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Warren, Muir & Co., B. Schrouder, Church & West, J. C. West & Co., G. T. Haan, O. A. Fanckboner, Richard
VanBochove, Eaton Drug Co., Thos. Heffernan, W. H. Quigley & Co., A. D. Sturgis, Henry Riechel, Jr., Walter K.
Schmidt, Theron Forbes, D. T. Paulsen & Co , F. B. Winter, W. J. Shutter, C. R. Vanderpool.

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ASSOCIATE OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL of “IMPORTANT FEATURES. livings. Accordingly, the Chinese are| WONDERFUL RECUPERATION.

 

References: Stute Bank of Michigan and Mich-
igan Tradesman, Grand ae
Collector and Commercial Lawyer and
Preston National Bank, Detroit.

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KOLB & SON, the oldest wholesale
clothing manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y.
The only house in America manufactur-
ing all Wool Kersey Overcoats at $5.50
for fall and winter wear, and our fall and
winter line generally is perfect.

WM. CONNOR, 20 years with us, will be
at Sweet’s Hotel Grand Rapids, Sept. 22
to 30. Customers’ expenses paid or
write him Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call
on you and you will see one of the best
lines manufactured, with fit, prices and

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Established 1841.
R. G. DUN & CO.
Widdicomb Blid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Books arranged with trade classification of names.
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars.

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The sensation of the coffee trade is

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They succeed because the quality is right, and
the plan of selling up to date. If there is not an
agency in your town, write the

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2. Representative Retailers.
4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

6. The Buffalo Market.

7. Window Dressing.

8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.

Dry Goods.

Clothing.

Shoes and Leather.
Village Improvement.
The New York Market.
Woman’s World.

Clerk’s Corner.

The Meat Market.
Hardware.

Hardware Price Current.
Butter and Eggs.

Fruits and Produce.
Shipping Groceries.
Commercial Travelers.
Drugs and Chemicals.
Drug Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Getting the People.

The Morning Market.
President Kruger’s Flight.

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INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM IN CHINA.

Although efforts are being made to
restore peace in China, it must be ad-
mitted that the outlook is not promising
for an early restoration of normal con-
ditions in that ancient realm. There
can be no disguising the intense anti-
foreign sentiment which pervades all
parts of China. The Chinese have al-
ways resented the intrusion of the for-
eigner, but since the efforts of certain
European powers to wrest territory from
them the Chinese have become fanatical
in their hate of everything European,
or even foreign.

It is not the mere presence of the for-
eigners which incensed the Chinese, but
it is the violent contrasts to their es-
tablished customs and industrial meth-
ods that the innovations suggested by
the foreigners presented. While for-
eigners have been protected along the
coast line, they have been pretty well
driven out of all the interior of China,
and it will be a long time before
Chinese sentiment will permit their
return.

No matter how willing the Chinese
government may be to guarantee the
lives and property of foreigners resid-
ing in China, it may be very well
doubted whether the government can
control the national prejudice against
foreigners which has been aroused. This
prejudice has not been diminished by
the events of the past few months. Al-
though beaten, their armies are said to
be preparing for further hostilities,
and as yet there is no indication that
the masses in China entertain any other
sentiment than one of intense hatred for
foreigners.

The opposition of the Chinese to for-
eign innovations is not based merely on
sentiment. It is mainly the industrial
innovations which the presence of the
foreigners make probable that have
aroused first the suspicion, and later
the hatred of the Chinese. The con-
struction of railroads, while it would
facilitate travel in China, would revol-
utionize the old methods of transporta-
tion, and consequently denrive many
thousands of people of their customary

 

unalterably hostile to the railroads, and
during the recent disturbances they did
all in their power to destroy the roads.

It is not only the railroads which are
feared in China. European systems of
factories and labor-saving devices have
also alarmed the Chinese by holding
out the possibility that the existing
methods of hand labor would be done
away with, and the masses of the peo-
ple robbed of their usual method of
earning a livelihood. This fear of in-
dustrial revolution is not unnatural, and
has disturbed much more progressive
peoples than the Chinese before now.
Their antagonism, while violent and
unreasoning, is not unnatural.

With such grounds for cordially hat-
ing the foreigners,the prospects that the
Chinese will enter into any negotiations
for peace with sincerity are not bright.
Even if a formal peace is patched up
on the basis of the complete protection
of foreigners, it is doubtful if the
Chinese government will be able to
carry out its engagements.

SHIPS AS AN INVESTMENT.

According to news from Boston, a
well-known business house of that city
has formed a syndicate for the purpose
of building two large steamships, with
capacity to carry a cargo of 11,200 tons
each. A contract for the construction of
these vessels has been given to the
Maryland Steel Company, of Sparrow
Point, the same concern that is build-
ing the Algiers dry dock, the estimated
cost of the two ships together, when
completed, being $1,500,000. The ships
are to be what are ordinarily known as
tramp ships—that is to say, vessels be-
longing to no particular line, but free
to go to any port where a cargo can be
secured.

The tramp steamship belongs to a
class well enough known in every sea.
The British flag floats from the great
bulk of these steamers, British capital
having found investment in such vessels
profitable. "These ships go to any port
where a cargo offers, and, as they are
usually fitted with every economical ap-
pliance and carry no passengers, their
operation has been remunerative.

For very many years there have been
no cargo-carrying American ships en-
gaged in foreign trade. Prior to the
Civil War, vast amounts of American
capital were invested in shipping, and
the American flag was known in every
sea. The depredations of the Confed-
erate cruisers, and the more general
employment of steam and iron vessels,
forced the old-time American clipper
ships out of business.

The constructioon. of the two tramp
ships by the Maryland Stee! Company
is a movement in the right direction,
and should they prove successful, and
there is no reason why they should not,
American capital will seek investment
in more of such ships, and the Ameri-
can flag will once again be seen among
the merchant shipping of the world.

 

It is said lightning will never strike
twice in the same place; but no one
can tell about a destructive wind storm.

 

It is less than three weeks since the
public outside of Galveston heard of the
storm on Galveston Island, but those
who saw the ruin the day after the dis-
aster and have noted what has been done
since then tell us that the recovery has
been almost as unprecedented as the
fall.

Wonders have been worked in dispos-
ing of the dead, removing the debris,
rehabilitating public utilities and re-
lieving suffering. And the actual work
has been chiefly done by the survivors,
many of whom had lost heavily in prop-
erty and in members of their family. It
is true that the means for prosecuting
this work were largely furnished by a
generous American public. Without
this instant response from all parts of
the Nation to the cry for help, the situ-
ation would have remained horrible tor
a long time, and virtually hopeless, but
too much praise can not he accorded the
Galveston survivors themselves and their
fellow citizens who went first to the
stricken city’s assistance, for the cool-
ness and energy and courage with which
they at once began to bring order out
of chaos.

The ruin was so complete, the death
list so unparalleled and appalling, that
to find in this short time trains running
regularly into the city, business re-
sumed, lights and water furnished, the
vast majority of the dead out of the
way, and the streets in the central por-
tion of the town open for locomotion
and traffic, partakes somewhat of the
nature of a miracle.

Man has an immense amount of re-
cuperative energy ; he never knows what
he can endure or what he can do until
he is forced to try. There was never a
stronger illustration of this fact than
this remarkable experience of Galves-
ton.

The sorrow occasioned by the loss of
loved ones will never be healed; the
trouble and depression and bitter dis-
appointment caused by the loss of, pos-
sibly, one’s all, time alone can efface,
but the conditions on this second Sab-
bath morning since the catastrophe are
so vastly improved beyond what was
then thought possibie that Galveston
and this whole region have occasion to
rejoice and feel deeply thankful for the
hopeful outlook.

 

A city is made not by piling up stone
and bricks, but by the courage, the
patriotism, the honor and high charac-
ter of its people. These are the quali-
ties that make a city, or a nation, great
and the achievements of its citizens in
those lines of duty and devotion deserve
to be recorded in bronze as well as in
the hearts of those whom they have so
bravely defended and so faithfully pre-
served.

 

There is a chance for the man who
wants to be dead to the world to write
and say he was _ lost in the Galveston
storm.

 

 

 

Living on fifteen cents per day isa
theory which may comfort a crank’s
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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
the Muskegon Grocer and
Baker.

It is a busy life and a prosperous one
which began with the birth of the sub-
ject of this sketch at Muskegon, in 1859.
It is unique in this, that the American
business man to-day is not often a cit-
izen of the town where he was born.
He grows up there, goes to school there
and then, when business takes him by
the hand and leads him to his work,
some other town—oftener some other
state—claims him and enrolls him
among her successful business men.

When Mr. Christie got ready to go
to work, he found employment with J.
C. Black, of Muskegon, better known as
‘‘76 Blax 76,’’ the only strictly cash
grocer in Michigan. His life began as
a delivery clerk and he workec for Mr.
Black and for his brother, S. K., for
eight years, a period to be emphasized
by the fact that the business was strictly
cash, and that the young clerk was
started early in the right direction.

With that principle drilled into him
for almost a decade, it followed almost
as a matter of necessity that Mr. Chris-
tie’s next move must be to go into busi-
ness for himself. He got early in the
way of knowing where he was finan-
cially, of seeing at the close of each day's
business exactly where he stood and,
with something sure to calculate on, he
found it more to his mind to plan with
his own capital for his own profit than
to do that with another man’s money for
another man. The _ house, established
with Mr. Christie as senior member,
began business under the firm name of
Christie & Kieft.in 1882.

At the end of three years he sold his
interest in the firm to Mr. Kieft and en-
tered the old establishment of ‘‘76 Blax

D. Christie,

 

76,’’ where he had begun life as a de-
livery clerk, the name of the house _be-
coming D. Christie & Co. For five
years the partnership prospered and
then Mr. Christie bought his partner’s
interest, and went on with the grocery
business alone.

teen clerks and bakers. It is a thrifty
establishment and has been from the
start and shows what a man can do for
his own advancement when he makes
up his mind to start in and has a mind
to work his way through. There is no
question but what the cash system has

 

 

 

Interior View of D. Christie’s Grocery Store.

 

The house is now established at 21
Western avenue, Muskegon, and occu-
pies the entire block, which Mr. Chris-
tie purchased six years ago, and which
is a building 150 feet long, and three
stories high, with a basement under the
whole. His working force includes nine-

played its part inthe prosperity that has
come to him; but cash can not do
everything single handed and when the
question came, ‘‘What else helped you,
Mr. Christie?’’ just read what he says:

‘*There has been a number of things
which I have relied on to make the gro-

 

cery business a success. My early train-
ing with Mr. Black and his theory of
doing business on a cash basis laid the
solid foundation of what was to follow.
I have always been a firm believer in
persistent and honest advertising and
practiced the faith that is inme. I
have never lost sight of my customer.
{ have given him prompt and courteous
service and the best possible value in
every purchase he has made. No clerk
in my store has ever been allowed to
misrepresent an article or sell an in-
ferior quality, if a customer could be
induced to buy a better. If I havea
hobby which I like to ride it is this:
Quality first, last and all the time. I
believe a good quality wins and_ holds
friends, while an inferior one-—no mat-
ter how cheap it may be —will lose Lusi-
ness every time.

‘‘T have firm faith in the fact that a
modern store, fitted up with the best
modern appliances is a good paying in-
vestment. It is only another way of
keeping the customer’s comfort con-
stantly in view. He likes a clean, well
kept store; fans in summer keep him
cool and a radiator in winter-warms
him. There are modern chairs to rest
him if he wants them and not a loafer
has been found, so far, bold enough to
appropriate them. Thoroughly believ-
ing in these things, as a mere matter of
business that pays, the McGraft Lumber
Co., of Muskegon, was called in to do
its best to make the store attractive. It
was an order filled to the credit of all
concerned. Handsome offices were
made, finished in quarter-sawed oak.
The store is provided with glass front
coffee bins, cereal and dried fruit cases
and with a fine plate glass counter with
compartments below for displaying
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plate glass cover and front for samples
of nuts. There are two ten-foot floor
cases for candy and baked goods—the
whole outlay, proving one of the best
investments [| ever made. They give
the whole establishment an up-to-date
appearance and, intime, will sell goods
enough to pay for themselves. ’’

There is the whole story and it is one
the Tradesman likes to publish. It be-
gins with a fact worth telling and with-
out break or let-up, goes on to its vig-
orous close. It tells of sleeves rolled up,
of grappling with difficulty and master-
ing it, of brain in business, of a wide
range that a less keen business eye
loses ; and then with a candor that men
like to see it bases the prosperity which
follows upon those upright business
principles which have ensured success
since the foundation of the world. Busi-
ness men who have taken off their armor
will read it and be glad. They who are
yet in the midst of the fight will strike
the harder for the reading and the young
man on the delivery wagon will go out
after the reading of it and will feel, if
he has never felt before, that he is
somebody and can be more so, if he
follows faithfully in the footprints of
that business life, which began as a
delivery clerk in Muskegon, something
like a quarter of a century ago.

—_—_~> 0
Opinion of the Press on the Anniversary
Edition.

New England Grocer: The eighteenth
anniversary edition of the Michigan
Tradesman is of large value to business
men. It is a solid, substantial business
banquet for busy men. There is no
froth, no padded nothingness in its 100
pages. It is from cover to cover typical
of the level headed man who is the
paper—E. A. Stowe.

American Grocer: Michigan has rea-
son to be proud of the Michigan Trades-
man, of Grand Rapids, and its manager
and editor, E. A. Stowe, the most suc-
cessful man in grocery trade journal-
ism. The eighteenth anniversary edi-
tion of the Michigan Tradesman was
issued on September 12 and isa magnif-
icent 100 page number, and so by rea-
son of the solidity of its contents and
the extent and variety of its advertis-
ing pages, which demonstrate that it has
the support of the best financial and
commercial interests of the State. The

contributed articles are of great value]:

and in many instances accompanied
with the portrait of the writer. We
congratulate our esteemed and able con-
temporary upon the grand endorsement
it has won from the mercantile inter-
ests of Michigan, and which it richly
deserves. This number ought to be se-
cured and read by every retail distrib-
uter of merchandise. Send for it, for
there is more intellectual food for the
dealer than was ever secured before for
a dime. !

St. Ignace Enterprise: With the re-
tail dealing community of this State,
the Michigan Tradesman has _estab-
lished relations of the most cordial na-
ture. It comes to the storekeeper,
whether his business be of large or
small proportions, as a weekly guide,
philosopher, and friend; and no_busi-
ness man is too great on the one_hand,
or too lowly on the other, to profit by a
careful perusal of its columns. Last
week the Tradesman celebrated the_be-
ginning of its eighteenth year with a
Ioo page number, filled with original
and interesting reading matter, and pub-
lished with the care and particularity
as to editorial supervision and mechan-
ical perfection that makes Michigan's
great trade journal the cynosure of the
commercial world.

Belding Banner: That most excellent
trade publication, the Michigan Trades-
man, celebrated its eighteenth anniver-
sary last week by an issue consisting of
100 pages and containing a number of
special articles, one of which was by
W. D. Ballou, of this city, upon the
basket industry.

The

Fourth Estate: Michigan

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Tradesman enters upon its eighteenth
year,and signalizes the event by issuing
a 100 page number. The publishers
made this issue of more than temporary
interest and gathered much material of
permanent value.

Newaygo Republican: The Michi-
gan Tradesman, the leading trade paper
of the State, commences its eighteenth
year with a hundred pages of reading
matter and paying advertisements. The
Tradesman is one of the most popular
and successful journals of its class in
the United States.

Saginaw Storekeeper: The eigh-
teenth anniversary number of the Mich-
igan Tradesman, consisting of 100
pages, is undoubtedly the finest trade
paper edition ever issued in Michigan,
both as to quantity and quality of read-
ing matter and typographical appear-
ance. Editor Stowe is entitled to be
congratulated upon the deserved suc-
cess that attends his efforts.

Vermontville Echo: The eighteenth
anniversary number of the Michigan
Tradesman is a splendid 100 page edi-
tion, full of excellent reading matter
and embellished with many fine cuts of
prominent men and business advertise-
ments. The Tradesman is an_ ideal
trade and general information paper, a
positive necessity to every business
man in the State. It is independent
of all unions or trusts and gives its pa-
trons the very best in the market.

 

 

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Scotts—W. A. Tidd will open a new
drug store here about Oct. Io.

Detroit—Peter F. Neumann has sold
his grocery stock to Fred Dreher.

Jackson—F. F. Muns, coal and wood
dealer, has sold out to F. J. Lectka.

Mayville—Wm. Scott, grocer and
baker, has sold out to Harmon & Fox.

Lansing—Parks & Saunders, meat
dealers, have sold out to Fred Schlegel.

Newaygo—George S. Surplice has
opened a new drug store in the Surplice
block.

Detroit—Chas. A. Mitchell has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Christopher
Chrysler.

Allegan—The Allegan Marble Works
succeeds H. F. Knapp in the marble
business.

Leonidas—A. K. C. Pike has pur-
chased the jewelry stock of Geo. N.
Baldwin.

Union City—H. C. Moore has sold his
lumber yard to E. M. & R. F. Watkins,
of this place.

Mariette—Young, Hunter & Co. have
purchased the stock of the Thompson
Hardware Co.

Albion—C. H. Chapman & Son, of
Hillsdale, have opened a shoe store in
the Eslow block.

Pokagon—J. J. Rodgers, of Grand
Junction, has opened up a stock of gen-
eral merchandise at this place.

Jonesville—A. Hope & Co., of De-
troit, have opened a line of millinery
and bazaar goods at this place.

Elk Rapids—D. M. Clark has em-
barked in the meat business, having
purchased the market of P. C. Bailey.

Manchester—Wm. Koebbe continues
the clothing business formerly con-
ducted under the firm name of Robinson
& Koebbe.

Kalamazoo— Thos. J. Miller has sold
the stock in the Model drug store to C.
E. Van Every, formerly engaged in the
drug business at Trufant.

Hartford—Thompson & Son _ have
purchased the boot and shoe stock of V.
E. Manley and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Allegan—Henry D. McDuffee, the
Allegan hotei man, has been declared a
bankrupt, his liabilities being placed at
$5,550 and assets at $2,700.

Mesick—The Mesick Hardware Co.
will shortly begin the erection of a new
store building, the present quarters be-
ing too small for the increased stock.

Adrian—-George E. Greene, former
proprietor of the electric | ghting plant
of Brooklyn, has sold his business to his
brother, Leon Greene, and engaged in
the hardware business at this place.

Hart—C. E. Slayton has leased a site
for a number of years and begun the
erection of a 22x60 feet store building,
to be occupied by his stock of pianos,
organs, sewing machines and jewelry.

Hancock—Arthur T. Ellsworth wiil
open his new drug store in the Kauth
block, about October 8. Everything
connected with the establishment will
be first-class, the proprietor included.

Dowagiac—James Coleman and Mor-
gan F. Snyder, who conducted the vehi-
cle and harness business at this place
under the firm name of Coleman & Sny-
der, have dissolved partnership, Mr.
Snyder succeeding.

Stanton—J. N. Crusoe, who has been
engaged in the dry goods and general
merchandise business in Stanton for the
past nineteen years, is about to sell out
and move to Detroit, where he will en-
gage in the wholesale grocery business.

 

 

Benton Harbor—W. H. Wiggins, who |

has been engaged in the drug business
on Pipestone street, has purchased an
interest in the Battlement Drug Co., and
will have charge of the new store lo-
cated at the corner of Main and Sixth
streets.

Applegate—This town now boasts of
a banking institution. It will be known
as the Applegate Bank of Noble, Elliott
& Co., with Miss Jessie Elliott as cash-
ier. Those interested in the enterprise
are Thomas Elliott, of Applegate, John
P. Niggeman, of Croswell, and B. R.
Noble, of Yale.

Evart—Dr. D. L. Dumon has dis-
posed of his drug stock and store build-
ing to J. H. Voller, the druggist, who
takes possession immediately. Mr.
Voller will consolidate the two stocks
and continue to oc upy the store where
he is now located, and rent the one
about to be vacated. Dr. Dumon will
devote his entire time to his medical
practice.

Jackson—W. H. Elliott has purchased
the interest of D. A. Yocum in the har-
ness firm of D. A. Yocum & Co. and,
in company with Ernest Birney, Mr.
Yocum’s partner, will continue the
business after Nov. 1 under the style of
Elliott & Birney. Mr. Elliott has for
several years been in the employ of the
Central City Soap Co. as_ traveling
salesman.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Chesaning—Lee & Moessner succeed
Geo. L. Kind in the cigar manufactur-
ing business.

Owosso—The Vincent Valve Co. has
closed its factory, preparatory to mov-
ing to Sandusky, Ohio.

Allegan—Baker & Co. is the style of
the new firm which continues the plan-
ing mill and manufacturing business of
Cook, Baker & Co.

Detroit—The Michgan Safety Furnace
Pipe Co. is the style of the new firm
which succeeds Stearns Bros. in the
manufacture of hot air furnaces and hot
water heaters.

Battle Creek—The new _ enterprise
known as the Knell Air Brake Co. has
leased the Upton block on River street
and will at once purchase machinery
for the equipment of a factory.

Albion—H. S. Baughman, formerly of
the Albion Harness Co., has formed a
partnership with R. S. Cooley,of Battle
Creek, and will put in machinery for

the manufacture of harnesses in that
city.
Alma—J. M. Montigel & Co., en-

gaged in the foundry and agricultural
implement business, have dissolved
partnership by mutual consent. The
business will be continued by J. Martin
Montigel.

Quincy—The Quincy Knitting Co.
has declared a dividend of 5 per cent.
A meeting of the stockholders will be
held this evening to consider the mat-
ter of increasing the capital stock of the
corporation. ~

Warren—Two_ representatives of a
Chicago house are here interesting peo-
ple in a canning factory. They want
$6,700. The scheme is well thought of
by the citizens, who have already sub-
scribed $4, 500.

Caro—The Caro creamery has closed
for the season,owing to the limited sup-
ply of milk received. Buttermaker
Winegar has not had a very prosperous
year, and will not operate the creamery
another season.

Caledonia—W. R. Pursel, of Grand
Rapids, has begun the erection of a
grist mill at this place, which will be

operated by his son, Kline. The build-
ing will be 36x66 feet in dimensions
and two stories high.

Negaunee—The Jackson Iron Co.
failed to deliver 9,000 tons of ore to the
Thomas Iron Co., of Easton, Pa., as
per contract during the year 1899. The
latter sued and was awarded damages
in the sum of $21,892.48.

Saginaw—When the enlargement of
the muslin underwear factory which is
now going on is completed there will
be 1,500 machines in operation instead
of 50, which the company started with
not long ago. The space occupied will
be very materially increased and a con-
siderable addition to the force of em-
ployes will be necessary.

Detroit—The Blackmer Manufactur-
ing Co. has been incorporated for the
purpose of manufacturing water mot-
ors, pumps, etc. The company is cap-
italized at $15,000, of which $2,000 is
paid in. Robt. M. Blackmer and
Charles Englehard, of this city, and
Stafford B. Nickels, of Ann Arbor, hold
the stock in equal shares.

Chelsea —The Chelsea Power and Im-
provement Co. has filed articles of in-
corporation, the capital stock being
placed at $10,000. It will be the object
of the organization to furnish power,
light and heat for manufacturing pur-
poses, also to encourage and assist in
developing any desirable enterprise that
may come under its notice.

Battle Creek—Articles of association
have been filed by  La_ Grippe
Wrench Co., with a capital stock of
$50,000, $26,000 paid in. The company
will manufacture wrenches. It is offic-
ered as follows: Chairman, Carl F.
Beach; Secretary, Arthur B. Williams;
Treasurer, Erasmus D. Beach; Man-
agers, Julia E. Clark and D, Lyman
Reade.

Detroit—The articles of incorporation
of the J. C. Foley Zinc Development
Co. have been filed in the county clerk's
office. The capital stock is $1,000,000,
of which $998,000, subscribed by Joseph
C. Foley, is paid by an assignment and
transfer to the company by Mr. Foley
of two mining leases of property in Jas-
per county, Missouri. The other stock-
holders are: Joseph C. Foley, Jr., and
James B. Robert, one share each.

Flint—At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Durant-Dort Car-
riage Co., the capital stock was in-
creased from $150,000 to $1,540,000, of
which $1,200,000 is paid in. The cap-
ital of $1,500,000 covers the several
plants in this city in which the com-
pany is interested, including the Dia-
mond Buggy Co., the Webster Vehicle
Co., and the Flint Gears & Top Co.,
whose absorption by the parent corpora-
tion has recently been accomplished.
The new axle plant just completed,
property and accessory institutions in
other parts of the State, as well as mills,
large tracts of timber and other proper-
ties in the South, are also included in
the assets of the corporation as reorgan-
ized. W. C. Orrell, who was honored
with a position on the board of'di-
rectors, has been the Secretary and
Manager of the Webster plant. C. H.
Bonbright has for several years occu-
pied an important position on the office
staff of the Durant-Dort Co. C. RB.
Hayes, the third new member of the
board, has been the general manager
of the Imperial wheel plant at Jackson,

soon to be moved to Flint.
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Lockwood & Co. have opened an oys-
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The Grain Market.

Wheat has maintained the strength it
showed last week by adding fully 2c per
bushel in cash, as well as active fu-
tures. Export trade is somewhat re-
stricted by the excessive ocean freight
rates which still prevail, but we look
for an abatement of these high rates, as
with the probable termination of the
South African war more vessel room
will be available. Receipts of spring
wheat are about one-half of what they
were a year ago. In the winter wheat
sections of the Southwest receipts are
also falling off. ‘The bears lay it to fall
work, which causes the small deliveries,
while the bull element claim that the
wheat that is for sale is about exhausted
and that what is held back is for higher
prices. The millers in this State are
not finding wheat as plentiful as they
anticipated some time ago. The wheat
that is offered now is far better than it
was a few weeks ago. The visible made
another increase of 1,066,000 bushels,
but, as we must look for an increase at
present, this is not considered large
and should the small receipts continue
there will certainly not be much of an
increase in the future, so that millers
will have to draw from elevators. Cash
wheat in the Northwest is fully 1c above
December wheat. Taking all condi-
tions into consideration, wheat is not
high and we look for a steady advance
of prices.

Corn has unexpectedly made a large
increase in the visible of 1,720,000
bushels. It looks now as if that talked-
of September corner would end ina fiz-
zle. Selling prices were well maintained
and no drop in prices can be recorded.
The puzzle is, where did this large in-
crease come from, as farmers’ cribs
were not numerous? Probably some
private elevators were made regular.

Oats, not to be outdone by either
wheat or corn, showed an increase in
the visible of 1,300,000 bushels, but that
was expected, owing, as has been re-
peatedly stated, to the large crop har-
vested. Prices are well maintained and
made an advance of nearly Ic per bu.
We look for lower prices, as stocks are
large. They look to us as top-heavy at
present prices.

Rye runs its usual course, owing to
the small crop on the continent. Prices
are well maintained and about 48@s5o0c
is bid for carlots at initial points.

The flour trade remains very fair for
high grades and an advance of loc per
cwt. can be recorded. The mills are
running full time, mostly on domestic
and local orders. Foreign enquiry is
fair, but most bids are too low to ac-
cept.

Millfeed is still in demand. There
seems to be a large demand from dairy
farms. Quite a number of interior
mills, owing to the lack of wheat, are
running very light, which curtails the
feed output. The foreign demand is
excellent.

Receipts here have been 50 cars of
wheat, 5 cars of corn, 8 cars of oats, 1
car of beans, 5 cars of hay.

Millers are paying 75c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
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moters of certain endless chains that
such appeals for raising money can not
be sent through the New York postoffice
in future. The law against the trans-
mission of lottery schemes through the
mails is said to be applicable to these
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Sugars—Raw sugars are firm, but not
very active on account of the scarcity of
supplies, 96 deg. test centrifugals being
still quoted at 5c. The stocks of raw
sugar in this country are now smaller
than at any time in the last nine years.
The stocks of all refineries are esti-
mated at 47,000 tons. This is sufficient
to keep the refineries working at the
present rate a little more than a week.
The stocks afloat, however, if they ar-
rive in time, will be sufficient to tide
the refineries over until the new crop
movement begins. The demand for re-
tined is good, with refiners still at least
a week oversold. The market is ina
stronger position to-day than it has
been for the past 60 days—principally
owing to the fact that raw sugars are so
scarce—and the situation is really criti-
cal to the refiners just at present. Wil-
lett & Gray say, however, that as soon
as the present scarcity is relieved,
things will be quite different. October
is the beginning of the new sugar cam-
paign year, which will differ quite ma-
terially from its predecessor. Crops are
abundant and prices are so high at the
close of the present campaign by reason
of the scant raw supply that with the
incoming crop the market will surely
change from an advancing toa declining
trend.

Canned Goods—The canned _ goods
market is in good condition, prices
on about everything being fully main-
tained, but for the moment there is a
lack of any very extensive buying. The
tomato market shows considerable
strength, prices having advanced 2%c
per dozen during the week. Some pack-
ers, however, are still offering at a
slight concession, but most of the goods
offered at low figures are of a kind that
is not wanted. Reports state that in
Maine the fancy grades will be in
smaller proportion than usual in this
year’s corn pack, while standards and
extra standards will be more numerous.
The same advices say the total pack
will be reduced probably 20 p r cent.
from last year. Prices remain practical-
ly the same, with fair demand. Some
demand is noted for string beans, which
are strong and slightly higher. Lima
beans are exceedingly scarce, only a
few packers having any to offer. Peas
are quiet at unchanged prices. Peaches
are very strong, some grades showing
a slight advance. The situation has
been greatly strengthened by the liberal
buying of seconds. Other grades are
also taken in good sized quantities.
Demand for standards is improving
and extra selected goods are scarce.
Salmon of all kinds is very strong.
Some jobbers who declined to buy Col-
umbia River when prices were first
named are now taking goods wherever
they can get them. Talls and halves
are practically cleaned up, but flats are
in better supply. Spot stocks of all
grades of salmon are exceedingly light
and business is necessarily restricted by
the scarcity. There is a good demand
for sardines, both oils and mustards.
Oils have made a slight advance and
mustards are expected to advance ina
few days.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
is in good condition and demand is
quite active. There are only a few cars
of prunes outside of the Association and
they are almost all sold, so that the As-
sociation controls the situation and is
selling freely at list prices. Prices on

new California raisins have been named
this past week. London layers are the
same as last year, but loose muscatels
are %c higher than the opening prices
last year, but the same as the prices to
which three and four crowns advanced
later. The crop is about the same in
quantity as last year, but much finer in
quality. The price of foreign raisins
will be high and there is no question
but that the entire crop will go out at
these prices. Most markets are bare of
stocks and the scarcity and consequent
high prices of currants are certain to in-
crease considerably the demand for !oose
raisins. Apricots are quiet but firm. Lit-
tle interest is taken in peaches, but the
better grades are firm, while the or-
dinary grades are easier. There is an
excellent demand for all kinds of dates
and Hallowis show an advance of \c.
Currants are still very firm, but show
no further advance in price this week.
A correspondent from Greece writes
that ‘‘nothing like the present prices
have prevailed since 1852, when the
crop was almost completely destroyed,
and this year is somewhat similar, for
since then the consumption has_ in-
creased enormously, and the total crop
will not exceed 40,000 tons, whereas the
annual consumption oi the United King-
dom alone amounts to 70,000 tons, of
which certainly not more than two-
fifths can be shipped to that destination.

Rice—The rice market remains very
firm, with a good demand for both _for-
eign and domestic grades. Supplies are
gradually decreasing, which gives
added strength to the market.

Tea—The market is unchanged, with
business practically at a standstill. De-
mand is very light and sales are of a
hand-to-mouth character. Most holders
have confidence in the future, however,
predicting that prices will not decline
materially.

Molasses—Owing to the cooler weath-
er there is an improved enquiry for mo-
lasses, especially of the better grades,
sellers realizing full prices. Stocks are
small and rapidly decreasing in second
hands. Supplies are light throughout
the country and the statistical position
shows increased strength. All indica-
tions point to a large molasses crop, as
weather conditions are favorable for
cane growing.

Fish—The fish market is in good
shape and all grades are very firmly
held. Mackerel shows an advance of $1
per barrel, with the market very firm at
the advance. Codfish is very firm, ow-
ing to the small fleet that have been
codfishing this summer, it being much
smaller than previous years, hence there
is a light stock of fish for this season
of the vear. Should trade be tolerably
heavy, there will undoubtedly be an ad-
vance.

Nuts—Nuts of all kinds are fairly ac-
tive at full prices. Trade in almonds,
both new California and spot foreign
nuts, is quite active. The crop of al-
monds is now generally admitted to be
in the neighborhood of 200 carloads.
Prices are ‘‘booming’’ as the shortage
here and abroad becomes known. New
crop Tarragonas are offered from Spain
sparingly at prices higher than have
been seen in some years. It remains
to be seen whether the short crop justi-
fies the great increase in prices. The
neglect of new California walnuts and
heavy buying of new crop foreign nuts
still continues. Some business is re-
ported in Chili walnuts on the spot.
Grenoble walnuts show a slight ad-
vance. Sicily filberts have advanced

 

c, with the market strong at the ad-

vance. A correspondent in the pecan
growing district of Texas writes that
‘‘the pecan trees in South Texas in the
path of the storm are almost half ruined.
Half of them are blown down and those
left standing have no nuts on them. We
estimate the damage at least twenty-five
cars. The peanut market is very firm,
prices showing a further advance of 4c
this week.

