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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901.

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Knights of the Loyal Guard
A Reserve Fund Order
A fraternal beneficiary society founded
upon a permanent plan. Permanency
not cheapness its motto. Reliable dep-
uties wanted. Address
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Established 1841,

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Getting the People.

3. Two Kinds of Liars.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

6. Village Improvement.

7%. Jobber and Retailer.

8. Editorial.

9. Taxation and Forestry.
Detroit Butter and Cheese Market.
Dry Goods.

15. Clothing.

16. Shoes and Rubbers.

18. Hardware.

19. Hardware Quotations.
20. Woman’s World.

22. Butter and Eggs.

The New York Market.
24. Clerk’s Corner.

25. Commercial Travelers.
Drugs and Chemicals.
2%. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current.
Window Dressing.

The Woman with the Hatchet.

 

 

A DREADFUL CONDITION.

It was found the other day by an old
New Yorker that a single generation
has been sufficient to turn the temporal
affair of that metropolis completely up-
side down. Where are the names that
were prominent in financial circles a
generation ago? Now and then a famil-
iar one appears, but for the most part
the immense fortune belongs toa name
at that time unknown, while in the so-
cial world for years ‘‘the strangers’ foot
has been on the sill.’ Another matter
which has not escaped attention is the
difference in the amount that once was
considered a fortune. Something and
six ciphers was then enough to com-
mand attention, now the something
must cover at least two places, to be
considered noteworthy. One man last
year had an income of $48,000,000, and
the question which is constantly com-
ing up is, ‘‘What in the world is he go-
ing to do with it?’’

The matter stands thus: With an in-
come greater than most kings possess,
our American private citizen, in the
maintenance of his household, spends
a sum so comparatively insignificant as
to make the contemplation of the excess
of income over expenditure simply de-
moralizing. Do his level best, the man
can not get rid of his income. His
house is an enormous enormity. It is
furnished with the costliest whims of
fadism; but even that has a limit and
the income remains unspent. Suppose
the man with the yearly forty-eight mil-
lions should undertake to spend a year’s
income on clothes, or on food? The
mere idea isappalling. The undertaking
would prove overwhelming—shelter and
food and clothing are all that mankind
can have. The house may cover an
acre, the table be burdened with costly
appointments and the finest foods, the
man may sit down to it ona golden
chair, be clothed in the purplest of pur-
ple and the finest of fine linen; but he
can eat only so much. He has reached
his limit, he has bought all there is to
buy; and still the income continues to
increase. What is he going to do
with it?

It is a tremendous question, and is
one which is not limited to the multi-

 

millionare of New York. The condition
is widespread. New York has her share
of very rich men, but the United States
has many more. It is submitted that
there is now and then one in the Penin-
sular State, and if rumor can be at all
relied upon, Grand Rapids, in the gen-
eral summing up, will not be left out in
the cold. With all that human nature
can ask for, the enormous income con-
tinues to increase. Our dinners can not
be made more magnificent. Our prec-
ious stones are too numerous to be
longer desirable and luxury generally
has long since reached the limit beyond
which it becomes surfeited. What is a
surfeited body to do?

The answer is not only an easy one,
but implies a direction which will be
sure to be followed: Keep right on
accumulating. **To him that hath shall
be given.’’ To go to extremes in house
building is as foolish as it is wasteful.
To give one’sself up to the pleasures of
the table is to degenerate into the glut-
ton and ensure an early engagement
with the undertaker. To become an ad-
vertisement of the tailor is to be written
down a fop and a fool; so that all that
remains is to live frugally and prudent-
ly, turn the surplus into bonds and keep
right on toiling and moiling until a ripe
old age. Then death will ‘‘turn us
down’’ exactly as he turns down the
humblest man in our service, we shal]
be borne to our costly mausoleum in the
costliest hearse that can be hired for the
occasion--Victoria rode on a gun car-
riage!—and there our bodies will
moulder into common, everyday, old-
fashioned dirt until the angel tells us to
depart for somewhere into something!

The New Yorker is right. It isa
dreadful condition of things but, what
is much to the purpose, the world, as a
whole, finds it a very desirable condi-
tion of things. The general ‘‘wind-
up’’ is, naturally, somewhat jarring to
any who may be inclined to contem-
plation, but the man most interested
‘‘takes no stock’’ in it and keeps on in
the even tenor of his way. That the
way will have the common ending there
is no possible doubt. The generation
will pass and another will take its place.
The second will gaze in wonder at the
marble mansoleum, will conjecture as to
what kind of man the sleeper was and,
with all the irreverence to be expected
from the descendants of the present one,
will turn from the door of the sepulchre
with a satisfied ‘‘That’s all right’’ as
the letters of stone are read: ‘‘He
has gone from his work to his reward.”’

 

In soliciting a settlement with its
creditors, the Wurzburg Department
Store estimates its book accounts to be
worth 20 cents on the dollar, which
should be a warning to retail merchants
generally to limit that portion of their
business as much as possible, to the end
that they may not be compelled to de-
preciate their assets to this extent in the
event of their becoming embarrassed.

 

In giving credits,don’t forget that the
horse that neighs loudest for oats has
not always the backbone to carry them.

 

DISAPPEARANCE OF HATRED.
The ‘‘Point of View’’ in Scribner’s
Magazine for February, in some obser-
vations on the ‘‘ Decline of Hatred,’’
remarks that, in modern fiction and the
drama, hatred is no longer represented
as the great and overmastering passion
in contradistinction to love.

”

There are still in active operation
those motives for hate, such as jealousy,
envy and rivalry. These are still potent
enough to drive men to murder and to
all other crimes; but there is said to be
an absence of the overpowering and all-
consuming hate which, without being
the demonstration of any spcial grudge,
is the expression of an intense and im-
measurable malice. Such hate is found
in the ancient Greek drama; it appears
in mediaeval myths and is the sort of
hate that Satan is supposed to cherish
against God, and man, as the chiefest
of God’s creatures. It does not seem
specially difficult to understand why
primeval passions have lost in these lat-
ter times their intense ferocity and
persistency. It is because men no longer
hold to the doctrine of fate and have ac-
cepted hope in its place. A human be-
ing, under the decree of a ferocious and
unrelenting fate, realizing that all hap-
piness in this world and the next was
denied to him, would naturally be filled
with a hopeless but furious resentment
not only towards those who were sup-
posed to be the cause of his misfor-
tunes, but even to the innocent persons
whose happiness was a subject of envy.

Without doubt the hopeful views of the
future born of the Christian religion
have done everything to banish the
demoniac hate and the black despair
that appear so often in the antique de-
lineations of character. In the theology
of the primitive nations the gods had
their favorites, upon whom all benefits
were showered, while there were unfor-
tunates upon whom were poured out un-
ceasing floods of evil. Some such no-
tion may be preserved in the grim and
gloomy tenets of Calvin, but it is
scarcely more than the shadow of a sur-
vival. To-day human beings live in
hope of both present and future enlarge-
ment, and fate has no part in their cal-
culations. The banishment of fate
from our religion means the extinction
of demoniac hate and despair.

Ever since F. W. Wurzburg merged
his business into a department store he
has been a disturbing element in trade
—handling poor goods, selling at cut
prices and doing all he could to demor-
alize the methods of those who conduct
business along legitimate lines. Every
creditor who consents to settle his claim
in such a way as to enable the Wurz-
burg regime to be perpetuated contrib-
utes to a continuance of the demoraliza-
tion in trade inaugurated and main-
tained by the present management.

Every creditor who accepts the com-
promise offered by the Wurzburg De-
partment Store perpetrates an injustice
on the merchants who pay 100 cents on
the dollar.

 

    

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Getting the People

Use and Abuse of Advertising Signs.

It is a generally accepted proposition
that every means of getting one’s name
and business before the public is good
advertising. I have had occasion to ob-
serve that the question of value is some-
what dependent upon the manner in
which the mind is impressed with such
knowledge. If the idea is conveyed in
a manner which is repugnant the know]-
edge of the business may be temporarily
increased at the cost of driving away
the custom, which more suitable meth-
ods would gain. Thus, some uncouth or
undignified procession in the streets
bearing signs will excite risibility and
ridicule, but the experimenters in this
direction are coming to understand that
the advertising vaiue of such perform-
ances is negative.

It is not the peregrinating sign, nor
the display on the store building of the
merchant that interests us so much as
the advertising sign usually spread on
. any and every available space that is

likely to meet observers. Promoters of
this sort of advertising have no consid-
eration for suitability and obtrude their
disfigurements, regardless of esthetic
sense or of the effect on the landscape.

The criterion of excellence in this
sort of heralding is conspicuousness—to
occupy as large a space on any object
as can be found or constructed. As
farmers are apt to draw the line at the
decoration of their dwellings, the most
available buildings are barns, sheds and
stables. The farmer having a good
barn is apt to except it from such use,
so that the roughest and most uncouth of
this class of edifices are devoted to the
printer’s art.

This may be good advertising, but to
my mind there is an association of
ideas between Sellem & Fitts’ clothing
and the tumbledown, filthy sheds which
bear their signs which is not attractive.
Even although the thought may not as-
sume definite torm in the mind there
is an unpleasant impression, and this is
not generally helped by the class of ar-
tistic skill employed. An uncouth glar-
ing letter in white or some other light
color stands forth on a ground of funereal
black which covers the rest of the edifice,
making an object having no proper
place outside the dreams of a lunatic.
It may be good advertising to intrude
these visions on the sight of the way-
farer every half mile or so, but the effect
on my mind is the engendering of an
intense dislike for the names associated
with such monstrosities.

Another phase of landscape decora-
tion (?) which excites the conscious or
unconscious wrath of the artistic tem-
perament is the desecration of natural
‘objects. When the vendor of Dr. Pill’s

_ Lightning Alterative covers the face of
the distant rock with his legend he
fondly hopes that the observer will carry
an impression which will lead to a trial
of his wares. It never occurs to him
that his name and medicine have be-
come objects of detestation on account
of the defacement of an element in an
artistic picture.

A similar defacement of scenery, al-
though produced in a different manner,
is the erection of gigantic signboards
in the most conspicuous parts of the
landscape. This does a violence to the
artistic sense which goes far to neutral-
ize any advertising value.

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AT SOME DRY GOODS STORES
If you happen to get particularly good s
value for your money, it is largely a mat-
ter of chance. You may and you may not.
At our establishment there is no such thing
as chance. We know what we sell, and
you will also know, because our clerks will
tell you. It pays better. in the end, to do
this. Taking that into consideration, and
the fact that we buy all our Dry Goods in
the Eastern markets from first hands, ena-
bles us to sell the Best Goods at the LOW-
EST PRICES. For this spring’s trade we
are offering the « Sweetser, Pembrook &
Co.’s Wash Goods, consisting of Jaconets,
Dimities, Ginghams and Zephyrs, .* at 7c,
10c, 12'c, 15c, 25c, and 50c, per yard. We
handle these goods exclusively. Our stock
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY.

HANDLE LOGS

Maple, se ft. 2 in. long.

5 ft. 8 in. long.
Beech, 5 ft. 2 in. long.
R. Elm6 ft. 2 in. long.

We will pay a special price far

Choice White Ash Logs.

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obtrusive, positions may appear artistic-
ally painted. signs of moderate size to
good advantage. On such signs should
be used a plain artistic letter, no orna-
ment, and it is just as well that many
of these should be duplicates. In plac-
ing these care must be exercised to pre-
serve suitability. If it is put on a
building let the building be a decent
one. If ona fence don’t try to get the
most conspicuous position possible, but
put it where it will look best in its sur-
roundings—appear well balanced and

artistic.
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It is not often that the printer is suc-
cessful in attempts at pictorial effect in
the use of brass rules, as in the column
and panel work of the Antrim Iron
Company. This effort is especially no-
table in the judiciousness with which
the faces of rules are selected and the
proportioning of the spaces and the
completeness with which the idea is
worked out. In the type work there is
the same good judgment in not mixing
faces. While two styles are used they
are so separated and balanced that
unity of effect is produced.

Charles P. Lillie has also fallen into
the hands of a good printer. The body
of the advertisement looks pretty solid,
on account of its length, but it is writ-
ten in an interesting, readable style,
and will gain attention.

M. V. B. McAlpine is also fortunate
in finding a compositor who is up with
the times. While the subject of the ad-
vertisement savors a little too much of
snap trading it is possible that it is
adapted to the requirements of the par-
ticular business.

The wording of the advertisement for
the Shelby Milling Co. is as good an
example of conciseness and complete-
ness as I have ever seen. The printer’s
work shows good judgment.

The advertisement of the Champion
Tooi & Handle Works shows a good ex-
ample of the old methods of display
and, while the space is a little crowded,
the effect is good.

Van’s Bakery is the least fortunate in
its effort of any in the list. The word-
ing is too labored and the printer has
tried too hard to do something. Less

effort all around would have given a
better result.

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Love is like the grip. Everybody in
the world has either just had it or is
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Cheap and Eftective.
Send for ie and prices.

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

 

Headquarters for Merchants
HOTEL GRACE

European. In the heart of the city.

Location opposite Post Office and Board of
Trade in exact center of business district.

Two hundred rooms at $1 per day and up-
ward. Every room has hot and cold water and
is heated by steam.

Cc. Cc. COLLINS, Proprietor,
Jackson Boulevard and Clark St,

 

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TWO KINDS OF LIARS.

 

Difference Between the Honest and Dis-

honest Classes.
I don’t know why this subject oc-

+ curred to me, but I grew to studying

the other day over two Philadelphia
salesmen with whom I am well ac-
quainted, and whom I have known for
years. They are well known men and
both liars. One is a successful sales-
man; the other is a ragged-edge man.
The biggest liar is the best salesman.
He isn’t successful because he’s a liar,
because everybody knows he is one.
He succeeds in spite of that.

It got me to thinking about the differ-
ent sorts of liars that you find among
salesmen. There are honest, harmless
liars, and there are dishonest, harmful
ones. You size the first sort up right
away, and you don’t hold their failings

} against them. Asa rule, a liar of this

class is a genial, capable sort of fellow
with the habit of lying his main fault.
He doesn’t mean to lie to your harm.
He wouldn’t hurt you for the world.

The dishonest liar may not tell any-
where neat aS many lies as the other
fellow, but you don’t want him around.

The man I mentioned a while back—
the biggest liar and the best salesman—
will stand up and look you in the face
with the most honest baby blue eyes you
ever saw. Nine times out of ten, if you
are a buyer, he is filling you full. And
still you are liable to buy of him, for
somehow you like him.

For instance, quite a while ago this
salesman went to a retail grocer with a
sample of prunes. The grocer wasa
shrewd, experienced man. He knows
the grocery business and he is a good
judge of men. He knew the salesman
was a liar, too.

It was just about when new prunes
were coming in. The salesman offered
a lot that he said were new prunes at
about 3 cent under the market. He
swore by the soul of his grandmother
that they were new.

‘‘All right,’’ said the grocer, ‘‘if
those are new prunes I'll take a hun-
dred boxes. You leave the sample here.’’

The salesman left his sample and
went away. As he weut out, the retailer
remarked :

‘I’ll bet a dollar Smith don’t deliver
me what I ordered.’’

‘*Why?’’ asked a bystander.

‘*Because he’s such liar!’’ was the
reply.

‘‘Why in the name of Heaven do you
buy of such a man?’’ was asked.

‘‘Oh, I don’t know,’’ said the grocer;
‘‘T couldn't tell why I do. He hustles a
good deal—that’s one reason, I suppose.

Well, the prunes were delivered—the

 

whole hundred boxes on a dray. The
retailer ripped open one box, and the
result showed how well he had known
his man. The whole lot was the most
open sort of ice house stock. And, of
course, back they went. An ordinary
salesman would have been kicked out
of that retailer’s store the next time he
went there. This particular salesman
has never stopped selling him goods.

Another retailer I know of has been
lied to repeatedly by the same sales-
man. He’s ordered him out of his store
probably ten times. Yet that doesn’t
prevent the salesman from going back
there the very minute he wants to, and
the retailer buys of him to-day and has
no grudge against him.

This fellow is with one of the biggest
houses in Philadelphia, and he’s one of
the biggest salesmen. Don’t get the
impression that his ability as a liar
helps him, for it doesn’t. The lies of a
salesman, especially a traveling sales-
man, will come home to roost every
time. This man would unquestionably
do a far bigger business if he never told
a lie. The fellow’s personal magnetism
enables him, even against the formid-
able competition of his lying tongue, to
sell goods, and lots of them.

The other salesman is probably as
well known as the one I’ve just got
through talking about. He isn’t as big
a liar by a big sight, yet he probabiy
sells a dollar’s worth where the other
man sells a hundred. He is a dishonest
liar. You feel when you know him that
he is trying to use his lies to get the
best of you. He is trying to lie money
out of your pocket. He really means
you ill when he lies. This salesman has
never been a success. To-day he is de-
cidedly on the ragged edge. Judged by
the number of lies he and the other
salesman tell, the dishonest salesman
deserves more success than the latter.
The reason he doesn’t get it is because
his lies are mercenary and malicious,
and because he lacks the personal mag-
netism to overcome them. The other
fellow tells three lies to his one, but
when you call him a liar to your friends
you are apt to speak of it in the same
tone as if you were accusing him of be-
ing a practical joker.

Moral, if you must be a liar, bea
pleasing liar.—Stroller in Grocery
World.

A Formidable Undertaking.

Sockson Buskin—I’m raising money
to buy land to build a home on for poor
actors.

Ben E. Volent—Well, if you’re going
to buy land for a home for poor actors,
I guess you’ll have to buy two or three
states.

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Don’t you need some

New Boxes

for your Laces, Ribbons and Notions?
The place to get them 1s from the
Kalamazoo Paper Box Co.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

Windows Steam?

It’s a nuisance which our preparation will re-
move. Your windows will remain clear as crys-
tal. Have put it into practical use ourselves for
along time. Guaranteed to. do all we claim for
it. Easily applied. Price $1.00 postpaid.

B. R. SMITH, Box 695, Marshall, Mich.

 

YOU CAN DO WITHOUT
H. BROS. “CORRECT
CLOTHES” THIS SPRING
BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE
ANY MONEY DOING SO

Let us send you samples or have
our representative call.

Bi leavenrich Bros.

Motor Vehicle

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Price

$475.00

We have spoken nude a of our Motor Bicycle,
(Auto-Bi at $200) and our Tricycle. (Auto-Tri at
$350. Hereis our AUTO-TWO. It’s a beauty.

If interested write for catalogue.

ADAMS & HART, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ballou Baskets Are Best

 

 

Is conceded. Uncle Sam knows it and
uses them by the thousand.
We make all kinds.

Market Baskets, Bushel Baskets, Bamboo De-
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Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch
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Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets,
Truck Baskets.

Send for catalogue.

 

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ready. A Gas Reading Lamp is the
most satisfactory kind to use.

A complete lamp including tubing and
genuine Welsbach Mantles and Wels-
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Suitable for offices a stores as well,

GRAND RAPIDS GAS LIGHT CoO.,
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Around the State

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Marquette—J. W. Jochim has retired
from the Marquette Hardware Co.

Hillsdale—J. M. Cummins, meat
dealer, has sold out to W. H. Croose.

Corunna—W. H. Wilson & Co. have
established a lumber yard at this place.

Grass Lake—John Haren has _pur-
chased the Johnson & Co. grocery stock.

Tekonsha—L. M. Batt has sold his
vehicle and implement stock to F. W.
Main.

Hersey—H. A. Millard has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Bisbee &
McGee.

St. Louis—Stambaugh & Hildreth
have purchased the grocery stock of A.
S. Adam.

Broomfield—B. W. Hagerman suc-
ceeds Hoover & Hagerman in the gro-
cery business.

Tower—Dominic Potvin has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock
of J. H. Miller.

Lansing—Willson & Dale succeed
Willson & Dunning in the harness and
vehicle business,

Warren—Smith & Wolf succeed Smith
& Freudhauff in the hardware and im-
plement business.

Marquette—W. G. Coles has purchased
the meat market of A. F. Werle at 523
North Third street.

Detroit—The Michigan Wall Paper
Co., Ltd., is succeeded by the Michi-
gan Wall Paper Co.

Middleville—Mrs. Eva Talbott will
open a millinery shop in the opera hall
building about March 15.

Stanton—M. Cohn & Co., of Detroit,
have purchased the genera] merchan-
dise stock of J. N. Crusoe.

East Jordan—J. Zeif, dealer in dry
goods, clothing and boots and shoes,
has removed to Ludington.

Ashley—M. G. Bassett has purchased
the interest of his partner in the drug
firm of Bassett & Gladstone.

Onsted-—J. F. Hallett has purchased
the interest of Mr. Muck, in the hard-
ware firm of Muck & Hallett.

Port Huron—E. C. Boice, dealer in
dry goods and millinery, has added 30
feet to his new store building.

White Pigeon—W. H. Ostrander, of
Waterville, Ohio, has purchased the
general stock of John J. Davis.

Eureka—E. S. Koon has removed his
stock of clothing and men’s furnishing
goods from Fowler to this place.

Crystal Valley—Alva Darling has en-
gaged in the grocery business. Geo.
Hume & Co. furnished the stock.

Crystal Valley—L. E. Beadle is erect-
ing a store building and expects to en-
gage in general trade about March 15.

Charlotte—Claud Pope has purchased
the Turner grocery stock and will con-
tinue the business at the same location.

Charlotte—R. A. Garber and Z. M.
C. Smith have purchased the agricul-
tural implement stock of Wm. Boyles.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Hammond-
Standish Co., wholesale meats, will
build a storage warehouse and refrigera-
tor here.

Ida—Weipert & Cousino is the style
of the new firm which succeeds N. A.
Weipert in the hardware and implement
business.

Manton—W. M. Sterling has leased
the old McFarlan store, which he will
occupy with paints, wall paper and
bazaar goods.

Luther—H. Goldman, dealer in dry
goods, boots and shoes and women’s
and men’s furnishing goods, has re-
moved to Mesick.

 

Constantine—R. CC, Wagenaar, of
Grand Rapids, and A. DeVries, of Hol-
land, have purchased the grocery stock
of Barry & Bigelow.

Hillsdale—Kreiter & Steward, deal-
ers in paints and oils, have dissolved
partnership, Mr. Kreiter purchasing the
interest of Mr. Steward.

West Bay City—The style of Mc-
Laughlin & Co., dealers in ccal, wood
and lime, has been changed to the Mc-
Laughlin Coal & Lime Co.

Charlotte—S. G. Newman, of Union
City, has purchased the grocery stock
of F. H. McGrath, and will continue
the business at the old stand.

Hillsdale—C. E. Singer has retired
from the shoe firm of D. McNaughton
& Co. Mr. McNaughton will continue
the business in his own name.

Hamilton—H. J. Fisher will soon
move his drugs to Holland. Then Ham-
ilton will have no drug store. This will
be a fair opening for some one.

Belding—The firm of Lapham & De-
Witt, furniture dealers, has been dis-
solved by mutual consent, Geo. DeWitt
having purchased the interest of E. B.
Lapham.

Dighton—Geo. A. Ball, general
dealer at this place, died last week of
pneumonia after a short illness. He was
58 years of age and had been engaged
in business here since 1886.

Kalamzoo—Edmond Chase, formerly
clerk for the Bryant Shoe Co., has pur-
chased the interest of C. P. O’Brien in
the shoe firm of Ware & O’Brien, pro-
prietors of the City shoe store.

Menominee—Richard M. Smith will
retire from the furniture firm ot Smith
& Peterson about March 1. Mr. Smith
will go West for his health. Peter M.
Peterson will continue the business.

St. Johns—The firm of Corbit & Val-
entine has been dissolved. J. H. Cor-
bit will continue the hardware business
and E. L. Valentine has taken the agri-
cultural implement, vehicle and harness
stock.

St. Johns—The Natignal Telephone
Co. will extend its lines to Elsie and
Bannister as soon as the weather will
permit, having purchased poles for the
new extension. Exchanges will be in-
stalled at Ovid, Elsie and Bannister,

Houghton—L. A. Larsen has taken a
position with Nelson Morris & Co., the
Chicago meat firm, which will open upa
branch house in this city. Mr. Larsen
came to Houghton in 1899 and has _ had
charge of the Hammond Packing Co.’s
affairs in the copper country since that
time.

Lansing—A. M. Donsereaux has ob-
tained a settlement with his creditors
on the basis of 25 cents on the dollar. It
is reported that four-fifths of the amount
necessary to effect the compromise was
furnished by Donsereaux and that the
remainder was contributed by T. O.
Christian, of Owosso.

Detroit—A chattel mortgage has been
given by Smith & Snedeker to Frank
H. Jerome, trustee, for the benefit of
creditors, for $5,373.41, upon general
stock of tobacco and cigars and fittings
at 70 Woodward avenue. Principal
creditors, Yocum Bros., Reading, Pa.,
for $1,508.25; C. W. Smith, Nashville,
Mich., $900.

Port Huron—Silas Armstrong, the
wholesale grocer, while leaving Elks’
hall at a late hour last Friday night, in
some manner lost his baiance at the
head of the stairs and fell headlong to
the landing below. He was picked up
unconscious and bleeding from a severe
gash in his head. A short time ago he
had suffered a slight stroke of paralysis,

and it is thought a second shock may
have overtaken him and caused the
fall. Late to-night there was no im-
provement in Mr. Armstrong’s condi-
tion, and an operation was decided up-
on as the only hope of saving his life.
Dr. Emerson, of Detroit, has been sum-
moned for consultation in the case.

Three Rivers—Charles Starr has found
it necessary to turn over his dry goods
and millinery stock to L. M. Wing,
President of the Coldwater National
Bank,and R. R. Pealer, President of the
First National Bank of this place, as
trustees for all his creditors. The trus-
tees have placed Charles W. Cox in im-
mediate charge. The total liabilities
amount to $21,785.77. There are about
fifty creditors. A compromise will prob-
ably be offered this week.

St. Joseph—W. K. Walker, the well-
known prescriptionist, has been elected
Secretary and Manager of the Howard
& Pearl Drug Co., which is a sufficient
guarantee that the business will be well
managed hereafter. Mr. Walker was
traveling representative for many years
for Parke, Davis & Co. and has a large
acquaintance among Michigan drug-
gists, all of whom will join the Trades-
man in congratulating him on the op-
portunity he now has for demonstrating
his ability as an organizer, buyer and
manager.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Zeeland—The South Ottawa Cheese
Co. has declared a dividend of 31 per
cent. from the profits of 1900.

Alpena—The Richardson Lumber Co.
has embarked in the lumber business,
with a capital stock of $30,000.

Coldwater—The Behse Manufacturing
Co., manufacturer of bicycle guards,
etc., has discontinued business.

Portland—The Goff Manufacturing
Co, has been organized to engage in the
manufacture of flour sifters, an inven-
tion of Frank Goff, Jr.

West Bay City—The United States
Chicory Co., the largest manufacturing
concern of its kind in the United States,
is offering $7 a ton for next season’s
crop of chicory.

Three Rivers—The Initial Toepad
Co. will shortly erect a factory building,
50@140 feet in dimensions and four
stories high, for the manufacture of car-
riage trimmings.

St. Ignace—The Jamieson Lumber
Co.’s sawmill is now owned by Messrs.
Salling, of Gaylord, and Thos. Wood-
field, J. A. Jamieson having retired
from the firm to devote his entire atten-
tion to his Neebish operations.

Port Huron—The Anchor Bay Salt
Co. has filed articles of association. The
capital stock is $25,000, of which $2,500
is paid in. C. J. Riley and C. M.
Swift, of Detroit, each own 1,200 shares
and Wm. J. Gray owns 100 shares.

Detroit—The Hydraulic Oil Distribu-
tion Co. has filed articles of association
with the county clerk. The organiza-
tion is capitalized at $25,000, of which
Luther C. Snell holds 2,498 shares. C.
L. Coffin and F. A. Goodrich hold one
share each.

Detroit —Articles of association of the
Welded Steel Barrel Corporation have
been filed with the county clerk. The
capital stock is $175,000, of which
Charles L. Coffin holds 17,498 shares,
and Henry W. Jessop and Orla B. Tay-
lor one share each.

Port Huron—Articles of association
have been filed for the organization of
the Flint Pantaloon Co., in this city,
which will absorb the Standard Novelty

 

Co. The company will be capitalized

 

 

at $30,000. The stockholders are Henry
McMorran, C. F. Harrington, W. F.
Davidson and David Traxler. The
company will manufacture overalls, etc.

Kalamazoo—R. S. Wilson, of Rich-
land, has purchased an interest in the
Spiral Manufacturing Co. and has been
elected President of the company. The
other officers of the company are A.
W. Bowman, Secretary, and C. W.
Thompson, General Manager. The
business of the concern in its new quar-
ters in the Allen block has been sub-
stantially increased.

Adrian—Articles of incorporation of
the Perfection Manufacturing Co. have
been filed: The company will have its
office at Adrian and will be engaged in
the manufacture and sale of woodenware
and novelties. The stock is capitalized
at $30,000, all paid in, and the stock-
holders are Edward M. Lamb, Emmor
Bales, Daniel S. Williams, J. Mills
Lamb and W. W. Cooke.

Port Huron—John T. Staff, of Terre
Haute, Ind., has made a proposition to
establish a canning factory in this city,
costing $25,000, providing a suitable
site can be obtained and other arrange-
ments be effected. The industry, it is
claimed, will give employment to 100
persons nine months of the year, and
300 for six months, while at the busiest
season it is expected as high as 400 will
be employed.

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Ionia—Fred C. Stevenson, who has
been with G. F. Whitney & Son for the
past eight years, has taken a similar
position with the Allerton Mercantile
Co., of St. Johns, and will leave to as-
sume his new duties about March 15.

Caro—Ed. Langin, who for the past
year has been employed in the hardware
store of F. A. Turner, has severed his
connection with that firm and started on
the road for Root Bros., hardware deal-
ers, of Plymouth, Ohio.

Woodland—H. P. French has retained
J. P. Williams in the drug store lately
occupied by A. Hill & Son, and will
continue to do business at both places
for an indefinite length of time.

Manistee—Frank Zielinski has taken
a position as clerk in P. N. Cardozo’s
store. For the past year and a half he
has been clerking in the Busy Big
Store, at Ludington.

—_—_>+.___
Comstock Crowd Up to Their Old Tricks.
From the Marquette Mining Journal.

Ten or more Menominee business
men anted up to the Comstock Collec-
tion Agency, of Oswego, N. Y. As in
this county, summons were issued from
a remote point and a bluff is being
made in the hope that those who are
standing out against the imposition will
lose their nerve and pay up. The
Agency’s representative has apparently
gotten clear of this county for good and
all. The determined stand taken by

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him. Other victims of the fraudulent
concern will do well to stand their
ground and threaten to fight. The Com-
stock gang will not care to bring its
Agency into the courts. .
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The third annual banquet of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers’ Association
of Port Huron will be held on Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 27. The Tradesman
acknowledges, with thanks, a cordial
invitation to be represented on that oc-
casion.

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It will pay you to enlist the services
of the ‘‘Systematic Collector.’’ Write
the Commercial Credit Co., Widdicomb
Bldg., Grand Rapids, or Hammond
Bldg., Detroit, for particulars.

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For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades

and prices. Visner, both phones,

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Humiliating Compromise Offered by the
Wurzburgs.

The Wurzburg Department Store has

 

 

ich- & -- y issued a circular letter to its outside

the ‘creditors offering 15 per cent. in full
een wg, Settlement of all claims against that es-
The F tate, based on the following showing:
» A. Merchandise, per invoice, $44, 340. 84
W. .. Book accounts, - - - 3,053.31
The . on hand, - - 3,748. 34
Nat: Aa Total, $51,742.52
ub- "f _- Estimating the merchandise to be
¢ worth 40 cents on the dollar and the
of _» book accounts to be worth 20 cents on
are the dollar and the cash at par make a
its total of $22,214, from which is to be de-
- -’ ducted the expense of the trustee and
are the fees of his attorneys, which amount
ZOE oo, altogether to $3,500, leaving a_ net
ck- amount of $18,714 to pay $121,000 worth
nae wed of debts.
ills - The letter is very nicely worded, hav-
ing evidently been written with a great
ae deal of care, and the hope is held out
to ~) to the creditors that if they will settle
ty, % on this basis they will be given the
ble @~ : ;
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Be- 4 stated that local business men stand
AS XY” ready to furnish the necessary capital
100! to enable the concern to re-establish it-
nd self in business, but the identity of the
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are readily apparent, none of these cir-
culars have been sent the local creditors,
who will be approached later on and

. treated somewhat differently.

Of course this proposition is put out
as a ‘‘feeler’’ for the purpose of ascer-
taining the sentiment of the creditors,
with a view to ultimately obtaining a
settlement on the basis of 25 per cent.
or thereabouts; in fact, several local
creditors have been given to understand
that they will be treated handsomely if
they will use their influence to obtain a
satisfactory adjustment of certain out-
side accounts.

From present indications few, if any,
creditors will injure themselves in their
haste to take advantage of this offer, be-
cause it has been conceded from the
start that the estate ought to pay 25
cents on the dollar and that the Wurz-
burgs must relinquish their expectation
of continuing the business, because they
have demonstrated to the satisfaction of
all concerned that they are not equal to
the occasion; that as merchants they
are failures and must get off the track
and make way for men who have the
energy and integrity to do business
along proper lines and pay 100 cents on

the dollar.
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The Produce Market.

Apples—Russsets and Ben Davis are
in active demand at $2.50. Baldwins
and other fancy varieties command $3@

2h.

; Hounass Prices range from $1.25@
1.75 per bunch, according to size.

Beets—$1 per bbl.

Butter—Creamery has advanced to
22c, although receipts are liberal. Dairy
grades range from 13@15c. The mar-
ket is in excellent condition.

Cabbage—Home grown is scarce at
s0@6oc per bu. Florida stock is in

“* jimited demand at $4 per bbl.

Carrots—$1 per bbl.

Celery—Scarce at 30c per bunch.

Cider—13c per gal. for sweet.

Cranberries—Jerseys are steady at
$2.75 per bu. box and $8 per bbl. A
few lots of Cape Cods bring more, but
the quantity of that grade is too insig-
nificant to be any real factor in the sit-
uation. Jerseys are not plenty, but the
bulk of the supply is moderately good
and prices steady.

Eggs—Fresh are still selling at 18c,
although the New York market has de-
clined to 16%c and the Chicago market
to 15c. Local dealers are holding the
price up as long as possible, so as to

 

give their country shippers an oppor-
tunity to unload the purchases they have
made at the present range of values. A
slump to 15@16c will probably come
before the end of the week.

Game—Common cottontail rabbits are
in active demand at 7oc for No. 2 and
goc for No. 1. Belgian hares command
8@toc per |b. for dressed. .

Hickory Nuts—$2@z2.25 per bu.

Honey—Fancy white is _ practically
out of market. Choice white is in large
supply at 14@15c. Amber goes at 13@
14c and dark buckwheat is slow sale at
1lo@I2c.

Lemons—Messinas command $3.50 for
all sizes. Californias fetch $3.50 for
300s and $3.25 for 360s. The market is
not at present overstocked with good
Sicilies, and, as the supply of Califor-
nias is insufficient to cause any consid-
erable change in the market, the outlook
for Sicilies is encouraging. Higher
prices are expected. oo

Lettuce—Hothouse stock is in good
= commanding 15c per lb. for
eaf.

Limes—$1.25 per 100; $1@I1.25 per
box.

Lima Beans—7c per Ib.

Onions—Dry are strong and have ad-
vanced to $1. Spanish are in fair de-
mand at $1.60 per crate. Bermudas are
beginning to arrive, fetching $3 per
crate.

Oranges—Californias fetch $2.50 for
the larger sizes and $2.75@3 for the
smaller sizes.

Pineapples—Floridas are beginning
to arrive and are taken in a limited way
at $2.75 per doz.

Pop Corn—$1 per bu.

