fox  h o u n d  

pups, 

tin   shop, 

F o r  Sale—G ood  p ay in g   h a rd w a re   sto ck  
and 
lo c ated   a t   c o rn e r  O tta w a  
a n d   C oldbrook  s tre e ts ,  G ran d   R apids.  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 
reaso 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   St. 

565 

566

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   c o u n try ; 
good  re a so n s  fo r  selling.  L ock  B ox  846, 
B elding,  M ich. 

in  a  

sgo

electric 

lo cated  
to w n s 

la m p s  an d   cro ck ery , 

F or  Sale— A  good  clean   s to c k   of  g ro ­
in 
ceries, 
one  of  th e   b rig h te s t  b u sin ess 
in 
C e n tra l  M ichigan.  H as 
lig h ts, 
w a te r  w o rk s  a n d   telep h o n e  sy stem ,  p o p u ­
la tio n   1.50C  a n d   su rro u n d ed   by  splendid 
fa rm in g   co m m unity. 
is  s itu a te d  
on  p o p m a r  sid e  of  th e   s tre e t  a n d   one  of 
th e   finest 
th e   s tre e t.  N o 
tra d e s   will  be  e n te rta in e d ,  b u t  reaso n s 
fo r  sellin g   w ill  be  e n tire ly   s a tisfa c to ry   to 
th e   p u rc h a se r.  A d d ress  N o.  422,  c a re
M ichigan  T ra d e sm a n .________________ 422

lo catio n s  on 

S to re  

585 

M ining  In v e sto rs  A tte n tio n !  F o r  sale, 
u n listed   tre a s u ry   sto ck s  of  m e rit.  C h ris 
S lagle.  B ox  120,  P a rk   C ity,  U tah . 

S to res  B o u g h t  a n d   Sold—I  sell  sto re s 
a n d   re a l  e s ta te   fo r  ca sh . 
I   ex ch an g e 
I f   you  w a n t  to   buy,  sell 
s to re s   fo r  la n d . 
o r  ex ch an g e,  it  w ill  p a y   you  to   w rite   m e. 
F ra n k   P .  C leveland,  1261  A dam s  E x p re ss 
B ldg.,  C hicago,  111. 

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  e le v a to r  bu sin ess,  w e 
w ill  sell  o u r  s to c k   of  sh o es  a n d   groceries. 
N o  dead  stock,  good  profits,  a n d   a   m oney 
m a x er.  E lsie  is  th e   b e st  to w n   in   C en­
tra l  M ichigan.  N o 
considered. 
In v e s tig a te   if  you  a re   looking  fo r  a   p a y ­
in g   b u sin ess.  H a n k in s  B ros.,  E lsie,  M ich.
________________________________________442

tra d e s  

511

____________M IS C E L L A N E O U S . ___________
T h e  K o ester  School  of  W indow   D re s s ­
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  cir-
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 o re  m oney,  sen d   fo r  o u r  free 
d e sc 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.  111._____________________ 563

T o  E x c h an g e—80  a c re   fa rm   3%  m iles 
so u th e a st  of  Low ell,  60  a c re s   im proved,  5 
a c re s  tim b e r  an d   10  a c re s   o rc h a rd   land, 
fa ir  hou se  an d   good  w ell,  co n v e n ien t  to 
good  school,  fo r  sto ck   of  g en e ra l  m e r­
c h 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 ­
dence  solicited.  K onkle  &  Son,  A lto 
Mich

W a n t  A ds.  co n tin u ed   on  n ex t  page

Bankrupt  Sale

F o r  Sale— C lean 

j  The  S tock  of  G eneral  H ardw are.  Agricul­
tural  Im plem ents,  W ire  Fencing.  S to re  Fix- 
•V anted—T o  buy  sto ck   of  m erch an d ise  j 
from   $4,000  to   $30,000  fo r  ca sh .  A d d ress  1 
I tures.  N otes  and  Book  A ccounts  of  Ivan  C.
j 
N o  253.  c a r e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n   253 
| Els bey,  bankrupt,  Rockford,  Mich., are offered 
a n d   I 
: for private  sale.  On  Ju n e  3d,  10  a. m..  a t  th e 
fra m e   s to re   building,  lo c ated   a t   railw ay  
! village  of  R ockford,  any  of  th e  above  prop­
trib u ta ry  
p o in t 
erty  rem aining  unsold,  and  th e  real  e sta te   of 
to   g ro w in g   fa rm in g   co u n try .  O nly  sto re  
in  tow n.  S tock  in v e n to rie s  ab o u t  $1,500.  j 
bankrupt,  will  be sold a t auction.
T e rm s 
to   s u it  p u rc h a se r.  A d d ress  N o.  I
561,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d esm an ._____561 
I

