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Volume XVIII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1900.

Number 892

 

 

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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, Oct. 31
to Noy. 3. Customers’ expenses paid or
write him Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

2. Taste in Display.

3. Two Types of Women.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

6. The Buffalo Market.

7. Bill Nye on Shoe Business.
8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.
10. Shoes and Rubbers.

12. Clothing.

that there is still honor among thieves.
The answer duly comes. There it is in
cold type. Just as explicit and as_ full
of careful, painstaking detail as the old
London thief ever gave to haunters of
his nefarious den.

The remaining thing to be noticed is
the utter, matter of fact, business air
about the whole transaction. Can you
inform me, Cain, a little more in detail

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The fact of the continued increase in
activity and advance of speculative
stocks in the face of apparently adverse
conditions can only be accounted for
on the theory that the long period of
dulness had lasted until a reaction be-
came inevitable. The only reason why
surprise is expressed is that a material
advance during the closing weeks of a

on you and you will see one of the best 4 : how you mangaed to put Abel out of the] presidential campaign is without prec-
rk ER cogyene aggre ; a 13. Dry Goods. y g I k pals I
lines manufactured, with fit, prices am 14. The Meat Market. way? is hardly more startling than the|edent, at least for a good many years.

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Takes care of time in usual
way, also divides up pay roll
into the several amounts need-
ed to pay each person. No
running around after change.
Send for Sample Sheet.

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ASSOCIATE OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL
CITIES

 
  

   

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15. Coon Came Down.

16. Hardware.

1%. Hardware Price Current.
18. Village Improvement.
15. Window Dressing.

20. Woman’s World.

22. The New York Market.
23. Capital Is Captious.
24. Clerk’s Corner.

25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
2%. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Getting the People.

31. Real Estate.

32. The Morning Market.

 

A WORTHY TEAM.

‘‘Can you inform me _ how to put a
rough top on lard compound to_ imitate
pure kettle rendered leaf lard?’’

‘Draw it direct from the receiver,
not cooled, and run into packages at
about 160 degrees. Spread the packages
well, so that plenty of air can pass _be-
tween them and _ allow the lard to cool
quickly. Leave it perfectly quiet, and
when cool it will have the desired crimp
or rough top.’’

The man who asked that question
and the man who answered it would
make a team that the Old Harry himself
would like to drive. There would be a
hustling business carried on while it
lasted, and the Old Man would see to

question, evidently considering itself
respectable ; and the reply was not ex-
pected to excite undue comment. He
wanted to know how to do a little cheat-
ing. ‘‘I knew, for I’ve tested the thing,
and told him. That’s all there is to it.
Next !’’

If such questions are to be asked and
answered in the papers, commercial or
uncommercial, of the country, it is re-
spectfully suggested that only complete
answers be given, although the heavens
fall,and for that purpose such an answer
the Tradesman offers, to be used as oc-
casion may require.

 

Grand Rapids and Traverse City are
to be congratulated on their narrow es-
capes from granting valuable franchises
to strangers who were undoubtedly ac-
tuated solely by a desire to obtain for
nothing something they could dispose of
in the open market or finance in such a
manner as to clean up handsome for-
tunes for themselves. The attempt to
secure a fifty year water franchise from
the Common Council of Grand Rapids
proves to be one of the most gigantic
swindling schemes ever devised, having
evidently been concocted by two men
who, while apparently competitors in

The advance in prices seems to be all
along the line, last week raising the av-
erage of railway shares $2.38, indus-
trials $2.64 and gas and traction stocks
$5.55 per share; and the current week’s
trading is with increasing activity and
a more rapid advance.

As the election draws nearer there is
necessarily much complaint of the in-
terruption of business. Salesmen have
difficulty in finding their customers or
gaining their attention when found.
From force of habit there is much of
putting off until after election, but in
spite of this interruption there is a
strong undertone of business
where.

every-

The long period of price reaction in
the iron trade is being followed by a
degree of activity which shows that
stocks had become much depleted and
that many engineering undertakings
were unduly held back. It would be
natural that the downward movement
should carry the level below a profitable
basis, but the movement is being so
promptly arrested by demand that prices
are still kept at a level affording a fair
profit. Among the lines showing most
activity may be named steel rails, struc-
tural forms and materials for implement

s.
in ins! and) it that a lively pace was kept up to the the field, were in reality working hand works, Prices are at about the lowest
very end. They would cheat and lie|jn hand to obtain for nothing—except level of the decline, but what changes

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and steal as long as the public, their
legitimate customer, would stand it
and then, with an earnestness as intense
as the conviction that the end justified
the means, they would claw each other
until the financial graveyard hid their
offensive carcasses from sight.

The question shows a man who has
been doing his best, so far as cager
study is concerned, to find out how he
can do some systematic cheating. For
days and wearisome nights he has heen
scratching that dishonest old head of
his and every experiment just misses
it! Do what he may, the lard has so
far insisted on keeping him a decent
man, and finally,in despair at the ‘loss
upon loss,’’ incurred by his inability to
clutch the ‘‘almost,’’ which constantly
escapes him, he appeals to the world of
villainy to help him in this direful
emergency.

Fagin again gives himself away; for
when like pitifully appeals to like,
where is the ear or the heart that can
remain deaf to this call of kin? The cry
of the Artful Dodger is heard and
heeded. The world of crime has not
been ransacked in vain. This particu-
lar form of swindle has been invented,
carefully labeled and packed away,
showing that there are others at work in
this special field of knavery, who are
willing to give another proof of the fact

 

the sum alleged to have been srent in
bribery and cajolery—a_ concession
which would be worth a million dollars
in any money market of the world. The
scheme to obtain a thirty year gas fran-
chise from the Common Council of
Traverse City was less pretentious, but
it involved certain features which gave
it a suspicious appearance, due to the
haste with which the promoter undertook
to obtain the concession before the peo-
ple had been given time to investigate
the matter and discover how one-sided
the proposed franchise was. Thirty
years is a long time to tie up a munici-
pality to conditions which may be _per-
fectly proper this year or next, but
which may not be in harmony with the
progressive spirit of the age five, ten or
fifteen years hence; and those members
of the Common Council of Traverse
City who voted to postpone the consid-
eration of the measure until they could
find time to post themselves thoroughly
on the subject have undoubtedly saved
their townsmen—and their townsmen’s
children—hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars.

 

 

Sir Thomas Lipton, who wants to
make another effort to capture the
America’s cup,is evidently one of those
natural sportmen who love to be de-
feated simply for the fun there is in it.

 

have occurred are upward.

The pressure of demand in the textile
trades is resulting ina strong advance
in cotton goods, while the raw staple is
slowly declining. It looks now as though
they would soon be on a parity and the
manufacture soon become normal again.
Sales of wool are increasing in activ-
ity and, while the aggregate of sales is
much less than last year, the sales then
were for speculation, while now they
are for consumption. Woolen goods
trade has been slow on account of the
continued mild weather. The heavy
boot and shoe movement still continues,
with urgent demand for fall and early
winter trade. Spring goods are also
beginning to receive consideration.

The increase in foreign indebtedness
to this country continues, September ex-
ports exceeding imports by $56,000,000,
and for nine months the trade balance
in our favor on merchandise and specie
account amounted to $441,045,465, in-
dicating that the calendar year will ex-
ceed all records. Exchanges through
the principal clearing houses make a
better comparison with last year’s
phenomenal figures than at any recent
date, and the gain over 1898 at some
cities is worthy of note: New Orleans
101.7 per cent., Pittsburg 70.5, Chicago
32.1, New York 29.5, Cleveland,
Boston 25.5 and Philadelphia 24.7.

20. FE,

 

  
 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

TASTE IN DISPLAY.

 

Local Instances of the Lack of Artistic
Feeling.

For some reason not easy to account
for it has been settled, labeled and put
away, as if it was one fact fixed, that
the grocery store is the one place in the
world where taste as a fine art is not to
be looked for and, if found, has little
to encourage it. There may be some-
thing in the way of convenience, care
in respect to appointments and fixtures
fairly illustrated in the Muskegon es-
tablishment lately described in the
Tradesman ; but beyond that the grocery
and all that belongs to it is a question
of use, not beauty, and he who defends
that side of the question will find it to
go heavily against him in fact as_ well
as in theory.

While admitting that the question
is one which the Fine Arts like to dis-
cuss and one that has been claimed as
wholly their own, the Tradesman insists
on entering far enough into that terri-
tory to declare that, while a grocery
store may be a financial success without
attempting to utilize the beautiful in
any form, the chances are strongly
against it. More than that, there is not
a grocery in town or country that does
not depend largely on form and outline
to attract trade—two elements that
beauty depends on most for attaining
what is considered its best. Nor is color
wanting. Within almost a stone’s throw
of this office there is a grocery where
form and color have been largely de-
pended upon for pleasing effect, and so
much has this had to do with drawing
trade and retaining it that it may be
put down as a generally acknowledged
fact in the grocery business, as it has
aiready been acknowledged in art, that
taste and not material is the basis upon
which success depends.

There is nothing which beauty can
handle in form and color lovelier than
(lowers and if, as has been claimed,
material is all that is needed to make
a beautiful creation the flower garden
and the hot house—or, rather, the blos-
soms that come from them—will be all
that is needed to attract and retain.
With that for an admitted fact, we are
ready for an illustration, and it can be
found right up here on Monroe street.
There is a window full of roses, red and
white and pink. There are carnations
of every hue. There are greens of every
degree of daintiness and yet the win-
dow as a show window 1s an utter fail-
ure. Instead of being the beautiful pic-
ture it might be, with the finest mate-
rial that an artist ever worked with or
could ask for, without the taste th t
knows how to use this matchless ma-
terial the blossoms and the window are
as neglected as the thimbleweed that
insists on keeping the country roadside
green. There is the material, but the
taste is lacking; and the one without
the other offers the most discouraging
results which art or industry or business
can possibly offer.

On that same street there is a grocery
store—and grocery stores, it is insisted,
have nothing to do with art. All sum-
mer and so far since the fall came in
there is a man in there who has been
arranging the commonest kinds of veg-
etables and fruits. There has not been
a morning since this coarse, ungainly
material began to appear which has not
seen first one and then another of the
passing crowd stop to admire the beauty
which that artist grocery clerk has dis-
played. There are reds and greens and
browns, there are vellows and blues and
purples, and clumsy baskets hold them;

 

but, with an eye to the beauty in home-
ly things, the clerk has been teaching
his lessons in color furnished by the
vegetables of the kitchen garden, and
the sales resulting from his object les-
sons are a convincing proof that beauty
in a grocery store pays.

There was a wonder in July what taste
would do in that grocery when the fall
fruits came. September has answered
the question. A peach has been and
always will be a peach, but what added
beauty it took to itself the moment it
fell into that grocery clerk’s hands.
How common the grapes are when they
lift their plump cheeks to the sunshine
of the market. Concord in purple, or
delicate Delaware, or dainty Niagara—
they are to all intents and purposes only
sO many grapes; but when the artist
places them as his taste suggests there
is not a prettier window picture in the
city, and when compared with the flow-
ers thrust higglety-pigglety in the flor-
ist’s window no further proof of the fact
is called for that taste and not material
is the basis upon which success depends
and that this is as much needed in the
grocery store as it is in the artist’s
studio.

 

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Great Scheme of a Heavyweight Hen.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

J. W. Buchanan, an attache of the
general offices of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, whose home is at
321 West Market street, Jeffersonville,
relates an unusual incident in connec-
tion with an old hen’s eagerness to raise
a family, not caring whether it was
a brood of chickens or not.

Several times the hen was supplied
with a setting of eggs, but being a hen
of extraordinary weight she managed to
break the eggs and at last gave up the
egg-setting job in disgust after Mr.
Buchanan had placed a half dozen door
knobs under her henship. Along came
a cat with three kittens. The old hen
chased the cat away and took charge of
the kittens. The real mothér sees them
only occasionally, when she feeds them,
but when the hen comes storming around
the fur flies and then the cat leaves.

———_>2
Big Oregon Onions.
From the Morning Oregonian.

The Oregonian received yesterday by
express from Grant’s Pass an onion
which measures 15 inches around the
waist and weighs 2 pounds 3 ounces
avoirdupois, and smells to heaven, or
near there. By mail arrived a letter
which explains that the onion is a sam-
ple of the wonderful yield of a patch of
one and two-thirds acres grown this sea-
son on the farm of A. L. Hazeltine,
near Eagle Point, Ore. From this patch
800 sacks—1,200 bushels of onions—
were harvested. The person who sends
the onion writes that he took it from a
sack containing forty-eight, which
weighed 100 pounds. He adds that he
usually tells the truth, but did not dare
to write even the truth about thesc
onions without some evidence to sub-
stantiate his statements, and therefore
sent the sample by express.

—_> 2. ____

Satisfactorily Explained.

‘‘This,’’ said the drug clerk, ‘‘is a
most wonderful hair renewer. It’s our
own preparation.’’

‘‘Well, give me a bottle,’’ said the
bald headed man. ‘‘But, say, come to
think of it, why don’t you use it? You
are pretty bald yourself?’’

can’t use it. You see, I'm the
‘Before Using’ clerk.’ The ‘After Us-
ing’ clerk is out at lunch. You should
see him.”’
——_> 2» —__
A Very Gentle Hint.

‘You will find religion everywhere in
nature,’’ said the Rev. Dr. Speakmore.
‘“There are even sermons in stones. ’’

‘Yes, and have you noticed,’’ replied
the long suffering member of the con-
gregation, ‘‘that the most precious
stones are small, and that they have to
be cut before they become interesting ?’’

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TWO TYPES OF WOMEN.

Differing Methods of Straightening Out
Mistakes.

It was not a serious offense. Worse
happen every day inthe week. The
driver of the delivery wagon had tried
to deliver some goods and, not caring
to leave them in that neighborhood un-
less in responsible hands, had done
the only safe and so the only sensible
thing and had taken them hack to the
store. As luck, good or bad, would have
it, the wagon had hardly turned the cor-
ner when the customer came home and,
finding out from her neighbor that the
goods had come and gone, she started
with a very determined step for the gro-
cery to see about it.

The looks of the woman prepared the
beholders for what was coming. Short
and fat and dirty, she could hardly wait
until she had reached the center of the
store. Then, placing her hands upon
her hips and turning her dirty face,
fringed with dishevelled hair, to the
‘*boss’’ or to the unlucky driver, as
each seemed to deserve the particular
portion of censure she had reached, the
woman ‘‘made things hot’’ for awhile
for the objects of her wrath. At first
there was an occasional attempt on the
driver’s part and then on the grocer’s to
justify the action of the delivery boy ;
but a woman's tongue, where anger sets
it going, if not hung in the middle to
make both ends available, can go faster
than any two men’s, whatever be the
mechanical adjustment, and they stood
impatiently waiting for exhaustion to
bring the full stop which nothing else
could. Finally when a c owd, attracted
by the high-pitched, angry voice, had
gathered and the woman had had her
say, the damage was promptly repaired
by a hasty trip to the weman's home
and peace reigned once more in that
corner grocery.

‘*Have many of ’em like that?’’

** Not when she gets fairly at it. You
see, she lets her temper run away with
her and then she is sorry for it. She’ll
be in the first thing in the morning and
want to make up. She wanted to kiss
Judkins the last time and I’m _ inclined
to think a good deal of her violence just
now is due to the fact that he wouldn’t
let her! There isa woman over here
on Shank avenue that takes the cake in
things of: this sort. There is nothing
she’s ever sorry for, unless it is because
she couldn't think of something meaner
to say when she had the chance. There
wasn’t any getting along with her. She
drifted off to another grocer and, so far
aS we are concerned, it was a mighty
good riddance. We all have to have
‘em in one form or another; and, if
one’s got to have the heaviest part of
his punishment in this world, | feel a
little easier about the rest of it when I
live through a time like this!’’

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Whether things run in streaks, or
whether the distemper gets in the
atmosphere, it is impossible to say.
The day seemed to be Blue Monday or
Black Friday all over town. A store
over on South Division street was hav-
ing a good time cleaning up. They
have a queer notion over there that dirty
windows, full of dead flies, are not ap-
petizing to look at. The floor, of an
afternoon, sympathizes strongly with
the boy whose mother insists on wash-
ing his face whenever it gets dirty, and
the clerks fancy they have a good time
keeping things straight and free from
dust on the shelves. It was a comfort
to see two ladies come in and go about
the place without taking hold of their

 

skirts as if there was a chance tc get
them contaminated if they should touch
anything. They bought butter without
finding fault with it. They ordered
peaches without eating two or three of
the biggest ones, and each took home a
paper package containing something for
supper. The quiet was a pleasing con-
trast to the stormy scene above recorded
and there was a growing thought that
here was a grocer whose future, accord-
ing to his brother grocer’s philosophy,
would have muck to do with the hot
end of the poker.

This conclusion was hardly reached
when an angry customer, not many
years from her young womanhood, from
which she had brought abundant proofs
of its loveliness, came in with a pair of
beautiful black eyes, evidently to ‘‘ find
out the reason why!’’ With some varia-
tions the old offense had been given in
this case. She had left the house, but
the nearest neighbor had been given the
care of receiving the ordered goods; the
man had gone with them and had taken
them back again; they were wanted for
the dinner, which depended on them!
She looked what she would not say;
but her grievance had been stated and
she waited firmly to hear the explana-
tion; or, if it should come to that, the
apology. Strange to say, it was the
morning’s offense due to a mistake of
the customer’s friend and not to the de-
livery clerk. He came down from his
window-washing and said what he had
to say and the woman went away satis-
fied with the store management, but im-
pressed with the unreliability of neigh-
bors.

The mistake had been the same in
both instances, due to the same cause.
Womanhood had condoned the offense
each in her own way; but one could not
help wishing that, if mistakes must
happen, to good breeding should be as-
signed the duty of making the crooked
straight, when there are just two ways
to do it.

CT
Both Hands Remained Up.

Whatever differences of opinion may
exist in regard to other subjects, those
who have been held up by highwaymen
are unanimous in the statement that no
matter how few the holders-up or how
many they held up, each and every man
said that the robber’s weapon was
pointed directly and solely at him.

Years ago in California a commetcial
traveler was on a stage coach that a pair
of bandits went through. The fourteen
passengers were all made to get out and
stand in a row, with their hands high
over their heads. One burly ruffian
stood guard over them with a double-bar-
reled shotgur while the other engaged in
the pleasing task of relieving them of
their valuables and spare cash. This
particular traveler was nearest the man
with the shotgun.

While the ceremonies were in progress
his nose began to itch,and instinctively
he started to lower one hand to_ scratch
it. ‘‘Hands up there!’’ came the stern
order and his hand went automatically
back into place. But that itching re-
doubled and again he essayed the re-
lieving scratch. ‘‘Say, what’s the mat-
ter with you anyhow?'’ demanded the
highwayman. ‘‘Are you wishing to be-
come a lead mine?’’ ‘‘My nose itches
so I can’t stand it any longer,’’ tearful-
ly explained the sufferer, ‘‘I simply
have got to scratch it.’’ ‘‘No, you
hain’t,’’ ungrammtically corrected the
knight of the road, ‘*’cause I'll do it for
you.’’ And with that he proceeded to
scratch the offending nasal organ with
the muzzle of his shotgun.

2

From present indications at Washing-
ton the cost of the present census will
be $15,000,000. No previous Federal
census of population has been so satis-
factory or provoked so little criticism or
censure as this one.

 

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.
Menominee—J. C. Rosenberg
shortly open a tea store here.
Allegan—-W. V. Marsh, of Chicago,
has opened a confectionery store.
Hillsdale —F.W. Parkhurst has sold his
grocery stock to Chas. H. Jennings.
Monroe—P. W. Fishburn will retire
from the grocery business on Nov. 1.
Adrian—R. J. Clegg has opened a
meat market at 31 North Main street.
Marine City—David Roy Lester has
sold his drug stock to F. H. Holmes.
Munith—Schneckenburg Bros. succeed
Kutt & Schneckenburg in the hardware
business.
Detroit—J. A. Webster, furniture and

 

 

will

hardware dealer, has removed to Mem-
phis, Tenn.
Bellaire——Flanigan Bros. succeed

Miller Bros. in the dry goods and cloth-
ing business.

Elsie—Swan & Courtright have pur-
chased the general merchandise stock of
H. W. Tuttle.

Applegate—J. & G. Wagner have sold
their hardware and implement stock to
N. J. Geoffrey.

Davis—Giddings, Wright & Co.
have purchased the general stock of
Davis & Switzer.

Berrien Springs—Geo. Kephart has
purchased the grocery and crockery
stock of I. N. Davis & Co.

Volinia—Huff & Wright is the style
of the new firm which has purchased
the general stock of Abram Cary.

Lansing—F. Z. Thompson, proprietor
of the Central meat market, has removed
to 310 Washington avenue, north.

Sanilac Center—E. S. DeCow & Co.,
hardware dealers, have dissolved part-
nership, Edward S. DeCow succeeding.

Jackson—C. R. Hawley, of Bay City,
has purchased the Mrs. Carrie A. Moore
dry goods stock and removed it to that
city.

Constantine—Milo P. Merritt has es-
tablished himself in the general mer-
chandise business in the Union hall
block.

Saginaw—Wm. Graham, proprietor of
the Graham Imperial pharmacy, has
purchased the drug stock of Mrs. Martha
Smith.

Owosso—J. Harris, of Detroit, has
leased a store building and will engage
in the bazaar and confectionery busi-
ness here.

Union City—John C. Copeland has
engaged in the grocery business, hav-
ing purchased the stock belonging to S.
G. Newman.

Wayland—W. A. Truax has purchased
the general stock of G. A. Truax and
will continue the business in the Grange
store building. :

Wayland—Geo. Burlington has_pur-
chased a half interest in the meat mar-
ket of Frank A. Burlington. The firm
will be known as Burlington & Co.

Lansing—A. M. Donsereaux has
placed a clothing stock in one side of
the Shank grocery building. The busi-
ness is conducted by P. G. Rogers.

Central Lake—Dwight and James S.
Arnold, of Eastport, have purchased
the meat market of Nelson Cummings.
The style of the firm is Arnold Bros.

Vermontville—Chester M. Ambrose
has sold his interest in the clothing
stock of Barber & Ambrose to his _part-
ner, who will continue the business un-
der the style of Homer G. Barber. Mr.
Ambrose has purchased the grocery
stock of W. H. Benedict and will con-
tinue the business at the old stand.

 

Kalamazoo— Mitchell Sternfield has
purchased the interest of his brother in
the bazaar firm of Sternfield Bros. and
will continue the business in his own
name.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Alf. Richards
Clothing Co. will close out its stock of
clothing and hereafter conduct an ex-
clusive hat, shoe and men’s furnishing
goods business.

Jackson—Clarence H. Bennett, for
many years at the head of the dry
goods house of W. M. Bennett & Son,
has opened a dry goods store at 173
West Main street.

Bellevue—N. E. Preston, grocer, has
formed a copartnership with A. J. Fos-
ter, of Mt. Clemens. The new firm will
continue the business under the style of
Preston & Foster.

Mendon—-Wm. Hawks has_ purchased
the stock of general merchandise of A.
R. Dingman, Agent, and will continue
the business under the style of the Men-
don Mercantile Co.

Manistee—C. J. Anderson, druggist,
has purchased the premises recently oc-
cupied by J. A. Lindstrom and will
open a novelty store, placing his brother,
lio Anderson, in charge.

Freeport—Geo. J. Nagler has con-
verted his warehouse into a cold stor-
age and will use it to good advantage
for his dressed poultry business. He
will handle butter and eggs next season.

Detroit—The Merchant Tailors’ Mis-
fit Clothing Co. has been organized
with a capital stock of $5,000. The in-
corporators are L. Cohn, of Sandusky,
J. Wertheimer and A. W. Schloss, of
Detroit.

Battle Creek—John Stringer, who has
been engaged in the nicat business for
the past two years at this place, has
removed to Port Huron and accepted a
position in the hardware store of L. B.
Brockett.

Charlotte—The A. J. Prindle Co. has
opened a branch boot and shoe store at
Bellevue. Charles White, a salesman in
the store here for several months past,
has been given the management of the
business.

St. Johns—H. W. Morris has leased
the west half of his store building to W.
R. Osgood, who will put in a line of
furniture and undertaking goods. Mr.
Morris will occupy the east store with
art goods. i

Saginaw—F. W.  Roethka, Bertha
Roethka, C. L. Roethka, O. T. Roethka
and Mrs. E. Grauses have formed a
stock company under the style of the
William Roethka Floral Co. The cap-
ital stock is $25,000.

Lansing—Lane & Knight, of Tecum-
seh, have purchased the bazaar stock
of W. J. Gonderman, conducted under
the style of the New York Racket store.
Mr. Gonderman has removed to Flint,
where he has another store.

Scotts—Wells N. Adams, dealer in
hardware and harnesses, and Richard-
son Bros., who conduct a general mer-
chandise store, have consolidated their
stocks and will continue business under
tne style of the Richardson Mercantile
Co.

Portland—C. F. Powers and O. N.
Jenkins have purchased of Herbert
Shafer the two-story building occupied
by the Wm. Ryan bakery. They own the
millinery store on the south and expect
in the near future to erect a one-story
brick building on the site now occupied
by the two buildings.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Charlevoix—C. Jones, manufacturer
of confectionery, has sold out to Chas.
Hyers.

 

Perry—The Perry Glove & Mitten Co.
expects to ship goods to the amount of
$60,000 this year.

Manton—-A. Green & Son have sold
their saw and planing mill plant to
Martin Northrup.

Detroit—The manufacturing concern
known as the Cooper Handle Co. has
removed its plant to Fenton.

Manton—Phelps & Baker have their
new grist mill in operation, having
begun the manufacture of flour therein
last week.

Detroit—The Wolverine Stove Co. has
been organized by W. H. Strong, F. J.
Martin and S. O. Van de Mark, with a
capital stock of $20,000.

Manton—Truman_ Bros. have sold
their sawmill machinery here to Mc-
Gregor & VanRanken, who have re-
moved it to their tract of timber near
the Buttermilk River.

Ludington—R. G. Peters has sold his
interest in the Butters & Peters Salt &
Lumber Co. and the name of the cor-
poration has been changed to the But-
ters Salt & Lumber Co.

Detroit—The Capital Electric Manu-
facturing Co. has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $30,000. A. Q.
Bresler, T. G. Rakestraw, W. J. Bowen
and E. A. Bresler compose the com-
pany.

Cass City—A new business enter-
prise, known as the Cass City Lumber
& Coal Co.— with T. J. Anketell, Pres-
ident of the Anketell Lumber Co., of
Chicago, at its head—has been estab-
lished at this place.

Adrian—This city has a new industry,
which will be in operation within two
weeks. G. B. Kimball & Co. have
leased the Libs building on North Main
Street, are placing machinery and will
manufacture cigar boxes of all grades
and sizes.

Lawrence—The Lawrence Canning &
Packing Co. has been organized with a
capital stock of $8,000 to engage in the
manufacture and sale of canned goods.
The stockholders are E. S. Rockefel-
low, H. S. Bunnell, G. W. Crawford
and C. Rockwell.

Detroit—A new salt manufacturing
and coal enterprise has been established
with a capital stock of $50,000 under
the style of the Rogue River Salt Co.
Those interested in the business are W.
H. Irvine, L. E. Wise,W. E. Moss and
F. B. Tibbals, of Detroit, and H. B.
Brevoort, of Woodmere.

Vicksburg—The Lotus Creamery Co.
is the style of a new enterprise recently
established at this place for the manu-
facture of butter and cheese. Those
interested in the company are W. R.
Southworth, C. T. Richardson, C. H.
Haines, M. Q. Fenstermacher and J. F.
Goldsmith. The capital stock is $1,000.

Pontiac—An incorporated stock com-
pany, composed of George Hodges, of
this city, and several leading citizens
of Detroit, including Geo. Hiisendegen,
has established a vehicle factory here.
Mr. Hodges was formerly of the firm of
Martin Halfpenny & Co., manufacturers
of vehicles. He has purchased the ma-
chinery of the latter and removed it to
the building now occupied by the new
company. Halfpenny & Co. will place
a new outfit in their Pike street build-
ing and continue the business at the
old stand.

Lansing——Northrop, Robertson &
Carrier, manufacturers of extracts and
baking powder and dealers in spices,
have leased a building on Washington
avenue, north, formerly occupied by
Robson Bros.; and will remove to that
location about Jan. 1. The building is

 

now undergoing extensive repairs.
The first and second floors will be used
for offices and warerooms, the third
story for laboratory and workrooms and
the basement for storage. The annex
will be utilized for the spice mills and
baking powder manufactory.

Kalamazoo—The Allen Manufactur-
ing Co, has been organized with a cap-
ital stock of $6,000 by Delano Allen,
Lynn Allen and A. b. Schied for the
purpose of engaging in the manufac-
ture of strawboard, berry boxes and
egg carriers for the use of retail grocers
in delivering eggs to their customers.
Delano Allen has been elected Presi-
dent of the corporation and will place
the output of the factory. A. B. Schied
will serve the company as Secretary and
Treasurer, while Lynn Allen will un-
dertake the management of the manu-
facturing department.

Saginaw—One of the largest hard-
wood concerns in the country has just
been organized under the name of the
Chicot Lumber Co., of which Col. A.
T. Bliss, of this city, is President, and
A. F. Cook, also of this city, is a stock
holder. The company is capitalized
at $300,000 and owns 22,000 acres of
land in Chicot county, Ark., on which
there is standing on a careful estimate
200, 000,000 feet of hardwoods with white
oak predominating. A band mill of
50,000 feet daily capacity is being
erected and will he located at Blissville,
120 miles southeast of Little Rock on
the Iron Mountain Railroad.

Adrian—Some weeks ago Ladd J.
Lewis, of Utica, and George H. Lewis,
of Warsaw, N. Y., came to Michigan
looking for a location for a knitting
mill. Their choice finally fell on Adrian
and they made a proposition to some of
our citizens which was promptly ac-
cepted. All required was that a certain
sum be raised, to be expended in re-
pairing the building now occupied by
the toothpick factory, which the Messrs.
Lewis were desirous of purchasing. In
return for this bonus they executed a
bond for a like amount pledging them-
selves to employ not less than forty
persons ten months in a_ year fora
period of five years.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Eaton Rapids—James Caffery  suc-
ceeds Charles Carlton as clerk in the
store of the Knapp Grocery Co.

Imlay City—Ray Olin, of Caro, is the
new clerk in Holden’s drug store.

Lansing—John H. Rose, formerly with
Robson Bros.’ wholesale grocery, has
taken a position with the new grocery
firm of Christopher & Loftus.

Alma—A. L, Fisher is clerking in the
shoe department at H. J. Vermeulen’s
department store.

Quincy—Whyland Gregory has taken
a position with Pearce & Lyons as sales-
man.

Calumet—Morris Miller, who has
been employed in Jacob Gartner’s dry
goods establishment for some time past,
has resigned his position to take a po-
sition with E. Haas & Co.

Eaton Rapids—-Fred A. Caldwell, for-
merly in the employ of a prominent
Jackson druggist, has been employed
as prescription clerk for J. J. Mil-
bourn.

Hillsdale—Ted Prideaux has been
employed as manager of the Hodges
drug store, recently purchased by G.
Watson Sly, traveling representative for
Neison, Baker & Co., of Detroit.

Sparta—Wm. Powers has taken a po-
sition in the meat market of Morris
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Produce Market.

Apples—Buyers are busy picking up
orchard stock at goc@s1 per bbl. for
fruit alone, but are hampered by the
scarcity of help in getting their pur-
chases packed and marketed.

-Bananas—Are practically unchanged.
Prices are steady, witha slight tendency
to advance on some grades.

Beets—$1 per bbl.

Butter—Creamery is strong and has
advanced %4%@ic in the Eastern mar-
kets. Local dealers hold fancy makes
at 2Ic, but confidently expect to be
compelled to advance to 22c in the near
future. Receipts of dairy are heavy,
but they run largely to low grades and
poor stock. Prices range from 13c for
packing stock to 15c¢ for choice and 16c
for fancy table grades.

Cabbage—s1 per bbl.

Carrots—$1 per bbl.

Cauliflower—S1@1.25 per doz. heads.

Celery-——18c per bunch.

Crab Apples—65@75c per bu.

Cranberries—-Cap Cods are arriving
freely, commanding $2.40 per bu., and
$6.75 per bbl.

I:ggs—Receipts are light, but the de-

 

 

mand is not heavy. Fresh eggs com-
mand 16c for case count and 17¢c for
candled.

Egg Plant—$1 per doz.

Game—Local dealers pay $1 per doz.
for gray squirrels, $1.20 per doz. for
fox squirrels and $1.20 per doz. for
rabbits.

Grapes—New York Concords com-
mand 14@15c for 8 lb. basket. The local
crop is practically ail marketed.

Green Peppers—soc per bu.

Green Stuff—Lettuce, 60c per bu. for
head and joc for leaf. Parsley, 20c per
doz. Radishes, 8@toc for round.

Honey—Receipts are large, but stock
runs mostly to dark grades, due to the
wet season. Fancy white fetches I5c,
while amber commands Ic less.

Lemons—-Are in light demand. Prices
are lower on some grades, but fancy
grades show a slight advance. The sup-
ply at present is rather large for this
season of the year and it requires con-
siderable effort to work off stocks. The
market for foreign fruit is quiet, the
competition of Californias being too
strong to permit much activity.

Onions--Red Globe and Yellow Dan-
vers have advanced to 40@45c, while
White Globe and Silver Skins fetch 55
@6 Ic. Small white stock for pickling
purposes is in fair demand at $2@2.50
per bu. Spanish are held at $1.50 per
crate.

Pears—Fancy Kielers command 75c@
$1 per bu. Cold storage Bartletts are
in fair demand at $1.25. Common va-
rieties fetch 75@goc.

Pop Corn—$g1 per bu.

Potatoes—30c per bu.
that.

Poultry—Local dealers pay as follows
for dressed: Spring chickens, 10c;
fowls, 8c: spring ducks, 1oc—old not
wanted at any price; spring geese, 8@
1oc—old not wanted; spring turkeys, 11
@i2zc; old turkeys, 8@ioc. Spring
chickens are in active demand. Spring
turkeys are not yet in good condition,
on account of being peppered with pin
feathers, which will disappear after a
few days of cold weather.

Sweet Potatoes—$2.25 for Virginias
and $2.75 for Jerseys.

Quinces—$1@1.25 per bu., according
to size and quality. Fancy, $1.50.

Squash—2c per Ib. for Hubbard.

Turnips—g1 per bbl.

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The Grain Market.