Potatoes—The market is decidedly
off, as frequently happens at this time
of the year. The cause of the slump is
thus described by Miller & Teasdale
Co., of St. Louis: With light receipts
in all of the larger markets—exception-
ally so for this time of the year—prices
have eased off, markets are dull, slug-
gish and weak; the supply, although
light most everywhere, on account of
cold weather and light loading, yet itis
reported stock has been accumulating on
track in many of the large cities. The
country shipping trade, while taking
some potatoes, still report trade light
and we find difficulty in selling even at
lower prices which are named. Early
seed stock is dead dull everywhere;
there seems an utter lack of demand.
In the Southeast we hear on all sides
that Maine is underselling us, even at
the lower prices now ruling. We ought
now to be having an active demand.
On the contrary, it is very light. It is
evident that they have supplied them-
selves with seed potatoes in many local-
ties and do not need any more. Plant-
ing in the South will be light this year,
as much heavier acreage will be used for
cotton, as cotton was high last year and
potatoes proved a failure. It is on this
account that we look for light seed de-
mand everywhere in the South, and an-
other thing which must not be over-
looked in calculating the situation on
early seed potatoes, is that Maine, hav-
inag large and fine crop and having
special low freights to all Southeastern,
Southern and Southwestern points on
account of water rate, has sold large
quantities of early seed potatoes right
into our territory, and at prices with
which we can not compete, nor can we
even now with seed potatoes 14@18c
per bushel lower than early in January.
Maine still has large quantities sold for
last half of February and through March
delivery. It may develop that the South
will not want much of our Northern
seed potatoes, and it begins to look as
if such was the case, since the demand
for seed in the South should be good,
and you know it never was so light as
now.

Poultry—Local
lows: Spring turkeys,
8@oc; spring chickens, g@Ioc; fowls,
8@ogc; spring ducks, 11@12c—old not
wanted at any price; spring geese, 8@
gc—old not wanted.

Sweet Potatoes—$2.50 for Virginias
and $3.50 for Jerseys.

Squash—2c per |b. for Hubbard,

Turni ps—$1 per bbl,

dealers pay as fol-

11@12c; old,

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The raw sugar market is prac-
tically unchanged. Refiners apparently
were buyers on the basis of 4%c for 96
deg. test centrifugals, but no decided
anxiety was shown to purchase, as they
have ample supplies on hand to meet
present requirements. Holders having
only limited supplies on hand, there
was no pressure shown to market sup-
plies. The refined market remains the
same. Sales are of fair sized quantities
at full prices. Most buyers have a suffi-
ciently large stock to carry them until
the middle of next month and, unless
there should be some material change
in the raw sugar market, business from
now on will probably be of a hand-to-
mouth character. Some look for an ad-
vance in prices of refined in the near
future, but refiners do not encourage this
belief and it is doubtful if any immedi-
ate change will be made.

Canned Goods—The developments in
the canned goods market the past week
do not show any changes in the general
situation. Trading has been confined
to small orders, mostly for tomatoes,
peas and oysters, and future business is
only of moderate proportions. The in-
terest is centered almost entirely in the
tomato market and there are those who
still think a change must come shortly,
and are encouraged in this belief by the
activity of the market and the lightness
of the stocks held by jobbers and pack-
ers. It is the belief that goes a long
way toward sustaining the tomato mar-
ket, and if the leading packers continue
to feel in their present frame of mind
for a while longer, the market will un-
doubtedly improve. The corn market
continues quiet and there are no changes
or items of interest to report on this
line. There is practically no demand
for corn of any description and the
trade do not seem to be interested in
either spot or futures. After a while
there will be some change in the corn
market and at the prevailing prices
buyers can not lose anything by keep-
ing their stocks in good shape. String
beans are unchanged. Prices are low,
but sales are few. Lima beans are near-
ly all cleaned up. Peas are unchanged,
but are in fairly good demand. There
are some sales of futures, but a number
of the packers have not named prices
on the new pack yet and buyers are
holding off, waiting for prices on some
favorite brands. Considerable interest
is manifested in the pineapple pack.
No prices have been made as yet, but
same are expected early next month.
The crop will mature earlier this year
than it did last and packers expect to
start their canning houses to work about
April 25. The peach market is quiet
and there are no changes to report in
any grade this week. The buying con-
sists of small lots, but they are of suff-
cient number to show that there will be
a good trade for all grades in the
spring. Columbia River salmon is dull
and unchanged. Red Alaska is in good
demand and medium red and the cheap-
er grades are quite closely cleaned up.
Oysters are in good demand at the pres-
ent low quotations. The general market
is not as active as it usually is at this
time of the year, but all indications
point to an active spring trade.

Dried Fruits—There is little change
of any kind to record in the dried fruit
market. Trade shows slightly more ac-
tivity, but, outside of prunes, there is
no buying of special interest. There is
quite a fair demand for prunes at the
present low prices. No large lots are
purchased, but the numerous small or-

 

ders aggregate a fair amount; 60-70s and
g0-100s are going out quite freely. Cal-
ifornia loose muscatel raisins are firmly
held, but the demand is light. There
is, however, a very good demand for
seeded, which seem to be constantly
growing in favecr with the consumer. In
apricots the feeling is better, with a
good enquiry for fancy and_ strictly
choice grades at full prices. Peaches
are in fairly good demand at previous
prices. Figs are unchanged, but with
a little better demand. Stocks are mod-
erate, but probably sufficient to take
care of the usual spring trade. Dates
are steady but quiet. Currants are firm
and are selling more freely. Holders
report that the trade is buying in larger
lots than has been the case for some time
past. There is some demand for evap-
orated apples, but stocks are almost ex-
hausted, what little there is left in the
hands of evaporators being held at high
prices.

Rice—The rice market is steady, with
good demand. Dealers remain strong
in their views on prices, owing to small
supplies and the continued firmness of
primary markets. Advices from abroad
note strong market conditions and high-
er prices for some grades.

Tea—Although there prevails a gen-
eral good feeling, the demand is slow
and conditions remain rather dull. Im-
porters remain confident and the gen-
eral belief is that very shortly a general
renewed demand will set in and a prob-
able advance in price will be experi-
enced.

Molasses and Syrups—The molasses
market is very firm, with good demand.
Owing to small supplies, offerings are
limited and prices for all grades are
fully maintained. In the event of any
increased demand, it is reported that
supplies available would be absorbed in
a very short time. The corn syrup mar-
ket is very strong, with good demand,
especially for the goods in cans.

Nuts—The demand for nuts is only
fair and prices on most varieties have
a lower tendency. French walnuts are
in good supply and those of good qual-
ity are bringing full prices. Naples
are in very light supply. Tarragona
almonds and filberts are slightly lower.

Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market
is firm and prices show an advance of
Ioc per barrel and 5c per case.

—_—_> +.

No one who has been in business a
lifetime and is able to pay only 15
cents on the dollar has any right to ex-
pect his friends or his creditors to
bolster him up and get him on his feet
again. He has demonstrated that he is
not intended for a merchant—that his
proper province is driving a dray or
following the plow or shoving a jack
plane or pursuing some other occupa-
tion in which he will not have the
handling of other people’s goods and
other people’s money.

About three months ago the Trades-
man exposed as fraudulent the Vander-
zalm Gardening Co. and the Blooming-
dale Celery & Grocery Co., of Kalama-
zoo. The matter was in this way
brought to the attention of the officers
of the United States Court and, as a re-
sult, Vanderzalm was arrested at Kala-
mazoo one day last week for fraudulent
use of the mails and bound over to the
next grand jury of the United States

Court.
—_> 4+>___

There are men who will laugh ata
woman for buying a nickel package of
chewing gum, then proceed to blow ina
quarter for an imported cigar.

 

  

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

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Village Improvement

Good Place to Concentrate the Village
Improvement Energy.

Written for the Tradesman.

Circumstance has brought back a men-
tal picture of an old New England school-
house. It stands by the country road-
side without fence, the end with its
single door facing the road, a broken
gristmill stone for a doorstep and the
once blood-red coat of paint washed and
faded by the storms and sunshine of
half a century. Its interior corresponds
with the unattractive outside. There
are two rows of double seats in the cen-
ter, with a wide aisle between them
where is placed a rusty box-stove with
a broken door and a demoralized stove-
pipe that zig-zags its way to the chim-
ney high up over the entrance. A row
of single seats cut by the knives of sev-
eral generations lines the side walls;
but the crowning glory of this school-
house was its windows. There were two
on three sides of the room and they
were so high that the pupils had to
stand on the desks to look out, the idea
being not to have the attention of the
pupil distracted by anything going on
outdoors. The walls were bare and
dusty, the windows were dirty and the
ceiling overhead was enriched by the
spitball stalactites of the ages. The hu-
manity that were brought up on the
benches that their fathers and grand-
fathers occupied went out into the world
taking with them, practically learned
and thoroughly believed in, the delu-
sion that one must shut himself off from
the allurements of the world, if he is
ever to be a success in the world’s
struggles.

That same idea is abroad to-day. It
is visible in the country school in the
East. The Middle West puts up a box
anywhere and calls it a schoolhouse.
Still farther westward where the coun-
try is new the same primitive simplic-
ity exists. The Rockies cast their west-
ern and eastern shadows on the same
unpretending roofs and the valleys of
the Pacific States repeat the enormity.
‘*Keep your eyes on your book,’’ drilled
in, becomes ‘‘Keep your eyes on your
work’’ years afterwards, and the hard-
est task the Improvement Society has is
to make these bare-benched and can’t-
look - out - of - the -window, brought-up
graduates of the country schoolhouse
believe that better students and better
workmen and better men and women
can be reared with low windows, fram-
ing beautiful outside pictures, and inter-
iors made attractive by objects that are
pleasing to look upon.

The feminine instinct to surround
itself with beauty has done what it can
with modern home life. There are car-
pets on the floor. There are pictures on
the walls. The furniture has caught
something of grace and loveliness from
the daintiness of her touch and even the
kitchen, from which anything pretty
was once hopelessly banished, has been
made attractive by an occasional bit of
paint and textile coloring. ‘‘Why do
you care for such things in your
kitchen?’’ was asked of a trim, thrifty
housekeeper who insisted on doing her
own work. ‘‘For the same reason that
I have them in the rest of the house ;
because I can work longer and better
and enjoy it more by having something
pleasant to look at while I am at it.’’

That is the thoug ht of the whole mat-
ter and that is the reason why the
schoolhouse should receive the attention
of the Society, It should have low, wide

 

 

 

windows and those sashes, opened or
closed, should be frames to the bright-
est pictures that Nature with the aid of
the landscape gardener can paint. No
child, if he is what he ought to be,
studies all day. There are times when
the mind grows weary and the lesson is
stupid. The head, almost of necessity,
leans upon the supporting hand and the
eyes wander away through the sunshine
and the shade to some beauty spot they
delight to look at. There is no use in
describing it. It is only a patch of
meadow with a tree the wind likes to
play with and the sun to shine upon,
then more of meadow with the glint of
a river away to the west and the blue
sky dotted with white clouds bending
over it all; but the eyes rest upon it
with delight and the mind behind them,
after a little, never once thinking that
it has been studying a picture that will
gladden it all its days, turns rested and
refreshed to its book and the day’s task
is soon done.

To meet these same conditions when
the landscape fails to interest, the Soci-
ety, with the whole village behind it,
should see that the walls of the school
room have not been neglected. We hear
too much of shutting famous pictures
up in picture galleries and museums
and much too little of adorning the
ccuntry school houses with prints of
them. The few are benefited with these
works of transcendent genius; but in-
finitely more would be blessed if the
Improvement Society could bring often-
er together these fresh impressionable

‘minds and the works of these great art
masters.

Let the country boy and girl
go home with day after day passed un-
der the silent influence of these pictures
and there would be less longing after
the city and its excitements. There
would be less talk and less truth of the
advantages of the town. The liking for
the woods and fields and streams and
the pleasures dependent upon them
would be stronger. The going away
from home would be oftener indefinitely
put off and more of the brain would re-
main with the brawn to till intelligently
the farms and the ranches to the advan-
tage alike of tiller and tilled.

The influence of this society work
does not end with the rested brain of
the child when he turns again to his
book. The lesson is learned and much
of it forgotten, but after the threshold of
the school is passed for the last time,
the man with his work inthe workshop,
overcome by the same weariness, pauses
as he did in the schoolroom to rest
brain and hand by looking at something
pleasing before him. The man at his
desk, the artisan at his bench, the
woman at her washtub and her sewing
do the same and take up the burden
again with a lighter heart if the eye
falls in the meantime upon something
beautiful.

The church is usually cared for. De-
votion is sure to do its best to make the
sanctuary attractive, but the school be-
longs to everybody and on that account
nobody cares for it. ‘‘The schoolhouse
by the country road, a ragged beggar
sunning,’’ is liable to remain so, un-
less somebody takes it in hand. Consid-
ered from every point of view it wiil
produce the most promising results and
that Improvement Society which can
make the country schoolhouse a center
of this radiating usefulness will receive
the lasting gratitude of mankind.

——_>22.__

Most men take comfort in the thought
the world will never know how mean

they really were until after they are |

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JOBBER AND RETAILER.

 

Mutual Relations Which Exist Between
the Two.

In looking over this subject I find the
relation suggesting itself as the basis of
all other relations is that of buyer and
seller. This is the relation. All others
grow out of it and are subordinate to it.
It is the most important to both parties,
and the one which can not be set aside
if any relations are to exist between
them at all. On this relation rests the
whole fabric of trade. It is fundamental
in its nature, being the foundation of
all business relations between one mer-
chant and another. It has its beginning
either in mutual confidence and respect
or in the urgent necessity of the buyer.
We all know the warm friendship which
springs up between two men who have
made a mutually satisfactory trade. It
envelops them like a fine ether and for
them in that condition life is worth liv-
ing. From the nature of his business
the retailer is dependent on the jobber,
and this is so because of the element of
economy which must be reckoned with.
Frequent recurring wants for small par-
cels of goods make up the great portion
of the retailer’s business, and to procure
these quickly and cheaply requires that
the nearest merchant having the goods
in stock and the prices be called upon
to supply the wants. These frequent
needs for small lots of goods necessitate
the existence of an adequate stock with-
in reach of the small trader, and whoso-
ever can supply his needs quickly and
cheaply will be to hima jobber. I,
therefore, maintain that the jobber is
and will continue to be a necessity as
long as men trade together.

The poor we have with us always. The
small trader must not be lost sight of in

 

the reckoning. I have no faith in the
prophecies so often uttered that a few
years hence there will be no small
traders. I believe the small trader will
continue to exist and do business while
time lasts, because he is a necessity to
the people. We may, therefore, con-
clude that the jobber is the natural
source from which the retailer should
get his goods, because the jobber has
facilities for gathering commodities
from everywhere at a much less cost
than the retailer himself can do it.

It is a very nice-sounding phrase
when we say to people that we buy di-
rect from the manufacturer, but the ex-
perience of the small trade is against
such practice, except in a few special-
ties, because we can not get everything
we want from any one manufacturer,
and then, too, we are compelled to buy
in too great quantities. We overstock
ourselves and find it hard to pay the
bills. If we confine ourselves to our
natural source of supply, we need not
get into deep water, or, rather, into
deep debt.

This is the relation of buyer and sell-
er, which, I said, is the principal re-
lation between the two classes.

There is another relation—important,
inevitable, logical, sure as death and
taxes. It is a narrow, bald relation—
uncanny if anything. It is a nightmare,
a snare, a pitfall, a bright light hover-
ing over a dismal swamp. It is eternal
cold, made more hideous by chattering,
gnashing teeth. It is needless that I tell
you, it is the relation of debtor and
creditor.

How the affable, perfumed, well-fed,
well-groomed drummer, with an insinu-
ating word and a graceful wave of his
hand, brushes aside the mention of pay-

ment and broadly intimates that the
cashier is a myth! But keep your eyes
peeled! When we trifle with the cashier
we are up against a problem of no small
proportions.

When we fall into debt there is only
one procedure, and that is to climb out.
Do it at once, if you can, but do it.
Make it the business of your life. Keep
it before you all the time.

The borrower is servant to the lender.
When we are so unfortunate as to fall
into debt, it is absolutely necessary for
us to be transparently honest about our
financial condition if our creditor asks
a statement of it, as any evasion ex-
cites distrust—a very unfortunate thing
for a debtor. An honest effort to get out
of debt will, in most cases, meet with
help from the jobber, who will then be
our best friend. There are scores of
good men among the jobbers.

Many of us are sensitive when we are
urged to pay our debts, but I regard it
as a wholesome tonic when we take it
in the right spirit, which is to get up
and get some money to apply on that—
perhaps overdue—account.

James A. Massa.
2-2-8
Discharge for Onion-Eating Conductors.

Conductors of the Chicago City Rail-
way may be barred from eating onions
before going on duty. An order to this
effect it is said will be issued by Gen-
eral Manager McCulloch. The proposed
restriction is due to a_ report said to
have been filed with the General Mana-
ger by a passenger who recently rode
on a Wentworth avenue car. Mr. Mc-
Culloch said:

‘“‘Haven’t heard a word about the
complaint yet, but if it does come in
and gives the name of the offender I
shall have him taken off hiscar. I
would take him off as soon for this

 

offense as for drinking.’’

Tremendous Attack on the Cigarette.
Evil days are ahead for the cigarette.
Agitation looking to its suppression, in
whole or in part, has spread over the
land. An investigation just completed
shows that the legislatures in at least
thirteen states are considering the adop-
tion of more or less drastic measures,
that eleven states already have laws on
their statute books prohibiting the sale
of the paper-wrapped weed, and that
the W. C. T. U. and other organizations
are urging the adoption of stringent leg-
islation in half a dozen other common-
wealths.

The States under the first head are:
Illinois, Minnesota, California, Indi-
ana, Montana, West Virginia, Missouri,
Nebraska, Kansas, Delaware, Mass-
achusetts, North Carolina, Michigan.

Under the second head are: Rhode
Island, Vermont, Iowa, Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire, Ohio, Mississ-
ippi, Connecticut, Arizona, Georgia,
Texas.

Among the States where the women
and school teachers are seeking to arouse
their legislators to action are: Tennes-
see, Oregon, Maine, Washington, Utah,
Wisconsin.

So far as known, but two States in the
entire forty-five are paying no_particu-
Llar attention to the subject—Wyoming
and Louisiana.

—__> 2. ___
Going By the Eye.

Unless one has some other sort of
knowledge to contradict it, it is natural to
accept the evidence of the eye. There-
fore the answer which a teacher recently
received from her class of small children
was not altogether surprising.

‘*Which is the farther away,’’
asked, ‘‘ England or the moon?’’

‘*England!’’ the children answered
quickly.

‘*England?’’ she questioned. ‘‘What
makes you think that?’’

‘* *Cause we can see the moon,and we
can’t see England,’’ answered one of

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STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Kent
John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:
am pressman in the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge
of the presses and folding machine in
that establishment. I printed and
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John DeBoer.
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notary public in and for said county,
this sixteenth day of February, 1go1.
Henry B. Fairchild,
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THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.

Probably no word in the language is
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gentleman. On broad grounds, it would
seem that every American claims to be
a gentleman. This claim may not be
recognized, but he thinks it well to put
it forward, with or without occasion,
lest he may be suspected of having
doubt on the subject himself; and for
him to doubt is to surrender hope of
reaching what he appears to aspire to.
We are all said to be sovereigns here;
but we care far less about our soverignty
than about our gentlemanship. The al-
most universal desire to be considered
a gentleman in this country is as re-
markable as it is comical often. Many
Americans who talk very glibly of be-
ing gentlemen have little, if any, idea
of what a gentleman is. Nor do they
care to know, provided they are called
such. It is the name, not the thing,
that they esteem, and having the name,
they are frequently willing to do what
is wholly inconsistent with, even con-
demnatory of, their assumptions. This
being a land devoid of titles, we
cleave, perhaps, all the more to aught
like social distinction. Almost every-
body, we think, in this land of democ-
racy, may be a gentleman; and not to
be one—or, rather not to be ranked as
one—seems to be a severe reflection up-
on us, if not a kind of dishonor. One
hears the word gentleman more fre-
quently in the republic, we venture to
affirm, than one hears the terms corres-
ponding to it in all the rest of the world.
Foreigners notice it, and are amused
by it, particularly when some person
applies it to himself without the slight-
est justification or shadow of propriety.
It would be diverting to get the defini-
tions, were it possible, of the different
classes and the innumerable individuals
who habitually style themselves gentle-
men. They would present as Many and

 

as diverse meanings as the most Oppo-
site words in the dictionary. The
small boy’s notion of a gentleman, it
will be remembered, was- a man who
wears a standing collarand swears. The
late David Crockett held him to be a
gentleman who looked away when his
companion poured out his liquor.
Gamblers think that the character is es-
tablished by payment of so-called debts
of honor. In the South, he was former-
ly accounted a gentleman who punctil-
iously observed all the principles of the
code. Some Philadelphians assign the
honor to those whose greatgrandfathers
were ‘‘respectable.’’ In a_ certain
quarter of Boston one must have an-
cestors who came over in the Mayflower
and have received a degree at Harvard
to be recognized as a gentleman beyond
question. In New York, according to
some of the country journals, no man is
reckoned a gentleman unless he be
worth a millon, and to render his claim
indisputable he must buy a judge or
steal a railway. It would be difficult
for any one man, even the cleverest
American, to fulfill al) these conditions.
Hence there is danger that, in some
sections of the country, some of us, de-
spite our pretensions, may not be rated
as we rate ourselves, If we had a stand-
ard by which to measure the gentleman,
if we were more concerned about being
and less about seeming, perhaps, we
should not be so sensitive or so ambi-
tious on this point. One of the denote-
ments of the true gentleman is to be
sure of himself, to be so conscious of
integrity and deserving as not to be dis-
turbed by criticism, slights or misun-
derstandings. It is a bad sign to be
angered because somebody else ex-
presses a different opinion of us from
that which we assume to hold of our-
selves. It indicates that we do not hold
our opinion firmly and that dissent from
it in another half agrees with our secret
conviction. He who flies into a passion
because he was told he is not a gentle-
man incurs the suspicion that the teller
is endowed with insight. Moreover, he
places the other man’s word above his
own judgment. Who is to decide so
important a question? A casual ac-
quaintance, blinded, in all likelihood,
by temper, or the gentleman who has
been intimate with himself from ‘the
dawn of consciousness? Notwithstand-
ing the prejudices of Americans in
their own favor, the gentleman is by no
means common, even among the better
classes. The character belongs to in-
dividuals, not to grades, orders or pro-
fessions. It does not depend on circum-
Stances, training, or fortune, not neces-
sarily on education, for education
makes not, it merely develops, the man.
Men who are ignorant, who have had no
advantages whatever, are sometimes the
superiors of those of nice culture, good
birth and favorable surroundings. The
gentleman comes from within, not from
without; he is such by reason of his
convictions, sympathies and _aspira-
tions. He demands something of him-
self incessantly and sees that the de-
mand is met without diminution or
shrinking. He walks by the light of
ideals; he endeavors, so far as in him
lies, to make the world better rather
than worse; he respects himself too
much to be capable of meanness; he
reverences the feelings of others; he
will not wittingly do wrong; in a word,
he is thoroughly human and strictly
honorable.

You don’t get any discount on the
wages of sin by paying them within
thirty days,

 

THE PREVALENCE OF THE SAVAGE.

Eternal vigilance is no more the price
of liberty than it is of civilization. The
civilian and the savage carry on a con-
tinual warfare. For thousands of years
the struggle has been going on, with
every prospect that the end is no nearer
than when the contest began. The
church, the legislature and the school
have been doing their best to subdue
the inborn wildness; science has toiled
to lighten the hardship of life; art, in
season and out of season, has_ bent
every energy to soften the rough and
remove the ugly and so brighten with
beauty the surroundings of everyday
life ; the hours cf work have been short-
ened that ‘‘the toiling millions’? might
avail themselves of the refining influ-
ences of modern civilization and yet the
old savage, still unsubdued, is contin-
ually asserting itself. The fist, in spite
of the well-trained brain, is winning the
world’s applause and the cap and gown
of the university are objects of envy
only in proportion as they hide the
muscle that has fought its way into
prominence on the gridiron, at the oar
and on the diamond. It is the old story
of brain and brawn, with pretty fair
prospects that in public estimation the
brawn is forcing itself rapidly to the
first place.

There is little consolation in the fact
that this condition of things has always
been so. Scholarship still contends that
aS a mind trainer the Greek literature
has no equal and Homer is universally
acknowledged as the world’s great mas-
terpiece. Admit it; but what would be
left to retain the world’s admiration if
the muscular heroes and their bloody
fights should be expunged from the
Homeric page? Virgil’s famous poem
is a transfer of Grecian prowess to Ro-
man fists and Puritan Milton’s Paradise
Lost owes its charm to that tremendous
war in Heaven where Celestial brawn,
on a fair field and on favor, with Celes-
tial arms hurled into hell the rebellious
angels. It is fight all the way through
and the modern student is found linger-
ing long over those bloody contests and
bemoaning the fate that has prevented
him from living in those stirring times
when life was not quite all molly-cod-
dle. In spite of his culture he is
‘warming for a fight.’’

This explains fairly enough why the
savage broke loose some years ago at
the Princeton football game at Thanks-
giving. The spirit of the savage per-
meating the epic poems of the ages was
asserting itself, that was all. That it
was as unexpected as it was disreput-
able is little to the purpose, the redeem-
ing feature about it being the unques-
tioned fact that American culture had
not softened the Anglo-Saxon fist nor
materially subdued the genuine Savage
behind it. The temporary mischief has
been in leading the brainless muscle
of the country to believe that mental
training was getting out of date and
that the Golden Age of the Bruiser had
again returned. That idea has widely
and rapidly spread, favored as it un-
doubtedly was by the common ground
of the fist where college man and pri ze-
fighter met as equals, and it was not
until the courts had taken the matter in
hand that both parties learned that the
fist fight is not an element of refinement
and that they who indulge in it must
suffer the penalty of the law. One state
after another has decided that fighting
is intolerable and the recent failure of
the announced fisticuffs in Ohio strength-
ens the conviction that the day has gone
by when hoodlumism and what pertains

 

thereto have anything in common with
intellectual physical training. The
brutal features have been extensively
eliminated from football, and when the
offensive element of gate money has
been removed from the contests of mus-
cle the savage will have ample oppor-
tunity to display himself, although
robbed of much of the old-time barbar-
ity. There is drawn the inevitable line
and, once its establishment is recog-
nized, the human beast will be rarely
seen outside of his boundaries and the
cultured savage, compelled occasionally
to give way to the animal within him,
will still keep himself aloof from the
grosser forms of savge life that will con-
tinue to exist as long as humanity shall
last.

The same fact is apparent in com-
mercial lines. Little is said about the
commercial savage, but search is not
needed to find him. There is hardly a
warehouse in the realm of traffic that
does not reveal him. With little to
recommend him beyond the ability to
expose goods and make change, he lives
out} his day for the sake of fostering
the savage within him between supper
and bedtime, when he literally goes
about seeking whom and what he may
devour. What the brute hunts he hunts
and, whether it is in Colorado or Ohio,
he is the one who, with his brothers in
trade of some kind, crowds to suffoca-
tion the hall of the sparring match and
the prize fight.

It is the general wish that this last
decision of the courts will put an end to
the public display of the Savage. With
all that is objectionable in the popular
games removed, both in brutality and
gate money, there is little danger that
harm will follow even if the Savage oc-
casionally comes to the surface. With
the growing tendency of the times for
the college diploma to be presented at
the business office instead of at the
professional school, there will a strong
uplifting in trade circles and the ele-
ment which has done too much to bring

out the savage will soon be found strug-

giing as strongly against it, It—the
Savage—will never be annihilated: but
if it can be bound as we bind fire and
water and lightning, so that it shall be
always the slave and never the master,
the savage may be as common as these
elements are and, like them, be made
the blessing it was intended to be. When
civilization accomplishes this it will
have reached its culmination; but a
careful reading of the signs does not
indicate that this is close at hand.
Et eee

 

In the name of decent business and
all that is fair and honorable in trade,
the Tradesman trusts that the creditors
of the Wurzburg Department Store will
refuse to accept the paltry 15 per cent.
compromise. The establishment has
been conducted in such a haphazard,
slipshod manner that the failure of the
house has been predicted by the editor
of the Tradesman for several years,
Every creditor who consents to the pro-
posed compromise practically places a
premium on the loose methods and un-
businesslike practices which have been
a distinguishing characteristic of the

house.
————_—_—SX___

How many merchants would like to
effect a compromise with their credit-
ors on the basis of 15 cents on the dol-
lar? Not many. Men of energy and
integrity would rather work their finger
nails off than submit to such a humilia-
tion and smirch their names for all
time by such a proceeding, leaving their
children a legacy of dishonor,

v

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9

is still greater. A forty that is not | lumber ring interests and the fortunes
worth over 50 cents per acre will cut;made by speculators in the rise of
over one million feet of logs, so a lot | stumpage values,except to say that most
worth $20 carries upon its surface $8,000 | of these lands have passed through sev-
worth of stumpage value. jeral hands and that the lumbermen of

In the original disposition of the pub- \the present day have usually paid high
lic lands, this stumpage value does not) prices and made large investments in
seem to have been considered. If it was! the raw material for the lumbering busi-
thought that there were coal, iron, copper ness. As long as timber remains stand-

TAXATION AND FORESTRY. part at the mill in the form of logs and
lumber, but a large part has the faculty
of disappearing entirely from the tax

rolls, especially after the first year.

' Mutual Relations which Exist Between
Them.*

Forestry in Michigan is a many-sided
problem, and from whichever side we
view it there seems to be something
the matter with it. A collection of writ-
ings upon the subject reads like a book
of Lamentations, and this present con-

For the purpose of further investiga-
tion, let us take a sample township lo-
cated in the northern part of the South-
ern Peninsula of Michigan of average
quality of land for agricultural purposes,
originally covered with a good growth
of timber, consisting largely of hard-
woods.

 

Settlers have entered the tawnship to
the number of fifty families, more or
less, who own approximately one-half
of the lands, the other half being owned
by non-residents, specuiators and lum-
bermen. In the early spring the two or
more political parties will hold their
caucuses for the purpose of placing in
nomination candidates for the various
township offices, among which is the
office of supervisor, who is also the as-
sessor. At the townsbip meeting, which
is held on the first Monday in April, we
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other chapter of woes.

The subject selected is the Relation
of Taxation to Forestry.

What is there about forestry that is
subject to assessment and taxation? It
is the stumpage value of the timber.
Stumpage value we understand to be the
value of the trees as they stand in the
forests for lumbering purposes. This
stumpage value is determined by de-
ducting the cost of cutting the timber,
transporting to mill and sawing into
lumber, from the market price of the
green lumber Jog run at mill; that is,
if it costs $8 per thousand feet b. m. to
cut, transport and saw white pine and
the lumber sells for $16 per thousand,
then the white pine stumpage is worth
$8 per thousand, and this is about the
value of pine stumpage in Michigan at
the present time. In the same manner
we determine that the stumpage value
of elm and basswood is about $5, of
cedar $3 and of maple and hemlock $2
per thousand.

Lumbermen classify their timber hold-
ings as blocks or groups, which are
made up of a collection of forty acre
lots. Forty acres being the smallest
subdivision of land made by the Govern-
ment or State, it is used asa unit of
measure for timbered lands. A good
hardwood forty, with a mixture of elm,
maple and basswood and a sprinkling
of hemlock, will cut approximately
400,000 feet of iogs, and at an average
price for stumpage of $3 per thousand,
the timber is worth $1,200. The land
itself is probably not worth to exceed
$2.50 per acre for agricultural purposes.
Thus we have a $100 lot with $1,200
worth of timber upon it.

In the case of pine timber the contrast

 

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a Society by J. J. Hubbell and pub-
lished at the request of the State Forestry
Commission, which furnishes the illustrations.

 

surface and not essential to the use of
the lands for agricultural purposes, then
there were reservations made and spe-
cial conditions imposed, but this vast
wealth, that was not

 

ing its value accrues to the land and is
assessed as real estate, but as soon as

 

of the resident settlers towards the tim-
ber holdings in the township. A good
big road tax will be voted, because they
want to get the roads opened up while
they have the non-residents’ timber
available for taxation; also Road Dis-
trict No. 6 wants a_ new iron bridge
across Bear River, which will cost
$1,000, more or less. If someone re-
minds the meeting that there are only
two or three families living across the
river and that the travel upon that road
will probably not average more than
one team a day and that a cheap wood-
en bridge would answer all purposes for
some years to come, he is quickly told
that they do not want a cheap wooden
bridge, because it would rot down be-

trees are cut they become personal prop- | fore the town got ready to use it. They
erty. If the logs are found skidded up| want a permanent iron bridge, and want
upon the lands they may be assessed by | to build it now while the timber can

concealed and |the local assessor, but if in the river or
which is used exclusively in connection | on cars they are in transit and must be

 

be taxed for its construction, and one
that will last a long time after the tim-

 

 

 

 

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Same land worth 50 cents per acre after timber was removed. All timber left standing dead.

 

looked and thrown in with the land sold

price.
I shall not attempt to review the dis-

 

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with the lumbering business, was over- assessed at point of destination, if with-| ber is all gone.

‘in the limits of the State. You can

|to personal property takes place in the
lumbering business. After timber has

It will also be found

that the same idea prevailed at the

for agricultural purposes at a nominal | readily see what a transition from real|school meetings held in August, at
|which time the newly organized School
| District No. 7 voted to build a $1,000
covery and the purchase of these tim- been converted into personal property, | school house, notwithstanding the fact
bered lands, the development of the ja small portion may be taxed locally, a that there were only four or five children

 

 

  

10

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

in the district. They wanted to build
a good house, while it could be erected
principally from the taxation upon non-
resident timbered lands.

The spring election past, someone
is elected supervisor and, having taken
the oath of office, procures blank as-
sessment and tax rolls from the county
clerk. He inherited sundry old assess-

ment rolls and a more or less antiquated the resident

 

 

cleared land should go down at about the |
same as ‘‘A.’s,’’ but the unimproved |
ought not to be put at over $5 per acre;
that would make the whole place at

$1,200. ‘‘Yes! that is just what it was
last year, I see.’’
This is all the land in Section 1

owned by residents and he goes on to
Sections 2, 3, etc. Having completed

roll he turns over several

 

 

White

Pine that will cut 1,000,000 to the forty.
14 West.

Section 1, Town 22 North, Range

 

pages, so as to leave room for additions | timber, which grew up in that township
or corrections, and proceeds with the|and the value of which ought of right

non-resident roll.
First. The se \ of Sec. 1.

to remain in the township, is liable to

This is|be removed at any time and the town

a good piece of timber and belongs to| left with only a piece of stump land to
C. & D. Lumber Co., of Lake Port. | assess; also that farmer ‘‘B.,’’ when he
This timber will estimate to cut 400,000| cuts his timber, will most likely sell

feet to the forty; 1,600,000 feet at the
low stumpage price of $2 per thousand
would make $3,200; that looks like a
pretty good price, and to be fair with
the company he will put it down at $15
per acre or $2,400 for the 160 acres.

Then the sw 4%. ‘‘Ah! there is the
rub.’’ This also belongs to a lumber
company, but two or three years ago
they cut it and it is now nothing but a
piece of stump land growing up to
brush. If he puts a high value on it the
lumber company will simply fail to pay
the taxes and in time it will be sold to
the State. He aims to put as higha
value on it as possible and still be able
to collect the taxes. It finally goes
down on the roll at $2.50 per acre or
$400 for the quarter section, and he
proceeds to the next section, etc. Hav-
ing completed his non-resident roll he
rests from his labors until the meeting
of the Board of Review.