T he stock  is  in  excellent  shape. 

in   N o rth e rn   M ichigan, 

Inventory 

g e n e ra l 

sto ck  

and appraisal may  be seen a t my office.

D ru g   sto ck   in  h u s tlin g   to w n   of  600.  In ­
voice  $3,450. 
ta k e n   by 
lo catio n   a n d   p rofitable  j 
J u n e   1st. 
business.  B e s t  re a so n s  fo r  re tirin g .  A d-  ! 
|
d re ss  X ,  c a re   M ichigan  T ra d esm an .  535 

P ric e   $2,500 

F in e  

if 

T o  E x ch an g e— F i ne 

fa rm in g  
land.  W ill 
tra d e   a t   a c tu a l  c a sh   valu e 
fo r  sto ck   good 
o r 
h ard w a re .  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  

W a n ted —S tock  of  g e n e ra l  m erch an d ise 
o r  clo th in g   o r  shoes.  G ive  full  p a rtic u ­
la rs.  A d d ress  ’’C ash .”  c a re   T ra d esm an .

324

C.  A.  RENWICK,  Trustee 

45  Pearl  S t. 
(irand  Rapids
MAKE  US  PROVE  IT

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.  Goldie. 

F o r  Sale— S m all  sto ck   of  g ro ceries  an d  
n otions,  lo c ated   in  th e   th riv in g   tow n  of 
M artin ,  A llegan  C ounty.  G ood  reaso n   for 
selling.  W rite   o r  en q u ire  of  E d w ard   J. 
A nderson.  P lainw ell,  M ich. 

539

558

H E L P   W A N T E D .

A g en ts  W a n te d —T h irty   good 

a g e n ts  
w an te d   a t   once;  good  p ay :  good  o p p o r­
tu n ity   fo r  good  m en  w ho  a re   w illing  to 
w ork.  W rite   u s  a t  once  fo r  full  p a rtic u ­
la rs.  A ddress  G ran d   R ap id s  N o v elty   M fg. 
Co..  74-76  M onroe  S t.,  G ran d   R apids,
M ich._________________________________ 599

s to re  

ev e ry   h a rd w a re  

W a n ted — S alesm an ,  none  b u t  th e   b e st 
of  sp e cialty   sale sm en   need  ap ply,  on  an  
a rtic le   on  w h ich   w e  allow   a   la rg e   co m ­
m ission  a n d   w hich  will  soon  be  in  u se  in 
n e a rly  
th e  
co u n try .  A d d ress  C.  A.  P e c k   H a rd w a re
. _____________ 601 _
Co.,  B erlin ,  W
R e p re se n ta tiv e   w a n te d   to   in tro d u ce  th e  
only  b u rn e r  m a d e  in 
th e   U n ite d   S ta te s  
w hich  w ill  m a k e  n a tu ra l  g a s   o u t  of  oil 
a n d   p ro p erly   h e a t  a n y   k in d   of  a   sto v e  or 
fu rn ace .  C h ea p er  an d   cle a n e r  th a n   coal 
an d   w ood. 
in fo rm atio n ,  w rite  
G em   Oil  B u rn e r  Co.,  W illoughby,  Ohio.
_______________________________________ 594

F o r  full 

i s

in  

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   expenses. 
to  
h ouse  fu rn ish in g ,  g en e ra l  a n d   h a rd w a re  
sto re s.  P o c k e t  m odel  free.  S eason  now  
on.  N o v elty   M fg  Co..  O tta w a  Til  339 

Sells 

W a n te d —C apable 

cover 
M ichigan  w ith   sta p le   line.  H ig h   com ­
m issions,  w ith   a d 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 . 
Jess.
H .  S m ith   Co.,  D e tro it,  M ich.________ 524

sale sm an  

to  

S a le s m a n   W a n t e d — A   s a le s m a n   b y   a  
w h o le s a le   g r o c e r y   h o u s e   t h a t   s e lls   d ir e c t 
to   c o n s u m e r s . 
A d d r e s s   W h o le s a le .  B o x  
487.  J a c k s o n .  M ic h .  

