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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1901.

Number 921

 

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

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

Books arranged with trade classification of names.
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who will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand
Rapids, May 1s to 21, 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
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sample leaf and particulars.

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References: State Bank of Michigan and Mich-
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Collector and Commercial Lawyer and
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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.
Getting the People.
3. Shoes That Lie.
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Hardware.
7. Paint Department.
Editorial.
The Price of Success.
How to Conduct a Shoe Department.
Village Improvement.
To Make a Crockery Department Pay.
Clothing.
Dry Goods.
Poultry.
Butter and Eggs.
The New York Market.
Paraftining Cheese.
Woman’s World.
Home Again.
Window Dressing.
Commercial Travelers.
Drugs and Chemicals.
Drug Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Proper Arrangement of the
Hardware Quotations.
32. Death of an Inventor.

15.
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THE ANCIENT BLACKSMITH.
According to the earliest historic ac-
count, Tubal-Cain, the first man who
worked in iron and brass, was a person
of so much importance that in the brief
record of the men and events of that
time his name and calling are given
special mention. He it was, doubtless,
who, in the times anterior to all Euro-
pean history, was deified by the prede-
cessors of the Romans under the name

of Vulcan or the Divine Blacksmith.

 

At any rate, the men who first made
for their people iron  and_ bronze
weapons, and other engines of war,
were among the most important person-
ages in the tribe. The chief business
of the primitive men was to slay the
animals which were required for food
and to defend themselves and families
from the attacks of powerful savage
beasts and from more savage men of
other tribes.

The first weapons were clubs torn
from the branches of trees, and prob-
ably shaped by burning off the ob-
jectionable projections and afterward
rubbing them down with fragments of
stone. A great step in progress was
made when flakes of flint were set in
staffs for use aS spears, or fixed to
handles were used as axes. The con-
struction of the rawhide sling, hurling
pebbles, and of the bow, throwing flint-
tipped arrows, was another great step.
When, however, men learned to forge
swords and axes out of metal, a degree
of advancement in the production of
what may be considered personal arms
reached a condition where they remained
for thousands of years, and, indeed, un-
til the invention of gun-powder, in com-
paratively modern times.

Through many hoary centuries the
worker in iron was engaged in making
swords and other weapons of war, and
he was needed in great numbers in
every country where the people were
warlike on one side, or compelled to
defend themselves on the other. There
is no wonder that in England, where
the islanders were compelled almost
constantly to defend themselves from

 

the Northern savages from Scotland,
from the Norwegian and Danish pirates,
from the invasions of the Saxons, of the
Romans, of the Normans and many
others, the name ‘‘Smith,’’ derived
from the trade carried on by the many
who practiced it, became the common-
est of all the patronymics in the coun-
try.

To-day, while the nations of the earth
are less warlike than formerly, there is
greater need than ever for the workers
in iron and brass, and although not a
few of them are engaged in making
muskets and cannon, by far the very
greatest numbers are employed in work-
ing for the arts of peace. The worker
in metals to-day is the possessor of
something more- than  hand-skill.
Science is his handmaid, and at every
turn she aids him with improved proc-
esses and wonderful discoveries, so that
he is almost a magician, his proper title
being that of mechanical engineer.

It is the mechanical engineer that, by
means of most ingenious and wonder-
working machinery, has multiplie@ the
labor of every man by six, and of every
horse by sixty. He has changed the
speed of the plodding mule team to that
of 30 miles or 60 miles an hour, and has
shortened the voyage of the transoceanic
ship by two-thirds, by reason of in-
creasing its speed.

To-day everything in the way of
manufacturing is done by machinery,
and the result is that human toil has
been vastly decreased, wages have risen
the prices of necessaries been reduced,
so that there never has been a time
when the people who work and are paid
for their labor could live in as much
comfort and under such pleasing condi-
tions, while schools are provided for
the children, and cheap but excellent
diversions are in reach of the elders.

It should be remembered that this
vast industrial progress has been ac-
complished in the period of the Nine-
teenth Century, and in the latter part
of it. In the year 1800 there was not a
locomotive or a railroad for public serv-
ice in the world. To-day the United
States alone, with half the mileage of
the world, possesses 200,000 miles, near-
ly, of rail and about 40,000 locomotives.
Then there was no telegraph; to-day
its wires span the continents and carry
messages along the bed of every ocean,
binding the continents as with nerves
of steel. Over three million miles of
wire transmit some four hundred mil-
lions of messages annually, giving to
the world news of every important
event occurring in all quarters of the
earth.

This wonderful system of mechanical
appliance, aided by the wonderful dis-
coveries of physical science,is what has
resulted from the original labors of
that most ancient blacksmith, Tubal-
Cain.

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When the girl meets the rejected
suitor who swore he would die without
her and finds him looking sleek and
comfortable she never forgives him.

The man who attends strictly to his
own business has a good steady job.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

In many regards the panic in Wall
Street last week was different from any
ever known in this country. The breaks
in the values of stocks in preceding
panics have been the culmination of
boom conditions, but there was not the
rapid advance in prices to abnormally
high figures at the last which character-
ized this one. It seems in this case
that there was an accidental corner in
the stocks of one of the gigantic rail-
way systems caused by the effort of
financiers to get control for purposes of
combination. Thus being purely a spec-
ulative panic, there is less effect on the
financial world and on industries than
has ever been known from a severe
Wall Street flurry. Indeed, it would
seem now as though the effect was like-
ly to be really beneficial on general
industry in that the mania for specula-
tion of recent weeks has diverted much
money and attention from legitimate
business. The consequence of the
squeeze will be to keep many out of the
Street and funds will seek investment
elsewhere. Share trading starts out
this week a little more than a third in
volume of the days preceding the
panic, but even this is a fair showing
as compared with the amount not many
months ago. Such a trade is phenom-
enal in the week succeeding a panic.

On May | all previous records of pig
iron production were surpassed, the
weekly capacity of furnaces in blast be-
ing over 300,000 tons, for the first time
in the country’s history. If this output,
at the rate of 15,600,000 tons yearly,
was accompanied by accumulation of
stocks there would be reason for alarm,
but, on the contrary, there has been a
steady decrease, amounting to 116,067
tons since the year opened; whereas,
in the same four months of Igoo, with
a slightly smaller output, furnace stocks
rose 112,831 tons. It is this wonderful
demand that sustains prices and gives
little reason to anticipate such a collapse
as occurred a year ago. Finished steel
mills are from two to three months _be-
hind orders and, while the market is
more quiet, the tone continues firm. A
matter likely to have a far greater dis-
turbing influence on this industry than
the Wall Street flurry is the projected
strike of the machinists of the country.

The most serious problem the cotton
goods makers have to contend with is
the fact that they have been paying too
much for their staple and so can not sell
goods on the new level of the decline.
This is causing the idleness of many
spindles as there is poor show for antic-
ipating future needs under such condi-
tions. Wool manufacture, on the other
hand, is depressed by the cheapness of
wool and the prospect of a heavy clip
next month. Boots and shoes exceed
all previous shipments from the East
and the shops report good contracts.

 

It is well to paddle your own canoe,
and it is also well to paddle the gable
end of your boy’s trousers occasionally,
if you would make a man of him.

 

 

Some men seem to have been made
out of dust that had gravel in it,

 

    

2

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Getting the People

Vim as an Elementin Bringing and Hold-
ing Custom.

Vim means enthusiasm, but it means
something more. There is in its mean-
ing more of the staying quality than is
found in the longer word. There are in
it more of energy and more of earnest-
ness and, perhaps, less of the hurrah
boys.

The dealer who tries to sell his goods
by advertising to-day must be in
earnest. He must believe in himself
and in his goods.

There are dealers who think they can
sell almost anything by making enough
noise about it. It is coming to be rec-
ognized that the auctioneer’s operations
are essentially temporary. Noise and
hurrah} may induce forced sales, but
they will not build up trade.

The merchant must believe in himself
and in his goods. The man who can
not buy goods right can not sell goods.
To believe in his goods a man must be
able to buy them right.

With goods bought right and a good
fair margin added for profit a man can
believe in himself. It too often oc-
curs that one is timid on these points.
He fears that his competitor has some
advantage over him in buying or that
he will sell on a smaller margin. The
apprehended danger that he is being
beaten on these points takes all the vim
out of him and his timidity is manifest
in all his work.

A man of good common sense who
pays his bills can buy right. It is not
that he must buy below any of his com-
petitors, nor need he fear that under
similar conditions any of them can far
outbuy him; the thing is to have the
prices right, and if they are a little
higher in some cases it is nothing to
frighten one—there is more often oc-
casion to fear the effects of too low
prices.

The advertiser who believes in him-
self and in his goods can give his work
the ring of conviction. This sort of vim
counts. It is an unconscious quality—
the product of conditions. It can not
be simulated.

But it can be lost unconsciously, even
when there is no reason for its loss. A
fit of the blues—all are of variable de-
grees of buoyancy of temperament—
may make the bravest and most ener-
getic too timid for good work. The
remedy is simple—rest and get on your
feet again and then do your work.

The spirit of sincerity and indomi-
table energy will create the best style for
advertising. In such work there are
no uncertainties, no ifs, no expressions
of a desire to do something. There is
no ‘‘we have on hand and are very anx-
ious to sell’’ or even ‘‘we are going to
sell,’’ but ‘‘we are selling and you want
it.”

Vim is contagious. Its germs are
conveyed in the wording of an adver-
tisement; and, unlike many other con-
tagions, it is attractive. Customers
like the spirit of assurance, of candid
conviction and no attractions offered by
the indolent can serve to neutralize this
sort of contagion.

I must repeat, it can not be simu-
lated. Vim is the product of a belief
in one’s self and a belief in one’s busi-
ness. This, with the exercise of dili-
gent common sense, will assure success
under any reasonable conditions, and
the man not under such conditions can

not make a change too soon.
* * *

The Coy Mercantile Co. occupies a

 

 

 

 

SENSIBLE = STYLISH SHOES!

 

 

You've read and heard of us before.

is a maxim that if you want a good shoe,

cash trade.

 

We want you to hear from us agait\.
Scores of customers have tried and tested our SHOES for years until now, it
“Get it at Coy's.”
do business one way and that is strictly on the square.
trade and we promise to make it pay you to buy your shoes of us.
and conditions of men, women, boys and girls find their feet easily fitted with us
with good durable stylish shoes that are money savers.
one of the largest shoe lines north of Traverse City. Some pretty lines of
Women’s Toe Slippers, Walking Shoes and Oxfords at $1.00, $1.25 and $1.35.
Buy your Shoes at the Busy Big White Store on the Corner.

We know how to
We want your shoe
All kinds

We are now showing

Premiums for

 

 

CHAS. H. COY. Manager.

ALDEN,

 

COY MERCANTILE CO., LTD.

MICH

 

 

 

IT IS NOW FULLY TIME
TO FIGURE ON

Brick, Lime, Cement,

Sash and Doors,
Nails, Paints, Oils, Varnishes
Barbed and Plain Wire,

Cook Stoves, Ranges,

Bicycles, Pumps,
Eavetroughing, Plumbing, &c.

We will say that we are here to figure
on these lines and to SEL. the goods.

YOURS FOR BUSINESS.

W A. LOVEDAY & CO.

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TINNER.

Bring in your work and try us tor skill and price.

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CLARK
BROS.

Have just received
their new line of

WALL
PAPER

Which is

FINE IN QUALITY
RIGHT IN PRICE.
They will also have
about April 10th,
their new linc of

Carpets, Rugs
and Curtains.

Watch for them.
Respectfully yours,

Clark Bros,

 

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YOU OWE US NOTHING |

For doing right, The druggist who desires to
grow in the confidence of his neighbors bas no 4
other safe and sure way open to him. We sim-

ply solicit your patronage on the grounds of
pure drugs, rightly handled, at fair prices. Oo
this basis we have grown; on this hasis we will
coatinue to grow. We are in business to make
rioney, but know fu!l well that we must earn
confidence before we can get your patron-

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Your
Tooth Brush?

When it wesrs oot we want
to sell you the next one,
and if we don’t give you
the best tooth brush for
your money you can come
back and get a new one.
We've got them with hard
bristles ot soft bristles or
in between—just as your
teeth need them. We've
tooth preperations, too-
washes, pastes, soaps and.
powders,

 

 

-E.M.KENNEDY,

large space and the printer has tried to
make his work ‘effective, but not with
the most abundant success.
place, the writer gives him too much
matter and much of it is evidently in-
tended to fill space. There are too much
‘‘we want’’ in the writing and too
‘many independent, unrelated proposi-
tions. The platitude as to ‘‘doing busi-
ness on the square’’ is too general and
conventional to sell shoes. There is
material enough for a good advertise-
ment, but it must be heroically pruned
and trained into symmetry. Premiums
for cash trade ought not to be a_neces-
sary expedient. Your customers want
shoes, not premiums. The printer
should have made the upper panel wider
and the type plain and possibly a little
larger. The solid paragraph should
have been shorter and broken by moder-
ate display in the center. The name in
the lower panel should have been a
plain letter and the name of the mana-
ger larger. The address should have
been spaced nearer together and in more
extended letter.

W. A. Loveday & Co. write a live
hardware advertisement, and the printer
has done his work fairly well. It would
better accord with the present style to
omit the points at the ends of the dis-
play lines. I do not like a complimen-
tary address in closing an advertise-
ment, even if it has ‘‘business’’ in it.
Omitting the line before the ‘name
would strengthen the ———- ma-
terially.

J. H. Edwards & Stn write a fairly
good announcement of their tinning de-
partment, but the printer should not
have changed the style of type in ‘‘ Tin-
ner.’’ ‘‘Hardware’’ and the address
should have been added at the bottom.

Maus’ Drug Store writes a dignified,
argumentative advertisement which has
elements of value. The printer’s work
would be improved by using a letter at
the top that is not so black and a signa-
ture not quite so crazy.

Clark Bros. write a good businesslike
advertisement, but, to my notion, less
styles of type would improve it. 1
should have given more of the space and
display to wall paper, giving reference
to rugs and carpets below the signa-
ture. The space used for ‘‘Respect-
fully yours’’ would afford room below
for the address, which is desirable.

E. M. Kennedy, the Kalamazoo drug-
gist, writes an advertisement in the
conversational style which is so popular
nowadays in speaking and writing. The
wording is good and the announcement
ought to sell tooth brushes—and other
things as well in which there is more
money for the druggist. His printer
should have given him a letter not so
black at the top and plainer, and the
signature should have been less adapted
to hardware or the blacksmith. ‘‘ Prep-
arations’’ should not have been mis-
spelled. Correct spelling is especially
essential in this style of writing

Only a Glimpse.

Detective—Did you see a man and
woman driving past here in a dog-cart
about an hour ago?

Mrs. Biank—Yes.

“Ah, we're getting on the track of
them! What kind of a horse was it?

‘“They were driving so fast I didn’t
notice that. But the woman had ona
Scotch mohair and wool jacket of tur-
quoise blue, last year’s style with
stitched lines, a whit: pique skirt with
deep, circular flounce, a satin straw hat,
tilted and rather flat, trimmed with
hydrangeas and loops of pale blue surah
and her hair was done up pompadour.

 

That’s all I had time to see.

In the first °

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

3

 

 

Shoes That Lie.

When it comes to that critical stage
in the retailing of footwear that the
legitimate retailer has-not only to com-
pete with the shoe manufacturer, but
with tricky schemes as well, it is time
that somebody said something.

Manufacturers who have invaded the
field of the legitimate retailer have
neglected no opportunity to educate
shoewearers in regard to the economical
desirability of dealing directly with the
maker. The argument reads well, but
the sensible person is slow to under-
stand how the manufacturer can con-
duct a retail establishment any more
economically than a dealer can.