Pickles—There is some interest be-
ing shown in new pickles. The crop in
Michigan is short. Notwithstanding
this fact, packers seem to be very anx-
ious for business and are naming lower
prices than would seem consistent with
the situation on salt stock. There is a
good demand from the East for pickles
in salt and they are bringing higher
prices comparatively than pickles in
vinegar.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—Fancy stock commands $1.50
@2 per bbl. Cooking varieties fetch
$1.50@1.75.

Bananas—Are slightly firmer, but no
advance has taken place yet. The pres-
sure of other varieties of deciduous
fruits is partially removed by the wan-
ing season in a number of lines, and
improvement in bananas may _ be ex-
pected shortly. The condition of re-
cent arrivals is much better than hereto-
fore, which aids in keeping the market
in good condition.

Beans—Local dealers are paying $1.25
per bu. for handpicked, deducting 5c
per bu. for all poor beans taken out
during the process of handpicking.
Growers who entertain the idea that
they can pick beans by hand cheaper
than this are invited to try the experi-
ment, which will result in the discovery
that it is not possible to do this work on
the farm less than 10o@15c per Ib.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Receipts are heavy, both
creamery and dairy grades. Factory
creamery is steady at 21c and dairy
ranges from 13c for packing stock to 17¢
for fancy. The warm weather has
caused a cessation of withdrawals from
cold storage for the present.

Cabbage—s1 per bbl. of about 3 doz.

Carrots—$1 per bbl.

Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz. heads.
Choice stock is very scarce.

Celery—i5c per bunch.

Crab Apples—65@75c per bu. for late
varieties, which are fine in quality,
with supply equal to both consumptive
and shipping demands.

Cranberries—$6.50 per bbl.

Cucumbers—soc per bu. for large.
Pickling stock commands 15@2oc per
100.

Eggs—Receipts are large, in conse-
quence of the special appeals sent out
hy local dealers to secure supplies for
Fair week. Carefully candled fresh
eggs command I6c, which enables deal-
ers to net their shippers 14c and up-
wards. Cold storage supplies have
been left untouched during the week,
owing to the prevailing warm weather.

Egg Plant—g1 per doz.

Grapes—Wordens and Concords 1oc
and Niagaras 12c for 8 lb. basket.
Delawares command 15c for 4 lb. basket.

Green Corn—8c per doz.

Green Stuff—Lettuce, 60c per bu. for
head and 4oc per bu. for leaf. Parsley,

Honey—Fancy white is strong at 16
@i7c. Amber is in active demand
at 2c.

Lemons—Are firm, with a good de-
mand. Stocks are light and prices have
advanced 25c per box during the week.
The condition of the present arrivals
is much better than previously and gives
good satisfaction.

Mint—30c per doz. bunches.

Musk Melons—soc per doz. for all
varieties.

Oranges—California oranges are bare-
ly steady. They are beginning to feel
the competition of Jamaicas, but there
is still a strong request for Californias
for the season. Jamaica oranges show
improvement in quality and prices are

 

firmly held. Trade is gradually ex-

20c per doz. Radishes, 8@ toc for round. |
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tending, but it is not active as yet.
Sales are mostly in small lots.

Peaches—Late Crawfords are held at
$1.25@1.50. Chilis command 60@goc.
Smocks and Bronson’s Seedlings fetch
8oc@$l.

Pears—Common varieties command
$1@1.50. Cold storage Bartletts are in
fair demand at $1.50@2.

Pop Corn—sc per lb.

Potatoes—30@35c per bu.
ket is weak.

Poultry—Receipts have increased to
that extent that shipments from Chi-
cago are no longer necessary. Dealers
pay as follows for live: Spring chick-

The mar-

ens, g@ioc. Squabs are slow sale at
$1.20 per doz. Pigeons 50c. Fowls,
7@8c. White ducks, 7@8c for spring.

Spring turkeys, toc. Old turkeys, toc
for hens and 8c for gobblers. For
dressed poultry: Chickens command
toc. Fowls fetch 9c. Spring ducks are
taken at 9@1oc. Turkeys are in fair de-
mand at tric for young and g@toc for
old.

Quinces—$I per bu.

Squash—2c per Ib. for Hubbard.

Tomatoes—6oc per bu.

Turnips—goc per bu.

Watermelons——10@12c for home
grown, according to size and quality.
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

There is no accumulation of hides
of any grade. Light stock is in good
demand, with prices firmer, while the
asking price seems to be above the
real market. An advance is looked for,
with an increase in the take off. The
quality is good and the demand equal
to all offerings.

Pelts are not sold in any quantity.
There is a demand for all offerings at
fair prices.

Tallow shows more firmness, with a
slightly better demand and a small ad-
vance in price. On account of the cool
weather, more stock has ben shipped
out.

Wool is still flat. Yarns and cloths are
bringing more money than last year, but
the trade is not large in volume. Or-
ders being small, purchases of woal
are small, as no one is buying except
from hand to mouth. All lines are
awaiting election returns.

Wm. T. Hess.

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In view of the impending advance in
fire insurance rates, due notice of which
was given in the issue of Sept. 12, the
Tradesman advises all merchants to
cancel all their policies which expire
within a few months and have them re-
written for long periods—three or five
years, if possible. The heavy losses
sustained by the insurance companies
during the past two years indicate that
a higher range of rates are likely to pre-
vail for several years to come.

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M. S. Goodman, for the past four
years book-keeper for the Grand Rapids
Cycle Co., will remove next week to
Portland, Ore., where he has accepted
the position of book-keeper for the
Mitchell-Lewis & Staver Co., wholesale
dealers in vehicles. Mr. Goodman has
enjoyed an extended experience as an

 

and carries with him to the Coast the
good wishes of a large circle of friends
and business acquaintances.

—_—____-~<> 2 &>___—_-

The celebrated Anchor brand of oys-
ters will be handled by F. J. Detten-
thaler again this season. He has not yet
issued a price list, but any orders sent
him will be filled at the lowest market
price.

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Edward Frick, Vice-President of the

Olney & Judson Grocer Co., has re-

turned from a week’s outing at Sturgeon
3ay and Mackinac Island.

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For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds,
grades and prices Wisner both phones.

    

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The Buffalo Market

Accurate Index of the Principal Staples
Handled.

Beans—Holders ask an advance of
from 10@15c on marrows and mediums,
while pea beans are easy. Several large
dealers are cleaned up and were forced
to pay an advance in the country. Mar-
rows are selling at $2.15@2.25; me-
dium, $2@2.10; pea, $1.85@2; kidney,
scarce ; white would sell at $2.20@2.25
for good to choice. No red kidney or
yellow eye offered.

Butter—Market is strong on fresh
extras, but there is evidence of a de-
sire to market cold storage butter at a
considerable difference in price, and it
is thought this may have some effect on
prices. Fancy lots of storage are being
worked off as fresh, and it is also
rumored that there are mixtures in the
market which are not what they are
claimed to be. Regular butter men say
not half enough extra fresh creamery
is arriving to supply the trade and that
22%c is easily obtained. while storage
best is offered at 21c and making up the
deficiency. Firsts and choice in light
supply and firm at 21@21%c; common
to fair, scarce and quoted at 18@1gc.
No dairy except fair to good arriving,
and this sells at 18@19c; poor stuff, 14
@tisc. Fancy dairy if offered would
bring 2Ic.

Cheese—Good demand for all kinds
and market is firm, particularly on
fancy full cream. Western offerings,
best, are not good enough to bring
above 1oc. New York State full cream
small, 11c; good to choice, 1o@10%c;
Western good to choice, 914@toc; com-
mon to fair, 8@9c; skims, 7@8c.

Eggs—Trade has been active and the
market is strong on strictly fresh at
17c; regular fresh, 16@16%c, and good
stock, 14@15c. Cold storage eggs are
supplying the best fresh, but only an
occasional lot is coming on the market.
We are looking for higher prices on de-
sirable fresh.

Dressed Poultry—Receipts last week
were considerably heavier, but stock as
a rule was better and everything sold
almost as soon as offered at strong
prices. A few really fancy chickens ex-
ceeded quotations. Medium fowl were
active. No turkeys or ducks offered
and no enquiry. Chickens, fancy, 11%
@i2c; fair to good, to@1ic; fowl,
fancy, medium, lo@1Ic; fair to good,
8%@glsc.

Live Poultry—Strong and higher on
active demand. At no time last week
was the trade supplied. Chickens sold
quick at 11@11%c; for fancy and se-
lected, 12c; fair to good, 10o@tic;
fowl, fancy, 10c; fair to good, 9@q kc.
Ducks, fancy, 65@75c; small and me-

 

 

dium, 45@60c per pair. Ducks, per
Ib., 8@toc. Pigeons, per pair, 15
@20¢.

Game—Good enquiry. Light  re-
ceipts. A few woodcock sold at $1 and
partridge at $1.50 per pair. Deer,
squirrel, rabbits, webfooted fowl, quail,
partridge woodcock, plover and snipe
can all be sold in this market.

Apples—Windfalls from the last storm
are arriving liberally and selling at
very low prices. Fancy table fruit, how-
ever, is not plenty and bringing good
prices. Red varieties selected sold at
$1.75, fancy $1.50 and good to choice,
$1@1.25 per bbl.

Crabapples—Fancy Siberian sold at
$3@3.50, and fair to good at $2@2.75
per bbl. Other varieties, $1.75@2.50.

Pears—Bartletts are from cold storage
and bringing $2.50@2.75 for fancy and
lower grades $1.50@2 per bbl. Seckles
when fancy, went at $2@2.25, and fair
to good at $1@1.25. Duchess were all
common, and the best offerings did not
exceed $2. Heavy receipts of windfalls
of all kinds, which sold at $1@1.50.

Peaches—Market is strong and high-
er, the rush of small and common fruit
being over and late Crawfords are of
fine quality. Fancy % bu. baskets, 60
@65c; No. 1, 50@55c; No. 2, 35@45c.
No Michigan or Ohio in market.
Fancy in bushel bakets would bring
high prices as receipts will be light and
trade active for the rest of the season.

 

Plums—Market cleaned up on all
kinds and feeling is generally firmer.
Green 8 lb. baskets selling at 10o@12c;
yellow, 14@22c; blue egg, 20@25c;
small and medium blue, 12@I5c.

Prunes—Active and firm; nothing left
over at the close of each days’ business.
Large fancy, 35@45c; medium and
small, 25@3oc per 8 lb. baskets.

Grapes—Nearby farmers and a few
large growers are sending in wagonloads
and prices are unsettled. Black pony
baskets are selling at 4%@5c, and Del-
aware at 8@1oc. Bulk black, $15@18;
white, $22@28 per ton.

Quinces—Several small lots were sold
on the basis of $2@2.50 per bbl.

Oranges—Dull. Valencias, per box,
$3.50@4; Jamaicas, $5.50@6 per bbl. ;
quality is not desirable.

Lemons—Fair demand; California
are selling at $4.50@5 per box. For-
eign fruit, $3.75@5.75 per box.

Cranberries—The few lots offered
were not desirable, but sold at $5.75@6
per bbl. and $1.75@2 per crate.

Melons—-Fancy varieties such as the
Emerald Gem went quick at 20c per
peck basket, while others were easy at
15¢.

Potatoes—-We are between crops and
with nearby farmers busy cither with
fairs or seasonable work very few pota-
toes are arriving, and carload lots have
not commenced moving. These causes
have created a scarcity and prices are
away above expectations. Carloads
rushed into this market of good ripe
white stock, and large would bring 48
@s5oc, and mixed of good cookers, 42@
45c; fair to good, 38@4oc. It will take
quite a liberal quantity to fill this mar-
ket at present, but if shipment is in-
tended it must be done at once as our
quotations will not hold only until grow-
ers can get in shape, which will prob-
ably be within the next two weeks.

Sweet Potatoes—Market higher; light
receipts and active demand. Fancy sold
at $2.75@3 per bbl.

Onions—Feeling is weak on ordinary
stock, which will not keep and sales are
slow of that quality at 25@55c per
bushel, while fancy sound would bring
50c; white fancy, 35@4oc.

Celery—Light receipts and prices
firmer. Really fancy sold at 45@soc;
good to choice, 30@35c; common, 15@
25¢c per doz.

Cabbage—Fairly active and _ firm.
Fancy large, $2.75@3; small and me-
dium, $1.25@2.50 per Ioo.

Cucumber Pickles—Active and higher.
Market cleans up daily, shipments be-
ing made to outside points. Fancy, 20
@22c; fair to good, 14@18c per Ioo.

Tomatoes—Fancy selling at 40@45c;
fair to good, 25@35c per bushel.

Squash—Light supply; firm. Marrow,
$12@14; Hubbard, $18@2o0 per ton.

Honey—Quiet. No. 1 white
16c; dark, 12@14c; old, neglected.

Straw—Firm; active demand at $8.25
@8.50 for wheat and oat; rye, $9.25@I10
tight baled track Buffalo.

Hay—Receipts light: market firm.
Loose baled prime, $15.50@16; No. 1
tight baled, $14.75@15; No. 2, $13.50
@14 per ton track Buffalo.

new,

———~> 2. __

About a fortnight ago experiments
were made in Paris with a new oil lamp
which is said will, in certain portions
of the city, supplant gas, if not elec-
tricity. A number of these lamps,
which are mounted upon elaborately de-
singed wrought-iron pedestals, and
which have a light of 1,000-candle
power each, now illuminate the Quai
des Tuileries. It is said that they ade-
quately light up the Tuileries gardens
on one hand, while their rays are sent
across the terrace to the quai and the
Seine as far as the left bank to the Gare
d’Orleans. La Petit Parisian says that
if the experiment ‘‘of effectually light-
ing up the dense gloom of the Quai des
Tuileries, which has been especially
chosen for this purpose, is successful,
as every one believes it will be, petro-
leum lamps will shortly replace gas and
electricity in all the large squares and
open spaces in Paris, and no doubt they
will eventually be utilized for lighting
the Bois de Boulogne. ’”’

——_-s0o_____—_ :
Conscience and wealth are not always
neighbors. —Messinger.

Men in science, in summer, think the
heat of the world is increasing, and
that the earth wil! be burned up many
thousand years from now. When the
ice of winter comes, they say life is
going out of the world, and in course of
time everything will be frozen solid.

Walter Baker & Go. Ltd.

DORCHESTER, MASS.

 

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absolutely pure and of uniform quality.

The above trade-mark on every package.

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uses them by the thousand.

We make all kinds.
Market Baskets, Bushel Baskets, Bamboo De-
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Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch
Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat
Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets,
Truck Baskets.

Send for catalogue.

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Window Dressing

How to Remedy Reflection From the Glass.

The best plate glass will always have
some reflection about it, and it is use-
less to try todo away with the reflection
altogether, for the thing is, in the very
nature of the case, impossible. Very
often the disturbing reflections of a win-
dow are due to imperfections in the
glass. If a window is fitted with cheap
and imperfect glass, the only sure way
to remedy the difficulty is to replace
glass with glass of proper quality. Poor
glass in a store window is just about as
useful as boards would be. There is
nothing about a store that a merchant
should be more careful about than the
quality of his window glass. Fine glass
will give a tone and distinction and
quality to all kinds of goods that are
worth dollars and dollars to a merchant
in the course of the year. On the other
hand, poor glass distorts goods, shows
them up at a constant disadvantage,
cheapens them and detracts from their
value in the mind of the spectator, who
often does not stop to think that the
goods are shown at a disadvantage. In
these days, when the price of plate
glass is so low, comparatively, it is
most foolish economy for a merchant
to be satisfied with anything but good
plate glass. To show goods through the
medium of a cheap, wretched, badly
manufactured and painfully imperfect
pane of glass is just about as profitable
as to show them through the medium of
a clerk who is totally unqualified to
wait on customers. In either case there
is an actual loss that no enterprising
man can afford to accept. The up-to-
date man knows this and sees that his

 

 

.) shop windows do credit to the goods
) that he displays.
*

*

Even after fitting up a shop with
good glass, reflections will sometimes
appear. There are various methods by
which they can be overcome. A _ white
background or a background of a light
color will materially aid in overcoming
certain annoying reflections. In trim-
ming a window with dark goods pains

i should be taken to trim simply and sep-

arate the pieces of the display as much
as possible, so that they may receive
proper assistance from the light back-
ground in struggling against their nat-

ural disadvantages behind plate glass.
es,

In a window where the reflection is
very bad, it is advisable to trim low,
using a light background. If the win-
dow has no backing it is a good idea to
put in a backing of light cloth shirred
on a brass rod. In displaying dark
fabrics, this cloth will aid in preserving
the individuality of each unit of dis-
play and in preventing the pieces of
the display from becoming blended in
one indistinguishable mass. Dealers
who display dark colored piece goods
in their windows need to pay particular
attention to the wide spacing of the
pieces and the intermixing of lighter
colored stuffs, so that a solid dark or
black background shall not be formed.
We lately saw a window where the re-
flection is very bad and the trimmer in
charge pointed out how he was obliged
to put light backgrounds in one form or
another in all of his windows. In some
cases it was a light drapery, in other
cases it was light clothing or dress
goods, in other cases it was a mirror.
Windows which have a_ northeast or
southwest light are particularly difficult
to treat. With such windows unusual
care will always have to be taken.

 

In addition to light backgrounds of
cloth, an invaluable aid in overcoming
reflections is found in mirrors. Mirrors
in the backing of a window neutralize
the dark shadows that naturally are
created at the back of the window.
They increase the apparent depth of the
window, they provide an elegant and
handsome background and they can be
utilized in a greater number of dis-
plays than any other form of backing. If
a dealer can afford the outlay, which is
not very great, mirrors are decidedly
preferable to cloth as an aid in over-
coming reflections. The mirrors should
be set low in the backing and the larger
they are the better they will be for this
purpose.

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A third point of importance is the
proper lighting of the window. It
should be lighted by concealed lights,
placed along the upper front edge and
sides of the window.
window is very high, the lights can be
placed across the glass, but concealed
from sight. If the ceiling of the win-
dow has lights set in it, they can be
advantageously hidden by shades drawn
down so as to conceal them from view.
Lights should never be placed at the
back of the window. They dazzle the
spectator and throw shadows on _ the
goods displayed.

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The problem of lighting a store win-
dow is very much like the problem of
lighting a stage. The lights are there
for the purpose of making what is dis-
played clearly visible, not for the pur-
pose of exhibiting themselves. Conse-
quently the less lights and lighting fix-
tures are in evidence the better will be
the setting of the window. On a stage
the lights are always hidden from view
because they weary the eye and distract
attention from the persons on the stage.
Lights in the window should be hid-
den so far as possible for the same rea-
son.

Minnesota furnishes a good illustra-
tion of the radical change that has been
brought about in the dairy industry in a
few years, in the substitution of cream-
ery-made for farm-made butter. At the
recent state fair there were only ten en-
tries of individual butter, against 240
from creameries. In the State there are
between 700 and 800 creameries, and
perhaps 100 cheese factories, the major-
ity of both being run.on the co-opera-
tive plan. Most of them are of recent
establishment, the increase in the num-
ber of creameries alone having been at
the rate of about 100 per year for three
or four years past. The success of the
creamery is in the fact that it has made
practicable the introduction of the ex-
pensive machinery and _ appliances,
which are generally beyond the reach of
the individual farmer. With this ma-
chinery and these appliances all the
processes of buttermaking are so ex-
pedited that the exposure of the milk,
cream and butter to the atmosphere,
and consequently to injurious bacteria,
is reduced to a minimum, with the _ re-
sult of an immense gain in the quality
and keeping properties of the butter.
Higher prices are thus obtained and the
farmer benefits pecuniarily, while his
wife is relieved of a heavy burden.

— 0

Senator Tom Platt, in presenting Sen-
ator Depew for an after-dinner speech,
said: ‘‘It isonly necessary in this case
to drop a dinner in the slot and up
comes one of the Senator’s celebrated
speeches.’’ This seemed to act like
knockout-drops for a moment. When
Mr. Depew took the floor he casually re-
ferred to the wit of the master of cere-
monies and said: ‘‘We are not all
constructed on the same lines. In the
case of my friend, Senator Platt, you
only have to drop one of his speeches
in the slot and up comes your dinner.’’

In cases where the M

Gas and Gasoline Mantles

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Glover’s Unbreakable Mantles Are the Best.
(A Soft Mantle)

Glover’s Gems Are Second to None.
(A Coated Mantle)

We are the only manufacturers, importers and
jobbers in this line in this State, and we carry
every make, brand or priced goods in this line—
Burners, Chimneys, Shades, Mantles, By-Passes,
icha Goods, Globes, etc., and absolutely
guarantee our prices lower than any house
in existence will quote. Send in your order;
our goods and prices will please you.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.,
8 and 9 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Citizens Phone 2207.

A. BOMERS,
..Commercial Broker..

And Dealer in
Cigars and Tobaccos,
157 E. Fulton St. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Representing
M. Brilles & Co., Allegheny City, Pa.
Parker T. Conrad, Richmond, Va.

E. R. Wiersema, Grand Rapids, Mich.
G. P. Kramer, Grand Rapids, Mich.

‘ OUR LEADERS
Doe Andrus,
Robin Hood,
Three Sisters,

Plaindealer,
Little Barrister,
Old Pards, Ete.

Jobbers of Stoneware
A warehouse filled with all sizes. We
are ready for your trade. Send us your
orders.

W.S. & J. E. Graham, Agents,

149-151 Commerce St., Grand Rapids, Mich,
We are taking orders for spring.

Cdtucule

Grand Rapids Business University
75, 77, 79, $1, 83 Lyon St.
For circulars, etc., address
A. S. Parish, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

at the
Old Reliable

 

American Jewelry Co.,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Jewelry and Novelties

45 and 46 Tower Block,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

YUSEA MANTLES.

We are the distributing
agents for this part of the
State for the Mantle that
is making such a stir in the
world.

It gives 100 candle power,
is made of a little coarser
mesh and is more durable.

Sells for 50 cents.

Will outwear three ordi-
nary mantles and gives

more light.

GRAND RAPIDS GAS LIGHT CoO.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Month Is It?

Is a question asked in every household al-
Would

be a good advertisement for you, Mr. Mer-

most every day in the year.

it not

chant, to have a calendar, with your name,

business and portrait on, in some of these

households
asked,
thereby

the

where, when the question is

calendar will be referred to,

bringing to mind your business?

We are the most extensive calendar makers

in Michigan and will send samples and

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STATE OF MICHIGAN }

County of Kent \

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:

I am pressman in the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge
of the presses and folding machine in
that establishment. I printed and
folded 7,000 copies of the issue of
Sept. I9, 1900, and saw the edition
mailed in the usual manner. And
further deponent saith not.

John DeBoer.

Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this twenty-second day of September,
1900.

ss.

Henry B. Fairchild,
Notary Public in and for Kent County,
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JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH.

Getting tired is one of the comforts
of living. Followed as it is, or should
be, by its twin sister, rest, it keeps the
world not only moving but good-
natured. Pleasure finds here its only
solace and the ‘‘balm of hurt minds’’
secures the best results ‘‘when tired na-
ture’’ has done just enough to welcome
the ‘‘sweet restorer.’’ It is a condition
of give and take, a balance that indi-
cates the desired equilibrium and, be
the variation ever so little, if it prom-
ises to be permanent, mischief is sure
to follow. This equipoise has been
lately disturbed in the Pennsylvania
coal regions. Brushing aside all griev-
ances, real and imaginary, one plate of
the balance holds the capital of the coal
business and the other the labor. La-
bor, in addition to its work, has put
upon its plate the claim of union recog-
nition, the capital end of the beam has
gone up and the industries, disturbed
and threatened, are wondering if the
added weight is not just a little too
much.

It is too late in the day to waste time
in the discussion of the question of
rights. It is not too late to ask, What if
capital after a while gets tired of the
contest—too tired—and gives it up?
Without more than a reference to the
last straw that broke the camel’s back—
capital does not have that sort ofa
spine—it is quite to the purpose to en-
quire what the outcome is going to be
if, feeling he is getting just a little too
much of a good thing, capital concludes
to quit. There is every indication that
he is coming to that conclusion. There
is not a line of industry that he has en-
tered upon for years which does not
fairly bristle with annoying difficulty.
Can he build? Not unless he is willing
to be told what and how. Can he man-
ufacture? Certainly; but he must con-

 

cede to the requirements of workman
and wages. Whatever way he turns he
finds himself hampered. Not an enter-
prise is open to him. which is not
blocked by an unsurmountable ‘‘un-
less.”” Risk is nothing; anxiety is
nothing ; care is nothing. None of these
count now in the capitalist’s world of

work. What if he decides it doesn’t
pay?
The indications are that the coal

operators are reaching that conclusion.
The mules have been, in some _ in-
stances, lifted from the mines: Admit
that and that the mines will be closed.
Capital can afford it. If it never earns
another per cent., it will never want for
food, shelter or clothing. In the bank
and the traditional stocking the gold
and the silver can be stored for safe
keeping, as it was only a little while
ago; the foundry chimney may _ be
smokeless, the loom be silent and the
freight car of no use, and the capitalist
will still have his three meals a day
and, if he wants to, will smoke his
high-priced cigars. Heis having the
good things of life and enjoying them
without interference or dictation. No
man comes in to tell him what he shall
and shall not do with his money, and,
if it comes to that and his coachman is
taken away from him and the kitchen
girl forced from his kitchen, he can
take care of his own horses and his wife
and daughters can do the housework
exactly as they did when he was earn-
ing the capital that his employes have
decided to have the management and
the benefits of. He is all right. Just
as long as labor, organized or unorgan-
ized, can stand this sort of thing, he can
and when he gets just a little too much
of it, down go the water gates, up
come the mules, and the man with the
money takes a long-needed vacation.
Can the man with the hoe or the
hammer afford this? Grant that his

‘face is ground by the exactions and

tyrannies of heartless corporations. Is
his suffering less because it is self in-
flicted, and is that of his family more
bearable because he is fighting for the
pretended right of running his employ-
er's business? It is no wonder that the
balance-beam is out of poise. From
the employer’s plate has been taken the
right which a free country assures to
every citizen—that of managing himself
and his affairs as he pleases. The coal
trouble is only an episode. Like the
eight hours a day bluster, it only shows
the direction of the prevailing wind.
The amount of daily wage is in itself
but a straw. Behind them all lies -the
unquestioned principle of right and,
when that is interfered with just a little
too much, the hand that needlessly set
the beam in motion will be the one that
will find out its mistake before the bal-
ance is again at rest.

Chicago is truly rural. Driven in by
the wind of Monday evening, thousands
of sea gulls flocked into Lincoln park
for shelter and food. Hundreds of them
settled on the lagoons, where they fed
on the fish. Others alighted in the
open animal pits and gorged themselves
with food. A large tank in which 600
gold and silver fish were kept was
found empty in the morning and the
ground was strewn with the remains of
the fish. Policemen should watch and
see that bears do not come in and de-
stroy little children and hug people
who are in the park for pleasure.

‘‘It is better to be good than great,”’
the poet says. It’s easier, too, for
most of us,

 

GENERAL 1RADE REVIEW.

Several notable occurrences during
the week tending to bring business to
a healthier basis have affected several
lines of trade and industry. Among
these may be mentioned the changing of
the combination price for steel rails
from $35 per ton toa price indicating
that the works are ready for new orders,
viz., $26. Another is the signing of
the iron and steel wage scale, which
has been under consideration since July
1. Evidently the operators have been
waiting for the settlement of the price
level of products, and the signing of
the scale means that they are now ready
for business. In the stock market there
has been a degree of activity exceeding
that of many weeks, but the _ price
changes have been in the downward di-
rection on the average, although there
was a tendency toward recoverv at the
close of the week and there is a better
feeling this week. The bear movement
has been forced by attacks on certain
specialties, which took the list with
them, but it is hardly thought there
will be an extensive break in prices.
Of course, the pretext for the movement
is found in the coal strikes, the spring-
ing of the political crisis in England,
which stops London activity pending
the issue, and the uncertainty of our
own politics. In the latter, however, it
is more that speculators and operators
are engaged in politics to the necessary
neglect of other interests. Firmer rates
in money is also claimed to be a factor
and probably does have some influence.
The sufficient explanation of hardening
rates is found in the seasonable demand
for Western products, the demand for
money in the Old World markets and
the preparations for resuming industries
here.

Instead of the coal strike spreading
to the iron and steel industry, there are
many reports of satisfactory adjustment
of wages and resumption of work. More
mills and furnaces are now in operation
than at any time since early in the
summer and, while the sharp fall in
quotations has made some reduction in
wages necessary, the general average is
higher than at the same time last year.
Prices have held their own aside from
the change in rails and demand is much
improved in many lines, notably in
materials for farm implements, and in
structural forms ‘both for building and
for transportation requirements.

A significant indication is that there
is now greater activity in lumber circles
than for a long time. This condition
seems to be caused by an increasing
general demand in Eastern markets,
arguing a general improvement in all
the industries.

The continued high prices of both
cotton and wool still operate to reduce
the manufacture of both textiles. Sales
of wool are about 20 per cent. of those
of the same time last year, and some
cotton manufacturers have found it bet-
ter to sell their raw material at a profit
of 100 per cent and let their spindles
remain idle. Changes have been in the
direction of higher prices for goods, but
apparently at the expense of activity.

Boots and shoes in the Eastern ‘mar-
kets are showing a greater degree of ac-
tivity than for a long time past. The
nature of enquiries would seem to in-
dicate that stocks are hecoming low.

 

“MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN.”

When Bobby Burns fell into a fit of
the dumps one day and so worded his
thought, his brothers, the larger part of
mankind equally unfortunate, repeated

 

the alliterate line and for more than a
century, with an occasional lapse, it
has been the burden of many a long-
drawn sigh. The latest event to inter-
rupt its deceptive harmony is_ the
calamity at Galveston. The whole
world promptly acknowledged its kin-
ship and as promptly relieved that
city’s distress. Money to the extent of
millions has been forwarded, with the
statement that there is more where that
came from, and, as if wholly to refute
the poet’s thought, the press of the
country has been busy gathering and
publishing accounts which prove con-
clusively that ‘‘Bobby’’ had been on a
tear and did not know what he was talk-
ing about.

As experience knows, the tough time
comes after kindness of heart, generous
and impulsive, has dropped its mite
into the passing hat of charity. There
is the test and right there is where the
business men of the country show that
they do not belong to the ninety and
nine. It was altogether evident that
hard times had settled down on Galves-
ton with the destruction that fell upon
it and, with a unanimity as remarkable
as it is widespread, they sat down not
only to look it in the face, but to stare
it out of countenance.

The relation of the railroad to the
town is too close to need talking about
and without waiting to he asked, the
railroad interest centering there declared
its determination to begin to rebuild
at once. ‘*’The disaster will not kill
Galveston as a shipping port.’’ ‘‘Ex-
tend credit and lend every assistance to
the business houses of Galveston?’’
came the question from the Gulf and
the hearty vernacular of the country
flashed hack its sympathetic, ‘‘ You
bet!’’ Nota city waited to see what an-
other city would do. Not a business
hesitated to open its book of credit
and none took the lead. Money? ‘‘ Here
you are!’’ was the shouted response and
to this day no one knows whether New
York or Boston or Chicago or San Fran-
cisco or the cities between them were
recognized first. Not an exchange any-
where kept still. Bankers, grocers, dry
goods houses, druggists, producers—any
form of commercial development that
had lived and had its being in the
stricken city—were taken by the hand
and lifted to their feet, to be taken
care of until its old strength should be
restored.

Not much of ‘‘man’s inbumanity to
man’’ about that; and, if Burns gave
the keynote to his day and generation
in his morbid line, the humanity of a
century later has every reason to rejoice
that the old has passed away and that
the Samaritan long dead has come back
to life and taken up his abode in the
business circles of the Western World.

 

Lack of demand for money in Kansas
is driving many banks out of business.
No fewer than seven have quit since
Jan. 1, the last to give up being the C.
E. Putnam Bank, of Richmond, Ottawa
county, which has notified Bank Com-
missioner Breidenthal that it will liqui-
date at once. President Putnam says
more than two-thirds of the bank’s de-
posits lie idle in the vaults, there being
almost no demand for loans, either for
investment or for business operations.

A crow hatchery, the only one in the
world, has been established in Brook-
ville, Pa. The crows’ eggs are hatched
in an incubator, and when the birds are
eight weeks old they are guillotined.
The heads sell for 25 cents each and are
used as adornments for bonnets.

 

 

 

  

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

 

INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES.

Now that prices of American mate-
rials and products are again near a par-
ity with the world’s markets, there is
greater reason to look for substantial
results of the prestige gained by the
Spanish War. The immediate conse-
quence of the tremendous demand for
our products, after that episode, which
sprang up on every hand was an in-
crease in prices which soon threatened
to destroy much of the foreign market

for us. The many excellencies of our
wares, however, aided by perfected
system in manufacture, enabled us to

hold our own to a surprising degree.