Wheat, owing to the fine weather we
have had during the past two weeks,
has been depressed, especially as the
visible again showed an_ increase of
1,335,000 bushels, which tended to
weaken the market. Tired longs also
sold. Prices sagged about ic, which,
although not much, caused very small
sales in wheat centers. Foreigners keep
taking wheat and flour combined, about
3,500,000 bushels weekly. Just as long

and weak at

 

 

as the visible shows gains, even small,
it stops buying on a large scale. The
question is asked, How long is this in-
crease going to last? We are of the
opinion that it has spent its force and
that we will see smaller receipts in both
winter and spring wheat in the very
near future, so those who hang on may
yet get a margin on their holdings.

Corn showed a small decrease of
about 1,000,000 bushels, but the depres-
sion in the wheat market had its effect
on corn, which was %c lower.

Oats remained about the same in
price as last week. The market lacked
snap. Marketing from first hands has
been about the usual quantity.

Rye seems to be more enquired for,
but at last week’s prices. There is no
boom in that cereal at present, although
the German crop is claimed to be about
4,000,000 bushels short of rye.

The flour trade has improved since
last writing at steady prices. In mill
feed there is not much to report. The
mills are sold up. No large supply is
pressing on the market and prices are
steady at $15 for bran and $16 per ton
for middlings.

Receipts were as follows: Wheat, 55
cars; corn, 10 cars; oats, 12 cars; flour,
2 cars; hay, 2 cars.

Millers are paying 73c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
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Hides, Tallow, Pelts and Wool,

The advance in hides has been quite
marked during the past two weeks. All
stocks and all grades are now at their
best. The trade demands are good and
the markets generally are active.

Tallow and greases are in fair de-
mand, with fair trade, but with no ad-
vance in prices.

Pelts are not plenty and are wanted
by pullers, but the asking price is too
high. The tendency is to crowd values
up, which is not warranted at the pres-
ent market.

Wool shows up in more enquiries and
a looking-around feeling of the market.
Prices are firmly held, awaiting elec-
tion returns, holders being confident
that it is coming their way. Small
manufacturers buy for immediate wants,
which gives more volume to sales. No
large sales have been consummated.
The offerings abroad were not suited for
America’s wants and have little effect
on fleece values. As the time for wools
to move approaches, each side becomes
anxious. Holders will receive a loss at
the present ruling prices.

Wm. T. Hess.
a

Mayor Perry may not be an ideal
mayor in every respect, but he has done
the people of Grand Rapids an inesti-
mable service by exposing one of the
most nefarious schemes ever concocted
to secure a franchise from this munici-
pality worth miliions of dollars. The
detaiis of the attempted swindle have
been fully described in the daily press
and the Tradesman commends its read-
ers to a perusal of the facts, confident
that such perusal will confirm the state-
ment that too much caution can not be
exercised in granting exclusive or ex-
tended franchises for public utilities
which are immediately capitalized for
several times their value, in conse-
quence of which the people are com-
pelled to pay extra prices for the com-
modities handled in order that the stock-
holders may receive dividends on stock
which represents nothing but the greed
and avarice of the promoters.

—___. 2.____

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds,

grades and prices Visner both phones.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market is un-
changed, but has a weaker tendency
and a decline of 1-16c is expected soon.
Ninety-six test centrifugals are still
quoted at 43c, with offerings very
light. Advices from Puerto Rico are
that the weather has been very favorable
to the new growing sugar crop all over
the Island and beyond all doubt a very
large crop may be expected. Calcula-
tions are that the total for export will
be 105,000 tons. These are declared
very conservative figures and the total
yield may just as well come up to 10,000
to 15,000 tons more. Trade in refined
continues quiet and the jobbers are
carrying light stocks of sugar, expecting
a further decline.

Canned Goods—The canned goods
market during the past week has not
developed any marked changes in any
line. There has been a steady flow of
orders for all the staple lines, but not
enough of any particular article to cause
any change from its position of last
week. The trend of the market is to-
ward lower prices for some lines. There
is one thing sure and that is that buyers
are not overburdened with stocks and
we think there will be heavy buying
shortly. Corn is very easy and goods
are being offered at some very low
prices. String beans are strong, with
all grades well cleaned up. Peas are in
fair demand at unchanged prices.
Offerings, however, are very limited.
As previously noted, the apple crop is
large and the canned article can be
produced at a low price. The quality
is better this season than it has been for
a long time and a large business is an-
ticipated for both sizes. There is almost
nothing doing in peaches now. Prices
are unchanged, but have a weaker tend-
ency. Domestic sardines are in slight
demand and offerings are scarce. Im-
ported sardines are coming in quite
freely and prices are very firm, with a
decided tendency to advance. Indica-
tions are that the fall pack of salmon
on Puget Sound will be very short. Ac-
cording toa letter from a packer, most
of the canneries are being run at a loss.
The cohoes packed to date, it is stated,
are mostly half-pounds, with the excep-
tion of a few talls. There is said to be
little chance of the fish coming in in any
quantity now. The cheaper grades of
salmon are still in demand for export.

Dried Fruits—There are further indi-
cations of improvement in the dried
fruit line and apparently the regular
fall consumptive demand is beginning
to set in in earnest. Orders are mostly
for small lots as yet, but they are much
more numerous and the aggregate trade
through regular consumptive trade chan-
nels is decidedly larger than for some
time. The raisin market is unchanged
and the demand is small. There is
still quite a general expectation of an
advance on loose raisins very soon,
Prices, it is thought, will soon be made
on Pacifics, which, it is expected, will
be nearly as good as standards, and at
the same time quotations on the present
standards will be put up. Reports from
the coast are that 75 per cent. of the
entire crop is practically safe and that
the weather continues favorable. Inter-
est in prunes, which has been at rather
a low ebb for some time, has revived con-
siderably and they are meeting witha
good demand, especially for 40-50s,
which are hard to get in large quanti-
ties. Peaches and apricots are in fair
demand at unchanged prices. Currants
are very firm and offerings are light.
According to all available information,

 

the situation is likely to gain in strength
and there appears little likelihood of a
decline, which it was thought a_ short
time ago would be probable. Jobbers
at the moment are buving only ina
small way, evidently feeling their way
with the consuming public at the high
range of prices. Dates continue very
active at full prices and sales amount
to considerable quantities. Figs, both
old and new, are meeting with a good
demand. The quality of the fruit re-
ceived has been very satisfactory and
should tend to make a heavy consump-
tion of this article. The evaporated
apple market continues to show strength
and with seasonable weather an advance
will undoubtedly occur.

Rice—The rice market is firm and un-
changed. The demand shows some lit-
tle improvement during the past week.
Stocks throughout the country are much
lighter than usuai and it is expected
with the advent of cold weather business
will pick up considerably.

Tea—The tea market continues very
dull. Buyers show no_ disposition to
make purchases, apparently having
sufficient supplies on hand to meet the
requirements of the slow demand. The
quality of new crop teas is inferior,
compared with last year’s.

Molasses—The molasses market is
unchanged in price. The demand is
improving somewhat and will continue
to improve as the weather grows cooler.
Offerings are very limited, as stocks are
rapidly decreasing. The corn syrup
market is weaker and prices have de-
clined %c per gallon and 3c per case.

Nuts—There is considerable interest
in nuts, particularly filberts, foreign al-
monds and pecans. The market on
Sicily filberts, which has shown a de-
cidedly easier tendency, has reacted
and the market is again advancing.
Recent advices indicate that the output
is not as large as expected and it is pos-
sible that the yield may not show even
as much as last year, which was a short
crop, giving only 55,000 bags, as
against an average crop of 70,000 bags.
The new goods are being shipped some-
what earlier than usual. Shelled al-
monds are slightly easier. Brazils are
reported !4c lower. Reports from Smith-
field, Va., state that the recent rains
have done much damage to the peanut
crop and it is estimated that 20 per
cent. of the nuts will be left in the
ground, being badly rotted by the heavy
rains.

Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market
stronger and prices have advanced
ioc per barrel, and millers are still
three to four weeks oversold and are
offering only for shipment after Nov. 15.

is

Pickles—The pickle market shows
considerable strength, with fair de-
mand.

a

The Kalamazoo Gas Co. has purchased
the franchise of the competing gas com-
pany in that city, which has suspended
operations, thus giving the former cor-
poration exclusive control of the field.
As a result of this purchase and the in-
creased confidence in which the institu-
tion is held, both at home and abroad,
the 5 per cent. bonds of the corporation
are now selling at par, at which figure
several sales have recently been made
in Kalamazoo, where the banks are
picking up the bonds for investment
purposes. The bonds and stock of the
Kalamazoo Gas Co. are well regarded
by Grand Rapids banks and capitalists
and a large percentage of the issue—
$300,000 of each—is held by local in-
vestors.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

The Buffalo Market

Accurate Index of the Principal Staples
Handled.

Beans—Receipts continue light and
with a fairly good demand. ‘The best
lots are bringing stronger prices. Mixed
and imported beans are slow; marrows
are going at $2.15@2.30; medium, $2@
2.15; pea, $2@2.20 per bushel ; white or
red kidney, scarce.

Butter-——Atlhough sellers are getting
rid of all the arrivals of fresh creamery
as fast as received and at better prices
than quoted last week,there is consider-
able more business being done in stor-
age and renovated, and buyers are not
inclined to pay above 22c for regular
best fresh and 22%c for extras. Fancy
Junes are working off quickly at 21@
22c, and renovated at 18c. Low grades
of creamery in light supply and selling
at comparatively high prices. Some
storage dairy is coming out and selling
at 20c. Creamery extra sold to-day at
22'4c; firsts, 21@21%4c; choice, 20%4@
21c; fair to good, 18@1o0c; Junes, 20@
22c; dairy extra, 20@2Ic; choice, I9c;
fair to good, 17@18c; poor to common,
all kinds, 14@t6c.

Cheese—Fairly active demand for
cheese around toc, but offerings of that
class light. No common here. Fancy
small New York State brings 12c, with
choice at 11@11'4c and good at Ioc per
Ib. Western about cleaned up, mostly
at 1oc for good stock.

Eggs—Market decidedy strong on
strictly fresh at 20@2Ic, and good to
choice at 18@1oc, while storage lots for
some reason are freely offered at 17c for
finest and 16c for choice. The differ-
ence is considered too wide and it is
believed an advance on storage will be
asked this week.

Dressed Poultry—-Active demand all
last week, but particularly during the
closing days,and higher prices were se-
cured for fancy chickens. A small lot
of young turkeys sold at 12@13c. Fancy
chickens went at 11@111c; good to
cheice, 10%@itc: fair, toc. Fowl,
choice to fancy medium, toc; fair to
good, 9%c. Ducks, young, 10@12c.
Weather has been warm the past few
days and receivers are advising ship-
pers to continue ty use ice in fair quan-
tities.

Live Poultry—Market stronger owing
to active demand, everything cleaning
up as fast as it arrived, especially small
coops of express stock. Young turkeys
went at 10@: 1c; old, 8@oc. Chickens,

 

 

fancy large, 10@10%c; choice, 04%@
10c; small and mixed, 9@9%c. Fowl,

fancy, 9@o0%4c; fair to good, 8%@oc.
Ducks, fancy large, 80@90c; small and
medium, 60@7oc per pair. Geese,
large, 80@o90c; small and medium, 60@
7oc each. Pigeons, per pair, 18@2oc.
Although there has been a decline in
meats of all kinds poultry is_ still
cheaper and this market will take a
much larger supply of fancy poultry as
the season advances. Ducks will sell
particularly well, also fancy bright large
chickens.

Game—Only a _ few ducks and not of
a desirable variety. Active enquiry for
venison, partridge, woodcock, squirrels
and rabbits.

Apples—Trade in fall fruit continues
very satisfactory and the market is firm
for fancy of all varieties within a range
of $2@2.50. Greenings and other win-
ter apples quiet, although quite a little
business is being done in selected lots
+2 cold storage around $1.35@1.50 per
bbl.

Crabapples—Fancy selling at $1.75@2,
and fair to good at $1@1.50 per bbl.
Trade quiet.

Quinces—Liberal supply of common
to fair, but strictly fine ripe are scarce.
The best offerings readily bring $2@
2.25, while others are slow at $1@1.75
per bbl. i

Peaches—Few really good peaches ar-
riving, but ali sell readily at what is
considered a high price. The best sell
at 65@7oc, and common to choice from
25@s5o0c per '% bu. basket.

Pears—Light demand, still the offer-
ings are only a few barrels of desirable
Kieffer and Duchess, which bring about

 

1.75@2 when wanted; fair to good,
1@1.50 per bbl.

Grapes—Market stronger for tray and
basket lots. An enormous business was
done last week in wine grapes at $18@
20 per ton for black. White grapes
quiet at $28@32 perton for fancy. Eight
pound baskets of black sold at 97%@
10%c, and white at 12@I¢c.

Malaga Grapes—Liberal supply, kegs
selling slowly at $4.50 up to $6.

Cranberries—Better demand; quality
improving. Fancy bushel boxes sold
at $2@2.25.

Oranges—Jamaicas in bbls, $5@5.50;
boxes, $3.25@3.50.

Lemons—Weak. Large cases, $3.75
@4; Messina boxes, $2.50@5; Califor-
nia, $3@3.50.

Potatoes—The farmers’ market here
cleans up early every day at 30@4oc per
bushel for fine stock, and the few cars
of good to choice received here are eas-
ily sold at the same prices. A few
commission men managed to squeeze a
few cents more from store when the sup-
ply was a little short. We believe it
would pay well to ship a few cars of
either red or white as the receipts are
not expected to increase much in the
next two weeks.

Sweet Potatoes—Fancy scarce. Heavy
supply of field-run, mostly large stock,
which is selling slowly at $1.75@2.

Onions—Trade_ brisk and _ receipts
only fair. Quality does not improve
and fancy, good-keeping yellow would
bring more money. Best stock here sell-
ing at 48@soc; fair to good, 45@47c.
Cabbage—Liberal supply at $1.50@2.25
per head, outside price for large.

Celery—Another rush of fancy large,
and it is impossible to sell common
stuff. Fancy is not bringing above 3oc,
and fair to choice, 15@25c; common
does not pay freight.

Squash—Liberal supply. Hubbard,
$14@15; marrow, $8@I0 per ton.

Horseradish—Firm; $4.75@5.25 per
100 lbs.

Buckwheat
$2.50@2.75.

Chestnuts—Higher; lighter receipts.
Sales generally at $4.50@5.25 per bu.
for small to large.

Honey—Scarce; fancy white would
sell at 20c; No. 1 offered at 18c; dark
all the way from 1o@15c per lb.

Straw—Light receipts; firm. Wheat
and oat, $7.50@8.25; rye, $9@9.50 per
ton on track.

Hay—Scarce and firm. Prime, $15.50
@16; No. 1, $14.75@15; No. 2, $13@14.

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day?’’
‘*Goodness, yes; we'll send them to
you yesterday, if you say so.’’

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900
Walter Baker & Go, uu.

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Bill Nye’s Way of Managing the Shoe
Business.

I have received the following letter:

Dear Nye: I am about to start in the
boot and shoe business. My friends say
I am cut out for it, have genius in that
direction. Can you suggest some way
to get going and stay going without us-
ing the newspapers? An early reply
will greatly oblige, Reginald.

To begin with—stay where you are!
Don’t move! Allons! ‘‘ About to start’’
is better than starting without the aid
of the press, Reggie.

1 am giad to hear that you have
genius—you'll need it, Reggie, to suc-
ceed in any direction, unless you are
bound ‘‘up Salt Creek,’’ without the
genial and_ necessary assistance of
printers’ ink.

I can suggest a way—l1 will suggest a
way—a road as plain as the nose on
your face, Reggie. I take it for granted
you have a face, and that the nose orna
menting it is a Roman one, and not a
mere road in your physiognomy, a road
that has been traveled by more unadul-
terated failures both in the shoe trade
and other branches of business endeavor
than that charming country ramble which
Shakespeare says ‘‘is paved with good
intentions.’’ It will bear careful con-
sideration, and is as follows:

The first thing on waking in the morn-
ing turn over and go to sleep again;
this will rest you and keep you from
getting up. No self-respecting shoe
dealer should reach his place of busi-
ness before 10 o’clock in the morning;
and it might add to his dignity not to
get there until 10 p. m.

When you have opened the store bring
in the hose and wet down the stock to
make sure it does not leak.

If it’s a cold morning, wet down the
walk in front of the store, so it'll freeze,
and the first man that attempts to go by
will fall, like Lucifer, and drive his
spinal column up through his brains.
This is an efficient way to see if the
man who attempted to go by has any.
Drag him into the store and send for a
doctor. This will draw a crowd, some
of whom might-need shoes and steal a
pair.

While the doctor is pushing the man’s
spine back to place and sewing up the
hole, tell the injured wretch a funny
story, and sell him a pair of shoes that
won't slip. You might turn the hose
on the crowd, at the saine time making
soine facetious remark about the weath-
er. By this time lots of folks will have
slipped down on your improvised rink,
to their great merriment. This little
stroke of business can be dealt by you
any time when it is not freezing by
spreading a few banana skins on the
walk. Folks’ll sue you—if they don’t
kill you outright—and a_ lawsuit will
keep your name before the public.

When the excitement is over, take the
best pair of shoes in the store,if you've
paid for them, and get a big hammer
and a long spike and spike them down
to the sidewalk in front of the door.
This will attract’ attention and afford
you infinite amusement when anyone
tries to carry them off.

When a lady calls, don’t jump at
‘*business’’ the first thing by asking
her if she wants to buy a pair of shoes;
she always goes to the drug store for
them. Ask her how old she is; if her
teeth are false and if she lives happily
with her husband. Then introduce the
subject of shoes carefully but firmly
with a slight innuendo, as: ‘‘Ah! I
see you've got your feet with you!’’ or
'‘*When small feet were given out in
Maine you were in Texas!’’ Try a line

 

of Ella Wheeler on her; women like
poetry p
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and we all repine;
An extra sized shoe is the thing for you
When your foot is a number nine.

When she flounces out, ask her if
that’s her own hair or a switch. Then,
when her husband or big brother comes
around, laugh yourself as he jams your
measly head through a shoe case.
‘‘Laugh and he will laugh with you.’’
This will keep the town talking about
you, and is much cheaper than adver-
tising in the papers.

The late P. T. Barnum, when busi-
ness was dull at the old ‘‘Museum, New
York,”’ had a man with a very solemn
face walk out and lay a brick down in
the middle of the street, leave it there,
walk back in and through the museum
without saying a word or cracking a
smile, take up another brick and lay
that down by the first, pick up the first
and back through the museum again.
This he repeated until a crowd had
gathered and paid to follow him in to
see what he was doing. I wouldn't ad-
vise you to do that; they'd call you an
imitator. That you don’t want. Be
original. Buy a load of bricks—have
them slyly dumped in the yard back of
the store, and, when all the town is
trying to sleep after the excitement you
have already caused, carry the whole
load up on the roof, one brick ata
time; thus you can count them and it
will perfect you in figures. Next day,
about IO or II a. m., get up on the
roof and begin to dance and_ yell
‘*Fire!’’ This will bring the town to
your store. Then holler ‘‘April fool !’’
and throw the bricks as fast as you can
on their heads. You can yell ‘‘ April
fool!’’ on the 1oth of October, if you
like—it will add to your eccentricity,
increase your popularity and perhaps
land you in the cooler. Keep every-
body talking about you—that’s the key-
note to success.

If you see a little girl going by with
a bundle, take it away from her and
cuff her ears so she'll run home crying.
When her father is trying a different
brand of shoes on your pusillanimous
carcass, suggest to him that the shoes
you carry will give better satisfaction.
If he kicks you into insensibility, pay
no more attention to him.

Shut up your store three days each
week, leaving a big placard in the win-
dow, ‘‘Gone Fishing, will be back most
any time.’’ Then from behind a broken
window pane which you have knocked
out back of the shutters, you can enjoy
the comments of your fellow townsmen.
You might close up altogether, and thus
play a joke on the sheriff, who was just
going to save you the trouble. Finally,
when you are too financially dead to
tan and make into a pair of 75-cent
brogans, you will have a big monument
with

‘*Adam Failure’’
cut into it in the latest ecru pattern.
Yours for health. Bill Nye.
——__~>_9 2
Nothing Personal Intended.

A demure little maid entered a Boston
music store not long ago and the clerk
politely asked: ‘‘ What would you like?’’

The young girl fixed her blue eyes
upon the youth and calmly answered,
‘* Take back the heart that thou gavest.’’

The clerk stood aghast for a moment,
until he suddenly recollected that his
fair customer had merely asked for a

sheet of music.
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This might be called the Golden
Age, judging by the great demand for
gilt effects in all articles of personal
adornment.

 

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service is required.

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Jewelry and Novelties

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Send for samples and prices.

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STATE OF MICHIGAN ; ,,
County of Kent cr

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
Oct. 17, I900, 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 twentieth day of October, 1900.

Henry B. Fairchild,
Notary Public in and for Kent County,
Mich.

 

THE DEMANDS OF THE BEST.

The fruit was the best of its kind. It
had been handled with care. When it
was opened each individual lemon had
its paper blanket about it and was as
ready for business as it was when it left
the home orchard. The dealer, know-
ing he had a_ good thing, used it ac-
cordingly. He put it where it would
have a chance to show exactly what it
was—-the best. He took care that its
surroundings were in harmony with it
and so made one article of merchandise
help sell the others. There was not a
movement which did not tend towards
the main idea—the sale of a good ar-
ticle at a good price—and when the
customer for whom ihe lemons were
grown and packed and shipped—chance
and fore-ordination have nothing in
common in commercial lines—looked
upon them she knew her own, paid a
good price for them and they were de-
livered that morning. ‘‘It is a pleasure
to deal in goods like that. It is pleas-
ant to buy them, pleasanter to display
them, pleasantest of all to realize the
profit on them, and that can always be
done if one is willing to take the time
and trouble which the best always de-
mands.’’

This ‘‘trouble’’ business is playing a
great, if not the leading, part in the
drama of failures on the boards of trade.
There is an idea in too many men’s
minds that somehow business is a con
cern which, once started, will run it-
self. These lemons carry out the idea
fairly well. ‘They all grew on one tree
—it is a tree that encourages only the
largest lemons. When the harvesting
time came the first man on the ground
was sent to gather them. He shook the
tree, hustled the fruit into any old _bas-
ket and hauled it to the packing house.
There the formality of wrapping the
lemons in paper was hurried through
with and off they started on the journey

 

to the far off temperate zone—the_ busi-
ness runs itself and that’s all there is
to it.

When business of any kind reaches
that stage the end may not be in sight,
but it is not far off. It is beginning
to run itself; and self-running means
that the man at the head of it is find-
ing painstaking too troublesome. It
does not pay. More money can be made
in something else. A gentle decline
begins; a rotten speck appears in the
lemon of trade, the fruit is not disposed
of and pretty soon the alley receives it,
with others of its kind. Too much care
was needed—at all events, it was not
received ; indifference and then neglect
took charge and failure was the in-
evitable result.

It may well be questioned if this same
condition of things can not be found to
exist in the management of the orchard
behind the fruit market. When the
trees are young and in good bearing
condition they seem to know what is
expected of them and, with something
between a pat and a promise from the
producer, in the matter of care, the
boughs are ladened with the choicest
fruit, which, because it is the best, calls
for the earliest bidder and is disposed
of at the highest price. That is the
time that fruit raising pays and the
proposition to sell the farm is laughed
at. The time comes, however, when
there is a falling off. The peaches are
not so large and the amount this year is
less than it was last. The tree is on
the decline, but is ready to go on with
its old-time work if care can be given
to it. That it does not get. The dead
limbs are not disturbed. The soil is
left unplowed. Neglect creeps in. It
is too much trouble. The peach insists
on the care that only the best can exact,
and, not receiving it, ceases to be the
best. It is too much trouble. Let it
go. Fruit raising is getting to he an
old story anyway. It is tiresome and
does not pay any longer. The highest
bidder takes the farm and the price
paid shows that the sale is due to the
fact that the demands of the best can
no longer be met by inefficient manage-
ment.

Can this kind of business be given as
the reason why Michigan is no longer
the leading apple center in this coun-
try? Are there old apple orchards, with
trees full of dead limbs and scraggy
branches, where the neglected _ soil,
wasting what little strength is left in
the production of briers and goiden rod,
tells its own unquestioned story of fail-
ure due to an unwillingness to give to
the best what it has every reason to de-
mand? Has there ever been a time in
the history of the Michigan apple in-
dustry when its choice fruit was care-
fully looked after, carefully harvested
and as carefully sent to market? Was
there ever a time when the Michigan
apple—at its best there is nothing bet-
ter—wrapped in its own paper mantle
as the lemons are, confirmed the _ belief
in the buyer that he had bought the
best? The question needs no repeating.
The time came when ‘‘Care killed a
cat’’ became the proverb of the orchard
owner. It was too much trouble to
pack the fruit as it should be packed.
It was too much work to pick it when
a shake would bring it down. It took

too long to give it the careful handling
which it required ; and the idea, started
and entertained in the State which once
was first as the producer of the best ap-
ples in the world, led to the condition
of things as they exist to-day.

Is there a chance of Michigan’s get-

 

ting back her old pre-eminence? The
answer is suggested by a question be-
hind the first: Is the grower ready to
work for the best and meet its exacting
demands? Is he ready, with the best
that is in him and that he has at his
command, to go into his orchards and
give to his trees what their unkempt
branches, like so many scrawny hands,
are pitifully begging for? Has he be-
come ashamed of his neglect? Has the
constant care the orchards must have to
thrive ceased being too much trouble?
There is the gist of the whole matter.
The soil and the climate have not
changed. The Michigan sun is as ready
as it ever was to foster the cared-for
fruit. The rain and the dew will still
drop fatness if bough and branch and
cultured ground are ready to receive
them. Bring back the old conditions
and the old results will follow. The
markets of the world will be only too
glad to receive their old-time favorites
and more than one delighted dealer, as
he opens the barrel of fruit that is again
a joy to look upon, will be glad to know
that the old painstaking care has again
returned and that Michigan again as-
sumes her old place as the leading ap-
ple producer of the world.

An instance is at hand for illustra-
tion: A much-run-down New England
farm, whose apple orchards were the
principal means of support, was taken
in hand by the owner, who had his own
ideas about horticulture, although he
did not dignify them with that title,and
will power enough too carry them out.
The spring he moved there and went to
work the farm was as worthless a piece
of property as a man could have. The
orchards received his earliest and great-
est attention. Saw and pruning knife
were his constant companions. Day in
and day out the brush piles grew and
when the work was done the trees
looked like a modern ‘‘hayseed’’ fresh
from the hands of the barber. It took
a week for them to find out that they
were the same respectable citizens of
the orchard that they used to be when
they were the pride of the district and
the township. Given a chance, they
yawned and stretched as vigorous man-
hood does when he gets up in the morn-
ing to go to work. They laughed when
the plow stirred the soil about their
roots. They shouted and clapped their
hands when the farmer came with loads
of compost and then, when the warm
rains came and gave every thirsting
fiber to drink, every tree settled down
to the old task with the newness of life
and the result that same fall saw was
the opening of the old market with the
same old customers, who were only too
glad to fill barrel and bin with the old
favorites they never expected to see
again.

The soil is ready, the other condi-
ticns of success are ready; it remains
only for the man behind them to say
whether the scepter thrown down _ be-
cause it was troublesome shall be again
picked up and the apple again be en-
throned in Michigan and its old crown
restored.

 

Chicago dealers have had their feel-
ings hurt by Sir Thomas Lipton. They
sold him pork they did not have, and
he is unreasonable enough to ask them
to ship it to his London address imme-
diately, as he has an army to feed.

 

The man who flies into a rage if he
has to sit behind a big hat in the theater
doesn’t mind it in the least if the same
thing happens in church,

 

WHAT EIGHT MEN DID.

The Tradesman delights to encourage
home industry. It believes in the gos-
pel of caring sharply for its own door-
yard. The interest of the close-by is
dear to its heart. Whatever is going on
within sight of its chimney smoke is of
the utmost concern. What is good gets
its encouragement and its hearty sup-
port. What it condemns soon becomes
aware of its disapproval; and first, last
and all the time, there is the unshaken
belief that prosperity comes to a com-
munity and stays there just in propor-
tion as first-class business ability gives
its attention to the matter in hand and
so gives to the public undertaking the
intelligent push which makes the pri-
vate enterprise a success.

Eight business men of Middleton
made up their minds to make that vil-
lage a good place to livein. They
drew up their chairs around the council
table, agitated their gray matter in
line with the abundant common sense
which nature has endowed them with,
crystallized the best plan which read-
ing and travel and conference with ex-
perts could give them and set to work.
What they have done the pen of the
very-much-in-earnest Secretary has told
the readers of the Tradesman in an-
other column of this week’s paper—a
three months’ record which can not be
too heartily commended. There is not
the hint of the guidepost in a single
sentence. It tells plainly what they
did, not what they ought to do or to
have done. That is, by no means, all.
It is the hard knots in the public wood-
pile that are always the toughest to split
and that knot these sound business men
hit squarely in the center at the first
blow. A single sentence tells the whole
story: ‘‘The surveying was done by a
member of the Association, every mem-
ber doing what he could to help’’—not
standing around with his hands in his
pockets and finding fault and making
fun; and, later on, ‘‘The work of set-
ting, painting, etc., was all done by
business men.’’

Extend the work of those eight busi-
ness men‘to a year and multiply that by
ten, after ‘‘shooing’’ the imagination
out of the council chamber. Will the
village all told then number 250 persons
or more? Will the improvements at the
end of the decade find the principal
street only 200 feet long? Will the
streets still be fair to look upon and will
they be as full then as they are now of
boys and girls?—happy the village and
the home that has its quiver full of
them! Will there be then only the one
straight street? The questions are too
foolish to answer. In five years the
length of the street will double. The
school chiidren will have swarmed into
a larger and prettier hive and the Sun-
day morning bells will call double the
number of worshippers to church.
Gratiot county mud will still be the
same old article and_ will be still the
best of its kind; but, robbed of its ter-
rors and kept where it will do the most
good, it will settle down into the pros-
perous grower that it was intended to be
and will laugh with its thrifty owners at
‘the pastures clothed with flocks’’ and
the fields covered with abundant har-
vests.

It is to be hoped that those eight men
will not be weary of well doing and that
the remainder of the community, appre-
ciating what is going on for its good,
will second heartily and continuously
every good move made.

 

The early bird catches the worm, but
the early worm catches the fish.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

WHAT TWO MAXIMS TEACH.

There was an old man died the other
day who had amassed a fortune of mil-
lions. On a certain occasion when he
happened to feel like it he repeated to
an enterprising reporter a few maxims
which he had practiced from his youth
up. They are all short, sharp and to
the point. By living up to them he
made his money; and among them are
two which may or may not furnish the
secret of his success; but they give a
pretty fair idea of the man behind the
business and for that reason they are
copied: ‘‘When | was a boy on my
father’s farm, 1 worked hard, utilizing
every moment, for there was plenty to
do; but if I had any spare time I did
chores for the neighbors.’’ ‘‘I have
never cared a cent what any human be-
ing thought or said about me or my
action, so long as I was satisfied.’’ In
other words the maxims boiled down
mean: ‘‘Work from morning until night
and, as much as you can, from night
until morning,’’ and ‘‘Never let your
self-satisfaction be disturbed by what
peopie think of you.’’

If that last was the ruling of the life

just closed, it will make as little differ-
ence as ever what is said of it, now that
it is over; but a boy who begins work-
ing like that may die a millionaire
with the chances all in his favor of find-
ing himself a near neighbor to that other
one who called on Lazarus for a drop
of water to cool his tongue, with just as
much prospect of getting it. Life in its
best development does not consist of self
denial for the sake of gloating over the
amount saved by niggardly living.
Hard work and a gocd deal of it, with
prudent management, can not be too
heartily commended any more than it
ought to be earnestly practiced; but in
those days, sixty or seventy-five years
ago, ‘‘all work and no play made Jack
a dull boy’’ as surely as it does now
and, if carried too far, made him just
as mean a one. Anybody who has had
even a little of the experience which
the old homestead abounded in knows
what the boy was good for after ‘‘utiliz-
ing every moment’’ all day, and a man
with a boy like that who would allow
him to do the neighbors’ chores for lit-
tle or much proves pretty conclusively
that more than one generation of ‘‘near-
ness’” was required to gather up that
hoard of millions. Consider the break-
fasts of fried pork and Johnny cake,
the dinners of boiled codfish and pota-
toes and the mush and skim milk sup-
pers those millions are based upon! And
what a glorious and justifiable evening
up there will be at the banqueting table
of old Croesus’ descendants when once
the dollars he scrimped himself to save
go rolling down hill! Was ever a trout
brook in that boy’s neighborhood
whipped by his fishline? Did snare or
trap, set by that boy’s hands, ever catch
rabbit or partridge or quail? Were the
leaves in the chestnut woods ever scuffed
by his exultant feet and did their brown
nuts or those of the beech and_ hickory
ever contribute to his winter store? No;
and how glad they who spend his money
for the play and opera will be that they
did not! What books they will buy that
he could not afford even to read! How
they will make up for the gems and the
jewels that he never allowed to tempt
him; and when the last dollar is gone
Justice with level balance will exclaim,
‘There! That one-sided account is
settled at last! So much for that maxim
and its teaching !’’

It would be a task, neither pleasing
nor edifying to trace even fora little way

the development that comes from an in-
difference to ‘‘what any human being
thought or said about me or my action
so long as I was satisfied.’’ He is not
the only one whose life has been thus
uninfluenced, and the simplest statement
to make in regard to it is that that kind
of self-satisfaction has never so far in
the history of mankind reared a monu-
ment differing in the slightest degree
from that one set up and worshipped
by the children of Israel in the wilder-
ness of Sinai.

The world has been giving itself, of
late, considerable anxiety in regard to
the disposition by the millionaire of his
money. It should not let its heart be
troubled. Even-handed Justice is on
the constant lookout and sees to it that
the foolish blood which gathered shall
receive the curse that comes with the
foolish spending. Let the world waste
no energy in envying that scattering.
It will be all the happier for not sharing
the woe that is sure to come with it.
The maxims will for the most part be
but the idle wind. They may mean
much and they may mean nothing; but
American manhood to-day has higher
ideals of life than the following of these
can furnish, the carrying out of which
will be the illustrating of the higher
teaching that ‘‘it is not all of life to live
nor all of death to die.’’

 

 

 

 

The present artistically colored issue
of internal revenue stamps is to be
withdrawn, and the new issue will be
admittedly ugly. There is reason for the

change. For more than a year past the
Treasury Department has been de-
frauded of thousands of dollars by the

washing of canceled revenue stamps.
Those engaged in the business have se-
cured canceled stamps of all denomina-
tions, washed them clean, regummed
them and sold them. Now, however,
the Treasury chemists have found an
olive-gray ink for the stamp itself which
will fade away if any attempt shall be
made to wash out the cancellation mark.
Unfortunately it has proved impossible
to blend this fugitive ink with any
chemical producing an agreeable color,
and beauty has, therefore, been sacri-
ficed to safety. The design of the bat-
tle-ship Maine will be retained.