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m en.  O ur  sa le s  a re   a   su ccess.  O r  w e 
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M E N U   O F   T H E   JU N G LE.

“Hunger  the  Best  Sauce”  the  World 

Over.

The  bill  of  fare  of  the  jungle  is  as 
extensive  as  it  is  unusual;  and  no  one 
can  form  any  idea  of  it  unless  neces- 
sity  has  compelled  him  to  use 
it. 
Personally,  having  been  obliged  on 
my  numerous  journeys  in  the  interior 
of  South  America  to  partake  of  these 
unconventional  tidbits,  I  much  prefer 
them  to  the  limited  and  monotonous 
diet  of  the  natives. 
for 
example,  the  daily  food  consists  of 
the  so-called  “chupe,”  which  is  made 
of  cooked  Indian  corn  and  chunes—  
that  is,  frozen  potatoes.  This  re­
markable  dish  is  hardly  inviting  to 
the  American, 
the 
chunes  are  like  stewed  corks  in  flavor 
and  consistency.

especially  as 

In  Bolivia, 

My  introduction  to  the  jungle  bill 
of  fare  was  made  by  a  black  and  yel­
low  water  snake  about  seven 
feet 
long,  which  I  killed  one  day,  and 
actually  cooked,  but  only  because  a 
ravening  hunger  drove  me  to  it. 
I 
see  myself  now, 
sitting  qualmishly 
before  this  curious  repast  and  debat­
ing  whether  to  taste  it,  while  an  ap­
petizing  smell,  which  only  increased 
my  hunger,  poured  forth 
it. 
Hesitatingly,  I  took  from  the  pot  a 
morsel  of  the  inviting  looking  meat, 
slowly  laid  the  delicious  smelling  bit 
to  my  lips,  and  gingerly  began 
to 
taste  it.  Having  made  a  beginning, 
it  did  not  take  long  to  finish,  for  the 
flavor  was  extremely  delicate. 
I fell 
to  heartily  until  I  had  satisfied  my 
hunger.  Now  all  my  prejudices  on 
the  larder  question  were  dispelled, 
and  without  more  ado  I  investigated 
everything  which  looked  eatable 
to 
me.

from 

After  several  attempts  I  have  been 
obliged  to  give  up  all  of  the  cat  spe­
cies  as  uneatable,  for  the  flesh  is  far 
from  palatable  and  remarkably  tough. 
Almost  all  kinds  of  snakes  may  be 
eaten.  They  make  splendid  roasts 
and  soups.  The  flesh  of  most  varie­
ties  resembles  in  flavor  and  appear­
Indeed,  I  afti 
ance  that  of  our  eels. 
inclined  to  think  that 
it 
is  better 
I  must  make  an 
than  that  of  eels. 
exception  of  the  boa  constrictor,  the 
flesh  of  which  more  resembles  that  of 
a  rabbit.

I  find  roast  monkey  an  especially 
tempting  delicacy.  There  are,  how­
ever,  several  kinds  of  monkeys whose 
flesh  is  uneatable.  The  meat  of  the 
South  American  howler  tastes  horri­
ble,  and  I  never  ate  it  except  when 
driven  to  it  by  hunger.  All  kinds  of 
raccoons  make  fine  dinners  and  taste 
like  turkey.  The  armadillo  makes  as 
delicious  a  meal  and  tastes  something 
like  pork.  A  well  roasted  armadillo 
is  as  great  a  treat  for  me  as  a  suck­
ing  pig.