When it became manifest that the un-
due cost of production, if continued,
would shut us out of the Old World
markets a movement, of which little
was said here, was started by many
manufacturers for the opening of branch
factories in various European countries.
In these they would be enabled to use
their American patterns and methods
of manufacture. But this movement, if
continued, would result in giving to
the Old World the benefits of American
ingenuity, system and, largely, pres-
tige, while we were shut up by a bar-
rier of fictitious prices to our own local
markets. As the price question was the
only cause of this movement it is not
probable that it will be continued in the
light of a healthier industrial condition.

With this and other corresponding dan-
gers removed, we are again ready to
reap the harvest so carefully sown and
cultivated. At reasonable prices the
world is ready to buy all we have to sell.
Indeed, there has never been a time
when cordial relations were so nearly
universal as now. Even the antago-
nisms of the Spanish War are practical-
ly out of the way, and the Dons are so
thoroughly impressed with the prowess
that made short work of their arma-
ments that they are anxious to investi-
gate the superiority of the means em-
ployed against them.

As our new colonial relations develop
we are finding more significance in the
direction of trade expansion than was
ever anticipated. American influences
in the West Indies are not to be con-
fined to Cuba and Puerto Rico. Not
only will these islands consume largely
of our industrial output, but each will
contribute great quantities of materials
and products; and political boundaries
will not limit our trade in the adjacent
islands or the countries of Central and
South America. Hawaii is of import-
ance in its own products and _possibili
ties of consumpton, bur it is of vastly
more importance as the stepping stone
to the trade of the Far East.

Then, as to our more or less unwel-
come possessions among the Malays,
the result of the necessary military ex-
ploration is to bring to light many won-
derful possibilities. It may be some
time before the development of civiliza-
tion in the Philippines will make very
important demands on our export trade,
but such demands will grow. Of more
importance than this will be the supply
of tropical timber and products, such
as rubber, etc., to be returned almost
without cost on vessels laden to other
neighboring countries. As in the case
of the West Indian Islands, the Philip-
pines are destined to be of vast import-
ance as aids to our commerce with other
nations. .

It is of significance in this connection
that never before in our history has this
country heen so widely recognized in
the affairs of the world or sustained such

attitude in the troubles in South Africa
was of the utmost importance to both
belligerents. And so in the Chinese
complications ; there have been, from the
first, a careful regard for every possible
right of the Chinese government and a
dignified consistency of diplomacy
which commands the respect and ad-
miration of the world.

The opening of the doors of opportu-
nity has been wonderfully rapid since
the Spanish War. The fame of our
products has gone out to all lands. Our
cordial relations and political prestige
are beyond any precedent. It only re-
mains for us to grasp these opportuni-
ties—to use every proper means to build
up a conservative and substantial trade,
to take our proper place as the leader
in the world’s industrial civilization.

 

THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

Since the battle of the Monitor
and the Merrimac at Hampton Roads
there has been an apparently endless
warfare going on between the projectile
and the armorplate. Both sides have
appealed to the inventive genius of the
globe and for a third of a century vic-
tory and defeat have been constantly
exchanging places. According to the
last advices victory has perched upon
the banner of the armor plate and, if
the latest announcement is to be trusted,
the struggle is at last over. Experi-
ments which have been going on for
sometime at Pittsburg of the Cosgrove
process for making compound steel in-
gots have ended in results surprising to
everybody. Solid ingots of graduated
carbon ‘‘from one side of the ingot to
the other or from the center of the in-
gots to its sides’’ were made. The new
process, in regard to the quality of the
steel and the economy of its manufac-
ture, ranks with the best, while in the
matter of armor plate it is claimed that
any desirable thickness of high carbon
can be given the surface of the plate
which, with a carbon back, makes it
absolutely impenetrable.

That last statement is the one to ar-
rest attention. It has been made many
times before and has as often been
shattered. Up to date the projectile
has found its match and, if the limit
has at last been reached and the line
been drawn beyond which the projectile
can not go, this survival of the fittest
has furnished a basis for enterprises
and calculation which have been im-
possible, so long as the armor plate
question has remained unanswered.
That matter fixed, warfare more than
ever will depend on the man rather
than on the gun, a condition of things
showing, as another survival of the fit-
test, not only the superiority of the new
Cosgrove process but the unquestioned
Americanism behind it.

What changes the invention will lead
to in the business world remains to be
seen. That its good qualities will be
turned to an early practical account
there can be no doubt. Bessemer revo-
lutionized the iron industry fifteen years
ago and, if the new century soon to be-
gin can start its industrial career with
the absolute impenetrability of iron a
fixed fact, the results will be no less
gratifying and stupendous than the
changes which the last fifteen years
have seen. This is the outlook until
the next projectile is heard from, a cir-
cumstance which may shatter the pros-
pects anticipated from. the invention
into as many pieces as it shatters the
‘‘absolutely impenetrable’’ armor plate
itself.

 

cordial relations with all peoples. Its

THE GERMAN SHOE TRADE.

At the risk of being found fault with
for harping too much on the same
string, it does seem obligatory to in-
sist that, where 25 cents is additional
cost enough for a pair of shoes, includ-
ing duty, freight, commission and in-
surance between Germany and_ this
country, the $2 and $3, which is
charged by the German dealer is alto-
gether too much. It shows pretty con-
clusively that this amount, added to the
price of the shoe, will be an effectual
bar to the introduction of American
footwear into Germany and it leads to
an early questioning of ‘‘What is to
be done about it?’’

The conditions, briefly stated, are
these: The German nation, numbered
by the million and poorly and clumsily
shod, would be glad to avail itself of
the comfort and comeliness of the Amer-
ican shoe, providing’ it can be bought
at a reasonable price. The factor stand-
ing in the way of this consummation
devoutly to be wished is the German
dealer. We are hearing a great deal
just now about the hatred of the Chinese
for the foreigner and whatever pertains
to him; but that feature is not peculiar
to the Chinaman nor limited to him.
The American, freer from race preju-
dice on account of his cosmopolitan
neighbors than most nations, likes his
own countrymen best, and the German
dealer is simply showing himself hu-
man when he favors the German shoe-
maker, a favor not likely to be lessened
so long as he can buy on better terms
from factories in his own country. With
price and prejudice and patriotism
combined in the German dealer, against
American footwear, the sensible move
to make is for the American manufac-
turer to keep his goods out of the hands
of the German dealer. A shoe store such
as America likes to have would be a
wonder to the people of Europe. It
would be an object lesson fer the Euro-
pean shoe storekeeper; it would be a
boon to the generally misused Euro-
pean foot and, if the American shoe
dealer can be on hand to bring the foot
and the shoe together on the *‘ Ameri-
can plan,’’ the export of shoes from this
country to Germany would be as re-
inarkable as it is deserving. As these
columns have stated before, no attention
has been paid in Germany to make a
handsome shoe. If the foot has been
kept from the ground and kept dry, the
essentials of the shoe have been accom-
plished. Anything beyond that is not
considered except the cost. Once the
German gets it into his head thata
shoe, cheap and comfortable and hand-
some, can be obtained for the same
price that the old shoe cost or less, the
question of export from this country is
settled. It remains for the American
manufacturer and dealer to decide if
they care thus to invade the German
Fatherland. If they do and will take
the right methods, the result—and_ that
a favorable one—is as certain as fact.

—————————
THE SAME OLD STORY.

The same hatred of the foreigner
which has reached its culmination in
China is only the extreme of the senti-
ment prevailing in the Eastern hemis-
phere against the Western. Semi-bar-
barian Asia, disregarding the ex-
pediency of its European sister, with-
out subterfuge or pretense, declares
that the foreigner must go; and the
question now to be settled by the gath-
ering of the nations at Pekin is in that
direction. Lessen the intensity of the

 

 

hate, remove the idea of religion, let

diplomacy take the place of the bullet
and Europe would clasp hands with
China in her dislike of the foreigner
and scheme with her to break down
that foreigner’s influence. To her con-
scious eyes the shadow of the American
gunboat means much. It reaches far.
It suggests caution and there is some-
thing in the voice of the man on the
bridge which commands respect.
Manila has taught its lesson and in
legal lines discretion is the better part
of valor.

In commercial matters the bars are
down and national prejudice has a loose
rein. The position of the German
dealer in regard to the American shoe
is a single instance. The American
manufacture is in every way superior to
the European, but in the hands of the
German shopkeeper it will not often
find its way to the German foot, much
as that extremity needs it. Corn is
barred out of European ports by this
same prejudice; meat for the same rea-
son is put down on the black list and
American fruit, the best that the earth
grows, would be so much better if
raised out of the United States. China,
boiling with resentment, protests at the
point of the sword ; her civilized sisters,
more diplomatic, hate as keenly and by
different methods protest as earnestly—
under cover. It is the same old _ story,
however, and the outcome will be the
same.

It is sometimes amusing to read the
monotonous reports pertaining to the
progress made by the American prod-
ucts in the foreign markets. With slight
variation they express the same thought.
The American production of soil and
manufacture is slowly making headway
abroad, even in the face of the strong
prejudice which exists against anything
American. In that ‘‘making headway’’
lies the truth of the whole matter. The
ports of the world are besieged by the
American exports. Corn has been ad-
mitted for horses and chickens; but,
prejudice overcome, it has reached the
breakfast table to stay. Fruit, by its
unquestioned merits reluctantly ac-
knowledged, is growing in _ favor.
Necessity has been forced to ask for
American coal. Fr.nce may shrug her
shoulders, but America is making head-
way in furnishing the French table with
wine and prejudice in that direction is
weakening. The final result is thus
faithfully foretold. The wheat field and
the corn field of this country, the or-
chard and the vineyard, the mine, the
factory and the foundry will continue to
forward their products to the seaport to
fill the foreign order, and thence, at no
distant day, the American _ ship,
manned by the American crew, will
carry the American cargo to its desti-
nation in foreign lands, where, prejudice
overcome,the consumer will pay willing
tribute to the continent and to the peo-
ple whose wit and workmanship, in
spite of opposition, have made their na-
tion the master of the world.

 

The board of health of Woodstock,
Ont., has decided to compel bakers to
give up the present system of giving
small tickets to their customers, as they
consider the distribution of these
around to different houses is liable to

spread disease.

 

The man who can write a check that
banks will receive is a better thing than
an author who happens to write a poem
that a magazine editor will accept.

———————

A man with a sound liver naturally

 

has a light heart.

 

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Cae

 

Dry Goods

 

 

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—Quoted prices stand
for nothing. It is largely a question
of whether the seller feels kindly dis-
posed towards a buyer and is willing to
name a price or not. It might be said
in the market generally that all stocks
have been withdrawn, although this is
not true in the strictest sense. Heavy
brown sheetings and drills show this
feature nearly everywhere, even where
advanced prices have been recently
named. For, as we have stated above,
the last quotations mean absolutely noth-
ing. The only way that business is ac-
cepted is on the ‘‘at value’’ condition.
At the present time, however, there is
too much uncertainty about this to ad-
mit of much business. Full prices
have been offered for bleached cottons,
but they have been turned down. Coarse
colored goods are in demand, but as is
common in other lines, buyers are un-
able to do business.

Printed Goods—Printed cottons are
somewhat more easy to operate in than
staple lines and business has increased
rapidly in the last few days. Some of
the large buyers for the cutting-up
trade and jobbers have been placing
exceptionally large orders. Staple lines
have felt this improvement more than
anything else, but other goods have felt
it also. Indigo blues, turkey reds,
mournings, chocolates, etc., have shared
in the request, and in some places in-
digoes are reported as entirely cleaned
up. There has been some business
transacted for next spring for narrow
prints and some large sales of narrow
prints have been made at a forward
dating.

Dress Goods—The spring season is
not greatly in evidence. Some foreign
goods are being shown, but not much
appears to have been accomplished so
far. Little has been done towards show-
ing domestic spring goods. The aver-
age buyer does not appear to be ready
as yet to give much consideration to
new goods. He is too much occupied
finishing up his heavy-weight purchases.
The general opinion is that the plain
fabrics will continue to hold the sway of
the market in spring goods. In fall
goods, the demand continues for vene-
tians and broadcloths. Suit makers and
cloak makers are buying fancy backs
all the way from 37%c for printed goods
and from 75@8oc upwards to $i.25 for
woven pattren goods. The fancy back
kersey around $1.75 appears to please
the eye of quite a number of buyers. In
kerseys, tans, castors and pearl grays ap-
pear to hold the most prominent posi-
tion, some good business being done
around $1.60@1.75. There has also been
fair business above the $2 mark. The
suit maker is also buying a fair quan-
tity of mixtures.

Underwear——-Duplicate orders on
heavyweight underwear are still very
scarce, but the rise in raw cotton has
had the effect of retarding the cancella-
tion of cotton fleeces, as well as other
cotton goods. There were so many Can-
cellations that the trade was entirely
taken by surprise, and did not -under-
stand the cause, but this seems to be at
an end now. Business in the finer
grades of woolen and worsted underwear
is very satisfactory. Manufacturers have
their mills very well employed, and or-
ders enough ahead to keep their mills
busy to the end of the year.

Carpets—Trade is still slow on in-
grains. Manufacturers making cotton

 

ingrains are finishing up old orders,
which are very limited, only requiring
a portion of their looms to complete
them, and they hesitate under present
conditions to place large orders for 2-14s
chain yarn. Last season the price of
cotton ingrains was advanced to 24@27c
per yard, owing to the high price of
yarn, and buyers did not purchase this
line freely when compared in price
with C. C. ingrains and other lines of
wool ingrains. The outlook at the pres-
ent time is for continued high prices for
cotton,and the last two weeks have seen
some rapid advances in raw material,
and buyers of cotton carpets will not be
able to place orders for any line, where
cotton is used to any large extent, at
former prices. While it is a fact that
manufacturers have since April 1 been
able to purchase yarn at declining
prices up to within a month, the ad-
vance has commenced in a moderate
way. Although many manufacturers
were stocked up with varn purchased at
high prices which has not all been used
up as yet, for this reason they hesitate
to place new orders until the market
settles, as they do not expect many
duplicates for the remainder of the sea-
son,as the tendency when cotton carpets
reach a certain price is for buyers to
give more attention to the other grades
of ingrains. The result is that wool
goods are likely to show some improve-
ment in demand. During the past week
the weather conditions have been a lit-
tle more favorable, and the retail trade
in consequence has felt some slight im-
provement. Cut order jobbers, although
not satisfied with the amount of busi-
ness being done at present, state that
July and August of this year were better
months in carpets than the same two
months of last year.

Rugs—The past week has seen other
large Philadelphia manufacturers of rugs
offer to meet the cut in price made on
Smyrnas and other grades. This cut
was wholly uncalled for. The facts have
recently come out regarding the way in
which the reduction in price was in-
augurated. A large department store in
Philadelphia purchased from a Phila-
delphia manufacturer some damaged
rugs, or what were called seconds, at
one-fifth on a dollar off the regular
price. This was afterwards used as a
club to other manufacturers without all
the facts (about their being seconds)
being given, buyers merely representing
that they had bought a certain mill’s
goods at a concession. It was consid-
ered by other manufacturers of the small
rugs, 30x60 and other small sizes, and
as a result they offered to sell at the
proportionate reduction. Had_ these
seconds been sold at auction for what
they were (damaged goods), the trouble
would have been averted. As it is now,
the buying end of the trade has made
use of the old maxim, ‘‘make hay while
the sun shines,’’ and placed large or-
ders while the manufacturers were
ready to accept them at cut prices.
This means, as we said before, that
later there will be a reaction unless
there is an unusual demand. The rug
market was ina very healthy condition,
and it is to be regretted that reduction
has taken place.

—_—__—~> 2.

Charles E. Whittemore, who owns a
big confectionery store in Willimantic,
Ct., was obliged to close it the other
day because the honey bees of the
neighborhood finding nothing sweet in
the surrounding country, owing to the
warm and dry weather, swarmed into
the place and made business impossible.

 

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Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000.
Cash Assets, $800,000.
D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres.
D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres.
F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary.
M. W. O’BriIEN, Treas.
E. J. Bootu, Asst. Sec’y.
DIRECTORS.

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker,
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack,
Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L.
Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H.
Kirke White, H. Baldwin, Hugo
Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace,
James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry
Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D.
Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills, +
Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, Ss.
G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F.
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Clothing

Status of the Piece Goods Market.

It has been pretty dull with woolen
manufacturers and piece goods agents
generally during the past two weeks, and
their efforts to stir up business have not
met with much success. Clothing man-
ufacturers can neither be tempted nor
coerced into buying beyond their wants,
and they still feel they can afford to
wait. In fall weights the mills gen-
erally claim to have very little stock
on hand. They have been closing up
business, and where necessary have
made some slight concessions in price
to attract buyers.

A.number of new lines of spring
weights have been brought out by
manufacturers, and this practice of
bringing out new samples, which will
pretty nearly duplicate the former ones,
is deprecated by the clothing trade gen-
erally. One buyer said that it was hard
enough to make up your mind anyway
as to what to purchase, and that this
constant adding of new samples to the
lines rendered the task doubly difficult.
It also has a distinct tendency to unset-
tle the market and does not act for the
good of the situation generally. Many
of these new lines that have been
brought out so closely resemble the
earlier fabrics that where prices have
been in favor of the new goods they
have been freely substitut.d for previous
orders. Among the lines are several
new fancy flannels of much lower grade
than have hitherto been shown, and fear
has been expressed that this duplicat-
ing of what has been in a certain sense
a high-class fabric, in qualities that
permit it to be sold in the very cheap-
est lines of suits, will kill it with good
dressers early in the season. Clothing
manufacturers have been bothered by
the non-receipt of sample pieces and
some mills have notified the trade that
the initial orders received for fancy
worsteds have been so light that they
were not justified in starting the looms
on certain numbers. At the latest re-
ports the sample pieces were coming to
hand in better fashion and clothiers
were making good progress on the de-
signing of their spring lines.

Clothing manufacturers will be inter-
ested in the editorial in this issue on
the manufacture of trousers to be worn
by the ‘‘coatless man’’ next summer.
The information given in this article
was obtained from leading designers in
New York and Chicago markets.—Ap-
parel Gazette.

 

 

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Why Present Values in Clothing Are Safe.

Facts regarding cost of clothing all
tend to show that values will hold. In
the first place dealers should remember
that the advance on clothing has been
very small, from 10 to 15 per cent. be-
ing the extremes. When a comparison
of such a small increase is made with
advances in other lines the increase can
readily be called nominal. In the iron
and steel industries some of the most
important products more than doubled
in price during the year; yet in cloth-
ing there was a total advance in cost to
the retailer in two seasons not to exceed
15 per cent.

Comparing prices of piece goods to-
day with opening prices of last spring,
it will be seen that this advance has
been sustained. Twelve-ounce standard
clays were quoted at $1 in July, ‘99,
and to-day their price is $1.12%; 18-
ounce clays a year ago were $1.37%
and to-day they are priced at $1.50.
The fact that there has not been a rush

 

to buy at these prices, but that a steady,
conservative business has been done, is
in favor of steady prices for clothing.
The increase in cost of materials to the
clothier is less than in other respects.
For example, labor is easily 10 per
cent. more expensive to-day than a year
ago. The advance on linings, sewing
silk, buttons and all other materials is
much greater than the advance on piece
goods. Even the clothiers’ packing
cases and the tags that he sews on the
garments cost more and his _ freight
bills are materially larger. Thus it will
be seen that the actual advance so far
made in clothing is really less than the
increased cost of the product. And
the fact that the percentage of advance
was not much greater was due to the
purchase of their supplies by clothiers
before the advance commenced, and in-
creased skill in manufacture, and some
substitution.

Other causes also are working for
stability in the clothing market, and
one is the absence of stocks either
of piece goods or manufactured gar-
ments. The fall business really has
little effect on spring business, as there
are only a few grades of goods that will
sell the year around; but if there had
been large stocks of fall weights— either
in the piece or made-up to carry over
-—it would have had a depressing influ-
ence on the situation. Happily, to-day
the clothing market is removed from
any such influence, and it is believed
that there is less of both clothing and
material between the mill and consumer
to-day than ever before inthe history of
the country. In fact, the situation has
practically returned to a normal condi-
tion except for the hesitancy on the part
of buyers to place orders. This is some-
thing that only time can correct; but
with an increase of only 10 to I5 per
cent. in price from the lowest quota-
tions ever made, it would appear that

values in clothing are safe.
—_—____> 2.» __—_
Latest on Men’s Waists.

The following extract, taken from the
New York Sun, puts in a nutshell a
complaint that is likely to be entered by
practical people against the coatless
idea. If people are going to take ad-
vantage of the privilege of removing
their coats to make themselves objects
of disgust and discomfort to others, the
custom will die so quickly among the
better class that it will be practically
strangled at its birch. It is to be hoped
that such abuses will be promptly
checked by public opinion whenever
they show themselves. The letter is as
follows:

When men have their so-called ‘‘shirt-
waists’’ made to fit and know how to
dress underneath the ‘‘shirtwaist,’’ there
can be no objections to ‘‘the shirtwaist
man,’’ but they don’t. Coming down
on the New Haven road last Sunday it
was disgusting. Men took off their
coats, vests, collars, cuffs, and you
never saw such a sight. Faded shirts,
slipping up in puffs between suspend-
ers, wet with perspiration under their
arms, in some cases almost to the belt
line. To cap the climax,a man took the
seat with me. In a few minutes off
came his coat; the odor was more than
unpleasant. There was no parlor car
on the train and for a woman whose
husband never travels half clad, nor sits
about in his own home in that condi-
tion, it was hard lines. Women wear
at least three garments under their shirt-
waists; besides they are made to fit, so
keep in place. On the day | speak cf,
no woman found it necessary to take off
her collar, cravat or cuffs, nor to stuff a
handkerchief in the front of her collar
or collarband. Why will men wear arm
garters to shorten their shirt sleeves?
Why not have them cut off?

 

Characteristics of Great Men.

‘*So far as I have encountered them,’
said a citizen of the world, ‘‘a charac-
teristic of great men is that they have
time. They are not in a hurry; their
work doesn’t boss them, but they boss
their work. They don’t act as if every
minute you stayed was valuable time
lost to them; they don’t fret and fidget.
What time they do devote to you ap-
pears to be time that they can spare,
and take things easy in, and be com-
fortable. The work seems to be inci-
dental, and it seems as though they
could turn to it when the time came
and get through it with ease; and they
always seem, besides, to have strength
in reserve. It is a characteristic of the
great man that he has time.”’

Lee ES
A Health Resort.

Excelsior Springs, Mo., on the Kan-
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& St. Paul Railway, has become one of
the leading all-the-year-around health
and pleasure resorts in the United
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The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway has just issued a finely illus-
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One Woman’s Wisdom.

He had proposed to the idol of his
heart, but things failed to come his
way.

‘Do you know,’’ he said, as he was
leaving her presence forever, ‘‘that you

are wringing my heart from my
bosom?’’

‘*Possibly,’’ she answered coldly,
‘‘but it’s either that or marry you and

wring the bosoms from your shirts in
after years.’’
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Borax is being mined near Bakers-
field, Cal., at the rate of 150 tonsa
month. A company has heen formed to
increase the output of the mines. For
many years all of the borax used in the
United States has come from the Mojave
desert.

It is said that there is a scarcity of
cocoa and in consequence higher prices
are probable.

 

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We make a specialty of mail order
business and shall be pleased to
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Shoes and Leather

Unique Methods of Window Display for
Shoe Stores.

 

 

A very unique window arrangement is
made with small steel or copper wire.
The dresser stretches a half dozen small
wires horizontally across the window
from side to side. These wires are so
small as to be almost invisible. Other
wires are run up and down from bottom
to top and the crossing of these with the
horizontal wires makes a solid frame-
work. The shoes are suspended by the
heel straps. Each shoe has a foot form
fitted init or is stuffed with cotton.
The price cards are attached to the wire
directly over the shoe, a little space in-
tervening.

The whole arrangement gives the
effect of shoes hanging in mid air with-
out visible support. The wires are in-
visible from the street, as the light
background, of white material effec-
tually adds to the delusion. This isa
very simple and inexpensive way of
dressing a window and is decidedly at-
tractive.

A reader has tried the scheme of us-
ing shoe cartons and his way is a good
one. He builds a pyramid of the paper
boxes, commencing with a base about
four feet square and tapering gradually
to the top. A_ piece of white cheese-
cloth is thrown over the pyramid and
draped to fit the shape of the same.
Pins are used to bring the covering
close around the edges and form the
steps or layers. At the top or the sum-
mit of the pyramid is placed one black
shoe. The background is of some dark
stuff draped to form an arch. We
should like to reproduce this window if
it were possible to secure a photograph
of it. Our readers may form some idea,
however, from the description. The
price card of this window sat at the
foot of the pyramid and bore the words,
‘*On top—Our $3.50 Shoe.’’ Several
catchy cards are suggested by this ar-
rangement. A dresser’s ingenuity will
enable him to write some very pleasing
window cards for such a display.

A very pleasing and attractive feature
for a shoe window is a_ pretty picture.
Get the picture of a beautiful woman
and put it in a handsome frame. Place
it in your window in the most com-
manding position and drape some bright
colors in the background. Put your
shoes in the front of the window. Mark
each one with a neat and modest price
card. You will see more people stop to
take a look at your picture than would
ever take time to study a window full
of shoes alone. The picture catches the
eye and compels attention and if your
shoes are well shown and the prices are
right, you have done some good adver-
tising, even should the looker-on fail
to buy right at that time.

For a nominal figure you can secure
a series of pictures of great men, cele-
brated beauties, scenic views or war
pictures. Change them every day in
your window and advertise what you are
showing. For instance, take ‘‘ Leslie’s
Weekly,’’ which has full two-page illus-
trations of current events. The South
African war held attention for months.
Now it is China. The pictures are
made from photographs taken on the
scene of action. You can secure a col-
lection or set from any newsdealer.
Mount them on heavy cardboard and
make of them the central object in your
window. Change daily and put in new
shoes occasionally. You will find that
passers-by will be attracted from the

 

first and will be looking daily for the
new one. For instance, take the
Chinese situation, of which every one
is talking. Get the latest pictures and
keep your people posted constantly on
the situation. A few lines from the
daily news reports, in bulletin form,
will help. You will find that people
will take your windows for their daily
news source and from week to week will
follow your change of display with
eager eyes.

One authority on window display ad-
vises the use of novelties of any kind
provided they are eye catchers. He says
any means of attracting attention to
your windows is good advertising and
will do the store good. We are in-
clined to disagree with him in part, as
the use of certain features might be the
means of driving people away from the
store. For instance a timid woman
never cares to look at a snake or wild
animal, alligator or such things even in
a menagerie and the sight of one in her
dealer’s show window would give her
an involuntary chill. Every time she
thought of that store she would remem-
ber the ‘‘ugly beast’’ or the ‘‘horrid
snake’’ and her recollection of the same
would do you no good. Don’t put any
freaks, animals or monstrosities in
your windows. It may be a strong at-
traction for some people if you make
your windows exhibition places for rare
and strange beasts, or large and bril-
liant-hued snakes, but the nervously in-
clined persons will take a different
view. Do you know how afraid of a
mouse is the average woman? Well, if
she sees a lot of white mice ina window
she will always have a dread of that
store. ‘‘Why! who knows but those
nasty little mice are running loose
around that store?’’

A fake is always a boomerang. We
knew a drug company who used scare
heads in all their advertising matter
of the very fakiest kind. Such headings
as ‘‘Murdered,’’ ‘* Assassinated, ’’
‘‘War Declared’’ in flaming letters
adorned all their posters and out-door
advertising. A person would be tempted
to read one of these fakes once—and
once only. After reading such a head-
ing staring at you from the wall ‘‘ Bom-
bardment of New York’’ and finding it
ended with an advertisement of some
patent medicine or pills, you had a de-
cidedly bad opinion of the pills as well
as the individual who advertised them
in such a manner. Don’tsay ‘‘slaugh-
tered’’ when you cut the price of a shoe
ten or fifteen cents. Try and avoid such
fakey head lines or window cards as
**Stabbed,”” “ Cut in Two’. or“ fer-
ribly Hurt.’” You can catch the eye
once with such rubbish, but the after
part will be of no good for your busi-
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Oil Grain Uppers. Sizes 6to12. Best shoes for

Butchers, Brewers, Farmers, Miners, Creamery-

men, Tanners, etc. This sole is more service-

able and cheaper than a leather sole where hard

service is required.

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How to Achieve Success as a Shoe Clerk.

My experience as a shoe clerk dates
back to the day of my birth. My father
is a shoemaker and from choice works
on an old bench to-day that he has
owned over fifty years.

My first introduction to leather was
my father’s strap. Oh, how often I
wished that strap was a little lighter
and my pants lined with sole leather.
When I was 13 years old my father
rigged up an old bench for me and told
me to get down to business. I did
not like the idea very well, but that
everlasting strap bobbed up and 1
bobbed down. | learned the trade from
start to finish. I have made everything
in the shape of a shoe from a kid slip-
per to a stoga.

It makes no difference how stock is
arranged, only that it looks neat and
tidy and you know exactly where to lay
your hand on just the shoe you want.

I know of noset rules. People are
not all alike. The same person is not
always in the same mood. What one
might say to a customer might be all
right to-day, but to-morrow might drive
her out of the store. A good shoe man
must be chock full of resources. If he
lacks tact he might just as well get out
of the business. No customer has the
right to consume all your time. A cus-
tomer waiting is entitled toa part. I
do not call a man a good salesman who
has not the tact to entertain a crowd.
1 know a man who during a special
shoe sale sold 323 pairs of shoes in
seven days. No man could have done it
one customer at a time. These shoes
were mostly odds and ends, and had to
be tried on and fitted in the ordinary
way.

Some days it seems to me that it is al-
most impossible for me to sell anything ;
that every customer I get hold of isa
tough one, and that the finest shoe we
carry is not good enough to wash dishes
in. Everything goes wrong and I feel
as if 1 would like to go out in the woods
and throw myself on an old hemlock
stump that is full of slivers. Then
again, other days, I feel as if I could
sell wooden nutmegs. You see the cus-
tomers are not to blame at all. It is our
own condition. We are kind of bilious,
you know; one of our bad days. A
good salesman who finds himself in
such a condition will call some other
clerk to his assistance, and find a good
excuse to make himself scarce. If the
other clerk succeeds in making the sale
you seemed to be losing, it is no sign
that he is a better salesman than you.
You might as a general thing please
two customers to his one.

Never lead a customer to think she
has on a different size than she really
has. Do not deceive a customer in
any way. Sooner or later she will find
you out, and her confidence in you is
forever lost. To act a lie isa lie.

Some advise you to jolly your trade,
ask about the babies, etc. This is all
very well, if you have the time, but a
little of it in business goes a good
ways.

If I had the power I would revolution-
ize the practice of window dressing. It
is a most expensive way of advertis-
ing. I would have my windows clear,
and made from ceiling to floor,and have
nice upright show cases to display
shoes, and my entire stock would be
an exhibition. To my mind no store
can be made to look finer than a shoe
store.

Have a place for old stock, and let
your customers know that you have a

ing out, and if they would like to take
advantage of the special sale you would
be pleased to show them _ through.
Never try to palm off old truck on any-
one unless you know who they are, and
tell them the reason why you are clos-
ing them out.

A clerk need not be so slick that flies
will slip up on him, neither does he
want any flies to stick to him.

A shoe bench in a shoe store is more
bother than it is worth. It is not a cosy
corner, but is a dirty corner, and you
are imposed upon. When a customer
comes in with a pair of shoes that has
not given satisfaction, I simply write
‘*Mr. Jones, please repair shoes for Mr.
Smith, ’” and away they go satisfied,and
I do not think our cobbler’s bills wilh
amount to $20 a year.

Always be courteous. Let honesty and
stern integrity be your watchword.
People wiil come to the store and ask for
you. Your employers will find in you a
drawing card, and you will be well
paid for your services.

But hold on, Quaker! You have for-
gotten something. I guess 1 am some
like the old Methodist preacher I used
to be compelled to listen to. After sit-
ting on that old straight-back bench
while he roared like a lion and pounded
the air over something I know nothing
about,all at once he would seem to sub-

side. Then 1 would say to myself,
‘*Praise the Lord! He is about to
close!’ Then he would shut his eyes,

place his hand to his forehead, then
slowly raise his hand and open his eyes
and say: ‘‘My dearly beloved hearers,
just one more thought hath struck me.’’
He would begin with a very soft voice
and in a minute he would be_ belching
forth like a steam calliope, pompadour
his hair and pound the altar. Then I
would say to myself: ‘‘Gee Whiz! The
old jigger has wound himself up again.
If I ever get to be a man and they ever
catch me in one of these drat-blasted
straight jackets again, they will be
smarter than I am.’’ How well I have
kept that promise I am not going to
tell. But, my dear readers, I am wound
up again. One more thought hath struck
me, but I promise you faithully that I
will ‘‘ring off’’ soon.

The thought is in regard to fitting
the feet. I spoke about fitting on shoes,
but fitting the feet is another thing.