Now, the meeting of the Board of Re-
view is the time for the lumbermen to
have this discrimination corrected.
They will send a man up to attend this
meeting, who, after looking over the
roll, will call attention to the fact that
farmer ‘‘A.’’ is assessed at only $10 per
acre, amounting to $1,600, while his
farm is undoubtedly worth $5,000, and
that their timbered lands are assessed at
$15 per acre. The supervisor wiil claim
that there is no proof of the value of
‘“*A.’"s’’ farm, but that they know, from
the amount of timber upon the com-
pany’s land, that it is worth much more
than $2,400 and that the company ought
to be thankful to be let off at sucha
low valuation. The agent will also call
attention to the low valuation put upon
farmer ‘‘B.’s’' timber. About this time
one of the other members of the Board
will consider it his duty to explain. He
will give the agent to understand that
they are in duty bound to look out for
the interests of the township; that
“*A,’s’’ farm is a permanent asset for
future assessment and taxation regular-
ly every year, but that the company’s

 

his logs to some lumber company, but
that the moncy received for them will
be invested in improvements upon his
farm and so continue as a property for
assessment and revenue to the township.
By this time the company’s man will
realize that he is up against three of a
kind and will return and report that he
could accomplish nothing. He will also
explain the prospects of high bridge
and road taxes, also that they have or-
ganized another school district and are
going to build another $1,000 school
house. If the lumberman is a profane
man he will probably swear; at least he
will declare that those mossbacks could
give pointers to Old Gerry himself as to
how to gerrymander a township in the
matter of road and school districts so
as to bring the burden of taxes upon the
timber interests ; that he has puta large
amount of money into stumpage values
in that township, and that the interest
on the investments and taxes will eat
up all the profits of the timber if al-
lowed to stand much longer. ‘‘ Yes, put
in camps, cut the timber, send the logs
down to the mill and we will cut them
into lumber, sell the same and take our
chances with the tax commissioners. ’’

Now, not to be too quick to condemn
these men, I believe that if we were
residents of that township we would feel
and act very much as they feel and act,
and that if we were the lumbermen we
would do very much as they do. At
the same time, J] think we can all see
that between these two contending ele-
ments forestry has a hard time of it. It
is between the upper and nether mill-
stones of greed, and no particular prog-
ress can be made until these conditions
are changed and some remedy for this
evil devised.

Now, before I attempt to suggest a
remedy,I wish to say a few words about
taxation in general to prepare the way
for what is to follow. We all realize
the necessity of raising considerable
sums of money for expenses incident to
the administration of public affairs. The

 

copy of the laws from his predecessor
and is ready to proceed to make up the
assessment roll of the township. The
roll is divided into resident owners and
non-resident owners and, beginning
with the residents and taking the sec-
tions of land in their numerical order,
he proceeds:

The ne ¥& of Sec. 1.
longs to farmer ‘‘A.’’ Now farmer
‘*A.’’ is an old settler. He has made a
pretty good farm, mostly by his own
hard labor; has his 160 acres nearly all
cleared. The small patch of timber left
is included in pasture lands. He has
good barns and house, a well with wind
mill, orchard, good fences, etc.

‘*Let me see, last year this was put at
$10 per acre, and in the Board of Re-
view column it is carried out the same.
It must be that is about right. I do not
see any good reason why | should raise
it.’’ So here it goes down at $1,600
for the quarter section.’’

Next, the nw ¥& of Sec. 1. ‘This be-
longs to farmer ‘‘B.’’ He has not been
on his place as long as ‘‘A.,’’ has only
about 80 acres cleared, the remainder
unimproved, that is, in timber; build-
ings about the same as ‘‘A.,’’ consid-
ering the amount of land cleared. The

This place be-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

11

 

 

United States Government seems to have
devised a happy method of accomplish-
ing this result. Aside from the stamp
act, which is considered a war measure,
and the whisky and tobacco tax, which
is in a measure a penalty tax, the Gov-
ernment raises the larger part of its
monies from a tariff on imported arti-
cles. This contribution to the public
funds has been adjusted in an arbitrary

 

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Michigan is at present in the midst of
tax reform agitation, all based upon the
principle of bringing all property upon
the assessment rolls at its true cash
value and applying the same flat ad
valorem rate. There is no doubt that
much property in Michigan has escaped
just taxation in the past and that to in-
clude all at a full cash value will mate-
rially reduce the rate per cent. of the
levy, but I contend that it is not right

 

 

attempt to make the same ad valorem
flat rate upon all imports. If articles
imported are considered as luxuries and
purchased largely by the wealthy, then
the rate is made high; if articles are of
necessity and used by the common and
poor people, then the rate is low; or

if wool is admitted free and a high rate |

placed upon woolen clothes and cloth-
ing, it is to favor home industries. If
hides are imported free, it is in order
that they may be converted into leather
in the United States, and if you will
visit the tannery at Manistee you can
see large consignments of hides from
Mexico, South America, and even
Africa and Australia, all brought to
Northern Michigan to be tanned with
Michigan bark, but if you should sug-
gest the importation of shoes free, even
our late reform Governor would enter a
vigorous protest. I need not continue
on this line, because you are all famil-
iar with it and know that so_ beneficent
has this form of specifically raising pub-
lic funds proven that a large part of the
people are ready stoutly to maintain
that we are not taxed at all and that our
revenue system, instead of being a bur-
den, is a blessing in a very thin dis-
guise. On the other hand, the State of

that all properties should be assessed
and taxed upon their cash value and at
the same rate. There are properties
that should be taxed specially and spe-
cifically and also those that should not
be taxed at all, as follows:

1. Properties which are maintained
‘exclusively for the public good and are
/not a source of revenue to their owners.

2. Properties that it is desirable the
State or municipal authorities should
regulate and in a measure control.

3. Those that are not injuries to the
public, but produce no revenue to their
owners.

We have an example of the first in
our churches, hospitals and other re-
ligious and charitable _ institutions.
People voluntarily tax themselves for
the support of these properties and it is
generally conceded that as long as they
are lawfully used for the benefit of the
public alone they ought to be ex-
empt from all further taxation.

The second class of properties may
be said to include our railroad systems,
street car lines, telegraph, telephone
and express companies, and we may
also add water works and electric light-
ing plants when operated by private

more efficient means of protecting the
public from abuses or of encouraging,
controlling or suppressing these forms
of property than the right of specific
taxation, and when we adopted the late
amendment to our constitution or take
any measure to curtail this power we
are taking a long step backwards in the
art of taxation for the combined purpose
of benefiting the public and at the same
time raising the necessary monies for
public use.

In regard to the third class of proper-
ties, it is not so clear as to what should
be done, that is, property that does not
produce any revenue for its owner, but
which is not detrimental to the public
welfare, and yet I think you all will
agree with me that the man who has his
means tied up in a business or property
that is not paying can not afford to pay
the same tax as the one whose business
is yielding handsome returns. Up in
our part of the State, if a man wants to
transport pine logs by rail for fifty
miles, we charge him at the rate of
$2.50 per thousand. If the man wants
to transport hemlock logs the same dis-
tance we carry them for $1.50 per thou-

 

sand. Why? Because the man who has

have cost approximately the same sum
they find that one is earning a hand-
some dividend, the other one not enough
to pay running expenses and taxes, and
I understand we have one of our most
eminent professors at work upon the
problem of intangible values to be
added to the physical values in order to
even up this very principle—that profit-
able properties can and ought to pay
more taxes than unprofitable ones.

Forestry fortunately complies with ali
three of the above conditions, for the
following reasons :

1. It isa public benefit. If we pre-
serve the fertility and productiveness
of our State; if we continue as the re-
sort grounds for our congested cities
and Southern friends; if we would ex-
emplify our State motto, ‘‘If thou seek-
est a beautiful peninsula, behold it

here,’’ then we must preserve proper
forest areas.
z. It is desirable that the State

should secure and exercise more and
more a controlling interest in our for-
ests, and

3. Forests are not a source of reve-
nue to their owners until they are cut

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the pine can afford to pay that rate and
the man who has the hemlock can not
afford to pay the pine rate. It is simply a
good business arrangement whereby the
man with hemlock is enabled to ship
his logs by rail and the railroad makes
some money out of his shipments, al-
though not as much as out of pine.) ||)
think our Tax Commission has a prob-
lem to solve of this kind; after having
ascertained that two different roads may

 

 

companies, The State can devise no

In transition from real to personal property;
Hemlock being left to peel next summer.

also in transit from woods to mill.

and converted into lumber and other
products.

For these reasons | claim that our for-
ests should be subject to special forms
of taxation. I would advocate a sepa-
ration of stumpage values from the
value of the lands upon which they
stand. This has often been done by the
lumbermen taking timber deeds only,
but as the law does not recognize such
a division the value of the timber is al-

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

ways included with the land in assess-
ments and taxes. By such a division
the land itself could be assessed and
taxed, the title might be retained by the
timber holder or not, or the land might
revert to the State through failure of
taxes being paid or by deeds from the
lumbermen. The timber itself I would
have exempt from all taxation as long
as it is left standing. I would give
every forest tree in Michigan—from the
smallest shoot to the venerable pine of
three centuries—the right to stand and
live and grow free of all taxes in return
for the benefits it would confer. If any
controversy should arise between the
land owners and timber owners, then 1]
would give the timber the preference
and the right of occupancy and the land
should be dedicated to forestry tempo-
rarily or permanently—temporarily, if
the land was owned by private indi-
viduals, of good agricultural quality
and wanted for cultivation after the tim-
ber was cut; permanently, if the title
was in the State and the land was
adapted to forestry rather than agricul-
ture or was required to make up a proper
proportion of forest areas.

As to the final tax upon timber, I
would place the entire amount upon
it at the time of cutting, and which
for further convenience I| will call ‘‘the
cutting tax.’’ I do not feel competent to
say what this cutting tax should be, but
it ought to be based upon a fixed pro-
rate of the stumpage value of the tim-
ber cut, and for the purpose of illustra-
tion I will place it at 10 per cent. as a
maximum rate. It would be a manifest
injustice to impose this maximum tax
immediately after such a law was
enacted, as timber that had paid its tax
as real estate this year ought not to be
taxed the highest rate until the usual
rate of taxation had accumulated to ap-
proximately that amount. We will say
2 per cent. the first year, 4 per cent.
the second, etc., until the highest rate
was reached, after which no further in-
crease should be made. What would 10
per cent. of the stumpage value amount
to? Ifa hardwood forty cut 400,000 feet
and the stumpage value was $3 per
thousand, then the cutting tax would be
$120. If a pine forty was cut witha
million feet, the tax would be $800, and
if we cut yearly in the State of Michi-
gan two billion feet, with an average
stumpage value of $4 per thousand, then
the entire tax in the State would amount
to $800, 000.

I would suggest the distribution of
this cutting tax money between the
townships where the timber was cut, the
counties and State, and would also ap-
propriate a portion to the use of the
Forestry Commission, or whatever sys-
tem of forestry the State might adopt.
Suppose we give the township 4 per
cent., the county, State and forestry 2
per cent. each. Then, when a_hard-
wood forty was cut, the township would
get $48, the county $24, the State $24,
and $24 would be devoted to the inter-
ests of forestry. Taking the whole State
we would distribute to townships $320, -
000, to counties, State and forestry
$160,000 each annually. This would, in
a measure, compensate the townships,
counties and State for the withdrawal of
stumpage values from the tax rolls, and
would place in the hands of our Forestry
Commission a handsome sum to be
used in the interests of forestry. It would
prevent the practice of discrimination
against non-resident timber owners and
would take from the lumbermen the ex-
cuse or the necessity of cutting on ac-
count of alleged excessive taxation from

 

year to year, and no doubt the period of
existence of our present mature forests
would be materially extended and the
work of reforestation greatly encouraged
and benefited; and best of all, our
Forestry Commission would be provided
with a working capital without being
dependent upon an uncertain appropri-
ation by the Legislature from year to
year, and certainly 2 per cent. of the
stumpage value of the timber cut is
none too much to expend for the resto-
ration, protection, preservation and con-
tinuance of forestry in Michigan.
J. J. Hubbell.
Manistee, Mich.

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Glimpse at a Model Grocery Store in Ne-
braska.

Written for the Tradesman.

Chance and circumstance recently
brought me to the capital of Nebraska
and I took the opportunity to look
around a little. The Legislature is in
session and the members are indulging
in the luxury of a deadlock. It does
not take long to get all one wants of
state lawmakers, They are, if anything,
a little worse than the National gather-
ing at Washington and, to the average
looker on, a little goes a great ways.
Two sets of men of the same mental
caliber get together, each set firmly be-
lieving they are best serving their coun-
try when they succeed in thwarting the
purposes of the other. It was not inter-
esting and, leaving each bulldog with
his grip to the comfort of his convic-
tions I slipped into a grocery on Eleventh
street for a needed and much-welcomed
change.

The front store is not a mammoth
room. It is, on the contrary, of medium
size, but neat in its appointments and
arrangements. A bay-window is turned
to practical account through the presid-
ing genius of the place, both for win-
dow display from the outside and a
coior study from within, advantage be-
ing taken in the display of goods to
make the most of the bright and often
beautiful labeis which fine groceries are
sure to have. A large square table oc-
cupies a place in the middle of the store
and here are artistically arranged the
samples of the best goods the establish-
ment deals in. Above this large table
is suspended a stupendous Chinese um-
brella, gorgeous with the richest color-
ing, and that and the sample table under
it give the whole establishment a char-
acter decidedly its own. A glance into
the back store, a room that often tells
disagreeable stories of the proprietor,
showed that order even there was the
law, that cleanliness, if not next to
godliness, was near enough to the goods
stored there to make allowance fora
multitude of commercial sins and leave
the grocer with a commendable margin
to fall back on in an emergency. The
lumber room was found to be in keeping
with the rest of the store. It was lum-
ber, but it was orderly and such odds
and ends as had found their appropriate
places there were so placed that no time
wiil be lost in hunting for them when
they are wanted.

It has taken a longer time to write
this than it took to look through the
store. When the tour of the rooms was
completed a good-looking, earnest man
halfway through the thirties came for-
ward with the heartiest of greetings and
when he found that his visitor was only
a bird of passage from the Wolverine
State, with never a chance to sell even
a cigar, there was no change in tone or
manner, and, with the earnest request
that the store would be found a conven-
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the sojourn short or lengthy, he turned
to a customer who was evidently deter-
mined to trade only with him. A brief
consideration of the man and his meth-
ods soon answered the question why. To
all intents and purposes the fate of that
store depended wholly upon the sale of
that dozen of oranges to that particular
customer. They had been temptingly
arranged to start with. They had been
placed side by side with fruit of an in-
ferior quality and, although the price
was on a par with the fruit in each
case, no first-class customer under the
influence of those dark brown eyes and
that persuasive tongue would think of
ordering anything but those 50-cent
oranges.

The order and the transfer of the half
dollar to the storekeeper ought to have
closed the transaction but it didn’t.
There seemed to be a natural tendency
on the part of both to saunter to the
sample table, where the goods were
given ample opportunity to speak for
themselves. They improved it and the
order was materially lengthened as a re-
sult. Finally with reluctance the cus-
tomer left, but the storekeeper parted
with her at the door with the hope that
she would come again; it was such a
pleasure to wait upon her and to trade
with her—a statement written with re-
luctance because it suggests, with the
kindliest reading, a little of the flatterer,
which the storekeeper was not in the
slightest degree. It isa rare instance
of a man who says and does what he
thinks and feels. Whether he has only
that class of customer one would be
hardly willing to believe or affirm; but
true it is that an hour of faithful watch-
ing saw only that sort of customer and
that kind of treatment.

It is not difficult to foretell the future

 

of that Lincoln grocer. He is going to
be a financial and a social success. He
is already looked upon as a most worthy
citizen and twenty-five years from now
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is, indeed, a rare groceryman and he
has been thus carefully written down
that the readers of the Tradesman who
need a model may find it here and be
benefited, if they care to copy it.
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What the Detroit Butter and Cheese
Market Demands.*

The Detroit butter and cheese market
has changed a great deal during the
last fifteen years. Fifteen years ago we
used to have calls for New York cheese,
but to-day we never hear of New York
cheese. The quality that Detroit wants
is a good color. A ‘‘good color’’ nieans
a good cream color, not too high col-
ored, nor too light colored. We have
had cheese sent to Detroit and have
written the parties that it was too white.
They say that New York cheese is light
in color. That may be, but while New
York requires light colored cheese and
light colored butter, we in Michigan
want a good cream color; I might say a
good yellow color, although care should
be taken not to have it too high colored.

Do not make your cheese too large.
The making of cheese that are too tall
is to be avoided. If they are too tall
they do not come out of the boxes and
show up to the grocers as they should.
Cheese from six and one-half to seven
inches is what they want. If you want
to put more cheese ina box I would
advise you to make twin cheese. What
a grocer wants is a small cheese. Some-
times the cheese has to be cut in halves
and one-half sold to one grocer and the
other to another grocer—if a buyer can
be found. It is always hard too find a
buyer for the second half of a cheese
cut in this way. I will repeat what J
said, that it is better to make twin
cheese than to make cheese too large.
The large dealers will not cut the cheese
in this way, but some of the small ones
will.

Now, in regard to the boxes and
packages in which the cheese is shipped.
Have good boxes—boxes that will not
break down—and have them of uniform
size. The ordinary cheese boxes in gro-
cery stores are about oe foot and s1x
inches wide. Therefore, if you make
your cheese too wide, they will not go
into the boxes of the grocer.

We have heard considerable about
porous cheese. Some have said that
Michigan trade demands a_ porous
cheese and that it could not be made too
porous. I think that is a mistake.
While some want it porous, others do
not. We have bought a great deal of
porous cheese and some grocers call for
porous cheese. Not long ago a man who
was an exporter said that some cheese
we had were too porous for the market.
1 do not know, however, what kind of a
market he was figuring on; but, as |
said before, do not make your cheese
too large. They should weigh from
thirty-eight to forty-three pounds and
never be over six inches high, and, if
you have large boxes, make twin cheese.
You will always be able to sell them in
Detroit and find a good demand for
them.

As to creamery butter. You all know
good butter when you see it. There is
just one thing I want to touch on: Let
me say to all buttermakers, whatever
you do, fill your tubs full. This is where
many buttermakers make a mistake.
They do not fill the tubs. Whena whole-
saler opens a tub of butter and shows it
to a grocer he wants to be able to show
him a full tub of butter. If a tub is sold
to a grocer and he does not find it full
he has a feeling that everything is not
exactly as it should be and consequently
is dissatisfied. Very often the creamery
man will send in a line of butter and in
one tub of the lot he will put what he
has had left, making it about three-
quarters full. I would never do that; I
would keep it, if I had not enough to
fil] a tub, until the next batch. Maybe
that tub would be the very first one
shown to a customer. Of course, the
wholesaler would know that butter was
all right, but in some way or other the
customer has a feeling that there is
something second-class about it.

I might say that bricks in creamery
butter seem to be coming in more and
more. Brick creamery is getting more
and more into favor with the people.
In the summer time it is very difficult
to handle bricks, as it will, in spite of
all that can be done, get soft in a very

 

*Paper read at annual convention Michigan

Dairymen’s Association by E. A. Bridge, man-
ager dairy department of Phelps, Brace & Co.

 

few moments after taking out of the re-
frigerator. It must be kept in a refrig-
erator all the year around.

If | am treading on any one’s tves in
my remarks, I beg their pardon most
sincerely, but I want to say one thing,
and that is that if the Grout bill does
not pass it is going to be a hard blow to
the dairy business. The butterine busi-
ness is running wide open. The dealers
are paying their licenses and paying
their fines also—sometimes. A great
many people are in opposition to the
Grout bill. I am sorry to say there is a
paper, ‘‘Trade,’’ in Detroit that up-
holds the sale of oleomargarine. Now,
I will leave out entirely the fact that if
the Grout bill does pass it will be a good
thing for the dairymen of the country.
Of course, if the Grout bill is passed it
will be a good thing commercially for
the buttermakers and cheesemakers of
the State and the United States. How-
ever, leaving all that out, I say that the
butterine business is a dirty, lowdown,
despisable business. It deceives the
people and the makers of it do not pre-
tend to keep within the law. Of course,
people will buy it now, sometimes even
when they know they are getting but-
terine, but if the Grout bill is passed,
which prevents them coloring it in imi-
tation of butter, or rather the tax on
coloring it is 10 cents a pound and they
can not make anything at it, they will
not be able to manufacture and sell it.
A short time ago | thought I would look
the matter up and I went into a grocery
store and, being slightly acquainted
with the proprietor, | asked him how
much butterine he would sell if he told
the people that that was what they were
getting. He said he didn’t think he
would sell very much. He said: ‘* The
people want butterine, but they do not
want us to let them know it is butterine
they are getting.’’ Another grocer had
a clerk stamping papers with ‘‘ Butter-
ine,’’ and every little while he would
throw away a paper. I asked him why
he threw away those papers,and he said
they were stamped too plainly. Then
he showed me some of the papers he
had stamped. It was stamped “‘ Butter-
ine’’ all right, but you could not detect
it with the naked eye. Another way
they have of avoiding it is to have the
delivery boy, when he takes in the but-
ter, say to the lady, ‘‘Where will you
have this roll of butter put?’’ The lady,
in all probability, says, ‘‘ Put it right in
the refrigerator, ’’ and the boy very dex-
terously slips the paper off the butter
and takes it away with him. The gro-
cer thought that was all right. He says
there is a grocer on Michigan avenue
with whom he is acquainted—and I know
him very well also—who does it differ-
ently. He works it this way: He has
three packages lying along together—
two of butter and one of butterine. A
lady comes in and wants some butter.
He has her taste of the butter in the first
package, which is poor dairy butter. She
says, ‘‘I don’t like that.’’ Then she
tastes of the butter in the second pack-
age and doesn’t like that, as it is also
poor butter. Finally, she tastes of the
butterine and, as that tastes so much
better than the poor butter, she takes
that. I said to him, ‘‘Do you know that
there are thousands of Sunday schools
in this country and thousands of Sun-
day school teachers who are trying to
teach young men to be honest and
straightforward? They.go to work and
get a job in some of your grocery stores
and the very first thing you teach them
is to be dirty, lowdown liars.’’ I say
that it is the height of dishonesty to do
these things, but itis a great deal worse
to teach the boys who work for them to
do the same thing.

I see by the papers that in Lansing
they are going to make a law to license
all of the cows. Maybe that would be
a good thing and maybe it wouldn't. |
believe, however, we should spend our
time and money in enforcing the laws
we now have. I hope that when the oleo
bill is made a law it will be enforced
and that the people will stick to it.

It was positively proven some months
ago that in one of the garbage works out
West they were selling oil to a butterine
factory. Think of it: Oil from a gar-
bage works being sold toa butterine

 

factory! If there are disease germs in
that oil they are spread broadcast
through the country. There is a medi-
cine factory in Detroit who buy barrels
from us. They always want the largest
barrels they can get. They take these
barrels down to their place and fill them
with pills and ship them to different
parts of the country where they are re-
labeled and sold from retail drug stores.
This factory sends out two or three car-
loads of these pills a day and each car
will hold 400 barrels. Now, these but-
terine people are selling their goods
and sending this poisonous stuff all over
the country and the medicine factory is
selling its goods to counteract the harm
the butterine does.

We hear a great deal about adulter-
ated milk. I don’t believe there is half
as much adulterated milk in this coun-
try as some people would have us think.
I can not see how a milkman can adul-
terate his milk and sell it. If we are
getting poor milk we are very apt to
change milkmen. Just to illustrate how
that works: Here is a family living in
the city. They are happy and seeming-
ly prosperous. They have a little boy,
a fine little fellow who runs to meet his
father when he returns to his home in
the evening, and everything is happy
and fine. The first thing we know the
little boy is sick. He is dull for two or
three days. The doctor is called, shakes
his head and looks wise and, finally, the
little boy dies and the parents are
heartbroken. Two or three, and _per-
haps more, people say right away,
‘‘Tuberculosis caused it—tuberculosis
caused it.’’ No, that is not the cause
of the little boy's death. His mother
was buying good creamery butter at the

 

store for 17 cents a pound when Elgin
hutter was 24 cents. They were feeding
him on butterine. It does seem ridicu-
lous that some people will buy butterine
and think they are getting butter. If
they would just stop and consider that
when Elgin butter is 24 cents a pound
they can not buy creamery butter for 17
cents. I do not believe that God made
people to be sick and miserable in the
cities as they are. Moses lived to be
120 years old and | don’t believe he
ever saw any butterine. He lived on
goat’s milk and whole wheat bread, and
1 believe that when we have plenty of
good cows and can get good butter
this sale of butterine should be stopped
in some way. It is an abominable sub-
stitute for butter the best you can say
about it. You have a law to prevent the
making of spurious money and it is en-
forced. Let us have a law to prevent
the manufacture of spurious butter and
have it enforced. I hope the Grout bill
will pass and, if it does pass, let us try
and enforce it. The great charge against
it is that if it does pass some of the
poor people will have to eat lard. Let
them eat lard. Good, pure, wholesome
lard would be much better for them than
butterine made from oil from a garbage
works. If they eat lard they will know
what they are eating and will not be in
danger of being poisoned. Some have
an idea that butter will go up to 4o or
50 cents a pound if this law is passed.
1 do not think that will be the case. In
Michigan the manufacture of creamery
butter has been retarded because of the
fact that the manufacturers had to com-
pete with the butterine man, as | ex-
plained in regard to the Michigan
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Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—The staple cotton
goods market is in a rather monotonous
condition just at present. There is a
moderate volume of business moving,
and nothing occurs to vary it. There
have been some small sales of brown
sheetings from stock, but prices are
not quoted because considerable conces-
sions are given, and the same is true of
several lots of drills from stock. The
lowest price quoted on these goods,
however, is said to be not lower than
has been quoted for six or eight weeks
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goods are very dull.

Dress Goods—The business done at
first hands during the past has been
small. Some few orders for staples and
skirting fabrics, together with occasional
small duplicates on suitings, have been
received. Jobbers report having done
a fair business on sheer wool fabrics.
The evident preference shown by buy-
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The cloaking business shows no further
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Underwear—Spring business, while
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This is natural, on account of the slow
movement of winter goods. Of course,
the traveling men who went out for fall
business took a pretty complete assort-
ment of lightweight goods along, but
the results have not been very encoura-
ging. It is an interesting thing to note
the great variety of fancies that are in-
cluded among the samples. More lines
have been added, for it has become evi-
dent that the medium and cheap grades
are going to be wanted in pretty good
quantities before the season ends. There
is every indication that the spring and
also the fall season will be long drawn
out. Both jobbers and retailers will
await developments, buying but a little
atatime. They think that the chances
are more than even that they will find
prices lower by and by, while the agents
are just as sure they will not.

Hosiery—Fancies show no change in
either foreign or domestic lines. The
demand continues steady, and withal
there are numerous complaints in re-
gard to deliveries, which in many cases
are way behind. Many new designs are
coming to the front, and whenever they
are of a neat pattern they are wanted.
Staple hosiery moves along in a steady,
even way, but there is little of interest
to report.

Carpets—The wholesale trade in car-
pets is rather quiet at present. The
manufacturers have practically filled

 

their initial orders and will soon be
ready to commence work on duplicates.
It is thought that the greater part of the
spring goods have been delivered. The
new fall season will open up some time
during the latter part of May. Three-
quarter goods have been advanced by
many mills since the first of the year I
@5c per yard. This line has met with
very gratifying success thus far this
season, and the outlook continues to be
favorable for good business during the
remainder of the season. Manufacturers
quite generally have advanced the price
of their ingrains 2% cents per yard.
One manufacturer who makes a special
line claims that he has already obtained
orders at the advanced price.
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Evolution of the Lead Pencil.

The lead pencil, the most common of
all writing implements, is somewhat
over two hundred years old. The term,

‘lead pencil,’’ however, is a misnomer,
as in a mineralogical sense there is not
a particle of lead in its composition.

The lead pencil originated with the
discovery of the graphite mines in
England, in 1664, during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. As graphite so great-
ly resembled galena, the German name
for which was bleiglanz, it was given
the name of blei, or lead.

In the early days of lead pencil mak-
ing the graphite was sawed into thin
sheets and cut into strips smaller and
smaller until they were of a size to be
covered with light wooden slips, and
thus serve as pencils. The first pencils
created much excitement.

The graphite mines of England were
considered of inestimable value, and
were protected by law. Btu there was
great waste—first, in digging, for many
of the pieces were too small for cutting,
and again in the manner of cutting the
graphite, which was so crude that half
the material was lost. So a binding
substance had to be invented. Glue,
gum, isinglass, and other substances
were tried, but the graphite was only
rendered hard and brittle and of uneven
hardness. Its marks were faint and in-
distinct, and in those days if the point
broke it was quite an undertaking to
sharpen it again. First, the wood had
to be cut away, and the graphite heated
over a light to soften it, after which it
was drawn to a point with the fingers.

In 1795, Conte, a Frenchman, came
on the idea of using pulverized graphite
and binding clay. This discovery re-
sulted in pencils of varying hardness,
according to the amount of binding clay
added, and each pencil was of exactly
the same hardness throughout its length.

Soon after this discovery improve-
ments followed in mixing, rolling, and
shaping the graphite composition, which
was cut into lengths, placed in a warm
oven to harden, and finally encased in
wood, as seen to-day.

Attractiveness of Colored Vestings.

Said a salesman who sells women’s
low cut footwear: ‘‘I find that my sam-

les are made very attractive by cover-
ing the tops of the wooden forms with
colored vestings. This involves consid-
erable labor and time, but results are
very satisfactory. You see, the form
which holds the shoe in shape comes
slightly above the top of the slipper.
By covering this with a vesting = red
or some other contrasting shade to the
color of the leather I obtain something
of the fancy stocking effect. This at-
tracts attention from the buyer. In
fact, one of my customers last season
was so well pleased with this scheme
that he used a lot of my samples at a
season’s opening at his store, and stuck
a handsome rose in each shoe. The
effect was very striking and attracted a
great deal of attention.’’

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Both Places Will Be Covered.

““You believe, then, after all, that
Shakepeare wrote the plays himself?’’

She—Yes. But to make sure, the first
time I come across him in heaven I'll
ask him.

‘*But s’pose he isn’t there?’’

**Then you can ask him,”’

Spikes or Ribbon Ends

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No. 3—Gold, extra finish, $4.00 gross, 40¢ doz. No.4 Gold, spiral wire, $4.50 gross, 40¢ doz.
No. 5—Gold or silver filigree, $9.00 gross, 85¢ doz. No. 6—Gold, fancy style, attractive,
$7.00 gross, 65¢ doz. No. 7—Gold, silver or gray, very handsome open work, $15.00 gross.
$1.50 doz. No. 8—Similar to No.7, fancy, not open work, $6.00 gross. Several styles at
$3.00 and $4.00 gross. Write for samples.

Write us to send you a dozen each to retail at 2, 5, 7, 10c and up. They are
quick sellers. Other styles in stock with or without jewels.
Strictly wholesale only. Try us.

AMERICAN JEWELRY CO.
Jewelry and Novelty Jobbers,

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The tendency each season is more and more toward fancy
patterns in the line of hosiery. This season Men’s ——
lead for pretty colorings at low prices—goods that will sell
rapidly at 15c per pair. Misses’ and Women’s are worth
buying only in the higher priced goods. We want you to
see our line. If we claimed to have the greatest assortment
in the country you would not believe it, neither would it be
true. We do claim, however, that you will be surprised
. upon looking us over. We really have some splendid
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Clothing

Favored Fashions at the Windy City of
the West.

At the present writing the fashion
student finds himself ‘‘betwixt and be-
tween’’ seasons—too far along for new
ideas and old ones not sufficiently worn
to give birth to tendencies for the suc-
ceeding season.

Men's attire has reached a stage of
development which seems to admit of so
little improvement that changes are con-
fined to slightly altered or introduced
detail, and radicalisms are rare, none
having appeared on the fashion horizon
this season.

The merchant or haberdasher who
counsels his restless, discontented cus-
tomers to adhere closely to the conserv-
ative standard of dress will not make a
mistake, but let him suggest or intro-
duce extremes or departures and he will
make his customer a conspicuous mark
and bring down condemnation on his
own head.

The social season is now at its height
and men whose purses are sufficiently
substantial and deep enough to with-
stand the constant demand may indulge
to their hearts’ content—balls, banquets,
receptions, club dinners, card parties,
musicals, evening gaieties. The man
with social inclinations finds his time
well taken up, yet at the present time
has fewer annoyances and troubles in a
sartorial way than he had at the open-
ing of the season, before the fashion
leaders decreed what was to be right
and proper, and the accessions that go
to make up a perfect wardrobe were se-
cured.

For men who mingle in society and
who frequent functions requiring even-
ing dress there is little to worry over.
The evening suit is important, yet is
easiest to perfect, and when brought up
to the requirements of fashion at the
opening of the social season it requires
no further attention. The evening suit
has changed so little in many years that
only the most carefully posted dresser
can pick out a last year’s, or the year
before, or the suit of the year before
that.

Evening suits that are now being or-
dered have coats which are slightly
built up on the shoulders and are not
quite so square as those in the prevail-
ing business sack suit. The side seams
are well curved to the contour of the
body. The skirts branch out from the
hip-bone, making a clean front to the
coat. The tails taper gradually to a five
inch width at the bottom—slightly
rounded outer corners.

The trousers are being cut moderately
full above the knees. Side seams are
welted.

The waistcoat most affected is the
white linen duck or fine Barathea, pearl
buttons.

The evening or full dress shirt most
in favor is the severely plain bosom
with square-end cuffs. Two studs, gold
or pearl.

The shoes of plain patent leather,
cloth tops, and you have the evening
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Recently an innovation was noticed at
the Auditorium in which a leader of

fashion made an attempt to introduce

color into the evening costume and re-
lieve its somberness. This fellow
was seen to have a silk handkerchief of
scarlet hue in the bosom of his waist-
coat, afterward to carry it tucked in his
left coat sleeve with a very small bit of
color protruding. The effect was attrac-

tive in that it was noticed by everyone
and commented upon. The taste of the
wearer was severely criticised for two
fashionable reasons: First: Silk hand-
kerchiefs, even in the white, are not
good form for either gentlemen or
ladies. Again, the contrast was too
glaring—it was offensive. It might have
been tolerated and the conventional
rules for full dress relaxed had he tem-
pered his innovation by using a lavender,
green or blue tint instead of a pro-
nounced glaring color. The effect was
jarring to the supersensitive dresser and
not sanctioned by the extremist who
will take up almost anything novel.
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If the buyers are wholly governed by
the wants of the smart set the following
predictions may be valuable: I cor-
nered a thoroughly fashionable Board of
Trade man and got the following reply
to the question as to what would be the
style tendency for spring and summer:

‘*You may say,’’ said he,‘‘that we do
not want any oddities or extreme novel-
ties. We may patronize slight modifi-
cations of well-established forms in the
way of a digression in color tone or de-
sign.

‘*Negligee shirts will be more quiet
in tone—so also will the stiff bosom
shirts. The tones for the best dressers
will be very light or pure white. The
latter will be more popular and in
greater demand than last year, when the
wave struck the dressy boys late in the
summer.

‘‘Belts are going to be plain, narrow
harness effects, and will be more gener-
ally worn for business dress than for
several seasons.

‘‘Ties are running to the narrow and
small bows and will undoubtedly reach
the limit the coming season. I don't
see how they can stand many more cut-
tings down.”’

The foregoing is a prediction from
one who is as well posted on the incli-
nations of the dressy fellows as anyone
in Chicago and I consider that it close-
ly voices the tendencies of the smart set.

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The newest things in batwings and
butterflies are the ties now being shown
by Burns & Grassie, haberdashers.
These ties are literally miniatures of the
real thing. They measure, when tied,
not over 2% to 2% inches. Being of 1%
and I inch widths the effect is decided-
ly clever on a narrow-spaced, high-
band turndown collar. The idea is orig-
inal with J. H. Burns and is creditable
to his taste. Only the smallest, daintiest
figured silks can be used in the dark
color combinations or solid shades.
The man who wears one can be at once
put down as a skiiled manipulator of
ties, or one who has the time to fuss
until he bas it properly adjusted to
bring the ends and loops to a uniform

measurement.
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The latest, swellest glove for wear
with a surtout in the afternoons or the
gown Raglan at night—during severe
cold weather, mind you—is the white
knitted worsted glove.

They are knitted in a fancy stitch and
have long wrists. As protectors or hand
warmers they can not be surpassed by
anything but the old-fashioned mitten.

These white worsted gloves when
worn on the street with the surtout over-
coat look decidedly stylish. They are
most conspicuous, but are not offensive,
as the prevailing surtout is an oxford,
rough-finished cloth and harmonizes
with black or white. The black knit

 

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White seems to be just

For evening dress, while going to or
from the theater, or to and from social
functions, the white worsted glove is
worn over the white or pearl kids and
is slipped off just before the wearer
enters the house. In this way the gen-
tlemen are spared the discomfiture of
entering the presence of ladies with
stinging cold hands and wrists. Over
and above this feature these white
gloves protect the evening gloves from
smudges and streaks and save their
price many times in this way.—Apparel
Gazette.

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Glimpses of Life in a Shoe Store.