Most  kinds  of  feathered  creatures 
make  good  roasts,  but  I  have  found 
that  the  chicken  tribes  have  much 
more  palatable  flesh  than  the  rest  ex­
cept  certain  kinds  of  ducks.  Of  the 
great  delicacy  which  roast  parrot  is 
said  to  yield  I  have  never  become 
convinced,  and  can  only  testify  that 
the  flesh  is  remarkably  tough.  The 
South  American  river  crabs,  which  I 
found  in  several  places  in  Peru,  were

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

fine,  and  not  to  be  compared  with 
their  North  American  cousins.  Va­
rious  kinds  of  snails  are  just  as  good.
Most  kinds  of  turtles  taste  good, 
but  the  meat  must  be  cooked  a  long 
time  or  it  will  have  a  strong,  un­
pleasant  after  taste.  Almost  all  kinds 
of  the  deer  and  pigs  of  these  coun­
tries  make  excellent  dinners,  and  the 
sloth  is  not  bad.  Tapir  foot  makes  a 
veal  roast  fit  to  tempt  an  epicure.

Eggs  of  turtles,  ostriches  and  alli­
gators  are  edible  in  every  form.  Os­
trich  eggs  are  cooked  in  their  shells. 
The  first  thing  is  to  make  a  hole  in 
one  side  of  the  egg.  Then  you  take 
a  short  stick  with  a  piece  of  twine 
tied  to  the  middle,  put  it  through  the 
hole  in  the  egg  shell,  and  brace 
it 
against  the  sides.  Then  suspend  the 
egg  by  the  string  over  a  good  coal 
fire  until  the  contents  are  cooked  to 
the  desired  degree  of  hardness.

Then,  too,  various  vegetable  dishes 
can  be  prepared  out  of 
the  most 
diverse  kinds  of  vegetable  growths. 
Thus,  for  example,  a  good  substitute 
for  asparagus  may  be  made  out  of the 
young  shoots  of  many  kinds  of  ferns, 
while  the  upper  part  of  the  marrow 
of  all  kinds  of  palms  yields  an  excel­
lent  salad,  which  tastes  good  even 
without  vinegar  and  oil.  Many  kinds 
of  tuberous  plants  make  good  substi­
tutes  for  potatoes,  while  a  great  num­
ber  of  plants  lend  themselves  kindly 
to  preparation  as  spinach.

The  most  peculiar  roast  which,  in 
all  the  course  of  my  travels,  it  ever 
fell  to  my  lot  to  eat  was  a  roast  sea 
cow,  or  manatee.  This  seal-like  ani­
mal  has  four  different  kinds  of  meat, 
which  are  as  dissimilar  as  possible, 
both  in  appearance  and  in  taste.  The 
meat  from  the  head  tastes  and  looks 
like  good  veal;  that  of  the  back  is  like 
pork.  The  under  part  of  the  body 
has  a  pronounced  fishy  flavor,  but 
so  strong  that  there  is  no  enjoyment 
in  eating  it.  The  tail  fins  are  held 
in  great  esteem  as  a  delicacy  by  the 
natives,  but  I  could  discover  nothing 
in  them  except  a  flavor  as  unpleasing 
to  me  as  it  was  unfamiliar.

The  wilds  of  the  mountains  yield 
fewer  palatable  articles  of  food.  Vi­
cunas  have  flesh  which  is  like  goat’s 
meat  in  flavor,  but  not  so  tender.  The 
deer  of  that  region  are  extremely 
good  to  eat.  Under  all  circumstances, 
and  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  it  is 
true  that  “hunger  is  the  best  sauce.” 

O.  Sperber.

In  some  parts  of  the  West 

and 
South  the  people  are  getting  inter­
ested  in  a  new  paving  material,  call­
ed  Kentucky  rock  asphalt,  that 
is 
said  to  have  peculiar  qualities  fitting 
it  for  road  making. 
It  is  ground  up, 
spread  over  a  prepared  roadbed  to 
the  thickness  of  three-fourths  of  an 
inch  and  thoroughly  rolled.  With­
out  heating  it  becomes  in  the  course 
of  a  few  days  solid,  resembling  any 
asphalt  pavement. 
It  is  said  to  be 
dustless,  free  from  mud  and  not  slip­
pery.

It  isn’t  possible  to  sell  shoes  while 
your  feet  are  higher  than  your  head. 
Deliver  your  convincing  arguments  in 
fitting  the  customer.