Mothers, when your little babes are
born you look them over from head to
foot and when you come to the feet you
simply rave. Oh, what pretty feet,
those dear little pink toes that lay right
out straight, just like their fingers. You
grab them up and kiss them. I know
you do, for I have seen you do it—and
I've done it myself. Now, why on
earth don’t you let your children’s feet
grow in that way? You may take your
baby’s feet, place them together, and
you will find they will not touch in a
straight line from heel to’toe. They
would do the same when they are 60 if
you would let them. But no, you will
not let them. If a clerk in his good
judgment fits a shoe to your baby you
will say, ‘‘Oh! They are horrid. They
are too long. But then I can stuff the
toes.’’ Oh, yes, you can stuff the toes,
and after a few years you place these
same feet together and you will find one
big toe has geed off towards grandpa’s
and the other has hawed off towards
grandma’s. I do not mean to say that
all mothers do this, but the majority.
There are women who would be glad to
get a shoe to fit their feet if they were
to be had. But the clerk is not living
to-day, although he might have the
wind of a foghorn and the pounding
ability of the aforesaid minister, that
could sell the average woman a pair of
shoes that would fit her feet.

I have rung off.—Sam B. Owen in

 

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Village Improvement

What Shade Trees Shall We Plant?

 

 

The statement, made in the last num-
ber of the Tradesman by Mr. Lowrie,
that the general American practice is to
buy a lot and then to clear from the
land everything that nature has planted
there and upon the bare ground proceed
to create a lawn, dotting evergreens
over it in an inconsequential way, has
received ot, rather, is receiving an apt
illustration in a certain village ‘‘up
North.’’ There is a thrifty, ambitious
village with a tract of land large enough
for a little park near its center, exactly
where a park ought to be. It is covered
with a natural growth of red oaks. Al-
ready the wand of the fall has been
laid upon its leaves and soon the ripen-
ing will come and the oaks will be a
picture of autumnal glory. A few of
those villagers know what ought to be
done with that growth of oaks and are
thinking that, one of these days, there
will be a movement made to buy the
property and turn it into a park; but
the chances are all against it. It is an
old story of putting off until to-morrow
what ought to be done to-day and will
bear repeating.

The oaks are getting to be of good
size and are growing into good timber
every day. They have little market
value now and, on that account, are al-
lowed to live. By and bye the trees—
they grow as fast as children—will be
‘‘wuth so’thing ;’’ by that time the vil-
lage will have increased and the
ground, as building lots, will be in de-
mand. Then the oaks will go to the
lumberman, the lots, cleared of ‘‘every-
thing that nature has placed there,’’
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who will do what he can to repair the
irreparable loss which the lumberman
and the real estate owner have inflicted.

With the land laid bare and the
stumps removed, the work of ornamen-
tation begins and the question of trees
comes first. They are your only real
aristocracy and, in place of the stately
oaks with their unquestioned ancestry,
which money is constantly trying in
vain to buy, a tree is wanted which
will soonest suggest the refinement
which years alone can bring. The
maples seem to meet the requirement
of rapid growth best—the sugar maple
and the white—the one reaching in its
maturity a height of from fifty to eighty
feet; the other, from thirty to fifty ;
while still another, the red maple, from
thirty to sixty feet high, is especially
desirable from its being the first to
blossom in the spring and the first to
change its color in the fall. The whole
family is hardy and long lived.

The birch is beautiful in the woods—
a birch bough with its rich, beautifully
arranged leaves being the most graceful
the forest furnishes—but it likes the
shade too well to flourish anywhere else
and, not too long lived anywhere, dies
from the exposure of lawn and roadside.

The catalpa is rapidly growing in
favor among tree planters. Its big
leaves commend it to the lovers of un-
flecked shade; its growth is rapid and
its large showy blossoms, coming in
July, make it a thing of beauty, then
while the heats of August,if they do not
prove it to be a joy forever, hint at that
while they last.

To the boy who never can forget and
never wants to forget the hickory nuts
and to the man who likes to scuff, even
when his hair is gray, among its yellow
leaves, the hickory tree with its fruit

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will always be a favorite, both from in-
trinsic worth and from association. It
seems to thrive in every soil. It grows
as if it likes to grow. It is reluctant
to expose its buds to the sunshine in
early spring, but when they do unfold,
the farmer can safely plant his corn.
In the woods it is no reciuse and when
chance has left it in the mowing lot far
from its kind, its makes the most of its
advantages of rain and soil and sun,
the pride of the men who lunch in_ its
splendid shade, the boast of the boy
who goes home ladened with its deli-
cious fruit and the finest feature of the
landscape in which it stands. Inclined
to the cylindrical in outline it, oftener
than otherwise, is anything but that,
but grows according to its own sweet
will. It is always large and handsome
—the manliest of trees—and_ so thor-
oughly picturesque that the artist has
adopted the tree as his very own.
These are but a few of the many trees
from which the planter may choose.
There are others and no village im-
provement society can make many mis-
takes with so many worthy varieties to

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Pleased With the New Postal Order.

All those who have occasion to make
or receive remittances for all small
amounts have noticed long before this
the new postal money order, which,
during the last few months, has gradual-
ly superseded the old form. In shape
the new postal order closely resembles
a bank draft or check and in this re-
spect is more acceptable for handling
than the old, particularly when the or-
ders are deposited in bank. Another
feature that is to be noticed in the new
form is that the plan of tearing or cut-
ting against amounts printed in the
margin in order to show on the face of
the order and the stub from which it is

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detached the number of do lars for
which it is drawn has been omitted. A
bit of history attaches to this feature of
the old form of money order.

Some years since, when the accounts
of the Government were being revised
by a commission appointed for that
purpose, it was found that the auditing
of the money division was greatly in
arrears; in some departments the work
was over three years behind. Up to
that time the form of money order em-
ployed was equivalent to a common
bank check with a stub for recording
necessary particulars. If a fraud had
been committed by a postmaster, for
instance, by filling out the order for a
large amount and the'stub which went
to the treasury for general advice for a
smaller amount, the discrepancy would
not be discovered perhaps until the
postmaster were either out of office or
dead. His bondsmen could not be re-
leased until the accounts had been aud-
ited. The tearing and cutting against
amounts was introduced by the com-
mission for the purpose of preventing
further frauds, and also of avoiding the
necessity of tedious auditing. The stub
and order were bound to agree by this
device. The saving of labor was very
great. As a fact, the force in the money
order division was greatly reduced.
With the new order economy of labor is
also served. The notification to be sent
by the issuing postmaster isa reproduc-
tion of the order by the use of carbon
or manifold paper. This is simpler
and cheaper than the zig-zag tearing
plan. Another improvement is that the
purchaser of the orders gets a receipt
for the amount he pays from the issuing
postmaster. In all respects the new
form of order is to be commended, and
it is not surprising that the business
public is well pleased with it.

A merchant who can’t pay cash must
ask credit. In other words, he borrows
money of the man of whom he securcs
goods. Yet some dealers think a creditor
has no business to know all about their
financial affairs!

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fairly firm and the outlook is good for f
future operations. Valencias, $4.50@
Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- | 5.75.
s uce Trades. Bananas are meeting with fair trade
d Special Correspondence. and quotations are well held within the
it New York, Sept. 22—Supplies of coffee | @9S€ of $1@1.20 per bunch for firsts.
3 at Rio and Santos have been reported a are quiet and quotations f
as large for the past few day —o > ~it4
k peli is for a  eidiamed i « Apples of good quality sell readily at We — positive that our f
o ample receipts. This, together with cco gers rd the — apes nngor en f
I the unsettled financial condition at pres- | With windfalls, which sell for almost i j f
n ent prevailing in Brazil, has iopded to | anything offered. 4 Spices and Queen Flake Baking Powder
§ cause some depression here during the | 4 ve = best a mp pages there :
week, although at the close 2 4__| ready sale at 21¥4c and, as the supply ‘ ae i .
. a oe sins |is not overabundant, the outlook is en- are pure that we offer One Hundred Dollars for
a considered, and dealers hope fo "| couraging for firm rates for some time > > ; ; , _
it tinued improvement pe liegge Vina jong ahead. There is some accumulation of ovary “xe of adulteration found in a package
a : perhaps, a little less strongly adhered | the under grades and prices sag. Imi- of our goods. Manufactured and sold only by
d : to than last week, although no real|tation creamery, 15@17%c; Western
e : change seems to have taken place in| factory, 15 4 @16 ac. , f
or e quotations. Rio No. 7 is worth 8%c. About the average volume of business Northrop, Robertson & Carrier
2 - 4 In store and afloat the aggregate amount has been done in cheese and prices are
- | a of Brazil coffee is 467,390 bags. Mild firm. Best full cream, 11 ¥c. Lansing, Michigan
st : grades of coffee have ruled quiet and The supply of eggs is light and the
a- 3 Good Cucuta is worth roc. There has|™atket gathers strength every day. CO ee eee eee
ig ‘Wi been only asmall daily demand for East Prime to choice stock is worth for
1e€ India sorts, which are practically with- Western, loss off, 19 }2c; selected, 18@ a
1b out change. Fancy Mochas, in an in- 18%c; fair to good, 15@16c. 7
is voice way, are quotable at 18@193¢c. The supply of pea beans is about ex- .
ry Lower prices on sugars are expected | hausted and, as no new stock is obtain-
by before long and, as might be supposed, able, it is likely that the quotation of
d. the market is not especially active. | 52-!° would not be excessive. Medium
is This inactivity is the more pronounced | Choice, 1899, $1.95. ;
nt when comparisons are made with the ],. Dried fruits are quiet, although a
c- situation a few weeks ago. The de- | little better demand is said to be spring- '
on mand is sufficient only to keep up sup-|!"8,UP for some grades of raisins. |
er plies and no changes have taken place To date 170,000 bunches of bananas
1g in quotations. There is reported to be have been received, against 202,000 at
he such a scarcity of raw sugars that some the same time last year. |
pt refineries may be obliged to close, pend- Almeria grapes are said to be very fine
rg ing the arrival of further receipts. quality this year and the crop is about
Ww There is an improved call for teas and | the same as last season. f
nd buyers generally report rather light |. New crop California prunes show /
Ss stocks on hand. At the auction prices fine quality. First arrivals are due to-
were fairly satisfactory and the outlook day. ,
is more cheering than for some time. The canned tomato market is an ad-
a The quality of tea arriving is generally igi: one, and from all appearances _ ;
a good and very little is being rejected by the pack will be smaller by consider- \
a — Quotations are about un- able than last year—-some say one-third. N
: changed. gclaaliy ;
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with their holdings, nor do buyers seem
inclined to take hold with any degree of
freedom. The smallest quantities suffice
and the situation is a waiting one.
Prime to choice Southern, 5'@55éc.

Spice grinders are sending in some
fair orders, but the jobbing trade in
whole spices is decidedly slack. Stocks
are limited, however, and prices seem
to be quite firmly adhered to. Trade
will undoubtedly improve later.

Grocery grades of New Orleans mo-
lasses are showing some little improve-
ment and, although the growth of the
demand is slow, it seems to be steady
and with cooler weather some satisfac-
tory orders are likely to be received from
all parts of the country. Supplies of
open-kettle grades are very moderate.
Good to prime centrifugals, 20@37c.

Syrups are quiet. Buyers seem to think
that asking prices are rather above
actual value and are waiting for a turn
of the tide. Prime to fancy sugar
syrups, 20@26c for round lots.

There is very little of interest to be
picked up in the course of a long walk
through the canned goods market.
Trade is fair—only that and nothing
more. The peach pack is about over
and whether it will turn out in a satis-
factory manner remains to be seen. The
corn pack came to a very sudden termi
nation, owing to the very hot weather
prevailing,and the quality in some sec-
tions is not as good as it was hoped it
would be. Still, the indications are
that we shall have enough and of gd
quality to meet the requirements oi the
coming season. There is an active ex-

The Kansas experiment station has
issued a bulletin showing that in several
tests the best keeping varieties were
Ben Davis, Wine Sap, Ralls Genet,
Limbertwig, Willowtwig, Gilpin and
Lansingburg. Some retained a good
outward appearance, but lost in some
other quality, as, for instance, the lowa
Blush, the skin of which became so bit-
ter as to render the fruit unfit for use.
On the other hand, some varieties re-
tained their eating qualities, but lost in
outward appearance. Such was the
Milam, which kept well but lost in
color. There were also numerous other
kinds of deterioration: Minkler lost
flavor and began to decay; the English
Golden Russet and Fulton shriveled;
the Roman Stem became mealy and lost
flavor; Sheriff and Walbridge discolored
so badly as to render them unfit for
show or market and they deteriorated
rapidly; Fameuse retained color but
many bursted and after a few days be-
came mealy; the Yellow Bellflower went
down suddenly.

Moreover, the behavior of varieties
having a certain characteristic in com-
mon was not always the same in respect
to it. The Missouri Pippin, a dark
apple, faded in storage, but the Wal-
bridge and Sheriff, also dark apples,
came out almost black; nor did the
lighter colored apples fade more than
the dark red ones, for Grimes Golden
and Yellow Bellflower, both yellow ap-
ples, held their color unchanged, while
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In lemons, the turn of the tide has set
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Woman’s World

Easier to Excuse Big Faults Than Petty
Annoyances,

 

 

Do we like people for their virtues or
their ‘‘ways?’’ Speaking theoretically,
and with a due regard for Mrs. Grundy,
we should say that we choose our
friends for their sterling qualities of
heart and head—for their high prin-
ciple, their intellectual brilliancy, their
kindness and their generosity. It is
extremely doubtful, however, if in real-
ity we are as much influenced by those
admirable traits of character as we im-
agine. Oftener than not what attracts,
or repels, us in others is merely a trick
of manner that has nothing whatever to
do with their good or bad qualities, and
in an honest canvass of those we like
best we should find that the people who
fire our fancy are by no means the ones
who always come up to our ideal. The
cheerful sinner with winning ways can
take the prize for popularity any day in
the week over the austere saint who is a
model of all the virtues.

In love, as in many other things in
life, it is the little things that count.
Unfortunately, so many of the noble
and the upright are the victims of un-
pleasant and disillusioning habits that
we are only able to do full justice to
their good qualities when we have got
ten far enough away to get a leverage,
so to speak, on their virtues. In the ab-
stract we can revere the great philan-
thropist who is so busy looking after
the needs of all oppressed humanity that
he has no eye to spare to the state of his
own linen. At short range we can only
remember that his shirt needs washing.
In his ahsence we can worship at the
shrine of the great scholar who, when
he eats, sucks in his soup witha hissing
noise. Inhis presence at dinner all his
knowledge becomes as foolishness to us
because he has never learned decent
table manners. Theoretically our hearts
go out to her, and we yearn to bea
friend to the self-sacrificing woman who
is devoting her life to a ncble cause,
but who splutters so unpleasantly when
she talks we can only murmur, ‘‘ The
Lord preserve us,’’ and get as far away
from her as we can when she calls.

It is,a great deal easier to excuse a
big fault that only crops to the surface
now and then than it is to put up with
the continual annoyance of disagreeable
little habits that grate on our taste and
get on our nerves. In time these can
wear out the stoutest patience and cool
off the most ardent love, and an amus-
ing illustration of this—with which
many of us will have a sneaking sym-
pathy—has just been furnished by a
woman in a Northern city who applied
for a divorce from her husband on the
ground that she had stood his **squeuk-
ing’’ just as long as she could. ‘‘I tell
you, judge,’’ she said in the trial,
just can’t live with that man any longer.
I guess he’s a good enough fellow. At
least he never hit me or threw me down
the stairs. Sometimes I wished he
would, just for the change. But he sets
me wild. He is just a box of squeaks.
He always wears shoes that squeak
worse than a dry pump handle. Hon-
estly, judge, you can hear ‘em half a
block. Then somehow, I never could
understand, he makes his coat and
trousers squeak against the chair when-
ever he sits down. But, do you think
he would try to make them quit squeak-
ing for my sake? Not much. Then
his collars never fit his shirt, and when
they were starched stiff they rubbed to-

 

gether with a kind of screeching sound
that almost drove me crazy. Finally,
when I could stand it no longer, I left
the house, and the last thing I heard as
I went was the squeaking of his collar
and the screeching of his shoes as he
sat and rocked in a squeaking chair!""

Lacking the courage of this heroic
sister, who refused to be a martyr to a
squeak, most of us learn to endure the
disagreeable habits of those about us,
and to forgive them for the sake of the
good qualities behind them, but it does
seem a pity that the afflictions of life
should be so needlessly augmented.
Why should we permit ourselves irri-
tating little ways when they can be so
easily corrected? I doubt if in the
whole range of experience there is any
one other thing in which we show our-
selves so callous and brutal as in the
way we disregard other people’s feel-
ings by indulging ourselves in disagree-
able habits.

This is no exaggerated view of the
matter,and we have only to run over the
list of our own friends and acquaint-
ances to see how society is devastated
and turned into a howling wilderness by
the bad habit. How few and far be-
tween are the people whom one can re-
call without al-o recalling some irritating
little mannerism that seems almost to
offset their charm? Mrs. A. is so bright
and clever. She has traveled so much,
and has observed so closely. How de-
lightful it would be to hear her talk, if
only she didn’t have a voice like a fog-
horn! There’s Mrs. B., who devotes
her life to good works, and who is a
saint on earth, if there ever was one.
How uplifting her influence would be
if only her personality wasn’t as_ rasp-
ing as a file, and her goodness didn’t
have a kind of arbitrary air that put
you inevitably on the other side of every
question she espoused, whether you had
ever had any previous convictions on
the subject or not. What a warm-
hearted creature Mary Brown is, yet you
could feel it in your heart to wish she
was your enemy because she persists in
kissing you on the street. What charm-

ing people the X.’s are, and how
pleased you would be to have them
visit you, if they only knew when to

leave. Then there’s young Grigsby, a
splendid young fellow, and all that, you
know, but who always sits on the back
of his neck in a chair, and squirms as
if he were stretched on the rack and
were enduring mortal agony, and you
are forced, while beholding him, to
suffer with him. There’s Mr. Smith,
who can’t be happy unless he is twid-
dling something in his hands, and who
flips his watch chain and twirls his pen-
cil until he hypnotizes you against your
will; and there’s dear Dr. Thirdly, who
has so much to Say, and says it so well,
but who punctuates his conversation
with coughs, and hems, and haws, until
all his eloquence is lost in what appears
incipient tuberculosis, but in reality is
only a disagreeable habit.

Nor are we one whit better off when
we go abroad to enjoy ourselves. The
men and women of disagreeable habits
are already before us to spoil our pleas-
ure. I say nothing of the men who get
up between every act at the theater and
step on the frocks and feet of all the
women in the row as they go out, nor of
the selfish idiot who persists in hum-
ming all the airs in your ear at the
opera, nor of the complacent goose of a
woman who thinks she is the only _per-
son in the house who has brains enough
to understand the plot of the play, and

who explains it to everybody in reach.

 

Neither do I say anything of the man-
ners—or lack of manners—of the theater
party who go to a play to hear them-
selves talk, and who reduce the per-
formance toa mere pantomime for every-
body within earshot of them. These are
criminals who ought to be dealt with
by law, but I do make a plea against
the unintentional bad manners of peo-
ple who fidget, and who probably don't
realize what a nuisance and affliction
they are to others. Henry Fuller said
once that if we bad a national dance in
America it would be the St. Vitus
dance, and it is true. The rarest ac-
complishment is the art of sitting still
and keeping quiet. Not one man nor
woman ina thousand possesses it. A
man at a concert will tap an accom-
paniment to the music,or he will scrape
his feet on the bottom of your chair, or
he will shuffle around in his seat—any-
thing to keep from sitting still. A
woman will snap the clasp of her opera
glass case, or click a squeaky little fan,
or munch on brittle candy—may heaven
forgive those cowlike creatures who
must always be chewing something—un-
til you feel, like the woman quoted in
the beginning of this story, that you
must run away to keep from being driv-
en crazy. For my part, I never see
any one who can sit still without wrig-
gling, without wanting to congratulate

them on possessing a soothing and
charming accomplishment.
We may well ask ourselves if dis-

agreeable habits are as irremediable
as they appear to be. Why, for instance,
should anyone wear squeaky shoes that
distract a whole congregation on Sun-
day, when cobblers are to be found on
every cornerf If a woman has a natur-
ally shrill voice that is an affliction to
other people, weuldn’t it pay her to

 

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devote as much time to toning it down
as it does to learn to do her hair pom-
padour? Why should a man go through
life gobbling his food like a pig, to the
disgust of all beholders? We don:t see
ourselves, happily, but surely it is noth-
ing but common Christian charity to
make the prospect we present to other
people as delightful as we can.

No woman, at least, can afford to in-
duige herself in disagreeable habits.
She might have all the wisdom of all
the women colleges in the land; she
might be as domestic as Cinderella in
her chimney corner, and as patient as
Griselda; she might be as_ strong-
minded as Miss Susan B., and as in-
discriminately charitable as a ladies’
ready relief society, but if she were un-
refined in her manners, shrill of voice,
frowsy and lacking neatness in appear-
ance, we would be content to admire
her virtues from afar. A woman is never
loved for what she does, but for what
she is. It is her ways that attract us.
We want her to be gentle, with a_ foot-
fall that is noiseless and a touch that is
light as the fall of rose leaves in
autumn. We want her to have the gift
of soft speech and the charm of listen-
ing, so that we feel that she, too, has felt
and seen what we are trying to describe.
We want her to be able to sit stiil, so
that there seem peace and rest wher-
ever she may be. We want her man-
ners to be so instinct with the very fra-
grance of womanhood that a vulgar or a
common thing would shrink away from
her presence. If she lacks these—if
she is loud of voice, and heavy of foot
and hand; if she wriggles and giggles,
and sprawls in her chair, and yawns
when we try to talk to her—whatever
other good qualities and charms she
may have re discounted and _ over-
shadowed by her disagreeable habits.

We may respect a man for his virtues,
but the woden we love are the women
with winning ways, and don’t forget it,
girls. Q Dorothy Dix.

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A Recipe for Domestic Bliss.

There is no subject, perhaps, upon
which more gratuitous advice has been
offered than upon the best way of con-
serving domestic peace and happiness.
Volumes have been written on the sub-
ject, but the trouble has been that these
amiable guides to married felicity, who
spoke with such authority, were merely
theorists. The experienced have frank-
ly admitted their inability to pilot
others through the pitfalls of married
life, so that when we hear a man tell
ing just exactly how he would manage a
shrewish woman, or a woman laying
down the law about how a man ought
to be treated who says out 0’ nights,
we know at once that we are listening
to the sapient utterances of an old bach-
elor, or an old maid, who have never
tried putting their views into opera-
tion.

‘‘The proof of the pudding,’’ says an
old proverb, ‘‘is in the eating,’’ and in
the same way a rule of conduct that
has worked triumphantly and success-
fully fifty-seven years is worthy of the
serious consideration of every husband
and wife in the land. Such a one is
furnished by a Chicago man, who last
week celebrated the fifty-seventh anni-
versary of his marriage, and who de-
clared that in all that time he and his
wife had lived in perfect harmony and
happiness without one spat or disagree-
ment to mar the placid surface of their
domestic bliss. This happy state of
affairs he attributed to undeviatingly
following these rules:

‘*Don’t be obstinate ; compromise. ”’

‘‘Make your wife, think whatever is
yours is hers.’

‘Spend your money and have a good
time while it lasts.’’

‘‘When the money is gone don’t re-
gret it. Think of the happiness it
brought you.’’

‘*Let everything be mutual.’’

‘‘Think your wife the best woman in
the world; she will think you the best
man.’’

On the whole, most women will
think that life with a man who would
live up to these rules would be a pic-
nic. ‘‘Don’t be. obstinate; com-
promise.’’ Somebody in a family is
always bound to give up, and hereto-
fore that somebody has almost always
been a woman. Nothing on earth is
more irritating than a mulish man, one
who sticks to a thing whether it is right
or wrong, just because he said it. How
delightful it would be to even give in
to a man who wasn’t arbitrary, and who
was always ready to meet you half way
and compromise. ‘‘Make your wife
think whatever is yours is hers.’’ That
would mean the family purse. No hag-
gling over every cent, no going like a
beggar to a man like that for car fare,
and wash money, and every single sol-
itary item of expense. The man who
makes his wife a full partner in his
pocket book has come pretty near to
solving the problem of how to be
happy, although married, for two peo-
ple.

‘*Spend your money and have a good
time while it lasts.’’ In reason, of
course. A good wife never desires to
be extravagant, but surely a good many
flowers would blossom along the way
of the woman whose husband thought
to give her little treats,and remembered
that because a woman was married it
didn’t make her like a box of candy, or
a good play, one whit less than when
she was a girl and he used to take her
out. ‘‘When the money is gone don’t
regret it. Remember the happiness it
brought you.’’ He never twitted his
wife on her bad trades, or threw up to
her the bargains she bought. ‘*Let
everything be mutual.’’ That must
mean that a man shall share his wife’s
sorrows and joys as she does his. That
he mustn’t dump all his worries on the
family hearthstone and then wonder why
she can’t manage her own affairs with-
out bothering him when she complains
of the cook. ‘‘He must think her the
best woman in the world.’’ Ah, wise
man! Inthat tie all the law and the
prophets. He mustn’t wonder why she
can’t keep house like Mrs. Smith, and
manage the children like Mrs. Brown,
and be as gay and pretty as little Mrs.
Flirty. If he can only make us think
that we are first and best in his heart,
then we'll forgive him all the rest and
think ourselves blessed among women.
On the whole the Chicago platform
seems to offer a pretty good, solid foot-
ing on which married people may stand.

Cora Stowell.
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cards when we called at the Pinckneys.
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guess it won’t make any difference,
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Laying the Foundation
Fortune.

Written for the Tradesman.
When the proprietor of the Spring-
borough store looked at, the five-dollar
bill which he had,retatnéd from Casi
Hustleton’s wages, ‘te equalize what he
was pleased to call his ‘‘flavoring’’ ac-

count, he did it undef considerable ‘pro-,

test. The boy had earned the money—
there was no doubt about that; the girl
was more to blame than Carl was and
the profit on soda water was at least
‘‘from fair to middlin’;’’ but to take
that boy’s wages and make him pay
twice for a bit of youthful foolishness—
the humiliation and shame were double
the worth of the money—he did not feel
to be just the thing. So he left the bill
in his desk, where it was a constant re-
minder of what he had done and a con-
stant suggestion to turn it to the boy's
account. He could afford to double the
amount several! times and throw it away,
where the boy would feel the loss of
every cent of it. That would not do,
His own peace of mind promptly put a
stop to that and this led from time to
time to considerable thinking of the
bright young fellow and what he ought,
as well as what he wanted, to do for
him.

The boy’s readiness to do everything
that was required of him had been a
strong recommendation for him from
the first. He had never cared whether
it was twelve o'clock or six and the
work on hand, when the clock struck,
was finished before he left the store.
From the time he had had a key he had
been the first to open the door in the
morning and Old Man Means had not
once since found anything to tind fault
with and, what was more to the purpose
in the clerk’s opinion, anything to laugh
at except that blamed ‘‘vanilla’’ busi-
ness!

This bit of reflection on the part of
the storekeeper opened the way for other
things. It revealed to him in the first
place the fact that the ‘‘kid’’ had man-
aged to find a warm place in his em-
ployer’s heart and that the employer,
was glad to ac-
knowledge it. He was getting to de-
pend upon the lively whistle, which was
sure to locate the whereabouts of the
boy and his busy hands, to break up the
quiet and the lonesomeness of the hour
just before dinner. He liked the hearty
‘*Good morning, Mr. Means,’’ which
invariably greeted him in the morning,
and, as he sat there at his desk with
the five-dollar bill in hand, he won-
dered what it would be like to go home
at the end of the day without the cheery
‘*Good night.’’

‘*Why shouldn’t [?’’ he said to him-
self at last, as he listened to the rag-
time tune which came rollicking in
from the back store. ‘‘ Not a chick nor
child to bother or console me. There
isn’t enough of the old man in him to
harm and that little touch of the devil
which he has inherited from the Hustle-
tons, if controlled,as it can be, is not a
bad quality to have. I believe I’ll do
it;’’ and he smoothed out the bill he
held. ‘‘It may be the making of him
and there is more than one fortune that
started with a smaller beginning than a
five-dollar bill. Carl is seventeen, I
guess. Let’s see what the five dollars
will do for him in ten years.’’

He took up his pencil and ciphered a
little on the margin of the daily paper.
‘*It isn’t enough to make him lose any
of his sleep,’’ he said as he looked at

 

the result; ‘‘but the principle’’-——he
choked a little at the accidental pun—
‘‘of the thing is there and all right and
I believe it will be a good thing for us
both. He needn't know until he draws
it out what I’ve been doing nor what it
amounts to. -l shan’t miss it and I
don’t know any -better way to make a
young fellow provident. I'll believe I'll

watch him a ijttte more and see if there

are- any .bad.signs sticking out any-
where.’’

It does not take a man who has his
wits about him a great while to make a
fair estimate of an open-hearted, well-
meaning boy, who has made up his
mind early to be a decent sort ofa
man. At all events at the end ofa
month Old Man Means had decided that
his thought was a good one and that he
would act upon it ‘‘pretty soon.’’ An
incident, slight as it was, hastened his
action,

The storm that ended the summer
was followed by a sudden change in the
weather. At sunset there was a summer
atmosphere and at sunrise the weather
was cold enough to call for the brightest
kind of a fire. The store-keeper had
wakened in a shiver and, with overcoat
collar turned up and _ his head drawn
down into his shoulders, was hurrying
to the store determined that a fire should
be the first thing ordered. He found on
entering that it had been made already
and its welcoming roar and cheering
blaze made Carl's whistle all the pleas-
anter to hear.

‘*Well done, young fellow! How did
you happen to think of this? I didn’t
know as you knew there was a stove
and I knew you’d have to have help in
putting it up. What made you think
of ite”’

‘I'll tell you. If there’s one thing
mother can’t stand, it’s the cold; and,
ever since I've been old enough to no-
tice things, it’s been the one thing
we've had to do without. I made up
my mind long ago that that should be
the first thing I'd pay for, and after |
came in here, I bargained for a stove
and hid it in the woodshed. This
morning I woke shivering and in two
minutes more | was out wrestling with
that stove. As luck would have it, the
wind deadened the noise I had to make
and by half past six it made me think
of ‘Old Town to-night!’ You should
have seen mother. I haven’t seen her
quite so glad in years. My cheek fairly
smarts where she kissed me and I’m
not ashamed to tell you I enjoy the
smart! ‘That made me feel so glad and
thankful that we could havea stove and
a fire in the sittingroom all winter that
it made me think of you who made it a
possibility and—and—I wasn’t going to
have you bothered with the stove or the
fire either, and sol urged father to come
over and help me. Nice, isn’t it? Sit
down and enjoy it. You see I’ve got
your chair already for you.’’

Old Man Means took off his overcoat
and sat down. He reached out both
hands to the fire and rubbed them to-
gether. He watched the happy-hearted
Carl, finishing up the work his double
duty had delayed and, when it seemed
as if he would whistle that frantic piece
of ragtime to death that the boy had
been at all the morning, the _ store-
keeper, who knew classical music and
loved it, broke in with, ‘‘ For heaven’s
sake, boy, stop that racket and come
here. I want to talk to you. Unlock
my desk and bring me _ that five-dollar
bill you’ll find there. Here’s the key.’’

With wonder on his face the boy
brought the bill. ‘‘This bill—sit down
—is what I took out of your last month’s
wages for that vanilla candy. I find
that I have had fun enough to pay for

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all that—that she made away with and
I’m going to bargain with you in regard
to this money. I'll put it into the sav-
ings bank at Conneantville in your
name, if you will promise to add to it
a little every month. Will you do it?”’

‘*You dear Old Man Means, yes!—I

Geo. S. Smith

99 N. Ionia St.

wish I was a girl! I'd kiss you once Phone 1214 Grand Rapids, Mich.
and hug you twice !’’ was what he said: ue

but not as the cold type says it. He ee

stood for a minute as if he was par- i
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the storekeeper’s chair, suiting the ac- i

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around the man’s neck, kissed him,
gave him another hug and rushed into
the back store thoroughly ashamed of
himself.

‘* The—little—something—cuss!’’ ex-
claimed Old Man Means, as he rear-
ranged his collar and necktie: but for
all that for the next ten years the
amount that went down on Carl Hustle-
ton’s bank book was always twice and
often thrice what the young fellow de-
posited. Richard Malcolm Strong.

We make to order only. We make
them right, too. Maybe you wish
to know more about it; if you do,
send in your p'9ns and let me fig-
ure with yeu. If I furnish plans I
charge a fair price for them, but
they are right.

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The Meat Market

What Causes “Soft Pork.”