Cincinnati is a great town. I took a
little skate around and called on several
shoe men. Some mighty fine stores.
Better than Lasterville and almost as
good as New York. It seems funny to
go a lot of hundred miles and then step
into a shoe store and see the same old
names on the shoes—New York, Lynn,
Rochester, Brockport, Boston, and all
the rest of the Eastern towns. But the
Eastern men want to bear in mind that
the local factories are not idle and they
are building up a good big trade. Pitts-
burg and Harrisburg are getting to be
almost centers of shoe industry, and
Some as nice shoes as I ever held in my
hands are made right here in Cincin-
nati.

I talked with the representative of one
of the manufacturing firms and he said
that they were finding a steady market
in the river towns, many of which are
not reached by railroads at all, and the
general store men on the river do won-
derfully good businesses. I'll go to see
some of them when I get fairly started.

Then there is Louisville. If we hadn’t
stopped there on Sunday I could tell
you a whole lot more about it. Louis-
ville is quite Northeastern in the way it
allows business to stagnate on Sunday,
but we stopped there three hours and
walked around, and looked into the
show windows and rode around on the
street cars, and ] asked people about the
shoe trade. In a retail way it is strictly
up-to-date, but in manufacturing and
jobbing the town is somewhat in its in-
fancy, on account of the assistance which
St. Louis and Cincinnati are giving to
the Eastern hustlers to keep it so. But
then, what’s the use of dabbling in
shoes of different sizes and styles when
there are so few styles of leaf tobacco
and so much more money in buying it
low of the producer and selling it at a
stiff advance to the manufacturer.

There’s one thing that I’ve noticed
both here and in Cincinnati, and that
is, what a lot of nickel fixtures they use
in their show windows. A great many
more than I ever see in our home cities.
I used to wonder where a sale was found
for all of the expensive window fittings
advertised in the shoe journals. Now I
know. It’s in the South and West.

Our steamer stopped at Evansville
three hours—from 9 to 12 p. m.—and if
Evansville is anything like twice as
lively in the daytime as it is at night
the town is certainly a hummer.

For a town of its size there are the
nicest lot of show windows in Evans-
ville that I ever saw, and I got a show
window idea there which is the greatest
ever. I might just as well have thought
of it myself, but I didn’t. I never saw
it anywhere else and as it more than
doubles the capacity of any show win-
dow and makes startling effects com-
paratively easy I want to describe it for
the benefit of the retailers who read
‘‘Boots and Shoes’’ Weekly.

It is simply this: The front part of
a cellar or basement in most stores is of
little use. Well, what the Evansville
people have done is simply to cut away
the floors of their show windows about
ten or twelve inches back, allowing the
passerby to look right down into the
front part of the cellar, where there is
another window trim, or in some in-
stances an ‘‘effect.’’

For instance, one shoe dealer had a
tank, with rubbers floating around in it,
some of them with sails rigged, water-

 

proofed boots and shoes standing in the
water and ‘‘green grass growing all
around’ (apparently). It was a very
novel thing, and even at Io o’clock at
night there were always people stopping
to look in. Another dealer had all of
his heavy goods, boots of all sorts, dis-
played down there, with his fine goods
displayed on the floor proper of the win-
dow.

One dealer, who evidently used his
basement as a department of the store,
simply had the center shelf counters run
up under the show windows with spe-
cial trims at the end in front. This
served the double purpose of extra light
in the daytime and a special window
display at all times. At night a few
incandescent lights concealed along the
front of the cellar gave fine light.

Those stores which had slightly ele-
vated floors in the windows, sloping
Sharply down to the glass in front, got
slightly better effects, because the slop-
ing part could be cut entirely away and
the opening from the glass to the edge
of the floor did not need to be so wide.
All of the windows had close fitting
slides or floors to fit into the openings
in case it was desirable to shut off the
downstairs display for any reason.

I talked with several people about
the idea,and the only thing that has not
as yet been overcome is the bad effects
which are sometimes caused by the re-
flecting of highly polished piate glass in-
terfering with the downstairs view. This
happens, of course, only in the day-
time, when the light is very strong out-
side,and may be overcome in some way.
In the night the scheme is very effec-
tive.

I should think that at holiday time or
other special occasions all sorts of
novel trims could be made. One beau-
tiful thing about it would be that no
matter how elaborate the design, the
whole window would not need to be
shut up, but the upper show window
could be doing business while the lower
one was being prepared.

I thought of a whole lot of things in
connection with this scheme. The floor
of the window might be raised upa
foot or so, breast high as it were, and
the upper trim well displayec, with the
entire lower part all in view at once.
Another scheme I thought of was not to
have any floor in tbe window at all.
Have nickel display frames fastened to
the sides and back all of the way up. It
would make an enormous thing. In
this and most other schemes the front
of the cellar should be boxed in the
same size as the window or slightly
larger. It would be a snap for a fur-
niture man, wouldn't it? But then we’re
thinking about shoes, and the first man
who does it in a town will have a nov-
elty that will be talked about.

I’m going to try it as soonas I get
home and maybe when I have dabbled
with the thing a little more I can give
you some more ideas on the subject.—I.

Fitem in Boots and Shoes Weekly.
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The New Shoes.
You'd know by the way she goes creaking about,
Peering down from all possible views
At the two little feet thrust complacently out,
That Polly has on her new shoes.

They are neat, they are gay, they are buttoned
up high,
And they’re lined in a brilliant blue tint;
They = bright as the stars twinkling up in the
sky

Or a penny just out of the mint.

But it isn’t for that she’s so happy and proud
That she’s almost unable to speak:
It’s — they give out such a charmingly
oud—
Such a perfectly beautiful squeak!
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Keystones from Feb. 1 to Mar. 31, BOOT 35-10-10 per cent.
Woonsockets from Feb. 1 to Mar. 31, oo 35-10-5 per cent.
Pee 35-10-10 5 per cent.

The time is short in which to protect yourself for next season’s busi-
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brands. Lycomings contain more pure gum than any other rubbers

on the market.
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Tribute to the Cobbler.
Written for the Tradesman.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, the busy hammer goes, i
Tipping here and tapping there, the tiny pegs in
ouble rows.

Busily the fingers fly,

Following the glance of eye;

Turning seam and riveting,

Smoothing clean and beveling;

Honest, careful, noble, true,

His wrinkled fingers work away

Like busy elfins, all the day,

And do whate’er they find to do.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, the busy hammer goes;
Happy s the cobbler there, he does not brood
o’er rankling woes
How I love to watch him work!
Not a toe nor heel he’d shirk;
True as steel, with heart of gold,
As full of love as it will hold;
His leather apron tight is furled
Like ropes around the capstan’s bar:
He pleads for peace, he loves not war
And is at rest with all the world.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, the busy hammer goes;
How the children crowd around, as they hear
the thudding blows.

They love to see the nimble stroke,
They love that ancient hat and cloak,
And round his littered bench they stand,
An eager, youthful, happy band.
One chubby child climbs on his knee
With contident and sunny smile,
And then he tells them stories while
They listen in their childish glee.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, the busy hammer goes;
His furrowed forehead and wrinkled cheek with
worthy labor glows.
A quiet man the cobbler is;
A lowly life, yet noble, his;
Working there and laboring,
Each task an honest close to bring.
His rough exterior, lowly mien,
In dingy shop and littered floor,
Like diamond-clay with glittering core,
Has hidden deep a soul within.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, the busy hammer goes,
While from the trembling, aged lips the song of
boyhood flows.
He forward looks to future grace
And hopes to see Him face to face;
At night he hears the angels sing,
Lists to the rustling of their wing,
Like zephyrs soft from Italy’s shore;
The rae Spear make his heart rejoice—
He thrills to hear one soul-filled voice
And fain would hearken evermore.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, his busy hammer goes,
The frosts of winter on his face and in his hair
the snows.
He sees again that dreary day
His second-soul did pass away;
And following slowly, one by one,
His loving children all have gone,
Like wilting flowers in the blast.
Yet cheerful does he ply his trade,
While memory-faces rise and fade
Like phantoms from a happy past.

Tap, tap, tap. tap, the busy heartbeats go,

Tapping off the hours of man, be he high or low;
Thank thee, thank thee, aged man!
Thy face is sear, thine eyes are wan,
But through thy gentle life thou’st wove
Patience, calmness, hope and love.
And thus should we, both old and young,
Perform our duties hopefully
And nobly toil from day to day
Contented, honest, yet unsung.

Frederic Zeigen.

Ypsilanti, Mich.

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Brief Glance at Some Current Phases of
Trade.

The foundation has been laid for what
promises to be an excellent trade for
spring and summer. Manufacturers
have a goodly number of orders on
hand, which they are working upon at
present. There is a greater demand
than ever for shoes of high qualities.
The people are prosperous and are able
to pay good prices for what they want.
Dealers at present are anxious to push
out their winter stock and make ready
for spring goods. They prefer to sell
out their old shoes at cost, if necessary,
rather than to lock up their capital in
goods which they must carry over, and
which will depreciate with every pass-

ing month; hence the bargain sale. And

what a good institution it is, if con-
ducted as it should be.
general are beginning to realize that it
is not good policy to give their custom-

ers poor values, but, on the contrary, by

the very bargains they offer they should
bind the buyers to them with hoops of
steel.

Speaking of turning stock quickly,
we are reminded of some of the troubles
of retail dealers in the outskirts of large
cities. They mourn over their loss of
trade, but what must they think when
they go over their stock?

A dealer failed in Brooklyn a few

old stock.

Shoe dealers in

Less than a year ago he had
a sale of pointed toe shoes. There must
have been hundreds and even thousands
of pairs. They were shown up all over
the store on tables, and in the windows,
in all stages of decrepitude. How can
a dealer prosper who allows his stock
to accumulate thus? The stock of each
season must be pretty thoroughly
cleaned out to make way for new goods.
If this policy is not followed, the public
are quick to catch on, and instead of
going to the regular shoe dealers, they
are lured to the dry goods stores by their
large and well-arranged advertisements.
The stream must be kept running or
the water will become stagnant. Ifa
dealer keeps his stock moving, shovels
out goods at the end of one season, and
puts in a fine stylish lot of goods at the
beginning of next, the public will soon
know it. He will in self-defense be
obliged to advertise the fact. The life
of his store will give ample evidence
that what he says is true. The consum-
ers in the neighborhood will see that
there is something going on at his
place, that it is not simply a case of
selling ‘‘any old pair of shoes,’’ but
that the shoes they buy of him are sty-
lish, attractive and up-to-date, and that
he is headquarters for shoes, that he
knows all about them,and is a shoe man
from the top of his head to the sole of
his foot.
The bargain sales are on. They are
not so much sales of job lots bought to
sell as bargains as they are of goods
which will soon be unsalable and which
have been weeded out of dealers’ stocks
to make way for spring and summer
shoes,
The styles for spring and summer are
sensible. Of course the shiny patent kid
and calf are to take the place largely of
tan goods, and everybody knows how
difficult it is for manufacturers of patent
kid to fill their orders. To illustrate
this, we have just been informed that a
large Eastern shoe manufacturer is so
greatly in need of patent kid, and un-
able to get it, that he has offered a lead-
ing manufacturer of this material 5 cents
per foot more than the regular selling
price, provided he can get a certain
quantity each week. The seller of the
kid declined the order because he was
not able to fill it in justice to his other
customers.
Once in a great while we find a man-
ufacturer who uses a few skins a week
and is able, being a small consumer of
patent kid, to have his wants supplied,
but the whole trade is fairly crying for
this material, and sellers of it are mak-
ing every effort to supply it. As we
said last week, retaiiers should be con-
servative in pushing the sale of patent-
kid shoes, that they may thus be able to
avoid trouble for themselves later on.
Still, in self-defense, every progressive
dealer needs to have a certain quantity
of these shors in stock.
In many instances shoe manufactur-
ers, by consent of their retail customers,
are subtituting patent calf in place of
patent kid. Leading manufacturers of
patent calf,anticipating a great demand
for this product months ago, made ar-
rangements for importations which
would supply a fair demand for it. The

American kid has superseded the French
article and patent kid is the last shoe
material which now remains for Europe
to furnish us.

Progress is being made
in improving the quality of the do-
mestic article, and it may not be long
before our finishers of patent calf will
be able to furnish an article which will
meet with a much more extended sale
than at present.

The jobbers are now in Boston in
large numbers. There are perhaps at
this time nearly a hundred of them pre-
paring to order shoes for next fall and
winter. They are in much better posi-
tion than they were last year, for their
stocks are in good shape and they are
not carrying heavy burdens, and are in

 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

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position to place orders that will keep

manufacturers busy for some time to
come.
Leather is firm in price, although

strange to say hides are declining in
value somewhat. Dealers have been
curtailing their production for some
time, and the demand for nearly all
kinds of leather is now pretty nearly
abreast of the supply. In some kinds,
notably kid, the demand exceeds the
supply. The entire trade from tannery
to shoe store is in a healthy condition,
and we anticipate an excellent trade for
shoe dealers during the next season.—
Boots and Shoes Weekly.

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1901, both inclusive, Boston Rubber

demand is fully up to their expectations,
but they are using every endeavor to
cope with the business, and no doubt
shoe dealers can secure within a reason-
able time all the shoes they need which
are made of patent calf. There are
three or four kinds of this stock im-
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weeks ago who was fairly overrun with

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Hardware

Suggestions on Advertising a Retail Hard-
ware Store.

I'll not say that this subject is a stale
one, for the subject of advertising can
never become stale toa live business
man any more than eating to a growing
boy; but it is a subject which has been
thoroughly digested heretofore, which
has already been viewed from nearly
every standpoint, has been argued from
every sort of premise, which has had so
Many sorts of supporters—from the man
who has made a study of it and con-
quered it, to the man who thinks he
knows al] about it without having mas-
tered the rudiments—that I hesitate to
speak on so precarious a subject lest |
make a fool of myself in my efforts to
demonstrate that I belong to the former
class, or fall down in my efforts to con-
vince you that I do not belong to the
latter class.

I lay no claims to being an expert ad-
vertiser, but was born with, in fact, in-
herited, a desire to get my money’s
worth; and this desire has always
prompted me to see that the advertising
money was spent with that object in
view.

Advertising is a business proposition
pure and simple. It is a science only
so far as any investment is a science.
It is an investment the same as a pur-
chase of a car of stoves is an invest-
ment; both are moneys expended with
an idea of return in profit—both should
be purchased judiciously and with an
idea of the requirements of the trade,
both as to quality and quantity.

One article may pay big returnson an
advertising investment in a high grade
magazine, while another would fall flat
on such an investment and pay big re-
turns in a country weekly.

The advertising agent, or specialist,
if he is successful, studies and knows
both the patrons’ needs and possibilities
in the advertising line, the same as you
study the market on nails; he also
knows just where those needs can best
be met—which magazine or paper. The
country dealer who can not afford—prob-
ably does not need—the advertising spe-
cialist should make a study of these
features if he wishes to get the most
value for his money.

For instance—there’s not much return
for the investment to be had in advertis-
ing calf weaners or hog rings in a loca!
daily paper; neither would it display
good judgment to advertise coal stoves
extensively in a country weekly which
circulated largely in a wooded section.
There’s a great deal in ‘‘tact’’ in ad-
vertising as well as in selling goods.
‘*Tact,’’ in fact, counts for a great deal
more in this world than we give it
credit for. The dear old woman who
went out of her way to hand a tract on
‘*The evils of dancing’’ toa one-legged
man was very much lacking in this
qualification; while the King’s fool,
who was sentenced to death for some
misdemeanor, yet was allowed to select
his own method of shuffling off this
mortal coil, exercised ‘‘tact’’ when he
decided if it lay with him he would
prefer to die of old age, and saved his
head thereby.

We must know who the people are
whom we wish to get at; and then we
must “locate their vitals,’’ as they say
of a whale. [In some communities a
slangy worded advertisement might
drive home a point—although to tell the
truth, I believe they are very, very few;
while in others, the smoothly written,

 

 

 

concise, polished advertisement would
be more readily digested; and right
here allow me to state a vital necessity
in successful advertising—that is, some-
where in the advertisement drive home
and clinch a point which will bring you
dollars and cents; somewhere state a
truth which, either by previous state-
ment or insinuation, shall convince the
reader that what you are talking about
is either better or cheaper or more de-
sirable than he will probably be able to
find elsewhere. Let each advertisement
be written as though you expected the
teader is about to purchase, somewhere,
the article you are advertising and it is
necessary for you to convince him that
yours is the place to buy it.

If you are advertising an article which
possesses neither the feature of quality or
price, you’d better publish the weather
report. It will do you just as much
good and your readers more. | take no
stock whatever in this style of adver-
tising which says simply, ‘‘Our Hog
Rings are the Best,’’ or which says,
‘*We carry a full line of hardware, tin-
ware, stoves, etc.’” Why, if the reader
had never seen your advertisement he
could guess that every hardware dealer
in the town would vouch for as much;
but supposing you put in an advertise-
ment like this—‘‘If (and have the ‘‘if’’
in italics), “‘If our hog rings are better
than others, there’s a reason for it. Step
in and we’ll tell you what it is.’ Then
you have made a point. The customer
thinks, without knowing he thinks it,
that ‘‘those hog rings have some point
of merit which is worth something, else
he wouldn’t ask me in to expatiate on
their merits.’’ You have his curiosity
aroused and at the same time you have
created the impression that you have a
superior article.

That enterprise which permits an ad-
vertisement to stay in the paper from
Christmas time until it is time to adver-
tise firecrackers, and from firecracker
time until Santa Claus time again, has
received enough general condemnation
to need no further mention here. You’!
find that the dealer who has no more
regard for his advertisement than to
thus neglect it is the sort who is wav-
ing his hands high in the air and pro-
claiming to his fellow men that ‘‘this
advertising business is all a hold-up;’’
when the facts in the case are that if
this same man would change his adver-
tisement as often as he does the shirt
on his back, his community would be so
surprised at the frequency of the former
and the infrequency of the latter that
they'd actually visit his place of busi-
ness out of curiosity. They would prob-
ably find him as busy as the man whom
the editors tell about who wouldn't ad-
vertise: an editor went into his place
of business and actually found him busy
—he had the itch and a Waterbury
watch,and when he wasn't busy scratch-
ing himself, he was winding the watch.

Put an advertisement in the news-
paper just as you would sow wheat—not
with an idea of watching each and every
kernel and judging the whole thereby,
but rather to judge by the granary at
the end of the season ; remembering this
—use good seed and have the soil well
cultivated ; for no matter how good the
seed,or how well put the advertisement,
if the ground be not well cultivated, if
you haven't the confidence of the read-
ers of the advertisement, both seed and
advertisement fall on barren ground.

Be sure to always keep faith with

your customers ; don’t advertise an ar-
ticle as of superior merit unless it has
it; don’t advertise it as cheap in price

 

 

unless it is cheap. One of the most
successful advertising agents in the
United States will not write an adver-
tisement unless he has first ascertained
to his complete satisfaction that the ar-
ticle advertised is all that the proprietor
claims for it.

Now I am speaking only of news-
paper advertising in this paper, for I
believe that newspaper advertising is
the only steady kind of advertising that
pays. (I am also only speaking from
the retailer’s standpoint). Dodgers,
fence-board advertisements and theater
programs may be all right for an oc-
casional ‘‘flyer,’’ but the advertising
that pays is the clean-cut, fresh,
pointed and pithy advertisement that is
stuck constantly under the nose of the
man who is intelligent enough to read
and to want to read his daily or weekly
newspaper. The man who can’t read
and who has no one to read to him is
the kind whom you must ‘‘catch-as-
catch-can.’’

The way to catch the ignorant man’s
trade is to attend his barn raising, or
the wedding of his daughter (whom he’s
been raising) and the chances are he’ll
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I once heard of a ‘‘country jay’’
whose ideas of wealth were very limited,
and who probably considered fifty dol-
lars a fortune, who, in response to an
advertisement of engines, wrote fora
price on one of a certain capacity;
when the response came back saying
that an engine as described would cost
$1,000, Our friend promptly sat down
and wrote the manufacturers as follows:
‘*You durn fool, you; if I had a thou-
sand dollars what would I want of an
engine?’’

As to the amount of space required to
properly display an advertisement, this
also requires judgment, as it will vary
with the article advertised and with the
season of the year. Cuts are necessary
to liven up an advertisement, but some-
times the cut of a fly will be more effect-
ive in advertising a screen door than a
cut of a door. Because you can, in a
small space, advertise very advan-
tageously a penknife, is no reason why
you need a much larger space to adver-
tise a range; it might be that the re-
verse would prove true.

As the old story goes—‘‘ Because a man
born in Ireland is called Irish is no
reason why kittens born in an oven
should be called biscuit. ’’

Don’t use a set amount of space, but
have plenty and vary it. It carries the
impression that you are advertising for
business and not from force of habit.

Now as to the amount to be invested
in advertising, this point has been very
ably and thoroughly gone over ina
paper at a previous time. I will sim-
ply say this, that 1 believe it is very
generally conceded to be a good policy
to lay aside a given amount annually
for this purpose and work to that
amount. If you are doing a twenty
thousand dollar business and believe
that with judicious advertising you can
increase your business Io per cent., or
two thousand dollars, and suppose you
estimate that you will make Ito per
cent. on that two thousand dollars, you
will be justified in investing in the
neighborhood of $100 in additional ad-
vertising. I am allowing that this is
the minimum.

Too many merchants advertise for a
month, or until the printer’s bill comes
in and then, because they have to count
out the cold cash and no customer comes
in and purchases enough goods in re-
sponse to the advertisement, so that the
profits on the same will meet the print-
er’s bill, they stop the advertisement—
or put in a little card advertisement
which reads very much as will the epi-
taph on their tombstone.

Terry says: ‘‘A business man may
be known to some extent by the style of
his advertisement. If he merely re-
vamps old and stereotyped ideas and
adopts other men’s ideas, phrases and
expressions, the probabilities are that
he does the same in his business. Every
man should endeavor in form or method,
to improve upon what he sees about
him.

The time was, years and years ago,
when a man could put a standing ad-
vertisement in the newspaper and have
it worth something; but that time has
gone by—it belongs to the days of the
canal boat.

I believe that the merchant of to-day
who does not advertise is missing an
advantage ; and the merchant who does
advertise with an advertisement that
stands from week to week is missing
an advantage and paying for the privi-
lege.

If advertising is worth anything-—if
it has a mission—it is to inform people ;

 

and you can’t give the public any infor-
mation by telling them something which
they knew before. If you have the best
store in town, don’t tell people of it—
take it for granted that everybody knows
it, or ought to know it; but tell them
why it is the best store and carry the
impression that you suppose of course
they know it is. In my opinion it is a
good plan to leave the reader something
to think out. ‘‘Is thirty-five years’ ex-
perience worth any‘hing?’’ is better
stated than if it read ‘‘thirty-five years’
experience is worth something.’’ ‘‘ Peck
makes his own tinware’’ is better put
than ‘‘Peck’s own make of tinware is
better than the machine made,’’ because
the former conveys the same idea, but
allows the reader to draw the conclusion
himself. Either way of putting it
wouldn’t prevent Peck from buying his
tinware from the jobber, if his tinshop
was overworked, and labeling it his own
make.

There may be those here who differ
with me, but I believe that only that
merchant who conducts a ‘‘cheap store’’
should advertise prices to any extent. It
is certainly of no avail to advertise
prices unless the prices are low; and in
order to advertise low prices, the dealer
must carry cheap goods—goods to cor-
respond with the prices. I admit, of
course, that there are times when the
cheap competition must be met, but the
dealer should get goods for the occasion
and advertise prices which are out of
reach, but I believe that a business
which is built up on quality is built on
the rock, while that which is built on
prices is short-lived and built on the
sand.

Here’s another idea—keep your eye
on the printer. Many printers take a
pride in their art and know how to
properly display and insert an adver-
tisement; but a large percentage seem
to think that large, boid-faced type is
all that is necessary to give an adver-
tiser his money’s worth. Pick up any
standard magazine of the day and see
if you do not find that many of the ad-
vertisements which create the best im-
pression and most forcibly present the
merits of the article advertised are
the most modest in their typography.
We have followed the plan for several
years in our business of having a spe-
cial type, of which we purchase a font,
and change the type yea ly. We own
the type and own it exclusively. It sets
the advertisement out away from the
other advertisements.

It is better for the dealer to print out
his advertisement as he wants it, show-
ing display matter, etc., so that the
printer can make no mistake ; for the
advertiser knows better than the com-
positor what point he wishes to em-
phasize and where he wishes to make
an impression. Some printers have bet-
ter taste and judgment in these matters
than the advertiser; of course, under
those circumstances, it would be better
to leave the whole matter with the print-
er, Simply giving him the correct ideas.
See that your advertisement is put in
right—given enough ink and not too
much ; that it is displayed as it should
be—in fact, see that it is what you have
paid for, the same as the goods you buy.
Some printers take pride in their ad-
vertising columns, others simply throw
them together.

In my opinion a dealer can not ad-
vertise everything he has in his store in
one five-inch double-column advertise-
ment. In fact, I do not think he can
advertise any more than one article in
such a size advertisement and have it
amount to anything—two articles at the
outside.

Now advertising is like courtship—
you had better not undertake it unless
you mean business. To carry the simile
a little farther, it’s like courtship in the
ice cream season, in that if you go into
it half- heartedly it is money thrown
away. Fred Peck.

 

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Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.. -- net 65
Corrugated, - oe 1 25
Adjustable.. : ....dis  40&10
aes Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 40
Eves’ 1, S18; 2, $24; 3,Sa0.......... .... 25
Files—New List
INGW AMmenICay 70&10
Nicholson’s.. Be ec eeeg oa 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps. fe oe eee nelnec ees 7
Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 = 24; 25 _ 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 16. 17
Discount, 70
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box. . .-dis 85&
Double Stren riekt Bybee dis 85&
By the eas dis 80&20
ae
Maydole & Co.’ = "aa — pce eemcmecs cs dis 3336
Yerkes & Plum ac .dis 40810
Mason’s Solid ( Cast Steen iui .30¢ list 70
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Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3.. ~desces-MS  GOalID
Hollow Ware
EOts............... aaa 50&10
Oe 50&10
Re 50&10
Horse Nails
Au Sable . is 40&10
House’ Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
Japanned ee 20&10
Iron
ar Bee 2 25 crates
Light Band ee ai ee ee ea 3 c rates
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.. oe 75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... cl, a 85
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 00
Warren, Galvanized Fount.......... 4 6 00

 

Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye.....................-$17 @..dis 70—10
Metals—Zine
600 pound _— eee Sere cece es conn ae 7%
Per pound.. ee ae eee cee ee cee cece oe 8
Miscellaneous
Bera Cages. 40
Eee, Crseern 75
Nerows, New Fist... ..... 80
Casters, Bed aa De. 50&10&10
Dampers, AMGEIam 5... 50
Molasses Gates
Stennis Pattern .............. ens 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans
ey, Acme. 60810810
Common, polished ....... ....-..... 7085

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 %c per pound extra.

Planes

 

     
 

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 50
Sciota Bench.. 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’ ig, fancy 50
Bench, first quality.. "0
Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
fecer malin, Dane. 2 65
Wire nails, base.. teste 2 65
20 to 60 advance Base
10 to 16 advance 5
8advance... ... 10
6 advance... 20
4advance.. 30
3 advance... 45
2advance...... 70
Fine 3 advance... 50
Casing 10 advance 15
Casing 8 advance... 25
Casing 6 advance... 35
Finish 10 advance... 25
Finish 8 advance... 35
Finish 6 advance... ses 45
Barrel 4 advance...__............. 85

Iron and Tinned 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean..

20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.... —
14x20 IC; Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

Branwan
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20x28 IC; Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 1
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 1
Ropes
Sisal, 44 inch and larger............... 8
] anilla Ee ee es da Shee ae ee dicic enon 12
Sand _—
List acct. 19, ’86. . _--<. Gi 50
Sash , Weights
Sena Hives, portem................ 25 00
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com.
EE ——————— $3 20
Nos. 1500 iy... 3 20
Noe tom... 3 30
Woes. 22 tom. 8... 3 60 3 40
Nes. 2a 2G... 3 70 3 50
Pe 3 3 60

80
Ant Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
ist Grade. oz..........
Seeond Grade, Der....................

Solder
4@%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder

in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

Squares
Steel and Tren 65
Tin—Melyn Grade
10004 IC. Chareoal................ ._.. $ 8 50
14x20 IC, peat ae ee tee ost eee 8 50
20x14 Ix, Cearees). 6... 9 75
Each t lditional X on this grade, $1.25.
Tin—Allaway Grade
mente 10, Cipreeah......... 7 00
Seems IO, Chareeal..................... 7 00
CO —————— 8 50
eee Ts 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, t per pound.. 10
Traps
Steel, Game... ames 75
Oneida Community , “Newhouse’s...... 40&10
Oneida Community. Hawley & Nor- -
Mouse, choker per doze. sess. 15
Mouse, delusion, pe. doz.. _ 1 25
Wire.
ios MEREOS. 60
Annealed Market.. Me ue cee aes 60
Cappered Market...................... 50&10
Gaemoe Wiaphes........................ 50&10
Coppered Spring Steel.. Stace es 40
Barbed Fence, Salvanized..........-. 3 30
Barbed Fence, Painted................ 3 00
Wire Goods

Cee cee cee eee 80
Screw _—————————— 80

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Gate Hooks and Eyes.. eae eee 80

Wrenches

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Woman’s World

Passing of the Valentine a Lamentable
Mistake for Women.

One of the pretty customs of the past
that seems falling into disuse is the
sending of valentines. No more does
Angelina slip into the post the tiny
white-winged messenger of love—the
first white fluttering signal that the gar-
rison is ready to capitulate—that sends
her heart into her mouth when she
thinks that Adolphus Gustavus may
guess the sender, and makes it drop in-
to her boots for fear he won't. No more
does Adolphus Gustavus wrestle with
the muses and indite original verses to
his lady love in which ‘‘dart’’ rhymes
with ‘‘heart,’’ and the strength of the
sentiment makes up for the ricketyness
of the meter. The day has been given
over to children, who take the name of
St. Valentine in vain, not knowing what
they do, and to social hoodlums who send
comic valentines to wound those whom
they are too cowardly to attack in the
open.

 

 

It is the greatest pity. It was a beau-
tiful idea to set apart one day out of the
busy, prosaic year in which heart might
speak to heart under a masquerade that
was as gay or grave as one chose; when
illusive, unknown, intangible whisper-
ings of love filled the air, and one might
almost feel the swift wings of the little
blind god as he brushed one’s cheeks.
We are not so rich in romance that we
could spare one of her tenderest bits:
and speaking personally one of the
sweetest memories of my _ childhood
clusters about an old valentine that be-
longed to a gentle old maid. It wasa
quaint little affair, all filigree-paper,
and when I knew it, it was yellow with
age and blistered with tears and stained
on one corner with a dull, brown-red
blur. Miss Maria always kept it ina
little old sandalwood box, in which was
a bit of torn blue cloth, and a brass
button, and a withered rose crumbling
into dust, and about it centered all the
romance of her life.

Long and long before, in the days be-
fore the war, she had beena famous
belle and beauty, and half the county
paid court to her. Among the rest, so
the story went, was a young man, not
her social equal, who scarcely dared lift
his eyes to his queen, and assuredly had
never summoned courage to ask her to
be his wife. Everyone thought that
Miss Maria would make a brilliant
match, but so strange is the mystery of
a woman's heart she turned from all her
rich suitors, and all the love of her na-
ture went out to this one who was the
least among them. Already the shadows
of war were darkening around them,
and the young men marching and drill-
ing in camps and donning with laughter
and light hearts that blue they were to
wear through such weary years of toil
and trouble and sorrow. Miss Maria’s
lover was among them, and one day the
news swept through the village that the
company had been ordered to the front.

With a woman’ intuition, Miss Maria
had guessed his secret, and she felt she
could not let him go without some token.
The message that he would not speak
she must speak. It happened that it
was Valentine’s day, and she slipped
down to the village store and bought a
valentine, and, with shaking fingers,
wrote his name upon it and sent it by a
trusty messenger. It is the wonder of
love that it needs no explanation, and
justifies itseif, and so that night she
waited for him, without fear or doubt,

 

under the old willow that shadowed the
gate. It was just for an hour, and then
he was gone, and the next day he
marched away with fluttering flags and
braying bands and cheering crowds,
and Miss Maria, watching him, had
looked her last on love. He was shot at
Shiloh. They found next to his heart
the little valentine, and they sent it
back to her stained with his life blood.
It wasn’t much for a lifetime—the mem-
ory of a kiss in the dark and a withered
rose and a yellow old valentine falling
to pieces with age, but it had kept the
years sweet and beautiful for her, and
you couldn’t have purchased it with all
the wealth of Golconda.

Sentiment aside, though, looking at
the matter from the standpoint of a
woman, the abolition of the custom of
sending valentines is a distinct loss to
our sex, robbing us of one of our time-
honored privileges, of not exactly speak-
ing cut in meeting, but at least giving
some sign that we were alive, and still
in the matrimonial market. Nobody
will deny that women are at a distinct
disadvantage in all affairs of sentiment.
Custom allots us a heart, but denies us
a tongue. We may love, but we may
not mention it. We may feel that we
would make such and such a man an
ideal wife, but we are not permitted to
call his attention to the good thing he is
missing.

The most we can do is to sit around
and look willing, which might be suffi-
cient if the majority of men were not as
blind as stocks and _ stones about love
and did not have to be fairly knocked
down with every new one before they
beheld it. ‘‘Barkis may be willing’’
enough to fall in love, but he generally
has to have somebody to call his atten-
tion to it and point out the girl. The
valentine gave a woman the opportunity
of suggesting herself as a likely candi-
date, and if the hint was not taken she
could still retire from the field, routed
and defeated, it is true, but still en-
veloped in a haze of romance and dis-
creetly anonymous.

Of course, we all cling to the old, sen-
timental theory that man sends all the
valentines and does all the wooing and
that a girl is always overwhelmed with
surprise when she finds out that she has
inspired an ardent affection in his
breast. This is merely a polite subter-
fuge and we al! know it for what it is.
No woman with a grain of sense but
knows well enough when a man_ begins
to think seriously of her and first sepa-
rates her in his thoughts from the great
army of other petticoats. She can put
her finger on the precise spot where he
crossed over the rubicon that divides
liking from love, and, God help her, in
spite of all the lies she tells her own heart,
she knows when love is dead upon her
hearthstone and that what sits there and
bears its outward likeness is merely the
galvanized corpse of a passion from
which spirit and warmth have fled.

As long as a woman is a good deal
more married to a man than he is to
her, it seems the height of folly, any-
way, that custom should prevent her
from having a hand in picking him
out. As itis, she has to content herself
with accepting or declining what is
offered her, instead of going out and
picking out something that suits and
the thing that she really wants. It is
like sitting at a banquet where the
waiter asks you if you will have cod-
fish or apple pie, while all the time your
appetite calls for quail on toast and
champagne, that you could have just as
well as not if only etiquette permitted

 

you to get up and help yourself from the
viands on the table.

If ever the time comes when the ban
is removed, and women are allowed to
pop the question on equal terms with
men, there is going to be a tremendous
boom in domestic felicity. You are go-
ing to see more contented women, be-
cause there are going to be more women
with the kind of a husband they fancy,
instead of the kind that fate handed out
to them, like a druggist who says,
‘*This isn’t the genuine elixir of hap-
piness, of course, but it’s just as good.’’
Moreover, you are not going to see, as
you do now, the woods full of good,
capable women, just cut out for wives
and mothers, but whom men have over-
looked. They will take matters in their
own hands and qualify for the job of
making a good home for many a man,
who will be made happy in spite of
himself.

Naturally, the very idea of a woman
taking the initiative in lovemaking is
shocking to us. It is too new to us yet;
but in reality it is only doing bluntly
what every woman does more or less
adroitly, according to the subtlety with
which the good Lord has gifted her.
What is it that makes little Miss Flighty
spend hours before her mirror primping
and curling and powdering and dress-
ing herself but to make herself attract-
ive in the eyes of some man? What is
it that makes a clever woman listen
with an expression of absorbed atten-
tion while some masculine bore mean-
ders along on his favorite topic? Is it
because she cares a rap about what he
said to somebody and what somebody
else said to him about the horse he
backed, and that would have won, if
it hadn't got beaten? Nay, verily, it
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she is doing her level best to charm
him. A man comes right out and says,
‘*] love you.’’ A woman rolls her eyes
at a man and tells him how wise and
great he is, but she means the same
thing.

