OYE LINONR (VR) > ae x x oN a ZR AGON SI oe STYLING Ace EG CF SRS SEV BIRS | . < )) Poe Kanere (ss), EN Me A Ayer ZAI A C Neca xe OES yy ; Q S b HEN A, Oh Lae rN A we ae SA iG Pd Le) y M NG HES aS CONE Ieee HIGAN IBA EYE AN aCe (7/7 eb) a | wt € “ 70) (Cn ae PRU: Na Le ae AUT ZA Dy ee D un) 3 99999900990 9OOO 06000004 ee THE : FIRE; \ INS. ¢ 3 1? co. $ r Prompt, Conservative, Safe. ‘ Sies .CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBaIN, eau VvvuvvvvvVvvVVvVY Se Wholesale Ready Made Clothing Nearly all kinds, for all seasons, for Men, Boys and Children. Meet WILLIAM CONNOR who will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, May 6 to9, and you will see a large line of samples to select from. Customers’ expenses allowed. Or if you prefer, write him, care Sweet’s Hotel, and he will call on you. He pays prompt attention to mail orders. Ts cecilia A. BOMERS, ..Commercial Broker.. And Dealer in Cigars and Tobaccos, 157 E. Fulton St. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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 EDWIN O. WOOD, Flint, Mich. Supreme Commander in Chief. 13 ONLY 13 Genuine Bargains If you use a Cost Book you will never get another such bargain as we are offer- ing—13 books only are left. When they are gone you will pay four times our present price if you get one. Write for sample leaf and particulars. BARLOW BROS. Grand Rapids, Michigan ASSOCIATE OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES References: State Bank of Michigan and Mich- igan Tradesman, Grand Rapids. Collector and Commercial Lawyer and Preston National Bank, Detroit. ~ Tradesman Coupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. Getting the People. 3. Men of Mark. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. Kosher Meat. Editorial. Editorial. Dry Goods. Clothing. Shoes and Rubbers. Window Dressing. The Meat Market. Poultry. Butter and Eggs. The New York Market. Woman’s World. Hardware. Proved His Point. Village Improvement. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Cozzens a Hoo-Doo. Hardware Quotations. Rebate of Taxes on Tobacco. WOMAN AND THE BROOM. From time immemorial! the broom has been sacred to woman. It is at once with her the emblem of the domestic virtues and the insignia of warfare. When we think of her as a ministering angel we picture the well-swept hearth, and when, lapsing from the ways of peace, she goes upon the warpath, it is still the faithful ally and friend with which she routs her foes. It is her way of turning the plowshare into the sword, and in general terms perhaps we can not describe the strenuous woman, who is equal to any emergency, better than by saying that she is the woman who is handy with either end of a broom. In a way, women have also had a kind of broomstick measure of virtue. It is related that once, in one of his great revivals, Mr. Spurgeon asked a house- maid what reason she had to think she had become a Christian, to which she replied, ‘‘Please, sir, I sweeps under the beds now,’’ and he accepted it as an unequivocal sign of grace. Women, too, in a much higher station of life ap- ply pretty much the same test, and when you see one whose house is spick and span and clean from garret to cel- lar you may be very sure that she has a self-righteous consciousness that she is doing her full duty by her family and society. It will, therefore, seem almost like heresy to the sex to learn that science has condemned the broom as the fruit- ful propagator of disease. Mr. Elmer Firth, of Columbia University, has just made this important discovery, and he has been made a doctor of-philosophy for proving it. So far from conserving the welfare of her family by keeping her house well swept, it seems that every time the careful housewife uses the broom she bestirs up millions of mi- crobes to devour them. Mr. Firth followed the death-dealing broom all over New York, into private houses, churches, theaters, street cars, and everywhere he found the rule holds good. He asserts that bacteria stay suspended in the air only a short time. Then they fall to the ground and would stay there, doing comparatively little harm, if women didn’t continually stir up the germs witha broom. Some of his experiments are very interesting and alarming. In an ordinary room, previous to sweeping, he found 600 germs to the cubic meter of air. After sweeping there were 18,000. Ina church during the process of dusting he found 18,000 bacteria to the meter. Twelve hours after the dust had settled he found but 5,900. On a single fiber 1% inches long, taken from the matting in a rail- way train, he counted nearly 2,000,000 germs. It will thus be seen how dan- gerous it is to stir up the animals, and that a woman who uses a broom does so at her peril. Housemaids, who alone of all woman- kind have a deadly antipathy to the broom, will eagerly embrace this new germ theory, but it is likely to get but a scant following from the rest of the sex. Deep down in the feminine heart the belief that cleanliness is next to godliness is firmly implanted, and de- spite scientific warnings women will still be found making war on dirt with their old weapon—the broom. GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. Instead of a reaction, which many have been asserting must soon occur, the week shows constantly increasing intensity in the leading industries. The breaking of all records in the volume of stock trading one day last week is this week, Monday, exceeded by the enor- mous amount of 400,000 shares, the whole number traded in being 2,760,000 shares. While there is more relative conservatism in the advance of prices, as compared with the quantity of busi- ness, many advances are being made and many high records are broken. Some apprehension has been expressed that the tremendous demand for money which must attend such activity, added to the requirements of the British loan of $50,000,000, would affect the market, but all this and, in spite of the fact that considerable gold is going out, appears to have hardly perceptible effect. The white birch forests of Maine are threatened with obliteration by the or- dinary little spool, on which thread is wound. White birch is the only wood much used for making them, and so great is the consumption that the trees have a hard time to supply the demand. The spool mills now use 35,000,000 or 40,000,000 feet of birch timber every year, turning out 800,000,000 spools. Somebody has figured out that enough thread could be wound on these spools to reach around the earth at the equator 3,600 times. Besides the immense quantity of timber used here, 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 feet of it is shipped to Scotland every year in the form of spool bars. een Upward of $8,000,000 worth of ban- anas from the West Indian and Central American plantations are eaten in the United States every year. The island of Jamaica alone sends to this country 4,000,000 bunches annually. TRADE WITH CHINA. There seems to be a determination on the part of most of the powers interested to improve the present opportunity in China to effect more satisfactory trade relations and to acquire greater trading rights than are now’ enjoyed. The United States, Great Britain and Japan have expressed willingness to forego all pecuniary indemnity if sufficiently in- creased trading rights are granted by the Chinese government. This hunger for more extensive trade in China brings up the problem of trade possibilities in that vast empire. All of the powers already enjoy extensive trading rights, but it is one thing to have rights secured by treaty and an- other to enjoy those rights. As a matter of fact, im one way or another the Chinese are able to set aside trading rights so effectually that, aside from the coast line and the markets reached by river steamers from the treaty ports, little or no foreign goods penetrate into the interior of China. Foreign goods can be laid down at the treaty ports at reasonable cost after paying the import duty, but when the package of foreign merchandise essays to penetrate into the interior, then the trouble begins. Every provincial official levies a ‘‘lickin’’ tax as the package passes through his jurisdiction, until very shortly the accumulated charges on the package make its further progress unprofitable. By this process of loading foreign goods with taxes foreign trade is almost completely excluded from the interior of China. Theoretically, we have the right to trade anywhere in China, but practically this privilege extends but little beyond the coast line. There is, of course, very little present demand for foreign goods in the far interior of China, as the people have not yet been educated to foreign requirements. Bet- ter systems of transportation, howe ver, and the overcoming of the intolerable local taxes would soon bring the Chinese properly to appreciate foreign goods. The main concession which the for- eign powers should demand in China is the right to open up railroads and re- place the junks and small boats on the navigable rivers with steam craft. This would cut down the cost of transporta- tion, and destroy eventually the damag- ing ‘‘lickin’’ duties, which are merely a species of extortion exercised by the local officials for their own aggrandize- ment. Whatever the indemnity which China will be made to pay may prove to be, some difficulty is sure to be experi- enced in collecting it, as China’s rev- enues from customs are already hardly sufficient for her old debts. China now owes about $350,000,000, and _ the in- demnity to foreign powers is likely to add that much more to the debt. If China is to pay the interest on this in- creased debt and provide a proper sink- ing fund, her commerce upon which duties may be collected will have to be greatly increased. In their own pro- tection, therefore, the foreign powers will be compelled to coerce China into allowing greater freedom of trade with the outside world. 2 Getting the People Thoroughness in All That Concerns Cus- tomers. I have taken occasion to urge co-oper- ation with the various means of adver- tising employed by having everything to which attention is called in shape for prompt service—having the goods to sell. I wish now to urge more _thor- oughness in selling them. In the old days the common term for the merchant was the storekeeper. It was the custom then to arrange the stock of goods on some general plan—a place for everything and everything in its place; leaving well enough alone until the exigencies of dust, moths or rust compelled a general overhauling. There was the advantage in this that it was easy to keep the location learned by never changing the arrangement, but the plan had its disadvantages. The merchant to-day finds it desir- able to keep in touch with his stock by giving it constant attention. Not that he must be forever pulling down for the sake of changing, with no particular aim, but there is a constant investiga- tion of conditions in every part, a con- stant attention to detect the slightest de- terioration from any cause. In the old ‘‘storekeeping’’ days it was common for the customer to come in and find all hands lounging idly, waiting for something to turn up. To go into sucha store nowadays—there are such stores—gives the live customer a chill of depression. No merchant to-day can afford to have his store a lounging place for em- plcyes. Every one should have duties assigned sufficiently extensive to keep him busy during business hours, whether the store is full of customers or not. It will not do to have apparent duties to which the clerk hastens on the appear- ance of a customer, but he must have genuine work, work necessary to the wel- fare of the business. Anything less than genuine work is a transparent sham to the observing customer. When a would-be purchaser comes into a store he wants attention. He wants just enough attention and not too much. He doesn’t want all the clerks aided by the proprietor and possibly an outside lounger or two to superintend the negotiations. The judicious proprietor knows when a little attention on his own part may be de- sirable, but the proper place for others is about their proper business. The modern methods of displaying and arranging goods are constantly vari- able but a systematic plan is a means of keeping busy when there is nothing else. Then there should be the constant taking stock to know what you have to sell and to prompt replenishment. But I do not need to recount the duties of clerks—they know them better than 1 do, but I can not refrain from urging constant, live attention to their duties, for the habit of slackening is easily ac- quired. ‘ Affectation of work for the sake of an appearance of business is a transparent sham. It will not attract customers. What is necessary is work that is sincere, that amounts to something. No mer- chant or manager can afford to have any about him who are not able to find some effective work for all times and that without overhauling goods and pro- ducing disorder so as to give the store a constant appearance - cleaning day. * x P. Hayes gives an ak of care- less work in writing which the printer ey 4 te 9 fy 4 Od 14 ) 7 a 9 Oo ALALALALALAL) DOOOOOC IC UC ow AACARALAL OOOO O00" BA60606 Pee 0 <2 POS: Pree ale ahh aie hea ee ahaa le CAAA AAALAL cs Fes Woo C3 Y fl Oe icy cow oe wie oie ole hs ae et) SAG DORIC » S ‘ ») ALAABZA OOOO? LALA a Dees OOOO 0 CG Attractions e e FOR NEXT WEEK e e at HAYES’ SUITS 2 SKIRTS The very latest creations The new Walking Skirts are full flaring, eight rows of stitching around bottom. They are CERTAINLY NOBBY. Come and see them. $3.00 to $5.00 ALA SOOCOC COG Gg g 9 ye 5 bOOd 0 ASAALALALALALS OIC IC OCC OCCA y. * 0 0 OO OCd ALA POCO o gy Come in and look over the new Pink and Blue Chambrey Petticoats for Spring and Summer wear They are made very FULL KNIFE PLEATED and trimmed with five rowe of Valenciennes Lace around the ruffles. They are certainly verv pretty g ae DOOD OB ARMAS re rere ras A 5 Are Shas weve OUR MUSLIN UNDERWEAR OPENING has been a great success. It certainly is the finest line ever shown in this citv. Our stock of new goods is complete and up to date in all de- partments. Call and look them over. It’s A PLEASURE to show goods. P. HA oe — — Oe BOC OR BOO Ones vy PPPS FFF OCF OOCHIO io iy a ARAB AS ye) ALA DOO 4 y, oe) PARAL 4 BOOS DOOOOOCOOOC. Southworth-Houston Biook, - BOO OCOOd va AOC 9 EEOC OES PPP VO VO VOOIG a Disappointments Here! Come to this store expecting more for your - money than you get anywhere else. Come to this store expecting the very best CLOTHING QUALITIES Come expecting the most liberal quantities to make your selections from. We sell everything Men and Boys wear except Shoes and Shoddy. HOLMES BROS. Is Were Looking for a_— We have them in All Styles and Prices, and Cheapest Place ON EARTH TO BUY ~ Building Material OF ALL KINDS. We also make a specialty of House building, and can make yon & lower price for a house —- than any firm in America. Plans drawn free for any one purchasing a bil) of material: *“* WALTER BROS., Hopkins Station, Mich. n't it time that you SPRING HAT? would be pleased to see you. Call and be - convinced that we have the Finest Line in the City. YOURS FOR BUSINESS, M. M. STONE. GUSHMAN’S SHOP FIXES THINGS e ee = ANY KIND OF STEP LADDER MADE. M AN TON MILLS. 1} att mow roors We keep afine stock of the hest feed on hand at all SHARPENED a man cau when you baveto buy We p 4 CABINET WORK } TRY OUR FLOUR. shies State Street . PHELPS & BAKER, ; Lnsincciecttinonnnmicnncenanesd tes Se could hardly overcome. There is ma- terial here for a good advertisement, but it needs pruning and the display should be considerably modified. The writer makes the mistake—a common one, by the way—of mixing his tenses too much. In advertising now is the accepted time. Don’t say next week. Conditions may make it necesaary to say the coming week, but as far as possible make it now. Don’t say next. Then ‘‘has been a success ;’’ people are not interested in has been success—‘‘is a success’’ is the word. Advertising to influence the fu- ture must deal with the present. The descriptions of articles are good, but the price feature should be more specific and complete. Cut out ‘‘nobby’’— does not sell goods. For an advertise- ment dealing with special attractions the closing is too general and scattered and repeats too much, The printer’s display is too heavy, crowds the space and the tpye is too much mixed in styles. Had this been set ina DeVinne or else some similar letter of reason- able size, giving more white space in- side the border and setting out the cut in an evenly defined place, the result would have been much more striking. Holmes Bros. write a good advertise- ment, which is greatly aided by the cut. I should have pct something else in place of the wave rules in the first line, left out the exclamation in the second and brought the last line to the left so as to define a square space for the illus- tration. This irregularity, although a slight one, gives an unbalanced look to the whole advertisement. Correct gram- mar should be preserved in making the verb agree with its noun in the first sentence. M. M. Stone writes a good advertise- ment, but it would be improved by leaving out some unnecessary wording. Complimentary addresses are more val- uable in white space inside the border, The printer’s work is good, but his space is somewhat crowded. Phelps & Baker write a good adver- tisement and the printer does his work well, except that the last lines should have be in plainer letter to harmonize with the rest. Walter Bros. are a little inclined to an appearance at least of overstatement. It may he true that their place is the cheapest on earth and that they are the - cheapest architects in America, but the assertion is too sweeping to have force. The advertiser must avoid an appear- ance of evil. Cushman’s Shop has a well-written’ advertisement, but there is too much Sameness in the sizes of the letters used. —___»-2_ The Art Linen Shirt Waist. Art linen is the very latest thing in wash shirt waists. Its quality, first of all, recommends it, the texture, soft and fine, yet with plenty of body to it, being admirable for the tailor-made waist. But it is the color to be found in the art linen fabric that most endears it to the shirt waist wearer. Such faded, faraway, old rose shades as it displays! Such lovely Wedgewood blues! Such beautiful primrose buffs! Such warm, Pompeiian dark reds! They make the hues of the madras, cheviots and linens that are not ‘‘art’’ seem crude indeed. Some literal minds may at first shrink from using for clothing the same ma- terial they would use for table and bureau covers, but anybody with an eye for color will fall right in line and have her new wash shirt waists made of art linen.—New York Evening Sun. hes i ~~ We Pe i < > be -- " -— — bn € e © - og) ee = | » € & = it) oe { son fe ee > = ee Sa ~ ie fe =] < > be -- Oo — rn & OS re ¢ “ a = > e & = a { Oly i § MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 MEN OF MARK, D. O. Wiley, Wholesale Commission Mer- chant, Detroit. The old Green Mountain State is fa- mous for its varied and beautiful scen- ery, comprising hills, cliffs and moun- tains, valleys, rivers, lakes and plains; for its extensive marble quarries from which more than two-thirds of all the marble quarried in the United States is taken, and for its agricultural and dairying interests and enormous produc- tion of maple sugar. Not alone in these respects is Vermont entitled to fore- most rank in the sisterhood of states, but the scroll of her history reveals several facts and many names of her most noble sons whose valiant deeds in times of war and_ successful business ventures in times of peace have added greater glory to her fame. Vermont was the first State admitted into the Union after the adoption of the Federal Constitution. She always con- tributed her share, and more, to assist in our wars for freedom. The names of Ethan Allen and General Stark are on the roll of honor of the American Rev- olution; and Vermont also claims, with just pride, the name of Admiral Dewey, whose recent brilliant achievements are still fresh in the minds of all. In the Civil War, Vermont furnished more than her share of men and her loss in hos- pitals and on battle fields was greater than that of any other Northern State. Among those who have achieved noted success in business may be mentioned the name of D. O. Wiley. He was born on a farm near Westminster, in South- eastern Vermont. While attending the academy from which he was _ graduated later, he began his business career by working nights and mornings in a gen- eral store. After graduation, he con- tinued to work in the store tor one year longer, when he_ followed Horace Greeley’s advice and went West to Minneapolis, where he was employed for a time by a flour and feed firm. He then took a boat to Hannibal, Mo., and worked at surveying for three months. After this experience, he returned to his native state and taught school one winter. The next spring, 1867, Mr. Wiley came to Detroit and engaged in the commission business at 13 Michigan Grand avenue, now known as Cadillac square, under the firm name of Wiley, Hooper & Co. After three years, he sold out and entered the employ of Ira Slade, then located under the Russell House, with whom he remained two years. Again, for one year he engaged in the same business for himself at 29 West Woodbridge street, at the expira- tion of which time he took in as partner | @) Geo. L. Lee and for ten years the busi- ness was conducted under the firm name of D. O. Wiley & Co. This partner- ship was then dissolved and Mr. John Wiley, who had been in their employ for ten years, became the company, and has contributed his share to the suc- cess and high standing of this house, which still does business under the firm name of D. O. Wiley & Co. Mr. Wiley’s reputation as a commis- sion merchant of the highest standing and responsibility is not only local but national. He is a member of the Na- tional Association of Commission Mer- chants, of which he has been a director for some time. Last year he was elected Vice-President and at present is a mem- ber of two of the most important com- mittees of that organization. He isa member of the Executive Committee of the National Apple Shippers’ Associa- tion. He has been President of the De- troit Produce Jixchange and is now a director of that organization. Last year he was a director of the Detroit Board of Trade. In all of these associations, Mr. Wiley is an energetic and conscien- tious worker and the prominence and honors bestowed upon him are excellent or of the esteem in which he is he Mr. and Mrs. Wiley have two daughters, both graduates of Pope & Cutcheon’s private school, of Detroit, and both are musicians and teachers, one of the piano and the other of the mandolin. They are all regular attend- ants at the First Congregational church and are prominently indentified with its work. Mr. Wiley is a quiet, modest, unas- suming gentleman who believes in deeds not words. He attends strictly to business and in all his dealings has won an enviable reputation for fair treatment and absolute integrity. THE ALABASTINE Com- PANY, in addition to their world-renowned wall coat- ing, ALABASTINE through their Plaster Sales Department, now manufac- ture and sell at lowest prices in paper or wood, in carlots or less, the following prod- ucts: Plasticon The long established wall plaster formerly manufac- tured and marketed by the American Mortar Company (Sold with or without sand.) N. P. Brand of Stucco The brand specified after competitive tests and used by the Commissioners for all the World’s Fair statuary. Bug Finish The effective Potato Bug Exterminator. ‘Land Plaster Finely ground and of supe- rior quality. For lowest prices address Alabastine Company, Plaster Sales Department Grand Rapids, Mich. mZ aero PRPAPPPSPAIPIIPIPPPPPIPPE SDDS » s. A. MORMAN & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 25 CANAL STREET, Wholesale Petoskey Lime Sheboygan Lime Akron and Louisville Cement Atlas Portland Cement Michigan Portland Cement Sewer Pipe Fire Brick Flue Lining Hard Wall Plaster Granite Wall Plaster, Plasticon, Gypsum Wall Plaster Stucco, Hair, etc. Write for Prices. wowanarran@) ] RADESMAN [TEMIZED | EDGERS SIZE—8 1-2 x 14. THREE COLUMNS. 2 Quires, 160 pages.. .- $2 00 3 Quires, 240 pages........ 2 50 4 Quires, 320 pages. ...... 3 00 5 Quires, 400 pages........ 3 50 6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00 £ INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK So double pages, registers 2,880 Invoices. 82 00 Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Royal Luncheon and Exclusive Agents Why not have & the Best? | (Royal Royal Salad Dressing Two of our specialties. Standards for Purity and Excellence. OYALL LUNCHEON nov CHEFS Cheese Send us a trial order. Worden Grocer Co.) Grand Rapids, Mich. Why is B. B. B. Coffee like Aguinaldo? Give it up? That’s just what he has done. Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Roasters. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Holland—Geo. Plummer has retired from the O. R. J. Cigar Co. Croswell—Niles & Moore succeed Niles Bros. in general trade. East Jordan—E. A. H. Cole has re- engaged in the bazaar business. New Baltimore—John M. Haight, tinner, has sold out to Otto B. Hoffman. Potterville—M. L. Thompson has pur- chased the meat market of L. B. Shance. Union City—C. F. Horton has pur- chased the meat market of Arthur Pros- eus. Pontiac—Chas. Murray has purchased the Oakland meat market of Fin Law- son, Pentwater—S. P. Compton, of Mears, contemplates opening a grocery store here. North Morenci—H. (Mrs. N.) Justice has sold her grocery stock to W. W. Poats. Filion—Walter Rapson has purchased the general stock of Humphrey & Toner. Port Huron—Cady & Doe have opened a grocery and feed store in the Black building. Battle Creek—Wm. G. Murphy has purchased the grocery stock of Samuel C. Moore. Corunna—Floyd Burnett succeeds Miss Grace Burnett in the dry goods business. St. Clair—John H. Williams, dealer in groceries and meat, has sold out to Fred Busha. South Boardman—J. Anspach has re- moved his dry goods and clothing stock to Kingsley. Ludington—John H. Scheibel has sold his grocery stock and meat market to Landen Bros. Flint—Hewes & Hopkins _ succeed Hewes & Cameron in the drug and gro- cery business. Alto—Blake Vanderlip and M. H. Vanderlip have engaged in the meat business here. Ishpeming—J. J. Lefler has purchased the merchandise stock of A. (Mrs. Ed- ward) Cronin. Burr Oak—Fred W. Cornell, dealer in cigars and tobaccos, has sold out to J. L. Crandall. Dimondale—E. A. Devore has sold his hardware stock at this place and re- moved to Perry. Ypsilanti— Dunlap & George continue the grocery business formerly owned by George B. Dunlap. Kalamazoo—H. D. Baker has_ re- moved his grocery stock from Vicks- burg to this place. Centerville—C. E. Fousel succeeds Cummings & Co. in the furniture and undertaking business. Clarkston—Geo. F. Coon has chased the hardware and stock of Alfred R. Carran. Central Lake—The Walter T. Swasey Co., Limited, has purchased the hard- ware stock of Carl Strobel. Napoleon—Butler & Hastings succeed Geo. W. Butler & Co. in the hardware, grocery and shoe business. Owosso—J. W. Upham’s shoe store has been closed by virtue of a chattel mortgage held by John Lytle. Midland—The firm of Smith & Hub- bard has been formed to continue the drug business of Smith & Smith. Marshall—Geo. Shaw has engaged in the grocery business at the old stand of White & Tierney, having purchased the stock of that firm. pur- implement Marquette—John Carlson has engaged in the grocery business, having pur- chased the stock of John T. Jones. Traverse City—F. L. Kilterhouse & Co. have put in a stock of groceries and confectionery at 521 South Union street. Flint—Cook & Shepner is the style of the new firm organized to succeed Menzo F. Cook in the jewelry business. Houghton——John Carlson has re- engaged in the grocery business. He has purchased the stock of J. T. Jones. Cheboygan—Glover & Co. is the name of the new firm which continues the dry goods business of Hal. W. Glover. Elton—Chas. L. Hall has purchased the interest of his partner in the hard- ware and grocery firm of Taylor & Hall. Conway—J. W. VanEvery has pur- chased the grocery stock of E. J. Phil- lips, instead of VanEvery Bros., as previously stated. South Haven—Schroder & Co. have removed their stock of general mer- chandise from Galesburg to this place. They will also handle lumber, lime and salt. Crystal—W. A. Grimm has purchased the interest of J. M. Fitzpatrick in the cheese factory of Fitzpatrick & Case. The new firm will be known as Grimm & Case. Escanaba—Emanuel Olson has pur- chased the interest of Mrs. P. Walch in the hardware firm of E. Olson & Co. and will hereafter conduct the business in his own name. Wayland—Burpee & Quinlan, lumber dealers, have dissolved partnership _ by mutual consent, F. D. Quinlan retiring. J. M. Burpee will continue the business in his own name. Lansing—C. O. Deeg has resigned his position in the boot and shoe store of H. A. Woodworth and purchased a one-half interest in the coal and wood business of C. E. Stabler. Homer—O. E. Blair, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business at Gray- ling, has purchased the grocery stock of Hoffman & Son and will continue the business at the same location. Eaton Rapids—Frank L. Kingan has sold his grocery stock and bakery to O. N. Stone, of Lansing, who will close out the stock as rapidly as possible. Mr. Kingan will remove to Montana. Montague—M. S. C. Whitbeck, who has been associated with F. E. Lewellyn in the produce business, has organized a new firm, of which he is the head,and engaged in the same line of business. Owosso—R. J. Titus, of Clarkston, nas purchased the retail meat business of J. H. Copas & Sons, on North Wash- ington street. Copas & Sons will de- vote their attention to their wholesale business. oe South Lake Linden—Henry Ratz has entered into partnership with V. Klein, grocer and meat dealer at this place. Mr. Ratz will conduct the meat market, while Mr. Klein will have charge of the grocery department. Maple Rapids—Stanley & Young, general dealers, have purchased the merchandise stock of H. F. Boughey, at Cedar, and will make it the shipping point for both stores. J. A. Pennington and Geo. Clement will be in charge of the Cedar store. Newaygo—J. H. Edwards & Son, who have been engaged in the hardware business here since 1869, have sold their stock to Alfred Tyler, of South Haven. Mr. Edwards will devote his time to farming and _ his son, Daniel, will en- gage in school work. Detroit—William H. Elliott, the Woodavard avenue dry goods merchant, is very seriously ill at his residence, 507 Cass avenue. He is suffering from a general collapse brought on by over- work, His attending physician holds no hopes of his recovery. Detroit—Gus W. Zanger, formerly of Marshall, has purchased the fur stock and business of A. W. Reckmeyer & Co., with whom he has been connected as an employe for nearly ten years. He will continue the business at 32, 34 and 36 Miami avenue and cater to both the wholesale and retail trade. Wayland—E. S. Fitch, who has been engaged in the hardware business in this village since 1866, has sold his stock to Wm. B. Hooker, who will add same to his stock and remove to the Fitch store building. Mr. Fitch retires from the hardware business to engage in the manufacture of the Fitch Aquatic cream separator. Battle Creek—Finlay & Templeton have opened a grocery store in the Werstein block, formerly occupied by Sterling & Co. Mr. Finlay has been engaged in the grocery store of Allan Raymond and his successor, Wm. H. Hamilton, for nearly sixteen years, Mr. Templeton is a former resident of In- diana, although his early childhood was spent here. Dighton—The general stock of the late Geo. A. Ball has been purchased by V. S. Rolfe and Wm. Damouth, who will continue the business under the style of Rolfe & Damouth. The stock will be moved to Rolfe Station, on the Manistee & Grand Rapids Railroad, Mr. Damouth having secured the re- moval of the postoffice to that point and the appointment of himself as postmas- ter. The postoffice will hereafter be known as Rolfe. Muskegon—The New York Racket store has been closed by virtue of an in- junction issued at the instance of one member of the firm, Joseph N. Stock- well, of Flint. He alleges in his bill of complaint that his partner, Chas. H. Rood, has violated the articles of part- nership and says that it is his belief that the latter is conspiring with his wife and Frank E. Leonard, to whom he has given chattel mortgages on the stock unknown to him, to defraud him. The mortgages so issued amount to $1,929.63. The capital stock of the partnership is $1,000, all of which money Stockwell says he put in the business. Manufacturing Matters. Chesaning—J. B. Hoffman has sold his cheese factory property to C. E. Stuart. Detroit—John H. Harrington contin- ues the cigar manufacturing business of J. H. Harrington & Co. in his own name. Port Huron—Fred A. Boyce has _pur- chased an interest in the cigar factory on Water street and the business will hereafter be conducted under the style of J. W. Benedict & Co. Port Huron—Robert Brisley, who has conducted the business of manufactur- ing mattresses in different cities of Michigan during the past nine years, has returned to this place, where he will permanently locate a factory. Jackson--The Jackson Hat Co. has been reorganized with a capital stock of $10,000, The Brooks-Eslow block has been leased and the factory will be io- cated at this place. The officers of the company are A. L. Felter, President; G. W. Legg, Vice-President and Man- ager, and C. R. Loucks, Secretary and Treasurer. —____ 0. The Boys Behind the Counter. Port Huron—Chas, Baxter has left the A. H. Fish grocery and secured a posi- tion with Theo. Hammen. Edward For- rester, who has been with the same store for eight years, has left his position and will probably go to Detroit. Benton Harbor—Lew Filleher has resigned his position at Morrow & Stone’s grocery and is succeeded by Clyde Morrow. Hillsdale—T. C. Pulver is the new clerk at Beckhardt Grocery Co.’s. Eaton Rapids—Chris. Barnes has se- cured an excellent position in the cloth- ing department of the Enders & Young Co., of Benton Harbor. Mr. Barnes is an experienced man in the clothing business, having been with M. L. Clark here for about twenty years. Cheboygan—Alex Gaines, one of Che- boygan’s most popular grocery clerks, has taken a position in N. Howard's grocery. Alpena—The retail clerks have de- cided upon May 7 as the date for their annual ball. Caro—H. R. Howell, who is well known to the people of this vicinity as the deputy register of deeds under W. H. Cook, and who went to Saginaw to take a position in Moriey Bros.’ whole- sale hardware store January 1 last, has been transferred by that firm to the posi- tion of assistant manager of their hard- ware store at Evart. Evart—David Rorison, who has been assistant manager of the E. F. Birdsall Co. hardware business for the past three years, has taken a position as manager of Potter Bros.’ hardware establishment at Alpena. Kalkaska—C. M. Beecher has_ re- signed his position at Rykert’s cash grocery. He has been succeeded by D. N. MacDonald. St. Joseph—Clarence McGraw has re- signed his position at Scherer’s grocery and taken a position in Bird’s drug store. Calumet—John T. Rowe has resigned his position with the Star Clothing house and will take a position with J. P. Petermann in the store lately pur- chased at the Kearsarge. Mr. Rowe will have charge of the dry goods and men’s furnishing departments. Freeport—Len Wolcott succeeds Wm. D. Quigley as clerk in I. E. Moor’s grocery store. Owosso—Will Lovett, who has been in the employ of Lyon & Pond as clerk since the opening of their dry goods store here six years ago, has been obliged, because of continued poor health, to give up his position, and in a few days will go South for his health. He is undecided where he will locate, and may go on to Central America. For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. M. O. BAKER & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, TOLEDO, OHIO WANTED-—Poultry, Butter and Eggs Correspond with us before selling. Ref:—First National Bank, Toledo, Commercial Agencies. 