 

For workingmen the walking dele-
gate is the most expensive man who
walks. They have been known to give
up their money and situations and
homes for him, who can do nothing for
them.

ee

There are some drunken men who
have no desire to make a home happy.
If they did, they would stay away
from it.

A

 

 

The young man who saves money he
has earned is a prince beside the fellow
who spends money he has not earned.

 

 

The constitution of the United States
is alk right. It is what cheap lawyers
think of it that provokes discussion.

 

 

Emg eror William claims to be ruling
by diwine power, and it is a serious
thing to say he makes mistakes.

TT

 

There are times when a woman does
not know what she wants; but that does
not prevent her from getting it.

LS

There are lots of political prophets

 

‘who will take a tumble early in Novem-

ber.

The right kind of a man keeps to the

Deen EEN SEES

 

 

right w'gen walking or driving.

 

PROPER PUNISHMENT.

One of the problems of civilization is
to find a punishment to fit the crime.
We want a penalty for wrong doing
sufficiently severe to stand as a warning
and mild enough to meet the approval
of humane sentimentalists, and between
the two stools justice generally falls to
the ground and gets lost in the shuffle.
Putting a tramp, for instance, in prison,
where he is better fed, better clothed,
better lodged than he ever was before,
savors as much of reward as of reproba-
tion, and even when we do the best and
the worst in our power, and hang a man
for his crime, it is still inadequate to
the case, for it can not bring back to
the wronged that of which he has robbed
them. In minor offenses deciding on a
proper punishment is quite as difficult
as it is in great ones. Probably the rea-
son why we let so many social highway-
men and garroters go free is because we
can’t decide on a punishment to fit the
crime of those who politely hold us up
and rob us of our time and money and
choke us to death on their chestnutty
old stories. In this dilemma the world
is indebted to an Upper Peninsular jus-
tice for a happy suggestion: Two wom-
en who were professional scolds were
brought before him for disturbing the
peace of their neighborhood. ‘hey had
quarreled over a_ back fence until the
boards had fairly sizzled under the
warmth of their language, and when
they appeared in court they were still
having such a hot debate that the justice
of the peace could not get a word in
edgeways. Thereupon His Honor ordered
them locked up together in a small room
and told them to give their tongues full
swing. For an hour they needed no en-
couragement, and criminations and _re-
criminations flew back and _ forth fast
and furiously. The end of the second
hour found them using milder terms.
3y the end of the third hour they were
weak and in tears, and half an hour
later they fell on each other’s necks and
swore undying friendship. They had
had a dose of their own medicine and
they were cured. Neither will ever risk
a scolding match again. What a pity,
it seems, that the idea can not be ex-
tended so as to take in all the malefac-
tors of society—the people about whom
we have all thought boiling oil thoughts,
but whose crimes we haven't known
how to punish.

 

THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

The time is now fast approaching
when the Paris Exposition of 1g00 will
come to a close. It is now generally
admitted that it has not been a financial
success, the admissions, large as they
have been, falling greatly below the es-
timates. It is regarded as certain that
the total admissions wil] fall much be-
low those of the Chicago Exposition.

The French people have spent vast
sums of money in carrying on the Ex-
position, and in the matter of exhibits
there can be no doubt at all that it is
entitled to rank with the very finest of
the great world fairs of the past. The
site has probably lacked something of
the picturesqueness of the Chicago fair,
and in many of the accompaniments
and facilities it has fallen short of the
effort of our great Western metropolis;
but in exhibits, whether of industry,
agriculture or art, the Paris display has
been the equal of the best displays of
the past, if it has not actually surpassed
them.

The failure of the attendance to come
up to expectations is probably due to
the international political conditions

 

which have prevailed. Irritation caused
in England by the caustic comments of
the French press upon the war in South
Africa, as_ well some ill-mannered
caricatures of Queen Victoria, not only
induced British manufacturers and
tradesmen to refrain from exhibiting at
the fair, but greatly curtailed the num-

as

ber of British visitors at the fair itself.
This absence of British visitors un-
doubtedly hurt the general attendance.
On the other hand, there was a
marked increase both in the number of
exhibitors as well as of visitors from
Germany over all expectations. Amer-

icans not only exhibited to a very con-
siderable extent, but they also visited
the fair in large numbers, a fact which
has helped to promote friendly inter-
national relations.

The French nation is entitled to every
credit tor the magnificent scale upon
which the Exhibition has been managed.
Money has been lavishly expended, and
the outside world has been made to feel
that the great fair is, in every sense, a
national undertaking, in the success of
which the national honor is concerned.
This patriotic spirit is much to be ad-
mired and commended.

Monarchs and princes of the blood are
nowadays to be found haunting the
antechambers of great financiers and
bankers, this being the inverse of what
happened in the middle ages when the
banker or money lender was compelled
to grovel before the throne in mortal
terror as to whether its occupant would
not cut short the bartering as to the
terms of the accommodations by throw-
ing him into jail, by subjecting him to

torture, and by confiscating all his
worldly possessions. There are two rea-
sons for this altered attitude: The first

is that the ruler has no longer any rights
to the property of the bankers in his
dominions, whose possessions are safe-
guarded by the laws of the land, and
who can, therefore, afford to be very
independent. The second cause is that,
owing to the appalling increase of cases
of dishonesty among the most trusted
officers of royal and imperial house-
holds, the royal rulers now consider it
necessary to transact their own financial
business, even to the extent of cashing
their letters of credit in person. The
king of Greece, the King of Belgium,
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the
Crown Prince of Denmark—in fact, all
those rulers and regents who do much
traveling abroad—now invariably visit
the bankers themselves to present their
letters of credit when being in a foreign
city they find themselves in need of
funds. Their letters of credit, too, are
always nowadays made out in their
own personal name, and to such an ex-
tent is this practice carried that the fact
that the money deposited at Vienna for
the shah’s use in the Austrian capital
should have reached him from Persia
in the form of a letter of credit drawn
in favor of one of the dignitaries of his
household, instead of in his own name,
excited much comment and remark as
to the risk of such a proceeding.

 

There is a cabbage famine in Ger-
many; but the policy of the German
government will be to let her subjects
die for want of sauerkraut, rather than
import American cabbage for preserves.

 

The man who cheers himself hoarse
at a political meeting is the man who
shuts his mouth on election day and
votes for the candidates of another
party.

 

  

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Shoes and Rubbers

How

 

 

a Chicago Cobbler Had a Good
Time.

In the basement of a dingy frame
building in a mean west side street,
**Old John’’ Bodie kept his little cob-
bler’s shop. He had been there ham-
mering wet leather and pegging and
stitching and trimming sole edges with
his keen, well-worn knife ever since the
oldest resident of the neighborhood
could remember. Day after day his
bowed legs had carried him_ briskly
down the street, from where nobody
knew, to the scene of his daily toil, and
this with the regularity of clockwork.
At 8 o’clock his key was in the door and
five minutes later he was sitting on his
well-polished stool, his — spectacles
pushed up on his forehead and _ his
shirt-sleeves roJled up from his yellow
hairy forearms attacking the heap of
dilapidated boots and shoes that all his
industry never seemed able to diminish.

He was a little elderly and wrinkled
man with the tan of his leather in his
skin, and a beard that seemed always
in the same condition of red and gray
bristle. He spoke seldom, and then
shortly and only in reply toa direct
question. Not even with Mr. Tickey,
the coal and express man who shared
the basement with him and paid the
rent, did he ever become confidential.
Tickey tried to draw him out, being a
sociable soul, with a flow of language,
but neither politics nor religion nor the
failings of the neighbors could ever
elicit more than a grunt from ‘‘Old
Jobn.’’ So it was all guesswork whether
the little cobbler was married or single,
democratic, republican or socialist;
whether he ever experienced an emo-
tion, a hope or a_ thought beyond his
patching and pegging and the scanty
wages that this brought him.

Tickey’s idea was that the old man’s
soul never soared above leather. ‘‘It’s
all he knows an’ all he cares about,’’
he said. ‘‘Take him away some place
where he couldn't never punch a hole
in a piece of calfskin an’ then draw a
waxed end through it an’ he'd go crazy
an’ croak inside of a week. I may be
right or I may be wrong, but I’ve _ b’en
too long around him not to be able to
size him up about right.

‘I don’t know where he eats morning
an’ night, but I’d be willing to bet $5
that it's the same thing year inan’ year
out, f’r it’s always the same thing that
he eats for lunch in the shop—a hunk of
rye bread an’ a piece o’ cheese an’ a
onion an’ then a drink out the little
bottle he carries down in his coat
pocket. No, it ain’t whisky, nor
nothin’ o’ that kind. It might be cold
tea or coffee, but he never offered me
none of it, so I can't tell you. What I
say is this: If you took ‘Old John’ to
some hightoned restaurant downtown
an’ give hima bill o’ fare with quail
on toast an’ fried oysters an’ things like
that on, an’ told him it was all free
gratis an’ f’r nothin’, ‘Old John’ ’d
say to the waiter, ‘Bring me some rye
bread an’ Swiss cheese an’ a onion,
that’s all I want.’ I may be right an’ I
may be wrong, but I'll bet on it.

‘An’ then,’’ said Tickey, ‘‘you can’t
get him to smoke nothin’ but that plug
tobacker in that old black wood pipe
with the bone stem. Time an’ time
again, I’ve offered him good _ tobacker,
but he won’t never have none of it.
Oncet I gave him a cigar, an’ I thought
he was goin’ to smoke it at first, but
he laid it up on the winder sill with his

 

threads an’ wax an’ leather parin’s,
an’ it laid there a month, an’ got all
dried out an’ covered with dust, an’ [|
guess it would have be’n there yet if I
hadn’t reached it down an’ smoked it
myself one mornin’ afore he got there.
An’ you never see him wearin’ anythin’
but the same clo’es he’s wearin’ right
now.”’

‘IT guess ‘Old John’s’ saltin’ down a
little bunch o’ money somewheres,’’ re-
marked the man Tickey was talking to.

‘*T don’t know so much about that,’’
said the expressman, doubtfully, and
with apparent regret that he was unable
to support so enticing a theory. ‘‘He
may not live high, an’ there’s always
work, but you don’t make much profit
half-solin’ at 50 cents, not if you use
good leather, an’ the rent’s somethin’.
He may be puttin’ away a little stuff—
as like as not he is. My idea is that
he’ll never know what to do with it
anyway. He ain’t like you an’ me.’’

+

One morning a well-dressed young
man, whose shoes were in good repair,
but who had, nevertheless, the air of a
man who had business to transact, came
down into the basement and asked ‘‘Old
John’’ if he was Mr. Bodie. ‘‘Old
John’’ laid down his hammer, arranged
his spectacles for a careful survey of
his visitor, and then admitted that he
was.

‘‘Mr. John Bodie?’’

‘*That’s what I said.’’

‘*You came from Glidden, Pennsyl-
vania?’’

‘*Did you want any mendin’ done or
anything in my line?’’ asked ‘‘Old
John, *’ rather surlily.

‘I’m not asking you out of curiosity,
said the young man. ‘‘It’s business
with me. We’re lawyers—there’s our
card—and if you're John Bodie, brother
of Mrs. Helen Mackay, of Glidden, and
you can give us some reasonable proof
of it, there’s about $2,000 coming to
you. You can come up to the office
with me now or whenever it’s conven-
ient for you. If you come up to-morrow
morning at 9 o’clock we can get your
business settled. Will that suit you?
Very well, then. Good morning.’’

And the young man went out and left
‘‘Old John’’ staring at the card.

Tickey came from out of his dirty
little railed pen and offered warm con-
gratulations. He wanted to see the
card, but ‘‘Old John’’ tucked it into his
waistcoat pocket and picked up his
bammer again.

‘*Was it your
Tickey.

The cobbler grunted something that
might have meant yes or no, but its
general meaning was unmistakable.
Tickey felt rebuffed, but he persevered.

‘“You want to keep your eye skinned
for them fellers,’’ he cautioned. ‘‘It’s
an old trick, that legercy trick. Don’t
vou let ‘em con you into payin’ out
money for expenses an’ legal doky-
mints. If they’ve got money of yours
they can use that. There ain’t no call
for you to pay out anythin’.’’

It was good advice, but the cobbler
was not grateful for it, or if he was he
concealed his gratitude successfully and
drowned all further conversation ina
shower of taps on his last. But Tickey,
returning to his desk and watching him
saw him presently pick up his blacking
bottle and with the inky swab carefully
stain the soles of a pair of russet shoes.
Then, perceiving his mistake, the little
cobbler impatiently picked up a knife
and pared and scraped the stain off
again.

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11

 

 

Shortly after that Tickey went out to
give some directions to the man with
the wagon and when he came _ back
‘*Old John ’’ was gone.

Be ee

Three days later Tickey, who had
been in his glory, holding forth to the
crowd of curious neighbors who had
come to wonder and speculate and gaze
with awe upon the vacant stool, received
a letter from the legatee. It ran as fol-
lows :

‘Friend Tickey I am not goin’ to
cum back for sum tim so i want you tu

luk after mi tuls and letther ile pay the
rent the same as bifor so now | must

clos from yors trueley John Teed
Bodie. ’’

That was all they heard of ‘‘Old
John’’ for a long time, except for the

money order for the rent that came with
another short misspelled note. Tickey
wondered and talked and raked about
in the leather scraps for something that
might afford him a clew to the mystery
that enveloped the cobbler’s disappear-
ance, but in vain. The postmark on
the letter showed that ‘‘Old John’’ was
still in town, but it is a big town when
you want to find something that the
police are not interested in. Within
the week nearly all the customers had
called and taken their shoes away, and
the basement began to get very quiet,
for the express business was not what
it had once been with Tickey.

For, after all, if ‘‘Old John’’ had not
talked there had been nothing to pre-
vent Tickey from talking to him, and
the dull tapping of the hammer and the
steady swish of the drawn thread had
been something, to say nothing of the
customers, Once a_ sallow, hollow-
chested man with dark brown thumbs
and forefingers came down to enquire
whether he could not buy out the stock
and the lapsing good will of the busi-
ness, but Tickey had to send him away.

News of the missing mam came at
last. King Fletcher came down into the
basement one morning and said that he
had seen ‘‘Old John’’ Bodie coming out
of a hotel in Wabash avenue dressed up
in a check suit and plug hat, and with
a carnation in his buttonhole. He was
going to speak to the old man, but he
pushed ahead and got into a carriage
and drove off ‘‘with another swell guy,
and, hully gee, you oughter see him!’’

King not only said this, but he sup-
ported his statement with strong and
strange oaths. ‘‘D’yer think | wouldn’t
know them bow legs of his, even if |
hadn’t seen his face?’’ he exclaimed.
So Tickey believed him.

Dan Coggins saw the cobbler next,
and not only saw him but spoke with
him. He had asked after Tickey and
the shop and said that he might be
around after awhile. Dan corroborated
the details of the plug hat and the
checkedsuit and carnation,and added to
that a gold-headed cane and gold watch,
which ‘‘Old John’’ had consulted before
he had said that ‘‘he must be gittin’
along.’’ Then Tickey saw him with his
own eyes.

For a moment the expressman dis-
trusted the evidence of those reliable
optics, but there was no mistake about
it. It was ‘‘Old John’’ himself —‘‘ Old
John’’ shaved clean and with a spread-
ing shirt bosom, ornamented with three
big gold studs and the ends of a blue
and white necktie coyly tucked into it.
‘*Old John’’ with a large, black, clean-
ashed cigar crushed between his teeth
and an almost unapproachable dignity
of bearing. He was coming out of the
‘*swell restaurant’? where Tickey’s
glowing imagination had once taken

 

him; but Tickey knew better now than
to suppose that he had been dining on
rye bread and cheese and onions.

‘‘How are you, John?’’ said the ex-
pressman.

The former cobbler peered at him for
a moment and raised his hand to his
forehead as if in search of his spec-
tacles. Then he recognized his old
companion.

‘“‘How are you? How are you,
Tickey?’’ he said graciously. ‘‘How’s
everything, and how's the shop?”’

‘‘Everything’s all right. How
you makin’ it? What are you doin’
yourself anyway?’

‘‘Just taking life easy.
take something with me.”’

He led the way into a gorgeous place,
where he regaled the expressman with
potent and variegated liquors, the like
of which Tickey had never tasted be-
fore. The old man drank, but soon re-
lapsed into his old silence and began to
respond with his accustomed grunts—
until Tickey had told him that he had
a good chance to sell the shop. Then
‘*Old John’’ broke out at him furiously.

‘*Who told you to sell it?’’ he shouted.
| You've no tight to sellit. I never
gave you noright. I pay you the rent,
don’t 1?’’

‘*Sure,’’ replied Tickey ; ‘‘but—’’

‘There ain’t no ‘but’ about it,’’ said
‘*Old John,’’ angrily. ‘‘Don’t you dare
sell my stuff. You take care of it, that’s
all you’ve got to do, and if there is
charges | can pay ’em—understand?’’

' Bhat's all right,’ said Tickey,
shrinking back. ‘‘I ain’t goin’ to sell,
not unless you tell me.’’

‘*Then that’s all right’’ said ‘‘Old
John.’’ ‘‘ Now, I’ve got an important
*ngagement and I’ve got to go, Tickey.
It’s all right, though.’’

A month from that time Tickey went
down into the basement and found that
his key would not turn in the lock. He
turned the handle of the door, and it
opened, and he entered to find ‘‘Old
John’’ sitting on his stool, whetting his
knife on the oilstone. For a moment
he thought he saw a ghost and he started
back with a gasp, for the cobbler’s
beard was bristling in red and gray and
his arms were bare to the elbows and
the clothes that he wore, down to the
patched shoes, were those that he had
worn when the young lawyer had en-
tered the shop before. He dropped his
spectacles from his forehead to his nose
and looked quizzically at the express-
man.

Tickey said the first thing that came
into his head.

‘*Did you have a good time?’’
asked.

‘*Old John’’ groped in the scraps and
pulled out an old shoe and regarded it
thoughtfully. Then he looked up at
Tickey and said: ‘‘I had a —— of a
good time.’’

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From the Philadelphia Record.

There is scarcely a household where
the candle has been entirely banished,
as it is still called into service for the
exploration of the dark recesses of cel-
lars, outside kitchens and similar dark
corners. One of its great disadvantages
is that unless very carefully handled the
melted paraffine or tallow is apt to drip
on the clothes, carpets, floors, etc.

To prevent this a candle holder has
been devised in which the opening for
the reception of the candle is supported
on the gimbal principle, so that the
candle is always maintained in an up-
right position, no matter at what angie
the candlestick is held. The weight
that is attached to the holder to secure
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Clothing

Importance of Children’s Clothing De-
partment to the Dealer.

 

 

The retail clothing dealer who has
been in business for twenty, or even ten
years, does not need to be reminded
that in that time the clothing trade has
witnessed surprising and even revolu-
tionizing changes in methods of making
and selling goods, as well as in styles,
lines and materials employed for male
apparel. New lines of business have
been developed, and under the pressure
of competition such changes have been
made, and are even now making, that
it requires aj] the dealer’s time and
thought, if he is a progressive man, to
keep up with the changes in his busi-
ness. If he loses step for a year he
loses what he may never be able to_ re-
gain, try as hard as he may, and
changes are constantly being made that,
unless he informs himself of them in
time, will make him a back number in
his business.

Within the last fifteen years practical-
ly, a department of the business in male
apparel has been developed that is of
vital importance to the dealer in cloth-
ing, but of whose importance the dealer
is still largely unaware. We refer to
the ready-made trade in children’s,
boys’ and youths’ clothing. The possi-
bilities of this business for the retail
clothing dealer have not been properly
appreciated and there is such a lack of
knowledge of the proper method of
handling these stocks that the business
has largely been allowed to slip into
the hands of department stores, with
the result that a large part of the men’s
trade that formerly went to the clothing
man is now going to the department
store.

A leading buyer in one of the most
important department stores in New
York recently said: ‘‘Our department
of children’s clothing is of value to us
if for no other reason than that it brings
trade to our men’s clothing department.
If a woman is successful in fitting out
her children in our children’s depart-
ment, she reasons that our store is the
place for her husband to buy his cloth-
ing, and sooner or later he is almost
sure to come here to see whether his
wife is right. The clothing department
in department stores owes its success
largely to our having been able to get
the trade of the men through the
children’s department.’’

Of the substantial truth of this fact
there can he no question, but what is
the clothing man going to do about it?
The objections to the carrying of a de-
partment of children’s clothing in con-
nection with a line of men’s clothing
are very apparent. It takes as much,
and very often more, time to sella boy’s
suit on which there is a profit of two
dollars than to sell a man’s suit on
which there is a profit of five dollars,
and much more patience and care are re-
quired for the successful handling of
children’s trade than for the handling
of men’s trade. Men’s cloti:iers object
to carrying more lines than are required
for men’s trade, and are doubtful about
their ability to successfully handle a
line of goods that is largely, if not en-
tirely, bought by women. They ques-
tion their ability to attract women, they
are timid and reluctant about a line of
goods that strictly falls outside of the
beaten lines of the trade, and from their
ignorance of its peculiar demands, and
their inadequate appreciation of the de-
velopment that the trade in clothing for

 

males under the age of nineteen has un-
dergone, they are allowing the depart-
ment store to monopolize this trade ex-
clusively, or handling it in such an in-
adequate manner that they are gaining
little advantage from it for themselves.

The trade in boys’ clothing is like-
wise underestimated. It is regarded by
many men as a line that is carried for
the sake of necessity rather than profit,
and if parents desire to have their chil-
dren from seven to nineteen years of
age fitted out in well-fitting stylish gar-
ments, it is necessary for them in the
great majority of communities to go _ to
the merchant tailor and have the gar-
ments made to order, because the cloth-
ing dealer is not : ble to supply goods
for boys proportionately as_ stylish,
well-made and desirable as he supplies
his men’s trade with.

The clothing dealer will do well to
remember that far more attention is to-
day paid to style and quality in chil-
dren's goods than was ever paid before.
The number of people who buy their
children’s garments ready-made is far
greater, even in small places, than was
the case even five vears ago, and the
natural result is that people in buying
their children’s garments now pay great
attention to style and quality. This
means in the long run_ that they are
ready to pay higher prices for children’s
garments and that an opening has been
made for the sale of a finer, better
made, better fitting and more stylish
line of goods for lads and youths than
could formerly be sold. The clothing
merchant in many cases has remained
oblivious to this fact. He has been con-
tent to buy only what he absolutely had
to. He has not tried to anticipate the
wants of his trade, even when they have
been made clearly apparent, and he has
remained steadfastly convinced that he
could do little with fine lines of boys’
and youths’ goods. Consequently here
is a field that is largely undeveloped.

As a matter of fact, many clothing
dealers are not in a position, either be-
cause of insufficient capital or because
of insufficient intelligence, to handle
these lines of goods to advantage. They
are practically deficient in the ability
to develop a new department of their
business, or they are so inherently con-
servative by nature that they can not
step outside of the beaten track without
loss to themselves. They lack the
dash and nerve to make an effort to
keep the trade that is going before their
eyes to more enterprising merchants.
But as many dealers are obliged to han-
dle these lines of goods by circum-
stances not of their own choosing, it is
a matter of importance to study how
they can do so to advantage. It is well
for them to consider the reasons why
they should be ambitious to hold all the
male trade of a family. Every mother
and father wishes her or his boy to be
as manly as possible, and nearly every
boy takes his father as a model. It is a
great satisfaction to a boy to know that
he wears clothing ‘‘just like father
wears,’’ and naturally things bought
where father buys his things come near-
er to satisfying the young lad’s pride
than if they were bought in that pre-
se!ve for females—the department store.
There is not a boy who would not pre-
fer to buy his clothing at the store his
father patronives—if he can get what he
wants there. And there is not a mother
who would not for the same reason be
willing to patronize the clothier if the
price and material are right. A boy
always remembers where he bought his
first pair of trousers. It is an event in

 

his life and he usually has a kindly
memory ever after for that particular
store. So has his mother. Naturally
this has an important influence upon
their future trade. To say nothing of
the convenience of purchasing all the
male apparel of the family at one place,
most people prefer to continue trading
at the same place as their children ad-
vance in years, and, other things being
equal, they will do this if they can do
it with profit to themselves. This is a
point to be considered by the retailer as
he weighs the advantages and disadvan-
tages of a children’s department. He
should look at the matter as the depart-
ment store man does. He may not make
much money on_ his children’s goods,
he may be obliged to give a dispropor-
tionate amount of care and attention to
his children’s goods, but by having a
well conducted children’s department
he is winning trade that, as the years
pass by, is going to be his best and
most reliable youths’ and men’s trade. —
Apparel Gazette.

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We're ready with practically com-
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(Suits and Overcoats) to ship imme-

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you can keep your line intact. A
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or express.

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Bryan Show Cases

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Bryan Show Case Works,
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You hear it everywhere among the
It’s the best selling sus-
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pender ever put on market.
The demand is made by the exten-
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them. All you need do is to supply
the demand.

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They are better now than ever. This
year, new features have been added.
Speak to your jobber about them,
or write to us direct.

C. A. EDGARTON MFG. CO.
Shirley, Mass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voorhees Mfg. Co,

LANSING, MICH.

We manufacture a full line of

Jackets, Overalls
and Brownie Overalls

 

We make a specialty of mail order
business and shall be pleased to
send you samples and prices.

We sell the trade direct and give
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

18

 

Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—In the bleached goods
end there has been a considerable bet-
ter business reported, and the recent
advances are obtained without a ques-
tion. Buyers seem to feel that even at
the latest quotations bleached cottons
are on a very moderate basis. Wide
sheetings show an upward tendency;
several advances have been already
made. As a matter of fact, however,
for present delivery there is nothing to
be found. Brown sheetings and drills
have been in fair request, although they
show no particular change from our last
report. Prices remain absolutely firm.
Fine brown sheetings are steady, and
coarse colored cottons, while showing
no open changes at the present writing,
are in some cases reported to have been
quietly advanced.

Linings—Cotton linings have shown
a very slight improvement during this
week, particularly in the staple lines,
where jobbers have been producing
somewhat more freely. Kid finished
cambrics are apparently wanted, but
buyers are not willing to pay the mar-
ket price for leading lines. The cloth-
ing trades have not increased their pur-
chases to any extent, but twills, serges,
Italians and other cotton linings show
an upward tendency, influenced by the
market for raw material.

Underwear—Agents report that they
have practically completed all their
spring business, although a few orders
are still being booked. The spring
season seems t) have been an _ exceed-
ingly satisfactory one, in spite of the
fact that cheap grades of balbriggans
have seen perhaps the largest business ;
still the amount of goods ordered of fine
ribbed and other lines has been in ex-
cess of past seasons, so there is nothing
to actually complain about.

Hosiery—Both the importers and do-
mestic manufacturers have reported a
business in hosiery that is ahead of
anything they have ever seen, both in
men’s and women’s lines, and they fear
that a heavy shortage will be the result
before spring. In fact, a number of
lines are entirely out of the market al-
ready. Importers are hurrying forward
their goods from the other side as fast
as possible, but that does very little
good. Prices have been advanced in
keeping withthe market for raw cotton,
but no more than that. Present prices
are hardly more on many lines than
enough to clear the manufacturer.

Carpets—Business is still dull in car-
pets, particularly so in the wholesale
trade, where little or no activity is ap-
parent. Some manufacturers’ agents
are still receiving a fair number of
small duplicate orders, which, taken
all together, make a good showing. The
cut order jobbers report as much _busi-
ness as last year, but a great deal more
work is required to accomplish it. In
the retail trade business is beginning
to improve, and as the warm weather
was very much against this trade, there-
by holding back house-cleaning, it is
expected that a very noticeable and
welcome change for the better will be
experienced when cooler weather
comes. It is also just between seasons
in carpets, and this adds to the dulness.

Rugs—In the retail trade rugs of all
kinds are doing very well, particularly
in the larger sizes, but in wholelsale, as
with carpets, rugs are rather quiet, al-
though some manufacturers’ agents re-
port encouraging duplicate orders.

 

 

Prices of carpets for the new season
will be withheld until after the election,
when the samples will be shown.

Lace Curtains—-Medium grades of
Nottingham cuitains have been receiv-
ing some attention of late, as well as
the fish net varieties, but they are not
very active. New lines have not yet
been shown, but it is understood that
there will be a large variety of new and
attractive designs to please the trade.
The manufacturers are anticipating a
goud fall season. Five years ago the
market called for ecrue colors to the
amount of one-half of the production.
To-day the proportion is 20 per cent.
ecrue as against 80 per cent. white.
From the standpoint of capacity to-day,
Philadelphia leads in the production of
lace curtains three-fourths against
one-fourth for the balance. Four weeks
ago manufacturers expected a slump in
prices until within two weeks, when
the outlook became more favorable, and
instead of a cut, manufacturers are now
confident of prices being higher for do-
mestic lace curtains. In chenille cur-
tains agents who handle this line direct
for the manufacturers report that a very
fair amount of business was done in
chenille curtains this past season.

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The Revival of Brown.

One of the most interesting features
in the fall color scheme is the marked
revival of brown. While at the opening
of the season brown was considered a
moderately promising tone, even the
most sanguine supporters of brown col-
orings could hardly have anticipated so
marked a revival of these tones.

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In all woolen dress goods, from heavy
tailor suitings to tne reps and crepe
cloths, in the various fashionable silk
weaves, in Satin, velvet and panne,
tones of brown are leading sellers.

While green is developing the favor
that was expected of it in the early sea-
son, and is proving a good second in
the race, brown is the present leader
with high class trade. The dress goods
department, the silk department and the
millinery department find ready sale
for all choice effects in brown tones.

The combination of fur with cloth and
velvet on wraps, gowns and millnery is
adding to the vogue of brown. So many
of the most popular furs come in the
brown tones that it is difficult to get
away from this color scheme in a season
when furs are to be so pronouncedly
popular as they are at the present time.

The color card shown at the opening
of the fall season was woefully in lack
of novelty brown tones, but since the
development of so much favor for
brown, manufacturers of high novelties

have set about producing new and de-
sirable tones of this order.
The present fashionable list includes

a long range of tones shading from the
most delicate tint with only a sugges-
tion of brown in the make-up to the
deep, dark, earthy tones. The tend-
ency is to get away from the ordinary
browns such as_ tobacco and nut tones
and go into the browns that hold sug-
gestions of other colors. While the new
browns are not exactly what may be
termed fluorescent they partake of that
effect.

Some very new light tones of brown
are the champagne tones, so delicate
that they seem at first to bea faint pink,
yet having just the shadow of brown to
make them decidedly new.

There are other browns which have
the violet cast anda full range of the
bronze browns, which reflect a surface
suggesting green. Two very new shades

 

of brown go by the names ‘'
‘‘mould.’’ Both of these names are ac-
curately descriptive. There is a long
range of reddish brown tones, one series
of which are purely mahogany, and an-
other the wine browns. These are both
much favored and are equally fashion-
able.

The revival of brown probably owes
a good deal of impetus to the present
craze for gold. There are no other
color tones which take so kindly to gold
trimmings. Combinations of brown
with gold are less glaring than with any
other color, not excepting even biack.
The light tones of brown, as mode,
fawn and the champagne tints, are much
beautified by gold trimmings. The
touch of gold enlivens and greatly en-
hances the beauty of these colorings.

peat’’ and

Thus one is the complement of the
other. The craze for gold finds its
corollary in brown shadings for dress

goods and millinery materials. -
Goods Reporter.
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One of Them Might.

A_ certain doctor, when only a begin-
ner in practice, had occasion to attend
a trial as a witness. The opposing
counsel in cross examining the young
doctor made several sarcastic remarks,
doubting the ability of so young a man
to understand the profession.

‘Do you know the symptoms of con-
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‘*Well,’’ continued the attorney, ‘“sup-
pose my learned friend, Mr. Baging,

and myself were to bang our heads to-
gether, should we get concussion of the
brain?’’

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learned friend,
was the reply.

———

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over 500 books,

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The Meat Market

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Sausages and Shoes at the
Same Time.

One evening as Mr. Drinkwater was
on his way home, he stopped at the
shoe store where he dealt and obtained
a pair of shoes which he had left to be
half-soled. The dealer made them up
into a nice square package, and with
them in his hand Mr. Drinkwater pro-
ceeded on his way until he came to an-
other store where they sold German
sausages. Fora man with no German
blood in his veins he is very fond of
franxfurters, and he bought three
pounds, which the dealer made up into
a nice square package. Shortly after-
wards he met two friends, with whom
he joined in conversation, and before
long one of them made a suggestion
which was favorably received by the
others. Mr. Drinkwater was not a man
who would quickly desert his friends,
and his friends thought too much of
him to desert him on short notice, so
they clung together with extended con-
tinuity and Mr. Drinkwater clung to his
packages. Parting with his friends
after the friendship of each for the others
had been frequently, fully and freely
expressed, all of which took time, for to
pretend to be glad to meet a friend and
then leave him in a hurry looks like in-
sincerity, and as neither he nor his
friends showed any symptoms, it was
somewhere near I2 o’clock when he of
the water-drinking name _ reached his
dwelling with his two packages in his
hand. Out of respect for the frank-
furters he let himself in by the base-
ment door, and going to the refrigerator
raised the lid and laid one of the pack-
ages on the ice. As the family had re-
tired, he went quietly to his room and,
opening the door of his clothes closet,
placed the other on a shelf to lie there
until he felt a desire to put on the newly
soled shoes. His wife, who was awak-
ened by his entrance, sleepily asked
what time it was, and he answered by a
guess with a margin in his favor, and
to ward off any conflicting guessing on
her part he mentioned the sausages and
asked to have some of them for his
breakfast. In a few minutes he was in
bed and asleep.

The next morning, while the girl,
who was not over ripe, was getting break-
fast, Mrs. Drinkwater spoke down to
her through the tube telling her there
were frankfurters in the refrigerator for
breakfast.

‘*How will I cook them,ma’m? Sure
I never had to dale with their likes be-
fore.”

‘*Put them ina saucepan in boiling
water and don't let them cook more
than five minutes.’’

‘*Will I skin them, I don’t know?’’

‘No, no. Put them in just as they
are.’’

Recollecting a late and lively experi-
ence with crabs which had been put in
boiling water just as they were, Maggie
determined to take no chances, and
tearing open one end of the package
dumped the contents into the pan and
quickly clapped on the cover.

‘*Where are the frankfurters, Mag-
gie?’’ said Mr. Drinkwater, as he and
his wife sat down to the breakfast table.

‘‘In the dish foruinst ye, sir.’”’

‘‘You need not have put them ina
covered dish; but never mind. Now,
Mrs. D., let me help you. I bought
these where they keep the best, and
you will like them, I’ll swear. What
the de—’’ he cried, as he uncovered the

 

dish and gave a glance at its contents.
‘*Maggie, what’s this? What have you
done?”’