There are those who contend that it is
impossible for a woman to win a man’s
love, and if it isn’t offered to her as a
gracious gift, on a silver salver, she
never gets it. That’s another fallacy.
That’s the attitude of the successful gen-
eral after the battle. She doesn't tell
how the fight was won and the tactics she
employed to win. Thackeray declared
that any woman not a hunchback could
marry any man she chose, and observa-
tion seems to bear it out. Men have
been fed into matrimony; they have
been flattered into it. They have mar-
ried because they loved a woman and
they have been married by women who
were in love with them. To know that
he is adored is a subtle compliment to
his self love that few men have the
courage to withstand. As a delicate
means of carrying this assurance the
valentine has no superior, and it is pre-
cisely this that makes its passing so la-
mentable a mistake for women. We've
thrown away a trump card and we need
them all if we are to win in the game
of hearts. Dorothy Dix.

+. 0-2
Carpets Out of Fashion.

To what extent the rug business has
cut into the strictly carpet business can
not be told, but that it is appreciably
felt by the latter goes without saying,
and that it is making constant inroads
upon it is also admitted by all.

The growth and the expansion of the
rug industry have been wonderful in the
last five years, and it may be said that
within a twelvemonth it has taken a
start forward, gaining a momentum
which promises much for the future.
It is not difficult to ascribe the cause for
this movement, or at least for a consid-
erable portion of it, but it may be diffi-
cult to say whether or not this movement
carries with it that permanency and
stability which goes with most indus-
tries. Yet one can not ignore the fact
that there is associated with this busi-
ness the idea of adaptability and of suit-
ability which seems to argue in favor
of its permanence.

The rug, as it is known to-day is
different from the rug of two decades or
even a decade ago; it hasa different
place in the question of household
economy, and it is this very question
of economy which has made the place
for it. Crowded cities mean small
apartments, shifting population and ex-
pedients. The rug isa utility carpet,
one that will fill emergencies, that is
well adapted as an expedient. This
unquestionably has done much to en-
courage the sale. The ingenuity of the
manufacturer in devising the ways and
means to meet the wants of the people
along these lines has done much toward
increasing the market.

Judging from what has been done the
last few years it might be said that the
rug business to-day is in an _ initial
movement, one that is likely to reach
great proportions with recurring years,
and that there are even those who be-
lieve it will to a large extent supersede
and displace the regular carpets; that
it is an advance in household economy.
In any event, the rug of to-day prom-
ises well for the future, and the strug-
gling ingrain manufacturers, as well as
those who are fighting formidable com-
petition in other branches of carpet
manufacturing, may look to this one
branch of the industry as offering them
an escape from the heaviness and de-
pression of their trade. The one who
realizes at the start the evolutions in
trade, getting in the movement early,
is the one who succeeds best.

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Never allow your enthusiasm to get
the better of your judgment, for when
enthusiasm cools off the violated judg-
ment will return to mock you.

 

One of the Penalties of Greatness.

In all the accounts of the pomp and
splendor of the funeral of the great
woman who was Queen of England and
Empress of India, there was one note
that must have struck every thoughtful
person as infinitely pathetic. That was
that there was no moment of privacy in
which those who mourned not only a
dead queen, but a loving mother, could
indulge their sacred grief unseen of
prying eves that took note of every tear
and account of every sob. The fierce
light that beats about the throne beats
also ahout the bier, and the humblest
man and woman left alone with their
dead have a privilege that royalty could
not claim.

In the case of Victoria, who was al-
ways more woman than queen, this
seems doubly hard. Love and death are
the touches of nature that make the
whole world kin and level all rank. Un-
derneath the jeweled orders of the king
and the homespun of the day laborer
beats the same heart, to be torn with the
same anguish of parting from those it
loves and to endure the same anguish of
desolation and loss,but in the inevitable
hour when the last farewell must be
spoken the humbler man has the _ hap-
pier lot. He can at least withdraw fora
while to indulge his sorrow before tak-
ing up the burden of life again, while
not even for a dead potentate can the
affairs of state stop. The world sweeps
forward and the king must take his part
in it. His very greatness debars him
from the luxury of grief.

It is a far cry from the throne of
England to the dressing-room of a thea-
ter, but one time the writer of this sat
on a trunk in one, watching a little
comedienne making up her face before
the mirror. Suddenly the hand that
was }ainting artificial roses on the pale
cheeks stopped and the head went down
on the dressing table among the rouge
saucers and grease pots and the gayly-
dressed little figure shook with a tempest
of sobs. ‘‘My little sister is dying with
diphtheria in Philadelphia,’’ she said,
pointing to a yellow envelope that lav
among the spangles and tinsel, ‘‘and J
can’t even go to her.’’ The voice of the
call boy, hurrying by the dressing-
rooms, broke across her sobs. She
dabbed a little powder on_ her tear-
stained cheeks and in a moment more
was laughing and rollicking before the
audience, apparently the gayest of the
gay—one of the unknown and unsung
heroines of life.

Those of us who tread the quiet paths
of existence do not appreciate the priv-
ilege of privacy and of being able to in-
dulge our emotions. We see the power
and the glory and the splendid trap-
pings of royalty, and we forget that it
must pay a cruel price in the suppres-
sion of all those feelings which make
the real happiness of human beings.
Not for them the blessed relief of un-
seen tears, nor the joy of careless
laughter, nor innocent love where the
hand may go where the heart goes.
They must smiie with breaking hearts,
love by rule and marry for reasons of
state.

No women are so envied by other
women as successful actresses, yet every
one has paid her debt to fate in doing
without the things dearest to a woman’s
soul. She must be separated from those
she loves; laugh and dance and make
merry, no matter what anxieties are tor-
turing her, and often and often turn
from the grave of the one she loved best
to jest again for a laughter-loving pub-
lic. Little as she may think it, the

 

 

 

woman who may be all in all to her
family, who may nurse them when sick
and who is privileged to hold her child
in her arms while it goes down into the
dark valley of the shadow, has a com-
fort denied to many a famous woman
who pays the penalty of her greatness
in being the world’s slave.
Cora Stowell.
——1+_~»>_2 +.
Too Eccentric for Any Use.

‘*Of course you quite understand that
1 shall call upon Mrs. Whiffler for your
character,’’ remarked Mrs. Taggetly to
the girl she had just engaged.

‘*Certainly, m’m,’’ replied the girl,
‘‘although I would rather you didn’t,
for Mrs. Whiffler is so eccentric that she
is not always to be relied upon.’’

‘‘In what way is she eccentric?’’

‘*She insists that her husband is quite
a model father and husband and that
her children have never caused a mo-
ment’s anxiety.’’

| Hm, not so much in that.”

‘*Then she says she is perfectly con-
tented with one new dress and one new
hat each season.’’

‘*H’m, she is eccentric, then!"’

‘*And, finally, she has never attended
a bargain sale, and says that the only
things sold at them are the women who
buy!’

‘Oh, the woman's mad! I sha’n’t
trouble her for your character; you can
come in when you like!’’

2.
A Que:tion of Spirit.

In ‘‘The Monks of Malabar,’*’ Fran-
cis Wilson’s comic opera offering of the
season, the comedian has a wife who is
a perfect vixen. In the first act Wilson
is telling his woes to a _ friend and
dwelling on his wife’s temper.

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Butter and Eggs
Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

I notice a very considerable number
of poor egg cases around the market and
think it would be well for shippers to
be a little more fastidious in their pur-
chases. Some of them are made of
rough looking lumber—often very poorly
matched and unsightly—and_ while
these, if strong and well packed, will of
course carry the eggs safely they lack
the attractive appearance that is so
great an aid to prompt selling. Again
many of them have sides and tops of
such thin, flimsy stuff that they are not
at all substantial; these frequently get
broken and it is not at all uncommon to
receive them, after a long rail journey
and several handlings, with a third or
half of the side gone and the contents
exposed to damage from every trifling
accident. When eggs are selling at
mark the condition of the stock in re-
spect to breakage is doubly important
and buyers will turn down many a lot
that they might take when the terms of

sale are loss off.

It is well worth considering that any
defect in quality or condition that de-
tracts from the prompt selling of eggs
is especially damaging when values are
fluctuating frequently as is now the
case. Such defects have most effect in
retarding sales just at the time and un-
der the market conditions when pr.mpt
sale is most essential. 1n strong, active
and advancing markets buyers will over-
look defects, but when offerings are
large, trade quiet and the tendency
downward they have more to choose
from and become very fastidious, often
passing stock by for comparatively
slight faults. Of course it is at just such
times that a quick sale means much in
dollars and cents and is a good advan-
tage to a shipper if his eggs are so
good and packed so attractively as to
meet the preference of buyers whenever
the offerings are beyond the demand
and the unsalable surplus has to be car-
ried down to a lower level of prices.

pe ise ak

There is another point in packing
that many shippers overlook and which
is of considerable importance | refer
to the use of ‘‘flats’’ on the top and bot-
tom of the case, between the eggs and
the packing. These are quite impor-
tant—so much so that some time ago the
New York Mercantile Exchange egg
rules were made to compel their use in
all eggs to be passed as firsts. The
advantages of the flats are that they
tend to prevent breakage and make a
much more attractive appearance of the
goods when opened to show buyers.
When no flats are used, the excelsior or
other packing sifts down around the
eggs in the first layer, and this often
loosens the packing enough to permit
shifting of the contents, causing break-
age; then when the case is opened the
excelsior has to be removed inconven-
iently and the appearance of the top
layer is injured. With the flats the pres-
sure of the cover on the excelsior pack-
ing is constant and the eggs carry bet-
ter; then when the eggs are shown the
flat is lifted, removing all the packing
and leaving the top layer of eggs clean
and free from all foreign material. In
selecting material for the flats it is best
to use the reguiar cardboard; the ex-
pense is trifling and this material is the
most serviceable. Very heavy paper—
double thick—may answer the purpose
fairly well, but newspaper or other
flimsy paper is of no use.

 

Two weeks ago I ventured to express
the hope that we might soon see the last
of *‘loss off’’ egg selling in this market
and to suggest that this first year of the
new century would be an appropriate
time to relegate the old method to the
shelf where are preserved the obsolete
antiquities of the egg trade—such as re-
turnable cases, barrels and oat packing.
Last week I received a letter from
Goodwin & Jean, egg shippers, com-
mending my remarks and urging me to
‘‘keep at it,’’ also saying they were
‘‘with us’’ in every argument.

it is rather a singular fact that ten
out of ten egg shippers say they want
their eggs sold case count and about
eight out of ten receivers here also think
that is the best way to sell eggs at all
seasons, and _ yet the trade rules are not
made to enforce or encourage the re-
form. It seems to me a good deal like
a case of every one waiting for the other
fellow to make a move. However, rules
or no rules, case count selling is stead-
ily gaining ground and some of the
more progressive egg receivers here
have already adopted the method at all
seasons, with excellent satisfaction to
themselves, their customers and their
consignees. It is a little early yet, but
sometime this spring I hope to be able
to report the views of a large number of
local receivers on this question of sell-
ing eggs at mark at all times; 1 expect
to be able to show that a very large
number favor it. In the meantime |
should be glad to receive letters from
shippers on the subject and keep the

discussion alive.
* * *

Speaking of old customs of the egg
trade reminds me of an old egg shipper
out in Ohio who still packs his goods in
barrels. And, by the way, he offers an
example of constancy in business rela-
tions that might well be copied by
many a more vacillating contemporary.
This man made his first shipment of
eggs to the predecessor of the house
now handling his goods about thirty-five
years ago; it was the first shipment of
eggs received by that house, and he has
been shipping to the same place ever
since without as much asa single break.
Such permanence of business relations
is a rare thing in these days of compe-
tition and change, and it would be well
if there were more of the same kind.
don’t know why the man sticks to_ bar-
rels; I can commend him for sticking to
a first-class and well-tried commission
house, but it would be better if he would
cut his conservatism down a little below
the line of barrels. He knows how to
pack them all right—learned this lesson
years ago when everybody used barrels,
and has never forgotten it—but the
package is out-of-date and out of favor
now and makes his goods hard to sell
when there are many of them—too many
for the small outlet in which they can
be placed to advantage.—N. Y. Produce
Review.

—

—>>-—>____
A Beefless Beef Animal.

Feeders are asking each other inter-
esting questions since it has been
learned the Big Hooker, the grade Here-
ford and Shorthorn which was given the
first prize when shown alive in the fat
class for grades at the Chicago show,
and certainly had the appearance of be-
ing as fine a butchers’ bullock as one
would ever care to run across, was com-
pletely outclassed in the slaughter test.
In fact, Big Hooker was pronounced the
worst specimen of ‘‘fatty degeneration’’
that the judges had ever seen. The
‘“‘rib,’’ at the point where it was sev-
ered from the hindquarter, was seven

 

inches thick, and there was only a slight
‘““suggestion’’ of lean meat mixed with
that mass of tallow. The entire interior
of the carcass was lined with tallow,
and all of the organs of the body were
encased in huge globules of fat. What
little lean meat there was had a bright
red color, with none of the marbling
with faint streaks of fat, a quality which
is so highly prized by all good judges of
dressed beef.

Since the results of the ‘‘slaughter
test’? have been made public, many be-
ginners in live stock feeding have been
asking how the mistake made by the
feeder of ‘‘ Big Hooker’’ can be shunned
by other feeders who desire to produce
an ideal butchers’ bullock. Was it the
feed or the breed or the methods
adopted by the feeder? These questions
have not been satisfactorily answered,
and it is hardly probable that they ever
will be, but there are certain lessons
and foundation facts, bearing upon cat-
tle feeding, which were forcibly demon-
strated at the Chicago live stock show
that need not be overlooked by the most
inexperienced.

In the first place the old idea that cat-
tle should be kept lean until nearly two
years old, and then rushed to maturity
as rapidly as possible, by heavy stall
feeding of corn and other oleaginous
foods, is becoming obsolete. Feeders
have learned that the best beef is made
by beginning the fattening process when
the animal is a calf, and continuing un-
til it is ripe for market. The result of
feeding cattle in the old way, namely,
by overfeeding for a short period just
before marketing, is the bringing about
of a fevered condition of the system and
the piling up of the fatty tissues at the
expense of the lean meat until tke latter
literally fades away. On the contrary,
when the animal is fed well for the en-
tire period of its existence, the delicate
fatty tissue is mixed throughout the
lean meat, improving its quality, in-
stead of being deposited in huge glob-
ules of tallow in the cavities of the body
and around the vital organs.—H. H.
Mack in Butchers’ Advocate.

 

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Seed Growers and Merchants

We are always in the market to buy or sell Clover, Timothy, Alsyke, Beans,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Feb. 16—The general sit-
uation is probably about as satisfactory
as might be expected at this season.
There is no great activity and yet the
volume of business is a steady one and
dealers generally are likely to give fa-
vorable replies to questions as to the
state of trade. The situation in coffee
seems a trifle more favorable than last
week, owing to higher quotations cabled
from abroad, but actual business shows
not much improvement. Buyers are not
showing any anxiety to make purchases,
and Rio. No. 7 closes at 7@7%c. In
store and afloat the amount aggregates
985,207 bags, against 1,326,249 at the
same time last vear. Mild sorts have
been slow and neither jobbers nor roast-
ers show any interest in the situation.
Good Cucuta closes at 83,@oc. East
India sorts are seldom called for, but
quotations are firmly adhered to.

The volume of sugar business has
been slight, most of the transactions
consisting of withdrawals on outstand-
ing transactions. Prices for hards are
seemingly well sustained, some softs,
however, being shaded about 5 points.
Stocks of raw suyars are pretty full, as
a general thing, and prices are rather
unsteady.

There is a steady trade in tea and the
volume of actual business is quite sat-
isfactery. Prices, while not perceptibly
higher, are very firmly held and, as
time passes, sellers feel encouraged.
One thing is not quite to their liking,
and that is the very slow progress that
is being made in advancing the use of
tea in this country; in fact, we use less
and less and, unless something is done,
are likely to become a nation of tea-
totalers. Lots of money has been spent
in booming the Ceylon and_ India
grades, but the returns have not justi-
fied the outlay.

The rice business continues of moder-
ate proportions and sellers might be do-
ing more without overexertion. Still
prices are quite well sustained and, as
the season advances, a better tone is ob-
served all around.

Spices are about the dullest article on
the list. Orders coming to hand are for
the smallest assortments and the outlook
is not especially encouraging. There is
consolation in the thought that it might
be worse. Prices are practically with-
out change.

The colder weather has had a slightly
stimulating effect on the molasses mar-
ket and the week has been fairly satis-
factory, so far as sales of New Orleans
are concerned. Good to prime goods
are quotable at 17@26c. Foreign sorts
are quiet and unchanged.

The syrup market is firm. Offerings
are rather light and are taken up with
expedition. Good to prime, 18@22c.

The canned goods market is quiet.
There is very little interest as yet shown
in futures and indeed one would think
that neither buyer nor seller ever gave
a thought to the future. On corn and to-
matoes there is some pressure to sell.
New York and Maryland corn appear to
be on the same level, each selling at
521%4c. Tomatoes are worth 72}éc for
No. 3 New Jersey standards.

There is a better trade in prunes and,
while quotations are no higher, there is
a feeling that an advance may occur at
any time. Raisins are a little firmer.
Currants are dull and unchanged.

Lemons are in better request and the
situation all around shows improvement.
Quotations are slightly advanced and
dealers seem encouraged by the outlook.

The situation in the interior of the
State is one of blockade and the butter
market is advancing. This is likely to
last for a short time only and it will not

 

 

 

be safe to count on more than about 22
@23c for best creamery. There isa
good average demand and the market is
pretty closely sold up. Western imita-
tion creamery is worth 15@18c, the lat-
ter for fancy stock.

There is a steadily increasing firmness
in cheese and quotations are firmly
maintained. Stocks are becoming rap-
idly reduced and_ new goods will find
bare shelves when the season begins.
Large size, full cream is worth easily
12¢.

Eggs are firm. The snows have de-
layed transportation and the market has
taken a turn upward. Best Western are
worth 20@21c. The chances are against
high prices if moderate weather ensues,
but as far as can be seen the market all
of next week will rule strong.

a Oe
Wherein the Hen Shows Her Wisdom.

A fresh egg has the yolk perfectly
balanced in the middle of the white.
Uniess it remains thus balanced the
chances are decidedly against its hatch-
ing. Brooding hens understand that.
When filling the nest a hen turns over
all the eggs in it before she quits it
after laying a new one.

She knows, too, that in hot weather
the sun will addle her eggs, so she
chooses a shaddy nest-spot. But in win-
ter a nest is often made where the full-
est sunshine streams into it.

Brooding is throughout ful] of quaint
surprises. Eggs will hatch if kept at
blood heat—g8 degrees. But they hatch
more certainly and turn out stronger
chicks if the temperature is a degree or
so higher. Just how it is done nobody
knows, but mother hens some way con-
trive to raise the normal heat of their
bodies to the requisite pitch. Further,
they strip the whole breast of feathers,
so the eggs may have the benefit of full
heat. Twice a day they turn over every
egg in the nest, cuddling them separate-
ly up underneath their beaks, making
little soft half fretful chuckling noises
the while.

Hens are most uncalculating egg
stealers. All eggs in sight will be
drawn into the nest, although the stolen
eggs may crowd out those legitimately
there. Still, in a way, hens take stock
of what they brood. With few eggs
they sit prim, with trimly folded wings.
With too many they sprawl all over the
nest, wings loose enough to let light be-
tween the feathers and frequently turn
themselves about reaching for uncovered
eggs, and drawing them underneath the
breast.

A hen of average size can not profit-
ably cover more than fifteen eggs. In
cold weather thirteen is a better limit,
although in midsummer the same hen
might brood and hatch twenty. Left to
themselves the unchecked instinct of
egg-stealing with hens is apt to result
in a nest full of spoiled eggs, with may-
be one or two feeble chicks.

Twenty-four hours of brooding makes
hardly a perceptible change in an egg.
Sometimes in warm weather, there is
the least reddish tinge beside the whit-
ish clot, in which the germ lies. After
thirty-six hours the clot shows a well
defined drop of very red blood. In two
days the blood-drop has spread to veins
and arteries. At the end of ten days
the head is fairly well formed although
the trunk is still ragged. In two weeks
the chick is recognizable as a chick,
and if the shell envelope is broken will
quiver all through, and feebly move the
head. It has, however, no vestiges of
the fine downy coat it will wear a little
later. The coat forms rather rapidly.

The period of incubation for a
chicken is twenty-one days, and for two
days before leaving the shell the young
fowl is practically perfect. Yet it would
not live were the shell forcibly re-
moved. It spends the last two days
gathering vital force to make its own
way out into the world. It lies snug

 

within the shell, the head bent upon
the breast in such a position as brings
the beak full against the shell.

The beak is armed with a tiny de-
tachable piece of horn, flint-hard, and
set upon the very tip of the upper
mandible. At full hatching time the
chick presses this triangle against the
brittle shell, and breaks a triangular
hole in it, possibly a quarter inch
across. An hour later the chick, having
turned itself slightly, presses the beak
against a new spot and makes a fresh
break. As more air comes in the little
creature grows stronger. It writhes
still more strongly in its prison, turning
always from left to right. In two hours
or ten it breaks the shell in two, and
slips out into the nest, a wet and weary
sprawler.

Egg production varies enormously. A
hen’s capacity is about four hundred
eggs, divided pretty equally through
the first three years of her existence.

—_—__—»0.—__

The rolling stone reaches the foot of

the hill in due time.
a

Wise is he who has a cage ready

the bird in hand.

for

 

French Wine Crop Enormous.

The French production of wine in the
year 1900 was something enormous. It
reached the total of 1,721,000,000 gal-
lons, a yield that has only been ex-
ceeded three times in the past century,
and never in any preceding century.
The promise of a large yield was so
great in August that sales were made at
less than 1 cent a quart. There were
quotations of $1 a barrel, the purchaser
furnishing the barrel. From $1.54 to
$3.96 per barrel of 110 quarts of very
fine wine have been the ruling quota-
tons for the year. The high brands are
unusually rich, and prices are low,
ranging from $50 to $150 per barrel, of
about 240 quarts. Wine is now pro-
duced more cheaply in California than
in France. Efforts to introduce French
wine in Japan have all been ineffectual
on account of California competition,
the Japanese declaring that they can buy
wine cheaper and of as good a quality
in San Francisco as in France.

—____-~>2<———___—_

If a man could only make his wife
sweet the way he can his pipe, by hold-
ing her in milk,the world would be a lot
happier.

 

 

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Manufacturers of

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24

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Clerks’ Corner.

“Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth.”
Written for the Tradesman.

The longer Carl Hustleton stayed in
the Springborough store the more its
customers were drawn to him. He had
long been put down as ‘‘a likely look-
ing feller’? and the comeliest girls in
the big circle uf which Springborough
was the trading center always looked
their prettiest, for some reason or other,
whenever they came to the store. It
was noticeable, too, that when the
daughter and the clerk became interested
in the goods under discussion the
mother would be busy with Old Man
Means on the grocery side of the estab-
lishment. Another point which the
storekeeper began to notice with little
less than fiendish glee as the forerunner
of considerable future fun was the fact
that the mother of the largest number of
daughters always left the store with an
earnest hope that the clerk would find
time *‘to come over some evening.’’

This feature did not stop with ‘‘the
women folls.’’ The old men began to
find something attractive in the young
and by no mean ugly face and even the
crabbedest of them took pleasure in un-
bending a little when they came in con-
tact with the kindhearted, obliging and
quickwitted Carl. Fora while after it
was known that ‘‘that Hustleton boy’’
was in the store there was a general
‘*Well, well!’’ followed by some _ pro-
found guesses that the storekeeper
wouldn’t be bothered a great while with
‘‘that rubbish’’ and, with the patience
common to rural communities, they
bided their time for the inevitable ‘‘]
told you so,’’ one old he-mischiefmaker
going so far as to corral] the storekeeper
in the corner by the desk to put him on
his guard. The outcome was worth
seeing. It happened after the store-
keeper had made up his mind that the
boy was one after his own heart and
when old Fitch, whom the storekeeper
heartily hated anyway, came ‘‘meech-
in’’’ behind the counter—a familiarity
the proprietor rarely excused—and
bringing with him a strong reminder of
the stable, Old Man Means, with a fire
in his black eyes that for once in his life
was a credit to him, turned from the
books he was posting and without a
word looked straight into the slanderer’s
watery old eyes. Having delivered him-
self of his warning, he looked into the
storekeeper’s face to notice the effect of
his words. One giance was enough and,
like a kicked cur, he turned and wasted
no time in getting on his own side of
the counter.

‘‘] thought it no more’n right to put
ye on y’r guard.’’ He coughed, but
the storekeeper responded never a word
and he was never troubled again with
meddling of that sort from that quarter.

The rest of the community fathers,
after it was easy to see that the boy was
‘‘his motner all over,’’ took to giving
young Carl advice. Each had his pet
idea about getting on in the world and
each took the upportunity to drive home
that idea every time he came to the
store. Of course, no two ideas were
alike and, of course, each believed his
the only one worth anything and insisted
with all the zeal of the recommender of
a pet medicine that his was the only
idea worth the following.

Midwinter had come and for a week
the abundant snow had been packed on
the remotest country road into as smooth
sleighing as the most exacting could ask
for. Asa result everybody was taking

 

 

 

advantage of it and the store was the
center of attraction for ‘‘all the country
‘round.’’ That Wednesday had started
in clear and cold and by nine o'clock
the streets of Springborough began to be
merry with ‘‘the tintinnabulation of
the bells.’’ The people came from all
points of the compass and the store _be-
came the general clearing house for all
the news and the gossip that had been

gathering for this general exchange
within a radius of from ten to twenty
miles. Proprietor and clerk were busy,

but Carl, anticipating the rush, had got
ready for it by putting up in packages
such groceries in such weights as he
knew would be called for, so that the
two kept abreast of the customers and
were at no time unequal to the demands
made upon them.

Busy as he was, it was a delight to
Old Man Means to see how Carl had
improved in his handling of customers.
Once while hands and feet were busy
he found nothing to say to the custom-
ers as he served them and they might
have been so many dummies so far as
he was concerned; but now his tongue
was as nimble as his fingers and he
knew what to say to each as he ap-
proached and served them. Here a ma-
tron greeted him with hearty handshake
and she went away rested and strength-
ened because he had ‘‘listened to her
tale of woe’’ and sent with a word of
cheer some trifle for the child at home.
Now he was cracking the liveliest of
jokes with another, who left him affirm-
ing that ‘‘if anybody got ahead of him
they'd hev ter git up airly ’n the mawn-
in’.’’ Here a country belle would linger
patiently until her turn came to be
waited on and then there were lively
times when the two were the center of a
circle of spectacled and unspectacled
eyes, all frowning if the rural beauty
undertook to ‘‘make a fool of herself
over that Carl Hustleton,’’ or, what was
far worse, ‘‘dawdled’’ and took up time
which belonged to them. These, how-
ever, had little to complain of. Carl
had no favorites in business hours and
more than one pretty country girl ‘‘got
ber dinner trod on’’ when she under-
took to monopolize the clerk’s time and
attention. It was “‘just his way,’’ but
it was no uncommon thing for him to
turn from the ‘‘airy, fairy Lilian’’ to
plain, overworked Mrs. Brown and with
all the interest of a devoted son become
at once as absorbed in her wants as if the
prosperity of the establishment de-
pended upon her being satisfied.

All this was natural enough. The
comely Carl was pleasant to look at and
his kind heart had to show itself from
the handsome face. Women, old and
young, are attracted by these things;
men, if we are to believe them, never.
For all that, not a farmer left the
Springborough store without having a
word with the boy, and always a cheery
one. Carl’s daily tilt with Old Man
Means made him an adept at repartee
and, young as he was, he had found out
it was policy to let this conceited old
man and that one get the better of him
occasionally. It had resulted in making
him a favorite with them all and they
all made it a point in some way to leave
with him a token of good will whenever
they came to the store. That Wednes-
day, as if it had been a preconcerted
plan, they left him with considerable
condensed wisdom in the form of ad-
vice. Even old Fitch managed to carom
at that point of the counter where Car]
was waiting on Mahala Gray and mum-
ble an old saw that had neither point,
meaning nor application, so that by

 

sundown, after the departure of the last
customer, the boy sat down in the arm
chair by the stove and forthwith freed
his mind.

‘*Am | a fool or what, Old Man?’’

‘*M—er—you don't think you'd bet-
ter change your ‘or’ to ‘and,’ do you?’’

‘*Because,’’ he continued, not notic-
ing, ‘‘every old hayseed that has been
here to-day has been shoveling a bushel
of advice into me. I’m chockful and
the first thing I see in this blamed
morning paper is what that multi-mil-
lionaire says is the mainspring of suc-
cess—what’s his name that died a week
or two ago. I don’t know that you have
noticed it, but every old duffer who has
made his pile during the past quarter of
a century is rushing into print with
his ‘mainspring of success.’ One would
think, to hear ’em talk, that that par-
ticular ‘mainspring’ never had _ been
thought of before. This one pins his
faith to ‘industry,’ that one to ‘ perse-
verance’ and another to ‘keeping up _ to
date.’ They are all wrong, every blamed
one of ’em. Out of a dozen ‘main-
springs’ I’ve had given me to day that
will lead to success just as sure as
you'’re—what are you grinning at?’’

‘*I was wondering whether Deacon
White’s mainspring is trying to cheat
in measure or selling bad eggs.’’

‘*You’re way off. ‘No man,’ he says,
‘will ever make a go of it unless he
likes to pick stones.’ Willetts says, ‘A
boy that likes to turn a grindstone is
the only chap that amounts to any-
thing,’ and Daddy Gray—Mahala’s
father—pins his faith to the boy who
‘kin pick up taters all day and dance
all night an’ home with the gals in the
mornin,’! You pays your money and
you takes your choice. What rot it all

 

is. They mean well enough and one
doesn’t know that the rest have been
telling me how to succeed in life; as it
is, I’ve been getting altogether too
much of a good thing.’’

‘*Well, it gives you a chance to take
your pick.’”’

‘‘No, it doesn’t. I ain’t Deacon
White, nor Old Man Willetts, nora mil-
lionaire. If I’m to bea success I’ve
got to be it in just my own way. |
won't pick stones, and I won’t turn a
grindstone ; and I’ve about made up my
mind that if I try for a thing and don't
get it, all I’ve got todo isto work twice
or three times as hard as | have been
working and to keep at it until 1 do get
it. This ‘ought’ business makes me
tired and these ‘mainsprings’ ‘ll be the
death 0’ me. A feller’s got to fight his
own battle his own way and the minute
he tries to down the commercial! Goliath
in Saul’s armor he’ll find out his mis-
take. David had wit enough to hang
onto his sling, and I’ve wit enough to
cling to mine. Guess it’s ’bout time to
go to supper.”’

Richard Malcolm Strong.

—_———__ —~<_> -. =.
The Trinity of the Grocery Trade.
From the American Grocer.

Debt, Disorder and Dirt form the
Trinity which thousands of grocers be-
iieve in as the power to lead them to
success. They may deceive themselves,
but not the public.

Debt disarms the dealer; robs him of
opportunity ; discourages; drives away
his debtors.

Dirt destroys the stock; disgusts pa-
trons; disfigures the store; demoralizes
the force.

Disorder is a sin against patrons; a
fertile source of expense; fatal to the
establishment of confidence; causes a
loss of time; makes trouble; drags the
storekeeper into a whirlpool of perplex-
ities.

 

 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Manufacturers of

Fine Candies and Chocolates

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Bon Bons, Kolanuts, etc.
A. A. Victoria Chocolates

Second to none.

Call and inspect our line and establishment when in the city.

B. W. PUTNAM, President

R. R. BEAN, Secretary

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Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids; Sec-
retary, A. W. Stitt, Jackson; easurer,

JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association

President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, GEo. W. Hi, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Counselor, J. E. MooREr, Jackson;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;
Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEsT, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. ¢. T.

Senior Counselor, JOHN G. KOLB; 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.

 

 

The Gripsack vs. the Pencil.
Written for the Tradesman.

There is war in the air and blood on
the moon. The man with the gun has
come down from the mountains in
Meeker with a dozen of mountain lion
pelts as proof of his prowess and the
man with the gripsack, with the re-
porter’s list in his hand of slaughtered
lions and panthers and wildcats slain
by hundreds, is looking sternly into the
reporter’s face and as sternly calls him
of the lead pencil to account for the dis-
crepancy between the actual fact and
the shameless fancy. Not that free scope
should not be given in telling a stirring
tale, not that the vice-president elect
should not be the vaunted hero, not that
furbelows and frills are not to be in-
dulged in ‘‘to point a moral and adorn
a tale,’’ but that he of the lead pencil
should dare to rush into the realm of
the gripsack ‘‘where angels fear to
tread’’ is not for a moment to be _toier-
ated.

For years it has been tacitly under-
stood that the traveling man’s ‘‘terri-
tory’’ and the ‘‘land of yarns’’ are syn-
onymous terms with limits clearly de-
fined. Other professions, other  call-
ings, have so far assented to this that,
until now, not even the yarnland has
been trespassed upon. Acknowledging
that the whole ground is taken up, and
well taken up, that the gripsack has
honeycombed its domain and labeled
every corner of it, and that not the re-
motest district fails to report promptly
the latest novelty from the land of lies,
the world at large has turned to other
fields where there is at least some prom-
ise of success; and now, with a shock
that jars the continent, the sneaking re-
porter stands abashed at the bar of pub-
lic opinion and sheepishly gnaws his
ignominious lead pencil for its unpro-
fessional labor.

There is not a traveling man in the
country that has not felt the outrage and
protested, the only fact furnishing the
least consolation being the clumsiness of
the pencil that from the first has ex-
posed the imposter. It is a conceded
fact that lying is a consummate art.
There are lies and lies and in yarnland
that is only a worthy lie whose founda-
tion is as shadowy as the brain-fabric
which rests upon it. When, then, the
man with the gun was made the basis
of the closely-following brain work, it
became second-class fabrication from
the start and so contemptible, and every
1,200 and 1,500 pound mountain monster
that helped to heap up the huge pile of
vice-president-elect-shot game only af-
firmed the work of the amateur ina
field with which he is wholly unac-
quainted.

The workman in this field of narra-

_ tive who is obliged to cut his garment

 

according to his cloth is a bungler. The
master workman cuts only from the
whole piece, even the piece being wholly
of home manufacture. The whole is his.
He made even the seed, which, planted
in luxuriant soil, sprouted, flourished,
bloomed and matured into fiber which
by the lightning processes of his brain
was as quickly spun, woven, fashioned
into pleasing garments and nonchalantly
tossed to an eager and admiring world.
When, then, the novice announced that
the ex-governor of the Empire State had
gone to the mountains with his gun
what followed from his pencil conformed
exactly to what had heen anticipated,
even to the falling considerably short of
what the reading public had a perfect
right to expect. It is a failure from
every point of view and it remains for
the man with the gripsack to decide
whether the man with the lead pencil
shall be allowed to invade with im-
punity a territory whose possibilities he
has failed so thoroughly to appreciate
and to make the most of.

From present appearances it looks
much as if there is to be a strenuous
turndown. Incompetency in any line of
life is disastrous and it is not to be ex-
pected that in a business of this nature,
where only the most skillful expert is
allowed to operate, the average will for
a moment be tolerated. Had the pencil-
driver shown himself equal to the masti-
cation of the huge piece that he had bit-
ten off, he might have received consid-
eration and encouragement from the ac-
knowledged owners of the grounds up-
on which he was poaching, but with his
botchy workmanship to testify against
him there is little doubt as to the result.
The utter ignorance of the very prin-
ciples of his coveted art is against him
and the verdict in this trial of the grip-
sack vs. the pencil will without doubt
be in favor of the plaintiff.

Se. ee
Fed Them on Sawdust.

As a general rule in walking into sup-
per at a certain hotel in Allegan county,
the first thing the waiter will ask is,
‘*How will you have your eggs?’’ It is
a noted fact that many of the traveling
fraternity after going up against this
particular hotel a year or two, will feel
a delicacy in looking a chicken in the
face. The sequel is simply this and
nothing more. Chickens are cheap in
the country around about, corn is_ ever-
lastingly dear, 40 cents a bushel,and this
particular hotel proprietor has an eye
to business and studied up a_ new
scheme.