A F T E R   T H E   G R AFTE R S.

less  numbers  and 

Graft  and  grafters  are  not  confined 
to  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids  or  the 
cities, 
State  of  Michigan.  Other 
in 
counties  and  states  have  them 
greater  or 
the 
better  element  in  all  communities  is 
anxious  to  be  rid  of  them.  Now  and 
again  legislatures  introduce  bills  cal­
culated  to  lessen  this  evil  and  occa­
sionally  one  passes.  Everyone  ad­
mits  that  there  is  need  for  reform. 
The  only  question  is  how  it  can  best 
be  accomplished.  The  last  Wiscon­
sin  Legislature  passed  such  a  bill.  Its 
framers  aimed  to  make  it  include  gra­
tuities  to  buyers 
commercial 
houses,  tips  to  porters,  servants, etc., 
as  well  as  corruption  in  politics.  All 
gratuities  in  return  for  service  sup­
posed  to  be  paid  for  by  another  em­
ployer  are  held  to  be  a  species  of 
objectionable  graft.  The  important 
section  in  the  Wisconsin  statute  is  as 
follows:

for 

“Whoever  corruptly  gives  or  offers 
any  agent,  servant  or  employe  any 
gift  or  gratuity  whatever  with  inten­
tion  to  influence  his  actions  in  rela­
tion  to  his  gift  shall  be  liable  to  a 
fine  from  $10  to  $500,  or  to 
such 
fine  and  imprisonment  for  one  year.”
Tt  is  not  perfectly  plain  that  this 
law  can  be  invoked  against  such  gra­
tuities  as  go  by  the  popular  name  of 
“tips,”  because  they  are  not 
“cor­
ruptly”  given.  A  man  who  gives  a 
Pullman  porter  a  quarter  does  it  at 
the  end  of  the  journey,  not  to  corrupt 
him,  but  in  recognition  of  courtesies 
That  defense,  however,  can  not  be 
invoked  in  behalf  of  the  man  who 
gives  or  promises  to  give  a  city  or 
county  official  money  or  something 
else  valuable  for  his  influence  and  as­
sistance  in  securing  a  contract. 
It  is 
notorious  that  corrupt  methods  are 
often  resorted  to  in  making  sales  of 
goods  to  municipalities.  While  it  is 
not  bruited  abroad  and  boasted  of,  it 
is  still  sort  of  an  open  secret,  some­
thing  that  many  people  know  about 
and  wink  at  and  for  which  they  say 
there  is  no  practical  remedy.  This 
State  has  laws  against  this  sort  of 
thing,  but  the  real  difficulty  is  in  en­
forcing  them.  The  man  who  receives 
the  bribe  of  course  denies  it  and  the 
man  who  gives  it  must  of  necessity 
protect  the  man  with  whom  he  did 
the  business  if  he  proposes  ever  to do 
business  with  him  and  his  associates 
again. 
It  is  not  at  all  probable  that 
any  state  will  have  too  many  laws 
against  grafters  and  graft,  but  it  is  a 
fact  that  most 
laws 
enough  already,  provided  they  were 
rigidly  and  fearlessly  enforced.

states  have 

It  Is  a  Bogardus  Kicker.

Owosso,  May  23— Prosecutor  C.  M. 
Hamper  and  W.  E.  Hall  were  inform­
ed  at  Lansing  by  the  Attorney  Gen­
eral  that  grocers’  peddling  wagons 
which  make  trips  into 
the  country 
should  pay  the  yearly  license  of  $75 
each.

The  law,  however,  is  so  broad  that 
grocery  and  m^at  clerks  who  make 
daily  visits  to  their  customers  to  take 
orders  are  classed  as  peddlers  also. 
Mr.  Hall  says  if  he  is  forced  to  pay 
the  license  fee,  he  will  insist  that  the 
law  be  enforced  all  the  way  down  the

line.  As  the  license  money  goes  to 
the  State,  no  one  in  this  immediate 
vicinity  would  be  benefited  by  en­
forcing  the  law.  The  opposition  to 
the  peddling  wagons,  in  view  of  the 
statute’s  very  ample  provisions, 
is 
expected  to  peter  out.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Traverse  City— Harry  Dean,  who 
has  been  employed  in  the  clothing  de­
partment  of  the  Hannah  &  Lay  Mer­
cantile  Co.  store  some  months  past, 
has  gone  to  Rapid  City  to  take  a  po­
sition  in  the  general  store  of  W ay  & 
Son.