The only difference, if there is any
difference at all, is the slight profit per
pair that the manufacturer receives from
the retailer who buys his goods. In
these days of fierce competition this
profit on a single pair of shoes doesn’t
amount to much, and the manufacturer
who is endeavoring to fool the public
knows it as well as the other manufac-

 

turer who is selling shoes to the re-
tailer.

Where the manufacturer-retailer really
has an advantage over the plain every-
day retailer is in his ability to produce
a handsome line of samples for his dis-
play windows and another line for his
cartons. The samples in the window
are ‘supposed to represent the goods on
the shelves. Here is where they are
misrepresenting things. Here is where
the shoes would have caused the late
Mr. Ananias to have been uncertain as
to his rights as a champion liar. But
this is said to be so. It is a sample of
the kind of competition that the new
century retail shoe dealers are com-
pelled to meet. It is to be hoped that
there can be some way of meeting this
competition without ‘‘fighting fire with
fire.’ The average shoe dealer does
not pose as a Saint, but there are some
things he would not do and could not
do. This sample business is one of
these things.

And yet, looking the matter squarely

 

in the face, one is forced to admit the
necessity of doing something. The
manufacturers have cut into the retailers’
business during the past few years, and
it is only from a lack of some method
of retaliating that the long suffering
retailers have been silent. Some day
the worm will turn, and the manufac-
turer who is flirting with two ends of
the industry, to the shoe dealers’ dis-
comfort, will feel like standing from

under.
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Calfskins More Closely Competed for Than

Formerly.
‘The season for the annual take off is
at hand,’’ says a dealer in green calf-

skins, ‘‘and while we can not look for
any except what are termed dairy or
light skins for a month or more, I do
not see any indication of even a normal
supply. I do not argue that fewer skins
will be taken off, but since the intro-
duction of the many patent tannages
the use of calfskin leather has material-
ly increased. The methods of distribu-

 

tion have radically changed. Formerly
there were many collectors and country
butchers who sent their skins to the
large city markets, where they were
sold by commission dealers to the tan-
neries. It was a matter of common oc-
currence for salters to carry enormous
packets in their cellars during the last
months. During the succeeding years
it became the custom to sell them as
they came in and let the tanners carry
them in warm weather. Now it is the
custom for large tanners to employ trav-
eling buyers, who invade every smali
country village and pick up the calf-
skins, and comparatively few are mar-
keted as they formerly were. There are
as many calfskins as ever, but they are
more closely competed for.’’

When a man reaches that point where
he is satisfied with himself, the devil
puts another gridiron on the fire.

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‘‘Helpful Hints’’ booklet.

little while.’’

They cost you nothing and

tomers.

No. H 900. Women’s Dongola, Foxed
Lace, McKay Sewed

No. H 3625. Men’s Velour Calf, % D. $2 35

This is the front cover of our first

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booklets, which we publish ‘‘every

do not confine them to our cus-

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pointers, write us to put your
name on this ‘‘Helpful Hints’’
list.

 

$1.35

unique.

20th Century
Methods

Should interest you. Our position in the shoe field is positively
We manufacture every shoe we sell and ship direct from
our factory, here in the center of population. We help our custom-
ers sell their goods, rendering them valuable service without charge.

 

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The Western ShoeBuilders
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for immediate shipment.
Send for sample dozens.

Keep in touch with the most progressive people in the trade.
Besides manufacturing all lines of shoes, we keep them in stock

No. H 6020.

== 1903. Girls’ Dongola, Wedge Heel, %

Have these in both lace and button, also in
Kangaroo calf.

 

The trade-mark of our famous “Red
School House”’ shoe is known the coun-
try over as a guaranty of merit.

The merchant who handles this line
gets the school trade of the town.

Red School House Shoe.

Lace, Paris Toe, Tip
Se $0.

   
   
     
   
   
   
   
  
   
     
     

Trade-Mark.

Our line of women’s shoes at $2.00 and
$1.35 are especially strong.

Our $2.25 shoes for men sell readily at
$3.50.

 

Men’s Oil Grain Creole,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Chesaning—E. M. Foster has sold his
bazaar stock to E. E. Judd.

Wallin—King Bros. have purchased
the grocery stock of F. N. Jones.

Lake Linden—Dr. A. F. Fischer has
opened a drug store at this place.

Coloma—Thomas Gibbons is closing
out his general merchandise stock.

Belleville—Geo, C. Coleman has pur-
chased the harness stock of Isaac Crane.

Cheboygan-*Sinclair & Mathews have
sold their dry goods stock to Glover &
Co.

New Buffalo—F. L. Schrader has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Frank A.
Sieb.

Shepherd—J. S. Bicknell, dealer in
dry goods and clothing, has removed to
Clare.

Benton Harbor—Wenman Bros. have
purchased the grocery stock of Chas. S.
Hopkins.

Holt—Fred Nickel is succeeded in the
foundry and vehicle business by Chris.
Korkoski.

Sault Ste. Marie—Arthur G. Bailey
has opened the Bailey pharmacy in the
Goetz block.

Detroit—Chas. F. Kimball, grocer
and meat dealer, has sold out to Mrs.
M. O’Connor.

Dowagiac—Hamblin & Moulthrop
succeed Cooley & Hamblin in the gro-
cery business.

Lake Linden—Alfred Krueger has
engaged in the grocery and _ confec-
tionery business.

Eau Claire—Smith & Phillips suc-
ceed Lester G. Smith in the grocery and
crockery business.

Port Huron—Emory Richards has
opened a grocery store at the corner of
Howard and Ninth streets.

Elmira—Benj. Scott has added a line
of hardware and agricultural imple-
ments to his grocery business.

Flint—Levi Brown & Son is the style
of the firm which succeeds Brown Bros.
in the grocery and fish business.

Detroit—Jos. D. Culnan has taken a
partner in his grocery business under
the style of Culnan & Cheseman.

South Lake Linden—Joseph Weis has
opened a grocery and_ confectionery
store in the new building erected for
him.

Wolverine—H. and S. Cook have
purchased the Burnham, Stoepel &
Co. general stock and are continuing
the business.

Moline—E. C. Nevins has purchased
the drug stock of E. N. Bates and will
remove it to the new building now in
process of construction.

Red Jacket—Arnold A. Miller has
opened a meat market in the Hennes
building. He was formerly manager of
L. Hennes & Co.’s Calumet store.

Flint—Articles of association. have
been filed by Howard Hughes, I. A.
Hopkins and James E. Leete to carry
on a drug business for the next five
years.

Traverse City—Asher & Co. have
opened their new Fair store in the
Loeding building. They will carry a
line of crockery, glassware and bazaar
goods.

Laurium—Louis Labby and George
Daume have formed a copartnership
and purchased the meat market of
Mathias Sailer. The new firm is known
as Labby & Daume.

Ashley—D. W. C. Tiffany and N. B.
Bowker have formed a copartnership,
under the style of Tiffany & Bowker, to

 

 

 

continue the furniture, undertaking,
hardware and implement business of
Mr. Tiffany.

Hastings—S. E. Phillips, for many
years connected with the business inter-
ests of this place, has engaged in the
flour and feed business in his new loca-
tion at Chelan, Wash.

Big Rapids—H. Wilinski has re-
moved his clothing stock from Saginaw
to this place and will locate in the
brick block of Darrah Bros. & Co. on
North Michigan avenue. ;

Mancelona—J. M. Flanagan has
moved his stock of dry goods, boots
and shoes and furnishing goods into
the store adjacent to his former loca-
tion He has added a line of furniture.

Saginaw—Ladd Bros. have leased the
store building at 116 South Hamilton
street and will engage in the purchase
of cheese. Last season they were in
charge of the cheese department of the
Saginaw Produce & Cold Storage Co.

Newberry—A copartnership has been
formed between Andrew Westeen and
J. A. Shattuck to continue the general
merchandise business of the latter, who
is desirous of retiring from active busi-
ness life. Mr. Westeen will assume
the management of the business.

Grant—Jorgensen & Hemingsen, who
uttered a $2,000 chattel mortgage to the
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. and_ other
creditors three or four vears ago, have
liquidated the indebtedness and secured
a discharge of the mortgage at the hands
of the trustee.

Pentwater—F. W. Fincher, on ac-
count of poor health, has retired from
the active management of the Grange
store, which will hereafter be under the
supervision of J. E. Gamble. Mr.
Fincher will, for a time, have charge of
the machinery and farm implement
stock.

Petoskey—On July 1 the Brackett
Hardware Co. will be changed from a
limited copartnership to a joint stock
company. The capital now invested
by the copartners will remain in the
form of stock and an equal amount of
new stock will be issued,so as to double
the working capital and-capacity of the
concern.

Evart—V. E. Lacy has disposed of
the brick block occupied by the mer-
cantile firm of Davy & Co. and the drug
and stationery stock of G. N. Bruce.
Davy & Co. have become owners of the
premises occupied by them, 44x132 feet,
facing on Seventh street and occupied
by their grocery department. Mr.
Bruce has purchased the corner store,
22x100 feet, occupied by him as a drug
store.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Detroit Table Manu-
facturing Co. has been organized with a
capital stock of $5,000.

Litchfield—The Litchfield Butter &
Cheese factory has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $25,000,

Jackson—The Granger-Hayden Car-
riage Co. succeeds the Collen-Becker
Carriage Manufacturing Co.

Fenton—The capital stock of the De-
troit Portland Cement Co. has been in-
creased from $5,000 to $1,000, 000,

Elk Rapids—Henry Ogletree, of Cen-
tral Lake, has engaged in the cigar
manufacturing business at this place.

Detroit—The trial of the suits of the
Fred W. Wolff Co. against the Detroit
Sugar Co. and the Oakland Sugar Mill
Co., in the United States Circuit Court,
ended May 14 in a verdict for plaintiffs
for $29,627.19. Plaintiffs supplied a
quantity of machinery to equip a beet

 

sugar mill and defendants refused to
pay, alleging that the machinery was
defective.

Lansing—Arrangements have been
completed by the Lansing Business
Men’s Association whereby a factory
for the manufacture of a patent plow
point will be established on the Im-
provement Company’s addition in this
city. Ground will be broken for the
new factory this week. Charles Keith
and Walter Pratt are the principal
stockholders in the new company. The
company will manufacture a patent
plow point for Jerome B. Wilson, who
will receive a royalty.

——____o-0- 2.
Trying to Get Away From the Credit Sys-
tem.

Calumet, May 11-—Several of the
largest merchants doing mercantile
business in Calumet on the credit sys-
tem for many years past are now seri-
ously considering the advisability of
changing to the cash system, and it is
probable that one or more of them will
make the change in the very near fu-
ture. There are few towns in the coun-
try where business is conducted along
the lines it is in Calumet and where the
credit system has secured such a hold
on the people and on the business men.
To break away from it entirely would
be next to an impossibility in Calumet.

The system is an outgrowth of the
early days of mining in the copper
country, the mining company store and
the plan of monthly payment of em-
ployes of the mine being in a degree
responsible for it. In the early days,
when stores were few and far between,
the storekeeper was pretty much ofa
banker as well as merchant and every
store was a department store on a small
scale. The city has never outgrown this
entirely. The credit system of doing
business fastened itself on the people
here and hundreds of people who get
their income once a month pay their
bills once a month and have lived on
that plan for so long that it would be
utterly impossible for them to break
away from it. In fact, the great major-
ity of people in the city do business ex-
actly on that plan. There are at present
very few, if any, business houses in the
city who do a strictly cash business.
There are many who profess to do so,
but it is doubtful if there are more than
an exceptional one or two who do not
do some credit business, as they really
can not help it and keep all their trade.

The greatest trouble with the credit
business has been the dead-beats, as it
did not require much engineering for
any man to get credit at a local store
and then beat the proprietor out of more
or less money. Notwithstanding the fact
that many of the managers used their
best efforts to prevent such things, it
was practically an impossibility to
prevent more or less of this class of
trade being forced on them. Neverthe-

less, it is stated by well-known business:

men that the credit system will live
and flourish in Calumet as long as there
is a town and that it can never be elim-
inated from business in this city. Sev-
eral of the big firms here are planning
on going on a cash basis sometime this
summer, but it is doubtful if they will
make it a success.
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If a man is big and fat and able to
keep his mouth shut, he can bluff nearly
anybody.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.
Saranac—Ernest Barber, who has been
for some time clerk in A. W. Burnett’s
drug store, has secured a more lucra-
tive situation in a drug store at Kala-
mazoo,

Traverse City—James Brace, of Ne-
waygo, has taken a position in the drug
store of James G. Johnson.

Belding—Fred P. Smith, ex-city clerk
of Belding, has been’ transferred from
Green Bay to Appleton, Wis., by the
Continental Clothing Co., with which
concern he is engaged, giving hima
better position and an advance in sal-
ary.
i ee Delong, salesman at
C. B. Bailey’s general store, and Miss
Jessie Schutts, of Lakeview, were re-
cently united in marriage.

Marshall—Herman Zanger has taken
a position with the dry goods firm of J.
P. Huckeaslein & Co., in Detroit.

Durand—Miss Mae Hoffman has
taken a position in C. Minto’s store, as
book-keeper.

Bay City—F. H. Beckwith, formerly
with the Bay City Cash Dry Goods Co.,
has taken a position with Jay Thomp-
son & Co., having charge of the dress
goods and silk department.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. G. W. Cate has
resigned her position in the cloak de-
partment of Flexner Brothers and Miss
Agnes Owens has been employed to
succeed her.

St. Joseph—C. D. Pease, who has
been employed as clerk in Pound's dry
goods store, has resigned his position
and taken a similar one atC. C.&
Chester C. Sweet’s hardware store.

Howard City—Joseph Taylor has re-
signed his position as salesman in Crit-
tenden & Co.’s grocery store to accept
a similar position with Bradley & King,

———_»>2+>—___-

Thanks to the energy and aggressive-
ness of Representative Schumaker, the
merchants of Michigan are likely to
have ample protection from itinerant
and fly-by-night merchants, as _ such
peddlers will be put out of business, as
they will be required to make a deposit
of $500 with the Secretary of State, se-
cure a special license costing $25 and
also obtain a local license, the cost of
which will be graded according to the
value of the stock based on the exist-
ing asseSsment rate. Provision is also
made for fly-by-night merchants who
carry on bankrupt and fire sales, as they
will have to comply with the same con-
ditions as they wili be required to make
a Sworn statement as to where they pro-
cured the goods.

——_~>2.—__
For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades
and prices, call Visner, both phones.

 

 

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you do, and are looking for some one to write
them, or if you have any other kind of
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work is neat and accurate; my rates reasonable.
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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Produce Market.

‘Apples—Ben Davis are steady at $3.75
per bbl. The prospect for apples is far
above the average at this season. Gen-
erally there is a decline in condition
to be noted at this time, but the past
winter was so mild all over the country
that very little injury was done. Ac-
cording to a recently compiled table the
condition is about 94 everywhere. In
some states it is 100, which is unusual.
Peaches are 90 or over everywhere ex-
cept in California and Oregon, where
they are 67 and 77 respectively.

Asparagus—Home grown commands
soc per doz.

Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@
1.75 per bunch, according to size.

Beans—The market is gradually
working downward. Local dealers hold
handpicked at $1.75 in carlots and $1.80
in bag lots.

Beets—$1 per bbl.

Blackberries—All through the North-
west have been badly winter killed.
In Michigan the black and red rasp-
berries are an ordinary crop, and in
some sections slightly above the aver-

 

 

age.

apaieet Sprouts—Are attracting con-
siderable attention among growers in
the vicinity of New York. In some sec-
tions of Long Island the acreage has
been doubled within the past two or
three years, but the yield has been ab-
saateed by New York buyers without any
material reduction in price. A good
many are canned also, which has es-
tablished a still stronger demand for
them.