4 _ «x t Bony e ai r \ _ } j ro e - he << - 4 + ~ icon { = - j a Dia: i s = "9 - — — _~— {! \ ae! >» i Ss MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Produce Market. Apples—Ben Davis command $3.50. Asparagus—$1I.25 per doz. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Beans—Receipts of foreign were heavier last week than for a month past. The market is dull and quotations are tending downward. Beets—$1 per bbl. Butter—Creamery has declined to 18 @tgc, based on the decline of Elgin to 18%c. Receipts of dairy continue heavy. Fancy commands I5c, choice ranges from 12@14c and packing stock moves readily on the basis of lto@IIc. The Legislature of Illinois has passed the renovated butter bill. This is sim- ilar to the law in New York State, and if signed by the Governor will take effect July 1. No efforts were made by the process men to stop the bill, they claiming it would be cheaper to defeat it after it was a law. As soon as it is in effect a test case will be made. Cabbage—Southern commands $2.25 @4 per crate, according to size. Home grown stock is entirely out of market. Celery—California white plume is steady at 75@85c per doz. bunches. Cucumbers—$1.25 per doz. for home grown hothouse stock. Eggs—Eggs are considerably weaker since April, the storage month, is over. Great quantities of eggs have gone into the cooiers throughout the country. While the receipts in Chicago and New York have not been materially greater, since the first of January up to the pres- ent time, the coolers all through the East and West have more eggs than they ever had at this season of the year. Local dealers are trying to obtain 12c in the face of a falling market, but ex- pect a slump to a lower level before the end of the week. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction over the persistency with which Armour and Swift have one into the country and bought eggs rom original hands. Heavy packers throughout the Northwest have been compelled to compete with these big establishments and they declare it has been the cause of the high price of eggs. " sreen Onions—1o0@I2c per doz. Honey—Choice white is in large sup- ply at 14@15c. Amber goes at 13@14c and dark buckwheat is slow sale at 10 @i2c. : i Lemons—Are strong and the tendency on good Sicily fruit is upward. There has been some increase in prices during the past week, and, according to pres- ent outlook, there will be a still further increase before very long. Buying has been light and there will be increased consumption as soon as it becomes warm enough. Local dealers meet with no difficulty in obtaining $3 for choice Messinas and $3.25 for fancy. Californias are steady at $3.65. Lettuce—Hothouse stock is in good demand, commanding 12c for leaf. Maple Sugar—1o@1o¥%c for genuine and oc for imitation. Maple Syrup—$r per gal. for fancy. Onions—Bermudas command $3 per crate. Egyptians fetch $3.50 in 112 Ib. sacks. Oranges—California navels and Med- iterranean sweets fetch $2.50@3.25. Seedlings command $2.25@3. Parsley—4oc per doz. Parnsips—$1 per bbl. Pieplant—4c per |b. Potatoes—The market is stronger and higher. Outside buying points are pay- ing 27@3o0c. : Poultry—Receipts are not sufficient -for local requirements, in consequence of which local dealers are compelled to draw on Chicago for supplies. Local dealers pay as follows for dressed: Spring turkeys, 11@I2c; old, 8@gc; spring chickens, 11@12c; fowls, 10@ lic; spring ducks, 114%@12c—old not wanted at any price; spring geese, 9@ 1oc—old not wanted. For live poultry local dealers pay as follows: Chickens, @toc; medium and small hens, 8@oc ; uae hens, 7@8c; young turkeys, 9@ 10oc; old turkeys, 8@gc; young ducks, 9%@10%c; pigeons, 50@6oc per doz. ; squabs, $1@1.25 per doz. ; broilers, 18 @25c per lb. Radishes—2oc per doz. bunches for hothouse stock. Seeds——Blue grass, $1.25@I.50; orchard grass, $1.40@1.60; red top, 75c @$1.50; timothy, $2.10; medium clover, $6.25@6.75; mammoth, $6.50@7; al- syke, $7.50@8. Spinach—4o0@5oc per bu. Strawberries—$2 per case of 24 pints for Mississippi stock ; $3.75 per case of 24 quarts. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys have advanced to $3.25 per bbl. Tomatoes—$z2 per 4 basket crate. Turnips—$: per bbl. Vegetable Oysters—z2oc per doz. —__~> 2. ____- The Grain Market. Wheat during the past week has had a strong upward movement. Last Sat- urday May wheat went to 74 (c—fully 4c above low point. Bad crop reports from Germany, rust in Texas, Hessian fly in Kansas and large sales for export caused the advance. The visible also made a decrease of 1,500,000 bushels. During the day some large lines were closed out, which had a depressing effect and caused prices to recede fully 2c from the high mark, leaving the price where it was a week ago. To-day our visible is 48,300,000 bushels, and not much to come forward. About two- thirds of this amount is held in Minne- apolis, Duluth and Chicago. As Min- neapolis will need all the wheat they have to grind, the buyers of wheat will have to go to Chicago and Duluth, which will not last long. Winter wheat was not so much affected by the decline, owing to its scarcity. While the pres- ent price will probably hold for a few days, traders are watching the coming crop, which has many vicissitudes to go through before it is harvested. So far, the market is in a waiting mood. Corn is king, at least for the present. The visible was reduced about 2,000, - ooo bushels to-day, the market being oversold, which made the short sellers scramble to buy, but they found not much for sale and any offers were quickly taken up for May around 48 }4c. Oats likewise were very strong; in fact, about 1c a bushel higher than last week. Rye was sluggish and there is not much doing; in fact, the rye season is about over. I[t looks like lower prices. Flour prices looked up and fair sales have been made at enhanced prices. Mill feed has remained very steady. The demand is still urgent. The city mills are sold ahead. Receipts for grain have not been very large this week, being: 34 cars of wheat, 7 cars of corn, 6 cars of oats, 5 cars of flour, 1 car of bran, 13 cars of potatoes. Mills are paying 72c for No. 1 white and No. 2 red. C. G. A. Voigt. —_— ~~ 28 > It is very generally conceded by all who have given the matter careful con- sideration that the garnishment bill now before the Senate is not so favorable to the merchant as the present one-sided law, on account of the machinery it will introduce in the case of every attempt to take advantage of the measure. Those who have studied the situation are a unit in declaring that the best course to pursue is to permit the present draft to die in the Senate and, profiting by past experience—which involves the elimi- nation of champions of the Cozzens stripe—concentrate all the forces at command two years hence in securing the enactment of a law which shall be fair to all concerned and afford the merchant that measure of protection to which he is justly entitled. The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is rather quiet. Importers are asking 4%c for 96 deg. test centrifugals, but refiners are not willing to pay over 4 3-1!6c. Holders remain confident of better prices a little later and offerings are very light, consequently sales are few. It is believed that refiners, in order to obtain any large lots, will have to meet seliers’ views as to price. The visible supply of raw sugar is 2,600,000 tons, against 2,110,000 tons a year ago. The refined sugar market is unchanged and the de- mand is moderate. With the usual heavy spring demand prices will prob- ably harden, and an advance of Io points may be established. Later—Wire advices from the East say that refiners have taken everything in sight at 4%c and that an advance in refined will probably follow. Canned Goods—There is nothing of particular interest in the canned goods line. The orders, while plentiful, are for small lots. The indications are fa- vorable for an active spring trade, as the reports from all sections of the country are to the effect that the con- sumption of canned goods _ continues very large. The Indiana packers have named no prices on future tomatoes and they are being offered very sparingly by a few outside packers at prices rang- ing a trifle under those of last year. The demand for spot tomatoes is fair, with no change in price. Corn is quiet. There is a moderate demand for good grades at previous prices. Orders are small and this article does not show much activity. Spot peas are in fair request at unchanged prices. There is still a great scarcity of the better grades, but the cheaper grades are in fair supply. Any remarks now concern- ing the coming pea crop would be based entirely on guess work and that is not very satisfactory. The only thing that can be said with accuracy is that the early crop is progressing satisfactorily and, unless something unforeseen oc- curs, we will have a good crop. Some packers have nut named any prices on future goods yet and will not until they are satisfied as to what the cost of the raw material will be. Conditions do not seem to favor an average pack of peas in Wisconsin this season and, judging from late reports from the larg- er producing sections, what has been previously said about a reduced acreage on account of the fear of the pea louse is well supported. The unfavorable winds have prevented the pineapple boats from making much progress and it is the general opinion that the pack- ing season will be a week, if not two weeks, later than was anticipated. The pineapples are said to be of much larger size this year than they were last and more will, of course, be produced, while they will probably be cheaper. A few Baltimore packers have named prices on the new pack, but the larger packers are not expected to do so until they be- gin packing and know what the cost to them will be. There is some demand for future Singapore pineapple in chunks. There has been a fair demand for spot peaches, but not nearly up to expectations of the holders and there are all kinds of prices for all kinds of qual- ities. The salmon market is dull, but holds up very well for this season of the year. Stocks are not heavy, and, with the best salmon consuming months ahead, some good judges look for a scarcity of supplies before the new pack comes to hand. Dried Fruits—Dried fruits, as a whole, are quiet. Prunes show no change, there being virtually no buying from the coast and the local demand being entirely on the hand-to-mouth or- der. There is still a great scarcity of two or three sizes, 40-50s and 60-70s be- ing the ones in most request. Reports from the coast state that the crop of prunes in California this year will not be more than 40 to So per cent. of the I900 crop and that the crop wiil run to large sizes. Raisins are selling in a small way at unchanged prices and there is some little demand for seeded. The confirmations of damage done by frost in the northern part of California, par- ticularly in the large peach districts, have awakened considerable interest in this article, which is selling much _bet- ter and at more satisfactory prices. There is also considerable speculative buying on apricots, as it is quite certain that new goods will not be obtainable at anything like the low figures that are named for spot goods. Trade in cur- rants, while still small, shows some slight improvement. Prices are firmly held. Markets throughout the country are carrying light supplies and_ holders are confident present supplies will he worked off without difficulty before the arrival of the newcrop. Dates area trifle lower. There is some anxiety to sell Hallowi, owing to their non-carry- ing qualities. Figs are in fair demand and prices are unchanged. Rice—Trade in rice is rather slow, but holders are very firm, and, with light supplies throughout the country, a better trade is expected, in which case prices will advance. Spot stocks of most grades are moderate, but the scarcity of fancy head rice is becoming more evident every day. From the South reports in reference to the new rice crop are that preparations are be- ing interfered with or suspended in many sections because of the wet weath- er. Where planting has been completed low temperatures have checked germi- nation or growth of grain. Tea--A slightly improved demand was noted for teas during the past few days, and a better feeling prevailed among buyers, with aggregate sales showing a slight increase over those of the week previous. Prices are firmly held and, importers being sanguine that prices have touched rock bottom, there is no disposition to shade the same. Molasses and Syrups—The molasses market is very firm and dealers, as a rule, ask an advance of 2@3c per gallon for mixed molasses, influenced by the rising market for glucose during the past week. The statistical position re- mains strong and prices have an upward tendency. The demand for corn syrup is rather quiet just now. Dealers have sufficient supplies for the present and are not making any heavy purchases. In sympathy with the advance in the glu- cose market, corn syrup has also ad- vanced %c per gallon and Ic per case. Nuts—Trade in nuts at present is quiet, but is about the same as usual at this time of the year. Stocks of almonds are light—much lighter than usual at this season—and high prices are realized. There are many reports regarding damage to the new crop, but this is something that nobody knows anything certain about as yet. Stocks of filberts are large and they are moving rather slowly. The new crop so far as can be ascertained now is progressing well. Peanuts are in good demand at previous prices. Rolled Oats—Are unchanged prices. in fair demand at MICHIGAN TRADESMAN KOSHER MEAT. Stringent Regulations Observed by Ortho- dox Jews. From the New York Sun. In one of the big slaughter houses in this city a certain proportion of cattle, from I, to 1,900 head, are slaugh- tered each week according to the Shechitah or Israelitish law. Here can be seen the butcher who is not only a strong man, but also a scholar versed in ancient lore, the Jewish inspector who looks like a professor, gravely medita- tive, and the rabbi, skull-capped and speetacled, giving approval to the blades with which the work is done. “‘It pays us to keep always a supply of kosher meat,’’ said the manager of the business. ‘‘The demand for the genuine kosher is steady, and since only the heaviest, finest steers are used for it, the Gentile butchers are always ready to take the wastes and cuts off our hands. And some of the choicest fifteen-pound roasts sold anywhere in the city are from Shechitah-killed bullocks. ‘*You, see out of the 1,900 cattle butchered for kosher only about 70 per cent. will prove available. Not that there is anything the matter with the meat itself, but some of the fine rules relating to the ceremony of killing may not have been complied with. If the knife trembled in the hand of the shochet butcher when he performed his office the seal of kosher meat can not lawfully be affixed to that carcass. If it proves after a steer is lawfully killed that there is some flaw in its lung tissue or; some slight injury in the lining of its stomach—no matter how long healed —that steer would be unavailable as kosher. It would be called terepha, meaning most excellent, sound meat, but not fit for an orthodox believer’s consumption. ‘‘The forequarters only of the steers killed for kosher are used by Hebrews. The fifth rib is the dividing line be- tween the sanctioned and the unsanc- tioned. The porterhouse steaks, tender- loin and all the hindquarter parts, so much prized by the Gentiles are not wanted by the Jews. ‘‘We get a cent a pound more for the forequarters—generally considered an inferior portion—if killed we to the Shechitah, than we would get if the animal was slaughtered in the ordinary way; so it is just as cheap to us to adopt that method. Come up to our re- frigerated compartments,’’ he added, ‘‘and I will show you the different as- sortments. ’’ Admitted to the great refrigerator floor, the visitor is amazed that anything so commonplace as dressed beef can be made into so pleasing a picture. The compartmcnt is so cold, being at 36 de- grees, that wraps are needed to enable one to stand the change of temperature. But the rows of regularly hung sides of beef stretching off in symmetrical even- ness down the long enclosure with bare- ly walking room between them are a sight to see. There are hundreds of great halves of animals suspended. neck downward, each from its own hook, hanging with such orderly precision that hardly a deviation of outline shows. ‘*This is kosher,’’ says the manager, stopping before a specimen. ‘‘A beauty, isn’t it? The fat clear, white and firm like marble, and the lean an even, wholesome pink. See, this is the tag,’” indicating a label fastened to the forequarter by a wire. ‘‘This label has set down in Hebrew the date of the killing and the -fact that the Shechitah in the case of this partic- ular animal was legally followed. The Signature is that of the chief assistant of the rabbi, who is authority for the Jewish law in this respect for the whole United States. Up to thirteen or four- teen years ago there was no official in charge of the matter. Each slaughter house that catered at all to Jewish trade employed its private shochet or Jewish butcher, but there was no one in author- ity over him, no supervision of his ac- tions. The customers had no guarantee that the meat they purchased as_ kosher. was genuine. ‘*The increase of Hebrew population of an official trained in the supervising of such matters in Russia, and the con- sumers of kosher meat have since felt safe in relying on the official seals he instituted. There are even now numer- ous butcher shops about town, with mystical letters put up in their win- dows signifying that kosher meat is in stock, which are not always to be trusted. These shops have customers because the customers are ignorant that the lawful ceremonies have been omit- ted. But those Hebrews alert enough and able to pay for a guarantee in this, which they hold a most important do- mestic matter, will not be put off with any sharp practice. “‘Apart from all prejudice, the fore- quarter of an animal known as the chuck meat really contains the most nutritious, life-sustaining elements. It is meat that requires long, skillful cooking to be at its best; but when properly prepared it is immeasurably finer, more nutritive than the cuts and joints usually thought so much of and selling for a higher price. “‘I think it will be conceded that por- tions which can be cooked in a hurry, like steaks, etc., are not so toothsome or life-giving as those that take a long time and much skill to make ready, but that is a matter of taste. Another thing, if kosher meat has been killed more than seventy-two hours it is unsalable as kosher and has to go at the usual price to people who don’t care whether the steer was killed by one method or another. ‘*They are killing by the Shechitah this morning,’’ he added. ‘‘I will show you our shochet. He has been with us ten years and is a learned man as well as a man of big stature. He must not only be strong, but also must not know the meaning of nerves so that his hands may not tremble in performing his office and cause suffering.’’ The big, rough-walled inclosure where the slaughtering goes forward is an im- pressive place. From the stairway go- ing down to it, which stairway looks out on the East River, can be seen the cattle yard full of big steers just taken in from the flat boats at the pier. No- body sees the killing, which goes on behind the heavy barred partition in one corner, a corner which opens by a chute onto the cattle yards and into which the brutes are forced one by one. But there is continually the sound of scrambling hoofs behind that wall and the tussle that must inevitably ensue when any powerful creature gives up its life. ‘The rabbi there on the bench is a great scholar. See him examine the knife,’’ the manager whispers. The rabbi looks like a scholar. He is lean and pale and wears a student's cap pushed back off his forehead. He in New York prompted the importation pompt- 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. Butter and Eggs Wanted Write for Cash Prices to R. 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The shochet again brings the blade to the rabbi for inspection. But this time it must be sharpened, so another knife is selected. Meanwhile an archaic-looking, long- bearded Jew of powerful frame, but of delicate touch and seemingly much per- ception, stands at a long table examin- ing the condition of the newly slaught- ered animals outspread before him. He has come upon some symptom in a car- cass that requires investigation. He leads his long fingers again and again over the membrane of a suspected lung and finally dislodges it. Then he examines the under part by pouring warm water on it to discover if an aper- ture has been made in the lung by the separation of the tissue from it. The water leaks through. The animal has at some time had inflammation of the lungs. It had recovered from the malady and was seemingly in splendid condi- tion when killed, but it can only be terepha, not kosher. Israelites may not partake of its succulence. ‘The skillful operation of Shechitah depends on two things,’’ says the man- ager, ‘‘the fitness of the shochet and the fitness of the knife. The shochet must be careful, active and brisk. He must not only be a_ believer in the Mosaic law, but he must be expert in examin- ing the inner structure of an animal. “‘If he breaks the Sabbath he is no longer a shochet, but his name is nabal, a miscreant. An animal, no matter how wholesome and fat, if killed by such a man, is called nebelaha, or dead of itself. The shochet must have a good knife, of the required length, sharpness and smoothness, without the least inden- tation, in order to cut the animal’s throat without stopping and without pressing down the knife in the least. In this way the two bodies of the animal, the exterior body containing the brain and the {nterior body containing the heart, are separated from one another in the speediest and best manner. ‘*There are five rules relating to the immediate fact of the killing and the violation of any one of them would con- demn that particular animal as unavail- able for kosher. In the ancient Hebrew writings the most painful and the most painless kinds of death are described. In the most painful the spirit is said to depart from the body with the same difficulty that wool is taken out of thorns or burs. In the easiest dissolution body and spirit part with the same ease that a hair is drawn out from milk. ‘«The Shechitah is supposed to precip- itate a much easier death than that caused by blows inflicted on _ the animal’s head. The flesh of a_ beef killed by the Jewish method looks more uninviting than that butchered in the usual way simply because the beast has bled freely. Occasionally coagulated blood is found on the ribs of an animal killed by blows on the head, or blood ad- heres to the inside of the spine and the clots can not be removed by washing. For this reason some of the choice retail butchers who have no interest in the religious functions of the Shechitah like to get hold of beef so killed. ‘‘The flesh of an animal killed by blows is heavier than the flesh of one killed by Shechitah, because the blood has been absorbed by the members. The blood is the life and spirit and is forbidden to the orthodox Hebrew, who believes that if a man eats blood he partakes of its properties and qualities and transmits those qualities to his chil- dren after him. ‘Only be sure that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is the life,’ is a mandate set down in Deuter- onomy. ‘*What is the trouble with that beef?’’ he asked, seeing the examiner shake his head doubtfully over a portion of lacy- looking membrane which he held and then consult with the shochet. _ ‘*A nail had penetrated the lining of the stomach,’’ came the answer. ‘‘No, it had not injured the health of the creature. The wound was healed long ago, but the meat is not kosher., How does a steer get hold of a nail? Oh, frequently, nails and other foreign sub- stances are found in the stomach. Of course not so much in the range cattle, but the larger portion of the kosher meat must come from cattle that are stall fed. The Western buyers take them thin and in poor fix for butchering from the range and then fatten them in barns. ’’ . As much care is exercised in the kill- ing of poultry for the use of Hebrew families as in the killing of beef. Hundreds of dealers in the uptown dis- tricts where prosperous Hebrews live and others on the East Side downtown kee only Shechitah-killed geese, ducks, fowls, and turkeys for their trade. Some of these have slaughtering es- tablishments of their own, keeping a shochet regularly employed and also a rabbi or examiner authorized to attach the seal guaranteeing that the killing of the poultry was lawful. The more gen- eral usage is for the individual dealer to buy a coop of live birds and lodge them at the public slaughter house to be killed at a cent a head after the pre- scribed manner and according as he needs them. At the Gouverneur slip slaughter house tier upon tier of padlocked cages on the different floors are leased out to the small poultry dealers for this pur- pose, much as boxes in the _ postoffice or boxes in the deposit vaults are rented to customers. At this place 15,000 head of fattened stock a day are put to the Shechitah; eighteen sichets at $15 a week are on the staff of employes. The chicken or goose to be executed is swung by the legs from a hook over- hanging a trough. The gullet and wind- pipe are severed by a special blade ex- actly as in the case of steers. The knives are kept yo up to the handles in a solution of lime to prevent their rusting. Even after the Shechitah has been lawfully performed if the bird proves to have an enlargement of the crop or an injured leg or wing, it is condemned for orthodox eating. It is then terepha, good for outsiders’ con- sumption, but under the ban for its orig- inal purpose. Ifkilled properly and no fault found the victim is taken to an ingeniously contrived machine where the Hebrew seal of approval is ina twinkling affixed to the legs. During the winter season from 6,000 to 7,000 geese are sealed and guaranteed thus in a single week. —>-_ > —__ Stages Through Which Stale Bread Passes. From tne New York Tribune. A Long Island man who was showing a friend a couple of hunting dogs at his place the other day looked up as he heard the sound of approaching wheels. ‘*Here’s the bread man,’’ he remarked, and as his friend gazed in surprise at the open cart laden with bulging sacks, thinking it the strangest baker's outfit he had yet seen, the owner of the dogs bought a barrel of the merchant’s stuff. “*It’s for the dogs, you know,’’ he ex- plained as the wagon drove off. ‘‘ Brok- en up and mixed with other things it makes good food for them. That man does very well with his stale bread busi- ness. He buys the bread at a low price in the city when it is too old to sell to customers there. But it hasn’t reached the dog food stage, then, by any means. He first retails it as long as he can to the Italians who work on the roads and do all the hard labor hereabouts. I be- lieve they wash it down with beer of about the same state of freshness. Well, when the bread gets so stale that even the Italians can’t eat it, it is ready to be peddled around among the villages in the neighborhood. The farmers buy it to feed their pigs and chickens, and a good many people use it, as I do , for their dogs, so there is no loss or waste to cut down the dealer’s profit. ’’ 0 ~~» The Indian smoking his pipe of peace Is slowly paesing away, But the Irishman ee Piece of pipe Has certainly come to stay. The Short Skirt. Fashion may have its whims, but when the iron-clad law begins to inter- fere fashion has to submit. The edict went forth some time ago that short skirts were to be sacrificed at the shrine of grace, and the trailing long skirt to return. But in Germany this edict has been met by a counter edict from Kaiser Wilhelm, forbidding women to wear trained skirts on the street. The inter- ests of health is the excuse His Majesty gives for interfering in such serious matters as feminine dress. Why should the short skirt go out, anyway? Ifa vote were taken, every nine women out of ten would say: ‘‘Hang onto the short skirt.’’ Are women to have no voice in their own affairs? Short skirts are a boon and a blessing, and the women who sneer at them are the women who never wore them, and are thus unable to ap- preciate their advantages. However, it is likely that it will take two or three edicts to do away with the walking skirt now that women have grown attached to it. a nn Trying to Shake Off Trading Stamps. Retailers of Lima, Ohio, have become so thoroughly disgusted with trading- stamp experiences that a paper has been circulated among them and has been signed by 103 of them. The paper mentioned reads as follows: We, the undersigned merchants of Lima, O., hereby agree that from and after the expiration of the contracts we have with the Lima Trading Stamp Co. we will discontinue the giving of stamps with purchases, and also agree not to enter into any advertising schemes, such as lottery or gift schemes, or games of chance of any kind, and we further agree to refuse to advertise in programmes of any kind. OUR GAS AND Cf) GASOLINE MANTLES Are the best. Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co., Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Gas and Gasoline Sundries. Grand Rapids, [lich. Traveling Men Wanted. ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. 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Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Michigan x MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the - TRADESMAN COMPANY One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Communications invited from practical business men. Se must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their — changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that yot saw the advertise- ment in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Ep1Tor. WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 1, 1901. County of Kent ag John DeBoer, being du 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 folded 7,000 copies of the issue of April 24, 1901, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this twenty-seventh day of April, 1go1. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. STATE OF ot Kent f y sworn, de- TWENTIETH CENTURY VANDALISM. The learned men of modern times, in every country, have never ceased to de- plore the destruction of books, the records of the literature, history, science and other gathered knowledge of earlier times, in burning and pillage by sav- age conquerors of the gerat cities of the ancient world. The so-called prehistoric ages are prehistoric, not because there were no records of them, but because those rec- ords have been lost in barbarous war- fare. The remains of cities dug out of ruins show that the people who built and dwelt in them possessed high de- grees of civilization and had developed commerce and industries and cherished learning, a knowledge of which to-day would be of the greatest interest and importance to reveal mysteries and un- fold facts which are now utterly lost to us. The Romans, who conquered and plundered every nation, carried not only the stolen treasure, but all the wealth of books, pictures and sculpture to their great capital. There were gathered in libraries and galleries all the world’s treasures of art and letters. But three times was the Eternal City captured and pillaged and twice burned by the cap- tors. It was taken and burned by the Gauls in 387 B. C.; it was captured by the Goths in 410 A. D., and by the Vandals, who, in 455 A. D., made a finish of what had been left by Alaric and his Gothic hordes. The stores of the world’s history, sci- ence and literature that perished under those frightful conditions are beyond computation, and when it is considered that all books and records were in man- uscript, written by hand, and that, therefore, the only copies extant of many books were thus irretrievably destroyed, some idea of the loss to after ages can be realized, After the last sacking of Rome, there still remained the Alexandrian Library, in Egypt. The successors of Alexander the Great had gathered in the city named for him records of all the learning of the East, and, indeed, of the civilized world. Many copies of the various books of the Holy Scriptures had been destroyed in the ravaging of the Roman Empire and capital, but there were doubtless not a few stored up in Alex- andria, whose library was the foremost in the world. That city was stormed by the hordes of Mohammed in 640 A. D. When it was reported to Amron, the victorious commander, that there was in the city a great building filled with books, he is said to have given the order to burn them, since, if there were any valuable information there, it was already em- bodied in the Koran, and whatever was not in their sacred book must be bad and should, therefore, be destroyed. The European soldiers now in China, it appears, have enacted in this Twen- tieth Century of enlightenment the out- rages and crimes against civilization of which the barbarians of antiquity alone were capable. In the midst of their outrages upon women and murders perpetrated on children, they have burned all the great libraries in the Chinese capital. Dr. Herbert A. Giles, professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, England, says: If the siege of the Pekin Legations had no other claim to be remembered, it would always be associated in the minds of those interested in Chinese studies with one of the most appalling literary catastrophes the world has _ ever seen. The utter destruction by fire of the entire book quarter, containing not only vast stores of modern books with their wooden blocks (stereotype plates), from which fresh issues are printed, but also large numbers of rare old editions long since out of print and almost un- procurable, would alone form a very sufficient disaster. Even this, however, ig a small matter compared with the burning of the Han-lin College and all its priceless contents. It appears that the origin of the Han- lin College is lost in the mists of an- tiquity. With the first rude efforts in the domain of Chinese historiography this department of state may be said to have come into existence. Its modern name dates only from the Eighth Cen- tury A. D., sometime between 713 and 738. For more than four centuries and a half the college has been always upon the same spot, its members, chosen from the most brilliant among China’s rising graduates, occupied, among other duties, in compiling the ‘‘Veritable Record’’ of each sovereign’s reign, which may become public property only after the final extinction of the dynasty. Without doubt the losses in history and other records resulting from the destruction of the Chinese libraries are not only most serious, but also irrepar- able. The fact remains that so-called civilized warfare is not largely different from that waged by barbarians and sav- ages. It all means, simply, kill, burn and destroy. The amount of news print paper man- ufactured in the United States is esti- mated at upwards of 2,000 tons a day, which makes the daily newspaper cir- culation about 30,000,000 copies. The people of the United States are the greatest reading people in the world. The circulation of 30,000,000 newspaper copies every day in the year is an av- erage of two copies for every family in the United States. NO EVIDENCE OF SOCIAL DECAY. A lady writer in the Nineteenth Cen- tury, in an article entitled ‘‘The Mod- esty of English Women,”’’ sees in the manners of the present time decided evidences of the decay of social purity and morals. As the charge is a very serious one, because any decline in the standard of female virtue means corresponding un- dermining of the entire social fabric, it is worth most careful consideration. But since any deterioration in female purity can not exist in England with- out affecting society in all the English- speaking countries, it follows that the people of the United States havea great interest in the determination of the question. Women are the salt that pre- serves the purity and honor of human society, and if the salt have lost its sa- vor then society is in a bad way. The writer referred to finds three evidences of the decay of modesty in English women: One of these is the theater. ‘‘What,’’ she asks, ‘‘are the sort of plays that please the modern women?’’ Ifthe stage isto hold the mir- ror up to nature, it must deal with the crimes and vices of mankind as with their noble and virtuous acts; but vice must be made hideous and abhorrent and it must be punished in the end to meet the demands of poetic justice and the unities of art; but too often vice is glossed over by ‘‘humorous’’ situations or tricked out in a false sentimentality ; men, and especially women, are contin- ually represented as condoning immor- ality under the assumption that pas- sion, and not honor, reason and duty, ought to be the ruling impulse; in- decency is purposely saved from its na- tive sordidness and ugliness by the con- summate art of an actor or an actress, by splendid dresses, sparkling music and superb mounting in general. The writer then cites, as an example, a certain play as it was recently pro- duced in London, in one scene of which a woman undressed herself to ‘a very considerable extent in full view of the house, and pretended to undress herself more completely than she actually did, while thousands of refined-looking and well-dressed women calmly and com- fortably watched this performance in the company of their brothers and sweet- hearts and others. But all this is noth- ing more than has occurred in the lead- ing theaters of the United States. If the best people, and particularly the women, had once for all frowned on such exhibitions they would at once have been withdrawn from the stage, since managers have only a desire to please their patrons and thereby fill their own pockets; but the questionable plays were those in the highest favor, and it is on record that ‘‘Sapho’’ was one of the most successful presentations placed upon the boards in Grand Rap- ids. Another point in the decline of mod- esty is mentioned in the avidity with which the sensational accounts of mari- tal infelicities are scanned and the read- iness with which men and women marry those of the-opposite sex who come out of divorce trials smirched and tainted with scandals.. But a third point in the decline of modesty is thus stated: It is impossible to be blind to the fact that the molestation of women, and particulary of young girls,in the streets, is too often due to their own immodest and provocative behavior. It is true, no doubt,that some part at least of their reckless levity is due to the fact that to natures of an adventurous and daring temperament the element of danger is fatally alluring. But altogether there is a most unhealthy sentiment on this subject among girls, even among girls whose behavior and bearing are not of a sort to provoke insulting notice. Such episodes are not looked upon with the disgust and repugnance which they ought to inspire. The writer in question attributes the change of manners which she deplores to the scarcity of men in England. The military and civil services in the nu- merous colonies have carried off great numbers of men, while emigration and England’s far-reaching commerce have absorbed as many more, so that there is a great dearth of young men in the United Kingdom. From a variety of causes, women are in an enormous ma- jority in that country, a majority which has been constantly on the increase for many years past. What wonder, then, if the old bad idea of the mental and social inferiority of woman should have merged into a new and not less mis- chievous estimate of her superfluity in the social machine? It must be admitted that this change in female manners has been very marked since the days of our grand- mothers. The larger scope given to women in the business of the world largely accounts for this. When our grandmothers ruled society there was no employment possible for women save in domestic service, in dress- making and in teaching. To-day there is not a trade or profession that is not open to the fair sex. This fact must make a vast difference in manners; but manners and morals do not necessarily mean the same thing. The real ques- tion is as to social purity. Is there any real decline in female virtue apparent in the past quarter of a century? In Europe, the standard of social morality is in the tone and manners of royal courts. At the present time they are above reproach. In England, the late venerable Queen kept a jealous eye upon the behavior of all around her, and she sternly and most uncompromis- ingly excluded all women, no matter how high in rank, if they had been mixed up in any scandals. In the courts of Russia, Germany and Italy a great degree of strictness as to manners and morals is enforced, and in the republi- can court of France like conditions ob- tain. Those are the great nations which’ have the greatest influence, socially and politically, in the Old World, and their social influence is thrown in behalf of morals. One has only to look back a century to see the most rotten social corruption in all the courts of Europe and a corres- ponding license in the literature and the drama. Certain it is that conditions to- day are vastly improved. It may be that the moral pendulum is swinging back to the low standard of the Eighteenth Century, but the movement is slow. There is always a reaction from one ex- treme to another, but it must be remem- bered that in the straight-laced times of fifty years ago there were moral lapses and social scandals, just as there are to-day, and there always will be as long as human nature remains as it is. After a survey of the entire situation, the Tradesman is convinced that, des- pite the great changes in the conditions created by the exigencies of modern life, the mothers are as devoted to the care of their children; that the daughters are as lovely and pure, and that the wives are as honest and true as ever they were in the days of the strictest social regulations. If this were not so, true love would no longer have the highest place in human sentiment and marriage would be universally voted a bad bargain, if not worse, ae + MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF WAR. War is the most costly business in which men can engage. It means destruction—the destruction not only of human life, but of property, and that on an enormous scale. At successive periods, all the civilization acquired by the human race and all the great works constructed by human labor are extin- guished and given over to destruction in war. We know little concerning the most powerful nations of antiquity, save from the ruins of their cities, of their great public works and their temples of wor- ship. Only fragmentary relics of those great monuments of dead nations re- main to give some dim idea of the grandeur of the civilization that has wholly perished from the earth. Some faint notion of the power and progress of the ancient Egyptians can be obtained from the pyramids, the Sphinx and the ruins of temples. Those structures, built to resist the tooth of time and the force of the earthquake, are all that remain of a people who dominated the globe in their day. The site of Babylon, one of the world’s greatest capitals, is covered by ruins so utterly decayed that it was only when some remarkable fragments were dug out that it was possible to realize that such a city ever existed. So of all the most powerful peoples of antiquity and their works. It is impossible to compute the hu- man lives and the works and wealth that were the product of human labor that have been destroyed in the wars which periodically devastated the face of the earth and blotted out entire nations and their works. If all the cities, all the interoceanic canals, all the other great public works which have once repre- sented the dwellers upon earth had been preserved, as they would have been if there had been no great destructive wars, the accumulated wealth of the na- tions would be so great that no imagina- tion, no matter how fertile and vivid, could picture it. Astronomers tell us that there are canals upon the planet Mars from 200 to 500 miles in width and thousands of miles in length, and there is every in- dication that they were constructed by the inhabitants of the planet. The tel- escope has revealed that Mars is greatly deficient in water, not more than one- fourth to one-third of its surface being covered by the sea, while on our earth only one-fourth is land, and the balance is water. The idea has been suggested that, on account of the scarcity of water, the in- habitants of Mars have excavated the vast system of immense canals that checker the surface of their planet in order to make its immense land areas cultivable and habitable. Of course, such titanic works would only be pos- sible if they had been in course of con- struction by many successive generations operating through thousands of years, each set of workers taking care to pre- serve what was done by their predeces-, sors and to add to it. Such a state of affairs would prove in the most convincing manner that the in- habitants of Mars are remarkably peace- able and never engage in destructive wars, Mars got its warlike reputation from its red color, which seems to be the hue of its land, the water being green or otherwise dark, while the snow at its poles is white. The red planet, so far from being a world full of warriors, seems to be distinguished by the peace- ful and industrious character of its in- ~ habitants, who are the constructors of public works so grand that the people of our globe, working with all the appli- ances of modern machinery and science, would require enormous lapses of time and complete immunity from war as the conditions necessary to construct them. To give some idea of the cost of war- fare in our own time, a few figures may not be out of place. A writer in the Chicago Tribune, speaking of the re- cent war between the States of the American Union, characterizes it as the costliest of which any réliahle informa- tion is attainable. He estimates that the war of 1861-65 cost the Northern States a total of $6,200,000,000, while the South spent more than $2,000, 000, - ooo in addition. And this does not con- sider the enormous expense of the pen- sions which have been paid for the last thirty-five years, The estimate appears to be far short of the reality, for it does not include the loss in the labor of half a million men who were killed in battle or died from wounds and disease. The services of each would have averaged not less than $600 yearly for a period of thirty years, which would be the immense sum of nine thousand million dollars, doubling the estimate made. Writers on the subject claim that every war of any consequence directly affects practically all peoples on earth, no matter how far distant they may be from the scene of the conflict. Thus, during the Civil War, for instance, the cotton mills of England were cut off from their supply of raw material, and, as a result, there was a ‘‘cotton famine’’ in Lancashire, which took on the pro- portions of a national calamity. Asa direct result of the Civil War, it has been estimated that 100,000 workmen in England, Germany and France were, kept out of work continuously for more than three years, with much misery and starvation as the result. The brief statement of a single war which lasted four years can give but a faint idea of the terrible destructiveness of war in every age, and it brings to mind the well-known’ expression of General- Sherman on the subject, that ‘*War is hell.’’ And still the destruction goes on, since the nations of the earth have not yet reached the idea that the peacemakers are blessed. As this is the maple sugar season, at least in the city markets, the suggestion is offered that maple sugar does not taste as it used to; that it has not the same flavor. The general idea seems to be one of criticism rather than com- mendation, and it is reckoned a change rather than an improvement. The real reason for the difference is that the old- time maple sugar was made out in the open, getting its dark color and its peculiar flavor from the smoke, +he cinders, the leaves and the bark and various other kinds of dirt which fell into the boiling sap. Now the work is carried on much more scientifically and great care taken to prevent impurities, and the result seems unsatisfactory to those old-timers who recollect how it used to taste forty years ago. They seem to forget that the trouble may be quite as much with their taster as with the taste. To a man past middle age everything tasted better forty years ago than it does to-day, maple sugar in- cluded. The wife that fumes and frets only hastens the time she may have a suc- cessor, WOMEN AND BUSINESS. Women might as well be frank with themselves on one point—they can not make the success in business that their husbands, fathers and brothers. do. There is only one Hetty Green, and she can hardly be ranked with the Car- negies, Rockefellers and Morgans of the great world of affairs. It is all very well to allude to the superior physical strength that enables men to undertake tasks which women are constitutionally incapable of fulfilling; but the truth seems to be that women are not fitted for success along the same lines that men are, and it isa waste of time for them to aspire in that direction. There is a constantly growing agitation which aims to impress women with the neces- sity of being independent and self-sup- porting. Of course, there is, unfor- tunately, always a large number of women who have to earn their bread, but they should be pitied, rather than held up for the admiration and imita- tion of the remainder of the sex. An impression seems to be abroad that girls should not remain under the protection of the family roof any longer than their brothers, that they are under the mascu- line necessity of getting out and seek- ing their fortunes in the great world at about the same age. One feminine characteristic which stands in the way of women’s success in business is her inability to judge things in an impartial and impersonal sort of way. This is one of the things that a man learns at the very outset of his career. But the average working wom- an considers every man she meets in the course of the office routine from the point of his possible like or dislike for herself. Does her employer, in an absent-minded moment, stroll into the room with his hat on, she considers that it is a deep-laid plot to affront her deli- cate sense of the proprieties. If, in the course of a sultry noon, he should feel compelled to lay aside his coat and make himself cool and comfortable, it is because he has taken a sudden dis- taste to her presence and desires to make known the change in his senti- ments. Moreover, the little courtesies which men pay to women—yes, even to business women—are too often construed as evidences of personal liking. It seems almost beyond the range of wom- en’s intellect to conceive of a state of things in which her business associates are absolutely neutral with regard to her personality; neither iike nor dislike her, but regard her simply as one of the necessary features of the establishment. There is, also, another point whichis worth while mentioning in this connec- tion: Woman has her distinct field, as has often been said, and that field is the home. But did it ever occur toa woman how much training she requires before she is competent to administer a household? If she devotes herself dili- gently to the acquisition of what she ought to know in order to manage even a very simple home, she has little time left to engage in the occupations which ought to be left to men. Think of the large number of young girls who know how to do stenography, typewriting, keep books and preside at the cash reg- ister! Then think how few there are who have any knowledge of the simple art of ‘‘first aid to the injured’’ (some- thing that is indispensable in the home) ; how few know anything of the chemistry of foods or the nutritive values of the different cuts of beef or how to repair a man’s wardrobe or drive a nail or—to come down to something which implies a still greater deficiency —to keep an account book of the daily domestic expenditures? When women know these things, it is time enough for them, unless driven by stern necessity, to think of going into business. THE LAWS OF TRADE. Every period of wild financial specu- lation and extravagant expenditure is followed by a corresponding commer- cial and industrial depression and financial stagnation. These vicissitudes of business depend on laws of trade and public and private economy, which operate invariably in the same way un- der like circumstances. Financial and industrial revulsions are not confined to the nations which use the same meth- ods of commercial and financial ex- ploitation and development such as the Europeans and Americans, but they op- erate in like manner in every country where commerce and money are used. As an example, the financial condi- tions in Japan may be cited. Consul General Bellows for the United States at Yokohama reports upon a commer- cial and industrial depression from which business in Japan is suffering. It appears that the large indemnity fund secured from China at the close of the successful Japanese war with the great empire led to the exploiting of many public and private undertakings which caused money to be unusually plentiful among the coolie or laboring classes. This induced extravagant methods of living, and is assigned as a potent fac- tor in the large increase of imports. The amount of indemnity paid by China proved insufficient for the enter- prises projected, and many millions were diverted from the customary chan- nels of trade to carry forward these un- dertakings. There has been a large increase in imports from foreign countries to keep up extravagant styles of living, and cor- responding decline in exports, and the result was that in the past year 50,000, - 000 yen ($24,900,000) passed out of the country to settle Japan’s balance of trade. This large outflow of specie led the Bank of Japan to raise its rate of interest, produced a glut of merchan- dise in the hands of the importers, and caused a pronounced depreciation of stocks, bonds and securities. The scarcity of money for commercial and industrial purposes is all the more keenly felt because of the steady rise in price of all living expenses, which have increased during the last few years over 75 per cent. Foreign capital declines to enter the Japanese market, although tempted by flattering rates of interest. The govern- ment’s recent effort to float a foreign loan has not proven a success, while school and municipal bonds, based upon safe security, are rendered unde- sirable to foreigners because of the pe- culiar regulations and conditions at- tending their issue. All commerce and finance are subject to laws that operate as surely in Asia as in Europe and America. Every spasm of undue financial speculation and expansion is sure to be followed by a reaction as great as was the excite- ment at the period of the highest puls- ation in the money market. A recent trial at Fort Myer, Va., was to test the relative merits of khaki col- ored and the blue flannel shirts for soldiers. While no _ decision was reached, it was found that the khaki shirt is well adapted for field service similar to that in the Philippines. Dry Goods Weekly Market Review of the Principal Staples. Staple Cottons—In looking over the market for staple cottons, it is evident that, take it altogether, there have been more yards of goods bought this week than for several weeks previous, al- though a portion of this business has been gained at the expense of price; some of it, however, has been taken at a very slight advance. Four-yard sheet- ings, for instance, have seen more busi- ness in’56x60 makes, because the price was made four cents. Brown sheetings and drills, on the other hand, show no special change asa rule, but in one or two cases an eighth of a cent advance has been made. Ducks in both heavy and light weights show no change. Bleached cottons are selling in limited quantities, but only for immediate or near-by requirements. Cotton flannels, blankets, etc., are without change. Denims show a moderate business, but other coarse colored cottons are quiet and rather easy. Prints and Ginghams—There is very little change to report in regard to printed fabrics of any kind. A moder- ate number of orders have been placed, but it is difficult to interest buyers in anything beyond goods for immediate delivery in either staples or fancies. Prices are irregular for narrow prints. Stocks of fancy calicoes have been re- duced to almost nothing, and in several lines of staples the market at first hands is well situated. Napped fabrics are quiet, and ginghams show no change. Dress Goods—The dress goods market is not the scene of much life just now, and it becomes more strongly apparent that the majority of buyers have prac- tically completed their initial selec- tions. The piece dye mills are general- ly very wel] situated as to orders, and it is on plain goods that the greater part of the business that is coming in is placed. The season has presented some difficult problems for the fancy goods manufacturers, whose machinery is not adapted to the production of plains and staples. Their opportunities have been few. In looking for a_ fabric which holds out promise of business they appear to have generally decided upon the waist fabric, and the fact that they have all hit upon the same fabric promises to be unfortunate. There are many mills whoare reported to have se- cured good orders on waistings, and some good orders are still coming in, and in some instances repeat orders have been reported. There is no doubt, however, that there are too many fabrics available at widely differing prices for the good of the market. Underwear—The hope of the market lies in the duplicate season. .The buy- ing was so very light during the initial season, that with any kind of business at all, all present stocks would be cleared off and. the buyers forced into the market for duplicates. Will they get them at initial prices? Probably not. At least those who come in late probably will not. The first in the field will get the benefit of present prices un- doubtedly, and then, look out. The agents are taking a bright view of the situation, and say that the duplicate sea- son will begin early; in fact, two or three have stated to the writer that they have already booked some duplicate or- ders. Whether they really are duplicates or simply some additional initial or- ders is uncertain. Fleece goods show little life. The total amount ordered this year, as compared with last, is ex- ceedingly small. It has been a great disappointment to the manufacturers, although they were warned many times, not only by trade journals, but by their customers as well, that there were many chances that they would not be in spe- cially good demand this season. A num- ber of the mills heeded these warnings, and a curtailment of production fol- lowed. This can not help being of some benefit to the market, but even then, without demand, it must mean that many goods will go begging for cus- tomers. On the other hand, there are optimists who say that the duplicate season will increase the fleeced goods business very largely, and that there is every chance of the buyers going short of goods and having to hunt for stock to replenish. Ribbed goods for fall are in a better condition, and prices have strengthened materially. There seems to be every reason to expect a good business in these goods this season. The duplicate spring goods business shows balbriggans to be in by far the best con- dition of any. The mills are quite gen- erally sold ahead, they report, but here and there there is a moderate stock to be found. It is the larger mills that are in best condition, while the smaller mills occasionally report that they are not as well sold as they would like to be. Hosiery—There is a brighter aspect to the hosiery market this week, for more orders nave been received, and it has helped to revive the spirits of the agents. Jobbers are doing a very good business, and on certain lines have been obliged to replenish. The orders have not been larg® individually, they report, but have been fairly numerous so that the total is reasonable. Carpets—Body Brussels are begin- ning to show a decided improvement from buyers who want a first-class car- pet that will outlast some of the other grades, which, although offered at a lower price, are more expensive in the end. Smyrna Rugs—Sales are increasing with the advance of the season. Some large houses have b2en laying in a sup- ply at present prices for fall business. Wool Smyrnas are in most demand, mainly in bright colors. Some jobbers report that they have sold ahead in the larger sizes, which are to-day more diffi- cult to obtain. The outlook is favor- able. Increasing competition is reported each succeeding season on Smyrnas, as manufacturers on ingrains in some in- stances have taken them up, while other lines were slow. — ee Making a Man. Hurry the baby as fast as you can, Hurry him, worry him, make him a man; Off with his baby clothes, get him in pants, Feed him on brain-food and make him advance, Hustle him, soon as he’s able to walk, Into a grammar school; cram him with talk. Fill his poor head full of figures and facts, Keep on a-jamming them until it cracks; Once boys grew up at a rational rate, Now we develop a man while you wait. Rush him through college, compel him to grab Of every known subject a dip and a dab. Get him in business and after the cash, All by the time he can grow a mustache; Let him forget he was ever a boy, Make gold his god and its jingle his i9: Keep fim a-hustling and clear out of breath, Until he wins—nervous prostration and death. ——-—>2 > Would Keep Her Busy. ‘‘After I am dead,’’ sighed the re- jected lover, ‘‘you may look into my heart and see your image graven there.’ ‘*Tut, tut,’’ said the frivolous female who had just given him the sister talk, “you men would keep me busy holding — if I took you all at your word, Send distance 1 to 2 or height 2 to 3 or projection, 3 to 4 or width. (SEE CUT) and we will send samples and bottom prices. CHAS. A. COYE, 1 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Get our prices and try our work when you need Rubber and Steel Stamps Seals, etc. Send for Catalogue and see what we offer. Detroit Rubber Stamp Co. 99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich. ore, Epa eee | Awnings, Tents, Flags Order your Awnings before it gets hot. TENTS TO RENT Stack binder and thresher cov- ers, horse and wagon covers. We make everything made of canvas. THE M. I. WILCOX CoO. 210 TO 216 WATER STEET, TOLEDO, OHIO = SHOW - LACE es some very pretty designs in lace cur- trade. yard. We ‘ tains and curtain Swiss for the spring Lace curtains range at 55c, 75c, $1.25 and $1.50 per pair. and Mulls at 8, 9, 10, 12 and I5c per Curtain Swiss also carry a good line of ready made window shades to retail at 10, 15, 25 and Soc. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. CORSET make up. CORONET WAIST, WAISTS The latest thing out in waists is the CORONET. waist on account of the simplicity of It is a very desirable It is a most perfect fitting waist, is soft and pliable and has all the advantages of a corset. ry them in stock both long and short. P. Steketee & Sons, Wholesale Dry Goods, We car- Grand Rapids, Mich. > 1 : « = ’ > | ' a \ ‘- M - » < -_—— 2s -_ = — te = ~ : i wees GQ? i - - we le t “ y » N * v a . ¢ * «eG ¥ he. 2 4 oi & a 4 a a ol > + t => > | ' mt \ ae © we La ° -— — hs -_ = — te - F< i wees GQ? } - - we le t ste N . ¥ ee ii: . ¢ * «eG Y hi a % oi & a ' — oe a > MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Clothing Avoiding Senseless and Demoralizing Methods of Competition. Here is an ingenious and amusing advertising scheme that is being re- vived by some clothing dealers in the West: A clothier advertises that on a specified day he will throw from the roof of his store into the street below a number of suits and overcoats, which may be picked up by anyone who wishes them. Of course every man and boy in the country around immedi- ately determines that here is his own particular private donation party, and when the time for the distribution ar- rives the street is filled by a seething, struggling mob. As soon as a garment falls within reach of the crowd it is seized by every person within arm’s length as his own personal property. There is a yell and a rip and one leg of the trousers or one arm of the coat becomes one gentleman’s property, while the other leg or the skirts of the garment are divided up among half a dozen others. After the distribution is over, liniment applied to barked shins and black eyes, and an invenotry taken, the fortunate possessors of the garments find that they have ruined their own clothing to become the possessors of a varied assortment of trousers’ legs, coat tails and garment linings that are chiefly valuable as souvenirs of an occasion in their lives when they: made fools of themselves to advertise. another man’s business. Such an advertising scheme puts gin- ger into the life of a town. It develops unsuspected ‘‘scrapping’’ powers in the inhabitants. It stirs them up and causes them to display a degree of agil- ity and energy that is well-nigh mirac- ulous. Varied collections of scraps is a poor reward for so much industry. Yet the very merchant who laughs in his sleeve at the folly of his townsmen is often perpetrating exactly the same folly on a broader scale. He is fighting with other merchants of his town in a foolish and senseless competition for business that, when secured, will be of no more advantage to him than the scraps of garments in the hands of the fellows in the street. Between his meth- ods and the methods of his rivals, the business of his town is being reduced to such a demoralized condition that it will be valueless even to the survivor who escapes bankruptcy. Competition for a prize is laudable and_ sensible, provided the prize is worth striving for and that it is not be- ing destroyed in the effort to secure it, but when competition assumes such a character that the victor is no more for- tunate than the vanquished, it is time that a halt were called and that compe- tition is put on a sensible basis. Nothing contributes more to demoralizing meth- ods of doing business than the desire to make money rapidly. Men become so absorbed in present gains that they fail to take thought for the future, and in their efforts to make all they can for the time being they fail to lay the founda- tions for a profitable business for time to come. Nay, more, they make _profit- able and legitimae business impossible for themselves and other people. In their desperate efforts to make present gains they offer inducements that com- promise them sooner or later and oblige them either to do business at a loss or to resort to- methods of deception that lower the tone of their business and de- stroy that confidence that is absolutely necessary to the man who hopes for a continued and permanent success. ‘*Competition is the life of trade,’’ but only up to a certain point, and that point is reached and is cleary distin- guishable when goods are either sold at a loss or a profit is made by imposing upon the confidence or ignorance of people. If a man finds that he is doing business at a loss or that he is being forced into tricks that are unscrupulous it is time for him to pull up short and consider the situation. When houses that should be doing a high-class business are seen pushing and loudly advertising cheap clothing, when extravagant inducements are held out to purchasers, and an effort is made to swell the volume of business done, at no matter what cost to the general tone of the trade, a business policy has been adopted that sooner or later will react upon its originators, as well as upon everyone who is in the same line of trade. There is only one way in which sense- less and demoralizing methods of com- petition can ever be_ successfully avoided, and that is by doing every- thing to-day with reference to its effect on the business of to-morrow and next year. A readiness to wait for results, combined with a willingness to give the best possible value at a living profit, and to avoid anything that comes in conflict with these principles will insure a success that can never be hoped for by the man who pays attention to noth- ing but the profit of the present mo- ment.—Apparel Gazette. Why Men Fail. Few men come up to their highest measure of success. Some fail through timidity or lack of nerve. They are un- willing to take risks incident to life, and fail through fear in venturing on ordinary duties. They lack pluck. Others fail through imprudence, lack of discretion, care or sound judgment. They overestimate the future and build aircastles, and venture beyond their depth, and fail and fall. Others, again, fail through lack of application and preseverance. They begin with good resolves, but soon get tired of that, and want a change, thinking they can do much better at something else. Thus they fritter life away and succeed at nothing. Others waste time and money and fail through ruinous habits ; tobacco, whisky and beer spoil them for business, drive their best customers from them and scatter their prospects of success. Some fail for want of brains, education, and fitness for their calling; they lack a knowledge of human nature and the motives that actuate men. They have not qualified themselves for their occu- pation by practical education. — Still others are unsuccessful because circum- stances are against them; through no fault of theirs, death or the failure of others causes losses and expenses which no effort on their part can make up or repair. —Great Thoughts. —__~_29<.______ An Early Shirt-Waist Movement. Richland, Mo., April 22—Twenty- four of the business men, bankers and professional men of this town have signed an agreement to enlist in a men’s shirt waist club and to make their appearance May 1 in that article of apparel. They will give a parade in the afternoon and an entertainment in the evening. The originators of the movement desired to become shirt-waist men, but fearful of the guying which might attach, enlisted a sufficient num- ber of others to forestall gibes and jeers. Further applications for membership are being received. Ask to see Samples of Pan=American Guaranteed Clothing Makers Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. No More Dust Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. sll ul LL it bel. yeu Our Reservoir Floor Brush .Will notJraise a particle of dust. f§ & Write for descriptive circular. WIENS BRUSH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. Send Us Your Prices Right G. H. GATES & CO., Detroit, Mich. LaDue-Tate Manufacturing Co. 70-76 Exchange Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Manufacturers of Buffalo Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls and jobbers of Men’s Furnishing Goods We are pleased to send samples on approval, charges prepaid. Correspondence solicited. Drop usa card and our Michigan man will call on you. Pants and Overalls Direct from Manufacturer to Retailer No traveling men’s ex- Prices No middlemen’s profits. penses. Samples sent express prepaid. will interest you. Write to-day. Morris W. [Montgomery Successor to The Voorhees Manufacturing Company LANSING, MICHIGAN EGESEEEEEESEEESE SES EE CEE EESEEE SESE Grdoeoncoonsscss seeessensonlseeS 2 ‘ ; : 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers How to Make Money on Findings. What is to be done when a person comes into the store saying: ‘‘I would like a pair of laces, please?’’ Is the dealer going back where he keeps his findings, get a cheap lace, hand it to the customer, receive a ‘‘thank you’’ and in a few days have the same thing happen again simply because he gave him a lace which was too poor to give any service? Before that pair of shoes have been worn out the dealer has given away four or five pairs of laces. The dealer thinks, because he pays only two- thirds of a cent a pair for these laces, that he gets them cheap, but he does not. A fine double-thread lace costing you 144 cents would have worn as long as the three or four pairs given the cus- tomer of the cheap, 50 cents a gross lace. It does not pay to buy the cheap- est lace to either give away or sell. The lace which has flooded the mar- ket for the past year is a coarse-glaced cotton lace, made of a loosely-twisted, single cotton thread. This lace, costing 50 cents a gross, is thought by the shoe men to be a cheap lace. It is cheap in one way, but for Io or 15 cents more may be bought the lace woven from two tightly-twisted threads laid side by side. This lace will outwear two or three pairs of the other patent tubulars and is certainly the cheapest in the end for everybody. To return to the customer who has asked for a pair of laces: Instead of showing only one lace, show this cus- tomer two lace$, saying, ‘‘This lace (showing a ‘give away’ lace) we can give you, but this (showing a good grade sc spiral-tag tubular) we would offer you for 5 cents;-the 5 cent lace will give you much better service, will you not try it?’’ The average customer will buy the 5 cent lace rather than ac- cept the ‘‘giveaway lace’’ gratis. If you try this plan for one month, and have a special account kept of the shoe lace money, we can see the look of surprise on your face at the end of the month when you see how large will be the amount; but this is only the first step in increasing the profits on the laces. Insist that each clerk tries to sell rather than give away laces. To do this divide one-quarter of the profits among the clerks for a few months; it will form a habit in them which they will never forget. Always see that each pair of shoes sold contains laces long enough to lace them and leave a good bow. Ifa cus- tomer has a high instep or large ankle, always give an extra pair of laces witb the sale, 5-4 long if for a man’s shoe and 6-4 or even 7-4 for a woman’s shoe. If the new shoes contain a good pair of laces and those laces are long enough to lace the shoe, do not give another pair. If some of the systematic shoe men knew how some other shoe men kept their laces they would smile. There are shoe dealers to-day doing quite a flour- ishing business who keep their laces all in one or two large drawers, all grades, all lengths and colors, jumbled up to- gether. A salesman wants a pair of 4-4 tan laces; he hauls the contents of the drawer over until two laces of the same color appear; then he measures them and finds one 4-4 and the other 5-4. He puts the 5-4 back in the drawer and be- gins the search again. After wasting from three to five minutes’ valuable time, he finds his laces. The reader may think I. am stretching the truth, but lam not. I have witnessed this many times. But the proprietor of a store run in this manner does not take his cash discounts, for negligence in the care of findings usually means negli- gence in other things. Two grades of laces must be carried: One line complete in all lengths, to sell for 3c, two pairs for 5c, and one very complete line to sell for 5c, six pairs for 25c. Let us see how many kinds of 5c laces should be carried in stock to supply the needs of an average sized store : An oxford lace in black, tan and chocolate comes first. This should be carried in two lengths, 27 and 30 inches. It must be a good width or a wide im- itation silk. This lace may be bought for less than two cents a pair. It must be a wide lace, so that it may be sold for men’s as well as women’s oxfords. Always sell a man a 30-inch lace, as a 3-4 lace is rather short. Next come the 4-4 laces; these should be spiral tagged, done up in single pairs, and should cost from $1.50 to $1.80 per-gross list. This price must be paid to get five cents’ worth of wear in a lace. A success can never be made of selling findings unless the dealer is satisfied with from 75 to Ioo per cent. profit. A one dollar per gross lace will not give five cents’ worth of wear. A stock of 4-4 laces must be carried in black, chocolate, tan and a few light tans. Next come the 5-4 tubulars. These laces must have a place with the rest; only a small stock is required, as they are only needed when a person has a high instep or a large ankle. The 6-4 lace is the hardest of all to arrange for. Some women like a heavy lace while others won’t have it; some wish the laces spiral-tagged while others wish black tin tags; this necessitates carrying a No, 12 medium-weight lace, which will usually suit everyone. This lace is halfway between the width of a woman’s and a man’s lace, and_ should be carried in black, chocolate and tan. The manufacturers using so many 6-4 mohair (or ribbon) laces calls for a flat lace,.so this must be added to the stock of women’s laces. The next lengths required are the 8-4 lace for the 10-inch boot and the 10-4 lace for the knee boot. These last two laces must be bought in bulk. Have them nicely tied in single pairsina box by themselves. Black and dark tan are the only assortment necessary in these lengths. The most important part of all regard- ing the 5c laces is: How they may be shown so they will sell themselves. It will be necessary to have a case just inside the door for. showing findings. Have the laces nicely arranged in this case so they will attract the eye of every one entering or leaving the store. We must not forget the 10, 15 and 25 cent silk, oxford laces. When custom- ers ask for a pair of silk laces show them the three grades. Always sell the extra wide 15c silk lace to a woman and the 25c heavy silk lace to a man if pos- sible. If they once use the good heavy silk lace they will never buy a thin roc lace again. Don’t advise a leather lace; they soil the hands and are not always perfect. The laces should be tied in pairs and the boxes filled from stock every morn- ing. This keeps the laces nice and clean and never mixed up. With a boy’s cheap shoe give a pair of the two-cent cord laces, when necessary; with a men’s or women’s medium shoe give a three-cent tubular if the lace in the shoe is not a good one.—Shoe Retailer. A Whirlwin of a shoe Our Men’s Vici Shoes made in our own fac- tory will blow a gale of business your way. Try them. Price $1.60. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., Makers of Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. @000000000000000000000000 Our Chrome Kid Line Are Winners No. 2275 Stock No. 2275—Women’s Chrome Kid Lace................ 00.0... cce ee eeee $1 20 Stock No. 2282—Women’s Chrome Kid Lace.................... oe i 26 Stock No. 2276—Misses’ Chrome Kid Lace low heel 12% to2................ 1 00 Stock No. 2277—Childs’ Chrome Kid Lace, low heel 8% to 12............... 90 This line has solid sole-leather insole and counter. Always in stock on widths E, Nand EE. Send for our spring catalogue. GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,-Grand Rapids, Mich. Jobbers of Shoes and Rubbers. 000000000000000000000000000000(6) i : | ! ! : Rubbers Still Lower New prices on Bostons 35-10 and 5 per cent. Bay State 35-10-10 and 5 per cent. All orders taken for fall will be billed at above prices. Prices guaranteed until December ist. If you have not already placed your order wait for our salesman and ask to see the new kinds for this season. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan SRORORORORORCHOROROROROROROEOHORS 20000000000000000000000000000000-00000000000-0000000000-0 000000000000 a : a : a : a : a : a Suenononcncnencnenonenenoncnencne » «= pike > > 4 < » » rad ° - | i , SS ; 3 a i v $ z => —_ ) — - 1 ey } a ~ f i ~~ - ae ¥ > « = ~~ he ~« MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 18 How to Conduct a Shoe Department. One thing equal to any other as to the success of a shoe department is the _lo- cation. In a good many stores the shoe department is considered of second im- portance and is shoved off to an ob- scure corner or on a second floor. One thing which should be borne in mind is that there is just as much money made in the shoe department, if you have the trade, as in any other. The first thing to do is to get the con- fidence of the people, and then you will have their trade. Nobody will have confidence unless. they try your goods, and then, if pleased and suited, they will in all probability come again and also recommend their friends. Where the rub comes in is for them to make their first purchase. There are a few people vou can count on to make a purchase, the dissatisfied ones, those that change from place to place; and even if you were to give them a good article they are apt to not call again; consequently you can not rely on them. The customers you want are the ones that stick to you. They, for instance, are dealing with M. — for years, and are well satisfied, and, of course, it is hard to get them to change. So the only thing to do is to throw baits to them; to have a special sale once ina while, fill a window full of a certain shoe which must be a big bargain. At other times have a con- tinual display of shoes and change it constantly so the people will see you - have a big assortment of shoes and may notice something they want or for what they have been looking. Have the shoe department in a conspicuous place with a display of nice shoes and vary with specials. Where the department store has an advantage over the ordinary shoe store is this: in the former establishment, having everything which a person de- sires, there certainly should be a con- tinual flow of people seeking one thing or another, or some may be simply specta- tors. The shoe department being in their line of travel they are bound to pass it. They may not purchase the first or second time, or even the third, but they probably will bear you in mind. They may just ask the price of an atticle, and if they receive a cour- teous reply they will be tempted to make a trial purchase or make one at their next visit. Have your stock nice and clean and in case there are any old or dirty boxes on the shelves take them out and put new ones in their places. Do not give the impression that your stock is a mixed one or a junk shop. By having your stock in first-class order,and by being polite and obliging, and having the right goods at the right price you will make a good impression. The trade will say or think: ‘‘There is an up-to-date concern who seem to do a good business and would appreciate my patronage. I think I shall give them a trial.’’ As there is one there are many others who will think the same and then, if they are suited, you will gradually notice an increase in business which can he increased to enormous or unlimited proportions, provided you keep abreast of the times. Another im- portant thing should not be overlooked : After trying hard to suit a customer and they should not make a purchase, do not become angry or say they did not wish to buy, for even if that were their in- tention, which is not probable, they would think a great deal more of you if they were told that you were sorry that ii aan SO gan A ie Rl i 3 Es you could not suit them, but hoped to be able the next time. Never speak aloud while there are customers around, or pass remarks about the peculiarities of a customer who has just left, for the people will think you do the same of them. If you have any communications to make on that score wait until there is no one around and then you can talk to your heart’s content. Another point should not be over- looked: In case you have not the size that fits the foot, don’t, above all things, give them a_ shoe that is too short and say that it will stretch,nor give one that is too large so that you have to slip in an insole on the sly and stuff the toes with cotton so that when they walk they walk twice and have the heel jumping up and down, which feels like a suction pump. It is far better to lose a sale un- der such conditions and have the peo- ple come again than to make it and have them dissatisfied, for not only will they not come again, but will run you down to other people, and you know bad news travels very fast. Every’ locality is different, therefore the first thing to do is to study your trade and buy accordingly, also notice what sizes and widths sell the most rapidly and order very strongly on them if indications make you believe that the shoe is a go. Staple goods, with medium sizes and medium and wide widths, are sure sellers. Order small sizes and narrow widths with care, also apply the same rule to new or fancy ar- ticles, which may take for a while and suddenly cease and so instead of having your money and investing in other goods your profit and investment are standing on the shelves in battle array ready to charge when a signal is given, which may not be a physical defeat, but it cer- tainly will be a pecuniary loss. Ahove all things remember that the first loss is the best. | When you notice that a line of goods is not moving rapidly as it should, it is advisable to put a P. M. on it, that is, to the person who sells any of that certain lot should be allowed Io or 15 cents or more according to its undesir- ableness. By making this allowance the salespeople will constantly bear it in mind and dispose of a great quantity. After a certain length of time put the remainder on a conspicuous stand or table~ with a large sign marked, say, at half the former profit, and if there be a remainder mark it at cost. Thus you will be making a profit and, besides, getting rid of objectionable stock. I do not think that with half prudent buying you should reduce an article below cost, and very rarely at cost. There is a great misrepresentation by unscrupu- lous dealers in the shoe business, and the opportunities for deception are as great, if not more so, than in any other line. When a new style, of the finer grade, comes out and seems to make a hit it is immediately duplicated in a cheaper quality, and seeing them neatly dis- played in a window a person is apt to be deceived as to their merits. For instance, A may have a French patent leather oxford made with extension edge on the mannish last, with welted sole, marked $2 or $2.50. B may have the same style, made of oil cloth or some other imitation of patent leather dis- played with a large sign marked 98 cents. This is where the deception comes in. Another way a person is deceived is the misrepresentation of an article when sold. Some _ houses will sell a common machine sewed shoe as a hand sewed one and will also advertise it to that effect just to draw the crowd. Right and truth walk hand in hand; although their tread may be slow and heavy they will reach the goal sooner or later, and when once reached they can not be swerved from their destination. The people may bite the first time, but they become wiser as the comfort, wear and looks are tested and come to the final conclusion that they can not get something for nothing.—Milton G. Jelenko in Boot and Shoe Recorder. —__>-2>—__- Let Their Creditors Guess. Briggs—It’s past understanding how some people live. Griggs—Especially those persons who tell you there is no money in their busi- ness, but who keep on working at it with all their might just the same as if it were paying them Io0o per cent. profit. It Really Seems As if men positively dislike to hand back a borrowed lead pencil! As if women will never learn how gracefully to alight from a street car! As if men took a fiendish pleasure in elbowing their way through a crowd! As if women regard it as an intellect- ual display to say ugly things! As if men with a fad think their mis- sion in life is to annoy their friends! As if women expect every man to take an interest in their personal affairs! As if men who spread themselves over a street car would never learn what a nuisance they are! As if public speakers would never discover how easy it is to wear out an audience! —_—__» 2. ——____ His Specialty. Tourist—Has your city any dealer in relics? Citizen—Yes, we have one merchant who doesn’t advertise. to select from. salesman to call. the Boys’ Vici Bal—Crown toe and tip, stylish last and guaranteed. Boys’ 2% to 5%, $1.50. Youths’ 13 to 2, $1.35. Misses and Children’s Slippers. TUTTE TTS OSE ETO TOS TST 8S Hirth, Krause & Co. We carry in stock a very complete and large line of Misses and Childrens, Boys, Youths and Little Gents’ Shoes. Over 200 samples Also complete line Womens, Write for to wear shoes of style and finish. He will appreciate it, and if you sell him a pair of Edwards-Stanwood Shoe Co.’s shoes he will be proud of his appearance. Edwards-Stanwood Shoe Co. Monroe and Franklin Streets CHICAGO, ILL. Milwaukee, Wis. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OOOOOOOOHOOGOGDOOOOOOHOOOODO IF YOU WAIT Bradley & Metcalf a salesman will send With shoes that will wear to the very end. If you don’t think they are the best, Buy a few cases and give them a test; For the only way to get and hold trade Is to handle the shoes that by us are made. BRADLEY & METCALF CO.’ GHOVHHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOD ® © ® © @® © ® ® ® @ © ) ® ® ® © © 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoe Store Advertising Which Will Not Draw Trade. About the best newspaper advertising in this country, and hence in the world, is done in Chicago and about the worst in New York. It is impossible to say why this is so, unless it is that space rates in New York papers are so stiff that the shock of being separated from so much money all at once leaves the merchant in such a state of stupefaction that he can’t think of anything to say. In the shoe line, Cammeyer is the biggest thing in New York, and he cuts the widest swath of any of the exclusive dealers in the newspapers. He takes a section about the size of the ‘‘home plate’’ in the Sunday papers, and he, or his hired hand,tries with great stren- uosity to fill it with something dazzling. It would seem that a store that sells a million and a half annually would pro- duce something in its adverising at least passable, but about all Cammeyer does is to set a horrible example. In the particular ‘‘advertisement’’ in question the only good, strong thing is the name ‘*‘Cammeyer’’ at the top. This is strong, because it is distinctive and a trade mark. But then just think of using up one hundred agate lines, worth at least fifty dollars, with such meaningless balderdash as this: Language is one thing and our boots and shoes for Spring and Summer is an- other. We can not adequately describe these wonderfully beautiful goods—we can not put our shoes into language, no matter how strong or beautiful the language may be, for language still fails to picture to the mind the combination of strength and exceeding grace of our boots and shoes. They are boots and shoes and can not be transposed into mere words—they must be_ seen, handled, examined and worn to be ap- preciated ; and not only so, but the mar- velously low prices at which we sell our wonderful goods is not the least thing that will astonish the purchaser. Now, not being able to adequately describe these shoe wonders thrcugh the medium of written language or by thought transference or any other com- mon or occult method of communica- tion, Mr. Cammeyer proceeds to doa few pictorial stunts in black and white, and if his shoes look anything like the cuts they are ‘‘wonders’’ and no niis- take. These cuts look as if they had been carved out with Carrie Nation’s hatchet after it had dessicated the cast iron fixtures of a Kansas saloon. It is of course impossible to get any- thing out of a half tone cut on ordinary newspaper, but there are outline cuts for this purpose which give a fairly good idea of the shape and pattern of a shoe and these, with the aid of a little simple description, convey an intelli- gent notion of what the shoes really are. We have no objection to Mr. Cam- meyer using all the space he wants for nonsense of this sort, because he has plenty of money to spare, but we trust our friends in the country, who are sometimes prone to follow blindly the advertising methods of great city con- temporaries, will see the folly of this sort of work and cut it out. We do not object to ‘‘talk’’ in an ad- vertisement. If it is done well it at- tracts, but the mere multiplication of words to say, for instance as in this case, that you are unable to say what you are trying to say is an atrocious waste of space and money. The retail shoe dealer, by the way, who will care- fully study to produce descriptive ad- vertisements illustrated with good out- line cuts and will stay right down to the work has a great field, for there is mighty little competition.—Shoe and Leather Gazette. ——_—__> 2. ____ Bargain Days and How Conducted. The first consideration is when to have a bargain sale. Suppose an estab- lishment is doing a fairly good business in a regular way, with regular space ad- vertisements. etc. Well, then, there is always one day in the week when there is less business done than on other days of the week. This day varies according to locality. But we will suppose this dull day is Friday. Then that’s the day for your bargain sale. You have enough regular business on other days to keep your help going. That point being settled we must now select your bargain or bargains. Take one depart- ment at atime. Let your managers or buyers know in advance they are to have a certain Friday. Give them time to prepare for it. And when a buyer knows he is to have a certain day for bargain sales he can often pick upa line of goods for the occasion or else save a line already in stock. Next, the advertising. If you don’t want to disturb your regular advertise- ment take extra space for Thursday night and Friday morning, with a good display, not too much matter, however, for one or two special items are better than a whole catalogue. This done, let your manager go through his entire stock. First, let him get ready the ad- vertised lines. And, mind you, they must be ‘‘special values.’’ Then take odd goods, remnants, etc., and have them arranged conspicuously, with good plain price tickets on them in such a manner that they will sell themselves. For example, we will suppose it is the day set apart for the cloak depart- ment. You have advertised a line of figured silk dress skirts at cost, say $4.75. Bargain day price, $5.19. There’s your foundation! Then proh- ably you have five or six dozen wrap- pers that have been slow sellers. If so put them on a table with a big ticket, say 59C or 79C, as the case may be. You have also turned out a lot of odd _ sizes in shirt waists. Put them on another table at a price. In fact, you can pick out slow sellers in every line in chil- dren’s jackets, ladies’ suits, etc. Have them all unearthed and attractively dis- played and ticketed cheap. Have none but polite and attentive sales people. If you find any of them that are not so, or that are careless, or inattentive to customers let them go. There are always others. Next, let your sign painter make several large signs, calling attention to the fact that this is your bargain day in the cloak depart- ent. Have the signs placed in conspic- uous places in every department of the store. And then you are ready for the fray ! Keep this up systematically for a few weeks, or months, always meantime taking care to keep faith with the pub- lic. And then you will have trans- formed your dull Friday into the busiest day of the week. Harry Beckton. ——_—_> 0. A Question of Diet. He ate pork chops and sausages, And candied sweet potatoes, His soups were full of onions and Of garlic and tomatoes. He ate salt mackerel and ee And pastries and banana: And after having finished en, He smoked afew Havanas. And yet he oft, in mournful tones, Was heard to ask this question: “Why is it that I just can’t find A cure for indigestion?” ’s the New Century Method It was all right twenty years ago to buy shoes from jobbers. are manufacturers of shoes and sell only our own product. We The advantages in this method are—NO MIDDLEMEN, NO JOBBER’S PROFIT and WE STAND BACK OF EVERY SHOE WE SELL. <2}. p SMA from Factory to Customer. | 3 | This picture shows railroad facilities for shipping direct Combined Capacity 10,000 Pairs Daily. | a ! ~ e ab i> e: 1S — des -@% hee “ i -_ y -_ ~_ - ; -3 < » a» 4 a - he ‘ -~> | a: 9 ~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 Window Dressing Seasonable Goods Which Should Receive Particular Attention. What lines of goods should now re- ceive particular attention from your window trimmer? Golf goods, cloth- ing and haberdashery for bicycling, spring shirtings, gloves, umbrellas for rainy days and a little later lightweight underwear. Of course, you won't forget to make a good display of neckwear, for it gives life and beauty to your win- dows. Spring suits will be given a prominent place because they, with lightweight overcoats, are the backbone of the clothing business of the season, and you will give a delicate spring tone to your windows, not a heavy dark color effect suitable for the days when snow is on the ground. + e+ Now is the time for the dealer to bring to the foreground all kinds of goods for sporting purposes. Golfing, bicycling, tennis (for it seems to be coming again into popularity) and all other kinds of outdoor sports should receive a full and adequate treatment at the dealer’s hands. People are ac- customed to seeing trims of goods for street and dress wear. Therefore the dealer should make especial effcrts to push his sporting goods to the front. He may not have a large stock of them, but when they are well displayed he adver- tises the fact that he is prepared to take care of more than one kind of business, that his stock is varied in its ‘character, and that he is able to supply the needs of all classes of trade. ee oe Suits for golfing can be introduced into mixed trims and should be given a prominent position in the window. When it is not thought best to put the suits themselves into the windows it is well to introduce a golf stick or two as an accessory, just by way of a hint that golf clothing now needs refurbishing. A window display of golf haberdashery can have, interspersed among the units of display, stands of golf sticks and the leather bags and golf balls used in the game. Another plan is to use the golf sticks themselves as bars for the display of golf goods. The background of the window is covered with green and red cloth puffed and is divided diagonally, one-half being covered with green cloth, the other with red cloth. Hooks with long arms are then screwed into the background and on them as racks the golf sticks are hung, widely spaced. From these bars golf shirts are hung by the shoulder, interspersed with golf caps and stocks. At either side of the window stands of different heights are arranged behind each other; rising to the back, and on the top of each stand different colored golf caps are placed. The center of the window floor is occu- pied by a pyramid or cone made up of the gloves, stocks, caps and other articles used by golfers. If there is a golf club in the place trim the window as far as possible in the colors of the club and on the price cards used for the articles in the window sketch neatly the device of the club. A plain white price card bearing the price in black letters and the neatly executed device of the golf club in colors in one corner would be in excellent taste. A trophy formed of golf sticks arranged prettily makes a very effective decoration for the back of the window. The device of a golf club painted on silk and draped among the goods in the window will attract the attention of the class of people whom the merchant wishes to reach. ei Now that artificial vines and flowers have become so cheap and easily avail- able, they are introduced into many spring trims where floral effect is de- sired. A simple and pretty effect can be obtained by the use of them in the following manner: On the floor and ceiling of the window corresponding intersecting half circles are marked and at regular intervals on these half cir- cles screw hooks are drivenin. From the top to the bottom of the window, lengths of stout wire are made taut and straight by means of these hooks. Vines are then twined about the wires, or ar- ticial morning glory vines, with the flowers, lilies, bunches of violets or roses, are twined about and attached to them. The floor and back of the win- dow is draped in white cloth laid in loose puffing on the floor, and puffed on the background. The wires are parallel to each other and from six inches to a foot and a half apart. The curved back- ground formed by them occupies the middle of the window, or is set back three-quarters of its depth. Behind, as well as in front of these wires so ar- ranged, the goods displayed are ar- ranged on floor stands well spaced. One or more doves can be suspended from the ceiling, so that they appear to be darting in and out among the vines. Care should be taken to leave sufficient space between the vines to permit of the goods behind them being seen.: In- stead of arranging the wires in a semi- circular figure they can be arranged in one or more straight rows, according to the depth of the window, or only a few wires need be stretched at different points inthe window. The white back- ground is advisable, as it throws out the colors of the flowers and gives a brilliant background for the display of spring and summer goods. A few pots of natural flowers in blossom arranged about the floor of the window will give a touch of natural beauty to the trim. — Apparel Gazette. A Trade Maker Fanny Davenpo Sc Cigar Trade Supplied By: B. J. Reynolds, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Phipps, Penoyer & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. Moreland Bros. & Crane, Adrian, Michigan. ee GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BOYS WILL BE BOYS! 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Grand Rapids Fixtures Co., South Ionia and Bartlett Streets, Grand Rapids, Michigan wa Wa a a a. a a a ee. a ee ee ee WS >, OR . . . we. eR . . e. . a eS Sass = SCOTTEN-DILLON COMPANY — eS eS Ks TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS eS == | INDEPENDENT FACTORY DETROIT, MICHIGAN & OUR LEADING BRANDS. KEEP THEM IN MIND. Ss CF FINE CUT SMOKING PLUG SS eS UNCLE DANIEL. HAND PRESSED. Flake Cut. CREME DE MENTHE. 3 feet OJIBWA. DOUBLE CROSS. Long Cut. STRONG HOLD. SI ka= FOREST GIANT. SWEET CORE. Plug Cut. FLAT IRON. aS eS SWEET SPRAY. FLAT CAR. Granulated. SO-LO. Sasa Ss The above brands are manufactured from the finest selected Leaf Tobacco that money can buy. See quotations in cs = price current. SS 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market The Outlook For Supplies of Hogs. It is well understood among the pork packing interest that it is not possible to foretell with reliability the relative number of hogs that will be marketed during a period of months to come, and that calculations made in the spring as to probable supplies for the period up to November 1 must necessarily be liable to prove more or less at variance with ultimate records. Observers in the same locality, with seemingly equal fa- cilities for information and of careful judgment, are often at important vari- ance in their estimates concerning the outlook for supplies of hogs in the same region. The statistician who collates replies to enquiries can not always judge as to the merit of such returns— he can only take in all the evidence he receives, and reach conclusions accord- ingly, more or less influenced by previous experiences and observations in such work and comparisons of what such returns have pointed to with the records following. Referring to the information obtained recently from live stock merchants and prominent packing concerns in the larger markets, it appears that the pre- vailing expectation at Chicago is that there will be little or no decline in mar- ketable supplies for the season, and that the number from the first of April to end of June will be about the same as last year. At Kansas City the informa- tion suggests as many and _ probably some increase at the end of June, and 5 to 10 per cent. increase for the season. At South Omaha the prevailing expec- tation is about Io per cent. below last year for the early part and entire por- tion of the season. At St. Louis there is considerable variation in views, the average indicating a probable moderate decrease up to end of June and for the season. At St. Joseph a moderate de- crease early and about the same as last year for the season is indicated. At Sioux City the supply is expected to be enlarged Io to I5 percent. At Mil- waukee about the same number as last year are looked for, with recognition of a possible moderate increase for the sea- son. Taking all these returns into con- sideration, with a large number from other points throughout the Western hog supply regions, the result points toa summer season supply about the same as last year, probably falling a little behind for the period ending with June, and correspondingly increased later. Under inducements of remunerative prices there has been continued stimulus to maintenance or increase in production of hogs, in the West, during the past year. While corn has been realizing good prices for shipment it has afforded much better returns from feeding oper- ations, in conjunction with utilization of other feeding material. The past win- ter has been mild, and losses of animals have been smaller than usual. Condi- tions attending young pigs as a rule have not been unfavorable this spring. These influences will count in favor of maintenance of future supplies, if no unusual adverse conditions arise. In some of the recent correspondence it has been noted that an enlarged num- ber of sows were kept over from last year, for breeding purposes, and it is thought that with continuance of attractive prices for hogs such stock after the pigs are raised will be fattened for market, which will have a tendency to keep up the marketings, as the season advances, beyond June. There is more or less prevalence of a belief that prices of hogs will be lower in the later months of the season and opening of the winter season, and this will likely serve to in- duce a steady preparation of all stock for marketing that can be brought into condition prior to the expected decline in prices. As a matter of fact there are no sea- sons now in the marketing of hogs, so far as demand from packers is con- cerned, for curing operations are an all- the-year business—enlarging or decreas- ing in compliance with supplies of hogs and demand of product. For the five years ending March 1, 1886, the sum- mer packing operations represented an average of 41 per cent. of the total; for the next five years, 50 per cent. ; the following five years, 55 per cent. ; the past five yeats, 59% per cent. ; the past year, 60% per cent., of the year’s total. The Department of Agriculture has heretofore been accustomed to estimate the relative number of swine in January of each year, but this vear and last no such estimate has been submitted. In past years the January estimates have not served .as a guide concerning the relative marketings during the follow- ing summer season. This is illustrated in the following compilation by the Price Current, showing the official esti- mates for twelve packing states, the re- corded number of hogs packed during the summer -season, and the percent- age of the January total represented by the packing figures: Dept. Agr. Packing Per ct. £300... 0... 33,926,000 9,540,000 28 1891 - -33» 353,000 6,696,000 20 fog? 652.0) 35,059,000 7,757,000 22 Reese: 29,232,000 6,720,000 23 ood... |. 27,576,000 8,812,000 32 oe Se 25,636,000 8,195,000 32 I Li... 123,278,000 ° 9;900,q00 (44 1897 ..¢....21,148,000 11,760,000 55 1898 .......20,813,000 13,931,000 67 rgg 2.2.42! 19,963,000 15,525,000 68 Each year since 1892, according to official estimates, has shown a reduction in number of hogs, while packing oper- ations have in most instances enlarged. In. 1892 the summer packing record in the West represented a number equal to 22 per cent. of the January supply of hogs as officially reported; in 1808, witha decline of over 4o percent. in the indicated supply, the summer packing was nearly 80 per cent. greater than in 1892—representing 67 per cent. of the January number. In 1899 the two quan- tities were more nearly consistent than previously, in the comparison.