‘*Sure, I did only as I was bid. It’s
bewildered entirely I am with the cook-
ing in this country. If ye don’t like
the broth ye needn't ate it. Sure, I
wouldn't throw it out after the missis
bidding me not be wasteful.’’

‘*But she never bid you boil my
shoes. Don't you know a pair of shoes
when you see them?’’

‘Sure, I thought frankfritters was the
Frinch for brogans,and were’n’t they in
the ice box with the other ateables? If
ye don’t like it I'll lave when me
month's up, and I after doing me best
to plaze ye.’’

‘*That will do, Maggie. You can re-
tire to the kitchen,’’ said Mrs. Drink-
water in a kindly tone, and as the girl
closed the door she turned to her hus-
band with a severe expression and
asked, ‘‘Now, what does this mean,
Ionly? I want you to explain.’’

He did not answer, but rising hastily
rushed upstairs and the next minute
came down two steps at a time with the
other package in his hand. He quickly
tore it open, and as the surface of the
sausages was exposed to view he
dropped into his chair and roared with
laughter.

‘‘It means, my dear, the two packages
almost exactly alike outwardly were in-
terchanged. But we will have them for
breakfast yet.’ And he carried them
to the kitchen, where he said to Mag-
gie, as he slipped a bill into her hand,
‘*You need not say anything about this
to the girl next door.’’

When he returned to the dining room
his wife said solemnly, ‘‘Icenly Drink-
water, the next time you have occasion
to carry shoes and sausages at the same
time, I trust you will remember your

name.’’
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but which pretends to a faithful service
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

COON CAME DOWN.

 

 

How a Clerk Added to His Income.

John Carter was filled witha big idea.
John was a bright voung fellow, who
had recently married and gone to live in
the town of Mapleville, where he had
secured employment as a clerk in a fac-
tory office. Since his marriage, how-
ever, John had learned that ‘‘two can
live as cheaply as one’’ was all right as
an aphorism, but was false when one
came to try it, and had spent much
thought on ways and means whereby to
piece out his modest salary.

Mapleville was a modest little town,
possessing a water power, around which
a group of factories clustered, and was
the market town of a prosperous farm-
ing district. It boasted of a weekly
paper, the Mapleviile News, and its
main street was lined with stores which
did a good business with the farmers
and the factory population. The News,
like many other country papers, was
run in a conservative manner, and
changed little in appearance from week
to week, especially in its advertising
columns, where many of the town’s
prominent store-keepers were conspicu-
ous through their absence.

John’s big idea was this: Why
shouldn’t he turn his spare time to
profitable account by writing advertise -
ments for the Mapleville tradesmen?
People in the city made big money at
the business, and he could write the ad-
vertisements all right if he could induce
the merchants to hire him.

He took his idea to the editor of the
News, who received him affably, but
gasped when he unfolded his plan.

‘*You don’t know our merchants,
young man,’’ he said; ‘‘it is all I can
do to get some of them to pay for keep-

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ing their business cards at starvation
rates, and there is not a man in town
who would pay for a fresh advertise-
ment every week, let alone paying some
one to write it.’’

John, with his plan, which seemed so
feasible a moment before, a trifle dashed,
started to turn away.

‘*T tell you what you can do,’’ volun-
teered the editor. Try some of the
store-keepers who are not advertising in
the News, and I'll give youa good com-
mission or the business you get, and
give those weekly changes good ‘set-

ups.’ ’’ And he smiled ironically, as
one who foresaw the outcome of the at-
tempt.

A visit or two to the larger stores
seemed to justify the editor’s pessimis-
tic views, but John, who, as has been
told before, was a bright young fellow,
was not discouraged, and tried a plan
which he had in his mind which seemed
promising.

Going to the grocery where he traded,
he interviewed the proprietor.

‘* Advertise in the News?’’ said that
person. ‘‘Huh! I had my business card
in with tne rest of ’em for a year, and
it didn’t bring me one penny; no, sir,
not one penny. It’s just throwing money
away.”’

‘‘T have an improved style of adver-
tising that will pay you, Mr. Scales,’’
replied the young fellow, dashing into a
carefully prepared exposition of the
advantage of a ‘‘ fresh-ad-every-week-I-
write-it-and-put-it-in-the- News - for - a-
dollar plan.’’

Mr. Scales listened grimly.

"Sorry, Mr. Garter,” he said, \"but I
don’t see much advantage in your way
over the old way. I’m pretty well
known around here without ad—"’

“‘T’ll take my pay in trade,’

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John, ‘‘and work hard to produce results
that you will see.’’

‘*No,’’ said the grocer, ‘‘dollars are
too scarce—’’

‘*Make out your’ account, Mr.
Scales,’’ smiled the young man. ‘‘I
think by taking Seed & Co, asa cash
customer I may possibly interest them
in my proposition. ’’

Competition in Mapleville, as else-
where, was brisk, and John Carter was
a good customer. His prospective loss
caused the grocer to change his mind.

‘*Hold on,’’ he said, hastily. ‘* While
I don’t put much faith in your notions,
I’ll try the scheme for a few weeks,
rather than have you go away mad.”’

Hurrah! John had a customer for his
side line. By similar gentle pressure,
he interested Mr. Horns, the butcher;
Mr. Waite, the coal man, his barber,
and several other people with whom he
dealt, who grumblingly agreed to ex-
charge goods or services for advertising
on the weekly-change plan.

The writing of the first advertisement
for each was a serious undertaking, and
the midnight oil burned; but the newsy
little advertisements, with a dainty bor-
der thrown in by the editor, looked well
and read well when they made their ap-
pearance in the News of the following
Saturday, and the advertisers were well
chaffed over them—showing that, at
least, they had been read. As_ luck
would have it, some business followed
the very first advertisements, for a fam-
ily moving in from the city, on reading
them, nunted up the siores, as a inatter
of course, and became customers, say-
ing, ‘‘I saw your advertisement in the
News,’’ which helped John mightily
with his clients.

Still his trade in advertisement writ-

ing was limited to those with whom he:

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laid a trap to catch them.

For spot cash, he bought a block of
space in the News for a few weeks, very
cheaply, and by coaxing and arguing,
induced his advertisers to take increased
space and advertise a series of ‘‘spe-
cials’’ on the market day of each week,
when the country people were in town.
John spent his best efforts to make the
advertisements extra attractive, and
awaited the outcome with anxiety.

The first ‘‘special’’ day came, and
the business that was done in the com-
modities which each advertiser had
elected a ‘‘drive’’ on surprised them;
and many people who ordinarily traded
elsewhere traded that day with the
‘*special’’ folks for all their needs.

The other tradesmen were furious at
the defection of their customers, and
hung out big signs and cut rates, but
without perceptibly changing the state
of affairs.

A second and third ‘‘special’’ day
followed, with ever increasing results,
and then the coon came down. John
found in his mail notes inviting him to
call with terms, etc., from many of the
paper’s business card advertisers, who
now wanted advertising on the weekly-
change plan.

John’s side line was established. At
no greater expense than a few hours’
work weekly and the wear and tear on
the grey matter of his brain, he enjoyed
a pretty addition to his income, and the
problem of ‘‘two living as cheaply as
one’’ was solved.—Advertising World.

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Do not rest satisfied in the belief that
you control the trade and that it is sure
to remain with you without effort.

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16

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

. Hardware

 

 

 

The Implement Maker.
Napoleon once said that every square

yard of land reduced from a state of

nature toa state of cultivation broad-
ened the foundation of civil liberty just
that much. This sound, economic truth
can be paraphrased by saying that with
the manufacture of every additional im-
plement there is added to the super-
structure of our world-wide reaching
civilization a stone that lifts it that
much higher into the sunlight. In
earlier days the tool was the symbol of
industry and progress, but the tool has
now lost itsidentity in the mighty ma-
chine that moves its thousand arms to
toil for man. But the implement re-
mains; it is wielded and used by the
individual and it is his companion and
agent.

The impletment of to-day, in its mag-
nificent and watchlike niceties of con-
struction, is the measure of man's prog-
ress from the infancy of racehood to the
present. A great thinker once said:
‘‘Show me a people’s songs and I will
show you their progress in wisdom, ’’
Better might he have said: ‘*‘Show me
with what aids the people tempt the
fruitful soil to yield of its abundance
and | will show you what has been their
progress from barbarism to refinement. ’’

The agricultural implement maker
stands close to the heart of humanity.
He appeals to the individual, to the de-
sire to advance, to the spirit of indus-
try, to hope and ambition. He is the
genius of civilization, the pioneer
of true and abiding progress, and the
arbiter in the great make-up of des-
tiny for good in the onward march of
all peoples to our ultimate aim and end.

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Industrial Enlightenment.

 

The probable effect of American in-
dustrial energy on foreign peoples can
not be easily surmised, because of the
essential differences, racial and mental.
When future philosophers come to write
of the grand upheaval which occurred
in the Nineteenth Century in the intel-
lectual, moral and physical condition
of the people of the United States, they
will write of it as the greatest sociolog-
ical fact of the ages. We can not esti-
mate the energy, power and magnitude
of the mighty agencies under which the
United States has advanced within a
little over a century from a wilderness
to a garden.

The true significance of that mighty
force, which has surprised the world at
large, as well as ourselves, is that it is
to penetrate the outside world and work
wondrous transformations there, not
necessarily of a political character,
much less ofa religious nature. This
greatest crusade of intelligence, industry
and enlightenment on the part of
Europe and America will penetrate all
iands, and change the conditions of the
peoples through industry, creating dis-
content with poverty, and stimulating a
desire to know more of life and_ its
latent energies. The spirit of unrest,
which was born in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury, will be a mighty crusade in the
Twentieth.

It is well to keep in mind that in the
past five fiscal years the farmers of the
United States have raised and exported
$3, 500,000,000 worth of agricultural
products, figures which demonstrate the
value of our export trade.

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The Wonderful Progress in Rakes.

One of the most interesting features
of the agricultura] implement business

 

is the evolution of the rake, froma stick
with a crooked end to the present mas-
terful stroke of mechanical genius, that
almost talks as it glides through its
work. One of the foremost mechanical
experts in agricultural machinery, when
recently asked what is the next step of
progress in the rake, said, ‘‘To sella
rake to every farmer that needs one.’’

It would appear that skill, ingenuity
and expertness had exhausted them-
selves in perfecting this highly useful
implement. European agriculturists
have always admired the American rake
for its extreme lightness and _ the thor-
oughness with which it does its work.
The struggle among rake manufacturers
would make quite an interesting his-
tory. The present masterpieces repre-
sent a thirty-years’ struggle of skill
against skill, of gradual evolution, of
refinement upon refinement, until the
rake of the past few years appeared,
ready for every condition of crop and
able to meet every exigency that pre-
sented itself. Its instant changes, its
automatic action, its adaptability to
rough land, its various combinations,
all converge in a degree of perfection
which leaves nothing to be desired. But
to-day there are scores of eagle eyes and
brains watching the rakes of this and
other countries as they perform their
work, to detect some latent defect and
to anticipate some little improvement.
We agree with the mechanical expert,
for the thing to do is to sell rakes, and
the farmer who uses an old make in
preference to one of the newest may not
be doing the best thing for his interest
in the end.

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Ruskin’s First Lesson.

Mr. Ruskin, who wrote so many
famous books, said that the first lesson
he learned was to be obedient.

‘One evening,’’ he says, *‘when |
was yet in my nurse’s arms, I wanted
to touch the tea urn, which was boiling
merrily. It was an early taste for
bronzes, I suppose, and I was resolute
about it. My mother bade me keep my
fingers back ; | insisted on putting them
forward. My nurse would have taken
me away from the urn, but my mother
said, ‘Let him touch it, nurse.’

‘‘So I touched it, and that was my
first lesson in the meaning of the word
liberty. It was the first piece of liberty
I got and the last which for some time
I asked for.’’

—_> 20> ____
Better Agriculture.

One of the impulses now at work in
agricultural interests is more scientific
farming. This tendency was originated
and since stimulated by the high de-
velopment of implement making.
Splendid implements demand scientific
farming, and the progress made in this
direction, especially in the Northwest,
is truly encouraging. The awakening
on this subject is also due in a measure
to our agricultural colleges, but the
greatest impulse is yet to come—is now
in sight. The turning point is due to
the enormous growth of our export
trade, and to the narrowing down of the
available limit of fertile territory. The
next ten years will develop more scien-
tific farming than the past fifty.

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World’s Coming Financial Center.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

It is well known throughout the world
that the United States is the one great
nation which, in these days, has a big
surplus of ready cash beyond its own
needs, large as those are, and that al-
though the needs here keep on growing,
the surplus is increasing at a still faster
rate. The rapid approach of the day
when New York, and not London or any
other point in Europe, will be the ac-
knowledged financial center of the na-
tions is one of the most impressive facts
in the social history of the world at
this age.

 

Japanese Diplomacy.

It was at the time of the Paris exhi-
bition in 1867. A Japanese embassy went
to Paris to treat for three free ports in
France, in return for which France was
to have three in Japan. The negotia-
tions proved short and amiable.

‘*Make your choice,’’ said Japan,
‘*we will choose afterward.’’

The Minister of Foreign Affairs se-
lected Yokohama, Yeddo and Hang-
Yang.

The embassy made no objection; they
simply smiled and went on their way.

Some time afterward Japan sent word
that the three ports mentioned were
agreed to, and in return Japan desired
Havre, Marseilles and Southampton.

This last name gave the French offi-
cials fits. They never laughed so much
before, and certainly never _ since.
Southampton a French port! Oh, it
was too good. Gently, but unmistak-
ably, they explained the situation.

‘‘Why, Southampton is in England,”’
they replied.

‘“We know that,’’ came the cool re-
sponse, ‘‘but then Hang-Yang is in
Corea.’’

Whereupon the French officials col-
lapsed.

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A Masterpiece of M¢ndacity.

‘*That Chinese student says he enjoys
the life of George Washington more
than any other biographic work.”’

‘“Yes. He just remarked to me _ that
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being able to tell a lie as a masterpiece
of mendacity.’’

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

NO ONE ESCAPES.
ivery Merchant Is Pestered With Similar
Proposals.
Written for the Tradesman.

One could see at glance that the man
believed himself to be a very ‘‘smooth”’
article, and that his mind was ina per-
petual state of self-congratulation. He
opened a small leather handbag, closely
packed with printed blanks and _ cards,
all neatly sorted and ticketed, and sat
himself down at the clothing merchant’s
desk. It was easy to see that the mer-
chant was in for a siege.

‘‘I represent the Independent Order
of the Whole Thing,’’ he said, watching
the merchant’s face for some expression
of approval, ‘‘and I am about to organ-
ize a branch of the order in this city.’’

The merchant glanced up from the
statement he was drawing and dipped
his pen into the inkstand again.

‘*What can I do for you?’’ he asked,
shortly.

**We’ve got the best society on earth, ’’
‘‘and want to interest you
init. If you go in as a charter mem-
ber it won't cost you a cent.’

‘1 don’t think—’’

But the representative of the Inde-
pendent Order of the Whole Thing did
not give him a chance to complete the
sentence.

‘In towns where we are fully organ-
ized,’’ he said, *‘we run things. The
political parties hold no caucuses there.
We fix up the local tickets in our lodge
rooms. If aman wants to be mayor he
has to be a Whole Thing. See? Ifa
dealer wants to succeed in business, he
has to be one of us. We control the city
council, and if a man wants to have his
street graded and paved he becomes a
Whole Thing and the work begins. In
our society you see the only anti-trust
organization on the face of the earth.
We make and unmake congressmen and
governors. What might your age be?’’

The agent had a blank out and was
rapidly filling out the doted lines, hav-
ing crowded the merchant half out of
his seat at the table in order to make
room for himself.

‘I am twenty-one years of age and
upwards,’’ replied the merchant, short-
ly. ‘‘Why do you call your society. the
Whole Thing?’’

‘‘Because it is the Whole Thing in
any town we get into,’’ was the reply.
‘*You go down here to Fighting Creek
and see if we haven’t got the town.
We've got the biggest membership and
the biggest lodge room and more men
in office and more gold braid on our
band uniforms and more merchants liv-
ing in  steam-heated houses—oh, |
can’t tell you all we’ve got.’

‘‘T’m a member of thirty-nine socie-
ties now,’’ said the merchant, ‘‘and
each society was to make my shopa
ten-story department store as soon as |
got all the degrees.’’

‘*But they all draw trade?’’

‘“*Yes,’’ was the reply. ‘‘They all
draw trade. I can’t tell you now exact-
ly how much some of them draw, for I
haven't time to look over my bad ac-
counts.’’

‘*But the Whole Things regard it as
dishonorable to owe a brother,’’ said
the agent. ‘‘And, then, suppose you
are taken sick? They care for you, sir.
They sit up nights with you and hand
in dainties and take you out into the
country when you get better and lay
flowers on your grave if you die and

give your family enough to live on in,

comfort and see that your children are
educated. Of course, you want the in-
surance degree? You can take five

 

thousand if you pass the examination.
Shall I make it that amount?’’

‘*Oh, they sit up nights with me, do
they?’’ demanded the. merchant. ‘‘Do
they fill up with the wine lunch pro-
vided and go to sleep on the floor? And
leave the screen doors open and fill the
house with bugs? And mix the medi-
cines so that the doctor has to come and
tell whether to give a brown powder at
midnight or a hot foot-bath? And do
they come down to the store the next
day and get a suit of clothes on credit,
so you will be certain to remember
them? We've got numerous societies of
that sort here now. Of course, we've
got good societies, too, with ladies and
gentlemen for members, but we have the
other kind, too. I don’t see that there
is any room for you here.’’

‘“*We’ll make room, sir. We'll make
room. We have men of capital and in-
fluence interested. And why shouldn’t
they be interested? Suppose you get
into trouble financially? You've got
some paper in the bank that you can’t
meet? Why, the cashier is a Whole
Thing, and there you are. Suppose you
meet with an accident of conviviality,
as the great and good Webster used to
say, and become confused and tangled
up on the way home? Up comes the
wagon! But the policeman is a Whole
Thing, and there you are again. No
handcuffs, no police judge, no name in
the papers.’’

‘‘In this town,’’ said the merchant,
sadly, ‘‘the bank cashier and the police
force are the whole thing now.’’

‘EL see. 1 see! Good) joke. How
much insurance shall I put you down
for?’’

‘“‘T’ve got twenty-six life insurance
policies now,’’ replied the merchant.
**Whenever a secret society agent ora
life insurance solicitor has nothing else
to do, he comes in here and catches me.
If I had all the trade those fellows have
promised, I’d have a thirty-story edifice
here, with an elevator running a mile a
minute and a conservatory on every
floor. Well, you see, I haven't got it.
I get up inthe morning and come down
here and build the fire because I can't
afford a boy. The man who owns this
building belongs to nineteen secret so-
cieties that I do, and calls me_ brother,
but he comes in here the first of every
month and smokes my cigars and talks
politics until I raise his money for him.
I stay out nights now, attending lodges,
until the neighbors begin to cast pity-
ing glances at my wife and wonder how
she ever came to cast her lot witha
drunkard. ”’

‘I've got the leading men of the town
already,’’ insisted the agent, ‘‘and want
your name to close the list. I came
here the first thing, but you wasn’t in
that day. Our receptions here this win-
ter will be the swell events of the year.
If you want to have your wife and chil-
dren in the social swim, you must be-
come one of us. How much _ insurance
wili you take?’’

’

‘*Oh, you’re in the fashion way, too,
are you?’’ demanded the merchant.
‘*You go around and get women in the
notion of going to swell receptions and
having front seats at the theater and
wearing better clothes than any one else
and having a coachman and giving
afternoon teas and heading charity lists,
do you? Well, I can’t stand for it. My
wife can’t go without me, and I can’t
go because I’m not dressed properly. I
have but two suits in the world and one
is a lawsuit. I have worn most of the
clothes in stock until they won’t sell

 

and I’m thinking of going into the
second-hand clothing business.’

The agent gathered up his blanks and
made for the door.

| L  presume,’' he satd, icily, "that
you wouldn’t care to have me repeat
what you say about the condition of your
goods?"’

‘Of course I should,’’ was the reply.
“I'd rather you’d say | was bankrupt
than to say that I was dodgasted fool
enough to join another secret society.
If a man is poor he may get rich, but
if he is a confounded fool he’ll never
recover. (Good day, sir.’

The Independent Order of the Whole
Thing has not yet secured a foothold in
that city. Alfred B. Tozer.

 

 

Hardware Price Current

Augurs and Bits

 

 

  

 

See i 60
SCHMINGS SONNE... | 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........... 7 75
First Quality, D. B. Steel............- 13 06
Barrows
es 17 00
CATGCR ee «a ae
Bolts
Stove . Be eee ee ol. 60
Carriage, Dewee 70&10
oe oe cece ee 50
Buckets
Well, plain ........ ee eeceee $4 00
ee Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............... 65
Wroucit Narrow ................_.... 60
Cartridges
Wem Pe 40&10
Cemical Mie 20
Chain
4 in. 5-16 in. 3% in. % a
Com oo £e.. €e. & & ... ““
Be So | me lee
BES......_... a ... ce |. 6m... 6%
Crowbars
Cast Steet, per tp...._................. 6
Caps
Biya f-10 perm... .... 2... 8... 65
Hick’s C. perm.. ee 55
G. perm ee... 45
MUSEO, POF Ml 75
Chisels
Socket Firmer ............ 65
Socket Framing. 65
Socket Corner... BK ebece ee 65
SOCHCl SNONS 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............ net 65
Corrugated, per doz. Bee ee. 1 25
Adjustable... : ..dis  40&10
‘Mianiieadanes Bits”
Clark’s

small, $18; _ $26 . i 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30
Files—New List

Now American =... 70&10
Nicholson’s.. Le eile ale ee clu oe 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps. Leet cues win vei oie 70
Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 7
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box...............dis 85&20
Double Strength, by box.............. dis  85&20
By tho Peet... dis &85&
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’ s a es dis 3336
Yerkes & Plumb eee dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steen .30¢ list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3..... -..--dis  60&10
Hietiow Ware
ee 50&10
Meus -. 50&10
So a ae 50&10
Horse Nails
‘Au Sabie ._........................... dis 4648
Pema dis 5
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
dapanned Timware..................... 20810
Iron
Bar hon... 8... 225 crates
Dione Came. 3 c rates
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... a 85
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 00
Warren, Galvanized Fount.. 6 00
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye...... ba ..$17 00..dis 70—10
 Metals—Zine
tet ote. eee eee a ceeues 7%
Per pound.. eee a sa aaa aaes oy 8

 

Miscellaneous

  
  

 

BG CACO oa os 40
Pumps, Cis ' 75
Screws, New List 80
Casters, Bed and I : .-. 50&108&10
Dampers, American... 2... 50
Molasses Gates
mecbuMmic’ Patscim 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans

Hey, Aeme. 60&10&10
Common, polished... .... 70

Patent Planished Iron
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75

 

““B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 75
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 50
Sciota Bench.. 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’ ‘s, faney.. oe 50
Rench, first quality.. et eae on 50
‘Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Seca mails Prise. 2 56
Wite pate tase 2 55
mMtoedadvaries...00006000 Base
a 5
SAGNAMe 10
Ciqvanee.  _............. 2... 2
SAOVAMES 30
SAOVEBOS 45
2aGvamee 8 70
ings AGyanee. 8 8. 50
Casing 10 advance. . 15
Casing 8 advance. 25
Casing 6 advance. 35
Finish 10 advance 25
Finish 8 advance.. . 35
Himieh G aayanee.. .... 1... 8... 45
Barrel % advance... bee eee de Loe 85
Rivets
inom ang Pied... 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............
4x20 1X, Charcoal, Dean..............
20x28 IC, Chareoal, Dean... os
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, % inch and dames eo 8
Manilla.. : oa iz

WeHANWIM
SSSSSS5

—

Sand a
List acct. 19, ’86.. dc. ee 50
Sash , Weights
noud PMyos, portem..... 1... 25 00
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com.

Nos. 1@fet $3 20
Woe. 15t0i7...... 3 20
NOs. 8to 7) 8, 3 30
Nos. 22to24 tt. ........ & 3 40
NOS. 2907... ae 3 50
Ne. 27... . 3 80 3 60

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
ee 1 45
BB aa Suen eS  . 1 70
Shovels and Spades
Wires Grade, Pew... 5... 8 00
pecond Grade, Dez... 8. 7 50
Solder
ee 21

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

  

    

Squares
Seoct ane Ive. . 65
Tin—Melyn Grade

nents IC. Cleareogi........ ....... .... $8 50
14x20 IC, faced ee ee eee eee. 8 50
20x14 Ix, Chases... 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

inl4 (©, Clarcogl..................... 7 00
tee (C, Charcoal..................... 7 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal. . i 8 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal. . 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.. sos 75
Oneida C ommunity, “Newhouse’s...... 40&10
Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor-

ios. 65&10
Mouse, choker, per doz............... 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz..... .. ..... 1 25

Wire
Bret Miakee. 60
Annesicg Market. .................... 60
Copperca Market... 50&10
Viewed Wiarket.... 50&10
Coppered $ Spring § aoe. 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 20
Barbed Fence, Painsem,.............. 2 90
Wire Goods
Bright...... ees oe accu es Scie seme wc 80
Screw Eye 80
Booms... ...... 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes 80
Wrenches

Baxter’s paptanie, Nickeled.. 30
Geen Gemee 30

Coe’s Peront Aaninabbanal, JWrought. .70&10

 

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18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Village Improvement

What Is the Rock Bottom Reason
It All?

 

 

For

When the man in his unwashed blouse
and forgotten finger nails asked, as if it
were a hard question to answer, what
all this talk and this writing about Vil-
lage Improvement amounted to anyway,
it was evident that the rock-bottom
question must have a rock-bottom ans-
wer. They are both of the earth, earthy,
and both must appeal strongly to the
senses to be listened to and understood.
When, then, the Socratic method of
answering one question by asking an-
other was resorted to and the man was
asked, ‘‘What is the use of eating a
good fat dinner?’’ with an introductory,
‘*Now, you are shouting!’’ came the
expressive reply, ‘‘Because it’s blank
good!’’ With no attempt to show the
incongruity of the forceful adjective
and its antagonistic word a little ques-
tioning brought out the facts that it
tastes good ; it makes a fellow feel as if
life was worth living; it gives him
something ‘‘nice’’ to think of while he
is eating and a long time after he gets
through; it makes him strong in the
legs and, while it lasts, makes a better

man of him anyway. ‘‘There is some
sense in that. It’s practical. It'll
wash. Make your society the Village

Improvement Dinner Society and I'll
join!”’

It is a good, straightforward answer,
given heartily and without reserve and,
while confined to a single sense and the
one generally looked upon as the most
sordid, it has the virtue of meeting
squarely every condition and that, too,
from the man’s own practical stand-
point. Test it with sound. From the
world of harmony prepare a banquet
according to this man’s taste, for he is
to be the guest. Its chords and dis-
cords will please him. Again he feels
as if life is worth the living. All the
next day and for days afterwards he
whistles and sings snatches of the mel-
ody that has pleased him. His step is
lighter for the music and ‘‘while it
lasts’’—he never wholly forgets it—he
is ‘‘a better man’’ for it. Surely there
is sense in that. It is practical—so
thought his mother as she crooned above
his cradle—and beyond that test there
is no need to go.

Look at it as we may, the Improve-
ment Society is dealing with the same
facts in regard to sight. Its object is
to furnish a feast on a larger scale than
the dining room can give. Nature fur-
nishes the viands and_ the Society
spreads the table and the guest comes
and partakes and calls it good—with
or without the forceful adjective! Does
the meal meet the other requirements?
The man’s blouse may be dirtier than
it is and more of the soil in which he
works may cling to his hands, but the
morning’s red and the evening's yellow
will always please'‘him. He may make
fun of spring poetry—a wholesome sign
—but a sprig of arbutus stays between
his lips all day. He cares nothing for
your summer landscapes; but he stands
by the pasture bars after the cows have
passed until twilight hides the picture
made by the spring and the overhang-
ing leaves after the sun went down. He
does not gush when the maple leaves
turn red; but he never hurries by a cer-
tain bend in the road where the brook
spreads into a pool and, stealing under
the rickety bridge, skirts the cornfield
‘‘when the irost is on the pumpkin and
the corn is in the shock.’’ Complain of

 

winter’s dreariness and, like a man
whose friend has been abused, he will
refute with winter pictures and pleas-
ures every ungrounded complaint. An
appreciation of beauty is there, the So-
ciety knows it and appeals to it and its
work is done.

The eye does what the ear and the
tongue did; but life is more than meat
and the eye, ‘knowing this, looks out for
it and sees that it has beautiful sur-
roundings. It cares for the streets,
smoothing the road and planting the
walks with trees. The picture is com-
pleted with well kept lawn and cared for
church and school house and when the
work is done and looked at, the ‘‘feller’’
feels as if life was worth the living. He
has something to think of when busy
with other things; he tires less easily;
and show me the man who has in_ his
mind all day a beautiful thought and
when the day is over that man will be
found a better one. Like seeks like no
more surely than it begets it and the
children of the good have always the
strong features of their parentage.
There is sense here and it is practical
and the doubting Thomas will find it
eminently so if he cares to become a
Society member.

Fun is often made of the newly rich
for buying so many pictures. ‘‘A man
no sooner makes his pile than he breaks
out into a picture gallery. ‘‘It is due to
the inborn craving after ownership of the
beautiful, with the hope that a portion at
least of the purchased loveliness may
become a part of himself. Shut up with
these he hopes soon to put off the rough.
With them to look upon he must be bet-
ter. No man can think of the bad while
his eyes are feasting upon a half un-
folded rose, and the Easter lily would
lose its favor as the flower of Christen-
dom if it failed to teach its sacred les-
son. It is the lesson of beauty, of
purity, of goodness, which beautiful sur-
roundings are intended to teach and the
landscape is the best of teachers. It is
better than the art gallery for it is al-
ways changing. Spring comes and every
morning a new picture appears on the
canvas. July may catch upon her cam-
era the same view but the picture is not
the same. October is pleased but re-
paints it and when winter removes the
leaves and covers everything with snow,
the seasons have done their best and
humanity has been bettered by it at lit-
tle cost.

This is the idea from beginning to
end. It has taken a long time for the
world to believe it, especially the com-
mon, every day, working world. Beauty
has been kept too long as an ornament.
For years she has been shut up in the
parlor with the haircloth furniture and
the family album, while the sitting
room and the kitchen and the dooryard,
front and back, have been growing
coarse and ugly from neglect. Genius,
weary of working with nothing, has
finally rebelled. He has pulled up the
parlor curtains and let inthe light. He
has opened the door and out into the
back yard he has invited the long im-
prisoned goddess and together they

have been working to brighten up
things. They have just one object in
view: to give beauty a chance to earn

her own living; and it is the intention
of this department to show in a series
of papers that she has not only done that
but has increased the happiness of those
about her—her long acknowledged mis-
sion—far more than she did and could
when she was set up on a pedestal and
worshipped at a respectful distance,

 

New Sleeping Bag for German Troops.
From the Philadelphia Record.

A German manufacturer has just
taken out a patent for a new sleeping
device in the form of a bag. In order
to avoid the inhalation of cold and
humid air and the entrance of rain, and
insects, and, on the other hand, to get
sufficient warm air to enable the occu-
pant of the bag to breathe freely, the
headpiece of the bag has been provided
with a number of small air tubes, cov-
ered on the outside with a kind of mos-
quito netting. It is said that a number
of these bags have been shipped to
China, to be tried by the German

troops.
——___~2 2.

Forgot Himself.

Employer—You say that your habits
are all correct?

Applicant—Yes, sir.

Employer, (aftera moment’s pause)—
Do you drink?

Applicant(absent-mindedly)-Thanks!
Don’t care if I do. f

 

 

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Geo. S. Smith

99 N. Ionia St.

Phone 1214 Grand Rapids, Mich.

MAKER OF

Store and Office
Fixtures

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'2ns 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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preciated. We buildt

The above cut van our grocery display counter. These counters should be seen to be ap-
hem in three different ways, all having a similarity in design.

No. 1, like above cut, is fitted with plate glass, has 16 display fronts, and a paper rack the entire

length, below that sliding doors.

10 and 12 foot lengths.

Quarter sawed oak top 14% inches thick. The projectiles both front
and back are so arranged that the feet never mar the wood work.
With parties contemplating remodeling their stores we solicit correspondence

It is handsomely finished buiit in

as we will make special prices for complete outfits of store furniture.
McGRAFT LUMBER CO., Muskegon, Mich.

 

GRAND RAPIDS FIXTURES Co.

Cigar

 

Shipped

Case. knocked
One ORR er down.
of First
our class
leaders. freight.
No. 52.
Discription: Oak, finished in light antique, rubbed and polished. Made any length, 28 inches

wide. 44 inches high.

Write for illustrated catalogue and prices.

We are now located two blocks south of Union Depot.
Cor. Bartlett and South Ionia Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

What you need is the Ideal Grocer’s Counter

Protects, stores and displays goods perfectly. A solid substantial counter, in all
lengths, which employs the space underneath to store and display goods.

 

Adds orderliness, saves time, space and steps.

For particulars and mighty inter-

esting prices address the patentees and sole manufacturers,

SHERER BROS., 33 and 35 River Street, Chicago, Ill.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

19

 

Window Dressing

Unique Ideas Regarding the Display of
Furnishing Goods.

Handkerchiefs make a very useful
accessory for a glove trim. The floor
of the window can be occupied by small
‘“T’” stands on which colored bordered
handkerchiefs are displayed as a back-
ground for single pairs or bunches of
gloves. The handkerchiefs are simply
folded cornerwise and hung on the
stands with butterfly ties or gloves
dropped over them, or they are folded
in curves which display the borders
gracefully with gloves depending from
the ends of the stand or hanging over
the center of the handkerchief. A_ half
circle of crepe tissue paper can be at-
tached to the front of the stand and the
gloves draped over; such an accessory
would be very useful to relieve the bare-
ness of a plain glove display.

Another unit for a ciothing window
is made as follows: A low box is laid
on the floor and a steamer rug or hand-
some lounging robe spread over it.
Back of it is placed a coat stand with
an overcoat hung on it with the skirts
spread out on the rug. On one side of
the center is placed a vest coiled up
and on the other end a pair of trousers
laid flat. In the center a short coat stand
is placed with the coat of the suit de-
pending from it. A silk hat and a pair
of gloves can also be introduced if de-
sired. They are placed at either side of
the smaller coat stand.

Rings cut from stiff cardboard can be
used in this manner in a neckwear
trim: The ring is run on the window
bars and a flowing end scarf is drawn
through it. The ends of the scarf are
again drawn through another ring of
paper in such a way that they stand out
on each side witha graceful stiffness
and so that the band forms a graceful
circle. This same arrangement can
also be used on T-shaped stands.