Butter—Factory creamery is steady at
18c. Receipts of dairy grades have in-
creased in volume and improved in
quality. Fancy commands I5c, choice
ranges from 12@14c and packing stock
moves readily on the basis of 1o@IIc.

Cabbage—Southern commands $2.25@
3.50 per crate, according to size.

Celery—Florida stock is in fair de-
nand at 75c per doz. bunches.

Cranberries—Only a few barrels are
left, and those are working out slowly
at nominal prices.

Cucumbers—Home grown command
$1 per doz. Southern fetch 85@goc.

Eggs—Local dealers market their re-
ceipts on the basis of 11c as fast as
they come in. Current receipts are
breaking the records, and it looks as
though the May crop would be larger
than ever known before. The storage
warehouses at Chicago continue to put
in eggs, and there are fully 35 per
cent. more in now than was ever known
at this season of the year. A conserva-
tive estimate is there are more than
400,000 cases of eggs in Chicago coolers.
The small dealers along South Water
street have thus far put up no eggs for
their customers. They usually have a
surpius in April and put these in the
coolers, but this year competition in the
country has been so strong, and Armour
and Swift have taken all the April eggs
offered, that the commission merchants
are bare of stock for next fall. They are
now candling as rapidly as they can get
the stock and are putting it in the cool-
ers. This will make late storage, and it
would surprise no one if the entire
capacity of the city is more than taxed
before the cooler eggs begin to move
next fall. All the Eastern coolers are
fuller than ever before. At Syracuse
no more eggs to speak of can be re-
ceived. Boston has 40 per cent. more
than at this time last year and New
York has 55 per cent. more than a year
ago. In the face of all this the move-
ment East is heavy. “The quality of
the eggs in the coolers is good, with a
larger percentage of April storage than
was ever known before.

Green Onions—ioc for Evergreens;
1sc for Silverskins.
Honey—Choice white is in large sup-
ply at 144@15c. Amber goes at 13@14c
and dark buckwheat is slow sale at 10@
12¢.

Lemons—Californias command $2.75
for 300s and 250s per box. Messinas
fetch $3.25 for choice and $3.50 for
fancy.

 

Lettuce—Hothouse stock is in good
demand, commanding ric for leaf.

Maple Sugar—1o@1o%c for genuine
and gc for imitation.

Maple Syrup—¢g1 per gal. for fancy.
Onions—Bermudas command $2.
per crate. Egyptians fetch $3.75 in

112 ib. sacks.

Oranges—Mediterranean sweets fetch
$3@3.50. Seedlings range from $2.25@3.

Parsley—4oc per doz.

Parsnips—$1.25 per bbl.

Peaches—A large number of peach
orchards in Delaware, having only
worthless or unpopular varieties, will
be destroyed this year, which will be a
gain to the market. Formerly the Dela-
ware peach was considered the most
perfect specimen of the peach obtain-
able, but gradually its prestige has de-
clined, until it has come to be of small
moment in the market. A co-operative
system of setting, pruning and culti-
vating is to be attempted in some lo-
calities this year, and results will be
carefully studied in an endeavor to win
back some of the fame of the Delaware
peach.

Pieplant—75c for 50 lb. box.

Pineapples—Are stronger and more
active for ripe and fancy stock. Poor
goods are barely salable at inside quo-
tations. General conditions are un-
changed except that the tendency is to-
ward increased activity and higher
prices.

Plants—Tomato and cabbage com-
mand 75c per box of 200. Pepper and
sweet potato fetch goc.

Potatoes—The market has rallied con-
siderably during the past week and is
stronger all along the line. Country
buyers are paying 28@32c. Local deal-
ers hold their supplies at 35c.

Poultry—Farmers are so busy putting
in their crops that they can not find
time to kill and dress poultry, in con-
sequence of which local dealers are
compelled to draw on Chicago for sup-
plies. They pay as follows for dressed :
Spring turkeys, 11@12c; old, 8@oc;
spring chickens, 11@12c; fowls, 10@
lic; spring ducks, 1134@12c—old not
wanted at any price; spring geese, 9@
1oc—old not wanted. For live poultry
local dealers pay as follows: Chick-
ens, 9@!oc; medium and small hens,
8@oc; large hens, 7@8c; young tur-
keys, 9@1oc; old turkeys, 8@g9c; young
ducks, 9%@tio%c; pigeons, 50@6oc
per doz.; squabs, $1@1.25 per doz. ;
broilers, 18@25c per lb.

Radishes—18@2oc per doz. bunches
for hothouse stock.

Seeds—Blue grass, $1.25@I.50; or-
chard 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—4o@5oc per bu.

Strawberries—$3.25 per case of 24
qts. for Mississippi stock. Arkansas
stock in 32 qt. cases commands $5.50.

Tomatoes—$1.75 per 4 basket crate.

Turnips—$1 per bbl.

Vegetable Oysters—2oc per doz.

Water Cress—soc per doz.

——___> 4.»

A. W. Stein, who is engaged in gen-
eral trade at 129 Butterworth avenue,
has purchased the dry goods and notion
stock of Geo. H. Kirtland, at 1159
South Division street. He will shortly
remove his general stock to the latter

location and open a department store.
—__~> 2». —___

Mrs, Peter Schuit has engaged in
the grocery business at 537 Ottawa
street. The Freeman Mercantile Co.
furnished the stock. Peter Schuit will

manage the business. ~°
—_—_—__»2+.___

T. D. Rose & Son, hardware dealers
at Moline, have added a line of grocer-
ies. The Freeman Mercantile Co. fur-
nished the stock.

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Mrs. R. Dutton has opened a grocery

store at Ottawa Beach. The Worden

Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
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A man is always wanting something
he can’t get and always getting some-
thing he does not want.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market is
slightly weaker. Refiners are general-
ly disinclined to pay 4 5-16c for 96 deg.
test centrifugals and what few sales were
made were at 4 9-32c, a decline of 1-32c.
Refiners were willing to take further
supplies at this price, but offerings
were decidedly limited, as, in view of
the strong statistical position, holders
remain firm, anticipating higher prices
in the near future. The refined market
is firm but unchanged. Buyers have
but small supplies on hand and, with
the early summer demand close at hand,
it is believed an active market will he
experienced, with a gradual rise in
prices, influenced by anticipated higher
prices for raw sugar. At the present
basis, the margin between the price of
raw and refined sugar is 1.oIc per
pound.

Canned Goods—There have been no
changes of interest to report in the gen-
eral canned goods market during the
past week. The market has moved
along quietly, and the quotations for all
kinds of spot goods underwent no
change. There is, however, a growing
interest manifested in the condition of
the growing crops. The demand for
spot peas is good, with a continued
scarcity of the better grades. The
tomato market was not so active last
week and the buyers are slow to take
hold of any large lots. There were
some very cheap tomatoes offered at
exceedingly low prices, which some-
what weakened the market, but full
prices are obtained for the full standard
goods. There is very little to say about
future tomatoes; there are not many
offered and there are not many buyers
in sight. Corn is very quiet, showing
that very little interest is taken in it.
However, full prices are obtained for
what few lots are sold. There is a
good demand for gallon apples at un-
changed prices. The first of the new
pineapples arrived in this country last
week. The quality of the fruit was ex-
cellent. The size is all that could be
desired and it is the opinion of the
pineapple packers that the cargoes now
afloat are the finest ever brought to this
country. Those which came in_ last
week were not for the packers, but were
sold to the retailers, the packers wait-
ing for larger receipts in anticipation
of lower prices. It is expected more
will be in within a few days, when the
active canning season will commence.
The peach crop continues to flourish
and it is now almost certain that there
will be a large crop of good quality.
The market for spot peaches is quiet—
remarkably so—and there are very few
selling. Sardines are very quiet, most
dealers having recently purchased heavy
supplies. Salmon is rather quiet. Stocks
are light and many predict an advance
soon, as the largest consumptive season
is yust beginning. There is notbing of
special interest to report of the remain-
der of the market. The orders, while
plentiful, are rather small for all lines.
The outlook for an active and prosper-
ous packing season never was _ brighter,
and the packers all seem to be eager to
get to work.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit mar-
ket generally shows rather more activity
and the consumptive demand is good.
Prunes are in quite good demand, 4o0-
50s, 60-70s and 9g0-I00s being most
wanted. The smaller sizes are in light
supply and are held firmer, particular-
ly go-10os, which are very scarce.
There is a fair business in loose mus-
catel raisins. The demand is_ prin-

 

cipally for the three crown grade.
Stocks of loose raisins are light. There
is a little more interest in seeded rais-
ins, also, stocks of which are grad-
ually decreasing. The apricot market
is in better shape, the cheap lots being
well cleaned up. Choice goods are still
wanted, but are hard to find as they are
also scarce. Prices for all grades are
firmly held. Peaches of all grades are
in good demand at previous prices.
Cheap peaches are still wanted by the
regular trade, but the demand is less
urgent. Dates are easy, holders show-
ing anxiety to sell. There is practically
nothing doing in figs. In sympathy
with the advancing Grecian market,
currants have advanced %@*c on the
different styles of packages. There is
a good demand for evaporated apples
at previous prices. Stocks, however,
are very light and very firmly held.

Rice—Dealers report an increased
demand for rice, and a better disposi-
tion was shown by buyers to pay ruling
prices. The improved enquiry appar-
ently is due to the fact that buyers
throughout the country are carrying
light stocks, as all orders are specified
for prompt shipment. The general po-
sition of the market is strong. Deal-
ers remain firm and prices are fully
maintained for al] grades. Choice styles
command relatively high prices, owing
to their scarcity and to the fact that the
supply promises to be limited during
the whole season. The question of an
advance is still in evidence. It is said
there are good reserves of rough rice
available, but they were laid in at
round cost to meet the future require-
ments of the trade. These supplies are
in the hands of a few large holders and
may not be marketed until prices ad-
vance sufficiently to cover prime cost,
carrying expenses and milling profit.

Tea—Most dealers report a slow mar-
ket for teas. Only a moderate business
was done during the past week, prin-
cipally in green teas, for which full
prices were realized. Prices remain
quotably unchanged, holders refusing
to make concessions.

Molasses—The molasses market is
quiet, but, on the whole, business is
satisfactory, considering the time of
year. Buyers purchase supplies to fill
current wants and are not inclined to
stock up with the approach of warmer
weather. The position of the market is
strong, particularly for mixtures and
blends, owing to the continued firmness
of glucose. Because of the firm and
higher prices asked by some dealers for
mixtures and blends, some buyers are
paying more attention to straight mo-
lasses and full prices are realized for
all grades.

Fish—Codfish has advanced 35@5o0c
at Gloucester. Supplies there are re-
ported very scarce, recent arrivals be-
ing bought up practically as fast as
landed. Withdrawals of fishing vessels
to go into mackerel fishing has also
strengthened the market. Gloucester
dealers are now delivering pro rata.
The demand for codfish is reported
good. It is a very unusual thing for
fish to advance at this time of the year,
but there is a good reason for it, as in
former years there has aiways been
more or less old fish carried over from
the fall before, but this season started
off with very light stocks and the catch
has been nothing compared with pre-
vious years.

Nuts—Advices from Tarragona esti-
mate almond stocks as being rather lib-
eral, with the new crop progressing
well. Jordan shelled are somewhat
firmer, while Valencias are easier in
sympathy with Sicilies. Peanuts are in
good demand at unchanged prices,

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Hardware |

Breakage of Stoves in Transit From the
Maker’s Stand point.*

The breakage of stoves in transit, and
how to dispose of each case as it comes
up, is a proposition that confronts all of
us almost as regularly as Uncle Sam de-
livers our mail. It is not of recent
origin, but has been a ‘‘bug-bear’’ to
the dealer and the manufacturer, in the
order named, from the time that stoves
were first made, and having become
fired with the spirit of expansion that
has prevailed throughout our country,
especially since that memorable morn-
ing on which our fleet entered the har-
bor of Manila, it has grown ten-fold.

The excessive breakage during the last
two years or more is, primarily, the re-
sult of gross carelessness in handling on
the part of the transportation companies
and their depot employes; the latter, be-
ing compelled to take care of an im-
mensely increased amount of freight
without a corresponding increase in
help, have become careless in the ex-
treme, and this has been aggravated by
the introduction of air brakes and auto-
matic couplers, with which all through
freight trains are now equipped as re-
quired by law, which enable the train
men to check a momentum almost be-
yond the power of the human mind to
comprehend and to stop a heavily loaded
train within almost a distance of 100
feet, thus exerting a force sufficient to
batter down the great wall of China, to
say nothing of its effect on a modern
stove.

The railroads and the dealers may tell
us, as they frequently do, that we are to
blame because of insufficient and im-
perfect crating, but my experience, and
that of my company, based on a close
observance of individual cases in order
to test it, have proven that assertion to
be without any foundation in fact, as
the better a stove is crated the more
carelessly it is handled, and the more
disastrous the results, unless it is
shipped in an iron bound box, packed
with-excelsior.

Before taking up this question I con-
sulted the catalogues of over Ioo manu-
facturers, and, under the head _ of
‘‘Terms,’’ as published by them, it was
very explicitly stated, with but two or
three exceptions, and in most of them in
bold black type, that ‘‘our responsibility
ceases after obtaining carrier’s receipt
in good order, etc.’’ I then addressed
the secretary of each of the eleven local
associations, and some of the larger
manufacturers, enquiring if these terms
were lived up to by their members and,
if not, what their custom was in deal-
ing with breakages. Replies were re-
ceived promptly from all of them, ex-
cept one Pennsylvania association, and
not a single one admitted that the terms
were fully enforced, and all had different
methods of treating their complaints,
but they were unanimous in stating that
the time has come that something must

 

 

be done, and the consensus of opinion;

was that relief could be obtained only
through the adoption by this body of
some uniform plan.

I believe you will all agree with me
that the dealers are not to blame for the
abuse that we are constantly trying to
keep down. They are btt human and
will take everything you give them,
and they are not disposed to let one
manufacturer dish out more generosity
than another, and they are shrewd
enough to hold on to all you give them.
We, the manufacturers, are responsible
for all the things we have to kick about,
and | believe we can undo what we have
done if we will.

I am one of those who is firm in the
faith that this association can devise a
plan for handling the breakage busi-
ness in a manner that will be entirely
satisfactory to all concerned; that its
members can enforce any resolution it
may adopt, provided it has the ring of
the golden rule in it. I am free to say
that I am not in favor of casting all of
the burden on the dealer, but that we
should insist on an equitable division

 

*Paper read at annual convention Stove Found-
ers’ National Defense Association by W. §,
Todd, of Cincinnati.

 

in cases where they can not hold the
carriers responsible for the whole, and
this leads to the remark that there is no
necessity of holding out any charitable
feeling for the transportation com-
panies, as they will take care of them-
selves under the claim that they are ab-
solved from all responsibility and lia-
bility for damages while in transit in
consideration of the, as they claim, low
rate in the ‘‘released’’ classification un-
der which nearly, if not quite all, stove
shipments are now made, but this does
not hold good, as in some States they
are held responsible under the laws and
in a great many others the courts have
decided they are liable for all damages
except in case of riots, storms, and
other causes beyond their control, and
this is practically admitted by them, as
otherwise they would not request the
shippers to sign a released contract for

each year.
>_> __-

Waiting on Customers in Turn.

A reprehensible habit exists among
many clerks of waiting on people out
of turn. This habit leads to serious
consequences in the loss of trade. It is
a habit, too, that can be so easily cor-
rected by cultivating the faculties of
observation and attention that it is
really inexcusable. It is a species of
discourtesy which produces greater irri-
tation in the customer than almost any
other. A busy business man steps into
a store; possibly he is on the way to
his office and already late. Every clerk
is busy; nobody pays any attention to
him. He waits impatiently a few min-
utes for some one to be at leisure.