—Price Current. ~~ -8 -~— - - Trailing Skirts and the Begging Industry. From the Philadelphia Record. ‘Strange as it may seem, the trailing skirts that women are now wearing have almost ruined our business,’’ confided an intelligent street beggar yesterday. ‘That sounds queer, doesn’t it? One not acquainted with our business might fail to see the connection between pro- fessional begging and women’s skirts. And yet what I say is true. The greater part of our revenue ordinarily comes from women, but since they’ve taken to these long skirts for street wear they are forced to hold them up, and that keeps one hand constantly occupied. It takes two hands to open a purse, and I have often seen women stop as though about to give something, but this would neces- sitate letting go of the skirt, and they have passed on again. Yes; we have to study all these things. The trailing skirt has already driven a lot of us out of the business. ’’ —_—____0-e__— Worry has driven more people to in- sanity or suicide than work ever did. Physical labor, is more healthful than too much brain_work, - ‘MICA | | GREASE | has become known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle 4 Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is 4 required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that @ Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- 4 nomical as well, Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white } and blue tin packages. ILLUMINATING AND d LUBRICATING OILS PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS STANDARD OIL Grand Rapids Bark and Lumber Co. Dealers in HEMLOCK BARK, LUMBER, SHINGLES, RAILROAD TIES, POSTS, WOOD WANTED-—‘50,000 cords of Hemlock Bark. Will pay highest market price. Bark measured and paid for at loading point WANTED-—~75,000 Ties on Pere Marquette Railroad. Write for prices. co. > 419-421 MICH. TRUST BUILDING, GRAND RAPIDS W. A. Phelps, Pres. D.C. Oakes, Vice-Pres. 20000 Cords Hemlock Bark Wanted We pay cash. Write us for quotations, Michigan Bark & Lumber Co. Manton, Mich. C. A. Phelps, Sec’y and Treas. Cc. U. CLARK, President. W. D. WADE, Vice-President. F. N. CLARK, . Sec’y & Treas, \ Q it ” , 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Poultry Peculiarities Pertaining to the Handling of Poultry. ‘*These people that have been trying to have a_ law passed to compel ship- pers to draw their poultry before mar- keting it claim that the flavor is affected in poultry which is held any length of time with the entrails in,’’ said a re- ceiver recently. ‘‘I have been on the New York market a great many years and my experience has been just the opposite. I remember a lot of poultry we had on hand some time ago which had been held in celd storage for four years. We had enquiries from Europe and shipped it over together with a quantity of stock held in freezer only a short time and we were agreeably sur- prised when our returns came back to find that the older stock brought the more money. I took a couple of the fowls home to try them as I was curi- ous to see how they had varied during the four years and I can assure you the flavor and quality as far as I couid de- tect had not deteriorated a bit.’’ * * * ‘‘T see another shipper who has_ been handling his own stock here on the mar- ket has given it up and is dividing his poultry among the commission men again,’’ remarked another receive.r ‘‘A great many shippers have tried this of late years and always with the same re- sult. The commission for handling is so small that a man is foolish to go to the expense of store rent, clerks and other items, including bad debts, for the sake of saving the commission charged. It seems strange that they all have to learn by experience instead of profiting by the-experience of others, but they soon get tired and come back to us com- mission men, which is some consolation. Speaking of the commission for han- dling poultry, did you ever notice how some shippers hate to pay the commis- sion? The rate for handling is certainly low enough, but some shippers are:al- ways looking for some house to handle their goods ata cut rate. Every once in a while the shipper loses an entire shipment or two by the failure of the concern and invariably he is worse off financially than if he had paid full com- mission and sent his poultry to a reli- able house. Even where these firms keep on doing business they find some way of making up for any cut in the commission and the shippers who stick to the reliable houses are better off in the end, although it is not always easy to convince them of this until they have been bitten.’’ + eS A writer in Poultry Herald states that squabs. weighing from g to 12 pounds per dozen are the most profitable squabs to raise as they fetch on the market $2.40 to $3.25. per dozen. Now I don’t know what market he refers to, but here in New York squabs weighing in aver- age lots g to 12 pounds to the dozen are a rare thing and would bring as high as $3.75 if not more. The average weight of most of the good squabs seen on this market is 7@8 pounds to the dozen and these sell at present writing in range of $2.25 to $2.75 or $3. I talked with a large squab dealer the other day and he said he very seldom had in any quantity of squabs that would weigh as much as 9@Io pounds to the dozen. ‘*Frequently we receive a lot of squabs,’’ said he, ‘‘in which we can find some weighing as much as 9@Io pounds to the dozen, but we do not like to pick these heavier squabs out of a lot, as it injures the sale of the lighter ones. This morning I picked out three dozen squabs from a lot we had in for a buyer who wanted them large; these weighed 27 pounds, and he paid me $3.75 per dozen for them. It is very seldom that we get any number of squabs that will weigh as much as 9@1I0 pounds, and we get some of the finest lots of squabs that come to this market. Yes, I think it would pay squab raisers to breed for weight, especially for fall and winter markets, as it is then that demand is best. During the summer many of those who pay high prices for heavy squabs are out of the city and the demand from boarding houses and hotels is for the cheaper birds.’’ : oe ik A writer in The Poultry Herald states that there is little danger of Belgian hares becoming a drug on the market, because it requires too much work to raise them. While the outlay in money to raise a pound of hare is very small, yet the work, he says, is considerable and consequently he thinks the market will never be more than scantily sup- plied with hare meat. * * * ‘*Some of the boys, noticing the activ- ity of Swift and Armour in the poultry field, seem to fear that the business is tapidly passing into the hands of these big packers,’’ said a dealer last week, ‘‘but it will be a long time, I think, before they will dominate the market, if they ever do. When one stops to con- sider how scattered the poultry raisers are, and the magnitude of the business, he certainly ought to realize that the percentage of this business transacted by these two big concerns is very small. We will, I think, continue to enjoy our quota of shipments.’’—N. Y. Produce Review. Sending Letters by Express. Wm. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald. Tbe Government reserves as a monopoly the right to carry the mails. For the convenience of the public let- ters may be transmitted by express upon the payment of the regular express charges provided they are enclosed in Government stamped envelopes. It is a violation of the law for an express company or individual to transport mail upon which the postage has not been paid in that way. An adhesive postage stamp will not do. Imprinted postage stamps can not be cut from one envelope and used upon _ another. Should a Government stamped envelope be defaced any postmaster may redeem it if it bears no mark of having been previously used. Express companies are no‘ authorized to cancel imprinted stamped envelopes which they are permitted to deliver, but it is expected that the receiver will in opening the envelope render it unfit for further use. It is apparent that whole- sale frauds could be practiced were it permissible to cut imprinted stamps from envelopes used in forwarding mail through express companies and_ use them in paying postage upon mails transported by the Government. 0 Home-Seekers’ Excursions. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets from Chicago, Mil- waukee and other points on its line to a great many points in South Dakota, North Dakota and other Western and Northwestern States at about one rate. Take a trip West and see the wonder- ful crops and what an amount of good land can be purchased for a little money. Further information as to rates, routes, prices of farm lands, etc., may be obtained by addressing Robt. C. Jones, Michigan Pass’r Agent, Detroit, ich, 000000 OS 00000000 00000000 Grand Rapids Cold Storage Co., SOOO OOSOSS 6 OOOO 0OOO : Grand Rapids, Michigan. Citizens Phone 2600. We do a general storage, and solicit your patronage. Season Rate on Eggsto Jan. 1, 1901: 400 case lots, per doz................. 1%e 600 case lots, per doz................. 1%e @ 1000 case lots and over, special rate on ———— _* pate eed Ship your BUTTER, EGGS and POULTRY to us and we promise fair treatment and prompt returns. Write for Weekly quotations. Will buy outright, or sell on your account (in which case goods are yours until sold). Write us. Bush & Waite, Commission Merchants, 353 Russell Street, Detroit, Mich. References: Home Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies. J. W. Keys General Produce and Commission Merchant, ~ Detroit, Mich. I want your consignments of Butter, Eggs, Poultry. Correspondence silicited. Please inves- vestigate. Send for weekly quotations, References: City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies. You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. to the trade. wood Veneer cases. L. J. SMITH & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF Egg Cases and Fillers, Cold Storage Cases, Shipping Cases, Hinge Locking Fillers, Excelsior Nails, etc. We keep a large stock on hand and manufacture all kinds of cases known We would be pleased to quote you prices on our Special Bass- They are tough, bright and sweet. our own timber, taken from the stump, and can please you. L. J. SMITH & CO., Eaton Rapids, Mich. We manufacture Chicago. Kansas City. VINEGAR Use our goods and avoid prosecution by Food Inspectors. CIDER The Standard of Excellence for 24 years. For prices see price current. St. Paul. So. Haven, Mich. ~/p a). SIRS SH SLE Our Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE JUICE VIN- EGAR. To anyone who will analyze it and find any deleterious acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit femoving all traces of our brands J. ROBINSON, Manager, We also guarantee it to be of full strength as required by law. prosecute any person found using our packages for cider or vinegar without first therefrom. We will Benton Harbor, Michigan. mma se Nr GRE aL AE 18 ~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. In my visits to the egg stores during the past week I have seen many a load of eggs backing up to the curbstone to unload—not from the railroad docks, but from the stores of dissatisfied customers who were sending the goods back be- cause of their very unsatisfactory qual- ity. Many a mark of eggs that has previously been giving satisfaction to a good class of trade, upon being again turned to regular channel of outlet, has come back as unsuitable. The market is getting filled up with these medium or ordinary grades of Western eggs and there is a lot of stock here and arriving that will make a loss on current country cost if sales are to be insisted upon. The goods are known by several sug- gestive names—‘‘rubber,’’ ‘‘tar’’ and others more expressive and less elegant. * * * It is early to find so much defective stock among our egg receipts, especially in a season when the weather has kept so cool as it has this spring. We hear various interesting explanations of the matter. Stock from far Southern points —particularly from Arkansas and Okla- homa—is weak in the whites, owing to age and warm weather, and we are get- ting a good deal of stock from that sec- tion as the storage buyers don’t flock quite so far down. One receiver sug- gested as a reason for the preponderance of small eggs in the stock from Souther- ly sections that farmers are now setting their hens and picking out all the big, fine eggs for hatching purposes. From more Northerly points the ‘‘hens’’ who are getting the big eggs to sit on during the summer are probably the cold_stor- age men, for many a shipment from Northern points looks as if the chickens had all turned to Bantams. And dirty eggs !—there seem to be no end to them. When packed separately they find a place, but the worst is that more come mixed in the ‘‘regular packings’’ than are packed alone. *x* * * It has been an exceptionally bad market for under grade regular pack- ings and I am much inclined to think they are going to make a heap of trouble with the storage situation before we get through with them. The trade here is divided between ‘‘first class’’ and ‘‘cheap’’ customers; the former want first-class stock, showing good size and reasonable cleanness; the latter go for cheapness first and quality next and for their purposes dirties and checks an- swer well enough. In between these grades there is a very dull trade and the liberal receipts of off grade regular packings have a very hard row to_ hoe. Thousands of cases of just fair eggs— rather small in the average size, rather dirty, and not salable to a good class of trade at the current price of Western firsts—have been seeking for customers at any moderate concession, with very little success in finding an outlet. The worst of it is that these goods cost high; their first cost is affected by the ram- pant speculative buying in the West and to furce them to sale now means a loss—perhaps quite a serious one. It is my vpinion that the first loss on them will be the lightest, but I have little idea that shippers will accept it as a rule. Doubtless they will hang about for a while, perhaps be sold two or three times for good eggs and returned as often, and then be ordered into store. This is the way it worked two years ago and very probably the same results will again follow the same causes. We must expect trouble with poor quality eggs from now on and there is every prob- ability that the storage houses will be filled with them during the next three months. Of course these under grade eggs could be sold freely at a price; at 12 or 12%c they would go like hot cakes now, and later, during the hot weather, we could probably sell almost unlimited amounts of pretty poor goods at about 1o@11c. But there is little prospect of getting much stock in the country to sell at these prices. We suppose col- lectors will go on paying whatever any- body will pay in order to ‘‘hold their trade’’ (pretty expensive thing to hold sometimes) and order the stock to store unless it can be sold for enough to break even at least.—N. Y. Produce Review. ——_+> 02. ____ Not Volunteering Information. ‘‘Uncle,’’ said the dusty pilgrim, **how far is it to Sagetown?’’ ‘**Bout a mile and a half,’’ replied the farmer. ‘*Can I ride with you?’’ **Sartin. Climb in.’’ At the end of three-quarters of an hour the dusty pilgrim began to be un- easy. ‘*Uncle,’’ he asked, from Sagetown now?’’ ‘**Bout four mile and a half.”’ ‘“Great grief! Why didn’t you tell me we were going away from Sage- town?’’ ‘‘Why didn’t you tell me you wanted to go thar?’’ ——_>2.__ A man was being tried recently in New South Wales for stealing a watch. The evidence was conflicting and the jury made up their minds to retire, but before they left the hall the judge re- marked that if there were any points on which they required information he would be pleased toassist them. Eleven of the jurymen had left the box, but the last was standing, with his eyes fixed downward, as if absorbed in thought. ‘“Well, sir,’’ said the judge, ‘‘is there any question you would like to sak me before you retire?’’ ‘‘I would like to know, my lord,’’ came the reply, ‘‘if you could tell us whether the prisoner stole the watch.’’ ‘how far are we yVVVyVvVUwVvvwvvevvuvwvvuvVvVVUYWW?eU?" i i i i hi i hi hi hi hi hi ha ha ha a hi hi hi to ha hn An Old Saying “ You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” We may be able to lead you to ship us Butter and Eggs once, but we can’t make you reg- ular shippers if we do not do what is right. For 40 years we have been in business in this city, and our ever-increasing trade is a pretty good indication of the way we handle our shippers. PROMPT PAYMENT. PETER SMITH & SONS DETROIT, MICH. he Da ba bn ba ba bn br hr Li hi i a hi i hr ha i a i OOO ODO OV OOOO CT CWT UCwCCCCCw dada Bnd bn Bn A Op br By Bn Bp Gn Bn i ty 4 Gp i i a yp te ne GOGO OF O GO FFU O EGO FOOOVTUVT TTT Be Bn br by bn br bn bi bo Li i i i i a Li Li di a i hi i a i i i i i i i i OP POP DOO VS OTITIS 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- livery Baskets, Splint Delivery Baskets, Clothes Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets, Truck Baskets. Send for catalogue. BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich. GAS READING LAMPS No wick, no oil, no trouble—always reacy. A Gas Reading Lamp is the most satisfactory kind to use. A complete lamp including tubing and genuine Welsbach Mantles and Wels- bach lamps as low as $3. Suitable for offices and stores as well. GRAND RAPIDS GAS LIGHT Co., Pearl and Ottawa Sts. ee ee SR OE WANTED ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOZEN EGGS April gathered Will buy delivered Detroit, or handle shippers’ accounts. For further particulars write or wire { GEO. N. HUFF & CO., 55 CADILLAC SQUARE, DETROIT, MICH. UNS NBA SB 8 a RRS BOW EE 2) Ma eOn LEX le oF LyY Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. 98 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. EGGS WANTED We pay highest cash market price f. o. b. your station. Write or wire us for prices. Butter consignments solicited. Oranges, Lemons, Bananas and Early Vegetables always on hand. RETTING & EVANS, Reference—Peoples Savings Bank. Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention Michigan Tradesman. FIELD SEEDS All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds. FIELD PEAS We buy and sell Eggs, Beans, Clover Seed, Potatoes, Apples. MOSELEY BROS. Jobbers of Fruits, Seeds, Beans ana Potatoes 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigar SELL POTATOES SAINT Louis wants nice stock now, prices are good. Ship at once. Have you any BEANS? We can sell what you have. MILLER & TEASDALE CO., Saint Louis, Mo. We solicit your shipments of Fresh Eggs and Dairy Butter. Reference, Home Savings Bank, Detroit? RUIT#® PRO —— tone eo We make a specialty of poultry and dressed calves. Write for our weekly price list. ) ey 4 & v MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, April 27—The coffee mar- ket has a good turn. Cables have re- ported that the growing crops promise to be 750,000 bags less according to somebody, and this sent the French mar- ket up a franc and this, in turn, affected the market here, so that No. 7 Rio, in an invoice way, gained %c and closes firm at 6%c. But it won’t do to scram- ble for coffee even if the supply falls short all this amount. There is certain- ly enough to go around, and he who monkeys to any great extent in trying to corner the market is not wise. In store and afloat the amount aggregates 1,241,091! bags, against 984,992 bags at the same time last year. The actual volume of business is rather larger than last week and orders have come from many points, taking, in the aggregate, a fair amount. West India sorts showed some sympathy with the better feeling in Brazil and Good Cucuta advanced a fraction of a cent. The sugar market has shown a fair degree of activity and the better weather we are finally experiencing will tend to give a still better tone to the situation. Refiners are firmly holding to the seven days’ contract and, altogether, the sugar market favors sellers. A good many little orders for teas are coming in and _ greens are, perhaps, a trifle higher. Blacks are steady and, altogether, the market shows some im- provement over last week. There is room for improvement, however, to a still greater degree without taxing ship- ping clerks to any great extent. While a fair number of small orders for rice have been received from nearby points the weather has been ‘‘agin’’’ much activity in rice and the whole amount of business done is nothing to brag of. Prices are quite firmly sus- tained and, as stocks are not large, it is likely we shall soon see a mending market in this staple. Prime to choice, 5@s xe. Cloves are firm and prices show some slight advance. Pepper and ginger are unchanged, but the market is firm and, altogether, the tone shows improvement over last week. Offerings of molasses are light. The demand is good and prices are firm. The feeling all around is a very con- fident one for this season of the year. Blackstrap is firm, but with little call. Good to prime centrifugal, 17@30c; open kettle, 32@42c; fancy Ponce, 32@ 36c. Syrups are rather quiet, neither ex- porters nor home traders showing any interest. Quotations are without change. While the canned goods market is quiet, it is strong. Quotations are well sustained and, altogether, the feeling is more cheerful. It seems that through some source packers are obtaining cans cheaper than those offered by the trust and this will, perhaps, have some effect on quotations of the goods. The trust price for No. 3 is $24.50 per thousand. New factories are being started and there is promise of a merry war. The $24.50 rate is an advance of $1.50 since the trust began work. Further advances are outlined until July, when $27 will be the figure. Tomatoes are worth 75c for spot New Jersey goods,and 80@82}4c for futures. Peas are in oe request at goc. Sifted Early Junes of well-known brands, $1.10@I1.15. Lemons and oranges are now taking a new lease on life after a time of lifeless- ness and orders have come in ina fairly satisfactory manner. Quotations have been well sustained for the past few days and, with warmer weather, the ‘*spring rush’’ will soon be here. Ban- anas are in better request, although not quotably higher than last week. Dried fruits are rather quiet and a tour through the entire market fails to show any interest in the situation. A rumor prevailed that a_ sale of 20,000,000 pounds of prunes had been made by the Association, at 2c, but it is now de- nied, although many still think it true. Best Western creamery butter is not quotable at over 20c, although it is well sustained at this and, with arrivals moderate, the chances are that it will not immediately be less than this. Firsts can be found in good supply at I9g@19'4c; seconds, 17'%4@18%c; imita- tion creamery, I5@I17%c, as to quality, with trade quiet; rolls, choice, 13@13¥%e. Receipts of eggs are liberal and with a demand of only limited character quo- tations are reduced to 14c with here and there a lot bringing a half-cent more and some very good stock selling at a half-cent less, Some old desirable cheese, full cream, has been sold at 12c, but this is top rate and 11@11%c is nearer the right mark. Considerable new cheese is com- ing in and the quality is generally fair, although not quotable at over 8%c. The bean market is strong and choice marrows are worth $2.45@2.50, choice medium $2.05@2.07%, choice pea $2.10 @2.12%. > 6-2 Maple Sugar Scarce in Canada. Montreal, April 25—There will bea maple sugar and syrup famine in Can- ada during the coming summer and the prices of these peculiarly Canadian del- icacies will be very high. The maple sugar season in the Eastern townships, the principal field for the product in Canada, is now at an end and the result is disappointing to the farmers, as the crop has been very poor as compared with previous years. In fact the ma- ple tree in many parts of the country seems to be losing its vitality. In old times two to three pounds of sugar could be made from one tree, but that time is evidently past, as this year the trees would not average more than a pound for each tree. In some parts the quality of the sugar is not up to the standard, the result of the injury caused to the maple trees by worms feeding on their foliage for several years in succession. The failure of the maple sugar crop is a serious matter for the Canadian farm- er, aS it is a valuable asset. The maple tree from which sugar is made finds its natural habitat over a wide area on the American continent, but nowhere does it seem so _ perfectly at home as on the hills of the Eastern townships. Its magnificent foliage in midsummer and its blaze of color in autumn have led to the naming of that portion of the Province of Quebec the **Highlands of Canada.’’ While the larger portion of the product of the maple tree is used for home consump- tion, some export trade has been built up, especially to Great Britain. Some a it also goes into the United States. The sugar season is generally regarded as one of festivity in the country and large parties of amateurs are daily formed to assist the professionals in the production of the article. —_— + >____—__ A Queer Woman. First Prison Missionary—That Mrs. De Goode is the most eccentric person lever saw. You remember Mr. Brutie, in Cell No. Sos, under sentence for kill- ing his wife? econd Prison Missionary—Yes, poor fellow! ‘*Well, I gave her a lot of flowers marked ‘Brutie,’ and she went off and put them on the woman’s grave, instead of bringing them here to cheer the poor husband.”’ woe, we, ww. a, a, ws was Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake. Better than coffee. f Cheaper than coffee. More healthful than coffee. Costs the consumer less. Affords the retailer larger profit. f Send for sample case. See quotations in price current. Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake Co. Marshall, Mich. ws WR WR. War. a, ar, Wr, EER OR OR HR. OE Dissolution of Copartnership Notice is hereby given that the copartnership heretofore existing between J. J. Wolbrink and J. KR. Pixley has been this day dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Pixley retiring. The re- maining partner will collect all accounts due the late firm and hereby assumes all of the obliga- ions. WOLBRINK & PIXLEY.,. Dated at Allendale, Mich., April 17, 1901. TO THE TRADE: We are the only manufacturers of Dynamite in Lower Michigan suitable for general Rock work and Stump Blasting; also Caps, Safety Fuse, Electric Fuse, Batteries, Dirt Augers, ete. Our quate are strictly — gradeand reliable, twenty- ve years in the business. Prices and goods right. Shipments made promptly on same day order is received. Try us by inquiry. AJAX DYNAMITE WORKS, Bay City, Mich POTATOES CAR LOTS ONLY State quantity, variety and quality. If have car on track, give initial and number of car—station loaded or to be loaded. H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO., GRAND RAPIDS CLARK BUILDING, OPPOSITE UNION STATION SEEDS LARGEST STOCKS, prices lowest consistent with quality. prompt service, right treatment ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. GROWERS AND MERCHANTS 24 AND 26 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALL GROCERS Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market will give them RED STAR BRAND Cider Vinegar. for PURITY and are the best on the market. 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Free GOOQOOQDOO@©OOOOES We can use your SMALL SHIP- MENTS as well as the larger ones. 36 Harrison Street, New York REFERENCE;:—NEW YORK NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK, NEW YORK L.O. SNEDECOR Es Receiver | Fre Gp Special trade for Seconds * See ee ee a 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Weeping Weapon Abandoned by the Mod- ern Woman. To me one of the most interesting and significant phases of the evolution of woman is that she is ceasing to weep. I don’t know how science explains it, but it is a self-evident fact, that every ob- serving person must have noted, that as women have developed backbone their tear ducts have dried up. Time was, and not so long ago, when the very name of the feminine sex was synonymous with crying. It was wom- an’s hereditary destiny to weep, just as it was man’s to work, and she did what was expected of her by sitting down and howling whenever she came up against any of the hard propositions of life. More than that, it was considered proper and elegant and womanly. All the heroines in old-fashioned novels be- dew every page with their tears, and the real women of the period seem to have been no better, but to have existed in a kind of sodden condition. Their tears were always on tap and they were ready to turn the waterworks on when- ever anything was to be gained by do- ing it. The modern woman has changed all that. You hardly ever see a woman weep now. There are—God help us—just as many things to wring a woman’s heart to-day and just as many causes for tears as there ever were, but if she weeps, she weeps in private. It is almost as unusual and startling to see a woman now give away publicly to emotion asit is to see a man do so, and I can think of no other one thing that so emphatic- ally marks the progress of my sex. It measures all the distance between hys- teria and reason. It marks the immeas- urable difference between the spoilt child crying impotently for forbidden sweets and the strong adult who takes what life gives with unfaltering bravery and cheerfulness. It seems likely that women always overvalued the effectiveness of tears anyway. Tears were supposed to al- ’ ways be an unanswerable argument, so far as men were concerned. Unfor- tunately, few women can weep effective- ly. In poetry a pearly drop that makes a blue eye look like a violet drowned in dew gathers slowly and rolls gently down the alabaster cheek and the man goes down before it. In everyday life the woman who weeps gets red-eyed and her nose swells and she looks purple and apoplectic and the man gets up and slams the door behind him and goes downtown until the water-spout is over. In these prosaic and common sense days weeping has played out as a fascination and tears area fizzle. No man wants to be salted down in brine as if he were a dried herring. Tears were always a coward’s weapon. It was playing upon the best and ten- derest in other people for your own selfish ends. I heard a woman say not long ago that she always got her way in the family by crying. ‘‘When I want a thing,’’ she said, ‘‘I just go to bed and have hysterics until I get it.’* One un- derstands, of course, how a man gives in to that kind of a woman—his very manhood makes him powerless to deal with her as she deserves, but what a withering and blighting contempt he must have for her. How he must de- spise the little soul that trades on his pity, his chivalry, his very reverence for womanhood. In an humble rank of society I have seen that kind of a woman permanently and instantaneously cured by a sound thrashing and when I have observed other hysterical and unreasonable wom- en in a more exalted station of life, it has occurred to me that perhaps we are unduly prejudiced against wife-beating and that there may be times and oc- casions when it makes for peace and righteousness. The trouble with women’s tears in the past has been that they wept too much, and in the wrong way. A tear as a tear is as ineffective as any other drop of salt water, yet people make the mistake of reverencing it as if weeping over a thing was going to perform some kind of a miracle. You might weep over a starving family until you shed an ocean of tears, yet it wouldn’t keep them from perishing of hunger. It is only when you begin to sob with your pocket- book that you do any good. It isn’t the people who come to weep with us when we are unfortunate and poor and downcast who help us. It is those who have learned to sympathize with their bank book and personal interest and as- sistance. Nothing else on earth is so plentiful and cheap and useless as tears, but until they are backed up with good deeds and money nobody has a right to attempt to sustain a reputation for char- ity on them. Plenty of people do. I have seen women sit up in a fashion- able church and sniffle into a point lace handkerchief all through a charity ser- mon and then drop a plugged nickel into the contribution plate. Then there’s poverty. If all the tears women have shed over being poor had been brought to account it would make a water power that would turn the wheels of the machinery of the world. And it’s all been wasted. Tears toll back no vanished dollars, Nobody ever heard of a woman lamenting herself into a fortune, yet they go on making themselves perfect Niobes over their spilt milk. I had a friend once who lost her money and who thereafter did noth- ing but weep. ‘‘What shall I do?’’ she demanded. ‘‘I shall starve.’’ ‘If you would put in as much time and energy mopping a floor as you do in mopping your eyes, you could make a fortune as a charwoman,’’ I answered, brutally. She never forgave me. People never do when you tell them the truth, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that the only tears that can conjure back prosperity are the tears we weep with our hands at some good, honest labor. Sometimes I amuse myself by specu- lating on what the state of affairs would be if mothers wept less over their way- ward children and spanked more. Every Se en eE Wall Paper, Pairits, Oils. Our stock consists of the best goods pro- f duced, and is sold at money Saving prices. PAPER HANGING AND PAINTING BY EXPERTS. f We frame pictures to order and carry a large line of unframed pictures. C. L. Harvey & Co., j 59 Monroe Street. Exclusively Retail. : Waa aE GE HR oR aR. aE Che President of the United States of America, SREETING : To HENRY KOCH, your Clerks attorneys, ager:3, salesmen. and workmen, and all claiming of holding through or under you, iW her cas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Cou of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be complained of, and that the said ’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that rt of the United States for the District relieved touching the matters therein ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY, Complainart, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” Now, Therefore ) d KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workme under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfull substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from dir as a trade-mark for scouring soap, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY n, and all claiming or holding through or under you, and each of you in case of disobedience, that you de y using the word ““SAPOLIO,” or any word or words in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring ectly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, false or misleading manner. aitwess, The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER United States of America, and from in any way using the word “SAPOLIO” in any » Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the at the City of Trenton, in. said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two, : {sear] ROWLAND COX, [sicnep) Complainant's Solictte, S. D, OLIPHANT, Caer’ - o- : ——— ~ - r c re a t ' & A ee Vv j - ee fi f abe Ae ‘ v ew MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 wonian speaks of her children when they turn out badly as a mysterious dispensation of Providence. It’s a sneaky way of trying to get out of her responsibility. She has been too weak or too selfish or too lazy to raise them right. Then the day comes when she discovers that the girl is meeting fast young men on the sly or the boy comes home staggering drunk. It is one of the tragedies of life when the young lives that are dearer than her own and the young souls that she would give her own to save hang trembling in the bal- ance and the mother can meet the situ- ation with nothing but impotent tears. Sentimentalists have embalmed a mother’s tears in song and story and made them «sacred, but I tell you the tears a mother sheds over an ill-raised son or daughter are shameful. There should be no cause for them and there would be no cause for them once ina million times if she had done her duty. Whne | hear of a heart-broken mother trying to float her son out of the peni- tentiary on a stream of tears, I don’t pity her half so much as I pity him for having his life wrecked by an injudi- cious mother. In strict justice, the mother ought to be indicted as an ac- complice before the crime. Weep with Strict authority, mothers, sob with a switch while your children are little, and when they are grown you will not have to shed salt and bitter tears over sons and daughters who have brought shame upon you. It has also always appeared to me that women have wasted quite an unneces- sary amount of tears on their husbands. For a thousand generations wives have clung to the theory that a man could be wept into all the virtues of the Beati- tudes. When a woman had a drunken husband she opened the door for him in the early hours of the morning and bedewed him with her tears. When she had a brutal one she wept when he mistreated her, but she forgave him and let him go on doing it. Men don’t weep any over women. They make their wives behave themselves or else they haul them up before the divorce court, and that’s why the percentage of good conduct is so largely in favor of the fair sex. Any way you look at it, it is a hopeful sign women have abandoned doing the baby act. Jt was always weak and use- less. We owe it to the world to give it smiles and sunshine, not showers, and we best do our part in it when we meet the misfortunes of life with that brave attitude that nothing can daunt. Dorothy Dix. —~> 0 <> ____ Ultimate Outcome of the Family Jar. We never so plainly indicate that we are but children of a larger growth as when we indulge in those pettish half- way family quarrels that we euphonious- ly describe as ‘‘spats.’’ Prompted by nervousness, or ill-temper, or irritation born of the moment, they bloom into just such a condition of affairs as makes one child say to another, ‘‘I hate you! I’m never going to speak to you again. I’m going to take my doll rags and go home.”’ The child returns in an hour all smiles, and, oblivious of the unpleasant- ness, takes up the thread‘ of the inti- macy again. With a grown person there is no such thing as forgiving and for- getting. We may cease to be angry and to cherish animosity—we may keep up all the outward forms of friendship— but the beautiful thing itself lies dead Esra ak upon the altar and never again can the spirit of life be breathed into it. Nor is this less true in the more inti- mate relations of life. In a moment of anger a parent reminds a child of a de- fect or an affliction, or the child turns on the parent with some reproach that is like a knife thrust in the heart. The moment passes; the little squall of anger is over, and the family relation- ship goes on as before, but between the parent and child has opened upa chasm that nothing on earth will ever bridge again. With husbands and wives it is the lit- tle spat that undermines all domestic happiness, just as the constant jarring of a piece of machinery out of gear can shake the strongest building until it top- ples into ruins. It begins in a childish exhibition of unreasonableness, and one or the other says nasty, little mean things which haven’t the dignity of a real griev- ance, but which smart and sting, never- theless. A woman will flash out: ‘‘I wish I had never married you!’’ The husband will retort: ‘‘You can’t pos- sibly regret it as I do!’’ Neither means it, and after a bit they kiss and make up, and think, as diplomats say, the matter is closed, and that a_ spat amounts to nothing, anyway. Fatal mistake! The cruel words, al- though spoken in anger, live in the memory. Love has been wounded and, although the hurt may heal, it leaves a scar. Day by day these wounds multi- ply and the time surely comes when it can bear no more; it has been slowly tortured to death. There is nothing more pathetic in life than that we should all go ceaselessly searching for love, as the one great treasuse. Yet when it is given us we recklessly throw it away. For less than the mess of pottage—for the poor priv- ilege of exhibiting a fish wife’s tongue and temper—we barter that which would have made all our days sweet and beau- tiful. Cora Stowell. > 4-2. Checkers on the Farm. The checker board is all worn out From use each winter night; The checkers have become begrimed, Which once were shining bright; But still the game goes straightway on, Altho’ the squares are blurs, While Cynthy pens up Reuben’s men, Or Reuben captures hers. Sometimes the old man takes a hand To show his practiced skill, And then the farm hands circle round While every one is still; They would not say a single word That would distract his play; So breathless they observe him drive Young Reuben’s men to bay. Ah, what would winter evenings be Without the checker board, With double corners, jumps and moves And fun which they afford; Our dissipation oft consists In too much checkers here, Which makes the gossips tell about Our checkered life’s career. ——___> 2. — Don’t be a grumbler. Some people contrive to get hold of the prickly side of everything, to run against all the sharp corners and find out all the dis- agreeable things. Half the strength spent in growling would often set things straight. You may as well make up your mind, to begin with, that no one ever found the world quite as he would like it, but you are to take your share of the troubles and bear them sturdily. You will be very sure to have burdens laid upon you that belong to other péo- ple unless you are a shirk yourself; but don’t grumble. If the work needs do- ing, and you can do it, never mind about the other person who ought to have done it and didn’t. Those workers who fill up the gaps, smooth away the rough spots and finish up the job that others leave undone—they are the true peacemakers and worth a whole regi- ment of growlers. Michigan Gas Machine and Mixing Regulator Wate aM GN BAT grok sth MANUFACTURED ONLY BY Michigan Brick & Tile Machine Co. MORENCI, MICH. If you want the best and cheapest light on earth write for descriptive circulars. sirable for store lighting. This machine is specially de- Celebrated Brands./ — TRADE MARK SSE » DOUF'S % Gabinet Roval Garden 16aS In pounds, halves and quarters. JAPAN B. F. JAPAN YOUNG HYSON GUNPOWDER ENG. BREAKFAST CEYLON OOLONG BLEND Retailed at 50c, 75c, and $1 per lb. The best business propo- sition ever offered the Absolutely the choicest teas grown. Write for particulars. The J. M. BOUR CO., Toledo, Ohio. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Cardinal Principles of Business Which Bring Success. It is estimated that 95 per cent. of those engaged in commercial vocations fail in their pursuit. This does not im- ply that all such become bankrupt, or make assignments with a lack of assets to pay their liabilities. An individual or firm may have been in business for forty years, but if he has made no progress, if it is the same old corner store, dirty, unkempt, and uninviting, his business life has been a failure, and, if he is not already, he soon will be relegated to the past. This is a pro- gressive age, and the man in any line of business who does not keep fully abreast of the times can never catch the spirit after a Rip Van Winkle sleep. It is much easier to keep up than to catch up. The country is full of live, active energetic men, who are pushing on in the world, and who will soon crowd out those who still pursue the methods of the past. The successful mechanic uses the gray matter in his brain more, and his mus- cle less each year, that he may meet competition. The publisher is a back number unless he has typesetting ma- chines. And so all around us, and in our midst, are evidences that the world moves, and the peopie therein are vy- ing one with another for supremacy. The retail hardware dealer belongs to the genus homo, is both human and hu- mane, has red corpuscles in his blood, and some gray matter in his brain. You may see some evidences of his energy in his soiled clothes and hands, and, occasionally, a dark spot on his face, but he is here in full force to-day, and can be seen, so that a further de- scription is unnecessary. He is un- doubtedly influenced and governed by the same conditions which prevail in other industrial lines. The qualifications necessary for the conducting of a successful retail hard- ware business are many and varied, and call for the best efforts of every individual who makes a success of it. Location and the necessary capital are no small factors to be considered, but do not constitute by any means all of the essentials needed, in fact, they may be classed among the minor con- siderations when compared with the other qualities that go to make up _ suc- cess. Among the first requisites to success is absolute honesty with the customer, first, last and all the time, even at the expense of losing a good sale. Your reputation for honest and fair dealing will grow in the community, and, as a result, you will get the trade of many a newcomer in your locality. Strangers in a community ask their neighbors where is the best place to trade, and will they not always point out the most reputable house, knowing that their own reputation for truth and veracity will not suffer thereby? Again, you should always have your goods priced as low as your competit- ors’. This will inspire confidence in time, and customers will learn that they do not have to watch the markets so closely for protection. It is not so much the size of the margins on sales, but the volume of your business that will con- tribute the largest per cent. on your in- vestment. People buy in a hurry these days, and do not like to learn they have paid too much for goods later on. Do not hesitate to follow the market down if goods decline, as the news- papers spread the report rapidly, and your competitor may do so first. ‘It is hard to submit gracefully, but I have never found occasion to regret so doing. It will enable you to advance prices when goods go up, as the public realize you do not control the markets, and your competitor will surely do likewise when he is convinced of your doing so. A cheerful manner toward the public on the street as well as behind the coun- ter will do much toward helping you along, as every one likes a cheerful per- son and dislikes a grumbler. Personal attention to the details in filling an or- der counts nota little. See that locks and butts are fitted with screws. Have your goods well wrapped, make deliver- ies promptly, set the stove up properly, and do not have to be asked to correct mistakes of careless employes. Spare no expense in giving satisfaction. If complaint is made, investigate at once, and rectify the same, even if you sub- mit to some injustice with unreason- able people. You have gained a point in having the crankiest man in the community say that you do his work to his satisfaction. This will constitute one of the best advertisements you can have. This careful attention to details is absolutely necessary to permanent suc- cess. For example, observe the care, or so-called ‘‘red tape,’’ of the large institutions of the country, sparing no trouble nor expense with the most mi- nute detail. Do not despise the little things, such as small sales, customers with little money, children with their penny pur- chases, bargain hunters and pricers. They all add their quota to your busi- ness, and represent as strong an influ- ence for or against your place as the wealthiest man in the community, per- haps more, with their lack of other mul- titudinous duties that harass the lives of men of means. In looking after detail, care should be taken not to overlook the main lines and definite objects one has in view. It is well to place the detail work in the hands of a subordinate where pos- sible, thus giving more time and oppor- tunity to broaden out in every direction. Business, like mankind, must either grow or retrograde. There is no limit to the side lines of hardware a dealer may handle. It is much like the famous poker game Bill Nye speaks of with ‘‘No limit but the ceiling.”’ Each and every line should add a profit or be cast aside and that same energy spent on something else. It is well directed energy and enthusiasm that makes thing go, and, having them, no one can surpass you. Employ good help and pay them lib- erally. They will reciprocate. Anem- ploye who is paid what he earns is not watching the clock, but is watching the interests of the house. They will ex- plore new fields, and, under your direc- tion, may make revelations that will be of value to you. Advise with them and help them. Do not make the mistake of ie to hold them back from learn- ing. You can use their energy to your own and their profit. Push these young men out. Give one of them charge of the advertising, another the stoves an- other paints, and so on. If your busi- ness is small, combine one or more of these, and hold bim personally respon- sible for the success of this or that branch. With an occasional word of commendation from you, he is sure to make it win. Expand your business in every legitimate way possible. Your patrons like to trade with an energetic and progressive man. W. A. McIntyre. When the Busy Season Comes And the customer to whom you have sold paint for his house finds that you have not quite enough to finish the job it will be a nice thing to be able to say “go right along, I will have it for you in a day or two;’ and you can say it if you carry our line, for we are quick shippers. Better write to us about it; we save you time and money. ARAAARAAAAAAMARAAAAARAAARBAAAAR Callaghan & Richardson, Manufacturers’ Agents, % Reed City, Mich. = : : : THE NULITE 750 Candle Power ARC ILLUMINATORS Produce the finest artificial light in the world. Inside Arc, Outdoor Arc, Superior to electricity or gas, cheaper than kero- oe _ A 20th century revelation in the art of g erhey darkness into daylight turn, And air instead of money burn. No smoke, no odor, no noise, absolutely safe. They are portable, hang or stand them anywhere. 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VANDERVEEN, State Agent, 525 Michigan Trust Building, —— Rapids, Mich. Citizens Phone 13 PRTG FOR KARDRE DEALERS 10 & 12 Monroe St. GOSSSSSESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS quick mga, QUICK MEAL. a Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Write at once to MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 PROVED HIS POINT. Ten Cents for Tobacco and Fifty Cents for Dentistry. Written for the Tradesman. ‘‘Anything you'd like to buy to-day, Uncle?’’ asked the new clerk, as Mr. Johnson slouched through the store to- ward the fire. ‘*Hay?’’ ‘*I say, is there anything you'd like to get?’’ ‘‘Waal, an’ sposin’ of it?’’ ‘*Why, if there is I want to sell it to you. You see, I’m the new man here and, of course, I want to sell all the goods I can.’’ . **Do, hay? Funny, too. Say! where’d ye git that air necktie?’’ ‘‘T bought it here.’’ ‘‘Hain’t paid fer it, I reckon?’’ The young man blushed, but managed to say that he had. ‘“Ye paid fer it, did ye? Didn’t pay much I reckon, hay? No, I ’lowed ye didn’t. That air necktie o’ yourn *minds me o’ my little gal’s red caliker apron. Every time she goes outen the house, either the bull orthe turkey gob- bler takes a_ run at her. That there necktie yo’ got on ’s enough to give a feller the jimjams. Yo’ hain’t got no more on ’em, hay? No, I thought not. The’ couldn’t be only one like that air anyhow. The feller what made that necktie ought to make one more and then quit. Say, you hain’t got no chewin’ tobacker, hay? Oh, ye have. Got any fine cut? I do’ want no poor stuff.. The last fine cut I got down here jess about et the mouth offen me, the’ was so much copperas an’ stuff into it. I want some fine cut that’s good fer suthin’ an’ I don’t care how much it costs. Eighty cents a pound! D’you pretend to ask eighty cents fer that air fine cut? A feller’d nachelly s’ pose that when a chap had jest got a new job an’ wanted to sell a lot o’ goods by the first o’ the year so’t he c’d git a bigger sal’ry, that he’d be kinder obligin’, an’ *d sell stuff fer somewhere nigh what it’s wuth, an’ not charge an old man like me three prices. Say, boy, I’m honest, I be. I work fer my livin’. Every cent o’ money what I git to spend I worked like a cuss fer, an’ what little the’ is left I calc’late to hang onto, too, an’ not let some duffer with a red necktie flim flam me outen it the first time 1 happen to come into his neck o’ timber. That air tobacker tastes pretty good, but what I want is suthin’ fer 20 cents a pound like what we yous- ter git. I want the reg’lar terbacker, without any licorice or merlasses or any them fancy fixens what hurts the quality an’ makes the terbacker cost more. It don’t seem to be the terbacker they charge fer anyhow, it’s the stuff what it’s doctored up with. Terbacker don’t cost only six cents a pound, nohow, an’ how yous fellers kin have the nerve to p’tend to charge eighty cents a pound fer it’s more’n I un’erstand.’’ ‘‘Yes, but you see the revenue is what makes the price high on _ tobacco. The Govern—’’ ‘*Oh, ye can’t tell me nuthin’ about that. I take the papers an’ keep posted. The’ hain’t no revener on tobacker no more'n the’ is on red neckties. That air was a bluff. A lot o’ merchants jess got together an’ said the’ wus a revener an’ us fellers has had to pay it.. I was talkin’ that air over in the Grange meetin’ t’other night, an’ I guess we’ll declare a revener on pitaters an’ wheat to kinder keep even. That's what we the’ is, what call ‘retaliation’ inthe Grange. Where’s yer twenty cent fine cut?’’ ‘‘We haven’t any at that price. It costs us a good deal more than that to buy it at wholesale. You see, tobaccos have all raised and the last we or- dered—’’ ‘*Yas, I know all about it acostin’ more, the last plug I bought cost me sixty cents, an’ it wa’n’t much fer chewin’ nuther.’’ ‘*You didn’t get it here though,’’ ventured the new man. ‘*Didn’t git it here? DIDN’T GIT IT HERE? How in Sam Hill d’ you know I didn’t git it here I’d like fer to know.”’ ‘‘Why, you see, we haven't any plug tobacco that we sell at that price.’’ ““Well, Mr. Red Necktie, that’s where you're off. I did git it right here an’ I bought it f’m you, and ef you’ve be’n achargin’ me more’n what the boss al- lows, blamed if I don’t have ye cash- iered. Ye wanter git at it an’ explain yer conduc’.”’ ‘‘I suppose you mean you got sixty cents worth of tobacco of me. Is that ite’’ ‘*No, that ain’t it. You heard what I said, an’ what I said I mean 't. | don’t tell no lies ef I be old. Now whacher gotter to say, Mr. Man?’’ ‘Was it the plug you bought day be- fore yesterday morning?’’ ‘*Wouldn’t wonder a mite ef that air wus the exactly minute.’’ ‘*Yes, but I only charged you ten cents for that. I remember it per- fectly.’’ ‘That air mem’ry o’ yourn ’s a peeler. Ef I was you I'd put it on ice till some show come along an’ then I’d sell it to ’em fer a freak. Mebbe ef you was to put it into a glass case now, an’ git a good feller to holler fer ye, ye might git two shillin’ admission fer farmers to take a peek at it. What I said was that that air plug cost me sixty cents, an’ 1 c’n_ prove what I said.’’ ‘‘I know better,’’ snapped the new man, losing his patience at last. ‘‘ You can prove anything you like, but that plug tobacco cost you exactly ten cents and no more. I can tell the truth, too, even if I ain’t a hundred years old.’’ ‘*That’s the way totalk, young feller. I like to hear a man with a prize mem’ry stick up fer it,’’ said Mr. Johnathan with a grin. ‘‘I do ’no but ye could git more’n two shillin’ fer a look at yer thinker. I paid you ten cents fer that air plug all right, but the blamed thing was so dry an’ hard I broke this ere tooth abitin’ of it off, an’ it cos’ em -half a dollar to git the roots dug out !’’ Then followed a wild storm of ap- plause from the loafers, which subsided not until the new man with the red tie had set out a box of very dark colored and extremely vile smelling cigars, George Crandall Lee. —»>2<>—__—_ The Children at the Gate. I say that the world is bitter-sweet, And its fortunes come too late; But twilight falls, with the pattering feet Of the children at the gate. : And I know, whatever my toil may be, Their arms, in the evening, will necklace me! I say that the world has stormy skies, And faintly the sad stars shine; But night brings stars when the children’s eyes Look tenderly into mine. And I know, whatever my toil may be, Those eyes are welcoming lights to me! And the world is green, and the world is wide, But never the world is ill, If after the stress of the storm and tide The children love us still! And I know, whatever my grief may be, Voices of children sing rest to me! —_—~>-2 As we grow older, we learn to pity where once we blamed. - GOO@QOQOQOQQOQOQOQDOE Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. 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. Wuitney, Secretary. M. W. O’Brien, Treas. E. J. Boor, Asst. Sec’y. D1REcTORS. ~ D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, . M.W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. . Baldwin, Hugo Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace, James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D. : Standish, Theodore D. 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LP. », OROROH OROHROH CHOROH OHORORORORORCEOCHOROROROROROHOHOE If you want to secure more than $25 REWARD In Cash Profits in 1901, and in addition give thorough satisfaction to your patrons, the sale of but one dozen per day of FLEISCHMANN & CO.’S YELLOW LABEL COMPRESSED YEAST will secure that result. Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. SORORCHORORSC HORONSC ROROROROROROCROROROCHORORORORORORO Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Village Improvement How Civic Beauty May Become Conta- gious. It is in the extreme east and west parts of the United States that the town and village improvement idea most flourishes. On the Atlantic coast these societies are numbered by the hundreds, from Bar Harbor, Me., to somewhere near the southern boundary of Georgia. In the series of articles written on this subject last year, I described the effort the Seaboard Air Line Railway was making to organize a village improve- ment society in every town and village along its road. This is the only case of which I know where a corporation is far-sighted enough to see the material advantage certain to accrue to a com- pany which offers its passengers the pleasurable view of a cultivated lawn and flower garden a thousand miles long. California has some dozens of these societies, all in active working order. I have not heard of any north of Califor- nia, but no doubt they exist. Petaluma, in Sonoma county, has an exceedingly active organization, composed of ladies, which has transformed the town parks and squares from the untidy affairs— with which, alas! we are all of us too familiar—into places of beauty and pride. Petaluma is a town of four thousand inhabitants, two hours from San Fran- cisco by rail. The progressive charac- ter of the people is attested by the large variety of manufactures, and their reli- gious sentiments and culture by the fact of their having ten churches, a public library of ten thousand volumes, and an exceedingly fine school system. In 1896 the two plazas and the streets of Peta- luma were in the usual unkempt condi- tion of the ordinary town. The towns people were ashamed of the condition of the plaza, but, in our happy-go-lucky American way, what was everybody’s business was nobody’s business, until after much private discussion a_ public meeting was called at the office of Miss Rena Shattuck, editor of the Petalum- niam, who was the promoter of the plans for improving the plazas and other parts of the town. The call was responded to by the ladies of Petaluma, who formed an or- ganization called the Ladies’ Improve- ment Club. Officers were elected and committees appointed to raise funds. Mrs. Reed says: Our roll-call-numbered fifty-two, and at our first entertainment we cleared over $181, and from that time on we have made money and expended it. I! think we have spent about $3,000 on both plazas. The ore known as the Hill Plaza was nothing but a lot of clay with a few neglected trees upon it. | can not tell you what a terrible looking place it was, right in the heart of the town. No one thought we could do any- thing with it, but we have; and to-day, although most of the palms and trees are young, the grass is green, the walks graveled and there are iron seats where one can rest and enjoy a beautiful view of the broad Sonoma Valley. The other plaza, known as Walnut Park, is beautiful, too, and on a warm day one is grateful for the shade of its many walnut trees. There you will find plenty of iron seats, all donated by two good citizens. These seats are occupied most of the time, as it is a favorite place for children. The city trustees of Petaluma have treated us with due respect, and have always done all they could to aid us in our good work. They now give us an allowance of $50 dollars a month for la- bor and other necessities ; for they had promised that when the plazas were in good condition they would take charge of them. Instead of that they give us the allowance and let us manage them. Of course, it is not very much, but we make it do. The board of trustees al- lows us to hold our meetings in the city hall, where we have a _ pleasant room with lights and fires furnished us. We have made other improvements, such as asking the electric light com- pany to paint all its poles white, and to see that all poles were good, straight ones. We have had the water company paint the hydrants at the street corners red, adding a little to their appearance. We caused a street to be opened that others had tried to have opened for the last twenty years without success. It is by these little things that strangers judge a community, and if people only realized that by beautifying their prop- erty they are increasing its value, what lovely homes we would have. It does not make a bit of difference whether your house is a modern one or just a little, old-fashioned one, if there are a pretty lawn, a few trees and some flowers, all well kept. Women of Petaluma, I salute you! I might paraphrase and say, ‘‘Out of sweetness came forth strength,’’ for from the nobler side of civic pride came forth the organized strength which con- quered the especial lions in your way, and won you the respect and confidence of your city officers. To raise the stand- ard of municipal taste and tidiness is not an easy matter, but it is well worth trying for. Organization, perseverance, and common sense in spending the money on one object until finished are what are needed in these societies. For, behold, while you are setting in order the most needed reforms, the spark of your enthusiasm is burning in the re- motest corners of your town, and when you have finished your especial work and are looking for other work, you will often find but little left to do. The work of the Petaluma Club has resulted in at least twelve clubs being formed in towns in California and Ari- zona. Physicians tell us that health is contagious. The Ladies’ Improvement Club of Petaluma has proved that civic heauty also may be contagious. May they continue to spread the epidemic! Jessie M. Good. _——_»- 62 —___ Steady and Stick Do the Trick. A rush is good in its place, lad, But not at the start, 1 say, = a 'S a very long race, coor ever was won that w: It's s _ stay that tells; the a, boy, And the heart that never says die; A spurt may do, with the goal in view, But steady’s the word, say I. Steady’s the word that wins, lad, Grit and sturdy grain; It’s sticking to it will oeet you through it, Roll up your sleeves again! Oh! Snap is‘a very good cur, lad, To frighten the tramps, I trow, But een sticks like a burr, lad— Brave Holdfast never lets go. And Clever’s a pretty nag, boy, But stumbles and shies, they say: So Steady I count the safer mount To carry you all the way. The iron bar will smile, lad, At straining muscle and thew But the patient teeth of the file. lad, I warrant will gnaw it through. A snap may come at the end, boy, And a bout of might and main, But Steady and Stick must do the trick, Roll up your sleeves again! ——~>2 > _____ Reflections of a Bachelor. A woman can always find some flaw in a man’s story—unless it isn’t true. For the first three weeks after it gets born a baby looks ’most as red and un- comfortable as its father. It takes a smart woman to make a man out of a fool, but any fool woman can make a fool out of a man. No girl over 16 can be expected to be satisfied with the idea of kissing that she gets out of Sunday school books. ~ A girl’s way of flattering a new man is to insinuate that she has heard the other women talking a lot about him. whe lala ta a aaa trfrlala aa wt laaina'a il aa Boston—with Western offices in Chicago. Valve bay Grocers Will Please Commit to Memory ROASTED 4x2 B. DESENBERG & CO., Kalamazoo, [lich. ° PACKED BY DWINELL WRIGHT CO PRINCIPAL COFFEE ROASTERS BOSTON.MASS..U.S.A. The most reliable Coffees—those best developed—the most excellent Coffees—are roasted and packed by Dwinell-Wright Co., This firm, one of the oldest in the United States, does not confine one’s selection to a few brands—as do many of its contemporaries—but offers a choice from Over Forty Different Coffees—from which the grocer can pick those best adapted to his peculiar needs; quite an advantage, isn’t it? bered, has done more to promote the sale of good coffees than any other firm in the world, and its business reputation and the completeness of its modern facilities far exceed those of its competitors. trade at competitive figures and with dependable coffees. Dwinell-Wright Co., it must be remem- Certainly a plausible reason why it can serve the Your next duty obviously will be to buy Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Coffees. The following houses are exclusive agents for Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Boston Roasted in the State of Michigan: OLNEY & JUDSON GRO. CO., Grand Rapids, [lich. C. ELLIOTT & CO., Detroit, Mich. SYTIONS BROS. & CO., Saginaw, [lich. JACKSON GROCER CO., Jackson, [lich. MEISEL & GOESCHEL. , Bay City, lich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the President, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand retary, A. W. StTirt, Jackson; JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit. ids; Sec- reasurer, Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. W. Hix, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, M. J. MOORE, Jackson; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale; Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEst, Jackson. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. Senior Counselor, W. R. Compron; 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. Sudden Death of Samuel B. Taylor, of Lansing. From the Lansing Republican, April 24. The many friends of Samuel B. Tay- lor will be shocked to learn of his sud- den death last evening, at his home in the Holmes terrace, 306 Capitol ave. north. The immediate cause was heart failure. Mr. Taylor had been in ill health all winter, but would not listen to the solic- itation of his friends that he give up his duties for a time and rest. He had worked the past winter unceasingly, on the road night and day for C. W. Inslee & Co., wholesale grocers, of Detroit. Where trains were not convenient he would drive across the country, paying no attention to snow or wind, often trav- eling in this manner 100 miles a week. His desire to attend to business per- meated the delirium of the two days prior to his death, and last evening about 9:30 he insisted upon leaving his bed to telephone for a carriage to take him to the station. He turned from the telephone, staggered, and would have fallen to the floor had not his nurse caught him and laid him back upon his bed. He looked up smilingly at the nurse, aes ‘“*You had your hands full, didn’t youe’’ Then his head dropped: back upon the pillow and he was dead. Samuel B. Taylor was born in Can- andaigua, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1854. Here his boyhood was spent, and after “being graduated from the Canandaigua acad- emy, a famous old Eastern school, he came to Lansing, with John Sidway, in 1873. Mr. Sidway opened a grocery store on the southeast corner of Wash- ington avenue and Allegan street. Mr. Taylor was his chief clerk. This store was afterwards moved to 107 Washing- ton avenue south, where J. W. Edmonds’ Sons are now located. In 1883 Mr. Tay- lor established: a grocery store in the north half of the building occupied by the Mapes Clothing Co. The firm was Porter & Taylor. Last fall he sold a grocery which he owned at 513 Ionia street west. For fifteen years Mr. Taylor had been engaged upon the road selling grocer- ies, and no traveling man in the State was better known nor more generally loved and respected. The last twelve years he had been with the firm of C. W. Inslee & Co., of Detroit. Although far from well he insisted on making his usual trip last week and did not give up until Sunday. He returned with a severe attack of tonsilitis and a high fever,-and the heart was unable to bear the strain of so much exertion under such conditions. Mr. Taylor became a member cf the Grand River Boat Club at the time of its organization in 1882, and was close- ly identified with everything that made for the prosperity of the club. He was one of the organizers of the Michigan Knights of the Grip at the Hudson House twelve years ago, his member- ship being No. 2. March 4, 1885, he was married to Miss Dora Cooper, of Lansing, who, with an 8-year-old daughter, Norma, survives him. His mother is living at the old home in Canandaigua, and is expected here to-morrow. rs. Taylor, his widow, is not in good health, and is completely prostrated by her sudden be- reavement. Consigned to the Tomb. From the Lansing Republican, April 26. The friends of Samuel B. Taylor gathered this morning at his late home, 304 pe ei avenue north, to pay their last tribute of respect and affection. The casket containing the dead was completely hidden, except about the placid face, with blossoms symbolic of life. A corner fire-place formed a ver- dant screen of foliage and _ feathery white flowers, while over the casket twined and fell a complete cover of roses, carnations, tulips, lilies, jonquils and smilax. Flowers were sent by the Grand River Boat Club, ladies of the Church of Our Father, and the Knights of the Grip, and by many individual friends. The music was appropriately chosen, and sung by a quartet, consisting of Miss Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stone and Howard Truxell. Rev. Bard, of the Universalist church, spoke from the words, ‘‘Take no thought of the mor- row,’’ and unfolded the necessity and beauty of a belief in a reunion beyond the valley of the shadow to those liv- ing in a world of tragic uncertainties. > Gripsack Brigade. S. J. Thompson, formerly on the road for the Worden Grocer Co., has accepted a similar position with the Freeman Mercantile Co. He will cover the towns along the Northern divisions of the G. R. & I. and Pere Marquette. No virtue is more calculated to ad- vance the condition of a young man on the road than that of punctuality. Let your customer understand that you are always prompt to keep your dates and promises and you will always have the advantage of your trade over the unre- liable opponent. Kalamazoo Gazette: Fred M. Cald- well, who has recently been employed on the reportorial staff of the Detroit Tribune and in the business office of the Detroit Journal, has secured a position as traveling representative of the J. B. Ford Co., of Wyandotte. His territory includes practically all the large cities of the United States. Kalamazoo Gazette: John Van Brook, of the carpet department of Olin, White & Olin’s store, has severed his connec- tion with that firm to take a position as traveling salesman for the French Gar- ment Co., of this city. His territory will comprise the State of Illinois, with headquarters in Chicago.. He expects to be gone away from home on his first trip, which will commence about May 1, four or five months. Portland Observer: Miss Clara Albro was married at 10 o’clock Thursday morning to Wm. G. Hawkins, of Grand Rapids, by Rev. W. E. Stevens, of the Congregational church, and the couple took the noon train for Grand Rapids, where they will keep house. Mr. Hawkins is a traveler for the Worden Grocery Co., and has been making Portland for several years. He first met Miss Albro at Dehn’s, where she