He purchased a few bushels of corn
for his chicks, but they devoured so
much he imagined he saw his finish. He
therefore bought a barrel of sawdust and
each and every morning and night
mixed with the corn a small supply of
his pine board -sawdust. The scheme
worked and noticing that the ‘‘chicks’’
failed to catch on, increased the dose.
To supply the demand he started to rais-
ing chickens on a cheap scale, and hav-
ing an old setting hen among the other
old stagers, put twelve eggs under her.
In the course of three weeks the little
chickens came out, and, lo, and behold!
eleven of them had wooden legs and the
other was a woodpecker.

—___> 2 .—____

Geo. W. Stowitts, until recently with
the Tower clothing house, has engaged
to cover this State for Charles N. Stev-
enson & Co., manufacturers of suspend-
ers at Indianapolis. He expects to visit
his trade every 60 days.

The larger a man's salary is the larger
the increase he thinks he is entitied to.

 

The Grain Market.

Wheat held its own during the week.
Exports from the United States were of
the usual amount—over 4,000,000 bush-
els. Our exports on this crop year
were 124,000,000 bushels, against 127, -
000,000 bushels at the corresponding
time last year. The visible showed a
decrease of 612,000 bushels, or about the
same as last year, leaving the visible
at 57,682,000 bushels. There was con-
siderable wheat offered, but all was
taken without depressing prices. Ordi-
narily, the news from outside might be
construed as bearish, while receipts at
Western initial points were of a bullish
nature. Receipts at Duluth were only
six cars, where they usually are 200 cars
at this time of the year. In Minneapo-
lis receipts are falling off. The wheat
comes in from country elevators, as_re-
ceipts from farmers are the smallest
they have been in years. When seed-
ing time comes for spring wheat con-
siderable wheat will have to be shipped
into the interior. Winter wheat, owing
to the good roads, is being offered a lit-
tle more freely, but nowhere near as
freely as in years past. Receipts will
be greatly curtailed when the roads
break up. We still claim that the in-
visible amount is smaller than any year
since 1876.

May corn is still booming. The vis-
ible made another increase of about
1,000,000 bushels, which had the effect
to depress May corn from 413(c to 40%c
in Chicago, Still more contract corn
will have to come out to reduce present
quotations,

Oats did not change any in the visible
and a strong feeling prevailed. No. 1
white gained %c, while No. 2 remained
the same as last week. There seems to
be plenty of oats, but farmers are hold-
ing and selling only sparingly, which
accounts for the present top prices.

In rye, there is not much doing. It
looks as if this cereal would go still
lower, as the demand is very small,
while it is held by dealers for higher
prices.

Flour is holding its own. Local trade
is fair, so is domestic. Foreign bids
are still below value, so they can not be
accepted.

Mill feed is in good demand. Prices
are 5oc per ton higher on bran and
middlings are the same as last week.

Receipts for the week were: wheat,
59 cars; corn, 34 Cars; oats, 7 cars;
flour, 4 cars; rye, 3 cars; hay, 2 cars;
straw, 2 cars; potatoes, 5 cars.

C. G. A. Voigt.
—__~>_6

Turned Down an Advertising Scheme.

Port Huron, Feb. t9—At the last
meeting of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers’ Association, a communication
was received from Dr. H.R. Mills,
setting forth that he was about to begin
the publication of a health journal. He
asked permission to canvass for adver-
tising among merchants of the city.

Phil. Eichhorn moved that the com-
munication be laid on the table.

W. D. Brown championed the cause
of the health journal. He wanted to
see Editor Mills meet with a hearty
support. Mr. Brown did not consider
it program advertising and believed it
would be a good thing for Port Huron.

Chairman Post spoke a good word for
Editor Mills and his journal. He con-
sidered it a long felt want.

Phil. Eichhorn said there wasn’t a
day but what some scheme was pre-
sented to the business men. If Dr.
Mills’ health journal was maintained
the business men would have to pay the
freight.

W. D. Brown still wanted the Asso-
ciation to endorse Mr. Mills’ project.

Lew McArthur thought the health
officer might better take care of other

 

matters which really needed his atten-
tion, rather than publishing a maga-
zine.

W. D. Smith said the Association
had been buncoed on a former occasion.
He said Dr. Mills received $1,000 a
year from the city, If he wanted to
publish a magazine let him pay the
bills.

L. 8B. Rice said the Merchants and
Manufacturers’ Association was made
up of 300 members. Some of them were
unable to say no. He suggested that
they have some of their clerks answer
for them. He finaily concluded by say-
ing that W. D. Smith had_ publicly
stated before the Association that when
a woman entered his store with butter
for sale he was unable to say no.

Mr. Smith denied the statement, and
said he allowed no man to misrepresent
him.

At this point W. D. Brown announced
that he was the man who made the re-
mark.

Mr. Rice apologized.

Dr. Mills’ proposition was
down, it receiving only one vote.

The plan of the Hygiene Milling Co.
in distributing its goods was approved.

W. D. Brown said in ten days fifty
people had visited his store to sell
tickets for entertainments. He _ consid-
ered the ticket selling business a nuis-
ance.

Geo. Parker said it cost him more for
tickets than it ever did for advertising.

W Brown wanted to. discuss
“ticket selling’’ at the next meeting.
He advised the Association to go on
record as opposing the purchase of tick-
ets from Tom, Dick and Harry.

No action was taken on Mr. Brown’s
suggestion.

L. B. Rice wanted a railroad to Bay
City, to see the beaches developed, and
a railroad on River street.

The meeting then adjourned.

8

turned

Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market has taken a turn for
the better. Prices fell off below normal
conditions, with an uncertainty as to
where they would stop. The demand
was equal to the supply, which has kept
the market well cleaned up. Future
delivery order sales have been filled and
old prices are refused, while bids are
4c higher, with light offerings at even
higher prices.

Pelts are quiet, with holders firm at
prices above what the market warrants.
A few transactions are made at a com-
promised price, but this gives no kick
to the trade.

Furs are in good demand, but few are
offered. The catch is light and some
kinds are poor in quality. No change
is looked for.

Tallow is quiet, with offerings fully
up to the demand. Prices tend lower.

Wools do not change. There is more
selling at Eastern points, but in small
quantities. Prices appear to be at bot-
tom, which is much below previous cost
to present holders. The new clip is
near at hand, with fat sheep wool being
clipped. There is nothing to indicate
higher values for the future. Manufac-
turers have but little in their lofts, while
buyers are carrying stock. Purchases
are made for immediate wants to fill
orders on hand. The trade for the past
year has been a disappointment all

around and the future is uncertain.
Wm. T. Hess.

Sanitarium
Morphine & Liquor Habits

A Specialty. Morphine habit cured without sick-
ness or suffering. Liquor habit cured with only
one week detention from business; mild cases none.

 

 

 

 

Booklet free, giving particulars. Citizens Phone 1291.

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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires

 

 

L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY IM, Ww - - Dee. 31, 1902
Wrkrt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 194
JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905

President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Secretary, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P. Doty, Detroit.

 

Examination Sessions.
Grand Rapids, March 5 and 6.
Star Island, June 17 and 18.
Sault Ste. Marie, August 28 and 29.
Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

Mich. State Pharmaceuticai Association.
President—CHas. F. MANN, Detroit.
Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit
Treasurer—W. K. SCHMIDT, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Gold and Alkaloid Mixtures.

The combination of gold and sodium
chloride with strychnine, atropine or
other alkaloid is one which is familiar
to all. In aqueous or weak alcoholic
mixture the alkaloid is precipitated in
combination with the gold. If the mix-
ture contains as much as 50 per cent.
alcohol there will be but little precipi-
tation. However, the addition of that
much alcohol is not always allowable.
By dissolving the gold and sodium
chloride in water and adding a weight
of sodium thiosulphate equal to twice
that of the gold and sodium chloride a
compound is formed that does not pre-
cipitate for some time when added to a
solution of the alkaloidal salt. The
length of time before precipitation oc-
curs depends largely on the strength of
the solution and per cent. of alcohol
that may be present. One-fourth of a
grain of strychnine sulphate with one-
fourth of a grain of gold and sodium
chloride and four drachms of water does
not precipitate within a week, but using
one-half that amount of water a precipi-
tate begins to form within a day. So-
dium thiosulphate may precipitate the
alkaloid if mixed with an ordinary so-
lution of quinine sulphate.

Syrup of Hypophosphites with Tinc-
ture of Iron.—Physicians sometimes
write prescriptions calling for syrup of
hypophosphites or some other form of
hypophosphites with tincture chloride
of iron, and the result is that ferric
hypophospbite is precipitated. If there
is enough of phosphoric acid present to
convert the iron into the phosphate pre-
cipitation may not take place. There
are cases, however, where phosphoric
acid is not directed and the use of the
National Formulary tincture of citro-
chloride of iron may be used in place
of the official tincture of iron, and
thereby prevent precipitation. The N.
F. tincture contains sodium citrate and
an aqueous solution of an alkali citrate
is a solvent for ferric hypophosphite.

Cocaine Muriate and Silver Nitrate
Incompatible.—When solutions of co-
caine hydrochloride and silver nitrate
are mixed silver chloride is precipi-
tated. If cocaine nitrate is used no
trouble results. Many pharmacists do
not keep cocaine nitrate, only the hy-
drochloride. The nitrate can be read-
ily made from the hydrochloride by dis-
solving the required cocaine hydrochlor-
ide in water and adding one-half as
much silver nitrate as cocaine salt used.
The silver chloride thus formed is to be
filtered out, and the required amount of
silver nitrate is then added to the solu-
tion of cocaine nitrate.

Resinous Tinctures in Aqueous Solu-
tions.—It is not uncommon to get a pre-
scription calling for tincture of myrrh,
potassium chlorate, glycerin and water.
In mixing these, the resin of the myrrh
is precipitated and generally forms

 

masses that stick to the bottle or that
can not be evenly divided. By adding
the tincture in small portions and _ with
much shaking to the other ingredients
the trouble is remedied to some extent.
Where it is admissible the use of honey
in place of glycerin makes a much bet-
ter mixture. The resin is precipitated,
but in much finer form, and can be
readily disseminated through the liquid
by agitating.

An Interesting Iodine Mixture.—A
prescription calling for corrosive subli-
mate, oil of turpentine, iodine and al-
cohol was of some interest on account
of the color of the iodine being de-
stroyed. On mixing the solution of
mercury in turpentine with the solution
of iodine in alcohol a turbid, nearly
colorless mixture was formed, which
separated into two layers, the upper be-
ing about one-third the value of the
lower one. The upper consisted chiefly
of oil of turpentine with some mercury
salt perhaps, the lower one was alcohol
with some turpentine and mercuric
iodide. Leaving out either the turpen-
tine or the corrosive sublimate, the
iodine was not all reduced. The tur-
pentine is the chief factor in reducing
the iodine. The mercuric chloride per-
haps acts as a carrier or acts by break-
ing up the compound which iodine
forms with the oil, thereby allowing the
oil to take up more iodine.

Dispensing Hygroscopic Salts in
Capsules.—Capsules containing sodium
bromide, camphor, caffeine citrate,
antipyrin and tincture of aconite were
dispensed. The next day the patient
brought back the box,in which the cap-
sules had liquefied.

The chief trouble here was due to the
sodium bromide being hygroscopic. It
had absorbed enough water to liquefy
or make a mass with the other ingre-
dients and the capsules. The prescrip-
tion was later dispensed by using con-
siderable drying powder and sending
the capsules in a bottle.

The Reaction between Spirit Ether
Nit. and Uva Ursi.—In the diuretic
prescription containing spirit of nitrous
ether, fluid extract of buchu, fluid ex-
tract of uva ursi, potassium acetate and
water there is the well known efferves-
cence. This has been ascribed to the
decomposition which results when spirit
of nitrous ether and tannin in some
form, as in the fluid extracts,are mixed.
The effervescence is not due entirely .to
this. Spirit of nitrous ether and an
aqueous solution of potassium acetate
produce the evolution of considerable
gas. One writer says that nitrous acid
with acetic acid forms carbon dioxide,
carbon monoxide, and other gases. In
the dilute solution of spirit of nitrous
ether and aqueous solution of potassium
acetate this reaction is hardly likely.
It has been suggested that the potas-
sium acetate acts mechanically, throw-
ing the ethyl] nitrite out of solution, and
that the volatilization of the ethy] nitrite
is the cause of the effervescence. This
theory has some plausibility, since a
solution of potassium nitrate, sodium
chloride or Rochelle salt has about the
same effect. Edsel A. Ruddiman.

—»>22._
Tobacco as Insecticide.

For plant parasites, including lice, the
French Journal Official recommends,
as translated substantially, to one part
of water a hundredth each of rich tobac-
co juice and of wood spirit. To the
quart add 2 grammes of sodium car-
bonate, and to of ‘‘black soap, ’’—the
latter to make the application adhere.
The alcohol aids the effect on certain
parasites.

 

Pertinent Hints Relative to Laboratory
Practice.

**This is of no use,’’ said the appren-
tice as he was stopped in the act of
throwing a half gallon glass _percolator
into the dirt box.

The neck of this percolator was brok-
en off within an inch of the body of the
vessel, and with such a ragged fracture
that it would be impossible to insert a
cork stopper into the neck, but the
thought that it might still be of some
use set me to contriving. I decided to
make a ‘‘bottle filling apparatus’’ from
it, but in order to do this needed a per-
fect opening for a perforated cork.

This is how I did it: I filled a small
tin can with cotton seed oil, heated the
top of a retort stand—this being the
only iron rod I possessed—to a red
heat; then placing the broken neck of
the percolator down into the oil just to
the place where I wished it to be cut
off, I plunged the hot rod down inside
the percolator and into the oil and cut
or cracked off the broken neck as
smoothly and quickly as can be imag-
ined. Afterwards I filed off the sharp
edges, and in this new and perfect open-
ing fitted a perforated cork, containing
a glass tube to which was attached a
suitable piece of rubber tubing. To
stop the flow of the liquid when needed,
I put on a pinch-cock, borrowed from a
fountain syringe. Thus I got out of
an old and otherwise worthless percola-
tor a most convenient and rapid bottle-
filling apparatus.

As this process of cutting off bottles,
etc., may be new to some reader, J will
say that should you wish to cut off the
top of a bottle, the neck of a funnel, or
any other glass utensil, it can be done
quickly and neatly by this process.
Pour into the bottle, tumbler or flask
that you wish cut off, enough cotton
seed oil or any other fixed oil, so that
it will reach the exact place where the
fracture is desired, then heat an iron
rod to red heat and plunge it into the
oil, when the temperature is raised so
suddenly that the cold glass at the point
of contact can not stand this sudden ex-
pansion, and so with a snap; cracks off
clean and smooth and better than it
could be cut with a file and much
quicker.

Glass tubes may be cut off this way
by immersing the tube the desired
depth in the oil, and then plunging the
hot iron down inside the tube, if it is
large enough to admit the rod, otherwise,
directly into the oil, when the fracture
will occur.

I had been using a good-sized Sohxlet
one day, when seeing the store bicycle
pump handy, it occurred to me that here
was a means of obtaining pressure for
forcing out the balance of the mens-
truum. I connected the tube of the pump
with another rubber tube, and _ then
slipped the end over the condenser and,
by careful pumping, quickly forced ott
the menstruum by the air pressure.
From this idea, I made tightly fitting
covers for a percolator with a valve in
the center, to which is screwed the
nipple of the pump, and now when I
am percolating and the pressure is not
sufficient, I pump in a little air, thus
increasing the pressure and the process
proceeds nicely. This is especially con-
venient when nearing the end of perco-
lating a drug, where the pressure is not
great enough to force out the mens-
truum, and it saves the extra amount
usually employed in making up the vol-
ume.

One day I used this same pump for
quickly and perfectly drying out a bottle

 

that I was in a hurry to use. I first
rinsed it out with alcohol, then put the
pump tube into the bottle, when I
pumped in fresh and dry air which, of
course, forced out the moist air and in
a few seconds | had a perfectly dry bot-
tle. Since then I have used this scheme
several times and it works well. Of
course, this is not a practical way of
drying bottles on a large scale with one
pump, but when a dry bottle is wanted
this process does the work quicker than
any other that I know of, and even re-
cently washed bottles without alcohol
rinsing can be very quickly dried.
F. N. Strickland.

—___-4-e____

The Drug Market.

Opium—Is quiet and easy at
changed prices,

Morphine—Is in good demand at the
late advance.

Quinine—Is steady in price and in
active demand.

Citric Acid—Is in a very firm posi-
tion, on account of higher prices for
crude material abroad. An advance is
looked for.

Caffeine—Stocks are small
price firm,

Haarlem Oil—Stocks are concentrated
and prices very firm. Higher prices will
probably rule.

Hypophosphites—Are weak at the de-
cline.

Menthol—Has advanced 25c_ per
pound, owing to the scarcity. There is
little coming forward and higher prices
will rule for some time.

Strychnine—Owing to competition
among manufacturers, it has been re-
duced 25c per ounce.

Balsam Copaiba—Is very firm at the
last advance and is tending higher.

Balsam Tolu—Continues to advance.

Oil Sassafras—Has declined, on ac-
count of small demand and increase in
stocks.

Oils Lemon and _ Bergamot—Rule
strong and are advancing.

American Saffron—There is very lit-
tle to be had and prices have advanced.
Some holders ask doubie what others do.

Buchu Leaves— Have declined, on ac-
count of small demand.

Ipecac Root—Stocks are small and
prices have again advanced.

Cut Marshmallow Root—Shipments of
new crop have arrived and prices are
lower.

Cumin Seed—Stocks are small, both
here and abroad, and prices are very
firm.

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Special Sized
Window Shades

Send us your orders—We’re headquar-
ters. Do you carry our samples? If
not, write and we will send.

Heystek & Canfield Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
DYSPEPSIA

KAOKOLG ose

Manufactured by -
THE P. L. ABBEY CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.
Your orders solicited.

FISHING TACKLE

We carry avery complete stock and make
the right prices. Wait for travelers or
write

 

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Wholesale Drugs and Stationery

 

 

 

 

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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

 

Advanced—Balsam Tolu, Opium, Menthal, Saffron.
Declined—Buchu Leaves, Oil Sassafras, SIrychnia.

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

   

   
 

 

 
   

  

 

oT } —- Mines sc. = 60 — Co... @ 50
cum ..... 6@$ 8/| Copaiba..... -- 1 15@ 1 25| Tolutan..... oes @ 50
eras ane 70@ 75 Cubebse ee -- 1 20@ 1 25| Prunus virg......... @ 50
Boracic...........-+- @ a . . : —— : = Tinctures
Carbolicum . veseseees 30@ ‘3 Gaultheria 27.7. 1 88@ 1 90 | Aconitum Napellis R 60
H yaroohior. 202.2 = 5 | Gerantum, ounce.. @ 7% apnea Napellis F =
Nitrocum .. - 0} Boaeippil, Sem. eae ’ = : Aloes and Myrrh... 60
ee oes 1 Junipera .. ..eeee. 1 50@ 2 00 BO ecco ewes 50
a ss 3 bo | Lavendula ....... 90@ 2 00 | Assafoetida.......... 50
a furicum rs 1Kx@ 5 Limonis . 1 50@ 1 60 Atrope Belladonna.. 60
5 — verssttt HE® | 99 | Mentha Piper...... 1 40@ 2 00 — Cortex...... 50
Tartaricum . 38@ 40| Mentha Verid.. 1 50@ 1 60 | Benzoin............. 60
Morrhue, ‘gal. . i 20@ 1 25 Benzoin Co.......... 50
Asameenin Myreia a 4 00@ 4 50 Barosma............. 50
Aqua, 16 deg.......-- Mm 6 Owe 75@ 3 00 aoe teeee eee 75
‘Aqua, 20 deg......... 6@ 8| Picls Liquida........ -_— 2 50
Garbonas..........-- 13@ 15] Picis Liquida, ‘al. @ 35 pss amon........... 75
Chloridum........... 12@ 14| Ricina.. .. 1.00@ 1 0g | Cardamon Co........ 75
Aniline Rosmarini..... 1..." = @ 100 '*=
2 0@ 2 25 Rose, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50 50
Black........--++-++- mceini .......0.0 0... 40@ 45 50
Brown 80@ 100} Sabina 222222222227 90@ 1 00 60
ETE 45@ | 50| Santal........-...... 2 75@ 7 00 50
Vollow............--- 2 50@ 3 00) ga, safras.. 8Q 53 50
Pau os ess., ‘ounce. aan 65 =
oe »25 22 24 1 1 60
Saniperas ee sii 6 8 Thyme Se ceed 40@ 50 _
Xanthoxyium ....... 1 1 30| Thyme, opt.......... @ 1 60 3
Theobromas ........ 15@ 20
Balsamum 50
55 60 Potassium 60
Copaiba..........-+- ne “= BLCarb. cee ee 15 18 G Sales bo
Se chromate ......... 1 15 | Guiaca ammon......
a —- $0 | Bromide ............ 82@ 57 | Hyoscyamus......... 50
. cae Carb ... 12@ 15 a 75
Cortex Chlorate...po.17@19 16@ 18 Todine, colorless. .... 75
ables, Canadian..... 18 — Coe oi «638 Mimo... 50
GaRsie. .. io. 2... te 2 fomee 60@ 2 65 Lobelia 50
Cinchona Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30| Myrrh............... 50
Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15} Nux a 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt. 7@ 10| Opii.. as 75
Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras. . 6@ SB Oil, comphorated.. 50
Quillaia, gr’d......-. 12 | Prussiate.. weseee 23@ 26 | Opti, deodorized..... 1 50
Sassafras ...... po. 20 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18/| Quassia ............. 50
timp ied fade a 6 CG
Extractum Aconitum............ 20@ 25|Sanguinaria..... 12.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. %4@ 25] Althe...... — ooo 50
Glycyrrhiza, po Dede 28 30 | Anchusa 10@ 12!| Stromonium......... 60
Heematox, 15 lb. box 11 12) Arum po @ 26| Tolutan ............. 60
Heematox, 1s........ ia 14| Calamus........ 20@ 40!/ Valerian ............ 50
Heematox, 4S....... 14 15 | Gentiana...... po.i5 12@ 15] Veratrum Veride... 5o
Hematox, 4S....... 16@ 17} Glychrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18] Zingiber.. 20
Ferru ee Ganaden. @ ® Miscellaneous
Jarbonate Prect 15 | Hotepore Alba, po: 5 %3| Mther, Spts.Nit.2 F 30@ 35
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 | Inula, po... 1 99 | Hither, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Citrate Soluble. . = Ipecae, po. * 3 40@ 3 60| Alumen............. 24@ 3
Berroc = — Sol. = Iris plox... .po. 35@38 35@ 40 Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ a
Sulphate, com’i. .... 2! Maranta, o. “— = Poca MO 5
= = 1, by 80 Podophyilum, po... 22@ 25 et Potass T 4 =
Beer ce ae 7 1 00 eeeeee
Sulphate, pure.. 7 Bhel, ee 2 1 25 ne 20
Flora OR DV 00s scl ll 75@ 1 35 | Argenti oz... 1 51
i Cie 18 | Spig: élia . 35@ 38|Arsenicum.......... 1 12
yo ee 25 7 stoma “pO. “15 @ 18} Balm a Buds.. 40
Matri eee) 30@ 35 | Serpentaria .. 40@ 45| Bismuth S.N.. ot be 2 00
eee etn Senega 60@ 65|Calcilum Chior. is... @ 9
Folia Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40| Calcium Chlor., ¥s.. @ 10
Barosma..........--- 28@ — M... @ 2| Calcium Chior. 4s.. @ 12
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Scillze 10@ 12| Cantharides,Rus.po @ 80
neve 20@ 25 Selle -__---- Be. Capsici Fructus, @ 15
ona. ta ‘Alx. 25@ 30 Ne. pO. @ 25| Capsici Fructus, po. @
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 @ 25| CapsiciF ructus B, po @
ned See Le 12 20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20| Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14
Uva Ursi........ oS 10 | Zingiber a........... 14@_ 16 | Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Gummi Zingiber ja.-...---+ 28 27] Cora Alba... SOB 88
Acacia, 1st picked... 65 Semen Coceus . ae ae
Acacia, 2a pleked.. s 45 i um . -po. @ 12| Cassia Fructus...... @ 35
Acacia, 3d picked... 35 | Apium (eravdieons). 13@ 15 | Centraria.. oo gee
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 | Bird, 1s... 4@ 6| Cetaceum.. a @ 44
Acacia, 45@ 65/ Carui.......... .-po. ‘18 12@  13| Chloroform .... 55@ 60
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12 14 | Cardamon.. --. 1 25@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @ 110
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 12 | Coriandrum.. 8s@ 10 = ‘= Crst.... 1 40@ 1 65
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 30 ae Sativa. oe 4%@ 5 |Chondrus............ 20@ 25
Ammoniac........-.-. 55 60 donium . - T@ 1 00 Cinchonidine, P.&W 38@ 48
Assafoetida....po.45 45 50 € enopodium . 10@_= 12 Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Benzoinum So 50 55 | Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine ............. 5 80@ 6 00
Catechu, 1s.........- 13 | Foeniculum.......... @ _ 10| Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70
Catechu, %4S......--- 14 | Foenugreek, po...... 7@  9/|Creosotum........... @ 35
Catechu, 4s 1) iat oo... | aa S| Creka _. .. bbl. 75 a 3
Campnore .. 73 | Lint, o ee bbl.4. 4%@ __5| Greta, prep.......... @ 5
Euphorbium.. “Po. 36 @ 40| Lobelia .............. 3@ 40 Creta, Foci... |. @ ll
oe : @ 1 00) Pharlaris naan 4%@ _ 45 | Creta, — Sides la @ 8
Gamboge. eee “po 65@ 70| Rapa 44%@ 5 | Crocus . coon COO BS
Guaiacum...... po. 25 @ 33 a “Alba... 9@ 10| Cudbear.. roe a @ 2
Kino........po. 30.75 @ 75) Sinapis Nigra.. 11@ 12 Cupri Sulph. 2220077 644@ 8
Mastic ........-.-- is 2 = Spiritus Dextrine --- T@ 10
Opi, ‘po. 5 105.30 3 75@ 3 80 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 a — ™e "7
Sheliae...........-. 25@  35| Frumenti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Emery, po. .. eS, @ 6
Shellac ‘bleached 40@ 45 F rumenti. paieic-cistwisidis ate 1 25@ 1 50 Ergota ... ..po.90 85@ 90
anth “1. 60@ = 90 | Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 656@ 2 00 L@ 15
pa Easia Juni -_ Coes 1 75@ 3 50 : ae @ 2B
Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 8@ (8
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 7 Vint Galli Roce ae 1 75@ 6 50 per : @ 60
= —— -0Z. pkg 20 i Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 Gelatin’ French. cu 35@ 60
oor ecope —_ oe = Vini o ele ouuautes 1 25@ 2 00 Glassware, flint, box 75 & &
Mentha Pip. .0Z. pkg 23 iT ib Gi ~ DOX..... ne =
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Gus whiie seeee cess b@ 25
7 carriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 , white. ........
Tanaootuns ¥ oz. Ha 3° | Nassau shoeps” wool Glycerina............17%@
anace ~P Grana, Paradis! Bae @ 2B
rhymus, V...0z. p 25 | _carriage............ 2 50@ 2 75
taal i Velvet extra sheeps’ Humulus............ 25@ 55
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @150 amen Chlor Mite @ 100
Calcined, Pat........ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. @ 9
Carbonate, Pat.. 18@. 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 1 10
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati _@ 1 20
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage. @10 oe 50@ 60
Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @ 75 ure See Asa os
700| Yellow ‘Reef, for — a lia, Am 65@ 70
aeeatlalan Dui... © 980 | 65| SIAL USe.......... @ 1 40 | aige, Resubi-. 218 400
Amygdale, Amare. 8 000 8 25 — Todoform... . 3 85@ 4 00
ce paes oak 2 10@ 2 20} Acacia . @ 50| Lup ee @ 580
Auranti Cortex . 2 25@ 2 30 ‘Cortex. @ 5s0/L ein 80@ 85
Ber; cS ek 2 99@ 3 00 @ 50 Macis 65@ 75
Caj aa oe 80@ = 3 . Liguor “Arsen et Hy- <a
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deiaaeescceycse Oe, SO @ 50 LiquorPotags Arsinit 10@ 12
Chenopadii........ a 275 50@ 60/| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3
onil ......... 1 1 40 | Senega ........ ange @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
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Moschus Canton...
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Picis Liq., quarts...

Picis Liq., pints. ....

Pil Hydrarg. . -po. 80

Piper Nigra... po. 22
ae Alba.. a 35
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one ie @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 69 72
sina ar CC, @ 30} Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
. 2 2@ 2 . ee, De @ Spirits Turpentine.. 46 25
41
65@ 20 snuit Scoteh, baVo's @ 41 Paints BBL. LB.
@ 10} Soda, Boras.......... 9@ ll
37 | Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8
Soda'et Potass Tart. 23@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
@ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%4@ 2) Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
Soda, Bi-Carb.. 2 5 | Putty, commercial.. 2% 2%@3
@ 2 00 | Soda, Ash... .... 8%4@ 4/| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
@ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2; Vermilion, Prime
@ _ 85) Spts. Cologne.. @ 2 60|_ American . 1B@ 15
@ _ 50/ Spts. Ether Co... 50@ 55; Vermilion, English. . 70@ 75
@ 18! Spts. Myrcia Dom.. @ 2 00 | Green, Paris........ 1 18
@ 30! Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
@ = 7) Spts. Vini Rect. “bbl @ eaG, Fed... 2... .... 64@Q 6%
10@ 12} Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 64@ 6%
50 | Spts. Vini Rect. _ @ Whiting, white Span @ 8%
Strychnia, Crystal... s0@ 1 05| Whiting, gilders’. @ 9
@ 75/ Sulphur, Subl. . 2%@ 4| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 25
25@ 30) Sulphur, Roll.. 24@ 3%| Whiting, Paris, Eng.
8@ 10) Tamarinds .......... 8@ «10 elm... .......-.... @ 140
32G 42|Terebenth Venice... 28@ = Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
30@ 40) Theobrome.......... 6@ \ :
2 1) Vanilla... 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
12@ = =14| Zinci Sulph.. 7@ 8
18@ . 20 ‘aime No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
50@ 4 75 Extra Turp.......... 1 60@ 1 70
40@ 50 BBL. GAL. | Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00
12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
10@ 12| Lard, extra.......... 60 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
@ 15| Lard, No.1.......... 45 50 | Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 765

 

 

 

 

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
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Whole Cloves.

China Cassia
Rolled Oats

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Amoskeag Grain Bags
Round Herring
Whole Allspice
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Index to Markets

 

By Columns
Col.
A
Akron aewene. eee eee 15
Alabastine . Pec cece
eS 1
Mio sapoeee.-................ 1
B
Baking Powder............... 1
ein StRe. ww 1
Se 1
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2
Butter Color be eee oe ee ee 2
Cc
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NOR 2
— eS 2
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Coreen One... -..-... 3
ee 3
Chewing Gum................ 3
Oe 3
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anes Seen ... 3
mes. 3
Condensed ee 4
Coupon Books........---.---- 4
a 4
eoeme Seeer .-.............. 5
D
meses Pius. ................ 5
F
Farinaceous Goods.......... 5
Fish and Oysters............. =
Flavoring Extracts...........
coe Poe 8. 2... é
ieen Monts.................. 6
ee oes ee 14
G
Grains and Flour ............ 6
H
ae 7
Hides eee foe... 2. 13
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L
jiamp Burners................ 15
Lamp ee co 15
See 15
aaieon eon oe 15
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Meee. Hetracts.............-.. v
Meese. 7
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Peehieoe ee 7
P
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Se Se ee 7
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Ss
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Salt on.
Sauerkraut ce eke ee 9
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Shoe Biacking. . 9
MO 9
Soap Be ee ee 9
0 ONES Ge iG EGE 10
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Stove Polish Sd pees are eee 10
NN ec 10
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See a nee aie ae 11
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Washing Powder............. 12
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Woodenware................. 12
Wrapping Paper............. 13
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ALABASTINE BRUSHES
White in drums...... ee 9 Scrub
Colors in drums............. 10
White in packages.......... 19 , Solid Back, 8in.....-....... 45
Colors in packag' =e 1 | ome eee, 11 me .........-.. 95
Less 40 per cent discount. Pointed Ends oe 85
AMMONIA Shoe
POU DOL Nol Soi. 1
Arctic 12 0z. ovals..........- 5! No.7 ee 1 30
Arctic pints. round.......... ‘as Ue
AXLE GREASE NG 3.4.0.0 1 90
doz. gross
Aurore. 55 6 00| — :
Custor Oll...:.........60 7 ¢9| No.3.. —
Diamond ee a 495 | NO. 2.2.22... eee eee eee eee ee 110
ao ooo; -o-t---. 175
IXL ‘Guaiiae, tin boxes a 9 00 BUTTER COLOR
W., R. & Co.’s, 15¢ size.... 1 25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.. 2 00
NDLES
Electric Light Be....-..... 12
Electric — 16s.. -<.0ckee
Paraffine, 6s. . ages
Paraffine 12s." ietteeeeeeelld
Wicking a eed
meng ars GOODS
Apples
Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00| 3 1b. Standards eee 80
Paragon .. ..... 55 6 00| Gallons, standards. . 2 30
BAKING POWDER Blackberries
Acme Standards ........... 75
4% Ib. cans 3 doz............ 45 Beans
\% Ib. cans 3 doz.. coe Se 1 00@1 30
1 Ib. cans 1 doz.. ..---1 00/ Rod Kidney......... 75@ 85
Buik....... ccececee SO ME 80
i “- a el . 85
i: : ere
es —— . Blueberries
Seandera 5
Brook Trout
2 Tb. cans, Spiced .......... 190
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 00
Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 150
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s, 4 pint........ 1 92
14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 3 75| Burnham’s, pints.......... 3 60
4 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75 | Burnham’s, quarts........ 7 20
1lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 7
’ Cherries
5 lb. cans, *& doz. case...... 8 00 Red Standards........ 85
Wee 1 15
J AXO | - Corn
eee 75
4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... a ee ee 8&5
\% Ib. cams, 4 doz. case...... 85} Faney.... ........ 95
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case......1 60 French Peas
Queen Flake —
3 0z., 6 doz. case. .. ~.-.2 7 our xtra Fine...........- 22
6 0Z., 4 doz. case <0 20 | Beira Fine.....-..-...._.- 19
9 oz., 4 doz. case ee Paee. 15
1 Ib., 2 doz. case a 00 Moves... 11
Sib... | Geox. case. ........ ...2 9 00 Gooseberries
Royal Standard ............ 90
Hominy
10¢e size.... 90 | Standard..... eee 85
44 lb. cans 1 35 Star, % Ib Lobster
5-2... 1 &
ccm. 18 es 3 40
¥% Ib. cans 2 50 Picnic Pate 2 35
3% Ib. cans 3 75 ce — ackerel
Mustard, 1lb........ 1 75
1 Ib. cans. 4 80| Mustard’ 21b........ 2 80
3 lb. cans.13 00 | Soused, 1Ib.......... 175
¥ 5 lb. cans.21 50 | Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 80
Tomato, 11lb......... 175
Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80
BATH BRICK Mushrooms
American a 70 | Hotels............... . 18@20
English... : _..... gg} Buttons... mae; i. 22@25
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BLUING | Gege, £9p. 2. 5 1 00
oe ce 1 80
Cove, 1 1b Oval...... 110
Peaches
Oe see
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ars
Standard ............ 70
Peeey.--- i 80
eas
on Ce aN 1 00
arly June.......... 1 00
Pare tes i: Me | Barly June ‘Sifted: 1 60
Arctic, 4 0z, per "'gross...... 4 00 rated cinusicaaimitel
Arctic, 8 0Z, per gross...... CO mie : oa: =
Arctic, pints, per gross.... 9 00 Pumpkin
BROOMS Pee 70
No. 1 Carpet. Good 75
No. 2 Carpet &
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No. 4 Carpe!
Parlor Gem
Common Whisk iss
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Salmon Santos
Columbia River...... 2 00@2 15 — Solem Seco cccecelgus 11
Red Alaska.......... 1 40} Fair. See cies See esis eee
Pink Alaska. . 110 Cholee. .. Bu cece pe emea cece :
shbtenen ANCY .. eee eee eee cee eeee wees
Standard............ 1 50 | Peaberry..................--.18
ee Maracaibo
Domestic, \4s.. te 1 Ole oss ccc 12
Domestic, %s ....... Be ores... 5. ooo 16
Domestic, Mustard. 8 Sieubiceis
California, 4s....... 17 Chot 16
French, 4S.......... 22 F Mn ode cc cicie ce tees epee a
French, \S.......... 28 BDNCYo. eee esccccces cccces coe
Strawberries Guatemala
Standard ............ mS 1 Cino@kes. 8. 16
SOROY cs. 1 25 Java
Succotash eae 12%
ae. 90 | Fancy age ee cLoeee cases 17
xood .. 1010 Ge 25
1OLP. 6G oe 29
Mocha
907; Arabian....-.....-.-.-- 1
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2 50 New York Basis.
CATSUP Avpuekio....<.s...-+..:...,.42 8
Columbia, pints.............2 00 — Sere teen eecns ates = =
Columbia, % pints........... 1 25 —— seceee sees a
CARBON OILS McLaughlin’s XX XX
Barrels McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
Moceme ..-. 62s. @l1 retailers only. Mail all orders
Perfection............. @10 | direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
—_ 9 = eves © 9 | Co., Chicago.