Meantime another customer has come
in, perhaps four or five minutes after
the first one, and the first clerk who is
at leisure waits upon the second cus-
tomer before he does the first one. If
the first one duesn’t go out of that store
without making a purchase, resolving
never to enter it again, he ought to. It
should not be so, but it seems to be a
fact that American-born clerks are
much more likely to commit this un-
pardonable error than foreign-born
clerks.

We don't say that the clerks are alto-
gether to blame in this matter. In most
cases it is probably largely the fault of
the proprietor. It is his business to drill
the clerks, not only with respect to
waiting on customers in turn, but all
other matters which will help trade
along. Does he do it? Generally not,
it would appear. In large stores where
there are numerous clerks and an _ usher
is employed to see that customers are
properly waited on, probably the fault
which we complain of does not exist to
any great extent and should not exist
under any circumstances at all, because
a man whose sole occupation it is to
watch the customers as they come in
and dispose of them until they can have
attention should never make any mis-
takes in having them waited upon out
of their turn.

2-2» —__
. Proof of Honorable Intentions.

An old gentleman walked into the
prosecuting attorney’s office recently
with an air of serious importance and
consulted the assistant in charge about
a young man who persisted in making
love to his daughter.

‘‘That’s no crime,’’ said Mr. Kelly.

‘‘Well, maybe not. But isn’t there
some law to keep him from making
love to her?’’

“*None that I ever heard of,’’ said

Mr. Kelly. ‘*Are his intentions honor-
able?”
‘Yes, sir,’’ was the answer. ‘‘He is

so anxious to marry her that he’s been
trying to pawn his watch to get money
for the license.’’

——_>4.____

It never cools a man off when the
street sprinkler throws water on him.

Anticipatory Action.

‘*Hiram, I am considering a proposal
of marriage, and, as you have been
coming to see me for nearly six years,
I thought it would be no more than right
to tell you of it.”’

‘‘Why, Bella, I—I have always wanted
to ask you myself!’

‘*Why haven’t you done it?’’

‘‘I_I haven’t dared to. Will
marry me, Bella?’’

you

eso
‘*You dear pall (Pause, properly
filled up). ‘‘Tell me, now, Bella, whose

proposal of marriage you were consider-
4 ”
me. - >

Yours, Hiram.

BUCKEYE AND SUMMIT
SEWER PIPE CO.
Akron, Ohio

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

Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Citizens Phone 1350.

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PAINT DEPARTMENT.

 

Should Be Made a Feature of a General
Stock.

The paint department can easily be
made a feature of the general merchan-
dise stock, without any very great in-
vestment of capital, and can be made
to pay with a smaller outlay of energy
and hard work than many other depart-
ments of the business.

If the general merchant has $150
which he desires to invest ina line of
paints he will find that this will provide
him with an abundant stock, and will
equip the paint department so that he
can take care of all the business that
will come to him. If the capital avail-
able only amounts to $100, it will goa
long ways in putting the paint depart-
ment on a good basis, and the general
merchant can discount most of his bills,
if he manages conservatively and _pur-
chases his stock with discrimination.

In all probability the best way to start
the paint department is to secure from
the manufacturer or jobber in the town
where you buy goods the exclusive
agency for a line of paints not pre-
viously handled in that town. If pos-
sible this agency should be for paints
that are reasonably well advertised, or
that will be advertised in that section
of the country. When an agency is se-
cured handle this line of paints ex-
clusively and build up your business on
their merits. Therefore, it is most nec-
essary that care should be taken in ac-
cepting an agency and that a good line
of paints is obtained. Poor paints will
injure the reputation of the seller to a
greater extent than the reputation of
the maker.

After securing the agency, the retail-
er should be honest and fair in his
treatment of his customers, and in his
relations with the firm whose paints he
sells. An agency for a well established
line of paints is a valuable business
asset, and increases in value as the
business grows older and as the sur-
rounding country develops. It behooves
the dealer then to continue relations
unimpaired which will be of profit to
him.

In the selection of stock retailers need
not load up heavily on any one line.
Manufacturers and jobbers now furnish
color cards which are adapted to the re-
tailing of paints in the general store.
These color cards contain something
like 14 to 18 different colors, and shades
of colors, including those which are
most generally required in interior and
exterior house painting. The retailer
should be guided largely by the de-
mands which he may expect from his
trade, in making up his stock. He
should purchase heaviest of those colors
which are in greatest demand in his lo-
cality, in quarts, halves and gallon
cans. In all probability half a dozen or
a dozen cans of each of these sizes _ will
be sufficient with which to start the
business, and in colors which will not
be in such heavy demand a quarter of
a dozen quarts and the same of halves,
with a sixth of a dozen gallons, will be
sufficient.

The dealer should also include a small
order for floor stains, floor paints, en-
amels, etc., and if be is located ina
farming community, he should take in
a fair stock of carriage and wagon
paints, and the lines that are likely to
be required in general painting on the
farm. He ought also to have a well
assorted supply of brushes and should
carry in stock linseed oil, white lead,
and putty, etc.

 

Orders from retailers to jobbers or
manufacturers can be made compara-
tively small, and should be sent in fre-
quently. Shipments from wholesale
sources, according to the modern meth-
ods of doing business, are made on the
day that the order is received and deal-
ers are able to obtain supplies in
twenty-four to forty-eight hours after
the order is received at the wholesale
house or factory. This does away with
the necessity for carrying large stocks,
and makes it possible for retailers to do
business without involving as large an
amount of capital as formerly.

If the retailer intends to make his
paint department pay him a good profit
he should display his goods as much as
possible. In some modern general stores
the proprietor has a narrow shelving
built up on the outside of the counter.
This shelving is just the width of a gal-
lon can of paint and the different cans
are displayed thereon, where they can
not fail to attract attention. Sucha plan
is a good one. Paint cans are usually
attractive in appearance and they can
be arranged on shelving in a tasty
manner. Most country retailers keep
their supply of brushes in boxes on the
shelving and never display them. If
they have no available place for the dis-
play of brushes in their show cases, it
is a good plan to take a board a foot wide
and two or three feet long and attach
different sizes of brushes to this by
means of staples. This can be hung up
alongside of the color card or in some
convenient place where it can be seen,
and where it can be easily reached. The
customer can look over the samples and
when a decision is reached the brush
can be obtained from the box stored un-
der the counter or on the shelves. It
is better, however, to arrange the sam-
ple brushes attractively in a small part
of one of the show cases. Then they
are not injured by the dirt and dust,
and are always bright and clean when
shown the trade. A few square feet in
a glass show case will furnish sufficient
room for the brush display, unless very
large brushes are carried in stock.

The profit ona line of paints is a fair
one for the retailer. Ordinary house
paints should return a profit of 25 to 30
per cent. Carriage and coach paints,
enamels and specialties of this char-
acter should return a profit of 30 to 50
per cent. and the sale of the latter
should be pushed. White lead, oil and
turpentine are the only lines on which
the profit is nominal. In paints they
hold a position corresponding to sugar
in the grocery department. Varnishes,
if handled rightly, may be made to pay
a profit of 20 to 25 per cent.

There is little or no loss in the paint
department, even under the poorest
management. Paints keep year after
year without deterioration, and if they
are not sold this year they may be the
next, but under the present plan of do-
ing business on the part of the jobbers,
retailers do not need to carry larger
stocks than they can readily dispose of
during a season, and there is no _neces-
sity for having capital tied up in the
paint line that can not be turned over
several times during the year.

In farming communities the paint
department is important to the general
merchant. It helps to hold the farmer
trade, and is convenient to the towns
people, who, if paints are not carried
by the general merchants, are obliged
to send to the larger cities for their
supplies, which frequently causes them
great inconvenience.—Commercial Bul-
letin.

 

His Secret May Have Died With Him.

James McMenamin, the only success-
ful canner of crab meat in the world,
has just died in the hospital at Balti-
more, and it is feared that his secret
has died with him. He is believed to
have made $1,000,000 out of crab
canning, by running a large cannery at
Hampton, Va., for six months in the
year, but he kept the process hidden
even from his work people, and unless
his will divulges it or he confided the
secret to his sons before his death, the
canning plant will have to be shut down
and nobody may ever know why its
proprietor succeeded where others failed.

Mr. McMenamin went: to Virginia
from Massachusetts in 1878. While
working as a clerk for Mayor Whitehead
of Norfolk it came out that he knew
how crab meat could be canned without
losing its flavor and Mayor Whitehead
helped him to establish a small cannery
at Hampton. In time the small cannery
was replaced with a bigger one, but
never has the big one been able to meet
all the demands upon it for canned crab
meat.

During the six months of the year
when the cannery was open the proprie-
tor was the busiest man in it. A large
force of colored women picked the meat
from the crabs. It was sent to a locked
room in which Mr. McMenamin per-
sonally attended to its preparation.
Then it was sealed in the cans.

Last year the demand for canned
crab meat was unprecedented and the
man with the secret, when he died, was
wondering how he could increase the
output for this year.

> 2. ___
Lubricant for Bicycle Chain.

To properly lubricate a bicycle chain
there are many recipes given. Most of
them recommend graphite in some
form. A very good recipe is to thor-
oughly oil the chain by allowing it to
lie for fifteen or twenty minutes in any
good paraffine oil, and then wiping off
the excess of oi]. In this way the chain
is thoroughly lubricated in every part.

Ihe Bigest We ASSO
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ORDER ONE TO COMPLETE YOUR
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DECORATED ASSORTMENT
NO. 10.

2 Dozen FANCY HANDLED TEAS
Y% Dozen 1-PINT PITCHERS
Y% Dozen COMPORTIERS

Y Dozen LARGE PLATTERS
1 Dozen BREAD PLATES

1 Dozen OAT MEAL BOWLS
2 Dozen DINNER PLATES

3 Dozen TEA PLATES

1 Dozen BONE DISHES

¥% Dozen 1%-PINT BOWLS
1g Dozen CAKE PLATES

12 Dozen,
Price, including package,

$10.80.

Handsome decoration on each piece.
Hand painted, traced and edge lined in
coin gold. Strictly high grade ware,
thoroughly guaranteed. Every piece in
this assortment can be sold for 10
cents, and all the large pieces from 15
to 25 cents each.

DEYOUNG SCHARESMA,

Manufacturers’ and Jobbers’ Agents in

Crockery, Glassware, Ghind and Lamps.

112 MONROE ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

EAD PEP LAP OD PI NI™

 

 

 

 

Fans for

Warm Weather

 

 

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ciated on a hot day than
a substantial fan. Espe-
cially is this true of coun-
try customers who come
to town without provid-
ing themselves with this
necessary adjunct to com-
fort. We have a large
line of these goods in
fancy shapes and unique
designs, which we fur-
nish printed and handled
as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

We can fill orders on five hours’ notice if necessary, but don’t ask us
to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid it.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan

   

      
   

   

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men

Published at the New Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids, by the

TRADESMAN COMPANY

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Advertising Rates on Application.

Communications invited from practical business
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Subscribers may have the mailing address of
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No paper discontinued, except at the option of
the proprietor, until all onzedeenes are paid.

Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as
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When writing to any of our Advertisers,
please say that yot saw the advertise-
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WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 15, 1901.
STATE OF of Kent f

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Kent wee

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
May 8, Igo1, 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 eleventh day of May, Igo1.
Henry B. Fairchild,
Notary Public in and for Kent County,
Mich.

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THE ART OF ENJOYING LIFE.

At a time when the importance of a
practical education is so much insisted
upon, it is remarkable that no one has
endowed, or even so much as suggested
that some one ought to endow, a pro-
fessorship of the art of enjoying life. It
is true that a distinguished American
citizen has contended that young men at
college should receive a systematic
course of lectures on the choice of a
wife; but while instruction on that
point might very properly be regarded
as a branch, it could hardly be repre-
sented as inclusive of the entire prov-
ince of the art in question. It does,
unquestionably, make a great deal of
difference whom one marries; and now
and then, perhaps, something turns up-
on whom one does not marry. But there
is still a great deal of life which in-
veterate bachelors and old maids have
in common, and even the unhappily
married are not to be left wholly out of
view in a comprehensive study of the
ways and means of enjoying life.

Biology is the science of life but that,
of course, is another thing. Physiology,
however, touches the subject in hand at
one point, and that is health. Hygiene
is taught in the common schools nowa-
days, and this fact marks a distinct ed-
ucational advance. Many men have
passed away without ever having been
able to make an approximate estimate
of the number of bones in their own
anatomical structure ; but it was as well
known to Plato and Aristotle as it is to
anyone now that health and enjoyment
are very closely related. The difficulty
is to make young people realize their
own personal interest in generai prin-
ciples which have never been ques-
tioned. This, indeed, is one striking
proof of the fact that practical instruc-
tion is still a desideratum. Boys and
girls are taught applied mathematics,
mechanics and civil engineering, an-
alytical chemistry and general physics,

 

in order that they may be able to get
ahead by making themselves useful in
some department of industry. That sort
of thing is called practical education ;
but, in reality, it has very little to do
with the actual enjoyment of life. It is
technical,and it is probably more or less
useful, but it does little or nothing to
cultivate a taste for the unmarketable
values of human existence. The com-
plaint is not that what is called the
business education of the young is
neglected—not that they leave school
and college quite unprepared to achieve
success in trade—but that there isa
growing tendency to ignore those in-
terests which are not necessarily pro-
moted by the accumulation of material
wealth.

In a somewhat celebrated passage in
one of Prof. Huxley’s essays, man is
represented as playing a game with na-
ture. The human player finds the other
side conducted by a benevolent but in-
flexible power. He must observe the
rules of the game and he must make the
proper moves or suffer the consequences.
Nature would as soon lose as win; but
she punishes every mistake with an ab-
solute impartiality. You must have in-
sight and foresight and you must be al-
ways on your guard when you play with
her or you will lose. She is invariably
helpful to those who understand and
obey her laws; but she never fails to
inflict suffering upon those who are ig-
norant of them, or who are not careful
to observe them. It does not matter in
the least whether one stumbles into the
fire or deliberately walks into it. He
will certainly be burned in either case.
It is in this school, it is in playing this
game with nature, that man _ receives
his ‘‘ practical education,’’ as that term
is ordinarily understood. But nature
is not always burning one’s fingers or
pinching . his toes, to teach him how to
live. She has her poetry as well as her
science, and, while she teaches the im-
portance of vigilance and work, she
teaches also the positive value of rest
and recreation. Moreover, her philos-
ophy is something very different from a
sordid utilitarianism. She has_ her
smiles and tears, her consolations and
her sympathy—she ‘‘never did betray
the heart that loved her.’’ She is both
hawk and dove, and has, after all, a
mother-love for every creature.

All this is more or less clearly under-
stood by the true naturalist, although
not by the mere chemist, anatomist or
physiologist. To be happy, one must
take his mood sometimes, if not always,
from the day. ‘‘Good day’’—what a
world of hidden, unconscious signifi-
cance there is in that common phrase.
Man lives a day at a time if he is wise,
and every day is good for him if he un-
derstands it. The day, from the ten-
der morning light to the glorious sun-
set hour, how beautiful it is! But here,
too, a certain culture is necessary to the
highest enjoyment, and one must be
educated to feel the charm of the ever-
changing, kaleidoscopic space between
two suns. There is the day cup, filled
to the brim and wreathed with tlowers;
quaff it! There is no headache, no
heartache, in its intoxication; but only
the joy of the truth that there is in
beauty. Man,according to Shakespeare,
looks before and after. It is-his old
habit to remember the hard lessons of
experience, and to dread all the possi-
bilities of error and weakness. He is
not, but always is to be, blessed. In
youth he lives in the future, in age he
lives in the past. He climbs mountains
and crosses streams before he reaches
them. Buta truly practical education

should teach him to live while he lives,
to live a day at a time—not recklessly;
not as a spendthrift, but grasping all
the real happiness within his reach.