held the position of cashier. He is well known among the traveling fraternity and among the grocers of this part of Michigan. Miss Albro is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. O. Albro, and has always been a general favorite among her associates. ——__> 2. ___ Mrs. D. A. Warren, millinery and notions, Evart: Enclosed please find draft for $1 in renewal of my subscrip- tion to the Michigan Tradesman. When I say that the magazine has been a help to me, it nowhere near tells the story. Your paper gets at the true inwardness of things, which is very gratifying, and the article in last week’s issue on ‘‘Se- curing Discounts’’ is worth far more than the price of subscription. GONE BEYOND. Death of D. E. McVean, the Well-Known Salesman. Monday morning the Musselman Gro- cer Co. issued the following sorrowful announcement to the customers of their Southern Michigan salesman: It is with sincere sorrow that we an- nounce the death of David E. McVean, which took place Sunday evening, at 8:30 o'clock, the immediate cause of his death being abscesses of the liver, which were supposed to have caused blood poisoning. Mr. McVean had been connected with this house for the past seven years, and had many friends among the trade who will deplore his untimely demise. The funeral will be held from the family residence, 187 South East street, Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock, under the auspices of the Masonic order. Musselman Grocer Co. Mr. McVean’s unexpected death was a great shock to his family and friends, as he had of late been in better than his usual health. For many years Mr. McVean was a great sufferer from fre- quent . attacks of rheumatism, but since last fall, after a severe struggle with the jaundice, in which he almost suc- cumbed, his general health had greatly improved and the rheumatism had en- tirely disappeared. Mr. McVean's ter- ritory was Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana. He had attended faithfully to business, as usual, only laying off a day about two weeks ago in Indiana. He finished his route as fully as possible, but came home a week ago Tuesday far from well. He took a car- riage at the depot and, on arriving at his residence, was obliged to be assisted in. He immediately retired to what proved to be his deathbed. His illness, which was abscesses of the liver, was not looked upon seriously by either himself or others until Sunday morning, but at 8:30, the same evening, Mr. McVean crossed the Dark River. The second son, Will, who lives at Big Rapids, was telegraphed for at 7:30, but too late to reach here before his father’s death. He arrived to comfort his mother on Monday morning. The funeral was held this afternoon. Mr. McVean fa- vored the Episcopal belief and the Rev. Charles Donohue, of St. Paul’s Memorial Church, officiated at the serv- ices, which were under the auspices of Doric Lodge and the local members of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. He was buried in Fulton street cemetery, by the side of his only daughter, Lucy, who died four years ago. * * * David Ellery McVean was born at Scottsville, Monroe county, New York, September 16, 1842, making him 59 years of age at the time of his death. In 1846 his parents moved to Michi- gan, settling in Kent county. His father was a surveyor of this county for a number of years and was one of the pioneers. The son learned civil en- gineering and took up his father’s busi- ness asa pursuit. He was married on November 15, 1866, to Eunice Parker, of Lowell, Michigan, and in 1872 came to Kalkaska, with a view of locating there, being promised the office of county sur- veyor upon becoming a resident of that county. The following spring he moved there, and was county surveyor until 1882. Soon after his change of resi- dence he purchased a building begun for a hotel, which was afterwards the Manning House, and finished it. He kept the hotel a few months and then sold it. About 1878 Mr. McVean be- gan to deal in pine lands and other real estate, and for some time continued in that business, selling within a few years upwards of $700,000 worth of pine lands. In the summer of 1879 he went into the grocery business on the corner after- wards occupied by the bank, The fol- lowing spring he was burned out and later bought the grocery stock of R. S. Abbott. During the year 1880, in com- pany with A. C. Beebe, who for a short time was partner in the business, he built one-fourth of the large brick block in which his store was afterwards situated. In 1882 he bought out Mr. Beebe and carried on the business alone, doing a large wholesale and re- tail business and being regarded as one of the successful men of that portion of the State. For the past fifteen years Mr. Mc- Vean has resided in Grand Rapids, be- ing a traveling salesman all of that time. For two years he was with the then firm of Clark, Jewell & Co., being later identified with Arthur Meigs & Co. Then Hawkins & Perry claimed his allegiance, and for the past seven years he carried the grips of the Mus- selman Grocer Co., covering, as men- tioned, Southern Michigan and North- ern Indiana. Mr. McVean was of Scotch ancestry and inherited many of the sterling qual- ities of that sturdy race. He was a man of few words, quiet and unostentatious in his bearing, wholesouled, a gentle- man in every meaning of the word. During the Civil War he responded to the call of his country, being in service over three years—from the summer of 1862 until December, 1865. He went into service with Company B, Sixth Michigan Cavalry, and at close of the war was sent to the Western Frontier, where he remained until mustered out in December. He ranked as Quarter- master Sergeant. Mr. McVean was a great lover of Masonry, being the founder of Kalkaska Lodge, No. 332, of which he was First Master. His name was enrolled on the membership list of the Lakeside Club, of this city, and the Knights of the Grip saw him one of their charter members. His face was a familiar one at the social gather- ings of the latter organization, and he will long be missed among his brother knights. Besides the son already referred to, Mr. McVean leaves a widow and an older son, Dan, the latter residing in this city. Both of the sons are married, and both are railroad men. The Trades- man and a host of friends extend sym- pathy to the family in their great be- reavement. + ~~ An open mind, an open hand, an open heart will find everywhere an open door. mp. Electric § Gas Fixtures As we design and manufacture our own fixtures, and selling to users only, we save you jobbers” and retailers’ profits. Our pic- torial suggestions for the asking. The T. J. Mosher Electric Co. Mfgrs. Fixtures, Belts, Insoles, Batteries, General Contractors. Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S. A. Your Liquor or Morphine Disease Do you want it cured? Your case of Nervous Prostration or Nerve Exhaustion from overwork, do you want it cured? In either case investigate the special plan of nerve treatment used at Patterson Home Sanitarium 316 E. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, lich. Special price to all liquor cases to May 15, Phone 1291. Dr. C. E. Patterson, Manager 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901 HENRY _: - A. C. SOHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904 ae D. Murr, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905 President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Secre' , HENRY HErM, Saginaw. Treasurer, W. P. Doty, Detroit. Examination Sessions. Star Island, June 17 and 18. Sault Ste. Marie, August 28 and 29. Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association. — F. MANN, Detroit. Secretary—J. W. oe Detro Treasurer—W. K. SCHMIDT, crema Rapids. Expenses of Conducting a Retail Drug Store. Many large businesses have been built up from very small capital, but what was lacking in money has been made up for by energy and enthusiasm. Enthusiasm will succeed with little cap- ital, but ample capital will not bring success without energy and enthusiasm, and it may be stated as a truth that no man can attain any great success in a business that he does not like or that he can not feel enthusiasm in pushing. Expenses are what eat up the profits of a business, and the good business man ever keeps a watchful eye on the expense account, but with this differ- ence between him and the penny-wise business man: he will spend money with a lavish hand—with both hands— if he can see a reasonable chance of get- ting back a dollar and a half or two dollars for every dollar that he puts out, whereas the penny-wise man will keep his expenses cut down to a point where it cripples the enterprise of his estab- lishment and chokes its expansion and growth. Caution is a good trait in a business man if it leads to nothing more than a properly conservative business policy. If carried too far it becomes cowardice, the fear of making a venture for fear of loss. It is this excess of caution that keeps many otherwise able business men from rising, keeps their noses to the grindstone all their lives, and offers to the bold and enterprising men the opportunity of building up a business at the expense of the more cautious mer- chant. Your really great merchant is always a bold man, ready to adopt a new method, plan, scheme, or way of doing things if it seems in his judg-. ment to promise success with a fair de- gree of certainty. In modern retail establishments it is considered that expenses should- not as a rule exceed 20 per cent. of the gross amount of business done, and should be divided in about this proportion: Rent, 3 to 5 per cent. General expense, clerk hire, light, heat and sundry expense, Io to I5 per cent. Advertising, 2 to 3 per cent. That is, in a business of twenty thous- and dollars per annum, the item of rent would be six hundred to one thousand dollars, general expense two or three thousand dollars, advertising four to six hundred dollars. In a smaller busi- ness the ratio of expense will usually exceed these figures, for as a rule the smaller the business is the greater ex- penses will be in proportion to the amount of business done, and the larger the business the less the ratio of ex- pense. : As a business is built up and in- creased, expense does not increase in as great a ratio, for many of the items of expense may, up to a certain limit, be regarded as fixed charges. Thus, rent, light, and heat remain the same until the increased business demands more room, or the growth of the locality makes property more valuable and in- creases the rent. Expense for help in- creases, but never in as great a ratio as the business increases. A store doing a business of fifty dollars a day, with the aid of two clerks, may increase its busi- ness to sixty dollars a day without tak- ing on more help. If the average gross profit of the business be 33% per cent., this increase of ten dollars in the daily business means an increased net profit of three dollars and thirty-three cents per day, as the operating expenses have not been increased. Such an increase often just makes the difference between a money-making business and a busi- ness that the proprietor is barely mak- ing a living at. It is the endeavor of every good busi- ness man to work his plant or establish- ment at its highest state of efficiency to do all the business that his capital and stock and help is capable of handling. If his capital, stock, and help is suffi- cient to do a business of sixty dollars a day and he is only doing a business of forty or fifty dollars a day, he ought to look into matters and study up ways and means for securing the full amount of trade that his establishment is cap- able of handling without increased ex- pense. If the expenditure of one or two dollars a day for advertising will bring the trade, it is a good investment and he should not hesitate to try it. The amount of business that he can hope to command is only limited by his energy and ability and the limitations of his business field. The one question that should be ever foremost in the merchant’s thought should be: ‘‘Am I doing all the business that it is possible for me to do; have I all the trade that is to be gotten in my business field?’’ W. A. Dawson. ——__>2.__ Insecticides As a Side Line. Many druggists are on the search for paying side lines. To such of them as do business in the country the words of S. R. Crabtree before the Maine Phar- maceutical Association may not be with- out value, ‘‘In agricultural districts there is a large and increasing demand for insecticides of various kinds, rang- ing from Paris green to Bordeaux mix- ture,’ remarked Mr. Crabtree. ‘‘ There are standard formulas for the more com- mon sprays and mixtures, and a few carefully conducted experiments will enable one to evolve others, then by do- ing a little missionary work among the farmers, explaining to them the merits of each kind for particular insects, a profitable trade may be worked up. This class of goods can be handled more intelligently by the druggist than by general dealers, but if the druggist is not willing to anticipate the wants of the farmer in this direction, and at- tempts to overcharge for what prepara- tions he does keep, he can not justly complain if the trade is gradually ab- sorbed by other lines of business con- ducted by men of better judgment and business discretion.’’ 4. ___ He Keeps Drugs. Charles Bernstein, 96 Hester street, New York, wants people to know that he ‘‘keeps drugs,’’ and informs them by displaying an assortment of crude drugs in his window. The exhibits are ar- ranged in boxes with slips attached tell- ing what each box contains and what the contents may be used for. The Preservation of Stock. The care of a druggist’s stock is of much greater importance than is gener- ally supposed, although it is very doubt- ful if the druggist, who is really the most interested person, at all times ap- preciates how readily portions of his stock can depreciate so as to be practic- ally worthless. Itis never gratifying to the druggist to find spicy drugs being devoured by insects; portions of fragrant roots worm-eaten and practically value- less for selling purposes; vessels con- taining alcoholic and ethereal products rapidly becoming empty through the use of bad corks; essential oils resinified by being exposed to light and heat in bottles containing more air than liquid; and other equally vexatious losses sus- tained through inattention rather than ignorance. It is impossible to make agreeably flavored products with oxygenized and resinified oils, yet they are doubtless used quite frequently in many states to avoid a loss sustained by pouring them out asa waste product, which after all would in all probability |‘ be the cheaper method in the end. There is not much excuse for a loss of this character when the ordinary text- book declares that ‘‘volatile oils may be preserved without change in small, weil-stoppered, amber-colored bottles, entirely filled with the oiland excluded from the light.’’ Losses from other sources mentioned may be avoided by examining stock occasionally and see- ing that it is kept dry, clean, and prop- erly packed. The amount of labor in- volved in attending to perishable stock will be well paid for, not only in the preservation of it, but in the satisfaction derived from the knowledge that it is in a condition to use so as to produce the highest quality of pharmaceutical which can be attained. Care in keeping means quality in making, pleasure in selling, and satisfaction in using. —_—_-2 2 —____ The Drug Market. Opium—lIs a trifle easier under lack of demand. Light rains are reported in the growing district and prices are easier in primary markets. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is dull and unchanged in price. Alcohol—On account. of increase in cost of corn, prices have been advanced 2c per gallon. Cocaine—Is in good demand and the market is very strong and tending up- ward, on account of the increased cost of crude material. Nitrate Silver—Has been advanced, on account of higher prices for bullion. Citric Acid—Manufacturers have re- duced price 2c per lb. Gum Asafoetida——Has advanced. Prime gum is very scarce. Import cost to-day is about 4oc. Linseed Oil—Has again advanced and is tending higher. A Novel Method of Making Suppositories. Van I. Wittin Bulletin of Pharmacy. I wish to tell you and your readers’ how I make suppositories. I employ a method which I think better than the use of the old-fashioned mold. The trouble with the metal mold is after you have filled it and allowed the supposi- tories to cool, there is much trouble in getting the suppositories out in good shape. They are apt to stick to the mold and break. I have therefore found it convenient to make small paper covers of the size I wish to make the supposi- tories, and these I oil and stand up in a board with holes made in it to receive them. Then I melt the cocoa butter, add the medicinal constituents, stir well, and pour into the paper molds. When cold I remove the papers and. have nice smooth suppositories. It strikes me that if some manufacturer would make these eer molds cheaply there would be a good demand for them. —_+ ._____ Preferred Men to Alligators. An old tourist was taking a live alli- gator home from Florida. He had one about three feet long in a box. This was much too large for the road, accord- ing to the ideas of the negro porter in the car,and he kept his eye on it all the time. He begged the man to put it in the baggage car, but he would not. The lady passengers were all in the lower berths, and the ‘gator was shoved un- der one of them. It was about midnight and all was serene, when the porter — in and saw the alligator creep- ing along the floor. He raised the yell: lligator’s out, alligator’s out!’’ and broke into the smoking room and sbut the door. Everybody was awakened and much confusion reigned. When the conductor appeared upon the scene the women were screaming and scampering everywhere. One of them was climbing into an upper berth. ‘‘Hold on there, madam,’’ he said, ‘there’s a man in that berth.” ‘*T don’t care,’’ she exclaimed, ‘‘I’d rather be in a berth with two men than one alligator.’’ Drug Clerk Wanted All round man for Wholesale and Laboratory work, == ee when necessary. Fair pay and steady — man. 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Occasion- > = the attack will come on very suddenly > remain until treated. If you have > any trouble take it now. Don’t wait un- » til the nerve is impaired. > > > > > q > > > > > > > > > > > > Go or write to DR. C. E. RANKIN Powers’ Opera House Block Grand Rapids, Michigan Graduate of University of Michigan and Illinois School of Electro-Therapeutics Mail Treatment Dr. Rankin’s system of ‘‘Home Treat- ment” is well known and highly effi- cient. Send for free symptom os Ssociaiiiabeisecapcuamsie starts with a sense of fulness in the ears Q i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT ee Oil, Alcohol. Declin Acidum Conium Mae......... 50@ 60} Scilla Co............ @ 50 Aceticum ..$ 6@$ 8| Copaiba............. 115@ 1 25} Tolutan @ 50 Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75|Cubebe............. 1 40@ 1 50| Prunus virg......... @ 5 Boracie.. .:......... @ = oe teeee cece : — : > Tinctures Sees... ES” | Gautaadts ieccscsoe 1 6O@ 1 99 | Aconttnm Napoli B 60 Hydrochior.........- 3@ OB Gossip sen al of 75) 4 — oi OSS em. ga Gratteumn. 20°". ang 14 | Hedeoma. 008°". x ang 1 a0 Aloos ai iyi 60 | P Phosphorium, dil.. @ 15 1 0@ 2 00 | ‘Assafoctida......... 50 Salicylicum kel nie oie 52@ 55 .- 90@ 2 00 Atrope Belladonna... 60 eee” sisee cans 1%@ 5 .. 1 40@ 1 50 Auranti Cortex 50 Tannicum . . 1 10@ 1 20 - 12628 | Con ‘annic 38@ 40 1 50@ 1 60 | Benzoin . Seakcs 60 Tartaricum . * 4 10@ 1 20 | Benzoin Ger. 50 Ammonia " 4 00@ 4 50 ces cee ce coerce = Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ 6 75@ 3 00 | Van OS»... 0.6. 5 Aqua, 20 deg eas oak 6@ 8| Picis Liquida........ 10@ 12 — teeeceeeee es 50 Carbonas..........-. 13@ 15| Picis Liquida, gai. . S se 75 Chloridum........... w@ 14| Ricina ~~ ep ie ee Oe.... --.- 75 Aniline Rosmarini. . a ood 1 00 pho ad Sees ees on 1 00 Rose, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50 | Catechu)..... 50 De cclalt) 2 0@ 2 26 Suceini 40@ 45 Cinchona... 50 80@ 1 00 Ching 90@ 1 00 Cinchona Go. 60 5@ 50 : 2 75@ 7 00 | Columba .... . 5o IIILINS 2 50@ 3 00] Sossatrag”” ** 48@ _ 53 | Cubebee....-. ‘ 50 Gunite Sinapis, os ess.,ounce. @ 65 — Seceea 50 Cubebee........ po,25 22@ 24 Tell - 1 50@ 1 90) Digitalis... 2 = OTUS.... ce even ee 5) : Munk 50 oxylum ....... 1 2 1 30 Thyme opi Sieg “ @1 = Ferri Chloridum.. 35 Balsamum alcieneiaen Gentian ici 50 Copaiba ..........++- 55@ 60 Gentian Co... 60 Peru i . 85 oe. ee = 18 aoa . iahgee eat chromate ......... 15 aca ammon.. Terapia, ae. oe . ——— ssa cuir Bie Ps ee -- bo aaa F Cortex Ghinenie.. “po.17@19 16@ 18] Iodine, colorless..... 75 ae Canadian..... SS} Cyane oo 34@ = 38 | Kino 50 ee cat 12 | Iodide............... 2 60@ 2 65 50 Gochans Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 50 Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 50 Myrica Cerifera, po 20 | Potass —— ‘opt... 7@ 10| Op ae 75 Prunus Virgi Ae coat 12] Potass Nitra 6@ ~~ 8| Opii, com horated .. 50 Quillaia, gr’d........ 12 | Prussiate. . w-.- 23@ 26} Opii, = orized..... 1 50 Sassafras ...... po. 20 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18 —— Ses eedesie 50 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix a ny. s Extractum Aconitum............ 20@ 25 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25| Altha....7/. 0@ 33 Seneninsate A Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@ 30 Anchusa 10@ 12) Stromonium......... 60 Hematox, 15 lb. box 11 12} Arum po : @ 25! Tolutan Le 60 Hzematox, 18.....--- 13 14 | Calamus ----. 20@ 40) Valerian ............ 5p Heematox, %S.....-- ion 15 | Gentiana......po.15 12@ 15] Veratrum Veride... 5p Heematox, 4S....... 16 17 | Glychrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18] Zingiber............. 20 Ferru Hydrastis Canaden. @ Aiccotiancoue = 15 | Hydrastis Can., po... 80 sin amet giis:; «2 | Balsbore,albéipo. a | ether Sou MELE BS Citrate Soluble...... 75 | oo ie be 4 ae 24@ 3 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40| Iris plox...po. 35@38 36@ 40|Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 Solut. Chloride. ..... 15| Jalapa, pr....-...... 25@ 30| Annatto.............. 40@ 50 Sulphate, com... 2| Maranta, \s........ @ 35| Antimoni, 4@ 5 Sal —_ — by oo Podophyilum, po... 2@ 2 Antimonie Potass T 40@ : r earee ee ec Seo : sulphate, pure...... 7 pel, cut...... - 73 ; = Antifobrin cE 3 20 Flora Rhei, pv..... 75@ 1 35} Argenti Nitras, oz... @ 51 arnica 15@ 18 Spigelia es 35@ 38|Arsenicum.......... 10@ 12 Anthemis.....-...-.. 22@ 25| Sanguinaria.. @ 18| Balm Gilead Buds.. 3 # Matricaria........... 30@ 35 | Serpentaria -.. = = aaa eS Fole ceao| Sine ficinalis Hi, "@ 40 | Galetum Chor. He gt Smilax, 25 : cc fol, ‘Tin- Scillz 1 12 | Cantharides, Rus. po @ 80 Cassia 1 Aci 20@ 25 — ts %@ Capsici Fructus, @ 15 Cassia, Oy atifol,. ‘Alx. 25@ 30| ‘dus, po............ @ | Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana .Eng. po. 30 @ Capsici Fructus B, po @ 15 and 148 .......-.--- 12 20 Valeriana, German. 15@ 20| Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14 Uva Ursl.........--+: 8 10 | Zingiber a........... 14@ 16 | Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00 Gummi Zingiber j............ B@ 27 a aes: --- 50@ = Acacia, 1st picked... 65 — a eS Acacia, 2d —- 45 | Anisum . -po. @ 12) Cassia Fructus. @ 35 Acacia, 3d picked.. 35 apium (e (eravéieons). 13@ 15| Centraria. @ 10 Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 4@ 6| Cetaceum.. @ 4 Acacia, po. 65| Carul.......... -po. 18 12@ 13 Chloroform . 55@ «60 Aloe, Barb. ‘po. .18@20 12 14) Cardamon.. .-.. 1 25@ 1 75| Chloroform, squibbs @ 1 10 Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 12 | Coriandrum......°... 8@ 10/ Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 40@ 1 65 Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 30 | Cannabis —= ae 4%@ 5 | Chondrus............ 20@ 2 Ammoniac.........-- 60 | Cydonium . «e+. 7@100 Cinchonidine, P.&W 3@ 48 Assafeetida....po.45 45@ 50| Chenopodium . 10@ 12] Cinchonidine,Germ. 38@ 48 Benzoinum.........- 50 55 Hrcnees x Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10} Cocaine 5 55@ 5 75 Catechu, 1s......-..- 13 | Foeniculum.......... @ 10| Corks, fist, ‘dis. pr. ct. 70 Catechu, %4S8.....--.- 14 Foenugreck, po...... 7@ 9|Creosotum........... 35 ee, at Bim wir ee F MOTH... ...--2- era. oes 4 @ 40| Lobelia. 35@ 40 11 Pharlaris Canarian.. 4%4@ 5 8 Bape 4%4@ 5 30 30 | Sinapis Alba.. 9@ 10} Cudbear 24 Sinapis Nigra... n@ 12 8 0 Sitti 10 Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 = 35 | Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 6 45 | Frumenti 23@ 90 90 | Juniperis Co. O. T 15 Juniperis 93 — 9 upatorium. .0Z. Pe = S — 60 upatorium..oz. Lobelia ..0Z. Pkg 25 | Vini i Opon penetn eee an oa a flint, box . - Majorum . +...0Z. P 28 Sponges Less t 70 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 > Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Sitio = = 7 Satan EE SE Pause ¥ ox. a 39 | Nassau sheeps’ wool ; ee g 2 Thymus, V...0z. pkg 25 Velvet extra sheeps” an Magnesia wool, car riage hee @1580 Chior Mite @100 Caleined, Pat........ Po 6 Extra yellow sheeps’ es Chior a e . = wool, iS. 25 acbonaee K.&M.. 18@ 2 a ee wool, @1 20 ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 2 cae @ 1 00 50@ 60 Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @. 75| Hydrargyrum....... @ 8% Yellow Reef, for 6@ 70 Absinthium......... 6 00@ 7 00) “ciate use... @140 75@ 1 00 Amygdalz, Dulc.... 38@ 65 3 40@ 3 60 Amy » Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups 3 85@ 4 00 seca nehe? 12 : ae : : g = @ 50 Auranti Cortex...... 2 85 Bergamii ............ 2 70@ 2 90 @ 50 oe 15 Cajiputi ... --- 80@ 8 @ 60 Caryophylli pit 80 @ oO @ QOGBE oo... coc. cceves 90 @ bo 10@ 12 Chenopadii.......... 2 75| Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 0 3 Cinnamonil ......... 1 1 40 ee ee @ 60 @ 1% Citronella ......-...+ 40 heciaseeteedaas aA wo 0@ el Menthol............. Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 “Tha S., N.Y. > 4 Moschus Canton... Myristica, No. 1.. Nux Vomica.. .po. “15 Os Sepia... oo... b,8.- Saac, H. & P. ee, Picis Liq., quarts.. aa a Lig., pints..... Hydrarg. . .po. 80 Piper Ni = “Po. 22 aaa: Plump A. Quass Quinia, § S.P.& W.. Quinia, S. German.. Quinia, Rubia Tinctorum.. anand ee Sapo, W. Sapo M.. Sapo G., @ 5 00| Seidlitz Mixture..... <0@ 22/| Linseed, pure raw... 63 65 2 35@ 2 60 | Sinapis.............. @ _18/ Linseed, boiled...... 64 67 —. ne @ 30| Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 a 2 . go , y, De a Spirits Turpentine.. 39 45 4 65@ 80/ Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's @ 41 Paints BBL. LB. @ 10} Soda, Boras.......... @ i1 35@ 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%@_~—s2:|| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3 Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ iB Putty, commercial... 24 2%@3 @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash........... 3%4@ 4/| Putty, — pure. 2% 2%@3 @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas.. @ 2) Vermilion, soe @ _ 85| Spts. Cologne... @ 2 60| American 13@ 15 @ 650|Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55| Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75 @ = 18/Spts. Myrcia Dom @ 2 00 | Green, Parte u4@ 18 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16 @_ 7| Spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl @ 1aee, WL... «5. 64%4@ 10@ 12 a Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 6%4@ 7 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. —_ @ Whiting, white Span @ Strychnia, Crystal.. = 1 05 | Whiting, gilders’. @ % @ 75; Sulphur, S a a 4| White, Saris, Amer. @ 1 2 25@ 30) Sulphur, Roll........ ne 3% Whiting, Paris, Eng. 8@ 10) Tamarinds.......... 8@ 10] cliff................ @ 140 36G 46)| Terebenth —— 28@ - Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 34@ 44| Theobrome.. -- 6@ 34@ «44 | Vanilla .............. i) = 00 Varnishes 12@ = =614| Zinci Sulph......... : 183@ 20 Oils No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 50@ 4 75 —— Be decals c . 160@ 1 70 40@ 50 BBL. GAL. ot B — oe den 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 @ 16/ tard, Ne.f.......°:. & 50 | Jap.Dryer, No.1Turp 70@ 75 Wolverine — - Victorias —s- jumers: - - Crane’s Cadets Rainbow - - Hawthorn, 25 in tin We are agents for the celebrated We also have Brunswick Brands $55 69 OO 30 3o 30 Our Manager, Quintette And a complete line of G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brands including the celebrated S. C. W., Exemplar, etc. Drug Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Hazeltine & Perkins 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 4 . . . . a: —— These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, Columbia, pints. . ae and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- Columbia, % pints.....°..... 12 ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at ‘canon Sis i f purchase. Mooene.... <2. 6.2... 3. @ll1 et pee eee ee Perfection es @10 oo 3 ADVANCED DECLINED Ccoderteod = " @10 Niagra Starch Package Coffee Beem 8 eae Muzzy Starch Cheese Black, winter.......... @10%4 Corn Syrup < ———— iis cme.. — Amboy SINT agai PE ens sibiele Sains : Hintiem............. @ a Index to Markets \ | 2 a Sersey g By Columns ALABASTINE wy. REUTTER COLOR Riverside. we White in drums............. BW 20.'S, 15¢ size.... 1 2 Edam. ine Col. | Colors in drums............. | W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.... 2 00) Leiden .............. @17 A a = ee Sie cco are fare ‘i Bineapie er... ers Colors in packages.......... ectric Lig! Bo soe ea) oe —— Less 4 per cont discount. 4. Electric — 16s. . 12% 0.. ----. 19@20 Ammonia... AMMONIA Paraffine, 6s.. -10% CHEWING GUM Axle Grease... Per Doz. | Parafline, 128. -++-1l_ | American Flag Spruce.... 55 Aretie 12 oz. ovals..........- 75 | Wicking vee “ee --. .-.-28 | Beeman’s Pepsin.......... 60 eee , | Arctic pints. round.......... 1 10 CAN oa — Black Jack. o-oo oo: 55 Sate Sxt0K.........00.2----- 1 AXLE GREASE 3 1b. Standards...... ‘La... Bluing .........0--0-eeeeer ones doz. gross | Gallons, standards. . 2 00| Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00 a 1| Aurora ..... ...55 6 00 Blackberries Sugar Loaf................ 55 Brushes ...........-.-....---- 1| Castor Oil. - ..60 7 CQ} Standards .......... . BS wanskan oa 55 Butter Color............--.--- 2 a BE eee 50. 4 Beans CHICORY Cc PTL Gelinas Ga boxes + ee Peed : ‘Js Bulk 5 en. in xes 75 00 ney ae a eee ween te eee ee wee ee Owe Semeeee- 2 =... 14 a aM. ee a a5 | Eagle.......--.-2.- sees eeeees 4 Blueberries Franck s SERS ee I aa 6% Standard . ao rate g5 | Schener’s......-...------+-+- 6 Broo row 2 Ib. cans, Clams: frneer noes 1 90 eS . lams. Little Neck, 1 Ib... 1 00 | Houschold Sweet... ete 9 Little Neck. 2 Ib. 1 50/ Ambrosia Premium......... 32 lam Bouillon Yankee Premium. . 31 Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92 Walter Baker ai Co. ‘s. a —— ore ee 3 . German Sweet.. : De 4 ee eres ar 7 20) Premium .. 31 Condensed Be 4| Mica, tin boxes. . Cherries Breakfast Cocoa............. 46 I ee 4| Paragon .. Red Standards........ 85 Runkel Bros. Cream Tartar .........-...-.- 5 BAKING POWDER White........ moet 1 15| Vienna Sweet ...... 21 D Acme ic : eo 2 Dried ee... 6S ¥4 Ib. eames Goc........ .... “1 Geet ..----- 2.2: 80 F \& Ib ea cans 3 of doe ce eee : = Fancy .. pene ne 95 mm ee Good 1 cans 1 dOZ............ renc eas n, eee 3 Bulk.. “UIE go | Sur Extra Fine............ 22 | Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 20 Flavoring xtracts........... " Aretic — Fine........--..---. - Catton % ft. per dor sai = “0 Pape ee $ Cox. Mag. Teeees....-... Bi ‘lee soft. bor @ = oe... 6 Egg ne as eae iene: ‘ en Fruit: 14 Gooseberries Jute, 60 ri per doz.......... 80 eo - SES eae Standard essen’ sine... ~ oO: rains and Flour ............ 6 SE costa. oo. Sa Her 6 1 85 ——— ¥4 Ib. - cans 44 ee ee ee wee eve: ceca 41 Hides ee Pe... 13 : = Colonial, 4s . 35 : I Colonial. MS.. = A ee ee 6 es — J ; = Huyler cuadoes nee 45 eg 6|34 1b. cans, 4 doz. case...... 3 75 175 — canara —~ a L 4 Ib. cams, 2 d0Z. case...... 3 75 2 80 a ee ilb 1 doz. case 3 75 1 75 | Van Houten, s............. 38 Lamp Burners.......-....---- 15 - Cans, - CASC...... 7 Vani Houten’ is...... oe Lamp Chimneys.............. 15| 5b. cans, % doz. case.....- 8 00 SO anh Se 30 Eee 15 Wilbur, 48......-..--..-.54. 41 Lantern Globes............. 15 J AXO N ee i. .... 42 ee Lye Pee L i emu be ein ctetes bine inion 7 % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case. 20 Ib. pags ae 2% M &% lb. cans, 4 doz. case. 21b 1 55 | Less et 3 Matches......... 7{1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case. : og 1 Ib Oval...... 95 | Poun packages . Bene ci las 4 = Extracts : Queen Flake Peaches COFFEE olasses... ae doz. case... oe ae Pe ee ce ees ae Mustard.............-. 7 “pei : a case. 3:96 | MOMOW 608 1 65@1 85 — N 9 0z., 4 doz. case. 4 80 ears Mee 14} 11b., 2 doz. case. 4 00 | Standard ........... : 70 Cony oO 5lb., 1 doz. case............. 9 00 aoa 80 oe... 15 BATH BRICK Marrowfat 1 00 HIGH GRADE ee. 7 | American...............- .... 70} Earl as 1 00 Geuer Pals. :. 7 ee Early June Sifted.. 1 60 CorFFEES P Pineapple Special Combination... .... ..15 Peer APR oc 7 TRO os 1 25@2 75 | French Breakfast. ..........1744 ees Gre 7 Ragen 1 35@2 55 | Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21 eee. 2 Pumpkin Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 ee 70 | Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 so = Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 “Raspberries Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands. Standard............ 90 | White House, 60-1s.......... 29 Russian Cavier White House, 30-2s.......... 28 ¥% Ib. cans................... 3 75 | Excelsior M. & J., 60-1s... ..21% ee a I a & J., 30-2s...... 20% Small 3 doz.. 49| itb. can........ vs.s 12 00 WR ono tees Soin 26% Large, 2 doz. . we Salmon Royal Java & Mocha........2634 Arctic, 4 0z, per gross...... 4 00 | Columbia River, talls @1 95| Arabian Mocha............. 284% Arctic, 8 0z, per gross...... 5 00 | Columbia River, flats @1 95 Migdee Mock... -....-..---..3. 22% Arctic, pints, per gross.... 9 00| Red Alaska.......... 1 20@1 40 | Mocha & Java Blend........ 23 Pink Alaska. . 1 00@1 10 | Fancy Maricaibo............ 18% BROOMS Shrimps Javo Blend................. 17% No. 1 Carpet... see 2 50} Standard............ 1 50 | Golden Santos............... 17 No. 2 Carpet..............:... 215 Sardines Ja-Mo-Ka .........--.-....4- 15% No. 3 Carpet................. 85 | Domestic, \s.. 5 | Excelsior Blend.............. 14% No. 4 Carpet. 1 60 | Domestic, %s ....... g | No. 55 Blend.... ....--...... 14 Parlor Gem. . 2 40 Denes, Mustard. 7 Rio Common Whisk. . .-. 85| California, 14s....... 11@14 | Common.............. se 10% Fancy Whisk................1 10 —— es Baas oi reo Ge yg aaSaRe MRS Rien PAB igs a cee leren ll Warehouse... ....-3 25| French, 448.......... T@14 | Choice........ 22.2. eeeeee vee 13 BRUSHES - French, %8.......... 18@28 | Fancy.....-..--222eeeeeee eee 15 ub Strawberries Santos Solid Back, 8 sin... weeees 45 | Standard............ 85 | Common...... eee 11 eetae os. ole 95 | Fancy ..............- 125 —_ ie .14 ‘oin ee ee 85 Sg coke eee ets echoes ce 15 Ss ee Pe ee es 17 ww 1 00 | Peaberry............. -13 Washing Powder............. 12 120 Maracaibo Ee nce en 13 ONE occas oe soba aes eee 12 Woodenware................. 13 gp | Choice........--... esses eee 16 Wrapping Paper............. 13 90 Mexican : Y 1 00 | ChOICO....... 0.2002 ces reee cece 16 wee (ake... .. } 23... 13 | Ni MONEYS. bus. sagan’ seus cess 17 Guatemala MONRO ooo cae coat cee 16 Java NN MORTN aooos so sie wisi cos oid 12% Fancy African .............. 17 WO ees oe oc aie 25 Te nt eet cue cepa cues 29 Mocha Arabian....... Boys ences Gees a1 Package New — ——>--- sates cane cncsiacce Dilworth.. So ee aie McLaughlin's xxxx McLaughlin’s XXX*X sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City 4 gross.. 75 Felix % "115 Hummel’s foil’ % gross. eesele 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43 Substitutes Crushed Cereal Coffee _ 12 packages, 4% case......... 175 24 packages, I case .