Marshall— Clifford  Page  has  resign­
ed  his  position  with  B.  A.  Kelleher 
to  accept  one  with  H.  A.  Woodruff 
&  Sons,  a  shoe  concern  in  Lansing, 
and  will  assume  the  duties  of  his  new 
position 
in  about  two  weeks.  Mr. 
Page  has  been  salesman  at  Kelleher’s 
for  five  and  a  half  years.

Kalkaska— Miss  Alice  Hoffman, 
who  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the 
Palmer  &  Hobbs  Co.  as  head  sales­
lady,  has  resigned  her  position.  She 
is  succeeded  by  Miss  Izzie  Neier.

Detroit— The  Magic  Gas  Mantle 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  $30,000 
capital  stock,  of  which  $19,000  has 
been  paid  in  in  cash.  The  stockhold­
ers  are  A.  Egestorff,  Jr.,  A.  W.  Lew­
is,  Henry  13.  Schantz  and  Henry  B.
Schantz,  trustee.

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

F or  Sale—B akery  and  grocery.  New 
stock.  Doing  good  business. 
Sickness 
reason  for  selling.  Lock  Box  158,  Paw  
Paw ,  Mich._________________ ________604

For  Sale—A  com plete  and  up-to-date 
set  of  grocery  fixtures,  oak  finish,  cost 
$800.  W ill  be  sold  a t  a  big  sacrifice  if 
taken  a t  once. 
Schulz  &  Pixley,  St. 
Joseph.  Mich._______________________ 611

Iowa, 

For  Sale  and  Trade—W e  have  good, 
first-class  stocks  of  goods;  general  m er­
chandise.  clothing,  hardw are,  shoes,  im ­
plem ents.  drugs,  jew elry,  rack et  stocks, 
etc,;  some  for  sale  for  cash,  som e  for 
trade,  some  for  p a rt  trad e  and  p a rt  cash. 
Located  in  Indiana,  Indian  T erritory,  Il­
th e  D akotas,  M innesota. 
linois, 
M issouri,  N ebraska.  K ansas  and  M ichi­
gan. 
If  you  are  in  th e  m arket  for  any 
kind  of  a   stock,  we  have  it.  Som ers  & 
W arren,  500  M anhattan  Bldg.,  St.  Paul. 
610
M innesota. 
For  Sale—A  large  num ber  of  selected 
Delaware 
located. 
W rite  for  free  1905  catalogue  to   Chas. 
M.  Ham m ond.  R eal  E sta te   B roker,  Mil- 
ford,  Delaw are._____________________609

beautifully 

farm s, 

W anted—Location  for  d ry  goods  and 
notions.  Population  2.000  to  10.000.  Ad­
dress  R.  Sahel,  58  E u rek a  Ave.,  W yan­
dotte,  Mich. 

608

I  w ant  to  re n t  clothing  departm ent  in 
live  departm ent  store  and  live  tow n  an y ­
where,  or  will  divide  store  w ith  some 
good  up-to -d ate  shoe  or  g en ts’  furn ish ­
ing  or  dry  goods  m an  and  in augurate  a  
big  sale.  My  clothing  is  A l,  very  low 
price  and  w ant  im m ediate  action.  R hea 
Clothing  Co.,  12  S tate  St.,  Chicago.  606

and 

W e  Buy  F o r  Spot  Cash—P a rt  or  your 
whole  shoe 
general  m erchandise 
stock.  W rite  us  to-d ay   and  our  rep re­
sentative  will  call  a t  once  ready  to   do 
business.  M erchandise  Buyers  Syndicate, 
12  S tate  S t,  C hicago_______________ 607

For  Sale—Building occupied  successfully 
for  sixteen  years  as  grocery  and  m eat 
m arket.  One  of  th e  best  business  cor­
ners  in  city.  P resen t  occupant  will  lease 
prem ises  for  a   year,  if  p urchaser  desires. 
Address  No.  581,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m an. 

581

H E L P   W A N T E D .

W anted—Experienced  grocery  delivery- 
man.  Germ an.  M ust  be  recom m ended 
and  willing  to  work.  Steady  employment. 
S tate  age  and  m arried  or  single.  A n­
swer.  statin g   w ages  expected  and  ex­
perience.  C.  B.  Mansfield  &  Co ,  Colling, 
Mich. 

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