 

WATER POWER IN WEST MICHIGAN,

The beginning of work on the con-
struction of a dam in the Muskegon
River at Croton, nine miles above
Newaygo, is of local significance as
marking a new epoch in the utiliza-
tion of power in the least improved
portions of the western slope of the Pen-
insula. Enterprises have been _pro-
gressing during the past half dozen
years for the development and use along
modern lines of the streams in the older
settled portions of the slope, as on the
St. Joseph and Kalamazoo Rivers,
where the power could be used near by,
but the progress of the art of electric
power transmission has barely reached
the stage to command capital in _build-
ing dams a considerable distance from
where the power can be sold.

The rivers which have been developed
in the Southwestern part of the Penin-
sula are of the least power value, in
proportion to their length and volume,
in that the elevation of the land toward
the central southern portion of the
Peninsula is much less than in the
north, and the length of the rivers in
making the descent much greater. Thus
the falls are comparatively slight, and
then, again, the fact that the valleys of
the streams are thickly settled makes it
very costly to flood large areas. The
local use of the powers in that region
is about all that can be expected under
these conditions. While Grand River
is the largest in volume of any in the
State its length is also much the great-
est. Its water power is far from being
fully utilized, but local demands are
ready to absorb any increase that may
be made.

Further North the conditions are
different. While the volumes of the
rivers are less than the Grand, their
length is also much less, thus making a
greater proportionate descent. Then
the elevation of the central plateau is
considerably more, adding, again, to
the downfall. Another feature which
adds greatly to the steadiness of the
power during the dry seasons and mod-
ifies the dangers of floods is the fact
that the streams are generally the out-
lets of lakes of considerable magnitude.
The Muskegon rises in Houghton Lake,
the largest of the interior bodies of
water in the State.

During the lumbering era of the
Lower Peninsula many of the water
powers were utilized in that industry
that have since been abandoned. Of
course, the means of utilizing the power
at that day was very crude and so the
work performed was no criterion of the
possibilities ; and when the cut was fin-
ished the site was left to make an un-
sightly ruin; many such are waiting for
utilization as new discoveries.

The rivers in the Northwestern por-
tion run through country that is yet
sparsely settled. When the lumberman
finished his work it was thought that
much of the region would be abandoned
as not worth development. A trip
through many of these localities to-day
will astonish the observer by the rapid-
ity with which they are changing into
profitable cultivation. But this is a re-
cent feature of the situation and has not
progressed far enough to materially
change the conditions, especially on the
streams in whose valleys the land is
generally poor and light. As attention
is being called to the water power pos-
sibilities it is easy to obtain any amount
of land for flooding purposes.

Until the practical development of
electric power transmission had pro-
gressed far enough to attract attention

 

to water powers in localities where the
force could not he locally utilized, little
attention was given to such streams.
Thus, in the case of the Muskegon, it
was known in a_ general way that the
river made a descent in its course of at
least five hundred and fifty feet from
Houghton and Higgins Lakes to Lake
Michigan. At a few places, as Newaygo
and Big Rapids, local uses of the power
were made, but, aside from these, there
was nothing to warrant a survey of the
stream as to its hydraulic possibilities.
Now this is receiving attention and the
extent to which capitalists are quietly
buying up the lands along its course is
a matter of astonishment to those whose
attention has been called to the matter.

On account of the comparatively high
prices of fuel, especially in the in-
terior of the State, there are few locali-
ties which are more ready with demand
for the utilization of these powers than
this. Capital is coming to recognize
this fact and, as noted above, is secur-
ing the river rights with the utmost ex-
pedition. The building of the Croton
dam, where a_ thousand horse power is
promised, is but a small beginning of
what will follow along much. of the
course of the stream.

For this improvement alone it was
necessary to buy several thousands of
acres of land. The whole of the town
site on the lower level is to be flooded
and the business portion removed toa
higher level. Fortunately for the power
company, the way was prepared by the
destruction of most of the buildings by
fire a year or so ago, so that the busi-
ness interests to be considered are com-
paratively small.

The undertaking at Croton is only the
beginning of a movement in this region
which is bound to reach great develop-
ment. All along this river there are
rapid descents, with good sites for
building dams, and the lands which
will be flooded are worth more as _ lakes
than they would be for other purposes.
The fact that the river is the outlet of
many large lakes insures comparative
immunity from the effects of drouths or
floods, and this feature will be aided
by every artificial reservoir placed in
its course.

The era of water power is well started
in other parts of the country having
hydraulic possibilities. In this region
it is just beginning. As rapidly as the
local conditions can be learned and the
best and cheapest methods of dam
building determined the work is bound
to be pushed, and in the immediate fu-
ture will become no small factor in the
problem of cheaper power for the rapid-
ly increasing industries of the Western
cities of the State.

 

 

While values are soaring in the stock
exchanges of the East and the grain pit
of Chicago on more or less inflated
ideas of the enduring quality of the
prosperity epoch, things have taken on
a halcyon and vociferous hue in the
newly-discovered oil fields of Texas.
Stories of fortunes made in a twinkling
are coming up from the Southland, where
gushers are declared to be gushing and
companies forming with capital ranging
from $50,000 to $5,000,000. Investors are
offered the most alluring rewards for
their aid in developing this unexpected
source of wealth.

 

 

The canvas on Lipton’s new yacht
weighs four tons. His heart will weigh
mote after the match is over.

 

 

A crank is a man who has a different
hobby than your own. :

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

 

THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.

Why Young Men Must Begin at the Bot-
tom.

Charles A. Schieren in Saturday Evening Post.

No matter how wealthy a young man’s
family may be, the place for him to
Start in business is at the bottom. Un-
fortunately, there are many who think
otherwise. They believe that the sons
of rich fathers should not be required to
‘*bother’’ about business until the ‘‘old
man’’ becomes incapacitated, either
through illness or death, from looking
after affairs. Then the young men feel
they will be quite competent to get into
harness and, ‘‘run things.’’ That is a
fine theory, and, on the ‘whole, the

oung men who hold it are generally

onest and well-meaning enough. The
trouble is that they do not know how to
‘‘run’’ things when the time comes.
That is the main reason why so few old
business establishments survive with us.
The heirs upon whom the perpetuation
of the business would naturally devolve
are not inclined to begin as their fath-
ers did, immediately on leaving school.
They are not content to learn things
from the ground up, and when the fath-
er’s death puts them in command they
almost invariably make a failure of it,
unless there is some outside blood in
the concern, some junior partner who is
capable of carrying on affairs. But de-
pendence on outsiders is a flimsy foun-
dation to build on. The United States
has grown great through its merchants
and manufacturers; if it is to maintain
its greatness the descendants of these
merchants and manufacturers must be
content to carry on the enterprises they
inherit. To carry them on successfully
they must know every detail of the
business. To have such knowledge they
must start on the lowest round of the
ladder in the factory or in the shop.

In my own case, I urge upon my sons
the necessity of starting at the bottom
of my business and mastering every de-
tail in the art of tanning and manufac-
turing leather, so that whenever they
are called upon to manage the whole or
any part of the business they will be
competent and can command the con-
fidence of the trade. I hope that when
I am ready to retire from the active
part of the business it will be conducted
as well and better than I myself have
conducted it; better, because the young
men who are to succeed me will have
the advantages of modern training and
modern ideas that did not prevail when
I started out.

It was my good fortune to experience,
when I began business life, an object
lesson of the danger and annoyance that
come to the man who does not under-
stand his business in all its branches.
At the head of the firm in whose employ
1 was as clerk was a strong, forceful
business man. He was an excellent
merchant, but ignorant of the purchas-
ing end of his concern, and no practical
manufacturer. The result was that he
was dependent absolutely on the judg-
ment and good-will of his foreman, a
drunken, worthless, bullyragging man-
who made the most of the power that
the ‘‘old man’s’’ ignorance gave him.
Whenever the merchant went into the
market to buy material he had to take
the foreman with him to tell him what
to select. He never bought a pound of
leather without having the foreman to
tag after him to pass upon its value. I
had made up my mind to adopt the
leather business as a career, and the ob-
ject lesson given by the domination of
this foreman and the helplessness of the
‘told man’’ made me resolve that I
would study and master the business in
all its branches. Although I was a
clerk, 1 learned the practical part of
manufacturing and learned to operate
every machine. I was not content to
know merely what a machine did, but
investigated for myself the processes by
which the work was accomplished. The
result was that very early in my career
I found many defects in the machinery
that*had for years been accepted as per-
fect in our trade. This knowledge en-

abled me to. invent many improvements
in the machinery and gave mea decided
advantage over my competitors when I
went into the business for myself. I

 

doubt whether any piece of mechanism
ever invented is so perfect that the man
who acquaints himself with it can not
after a while see a chance for some im-
provement. To the man who sees, sug-
gestions are constantly occurring.

When electric machinery first came
into use, progress was long retarded in
its general application by difficulties
with the belting. At that time there
was no direct connection between the
dynamo and the engine, as there is to-
day. Large belts, made very even, pli-
able and of great strength, were required
to run the dynamos. ‘The generation of
electricity .was made possible only by
the highest speed, and the machinery
ran with such velocity that it required
belting of peculiar construction and, in
many sections, of equal tension, to
withstand the great strain.

In the leather trade the new electrical
machinery created a demand for big
belting—at that time a most profitable
branch of our industry. In order to en-
large our business in this field I began
an investigation and found that machin-
ery revolving at such an enormous
speed formed an air cushion under the
belt, which, after awhile, threw the belt
off, The remedy was very simple once
these facts were understood. We sim-
ply punched the belt full of holes. This
allowed the air to escape and prevented
the forming of the cushion.

That incident illustrates the point 1
desire to make—the necessity for inves-
tigating and understanding everything
connected with the business in which
you are engaged. This necessity will
increase every year. The science of
business has changed entirely within
the quarter of a century. The key to suc-
cess is now held by the man who can
turn out the best product at the lowest
price. Formerly the margin of profit in
business was larger, and the field of
operation was more restricted, so that
a few cents more or less in the cost of
producing an article counted for very
little. Now competition is so keen that
the successful business man must rely
upon the volume of his sales for his
earnings and be content to trade on a
very narrow margin. The man who can
undersell his neighbor by an eighth of
a cent is the one who controls the mar-
ket. The only way such underselling is
possible is by making every process of
the business perfect. New methods
must be constantly studied out and the
most economical processes must be em-
ployed. To-day concerns are made or
unmade by taking or not taking advan-
tage of savings in manufacture that for-
merly would have been scorned. In
the nature of things it is impossible for
a man to hold his own under such con-
ditions unless he knows his business
thoroughly.

There are exceptions; cases in which
men have made a great success ina
business that they have entered without
any previous training or knowledge.
Such a case I may relate which stands
out very prominently here in the leather
district in New York. ‘The business
was founded more than half a century
ago by a pushing, enterprising, hard-
working man. He _ had two. sons.
Shortly after the sons left college their
father was stricken with a fatal illness,
and the boys found themselves in control
of a concern of the workings of which
they knew nothing. The business left
by their father had a wide reputation,
but despite this fact it was generally
prophesied that the business would
suffer in the hands of the inexperienced

young sons. Fortunately, these two
were exceptional young men. They
threw aside all their pleasures and

plunged headlong into business. They
happened to have the mental equipment
necessary for success, coupled with great
strength of character. Instead of fail-
ing, as every one prophesied they
would, they enlarged and built up the
business until to-day it is far beyond
the dreams of their father in his life-
time.

But theirs is an exceptional case, and
I can recall only a few other instances.
I have seen house after house die out
because its heirs were not trained to
carry on its affairs.

The thing that undoubtedly helped

 

the young men inthe case I mention
was the fact that they had received a
thorough college education. I know
that Mr. Carnegie and other distin-
guished men who have been self-made
have gone on record as against a college
training for a business man. My own
experience does not bear out this con-
clusion. I believe that nothing so well
equips a young man for a successful
business career, either as a manufactur-
er or a merchant, or both, as does a
complete college course. If, in addi-
tion, he has had special professional and
technical training, so much the better.
The college graduate loses four or five
years of actual experience, but he soon
makes up for this if he is made of the
right metal.

Of course, I am now speaking of the
right sort of young man, not the dandy
whose college training has given him
an exalted opinion of himself. I am
speaking of the college graduate who is
willing to begin where the ordinary ap-
prentice began; who is willing, if he is
going into the leather business, to scrape
hides, and if he is going into the count-
ing-room, to do the work of an office
boy. In one year such a young man wil]
learn as much about the business as the
ordinary boy, unequipped with a college
education, wil] learn in three. He comes
to the business with a disciplined
mind, and with a taste for research and
investigation, which mean everything
in modern business. It is not too much
to say that the college-trained man is
equipped with forces that enable him
inevitably to outstrip those of his com-
petitors who have not had his advan-
tages.

People who think otherwise are mis-
led, I believe, by taking as the basis
of their deduction the conditions as they
were and not as they are. Under the
old business methods, when our system
was as crude as or machinery, it made
no particular difference whether or not
a man_ had such training as is required
in college. It was more a question of
industry, willingness to work long hours
and to dispense with ordinary social
recreations. To-day business is a
science, and the scientifically equipped
man is the one who will succeed. A boy
is justified in making any sort of rea-
sonable sacrifice to go through college.
He will get a foundation on which, if
he is the right kind, he is certain to
rear a substantial business success.

Only recently I had in my own _busi-
ness an illustration that bears out this
conclusion. In all] our departments we
try to be thoroughly modern and up to
date, because we know that that is es-
sential to continued prosperity and suc-
cess. My greatest fear is that I shall
become old-fashioned, that I shall fail
to keep pace with the rapid advance of
modern improvements; and 1 am_con-
tinually impressing upon my people the
importance of pointing out to me any
indication that I am slipping behind.
Improvement is so rapid that machinery
that is of the highest type to-day may
be antiquated in six months, and it
then becomes the duty of a progressive
business man to throw it out and re-
place it with modern appliances. It is
a costly process asa first proposition,
but the new machinery soon pays for it-
self in a larger and better product.
Holding such views, it is conceivable
that our appliances are as modern as
any.

It was a young man fresh from col-
lege who taught us otherwise, at lcast
in one particular. He was employed
by us in one of our main tanneries.
This institution was-in charge of a man
who was competent, bright, energetic
and, so far as any of us in the trade
knew, thoroughly up-to-date. The col-
lege graduate was put to work in the
vats, scraping hides and doing other
manual labor necessary to the education
of a good tanner. He had not been at
work many months when, thanks to his
training, he suggested an improvement
that saved many thousands of dollars.
We had on. our premises a deep-well
system that supplied the works with
water pumped from a depth of 700 feet.
The pump broke one day,as it had done
before, and stopped the works. The
young man pointed out that an air

 

pump was much more reliable, much
more effective, much more economical.
His knowledge enabled him to prove to
us his conclusions. The air pump was
put in. Then he suggested that the
same system might be utilized in other
directions and do away with a half-
dozen smal] steam pumps that handled
the tanning liquids; we could make the
one air pump do the work of all, he
said, by an inexpensive system of pip-
ing. Such economies are invaluable to
a manufacturing concern and we are
all striving after them. He also sug-
gested the establishment of a laboratory
for the treatment of the spent bark—
that is, the bark that had been used up,
according to the tanning standards that
had always prevailed. His course in
chemistry enabled him to make tests of
this spent bark which showed that the
most improved processes that had been
employed up to this time still left a
large percentage of tannic acid. We
erected a laboratory, according to his
suggestions, and now we save this per-
centage and use up all the acid in the
bark.