 

 

As bacon figures largely in the exports
from Canada, the investigation now in
progress into the cause of ‘‘soft pork’’
is of highly practical importance, firm
bacon being obviously of superior com-
mercial value to the soft product. The
fat of bacon or pork consists really of
three distinct fats—olein, palmitin and
stearin. At ordinary temperatures the
last two are solid, whilst olein is fluid.
It is an increased percentage of olein
that gives to soft pork its peculiar and
characteristic flabbiness. The question
arises as to whether the excess of olein
can in any way be associated with the
kind of food and the system of feed-
ing. At the Central Experimental
Farm at Ottawa, Can., about 180 pigs,

ally, some evidence was adduced con-
cerning the excellent effects of includ-
ing mangels in the food of bacon pigs,
the roots being given whole to the ani-
mals in order that they may scoop them
out themselves. A grain mixture of
equal quantities of barley, oats, peas,
and maize, with an allowance of mangels
up to 13 pounds per head per day, is
highly spoken of, but the effect of man-
gels on the quality of pork has yet to
be ascertained.
> «>
Putting Broilers in Cold Storage.

The luscious and_ tender broiler
chicken, a delicacy known to our ances-
tors only during late spring and sum-
mer, now tempts the appetite all
through the long winter months. The
economy of the new system enables the
preserver to store away during the sea-
son of plenitude in anticipation of the
demands of the period of scarcity.

 

 

 

 

For the perfect and economical
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1 It is also safe, being approved by In-
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common stove gasoline, gives a 100

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between six and eight weeks old, were candle power light and is a steady,

put under experiment. They were all
Tamworths or Tamworth grades. As
the animals were from time to time

Broiled chicken, an impossible dish
half a decade ago, now graces the fes-
tive board while old Boreas howls dis-

brilliant light, with no odor and no

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killed, the fats taken over the loin and
above the shoulder were subjected to
analysis, the nitrogenous tissue being
estimated, as well as the percentage of
olein in the fat proper, and the amount
of moisture, while the melting point of
the fat was taken. One feature of the
scheme is the examination of pigs of
different ages from two months to eight
months. In immature pigs, as_ these
may be termed, the fat is invariably
found to be more or less soft, the per-
centage of olein usually being large.
This appears to be the normal condi-
tion of the fat of young pigs, as it oc-
curred with all kinds of feeding that
were tried. Some were fed on maize
entirely, and some on mixtures of bar-
ley, oats, peas, etc., the object being
to find out what qualities of pork re-
sulted from the various feeds. It will

approvingly, but ineffectively.

Putting broilers in storage began at
Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha and other
points last week, and if supplies equal
expectations a large quantity will be
frozen within the next 60 days, which
constitutes the active season. On this
account small springs, those under 2
pounds, will go to a premium, while the
large springs will settle down to the
same price as old hens or nearly so.
Chickens that weigh, when put in_ stor-
age, about twenty pounds to the dozen
are the size in best demand for storage.
On the basis of present prices these
broilers will cost, when in storage, 12c
per pound for dry-picked and about ric
for scalded. One Kansas City firm has
a 60 day contract to put up broilers, and
the packing houses will handle them as
long as the price and size of the chick-

teed, and it is made in various styles
suitable for different purposes.
Imperial Gas Lamp makes the ideal
light for Lodge Rooms, because it
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probably be found that, in order to ob- ii

tain bacon of the first quality, even
with the most suitable rations, a _ cer-
xel tin age must be attained before
slaughter ng. Ripeness or maturity
would seem to be an essential factor to 4% ozs. cayenne.
this end, and the practice of excessive 13% Ibs. salt. Mie 6
feeding from the start so as to obtain 1 Ib. pepper. oe
finished hogs at six or seven rather] 3/0z. cayenne.
than at nine months old is one that it] 3% ozs. nutmeg.

Meat Pie Seasonings.
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We will be at the State Fair at Grand
Rapids with the following lines: Smalley line
of feed and ensilage cutters, Lehr line of culti-
vators and land rollers, Lansing wagons and
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) deprecate. The scheme of feeding in-] , ),. obec No. 7. in the State. Siem
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parts of ground barley, oats, and peas. | 5 Ibs. salt. : ree eee
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: -s : Butcher Obtains Judgment for Slander.
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: ee q fle field, Mass., has been given the decis- e
pork, the fat comes too much <—_ ion in a $3,000 damage suit brought Alexander Warm Air Furnaces {
Again, where beans form the larger | against a Catholic priest. The butcher's
portion of the ration the pork will be} case was based on the alleged fact that
more or less soft ; in all of ten pigs un- = — — — 5 aoe Are made in all sizes and for all kinds of
der the bean diet, the fat showed a a . ae s ee _ fuel. They have many points of merit not
lage proportion of olein, but the fat Jy 1,Girecing, is, congreeer | found any other fanace. Our tubular
was not so soft as in the maize-fed ing to ask them in the confessional if oo hard or soft coal and woo
animals. Ferther, it appears that pork | they had disobeyed him and traded with
of excellent quality can be obtained Ja Jew. Absolutely Self Cleaning
from the mixed ration of equal parts of ss ees .-- a f
barley, oats, and peas. The question tH tig a : Before buying write us for full particulars.
has yet to be decided as to the propor- 6. ee ee Oe We are always pleased to make estimates
ti ci : cat that com be 7 oe spend his vacation alone in the moun- and help our agents in secyring contracts.
ae on ie d : h | ware e Solel year? When we have no agent will sell direct to
ee eee Because of — echo. He stands the consumer at lowest prices. If you are
ted ity of the pork, and the stage in the = on all day long and listens to in need of a good furnace write us at once.
res. growth of the animal at which maize ply:
: : **Is he crazy?’’ f
as should be fed if -_ ——- = gion: ‘*Not at all. Buthis wife contradicts —— Alexander Furnace & Mig. Co.
, Other matters receiving attention relate | everything he says, and once a year he = 420 Mill St. So. Lansing, Mich
to locality, exercise, and the feeding of | likes to hear a voice that agrees with oe
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Hardware

Difficulties of Selling Hardware at a Profit.
Most dealers can and do sell hardware
at a profit. The difficulty lies in find-
ing opportunities to sell a sufficient
quantity at a profit or to so conduct
affairs as to secure enough of the profit
to offset the profit and loss and the ex-
pense accounts and leave a fair balance
at the end of the year on the right side
of the ledger.
' In writing this paper it must not be
understood that the writer has superior
knowledge or is entitled to preach or to
teach. He is merely collecting results
of observations extending through
twenty or more years in the hardware
trade.

When one understands the obstacles
in the way of the retailer, one wonders
how he ever succeeds. His stock is de-
clining for four years at least, while it
is advancing for one year. Competi-
tion seldom allows him to get the full
advance, while it forces him to imme-
diately meet all declines. The jobber
gets advances immediately, at least on
staples. Unlike the jobber also, he can
not force off his stock in. anticipation
of a decline, but must wait for custom-
ers who happen to need the things he
is overstocked on. He can’t force nails
onto a man who merely needs a clothes
wtinger. Neither will the consumer buy
two lawn mowers just because they are
offered at cost or below. Goods that
suddenly become unsalable in one part
of the country can be sold by the jobber
elsewhere—the retailer is limited by his
environment.

In cities, the building of a street car
line affects the trade of the retailer for
good or il], and in smaller towns some
unexpected change has a like effect, but
to the jobber whose business comes
through traveling salesmen and mail
orders a few blocks change in location
has little effect.

The jobber hires men of specialized
intelligence for various positions. It
would be very strange if the credit man
were a good buyer, or the buyer a good
salesman and advertiser, yet the retail-
er must himself do all these things the
best he can. Some, from natural apti-
tude, will dowell. He will be as-
sisted in doing the remainder by care-
ful study of trade papers. If he wishes
to succeed he will endeavor to profit by
the suggestions and advice that he finds
in them. In the accumulated wisdom
of these suggestions he reaps the benefit
of other men’s experience. If a man
could live through his life several times,
and would engage in the same busi-
ness each time, he would probably gain
enough experience to enable him to dis-
pense with advice or with trade papers.
The adage, ‘*Experience teaches,’’ is
true, but, unfortunately, one scarcely
gets through with one *‘experience’’ and
is on his guard against the next one
like it, when an entirely new and un-
foreseen ‘‘experience’’ is to be met,
and he faces trouble again.

Reading a trade paper is like a text
book on whist. It won’t make. an ex-
pert out of a totally incompetent per-
son, but it will render material assist-
ance to one who studies comprehend-
ingly.

Nearly every man regards his own
business in the same light that the or-
dinary whist player regards his own
hand, viz., as a special case, and to a
certain extent he is right, but the good
business man like the good whist player,
endeavors to learn the general rules and

 

 

 

to apply them, so far as possible, and
like the player he is much more apt to
win in the end by so doing, even if
‘*luck’’ should be against him and_ op-
posing forces hold all the ‘‘big hands’’
at the start.

In giving advice about the conduct of
the business, one must generalize. It
is folly to go into minute details, be-
cause it is in these matters that locali-
ties differ. What is wisdom in one sit-
uation would be folly in another. It is
wasting time and judgment to tell a
merchant what profit he must make on
wire and nails. In some localities these
things are sold about at cost, for such
has come to be the local custom, and
the merchants are as prosperous as they
are in towns where 20 per cent. is made
on them.

Don’t waste too much time in cater-
ing to individuals; cater to the public.
No individual’s trade alone will make
you prosperous, but the confidence of
the public will. If you slap Smith on
the back and enquire how Jimmie is
getting along with the measles, and
how soon the baby is to have his first
tooth, Smith is tickled, and tells his
friends that you are ‘‘all right.’’ There
comes a day when Smith believes that
you think him to be of supreme im-
portance, and he coincides in this
view. He then begins to demand lower
prices than you are charging his neigh-
bors, and a longer time for payment.
Later on he suspects you of selling him
inferior goods, and about this time he
wants to borrow money of you without
interest, and finally proclaims you to be
a rascal. From that day Smith ‘‘has it
in for you.’’_ This makes you sad. If
on the other hand you are catering to a
community instead of a number of in-
dividuals, Smith will probably never
get well enough acquainted to get mad
at you. He may trade elsewhere from
time to time, but he won’t try to take
other customers with him, and on your
part, you may recognize the fact that
even if Smith should die, and _ not
trade anywhere, that the public still
lives, and that there are as Many cus-
tomers to be had as ever.

A lecturer in one of our leading law
schools advised the members of a grad-
uating class to keep their cases before
the jury and to keep themselves in the
background as much as possible. He
advised them not to show the jury how
brilliant or how smart they were, be-
cause the jury might get to thinking
more about the lawyer than about the
case, and that would be bad for the case
and in the end bad for the lawyer.

In the commercial world your busi-
ness is your ‘‘case,’’ and the purchas-
ing public is the ‘‘jury.’’ If you run
your business in an impersonal way,
like the big department stores, and run
it according to the business principles
that we all know, Smith won’t ‘‘have it
in for you.’’ He won't expect you to
sell him goods below cost: he will be
satisfied if you don’t grovel before him,
and the chances are that he will con-
tinue to trade with you.

Lack of care in extending credits and
the non-enforcement of contracts with
debtors are evils in the retail trade.
The ordinary merchant is honest. He
endeavors to discount his bills, and
works continually against being over-
stocked. He is attentive, almost too at-
tentive to his business. He is temper-
ate in his habits, if for no other reason
than because it is business folly to be
otherwise. He advertises the best he
knows how, and _ is economical, but as
the years go by he wonders why he

 

hasn’t made more money. In most
cases the answer is because he has
given too much credit. He not only has
trusted people who do not pay at all,
and people who cause him expense
when they ate made to pay, but he has
too much standing out among people
who are “‘good.’’

That term ‘‘good acounts’’ is sadly
misleading. How often a merchant
runs over in his mind a few of these
‘*good’’ accounts and wishes that he
could collect them, so that he might
pay a bill or take advantage of a chance
for a spot cash purchase. He may esti-
mate the profit on his credit sales, and
think he has done wisely to let his
goods go out that way, but if he were
to estimate the interest which he is en-
titled to on these accounts, and which
he does not get, add to this his losses
and the expense of collection; and then
figure what he could have saved in his
purchases, in his bills payable, inter-
est, and in cash discount; if he had the
money instead of the ‘‘good’’ account,
he will find that he has not only done a
whole lot of work for nothing, incurred
a lot of useless worry, but is perhaps
out of pocket by giving such credit.

A man with no assets beyond his ex-
emptions, but who is known as ‘‘hon-
est,’’ can go into at least one store out
of three in a country town and buy
goods in the spring, which he promises
to pay for, at that indefinite period
known to most retailers as ‘‘in the
fall.’’ If he buys $15 worth, they will
cost the dealer all the way from $10 or
$12 to $14 according to the amount of
staple goods in the bill. If the custom-
er is actually honest, if he has luck, if
he has no sickness, or misfortune, he
will pay. The merchant has therefore
wagered from $10 to $14, not that he is

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going to make $1 or $5, but that he will
ever get his $10 or $14 back. The most
that he can make by his wager if all
conditions come out right is from $1 to
$5, and he may lose $roto $14. No
gambler or plunging speculator would
take such chances, yet many a sober,
industrious, economical retailer takes
them every day. He does it, not be-
cause he wants to, not because he does
not know better, but through fear that
his competitor may do it if he does
not, and thereby gain a problematical
customer and a hypothetical profit. No
one can account for this fear which
seems to pervade the retail world, but
it is there.

Two men of like character and means
start in business at the same time. One
puts his money into banking, the other
puts his into the retail business. The
chances are, that from this time on,
these men adopt entirely different pol-
icies. The banker investigates the
character and standing of all who get
money from him, and in most cases
takes collateral or other security. He
impresses the borrower with having
done him a favor. The merchant on
the other hand, seems to think that as
soon as he has invested his money in
goods, that they haven’t much value
and must be traded off, or trusted out.
He takes no note, or seldom takes a
note, or other evidence of indebtedness ;
he has but the vaguest understanding of
his customer’s reliability, and gives
him in many ways to understand that
he is under obligations, because he has
been allowed to trust him, and finally
when the customer pays,if he does pay,
he will make that customer a present
ranging from a pocket knife up,to show
him what a good fellow he is. This is
all caused by that constant fear so many
retailers have, that their competitors
will gain something, unless they do
something foolish, and thereby ——
him.

What follies merchants commit be-
cause of this stupid and unreasoning
fear of their competitors! They buy
things they should not, for fear he will
get them—they trust men they should
not, for fear the competitor will sell to
them—they bid on a bill of goods and
their competitor gets the order, then
they cut the price thereafter,to all com-
ers, on the same goods and so lose the
profit they were formerly making.

In a town where the usual profit on
window glass, by the light, was 4o per
cent., a seller bid on a repair job at 25
per cent. profit and lost the order. This
was in the beginning of the glass sea-
son, early autumn. He _ therefore
dropped his price to about Io per cent.
profit by the light, because he did not
propose to lose his glass trade. He
didn’t lose his glass trade, but he lost
his profit, and all because he had lost a
$20 job, and because of the fear that his
competitor was going to run him out.
Don’t fear your competitor. Don’t
think of him any oftener than possible.
Don’t allow your clerks to speak of him
to your customers except in pleasant
terms, but keep your thoughts on your
own business.

Many merchants lose a good sized
sum annually, or many customers, or
both, by an indiscriminate and injudi-
cious system. of ‘‘warranting.’’ Some
salesmen ‘‘warrant’’ everything in the
store except nails and window glass,
and will even speak in the highest
terms of these. No one knows, until
he has tried, how few times in a year
he will lose a sale because he does not
guarantee. The less a salesman says

 

 

about the quality of an article in mak-
ing a sale, the less friction there will
be later on. If the customer is not led
to believe too much, he is easily satis-
fied, and the matter ends with the pur-
chase. If he buys a 50c jackknife and
is merely assured that it is of a good
make and is a good knife for the price,
he will be satisfied, if that is just what
the knife should prove to be; but if the
salesman goes on to assure him that
nothing ever made in Damascus or in
Toledo was of such exquisite quality
as this hand forged blade, the purchaser
gets mad later on, when he finds he
can’t use it for a can opener or to cut
stovepipe with. When a man is making
a sale it is a case of *‘ Least said soon-
est mended.’’

This matter may appear trifling to
some, but the merchant whose custom-
ers are best satisfied with their pur-
chases, is the one who keeps his cus-
tomers, and the extravagant, useless,
guaranteeing that is indulged in by so
many salesmen, is the cause of losing
many a good man’s trade, when he finds
that he has bought only an ordinary ar-
ticle instead of one of supernatural per-
fection.

To succeed, therefore, you should

1. Carefully study the trade papers.

2. Cater to the public, rather than
waste time trying to get into the good
graces of individuals.

3. Use care in extending credit, and
insist on your debtors fulfilling their
contracts on time.

4. Cease fearing your competitors or
worrying about what some other mer-
chant is going to do. Think rather
about your own business.

5. Don’t knock the bottom out of
your own prices just because your com-
petitor has sold some bill that you ex-
pected to. Maybe he got as ak prices
as you made on it.

6. See how many sales you can
make each day without guaranteeing.

7. Remember that your goods cost
money, that they are money. ‘Treat
them as respectfully as you would
money. Don't fool them away because
they are ‘‘goods'’ and because you
‘‘keep a_ store.’’—G. H. Loghed in

American Artisan.
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For the first time since letter postage
was reduced to 2 cents, postal receipts
for the first quarter of the present year
were in excess of expenditures. Consid-
ering the volume of business, $27, 371,-
794, the excess was not large —$205, 000,
but a break however slight in the long
score of postal deficits is noticeable and
welcome. Postoffice receipts are an ex-
cellent barometer of the volume of the
people’s business. Four years ago the
total receipts for the corresponding
quarter were $21,917,766, or about
$5,000,000 less, and the deficiency about
$1,000.000. The betterment shown this
year does not assure a surplus in the
year’s business, but it is regarded as a
sure indication that the deficiency will
be less than the estimate. Ifthe mails
could be cleared of their immense _ vol-
ume of dead-head matter the people
could have I cent postage, and the serv-

ice be done at a profit.
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Efforts are being made to_ install
American sweet potatoes in the Euro-
pean markets. Those exhibited at the
Paris Exposition attracted great atten-
tion.

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This world would probably be better

if fewer people had the idea that the

only time to study the Bible is just be-
fore they go to Sunday school.

 

Hardware Price Current

Augurs and Bits

 

 

 

 

2 ee 60
Jennings genuine... 25
Jennings’ imitation.. 50
Axes
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.. 7 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. 11 50
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel. . Le 7 75
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 13 00
Barrows
Oe 17 00
CGC ee. | ae ae
Bolts
oo 60
= anee. Mem ee ee. 70&10
a. noe alee a diag oe 50
Buckets
Wel pam $4 00
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............... 65
Wrought Narrow)... .... 2.1... 60
Cartridges
ore 40&10
COMEIAN Pe oe ee 20
Chain
¥ in. 5-16 in. 3¢ in % in.
Com 7 ¢é 6 &.. & ¢& : _
Bp ........... Sa .. Te Ga ..-
BEB... =a . =... ek C.. o%
Crowbars
Gast Steck perth... 22.0... 8... 6
Caps
Pi S216 Per Ms woo... 65
Hick’s C. F., perm Se ee 55
Ge 2 Berm 45
Miwenoe, PEW 75
Chisels
soemet Wimmer... 65
HOGHOL PEAHMMNG ......... 2... 1... 65
pocwes Commer... 65
Recwee SMCHR 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.. = os SOE 65
Corrugated, — ie 1 25
Adjustable. . Se eee ee | |
avin Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 . cues 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24: See. 25
Files—New List
New American . 70&10
Nicholson’s.. See eel cllela) tele eee 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps. See ee 70
Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 70
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box............... dis 80&20
Double Strength, e Oe dis  85&10
By the Light.. oo. -.dis  80&10
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 334%
Yerkes & Plumb’s. -dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... ..30¢ list 70
ion
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3.. bes ....dis  60&10
Hollow Ware
Fs 50&10
Keities Ce 50&10
Spiders... eae ou 50&10
‘iene ‘Nails
Au Sable . ee ee cee oe ..dis  40&10
Putnam.. — oe .. dis 5
Messe  Werniohing ‘Geuds
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
Japanned eee 20&10
Iron
er TG 2 25 crates
TOGNG BAM 3 ¢ rates
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. Bae ies 1 00
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 00
Warren, Galvanized Fount.. . 6 00
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70
Mattocks
Aaze Wye... ...... 2... -. $17 00..dis 65
‘Mctade—Zime
600 pound oe 1 Ss 7%
Per pound.. See ee we ao. 8
™M iecsaiiiahiiniiias
Bird Cages . Be a ees oc wes 40
Pumps, Cntr 75
Serews, New List . Slee caa dee. 80
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50&10&10
Dampers, American ................... 50
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Fatiern::....:................ 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans
Fry, Acme. . Seis acreage 60&10&10
Common, polished... Ne 70&5

Patent Planished Iron
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25to27 9 75
Broken packages %c per pound extra.
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. .
Sciota Bench..
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, taney.
Bench, first yuality....

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Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

  

mieoel Mame PASS 2 55
Wire nails, base... 2 E5
20 to 60 advance a Base
10 to 16 advance.. 5
8 advance... 10
6 advance.... 20
4advance...... 30
Cea 45
AaVeNeS 70
Pines Agamee 50
Casing 10 advances... 8. 15
Case Saavanee |... 25
Casting 6 aagyvanee.... 35
Mintel 10 adyanee..... 25
Wien agavenee 35
Puen 6 agvaned 45
Darrel 4% Svaleo.. 85
Rivets
Tron and Tinned.. eee as 50
Copper Rivets aie Bars 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Deam..:...........

14x20 LX, Charcoal, Dean.. ‘

20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. sats
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. ..
14x20 Tbh Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

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20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 1
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13
Ropes
Sisal, 4% ineh and larger............... 8
a 12
Sand Paper
List acct. 19, ’86.. . ans. Ge 50
Sash . aches
Solid Eyes, per for.................... 25 00
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com
moe 160004 $3. 20
ING EtG We, 32
Noe ist02 3 30
INOS. 22 to 24... ... 3 60 3 40
Nos. 25 to 26.. 3 70 3 50
Nee 8 3 60

22. 3 80
All Sheets No. 18 and: lighter, over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black Powder...........dis 40
Loaded with Nitro Powder........... dis 40&10
Shot

a . 1 50
B B ane Pen. 1 75
Shovels and Spades
Hirst Grade, Pg. 8 00
secenea Grade, Dez... tl. 7 50
Solder
“es... 21

The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

  

 

Squares
Becerand Irom. 65
Tin—Melyn Grade

texts 1C, Charcoal... $ 8 50
14am IC, (mareoa@i.. tL .. 8 50
eel TX Charecea).... 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

Nextt IC, Charcoal. -.......... 2... 7 00
iee2e 10, Cimameoal.............. 7 00
Outi EX, Chareoa............. 8 50
poo 8 50

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers,
14x56 IX; for No.9 Boilers, { per pound.. 10
Traps

Steel, Game. . 4 75
Oneida C ommunity, “New house’s...... 40&10
Oneida en Haw “ & Nor-

ton’s.. Bee 65&16
Mouse, choker, per Ma 15
Mouse, delusion, per dow 25

Wire
riene MAAYNOR 60
Annesiog Market... 60
Coppered Market...................... 50&10
Gomed Markee... 50&10
Coppered Spring Steel. . coe oec. 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 20
Barbed Fence, Pameto@. 2 90
Wire Goods
i 80
Berew Byes... 80
PAGGMG 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.. 80
Wiese

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30

Coes Genume. wo
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Aluminum on

Will Increase Your Stee:

 

Cheap and Effective.
Send for samples and prices.

C. H. HANSON,
44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

   

  

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Butter and Eggs

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

Egg shippers have been loud in their
condemnation of the loss off method of
selling eggs in distributing markets
and have long insisted that the‘
mark’’ method was the only right one.
For several years past we have main-
tained that if all receipts at New York
were to be sold as they were, at mark,
the quality being judged when the sale
was made and the price fixed accord-
ingly, it would tend to encourage a close
assortment of eggs at primary points
and diminish the losses endured by
the egg trade at large from packing
and shipping worthless stock. There
has been a rapid drift toward case count
selling in this market until now only a
small part of the Western eggs are sold
on any other basis. Some buyers still
insist upon making purchases loss off
and some receivers continue to do part
of their business on the old basis, but
as a rule the loss off quotation for eggs
in this market is now used chiefly as a
basis upon which to judge the case
count value of various lots, and very
frequently, even where sales are made
loss off, receivers make returns at mark

at an eguivalent figure.
The change in ‘the basis of sales ne-

cessiates a much wider range in the
normal selling value of the various qual-
ities and shippers of Western eggs to
this market should understand fully the
meaning of the different grades as
specified in the quotations given from
day to day in order to be able to judge
of the actual value of their particular
shipments.

Under the old method shippers could
never get much ideavof the actual net
value of their goods from the quotations
made on a loss off basis. They could
know the range of selling values ona
loss off basis but could get no informa-
tion as to the net result until their ac-
count of sale turned up, and were
obliged to wait for this until the buy-
ers of their goods reported the loss to
the receivers. Now they can get a
closer idea of net values from the daily
quotations, provided they learn to judge
of the quality of their stock in relation
to the specifications made in quoting
the various qualities.

Under the old method a wide range
of quality was sold at a nominally uni-
form price per dozen, the differences
being compensated by different loss re-
turns, and shippers of medium grade
eggs were accustomed to getting account
of sale at top quotation with the loss de-
ducted. But of course when mark sales
are made the differences in quality have
to be offset by differences in price per
dozen and a wide range of quotations
becomes necessary. At the present time
there is a range of about 6c per dozen
in the case count value of the different
grades of Western fresh gathered eggs
and during the extreme heat of the past
summer the range was often still wider.

We think that many shippers who are
now putting up goods without grading
and of which the selling value here is
now around 15@16c, at mark, would
find it profitable to set up candling
facilities and make an effort to establish
a reputation for their brands by assort-
ing closely and before the candle. The
merit of such goods is appreciated by
case count buyers and full prices can be
realized here for superlative quality.—
N. Y. Produce Review.

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He Accepted the Receipt.
In days of old men were not so pro-
ficient in the art of writing as they are

 

at the present day. Then, hieroglyphics
took the place of written characters,
and some of the ancestors of our present
over-educated aristocrats were in the
habit of dipping their sword points in
the ink and making their marks there-
with every time their signatures were
necessary.

There were once two farmers who
were quite deficient in the art of writ-
ing, one of whom was indebted to the
other for a considerable sum. Over this
debt they fell out, with the result that
the debtor thought it best to settle his
indebtedness without delay. At the
same time, suspiciously or shrewdly, he
demanded a receipt of his hostile
creditor.

The latter, in view of this demand,
found himself in quite a dilemma, inas-
much as he was incapable of writing
even his name.

He thought over the matter carefully
for some time and at last he saw a way
out of the difficulty. If he could not
write, he could at least draw. Very
soon he had made a rough sketch of
the body of a man ‘‘hanged by the
neck until he was dead.’’

‘*What is that?’’ enquired the aston-
ished debtor who had demanded a re-
ceipt.

‘* That, ’’ said the artist, triumphantly,
"aS your receipt. ’

‘*What’s it mean?’’
zled question.

| Setied.

And the farmer who wanted a receipt,
looking upon the picture, was obliged
to admit it did spell ‘‘settled’’ as cor-
rectly as the proper combination of cer-
tain letters of the alphabet. He ac-
cepted the receipt.
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Bloomless and Seedless Apple.

There may be ‘‘Nothing new under
the sun,’’ but people are constantly find-
ing out things they did not know hefore.
The San Leandor Reporter has the fol-
lowing to say of a new seedless apple:

A branch of an apple tree heavily
laden with fruit buds was recently ex-
hibited at Sedalia, Mo. This is apt to
create quite a sensation among fruit
growers, as it is a seedless apple and
is possessed of many excellent qualities
over the other numerous varieties of ap-
ples. An exchange says: One of its
many advantages is the fact that it does
not bloom, so that it is incapable of
suffering from early spring rains which
affect other varieties by washing the
pollen out. Its keeping qualities are
said to be marvelous, easily retaining
its advantages fora year. It is alsoa
young and heavy bearer and_ hardy.
The exhibit was made by W. fF. Jack-
son, who possesses the only sock ‘of this
apple in existence and it originated
from a chance seedling.

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The Texas Pecan Crop.

Texas, having beat the record on
small grain and succeeded fairly well
with corn, is about to gather the best
pecan crop for five ycars, according to
reports from the best districts, received
by shippers who have already booked
large orders for both domestic and_for-
eign demand. A Waco exporter who
sells Texas pecans in Europe and in
Asia said that advices from Brown,
Coleman, San Saba and other counties
of Western Texas indicate a very large
crop of fine nuts. He said it is impos-
sible to overstock the pecan market, as
the demand is large enough to take care
of twice the world’s entire products,
four-fifths of which is produced in the
Lone Star State. The exporter added
that with plenty of grain made and
good prospects for cotton the pecan crop
coming in extra ought to give Texas a
big start up the hill this year.

8
Novel Scheme to Save Peaches.

A peach grower near Georgetown,
Del., protected his trees from the dep-
redations of fruit thieves this summer
by conspicuously displaying this legend
on signs nailed to the fence surrounding
his orchard: ‘‘Caution! This fence is
surmounted by a_ live electric wire !’’
The wire could be seen on top of the
fence, strung on glass insulators, and
no one attempted to meddle with it.

 

Walker Egg& Produce Co.,}

54-56 Woodbridge Street, W. 24 Market Street. 484 18th Street, Detroit, Mich.
@ 150 King Street, 161-163 King Street, Chatham, Ontario.

Commission Merchants and
Wholesale Butter and Eggs.

Weare in the market for
200,000 Ibs. Dairy Butter, 100,000 doz. Eggs.

Write us for prices. We pay CASH on arrival. We handle in our Detroit
stores a full line of Country Produce, Fruits, Cheese, Beans, Peas, etc. We
can handle your consignments promptly and make satisfactory returns.
Send us your shipments. Established 15 years.

Any Detroit or Chicago bank.

 

References:

 

ESTABLISHED 1890.

Hermann @C.Naumann & Co.

Wholesale Butchers, Produce and

Commission Merchants.
Creamery and Dairy Butter, New-Laid Eggs,
Fruits of all kinds i in season.
388 HIGH ST. E., Opposite Eastern Market, DETROIT, MICH. Phone 1793.

REFERENCES: The Detroit Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies, Agents of all Railroad and
Express Companies, Detroit, or the trade generally.

Our Specialties: Poultry and Game.

 

    
 

central

  

near

 

Fibre Butter Packages

Convenient and Sanitary

Lined with parchment paper. The best class
of trade prefer them. Write for prices to
dealers.

Gem Fibre Package Co
Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc.

f COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED.

f Consignments Solicited. 74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.
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WE WANT TO BUY —.

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ALSO NEED PEACHES, PLUMS, PEARS.
WRITE US.

STRANGE & NOKES, creve ano, onio.

Peaches, Pears, Plums, Apples, Grapes, Etc.
Sold on commission, bought or contracted for.

R. Hirt, Jr.,
34 and 36 Market St., Detroit, Mich.

Cold Storage, 435, 437, 439 Winder St.

REFERENCES:
City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies and trade in general,

 

Write for prices, etc.

Wholesale Produce Merchant,

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Fruits and Produce.

The Apple in Story and Song.

Women and apples, beginning with
Mother Eve, have ever been associated
together. In classic iore Pomona had
the apple especially under her care, and
in Rome she was peculiarly honored,
having a splendid temple built for her
exclusive use. She is represented in
ancient sculpture and painting as a
maiden fair to see, with a crown of ap-
ple leaves upon her brow, while her
hands uplift a fold in her robe, in
which are heaped apples, with other
fruit. In those times, also, the golden
apple was awarded to Venus for her
superior charms, and the story of At-
alanta and Hippomenes is interesting,
as told by Bacon in his eassys. Atalanta
was excecdingly fleet of foot, and her
lover was to win the race in order to es-
pouse her; if he lost, his life was for-
feit. The maiden had already con-
quered numbers of adorers, who died
because of love, when the new suitor
entered the lists, determined to win or
die. But, believing that, asin war, all
was fair in love, he determined to  suc-
ceed by strategy should fleetness fail.
So, when he started in the race, he car-
ried with him three golden cheeked
apples and when fleet footed Atalanta
sped on in front of him he threw for-
ward one of the three apples, so it
would cross her path. She saw, she
sighed, she stopped. Tempted, like
Mother Eve, she yielded, and Hip-
pomenes ran by her side as she started
again in the race, holding the golden
apple in her hand. Again the ardent
lover lagged, and again was the apple
temptation thrown. But not yet was
Atalanta won. The third apple rolled
before her just as the goal was won,
and when she stooped to secure the
prize Hippomenes touched the victor’s
pole in triumph. So love was lord of
all and yielded to the apple’s charm.

From the earliest ages, way back in-
to the dim distances of mythology, the
apple has been the favored fruit, associ-
ated with human happiness, typifying
human prosperity and even associated
with the idea of immortality. Witness
the story in Northern mythology of its
power to confer immortality upon those
who eat it. The trees were carefully
guarded by the goddess Iduna, so that
when the gods felt themselves growing
old they could come to her, eat of the
fruit of gold and feel the blood of new
life coursing through their veins.

In the time of the Druid priests they
were accustomed to bless the apple,
which became a charm, warding off
evil and bringing good to those who
were fortunate enough to possess the
magic gift.