-. . .3 50 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail —— ee: eee. bes 6 40 Crown... .. 4 a es 5 75 Cuampion ...0......-..-....- 4 50 WR oe ct 425 Challenge . 3 75 Dime...... 3 35 Ce ee ae oe 3 80 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any a - 1 50 = books, any denom... 2 50 500 books, any denom... 11 50 000 books, any denom... 20 00 “eee quotations are for either Tradesman, Superior, Economic or Universal grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered at a time customer receives specially printed cover without extra|/ TM charge. Coupon Pass Books Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. BU BOOKS... S00. Beoke: ... 2... 5s . 2 50 500 books - 11 50 1,000 books ra . 20 00 Credit Checks 500, any one denom...... 00 1,000, any one denom 00 _ 000, any = — 00 teel punch ates CRA .CKE ERS The National Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter Segmeur.......4.......5... 6 Mew Vor... 6 ee See eee 6 ee es a 6 Wolverine S cegiets cee cus 6% Soda NR as og oe nee 6% Sada, Olly: .. 3, ..-3.--; 222: 8 Long Island Wafers....... 13 Zephyrette.... ....-..-.... 13 Oyster —, Bee eats fog ee ects 7% Extra Farina SLT a NE ae 6% Saltine Oyster. ...........- 6 Sweet Goods—Boxes Cinnamon Bar Coffee coke, Sead... 23... Coffee Cake. Java. c Cocoanut Macaroons.. Cocoanut Taffy.. .. Cracknells..... Creams, Iced Cream Crisp eo Currant Fruit. Frosted Honey. . 12 Frosted Cream.........-.. 9 —— Gems, l’rgeor _ 8 eae Snaps, ROMO tas a 10% Grandma Cakes........... 9 Graham Crackers. ........ 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 food ft Fingers............ 12 os _—. Crumpets. .... _ F aeplee Honey. :... .... -- 12 Lady Fingers.............. 12 Lemon Snaps.............. 12 Lemon Wafers............ 16 Marshmallow.............. 16 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow Walnuts. .. 16 mary, ie oeas ees see 8 bree Picnic. 5... 3.2... 11% Mik Misch 3. ss cts. 7% Molasses — Gee arate toina 8 Molasses Bar.............. 9 — Jelly Bar Seluuiaecsie sole 12% Newton. oa ee Oatmeal Grackers......... 8 Oatmeal Wafers........... 12 Orange Crisp.............. 9 range Gem............... 9 Pe (One .2. 3... 8 Pilot Bread, XXX......... 7% Pretzels, hand m Sugar Squares............. 8 Sanenee. os 13 Tutti Fruiti., eee occ. we 16 Vanilla Wafers............ 16 Vienna Crimp............. 8 CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes..... 30 Bulk in sacks.. ac oO DRIED ‘FRUITS Apples Sundried . @A% Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. @5% sae — Fruits cots 10 Blackberries = Nectarines . Peaches .... 8 @ll Pitted Cherrie: Thy elles . Raspberries California en 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 3% 90-100 25 Ib. boxes @4 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4% 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5% 60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5% 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 64% 40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes @ 7% 30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ...... 8% 44 cent less in 50 lb. cases Citron Leghorn Spee seca Corsican ee 3 Californi ‘i om alifornia, 1 package....10 Imported, 1 Ib package... Se Hose Imported, bulk..... ........ 10% 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. 1°35 Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 6% Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 6 Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 7 ., Seeded, 8 L. M., Seeded, % Ib @ Sultanas, bulk ..... Sultanas, package . FARINACEOUS GOOoDs Beans Dried Tims. ooo ss: 7 Medium Hand Picked 1 90 Brown Holland.............. Cereals Cream of Cereal............. 90 Grain-O, small . Sotecte koe Grain-O, large.. 2 Grape Nuts.. cack ae Postum Cereal, ‘smail. -o-1 35 Postum Cereal, large...... 2 25 aes Farina packages ............ 1 50 Bulk, per 100 Ibs............. 3 00 Hominy Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... ..... 80 Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ 2 40 Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 117 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60 Tmported, 25 Ib. box........ 2 50 Pearl ew Common .... Chester. . Empire... ee : Grits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. --2 00 ..3 00 ‘ Seed Sein Oe 700 1p; Bape... 5. 5c. 225 ox. 2 90 Peas Green, Wisconsin, = .1 30 Green, Scotch, bu... Tih1 40 Split, Ib......... oa 8 _e ‘Oats Rolled Avena, bbl.. ..4 00 Steel Cut, 00 ‘lb. sacks... 210 Monarch, bbl........ 3 70 Monarch, % bbl..... 2 00 Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks....... 1 80 Quaker, cases...:...........3 20 Sago Mant Tale. oes, 2% German, sacks.............. 3% German, broken package.. 4 Tapioca Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 4% Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3% Pearl, 241 1b. packages..... 6 a Cracked, bulk.. oe 242 b. packages .. FLAVORING ee FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla 10z full m -1 20 ime 80 2 0z full m.2910 2 0z full m.1 25 No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75 ry * <> i Joo » we we & ~ < ~ a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i) © 7 9 10 cCOLEMAN's ‘nee Cue Cficnl| Foore& Jenns}ic.ass) EXTRACT? Vanilla Lemon 20z panel..1 20 20z panel. 75 3 oz 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 0z. oval Vanilla Tonka.... 75 2 oz. oval Pure Lemon ...... 75 2 FLAVORING EXTRACT? Reg. 2 0z. D. C. Lemon...... 75 No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon ...1 52 Reg. 2 0z. D. C. Vanilla...... 1 24 No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla. ..2 08 Standard 20z. Vanilla Tonka.......... 70 2 oz. flat Pure Lemon........ 70 FLY PAPER Tanglefoot, per doz.......... 35 Tanglefoot, per case........ 3 20 FRESH MEATS Bee: Carcass.... %@ 8 Forequarters 6 @6 Hindquarters ....... %@ 9 Loins No. 3.......... 10 @l4 Ribs...... 10 @13 Wounds.) 26. oc. 8 74@ 8 Chucks ces 54@ 6 Plates aa 4@5 Pork Dressed ois @7 BE oss oo nn os no oe @10 Boston Butts........ @ 8% Shoulders . esa. @8 Leaf Lard.......... @8 Mutton ONPGGNS <.. 50... 8%@ 9 Tees... . > ae 94%4@10 Veal Caneags 2.22552... 8 @9 GRAINS AND FLOUR eat WHeaSE. 2.502. os 7? Winter Wheat Flour Brands Patents. ecccs Seem Second Patent............. 3 75 SS Sa ae ee ag ae 3 55 a 3 15 AAU se a, 3 26 Buckwheat................ 4 40 MO oe ett c ee ee _ Subject to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢c per bbl. ad- ditional. ae eennnet: ar s —— Diamond }s.......... ‘ Diamond \s. s 7s Diamond s. 3 75 Worden Grocer Co. os ; Brand uaker %s.. 3 80 uaker \4s.. o Ms.. prin; Clark jews Wheat Flour -Wells Co.’s — Pillsbury’s Best %s....... 4 50 . 440 % 4 30 Pilisbury’s Best %s paper. 4 30 Pillsbury’s —_ ae paper. 4 30 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s _— Duluth Imperial s....... Duluth Im cota Sees. Duluth Imperial %s. Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s ae 4 20 | Half bbls, 1,200 count ....... PIPES LICORICE Condensed, 2 doz.. Condensed, 4 doz.. MATCH No. 200 Lookout, 144 bx..... 1 25 No. 500 Select Society, 144...4 00 No. 200 Williams Pe ect, 144. . = No. 2 Lily, 144 boxes....... No. 100 Park, 432 boxes..... 3 S No. 80 Poetry, 720 boxes... .4 00 Diamond Mateh Co.’s brands. No. 9 sul ca Ca 1 65 Anchor ROP eS. ..1 50 ees Ea Seidenberg & es “ “an Bh etieis 1 10 Boston Cream. : @ 8 |30gal. meat-tubs, each........ / Hlard & Co. Spire O° | BUSRES aioe cgnn-n---~-1 10] Boston Credit eines me Chass eo Ballerd rats: a = —- wide band oe 90 Mixed Gandy 2 u “a ‘ b. — os u :. se eee ree estat San ielme. mat 35 00 Splint, ‘i : . - Gompetita g 7% eo pokes s per doz............. t Havana 35@ 70 00) gniing’ sn a ai Milkpans G. Costello & C0. 2. 35@ 70 00 | Witlow Cl oe no: - @&% 48 ‘ seee wees . 6 25 | Conserv: @ 8% c, Or GF. 5... 4s , Si. Davis & Co... “/35@ 90 00 | Willow c 5 80 Bibb 22000000 ou) inane tee b e. Benedict & Co. 657g 70 00 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 ee ee $ 9 Fine Glazed Milkpans ~ | Hemmeter Cigar Co 70 00 No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50 lish Rock: @9 oak per ie 60 ZY Johnson Cigar C0.35@ No. rate...... 55| Eng @9 |x gal. flat orr = 6 G. J. Tice Sanborn... 50@175 00 | No. 3 Oval, i ae 25rd 65 Seen @9 | 7 gal. fiat or rd. bot. cach........ Book Ge 65@300 00 | No. 5 “= 250 momen Bon To rena 4 @10 Steenaien ~ a Manuel Garcia........ 85@175 00 | Humpty Diss by ee 2 = F ony a @10 ee 85 ; Neuva Mundo... — ee es = Made Cream @ivis | gal. fireproof, ball, ae 1 10 ie eet a! tl La Carolina... a a = No. 2; mee Pins 45 | Crystal Cream mix @13 1 ga ‘Sites - ' —— Tongeren’s — Round head, 5 gross box.... 62 Fancy—In Bulk Ber Got 45 r ~ Star — ne Cut — ell ee San Blas ‘Pala as i = = per doz.. goes en 7% —— 5 85 Lozenges, p! teeee to 5 lL per wal.:.......: Jaen i ce 58 ; 10 1 gal., > - eres ae Eelipse pateut ———- s Chee, Drea: | Bity Sealing Wax ; ; oo a 38 : Quix | Forest Giant......... 35 | Nolcom holder. 80 Eclipse Chocolates... cee ori ee eee coe seen i brush 0 @14 Ibs. in package, ; a — of 4 oo eager eo Gis 5 iii ideaiainaia oa es a Sweet ee and... ---1 40| Gum Drops.......... , + No. Oe a ee 45 The best plastering mate . Golden Top............. --58 | 2-hoop Standard.......... -1 60 | Moss Drops.. @10 No. Seen eh cia ees taree rr 6B i combining — .28 |3-hoop —— °°" dD Be Lemon Sours... : SS [aR bie..-. 2... es 110 | wor ein as ee a oe. ‘50 | Swire, Cable. boii 123 | Teak Orenea pars”. pie ene a etaee 3) | HARDNESS, TOUG i PAT nin Rose. oe ..38 | Cedar, ems 2 5 Ital. — Bonbons @12 Scene as sas peu : Candyiar seiieicmeten g Bae . r, : . b. pails. ........ a : Lee... sehr —— a = site be: 112 40 Molassde en 15 @u LAMP en of 6 doz. OFFICE AND WORKS: oe + v oe 2 75 b. pails.. i tect Pee 1 56 8 West Fulton and L. S. & M.S. RB. R. WO "2 Be a Apple Tee... 2! ie eee 1 z . Plug 36 -2 Mapoetig:. co @12 ee ere 2 48 ag ere << -1 40 Golden Waffies.. pease... saat ye gga ie es : "40 --1 40 Fancy—In 5 ‘bb. meee First Quality — 3 £ Steone ee Tubs Sours . rapped & lab. . ; ae 0.1.....6 00} Lemon @s0 . 0 Sun, crimp top, wrappe ie. 2 1B : Sweet Chunk........ ae 33 ieineh; Standard, Ne. a: - 00 Feppermint Drops. oo No. 1 — aa = eee lab. 3 15 MANUFACTURERS AN a a ‘tees » vw Ree inc een 24 h, Standard, : M. Choe. Drops No. 2 Sun , . Plaster n , a a 36 | 16-inc No. 1... -7 00) H. M. eee XXX Flint Calcined aster, Boyle cocci gg | aime abl, mee “6 00| HM. Choe, Li. Set we 25 Bug Compound, etc | Hiawatha... oceae — No.1 Fibre." - He : - =e o— po ropa... *- = Ne: 2 Sun, Sine heal ee ee 400 Mill and Warehouse Ds = Gea — Block. American Eagle. "33 | No.2 F eo -+..-7 20 | Lozenges, printed... Gop | No. 2 Sun, " Pearl Top a ids, Michigan. ak Navy.. ..43 | No.3 Fi oa Lozen; a P @60 ube 400n Grand Rapids, haa | Spear Head, 16 oz. "45 Wash ‘Bo .2 60 | Imperials.. . @80 | No.1 Sun, wrapped ani aan. 5 00 terprising agent wanted in every i | bbs Head. secs ..49 | Bronze Globe.. one : "2B — —. @55 | No. 2 Sun, wrapped jand labeled..... 510 | An en ‘Send for circular with references. > ee 39 — - gg --+++2 75 | Molasses Bar” @55 | No.2 hinge, bine: ge ulb,” for Globe Bt = | eee a eras w Se [Be eo a Toddy.,........ noes Double Poor pelea ape ‘ 2 Cream Buttons, » Pep. a ps.. aT at 3 Hietdiiek 227727" 27a | Single Peerless 2 BO] gon Wane vneeeess QO pie peniegn dt Sicoli mem smsenaaas! a Piper ee Heong egy --3 00 | Wintergreen Berrios 60 No. 1 Sun, nt bee a 1% : > |} Jelly Cake 2000000000008 parr Caramels Ne. eee ( i >. es st ‘Smoking 46 are wood Bowis 75 | No. a SS oe Rochester 3 50 Hand ee SS 8 ma a ‘ Pee ee = See there 75 | pounY Gace Roc 3 Hine (9s doz} “<= - 4 00 f be Pee es 1 . Bu pereiecin cece ~~ so | Fiat | _ ne arl es 17 in. Bu oe i — Oranges No. 2 Flint (80e SS ' a Great Navy... > (ea. 4 i | Florida Russett...... @ a ee ae : moO, Gi ‘at | Assorted ed gr tie” Fancy Navols. 2 50g 00 | No.2 Flint (one doz2222222722222.07 470 iank ack a ce = oe Bamboo, : 2 i 14% | Extra Choice....._.. ANS { . 2. 32 Common Straw. oe 2% | Late Valeneiaa..... ee ss susieaate a ee ha is LINE FOR SPRING TRADE. | : ey aw oe Fiber Manila, —— at Aa steeee 3 0023 25 | 1 g on with spout, per doz.. . 8 s : Gold Bleek. ste s ee we gag 2 gal. galv iron ate is ECORATED ASSORTMENT piget cote srnesrieays 35 ream secre cence) SE 3 gal. galv. iron doz. 4 85 D _. ee Ne Butcher’s Manila.. .. with spout. per ee » 10. chips. eee a = Wax Butter, short —. > ae 5 gal. galv. — vite inant per doz... 4 25 NO oa isa Duke’s — eeu ce 40 | Wax ae, - coun coe : 4 = ga. fron with faucet, per doz.. 7 2 Dozen FANCY HAND ss sha on ae Bu r. ‘AKE_ 29@s OU! 5 gal. Tilting cans................. eee * re Dip Twist......... ---39 Wax YEAST — a California 360s....... 8 2 : = ein a Nacefas.......... 9 00 Y, Dozen 1-PINT PITCHERS } Myrtle Navy .. paren or as “39 Magic, 5 — .. ee — 1 00 | California 300s....... Pump Cans ne % Dozen COMPORTIERS 4 | > Yum Yum, 130 a pecae 37 =| Sunlight, 3 os, ioe ae 50 Bananas 15 iaiiien 8 % LATTERS Yum Yum; 1 Ib. p nese 37 | Sunlight, 1% doz...... Medium bunches.... 1 50@1 5 gal. nr eggnog : 10 = Y Dozen LARGE P i Cream cone 25 | Yeast C 100/ Large bunches...... ee — —— to: 1 Dozen BREAD PLATES s 2 Corn Cake, 11D. is Foreign Dried . gal. Home ee: eee eee 9 50 1 Dozen OAT MEAL BOWLS Plow Oy, | eee . 35 5 gal. Pirate King...... a Peorlese, 3302." 136 Cal. pkg, 101. boxes G LANTERNS ae 2 Dozen DINNER PLATES | Peerless, eee a Extra hoice, 10 Ib. 9% No. o Tubular, s side lift........... sv 7 40 3 Dozen TEA PL chino z ee a os : i es ee ss 0. ee? : = BONE BIS i: a, 1 Ib. pails ....... t.. cy, 12 Ib. boxes. . No. 15 Tubular, in 7 50 1 Doze Col. Choice, 24% 02Z........... _ Ciscoes or Herrin $ a Fan z, lb. boxes... No. 1 Tubular, agony ac oe we 13 50 ¥% Dozen 1 %-PINT BOWLS # — Soaocees es @ 2» |Na = Dates” Ne: 3 Street lamp, each.............. “sn Dozen CAKE PLATES J TABLE § os Lobster. seteeeee g 7 Fards in 10 lb. boxes LANTERN GLOBES a _% Doren . | 3 LEA & 9 a dock 22220000 @ 7 Forts i om. 5 @ 5% No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. — = me 45 12 Dozen PERRINS Hadd ck i e ccce cece @ : _ cases, new. ee ‘ No.0 — evden ae; ee bbl... 2 - Price, including package, = SAUCE eae ee cece eee g 4 60 Ib. case: eee 4% Se Ee , Bull’s eye, cases 1 OZ. each $10.80. ; —_ 9 Smoked ‘White .--. 2... i ba 17 : The Original and Red iver Saline = g 2 eae Ivica ..... S Handsome decoration on - = PS Genuine t= sto geganapage @_16 | ‘\cmonas, Calif 16 @18 Hand painted, traced and edge Sy gee “E, Farthonware Meat Tubs| 33 Say agers § Lea & Perrin’s, large....... : > The Ca; —— = Brazile, cestesenee see o1% d ‘ cole gots. eee werden i Halford d, large” — ste ~ foie we: — Walnuts, an. pate 15, 20, 25, 30 gal. All sizes instock. We arier: this assortment can be sold — 15 wn , amen — oft she: » 20, 25, our . ro Halford: na Cees eee =- - ae aes @6 yi Ha. = ¢ a promptly. Prices are right. Send us y cents, and all _ large pieces = oon . os See. each. ss Salad Dressing, iargo.---. 4 55 =a CU 7% |Table Nute, cholze., ig W. S. & J. E. Graham to 25 cents ~ TWINE Cured Reto ; BSS) Rocans, Med Gio 0. Xd. C. Ua Sue oaaney oli ae ae, : : Caifekine eroen Nod @ 7% | Pecans, Jum oe A MONTH HA ) Calfskins cured No. 1. # ors seeped : 20-/ —— este for the mn, (a Flax, m ces -"g | Caitakins, Pelts : Oosuaey ts, » full sacks VERY Manufacturers’ and Jobbers’ Agents in > | ‘balis an on 1 10 | Chestnuts, per . H T \ Wool, Db new «ioe aT ‘Peanuts CAS LI C Crockery, Glassware, Ghind and Lomps, mf 2 t White 1 Wine, 40 grain.. Oe Pallow Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 2 coal oil 2 eae MONROE ST., ae Malt oaee a brand. il No. 1, ee eee g Pr Fancy, H. F:,; Suns saute 1G Fed wilt eo tho Lamp eae RAPIDS, MICH. | Pure Cide 1 No. 2 on Roasted ........... sed iliant Gas : | Pure Cider, Red Star.. Wool Choice, H. P., Extras Write ato “ Brillian Pure cider Robinson. . ;-11 | Washed, fine........ popes Cholee, H ea Brilliant Gas Lamp Co., 42 State, Cheage PU Aen POW Dice so| Uawached, fine... impia gpan-Shild No. in'w Gold = RORWIGT oo 52.2056 : 00 | Unwashed, medium. 16@18 Gold Dust, 5¢................ > Lo ~ ) * * f+ by ~ Fi > x af -= ‘ ie ™~™ Fs a Fr a reo - —- ; oO > @>> # ¥ ® Tt i ~ rt La I ol a iad MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 COZZENS A HOO-DOO. Why He Should Be Banished From Lan- : sing. A member of the Senate Judiciary .Committee recently made the following statement to a reporter of the Trades- man relating to the garnishment bill now before the Legislature : ‘If Cozzens had stayed away from Lansing, a satisfactory law would have been enacted weeks ago. As a matter of fact, Cozzens appears to have the un- fortunate faculty of queering everything he touches. Representative Nevins had enough votes pledged in the House to strike out the $8 arbitrary exemption, but Cozzens back-capped him by plac- ing a circular letter on the desk of every Representative, asserting that the bill was Satisfactory to him in its amended form. By thus ignoring the man who had introduced the bill and stayed by it like a father, Cozzens not only showed poor judgment and violated every rule of legislative procedure, but he demon- strated to the satisfaction of everyone that the enactment of a garnishment bill was a matter of personal - vanity with him and that when it came to a critical point he was willing to sacrifice the in- terests of the merchants he pretends to represent for the sake of gratifying his ambition to figure as a successful lobby- ist. In other words, it was a matter of no concern to him whether the measure engineered through the Legislature was better or worse than the present law, so long as he could claim the credit of securing its enactment. ‘Unfortunately, Cozzens was so in- discreet and shortsighted as to remark that, if he could get the measure through the House, he would then have plain sailing, because he ‘owned the Senate.’ This boast was repeated by him so fre- quently that it soon became public property, in consequence of which the Senators were compelled to resent the imputation by informing Cozzens that no exemption legislation would be con- sidered by the Senate if he persisted in remaining in Lansing, because his presence there would be an effectual menace to the measure. We were com- pelled to take this stand by reasons of the unpleasant personality of the man and his unfortunate faculty of hoo-doo- ing everything which he undertook to manage or direct. ‘*So far as the proposed amendment to the bill, granting an exemption to unmarried men, is concerned, I think we can eliminate that from the measure —unless Cozzens insists on hanging around the Legislature, in which event he must take the responsibility for what happens. ‘Of course, the proposed law is no improvement over the old law except from the standpoint of collection law- yers, justices and constables, who will profit by the legal turns and twists char- acteristic of the measure. ‘*If 1 am in the Legislature next ses- sion, and the merchants will send Coz- zens out of the State, I will undertake to secure the enactment of a garnish- ment law which will be such an im- provement over the present one-sided statute and the Cozzens jumble that they will never cease to be grateful to the Legislature for the relief thus afforded them—and it will not cost them a cent, either.’’ —__»0.>—___ Taking a Rest or Playing the Game to the End. **I have always felt,’’ said Mr. Car- negie in his open letter to the citizens of Pittsburg, ‘‘that old age should be we aS spent, not as the Scotch say, in ‘mak- ing mickle mair,’ but in making good use of what has been acquired, and I hope my friends of Pittsburg will ap-| prove of my action in retiring while still in full health and vigor, and I can reasonably expect many years of useful- ness in fields which have other than personal aims.’’ These words of Mr. Carnegie con- trast strikingly with what Roswell P. Flower said to a friend shortly before his death: ‘‘I don’t need to keep at work any longer,’’ he remarked, ‘‘J have all the money that I want and much more. I don’t care about making any more money simply for the sake of be- ing a richer man. There is no reason why I should not retire, except that I should not enjoy life if I were not in the thick of it. I could not get any satis- faction out of existence without playing the game tothe end.’’ No doubt Mr. Flower expressed the prevailing Ameri- can sentiment. There is no leisure class in this coun- try, asthere is in England. Most Amer- icans want to ‘‘die in the harness.’’ As Mr. Flower says, they would not be comfortable if they were not at work. So long as this feeling exists it is a fact to be reckoned with whether it be altogether approved or not. In many ways the community benefits from it. The great captains of industry are do- ing immense service to the country in their business. If Mr. Carnegie had retired twenty years ago steel would not have the part in modern life which it takes to-day. The majority of able men in active business are valuable contrib- utors to the material welfare of the country. But the State needs the serv- ice of men of ability in other than busi- ness relations. A man who retires at Mr. Carnegie’s age not only has time for travel, reading and reflection—the ‘‘making of the soul,’’ Mr. Carnegie calls it—but he can devote himself to public affairs. A class of able and public-spirited men of leisure would be invaluable to a community. The late Senator Morrill, of Vermont, furnished a striking illustration of this type of citizen. At the age of 38 he decided he had made enough money, and that he could retire from business and devote himself to gaining the education and culture for which he had not had leisure in his youth. Six years later he was elected to Congress and began the long and uninterrupted service of forty-four years which ended only at his death. It would not be necessary for the elderly man of leisure to go into party politics in order to be of service to his town or state, if such a course were dis- tasteful to him. He might be a force in his community for public improve- ments and for promoting the public welfare in many ways as a private citi- zen. He could serve with credit, as Charles Dudley Warner did, on park boards, or he could make his influence felt in municipal leagues. There is abundance of opportunity for a progres- sive man to make his declining years count for the good of his community while he is enjoying a well-earned rest from the strain of business. —_>22___ The Ironical Beggar. ‘I’m hungry, sir,’’ said the beggar. ‘“Won’t you give me enough to get a meal?’’ ‘‘Here, my good man,’’ said Mr. Pompus, ‘‘here’s a penny for you.”’ “‘Oh! thank you, sir. By the way, have you got a pepsin tablet about you? I always get dyspepsia when | overeat myself,’’ + Levels Hardware Pr 1ce Current Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks ee Adze Eye....................--$17 00..dis 70—10 aps Metals—Zinc G. D., full count, perm........... 2... 40 Hicks’ Waterproof, am 50 Gee pouee casks. |... 2... tcc sc ce 7% Musket, perm... oe ae 75 ee ee 8 Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60 Miscellaneous . Cartridges Bird Cages .............. 40 No. 22 short, perM........ 2.0.0.2... 2 50 | Pumps, Cistern...... ul 75&10 No. 22 long, per m............ Seas 3 00 | Screws, New List ....... 85 No. 32 short, per m.......... 2.0.22... 4 95 | Casters, Bed and Plate...... hee 50810810 No. 32 long, per m................. 2.2. 5 80| Dampers, American.............. aoe 50 No. 2 U. M. C., b io a 1 20 — ; . M. C., boxes 250, per m...... Ce No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, perm... 1 20| Entorprise, sel meaguring 22. OMS Gun Wads Pass Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M.C... lp Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, perm... ot REN s BOM. oe ee 60&10&10 Black edge, No. 7, per m. 5a eee g9 | Common, polished... 222... coe. 70 Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron New Rival—F: hot: “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 Drs. a oo ee — - “B”’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 75 No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. — ; 10 a 90 Planes 9 1 2 90 ; 04 - 5 2 1 ae 60 pone eo ie : = ; = Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy..........: 50 154 4% 16 4 10 3 00 | Bench, first quality.................206 oO 7 : : 12 2 = Nails 12 2 : : Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. a &% 1% : - = Steel nate, Nagel. 8... 2 65 (8 : a : Wire nails, base. 2 65 264 3% 1% 4 12 2.70 | 99 to 60 advance Base Discount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance... nh 5 Paper Shells—Not Loaded Se ee 10 No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . 72| 6 advance tt eeeeteeeees 20 No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64| 4 wine eS EO 30 Gunpowder Liter 45 Pp See a? Kegs, 25 Ibs., per keg....... .... 2... 4GO) Wied s@vanee. 3... 50 Y kegs, 12% lbs., per % keg.......... 2 25 | Casing 10 advance. ...................- 15 14 kegs, 634 Ibs., per 4 keg........... 1 25 | Casing 8 advance a 25 Shot — copa nase Ee ee ped oe oa ctewns coed = In sacks containing 25 Ibs. s ee Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 1 40 Boa : Pi. ace a = Augurs and Bits Barrel % advance....... 85 Re 60 Jennings genuine..................... 25 Jennings’ imitation.................... 50 | Iron and Tinned 50 Axes Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 First Quality, S. B. Bronze..... § 50 Roofing Plates First quaunts’ D. B. Bronze. . ee 10 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal aes 6 50 First Quality, S. B. S. Steel... ot 7 00 14x20 IX’ Charcoal, Naa 7 50 Nae Den a Barrows 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50 ie CE SS a al 12 00 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50 CAEMCH met = agg 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00 Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 18 00 2 A 60 Ro . eee eee ee ween ee ewes pes jet et + Sisal, inch and larger............... 1 ieee a Wel De $4 00 ign SBNd Paper Butts, Cast Eig Bece. 19 Oe aie 50 Cast Loose Pin, figured ...... ee 65 Sash Weights Wrougnt Narrow 60 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00 Chain Sheet Iron %in. 65-16 in. % in. % in. com. smooth. com. = = au 5 C. ... 4%e, _ aan ste recececececsee cones <2 8% ae. on an Nos. 18 to 21... 3 30 ct : Nos. 22 to 24..... 3 60 3 40 Crowbars Nos. 25 to 26......... i 3 70 3 50 Cast Steel, per Ib............00.... 22... Ce 3 80 3 60 Chisels All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches a aimed pees ek 65 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra. et Framing 65 Shovels and Spades —— aa 65 | First Grade, Doz..... ee cae cee ce 8 00 oe ne 65 Second Grade, Doz.................... 7 50 Elbows Solder Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............net ee 20 a Per dOZ.... 2.22... 20.28... 1 25 tus prices of the many other qualities of solder Adjustable...... 2.0... 00... cee. eee GIS 40810 in the market indicated by private brands vary Expansive Bits according to composition. Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 40 uares Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.......2.. 002. 25 | Steel and Iron...... = oe sec audi 70 Files—New List New American .................. 70&10 Tin—Melyn Grade Nicholson’s.................. 70 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal................ ... $ 8 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps....... de 70 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal..................005 8 50 Galvanized Iron OX14 FX, CRALCOAL .. ooo. ccs coos cass . 9 75 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 9g| Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. List 12 13 14 15 16, 17 Tin—Allaway Grade a 10x14 IC, Charcoal.......... ‘ 7 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal. . 7 00 Stanley Rule and Level Co. S.-........ 60810 | 10x14 IX, Charcoal.......... th 8 50 Glass 14x20 IX, ee . 8 50 Single Strength, by box.. Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 wes eke box. Boiler Size Tin Plate anes. 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, Hammers 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, per pound.. 10 Maydole & Co.’s, new list..............dis 3336 T Yerkes & Plumb’s.....................d1s 40810 Steel, Game.. .... pein ee eee 75 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... 30¢ list 70 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....._ 40810 Hinges Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3....................d18 60810] ton’s....... tare settee tees ceee eee 65 Hollow Ware Mouse, choker per doz............... 15 ‘ Mouse, delusion, pe. doz........ .... “ 1 25 Ra occ ea eo 50&10 ee ae ae ey 50&10 Wire Se 50810 | Bright Market......................0+ 60 Horse Nails Annealed Ee 60 Coppered Markof....... 2.0... nce. coon 50&10 Au Sable ateidls: tin'ae alu aia oalnG 4 dicin cbt’ *|% p ti. se . { tT. + | ~ | | | ¥ 7 -_— mT eo | # a es a mY 9 o> ~ - -——— a a _~ & 4 e _ ie LS ~ x , wy ~~ 2 Te a - P ~ = _ - me & » | r = a al | > *\% Ca a he * [ ' + «< | ee | t ¥ ~—_ * . | @ a a to Sa a 9 <> ~~ al - =, +Ht _ _ & 4 e L_ i+ = wv Cadillac Fine Cut and Plug THE BEST. Ask for it. MADE BY THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO C0. (fadgpencane AGAINST THE TRUST. See Quotations in Price Current. WORLD'S BEST > ( 5c. CIGAR. JOBBERS and G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. a Are you going to the Pan-American Exposition? The | Michigan Central is the short and direct route. "For particulars see M. C. Agents or write to 0. W. Ruggies, G.P. &T. A., Chicago J.S. Hall, D. P. A Detroit Roast Your Own Coffee ae 7 and make more profit than those who buy it roasted. That’s one reason why you should own a Perfection Coffee Roaster Will you let us tell you some more good reasons? A postal card will bring them. Milwaukee Gas Stove and Roaster Co. Milwaukee, Wis. MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- ident, J. H. HOPKINS, Ypsilanti; —, E. A. STOWF, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J TATMAN, Clare. Grand Bapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER KLapP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association President, E. MARKS; Secretaries, N. L. KoEnNIG 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. C. CLARK; ee. = P. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. K Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association President, M. W. TANNER; —* H. Mc- PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. Ho Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, 1tHOS T. BATES; Secretary, M. B. Houuy; Treasurer, C. A..-HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Pt. Harvns 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. Cupp1Hy; 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. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER- HOEKS. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAS. RouNDs; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, JOHN G. EBLE; Secretary, L. J. Katz; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. The Magic Hose Mender PATENTED. JAN 8, 1901 Ss KS Oe Kewrenres FIG. 2 The latest, best and only perfect hose mender on*the market. With each Magic Hose Mender we fur- nish six wood unions and six wire bands all securely packed in one box Sells at sight. Send for descriptive circulars or write your jobbers. The Magic Hose Mender Co., 20 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Travelers’ Time Tables. PERE MARQUETTE Railroad and Steamship Lines. Fast trains are operated from Grand Rapids to Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Saginaw, Bay City, Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Tray- 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. BM. f. MOELLER, G. P. A W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A. Rapids & Indiana Railway March 10, 1901. GRAN Going North. ex Su exSu exSu exSu Ly Gd Rapids........ 745a 210p 1045p 520p Ay. Coguine.......... 1120a 540p 210a 900p Ar. Traverse City.... 1130p 750p 416a ..... Ar, Petoskey... -..... 2 50p s = 5 35a Ar. Mackinaw City... 4 15p GGGa ...:. 35p Trains arrive from the an at 6:00 a m, 11:30 am, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m. Going South. ex Su ex Su Daily ex Su Daily Ly. G’d Rapids. 710a 150p 650p 1230p 1130p Ar. Kalamazoo. 850a 322p 835p 145p 100a Ar. Ft. Wayne..1210p 6 50p 4 To Cnicago At. Cinema G20p ..... Tim. Trains arrive from the south at 6:45am and — daily, 2:00pm, 9:45pm and 10:15pm except Sunday. Except Except Except MUSKEGON Sunday Sunday Sunday Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7 35am 2 05pm 5 40pm Ar. Muskegon........ 900am 3 20pm 7 00pm Sunday train leave Grand Rapids at 9:15am. Trains arrive from Muskegon at 9:30am, 1:30pm and 5:20pm except Sunday and 6: sopm Sunday only. CHICAGO TRAINS G. R. & I and Michigan Central. TO CHICAGO ae Daily Ly. G’d Rapids (Union aegt 1230pm 11 30pm Ar. Chicago (12th St. Station) 525pm 655am 12:30pm sake runs solid to Chicago with Pull- man buffet parlor car attached. 11:30pm train has through coach and Pullman sleeping car. i PROM CHICAGO noe Daily Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm . — Ar. G'd Rapids (Union depot) 10 15pm 5:15pm train runs solid to Grand setts vith Pullman buffet parlor car attached. 11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping car. Take G. R. & I. to Chicago 50 cents to Muskegon and Return Every Sunday et ae mee ee he PELOUZE POSTAL SCALES THE HANDSOMEST AND BEST mAdeE THEY TELL AT A GLANCE THE COST OF POSTAGE IN ae EDR eee ee ee) OT NsC er eC SRM CL eee ee “THEY SOON PAY FOR THEMSELVES IN STAMPS SAVED PELOUZE SCALE & MFG. Co., ere errs mt ate tty CHICAG iy : Tradesman Com aaa IMPORTANT Our Lowest and Latest Special Bargains Which are only a very few of the many hundred articles in our stock on which Merchants can save money by buying from us. Send for our Catalogue. It does the work of twenty high priced sales- men and saves you their hotel bills, salaries, ete. RE i Bushel Baskets Wire End ~*~ aa VN a Extra Strong Wood Butter Dishes Per set (in case lots)..... $0.62 Nai Per dozen....... .. 6-98.85 250 in a crate az 7 a. we, von Alarm Cloc a Two Hoop eee eee a High grade, nickel plated S \. 2 Ib., per erate... .. .... 47 veer nted one year \ ws Common Wood Pails 31D., per crate..-....... .57 Each * e y $0.54 i as a Per dozen............. $1.20 | 51b., per crate.......... 66 : \\ Ws . Diamond Reflector ee eee . Saginaw Double Globe Relief Iron Wringer Kitchen Side Lamp e e Washboard High grade, rubber rolls With No. 2 Sun Burner and Per dozen............. $2.25 ]| Warranted, each.......$1.58 | po aozen ees aes $1.80 1 iga ' : If you have mislaid our Catalogue, send for another. We guarantee satisfaction and prompt shipments. Send us your mail orders. Don’t wait for an agent. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. COLUMBIAN CIGAR COMPANY, Benton Harbor Mich. aS | Daudt Kinney & Levan SEALED Importers and Jobbers of TANGLEFOOT sit’ FLY PAPER ee | cae oes Furnishing Goods Manufactured by CATCHES THE GERM AS WELL AS THE FLY. TOLEDO, OHIO CLEVELAND, QHIO Sanitary. Used the world over. Good profit to sellers. . — Order from Jobbers. No Long Story Here. |... — TS Steel Mills, Steel Towers, ©¢). * A. B. KNOWLSON renee e e 9 Galvanized Pipe and Tubular Well Supplies. (ie i —Wholesale— Se Se \ ‘ : : CARS SN ae Portland Cement, Lime, Land Plaster, Stucco, Fire Brick, ie on eae ra _ff 1 AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL. PE A ost we oes er . / er oh eX Er i a = ae | ary x Fe) Py es aS ee nee l L Write for delivered prices. et a FA cue — ren Be OFFICE: COR. PEARL AND MONROE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, ADAMS & HART, Local Agents at Grand Rapids. Do you want to be on the safe side? | Bn” Tee KEES Crs SEAS CIS SEXeAS) 4 \ a orf If you do, abandon the old style methods of CASA saaxwa | handling your merchandise and be up to date with an up-to-date system of handling your PISSING SCORES merchandise in their money value. The Moneyweicut System checks all losses. Send for particulars of THe Majestic Moneyweicut Computinc SCALE with the new Near WeEIcHT Detector. Our scales are sold on easy monthly: payments. SGSiss SASSI ES INCAS} : a Y ' : c " m=SsSAss