That young man has a career beyond
a peradventure. Hehas realized on the
expense of his college education. It by
no means follows, however, that every
man should goto college. This ques-
tion must be determined in each case
separately. Where there is a strong
disinclination it would be a waste of
time and money to force a boy through
college and, in many cases, it might
ruin his usefulness in after life. The
amount of harm done in this world by
parents who force their children into a
scheme of life improperly adapted to
the inclination and abilities of the chil-
dren is incalculable. It is also inex-
cusable. Without exception, it is al-
ways the case that the vocation for
which a young man is specially fitted
is manifest long before the period when
his future is to be fixed upon. The
young man himself generally has a very
clear idea of what he would like to do,
and this idea, carefully sifted and dis-
cussed, generally forms a very safe
guide. Too many boys who have no
business talent are forced into business.
They might make excellent artists or
writers or lawyers or physicians, but
because their fathers happen to be mer-
chants or manufacturers they, too, are
compelled to become merchants or man-
ufacturers. The whole future happiness
of a boy is made or unmade by the
choice of his occupation, and no ques-
tion should be more carefully weighed.
The boy himself, if he feels himself
unfitted for the pursuit selected for
him, should make vigorous protest.

Of course, | do not mean that he
should be rebellious and disobedient,
but, after all, it is his own future that
is being decided, and he should see to
it that he has a voice in the decision.
He should examine himself very care-
fally and then present his case to those
who have his disposition in charge. To
force the boy with a mechanical bent
into a counting-room is like forcing an
oak into a conservatory. The success-
ful men in this world, and the happy
ones, are those whose occupation has
been fitted to their special capability.
The boy who would make a good manu-
facturer is rarely fitted to be a good
merchant. This being the case, he
should associate himself, when he enters
business for himself as a manufacturer,
with a man who is a merchant and who
understands how to introduce the
goods which he manufactures.

The desire that boys shall be in the
business promising the greatest finan-
cial returns often results in forcing a
yourg man into a sphere in which he
becomes, perhaps, an indifferent suc-
cess. Even if he becomes a wealthy
banker or merchant, it is by no means
a certainty that the choice he was forced
to make was best. Money is not the
only thing in life. In fact, money ranks
pretty far back among the desirable
things to be gained here on earth. I
mean, of course, money for itself. The
possession of money is an_ excellent
thing ; it is essential to our comfort and
well-being, but the young man who sets
before him the making of money as the
main object of his life will find him-

    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

self terribly mistaken in later years.
Money will come of itself; there is no
great difficulty in that. Let the young
man start out right, start out in a thor-
ough fashion, knowing all the ins and
outs of the occupation he has chosen for
himself, and the possession of money
will come inevitably. A man _ should
learn to control money and not permit
money to contro! him.

When Mr. Carnegie started out in life
he had no idea that he would ever re-
tire with two hundred million dollars.
His fortune came as the result of his
close application to a work for which
he was especially fitted. The men who
Start out at the beginning with the idea
that money must be made regardless of
everything else generally get into
trouble and almost invariably fail mis-
erably. Even when they accumulate
the money that they have so yearned
for, it becomes a curse rather than a
blessing ; they do not know how to en-
joy it nor how to enjoy life. The for-
mation of character, the building up of
a reputation for honesty and straight
dealing and the living of a clean life
are much more satisfactory than the
possession of millions. Money is worth
only what you can get out of its posses-
sion, and I know plentv of men who
are worth millions and who are yet the
most miserable creatures in the world.

Nothing is more pernicious than the
idea often advanced that money makes
the man, regardless of how he got it. In
politics, some men have grown rich
through dishonest practices, but none
of them, so far as I could ever see, got
out of life what they might have gotten
if their money had been untainted. And
even in politics the men who are both
successful and dishonest are compara-
tively few. People generally may not
believe this, because, somehow, they
seem to think that the average man in
politics is necessarily a crook. Asa
matter of fact, the standard of honesty
among politicians is very much higher
than outsiders give them credit for.
Somehow, we have gotten into the habit
of making all sorts of general charges
against men who are in political life.
When I was mayor, allegations were
made again and again against men in
office. I always made careful investi-
gation, but found very little to warrant
such charges. It is a very serious draw-
back that men, no matter how honest
they may be, can not go into politics
without laying themselves open to
charges of corruption. When I assumed
office the city of Brooklyn was entirely
in control of the Democratic machine
politicians. 1 went in as a reformer and
studied the situation conscientiously.
As a result, I have no hesitation in say-
ing that the average public official and
employe are about as clean and honest
as the average man in business or else-
where. Crookedness pays no better in
politics than it does in business, and
that it does not pay in business can be
demonstrated by any one who tries it.

The most valuable assets a business
house has is a reputation for honesty.
The young business man can well afford
to sacrifice temporary gain secured at
the cost of straightforward methods, and
accept a temporary loss that comes
through right dealing. No great house
in the world has ever knowingly done a
dishonest thing ; that is an axiom. The
man who starts out in the retail business
by giving short weight will never es-
tablish a wholesale business. In our own
concern, enormous business transactions
are conducted entirely on faith and the
reputation of the firm we deal with. We
buy hides by telegraph from Armour &
Co. and other standard packers in Chi-
cago,and have them shipped to our tan-
neries and pay for them without seeing
them. Mr. Phillip Armour, from the
very outset of his career, was known in
the trade as an honest, square-dealing
man who never took advantage of those
who traded with him; he always deliv-
ered the goods that they ordered, and
we have faith in his firm accordingly.
When we buy hides of a concern that
has no such reputation we make a most
careful inspection. Therefore, the
value of honesty as an asset is clearly
manifest.

When I started out for myself 1 was

 

tempted, as all young business men are,
with propositions involving dishonest
practices and bribery in one form or an-
other. I always let those chances go by,
because I felt their unsoundness as a
business proposition. Sometimes it was
pretty trying to see men who had no
scruples making a lot of money, but
experience soon taught me that their
good fortune was only temporary. At
this day I know of no concern, either in
my own line of business or outside of
it, that started out on crooked lines that
maintained its success.

Even the man who is instinctively
dishonest will find it pays him to be
honest in business and to let the other
fellow take advantage of the crooked
opportunities. I could relate many in-
stances in my business experience that
prove this, but a few will suffice: In
one case a bright, smart young man
made $2,000 ona failure by making a
compromise with his creditors. He
came to me afterward and boasted over
his sharpness ; to-day he is walking the
streets, a poor, wretched being, who
attributes his failure in life to hard luck.

In another case a man who was in
business in my neighborhood realized a
thousand dollars by selling a large block
of goods on the strength of false state-
ments. It seemed a _ large sum of
money, a fabulous sum in those days to
me, and for atime it appeared to me
that there was not really very much in
the doctrine that ‘‘ Honesty is the best
policy.’’ But after a few years that man
was a bankrupt.

Another firm,composed of three bright
men, started out to get the best of all
their competitors by bribing employes
in the houses with which they did busi-
nss. Two of those men died drunkards
and a third wound up his career on the
streets, a total wreck.

As business is shaping itself to-day,
dishonesty is even a worse handicap
than it was under the old conditions.
The vast combinations of capital that
are coming in all pursuits make exact
conditions imperative. To the straight-
forward man who knows his business
from the bottom up, the new conditions
offer even better opportunities than did
the old, but they also present more ex-
acting demands. They require absolute
knowledge of the branch in which the
young man operates. They prohibit the
spreading over too much ground. The
young man needs to stick to one thing
and master it. He needs to study close-
ly the mistakes he makes and to profit
by them. If he does this, success will
crown his efforts.

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Women’s Thick-Soled Boots Sensible.

The broad, thick-soled hoot, now so
much worn by women, is not a thing of
beauty viewed from that standpoint sim-
ply, but, somehow, it becomes the most
beautiful thing in the possession of
some women simply because it is so
sensible and comfortable. With such a
pair of boots one can walk with ease
without feeling every little stone in the
path, as is sometimes the case with the
boots of thinner soles. “The latter are
all right for house wear and should be
worn indoors, the heavier ones being
there altogether out of place. For street
walking, however, the sensible boots
are the big ones with the heavy soles,
although they have nothing but the sen-
sible, comfortable qualities and style to
recommend them.

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It is noticed, in many instances, in
cutting children’s shoes comfort is sac-
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well, it does not always hit the object
in point. Some will scrimp their pat-
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a certain price and the make-up suffers
by it. A child’s shoe needs to be
roomy, and if it is not, it often rips
very soon after being worn, and this
causes endless difficulty. The best
lines of child’s shoes are those that are
stripped of anything that appeals to the
eye as style. Successful manufacturers
of these lines study the wearing features,
and this is the foundation of the popu-
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How to Properly Conduct a Shoe Depart-
ment.

The art of conducting a shoe depart-
ment which carries a specialty shoe
only is very much different from one
that deals in many kinds at all prices.
In the first place the department must
be in a conspicuous place. I have mine
next to the glove department, which is
the best in the city and the very best
trade is passing by all the time. I do
a very large business, as I meet only
the best people, and they seldom pay
cash but have an account. My depart-
ment contains only one line of shoes,
which retails at $3.50 per pair. Have
had a number of years’ experience with
the largest and finest shoe store in Bos-
ton, and am now the largest department
store east of Boston and in the State of
Maine.

Among the suggestions that I would
offer concerning a shoe department are
the following :

Keep the latest novelties always in
sight and study to decorate your de-
partment in original and attractive
ways. Make frequent changes. The
attractiveness of your display helps you
to make sales. Draw attention to what-
ever is new in your department. One
of the best trade winners is a well
dressed window. Take special pains in
your window decoration. Always keep
them well arranged and dusted.

Have pretty tables in your department
to display your goods on. I never have
such a thing as a bargain sale and
never have shop-worn goods %n_ hand,
our styles always being the latest de-
signs.

One of the most prominent advantages
in a specialty is that the manufacturers
keep in stock all kinds, in every size
from 2 to8 and AA to E. On this ac-
count the retailer is enabled to carry a
much smaller stock in his department,
whereby he can order direct and receive
his goods in three days at least, where
it takes other manufacturers from two
to three weeks to fill an order.

I have found it a very good system to
have three books, namely, stock, sur-
plus and display, and in this way I
know just what sizes I have on hand.
I also keep a memorandum of all goods
carried over from one season to an-
other, and in the event of having a call
for something out of season I can tell
at a glance whether I have it in stock
or not. When I receive goods from the
factory, I examine every pair carefully
before they are sold. The buyer must
be thoroughly acquainted with his stock ;
he must work in it to see what is selling
well and what is not being sold; he
must have the latest styles. Give all
your time to your department. Pay strict
attention to business. Do not go out for
an hour or so; it is a very bad practice.
Study to improve the arrangement of
your stock so as to enable you to find
everything quickly without hunting.
Always keep the most particular lines
in the most convenient places. A place
for every shoe and every shoe in its
place is a good suggestion to go by.

When a salesman takes down a carton
he must put it back where he got it
from. Never allow cartons to lay around
your counters; it clutters up your de-
partment and makes it look bad. I
believe in a stock number, such as 12
or 273, instead of marking cartons,
‘‘Women’s cloth top, kid lace boot,
Cuban heel,’’ which is by no means an
ornament to your department. Stock

boxes should be all one size, style and
color. Have a system for marking, for
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I thoroughly believe in advertising,
especially in the daily and Sunday
newspapers, also in large posters for bill
boards. They have a tendency to keep
the public informed on your shoes.
Change your newspaper advertisements
often. Write up clear, original advertise-
ments, and never let the same an-
nouncement appear twice. The advan-
tages of shoes in a department store are
many, and in the advertisements of the
store you can very often have an article
which acquaints women with the fact
that you have shoes to sell as well as
gloves, hosiery, etc.

Treat early customers cordially. Do
not allow them to feel that dusting or
arranging stock is of more importance
than their trade. Never allow a custom-
er to come into your department with-
out speaking to her. Always be courteous
and obliging to your customers; they
may become permanent patrons of your
department. The ‘‘lookers’’ go home
and tell their friends what they have
seen. They will either advertise for or
against your department. Try to call
them by name; in this way they feel at
home in your department, and your
trade will increase by so doing. Have
good salesmen, men who know how to
fit shoes and fit them correctly. A poor
salesman will drive away trade. The
manager should know in every case why
a customer does not buy. Have your
salesman suggest to a customer that you
will make an effort to get what she
wants, and have shoes made to her
measure. You thus make her understand
that you appreciate her patronage and
have a desire to be obliging, which
makes her feel that your shoe depart-
ment is the place above all others where
she can rely for good service. Acquire
the habit of doing everything quietly
and yet rapidly. Do everything thor-
oughly, and undertake nothing that you
can not do well.—C. C, Ferrers in Boot
and Shoe Recorder.

—__2.2.___
Fall Styles in Leggins and Overgaiters.

Early this season retailers predicted
that riding leggins would be passe, and
that riding boots would take their
place.. Contrary to their expectations
the demand has been stronger for riding
leggins than usual. None of the high
class makers dress a window now with-
out placing in it riding leggins both in
tan and black. The samples of over-
gaiters and leggins shown for fall are a
little different from those of the past
three years.

The leggin for which there will be the
greatest demand is made of jersey
cloth, and sold from infants’ size to
women’s size eight. Those buttoning
up over the knee will have a call, as
the jersey leggin which buttons only
eight inches is so difficult to be put on
that the heel usualiy tears the lining be-
fore the leggin is half worn out.

The zouave leggin of black or tan can-
vas, which has heretofore only been
sold for summer wear, will be much in
evidence this fall, especially for men.
It isa handy addition to any man’s outfit
who contemplates going ona hunting
expedition. It is also used in quanti-
ties in the Northwest. The Napoleon
leggin is more of an experiment, and
to all appearances is not as practical as
the zouave, the side lacing of which
makes it adjustable to almost any leg.

The styles of gaiters shown for fall
are of the regular seven-button cut, the

 

only exception being that a few are
shown with patent straps. Almost with-
out exception they have a small button
instead of the large one which has been
in use heretofore.

Velvets for children’s wear will have
a heavy sale. Red, blue, castor, brown
and gray are the most prominent
shades. Ooze cloth will take precedence
over the stiff cut leggin for boys’ wear.
The Fauntleroy cut will have a demand.
The leggin merchants are gradually
bringing into the market lambs’ wool
soles, and there is hardly a maker of
leggins in this country who has not
added to his plant either lambs’ wool
soles or hair insoles, which seem to
have caught on.

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A Michigan man who has recently re-
turned from Cuba says he was impressed
by two things during his stay in Hav-
ana—the strength of the coffee that is
served and the vast quantities of soda
biscuits of American manufacture con-
sumed by the natives. ‘‘It took me some
time to get accustomed to the coffee,’’
he said yesterday. ‘‘At first I used to
water it, but gradually I fell into the
Cubans’ way of drinking it, and learned
to like the strong, aromatic flavor. Our
own coffee now tastes weak ‘and insipid
tome. The poorer classes of Cubans
will make a meal from coffee and soda
biscuits. I learned that more of these
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of the American cities. Key West, al-

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TRADESMAN

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Village Improvement

What the Women of Montclair, New Jer-
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That day will be fortunate for Amer-
ica which shall see the great body of
federated club women united in a con-
certed movement for civic beauty.
When we consider that the National
Federation has members not only in
each city and town, but in every village
and hamlet in the United States and
Canada, we can have some realization
of what four million women, all work-
ing with one purpose in view, might
accomplish from one biennial meeting
to another or from one decade to an-
other if united.