. S. Gasoline......... 11 Extract
Deodorized Naphtha.. @10 | Valley city 5 % gross... 75
— Sec = -_ Felix % "145

NGINE. ...- -... +--+ +--+ Hummel : Foil % gross... uel 85
Black, winter .......... @10+ | Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43
CHEESE Substitutes
Bema. @12% Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake
Amboy @12% | 12 packages, % case.........
Poet ie mee ice a = 24 packages, 1 case —— =
a Cee CONDENSED MILK
Gold —_— ee ces @i11% 4 doz in case.
os coco ee cee @12 o> os —_—. co dueowed 6 75
Co, @12 Cro e woe. sie: clei) aad
Riverside re eect @12 Daisy... Se ee ee ee 5 75
Bier 14@15 | Champion .. EE
Pee @90 | Magnolia .................... 4 25
Leiden . oc em @17 Challenge . --.4 00
Limburger.. See Cie ee 13@14 Dime.. eo ..83 35
cops pe . ped COUPON BOOKS
ee = 50 books, any denom... 1 50
CHEWING GUM 100 books, any denom... 2 50
American Flag Spruce.... 50} 500 books, any denom... 11 50
Beeman’s Pepsin.......... 60 } 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
Basen Jaeko 2... 50} Above quotations are for either
Largest Gum Made....... 55 | Tradesman, Superior, Economic
Nensem ,.0- ce or Universal grades. here
Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00 | 1,000 books are ordered at a time
Sagar Toat...........:.... 45 customer receives s pecially
Reem... 55| printed cover without extra
CHICORY charge.
Bre ee Coupon Pass Books
ee ee Can be made to re resent any
Eagle aserctcecc cece cees cecees 4 : denomination from $10 down.
Franck’s Sie ge iets ae aici oe 6% 50 books...... oe
WOMGROE es 6 0 books 2 50
CHOCOLATE 500 books 11 50
Ambrosia 1,000 books.... . 20 00
Ambrosia Sweet.......... 21 Credit Checks
Household Sweet... 19 500, any one denom...... 200
Ambrosia Premium. 32 | 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
Yankee Premium.. oe 2,000, any one denom.. 5 00
aa ae ae & Co. S. e Steel punch.. : a 75
rman Swee nee
Premium .. oe oo. oe CRACKERS
Breakfast Cocoa............. 45 | The National Biscuit Co. quotes
Runkel Bros. as follows:
Vienna Sweet ......... .... 21 Butter
Vee ee. 28 | Reymour................... 6
es... ....2..... .... 31 mow Vork..... .... .:5:).... 6
CLOTHES gs a ee 6
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.. * op Seles... 6
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz.. 9 SO) Worvermo. ......-.....-... 6%
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.. ..1 40 oda
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........ ii Sode SEK... 6%
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ i i Soda, Clty... 5... 8
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80] Long Island Wafers....... 12
Jute, 72 ft. per doz......... 95 | Zephyrette... ............ 10
COCOA _ Oxnter
Ambrosia, % Ib. tin eans.... 42] Faust . 7%
Ambrosia, 44 Ib. tin cans.... 44 Farina.. 6
Cipeane 4i | Extra Farina... oe
Somminl, 468 ..... 6. 35 | Saltine Oyster............. 6
EPPS IIIT B] Sweet Goods—Boxes
Huyler eee oo ee ee 46} Animale... 0 cco, 10
Van Houten, %s............. 12] Assorted Cake............ 10
Van Houten, ¥s....... .. ‘$01 Bele Bose.....- 2. 8
Van Houten, 4S............. 38 | Bent’s Water.............. 16
= Houten, 1s...... ....- 70} Cinpamon Bar.............
an 30 | Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
pone, S68. el 41 | Coffee Cake, Java......... 10
Wrest. 43... ...-. 42 — — eos 18
ocoanut Taffy............ 10
COCOA SHELLS aaa 16
on 1h. pags... .... 2... 2% | Creams, Iced.............. 8
Less —— Seeceecce cs) || OO EE 10
Pound packages ......... 4 Cubans.. Lecce ees
Currant Fruit............. 12
COFFEE — eet. a
ros Pee...  .c.. 9
Roasted Ginger Gems, Vrgec orsm’ll 8
a Snaps, N eC es
Se -—«sxlU Gladiator.................. 10
Grandma, ee“ poets as 9
raham Crackers......... 8
HIGH GRADE Graham Wafers........... 12
— Grand Rapids Tea...) ...: 16
Honey Fingers............ 12
Special Combination.. _.15 | Iced Honey Crumpets..... 10

Tench Breakfast. 17% Emporis...) s.- 5 -. 8
Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 91 | Jumbles, Honey........... 12
Old Gov't Java and Mocha..24 | Lady Fingers.............. 12
Frivate Estate, Java & Moc 26 — ae Bese crtee st =

—— _ Mocha .27 | Mfarshmallow.............. 16

Rio Marshmallow Creams..... 16

COOMA oo ee el 10%4 —oe Walnuts. 16

es OE as 1 ee
MUO oe 13 Mixed ‘Pienic.. 11%
ES i ee 15 Disewii. oe 7%

 

Molasses Cake............ 8

Molasses Bar.............. 9
Moss Jelly Bar............ 12%
Newton.. So
Oatmeal Crackers. ........ 8
Oatmeal Wafers........... 12
Orange Crisp...........:.. 9
Orange Gem............... 8
Peany Cake......0  ......: 8
Pilot pend. SR 7%
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8
Pretzels, hand made...... 8
Scotch Cookies............ 9
Searn’ LuMenh...........:.. 7%
Sugar Cake.. 8
Sugar Cream, XXX... 8
Sugar Squares poscticecr cece 8
Spee ee 13
Tutti Fruit peeiem sos See caer 16
Vanilla Wafers............ 16
Vienna Crimp............. 8
CREAM TARTAR
5 and 10 lb. wooden — ose 30
Bulk in sacks.. : 2 e
DRIED FRUITS |
Apples
Sundried @A%
Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. @5%

California Fruits

Apricots . aes ceo
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines . oe
— Sec eeetae oases +8 @ll
Pitted Cherries... uu Thy
Prunnelles . sis scaiate
Raspberries |. See seceee o
California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ......
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... 6
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 6%
40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes ...... @7
30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ...... 8
¥4 cent less in 50 Ib. cases
Citron
Leghorn.. cedace ee coon
Corsican . ee
‘Calvan
California, 1 lb. package....11%
Imported, 1 lb package...... 12
Imported, bulk..... ........ 11%
Peel

Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13

  

Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10%
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..10%
Raisins

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 215
Cluster 4 Crown.........
se Muscatels 2 Crown 63%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 8
L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib...... 9%
. M., Seeded, %
Sultanas, De oc 103%
Sultanas, package .......... 12
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dried Tima. 7
Medium Hand Picked 210
Brown Holland..............
Cereals
Cream of Cereal............. 90
Grain-O, small .............. 1 35
Grain-O, large............... 2 25
Grape Nuts.. -.1 35
Postum Cereal, ‘small - -.1 35
Postum Cereal, large...... 2 25
Farina
241 1b. packages ............ 1 50
Bulk, per 100 Ibs... -3 00
Haskell’s Wheat Flakes
36 2 1b. packages... .. ..-3 00
iain
Flake, 50 Ib. ek... OO
Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ 2 40
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 117

i)

Maccaroni and Vermicell

Domestic, 10 Ib. box. 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box........ 2 50
Pearl cw
Common ... 2 60
Chester..... 3 00
Empire --3 50

 

 

 

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100 b. k ota owetiecicga ae
200 tb. ba cn < aecesae ste oe
200 Th; ARS. ...-: . 2.2... k. 2 90
Peas
Green, hare og ~~ -.1 3
age a - és TIl1 40
Split, 1 cece So
Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl.. sc87o
Steel Cut, 100 Yb. sacks... 1 90
Monarch, bbl...... pie cia See 3.50
Monarch, % bbl -.1 90
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks ...) 65
Quaker, cases............... 3 20
‘oO
Weant India. 0c. 2%
German, sacks.............. 3%
}German, broken;package.. 4

 

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6

7

9

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Tapioca
Flake, 110 lb. sacks...
Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks...... ae
Pearl, 241 1b. packages.....

Wheat
Cracked, bulk.. Dale's oOo
24 2 tb. packages .. 3
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

FOOTE & JENKYS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

 
 
  

 

 

 

 

Vanilla Lemon
lozfullm.1 20 1ozfullm. 80
2ozfullm.2 10 20zfullm.1 25
No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75

 

Vanilla emo;

2 0z —- -120 202 aaa. 75
3 0z taper..2 00 40z taper..1 50
Jennings’

Arctic

2 oz. full meas. pure Lemon. 75
2 oz. full meas. pure Vanilla.1 20

Big Value
2 oz. oval Vanilla Tonka.... 75
2 0z. oval Pure Lemon ...... 75

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FLAVORING EXTRACT?

 

 
 
 

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand

Wingold 1 Seca cs weceuie 4 50
Wingold 34s.............. 4 40
Wingold fs eee ees. 4 30
Olney & Judson’s Brand
Ceresota %8..............- 4 65
Ceresota ¥{s............... 455
Ceresota 4%S............... 445

Washburn-Crosby Co.’s Brand.

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Syeo'S

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WASRBURN CROSEYCOS, |
COLO MEDAL, 4

Prices always right.
Write or wire Mussel-
man Grocer Co. for
special quotations.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Zaurel 44. ..........:..... 448
Eomvel Mis... ..... 8. 4 30
Laurel \s. 4 20
Laurel %s and 4s paper... 4 20

Meal
CO EE
Granulated ................ 2 10
Feed and Millstuffs
St. Car Feed, screened.... 16 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 16 00
Unbolted Corn Meal...... = 50

 

 
 
 

ee | Winter Wheat Bran....... 5 00
paper D, (emon.--... 75 | Winter Wheat Middlings. is 00
Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Vanilla...... 1 24 Sereonimgs -...-........... 5 00
No- 3 Taper D. “C. Vanilla. ..2 08 Corn
Standard Corn, car lots....... 41%
20z. Vanilla Tonka.......... 70 Oats
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon........ 70 = : _ eee oes ¥
ar lots, c ppe Be ecce oe
Northrop “Tem. Van. | Less than car ea ee
—— caper = = ; = No.1 Timothy ¢ car lots.... 11 00
3 0z. Taper Panel....135 2 00| No.1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00
40z. Taper Panel....160 225 HERBS
Perrigo’s Sage 15
Vv Lem Hops .. Need oe aes 15
doz. | Laurel Leaves..........--.-.-- 15
— : Oz. —_ oon. ; = Senna Leaves... ... -...--.. 25
oz. taper
XX, 2 oz. obert.. —
No. ’9, 2 OZ. obert . _. Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55
XXX D Dptehr, 60z 2 25 |S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes...... 50
XXX DD ptehr, 40z 1 75 JELLY
K. P. pitcher. 6 07... 225) 51b. pam. per doz........ 185
FLY PAPER ip te, PANS... 2... ... -.-- 28. 35
Tanglefoot, per aon... 35 30 Ib. pails LD cdsle wislulgia sleek oes 62
Tanglefoot, per case........ 3 20 LICORICE
FRESH MEATS 30
Beef 23
Carcass... 6 @8 14
Forequarters . 5%@ 6 | Root............... 10
Loins rigs 2 3 gis | Condensed. 2 doz............1 20
Rie 9 @12 agen =~ main 2 25
Rounds... :......-.... 6%@ 7 ES
ChUCKS.............. 544@6 iment Maton Co.’s ——
Plates ............... 4 @5 |No. 9 sulphur Dae ee 1 65
Pork a acu Bec cccinee al =
oO. ome ..
—— : : a E3 rt Parlor... 4 09
eed : ‘aivertne ...
Shoulders. pu a g ie MEAT EXTRACTS
Leaf Lard........... @8 | Armour & Co.’s,40z....... 45
Mutton Eiebig’s, 2 OZ... ..:..:.... 75
COrenag. 3. cog. 7 @i7% MOLASSES
Spring Lambs. . 8%@ 9 New Orleans
Veal Fancy — aeee.. . 40
CATCASE <....-...: @ 9 Choice.. Deon 35
GRAINS AND FLOUR ems eee =
— Half-barreis 2¢ extra”
— : - MUSTARD
Winter “Wheat ‘Flour a Radish, 1 - DS cael gs 176
Local Brands orse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Patents .. ' 450 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 75
Second, Patent.. ee le 3 85 OLIVES .
Reraighibe oe 3 65| Bulk, 1 gal. kegs........... 1 2%
oom eae a eee 3 25 | Bulk, 3 gal. kegs........... 1 10
ee 3 30 | Bulk, 5 gal. kegs........... 1 00
maccenent:. 4 50 | Manzanilla, 7 0z......-..-.- 80
ye se ceee 3 25| Queen, pints............... 2 35
Subject ‘to Usual cash dis-| Queen, 19 0z .............. 4 50
count. Queen, 28 02Z.........-..05. 7 00
Flour.in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Stuffed, 5 0z....... 0... 2.5 90
ditional. Staned, § o2.:.........:... 1 45
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand page are aaa _
Diamond s............... 375] yi int 10 00
Diamond 4s 3 75 ctor, pints. ..............
Diamond s........ 6.22... 3 75 Victor, quarts.............- 15 00
pee ee gente Victor, 2 quarts............20 00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand PARIS GREEN
(aor 468... .... ........ on PRiek. oes se
Quaker \s.................. 3 90| Packages, 4 Ib., each....... 18
Guaker 446... ..........-... 390 Packages, % lb.. essen. ..-... 17
Packages, 11b., each....... 16
Spring Wheat Flour
PICKLES
Clark-Jewell-Wells - *s Brand Medium
powers Eo s------- 4S | Barrels, - count ......... 4 50
Pillsbury’s Best 4s.. 4 50/ Half b count......... 2 75
Pillsbury’s Best s.. 440 Small

Pillsbury’s Best %s pai a 4 40
Pillsbury’s Best 4s pas 4 40
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Duluth Imperial %s....... 4 40
Duluth —— as... A oe
Duluth Imperial YS....... 4:20

 

Barrels, 2,400 count .....
Half bbis, 1,200 count ...

 

a
pine aa bee cp siesealsonc 170
lay, T. D.. fi —_—-: atosiccs 65

Gol, No. Si sien

 

85 | Lump, yr Ib. Kegs...

PAPER BAGS

Continental Paper Bag Co.
Ask your Jobber for them.

  
 
 

Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
— Square
sk el 50
Tse, 34 60
Bs se 44 80
ey 54 1 00
Be cue ccc 66 1 2
es ee. 76 1 45
Boe cl, 90 1 70
Ce a, 1 06 2 00
S255. os 1 28 2 40
MO 1 38 2 60
RA ecco 1 60 3 15
ee el 224 415
16) ca 2 4 50
Me ce. 2 52 5 00
ees 5 50
Sugar
Ce a ee 4%
Grae ee 4%
POTASH
48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s KS ceslcm cent eM OG
Penna Salt Go.’s............. 3 00
PROVISIONS,
Barreled Pork

MOR. ot

Baek ....... i @14 50
Clear back @i4 75
Short cut. @14 25
Ey @15 75
Beantiy Mess.. @14 50

~—? — Meats

Bellies. . 8%
Briskets .. cae 84
Extra shorts......... 7%

 
   

Smoked Meats
Hams, 121b. average. @ 10%
Hams, 141b. average. @ 10%
Hams, 161b. average. @ 10%
Hams, oy — @ 9%
Ham dried beef. .... @ 11%
Ehoulders (Ne <. cut) @7
Bacon, clear......... 10 @ 11%
California a Melee @ i%
Boneless hams.. @ ll
Boiled Hams. . @ 15
Picnic Boiled Hams @ 10%
Berlin Hams....... @ 8%
Mince Hams....... @ 9
ee aes
Compound. 5%
8%
Cae 6
i. .. advance %
. .. advance %
50 Ib. Tins...advance %
20 lb. Pails. .advance %
10 Ib. Pails..advance %
5 1b. Pails..advance 1
3 Ib. Pails..advance 1
Sausages
Bologna. ............ 5%
AWE 6
Frankfort 7%
ed 7%
oe Se ose) cp eercces 6%
Ton Decisis as 9
He ee cise s: Sasare 6
Beef
Extra Mess.......... 10 75
— See a 11 00
Rump .. . 11 75
Bigs’ 3 Feet
¥ bbls., 40 lbs.. 1 60
% bbls., 80 Ibs.. 3 75
Tripe |
Kite, 15 Ibe. .........
fae 1 25
% bbis., 80 Ibs.. 2 25
Casings
Pork . 21
Beef rounds. . ut 3
Beef middles........ 10
oe 60
Butterine
Solid, dairy.......... 11 @13
Rolls, dairy.......... 114%@13%
Rolls, creamery..... 14%
Solid, creamery. .... 14
Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 Ib.... 2 75
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 17 50
Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 75
Potted ham, s..... 50
Potted ham, s..... 90
Deviled ham, \4s.... 50
Deviled ham, %Ss.... 90
Potted tongue, %s.. 50
Potted tongue, %s.. 90
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head................ 7
Garouna No.t ............... 5%
Carolina No. 2. - 4%
OnOn 8 =... 4%
—
Japan, No. 1. --
Japan, No. 2.. Ve@5
Teen. fancy head. --5 @5%
—— Lc
Table.. ee @
‘SALERATUS |

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer. : =

3 1B
Mba 5... a. fe 210
ee 3 00
Sale 3 00
‘Wyandotte, 100 Xs... 5... 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis............

80
a 100 Ib. cases. 90
Lump, Db cas . 1

 

SALT
Buckeye
100 310. bag... -..... 3 00
OO Gib bage............... 3 00
of TA Paes. 279

g
In 5 bbl. lots 5 per cent. dis-
-— and one case 243 1b. boxes
ree.

Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.3 00
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 7

Butter, sacks, ome Tr,
Butter, sacks, ne Wha... |. ér
Common Grades
100 3 lb. sacks.. ceed ane 2
60 5 Ib. sacks.. es ae
98 10 Ib. sacks.......--..-.-- 2 05
WG I Sew 40
oe 0. SHON 22
Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 30
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton

56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks...
56 Ib. dairy in aie sacks...
Solar Rock
Ge. saeKe. 5. 30
Commo1n
Granulated Fine............ 1 20
Medium Fine................1 25
SALT FISH
Cod
Georges cured......... @6
Georges genuine...... @ 6%
Georges selected...... @7
Grand Bank.......-.... @5
Strips or bricks.......6 @9
Pomeem ....... @ 3%
Halibut.
Strips.. eer tis
Chunks... Seca oe 12
Herrin

Holland white hoops, bbl. 11 00
Holland white hoopssbbl. 6 00
Holland white hoop, Keg.. 80
Holland white hoop mechs. 8

 

  

 

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Ciices Almie..... ........ 3 15

Big Bargain.......... osc 1 75

Umpire.. : |

German Family. Uaiens stew 2 45
A. E. a

Good Cheer . oe

Old Country 3
Johnson Soap Co. brands—

Silver King. . 2 oe
Calumet F amily.. i oe
Seoteh Family..... ...... 2 50
Cie... 2 40
Gowans & Sons brands—
Oak Beat. ................ 3 2
Oak Leaf, big5........... 4 00
Beaver Soap Co. brands—
Grandpa Wonder, large. 3 25
—— Wonder, small. 3 85
Grandpa Wonder, small,
SO Gales 220. 1 95
Ricker’s Magnetic . . + 0

——— ad Co. brand—
Dingm 3 85
Schultz ¢ & ‘Go. brand—

ae sk... 3 00
5B. T. Babbit brand—
Babbit’s Best............. 4 00
Fels brand—
Waptes |... 4 00
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 don 2 40
SODA
Co
Megs, English. ..............
SPICES

Whole Spices

Allepiee............
Cassia, China in mats.....
Cassia, Batavia, inbund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken....
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls....
Cloves, Amboyna..........
Cloves, Zanzibar......... Me
EGCG es.
Nutmogs, 75-80............
Nutmegs, 105-10........... 40
Nutmegs, 115-20........... 35
Pepper, Singapore, black. 18
Pepper, Singapore, white. 28

Pepper, shot..-............ 20
Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice......... ine 16

  
 
 
  

 

 

   
 
  
  

 

  

Cassia, Batavia. 28
Round 1001. 7 se ae 3 00 Cassia, Saigon.. 48
Round nthe 1 50 Cloves, Zanziba: 17
Seal oa 16 es a .
See tee a nger, Cochin
Bloaters.. _— —" Jamaic 25
Mackerel | Mace..... 65
Meat 100 ths. ......-....... 12 25 coe 18
Mess 40Ibs............... 5 20] Pepper, Singapore, black. 20
Mess 16 tbe. 0.000). 1 3% | Pepper, Singapore, — 28
ccepes, — =
STARCH
Kingsford’s Corn
. 40 1-Ilb. packages........... 6%
100 Whe... .... 725 700 275} 201-lb. packages........... 6%
40 Ibs........ 320 310 140) 6 lb. packages........... 7%
10 IbS........ 38 43 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
§ Tbs... .-... 73 71 37
40 1-lb. packages........... 7
. ee m GIB boxes oo... 7%
reer 4
Half barrels... 1. =@ Cones Core
20 1-Ib. packages.......... 4%
SEEDS 40 1-Ilb. packages.......... 4%
Anise...... a cee Cc ql
Canary, Smyrna.. a ee a
Citiwee § | Llib. pacKages............. 4%
Cardamon, Malabar.. ...60 | 3-lb. packages.. 4%
Cele 12 | 6-Ib. es 5
Hem — ES eciee cats ose 4% | 40 and 50-lb boxe 3%
Mixed Bird.. sl ag) *taereie.. 1... 3%
— white... oo
Poppy... i 10 STOVE POLISH
Lis sete nie Oh Se-ae ccee eee ee ag —
a Caan Te SS
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large......... 2 50 a ;
Handy Box, small......... 1 2 ce Se f
Bixby’s Royal Polish...... sim a te
Miller’s Crown Polish..... 56| gy ™ — ‘
Steet, tis edment.... \ eee g
cotch, in ers oe ' ; y
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 : AFA aia
French Rappee, in ‘jars. etc 43
SOAP No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross 7 20
JAXO Le soc
Below are given New York
Single bo cere prices on sugars, to which the
5 box lots, delivered... -... a 95 wholesale dealer adds the local
10 box lots, delivered........ 2 90 freight from New York to your
Bell & Bogart brands— shippin — a credit
Coal Oil Johnny ......... 3 90] on the invoice for the amount
OGM ec Cols 4 00 | of froignt po pays from the
Lautz Bros. brands— market in which he purchases
Big A ns ccs. 4 00} to his a point, including
Remo ce .....-. 8... ss. 3 25 | 20 pounds for the weight of the
oe Ete es apr ena 4 00 | barrel.
Mas 3 70 | Domino.... meee 6 00
cies & Gands noida Gut Peet... Ea
WemO6 occ. oy SO) Cramme@ |... 2... 2. 6 00
Ivory, — Dec coe cecceeee 4) Gobes..................-.. 5 75
Ivory, 10 0Z.... .......... 6 75 | Powdered . : 60
N. K. Fairbanks brands— Coarse Powdered. - a 60
3 XXXX Powdered. . --. 86
: Standard Granulated... .. 5 50
a 3 95 | Fine Granulated........... 5 50

 

 

Coarse Granulated........ 5 60
Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 60

Conf. Granulated.......... 5 75
2b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 65
5 lb. bags Fine — aes 5 65
Mould A.. a. a. oe
Diamond A 5 50
Confectioner’s A.. 5 30
No. 1, Columbia A.. . ot
No. 2, Windsor A......... 5 10
No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 5 10
No. 4, Pheonix A......... 6@
No. 6, Empire A........... 5 00
Ne: 6... ae
Ne. 7... 4 85
No. 8... 4 75
ee 470
No. 10... 4 65
No. 11. 4 60
No. 12 4 55
A eee 4 55
No. 14 4 50
No. 15 4 50
No. 16 his ederes seccweuenn ce
SYRUPS
Corn
Benoa. se
ae Be 2e
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.......... 3 00
1 doz. % gallon cans......... 1 z
2 doz. % gallon cans.........
Pure Cane

Fair . eetecttecess mice ec ae
Hotes 25

TABLE SAUCES

LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and

Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2 50
Halford, large............. $7
Halford, small............. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large. .... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 75
TEA
Japan
Sundried, medium .......... 28
Sundried, choice............ 30
Sundried, faney............. 40
Regular, medium............ 28
Regular, choice ............. 30
Rosuiar, taney .............. 40
Basket-fired, medium....... 28
Basket-fired, choice......... 35
Basket-fired, faney.......... 40
EE 27
Se 19@21
Co ee 20@22
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ........... 26
Moyune, choice ............. 35
Movune, faney.............. 50
Pingsuey, medium.......... 25
Pingsuey, choiee...........- 30
Pingsuey, fancy............. 40
— Hyson
Choice.. snp
Paneg. ci 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy.............. 42
Amoy, medium.............. 25
Aaey, GChoies............ 6... 32
English Breakfast
Co ae 27
melee... 34
Wamey . oo. 42
India
Ceylon, cholee............... 32
a 42
TOBACCO
Cigars
A. Bomers’ brand.
Vuaindoaier See el eae 35 00

HH. & FE. dg Co.’s ne
Fortune a 35 00

Quintet ae : % =
in
G. J. 8 inal Cigar Co.'s scan.
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&8

Cigar Clippings, per Ib.....

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

Re as ceed cade $33 00

Gold Sie 35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.

Royal Tigers... ...... 80 00
Royal Tigerettes eae ce esas 35 00
Book Filled Tigerettes.... 35 00
Female Tigerettes........ 35 00
ao Hawk, concha...... 35 00
Night Hawk, navel....... 35 00
Vincente Portuondo . .35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@ 70 00
Hilson Co.. ..35@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.. .-35@ 70 00
McCoy & Co. ..35@ 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co. -10@ 35 00
Brown Bros.. ‘ ..15@ 70 00
Bernard Stahi Co...... 35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00
Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00
Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@110 00

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San Telmo............. 35@ 70 00
Havana Cigar gg Peosise 18@ 35 00
C. Costello & Co... ....35@ 70 00
Gora-Fee Co........ 35@ 70 00
8. I. Davis & Co 35@185 00
Hene & Co... ......... 35@ 90 00
Benedict & Co....... 7.50@ 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ 70 00
G.J. Johnson Cigar Co.30@ 70 00
‘Maurice — - 50@175 00
Sock & Go.... 2.2... ..- 65@300 00
Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo . 85@175 00
Henry Clay............ 85@550
La Carolina............ 200 00
Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00

 

H. Van Tongeren’ s Brand.

 

NN 35 00
Fine Cut
Uncle Daniel................58
Oe en 38
DD Galamb. 8 38
Pwo OOray..........-.....2 35
adillac.........- ee
oce LMR... sd 38
ie eo. 27
Hiawatha. See eee 3
Telegram.
Pay Car...
Prairie Ro:
Protection. .
Sweet Burley
Sweet Loma.....
ee
Plug
or Oe 36
Creme de Menthe...........60
PRIME... 40
ee 35
Perec Cem... 37
Wee 33
Peeeeee 24
a = oe ee 36
ee 36
an pe ee 41
eee Aap. 37
American Eagle............. ot
Seemdard Nayy.............. 38
Spear Head, 16 0z..:........ 43
Spear Head. 8er...........45
eee ewiek..-.... 43
are. 39
ee 45
ee ee
SE 38
Piper Peeeiek. 64
eee 81
ares. 36
ae oe 32
Smoking
Hiane Pressed............... 46
Eioupie Cross ..........._... 37
Sure ere. 40
ae. 37
aeecmeey...-... 37
eee 27
mamveo, 8 OZ.............-- 29
Bamboo, 16 02Z...............27
cae Cie... 28
ef 32
ee oo... 37
Sige 37
Wiegmann .................... 40
EN, 35
a 23

Duke's Mixture. ...... oo 40
Duke’s Cameo.......

Honey — Twist.
Myrtle Navy .....
Yum Yum, 125 Oz.
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pail

  
 
 

Cream. . 37
Corn Cake, 2% 0z. 25
Corn Cake, 1 Ib.. 23
Piow Boy, 125 ps 7
Euow Boy, 336 OZ.......-....- 35
Peoorkess, 344 0z.............. 34
Peerless, 145 (OZ... + +22 ee eee 36
Indicator, 2% 0z.............28
Indicator, 1 lb. pails ........ 31
Col. Choice, 2% 0Z........... 21
Oe, Gheice, Biez............. 2
TWINE
en Sey 17

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Clothes Pins
Round head, 5 gross box..
Round = cartons........
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring .
Eclipse patent spring ..
No 1 common.
No. 2 patent brush hoider ..
12 bb. cotton mop heads..... 1
Pails
2-hoop Standard..
3-hoop en
2-wire, Cable..
3-wire, Cable..
Cedar, all red, brass s bound.
oa? Eureka...
Pere.
-epseemngua
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Softwood . oo
PE i ee ee
PORE
Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No.1.....
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....
16-inch, Standard, No. 3....
20-inch, Cable, No. 1..
18-inch, Cable, No. 2
16-inch, Cable, No
No. 1 Fibre
No. 2 Fibre..
No. 3 Fibre... 2
Wash Boards
—nee Globe.. cose
Double Acme...........
Singie Acme...............-
Double Peerless............
Single Peerless..............

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Northern Queen ............
Double Duplex..............
Geom tek.
Deeverse, ..........,..
Wood Bowls
11 in. Butter... Se eee we
13 in. Butter....... 00002022201
a5 in. Baier... 1
in. Bee...
ct: Baer... oe 3
Assorted ola a |
— a on cece 2

PING PAPER

Cua ne %
Colored Fiber Manilla.. 3%
No. 1 Manilla. . _ ox
Cream Manilla............ 2%
Butcher’s Manilla......... 2%
Wax Butter. . a
Wax rs pene
AST CAKE

 

 

Wool, 1 th: balis............. 8
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8

Malt White Wine, 80 _— ll

Pure Cider, Red Star.. 42
Pure Cider, Robinson.......11
Pure Cider, Silver.. ee

WASHING POWDER

Guab Jésflore
Rub-No-More, 100 12 0z..... 3 50
Gold Dust, regular.......... 4 50
fee Cee, OO. 4 00
wee ce 2 90
OS 3 50
a
No. 9, per gross..
No. 1, per gross..
No. 3; per gross..
No. 3. ner grass,.
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels .

Bushels. “wide band. Shee ceuee

Market

Splint, large...

wy medium
Splint, small.......
illow Clothes, lar

Willow Clothes, m .

Willow Clothes, cmall Seis

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No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate..._..
Egg Crates
Humpty Dumpty ........... 2
No. 1, complete .............
No. 2, complete .............

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Magic, 3 rao bee ees ee 1 00
Sunlight, 3doz.........- one
Sunlight, 1% doz............ 50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00
Yeast Foam.1% doz... 50
FISH AND OYSTERS
Fresh Fish
Per Ib.
gar :
Rieck Bast... 11@ 12
Ee @ 16
Ciscoes or ee @ 4
Bluefish .... _. 2
Live Lobster.......... @ 2
— —- - @ 18
Cod.. @ 10
oo. @ 7
— - Fickerel. @ 8
oe oe = F¢
ee clos @ 4
Smoked White........ @ >»
Snapper.......... @ ili
Col River Salmon. .... @ 4
AR @ i6
Oysters in Bulk.
Per gal.
umes os 1 75
Mist Solects............... 1 60
ee 1 35
Reameienes cc 10
Anchor Standards........ 115
Oysters in Cans.
30
2E
FJ. D. a: 22
Anchors............. 20
Standards oe 18
Payorses.............. 16
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100......... 1 00
Ovsters nar inn 1 00

HIDES AND PELTS
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
follows:

 

 

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CANDIES
Stick ~—*
bls

 

 

 

- pails
Standard 7%
Standard H. H @ 7%
Standard Twist @8
Cut Loaf...... @9
cases
Jumbo, 32 Ib.. @ 7%
Extra H.H.. @10%
Boston Cream @10
Beet Root.. @8
Mixed | Candy
Grocers oe @6
Competition. - ve @7
Bpoeee @ 7%
Conserve @ 8%
Royal @ 8%
Mapp @9
Broken... @ 8%
Cut Loaf. . @9
English Rock. @9
Kindergarten .. @9
Bon Ton Cream... @9
French Cream....... @10
ay  — @10
Hand Made Cream
mame @15%
Crystal Cream mix.. @13
Fancy—In Bulk
San Blas Goodies.... @i2
Lozenges, plain ..... @ 9%
— , printed. . @10
Choe. Drops......... @l1%
Eclipse Chocolates. . @13%
Choc. Monumentals. @l4
Victoria Chocolate. . @15
Gum Drops.......... @5
Moss Drops. . @ 9%
Lemon Sours. . os @10
Imperials.. a 10
Ital. Cream ‘Opera 12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 Ib. pails......... @12
Molasses a 15
Ib. pails.. pee. @l4
Pine Apple Tee. 2222) 12%
Marcuns....... ..... 12
Golden Wafties..... : @12

Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes

 

 

Lemon Sours . @55
Peppermint Drops.. @60
Chocolate Drops..
~ M. Choc. Drops... os
H. M. Choe. = and
Dk. No. 12.. @1 00
Gum Drops.. sie @30
Licorice TOps.. Soca @75
Lozenges, piain..... @55
Loreuges, pri — @é60
. @60
meeeeees @60
Cream Bar.......... @55
Molasses Bar.. @55
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
— — Pep.
string ok Oe oe
Wintergroen Berries @é60
Caramels
~—* 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
aaa —
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett...... @
Florida Bright @
Fancy Navels. 2 75@3 25
Extra Choice. . 2 50@3 06
Late Valencias...... @
— eee @
Medt. Sweets........ @
Jamaicas ............ @
ee a @
Lemons
Messina, 300s........ 3 50@3 75
Messina, 360s........ 3 00@3 25
California 360s....... 3 00@3 25
California 300s....... 3 25@3 50
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 1 50@1 75

Large bunches......
Foreign Dried Fruits

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Cal. pkg, 10 ib. an
th ag hoice, 10 Ib.

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Fards in 10 Ib. boxes
Fards in 60 Ib. cases.