Still another figure can be made as
follows: Three pieces of stiff wire are
arranged fan-shaped and so attached to
the bars. The lower ends are bent into
a ring shape. Through these rings the
broad ends of scarfs are drawn and_ the
bands are twisted about the stem of the
wires until the small ends can be drawn
over the bar and secured.

Where rings are used it isa good idea
to take the tie at the middie of the
band and draw it through the ring from
the back so that the ends flare out on
either side. Through the loop thus
formed a collar can be drawn.

Nothing makes a richer display than
fine neckwear silk in the piece. If
neckwear silk is draped over low stand-
ards in the window and a single collar
displayed on the top of the pile with a
tie made up from the silk, a very pretty
and elegant effect can be obtained. '

Bolts of shirtings can be utilized for
neat and appropriate drapery by draw-
ing out several pieces and bringing
them forward in loose folds on the floor.
Over these folds small ties can be loose-
ly tossed.

A neat background for a clothing win-
dow can be made with white cheese-
cloth, which is draped over the back
and sides in plain folds. Yellow rib-
bon is then used to cut the side wall into
regular divisions, in each one of which
a coat, vest or pair of trousers is hung.
At the crossing points of the bands of
ribbon chrysanthemums are attached to
the wall.

The floor of a window may be covered
with T-shaped stands with goods dis-

 

 

played after this manner: The head of
a cane rests on one end and the cane
projects to the right. An umbrella sim-
ilarly placed extends to the left. Two
pairs of gloves hang from each end_ of
the stand and a bunch of gloves is_ fas-
tened upright on it.

—> 20> _____

What One Improvement Association Ac-

complished in Three Months.

Middleton, Oct. 18—Middleton is a
village of 250 population and not incor-
porated. On july 18, 1900, eight busi-
ness men at a meeting formed the Mid-
dleton Improvement Association. At
their first meeting among the many
committees appointed was a street com-
mittee of two.

The principal street of Middleton is
200 feet long; that is, the business por-
tion. There are eighteen lots, 22 feet
front, counting each side of the street,
which are owned by thirteen persons,
eight of these belonging to the Associa-
tion. We decided to pave the gutters,
zravel the streets and put in uniform
hitching posts. Any one who is ac-
quainted with Gratiot county mud can
imagine what the streets were in wet
weather. We had no idea how we
wanted it, nor how much it would cost,
and we did not know whether we could
get anything out of the owners not be-
longing to the Association,

The committee visited several towns
and brought in their reports. From
these reports and from trying where a
wagon and team would stand, we de-
cided to have the grade 8 inches fall to
200 feet; the gutters to be 12 feet from
sidewalk and an 8 inch fall; the wing
to be 3 feet wide and 3 inches above
gutter stone. The surveying and setting
the grade stakes was done by a member
of the Association who had had some
little experience in that line, every
member doing what he could to help.
The heaviest part of the work of grad-
ing was donated by the Pathmaster of
the district and the Highway Commis-
sioner of the township, probably three
days’ work, amounting to $7.50 a day,
there being two teams and drivers and
two extra men. The remainder was
done by shovels handled by the several
business men. We hired two pavers at
$1.75 a day and board. We used, on
an average, 5 inches of sand to lay the
stone in a cord and one-third of stone
to a lot. We hired teams to draw the
sand and stone at $2.50a day. They
hauled in a day three loads of stone,
averaging one-fourth cord to a load or
four loads of sand, about a yard toa load.

The Secretary collected of the owners
$15 for each lot. Some wished to furnish
stone and sand, which we accepted,
paying them for the same. The paving
of the gutters cost us $250, which would
have amounted to $300 had we_ counted
the cost of labor donated. The time
taken for grading and paving was two
weeks.

About the middle of September we
set a day for a gravel bee. We sent out
invitations to farmers, giving thema
big dinner if they would draw gravel.
It was not a success. Only two teams
responded. The farmers were too busy.
So on October 12 we advertised another
bee. It was a success in every way and
we obtained a nice lot of gravel.

The hitching posts we obtained were
oak 4x6, 7 feet long, and cost us $18 per
M. We ordered fifty and set them uni-
formly each side of the street, three feet
in the ground. We painted them black
and capped them with sheet iron. The
work of setting, painting, etc., was all
done by business men.

One great work we have done for the
town is to unite the business men. They
are working together for the mutual
benefit of the town.

We have offered inducements to facto-
ries and taken other steps to improve
existing business conditions.

Next year we expect to set out 500
shade trees, thereby beautifying the
town. L. H. Moss, Sec’y.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Woman’s World

Crimes Committed By the
Never Think.

A great many of us—and we are not
hard-hearted people either—read with
delight, the other day, of a Pennsylvania
judge who had the courage to sentence
a man to eight years in the penitentiary
for accidentally killing his friend. It
is about time that somebody called a
halt, not only on the fool who fools with
a gun, but on the other criminally care-
less individuals who go on their devas-
tating way through the world, breaking
hearts and ruining homes, and who
think they have sufficiently atoned for
the harm they do by saying they didn’t
intend it. To the woman who agonizes
above the dead body of her husband or
the mother who mourns her son, it can
not make much difference whether she
was robbed of all that made life dear
through accident or by design.

In all the length and breadth of con-
tradictory human nature there is noth-
ing stranger than that we should take
this overly charitable view of careless-
ness. The simple testimony that ‘‘he
didn’t know the gun was loaded’’ has
been accepted as handsome apology for
murder in innumerable cases. To say

e ‘‘didn’t think,’’ the rest of us regard
as a blank excuse that we can stretch
over all the lesser crimes in the calen-
dar. We work it for ai] that it is worth,
yet in reality it is a plea for pardon
that nobody but an idiot is justified in
putting forth in his own behalf. What
reason, that anybody ought to be ex-
pected to accept, can an _ intelligent
human being give for not thinking? It
always reminds me of a colored _philos-
opher I once knew, who meted out a
stern justice to her offspring, and who
was particularly severe on them when
they dared to offer the excuse, **] didn’t
think,’’ by way of a panacea for their
shortcomings. ‘‘Didn’t think, didn’t
think,’’ she would exclaim, wrathfully,
‘‘whut’s de good in havin’ a thinker ef

you don’t wuk hit?’’

 

 

Careless Who

So say we all, brethren and

what's the use?

sisters ;

To take the matter up in its most
practical aspect is to recognize the fact
that it is other people’s carelessness
that lays our heaviest burdens upon us.
This is particularly true as regards
women, and there isn’t a mother and
wife and housekeeper in the land who
doesn’t know that it is because her fam-
ily don’t think that she must slave at a
never-ending job, and that has no let-
up from year’s end to year’s end. She
spends her time picking up clothes off
the floor, hanging up hats, putting back
books on the shelves, straightening
chairs, picking up newspapers, arrang-
ing the things other people have dis-
arranged. Nobody thanks her for it.
Nobody knows she does it. Her hus-
band and children are of the opinion
that one’s best clothes always brush
themselves and get back where they be-
long by theniselves, and that if you will
only give a house time it will tidy itself
up and become spick and span. They
never connect mother’s tired face with
the process, and when she speaks of
being busy, ‘‘Oh,’’ they say, ‘‘you
ought to have to do what I do,’’ and
they wonder how she really puts in the
time, with so little to do.

Every now and then some dreamer of
Utopian vision who is looking a mile
backward or a century or two forward,
devises some wild scheme for the light-
ening of domestic labor and solving the

 

housekeeping problem, and we _ hear
about co-operative millenniums when
we shall all eat out of the same pot and
live in barracks, and when we shall
only have to push a button and a pater-
nal government will do the rest. It is
the folly of a fanatic. Domestic re-
form must hegin at home, but it never
will until the man who can only afford
to hire one servant learns to pick up
his own dirty collars and keep from
strewing the Sunday paper from the
basement to the attic. When everybody
in a house acquires the habit of putting
things back where they got them, we
shall have fewer over-worked women
who are the victims of the criminal
carelessness of those of their own fam-
ily.

Even more to be deplored than this is
the lack of thought we show in our con-
duct to those of our own household, and
whose happiness or misery lies in our
hands. I often think that when the
great judgment day comes for each of
us and we must answer for the deeds
done in the flesh, we shall not be so ap-
palled by the one or two great wrongs
we may have committed as by the
thousand little acts of criminal careless-
ness that darken our past. What are
those husbands going to say who took
the jewel of a woman’s happiness in
their keeping and then were so careless
that they threw it away?

The world is full of heart-hungry
wives who are starving for a little ap-
preciation, a little love, a little praise.
We don’t recognize it as a tragedy be-
cause we are too familiar with it; but
there is really no sight sadder than that
of the woman who spends her life try-
ing to please a husband who accepts
her labor without thanks, who passes
over her achievements without com-
mendation and who growls and grum-
bles over every mistake. To far too
many men courtship ends the lovemak-
ing, and the marriage ceremony con-
verts the adoring admirer into the
carping critic. They are not bad men.
They are not intentionally cruel, but
not all sins are sins of commission.
Sometimes the thing we don’t do is just
as cruel a wrong as anything malice
could devise and fiendish malignity put
into execution.

I was told once the story of a woman
who was married to a good man, but
one who broke her heart slowly through
long years by his apparent indifference
and lack of affection. For nearly half
a century she gave to him a ceaseless
devotion, unrewarded by any word or
sign that showed that he knew or ap-
preciated the work of her hands and
brain. At last the time came when she
lay dying, and the gray-headed old hus-
band sobbed out to her all that had lain
silent in his heart so long—the love and
devotion and gratitude and admiration
with which he had always regarded her.

The woman turned on him eyes
dimmed by years of weeping and
asked: ‘‘Why did you never tell me

this before?’’ and the man answered:

‘I never thought that it mattered ;’’ and
the woman said: ‘‘It would have paid
me for everything I have endured. It
would have made my life happy instead
of full of misery. Now it is too late,’’
and she turned her face to the wall and
died.

It takes sc little to make a woman
happy—just a little love, a few caresses,
a flower, a word of remembrance.
Every man knows that, and when he
neglects to give them to his wife it is
no excuse to say that he didn’t think of
it. He doesn’t forget to jolly the man

 

of whom he wants a favor. He remem-
bers to treat the customer to whom he
expects to sell a bill of goods. He can
remember the things he thinks worth
while, and surely among these is mak-
ing his wife happy. Let’s be done with
men pleading the baby act that they
didn’t think. If they can’t remember
any other way, let them tie knots in
their pocket handkerchiefs and every
time they pull them out at home be re-
minded to pay their wives a compli-
ment. To marry a woman and then not
make her happy is a crime, whether it
is the result of carelessness or set inten-
tion.

Another place where we deserve to do
time for our criminal carelessness is in
the way we talk before servants. We
discuss the most intimate matters before
them. We hazard guesses at people’s
motives. We repeat rumors of intrigues.

 

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21

 

We talk as if the maid who is waiting
behind our chair were deaf as the adder
of the scriptures, and dead as a coffin
nail, instead of being an elongated ear
and a talking machine combined. Then
when a distorted and garbled report
goes forth of some family happening
we wonder how on earth it got out. Per-
haps it is not far short of the truth to
say that we are all the authors of our
own scandals and that our own servants
are the disseminators. They get a word
here and there and put their own inter-
pretation on it, and the result is that
reputations are ruined. Mr. and Mrs.
X. discuss family finances at the
table, and Mr. X. remarks that they
can't afford so and so. Listening Mary
Jane, bringing in the dinner, picks up
a few sentences, and, by the time she
has confided what she thought she heard
to Mrs. Jones’ cook, and she has passed
it on to Mrs. Brown’s nurse, all the
world is aware of a rumor that the X’s
are toppling on the verge of bankruptcy
and can’t pay their servants. We de-
spise the base rumor we call kitchen
gossip, but we listen to it. It makes
and mars characters, and the pity of the
thing is that it is our own criminal
carelessness that lays its foundations.
There are also the criminally careless
people who terrorize society with their
malapropos remarks. A forbidden sub-
ject attracts them and draws them on to
their doom as surely and irresistibly as
the magnet does the needle. If there is
a tender spot in your soul they put their
finger right on it. Let an old maid be
present and they get funny on the sub-
ject of women who are trying to marry.
Is there a divorced person in the com-
pany, wild horses couldn’t drag them
away from a discussion of marital un-
happiness. Has somebody a son who isa
black sheep and who has brought shame
and sorrow on his family, they dis-
course on forgery and_ betrayed trusts
and prisons. Of course, these people
always excuse themselves by saying
they didn’t think. It snould never be
accepted. People who haven’t enough
brains to think have no business in so-
ciety. They should be locked up in
asylums for the feeble-minded until they
learn enough intelligence to keep them
from wounding other people by their
dangerous conversation. For my part,
I would preter to be killed by the clean
stiletto stab of an enemy to being kicked
to death by a donkey, and | would just
as soon have my feelings hurt or my
vanity wounded by an intentional un-
kindness as by the blundering stupidity
of the criminally careless, who never
think. Dorothy Dix.

——___»-9>—

 

Buying a Bonnet a Serious Matter.

The real time that tries a woman's
soul is the agonizing moment when she
is called upon to buy her spring or fall
hat—when she must decide between the
rival merits of toques and turbans, pic-
ture hats and rainy day fedoras, and
must finally and irrevocably make up
her mind whether she will indulge in a
creation that will make her pocketbook
look as if an elephant had trodden upon
it or will adorn her head with a topknot
that will make her look like thirty cents
herself. This does not apply, of course,
to those lucky mortals who can buy bon-
nets by the dozen, and who can chuck
their millinery mistakes on top of the
wardrobe and be done with them. It
refers to the average woman who can
have only one hat a season, with no
possibility of divorcing herself from it,
no matter how uncongenial they prove
on close acquaintance. Wherever she

 

goes the hat must go, too, to advertise
her mistake to the world.

The seriousness of the situation is
augmented by the fact that the hat is hy
far the most important part of a wom-
an’s toilet. It at once strikes the key-
note to one’s appearance and_ provides
the frame for the picture one makes. If
it is chic, appropriate, becoming, a
woman may possess herself in peace, no
matter how plain her frock. If it is
commonplace, inappropriate, dowdy, in
vain does one strive to atone for its
shortcomings by other gorgeousness of
apparel. The hat has killed it all. It is
a subject, therefore, worthy of the ut-
most thought and consideration, and
should be neither an accident of the
millinery shop, an inappropriate cli-
max, nor an ill-judged ambition.

Important as all women concede their
head covering to be, itis little less than
tragical to look over an assemblage of
women and note the millinery horrors
of which they have been guilty. It
convicts the entire sex of lack of good|s
judgment, as well as good taste, for the
truth must be admitted, far too many
women look as if their enemies had
picked out their bonnets for them. It
is depressing, too, as illustrating how
little we know ourselves, how little ac-
count we take of grizzling locks and
gathering crow’s-feet and _ increasing
avoirdupois, or else surely we would not
buy the hats that emphasize our every
defect and cry out with clarion tongue
that we are not as young as we used
to be.

In all good truth there is something
almost sardonic in the grim jest so
many women play on themselves every
time they buy a new hat. What, one
asks themselves, can a rugged-featured
woman be thinking of that she should
pick out the freak hat that is all hard
knots and nobs? Why should the
hatchet-faced woman desire to aggra-
vate her misfortunes still further by ap-
pearing in a structure that is topped by
towering bows and upstanding aigrettes?
Isn't there something actually pathetic
in the sight of a poor shop girl putting
her pennies in imitation ostrich feathers
that are bedraggled after one wearing?
Most incomprehensible of all, what lack
of sense of the eternal fitness of things
is it that makes elderly women cling
with a death grip to youthful headgear?

 

It ought to be a misdemeanor punish-
able by law for a woman over 50 to wear
anything but a bonnet.

Not all women, of course, are lacking
in good taste and good judgment. Some
have the tact of knowing just what suits
them, and we all know women whose
hats always seem like a visible halo.
We can never think of them without
seeing the Gainsborough that was the
background for a fair young face,or the
exquisite toque that seemed to express
the knowledge of the world that made
some middle-aged woman so_fascinat-
ing, orthe dainty little bonnet that always
crowned some old woman’s snowy locks.
This tact every woman may acquire,
but to have it she must first study her-
self, and try to find out what she looks
like to other people. Buying a bonnet
is a serious matter, and is not to be

lightly undertaken. Cora Stowell.
——_»> 0. ____
Heard Him Sigh.

‘I have been sitting on the porch lis-
tening to the sighing of the wind,’’ she
said sentimentally, by way of explana-
tion = her long absence from the house.
; I heard him sigh,’’ promptly

put in ie small boy.

‘‘Him? Who?’’ demanded the head
of the household.

‘*Why, that young fellow you always
said was nothing but wind,’’ answered
the boy; and thus was the secret be-
trayed.

——_o_0.___

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22

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.
Special in respondence.

New York, Oct. 20—-For the present
the business men of New York are
whooping and yelling and marching and
singing and speechmaking and raising
flags and banners and other things.
Broadway is becoming a festoon of red,

white and blue and, while all this is go-
' ing on, we have as good a trade as
could be hoped for. There are hosts
‘ of out-of-town buyers here and_ they
make good purchases. Other hosts are
waiting to see which William will be
next President, and there is certainly
some quietude on this account.

Coffee has been rather dull during the
week. Advices from Europe show low-
er rates and, with continued very heavy
receipts at both Santos and Rio, the
situation is one that makes for a_ lower
range of quotations. We have Rio No.
7 at the close quotable at 8%c. The de-
mand is not active and buyers seem _ to
take a quantity only sufficient to mend
broken assortments. In store and afloat
there are 1,017,283 bags, against 1,350, -
555 bags at the same time last year.
Mild sorts are quiet, but as supplies are
rather light, holders are not disposed to
make any concession to effect sales.
Good Cucuta is worth 1o@io%c. East
India sorts meet with little call, but
prices are firm.

Little business is being done in teas.
Stocks in the interior are thought to be
rather light, but there is no anxiety
whatever shown by buyers to take more
than enough for present wants. Invoice
trading is quiet. The quality of teas
continues good and few parcels are be-
ing rejected.

Not a single item of. interest can be
gathered in the sugar market. Dull and
featureless seems to be the saying with
almost every house visited. Buyers
seem to think they are safe in taking
very small lots and act as though they
anticipated lower prices. But this is
something that no fellow can find out.

No changes of note have taken place
in rice. Buyers appear to be pursuing
a waiting policy and as prices here are
‘*wobbly’’ they are inclined to take only
enough for present wants. Still holders
seem satisfied with the outlook and
think their prospects improve every day.

The spice market lacks animation,
yet matters might be worse. As the
season advances holders say they antic-
ipate a good run of trade, and it is to
be hoped they will not meet with disap-
pointment. Pepper is a little higher,
being quotable at 13%c. Aside from
this quotations are practically without
change.

Supplies of molasses are light and
prices are firm. The demand, however,
is moderate and there seems to be an
impression that we shall have lower
rates before long. Good to prime cen-
trifugal, 18@32c
‘ Syrups are quiet and
Prime to fancy, 20@26c.

Canned goods are quiet and quota-
tions on many things are nominal. In
some cases holders are almost forced to
sell and hence make sacrifices in price.
The firmness which characterized the
market during the early summer seems
to have melted away. There is said to
be a large stock of New York State corn
in packers’ hands and if itis all cleaned
up quotations will take a tumble. It
is rumored that a good deal of this corn
has been doctored with bleaching
agents. The demand for tomatoes is
exceedingly slack. New Jersey stand-
ards, 85@87%4c. Gallons are worth $2.15
@2.20. Salmon is easier. The Colum-
bia River pack is likely to be larger
than last season and the outlook is hard-
ly in the direction of higher quotations
than now prevail.

Lemons and oranges and the whole
line of foreign fruits have moved with
only moderate activity. Lemons are
worth from $1.60@2.50 for 360s, and
for very fancy 300s the range is up to $4.
Valencia oranges, $5@6, the latter for
choice.

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raisins, dates and prunes, are meeting
with increasing demand and prices are
firmly adhered to. New seeded raisins
range from 84%@g%c in bulk and car-
tons, respectively. Currants are still
meeting with good enquiry and the
range is from 12@13'c in barrels up to
144% c for cleaned in cartons.

There is a stronger feeling on the bet-
ter grades of butter and choice Western
creamery is now held at 22@22'4c, with
an upward tendency ; thirds to firsts,
16@2o0c ; imitation creamery, 1444@18c;
factory, 1414@16c.

The demand for cheese is light, but,
as the supply is not overabundant, the
situation seems rather favorable for the
producer and owners of factories are
pretty firm in their views. Fancy full
cream colored State cheese is worth IIc;
white, 10%c.

Prime Western eggs’are worth 21c;
choice to prime, 18@2oc; fair to good,
16@17¢.

Medium beans are in very light sup-
ply and readily fetch $2.20; choice pea,
$2.10@2.15; choice red kidney, $2. 30.

> 0.
Infertile Eggs Preferable For Commercial
Purposes.

J. Dixon Avery says there are many
things pertaining to ‘‘henology’’ that
would be very gratefully received if
they could be discussed by some of the
scientific people of our agricultural col-
leges. He asks which eggs carry better,
the fertile or non-fertile,in cold storage.
The organized study of the hen and her
product seems for the most part to be
deferred to some future and wiser gen-
eration to take up and diffuse among
the people the results of their research.
If the time ever comes when egg rais-
ing and the handling of them until they
reach the consumer shall be conducted
on strictly scientific lines, there will be
no place in the commercial world for
fertile eggs. That which contains life
has also the elements of death and de-
cay. The fertility of the egg is to carry
out the perpetuation of species, and is
of no benefit except for the purpose in-
tended. The destruction or transforma-
tion of the body of the egg is accom-
plished by various agents, of which the
life principle (fertilized germ) is the
initial one. If the environment be fa-
vorable, the life principle, in obedience
to the law of conformity to type, takes
of the surrounding material and with
it constructs living tlesh in the form of
its progenitor, but if the natural or arti-
ficial course of incubation is not fol-
lowed to the end, the germ under cer-
tain conditions becomes the seed of de-
struction. It fis safe to estimate that in
go per cent. of worthless eggs incipient
deterioration took place directly at the
seat of the germ. If eggs could be put
into cold storage within twenty-four
hours after they have been laid, as
recommended by the Secretary of Ag-
riculture for Australia, there probably
would be no bad effects from the fertili-
zation of the eggs; but this is not prac-
ticable, and we know that under pres-
ent methods many of the eggs have un-
dergone more or less change at the point
of fertilization before they reach the
storage house, and this causes the real
trouble. The Secretary of Agriculture
for Australia has reached the conclusion
that half a day of sunshine on a fertile
egg has injured it for cold storage pur-
poses. Private experiments have shown
conclusively that infertile eggs are
preferable for commercial purposes, but
the task of revolutionizing present
methods in egg production seems of
herculean proportions when we reflect
that the farmer doesn’t care two peas
about it, and as long as he can sell any-
thing with a shell around it he is not
likely to become interested.—Egg Re-
porter.

 

 

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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc.
COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED.
74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

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Cleveland, Ohio.

References: All mercantile agencies and Park National Bank.
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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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References.

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Wholesale Butchers, Produce and
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Creamery and Dairy Butter, New-Laid Eggs, Poultry and Game.
Fruits of all kinds 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.

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WHOLESALE

FRUIT AND PRODUCE DEALERS

Specialties: Potatoes, Apples, Onions, Cabbage, Melons and Oranges in car lots.
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honest quotations.

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Leading Produce House on the Eastern Market.
DETROIT, MICH.

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

23

 

 

CAPITAL IS CAPTIOUS.

Why It Undertakes to Avoid Question-
able Neighborhoods.

When the grocer whose store stands
on the corner in a disreputable quarter
of the city undertook to secure certain
favors wholly in the legitimate lines of
business, he was met with a firm re-
fusal. ‘‘You have, it is true, met every
commercial requirement, you are hon-
est, so far as we know, and we have no
fault to find with you as a customer;
but you live in a most objectionable
neighborhood; your surroundings are
not all that could be desircd and, while
we are willing to do business with you
generally, so long as your accounts are
straight, we do not feel justified in go-
ing beyond that. Move into another and
a decent quarter or change the reputa-
tion of your present locality and we are
with you; but unless one or the other of
these conditions obtains the trade be-
tween us wili be necessarily limited.
Your money may be just as good as an-
other man’s; but neither money nor
reputation from that quarter is desir-
able; and, to be candid with you, the
proposed investment can not be consid-
ered a safe one. Physically clean money
can come from very dirty business.
Morally the statement is an impossibil-
ity. We are sorry we can not oblige
you.”’

The fact is, capital, not noted for
moral squeamishness, insists on a cash
business when the locality is in any-
way doubtful. It is respected only in
respectable communities and where hu-
man life is lawless and cheap it does not
find a safe neighborhood to be intimate
with.

The governor of a large and influen-
tial Southern State has been visiting
New York. He says, frankly and hon-
estly, that it would be for the best in-
terests of both States if New York and
Texas were closer together in a business
way. He says that there is every condi-
tion to warrant the advantage of such
commercial intimacy. There will be
3,000,000 bales of cotton to dispose of
this year. Yearly hundreds of thousands
of bushels of wheat, corn, oats and rye
will be ready for the market. Fruit of
every kind and rice and sugar are raised
and every condition for prosperous
business relations is full of the greatest
encouragement.

To be sure, there is truth in every
word he speaks and the facts are not
confined to the all-powerful now, nor to
the great commonwealth of Texas. The
whole South for years has been picking
up. From utter ruin and desolation she
has left poverty and almost beggary far
behind her and is standing now ina
brighter sunshine than has ever blessed
her before. Prosperous as she is,her re-
sources, almost wholly undeveloped, are
foreshadowing a prosperity beyond the
wildest calculation. There is but one
condition that bars her progress: She
occupies a very questionable neighbor-
hood. She not only continues to live
there but she does not improve it. Hu-
man life is not respected. Blood runs
freely on the slightest provocation. Law-
lessness reigns. Manhood is at a dis-
count and passion is the mistress of the
hour.

If there is one thing capital looks out
for it is to keep as far off from such a
neighborhood as possible. There may
be cotton and corn and wine; the soil
may be full of vegetable gain and min-
eral deposit; climate may’ throw her
mantle about it and ward off the ex-
tremes of heat and cold; thrift may
bless every corner of it; but the man

 

with the money wisely shakes his head.
Where manhood is not recognized and
protected capital will never make his
home nor will he risk his money where
such a condition of things exists. Put
out ot the account morality. Let not
religion even be mentioned. Solely on
the sordid principle of gain let the ques-
tion rest; and right here comes the same
old reply: *‘Get out of your neighbor-
hood or clean it out and I am with you.
Refuse to do that and you will receive
no helping hand from me.’’
SU

Getting at the Soft Side of the Grocer.

The grocer is a mighty sight more
important man than he thinks he is.

And some grocers think themselves
pretty important.

 

The grocer is sech an important man
that his customers make a business of
adopting the attitude toward him that
they think will be best inclined to get
his favor, which means the hest service
aid the biggest measure.

He may not know this, but it’s true,
all the same. Some customers adopt
one attitude toward him, in their every-
day intercourse with him, and some
adopt another. Each aim for the same
end, however, the joliying of the grocer
along so that he shall treat them well.

Now I call a man whose favor people
scheme to get, a great man.

I heard several ladies talking the other
evening. Housewives are very apt, |
find, to talk about their grocers when
they get together. It's an important
housekeeping detail. If a grocer could
only do a little scheming himself, so
that when his name comes up in these
talks it will be surrounded by a halo,
he would wear a plug hat oftener.

‘*Say,’’ said one of these ladies, ‘‘did
you ever notice how Mrs. Smith goes
on with Mr. Blank? I think it’s per-
fectly disgusting! Why, she’s as famil-
iar with him! I suppose she thinks
she’ll get Mr. Blank real friendly, so
he’ll give her better things.’’

Mr. Blank is the neighborhood gro-
cer, and Mrs. Smith is a young married
woman of a type that every grocer will
recognize. I heard her jolly Mr. Blank
along one night, something like this:
Mr. Blank is a bachelor of uncertain
age.

‘*l saw you down town with her the
other evening, Mr. Blank.’’

‘*With whom?’’ asked Mr. Blank,
weakly.

‘*Oh, you know. When is it to be?’’

Mr. Blank protested inarticulately.

‘*IT always said you were a great man
with the girls!’’ pursued the jollier.

All of which was punctuated with

‘*He! He! He’s’’ on the part of the
lady.
Mr. Blank blushed, smirked and

looked conscious.

The ladies whose conversation I heard
the other evening didn’t think this was
the proper way to reach the grocer’s
heart at all.

‘‘Now, when I go in to buy things,’’
said one, ‘‘I am as_ businesslike as |
can be. I simply give the order, and
have no conversation whatever with the
grocer or his clerks. I believe they ap-
preciate it,and if there’s any favoritism
to be shown, they’!] show it to the wom-
an who confines herself strictly to giv-
ing her order.’’

‘*My husband told me the other
day,’’ said another of these fair schem-
ers, ‘‘that the best way to get good
service out of a grocer was never to be
satisfied. Kick, kick, kick all the time.
He says he does that with all the peo-
ple he deals with and they’ll put them-

 

selves out to please him a good deal
more than they will the man who is
satisfied with everything.’’

I'll bet that husband is a regular Mr.
Bowser. That may be a good way to
act with your wife, but I’ll be darned if
I believe in it for the grocer.

So these experiences went. If I were
to tell what all of the women said |
should spin my column out so that the
editor would refuse to print it. But the
point of all of ’em was the same—the
best way of getting the grocer to smile
upon them, to the end that he might
bestow upon them an extra handful of
prunes or an extra potato or two. It’s
a good scheme, I admit that, for the
grocer has a soft side, even although it
1s Sometimes under his hat.—Stroller in
Grocery World.

 

——_> 2.
Bill Nye on Advertising.

A young man who was ahout to em-
bark in the shoe business wrote Bill Nye
for advice about advertising and he got
the following—and more, in return:

When a lady calls, don’t jump at
‘“business’’ the first thing hy asking her
if she wants a pair of shoes; she always
goes to the drug store for them. Ask
her how old she is; if her teeth are
false and if she lives happily with her
husband. Then introduce the subject of
shoes carefully but firmly with a slight
innuendo, as: ‘Ah! I see you’ve got
your feet with you!’’ or ‘‘When small
feet were given out in Maine you were
in Texas!’’ Try a line of Ella Wheeler
on her; woman like poetry:

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Weep and we all repine;

An extra sized shoe is the thing for you
When your foot is a number nine.

When she flounces out, ask her if
that’s her own hair or a switch. Then,
when her husband or big brother comes
around, laugh yourself as he jams your
measely head through a shoe case. This
programme will keep the town talking
about you, and is much cheaper than
advertising in the papers.

 

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Manufactured by

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Peaches, Pears, Plums, Apples, Grapes, Etc.

Sold on commission, bought or contracted for.

Write for prices, etc.

R. Hirt, Jr.,

Wholesale Produce Merchant,

34 and 36 Market St., Detroit, Mich.

Cold Storage, 435, 437, 439 Winder St.

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

 

We want

BEANS

in carlots or less.

We wish to deal direct with merchants.

Write for prices.

G. E. BURSLEY & CO., FT. WAYNE, IND.

 

Beans---Clover Seed

If any to offer mail sample, state quantity and price delivered

in Grand Rapids.

‘‘We are always in the market.’

Alfred J. Brown Seed Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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WANTED—Beans in small lots and by carload.

-BEAN

If can offer any

Beans send one pound sample each grade and will endeavor

to trade with you.

MOSELEY BROS.

Jobbers of Fruits, Seeds, Beans ana Potatoes

26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa Street

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

    

 

Clerks’ Corner.

Onc Way to Keep Track of a Clerk.
Written for the Tradesman.

John Brown, of Brownville, has the
best store in that thrifty village. He has
been bothered about to death by his
clerks. There hasn’t been anything they
haven’t done and won't do again if they
have a cchance. Their leading idea in
life is to get ahead of him in some way
and so far they have succeeded. Fora
long time he satisfied himself by dis-
charging them when they proved not to
his liking. He soon learned that he
was teaching a commercial kindergar-
ten and that other store-keepers were
ready to take his pupils by the time he
was ready to graduate them. He found
that his old idea of taking raw hands
and moulding them into his pet forms,
while it did carry out the idea of ‘‘clay
in the hands of the potter,’’ did as
surely carry out the kindergarten
thought, and of that he had had more
than enough.

He made up his mind to change his
plan. For some years now his show
case had furnished his youthful helpers
shirt studs and sleeve buttons. His neck-
ties went the same way. He _ supplied
at less than cost the collars and cuffs
which none of them had when they
came to him and while he had been
willing to do this and so help the boys
along in the world—at all events to get
Started in it—he began to find that it
was only so much patience and gener-
osity thrown away and he made up his
mind to have no more of it.

He noticed that the two clerks he now
employed were pretty well fixed so far
as goods were concerned which his
stock could furnish, and he _ noticed,
too, that both were showing those un-
mistakable sizns which mean an early
good bye. He sat down and made a lit-
tle calculation—his books furnished
him* the needed data—and he found it
would be money in his pocket to raise
the boys’ wages and save himself the
trouble of breaking in another pair of
clerks and the expense of supplying
them with the usual outfit.

So far as he could judge, the trouble
seemed to be in the fact that the boys
began by being out nights and getting
into the kind of mischief which ends in
making them uneasy and discontented
and good for nothing. Every case he
could think of was traced directly or in-
directly to that and the problem, so far
as he understood it, was how to prevent
the young fellows from being up and
out at night long after the time when
they ought to be in bed.

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was at that stage of its existence when,
like the meeting of the waters, it was
neither rivulet nor river. A big clumsy
gawk of a place, it had spread itself
over a large territory and had a frame
like a giant, which the years in time
might fill up; but there were no strong
inducements for the boys to stay and
grow up with it, and the minute they
were plumed for their flight off to the
city they went and the Brownville which
knew them once knew them no more
forever. Like most places, as it grew
it fought vigorously against the evils
which attack the growing town. ‘The
saloon came and stayed. There were
some billiard tables set up and they
thrived. Cards began to be played;
and almost before the people knew it
the young folks began to be fast. The
Sunday school began to grow thin, and
nobody but women went to church. In
a word, while the town could not be
said to be going down at the heel, it
did seem to be a bad place for a boy
who was inclined to fear being called a
‘*wayback’’ or, what was far worse,
“*not up to date.’’

Mrs. Brown was in every sense of the
word a helpmeet. She had no longings
which took her away from her husband
and his calling and, while it had been
years since she had given up her place
behind the counter, she never cared to
look beyond the horizon which shut in
the Brownville store. When, therefore,
the question was asked if she couldn't
take the boys into the house, just as
she did years ago, and she had been
told the reason, like the devoted wife
she was there was but one answer to be
thought of and that was given promptly
and heartily, and the childless woinan
made up her mind to take the boys in
and do for them and love them as if
they were her own flesh and blood.