Allusions to the apple in the Bible
are not frequent.

In the field of English literature the
golden fruit gleams torough prose and
poetry and lingers lovingly at the feasts
in hall and cottage, and when the poet
wished to depict the freshness and the
fairness on a maiden's cheek he could
find no more suitable simile than that
given by the apple blossom.

The apple figures prominently in the
ceremonies of All Hallowe’en, and its
succeeding day, November I, was dedi-
cated by the early English to the titular
saint of fruit and seeds, and was called
the Day of the Apple.

It is probable that more home memor-
ies cluster about the apple than any
other fruit. Of it John Burroughs says:

Noble, common fruit, best friend of

 

 

 

man and most loved by him, following
him, like his dog or his cow, wherever
he goes! His homestead is not planted
till you are planted, your roots inter-
twine with his, thriving best where he
Strives best, loving the limestone and
the frost, the plough and the pruning
knife. You are, indeed, suggestive of
hardy, cheerful industry, and a healthy
life in the open air. Temperate, chaste
fruit! You mean neither luxury nor
sloth, neither satiety nor indolence,
neither enervating heats nor the frigid
zones. Uncloying fruit—fruit whose
best sauce is the open air, whose finest
flavors only he whose taste is sharpened
by brisk work or walking knows; win-
ter fruit, when the fire of life burns
brightest; fruit always a hyperborean,
leaning towards the cold; bracing, sub-
acid, active fruit! I think you must
come from the North, you are so frank
and honest, so sturdy and appetizing!
You are stocky and homely, like the
Northern races. Your quality is Saxon.
Surely the fiery and impetuous South is
not akin to thee. Not spices or olives,
or the sumptuous liquid fruits, but the
grass, the snow, the grains, the cool-
ness,are akin to thee. I think if I could
subsist on you, or the like of you, I
should never have an intemperate or ig-
noble thought, never be feverish or de-

spondent. So far as 1 could absorb. or
transmute your quality 1 should be
cheerful, content, equitable, sweet

blooded, long lived, and should shed
warmth and contentment around.
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Why Shippers Should Patronize Specialty
Houses,

Years ago a commission merchant in
this market received and sold about
everything that happened to come
along, charging different commissions
for the various articles handled accord-
ing to their perishability. For instance
10 per cent. for fruit, 5 per cent. for
poultry and so on throughout the list of
produce. As time advanced conditions
changed and the various firms made
certain articles a specialty, giving
them their attention to the neglect of
other lines of goods. In this way the
various firms in the commission line
have built up a trade for certain com-
modities until now many houses handle
only one or two articles and the vari-
ous trades have drifted apart, more so
than in any other market. Some firms
still handle a line of articles, but toa
great extent the various different trades
have become so separated that they are
now centered around each other in
different parts of the city. Each year
this has gradually become more and
more pronounced. For example furs
and skins, which were formerly handled
by merchants on the west side ,are now
mosty handled further up and across
town and the merchants making these
a specialty handle little if anything
else. The butter and egg trade has
drifted away from the poultry and
game business, and fruits and vege-
tables is another branch of the commis-
sion business. Few butter houses care
to bother with poultry or game, and the
large poultry and game houses rarely
handle anything else, many of them not
even caring for eggs.

The buyers of the various articles see
the quarters where the goods which they
want are to be found. One looking for
poultry will not go into the butter dis-
trict, and a merchant looking for butter
or cheese seeks the center where these
articles are handled extensively. And
so it is that a poultry merchant receiv-
ing butter or a butter merchant receiv-
ing fruits or vegetables has no trade for
them and either has to turn them over
to another house making a specialty of
them, or sell them for a_ lower price
than could probably be obtained by a
receiver of these goods only.

 

The larger shippers usually keep in
touch with the wholesale markets, but
many of the smaller ones do not, and
even many of the larger ones rarely
visit the wholesale markets, or this one
in particular, A shipper might visit
Chicago or some of the smaller Western
or Southern markets and form little idea
how business is transacted in New
York. Many of these markets, and even
some of the larger ones, conduct a mis-
cellaneous business something like New
York did years ago.

There is less profit in the business
than in former years, both for the ship-
per and commission man, and shippers
should study the conditions so that they
can realize all the profit they are en-
titled to, visiting the market they
patronize as frequently as possible and
studying the conditions there as well
as at their end of the business. Prob-
ably one of the most important things
in the shipping business is the selection
of a commission house to handle the
articles shipped and one should be
picked out which makes a specialty of
the goods the shipper is dealing in.

The old expression, ‘‘time is
money,’’ is certainly true with buyers

,

 

who are drawn to the centers where the
goods they seek are handled most ex-
tensively, and shippers following their
goods here on the market, readily see
what an advantage they have by being in
the hands of the commission merchant
making them a specialty.—N. Y. Prod-
uce Review.
—--_-> 0» - —

No man ever gained anything but
contempt and ruin by incessantly halt-
ing between two opinions.—Dean Far-
rar.

 

For No. | Fresh Eggs

Will pay 16%

cents delivered
Chicago, new cases included, %c
less cases returned, no commis-

sion nor cartage.

Dittmann & Schwingbeck,

204 W. Randolph St., CHICAGO.

 

SEEDS.

Clover, Timothy, Blue Grass,
Orchard Grass, Rep Top. etc.

Quality Good. Right Prices.

 

Send us your orders.

MICHIGAN PEACHES NOW IN MARKET

MOSELEY BROS.

Jobbers of Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Potatoes

26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa Street

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

F. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY,

   

Write or wire for highest cash price f_o.b. yourstation. We remit promptly.

Branch Houses.
New York, 874 Washington st.
Brooklyn, 225 Market avenue.

ESTABLISHED 1886.

References.
State Savings Bank, Ionia.
Dun’sor Bradstreet’s Agencies.

GRASS

POULTRY, EGGS, ETC.

We handle everything in the line of Farm Prod-

SEED,
PRODUCE,
FRUIT,
ETC.

References:

uce and Field Seeds.
“Seed Manual” free on application.

Established | THE KELLY CO.,

Our “Shippers’ Guide,” or

150-152 Sheriff
Street

Cleveland, Ohio.

All mercantile agencies and Park National Bank.

ke" WANTED: 1,000 Bushels White Rice Pop-Corn.

 

 

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Every indication points to a large crop and that ihe fruit will be of
the finest quality We solicit your standing order for regular ship-
ments and can guarantee you Satisfactory service and lowest prices.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Butter Wanted

I will pay spot cash on receipt of goods for
all grades of butter, including packing stock.

C. H. Libby,

98 South Division Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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SHIPPING GROCERIES.

Some Changes Which Three Decades Have
Wrought.

‘‘Thirty-four years ago. Let’s see.
That would bring it Back to 1866,
wouldn't it? Grand Rapids has
changed somewhat since then. ‘‘ That
was when I came,’’ and Alexander
Keith, as he said it, looked through the
Tradesman’s windows to the noble __for-
est above John Ball Park, as if he saw
there the picture of Grand Rapids as it
was nearly two generations ago. ‘‘l
was something of a youngster then and
I came over the only railroad there was
here then—the D. &. M. Until some-
thing turned up I took to teaming.
There was no trouble in those days for
a man with two stout hands to get a
job, if he could drive a team; and, for
five months or so, I got a_ pretty good
idea of the lay of the land in and about
Grand Rapids. The D. &. M. depot
hasn't changed its location and you can
imagine that with all that teaming to do
there were lively times along the road
from there to the town. L. H. Randall
was the only wholesale grocer in the
city then and his place was on the cor-
ner of Canal and Lyon streets. The or-
ders used to come in in the afternoon
and, from that time on, there wasn't a
chance to tell even short stories. Work
was the word and there was no Jet up
until the orders were filled and the
goods were ready to go back next day.

‘‘Spring and fall were the times
when Mr. Randall did most of his buy-

ing for heavy stocks. ‘That took him
East twice a year. That makes me
think: I haven’t seen a_ hogshead of

sugar for years and it came in no other
way then. In summer freight used to
come by boat; and I remember at one
time that sixty-five hogsheads of New
Orleans sugar came by the way of the
lakes from New York. New Orleans
molasses was a favorite sweetening
then and this market had its share.

‘‘Our means of drayage at that time
would look as strange on the streets now
as the automobile does. Every teamster
drove a two-wheeled dray and Monroe
and Canal streets had a double line of
them, moving in different directions
most of the time between here and the
depot. A man, going along Canal street
to-day and seeing the wagon:, moving
smoothly over the asphalt, can hardly
believe a statement in regard to the
old condition of things. Canal street
was paved a block north of Bridge
street. The rest of the distance was
sand and mud and there were times
when it was best for women and _chil-
dren not to hear what remarks the
teamsters made to their teams. The
drays after awhile gave way to the
larry, and to the old teamster, who can
compare the old way with the new, the
contrast is a pleasant one and is on the
side of the larry every time.

‘Il sometimes hear traveling men
growling about the tough times they
have, but I notice the biggest grumblers
are the youngest men. They are more
numerous now than they used to be.
Mr. Randall’s one man_ used to start
out in his buggy, calling from town to
town and completing his circuit every
three weeks. From all accounts he had
some tough experiences. The average
place to put up at was no better, in the
early days, than it is now. The table
wasn't any too good and the sleeping
accommodations were sometimes enough
to make a man itch to hearabout. Ten
traveling men have taken the place of
that man in the buggy. There is no
freezing half to death in the winter, nor

 

a great deal of melting in the summer.
I’ve seen the men come in during both
seasons a little the worse for wear; but
the dust that they complain of now isn’t
half so thick on them as it used to be on
the man in the buggy, and the ’bus
ride from the depot to the hotel isn’t
anywhere near as_ severe as the miles
across the country in the face of the
storm, which the oldtimer had to en-
counter as surely as the winter came.
The men get around in two weeks now.
They go farther and do more business,
but there are ten times more of them
and they endure ten times less hardship
in ten days than the one man did in
one.

‘*This does not mean that men en-
gaged in the wholesale store, inside or
outside, are having a soft snap. There
is no dodging hard work and enough of
it wherever we are. There are now ap-
pliances which never were dreamed of
in the early days; but for that matter

 

 

 

 

 

 

neither was the work which is done
now. A carload of sugar reaches the
city. It is uncoupled from the rest of

the train and sidetracked to the ware-
house, where it is quickly taken care of.
If it is to go into an upper story, the
elevator soon does the work, taking the
men up with the sugar if they want to
go.

‘*That wasn't the way of it once. A
hogshead of New Orleans sugar was no
trifling affair. We had what was called
a sugar mill then and the hogshead was
rolled close to it and the heads taken
out. The mill consisted of two iron
rollers—one was furnished with a crank
—with a hopper above them and the
first thing to be done with the sugar was
to crush it in the mill. That was hard
work and the strongest man on the force
was placed at the crank, while two men
shovelled the sugar by the scoopful
from each end of the hogshead into the
hopper. This treatment of the sugar was
necessary not only to crush the sugar
which had beome hardened but to make
it uniform, that at the bottom of the
hogshead, being damper and heavier.
The sugar thus prepared was put into
barrels and ready for shipment.

‘That crank was as big a terror to
the workman as turning the grindstone
was to a farm boy of the same _ period,
and a load of sugar was as much an ob-
ject of dread to the man at the crank as
a new scythe ora dull axe was to the
boy. It is stated that when the sugar
mill was at the height of its usefulness,
a certain photographer of Grand Rap-
ids, weary of his art,determined to give
it up and learn the grocery business
from the basement up. He stated his

 

intention to Mr. Randall, who listened
to him kindly and as kindly ‘*took him
in.’’ The workman at the sugar mill
needed no urging to give up his job for
one higher up and, if any one needs
posting in regard to the amount of
muscle required to drive the old-fash-
ioned sugar mill, without doubt he can
get the information of Richard Warren,
who served a full apprenticeship at the
crank before entering upon the higher
sphere of usefulness which he now so
satisfactorily fills.

‘*The man who used to run the old
hand-elevator had no easy job. Weight
and muscle were leading requirements
and the muscle had no chance to get
flabby. Hard work at all times, it was
worse in summer with the thermometer
up in nineties and many a day the man
with that job never had a dry thread on
him until he got home at night. There
is where improvement comes in and the
elevator boy —it wasn’t boy then—who
thinks he is having a hard time would
soon change his tune if he should have
a little of the old music his father and
grandfather used to be too tired to
whistle !

‘*Some changes have taken place in
the matter of stock handled. Flour was
not at one time wholesale merchandise.
It went directly from the mill to the
store in barrels. These have given
way to bags of paper and cloth. Codfish
came in 450 pound boxes. They were
taken out and tied up into bundles—
work not now required, the packers
having introduced new methods of treat-
ment and of handling. Another article
of merchandise not often handled now
is the old-time apple sauce, the jelly of
modern times taking its place.

‘*Among all these changes from the

 

old to the new, it may be safely stated
that one notable exception remains, the
responsibility and the called-to-account-
ativeness of the shipping clerk. Time
has made and will continue to make
sweeping changes in other directions;
but the shipping clerk sees no relief.
In the old days, as in the new, what-
ever is amiss is the fault of the ship-
ping clerk. A man coming into the
front office with a complaint is directed
by a motion of the hand to the back
door and the workman in the back store
with his hands full nods towards the
shipping clerk’s office when the com-
plaining customer attacks him. Busi-
ness increases and complaints vary in
kind and in intensity, but with a
serenity that the years can not over-
come the shipping clerk keeps on in the
even tenor of his way with the single
and only consolation that ‘he that en-
dureth to the end the same shall be

saved.’ ”’
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Wouldn’t Be Selling Clothing for a Living.

Wilhelm Thomann, for many years
chef of the Tremont House, at Chicago,
was famous for his tomato soup. Every
time it appeared on the bill of fare
some one was certain to ask for the
recipe. It was a delight to send the en-
quirer up to the kitchen, for Thomann,
after explaining his process at length,
would always end up with a request for
the guest’s occupation and the reply:
‘But if you could make soup like dot
you vouldn’t be seliing boys’ cloding
for a lifing.’’

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Money In It.

‘*Maude thinks there is money in her
voice.’’’

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might do to yell ‘Cash!’

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec-
retary, A. W. Srirr, Jackson; Treasurer,
O. C. GOULD, Saginaw.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, Gro. W. HILL, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, J. E. Moorg, Jackson;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;
xrand Treasurer, W. S. Mrst, Jackson.

firand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, JOHN G. Kone; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association

President, J. BoypD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN,
Grand Rapids.

 

 

Meeting of Local Traveling Men—Strong
Resolutions Adopted.

A meeting of the Grand Rapids trav-
eling men was held at Sweet's Hotel
Saturday evening to consider the advis-
ability of extending an invitation to the
Michigan Knights of the Grip to hold
its annual convention in this city on
Thursday and Friday, December 27 and
28. The meeting was presided over by
Manley Jones, chairman of Post E, who
read a letter from President Schreiber,
stating why it is not convenient to hold
the convention at Jackson or Owosso
and expressing the hope that the Grand
Rapids boys could see their way clear
to invite the organization to hold its
I900 convention in this city. The mat-
ter was discussed very fully by those
present and, although no formal reso-
lution was adopted covering the subject,
it was decided that if $750 could be vol-
untarily raised by the traveling men of
Grand Rapids, it would be feasible to
extend the invitation. Ten subscrip-
tion lists were thereupon drawn up and
placed in the hands of ten different
men, going in different directions, in
the expectation that each gentleman
would secure the signature of fifteen
traveling men who will agree to contrib-
ute to the expense of the occasion to the
amount of $5.

Another meeting will be held at the
same place on Saturday evening of this
week for the purpose of comparing notes
and ascertaining whether the requisite
amount of money _ has been secured to
assure the success of the undertaking.

While no resolution was adopted, it
seemed to be the sentiment of everyone
present that no contributions should be
solicited from the wholesale trade or
manufacturers of the city; that the en-
tire expense of entertainment should
be borne by the traveling men them-
selves, and that the entertainment fea-
tures should be conducted on such an
economical basis that $750 will cover
the entire amount needed to be raised
for that purpose.

The time being opportune for the
discussion of the action of the Lake
Shore Railway in withdrawing from the
Northern Mileage Bureau, E. E. Wooley
presented the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted as ex-
pressing the sentiment of every travel-
ing man:

Whereas—The Lake Shore-& Michi-
gan Southern Railway has peremptorily
withdrawn from the Northern Mileage
Ticket Bureau, without due notice and
without assigning any reason for such
action; and i :

Whereas, the Lake Shore Railway is
endeavoring to force on the traveling
public the mileage book of the Central
Passenger Association, which is infe-
rior in every respect to the Northern
book, thus working a hardship to every
traveling man who is obliged to use the
Lake Shore lines in covering the Mich-
igan trade; therefore

Resolved—That we refuse to pur-
chase or use the book of the Central
Passenger Association, and

Resolved—That we use the Lake
Shore lines just as little as it is possible
for us to do and discriminate against
that road by diverting our freight from
that road, so far as it is feasible for
us to do so; also

Resolved—That we request our cus-
tomers and employes to co-operate with

 

us in this respect by having their in-
coming freight come over other lines
than the Lake Shore, until such time as
the Lake Shore restores the Northern
book on its lines.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
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Gripsack Brigade.

Quincy Herald: Fred McKinney
has taken a position on the road for the
Adam Burtell Co., of Schoolcraft.

Croswell Democrat: Harvey Paton is
now a traveling salesman for the Col-
onial Whip Co., of Wellsville, Pa., and
made his initial trip this week. He will
cover Michigan as his territory.

Wm. H. Sigel has resigned his _posi-
tion as traveling representative for the
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. and engaged in
the furniture business with Frank Par-
menter. Wm. E. Martin, who has been
selling computing scales for several
months in this territory, has been selected
as his successor.

At the meeting of the Michigan Pas-
senger Association, held at Detroit last
Thursday, a letter from the United
Commercial Travelers was read by T.
G. Gwinnett, of the D. & M. Railroad.
The letter endorsed the system of mile-
age employed by the Northern Mileage
Bureau, and condemned the withdrawal
of the Lake Shore from the organization.

Passenger Traffic Manager Martin, of
the Baltimore & Ohio; General Pas-
senger Agents J. R. Wood, of the Penn-
sylvania, T. W. Lee, of the Lacka-
wanna, and C. S. Lee, of the Lehigh
Valley, as a committee from the Trunk
Line Passenger Committee, are to in-
vestigate and report upon the merits of
the various forms of mileage arrange-
ments now in use throughout the coun-
try.

Barbed wire is likely to play an im-
portant part in the defense of the col-
lieries in Pennsylvania should the
present strike be marked by riotous at-
tacks upon them by union mobs. The
operators have learned a lesson from the
occurrences of 1897, when the mobs
which marched from one colliery to an-
other broke into breakers and _ tool
houses and robbed them of their con-
ents. There was then not even a board
fence around any of them, and approach
to them was unrestricted consequently.
Herds of half savage Huns rushed into
the buildings about the coliieries and
committed all sorts of depreda ions.
This time the operators are taking no
chances and, consequently, the only
traveling salesmen who have any _busi-
ness in that region recently are those
representing fence wire houses. One of
them sold a coal company 1,000 pounds
of barbed wire, with barbs that mean
business, and took an order for 500
pounds more for another colliery. The
wire is being rapidly strung around the
companies’ property, so that the next
mob that starts out to wreck a colliery
will find itself confronted by defenses
a la Santiago and men with guns behind
them to defend them.

~~. 2.>—__—_

Scent farms furnish a new occupation
for women, and a profitable one. It
has already attracted a number of wom-
en in England, and it will only be a
short time before American women fond
of outdoor life will turn to it as they

have done to violet farming.
—_—___~. 2. _—_

If we command our wealth, we shall
be rich and free; if our wealth com-
mands us, we are poor indeed. We are
bought by the enemy with the treasure
in our own coffers.—Burke.

—_—__2>2.___

Language is a city to the building of
which every human being brought a
stone. —Emerson.

 

 

The Paris Exposition at First Hand.

It is only the man who has been there
who knows what he is talking about.
One unquestioned ‘‘I saw’’ or ‘‘I
heard’’—-sense knowledge generally—is
worth as evidenece all the ‘‘thinks’’ and
““supposes’’ to be dreamed of. From

-|time to time rumors have been set afloat

that the Paris Exposition is not what it
has been cracked up to be. With the
greatest success on record of that kind
of undertaking, the people of this coun-
try have been curious to know in. what
respect the Paris attempt is not realiz-
ing its extravagant ideai-—that of sur-
passing what the world saw at the
Dream City on the shore of Lake Mich-
igan in 1893.

D. H. Graham, traveling representa-
tive for the wholesale paper house of
Bradner Smith & Co., of Chicago, is
one of the many who have been to the
Paris Exposition and returned. He has
opinions which he is not inflicting upon
his friends nor upon any unlistening
ears, but he is willing to drop an oc-
casional fact in regard to the big farce
which may lead the thoughtful mind to
certain conclusions. Supported, as such
exhibitions must be, by the patronage
of the many and the many never a
crowd of millionaires, he thinks that
a hotel bill of $6.50 for supper, lodging
and breakfast at the average hotel is ex-
orbitant. The French management of
tickets is open to decided criticism.
They are sold twenty on a sheet, each
ticket good for one entrance. The sheet
is presented and the ticket collector
takes off four instead of the expected
one. Another day three are taken off
and when an explanation is called for
there is a shrug of the shoulders—which
means, ‘‘You fool!’’ in French panto-
mime-—and the remark made that the
extra tickets are for ‘‘specials,’* no
allowance being given for the freedom
of the will in the matter of wanting
these. As a_ result the sheet of tickets
is soon exhausted, the end and aim of
the management—a system that puts an
end to ticket buying sooner than any
other arrangement which could have
been hit upon. The Rue de Paris, the
Midway Plaisance of the Chicago Ex-
position, instead of being a striking
feature, is so much the reverse of that
as to be noticeable only for its lack of
attraction and so the most thinly at-
tended of any part of the Exhibition.

The one feature of the Exposition
really a success is the I)epartment of
Fine Arts. That is worth all that is
claimed for it and is the only depart-
ment challenging comparison with the
Exhibition at Chicago. The American,
however, while conceding so much, is
not forgetful of the fact that Chicago
represented a century and a quarter of
ideal life and artistic endeavor and
that Paris, besides the work of the liv-
ing artist, has, as an unfailing source of
inspiration, the galleries of the Luxem-
burg and of the Louvre. Picture for
picture, work of art for work of art, the
‘*See here !’’ of the Parisian masterpiece
is not more astonishing than that of the
American—and there the wonder lies.

. Prominent among the things worth
seeing is the United States Building.
Finely located, itself a work of art, it
is a continual drawer ot the crowd.
The oniy thing ‘‘’way up’’ that is
purely French is the Eifel Tower, the
chief object of interest in 1889. The
Trocederg, that has survived two World’s
Fairs, has not lost its power to please
and there it is, trying, in its dumb way,
to impress the Untutored West with a
sense, of its wonderful beauty. That it

 

has unquestioned claims none can deny ;
but the United States Building shows
what the New World can do in architec-
ture and the Trocedero only offers a con-
venient means for comparison, averse
to France.

One must make allowances for na-
tional prejudices in reaching conclu-
sions when judging the Exhibition in
detail; but the intelligent American can
find no fault with his countrymen’s
exhibit when compared with what the
rest of the world has contributed. In
other lines of display Mr. Graham could
give only his opinion in regard to things
European or American, as the case
might be; but in his own line, where as
an expert his judgment is valuable, he
does not hesitate to say that this country
is far ahead. He does not go so far as
to say that the old country has reached
her limit in the attainment of the best
in paper manufacture, but he leaves it
to be easily inferred that, after Europe
has done her level best in papermak-
ing, the papermakers of the United
States can begin where she leaves off
and teach her what papermaking, as a
fine art, really is.

The real trouble with the whole Exhi-
bition over there is that France is Paris
and Paris is bounded by the Seine.
That little island, once the whole city,
surrounded and guarded by the river, is
to the Frenchman what the wall-girded
territory of China is to the Chinaman.
Nobody questions, nor wants to ques-
tion, the already acknowledged fact
that that spot of earth saw the culmina-
tion of all that is best in French civili-
zation, and that at one time French civ-
ilization was the world’s civilization.
Paris has grown since then—run over
into the Exposition on the Champ de
Mars, if please—but the rest of
the world has been growing, too; and
that is just the fact which the French-
man can not see and will not acknow!l-
edge. The show is a French show, and
therefore it must be a good one. It is
located in Paris on the Champ de Mars
on the banks of the Seine and must nec-
essarily be the best exposition the world
has ever seen. The Champ de Mars! It
is a little patch of French dirt that
could be pocketed in one corner of Chi-
cago and forever lost sight of ; while the
Seine is a little squirt of a stream, no
more to be compared with Lake Mich-
igan than the Lake can be compared
with the Pacific Ocean! And yet there
wasn't a Frenchman on the grounds
who wasn’t shrugging his shoulders
every time the Chicago Fair was men-
tioned and trying to talk into anybody
he could get to listen to him the idea
that America is uncultivated and
uncivilized to produce ‘‘dat;’’ and then
he spreads his upturned palms and tips
back his head to take in the Eifel
Tower and the Trocedero and the sky!

The Fair is a failure from beginning
to end, as a whole, a result due to the
overburdening conceit of the French-
man, who does not know that he is dead

and that the Exposition is a proof of

his soon-coming burial—a_ statement

containing more fact than fiction.
—_—~>-6~—

you

too

Michigan Bulletin:
Tradesman commemorates its eighteenth
successful year of publication by issuing
a number containing 100 pages. From
a modest beginning the Tradesman has
grown to a high place in the estimation
of conservative business circles and its
influence as a trade journal is to envied.
E. A. Stowe, founder and manager, is
a leader in his line.

—_ —--—-~< > <H- -—-- --- -—

We must laugh before we are happy,
for fear we die before we laugh at
all.—De la Bruyere.

  

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

Term expires
Dec. 31, 1900

 

 

GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia a is

L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Josep - Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
A.C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1904

President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Secretary, HENRY HEI, Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.
Examination Sessions
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.

President—CHAs. F. MANN, Detroit.
Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit
Treasurer—W. K. ScumiptT, Grand Rapids.

 

 

“JUST AS GOOD.”

A Druggist Has His Say Regarding Sub-
stitution.
Written for the Tradesman.

The man looked as if he had an idea
that the world hadn’t dealt with him
according to,his deserts. His manner
was nervous and intolerant, his speech
sharp as the crack of a whip and the
corners of his large mouth sagged down,
as if tired of saying mean and cutting
things.

The druggist, going forward to wait
upon him, found him busily engaged in
reading the labeis attached to a number
of boxes and bottles containing reme-
dies which he himself had prepared. I
mean remedies which the druggist, not
the customer, had prepared. The Eng-
lish language isa trifle awkward now
and then.

‘‘T want a bottle of Murphy’s Head-
ache Powders,’’ said the customer.
‘*That is,’’ he added, with a_ sneer,
‘if you haven’t got something else just
as good.’”’

‘“We have other kinds which are
doubtless just as good,’’ said the drug-
gist, taking down the required remedy,
‘*but we make it a rule to give a cus-
tomer just what he asks for, if we have
it in stock.’’

‘*T didn’t know but you had some-
thing of the kind you made yourself,’’
snarled the customer.

‘‘T have,’’ replied the druggist.

‘*And is it just as good?’’

' Beger”

‘‘Oh, of course you'll say so. How
many people have you killed trying to
imitate the makers of patent medi-
cines?’’

‘*None, that I know of.’’

‘‘The minute a fellow gets behind a
counter in a country drug store he
knows more’n the doctors,’’ snarled the
customer. *‘ His own remédies are ‘just
as good’ then. After he has been in the
business long enough to have a Sunday
suit, they are better.’’

The customer took the package, paid
for it and turned toward the door.

‘‘Anything else to-day?’’ asked the
druggist.

‘Oh, yes,’’ was the reply, ‘‘I want
some postage stamps. Haven't got any
that you made yourself that are just as
good, have you?’’ he added, as the
druggist passed out the stamps.

‘‘T haven’t got as far along in the
business as that yet,’ replied the drug-
gist.

**But you’ll get there.’’

‘‘I presume so. But just now we
have all we can do to keep track of the
patent medicine men. They are get-
ting out a good many new remedies
and we’ve got to find something ‘just
as good’ in every case. Of course, a
man who has spent his life in the drug
business doesn’t know quite as much
about drugs as some fellow who was
never in a drug store in his life and who

 

goes into the patent medicine business
because he wants something to adver-
tise, but he may learn.’’

The customer opened his mouth to
reply, but the merchant didn’t give him
time to get a word in.

‘‘In a few years,’’ continued the
druggist, ‘‘the druggists will have to
pass an examination before the patent
medicine men. Then when you have a
headache or a bruise on your foot you'll
have to sit down and write a letter tell-
ing all about it to some squirt in Bos-
ton or New York who spends one cent
a bottle for his remedy and ten cents a
bottle for advertising it, and sells it for
a dollar. The druggist won't have any-
thing ‘just as good’ and you’ll have to
ache until the Eastern man condescends
to write to you.’’

The customer backed away and laid
his hand on the door.

‘*A good many of the druggists of the
country are also graduated physicians, ’’
said the merchant, ‘‘but of course they
don’t know what is good for a sore
throat or the whooping cough or the
dyspepsia or a cold in the head ora
touch of rheumatism. No, _ indeed,
they do not. They have to buy a lot of
patent medicine warranted to cure and
sell them in order to effect cures. And
if they have a remedy of their own for
any of these ills they will not be allowed
to sell it.’’

‘‘Why not?’’ asked the customer.

‘*Because,’’ was the reply, ‘‘every
cheap skate in the country is plugging
for the patent medicine men. They be-
lieve everything they say in their ad-
vertisements, but if a druggist has a
remedy that he has successfully used for
years, his best friends criticise him for
claiming to know as much about it as
the patent medicine men know about
their remedies. I've been in the drug
business a good many years and I know
nearly all the patent medicines and
what they are composed of and I know
that about half of them are no good.’’

‘‘What makes you sell them, then?’’
demanded the customer.

‘* Because people ask for them,’’ was
the reply. ‘‘I can make up a powder
from my stock here which will cure the
headache just as quickly as anything
manufactured, yet you wanted a certain
kind of headache powders and you got
them.’’

‘‘Why didn’t you sell me some of it?’’
asked the customer. ‘‘It may be better
than this.’’

‘* Because you asked for the kind you
wanted,’’ was the reply. ‘‘No good
business man will try to sell a customer
something he does not want. On the
other hand, the druggist who is not
continually studying up remedies and
combinations is not fit for the business.
That is, of course, if he has the time
and opportunity. Druggists are not in
the business for the fun they have or
for the purpose of enriching the makers
of patent medicines. If they can make
40 cents on a 50 cent package of medi-
cine by putting the remedy up them-
selves, they ought to do it in preference
to making 15 cents on a similar remedy
put up by some firm in the East.’’

The customer leaned against
counter and pondered.

‘‘Yes,’’ he finally said, ‘‘that’s my
idea. I don’t pay anybody for doing
what I can do myself and I don’t know
why you should.’’

‘‘There are a lot of patent medi-
cines,’’ continued the druggist, ‘‘which
are all right, and just as advertised, but
if I am satisfied that I can make some-
thing just as good or better and sell it

’

the

 

at a profit, I’m going to do it, and
every druggist in the land has a right
to do the same without everlastingly
hearing about substitution, which, after
all, is a cry raised by the patent medi-
cine men themselves. ’’

The customer went away with his
powders and the druggist sat down to
ponder on the cussedness of human na-
ture, and especially human nature with
a pain. Alfred B. Tozer.
>.>
Sieves for Use at the Prescription Counter.

Lay a piece of bolting-cloth over the
top of a suitable sized pill or powder
box, and replace the cover; remove the
top of the cover and the bottom of the
box by cutting away with a knife. The
bolting-cloth will be found stretched
tightly over the box and the sieve is
complete.

A convenient and more durable sieve
is cheaply made by taking two round
empty drug cans—quinine cans, for in-
stance—to a tinsmith, and having him
make a band of tin 1% inches deep, so
that the ends of it will exactly fit into
each of the drug cans. Inside one end
of this middle section or tin band
solder copper or brass gauze of any de-
sired mesh. It is better to have three
such middle sections, each being a
sieve of a different degree of fineness,
to be used as occasion requires.

To sift a powder, put the sieve of de-
sired mesh into one can, and the pow-
der into the other. Set the can contain-
ing the sieve down into the one con-
taining the powder. Invert the can,
and sift the powder through into the
lower one. No dust will escape, if all
has been carefully fitted.

This sifting-can will be found most
neat and convenient at the prescription
counter, and one made from larger cans
can be used in the laboratory. The
cost will not exceed 50 cents for a sifter
with three sieves, and a capacity of
holding and sifting a pound of vege-
table powder. F. N. Strickland.

—___~-0 <>
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is quiet at unchanged prices.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is in good demand at full
prices. Some manufacturers will not
contract, while others will not accept
orders, and one will make limited con-
tracts. The situation is very firm and
higher prices looked for.