——
Green No. 1. Qe | Vib. cases new.
Green No. 2..... age ; Sx Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.... 4% @5
Cured No. 2...... @ 6% NUTS
Calfskins,green No. 1 @ 9% | Almonds, Tarragona gis
ee No.2 @ 8 Almonds, Ivica .....
Calfskins,cured No.1 @10% | -monas, California,
Calfskins,cured No.2 @9 soft oe: cacee 17@19
Pelts = — a.
Peis Caeh---------7 BMI 10) Wiinute. Greniobies, ia
Tallow Walnut, soft shelled
No.1 oy @ 4% California No. 1... 14
No. 2. ee @ 3% | Table Nuts, fancy... ‘@l4i
Wool Table Nuts, choice... 13
Washed, fine........ 18@20 | Pecans, Med.. 10
Washed, medium...  22@24 | Pecans, Ex. Large..- 11
Unwashed, fine. .... 12@14 | Pecans, Jumbos..... @12
Unwashed, medium. 16@18 Hickory —- per bu. .
urs ’
Cocoanuts, full sacks 75
Chestnuts, per bu...
Peanuts
50 | Fancy, . P..Suns.. 5%@
Fancy, H . Pe. Suns
Roasted ........... 6%@7
Choice, H. P., Extras
Mink 25@2 Choice, H. P., Extras
Raccoo 10@ 30 spies ices es @
seer cecceeeeees n’w
Skunk 15@1 00 ' Span. Shild No. 1n’ 6%O 7%

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Butters
te Oa. DOT Gor... 52
2to6 'gal., Ber ees 6%
ee cc ee 56
ee Ce 70
coe ON 84
15 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 20
20 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 60
25 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2 5
30 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 270
Churns
2006 eal. peor eal... 7
“hurn Dashers, per doz..............- 84
Milkpans
\% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 52
1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each............ 6%
Fine Glazed Milkpans
% gal flat or rd. bot., vac @oy.... .... 60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each............ 6
Stewpans
\% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail; por doz......... 1 10
Jugs
wee. perder... 2 8. 60
14 gal. per a ees ewe scl eme 45
Dip gal, por eal... . ee i
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib............... 2
LAMP BURNERS
me sen. 35
ie Ce 45
oe... 65
a 110
Sea... SIE Sch Se Cota Juana 45
POG eee ok a 50
LAMP ee ee
Per box of 6 doz.
Pe Gee. 150
ie Ce ee 1 66
ie Sees ee 2 36
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 215
No. 2 Sun; crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 15
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wra . & lab. 3 75
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4007
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 5 00
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled.. 5 10
No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe
Lamps Siu e sed Wicucielsl welseias se 80
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 90
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 15
No. 1 Crimp, Per aes. 5 6.622.525... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.................. 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (65¢ doz).................. 3 50
No. 2 Lime (70c¢ = 3 75
No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)****............-. 470
: Electric
No. 2 Lime = — 3 75
No. 2 Flint (80e doz).... 4 40
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 1 40
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz... 1 58
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 278
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 75
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 4 85
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 4 25
5 gal. Hiling ean iron = faucet, per doz.. 4 95
Opal. Title cane... .. ... oo 7 25
5 gal. galv. iron on iin ee ase 9 00
Pump Cans
5 gal. Rapid steady stream 8 50
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow 10 50
3 gal. Home Rule..... 9 95
5 gal. Home Rule.. 11 28
5 eal. Pirate Bing... ... cs oo. ..- 9 50
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side lift............... 485
OG. 2B Tamar os 7 40
No. 15 Tubular, dash.. ie 7 50
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain... .... 2. 7 50
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp............. 13 50
No. 3 Street lamp, each.............. 3 60
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢ 45
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢ 45
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 2 00
No.0 Tub., Bull’ 's eye, cases i doz. each 125

 

 

Earthenware Meat Tubs

15, 20, 25, 30 gal. All sizes instock. We can ship
promptly. Prices are right. Send us your order.

W. 8. & J. E. Graham

GRAND RApPips, MIcH.

 

GAS AND GASOLINE

MANTLES

Glovers’ Gems, Satisfaction, and Perfection
are the best.

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. CO.,

Manufacturers, Importers, and Jobbers of ‘Gas
and Gasoline Sundries,

GRAND RAPIDs, MICH.

 

 

rompt-
ness

The things you overlooked when
our salesman visited you can be
ordered from us by telephone, tel-
egraph or letter.

They will be shipped on the
first train.

We appreciate the fact that when
you want something, you want it
right off.

Therefore, prompt shipments.

BROWN & SEHLER.

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.

 

 

THE NULITE

750 Candle Power ARC ILLUMINATORS
Produce the finest artificial light in the world.

 

Indoor Lamp.
Outdoor Arc,

  

Superior to ——— or gas, cheaper than kero-
— my A 20th century revelation in the art of
ght
Shey darkness —_ daylight turn,
And air instead of money burn.
No smoke, no odor, no noise, absolutely safe.
They are portable, hang or stand them anywhere.
We also mrnufacture Table Lamps, Wall
Lamps, Pendants, Chandeliers, Street
Lamps, etc. The best and only really success-
ful Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps made. They
sell at sight’ Good agents wanted. Write for
catalogue and prices.

CHICAGO SOLAR LIGHT CO,.,
81 L. Fifth Ave. Chicago, Ill.

 

Simple
Account File

Simplest and

Most Economical
Method of Keeping
Petit Accounts

File and 1,000 printed blank

 

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bill heads.............. $2 75
File and 1,000 specially

printed bill heads. ..... 3 00
Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand........... 1 25
Specially printed bill heads,

per thousand..... eoseee I 5O

Tradesman Company,

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Window Dressing

Trims Appropriate for the Month of Feb-
ruary.

 

 

February rejoices in being the birth-
day of the man who was “‘first in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen,’’ as the phrase runs,
and therefore it is seemly to honor the
event in one’s window trimming. A
Washington's birthday trim may be
made by simply using the national col-
ors in connection with a regular trim or
by an elaborate special trim. The
floor of the window puffed with red,
white and blue bunting and with the
national colors displayed in.the form of
a draping at the back is simple, easy
and effective. As the famous hatchet
and cherry tree incident is known to all
good and bad Americans, another idea
would be to introduce small hatchets in-
to a trim in some such way as follows:
Billets of cherry wood in the rough,
about one or two feet long, are placed
about the window at regular or irregular
intervals and a small hatchet is driven
into each one at its tip. There should
also be card in the window containing
that famous quotation: ‘‘ Father, I can
not tell a lie. I did it with my little
hatchet.’’ Another idea would be to
introduce an effect which would be a
burlesque on this charming little fib
(for the story is a fib, as has lately been
proved by historians): A good sized
cherry tree is introduced into the win-
dow with its stump beside it, the bot-
tom of the stump being concealed by
moss and other natural objects. The
tree is sawed cleanly from the stump.
In the top of the stump is stuck a toy
hatchet and near by is the quotation
given above, prominently displayed on
a card. Still another idea is to drape
the back and sides of the window in
red, white and blue bunting in plain
folds or box pleats. Over the top of the
background are draped two national flags
bound about by red, white and blue
ribbon. In front of the background on
a pedestal covered with the national
colors is placed a bust of Washington.
Directly in front of the bust, and sus-
pended from the ceiling, is placed a
hollow circle of wood which is covered
with red, white and blue bunting, hav-
ing its edges puffed in the same colors.
At regular intervals on its front bunches
of artificial or natural cherry leaves and
fruit are attached,and interspersed with
these are little hatchets stuck into the
circle at their tips. Price cards made
of little hatchets, cut from cardboard and
colored with water colors or oils, can be
used on the garments displayed. Ifa
stuffed eagle can be had it might be
placed in the middle background of a
window beneath the bust or picture of
Washington attached to the background.
Sloping from it to the front is placed a
large shield in the national colors
draped about with flags. Washington’s
birthday also gives an opportunity for
the introduction of relics of colonial or
revolutionary times into the window.
If one of our readers thinks of making
up a trim of revolutionary weapons,
clothing or so on he will do well to
avoid the mistake that was made by an
enterprising dealer, who once put in his
window a very large bell crowned white
silk hat of antique shape, with a card
saying that it was a hat that Washington
once wore. As the hat was of the vin-

tage of about 1850 or thereabouts, it did
not excite as much reverence and awe
as the enterprising dealer expected it
would, On the contrary he lost caste,

 

because he was such an unskilled liar.

Plaster casts are now made so cheap-
ly and their value as accessories in win-
dow trims for national holidays is so
great that they are a profitable pur-
chase. The casts of our country’s great
men, such as Washington, Lincoln and
Grant, come in handy on a multitude of
occasions and can be used with advan-
tage many times over.

* * *

We give herewith a list of some two
or three color combinaticens, which may
be of some assistance to trimmers who
are doubtful about the use of colors.
This list is taken from a_ scientific
treatise on color by an-eminent author-
ity on the use of color in the textile
arts. It is only a partial list, but it may
be of use to some trimmer who desires
to produce something novel in the way
of backgrounds. In each case the color
meant is the pure color known by that
name and derived by the scientist from
the spectrum. Two cclors used to-
gether—red and blue, red and green,
scarlet and turquoise, scarlet and blue,
orange-red and blue, orange-red and
violet, orange-red and turquoise, orange
and violet, orange and blue, orange-
yellow and violet, orange-yellow and
purple, greenish yellow with violet or
purple, bluish green with violet. Three
colors used together—red, yellow and
blue; orange, green and violet; amber,
cream and blue; red, gold and blue;
leaf-green, puce and rose-gray; leaf
green, violet and salmon; terra cotta,
maroon and sage green; yellow, violet
and yellowish green; green, orange and
turquoise; amber, pale blue and crim-
son; maroon, bronze yellow and dark
olive green; apricot, crimson and pale
gold brown.

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Now is the time of year when the
merchant should consider the matter of
fixtures. He should overhaul his stock
of window fixtures, making a note of
what he will need for the coming spring
trade. Care should be taken to invest
in simple, solid fixtures that can be used
in the greatest variety of ways without
the investment of large sums of money.
An elaborate, fanciful, ornate window
fixture of metal is not a good invest-
ment in a store where it must constant-
ly be used in the window. Simpler and
plainer fixtures that do not attract so
much attention to themselves are better
in the long run. Some of our readers in
small places have made use of our sug-
gestions for home made fixtures and
perhaps they may feel that these are
good enough for their business. Such
should not be the case. Window trim-
ming is a form of advertising and noth-
ing is so true of advertising as the fact
that to be successful it should be done
on the most thorough and elaborate scale
possible. Try to economize in some
other direction in order to get some
good window fixtures of metal. Send
for the catalogue of some good fixture
house and with your letter send a state-
ment of your general needs, so that you
may get expert advice as to how to in-
vest in fixtures that are the best adapted
for your purpose. Nothing can take the
place of fine, well made, well finished
metal fixtures in a modern up-to-date
window. Therefore do not be content to
make some home made article do the
work, but introduce a little freshness
and spruceness into your window by the
addition of some simple, substantial
articles of metal.

es +

We have spoken before in this de-

partment about the advantage to the

 

 

his windows. By keeping such a record
he has, as we have pointed out, a record
of the devices that he has utilized in
the past and that, in emergencies, he
can turn to for profitable methods of dis-
playing goods. A further advantage of
such a record is that it tends to correct
any tendency that the trimmer may
have to always exhibit the same articles.
We do not mean identically the same
articles, but articles of the same partic-
ular line.

 

trimmer of keeping a careful memo-
randum of the trims that he places in
There are lines of goods in §

 

32 YEARS OF PAIN BANISHED.

This grand specific for all KIDNEY
DISORDERS basa record of fourteen

years of cures like the following:

not be forgotten that the merchant should
never be satisfied to let any line of
goods that he carries stay out of the
windows permanently. Make the best
use of your windows by showing what
you have in stock. Show even the com-
monest things. It is well to remind
people that you have such things as
overalls, for example. They may be
only a sideline for a clothing store, but
put them in the window. Make upa
trim that shows them to the best advan-
tage. The space is not wasted, for it
shows that you are prepared to cater to
all lines of trade in clothing. A trim
of such goods will be attractive because
of its very novelty. Don’t think that
the very nicest goods are always to go
into the window. As a rule they should,
of course, but sometimes put ina trim
of the humbler articles. If people need
them they should be advertised and ad-
vertised in a way that will make them
trade bringers, even although they may
not be very profitable or desirable in
themselves.—Apparel Gazette.
——__—_> 20> ___—
Empty compliments and
abuse are on an equal footing.

“During the war I enlisted in Co. I of the 7th
New York Infantry. Through exposure and sleep-
ing on the ground I was taken down with rheuma-
tism. If my body had been filled with millions of
needles I could not have suffered more. Opium
deadened the pains but it could not cure me.
could get no relief from any other source and I
became a slave to the drug. After thirty-two years
of constant suffering I learned of Abbott Bros.’
Rheumatic Cure and tried it. Five bottles cured
me. Any medicine that will cure a man at my age
of the opium habit and rheumatism, crippled as I
was for thirty-two years, is nothing less than magi-
cal and God-like in it’s power.

ConraD LANGSHULTZ,
$38 Ninth Avenue, New York City.’

Money cannot buy a more speedy or safer
CURE FOR

Rheumatism and Neuralgia.

The world is challenged to produce its equal.
One or two bottles will cure anybody of the
morphine or opium habit.

Large Bottles $1.25; Six for $6.00

j2-A trial bottle will do you a world of
good has cured hundreds of the most obsti-
nate cases. Sent postpaid to any address
for only 35 cents.

Agents Wanted. Write for Terms.
Abbott Brothers Company,
134 E, Van Buren St. CHICACO, ILL.

stock in every store that rarely get into|

the windows. This is due in part to the

exigencies of the business, but it should
senseless

 

 

 

Michigan Bark & Lumber Co.,

527 and 528
Widdicomb Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

C.. U. CLARK.
President.

W. D. WADE,
Vice-President.

F. N. CLARK,
Sec’y and Treas.

Highest Cash prices paid
and bark measured promptly

 

by experienced men. Call
on or write us.
a atalino,”
e

Big Bargain

in Tumblers and Tin Top Jellies

until March 1. We offer above at 13 cents per doz.
4 kinds banded, (one kind in each barrel), 22 doz. in
barrel, shipped from factory. Mail your orders at
once before they are gone, to

DeYoung & Schaafsma

Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents
Office and Salesrooms over 112 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids

 

 

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32

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

The Woman With the Hatchet.
Written for the Tradesman.

Whether the Illinois Legislature will
or will not resolve to invite Mrs. Na-
tion, ‘‘the Kansas joint smasher,’’ to
address them, the indisputable fact re-
mains that this woman’s method for
putting down one of the worst evils that
curse society is meeting with general
approval, and the fact that the Legis-
lature of a sister State has entertained,
even in fun, the idea of inviting ‘“‘the
woman with the hatchet’’ to address
them shows that an undercurrent in the
right direction has set in and is already
making itself felt the country over.

It is simply the recital of an old story
with the old outcome. Pain, suffering,
agony, the turning of the worm when
patience has long ceased to be a virtue
—all end in the inevitable smash-up.
So feudalism came to an end; so the
English yeomanry exacted Charles
Stuart’s head; so the manhood of the
French peasantry asserted itself in the
French Revolution, and so Mrs. Nation,
with her unwomanly weapon of warfare,
is determined to bruise, if she can not
cut off, the head of this modern serpent
that since the expulsion from Eden has
bruised woman’s heel.

The silent approval which every-
where greets Mrs. Nation’s unques-
tioned lawlessness is convincing proof
of the sympathy she is receiving from
all sorts and conditions of men, and
strongly suggests that, if society will
have it so, this crusade to pulverize the
rum power may not have the common
fate of the usual fad and vagary. To

avoid this ‘‘the woman with the
hatchet’’ must not stand and smash
alone. There is a power behind the

saloon mirror that will not be shivered
with the woman's most powerful blow,
and unless the manhood of the country
shall add his strength to the Eve-lifted
hatchet it is doubtful if much comes
from this vigorous and promising be-
ginning.

One fact which must be constantly
kept in mind is that the home and the
woman at the head of it must take and
keep an uncompromising stand against
this unquestioned death-dealer. In all
the struggles with it and against it the
home has been a constant shirk. It has
delegated its duty to the pulpit, and
that part of the church furniture has
done its best to but little purpose. That
part of the community given up to
drink is not, asa general thing, found
in the church congregation. The legis-
latures were appealed to and laws were
passed putting the solving of the tem-
perance question upon the introduction
of a text book into the public schools—
a proceeding as efficient as the attempt
to put out the great Chicago fire with a
squirtgun! The home, in the mean-
time, has kept back out of sight. So-
ciety has continued to drink wine, and
has not always confined itself to wine ;
and the children brought up to ‘‘look
upon the wine when it is red’’ have not
been taught by the home life and the
home training, ‘‘by precept and ex-
ample,’’ that the stuff is a dilution of
ratsbane, with every bottle marked with
poison's seal of a skull and crossbones.
That has ever been, and is, the duty of
the home, and it is submitted that duty
has not been done. ‘‘Alcohol is a
poison,’’ declares the minister. ‘‘It is
a fire and will certainly burn to death
the stomach that receives it,’’ says the
wise schoolmaster ; and the boy at recess
tells his schoolmates that what the
teacher says is ‘‘all rot, for the folks
knocked out a whole case at the dinner

 

 

last night and there ain’t a single burnt
stomach among ‘em!’ Mrs. Nation has
the best intentions in the world. She
may go on with her joint smashing un-
til not a joint is left and she may then
learn, what the rest of the world knows
now, that smashing the barometer does
not bring about any change in the
weather, that she has been destroying a
lot of alcohol barometers that simply
indicated the condition of the temper-
ance weather and that all she has ac-
complished is a confirmation of the oft-
repeated fact, that destroying the effect
does not necessarily destroy or disturb
the cause.

It is to be hoped that something per-
manent and beneficial may be the out-
come, and in order that this may be the
result it is equally to be hoped that the
home will come bravely to the front and
strenuously grapple with the greatest
evil that has always determinedly as-
sailed it. The pulpit has fought and
failed. Legislatures have proved them-
selves powerless. The school teacher
and the text book have both shown
themselves silly and weak, and it now
remains for the home to assert itself and
settle, as it only can, what has shown
itself to be the question of the ages. If
‘‘the woman with the hatchet’’ can
bring this about the barometer will in-
dicate a more commendable condition
of things and posterity, recognizing the
good she has done, ‘‘will rise up and
call her blessed.’’ R. M. Streeter.

eal
California Moving in the Matter of Food
Laws.

San Francisco, Feb. 12—This Asso-
ciation is on the point of taking action
to effect legislation at Sacramento the
coming session and one of the matters
under advancement is a pure food bill.

We have at present pure foods laws to
some extent, but the authority for carry-
ing out their provisions is lacking and
we are, consequently, not as fully in-
formed as to the best move to make in
line of past experience in other states
as we might be.

I am writing you therefore to say that
such a general letter of information as
you may be able to furnish me wili be
appreciated by this office and our mem-
bers and reciprocated whenever pos-
sible.

If it is possible for you to send me a
copy of your law as it now stands, I
shall be glad if you will do so.

I will not go into general matters in
this letter, but might say that we organ-
ized on Nov. 15, after the greatest effort
in that direction being made for some
years by Mr. Powers of the Retail Gro-
cers’ Advoocate, and that the work of
organizing local associations throughout
the State by myself has been cordially
received in the smaller towns. -

From a starting basis of some 350
members in the San Francisco local or-
ganization, we now number in the
neighborhood of 800 and, before winter
is over, the prospect seems fair that we
shall have an association in nearly
every town in the State of sufficient size
to hold one. Where a town is not of
sufficient size to effect a local organiza-
tion we are taking members singly.

Howard K. James,
Sec’y Cali. Retail Grocers’ Association.

The food laws in this State and the
creation of a dairy and food department
are due to the continued agitation of the
retail grocers’ associations, the Michi-
gan Dairymen’s Association, the State
grange and such other organizations of
merchants and farmers as were vitally
interested in bringing about a better
condition of things generally. The laws
were enacted from time to time, but
amounted to very little until their en-
forcement was. placed in the hands of
an officer known as Dairy and Food
Commissioner, who now has an annual
appropriation of $18,000, which enables

 

him to employ a deputy and a chemist
and keep several inspectors continuously
in the field. Our first Food Commis-
sioner was a nobody, but for the past
four years the position has been filled
by a very competent man, as the result
of which the quality of the food prod-
ucts offered for sale in this State has
been revolutionized by the shutting out
of impure and injurious goods and also
by the prohibition of goods on which
the label is not true to the contents. Our
experience in Michigan is that laws
are of little value unless there is an am-
ple appropriation and the proper ma-
chinery to enforce them and—quite as
important—a man in the office of Food
Commissioner who is incorruptible and
courageous and who possesses the nec-
essary backbone to do his duty without

fear or favor.
—_____ 2. ____
An Apt Illustration.

“*I see so much in the newspapers
about subsidies. What does a subsidy
mean, John?’’ i

‘A subsidy, Mary, is where I give
you $20 for going to see your mother in-
stead of having her come to see you.’’

Busines Hain

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.

aS HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS OF
any kind, farm or city property or manu-
facturing plants that they wish to sell or ex-
change correspond with the Derby & Choate
Real Estate Co., Flint, Mich. 709
OR SALE—A PAYING CONFECTIONERY
and baking business in Toledo, Ohio; fine
chance for a baker with a little money. Address
No. 708, care Michigan Tradesman. 708

7x14, 12 FEET HIGH STEVENS REFRIG-
erator, double box, 12 feet marble top coun-
ter, 4 meat blocks. Must be sold atonce. Make
us an offer. The Milnes Supply Co., Coldwater,
Mich. 707
POR SALE—FIRST-CLASS HARDWARE DO-
ing a good business. Can be bought for 90
cents on the dollar if taken at once. Good
chance for a hustler; stock, $4,000; town 1,200;
must go South for health. Address No. 713, care
Michigan Tradesman. 713

ANNING FACTORY FOR SALE. AD-
dress Grand Ledge Canning Co., Grand
Ledge, Mich. 716
rs SALE—ONE BLACKSMITH SHOP AND
tools in good location; nine room dwelling;
— welland outbuildings. G. W. Black, An-
erson, Mich. 715

re SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-

chandise, invoicing about $3,000, at a fine
trading point; one of the best managed stores in
Northern Indiana. Reason for selling, sickness.
Address No. 714, care Michigan Tradesnan. 714

VOR SALE—BAZAAR STOCK IN MANU-
facturing town of 2,000 in Southwestern
Michigan; good location; good reasons for sell-
ing. Address No. 712, care Michigan Trades-
man. 712
Ko SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, INVOIC-
ing $2,800; terms, part cash, balance time;
will sell or rent buildings. Owner is going out of
business. Address S: J. Doty, Harrietta, Mich.
Jal
YOR SALE—I WILL SELL MY BRANCH
store at Sault Ste. Marie; good, clean stock.
tote: sell peal — —. Reason for selling,
pressure of business elsewhere. Hugh } -
zie, Manistee, Mich. = a

RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN A GOOD LIVE
Western Michigan town, invoicing between
$3,000 and $4,000. Address Hazeltine and Per-
kins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 717
RUG STOCK FOR SALE. A GOOD CLEAN
stock, invoicing about $2,400, located in a
thriving county seat town in Central Michigan.
ade and stand established for over twenty-five
years. Sales average about $20 per day. Ex-
penses light. No cutting of prices. A rare op-
portunity to secure a good, profitable business.
Address No. 719, care Michigan Tradesman. 719
IMBER AND FARM LANDS—HEMLOCK
T hardwood and cedar timber for sale in large
or small tracts, cheap farm lands, hardwood and
pine stump lands. Don’t ask what I have. but
tell me what you want. E. T. Merrill, Reed
City. 695

 

 

INE DRUG STORE, INVOICING $2,500, FOR

$2,000. Three stocks dry oods, cheap; all

good towns. Clark's Business Eocncuoe, Grand
Rapids. 704

AND M. AND U.S. ARC LAMPS.

M e live agent wanted in every town. OM

goods with a record. It doesn’t cost you as

much. Two years’ commercial service has proven

that we manufacture the onl practical gasoline

Soe ease. Ask = man 3 0 has them. Write

ropositions. artin & Moreh
51 to 57 W. ashington St., Chicago. 708"

 

OR SALE—DRUG STOCK, INVOICING
$1,600; doing good business; expenses light;
will pay to investigate; best of reasons for sell-
ing. Address No. 694, care Michigan —
man.

RUSTEES! TRUSTEES! WE PAY CASH

for stocks of merchandise. If you want an
offer write The Romeyn-Parsons Co., Grand
Ledge, Mich. 697

OR SALE—BUSINESS PROPERTY IN PE-
toskey, half block from postoftice. Address
Chas. Neft, Petoskey, Mich. 700

$10 000 PIECE BUSINESS PROPERTY ON
9 Division street for $6,500. Clark’s
Real Estate Exchange, Grand Rapids 699

EWELRY BUSINESS FOR SALE IN
Southern Michigan town; small stock; good
bench trade; good location; cheap rent. Ad-
dress No. 696, care Michigan Tradesman. 696
IG RETURNS FOR SMALL CAPITAL—
We have just succeeded in securing the ex-
elusive control and manufacture of the cele-
brated Doran Hydro-Carbon Lighting System,
which is the best system light yet invented for
interior and street lighting; each lamp gives
1,200 candle power light, can be turned on or off
instantly, the same as electricity; absolutely
safe, simple and satisfactory. a
solicited from all interested parties and munici-
pal officers, and those who would like a good
paying business in their own city or town.
Acorn Brass Works, 20 South Jefferson St.,
Chicago. 659
OR SALE—DRUG FIXTURES AND ACETY-
lene plant. Send for list. Safe wanted.
H. P. French, Woodland, Mich. 687

HAVE A FIRST-CLASS 160 ACRE IM-
roved oo and hay farm in Mason county
which I will exchange for timber land. Address
George Engel, Mendon, Mich. 672
ANTED—IN THE BIGGEST LITTLE
town in Michigan flour mill, pening mill,
canning factory, agricultural implement dealer,
novelty works and home seekers; abundance of
timber; immense water power; two railroads
and cheap stump lands. rite for descriptive
booklet. Wm. Hoge. Secretary of Association,
Thompsonville, Mich. 677
OCATION WANTED FOR SAWMILL;
will saw on contract or will buy timber. Ad-
dress George Engel, Mendon, Mich. 673

R SALE CHEAP — $2,000 GENERAL
stock and building. Address No. 240, care
Michigan esman. 240
SMALL DRUG STORE FOR SALE CHEAP,
with fixtures. Address John I. Crissman,
Utica, Mich. 652

ONEY ON THE SPOT FOR CLEAN
stock of merchandise, #5,000 or over. Ad-
dress Box 113, Grand Ledge, Mich. 660

ANTED—ENERGETIC COUNTRY
printer who has saved some money from
his wages to embark in the publication of a local
te Will furnish a portion of the mate-
rial, take half interest in the business and give
partner benefit of long business experience,
without giving business personal attention.
None need apply who does not conform to re-
uirements, which are ironclad. Zenia, care
ichigan Tradesman. 631

ANTED— MERCHANTS TO _ CORRE-

spond with us who wish to sell their entire

stocks for spot cash. _— Purchasing
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, Ill. 585

OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES, DRY
goods and shoes inventorying about $2,500,
enjoying lucrative trade in good country town
about thirty miles from Grand Rapids. Will
rent or sell store building. Buyer can purchase
team and goatee wagon, if desired. Terms,
half cash, balance on time. Address No. 592,
care Michigan Tradesman. 592
VOR SALE — GENERAL MERCHANDISE
stock, invoicing about $7,000; stock in Al
shape; selling about $25,000 a year, with good
se ts; trade established over twenty years; a
ortune here for a hustler; terms, one-half cash
down, balance one and two years, well secured
by real estate mortgage; also store buildin:
and fixtures for sale or exchange for good Gran
Rapids residence prooery on East Side; must
be free from debt and title perfect. Address
No. 520, care Michigan Tradesman. 520

JOR SALE—DRUG STOCK INVOICING
$2,000, in good corner store in the best town

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in Western Michigan. The best of reasons for
selling. Address No. 583, care Michigan —
man.

VOR RENT—A GOOD BRICK “STORE IN
good business town on Michigan Central
Railroad ; good living rooms above; good storage
below; city water and electric light. Address
Box 298, Decatur, Mich. 588

MISCELLANEOUS

ANTED—RELIABLE, UP-TO-DATESHOE
salesman, single young man preferred;
must be competent to haudle and look after
large fine stock in country town of 2,500. State
Sa salary expected and give reference.
Address No. 706, care Michigan Tradesman. 706

ANTED—A GOOD EXPERIENCED

 

 

 

clerk for general store. Must be well rec-

ommended and a good worker. Address C. B.
Bailey, Manton, Michigan. 718
ANTED—BY STEADY SOBER MAN WHO
has had experience in hardware store sit-
uation as tinner. Address Tinner, care Michi-
gan Tradesman.

ANTED — POSITION AS APPRENTICE
in drug business. Have had experience.
Box 147, Saranac, Mich. 701

$2 7 5 sent with order will buy
e one of these harp shaped
Imperial Gas Lamps. It will be
shipped f. o. b. Chicago, completely
trimmed, carefully packed so that
weight of package is less than ten
pounds, hence charges by express
would not be high. jae urns -
oline and gives a beautiful white light
and is fully . Write.
The Imperial Gas Lamp Co.
132 and 134 East Lake St., Chicago

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS FIXTURES Co.

Shipped

Case. knocked
One down.
of First
our class
leaders. freight.

 

No. 52.

Discription: Oak, finished in light antique, rubbed and polished.
wide, 44 inches high. Write for illustrated catalogue and prices.
We are now located two blocks south of Union Depot.

Cor. Bartlett and South lonia Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Made any length, 28 inches

 

Higa

MAKE BUSINESS

 

A quick and easy method of
keeping your accounts. Es-
pecially handy for keeping ac-
count of goods let out on ap-
proval, and for petty accounts
with which one does not like to
encumber the regular ledger.
By using this file or ledger for

 

charging accounts, it will save
one-half the time and cost of keeping a set of books.

Charge goods, when
purchased, directly
on file, then your cus-
tomer’s bill is always
ready for him, and
can be found quickly,
on account of the
This
saves you looking over several leaves of a day book if not posted,

special index.

when a customer comes in to pay an account and you are busy wait-

ing on a prospective buyer.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids

 

 

 

MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres-
ident, J. H. Hopkins, Ypsilanti; Secretary,
E. A. Srowk, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.

 

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRANK J. Dyk; Secretary, HOMER
KuaP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association

President, E. MARKS; Secretaries, N. L.
KOENIG and F. H. Cozzens; Treasurer, C.
H. FRINK.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association
President, E. L. HARRIS; Secretary, CHAS.
HYMAN.
Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C
LITTLE.

Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association

President, H. B. SmiTH; Secretary, D. A.
BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W
H. PorTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, A. ©. CLARK; Secretary, E. F.
CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN

Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association

President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc-
PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, 1HOS T. BATES; Secretary, M. B.
Hou.y; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association

President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T.
CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS.

Pt. Horoas Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association

President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T.
PERCIVAL.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.

Calumet Business Men’s Association
President, J. D. CuppiHy; Secretary W. H.
HOSKING.
St. Johns Business Men’s Association

President, THos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK
A. PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT.

Perry Business Men’s Association
President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E.
HE&DDLE.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER-
HOEKS.
Yale Business Men’s Association
President, CHAS. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK
PUTNEY.
Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association

President, JoHN G. EBLE; Secretary, L. J.
Katz; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

 

Write for Samples and Prices on

Street Car and Fine
Feed Stuffs

DARRAH BROS. CO., Big Rapids, Mich. -

 

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' _ Organized 1881.
Detroit, Michigan.

Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000.
Cash Assets, $800,000.
D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres.
D. M. FERRY, Vice Pres.
F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary.
M. W. O’Brien, Treas.
E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y.
DrRECTORS.

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker,
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack,
Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L.
Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, EE.
Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, Hugo
Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace,
James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry
Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D.
Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills,
Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, Ss.
G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F.
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit-
ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy, Chas. C. Jenks.

    
  
    
   
    
   

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PERE MARQUETTE

Railroad and Steamship Lines.
Fast trains are operated from Grand Rapids
to Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Saginaw, Bay City,
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav-
erse City, Alma, Lansing, Belding, Benton Har-
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points, making
close connections at Chicago with trains for the
south and west, at Detroit and Toledo with
trains east and southbound. Try the ‘Mid-Day
Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids 12:05 noon, each
week day, arriving at Detroit 4:05 p. m. and
Chicago 5:00 p. m.
H. F. MorLusr, GC. PF. A,
W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

 

 

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway

Dec. 2, 1900.

GRAN

 

Except Except Except

NORTH Sunday Sunday Sunday
Ly. Grand Rapids..... 7 45am 2 10pm 10 45pm
Ar. Cagiiae.......:... 11 20am 5 40pm 2 10am
Ar. Traverse City. .... 200m (50pm .......-
Ar. Petoskey.........- 250pm 915pm 5 35am
Ar. Mackinaw City ... 4 15pm 10 35pm_ «6:55am

Local train for Cadillac leaves Grand Rapids
at 5:20 p m daily except Sunday.
Pullman sleeping or parlor cars on all through
trains.
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m, 10:45
am, 5:15 p mand 10:15 p m daily except Sunday
Except Except Except ,.; "
SOUTH Sundy Sundy enae Daily Daily
Ly. G’d Rapids. 710a 1230p 150p 650p 1130p
Ar. Kalamazoo 850a 145p 322p 8385p 100a
Ar. Ft. Wayne. 1210p ..... 6iep it ia .....
Ar Cirsciupatl G2p ..... .-.... ime |...
6:50pm train carries Pullman sleeping car to
Cineinnati. 11:30pm train carries through coach
and Pullman sleeping car to Chicago. i
Pullman parlor cars on other trains.
Trains arrive from the south at 6:45am and
9:10am daily, 2:00pm, 9:45pm and 10:15pm except
Sunday.

io Except Except Except

MUSKEGON® Sunday Sunday Sunday

Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7 35am 2 05pm 5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon........ 90am 320pm 7 00pm

Sunday train leave Grand Rapids at 9:l5am.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at 9:30am,
1:30pm and 5:20pm except Sunday and 6:50pm
Sunday only.
CHICAGO TRAINS
G. R. & I and Michigan Central.
TO CHICAGO ae Daily
Ly. G’d Rapids (Union Sept) 1230pm_ 1130pm
Ar. Chicago (12th St. Station) 525pm 655am
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago with Pull-
man buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train has through coach and Pullman
sleeping car. E ‘
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FROM CHICAGO Sunday Daily

Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm 11 30pm
Ar. Gd Rapids (Union depot) 10 15pm 6 45am
5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping
car. Phone 606 for Information.

 

 

We make a specialty of

Pure Rye Flour

We have the best equipped mill in Mich-
igan for this purpdse. Write for prices.
We deal direct with merchants.

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THE BIG BRIDGE
OVER NIAGARA

Have you ever been at ‘‘Niagara” and noticed the provision
the mechanical engineers have made in the construction of this
ereat bridge to mechanically take up the slack in the span in the
hot weather when the metals expand over four feet; and to pro-
vide for the opposite effect in cold weather when the metals con-
tract? This is engineering.

_ There is another great piece of mechanical engineering em-
bodied in something considerably smaller than the ‘‘Niagara’”
bridge. It is the Thermostat which takes up the slack and pro-
vides for the contraction of the Springs on ‘‘The Boston” Scales
made by our company. This is of more importance than ‘‘Niag-
ara” bridge because it automatically avoids loss to the butcher by
its absolute accuracy in all seasons.

A Spring Balance Scale without the ‘‘Thermostat” is
worthless.

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, The glass is a high grade, brilliant crystal, highly polished
and finished and a sure seller. Order a package at once for

H. LEONARD & SONS,

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Buckwheat Flour

Made by

J. H. Prout & Co.,
Howard City, Mich.

Has that genuine old-fash-
ioned taste and is
ABSOLUTELY PURE

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More healthful than coffee.

Costs the consumer less.

Affords the retailer larger profit.

Send for sample case.
See quotations in price current.

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WHOLESALE
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Importers and Jobbers of

Crockery, Glass, Lamps, House
Furnishing Goods

CLEVELAND, OHIO

 

This line is selling im-
mensely and we find it diffi-
cult to keep up with orders.
Try a sample dozen of the
newest styles—$3.50 to $6

per dozen.

to retail at 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c and up. Full line of Spikes or Ribbon Ends.
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This case is much lower priced than you would imagine from its handsome appear-
ance Standard size 42 inches high, 26 inches wide end made in any length We
manufacture a complete line of fine up-to-date show cases. Send for our 48-page
catalogue containing description and prices of the goods we manufacture.

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