That night after closing the store-
keeper had the boys stay for a while for
a talk. ‘‘I’ve made up my mind,’’ he
began, ‘“‘to raise your wages, boys.
You've been doing good work and
you've been faithful enough to please
me and, while I shan’t give you much
more, it’s something, and it'll let you
know anyway that | want to keep you.
There are two conditions that I want to
make and insist on if I raise your
wages—one is that you live with me and
the other is that you are at home nights
by nine o'clock, unless I know where
you are and what you are doing. I'll
give you good board and each of you
shall have a good room; but I want you
to be in it at nine o’clock and stay
there. Think it over and tell me your
decision to-morrow. I'll raise each of
you 10 per cent. Good night.’’

 

The boys left the store on air and
came back the next morning in the

same frame of mind. Mrs. Brown came’

down during the morning to report that
the rooms were ready and that afternoon
saw the transfer of bag and baggage.
Everything was done for the young men
that could be thought of or asked for
and Brown himself was forced to admit
that he had hit on the only thing that
could ever have worked with those fel-
lows. They were honest to a dot. They
were industrious to a fault. They meant
well from first to last, and all they
needed was just that little bit of re-
straint which John Brown had wit
enough to insist upon; and on that and
on every night, after the town clock
struck nine and he knew both boys were
in, he locked the only door they could
get out of and put the key under his pil-
low ; and every night Susan Brown heard
him say to himself with infinite satis-
faction, ‘“‘There, darn ye! With the
windows fastened on the outside, and
the only key under my pillow, you can
skin out and carouse all night if you
can, and I’]] never say a word!’’

It was a good while before the boys
found ouc that they were locked in from
nine o'clock until morning. The first
thought was rebellion; but when sober
sense came to the front and they saw
what an advantage the rest and the
home had been to them they kept the
matter to themselves, glad that ‘‘Uncle
John,’’ as they learned to call the store-
keeper, had marked out the way and
compelled them to walk in it; while
Brown himself, to this day, affirms that
**the only way to get along with clerks
is to put ‘em under lock and key and
keep ’em there!’’

Richard Malcolm Strong.
oe
Make a Good Showing.

Make as good a showing of your
clothing stock as possible. Keep the
stock as neat and as well matched up as
your men’s stock. Men usually are far
better keepers of stock than women.
They keep it cleaner and more neatly--
points of great importance in determin-
ing the selling of goods of this class.
Stocks should be arranged so that the
very small boys and the large lads are
kept as far apart as possible. The boy
of twelve or fourteen feels that he is no
longer a ‘‘baby’’ and he does not wish
to buy his clothes where ‘‘babies’’ buy
theirs. Consequently it is as well to
keep goods for boys of that age as far
as possible from goods for smaller lads.
This is a point that the clothing man
should pay particular attention to.
Different mirrors for large and small
boys should also be provided for the
Same reason.

———> 6 > —__

Buy within your means, then you are

sure to be able to pay in like proportion.

Try the

‘‘The Lamps That Don’t Go Out Nights”

They’ll stand by you, and you’ll stand by them.

power, 7 hours I cent.

329 South Main Street,

Mantles, Shades, Chimneys and Supplies.

 

The Modern Commercial Traveler.

A commercial traveler’s life is not to
be gone into for the ‘‘fun of traveling.’’
Travel very soon loses its fun when one
must catch trains at all hours of the
night and morning, wait for hours at
stations for belated trains, ride in cold,
illy-ventilated cars, snatch a bite of
food at such eating places as present
themselves, and often sleep sitting up
in a ‘‘day coach.’’ Yetall these dis-
comforts enter into the life, particularly
at the beginning when a ‘‘drummer’’ is
given the small towns.

And even after he is years ‘‘on the
road,’’ and his route covers only the
large cities, the life is full of hardships.
The life makes one keen—sharpens a
man’s wits; it develops what there is in
him, and gives him experiences with-
out number. No class of men are more
interesting than commercial travelers,
for their experiences are varied and in-
numerable; they run up against all
kinds and conditions of people. Each
customer is an individual problem to
be handled and solved ina way best
suited to the individual. The life makes
one a keen judge of men; it gives one a
knowledge of the country and its people
which no other life does in the same
period of time. But there is no ‘‘fun’’
in traveling toa ‘‘drummer.’’ Don't
get that wrong notion into your head.

Traveling, as a commercial traveler
must travel, is work, and the hardest
kind of work. The life is only to be
commended to one with special adapt-
ability for it. It takes a keen-minded,
a  quick-thinking, equable-tempered
man, a man, too, of robust health and
capable of easy adjustment to all kinds
of conditions and inconveniences, to
make a successful ‘‘drummer.’’ The
hardest-worked men in the country to-
day are those we call ‘‘drummers.’’

Selling goods in the face of modern
competition in all lines of business,
and living, as they must, at all sorts of
hotels, eating at all times of the day,
they are a class to whom not half enough
credit is given—and, what is more to
the point, not half enough salary is gen-
erally paid.

nn

The plow industry of the United
States has grown to mammoth propor-
tions. While a plow is a plow, there are
differences enough to make _ it worth
while to know something about the lead-
ing plows in the market. The reputa-
tion of our plows in foreign countries
has been well earned, and is lasting.
There is no requirement of the foreign
trade which can not be met as thorough-
ly as the requirements of our home
farms. The facilities of our shops are
complete, and the experience of our
manufacturers covers every possible
need.

“Ann Arbor” Gasoline Lamps

Cheapest artificial light known—100 candle

Light With a Match—No Alcohol Required. All Styles— $4.50 to $18.00.

Write for catalogue and discounts to trade.

The Superior Manufacturing Co.,

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

25

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knighis 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, GEO. W. HILL, Detroit.

 

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. €. T.
Senior Counselor, JOHN G. Koun; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association

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

 

 

Why He Did Not Want To Be a Boy Again.

‘‘There are two conditions in life,’’
said the gripsack man, as he threw down
the paper that had evidently displeased
him, ‘‘which | wish could be wiped out
of existence. One of them I have lived
through and the other I hope to shun.
From the time a human being is fifteen
years old until he is old enough to put a
stop to it he lives in an atmosphere of
‘ought.’ *You ought to do this and you
ought: to do that.’ It begins at home,
it goes on in the school house, the
church takes it up until sermon and
Sunday school are unendurable and
then the world at large takes a hand
and plays it for all it is worth. When
the time comes and the man gets all of
it he can stand, he turns with a ‘ You
just mind your d—elightful business!’
and the advice-receiving period of life is
over. It isn’t any wonder the nineteen
year older wants to get away from home
where he can _ have his own room and
his own night key. That doesn’t mean
half the mischief that the majority in-
sist it does; but it does mean that man-
hood has come and with it the desire to
get used to its responsibilities early
and in its own way.

‘‘If [am not mistaken the desire to
be a dispenser of advice comes at that
period when wickedness ceases to have
charms and js insisting on its usual
back pay. ‘The devil then is getting
sick and soa saint would be,’ and be-
cause he can’t ‘carry on’ and charge it
up to the future any longer, he tries to
balance his account with wholesome ad-
vice to the next generation.

‘*That will do for the moral side;
and the intellectual is just asbad. You
‘ought’ and ‘if you don’t’ are the sub-
stance of it all and the wonder is that
the sufferer, boy or girl, doesn’t oftener
‘go contrary’ just to show that the
‘ought’ and the ‘if’ are not what they
are cracked up to be. Until I got dis-
gusted with it | used to like to hear the
first old codger | ever worked for put
on his glasses, that made him look like
Dogberry, and hear him tell me what |
‘ought’ to do if I was to be a success in
business: ‘Before a young man can
expect to get along in business he must
be able to write a good plain hand.’
That sounds all right, but that old
skezecks, worth $50,000 that he had
made in trade, couldn’t write for sour
apples and, by jingo! once when he
went to charge up a grindstone toa
farmer he made a circle with a square
in the center of it. Did, fora fact.

‘*Another old string he and a good
many others like to harp on is in the
same line: ‘*You ought to write a good

sensible letter, you ought to speak and
write good English, you ought to add
up a column of figures right straight off
and get it right the first time, you ought
to make neat entries in your books, and

 

if you don’t you’re going to fail just as
sure’s you don’t do what I tell you.’ It’s
all right enough. A man that knows
how to handle English with tongue or
pen has something to be proud of; but
old Dogberry knew, as well as anybody
does, that a good many millionaires—I
guess a majority of them—can't write
good English any more than they can
talk it, and if their money-getting de-
pended on it they’d be poorer than Job's
traditional turkey.

‘*Don’t misunderstand me—I’m_ not
crying down these things. I've a hoy
and girl who are up in that line and
I’m proud of them; but I hate and de-
test the advice that the Dogberries are
giving and | always break a lance with
them when I get achance. They do
more harm than good. Their lives are
too often a refutation of what they say;
the whole thing is a sham and I’m down
on it.

‘‘What young folks need more than
anything else is less advice and more
practice. That mother was a fool who
told her children that they mustn’t stick
beans up their noses; and the doctor
who removed them ought to have sent
in a big Dill, if he didnt. That man
with a smart fourteen year old boy call-
ing him Dad _ knows on general prin-
ciples,every time that he turns him over
to his mother—or, what is almost as
bad, to the street-—that the boy is starv-
ing for a little practical father-training,
which nobody under heaven but himself
can give, the lack of which during the
next ten years is going to make his
foolish, old paternal head a great deal
whiter than it is now. It isn’t the num-
ber of dollars that will do the mischief,
but the not knowing how to spend them;
and when | look back over the dreadful
time I had learning how,I wouldn’t like
to be a boy again to go all over it
again. Drop out, of life the advice-
taking and the advice-giving periods
and I haven't a word to say. I have
lived through the first, and I have made
arrangements with both my _ children
that when I reach the other and show
signs of the complaint’s breaking out, |
am to be quietly put out of the way.”’

oe
Gradually Gaining Ground—Condemn the

. Lake Shore.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 22—The local
council of the United Commercial Trav-
elers of America is fast advancing to
the front in point of numbers, having a
membership already that crowds the
hundred mark:closely and a nice bunch
of applications awaiting their turn at
the ‘‘goat.’’ The boys are determined
to make our council the leading one in
the State and are fast nearing ihe goal.
Come, all ye knights of the road, and
join our ranks! We want to extend to
you the glad hand of good fellowship
and protection.

At our last meeting our Council ex-
emplified the usual generosity of travel-
ing men by contributing a snug little
sum from our general fund to the U. C.
T. sufferers at Galveston.

We received an invitation from the
Knights of the Grip to attend their
meetings preparatory for their entertain-
ing the State delegation here in Decem-
ber, for which we wish to say thanks.

Every member of our Council con-
demns the action of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railway in with-
drawing from the Northern Mileage
Bureau. We may in the near future
feel it our duty and only means of
effective retaliation to ship our goods
over competing lines altogether; but it
is not agreeable to a smal] minority of
our members to antagonize the interests
or progress of any corporation or indus-
try and we hope for a speedy reconsid-
eration and reinstatement of the North-
ern mileage book by the Lake Shore
system. Official Scribe.

 

Two Good Traveling Men Stories.

It is said that on one occasion a
drummer and his family were gathered
at his breakfast table, and his little boy
said: ‘‘Papa, | had a strange dream
last night. I thought I died and went
to heaven, and when I knocked on the
gate good St. Peter asked me who |
was. I told him | was a drummer's boy
and he gave me a piece of chalk and
showed me a very high ladder, and told
me to begin climbing that ladder. And
he said every time that I thought of a
mean thing to make a mark on a
round of the ladder. And I began
climbing, and climbed higher and high-
er until I was so high that I was almost
dizzy, and I met you coming down.”’
The father, with a startled exclamation
said: ‘‘Me coming down?’’ ‘‘Yes,
you coming down.’’ ‘‘What was I com-
ing down for?’’ ‘‘More chalk,’’ said
the boy.

A drummer who had been a book-
keeper started to enter the portals above
without knocking. St. Peter said:
‘*Hold, who are you?’’ He answered:
‘“‘l am a drummer; | used to be a book-
keeper.”’ Good St. Peter said:
‘Well, if you were a good book-keeper
you should know that your account is
overdrawn.’’ ‘*How do you make
that?’’ asked the drummer. ‘‘It is just
that way; the books show it.’’ ‘‘ Let me
see the books,’’’ said the drummer. He
made a rapid calculation, and saw how
much he was overdrawn and made an
entry on the other page of that same
amount to the credit of Profit and Loss,
which, of course, made the hooks. bal-
ance. St. Feter scratched his head,
looked first at the drummer, then at the
books and said: ‘‘What system do you

call that?’’ The drummer replied:
‘““The double entry system.’’ With
considerable dignity St. Peter said:

oe

You’ve made one entry here; go he-
low and make the double entry.’’
Gripsack Brigade.

Chas H. Worden has removed to_ this
city from Detroit to take up the work
of introducing Virginia Brights ciga-
rettes to the attention of Western Mich-
igan dealers.

Coopersville has no hotel and needs
one badly. The lack of hotel facilities
is a great drawback to the town and a
source of annoyance and inconvenience
to those traveling salesmen who would
like to remain in the place over night.

Alma Record: Chas. E. Silsbee, who
has had charge of the clothing depart-
ment of H. J. Vermeulen during the
past two years, has resigned to take a
position as traveling representative for
the Goshen Shirt Co., of Goshen, Ind.

O. A. Perry, who has had charge of
the bicycle department of C. B. Metzger
for the past two seasons, has engaged
to travel in the Southern and Gulf States
for the Sneil Cycle Fittings Co., of To-
ledo, visiting the jobbing trade ex-
clusively.

It is confidently expected that there
will be a full attendance of Grand Rap-
ids traveling men at Sweet’s Hotel Sat-
urday evening to take up the matter of
effecting preliminary arrangements for
the coming convention of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip.

Eaton Rapids Journal: Chas. D.
Buell, formerly traveling salesman for
the T. M. Bissell Plow Co., was mar-
ried Wednesday to Miss Winefred La-
Fluer, a popular young lady of Hills-
dale. Mr. Buell is State agent for the
Moline Plow Co. The happy couple
will make their future home in Jackson.
‘‘T aman admirer of the commercial

 

traveler of to-day,’’ remarked a promi-
nent merchant the cther day. ‘‘He is
the very essence of push and enter-
prise. He comes to me with a happy
face and a glad hand. He brings good
stories to amuse me and a fund of
knowledge regarding each and every
market which is not alone surprising
but interesting and valuable. He ap-
pears just as much at home ina village
of one hundred people as he does ina
city of twenty thousand, and that spirit
of cheer and contentment which he car-
ries in stock has drawn me.closer to him.
I like the drummer and do all I can to
encourage him. The man who calls on
me soliciting trade is the one who gets
the business. He has every shade and
discount in price which the market will
stand and his schemes are better than I
could do in his own house. Fact is,
the drummer fills me with ideas of en-
terprise and I believe that it is through
his views being put to practical use
that the country merchant sells thous-
ands of dollars’ worth of goods which
otherwise would not be sold on the mar-
ket. Let the traveling man continue to
be honest and worthy and his confidence
will never be misplaced among the mer-
chants. I will always havea kind word
to say for the traveling man, for I like
him, and if possible would encourage
every house who wishes to do business
to extend territory and place more men
on the road. The man on the road al-
ways deserves my orders, and _ those
who come after the business get it. I
always will save orders for the traveling
men,and feel that every merchant should
do likewise. It is a mutual good, but
the predominence of benefit is always
on the merchant’s side, for we absorb
every idea which the drummer gives out
of his large business knowledge accum-
ulated in experience’s true school.’’

> ese -
Merchants Active

Work.

Port Huron, Oct. 20—At the last reg-
ular meeting of the Merchants & Manu-
facturers’ Association, H. C. Hope and

Port Huron in Good

O’Brien Brothers were admitted to
membership.

It was voted to hereafter sell 15
pounds of sugar for $1.

F. C. Woods reported that the
Buchanan school was full and that the
accommodations were poor. He said
there was no playground around the

school house and that only four grades
were taught in the school. Mr. Woods
said a number of families would take
up their residence in the tunnel district
if they could find houses and better
sch ol facilities. He maintained that
there were not enough seats in the
school room.

School Inspector Busby was present
and stated that all the necessary seats
could be obtained if desired.

It was brought to the attention of the
Association that certain members had
violated their agreement and purchased
gift goods. A motion was made to sus-
pend all members who did not live up
to the agreement of the Association.
The motion was voted down.

W. D. Brown jumped on Jobn M.
Hoffman. He said that he was build-
ing an ice house on city property on the
lake front. He wanted some action taken
to restrain him from going ahead with
the work. W. D. Smith also condemned
the action of Mr. Hoffman. He said if
the aldermen did not know enough to
stop him that the people should take a
hand. It was voted to ask the council
to take immediate action.

It was voted to hold a smoker with re-
freshments at the next meeting.

—___>2>—___

It seems reasonable that when the
worst comes to the worst, the best thing
to do is to make the best of it.

iT

The man who saws wood and does
not talk would do well anywhere.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires

 

 

GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - ~- Dee. 31, 1902
WIirT P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dee. 31, 1903
A.C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1904

President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Secretary, HENRY HErIM, 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 i
Treasurer—W. K. Scumipt, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Crippled By Reason of Defective Educa-
cation.

My experience on the Board of Phar-
macy brings me in constant contact
with many pharmaceutical cripples—
young men who go_ hobbling along,
stumbling and blundering because they
are too indolent or too self-indulgent to
make the effort and sacrifice needed to
secure themselves a pharmaceutical ed-
ucation. When I see a young man less
than 30 years of age with no one de-
pendent pon him for support, ignorant
of the principles of chemistry, knowing
only such pharmaceutical technique as
can be picked up in the drug store, with
little definit- scientific knowledge of any
kind, and he tells me that he can’t go
to college because he hasn't the money,
as a general thing I do not believe him.
If he has a thorough determination to
master his profession and has _ good
health, I tell him that ‘‘where there’s a
will there’s a way.’’ Assiduous indus-
try and rigid economy will enable such
a young man in these days to secure a
pharmaceutical education. He may have
lacked early advantages at school. This
loss can be made up by utilizing his
spare hours and minutes. If he has had
a fair preliminary education and is
thoroughly in earnest in his endeavor to
go to college, some way will present
itself, provided he be industrious and
economical.

There is another class whom I will
call voluntary cripples who, because
they do not like some branch of science
which is essential to the well-rounded
pharmacist’s education, deliberately re-
fuse to study it. Even in college I
have known young men whp found
chemistry difficult, and therefore would
skip it all they could, and others who,
claiming that they were not going to
be botanists but druggists, almost re-
fused to study botany; and so with other
subjects. They are voluntary cripples,
because they are willing to-remain in
ignorance of a portion of the pharma-
cist’s equipment while fair students in
other branches, preferring to trust to
their good fortune in being able to find
some one who can help them out, should
they ever need assistance in those mat-
ters which they have failed to study, in-
stead of mastering them themselves.
They remind me of those two men who
used to ride tandem on a bicycle in an
Eastern city. One had lost the right
arm and left leg, and the other had lost
the left arm and right leg. By dint of
long continued, presevering practice,
these two men could get along as the
average man by joining their forces to-
gether on a tandem wheel; but any one
can see that for all cycling purposes
each of these was only half a man.
These half-men we have in our colleges,
and sometimes in our drug stores. They
are voluntary cripples, because they
have deliberately refused to study that
which was difficult or uncongenial. How

 

much hetter for each man, when he has
the opportunity, to develop his powers
in all needful directions, so that he
may become a well-rounded pharmacist.

And what shall we say of the young
man who, by cramming with quiz com-
pends, examination questions, and
other subterfuges for legitimate study,
supplemented by no little cribbing, has
managed, partly by good luck and part-
ly by cunning, to get through the State
board, and rejoices in the possession of
a certificate as a full-fledged licentiate?
Too often he thinks he knows it all.
His case is the most hopeless that we
have to deal with. He is like the blind
man who has no sense of color. He
does not know how much he loses by
not seeing what others see, and it is
hard for any one to tell him. He is be
yond hope. Unlike the man who knows
his own defects, he makes no effort to
overcome them.

But there is another class of cripples,
fortunately not so hopeless, whom I
often meet in my capacity as dean of
the College of Pharmacy. I refer to
young men who wish to acquire a
knowledge of pharmacy, but are
crippled by reason of their defective
general education. For almost a gener-
ation I have watched such young men,
and have seen how handicapped they
have been in their efforts to learn their
profession after they have set about it
in good earnest. Often we see them
hobbling along as indifferent students,
because they find they do not make as
good progress as others. This discour-
ages them, and after a time they drop
out altogether, having wasted time and
money in a fruitless effort to build the
top story before they had laid the foun-
dation. I am not speaking of those
who never were disposed to study, and
consequently made but little progress in
the public schools and less in a school
of pharmacy. Such persons are not
fitted for any calling in which success
depends largely upon the acquisition
of scientific knowledge. These young
men sometimes enter drug stores with
erroneous views as to what will be re-
quired to make them successful phar-
macists. Being averse to study, they
acquire no more than a smattering of
knowledge. It is scarcely to be expected
under these conditions that they should
persevere until graduation. Frequently
they drop out after attending college a
few months.

Our best opportunity of serving the
future pharmacists occurs whenever we
have an opportunity of inducing youths
to postpone entering drug stores until
after they have completed their high
school course. By doing this we not
only render them a service, but also
promote the cause of legitimate phar-
macy. W. M. Searby.

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A Case of Poisoning by Oil of Wintergreen.

B. Pillsbury in the Medical Record
reports the case of a middle-aged farmer
who took two ounces of oil of winter-
green, thinking it was whisky. The
substance was taken at 4 p. m., and he
continued at his work; two hours later
there came on a copious diarrhea, which
continued unti] death. In a domestic
way mustard was given as an emetic,
with the whites of a dozen raw eggs and
a little water. He was not seen by a
physician until 9 p. m., five hours st
the drug was taken. He was then found
to be sweating profusely, with a sub-
jective sense of heat internally. The
following day the skin was very red
and the itching of the surface was in-
tense. In the afternoon the pulse did
not intermit, but it was very rapid.
Death occurred forty-one hours after the
wintergreen was taken.

 

Those Jokes About the Druggists.

Once upon a midnight dreary, as
some fool reporter pondered, weak and
weary, he said to himself, ‘‘I will write
a joke about the druggists.’’ And he
wrote the one that came out in the daily
papers about twelve years ago (and
which we trust our esteemed contem-
poraries will soon quit printing, as it
will in time grow ancient )aboutthe drug-
gist at church who was asleep and re-
sponded to the minister’s question if
there was no balm in Gilead, by saying
that he was out but had something just
as good.

History records but two other jokes
about druggists. In Homer’s_ early
youth, which is farther back than we
can remember, there appeared a joke in
the almanac credited to the Jurassic
age, which was the story of the deaf
woman who paid the druggist five cents
instead of seventy-five as she should.
You all know how much the druggist
made anyhow, and we will let that pass.
The other joke regarding the difference
in price between a solution of sodium
chloride in aqua pura and common salt
and water, has never yet been traced to
the guilty wretch who perpetrated it,
but the common belief now is, among
druggists, that it was coeval with the
first appearance of Adam in the fruit
business, and probably was one of the
good stories with which the other and
smoother gentleman beguiled Eve into
eating that which she should have left

alone.
——__>2.—___

The Drug Market.

Opium—The market is firmer and has
advanced sc per pound. It is believed
that prices will rule higher, on account
of the situation in the primary markets.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Is firm at unchanged prices.

Cocaine—Is in very small supply and
many manufacturers are not offering for
sale, and others restrict their sales to
small quantities. An advance is ex-
pected.

Glycerine—The consuming season is
now on and the demand is large. Man-
ufacturers will not accept future orders.
Another advance is looked for.

Menthol—Continues to advance and
the market is decidedly strong.

Juniper Berries— The advice that the
new crop would be short has been con-
firmed and higher prices are expected.

Essential Oils—Clove has advanced
2¥%c. Erigeron has been advanced toc

per pound. Cedar leaves is very scarce
and has again advanced. Sassafras has
advanced again. Stocks are small and
tending higher. Wormwood is very
scarce and has been advanced.

Lemon Grass—Has been advanced, on
account of scarcity.

Linseed Oil—Advanced toc on the
zoth and 2c per gallon on the 22d, on
account of the high price for seed.

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The Devil For a Patient.

Lord Morris of the Irish Bench, whose
procedure is more noted for wit than
for judicial dignity, was once trying a
case in wnich damages were claimed
from a veterinary surgeon for having
poisoned a valuable horse. The issue
depended upon whether a certain num-
ber of grains of a particular drug could
be safely administered to the animal. A
doctor proved that he had often given
eight grains to a man, from which it
was to be inferred that twelve fora
horse was not excessive.

‘“Never mind yer eight grains,
docther,’’ said the judge. ‘‘We all
know that some poisons are cumulative
in effect, and ye may go to the edge of
ruin with impunity. But tell me this:
the twelve grains—wouldn’t they kill

 

the devil himself if he swallowed
them?’’

The doctor was annoyed and pom-
pously replied :

‘*T don’t know, my lord; I never had
him for a patient.’’

From the bench came the answer:

‘‘Ah, no, docther, ye niver had,
more’s the pity! The old boy’s still
aloive.’’

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

27

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

Advanced—Opium, Oil Wormwood, Oil Sassafras, Oil E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reclined—
Acidum
Aceticum ... $ 6@$ 8
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75
BOrAGe cs: @ WW

Jarbolicum .......... 30@ = 42

oa... .......... 45@ 48
Hydrochlor......... 3@ =«OC«B
Nitrocum............ 8@ 10
Oxalioum.......°.... 12@ 14
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15
Salicylicum ......... 55@ «60
Sulphuricum ....°... 14@ 5
Tannicum ........... 1 10@ 1 20
Tartaricum ......... 38@ 40

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ 66
Aqua, 20 deg. . 6@ 8
Carbonas............ B@ %%
Chloridum........... w@ 14
Aniline
Bie... 2 00@ 2 25
Brown . 80@ 1 00

— 45@ 50

VWellow......--...-.-. 2 50@ 3 00
Baccze
Cubebe..... -po,25 22@ 24
Juniperus......... ro _6@ 8
Xanthoxylum ....... 75@ 80
Balsamum
Co —- 5O@ 55
Per ci Eee cee cs @ 1 85
Terabin, Canada.... 45@ 50
Tonmban...... ... 40@ 45
Cortex
Abies, Canadian..... 18
Cases... 12
Cinchona Flava..... 18
Euonymus atropurp. 30
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20
Prunus Virgini...... 12
Quillaia, gr’d........ 12
Sassafras ...... po. 15 12
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25
Glycyrrhiza, 23@ 30
Hzematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12
Hezematox, Is........ 13@ 14
Hzematox, 4S....... M@ 15
Hzematox, 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

Sulphate, — =

bbl, per cwt.. 80

Sulphate, pure...... / 7
Flora
Arnica.............-. 156@ 18
Anthemis..........-. 22@ 25
Matricaria........... 30@ 35
Folia
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Cassia, Acutifal, As 25@ 30

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Gummi
Acacia, ist picked... @ 65
Acacia, 2d picked... @ 4
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35
Acacia, ipa sorts. @ 28
Acacia, 45@ 65
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12@ 14
Aloe, Cape....po. = g 12
Aloe, Socotri. . po. 40 » 30
Ammoniac........... 55@ 60
Assafoetida....po.30 28@ 30
Benzoinum.......... 50@ 55
Catechu, Is.... @ 18
Catechu, 4S... ie @ 14
Catechu, 4S......... = 16
Campnore .......... 6! 73
Euphorbium... po. 35 @ 40
= ADU. .......... @ 100

Gamboge ......... po 65@ 70
Guaiacum......p0. 25 @ 30
Kino........ po. $0.75 @ 77
Niersnie 2...) 3. @ 60
Nigrrh. .... ...- @ 4
Opii....po. i ados.00 3 45@ 3 =
Seelae
Shellac, bleached.. 40@ 45
Tragacanth.......... 50@ = 80

Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20
Lobelia ...... oz. pkg 25
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28
Mentha Pip. .0z. pkg 23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25
Hue... .... = .0z. pkg 39
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22
Thymus, V...0z. pkg 25

Magnesia
Caleined, Pat........ 55@ «60
Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20
Carbonate, K.& M.. 18@ 2

‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20

Oleum
AbSinthium......... 6 50@ 7 00
Amygdalz, Dulc.. 38@ 65
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Chenopadii Sleigistsicis ne @ 2 75
Cinnamonii ......... 1 30@ 1 40
Citronella........... 3@ 40

 

 
 

  

 

 

Conium Mac......... 50@ 60
Copaiba ............. 1 15@ 1 25
DUNE 1 20@ 1 25
Exechthitos......... 1 00@ 1 10
Erigeron ............ 110@ 1 20
Gaultheria .......... 2 00@ 2 10
Geranium, ounce.. @ 7
Foscippll. St Sem. gal. 50@ 60
Hedeoma.. .ee-. 1 40@ 1 50
Junipera ............ 1 50@ 2 00
Lavendula .......... 90@ 2 00
Limonis . . 150@ 1 60
Mentha Piper. .... . £2 2 00
Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60
Morrhue, ‘gal....... 1 20@ 1 25
Myra. |... 4 00@ 4 50
Oiye. 75@ 3 00
Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12
Picis — - @ 35
Ricina.. -..-. 1 00@ 1 08
Rosmarini....... 1... @ 100
Rose, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50
Race 40@ 45
SAOIMA 8... 90@ 1 00
Banter 2 76@ 7 00
Sassafras... 60@ 65
Tea ess., ‘ounce. @ 65
ee es 50@ 1 60
Thyme _. 40@ 50
Thyme, opt.. @ 1 60
Theobromas .. 15@ 2
akeineiaain
BECAMp 8. 16@ 18
Bichromate ......... 13@ 15
Bromide 52@ «BT
Carb . 12@ 15
Chlorate... “po. “17@19 146@ 18
CVAMMGG 08k. 335@ =40
fogide 2 60@ 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30
Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
Potass Nitras, opt. 7@ 10
Potass Nitras.. 6@ 8
Prussiate. . sc. 20m 2
Sulphate po. eee eS 16@ 18
Radix
Aconitum............ 20@ 25
a 2@ 2
Anchusa . 10@ «12
Arum po..... ao %
Calamus.. 20@ 40
Gentiana ....__ ..po. “15 12@ 15
Glyehrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden. @
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 12@ 15
rawla, pO... ... |... 15@ 20
Ipecac, po........... 4 25@ 4 35
Iris plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40
Jalapa, pr. sa dec 25@ 30
Maranta, 4s........ @ 35
— po.. 22@ 25
ee 75@ 1 00
Brel. eug. @ 1 25
Rhei, eee 75@ 1 35
Spigelia 35@ 38
Sanguinari ia. “| po. “15 @ 18
Serpentaria ......... 40@ 45
Senega.. 60@ 65
Smilax, Officinalis H. @ 40
Smilax, gee oe @ 6
Sceillz . 35 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Feeti-

Ms PO @
Valeri iana,Eng. po. 30 a
Valeriana, German. 15@ 20
Zmngibera........... M@ 16
Zingiber j............ 23@ 27

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Anisum . - po. @ #2
= aged (siavéieons), 13@ 15
Bird, 1 4I@ 6 «6
Carui..... 12@ 13
Cardamon 1 25@ 1 75
Coriandrum.. cas 8@ 10
Cannabis Sativa... |. 4@5
Cydonium . - T@100
Cc enopodium .- 10@ = 12
Dinterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10
Foeniculum.......... @ 10
ee po... _.. 7™@ 9
Lini i, grd....-bbi. 3 40 ris
n We as 2 ,
—- : 40
Pharlaris Canarian.. 44@ 5
OA 44@ 5
Sinapis Alba.. 9% 10
Sinapis Nigra....... i@ 12
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25
Hruoment............ 12 1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50
——" arum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10
t. Vini Galli....... 17 6 50
ni O = 1 25@ 2 00
Vint A 1 25@ 2 00
‘aie
Florida sheeps’ wool
earriage...... 2 50@ 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
Carriage............ 2 50@ 2 75
Velvet tae sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @ 1 50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage Bea @ 1 2
Grass ‘sheeps’ wool,
carriage . . @100
Hard, for slate use. @ 7
Yellow Reef, for
slate use........... @140
Syrups
CMOIA @
Auranti Cortex... @ 50
Ziagiber.. 2.5.2... @ 50
ot - @ 60
erri Tod... @ 0
Rhei A @ 50
Smilax ‘officinalis. 50@ 60
Se ene oe oes @ 50
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0 @ 50
Pronus virg........- @ 50

Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R 60
Aconitum —— F 50
Aloes . 60
Aloes and Myrrh... 60
AUIMCS A. 50
Assatoctids ee da ceus 50
Atrope Belladonna.. 60
Auranti Cortex...... 50
Benzoin . tee can ee 60
Benzoin Co.......... 50
Barosma.......... |. 50
Cantharides......... 75
Capsicum ............ 50
Cardamon........... 75
Cardamon Co.. 75
Castor... 1 00
Catechu . 50
Cinchona .. ioe oe 50
Cinchona Co. eee. 60
Columba . peesee 50
Cubebe...... Boos 50
Cassia Acutifol...... 50
Cassia Acutifol Co... 50
Digitalis............. 50
Ergot.. 50
Ferri Chloridum.. 35
Gentian . ae 50
Gentian Co.......... 60
Guiaea. . eee 50
Guiaca ammon...... 60
Hyoscyamus......... 50
Iodine __ 75
Iodine, colorless. |... 75
Mine 50
Lobelia 50
Poo ae 50
Nux Vomica..... os 50
Ope. Me 75
Opii, comphorated.. 50
Opii, deodorized..... 1 50
Ciinssig, =... 50
Rhatany... i 50
CS 50
Sanguinaria. 50
Serpentaria . 50
Stromonium. 60
Tolutan ..... < 60
Valorian ............ 50
Veratrum Veride... 50
Zrmigiber.. 6... 20

Miscellaneous

ther, Spts. Nit.? F 30@ 35
Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Alamen ©0000 | 24@ 3
Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
Amnatio.............. 40@ 50
Antimoni, po........ 4@ «65
‘Antimonie PotassT 40@ 50
Anmftipyrim ........... @a ws
Antifebrin .......... @ 2
i — Oz... @ 50
Arsenicum .......... 10@ = 12
Baim : Gilead _—- 3G 40
Bismuth S. N..... 90@ 2 00
Calcium Chior., @ g
Calcium Chlor.. a @ 10
Caleium Chlor., \4s.. @ Ff
Cantharides, Rus. 7 @
Capsici Fructus, a @ 15
Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15
CapsiciF ructus B, po @ 15
Caryophyllus. ._po.15 12@ 14
Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Cera Alba........... 50@ 55
Cera Flava.......... 40@ 42
Coccus . See oe @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ 35
Conirarm............ @ 10
Cetaceum.. o @ 4
Chloroform ..... 55@ ~=—s«60
Chloroform, squibbs @ 110
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90
Chondrus............ 20@ 25
Cinchonidine,P.& W 38@ 48
Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Cocaine . 7 05@ 7 25
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 70
Creosotum........... @ 35
Creta . .. bbl. 75 @ 2
Creta, prep.. @ 5
Creta, ae ees cc 9@ 11
Creta, Rubra........ @ 8
Crocus . cecenee | OG SS
Cudbear....... @ 24
Cupri Sulph 644@ 8
Dextrine . 7@ 10
Ether Sulph.. 75@ 90
os. al numbers. @ 8
Em @ 6
ea 8@ 9
Flake V 12@ «15
Galla..... Q@ 2
Gambler . se 9
Gelatin, G ‘ooper ee @ 60
Gelatin, French. .... 35@ «60
slassware, flint, box 75 & 6
Less than box : 70
Glue, brown 1@ 13
Glue; white 15@ 25
Glycerina..... 17%@_ 25
Grana Paradi @ 2B
Huomoies............ 23@ 55
Hydrarg Chlor Mite @ 1 00
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. @ 9
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 1 10
Hydrarg Ammoniati @ 1 20
ian a 50@_~=s«60
Hydrargyrum. @ 8
= — olla, Am... 65@ 70
- to@10
a Resubi...... 3 85@ 4 00
Todoform............ 3 85@ 4 00
io @ 50
L =: 7@ 75
6@ 75

Ligu awd “Arsen et Hy-
rarg Iod.. @
Liquor a 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sul 2@Q@ 3
Magnesia, Sulbh, ‘pbi @ 1%
Mannia, &. F........ NOQ@

 

Menthol.. @4
Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 25@ 2 80
Morphia,§ by Ne. We. Q.