Carbolic Acid—lIs ina very firm po-
sition.

Cod Liver Oil—As the season ad-
vances the tone of the market is firmer.
We note the advance of 5oc per bbl.

Glycerine--The fall demand has com-
menced and the tendency of the price
is upward.

 

 

Menthol—Is very firm and _ has ad-
vanced 25c per Ib.

Essential Oils—Lemon is active and
firm at the advanced price. Pepper-
mint is strong and tending higher.
Sassafras has again advanced and is
very firm.

Buchu Leaves—Have again advanced
and are tending higher.

Linseed Oil—Is weak and tending
lower.

—_—_—_» 0.

An English country paper advertises:
‘“‘Wanted—A steady man to look after a
garden and milk a cow who has a good
voice and is acccustomed to sing in the
choir.’’ A cow with those accomplish-
ments should be milked with pleasure.
She could sing while the man milked.

——_—_+ 0.

The good things of life are not to be
had singly, but come to us with a mix-
ture—like a schoolboy’s holiday, with a
task affixed to the tail of it.—Lamb.

 

 

Ginseng Wanted

Highest price paid. Address

Peck Bros.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

L Pt Rt te Mich

Perrigo’s Headache Powders, Per-

 

rigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s
Dyspepsia Tablets and Perrigo’s
Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain-
ing new triends every day. If you
haven’t already a good supply on,

write us for prices.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

(husheyor,

BU" COLTGE:

Young men and women admitted any week in
the year. Every graduate secures employment.
Living expenses low. Write for catalogue.

E. C. BISSON, Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

ALUMINUM -

TRADE CHECKS.
$1.00 PER 100.

Ea Write for samples and styles to

N. W. STAMP WORKS,
ST. PAUL, MINN.

Makers of
Rubber and Metallic Stamps.

Send for Catalogue and Mention this paper. ~

   

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Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75
Berne ... 2... Ll: @ WV
Carbolicum.......... 30@ = 42
Ciirieum............. 45@ 48
Hydrochlor......... 3@ SiG
Nitrocam............. 8@ 10
Oxalicum............ 122@ 14
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Salicylicum ......... Foo 60
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Glycyrrhiza, 2

Hzematox, 15 : box H@ 12
Hematox, 1S........ 13@ 14
Hematox, 4S....... 14@ 15
Hematox, 4S....... 16@ 17
Ferru
Sarbonate Precip... 15
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25
Citrate Soluble...... 75
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40
Solut. Chloride. ..... 15
Sulphate, com’l..... 2
"Shr oe —_" =
1, per ewt : 80
Sulphate, pure.. 7
Flora
Avion .,.......-5.... De
Anthemis............ 22@ 25
Matricaria........... 30@ = 35
Folia
23@ 30

Barosmia.........-...
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nmeveny ..........-. 25
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 25@ 30
Salvia officinalis, 4s
ame ES. 2-5... 5. =

 

tive Urs... ..-. 8@
Gummi
Acacia, 1st a @ 65
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 4
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35
Acacia, ig sorts. @ 28
Acacia, oo 65
Aloe, Harb. ‘po. 18@20 12 14
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ 12
Aloe, Socotri. . po. 40 @ 30
Ammoniac........... 55@ 60
Assafcetida.. —_ 30 28@ 30
Benzoinum .. : 50@ 55
Catechu, 1s.......... @ 13
Catechu, 4S........- g 14
Catechu, 4Ss.. <3 16
Camphore .......... 69@ 73
Euphorbium...po. 35 @ 40
Galbanum..........-. @1 00
Gamboge ........- po 6@ 7
ee. pecs po. 25 @ 30
0. $0.75 @ 7
eco @ 60
. 45 @ 40
.80@5.00 3 50@ 3 60
menae oa... 25 35
Shellac, bleached.. 40@ 45
Tragacanth Sects thse 50@ 80
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25
Eu = Sipageenn pkg 20
Lobelia ......0z. pkg 25
Majorum .. .0z. pkg 28
Mentha Pip. .0z. pkg 23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25
MGs. cS: oz. pkg 39
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22
Thymus, V...oz. pkg 25
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20
Oleum
Absinthium......... 5 75@ 6 00
Amygdale, Dulc.. 38@ 65

—. Amare. 8 00@ 8 25
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Conium a pec ce as 50@ ~=««60
Copaiba . «coe. | 2 1 25
Cubebe . 1 20@ 1 25
Exechthitos .. 1 00@ 1 10
Erigeron . «--s-. 1 OO@ 1 10
Gaultheria .. 2.22127! 2 00@ 2 10
Geranium, ounce.. @ 7
ores ‘Sem. . gal. 50@ 60
Hedeom 1 60@ 1 65
Sonipers. cee oe - 1 50@ 2 00
Layendula .... 1.1... 90@ 2 00
Limonis . --. 140@ 1 50
Mentha Piper. ...... 1 25@ 2 00
Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60
Morrhue, ‘gal. ...... 1 20@ 1 25
Mere 4 00@ 4 50
Lo 75@ 3 00
Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12
Picis —* -. @ 35
Ricina.. a 00@ 1 08
Rosmarini. . a @ 100
Rosze, ounce.......... 6 00@ 6 50
SMCS. 40@ 45
a 90@ 1 00
Santal...... .. 2 75@ 7 00
Sassafras... 50@ . 55
a ess., ounce. @ 65
Tigii ....... . 1 50@ 1 60
ak 40@ 50
Thyme, op @ 1 60
Theobromas ... 15@ 20
Pabiieiee

DEORED so 16@ 18
Bichromate ......... 13@ ss 15
BLOnNde ............ S@ se
Cary 122@ «15
Chlorate...po.17@19 16@ 18
— ie 35@ 40

Hodide. 2 60@ 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15

Potass N itras, opt.

 

Potass Nitras. 6@
Prussiate.. ce ee) Oe
Sulphate po. ene 15@ 18
Radix

Aconitum............ 20@ 25
Ale 25
Anenusa ............ HQ 12
AYU PO... @. 6
Calarags.. 2.0.5...) .. 20@ 40
Gentiana...... po.15 12@ 15
Glyehrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden. @ 7%
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 80
Hellebore, Alba, _ 12@ 15
Inula, po.. 15@ 20
Ipecac, po.. ec ce 4 25@ 4 35
Iris plox.. 7 — 35@ = =40
Jalapa, pr. . 23@ 30
Maranta, 4 Gy @ 3
Podophyllum, po.. 22@ 2
Rhee eae oo
Wet, Cus... 8... @ 1 2
ier pV... 75@ 1 35
Spigelia . a CO oS
Sanguinaria.. ‘po. 15 @ 118
Serpentaria ......... 40@ 45
Senega . 60@ «65
Smilax, officinalis i. @ 4
Smilax, ee @ 2
Seille . "35 10@_ 12
Symplocarpus, Teeth.

VS PO. @ 2
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 @ 2
Valeriana, German. 15@ 20
Zingiber 2........... 12@ = «16
Zingiber j.. uo LO 22

Semen
Anisum . - po. @ 12
Apium (eravéieons). 13@ 15
Bird, 1s.. 4@ 6
Carui.. |. po. “18 12@ 13
Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 75
Coriandrum.......... 8@ 10
Cannabis Sativa. .... 4@ 5
Cydonium........... 7h@ 1 00
Chenopodiun . 10@ 12
Dinvterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10
Foeniculum .......... @ 10
— 1 el 7@ 9
34@ 4%
Linf, grd.....bbl.3%  4@ 4%
aa 35@ 40
yaaa ——- 44@ 5
5
Sieapie Alba.. 10
Sinapis Nigra. : 12
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25
Brumenti.:.......... 1 25@ 1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50
Saacharum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10
Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50
Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00
Vint Alpe... .... 1 25@ 2 00
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.. 2 50@ 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ ‘wool
CANACARG.,.. 0... 2 50@ 2 75
Velvet — oa sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @ 150
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage aa @.1 25
Grass ‘sheeps’ wool,
carriage . @ 1 00
Hard, for slate use. @ 7%
Yellow Reef, for
slate use...,....... @ 1 40
Syrups
pe ec @ 50
‘joe Cortex...... @ 50
ZADSADORE oo... ce @ 50
T faa @ 60
erri Iod. @ 50
Rhei Arom.......... @ 50
Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60
DOMORR 552525... cs @ 50
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Dohutan.... .... .
Prunus virg.........
Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R
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‘ines and Myr rh..
Arnica ee coo.
Assafcetida.... 2.21!
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex......
Benzoim .............
Benzoin Co..........
Barosma.............
Cantharides.........
Oapsicum .... 1.2...
Cardamon...........
Cardamon Co........
Caster 1
Casoehu. .... 2) 6... |.
@mehona............
Cinchona Co.........
Columba . eces
Cubebe.. eels
Cassia Acutifol..._..
Cassia Acutifol Co..
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Ferri Chloridum..
Gentian . See ccue
Gentian Co..........
Guiaca.. S
Guiaca ammon......
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine ... ne
Iodine, colorless... ..
Kino

 

Opi comphorated..
Opii, deodorized..... 1
Cuacsia
Rhatany. .

Rhei. Seca cs.
Sanguinaria. .

Serpentaria . . :
Stromonium.........
MOMGaM 0.6 kt.
Valerian ............
Veratrum Veride..

Zingiber ..

Mivecliineen
AKther, Spts. Nit.? F
‘Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F
AIOmee
oo gro’d..po. 7
AUONAGEO..-... 2...
Antimoni,
Antimonie Potias T
Antipyrin .
Antifebrin ..........
——, — 0zZ..
Arsenic
Balm Gilead Buds..
Bismuth S. N..
Caleium Chior.,
Calcium Chlor., Ma
Caleium Chlor., 4s.
Cantharides, Rus. 0

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Capsici F ructus, a: 15
Capsici Fructus, po. 15
Capsici F ructus B, po 15
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 14
Carmine, No. 40..... 3 00
Cera Alba. . 55
Cera Flava... 42
Coceus . Hee 40
Cassia Fructus... .. 35
Centraria............ 10
Cetaceum.. ae 45
Chloroform .... 60
Chloroform, squibbs 110
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90

Chondrug:.......... .. 20@ 25
Cinchonidine,P.& W 38@ 48

  

Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Cocaine . 6 55G 6 75
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 70
Creosotum........... @ 3
Creta . .. bbL. 75 @ 2
Creta, prep. os se @ 5
Creta, pr ecip. %@ HH
Creta, — oes @ s
Grecas:.............. Ih@ 18
Cudbear.. Semele @ 2
Cupri Sulph. . eee. 644@ 8
Dextrine . scsi oe 7@ 10
Ether “al ; 75Q@ 90
Emery, al numbers. @ 8
HMmery, po. ...... .... @ 6
Ergota . .. po. 8@ 9
Flake White. oe 12@ 15
Galla . es ne @ 2
Gambier . meee se oY
Gelatin, Cooper Poe. @ 60
Gelatin, French..... 35@ «60
Glassware, flint, box 75& &
Less than box..... 0
Glue, brown......... 1@ 13
Glue, white......... 15@ 25
Glyeerina............ 17%4@_ 25
Grana Paradisi...... @ 2
Humautos.......... .. 25@ 55
Hydrarg Chlor Mite @ %
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. @ 85
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. @ 1 05
Hydrarg Ammoniati @117
ee 50@ ~=«60
Hydrar @ 8
= = a Am.. 65@ 70
-- T@ 1 00
a Resubi.. Saas 3 85@ 4 00
Iodoform.. --.... 3 85@ 4 00
a. se @ 50
Lycopodium. .. oe 70@ 75
65@ 75

Liquor Arsen et Hy-
rarg Iod.. @
Liquor otassArsinit 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ «3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbi @ 1%
la,&.F........ 50@ 60

 

Menthol... .......... @ 3 50
Morphia, S 4 : W. 2 25@ 2 60

“ea ¥. .
--- 2 15@ 2 40

Moschus Canton..

Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10
Os Sepia.. 33@ «37

~~ Saae, H.&P.
Oo. @ 100

Picis Liq. N.N.4% a.
doz @ 2 00
Pieis Liq., , quarts... @ 1 00
Picis i c, DMAES. _... @ 8%
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 80
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18
Piper Alba.. a 35 @ 30
Piix Burgun.. @ 7
Plumbi Acet......... + 1 12
Pulvis Ipecac et oi 30@ 1 50

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D.C @ &
mie - oo. 23@ 30
Oeraseie oo |. 8s@ 10
Quinia, S. P. & W.. 39% 49
Quinia, S. German.. 39@ 649
Quinia, N. Y......... 39@ «49
Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ 14
Saccharum Lactis pv 18@ 96.20
Cae 4 50@ 4 75
Sanguis _—— 40@ 50
W... - 2a
10@_ 12
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Seidlitz _——— Le 20@ 22| Linseed, pure raw... 64 67
Sinapis i @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 65 68
Sina a opt... ee @ 30} Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
~~ a. De @ . | Spirits Turpentine.. 46 55
41 |
snuit Sccteh, DeVo's @ 41] Paints BBL. LB.
Soda, Boras.......... @ 11)
Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8
Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @A
Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2/ Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5 | Putty, commercial... 24 24%4@3
Soda, Ash |... 3%4@ 4) Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Soda, Sulphas. . G 2; Vermilion, Prime
Spts. Cologne........ @ 260|_ American . 13@ 15
Spts. Ether Co...... 50@  55| Vermilion, English. 70@ 75
Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 14@ 18
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Spts. Vini Rect. “bbl @ | Lead, ree 6 @ 6%
Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ | Lead, white......... 6 @ 6%
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ | Whiting, white Span @ 8
Strychnia, C — . 1 05@ 1 25 | Whiting, gilders’. @ 9
Sulphur, Subl.. 24 4| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 2
Sulphur, Roll. . 24@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Tamarinds .......... eT a @ 140
Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30) Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Theobrome.......... 60@ 65
Vanilla . ..-. 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
Zinci Sulph caus. 7@ 8 |
No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
—_ Extra Torp 00 1 60@ 1 70
BBL. GAL. | Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00
Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
Lard, extra......._.. 60 = | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Hard, Not... ...... 45 50 | Jap.Dryer,No. 1Turp 70@ 7

Will be displayed at

Grand Rapids, Mich.
State Fair Week

Sept.

We invite you to come in

Holiday Goods ever shown in

OUR

HOLIDAY
LINE

yy

24 to
1900

and inspect the most complete line of

Michigan.

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ADVANCED DECLINED
Flour Straw Paper
Continental Tobacco Co.'s Mackerel
Frlugs and Smoking
Market Baskets
ALABASTINE CANNED GOODS COCOA |
White in drums............. 9 | Apples | Webb........... 0.2.2. 30
(olors @ drams...._...._._. 10 | 3 1b. Standards $0} Cleveland... 41
White in packages.......... 10 | Gallons, standards. _ S30 (Epes 2. 42
Colors in packages.......... a. Blackberries i | V. an Houten, 4s............. 12
Less 40 per cent discount. Standards . eo 75 | iz an aoe = ec Se >
Aone eans an ee
— — Bross | (Babee - 1 09@1 30 | Van Houten, is........... 70
aurora 55 «6 «00 | = Kidney...... . wo@ 35 | Colonial, 4¢5 .........5...... 35
a a a 7 ae 80 | Colonial, ‘s.. Se ~ -
Gasser Oi. ............60 7 00 | Wax 85 | Huyler 45
9 ee eee
ay oe = : = Blueberries Waipu Be
IXL Golden. tin boxes 75 9 99 | Standard . “Giains — 8 | W ilbur, a Sige, = ee a 42
| Little Neck, 11b.. 1 00 | The Bradley Cigar C Co.’s Brands
| Little Neck: 2 Ib. ‘elias. 00
| herries Bradley . ... 35 00
= Standards........ Clear Havana Puffs... 1... 22:00
| Wee os Ca B SS a
i Corn ‘“ = B. B.” 55 00
| Fair.......... ios 7 | Columbian Cigar Co.’s Brands
Good .............. | Colmmbian 00000 35 00
| Faney. ay % | Columbian Special. . .65 00
Fi _ Gooseberries | Columbian Regalia......... 65 00
Standard ........ oe | Columbian Invincible... .. 90 00
lt Le Hominy | er. Drug C Co.’s s brands.
Mica, tin boxes.. -75 9 00 | Standard............. 85 | Fortune Teller.
Paragon ....... “55 6 00 Lobster Our Manager.. : 8 =
AMMONIA | Sar > veers ecece . ; . | Quintette.-
Per Doz, | Staf.1 Ib............ 3 40 G. J. Johnson Cigar Go.’ ice
Aretie 12 oz. ovals gp | Pienie Talls......... 2 35
ree ee > Mackerel
Aretic pints. round.......__. 1 20) a sa i 175
BAKING POWDER Mustard! 2 1b. 2 80 |
Acme Soused, 1Ib......... . 1 75 |
ib. cans 3 dez........ _... 45 Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 80 |
be . CAMS s dor........._.. 75 | Tomato, 1 lb oo. 1 75 |
1 lb. cans 1 doz............100| Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80)
Bak... .. ee 10 Mushrooms |
retic Boe. . 18@20 |.
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers. —. 20] Pea ( 22@25 | Cc. W. ee
Egg i Oysters Lubetsky ‘Bros. Brands.

44 lb. cams, 4 doz. case......3 75) Cove,11b..... : eo Gt $33 00
4 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case..... -3 75 | Cove, 2 1b 1 = | Gold'Star.. 0.000). . 35 00
1lb. cans, 1 doz. case......3 75 | Peaches | Phelps, Brace & Co. °s Brands.

5 Ib. cans. a cena 8 00 | Fie ET | Boy = i. : —_ 80 00

ne | Ye oe. Gea 8S
5 Ib. eans, +4 doz. in ease....5 9 | VHO™ - Pears Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00
11b. cans, 4 doz. in case....2 00) Standard ..... 70 | Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@, 70 00
90z.cans, 4doz in case....1 25 Faney........ 2 go | Hilson Co.. . -- --385@110 00
6 oz.caRs, 6 doz. in case.... 75 Peas | T. J. Dunn & oa 35 70 00
El Purity __ | Marrowfat .......... 1 00 | McCoy & Co....... < 70 00
¥4 Ib. cans per doz.......... 75 | Early June... 1 00 | The C ollins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00
A ib. cams per doz.......... 1 20| Early June Sifted... 1 69 | Brown Bros.. ..15@ 70 00
ams per Goz.......... 2 005 Bernard Stahl Co...... 35@ 90 00
a a | Gratea Pineapple 1 25@2 75 | Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00
\ Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease...... 35) Slie d ee 1 a5@2 $5 | Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00
14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 55 | Ce a @ Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90) pip em 70 it = — _—- Bete *
Le ete 70 | was a
TD sisi fan tele
aeCY - - - Raspberries 85 Havana Cc igar C Ng! 35 00
\ Ib. cans, 4 doz. case. 45 | Standard.... 90) 15 oe ne : ° a ==
| LaGora-Fee Co.... » 70 00
% Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease... 85] _ Salmon” i S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00
1 Ib. cans. 2 doz. case......1 60 | Columbia River...... 2 00@2 15 | Hene & Co 7 35 2
Queen Flake | Red Alaska..... .. 1 40! Benedict & Co... 4 750@, 70 00
5 6z.,6@ez7.€ase.............2 7 | Fink Alaska... 1 10) Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ 70 00
6 0Z., 4 doz. case.............3 20) Shrimps G.J: Johnson Cigar Co. 35@ 70 00
9 oz., 4 doz. case........_....4 80| Standard............ 150) Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00
1 Ib., 2 doz. case.............4 00| —— Bock Reo 65300 00
5 Ib., 1 doz. case. ..-......... 9 00 | Domentic, 4 | Manuel Garcia...) 80@375 00
Royal Domestic, 5 8 | Neuva Mundo. (W175 00
| Domestic, Mustard. 8 Henry Clay "85550 00
10¢ size s¢ | C alifornia, 44s. 17 | La Carolina............ 96@200 00
Ib. cans 1 39 | Rremeh, 4s.-........ 22 | Standard T. & G. Co, 350 70 00
44 lb. cams 1 30| French, %s.......... 28) 1 ae meee ‘
ea i 1 eat oe | geren’s Brand.
6 OZ. cans. 1 80 | Strawberries Star Green 35 00
: — | Standard .../........ BO ee ae cia ne bias
“4 Ib. cans 2 40} Raney 12 COFFEE
34 Ib. cans 3 60} Suecotash Roasted
11b. cans. 4 65 | Fair aa 90
25 $b. cans.12 25 | Dees ---------2----- = 1-G-
5 lb. cans.21 00 | : Tomatoes | nic G E
< 90 | RADI
D 95 |
Ameen... LE 115. COFFEES
Mate 2 ao rGamens.. os 2 45 | Special Combination........ 2
BLUING | CATSUP | French —: ot
| Columbia, pints. . +2 00) Lenox .. eo
}C olumbia, x pints. eee 1 25| Vienna . ee ee
| LESE Private Estate. ......1221/27! 38
| Acme.. a its, | Supreme 40
| Amboy . see @i1% Less 3314 per_cent.
; Carson C ‘ity. ee @u Rio
% ae ai |Common... 10%
cccoced ee Oe ee 1
7. UING | ¢ ea | = BOIS. ee 13
@ PAF 15
The @\l r Santos
— 3 doz.. @11 commen... 11
rge, 2 doz. . setees Be
Arctic, 4 oz, per ‘gross. ta el 11@12 Cheiee 000000). 15
Arctic, 8 0z, per gross...... @90 — ee 17
Arctic, —_ per gross.. peas @I17 Pesbersg ea 13
ROOMS | Limburger. Ee 10@11 Maracaibo
No. 1 neat 2 75 | Pineapple .. : ro ae 12
Neco Gare... >| | Sap Sago.. (Onis. | Choice. 6
No. Sree CHOCOLATE Mexican
No. 4 Carpet.. ee 20 | | Walter Baker i a Ss. Cotes 16
Parlor Gem.. 4 German Sweet.. eee se Oe ee 17
Common W hisk.. oe | Premium .. eS “Guatemala
Fancy Whisk.. ec 35 | | Breakfast ae... mG) eee. 16
Warehouse.. peeciincioe nee aic OO Runkel Bros. Java
CANDLES Vienna Sweet ......... oh; Asean. 12%
Electric Light, 8s............ 12 | Vanilla 28 a Agviewn 006s 17 r
Electric Light, 16s...... .... 2, | Fee, Me ee 25
caraman, Ss. ... vr evee sees 110% | . Le Le 29
araffine, 12s. eocceseeell | Bulk. 5 Mocha = :
Wicking .......°000 0020 | Red. 7 Arabian...... — ee eee 21

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Package
New York Basis.
mepeenie.. 13 00
Deweren. ...-. 13 00
Jersey Sse eels -13 00
ee 12 00

McLaughlin’ s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to

retailers only. Mail all orders

direct to W. F. MeLanghlin &

Co., Chicago.
Extract
Valley City % gross.. - oo
Felix 4% gTOss.. Cis ges
Hummel’s foil My gross. ace 85
Hummel’s tin % gross . -1 43
Substitutes |
Crushed Cereal Coffee C -
12 packages, % case......... 1: 2
4 packages, 1 case 3 50
OCOA SHELLS»
20 Ib. bags... ice 2%
Less uantity . Sete 3
Poun packages . oo 4
CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .1 00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........ 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.. 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........ 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........1 80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80
Jute. 72 ft. ner doz. 95

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

 
   

Gail — — eae 6 75
Crow eos oe
ae ep eae cease ce uae ue 5 75
Champion .......... -4 50
Magnolia ........ 4 25
Soe -.4 00
.-3 35

COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denom. 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2.50

500 books, any denom...
1,000 books. anv denom... 20 00

Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic
or Universal grades. Where
1,000 books are ordered at a time
customer receives specially
printed cover without extra
charge.

Coupon Pass Books

Can be made to represent any

denomination from - down.

50 books.. cae
iy books... 2 50
500 books.. . 1 50
1,000 books.. --..-. 20 00
Credit Checks
500, any one denom...... 2 00
1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
2,000, any one denom...... 5 00
Steel punch.. 75
CREAM T. ART AR
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... 30

Bulk in sacks. . 29
DRIED FRUITS— Domestic
Apples

Sundried . @
Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes.64 2Q@ 7
California Fruits
Apmeers.. @10
Blackberries ..........
Wectarines ............
Peaemes..........:....9 @il
Weers.
Pitted Cherries. ...... 7%
Prunnelles . gees
Raspberries .
California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ......
90-100 25 Ib. boxes
80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes . a
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ......
60-70 25 Ib. boxes ......
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ......
40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes ......
30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ...
4 cent less in 50 Ib. cases
Raisins
London Layers 2 Crown. 1
London Layers 3 Crown. 2 00
Cluster 4 Crown......... 2
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 6%

  

Loose Muscatels 3 Crown TM%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown Rly
L. M., Seeded, choice . 2

L. M., Seeded, fancy .

DRIED FRUITS_F ices
Citron
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Corsican . niece Re
‘Currants_

PGraR, CANON

Cleaned, bulk ...............13

Cleaned, packages.......... 13%
eel

Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..10%
Orange American 10 |b. bx..101%4
Raisins
Sultana 1 Crown.............
Sultana 2 Crown .
Sultana 3 Crown..
Sultana 4 Crown
Sultana 5 Crown.............
Sultana 6 Crown...... ......
Sultana package
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dried Lima..
Medium Hand Picked 2 ay pe
Brown Holland

 

 

Cereals
Cream of Cereal............. 90
Grain-O, bmau .............. 1 35
Grain-O, large......... 2... 2 25
Grape Nuts Peds Cecio ccc. 1 35
Postum Cereal, small.......1 35
Postum Cereal. large...... 2 25
Farina
241 1b. packages ............ 1 25
Bulk, per 100 lbs... -3 00
Haskell’s Wheat Flakes
36 2 lb. packages... .... ..3 00
ominy
BATON ee 2 50
Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... 1 00

Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box.........2 50

 

Pearl ee

Common ...... . a)
CROSGEr. 2 75
MOI 2 es ies ee fee ce 3 15

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

 

24 2 lb. packages ............2 00
100 Ih. Kegs..................3 0
200 ib. barrels 70
nO0 Th. PagS-. 2 90
Pea
Green, winebaaiee - bees 1 30
Green, Seotch, bu. .......... 1 35
Split, bu.. 0 ©
Rollea ‘Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl. os oe
Steel Cut, bbi..... ...3 90
Monaren, Ppl. ........... 2... = 40
Monarch, % bbl. 4 85
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks....... 1 65
Quaker, cases. (ooo. eo
Sago
German...... Lieeopeak
Hast indian... aM
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Flake . eee eee
Pearl. . 4%
Pearl, 24 1 Ib. ‘packages... - 6%
Wheat

Cracked, bulk.. 3%4
242 Db. packages .. .-2 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

DeBoe’s
Vanilla D. C..20z1 10 40z1 80
Lemon D.C ..20z 70 4021 35
Van. Tonka. .20z 75 4021 45

 

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

 

Vanilla Lemon
1ozfullm.1 20 1lozfull m. 80
20zfullm.2 10 20z full m.1 25

spegeeue 3 15 a ene 75

   
 

Vanilla Lemon
2 0z = 20 20z panel. 75
3 0z taper..2 00 402 taper..1 50
Jennings’
Arctic
20z full meas. pure Lemon. 75
2 oz. full meas. pure Vanilla.1 20

Big Value
oval Vanilla Tonka.... 75
oval Pure Lemon ...... 75

2 OZ,
2 OZ.

oJ EB NEYEN Gs
" Lavo ancts

Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Lemon...... 75
No. 4 Taper D.C. Lemon... .1 52

Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Vanilla...... 1 24
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla. ..2 08
Standard
20z. Vanilla Tonka.......... 70
2 0z. flat Pure Lemon........ 7
Northrop Brand

Lem. Van.
20z. Taper Panel.... 75 1 20
202. Oval....... 75 1 20
3 0z. Taper Panel.. ..1 35 2 00
40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25

Perrigo’s

Van. Lem.

doz. doz.
XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25 75
XXX, 4 0z. taper....2 25 1 25
XX, 2 oz. obert...... 1 00
No. 2, 20z. obert.... 75
XXX D D ptehr, 6 oz 2 25
XXX DD ptehr, 4 0z 1 75
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz. 2 25

FLY PAPER

 

Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50
Petrolatum, per doz......... 75
HERBS
See ee
POPS 15
INDIGO
Madras, 5 lb. boxes ........... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes... ...50
JELLY

Doz.

Bi: pale... 2 00

Sip PAM 42

SO 8D. pale. 7
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Root.. : otacec es

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Condensed, 2 doz............1 20

C — oe. Bee a
TCHES

Dismoud | Maton Co.’s eee.

No. 9 sulphur...............

Anchor Parlor ..............
No. 2 Home..........
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MOLASSES
New Orleans
Ce ee 74

Fair... . ‘ 16

Le ea 20
Fancy .. Setad cleus 24
Open Kettle... 2.22227... ' 25@35

alf-barrels 2¢ extra
ARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz...
Horse a, 2doz..

 

  

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* hacer Union
Bottom Square
Se i 28 S
a 34 66
Be ec. 44 88
ee 54 1 08
Se 66 1 36
ee 76 1 58
En 90 1 84
Co. 1 06 2 16
Bee 1 28 2 58
eee 1 38 2 R22
a2. 1 60 3 32
oe 2 24 4 48
_ ee | 2 34 4 86
—.......... 2 52 5 40
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 00
Half bbis, 600 count......... 3 00
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 50
PIPES
Clay, NO. 216.0 7 1 70
Clay, T. _ full count....... 65
Cob, No. 3 see Se
POTASH
48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s . Sosa se coe ake OR
Penna Salt Go.’s..... 2.2121! 3 00
RICE
Domestic

Carolina head ................ 7
Carolina No.1.... ..5%
Carolina No.2. 4%
Broken . cee ee
‘Santee
Japan, No. 1............5%4@6
Japan, No. 2.. 4%@5
Java, fancy head.. 5 @5%
Java, No. 1. @
Table..
‘SALERATUS-

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3 15
Deland’s 00

 

SAL SODA
Granulated, bblis............ 80
Granulated, 100 Ib. eases. 90
Lump, bbls.. wets 2
Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs.. See cece 80

SALT

Diamond Crystal!
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags. 2 85
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags. : 50
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50
Butter, barrels, 20 141b. bags. 2 60
a sacks, <.. 7

62

eniaieie Grades

 

100 3 Ib. sacks.. -2 15
60 5 Ib. sacks................2 05
28 10 Ib. sacks...............1 95
56 Ib. sacks. ..... i: 40

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Warsaw

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 30

28 Ib. dairy . Sn _— foes 15

56 Ib. dairy = an, sabks... 60

Higgins
56 Ib. - in linen sacks... 60
Oolar Rock
56 Ib. suse Res ite ook coke 28
Commo1,
Granulated Fine............1 05
Medium Fine.... : -1 10
SOAP

SI De

Single box.. ..3 00
5 box lots, delivered _.. 11") 2 95
10 box lots, delivered ........ 2 90

dAS. 5 KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.

 

American wey, —— .3 00
Dome...... i caeeaniece OO
Cabinet.. : ...2 40
Savon..... wccueeae BO
White Russian... wesss'so2 80
White Cloud, .4 00
Dusky Diamond, 506 OZ... .-2.00
ot Diamond, > 8 02z.....2 50
Blue India, 100 % Tb ..3 00
— MOR oo .3 50

Kos... .. ..2 65
100 12 Oz bars..........

SEARCH- LIGHT

100 big bars (labor saving)..3 60

SILVER

Single box......

 

Five boxes, delivered... — 9°
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
Washing Tablets
EY, perwrogs: 3... sos, 10 00

120 samples free.

 

 

 

 

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70 No. 11 Trout No. 2, Windsor A..... 5 80|N : Fibre..................9 45 | Duluth In = ee oe . aap | Choe. Drg Be Gio.
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85 No.1 10 Ibs. 70) No. 5, Empire A... - 575 Wash Boards 20 | Duluth Imperial %s.. aa va shorts......... 3) | . hoc. Monumer a oa
No.1 8lbs.... ONS Be 5 70 | Bronze Globe.. ‘ Lemon & W heele C H: Smoked Meats Gum Drops. iva bap
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“ : No. 7... ar Gas .-- 175} Wingold 44s... veeeeee 475 | OMS 141b. average. @ 101, | Lemon Sours. @I%
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% 3 SEEDS No. 14........ (pip | Good buck eg oil Boneless 1 hams... @ 7% | pine Apple -
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cae 90 | arrestee eens an | 22M Butter... 78) Washburn-Cros 470|compountt tt TP, | Chiesa Dope wie
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Poppy.. He... .. .9 — % gallon cans. ....... 1 95 Ss 15-17. ia) | a as Vegetole --.... oxy | H M. ve. Ti —
Fou ee 1... on 50 | 55 Ib. Tubs..advance oe | Dk. a - - and
Se ae :. i : Magic, . ‘aa | 80 lb. Tubs..advance (© | Gum Drops.. @90
see sere sees aee 3 vair____rure & Suntight, pea eget cee od OO | an Tins...advance 7® | Licorice Drops. @30
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Cassia, a roe a out — Long Island Waters) 18 | Gtamulated sso... 2 20) Kit — yi :
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Ginger, Afric: i aden 17 Japan ai Oyster 0 | st. Car ed and Millstutt | 4 bbls., 40 Ibs. 22277! 70| Faney Nayels
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Ginger, aecren Sie nisin cn me 18 | Sundried, rae San Se ek Ge 28 ee _ Unboited Corn ae "70 Bo : — | Seed Valent .
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Pepper, Singapore, black. 19 Regular, OW ces 30 Animals... oo wun = 15 0 — oe = :
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fj Pingsuey, choice....... 0 Cubans .. TT Hides and Pelts | Deviled ham, 4s." ‘0 = rigs oe
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0 : 1-Ib. packages ie: 42 | Marshmallow . Se Bo 60| Haddoe aj @ 't | Almonis: Tea ne
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Getting the People

Twelve Specimens of Good, Bad and In-
different Advertising.