When these four million women shall
have learned that outdoor art means not
only a knowledge of landscape garden-
ing, but a knowledge of two other of the
great arts, namely, architecture and
sculpture,and the beauty resulting when
these three are brought into proper
juxtaposition, then will America arise
and demand that a practical understand-
ing of these arts be taught in her
schools and colleges. The perfunctory
teaching of the day is not wanted, how-
ever, but an instruction that will enable
a graduate to lay out his home grounds
with relation to the buildings and the
trees about it.

There was a_ time when the general
idea of landscape gardening meant a
wavy walk that seemed to lead nowhere
in particular, with a_ bed of red gera-
niums and a cast-iron deer in the. mid-
dle foreground. Fortunately, we have
progressed since that period, and we
have banished the iron dogs and deer;
the middle foreground is now a grass
space and the flower beds are along the
division lines that border the house. If
we have fences, we use them as screens
upon which to hang vines that serve as
a background for the flowers in front of
them. We have learned to iove our
hardy annuals and shrubbery, and have
given tender plants theirtrue value. We
have grown to cherish each bulb that
blooms, and know how our borders may
be kept ablaze with flowers from early
spring to late autumn. All this and
much more do we know, but only of
late years bas this knowledge been ap-
plied to whole towns. It has remained
for the town and village improvement
associations to teach us what it means
to have yards that are attractive from
curbstone to alley. They have educated
children to have a proper regard not
only for the premises on which they
live, but for their share in beautifying
the public school grounds, teaching
them that, when they deface its walls,
break its windows, pull up its flowers
and destroy its trees, they are despoil-
ing their own property, a very foolish
thing to do, to say the least. I am told
that the National Federation of Clubs
has. seriously considered a national
movement along this line, but the man-
agers of more than one biennial meet-
ing have decided not to take up a new
work until that in hand has been accom-
plished, deeming it unwise to have too
many irons in the fire at once. Their
work of establishing free traveling
libraries is well under way, and the
growing restlessness of club women to
take up something besides purely liter-
ary work makes a new departure neces-
sary for the very existence of clubs.

A club member in Pennsylvania, who
consulted me about the formation of an
association, said that she had been
chairman of the civic committee for

 

several years, and she thought it high
time to do something besides write
papers on the subject. Asa result of
this enthusiasm her club formed a lively
organization which no doubt will ac-
complish good work in the town.

One of the most prominent improve-
ment leagues in America is at Mont-
clair, New Jersey, and among its mem-
bers are a number of representative club
women who are noted for their progres-
siveness. Among these women is Mrs.
T. A. Hall, who has given a_ thorough
exposition of the needs and duties of
woman’s work in municipal housekeep-
ing, showing what the Town Improve-
ment Association has done for Mont-
clair. From Mrs. Hall’s paper we quote
the following :

As women are the keepers of our
home, so let them have a watchful care
over the surroundings of that home.

One of the first benefits derived by
women from public work is that they
gradually lose sight of the narrow per-
sonal views of life, and advance to the
far higher altruistic plane.

In forming such an association one
important fact must be kept in view,
namely, that it is to offer assistance
and give suggestions, not to direct the
local authorities.

For some time the women of Mont-
clair had felt the need of a thorough
public house cleaning. The streets were
dirty and papers scattered about. Spots
that otherwise might be beautiful were
receptacles for the unsightly worn-out
wash boilers and tea-kettles that could
no longer send forth their songs of con-
tentment. Hints to the health officer
suggested themselves to us as we walked
our streets. The dairies supplying the
town needed inspection and close watch-
ing. We felt that in many ways an as-
sociated body of earnest women could
do much to help the city fathers by
looking after little details that must
necessarily be attended to. Consequent-
ly, in April, 1894, the first step taken
was to call together some of the club
women of the town. A committee was
appointed to draw up a constitution to
be voted on at the mass meeting. Mrs.
J. C. Croly (Jennie June) kindly con-
sented tc address us. The meeting was
enthusiastically attended by five hun-
dred women out of a population of ten
thousand’ inhabitants. The next step
after organizing was to send a commun-
ication to the town council declaring it
to be our object to work in harmony with
them, and assuring them of our loyalty
and support in their efforts to improve
the town.

We next became an incorporated
body, and were ready for work. Besides
the usual number of officers, we ap-
pointed ten standing committees, name-
ly, street, sanitary, finance, railroad,
children's auxiliary, preservation of
natural beauties, prevention of cruelty
to children, prevention of cruelty to
animals, and the park committee.

Under the supervision of the street
committee, galvanized iron barrels were
placed at intervals along our main
thoroughfares for the reception of rub-
bish, such as paper and fruit rinds.
Shopkeepers were asked to keep their
premises in good order. If they did
not comply with the request, the Town
Improvement Association sent a man
with a wheelbarrow (the latter labeled
T. 1. A.), and with broom and hoe a
general house cleaning took place. After
two or three visits of the T. I. A. man,
the proprietor generally took the hint
and attended to his premises himself.

The sanitary committee reports to the
health board any nuisance. The milk
supply has been carefully looked after,
the dairies inspected, and a map show-
ing the location of all the dairies placed
on file in the office of the town clerk,
where it may be seen by any house-
holder who cares to examine it.

The finance committee looks after our
funds, which amount to about three
hundred and fifty dollars each year.
Our annual dues are fifty cents a mem-
ber—a very reasonable sum indeed, and
within the reach of every interested per-
son.

The work of the humane committee is
to inspect the police station, see that it
is kept in sanitary condition, and the
prisoners properly treated. The rail-
road committee keeps a watchful eye
upon the stations, sees that they are
kept as neat as possible and the sur-
roundings made attractive.

The children’s auxiliary is formed of
eleven hundred school cbildren, who
have pledged themselves to work to-
gether to make Montclair a happier
place in which to live, by doing every-
thing they can to make the town more
healthful and beautiful. The different
classes from the school take charge of
flower beds around the buildings, attend
to the planting and keeping them in
order, which not only fosters early the
love of attractive surroundings, but en-
genders habits of neatness, local pride
and patriotism.

The committee for the preservation of
natural beauties has much to keep it
busy. They watch the fine trees of the
town, and if any are splitting, the own-
ers are notified to band them; dead
trees are cut down, and owners of un-
sightly fences are requested to remove
them. The burning of hedgerows is
forbidden, as it destroys the wild flowers
and leads to forest fires. The commit-
tees for prevention of cruelty to children
and animals are self-explanatory. They
are auxiliary to the state association,
and have full power to act. Lastly, the
park committee takes charge of any
waste pieces of ground, generally at the
intersection of roads, keeps them in or-
der, and plants shrubbery or makes
flower beds, as the case may be.

Jessie M. Good.

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How to Make the Crockery Department
Pay a Profit.

In taking up this subject we will di-
vide the country crockery dealers into
three classes, and most dealers will find
that they come under one head or the
other.

First. We have the merchant who
devotes about one-half his store to
crockery lines, which include glassware
and lamps, and the other half to either
groceries or hardware. This merchant
generally has a clean, bright stock of
goods to show his customers, and it will
be found (if he is at all wide awake)
that his customers are not continually
sending in mail orders to city depart-
ment stores and catalogue houses for
their wants in this line. He is always
buying something new to interest his
patrons, and instead of loading up
heavy and finding a large stock on hand
January 1, he buys small quantities
from his local jobbers, letting them carry
the stock for him. You will find this
class of crockery merchants making
money right along, and not kicking
about Montgomery Ward & Co., Sears,
Roebuck, etc.

Second. Comes the spasmodic mer-
chant who buys a spring and a fall bill
and for two or three weeks thereafter
makes a good display of new goods.
These are never cleaned up after their
first arrival, however, and are soon cov-
ered with dust, fly specked and stock
broken so that hardly an order can be
filled. How can a stock of that kind
pay? What merchant would pay so lit-
tle attention to his dry goods stock, or
his groceries? You must have what your
customers want, or you can not expect
their trade.

Third. We find the merchant who,
when a customer comes in looking for
crockery, takes him back under the
stairs, or into a dark corner, and there,
on one or two shelves six feet long, is
his ‘‘crockery stock’’—a few dirty,
dusty plates, cups and saucers, etc. No
decorated ware at all, a box of common
tumblers, and there syou are. This is
the merchant who can make the most
improvement and can just treble his
business in this line by waking up,
bringing his goods to the front, stock-
ing up with a few new goods to give his
stock a look of variety, and keeping
them clean. -

Here is the word that tells the tale:
Crockery and glassware seems to attract
dust and flies, and in the same propor-
tion the clerk thinks it will never do
for him to wash dishes. That is a
woman’s work, consequently the dishes
stay dirty and sales continue poor.

I don't believe in telling merchants
how to show their goods. They don’t
need such advice. Let them keep their
stock clean and put some of everything
they carry in sight, giving extra space
to different lines or new goods from

“time to time, and their customers will

do the rest.
In conclusion, Mr. Merchant, walk

into your store to-morrow morning as
an outsider—as though you came to buy
goods—and take a good long look at
your stock and its condition, the prices
on your goods and your window display,
and I feel satisfied you will find room
for improvement and will be able to rise
to the occasion and meet the issue.—
Commercial Bulletin.

Some of the Essentials to Success.
A main essential to success is a full
line of goods in the department in
which you are engaged. A broken and

incomplete retail stock of goods is meat

 

for the catalogue house. A customer
calls for a certain article in your line.
You had sold out and neglected to re-
order. He is disappointed. Goes
home without it, examines his cata-
logue and finds the identical article
wanted, price and ali. He sends for
it, gets it, and it gives satisfaction.
The way is opened for future orders,
and you have lost the best part of his
trade—the cash trade.

You are to blame in a certain sense
for opening the way to the catalogue
house. If you let your stock run down,
it is often not for the want of funds, or
credit, but from your own carelessness.
If your means are limited, the whole-
sale house is nearer you. Send an or-
der three times a week. Send a mail
order every day in the week, if need
be. Give small orders for each article,
but get samples on your shelves.

Another and most important element
in the routine of a successful business
firm is the taking of an annual inven-
tory—a rounding up, as it were, of the
year’s business. This is a hard job, but
it must be done. It necessitates a
week’s hard work, with no apparent
immediate financial gain. The stock
should be taken with great care, that
your invoice may give you a definite
knowledge of the year’s business. It
should be done at regular intervals, that
you may be enabled to compare one
years’ business with another. In the
course of time, the annual invoices be-
come a very interesting history of your
business.

I know there are those who think the
gains are ont worth the labor and pains
required. But let us look at the results
of an invoice. During the busy season
goods get out of place, and get mixed,
and sometimes get on a back shelf, out
of sight, and remain there until you in-
voice. At this time everything is found,
assorted, and put in sight.

If you find out of date goods, or dam-
aged goods, they are or should be put in
a conspicuous place, where they may
be sold at some price. A good sales-
man will sell anything you ask him to
sell. Such goods must be disposed of.
They are worth more than they will be
at the next stock taking.

At this time, fit up and repair all
locks out of order. Fix up your pumps
that have been robbed. Gather up the
parts of articles, and put them together.
Straighten things up generally. Start
out with a new, clean stock after in-
voicing. By so doing your stock will
never get shelf worn and out of date.
A $10,000 stock of goods should have
less than $100 worth of what is termed
unsalable goods.

One other thought: Stick to your
business. Perseverance brings success.
Don’t imagine every other dealer has a
better location and a better business
than yourself. The royal road to wealth
is fenced up. There are obstructions
all along the way. Remove them. Bet-
ter stay where you are. Haven't you
done well enough for the past year, for
the past ten years? Changing localities
is expensive, besides you are taking
chances on bettering your condition.

W. A. Mcintyre.
—_~> +>
They Let the Grocer Worry.

‘‘Does your husband worry about the
grocery bills?’’ asked the nagged-look-
ing lady.

‘‘Law, no,’’ said the lady with the
new silk skirt and the russet shoes,
‘*we let the grocer do all that.’’

——__> +.

If some men were to lose their reputa-

tion, they would be lucky.

A Trade Maker

Fanny Davenport

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B. J. Reynolds, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Also made with Metal Legs, or with Tennessee Marble Base.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Clothing

Fashions in Summer Suits and Furnish-
ings at Gotham.

As I walked down Fifth avenue last
Sunday after church | was struck by the
number of men who wore wing collars.
While the majority of well-dressed per-
sons in the throng wore the slightly
poke standing collar with their ascot
tie, a very large number wore the wing
collar with square corners. I did not
see any of the rounded corner variety.
The wing collar has found favor with
the well dressed and is the coming col-
lar for formal afternoon wear. I was
struck, too, by the preference that still
continues to be shown for the ascot tied
in the once-over fashion and fastened
with an inconspicuous gold pin. In
fact, in the matter of haberdashery the
only conspicuous departure from the
styles of the winter was seen in the wing
collar. The high turndown collar was
not worn and the shirts were nearly all
of plain white.

There seemed to be no decrease in
popularity of the frock coat. The con-
ventional double-breasted garment in
vicunas, worn buttoned, has not given
way noticeably to the braided coat or
the single-breasted frock, and it seemed
to me that frock coats of gray were not
aS numerous as might have been ex-
pected. The frock coats were well
shaped to the figure, and, of course,
there were all kinds and qualities of
them, but it seemed to me that the best
dressed man.had less of the hour glass
and tremendous shoulder appearance
than I have noticed at othertimes. Cut-
away frocks were not numerous and
walking suits were less so.

 

 

When canes were carried they were of
moderate size and not extreme either
way. The plain stick of natural wood
without adornment and with natural
curve, the stepped partridge, and the
bamboo in light colors were the prin-
cipal sticks noticed.

Whether the relation is one of cause
and effect or of effect and cause, it is
certain that with the coming of the
pleated negligee into style the Norfolk
jacket has come also. The Norfolk suit
will be worn this summer for all kinds
of out-of-door sports, and a very sensi-
ble and graceful style it is for the
sportsman.

A recent application of the Norfolk
idea is shown in the automobile suit.
The suit is made of cravenette cloth of
a dull brown color, as cravenette cloth,
with its waterproof qualities, affords
protection from the sudden storms that
are likely to overtake the automobilist,
while the color is best adapted to one
traveling in the dust of the highway.
The coat is made with two box pleats
in front and a military collar which
buttons close up to the neck. The top
button is exposed, the others are con-
cealed by the fly. The coat has four
patch pockets, buttoning with flaps, and
the sleeves have within them an ar-
rangement with draw string which,
with the gauntiets worn, keeps all dust
out of the sleeve. The trouser pockets
also are closed with buttons and the
trousers are belted either with a belt
attached to the band or with an extra
belt.

Another suit made of cravenette cloth
for the same purpose is made after the
style in fashion in France. It consists
of a loose blouse with a very deep col-
lar, which can be buttoned closely about
the neck. The sleeves close with but-
tons in the same manner, and the trou-

 

sers have straps and buckles about their
bottoms to permit of their being fas-
tened closely to the ankle.

StiH another suit, which is particular-
ly adapted to the needs of the ‘‘chauf-
feur’’ who wishes protection from grease
and dirt in handling his machine, is
made of sheepskin, finished soft, in
either tan or black. The coat is made
with military collar and is double
breasted, cut straight in front. It closes
with four buttons and its pockets are
protected by flaps. A soft thin flannel
is used for the lining, and with the
sheepskin trousers which accompany
it, it offers sure protection from in-
clement weather. This suit is alsoa
Parisian idea.

With all these ‘suits the regulation
automobilist’s cap is worn. This is
made with very full crown of glazed or
unglazed leather. I am not aware that
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automobilist’s shoe, although evidently
a high shoe ofa tan color would give
the greatest protection from dust and be
most in harmony with the costume.
Equipped with one of the suits de-
scribed, with stock and a soft negligee
shirt in fine flannel, linen or cotton, and
with goggles to save his eyesight, the
automobilist is ready for his journey.
While soft hats are not being worn
here as yet to any extent, it is safe to
say that the high-crowned gray felt,
with well-curled bound brim and of the
same general shape as the ‘‘Gran
Duc,’’ will be the favorite hat. The
perference for high crowns this year is
marked. But for out-of-door sports,
such as golf, hats on the sombrero or-
der, with low crowns and wide brims,
will be favorites. One attractive hat
for golf is made of felt of a tan color,
with leather band fastened by a strap

 

Write for prices and samples.