2 15@ 2
Moschus Canton.. @
Mpyristica, No. 1..... 65@
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @
Os Sepia... .......... 35@,
a Saae, H. & P.
oo... @1
Picis Liq. N.N. 2 eal.
doz. @2
Picis Liq., , quarts... @1
Picis Liq., pints. .... @
Pil Hydrarg. . . po. 80 @
2d Nigra... po. 22 @
— Alba.. = 35 @
Piix Burgun.. @
Plumbi Aecet....._... 10@
Pulvis Ipecac et Gi 1 30@ 1
Pyrethrum, boxes
Co., doz... @
Pyrethrum, ...... 25,
Quasske ..... 8@
Quinia,S.P.& W... 40G@%
Quinia,S. German... 39@
Quinia, N. ¥......... 39@
Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@
Saccharum Lactis pv 18@
Sane e.. 4 50@ 4
Sanguis —. 40@
Sapo, a: Ko
Sapo M..
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Se nes 20@ 22) Linseed, pure raw... 75 78
Pi @ 18| Linseed, boiled...... 76 79
Sina i, ‘opt. @ 30 Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
— Maceaboy, De @ | Spirits Turpentine... 48 55
1}
snuft Scotch, De Vo’s @ 41 Paints BBL. LB.
Soda, Boras.......... @
Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11/ Red Venetian... 1% 2 @8
Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
Soda. Garb... 1%4@ 2| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
Soda, Bi-( a 3@ 5| FE utty,, commercial.. 24% 2%@3
Soda, Ash.. 3%@ 4| Putty, strictly pure. 244 2%@3
Soda, Sulphas @ 2) Vermilion, Prime
Spts. Cologne @ 260; American . 13@ 15
Spts. Ether Co G 55 | Vermilion, English. . 70@ 75
Spts. Myreia Dom.. @ 200) Green, Paris........ 14@ 18
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Spts. Vini Rect. %bbl @ | Lead, red...... -- 64@ 6%
Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ | Lead, Wits... 64@ 6%
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ | Whiting, white Span @ 8
‘aeschan, Crystal... 1 05@ 1 25 | ¥ hiting, gilders’. @ 9
Sulphur, Sub 2%@  4| White, Paris, Amer. @12
Sulphur, Roll. . 24@ 3%| Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Tamarinds . S$ 10) _ clin... @ 140
Terebenth Venice.. 28@ 30) Universal P repared. 1 10@ 1 20
Theobrom2.......... 60@ 65 :
Nana... 9 00@16 00 | Varnishes
Zinci Sulph.. : @ 8] a an .
| No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
oils | Extra Turp.......... 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
Lard, No.t.......... 45 50 | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

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Goods

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Co.

Mineral Waters,
Liquid Foods,
Malt Extracts,
Butter Colors,
Toilet Waters,
Hair Preparations,
Inks, Etc.

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Grand Rapids, [lich.

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ADVANCED
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Sauerkraut
Mop Heads

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Spring Wheat Flour

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White in drums............. 9 Apples
Colers in. drums............. 10 | 3 Ib. Standards...... 80
White in packages.......... 10} Gallons, standards. . 2 301
Colors in packages. .... Blackberries
Less 40 per cent discount. Standards ae 75 |
> ~ eans
— ee, ee. 1 0001 30 |
OZ. gross i
auror?... ies 6 OD Red Kidney. . 7D
Cuser O80... 7 oo aaa ana a
en ee cee 50 4 25 BiG
raver = pend Standard 85 |
IXL coun, ‘tin boxes 75 ,2 00) * a Clams. =
Little Neck, 1 p.. 1 00 |
Little Neck, 2 Ib..... 1 50 |
Cher ries al
| Red Standards........
oo... 1 i: |
Corn |
Ear. i 7
feo... 85 |
Fancy... a .
Gooseberries
peandard
— | Hominy |
Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 60 | Standard............. 85 |
Paragon .. 30 680} Lobster ah
AM MONI A | 1 85}
7 os Star, 1 "Ib ee . |
Per — Pi Tail 5
Ametie 12 oz ovals........_.. icnic Ta = Sea Te
Arctic pints. round.......... 126 CT mca ere iB
Brustard.iib........ 1 75 |
BAKING POWDER Mustard, 21b........ 2 80 |
Acme poused, ti... . 1 75 |
14 Ib. cans 3 doz............ 45) Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 80 |
ii. CaNs3 G02... 5 | Damate aib |. 1 75 |
i canst doz.......... 100 |/ tomate 2ib 2 30 |
Ce Mushrooms
Arctic Hotels, . 18220 |
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 90] Buttons. . 2225 |
Egg Oy sters
14 Ib. cans, 4d0z. case...-..3 75| Cove,1lb....... : 1 00
1% Ib. cans, 2 doz. case.. Cove, 2 1b 1 80
ib. cans, 1 doz ecase......3 7 Peaches |
5 Ib. cans, % doz. ease...... aa
The “400” Wetow 1 65@1 85 |
5 Ib. cans, % doz. in case....8 00 Pears
itb. cans, 4d0z. incase....200| Standard =. st, 70
9 0z.cans, 4 doz. in case....1 25) Fancy............. 24 80
Soz.ecans, 6doz.incase.... 7 a Peas
El Purity Marrowiat...._... 1 00
14 lb. cams per doz........... 75| Early June.... 1 00
ie ib. cams per doz... .. __.. 1 20) Early June Sifted. 1 60 |
1 Ib. cans o een 2 00 Pineapple
mG 5, Grated _.. 2 25@2 7}
% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. .... 35 eee ee SB ee
: ; pe | bee. 1 35@2 55
14 1b. cans, 4 Goz.Caso...... 5 Pumpkin
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. ease...... 90 | Rage enn 70
een. 75
JAXO N Baney 85 |
ene |
4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case. 45 | Standard..... 90
% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case. 85 | : Salmon :
1 Ib. eans. 2 doz. ease. 60 | Columbia River...... 2 00@2 15
Queen Fiake med Aine... 1 40}
Ziez.,6 doz. ease 7) | Pink Alaska....... 1 10
6 0z., 4 doz. case.............3 20| Shrimps
Dor Ader case.) Pecminre 1 50
fib. ?@07.e2s0 a
5 lb., 1 doz. case Domestic, 2
Royal Domestic, 24s .. 8
: Domestic 3 Mustard: 8
an .- | California, eee 17
10esize.-.. 86] trench, us... : 22
44 Ib. cams 1 30} French, %s.......... os
6 Oz. cans. 1 80| Straw berries |
: Ce meamdard. =. 85 |
% Ib. cams 2 40| Faney 2222 1 25 |
34 Ib. cans 3 60 | Succotash
1 lb. cans. 4 65 | os ee : 20 |
gis |
3 Ib. cans.12 75) Raney 21271217! 1 20 |
5 lb. cans.21 00 | Tomatoes |
fae 90 |
BATH BRICK Good 95 |
American 70 | a reese : | |
English. --2--. 80} GaHONS.............. 2 45
. “BLUING _ aeere
. Cotimbia, pings
Columbia, % pints 5 |
| Cc LE |
come @12% |
[ane Qier |
Carson City.......... @i2 |
8 J mise @i3 |
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| ig ee eee os
UIN | Gold Medal. -.2. 7! @it!
pigeal 2 @i1
aS 4} Jersey... .. : @12-
Large, 2 doz.. .. 75| Riverside.. ei |
Arctic, 4 oz, per ‘gro 4 00 | Brick oe 11@12 |
Arctic, 8 oz, per gros _ © OD | Madam. ms @90
Arctic, pints, per gross.... 9 00| Leiden .......... @iz_ |
BROOMS | Limburger......2 10@11_ |
ae 1 Carpet. | Fineapple........... 50 @75 |
No. 2 Carpet. | Sap Sago.. @I18 |
No. 3 Carpet. CHOCOLATE
No. 4 Carpet.. 75 | Walter Baker & Co.’s. |
Parlor Gem. oe | German Sweet.. =|
Common Whisk. . ———— OO ERO 35 |
Maney Wisk. 1 25 Breakfast Cocoa.. aces) eT
Warehouse.. -.. 3 6B] Runkel Bros. |
CANDLES i Vienna Sweet... —- =
ectrie Light, 8s. Se Cl eae ee 28 |
lectric Light, 16s......°..1112% | Premium...... 127722720127) |
Ranrawee, 6s. 00.0 0 t 10% | CHICORY
erage, t25.......... ie | Bal Le

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| = B. Ballard & Co.

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COCOA
[eee 30
Cievciame. =. 41
| pps... .....- — 2
| Van Houten, 3 és. . 12
Van. Houten, ls.. 20
lv an Houten, \%s.. 38
| Van Houten, Is...... _-— o
| Colonial, = Deets 35
Colonial, %s. oe
Pier. 45
| Wilbur, ae 41
Wit. 46 42
CIGARS
| The Bradley — Co.’s ———
Adywanée ......... —_—>
Bradley . 35 00
C = Havana Puffs... .. 220
WW. GL. BY a vost, BB 00
- W. B. BY 55 00
Cc bane ic igar Co.’s Brands.
Cotumiian.....-...... .....$ 35 00
| Columbian Special......... 65 00
| Columbian Regalia. ........ 65 00
| Columbian Invincible... -99 00

BH. & P. —" Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller. oo 35 00
Our Manager..
— te... 35 00
3. J. Johnson C ‘igar Go.’s brand.

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* 35 00

S.C. W eee

| L ubetsky ‘Bros.’ Brands.
Si. eee ee $33 00
Onl ban. 35 00

Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.

Royal Tigers. . 55@ 80 00
toyal Tigerettes...... 35

Vineente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00
; Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@ 70 00
| Hilson Co. .. ..385Q110 00
|T. J. Dunn & Co....... 35@ 70 00
| McCoy & Co........... 35@ 70 00
| The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00

Brown Bros.. 7

  
 
  
  

Bernard Stahl Co...
sanner Cigar Co.....
Seidenberg & Co.

. M. Schwarz & Co.. | 35@.110 00

| San Delmo.............35@ 70 Ob
Havana Cigar Co...... 18@, 35 00

C. Costello & Co....
LaGora-Fee Co.....

| 5. 1. Davis & Co. ...
| Hene & Co

Benedict & Co...... ‘fi

| Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ 70 00
| G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00

| Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00
sock B50. 65300 00

Manuel Garcia... - 80@375 00

.85@0175 00

Henry Clay... ..- 85550 00

EE 96200 00

Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

  

Sar eee... 35 00

COFFEE

Roasted

HIGH GRADE

| Special Combination........ 20
| French —- a
| Lenox . ee
Vienna . a el ee
Private Estate. ....002222227 38
Depreme. 40

Less 3314 per cent.
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‘air . Come ees esse cy oe
Cities ie 15
Peewee 2c 17
Peabo eh 13
Maracaibo
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Cee 16
Mexican
CeO 16
RW ce 17
Guatemala
Choice. 16
Java
Abream 12%
Fancy Advican ...... iy
Oe ee 25

  

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Package
New York Basis.
Arbuckle.. :
Diiwerm.. 3 213 00
Jersey.. oe eens -13 00
RO ces 12 00

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. MecLanghlin &
Co., —
Extract
Valley City % gross.. -_ 2
Felix % gTOss.. " <
Hummel’s foil yy gross... aces 85
Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43
Substitutes
Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake
12 packages, % case......... 1%
24 packages, 1 case
OCOA SHELLS
ae tp. aes.
Less —— - o
Poun packages a.
CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz..
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz..
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..........
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.........
CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

  

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20
40
60
80

G&S

Gail — —_—- fede eee 6 75
Crow il sea ose s ule) Oe
mar. ee Pees ovate 5 75
CRammen 4 50
Co 4 25
Challenge .. ee
Dime. ..3 35

COUPON BOOKS

50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books. any 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 sia down.

1

books.. : 50
100 books. = 2 50
500 books.. - 1150
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 TARTAR
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... >
3ulk in sacks..
DRIED FRUITS_Domestic
Apples
Sundried .

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Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes. 64@ 7

California Fruits
Apricots . oe. @10
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines . ee
Peacnes |...
ReCONS
Pitted Cherries
Prunnelles .
Raspberries . eae.

Californi Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @

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90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80-90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @5
0-80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60-70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @6
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 6%
40-50 25 Ib. boxes ...... @7
30 - ay 25 Ib. boxes . 8%
¥ cent less in 50 Tb. cases
Raisins
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 2 00
Cluster 4 Crown......... 278
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown z
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 or 9
L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib Y4@l1

L. M., Seeded, % Ib.... to
DRIED FRUITS_Foreign
Citron
fevhorn. 11
WOPan ee 12
Currants

Patras, cases. ee

Cleaned, ae 114%

Cleaned, packages.......... 15
Peel

Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13

Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10%

Orange American 10 1b. bx..10%
Raisins

Sultana 1 Crown

Sultans 2 Crown ......<.....

Sultana 3 Crown.............

 

  

Sultana 4 Crown.............
Sultana 5 Crown..
Sultana 6 Crown.
Sultana package ............
FARINACEOUS GOODS
eans
Dried lima... 8...
Medium Hand Picked 2 woo” 3
Brown Holland. .............
Cereals
Cream of Cereal............. 90
Grain-O, small ........ ee 1 35
Grain- * ee i 2 26
Grape Nuts.......... —
Postum Cereal, ‘small | a 30
Postum Cereal. argo...) 235
Farina
241 1b. packages . tec 2
Bulk, per 100 Ibs....... 2.2... 3 00
Haskell’s Wheat Flakes
36 2 1b. packages... ....
Hominy
Barrels . iW sacaee Oe
Flake, 50 lb. drums.......... 1

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

 

Pearl Barley
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242 Ib: PACKAGES .... ...... ..
ROO BH. Rome... 8
200 tb. barrels ....

100 Ib. De
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu. .

Green, Seoteh, Gu. .... 2... ..

Split, bu eae oo

‘Rollea pean

 

Rolled Avena, bbl.. 4 00
pecclcae 2 00
Monaren, bbi.............-.. 37
Monarch, % bbl.. .2 00
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. . 1 80
Quaker, cases. ig Sg
Sie
CRE 4
MOG PAG. 3%
—
Flake . 4%
Pearl . _.. 46
Pearl, 241 Ib. ——— . 6%
heat
Cracked, me cic ce gol
24 2 Tb. packages .. po. 2 OO

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
DeBoe’s

Vanilla D. C..20z1 10 4021 80

Lemon D. C...20z 70 4021 35

Van. Tonka...20z 75 4021 45

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

 

Vanilla Lemon
oz fullm.1 20 1ozfull m. 80
20zfullm.2 10 202 full m.1 25

1

>

No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75
SaaS >

(ae ~
CHIGHT| Foote &Jenns}icuase>
Sa”

Vanilla Lemen
20z =. 20 20z panel. 75
3 0z taper..2 00 4 0z taper..1 50

Jennings’
Arctic
2 oz. full meas. pure Lemon. 75
2 oz. full meas. pure Vanilla.1 20
Big Value
2 0z. oval Vanilla Tonka.... 75
2 0z. oval Pure Lemon ...... 75

  
   

ee
ruven ED xs
Reg. 2 0z. D. C. Lemon...... 75
No. 4 “Taper D. . 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 oz. flat Pure Lemon........ 70
Northrop Brand
Lem. Van.
2 0z. Taper Panel.. 75 1 20
2 0z. Oval. . 75 1 20
3 0Z. Taper Panel....135 2 00
40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25
Pocsiee 's
Van. Lem.
doz. doz.
XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25 75
XXX, 4 0Z. taper.. 112 5 1 25
XX, 2 0z. obert...... 1 00
No. 2, 20z. obert.... 75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 0z 2 25
XXX D D ptehr, 40z 17
K. P. piteher, 6 0z.. 2 25

FLY PAPER
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro.. ..:
Petrolatum, per doz......... 7

HERBS
Sage.. te Se ae
Hops .. : eee
“INDIGO.

Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes......50
JELLY

Doz.

Sib. pause. 2 00

1p. pees oS 42

ee 70
—e

Calabria. eis pce toy ae
Sicily ........ eee oe ree Seca ae
Hoot........ 10
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz..
Condensed, 4doz........ oe
MATCHES
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
nO. 9 SUNT... ok. oc.
Anchor Parlor ..............
Export Parlotss 2c.
TR RE os one a ncte cng
Wolverine eee cece mwices dat ce

--1 20
-2 25

at te tt ee
SSssSq

 

   

   
 

MOLASSES
New Orleans
eo So 12%
16
. 20
y : 24
Open Kettle.............. 25@:
alf-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 75
PER BAGS
Satchel Union
Square
53
66
88

1
1
1
1
2 16
2 58
2 82
3 32
4 48
4 86
5 40
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 00
Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 00
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 50
PIPES
Clay, No. 26. 1 70
Clay, T. a fall coung....... 65
Cop, NOs... 85
"
48 cans in case.

BADViw Sc. 4 00
Penna Sale Cos... | 3 00
RICE
Domestic

Carolina head................ 7
oe NO: 5%
Carolina No. 2........ 4%
Broken . i. ae
Imported.
Japan, No ‘54@6
Japan, No. ‘ 4446@5
Java, faney hei i :*
Java, No. 1... co
Table..
‘SALERATUS

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
Demme se

 

 

Dwight’s Cow..

~~ Ss
a. 15
Wyandotte, 100 %s.......... 3 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls............ 80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.... 90
Pump, bbls... 7
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs... 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.2 50
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 27
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs........, 62

Common eee

100 3 Ib. sacks... cece eee ao
OOO. Sacks. oo 2 05
25 10 1D. sacks... 1 95
56 lb. sacks. . eee | ee
28 Ib. —— oe 22
arsaw
56 lb. dairy = drill bags..... 30
28 Ib. dairy = a8 sem Sees 15

56 Ib. dairy in inen cau. -. 60
ggins
56 Ib. _ in fa sacks... 60
Solar Rock
56 Ib. sacks... Sea eae oe
Common

Granulated Fine.. a...1 05
Medium Fine...... aoe 110
SOAP
Single box. . ---.3 00
5 box lots, delivered 1711") ‘2 95
10 box lots; delivered ........ 2 90

AS. 5 KIRK & C0.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....3 °0
Dome le ae

 
  

Cabinet 2 40
Savon. -2 80
White Russian... os oe BO
White Cloud... | 4 00
Dusky Diamond, 506 0z..... 2 00
Dusk Diamond, 50 8 0z..... 2 50
Blue — 100 % Ib.. -.3 00
Kirkoline........... -3 50
Pe es

200 2207 Bars... 3 00

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

T-V, Per. = peeps seu 10 00

20 samples free.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

29

 

SALT FISH

Cod
Georges cured......... @ 4%
Georges genulne...... @ 5%
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Grand Bank............ @4%
Strips or bricks....... 6 9
Pomoek...... @ 3%
Halibut.
PNENPS es
Chunks.... 15
Herri ing

Holland white hoops, bbl. 11 00
Holland white hoopsi4bbl. 6 00
Holland white hoop, keg.. 80
Holland white hoop mechs. 85
NOrweelan 3...

 

Round 100 Ibs. 3 60

Round 40 Ibs... - £75

Re. 16%

Bigasers... 0... Be
Mackerel

Mess 100 Ibs. .............. 12 60

Mess 40 ips............... 5 10

 

 

 

Mess 10IDS. .............. 1 35
Mess SIDs............... 110
No: 1 100 IDs. ........ 202s. 10 80
No.1 40 Ibs. 4 50
No.1 10 lbs. 1 20
No.1 8 lbs. 1 00
No.2 MG Ws... ............ 8 50
No.2 40 Ibs 3 70
No.2 fotos! 1 00
No.2 Sips. ..... 82
Trout
No: £100 IDS. |... 6 00
No.1 40ips. ......_... ... 2 70
ING.1 iD, .......... 75
NG. 1 Sips. .... is
Whitefish
No.1 No.2
100 IDs. ....... 12 (oe
_320 3.10
38 85
§ Ms... 7s 71
SEEDS
Anise .... cece
Canary, Smyrna.. +, 4
Cataway -. 2. 8
Cardamon, Malabar......... .
Jo
Henip, Bussian.............. “4
Mixed Bird... ............ a
Mustard, white.. Loe
Co na "10
Pape 4%
C ‘uttle Bene 15
SPICES
Whole Spices
APC 12
Cassia, China in mats..... 11
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 28
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 38
Cassia, Saigon, in rolis.... 55
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 17
Cloves, Zanzibar. .......... 14
Biace. 55
Nutmegs, 75-80... 50
Nutmegs, 105-10.. 40
Nutmegs, 115-20. 35
Pepper, Singapore, black. 15%
Pepper, Singagore, white. 23
Pepper, snot... ........ .... 16%

Pure Ground in Bulk

   

Allspice... 16
Cassia, Batavia... biel 28
C assia, BeeeOR ck, 48
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 17
Ginger, African........... 15
Ginger, Cochin.. 18
Ginger, Jamaica. 25
Mace.. te celpeeoles etl 65
Mustard 0) 18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 19
Pepper, Singapore, white. 25
— a tee ec, 20

Sage. e 20

STARCH

 

Kingsford’s Corn

40 1-lb. packages........... 6%
20 1-lb. packages.... ...... 6%
6 lb. packages........... 7%

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss

  
  

40 1-lb. packages........... Zz
6 lb. boxes... . 7%
Padaieans —

20 1-lb. packages.......... 4%
40 1-lb. packages.......... 4%
Common Gloss
1-lb. packages......... Leese | 4S
3-lb. packages.. 4%

6-Ib. packages 5
40 and 50-Ib. boxes......... 3%
3arrels.. : 3%

STOVE ‘POLISH

NI en
No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20

  

  

 

 

SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders.. 37
Maceaboy, iy Pars... OLS. 35
French tare i jars. .... 43
i English. | a 4%
SUGAR

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
a point, giving you credit
on t nvoice for the amount
of freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 pounds for the weight of the
barrel.

GMA. 6 00
Con boat. 6 15
CRUSheG. 6 15
Cpe 5 90
Powdered . - 8 8p
C oarse Pow dered. 111.7! 5 85
XXXX Powdered......... 5 90

Standard Granulated. .... 5 76
Fine Granulated. .... ..... 5 75
Coarse Granulated........ 5 85
Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 85
Conf. Granulated.......... 6 00
2 1b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 85
5 lb. bags Fine Gran...... 5 85
a
Diamond AC 5 7
Confectioner’s A. . 5 55

No. 1, Columbia A.. 5 40
No. 2, Windsor A’. |. 5 40
No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 5 35
No. 4, Fhoonix A... 65 30
No. 5, Empire A.......... 5 25
5 10
5 00
4 90
4 85
4 80
4 75
5 75
5 70
5 70
5 7

SYRUPS
Corn

  
 
 

Barrels.. ee
Half bbis.._!_
1 doz. 1 gallon ¢:

1 doz. % gallon cans. ........1 75
2 doz. % gallon cans......... 90

Pure Cane

WOME os... 16
Coen
Gheies .. 2... 25

 

TABLE SAUCES

i} PERRINS’
‘o SAUCE

The Original and

   
 

Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’ ep small... .. 2 50
Halford, large. . : 3 75
Halford, small............. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large.....
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 75
TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium
Sundried, choice. .

   

  

Sundried, fancy.............

Regular, medium Pec eeucs 28
Regular, choice ............- 30
esuiar faney | 6.0... 40
Basket-fired, medium....... 28
Basket-fired, choice......... 35
Basket-fired, faney.......... 40
Nits 27
Siftings.. Lee 19@21
F annings. Re eee ee cu 20@22

Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ........... =

   

Moyune, choice .............
Moyune, PAROV. 30
r ingsuey, medium 9)... 25
Fingsuey, choice... 30
Pingsuey, faney.. ....
Young Siyeon
Chee. 30
PORE 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy....... cea 42
Amoy, medium.. 2
Amoy, Gholee...... 8 32
English Breakfast
Modine 3 27
CNgiee 34
Pabey 42
India
Geylon, choice.............:. 32
PABeg es cw 42
TOBACCO
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s om
Sweet Chunk plug ..........
Cadillac fine cut............. 37
Sweet Loma fine cut........ 38
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine, 80 oo. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star.. .12

Pure Cider, Robinson......
Pure Cider, Server...) “W

WASHING POWDER

 

Sutff
Rub-No-More, 100 12 oz ..... 3 50
WICKING

No. 4, per gross..
No. 1, per gross... :

 

 

No.?, per gross. ‘
No. 3. DOF SIORR.. oo cece ccs

 

  

 

 

 

  

  

 

  

   

 
  

 

  

  
 

WOODENWARE
Baskets
BUSHOrS : 15
Bushels, wide band......... 25
Market . he i
Willow C ‘lothes, large. --4 OO
Willow Clothes, medium... 6 50
Willow Clothes, small....... 5 50

utter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... Z
No. 2 Oval, 250 in erate.
No. 3 Oval, 250 in erate......2 2
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate......
Clothes Pins
Boxes. 5 gross boxes. . 65
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring .. 85
Eclipse patent spring. _-.
NO F¢ommOn 9... 75
No. 2 patent brush holder... 80
12 tb. cotton mop heads.... 1 25
Pails
2-hoop Standard............. 1 50
3-hoop oO <--4-..-8 40
2-wire, Cable.. --L
3-wire, Cable.. -1 85
Cedar, all red, brass bound .1 25
Paper, 1 Eureka.. 2 2
Fibre. Sag
“Tubs”
20-inch, Standard, No. 1..... 7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2..... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3..... 5 00
20-inch, Cable, No. 1......... 7 50
18-inch, Cable, No. 2......... 6 50
16-inch, Cable, _ S..._... oS oe
No.1 Fibre.. ..9 45
No. 2 Fibre.. 4 OO
No. 3 Fibre... <a k o
Wash ‘Boards
Bronze Globe.. wise --2 OO
Dewey ...... 28... a ges
Double Acme................ 2 75
Single Acme.. Sta ccen ce OO
Dae Peerless............. 3 20
Single Peerless.. Kees one OO
Northern Qfieen «. eee 2 50
Double Duplex. . - co. ..o OG
Good Luck ........ 2
Uniiversal........... . 2 25
Wood Bow
11 in. Butter... -- oo
13 in. Butter... eT
ib i Batter nol 0
1 te. Butter... Ss oe
ein, Bester... 3 00
Assorted 15°15-17.... ........1 76
Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50
YEAST CAKE
Mame, S@oc.. 1 1 00
Sunlight, 3doz... --.£ 00
Sunlight, 1% doz.... 50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00
Yeast Foam, Hs doz........ 50
Crackers
The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:

Butter
SOymeue 8... 6
New York.. eee. |
ame 6
Salted . Pecceccees |
Wolverine. ..............., 6%

Soda
Soda i : 6%
Soda, Cit oo. |S
Long Island Waters....... 12
Zephyrette .. 16

Oyster —
BOOK 7%
Mama 5
Fxira Farina _........... 6%
Saltine Oyster............. 5

Sweet Goods—Boxes
Animals oe 10
Assorted Cake. 2.2.22122 10
Boelie Bese. ................ 8
Bent's Water............. 16
Buseercups... _.......-.... 12
Cinnamon Bar............. 9
Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
Coffee Cake, Java. . 10
Cocoanut Tatty. ie 10
Cracknells ..... 16
Creams, Iced. oo 8
Cream Crisp.-..... .. 10
Crystal Creams............ 16
CUpaMS es. 11%
Currant Wruit.........-.... 12
Progsed Homey............ 12
Frosted Cream. 9
Ginger Gems, Ig. ‘or sm. 8
Ginger Snaps, NBC... :.. 8
Gladiator .... 10
Grandma Cakes. . 2
Graham Crackers......... 8
Graham Wafers........... 12
Grand Rapids Tea........ 16
Honey Fingers............ 12
Iced Honey Crumpets.... 10
Do, Se 8
Jumbles, Honey........... 12
Lady Wingers.............. 12
Lemon Watfers............ 16
Marshmallow . 16
Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
Mary Smm............. _ «©
Mixed Ficnic.... ......... 11%
Mk Biscatt....... 7%
Molasses Cake....... 5
Molasses Bar........ . 9
Moss Jelly Bar.. 12%
Newton.. a
Oatmeal Crackers. .... 1.1! 8
Oatmeal Wafers........... 12
Orange —— eee oe :

8

x 7%

Pretzels, hand made...... 7%

Sears lamen........ 8... | 6 0G
Sugar Cake.. . ©
Sugar Cream, See 8
Sugar — ass 8
Sultanas.. ee Gace 13
Tutti Frutti.: ae. 16
Vanilla Wafers.......... ~. io
Vienna Crimp............. 8

|
|
|

Grains and Feedstuffs

Ww heat
Wheat

 

Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands
Patents .. 4 50
Second Patent... ee 4 00
Straight. 3 80
eae 3 25
POM 3 50
BOCKWHEAC 0. 4G
Fe oes a ee oe 3 25
Subject to usual cash dis-
eount.
Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.

 

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 35...
Diamond 4s
Diamond \s.. 33
Worden Grocer Co.'s —
Quaker ‘s....
Quaker 1
Quaker 4S... : is
Spring Wheat ae
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand

  
 

3 95

 

Pillsbury’s Best —" 4 75
Pillsbury’ s Best 4s. 4 65
Pillsbury’s Best As. 4 55
Pillsbury’ s Best 4s paper. 4 55
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 55
Ball-Barnhart- Putman’ s Brand
Duluth Imperial ‘s.. 4 50
Duluth Imperial 4s... . 4 40
Duluth Imperial \s....... 4 30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Winsold 4s... 470
Wingold 48 a 4 60)
Wingold “a. 4 50

Olney & Judson’s Brand
Ceresota \s.. 4 80
Ceresota 4s.. 4°0
Ceresota \%s.. ee 2 On]

Worden Grocer Co. ‘SB rand
Laurel is. . 4 60 |
Laurel \s.. 4 50 |
Laurel \s.. 1. 4 40
Laurel tgs and us pe uper 4 40
Washburn-Crosby Co.’s Brand.

“OD ABcoNU'NUABHSYA

1
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GOLO MEDAL.

 

Prices always right.

Write or wire Mussel-

man Grocer Co. for)

special quotations.
Meal

BelteG 3... Bees esos 2 00

Granulated .. 5 2 20

Feed eae) Millstufts

St. Car Feed, screened . i

No.1 Corn and Oats... - EG 26)

Unbolted Corn Meal...... 17 25

Winter Wheat Bran....... 14 00

Winter Wheat Middlings. 15 00

Beecemines 14 00
Corn

Corn, car lots.. 413%

Less than car lots...

 

Oats
Car Iote 26% |
Car lots, clipped........... 28%
Less than car lots. ........
Hay |
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 00)
12 00

No. 1 Timothy ton lots....

_Hides and Pelts

_ The Cappon & Bertsch Leather

 

Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as |

 

8B 85 |
3 868 |

5 9B | =

Fresh Meats

   

  

 

    
 

 

| Beef
Carcass. cos - 64Q8
| Forequarters ....... | 544@ 6
| Hindquarters ....... 7%@ 9
| Loins Ne. 3... |. 9 @l4
Ribs. cl) oe Gee
2ounds. @ 8
Chueks 54@. 6
Piates ...... 4 @5
‘Por k
Dressed . i @ 6
Loins . @ 8%
3oston. Butts. @ 7%
| snoulders ....... @i%
Leaf Lard. @ 8%
Mutton
Careass.... re
Spring Lambs. : @10
eal.
| Careass...... —. & @ 9
Provisions
Barreled Pork
[Mess @
Back |... @I14 25
Clear back... ..._.. @14 00
;ooOrt cus... @14 00
re @16 00
[Bean @
| Family Mess. @l4 25
| Fikes Salt Meats
| Bellies. / 9
Briskets . 834
Extra shorts. . 8
Smoke d ‘Meats
Hams, 121b. average. @ 10%
Hams, 141b. average. @ 19
Hams, 16lb. average. @ 97
| Hams, 20lb. average. @ 9%
| Ham dried beef. . ' @11%
| Shoulders (N.Y. cut) @ 7
| Pane Clear. 10@ MW
California hams. .... @i
Boneless hams.. @ 11
Boiled Hams . @ 15%
Pienie Boiled Hams @ 11%
Berlin Hams... @ 9
| Minee Hams....... @ 9
Lards—lIn Tierces
| Compound... 6
iG ee 7%
Vegetole .... 6°,
60 lb. Tubs..advance +e
80 lb. Tubs..advance le
| 50 Ib. Tins...advance %y
20 Ib. Pails. .advanee %
| 10 lb. Pails..advance %
5 lb. Pails..advance
3 lb. Pails..advance
Sausages
Bologna 54
Liver . 6
| Frankfort . 7%
| Pork 7%
6%
9
6
Beef
Bextra Moss...... .__. 10 75
| Boneless.. Lele oe 11 50
Rump .. tl 50
"Pigs > Feet
¥4 bblis., 40 lbs... 1 60
| 44 bpis., 80 ths... 3 50
| Tripe
| Kits, ie... 7
1% bbis., 40 Ibs. .. 1 25
\% bbls., 80 es eee 225
——
| Pork . a 20
| Beef rounds...) 1.1) 3
3eef middles 10
| Sheep.. 60
| “ Butterine
Solid, dairy. - 12%@13%
| Rolls, dairy...... tocnas ts @ae
| Rolls, creamery. .... 19
| Solid, creamery. .... 18%
| Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 Ib.... 2 75
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 17 50
| Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2
| Potted ham, %4s..... 50
Potted ham, %s..... 90 |
Deviled ham, \s.... 50
Deviled ham, \s.... 90
Potted tongue, \s.. 50
90

Potted tongue, %s..