When a clerk is talking with a cus-
tomer he can judge whether it is desir-
able to talk about other subjects than
the business in hand of selling goods.
The judicious clerk will do as little in
this way as circumstances warrant and
that in the line of meeting the custom-
er’s demand for sociability and good
feeling—the opposite error is not com-
mon. In an advertisement it is coming

 

 

' to be recognized that social needs can

not be considered. To be effective the
advertisement must confine itself strictly
to the matter in hand. Not that there
must be but one stereotyped, conven-
tional way of wording the advertisement
—variety is infinite—but the value of
space and the gaining of readers both
demand precision and simplicity of
statement. The advertisement is writ-
the to meet the greatest average taste;
each individual’s likings can rot be
considered.

J. W. Shepard presents an advertise-
ment which is a model in skillful
handling by the printer. One little
slip is the use of the ‘‘astonisher’’
after ‘‘ad.’’ in the first line. This mark
adds to the value of advertisements
much less frequently than it is employed
and the judicious compositor will be
chary in its use. In this case it is bet-
ter omitted. The matter of the adver-
tisement is good for variety, but goes
about as far in talking of that which is
not selling goods as is desirable. The
arrangement of the white space is ex-
ceptionally good.

The compositor of the next—Bauer’s
Drug Store—is also successful in his
Spacing and display and the writer
started off well, but made the mistake
of saying too much. He should have
stopped at the word cured. ‘* Your
money back’’ has a fake sound about it
and if the cough will be cured there is
no ‘‘if not’’ about it. Besides, when
the customer is in his grave 25 cents is
too small a penalty to pay.

The main line in Wells & Morgan’s
advertisement is too large, otherwise it
is well set except that a neat border of
some kind around it is better than
mourning rules. The use of the double
meaning in the main line will answer
for a change, but too frequent uses are
not to be commended.

Pig Tail Havana has an idea of try-
ing to reach a low audience. It may be
that its readers are more likely to be
amused and interested by the coarse
play on words and that such an adver-
tisement will be effective, but I think a
better one, even for that, could be writ-
ten. The composition is good.

S. Benda & Company would have
succeeded in bringing out the main idea
of their effort if they had omitted the
first line. There 1s no relation to it in
the matter which follows and, as the
advertisement is designed to play on
terms, the first line weakens it. In the
phraseology of the first paragraph there
is that which suggests the desirability
of good underclothes and so wiil work
in the direction of selling goods. ‘‘A
good and sightly suit of underwear’’ is
a little incongruous—sightly could be
better applied to parts of the raiment
less inconspicuous. The last paragraph
should have been divided. The com-
positor did well, except that he is a lit-
tle crowded with matter and the heavy
mourning rules could be improved. I
am pleased to note that Benda & Com-

 

pany have profited by my recent criti-
cism relative to the use of the union
label and have discarded the emblem of
anarchy and treason, being content to
present the merits of their goods in
manly fashion and depend on quality
and price for patronage, rather than
resort to questionable methods to cap-
ture a little undesirable trade.

The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Com-
pany presents an advertisement which is
ideal in its way as a piece of composi-
tion and is good, for a change, in mat-
ter. The rules being light and double
give a clearness and distinction difficult
to be attained any other way. The dis-
play and whiting out are exceptionally
good. It is not often that the writer
can introduce expressions so nearly sug-
gesting sentiment and retain a dignified
strength suitable to the business repre-
sented. In this case, 1 repeat, the mat-
ter is good for a change. It is to be
commended that the prices are given in
a business way, especially noticeable in
the last paragraph. The advertisement
is a good one.

In the G. E. Hain advertisement the
compositor has done well under the lim-
itations evidently imposed by the ad-
vertiser. in trying to occupy all the
space. Had the entire space been de-
voted to the principal subject, paint,
no doubt the compositor would have
made a_ good job of it. It is a serious
mistake to lug in too many articles, hit
or miss, just to fill up space.

W. I. Benedict was fortunate in put-
ting his matter into the hands of a
printer who knew the value of white
space. The advertisement is a good one
in both matter and composition, and
will do what it evidently intended to
do—sell kodaks, and it will sell more of
both kodaks and drugs than if some of
the articles of the latter had been in-
truded into the space.

A. S. Fryman presents the merits of
a line of ladies’ shoes in such a way as
to interest the reader to that extent that
he is likely to influence sales.

The printer gets in some good work
on Benedict’s Grocery. The half tint
border contrasts with the heavier rules
so as to give a clean, strong display.
The paragraph relating to Crawford
peaches is too indefinite to gain the at-
tention a more positive statement would
have commanded.

E. Hunt gives a fairly well composed
advertisement as to general appearance,
but is something of a curiosity for am-
biguous wording. It is the first that I
ever heard of sweet potatoes being used
for pickling or canning. Had the com-
positor used a different scheme of par-
agraphing it would have tended to
clearness, although he might not have
succeeded in making so neat an ap-
pearance. However, there is no excuse
for such an incongruous jumble.

The Owosso Telephone Co. gives the
compositor a fine chance for display,
which is correctly improved. There is
no excuse, however, for not changing
an advertisement when it ought to be
changed; the failure to do this is an
injury, both to the advertiser and the
medium. As a pleasantry, however, the
expression may be admissable.

—_~>2>__

While opinions differ as to our re-
ward or punishment in the world to
come, there seems to be an almost unan-
imous belief that the man who is the
cause of wretchedness and misery in
this world will reap his punishment and
humiliation before he leaves it. No
matter how strong we appear to be or
how seemingly impregnable our posi-
tion, there is a law of compensation
that can level us to the ground as easily
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why other hand cameras are called kodaks.

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IVE FOREVER

Some object to Kodaks because they
do not understand about the film
cartridges. They are made by. plac-
ing the picture taking material on a
strip of thin celluloid. The celluloid
1s pasted on a long sheet of black
paper which is then tightly rolled on
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NEXT T0 YOUR WIFE

Your undershirt is your nearest and warmest friend—it may be
tomorrow or a week hence. when your little thin shirt sod un-
der pants must give way to heavier weights—no shivering. no
freezing, when you put something warip uext to your skin

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son & Co. and placed them on sale at
$145 You can always depend upon
our zrade of shoes, because they are al-
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at their price, and really we are eurpris-
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who are lovers of handsome footwear
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Catching the Public.
Manager—‘‘I’ve marked that consign-
ment of trunks to sell at $4.70.’’
Proprietor——‘‘Stupid! Everybody
will notice at once that that would make
a $5 bill look like thirty cents. Change
it to $4.69.’’

‘You can acquire money, and dieting
will improve your health, but unless you
were born with sense you will never
have either.

—_—__o2.__

Men can not transfer their bad habits
to others, and that is why they stick to
them.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

 

THE MORNING MARKET.
Vegetables Gradually Taking the Place
of Fruit.

The ‘‘flavor of mild  decay,’’ as
Holmes puts it, seems to be settling
down upon the market. To the one
who watches for a while the loaded
wagons, as they come and go, there is
no apparent change in the number nor
the quantity they bring; but there is
a difference, and slowly but surely there
is a gradual dropping off. The peaches
are not all in, nor will they be for some
weeks yet, the later fruit in less quan-
tities taking the place of the earlier
kinds. The best go soonest and now
what is left has more the appearance of
‘‘odds and ends’’ and painfully sug-
gests that there is such a thing pos-
sible as the survival of the unfittest—a
condition depending upon the point of
view.

The prediction that apples would
show a bold front by and bye remains
a prediction. The amount offered does
not change the condition in that respect
and the quality strengthens the opinion.
Few apples as_ yet are remarkable for
size and there is a discouraged look
about the best of them, suggesting that
the crop, as a whole, has been hardly
dealt with. A recent walk through some
orchards in the immediate vicinity of
Grand Rapids is a fair indication of the
state of things farther from the city if
reports are to be trusted. The orchards
in this instance were not the largest,
but the fruit was of the best varieties
and each tree’s crop was rotting on the
ground where it had been thrown by the
wind. One tree retained a single red
apple of the bushels that were almost
ready for harvesting. ‘‘A neighbor oc-
casionally comes for a_basketful, but
the wind has ruined them and the crop
this year won't amount to anything.’’
Wherever the wind had a chance at the
trees the result was probably the same
and this part of the State for that reason
wiil not figure extensively in the apple
market.

The grape on the market is the com-
ing event that is casting its odor be-
fore. Unlike the other fruits, in that
way it makes its presence felt and the
nose catches whiffs of its aroma almost
as soon as the eye the clustered purple.
The Concord is the evident favorite on
all accounts; and while the Wordens
and Niagaras are not begging for buy-
ers, there is an evident feeling that,
while these varieties will do fora make-
shift, the grape ‘‘as is the grape’’ will
be seen and known only with the com-
ing of the Concord, and it’s time is
not yet.

The vegetables show no signs of fall-
ing off. The potato this season has not
shown any specimens of unusual size,
both extremes having been seemingly
avoided. A happy medium in this re-
spect was noticeable on the market and
some fine looking potatoes, free from
dirt and just the right size, was the at-
traction of more than one market
wagon. Beets for some reason seem to
be the pig among vegetables and more
than one dirty bushel exchanged hands,
taking with it more than its conven-
tional peck.

Signs of ‘‘that tired feeling’’ which
indicates too much of a good thing ap-
pears now in different parts of the mar-
ket. One grower, leaning sleepily
against the end board of his wagon full
of some ‘‘likely’’ potatoes, did not
hesitate to say that he was getting tired
of it. ‘‘It don’t pay to be on the road
all night for the sake of getting here
early in the morning to sell your stuff

 

for what don’t pay for digging.’’
‘*Fruit is all right; but it’s so plentiful
you can’t get anything for it,’’ was the
burden of another wail, due, doubtless,
to long and continued journeys to the
market, sixteen miles and a start at 11
o'clock the night before being the regu-
lar prograin. ‘‘It does well enough for
a while; but, ’long towards the last
on’t, you don’t care whether you ever
sell another root’s long’s ye live.’’

That man’s Ig year old boy will come
in to-morrow morning: but nothing of
that sort will come from him. The thing
was tried a few minutes later on a
youngster whose black, mischievious
eye had every indication of furnishing
business for the schoolmaster this win-
ter. He was indulging ina yawn big
enough for a man twice his size and
weight.

**Sleepy?’’

‘‘Yes, but that’s nothing.
of the business. ’’

‘*Come far?’’

‘Dozen miles or so; but a fellow gets
used to that. Along at first it took both
father and the horses to pull me out of
bed ; but now I’ve got so used to it, that
I get up and get harnessed before I
know what's going on! Last year, when
the market was over, folks had to lock
the doors and hide the key for a week
to keep me from getting up and driv-
ing off with an empty wagon. If it
didn’t get cold I’d as lief keep ’er up
all winter.—Here, sir, is what you are
looking for.’’

It was a fact and in less than five
minutes the load was disposed of and
the handsome young face that will be
always a world of cheer was turned _ to-
ward home. The market might be in
‘the sere and yellow leaf;’’ but, when
life is young, it doesn’t make any differ-
ence about the sere and the yellow,
even these conditions, in such hands
being compelled to furnish their full
quota to the fun that's got to come
from somewhere.

——__» 2. ____
Six Practical Hints.

1. When you have nothing to say,
say it.

2. Always live within your income—
if it is large enough. If it is not, in-
crease it.

3. A fool and his folly are insepar-
able acquaintances.

4. After most apparent failures there
still remains the power of effort, show-
ing that he succeeds who plunges on
again.

5. There is no disease which so
racks and weakens ability, intellectual-
ity and manhood as that commonly
known as ‘‘swelled head.’’

6. Learning is such a strange thing.
The more knowledge one obtains the
greater grows the realization of his ig-
norance. —Fame.

i Co EE

The Russian government has taken
the drastic step of suppressing the pub-
lican, and has undertaken the produc-
tion and sale of drink. The change
has resulted ina large increase in the
public revenue, although that was not
the object in view, but rather the regu-
lation and limitation of a traffic, which
in Russia, as in every other country, is
found to be productive of national evils.
The minister of finance repeated that
the exclusion of private persons from
the trade in drink was absolutely neces-
sary in view of the unsatisfactory posi-
tion of the question of the traffic, the
unscrupulous profit-seekers engaged in
it and ‘‘the growth of many abuses _in-
jurious to the lower classes.’’ It is
noteworthy that at the same time the
government has subsidized the temper-
ance societies with a sum of $900,000,

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last Fifty  100-piece Dinner Sets,
decorated in blue, pink, green, brown, etc.
Sets are in the bestsemi-porcelain second
selection and as good as many factories’
firsts.

Combination of Set.
2—12 only, 5 inch plates
2—12 only, 6 inch plates
2—12 only, 7 inch plates
2—12 only, 4 inch fruits
—1l2 only, new shape cups and saucers
2—12 only, individual butters
3— lonly, covered butter dish
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1— 1only, bowl

100 Piece Dinner Set Only $4.75.

In ordering, mention what color decoration you
want.

Order at once before they aregone. It is
an extraordinary bargain and decorations
are guaranteed in every respect.

When in the city fair week, don’t forget
to callon us and inspect our large as-
sortment of holiday china.

DE YOUNG & SCHAAFSMA,

Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, China,
112 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

L. BUTLER
Resident Manager

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

PRESIDENT KRUGER’S FLIGHT.

When President Kruger’s arrival at
Lournezo Marquez was first announced
it was stated that he was merely taking
a needed vacation ordered by his doc-
tors and that the business of the Trans-
vaal Republic would be carried on from
Delagoa Bay. Of course, nothing of the
sort could be permitted, as Portugal, be-
ing a neutral country, having friendly
relations with Great Britain, could not
allow Portuguese territory to be made
the base for hostile operations against a
friendly state. The flight of President
Kruger from the Transvaal really meant
that all hope was lost, and that the
stout-hearted old burgher and his col-
leagues, having exhausted every re-
source, saw no other alternative but the
abandonment of the fight.

As Kruger was the dominating spirit
among his countrymen, his enforced
flight will be interpreted by them as
meaning that all further resistance is
useless. While there will no doubt be
more or less fighting with guerrilla
bands composed of irreconcilables, it
can now be safely assumed that the war
is virtually over, after lasting for eleven
months, and costing thousands of lives
and vast treasure.

It is, of course, too early to predict
what will be the result upon the future
of “outh Africa. British rule is now
supreme from the Cape to Lake Victoria
Nyanza, and, except for a moderate
strip belonging to Belgium, in the very
heart of Africa, British dominion ex-
tends through the continent from the
Mediterranean to the Cape. This vast
empire has been acquired, with the ex-
ception of the Cape Colony and Natal
possessions, during the past twenty
years. Much yet remains to be done
before its possibilities are fully de-
veloped; but now that the Transvaal
barrier is out of the way Portugal will
no doubt be induced to part with Del-
agoa Bay, and Belgium with the strip
needed to view an uninterrupted right
of way from the Cape to Cairo. Those
things accomplished, the work of de-
velopment will progess rapidly.

While these momentous changes are
making in South Africa, Paul Kruger,
the most picturesque and rugged as well
as the most noted of the great pioneers
of that region, will be passing his de-
clining years in exile. His will bea
pathetic figure, but neither exile nor
defeat can rob him of the glory of hav-
ing made the most formidable fight
against the world’s greatest empire
whico that empire has _ experienced
since the days of Napoleon. It is not
surprising that the people and govern-
ment of Holland should feel. proud of
the career of one who has honored their
race and given it a ciaim to the posses-
sion of valor and military skill, and
they have shown their appreciation by
sending a national vessel to convey the
aged ex-ruler of the Transvaal to his

new home.
—_—____»9¢.>_

THE MICHIGAN STATE FAIR.

There can be no better indication of
the prosperity of the Peninsular State
than the evidences of it now to be seen
at the State Fair grounds. The old talk
of the hayseed and the country pumpkin
no longer obtains. There are, indeed,
the ‘‘signs of the profession’’—the
heavy coat of tan, the strong arm, and
the face which work and weather have
chiscled at for years, but the seed-gath-
ering hair is not now so much in evi-
dence ; the faded frock coat, if seen at
all, is oftener on the back of the _thrift-
less townsman and the outlandish talk,

 

once known as ‘‘country gab,’’ if heard
at all, comes from the ‘‘no ’count’’ folks
of the back streets and alleys of the
city. The Michigan farmer is at the
front and the visitor at the Fair, if he
would see him at his best, has only to
visit the Fair grounds and look around
him.

‘‘ By their works ye shall know them’’
is the unlabeled legend prevailing
everywhere. There is not a ‘‘nubbin’’
on exhibition. The only comparison
possible is the best of one kind with
the best of another. If the dispute be
one of peaches, there is the chance to
compare Albertas with Crawfords and
Chilis, and so with the others, and after
the decision there is no need to go be-
hind the returns. Is the best breed of
cattle a subject of discussion? Let
the stalls settle the difference with the
best animals in the State. The intel-
ligence, the trained intelligence of
Michigan, has brought here its selected
best to be approved or condemned as
the judges shall determine; not for the
sake of the prizes alone, but to strength-
en and increase the welfare of the farm
—the foundation of the commonwealth,
be it of State or Nation.

While commendable as a whole, the
best part of the Fair is the people un-
consciously on exhibition. The talk
may be ‘‘farm talk,’’ but it bears evi-
dence of the training of the Agricultural
College and the high school. Not an
article on exhibition and not a child on
the grounds that will not tell what the
schoolhouse is doing directly and _indi-
rectly to forward the State’s best in-
trests. There is less of ignorant coun-
try life on exhibition at this year’s fair
than there was five years ago. The
young people are trimmer in garb and
speech and action than they were then.
There are fewer instances of that hid-
eous, one-toothed class of middle-aged
humanity that at fairs of this kind is
too often seen. More and more the broad
shoulders of the young men are found
carrying a head that has been uncovered
in the college class room; and their
sisters, in gracefulness of speech and
manner, show that they have had a seat
beside them. It is simply a State show
of the well to do in every department of
progress and every occupied inch of the
fair is showing, what the Tradesman
has always contended for, that the
‘*hayseed’’ is not a prototype of coun-
try life and living, and that it has been
considered so only in those instances
where the farmer has failed to make the
most of those advantages which the
State Fair and similar gatherings are
intended to furnish.

——_~>22.—___

Milwaukee is disputing with Chicago
the claim of being the healthiest city.
Chicago's death-rate is 16.56 per 1,000
of population, while that of Milwau‘cee
is 14.27. These rates are not based on
a hypothetical population, generally
exaggerated, and deduced from _ the
school census or the number of names in
the city directory, but on the number
of people as declared in the United
States census just taken. Tables are
also presented in the proud Milwaukee
papers to prove that their city has the
lowest death-rate of all Ameriéan cities
of its class of 250,000 population or
over. By these tables it apvears that
Buffalo is a close second, with Cleve-
land and Detroit not very far behind.
Widening the comparison, it is shown,
to the satisfaction of Milwaukee, at
least, that its death rate is lower than
that of any city in the world with a
population of 500,000 or more,

 

Back to the Old Schedule.

Lake Linden, Sept. 24—Since one
year ago iast June the business houses
of Lake Linden have closed their doors
at 6:30 p. m. on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, thereby allowing the clerks
those evenings off. The one exception
to this rule is M. Levine, who tried it
for about two months and came to the
conclusion that the arrangement was in-
jurious to his business, and he has kept
his store open every evening since that
time.

The business men of the town held a
meeting last week and, as a result of
the meeting, notified their clerks that
unless Mr. Levine closes his place of
business at 6:30 o’clock three evenings
each week like the other business
houses, they will do away with the early
closing rule and remain open every
evening.

When interviewed in regard to the
matter Mr. Levine stated that he would
not close his store. When the move-
ment was first started, he said he agreed
to the early closing and tried it for one
month. At that time he _ notified the
other parties to the agreement that his
business was being injured and that he
would open his store every evening.
He was persuaded to hold off another
month, but since that time has kept
open every evening in the week. His
clerks are entirely satisfied with their
present hours, receiving one evening off
a week.

Mr. Levine’s refusal to close his store
three evenings a week will result in the
other stores all keeping open evenings.
The new order of things will probably
go into effect the first of next week.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

 

Owosso—H. A. Blackmar has gone to
Saginaw to take the position of mana-
ger and head clerk for McLean & Ir-
win, druggists.

Sault Ste. Marie—H. B. Klein has
taken a position in the grocery depart-
ment of the Prenzlauer Bros. store.

Otsego—W. A. Cackler is clerking in
the grocery department at Hartman &
Hall’s.

South Haven—H. P. Knudsen, of Al-
legan, has taken a position in the store
of M. Hale & Co.

Menominee—Edward Forsyth, of Mar-
quette, has assumed the management of
W. H. Roberts’ drug store. Mr. Rob-
erts expects to leave soon for Chica go
to complete his medical studies.

Owosso—Frank J. Ellis, of Good-
speed Bros. shoe store, has taken a po-
sition in the shoe store of A. C. Wes-
ener.

Sault Ste. Marie—Joseph Flood has
taken a position with the Soo Hardware
Co,

———__—>-2

Fremont Indicator: The Michigan
Tradesman of last week came to us in
the shape of a 100 page paper, in honor
of its eighteenth anniversary, and filled
from front to back with choice articles
upon different subjects. A great many
fine half tone engravings accompanied
the sketches, giving it a most attractive
appearance. The Tradesman is always
attractive, however, and one of the fin-
est weeklies of its class issued in the
country. May it have added success in
the future.

BusiaasLianls

Advertisements will be inserted under
this head for two cents a word the first
insertion and one cent a word for each
subsequent insertion. No advertisements
taken for less than 25 cents. Advance
payments.

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

STOCKS OF MERCHANDISE—40 IN ALL
parts of the State; all kinds, and at prices

 

that will sell them. Send for list. Clark’s
Business Exchange, 23 Monroe St., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 530

 

AW, STAVE, HEADING AND SHINGLE

mill for sale cheap at Temple, Mich., on Mus-

kegon River; sickness cause for selling. George
Spathelf, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich. 532

ANTED—2 BAZAAR, 2 DRUG AND 1
grocery in good outside towns. Clark’s
Business Exchange, Grand Rapids. 533

 

 

OR SALE—AN OLD ESTABLISHED MAIL
order business, with large stock of goods;
a bargain if taken soon. Address Brewster Mfg.
Co., Holly, Mich. — 529
VOR SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK OF
drugs. Must be sold at once. Enquire of
Geo. W. M. Hunt, Trustee, 114 So. Burdick St.,
Kalamazoo, Mich. CO 527
OR SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK OF
drugs; no competition; rent cheap; daily
cash sales $6; good reasons for selling. Address
Lock Box 9, Fenwick, Mich. 526

POR SALE—ONE SET DAYTON COMPUT-
ing scales and one medium-sized safe. Ad-
dress C. L. Dolph, Temple, Mich. 522
OTEL FOR RENT OR SALE—STEAM
heat, electric lights, hardwood floors, ete.;
located in Bessemer, Mich., county seat Gogebic
county. Address J. M. Whiteside, Bessemer,
Mich. 523
oS BUY BANKRUPT STOCK
dry goods or dry goods and shoes, former
line preferred. Address, with particulars—size
of stock, ete.—Box 91, Mason, Mich. 519
POR SALE—STOCK OF BOOKS, STATION-
ery, wall paper, etc., and only complete news
depot in town; also daily a route; a good
paying business and an excellent opportunity for
the right party.
selling. Write or call on M.
land, Mich.

YOR SALE— GENERAL MERCHANDISE
stock, invoicing about $8,000, store building
and fixtures. Stock is in Al shape. Trade es-
tablished over twenty years. Vould accept
house and lot or farm in part payment. Splen-
did chance for the right person. Reason for sell-
ing, wish to retire from business and take a
needed rest. Address No. 520, care Michigan
Tradesman. 520
VOR RENT—A GOOD BRICK STORE
building centrally located in a good business
town. Address Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa,
Mich. 516
POR SALE—DRUG STOCK INVOICING
fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars, in Southern
Michigan. Will retain half interest or sell entire
stock. Good place to make money. Reason for
selling, have other business. Address No. 515,
care Michigan Tradesman. 515
SOR SALE CHEAP—GENERAL STOCK OF
merchandise, invoicing $2,500. Will rent store
building and fixtures very cheap. Good farming
country and excellent potato region roundabout.
Dealer could handle farm produce to advantage.
Do not care for money payment. Will accept
ample security. Reason for selling, poor health
and need of rest. Address No. 511, care Michi-
gan Tradesman.

yw HAVE YOU TO TRADE FOR
improved real estate, southwest corner
Wealthy and Paris avenues, Grand Rapids? I
prefer Detroit suburban or Petoskey een
roperty. Mortgaged ee will not be
ooked at. Address P. Medalie, Mancelona,
Mich., or Jas. Campbell, Giant Clothing Build-
ing, Grand Rapids, Mich. 498
OR SALE — 146 ACRES OF LAND IN
Marion county, Florida. Over 100 acres
cleared. Suitable for fruit, vegetables and stock
growing. Price $15 per acre. No trades. L. D.
Stark, Cascade, Mich. 486
TORE TO RENT IN CADILLAC; CEN-
trally located ; formerly used for drug store,
later for grocery store. Dr. John Leeson. 377

OR SALE—WATER WORKS PLANT AND
franchise in Northern Michigan. Write for
particulars to D. Reeder, Lake City, Mich. 424

Fok, SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GEN-
eral Stock of Merchandise—Two 80 acre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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farms; also double store building. Good trading
point. Address No. 388, care ichigan Trades-
man. 388

 

OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK, LOCATED
at good country trading point. Stock and
fixtures will TT about $2,000; rent reason-
able; good place to handle produce. Will sell
stock complete or —_ ~~ branch of it.
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman. 292
PS HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS
of any kind, farm or city property or manu-
facturing plants, that they wish to sell or ex-
change, write us for our free 24-page catalogue of
real estate and business chances. The Derby &
Choate Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 259

or SALE CHEAP — $3,000__GENERAL

stock and building. Address No. 240, care
Michigan ‘ Tradesman. — oa 240

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—BY OCT. 15 A REGISTERED

.’, Pharmacist. E. B. Longwell, Paw Paw,
Mich. 531

ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST
or an assistant; young man of good ad-
dress, willing to do work in a general store and
well recommended. Address G., care Michigan
Tradesman. 525
ANTED—POSITION AS BOOKKEEPER
by young lady who has had about a dozen
years’ experience in store and office and can
give best of references as to character and
ability. Address No. 513, care Michigan Trades-
man. a LG 513
RELIABLE MAN OF NINE YEARS’ EX-
perience, acquainted with several depart-
ments, desires store or office position in Central
or Southern Michigan. Write for particulars.
Address No. 502, care Michigan Tradesman. 502

 

 

 

 

 

 

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: 3 ds EB ze ——_ W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, UHAS. | Ar. ae a 0p ne —
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i ae : oe = Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association 4:15pm and 11:00pm.
a ZF OO, eae i | President, ©. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C Ludington and Manistee.
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{ } BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. ae ti i |
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: t i= iis a w toledo... 7:20am 11:55am 4:15pm
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a, i cl aie el < Ar. Grand Rapids.. 1:30 5:1
- { ie Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association oy 9 a a ee
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1 { my President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. Ly Grand Rapids 7:00: 5:20
n 5 | CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN yd aaa © ea ata ae 10:120m
‘ } . . ’ * 4s ae. Way City. 12:20pm 10:46pm
5 iz g SALTE D = a = pe Ts — — Ar. from Bay City & Saginaw..11:55am 9:35)m
S 4 resident, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc- De arc it. Sagi ‘
; 1a gs ae ous i PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. oa on all Detroit, Saginaw and Bay
4 Se . - oye Buffet parlor cars on afternoon trains to and
; 4 gs eo ____. Traverse City Business Men’s Association from Chicago. Pullman sleepers on night trains.
n vay = lr President, 1:HOS T. BATES; Secretary, m. B.| Parlor car to Petoskey on day trains;
e Z = Houuy; Treasurer, €. A. HAMMOND. *Every day. Others week days only.
r ; ae : Cia ge Bae S . 28, ‘ foes D iL .
i } 3 Makes the nut delicious, healthful, and palatable. Easy to digest. = Owosso Business Men’s Association — Gesu Puma cana
i SS Made from choice, hand-picked Spanish peanuts. They do not get ran- @& | President, A. D. WuippLE; Secretary, G. T. Detroit, Mich.
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: { Peanuts are put up in attractive ten-pound boxes, a measuring glass jp. Pt. Hurons Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
i -~ BS ZF P P P 6 oe President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T ids & Indi i
; ; { in each box. A fine package to sell from. Large profits for the retailer. } PunciwvaL en GRAN Rapids a aga Railway
2 ia a July 1, 1900.
1 z Z Manufactured by <= Alpena Business Men’s Association
c i ZZ & President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L.
: A 3 THE LAMBERT NUT FOOD CO., is puma ccs Northern Division. Going From
: 4 ° lumet Business Men’s Association Nort North
! i { Battle Cree ich i 7 av. City, Petoskey
? . : i. s Tray. City, Petoskey, Mack. * 4:05am * 9:30pm
g k mM & oe D. CuppinHy; Secretary, W. H. Trav. City, Petoskey. Mack. + Fabel + 5:155m
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2 President, THos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK | 7. 45am and 2:00pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm
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‘ A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. train, sleeping car.
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c : ¥ ———. H. W. WALLAcg; Secretary, T. E.} Kalamazoo, Ft. WayneCin. + 7:10am + 9:40pm
ye a . ' Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 1:50pm + 1:50pm
i . ) - 4 Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 9:45pm _ .¢10:15pm
i Grand Haven Retail Merchants Association Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. +12:30pm * 3:55am
/ President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER-| Kalamazoo..........-..-... * 6:00pm * 7:00am
< HOEKS. ! 9:45pm train carries Pullman sleeping cars for
Yale Business Men’s Association Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis

and Chicago. Pullman parlor cars on other trains.

President, CHAS. Rounpbs; Secretary, FRANK Chicago Trains.

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Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association Ly. Grand Rapids........... +12:30pm = * 9:45pm
President, JOHN G. EBLE; Secretary, L. J.| AT. Chicago... .. + 5:25pm * 6:30am

12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago with Pull-
man buffet parlor car attached. 9:45pm train
has through coach and Pullman sleeper.
FROM CHICAGO

KATZ; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

 

 

Ly. Chieago...................7 6 1pm *l) 3apm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............+10 15pm * 7 00am
5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with
Pullman buffet car attached.
11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping
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. Ly. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 53pm +6 40pm
' Ar. Muskegon........ 900am 3 10pm 7 00pm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves
Muskegon 6:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
GOING EAST.
Ly. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 130pm 5 20pm
+Except Sunday. *Daily.
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Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for
W theirmoney. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce
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jy It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that
Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco-
nomical as well, Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white
K and blue tin packages.

   
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
    

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I=2 pint size at 18c per dozen

Shipped from Toledo with a charge of 35c for each barrel.
They are packed 22 to 25 dozen 1-3 pint or 20 dozen 1-2 pint
to a barrel. Terms net 60 days or 2 per cent. discount if paid
in 10 days. If you have no account with us, please send Toledo
reference or draft with order.

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OFFICE OF

H. LEONARD & SONS
GRAND RAPIDS

We beg to call your attention to our Catalogue, ‘‘ The Commercial Trav-
eler,’’ showing our complete line of HOLIDAY GOODS, especially our very
large assortment of Toys, Dolls, Games, Books, Celluloid Novelties and
€ases of all kinds in addition to our regular lines of House Furnishing Hard-
ware, Crockery, Glassware, Notions, etc.

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Our goods are sold at “Catalogue House ” prices, a positive saving to you on
every bill. If you have not received our complete 264 page Fall Catalogue, drop
us a postal, and we will forward on request. Come in and see our line in person if

possible. Don’t delay; write to-day.

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Holiday
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Our assortment of Holiday Goods for this sea-
son’s trade is complete, and we have on sale
the Largest and Brightest line of

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we have ever offered. Our Michigan represen-
tatives are now in the State with complete sam-
ple lines, and we will be pleased to make
arrangements for you to see them. Write for
particulars.

| Kinney & Levan

Importers and Jobbers in Crockery, Glass, Lamps and
House Furnishing Goods
Cleveland, Ohio

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