_ Fish and Oysters

‘Fresh Fish

 

 

 

| Per Ib
White fish. . 10
Trout. ——— 9
Binee Bags 0000007 9@ 10
Pee @ 15
Ciscoes or Her eee. @ 4
| Bluefish ...... . @ ee
Live Lobster, ||| @ 1s
= Eebster:....... @ 19
Oe @ 10
Haddook ee eee on @ 7
No. 1 Piekerel......... @ 3
Pies s. . @ iz
Perch.. - @ 14
Smoked White... 21. @ 8
Red Snapper.. —- @ &
Col River Salmon. .... @ 18
Mackerel... i8

Oystets in Bulk.

 

 

follows:
Hides
Green + aS @ 6%
Green No. 2. @ 5%
Cured No. 1 @8
Cured No. 2. @7
C: alfskins,green No.1 @ 8
Calfskins,green No.2 @ 6%
Calfskins,eured No. 1 @9
Calfskins, ‘cured No.2 @i%
Pelts
Felts, e4€8. 12... ~— =
Ve
Tallow
Net. @ 3%
OO @ 2%
Wool
Washed, fine........ 18@20
Washed, medium.. —
Unwashed, Ge. .... 12@14
Unwashed. medium. 16G15 |
Oils
Barrels
Eocene . ' @i1%
Perfection @10 |
XXX W. W. Mich. Halt @10 |
W. W. Michigan . @ 9% |
Diamond White. . @9 |
BS Gas... @\1
Deo. ae a a @103
Cylinder. . Los necee Qiae
Engine . ae @22 |
Black, winter......-.. @1l%

er gal.
Come 1 75
Py. Hereces............. 1 66
i... ........ 1 40
—e. tit... .... 1 10
Oysters in Cans.
EB. EL. Commis... 35
EF. J. D. Selects. .... s 30
So 2E
F. J. D. Standards. 22
se... 20
| DeanOaras......_... 18
| Favorite ee 16
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100......... 1 00
Oysters, per 100....... 1 00

Candies
Stick Candy
bbls. pails
Seaudarad . @ 8
weandard H. H..... @B8
Standard Twist. .... @ ie
Cut Loaf.... l @ i
“ase s
Jumbo, 32 Ib..
Extra H. HH. uc ain
or Cream.) 1). 1) @10
Beet Root. : G8
Mixed nme
Grocers. @ 6%
Competition. | oes @i7
Special Ld @ 7%
CObserva @ 814
nOvar G@ 8%
Rien Qi
Broken.. G@ 8%
Ciilog |. @ 9
English Rock... || | @9Y
Kindergarten @9
Freneh Cream... _. __ @ 9
Dandy Pan..... on”
Hand Made Cream i
mixed . @15%
Crystal C ream mix. @i3
Fancy—In Bulk
San Blas Goodies. @l2
| Lozenges, plain ..... G 9%
| Lozenges, printed. @10
Choc. Drops. a Gi%
Eclipse Chocolates, @l4
Choe. Monumentals. @14
Gum Drops... @i
Moss Drops... ._.. GI%
| Lemon Sours........ @i0
Imperials.. .. @i0
| Ital. Cream Opera.” @i2
| Ital. Cream Bonbons i
| 20 1D. paiis @12
| Molasses Che WS, 15
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| Pine Apple Meant @12'
Nairoons. || @12
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| Chocolate Drops. @65
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Caramels
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| Faney Nayels
| Extra Choice...
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Seedlings. ..... @
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Jamaicas . @A4 75
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Messina, 300s ........ 4 00@5 00
Messina, 300s... a... @ ObaG4d 50
California 360s....... 3 50@4 25
California 300s......... 4 06@4 £0
Bananas
| Medium bunches.... 1 75(@2 00
| Large bunches.. 2 0O@2 25

Foreign Dr ied Fruits

Fi igs
Californias, Fancy. @
Cal. pkg, 10 Ib. boxes @
Extra Choice, 10 Ib.
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Fancy, 12 Ib. boxes @13
Pulled, 6 1b. boxes... @

| Naturals, in bags.... @

Dates

| Fards in 10 lb. boxes @
Fards in 60 lb. cases. @

| Persians, P. H. V. @5

| TD. eases, new... @5

| Sairs, 60 Ib. cases... @5

Nuts

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Getting the People

Striving For Something
Startling.

There is no way in which more brain
tissue is wasted than in the struggle for
Originality in advertising. Usually
the advertiser himself is forced to give
up the struggle and, with aching head,
go to the poor printer and plead for
something new and catchy. Usually
out of the generosity of his heart, some-
times with a view to selling space, the
publisher takes up the brain-racking
task. If he has the luck to hit upon
something that catches the fancy of his
patron he scores a_ success, even al-
though his production be utterly worth-
less as an advertising factor.

There are circumstances that make
something new and original of value.
This is strikingly illustrated in the use
of Uneeda by the National Biscuit Co.
The conditions were that a new kind
of goods in a new kind of package was
to be brought before the public. The
goods in themselves and the principle
of air tight packing presented features
that strongly commended them tothe mar-
ket. The double play catch word was so
suited to the goods that it took the pub-
lic by storm.

In another instance conditions were
such that a name became necessary, and
the fact that a name having no merit in
itself became a success tends to prove
that the circumstances controlled and
not the name. An advertising agent,
Geo. P. Rowell, was so situated that he
could command a great quantity of
publicity in various ways. To _ utilize
this he obtained a medicinal tablet of
slight alterative quality as being suited
for the general public. A name became
necessary and, lacking the ability to
find one with attractive or catchy qual-
ities, he hit upon one, Ripans Tabules,
utterly worthless in itself. The condi-
tions under which it is used make ita
success. If the name had been a better
one the success would have been greater.

A good name or catch word or other
advertising device may be of great
value, but it is a mistake to be con-
stantly striving for something of the
kind with no definite plan for its utili-
zation. It is better for general business
to turn the attention to straightforward,
simple methods, as is shown by the fact
that the majority of great mercantile in-
stitutions are turning from the ultra
startling to plain, dignified, unpreten-
tious statement. There is less of the
picture element, except for the purpose
of illustration, and less of the expletive
in expression and more of common
sense English.

A good idea in advertising well car-
ried out is that of W. I. Benedict. Such
an advertisement serves the purpose of
gaining the attention and interesting
the housewife and will result in many
calls. The increase in the sales of the
special articles may not amount to
much in the increase of the profit ac-
count, but the aggregate of calls gained
of those intent on buying something
will be an important factor in present
and future business. The advertisement
is well written and well displayed.

Another well-written advertisement is
that of Geo. W. Wait, and the printer
has done his part pretty well, although
his work could be improved. The par-
allel rule over the name should have
been omitted—the white space is much
more valuable.

Where an advertisement can be set in
a single series of type by an intelligent

 

 

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FOR HOUSE CLEANING TIME!

Little things at Benedict s Prices

 

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Ammonia.
The best and strongest, in pint bottles, 10e
—for cleaning woodwork nse one or two
tablespoonfuls in u pail of water, and little
or no soap need be used,—for the laundry,
ase & tablespoonful in a pail of water. soak
clothes in this water over night, and they
will be perfectly clean with little or eo rub-

Picture Frames.

We have a few left, will hold anything from $
a photo te an 8 by 10 picture, a bargain at

20¢ and 238c.
Furniture Polish

(p banay size bottles, yet as much as one

gl generally needs, {Qe fills the scratches
and cuts, removes all ma: d white stain:
Tacks. from chairs, tables, we stniuiie waa
Axy size you may need,2 boxes | gent. Silver Polish
Tack Pullers.

Does it’s work well and quickly, and will
not scratch. 25@ bottle enough to last a
long time

Nail Brushes.

le or 6 for 5¢. (4 5 row of bristles brush.) A splendid one
8t 10c and one with 5 row of bristles with

Picture Wire, a row of bristles on each side of brush, only

75 feet tinned, 8 strand, Se, 15c.

Only Ye for the best lOc one ever made

Picture Nails,

2 incbes long. porcelain head, with gilt rim.

 

Perfection and Diamond Dyes in all shades. for cotton or wool.

W. I. BENEDICT, DRUGS and SUNDRIES, Belding, Mich.

 

 

 

 

  
   
   
   
  
  

Rough Weather is Coming !

Uroceries are cheaper than
ever We bought targel
and advantageously, an
propose Lo sel! quickly and
quite as much to your prof
Pas to ours We are w

Buy one of our KNIT JACKETS and a DUCK ¢
COAT, and bid defiance to it The Jackets are 3 ¢
close fitting, heavy and warm, at $1.10. The 3 ¢
Coats are heavy Duck, blanket lined, and rub é
ber interlined, at $1.50. é

that extent at least, be-
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fresh Bultunore Oysters and
a complete stock of meats

OEITZ & SPEICHER,
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- ‘GEO. W. WAIT,

GENERAL STORE. ROLLIN, MICH.

 

 

 

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GOOD SQUARE MEAT:
A glass of

FRERH SODA WATER,
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Rodenbaugh DELICIOUS GINGER
Brothers ..... ALE. on the
Handle the Best s<cause Fourth Of July,
tt Doesn't Pay to Handle Anything But the Best SUNDAY or any day,
Paints, Oils. Wallpapers You can get It at the
And Borders, OLD
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Confectioneries---Fire Works,

Electric
Lighting —ea

May in one sense be a
luxury, but in anoth-
er it is almost a neces-
sity. Uf your place of
business or residence
is not already wired up
call at the office of the
Electric Light Co. for

rates
Cc. EMERY,

 

No Lady

Should buy a Cloak, Jacket or Cape unti) she
bas seen our superb line. The goods are right,
the styles aré right, the prices are rigbt. Many
who during fair week looked over the stocks ip
Grand Rapids have bought of us and saved
money by 80 doing The larger the town the
higher the prices is a fixed law of trade. This
is emphatically true of the cloak trade. While
giving you just as desirable and up-to-date
goods we will save you from ten to twenty-five
per cent. ov your purchases.

Spencer & Lloyd

 

Manager.

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Ready For Fall Trade.

My line of Ladies’ Shoes is com-
piete. Julia Marlow’s, Youngs’
foot forms, turns and welts.
There are shoes and shoes but
there are no better shoes to be
had than | carry tn stock

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have bardwood building lum:
ber planed and sized to suit
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RUBBER GOODS, SCHOOL SHOES H. R. DICKINSON,
a ee EVERYTHING
shoes that will keep the feet dry COCES 4a

that is repaired. and everything r~
paired that is repairable
Strictly first-class work
W Gleason, Jeweler,
One Door East of Drug Store.

School Suits for all the Boys.

GEO. W. NOBLE
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compositor, as in the case of Rodenbaugh
Brothers, the result is attractive and
pleasing. To do this, however, the
wording must be made to fit. The ex-
ception of putting the ‘‘because’’ in
gothic is hardly noticeable, as the face
corresponds in heaviness with the rest.
Then the peculiar use of the word makes
the change admissible.

I have shown Spencer & Lloyd’s ad-
vertisement to several ladies and they
uniformly express themselves as unfa-
vorabiy impressed by it. I am inclined
to accept this test as a fair indication
that the words, as used and displayed,
are an injury. The advertisement other-
wise is well written and the display is
exceptionally good.

Geo. W. Noble shows a carefully com-
posed advertisement, but one which
could be improved in some regards.
The worst thing in it is the use of the
ornamental type. The proper use of
this letter is to sell it for 6 centsa
pound—or more if it can be obtained—
for babbit or type metal. Then it isa _
mistake to display the beginning of the
second paragraph so as to make the
Statement ‘‘that will hold'’ apply
equally to ‘‘rubber goods’’ when it is
evidently only intended for ‘‘school
shoes.’’

Deitz & Speicher present a good gen-
eral advertisement of their grocery and
meat business. It is judiciously dis-
played. It is well to avoid big words
in such a place, but if they are admitted
they should at least be spelled correctly.

The next picture is not so pleasant.
S. R. Earl is unfortunate in running a
July advertisement in October and also
in having fallen into the hands of a
compositor who seems to have plenty of
good material at hand, but who doesn’t
know how to use it. It is impossible to
criticise the wording to the extent of its
capabilities. I should simply strike it
all out and begin again. 1 would begin
by getting some one else to write it.
Then I would give it to another com-
positor with positive instructions not to
make every line a display line or to
“‘lug in’’ all the faces in the office.

C. Emery shows a well-composed ad-
vertisement, but the reference to luxury
and necessity is somewhat incomplete
and breaks off too abruptly to another
subject.

The play on words in H. R. Dickin-
son’s wood advertisement does not seem
to me to be very effectual. It is unfor-
tunate that the third sentence uses the
syllable wood in such a way that the
reader is lost in trying to determine
whether the play still continues. It
does not read smoothly and so the merit,
if there is any, on the word play is
worse than lost.

W. Gleason is more fortunate in his
use of word play. His advertisement
would have been much improved if
““strictly first-class work’* had been in a
smaller full face type. On the whole
the advertisement is a good one.

——_sto__
Light From the Sun.

According to Professor Newcomb the
sun giveS uS 9QI,000,000,000 times as
much light as an average star of the first
magnitude. To become reduced to a
star of the first magnitude, the sun
would need to be removed from us to
302,000 times its present distance. Re-
moved to ten times that distance it
would become a star of the sixth magni-
tude, one of the stars just visible to the
naked eye.

———_»0.___

Always remember that your best
customer consults his own interests in
dealing with you. Few persons are so

generous as to perfer others before them-
selves.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

 

REAL ESTATE.

Its Relation to Groceries and Boarding
Houses.

The business man that is forced to
fight the greatest competition is the
dealer in real estate. In storm and in
calm, in good times and in bad _ times,
in season and out of season, his field is
the world and he finds it invaded by
every vocation under the sun. Public
ana private enterprise are in league
against him, and while public and _pri-
vate opinion are nominaily on his side,
he finds himself, however glaring the
grounds of complaint, to be wholly
without legal redress. His business is
honorable and legitimate and yet his
only real ally is the notable housekeeper
who hates him and respects him so long
as he keeps his goods outdoors, where
she insists they belong. His hitterest
complaint is against the opposition that
comes in and ruins what it does not
care to buy.

A case in hand is among the semi-
suburbs of Grand Rapids. The lot is
finely located, is made beautiful by
aristocratic oaks, aglow to-day in the
royal colors of their race; but it is
flanked on both sides with unmarketable
dirt. Decay has with both hands seized
the once ambitious houses on each side
of it and from crumbling chimney top
to rotting walk has sifted down the dirt
of a decade, ruining the prospects and
blasting the hopes of one of the _pretti-
est lots in town. Redress? There is
none. Building lots are like men—they
are known by the company they keep—
and just so long as the unmarketable
real estate holds those neighboring
houses in its possession just so long
will the dealer find himself with a dead
house and lot on his hands.

‘*Two desirable rooms for rent in a
desirable neighborhood’’ said an adver-
tisement in the morning paper and an
hour later, with paper in hand, the
seeker of rooms of that character visited
the desirable neighborhood. The paper
had stated the fact, but neighborhood
and house and rooms were found to be
desirable for persons who desire that
kind of accommodation. The neighbor-
hood was down at the heel and that por-
tion of its exposed person was covered
with untaxable real estate. The side-
walk, with its discouraged trees; the
paling of the rotting fence ; the crippled
gate, holding itself up by a complain-
ing hinge; the sagging doorstep; the
grimy door; the half-worn oilcloth car-
pet; the woman herself, whose frowsy
head and grease-spotted skirt were in a
better condition than her water-forgotten
hands and face, was in harmony with
the run-down heel—all of them were so
densely covered with the unauthorized
acquirements of the land dealer as to
suggest the wonder that the author of
the easily proved theft should have
evaded arrest so long!

‘‘T never think of some _ provision
stores,’ said a dainty housekeeper,
‘‘without a shudder. I don’t know of
anything which the board of health
should so carefully look after as the
places where things to eat are sold. Too
often it is dirt, dirt, dirt from curbstone
to cellar bottom, and the same awful
fingermarks are on everything you buy.
I am reconciled to eat my peck of dirt,
but I want to take. it straight! The
Micklejohns discharged their cook last
week because they heard her say that
the best way to get clean hands that she
knows of is by kneading bread! Too
many grocers insist in making up in
dirt what they lack in the article paid
for. I wish they’d be honest about it

 

and we should know what to expect.
‘Dirt and groceries’ would be truthful,
and the novelty would draw trade, from
the simple fact that you get the same
articles and are at the same time put on
your guard!’’ The list might easily be
lengthened, but it would only furnish
additional proof that real estate has
many forms of development and that all
except the legitimate one should be
suppressed.

If the housekeeper is unpleasantly
affected by the grocery, her affection
would Lb .come alarming could she know
the ‘‘utter inwardness’’ of the average
boarding house and restaurant. Here
dirt is the evident stock in trade. It
holds high carnival in both, with a
slattern for the queen. Dining room
and dining table, curtain and tablecloth
and napkin, tumbler and cutlery and
earthernware,are smutched by her hands
as if tar had touched them ; and these are
purity to what comes with the stuff
brought on to eat. If, as it has been
asserted, the police court is supplied
with business from the patrons of these
eating places, it is easy to understand
and why; and the pity—the everlasting
pity of it all—lies in this: that good
bread and good meat and good butter
and good coffee—in a word good, whole-
some meals without dirt—ought and
should be furnished for the money paid
for this unwholesome food that is ruin-
ing body and soul.

Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Let the dealer in real
estate cling to his legitimate business
and let public opinion—with the force
of the law, if need be, behind it—insist
that nothing unclean be put upon the
table of restaurant or boarding house
and that cleanliness shall take the place
there of the prevailing filth and dirt.

—_—__.> 2. ___

Potato Crop Less Than Last Year.

The potato crop of the United States,
according to the American Agriculturist,
approximates 239,000,000 bushels, or
nearly 5,000,000 bushels less than last
year, and a fairly good yield, compared
with the average a the last ten years.
Extremes in climatic conditions were
responsible for holding the crop within
bounds. The total area under the crop
is paced by this authority at 2,897,000
acres, with an average yield of 83 bush-
els an acre, against 82 bushels in 1899,
73 bushels in 1898 and only 64 in 1897,
when the crop was 174,000,000 bushels.
Opening prices at leading markets are
irregular, much the same as last year at
Chicago and furthe: West, lower in
Ohio, and higher in many of the East-
ern cities, including New England.

——__» 0. ___

Peculiar Experience With a Bean Crop.
From the Bad Axe Republican.

Mathew Goodwill nas had a rather
peculiar experience with his bean crop
this year. The plants blossomed and
set as usual, but owing to the dry
weather the pods did not fill and soon
began to wither. When the September
rains came the plants took a fresh
start, blossomed a second time, the pods
set and filled and he is now harvesting
one of the largest crops of beans he ever

raised.
————><>—___

Florida’s Orange Crop Large.

The latest comprehensive reports of
Florida’s coming orange crop are made
by the railroad agents, who have been
making a careful examination in order
to prepare to handle the shipments.
According to these estimates the totals
foot up more than 1,000,000 _ boxes.
All reports pronounce the groves ina
healthy condition. No San Jose scale is

reported.
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The fortunate man is he who, born
poor or nobody, works gradually up to
wealth and consideration, and, having
got them, dies before he finds they were
not worth so much _ trouble.—Charles
Reade.

 

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Butters

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1 to 6 ga

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15 gal. meat-tubs, each................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each................

2 to6 gal.,

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Milkpans

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Fine Glazed Milkpans

or rd. bot., per doz.........
or fd. bot., eaeh............

Stewpans

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

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Preserve Jars and Covers

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No. 1 Crimp, per doz.. .
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No. I Eime (65e doz) ..................
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GAS AND GASOLINE MANTLES
Glover’s Unbreakable and Gem Mantles are the
best, but we carry every make. Our prices are
the lowest. Try Glover’s Mantle Renewer.
One bottle will make 100 old mantles like new
removes all spots, ete. 90¢ per doz. bottles.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.
Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of
Gas and Gasoline Sundries.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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.

SAY

WILL M. HINE,

THE STATIONER,
Sells everything froma pin to a letter
press that you use in your office. Call
or write. 49 Pearl St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

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William Reid

Importer and Jobber of Polished
Plate, Window and Ornamental

Glass

Paint, Oil, White Lead, Var-
nishes and Brushes

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

L. BUTLER,
Resident Manager.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

THE MORNING MARKET.

Closing Days of a Most Remarkable Sea-
son.

The silence that ‘‘broods with the
darkness over all’’ this morning was
rudely shaken by a trio of newsboys on
a street corner who were using for em-
phasis some names and terms often
heard in Sunday school, but not at all
adapted to the lively barter of news-
papers, carried on with the evident in-
tention on the part of the largest and
most powerful party to browbeat and
defraud the other two. Had it been
light enough to see where to hit, it
would have been an occasion of ‘‘ deeds
not words,’’ but the friendly dark was
too dense to fight in with comfort and
the affair ended as all recent contests
of the prize ring have done.

The market at that early hour is_ best
described by the quotation, ‘* Darkness
there and nothing more!’’ As the eye
became accustomed to the gloom, the
long line of posts supporting the roof
of the wagon sheds recalled a view of
London Bridge, seen years ago, when it
was struggling for the mastery witha
London fog. The remainder of the mar-
ket place was as quiet as the Thames
at dawn, the occasional market wagon
answering every purpose for the craft
whose hulk and canvas peered through
the dark.

The change in the weather, while
portending rain, brought with it the
milder atmosphere of a morning in early
September, so that the few producers
then there found extra exertion to keep
warm unnecessary. They gathered in
occasional groups as the locality of
their wagons allowed and stood silent
and looking at each other, as men _ will
when neither pipe nor cigar quite
reconciles them for the sleep the early
start has deprived them of. A_ house-
keeper—one of the sort who believes
that fate cheated her in not making her
a man—buzzed like a big bluebottle fly
from one wagon to another, pricing but
not buving and, probably, settling down
at last upon a basket of something that
not even a dago would carry home.
That is the kind of boarding house
keeper that a board of health agent
should watch. She caromed up against
the young fellow whose fun-loving face
and contagious laugh are balm to sore
eyes and ears and who has been absent
for a morning or two. As usual the
cushion was very much alive and, while
he said things to her that *‘ mortal never
dared to say before,’’ she took it all in
good part and went off with a flirt of a
—well, not very dirty apron and a
‘never more!’’ that fairly outravened
the raven!

It is a wonder that heaven does not
send more of these bright faces and
brighter hearts to pull up the corners of
morose humanity’s mouth. There they
were, a lot of sour-faced folks, hating
the weather and the morning and the
fate that pulled them from their warm
beds, and themselves most of all; and
there they stood looking at one another
with forbidding eyes when a cheerful
‘Hullo! everybody !’’ rang joyfully out
upon the morning air. Every sleepy
‘face brightened. One man, who had
been pulling away upon a pipeful of
ashes and who sleepily wondered what
the matter was, emptied the pipe bow]
and ‘‘loaded up again,’’ with a_ hearty
‘*Ho, Tom! you here?’’ and, older as
they were, they crowded around the
hardy, sun-browned face and shook his
hand as if they wanted to renew the old
miracle by simply touching the hem of

 

his garment! Then the sun came out— |
had he, too, been waiting for that hand-_
some face to cheer him up a bit?—and ,
the market began to buzz in spots and ,
the business of the day began.

It couldn’t be called lively. There |
were peaches, but it was easy to see
that they were ashamed of themselves—
of good family, but the rag-tag of a dis-
tinguished race. The pears, remem-
bering the treatment they had to put up
with from them a month ago, flouted
them, and with good reason; it was fair
weather with them and, while the Bart-
letts were gone, there were varieties
which have a flavor about them that
even that favorite can not despise. They
did not make themselves common; but,
like good, respectable pears, kept up
the family reputation. The apple is the
representative fruit of the nation. It
keeps on in the even tenor of its way
without indulging in extremes. A good,
hardy, rugged race, it everywhere holds
its own, smiling alike upon the just
and unjust and as glad to be carried off
by the man in rags as by the woman
who takes it home in hercarriage. Po-
tatoes are not now indulging in ban-
dinage with anybody and the tomato is
as cheery as it was earlier in the sea-
son. Happy the buyer who can appro-
priate enough of its indwelling spirit to
make him oblivious of the fact that
there is such a thing as ‘‘grcting
licked.’’

The mild morning coaxed more wom-
en to the market than have been there
for several days. One was so much in
sympathy with old Homer as not only
to nod but actually to fall asleep. One
fair arm--the sleeve had forgotten its
duty—was doing its best to support the
sleeping head, which under the circum-
stances was trying to be reconciled for
the poor substitute of a pillow. Not far
off was another face not sleepy at all.
She was not long upon the market. Her
bright eyes brought the trade moths
early to her wagon and of she went,
while the stupid men about her were
wondering how it happened. It hap-
pened! The husband who let her come
alone knew what he was doing! Best
of all were the sunny faces of two
happy-hearted girls. They were just
the age and size to make a success of
climbing trees and tantalizing conceited
boyhood by beating it at every taken
‘‘stump.’’ Your lively girl when she
feels like it—and when doesn’t she?—
will do more in the least time to torment
boyhood about to death than any other
agent Nature has hit upon, and these
laughing samples on the market this
morning will never ‘‘let up’’ on that
sort of fun until long after the silver is
mingled with the brown. Heaven help
the boys and the men that fall into their
merciless hands; and may the homes
they both will one day gladden be a
counterpart of that part of the morning
market which their bright faces gladden
now!

—_—~>-2<—___
New Bank at Rockford.

Ernest W. Johnson and Earl C. John-
son have formed a copartnership and
will engage in the banking business at
Rockford about Nov. 1 under the style
of Johnson Bros. The partners claim to
have a combined responsibility of
$25,000 and announce their intention of
conducting business along conservative
lines.

—_—»> 2.

Only one city in Sweden would be
classed with our larger cities—Stock-
holm, which is somewhat smaller than
Pittsburg. Gothenberg is about as

large as Columbus, Ohio, but rhe other
cities are little more than towns,

 

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Forests of shady trees mitigate cli-
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they attract rain showers. Leaves gen-
erate oxygen and absorb noxious gases,
forming a natural antidote to grievances
of crowded cities. Shade trees prevent
sunstroke and also prevent ophthalmia,
the curse of lower Egypt and Southern
Italy. Where there are no trees the glare
of the sun on the sand and white build-
ings is equal to its shining on snow.
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Johnnie’s Gunning.

Ecstatic Papa—Here, Johnnie, come
and kiss your new sister.

Johnnie (four years old)—Nen, paw,
will you buy me a gun?

Ecstatic Papa—A gun? What for?

Johnnie—Well, I bet I'll shoot the
nex’ stork | see flyin’ ’round this house !

8

Honors come thick and fast some-
times. A week ago Henry B. Fair-
child, Manager of the Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co., received notice that he
had been appointed a member of the
Proprietary Committee of the National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association. Yes-
terday he was notified that he had been
selected to act as chairman of the Adul-
terations Committee of the same organ-
ization.

Business Wels

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.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

POR SALE—HARNESS SHOP WITH COM-

plete stock, in town of 4,500 inhabitants,
with only two harness shops. Best of reasons
for selling. Address Lock Box 792, Three Rivers,
Mich. 568

rt“ SALE—THE ONLY MEAT MARKET

in Grass Lake, Mich., population 1,000, and
will be increased by 200 workmen and families to
work in the biggest cement factory in the coun-
try, now being erected. John Kalmbach, Chel-
sea, Mich. 565

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 ACRE FARM IN MONROE COUNTY TO
exchange for store or residence in town in

Central Michigan. N. C. Kingsbury, Milan,

Mich. 564

WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE BOOT AND
shoe stock, invoicing about $7,000, in the
best city in the State. Can be purchased at a
reasonable discount. Chase & Chipman, Battle
Creek, Mich. 563
UT RATE DRUG STORE IN PATENT
medicines. druggists” sundries, ete., will at-
tract a big trade in a town of 6,000 popu-
lation, within fifty miles of Detroit. I know of
the right store, with rent nominal, for right
— to give ita trial. If capital is limited, ean
have help. This is bona fide in every way. Ad-
dress at once, William Connor, Box 346, Mar-
shall, Mich. 560
POR SALE AT A BARGAIN—FINE SUBUR-
ban home of 10 acres, orchard, good build-
ings, near school, mail route and proposed
electric railway; or would exchange for desir-
able house and lot. G. H. Kirtland, 1159 South
Division St. 569
POR SALE—AT A LOW FIGURE, CHOICE
100-acre farm; fine buildings, stock, farming
tools and crops; six miles southwest of city;
would take good house and lot as part pay.
G. H. Kirtland, 1159 South Division. 570
ANKER WANTED—A RELIABLE MAN
with capital, wishing to invest in the bank-
ing business, will find it to his interest to write
L. H. Moss, Secretary Middleton Improvement
Association, Middleton. Mich. 571

ANTED—A PARTNER IN AN OLD-ES-

tablished meat market—a man who under-
stands the business; or would sell. as I have
other business. Only two markets in town of
3,000 population. Two railroads Address No.
553, care Michigan Tradesman. 553

STOCK OF STAPLE GROCERIES FOR

sale in one of the best towns in Michigan
(Bronson). Best location in town. Best of rea-
sons for sellng. Stock invoices $1,200. Will sell
for $1,000 cash. No trades. Write M. A. Her-
rick, Durand, Mich. ' 552

VOR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF HARD.-
ware about $6,500; cash; no trade. Write
Lock Box 105, Hudson, Mich. 551
ORK SALE—DRUG STOCK, BEING THE
only drug store in town of about 400 inhab-
itants. Reason for selling, have other business
interests which must have my attention. T. O.
Pattison, Millbrook, Mich. 559

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—BAZAAR STORE AND FIX-

tures inone of the best business towns in
the great fruit belt of Michigan, doing a good
business: must sell on account of poor health;
only $350 cash. Box 162, Shelby, Mich. 552

OR SALE—NEW STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
shoes. groceries. Good cash trade. Rare
opportunity.

) > Investigate at once.
Quincey, Mich.

Box 365,
555

 

OR SALE—COUNTRY STORE SEVEN
miles from railroad, buildings and store in-
voicing $3,000; good country; good roads. Write
for particulars to Box 76, Goblesville, Ind. 550
V ANTED TO EXCHANGE—CLEAN STOCK
of boots and shoes inventorying about $2,500,
with residence, for a farm. Address Box 24,
Saranac, Mich 542
VOR SALE— 00 STOCK GENERAL MER-
chandise; clean stock; cash trade. Address
Box 239, Argos, Ind. 540 -
NOR SALE—FRESH STOCK OF GROCER-
ies, inventorying about $1,200 in live town;
fine location. Reason for selling, other business.
Address No 546, care Michigan Tradesman. 546

 

 

 

 

NOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR CITY
property—one-half interest in small capacity
sawmill; doing good business and will continue
to do sofor twenty years. Reason for selling,
other business which requires attention. Ad-
dress Box 64, Boon, Wexford Co., Mich. 544
40 ACRES FIRST-CLASS FARM LAND
within one-half mile of depot and school

house for sale on reasonable terms, or will ex-
change for first-class city property; good loca-
tion, fine soil and plenty of timber. Will sell in
40, 80 or 160 acre lots, with or without saw timber.
Address Box 64, Boon, Wexford Co., Mich. 545

ANTED—2 BAZAAR, 2 DRUG AND 1
grocery in good outside towns. Clark’s
Business Exchange, Grand Rapids. 533
> HARDWARE AND 2 BOOTS
and Shoes. Must be bargains. Clark’s
Business Exchange, Grand Rapids. 538
| pom SALE—COMPLETE 22 FOOT, TWO
cylinder, 4 h. p. gasoline launch; in water
only two months; regular price $650. Will sell
cheap for cash. R. E. Hardy, 1383 Jefferson
Ave., Detroit, Mich. ‘
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 Gogebie
county. Address J. M. Whiteside, Bessemer,
Mich. 523
ve SALE — GENERAL MERCHANDISE
stock, invoicing about $8,000, store building
and fixtures. Stock is in Al shape. Trade es-
tablished over twenty years. Would 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
FOR RENT—A GOOD BRICK STORE
building centrally located in a good business
town. Address Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa,
Mich. 516
Fc 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

YOR SALE — 146 ACRES OF LAND IN
Marion county, Florida. Over 100 acres
cleared. Suitable for fruit, vegetables and stock
growing. Price $15 per acre. Notrades. L. D.
Stark, Cascade, Mich. 486
YOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GEN-
eral Stock of Merchandise—Two 80 acre
farms; also double store building. Good trading
point. Address No. 388, care Michigan Trades-
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man.

OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK, LOCATED

- at good country trading point. Stock and
fixtures will inventory about $2,000; rent reason-
able; good place to handle produce. Will sell
stock complete or separate any branch of it.
Address No. 292, eare Michigan Tradesman. 292

ARTIES 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

Wo! ‘CHI GENERAL

 

WOR SALE CHEAP — $2,000
stock and building. Address No. 240, care
Michigan Tradesman. ( i ee

 

 

W ANTED— POSITION AS MANAGER OF
general merchandise stock in town of 2,000
to 5.000. Fifteen years’ experience. Best of
references furnished. Address B. A.,care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 566
ITUATION WANTED BY YOUNG MAN
J of good address in general store; good drug-
gist (not registered) four years’ experience in
country and city. Address Box 433, South
Haven, Mich. 567

TANTED—SITUATION AS PHARMACIST
about Nov. 15. Write No. 554, eare Michi-
gan Tradesman. 554

ANTED-—-BY YOUNG MAN, POSITION

in dry goods, clothing, men’s furnishing or
shoe store; seven years’ experience; good refer-
ences. Oscar E. Otis, Hastings, Mich. 549

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. 513

Notice of Stockholders’ Meeting.

Grand Rapids, Mich. Qet. 24, 1900.

_ The stockholders of the Clark-Rowson Manu-
facturing Co. will take notice that a meeting is
hereby called of the stockholders of the above
company, to be held at the Bissell Carpet
Sweeper Factory at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of
Monday, Nov. 5, 1900, for the purpose of settling
the indebtedness of the company or applying
their assets toward the payment of said indebt-
edness, and for the further purpose of settling
up all of its affairs and disbanding the company.

THE CLARK-ROWSON MANUFACTURING CoO.
By M. SHANAHAN, Secretary.