The best, after all ~~
Is the “Sterling” Overall. a

MORRIS W. MONTGOMERY,
Lansing, Mich.

 

at the side. The brim is either flat or “ 5
curled, with unbound edges. Another

attractive hat is made of white felt with ie
flat brim slightly curling at the edges.

For summer wear the hat worn by the ion fe
fashionable man will be a Panama
with well curled brim and with a wide a eee
band of black ribbed ribbon. In straws
of a less ultra quality the rough straw + +
with narrow brim and low crown will y
be in the best taste for young men, and en
the fine straw with a somewhat higher When placing your or-
crown for men of years and conserva- i te
tive tastes. Broad black or dark blue der for Fall 1901 the ques
bands will be worn on all hats, to the tion of VALUE should en- 44 2
exclusion of fancy bands.—Correspond- ter into consideration.
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happened to be a dry goods merchant, M W ] & : |
and who was teaching a class of very e I e O. >
little tots, asked when he had finished (
explaining the lesson: ‘*Now has any

one a question to ask?’’ ‘‘ Yes, sir; how
much are those little red parasols in
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Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—All heavy goods are
firm, owing to the increased strength of
the market for export goods. Ducks
and brown osnaburgs have moved along
in a quiet, uneventful way. Bleached
cottons are showing an interesting in-
crease in the amount of business, but
the character of the general buying
shows no special change. Wide sheet-
ings are quiet. Cotton flannels and
blankets are steady, and in coarse col-
ored cottons there is no change re-
ported.

Frints and Ginghams—In fine grades
of printed fabrics the market shows no
change. The reorder business is mod-
erate only, but prices are steady, with
the exception of some odds and ends.
Low grade percales are in very unsat-
isfactory condition and concessions of a
quarter of a cent per yard have been
made this week. Domets have shown
some improvement in the volume of
business, but no changes in prices.
Ginghams are steady, with a quiet de-
mand. Supplies of fine grades are
short. Deliveries on orders received
keep the stock down to very limited
proportions.

Dress Goods—The dress goods mar-
ket has continued quiet, orders being
few, small and far between. There has

 

 

- been a modest mail order business from

jobbers, they having evidently discov-
ered weak spots in their lines, or hav-
ing taken some orders, feel that they
are not taking any risk in ordering
additional goods in a careful way. The
jobbers have generally been very con-
servative in the volume and character of
their purchases since the season opened,
and consequently agents feel that as
soon as they do any business of moment
they are likely to do some reordering.
The manufacturing trade is standing
pretty pat just now. Cutters up have
taken hold of certain fabrics in a fairly
liberal manner since the season opened,
and until they secure some fair busi-
ness, it is unlikely that they will show
their hands in the fabric market to any
extent. The market is therefore in a
waiting position. The venetian holds a
position as regards sales all by itself,
and manufacturers show attractive fab-
rics of this class at equally attractive
prices, which are sold ahead anywhere
from three to five months. The broad-
cloth mills are also well situated, and
feel confident of rounding out a good
season.

Underwear—The° most interesting
feature of the week has been the com-
plete upset of the fleeced goods division
of the market. Reductions have been
made by nearly every manufacturer so
that a new standard is now established.
On well-known goods, the price of $3.25
has been set, although it is claimed that
they can not be made for this price,
except~at a loss. On many lines re-
ductions of 25c per dozen have been
made, and, as a result, those who
bought previous to the reduction are
now demanding rebates, and making
all manner of trouble. Agents hardty
know where they stand to-day on fleeced
underwear. So far but little has been
accomplished in fall business.

Hosiery—The retail trade in hosiery
for this spring has continued to be most
satisfactory. Naturally 25c and 5o0c
lines have led in the average haber-
dasher’s stock, but there has also been
an excellent business in lines selling at
7sc and $1, The fancy patterns that are

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in best demand are those with very fine
vertical stripes, grouped horizontal
stripes, or with some very neat figures or
polka dots. Besides these, some solid
colors are wanted, although not any-
where near aS many as were wanted a
year ago. Most of the vertical stripes
are very fine, of the hair line variety.
The horizontal stripes are much broad-
er, and many very brilliant colors are
found among them. Although less is
said about solid blacks, they are the
strongest feature of the retail trade, and
a steady, uninterrupted business is com-
ing to hand.

Carpets—On some lines of goods, such
as tapestry and velvet carpets, samples
have already been shown. It is a little
early yet to know what the prices will
be for the coming season. Wilton and
body Brussels manufacturers have prac-
tically completed their samples. Many
will show their goods with other lines.
Ingrain manufacturers are also ready to
accept orders, although some have been
delayed. Pressure brought upon rug
manufacturers in order to have them re-
duce prices has been abortive. They
have not yielded, and the trade are now
disposed to take the goods at manufac-
turers’ prices. Of late large sizes have
been sold beyond production, and job-
bers have been obliged to wait to have
their orders filled. Quality rather than
price seems to be the prevailing factor
in determining purchasing. They are
all low enough in price for quality de-
livered, as there is no profit in manu-
facturing rugs. Some jobbers report an
improvement in demand for jute Smyrna
rugs, but not in price. Some manu-
facturers have their new lines complete,
while others, who have not completed
old orders, will be delayed until May
20 in showing new lines. Buyers are
beginning to arrive in New York and
other markets, which indicates an early
opening of the fall season. Some expect
to obtain this week an idea of what the
prices of some lines of carpets will be.

Lace Curtains—Domestic manufactur-
ers have done a very nice business on
machine made lace curtains up to this
time, with a favorable outlook for much
larger business later on. The demand
of late has been for novelties in Not-
tingham, Irish point and Renaissance
goods ; also some attention is reported
as having been given to the brise-bise
styles, which continue to hold their

own well.
—_—_> 2. __

The Summer Girl.

Will wear a bunch of narrow black
velvet ribbon on everything she has.

Will have for house wear dainty
patent leather slippers, with high square
tongue and solid Cuban heels.

Will put her favorite friend’s face in
a round locket, which will swing from
a jong chain of coral and turquoise
beads. Maybe she may put a wee mir-
ror there instead.

Will have at least one linen-collar
gown in her summer wardrobe.

Will eat strawberries every day as
long as she can for her complexion.

Will own as many sashes as her purse
will permit.

Will wear her hair low with a ‘‘ Janice
curl.”’

Will have several of her blouses or
shirtwaists buttoned up the back.

——_». 2 >____
Forget About Yesterday.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept
in; forget them as soon as you can.
To-morrow will be a new day; begin
it well and serenely, and with too high
a spirit to be cumbered with your old
nonsense. This day is all that is good
and fair. It is too dear with its hopes
and invitations to waste a moment on
the yesterdays.

Send

 
  
  
 
 
 
   
   
    

  

Prices Right

G. H. GATES & CO., Detroit, Mich.

 

   

THAT WEARS WELL 1s
more profitable tothe merchant ¥
in the long run than the kind
that looks big in value and
falls short otherwise. We aim
to carry lines that prove good
> by actual test. It is possible
you may have to pay a trifle more for such
but it’s the only way to secure a good hosiery

business. Look us over if your stock is low.
\ VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO.,

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Hot Weather Goods

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of Organdies, Dimities and
Lawns left, ranging in widths
from 24 to 32 inches, in all the
newest colorings, such as light
grays, bright pinks, lemons, etc.,
which will be in great demand

Our line
Write for

this coming season.
bears inspection.
samples.

P. STEKETEE & SONS,
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Poultry

Peculiarities Pertaining to the Handling
of Poultry.

I met an old friend of mine the other
day who has been in the poultry busi-
ness a good many years and has had
large experience in handling dressed
poultry. He is a very close student of
market conditions and talks very enter-
tainingly on the characteristics of many
large buyers of poultry.

‘*A good many of your readers,’’ said
he, ‘‘would enjoy a visit to this market
and to stand around while some of our
large buyers are making their daily pur-
chases. Fora good many years I have
sold poultry to some of the best hotels
and restaurant keepers, as well as high
class butchers, and it is always inter-
esting to me to note their characteris-
tics. They are as a general thing very
fastidious buyers and always demand
fine quality. Frequently buyers for
preminent hotels or restaurants will tel-
ephone us for a supply of poultry, leav-
ing it to us to fill the orders with the very
best quality, and we always, of course,
endeavor to give them just what we
think they need. If we have not got it
ourselves we go on the market and buy
it. It would never do to give them
poorly dressed or poorly packed stock
as they would not take it. They get
high prices for the poultry when it is
served and their customers would not
patronize them if they did not get the
best. The first-class butchers, who in
many ¢ases dress their windows with
fine poultry, are generally very critical
buyers and demand fine appearing birds
for their customers. They generally
pick out the best for their show win-
dows and undoubtedly you have often
seen some of the butchers’ windows
dressed with meat and poultry which
are attractive and appetizing.

We probably get more amusement
selling to cheap trade. These buyers in
many instances shop around and fre-
quently wait until they find we are anx-
ious to clean up and willing to make
concessions in prices before they pur-
chase.. They are also very good judges
of quality, but owing to their trade buy
only the cheap stock. New York has
often been referred to asa dumping
ground for everything in the way of
poultry and I guess that we can sell al-
most anything in that line, but always
discourage the shipment of poor, thin,
unattractively dressed poultry as it sel-
dom brings shippers sufficient money
to warrant the expense of collecting,
dressing and shipping to market, but
at a price such stock will sel] here, and
it has often been astonishing to me how
some buyers manage to dispose of stock
they do purchase. When you get down
to the fine points of the poultry busi-
ness there is only one grade of stock for
shippers to handle and that is the very
best. Very poor poultry is worth no
more here than it is in the country; in
fact, it would be a good deal better if
country buyers would discriminate more
closely in their purchases and instead
of taking any old thing that is offered
to them buy only the best. Just at the
present time the poultry trade is a little
bit quiet. Most people are eating less
poultry and more vegetables, the latter

 

 

 

being comparatively cheap and growing
more so every day as the season ad-
vances. But there is a constant de-
mand at all seasons of the year for fine
quality of stock in this city and ship-
pers of such can always count on fairly
good prices.’’
+ +: &

Quite a good many complaints have
been heard the past few weeks of dressed
poultry arriving here short of ice and
more or less out of condition in conse-
quence. There is nearly always more
or less of this trouble in the spring of
the year. Weather may be cold at points
of shipment and packers think a moder-
ate quantity of ice will carry the stock
through all right, not calculating on
milder weather while in transit or when
it reaches its destination. Stock arriv-
ing without ice, even if in good order,
has to be forced for sale quickly and
more or less concession in price is nec-
essary to attract cheap buyers’ atten-
tion. But often such lots open up in
bad order with the poultry more or less
struck green and then any offerisa
good one and the shipper loses consider-
able money, which might have been
saved at a very small expense fora
trifle more ice when stock was packed
for shipment.—N. Y. Produce Review.

————__~» 4. ___
Wonderful Improvement in the California
Orange.

From the New York Sun.

Everybody who eats them has prob-
ably noticed that New York’s supply
of California oranges has never before
been so plentiful and cheap and good
as now. You can get big, sweet, juicy
navel oranges as low as two fora nickel.

Florida oranges have practically been
out of the market since the big freeze
in the fall of 1897. They will find things
somewhat changed when they get back.
A few years ago the superiority of the
Florida orange, particularly the Indian
River product, was unquestioned. The
California orange was coarse-grained,
les; juicy than the Floridas, deficient in
flavor and full of a stringy pulp that
was both disagreeable to the eater and
hard upon the digestion.

But a wonderful improvement has
been made within a comparatively
short time. The California orange to-
day is still coarse-grained and still lacks
some of the delicate flavor of the Flor-
ida or the Messina fruit, but its flavor
has been vastly improved. It is brim-
ming with juice and the tough fibre in
the best grade of oranges has almost
entirely disappeared.

It is not generally known that this
horticultural device for doing away with
the seeds in the ripened fruit was in-
troduced in this country by an obser-
vant American woman who called at-
tention of the Department of Agriculture
to it. This woman while traveling in
the Province of Bahia, Brazil, in 1868,
observed that the oranges of that prov-
ince were much superior to those raised
in the United States, and seedless as
well. She communicated with the Com-
missioner of Agriculture and as a result
twelve young plants were set from
Brazil to Washington.

——___»_24.____
Buy Canned Goods With Care.

No merchant can afford to lend his
endorsement to a line of canned goods
of doubtful quality. When the house-
wife selects her purchases for the table,
she is able to inspect her rice, eggs,
butter,. and cheese, but a can of peas or
a can of corn must be taken upon the
representation and reputation of the
grocer.

The foundation of many a grocer’s
trade lies in zealously protecting the

 

reputation of his store. If he exercises
care and discretion in selecting his
canned goods, they will prove a draw-
ing card, and his customers will con-
tinue and grow in number.
ee :

More men have been self-undone than

have been self-made.

 

 

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.

 

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Grand Rapids
Cold Storage Co.,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Citizens Phone 2600.
We do a general storage, and solicit
your patronage.

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1000 case lots and over, special rate on

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LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

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Highest Market Prices Paid
98 South Division Street,

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Regular Shipments Solicited.
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Retting & Evans

Wholesale

Fruits, Produce and Commission

Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Berries, Cabbage, Wax Beans

33 Ottawa Street,

Long Distance Phone 226

Ask for prices.

Plenty Home Vegetables Cheap Grand Rapids, Mich.

Citizens Phone 2039.

We buy Eggs and Butter on Commission.

 

FIELD SEEDS

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.

FIELD

PEAS

We buy and sell Eggs, Beans, Clover Seed, Potatoes, Apples.

MOSELEY BROS.

obbers of Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Potatoes

26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa Street

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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WANTED ;

1,006 Live Pigeons.

and Poultry. Will buy or handle for shippers’ account.

Will pay tcc each delivered Detroit; also Butter, Eggs j

Cold Storage and

Coolers in building.
GEO. N. HUFF & CoO.,
55 CADILLAC SQUARE, DETROIT, MICH.
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Butter and Eggs Wanted

Write for Cash Prices to

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

References: City Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies.

 

 

We solicit your shipments
of Fresh Eggs and Dairy
Butter.

 

 

 

Reference, Home Savings Bank, Detroit.

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Butter and Eggs

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.
One day last week an egg salesman

 

 

‘called my attention to a lot of eggs that

had occasioned considerable speculation
among those who had seen them as to
how they had been handled. The eggs
were of good size and very bright,
clean, handsome appearance. The
brand had previously been going out to
first-class buyers who liked the goods,
but recent shipments, although on cas-
ual inspection as fine as ever, had been
turned down. The parties who had
been using the goods gave no reason for
rejecting them except that they ‘‘didn’t
like them any more.’’ Close examina-
tion in the receivers’ store showed that
the eggs had been treated in some way.
They were covered with a very thin
coating of white substance so that the
filllers, where the eggs had_ rubbed
against them, showed a white spot and
when the eggs were handled consider-
ably the white material would stain the
hands. It was hard to get enough of
this substance to be sure what it was. It
was finally concluded that the eggs had
been washed—probably in an acid solu-
tion because they were so spotlessly
clean—and dried off in some sort of a
meal. They certainly had a beautiful
appearance, but the traces of the meal
(or whatever it was) gave them away.
No buyer wants washed eggs if he
knows it; they spoil in no time and
cause no end of trouble when placed in
the usual channels of trade.
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Some of the egg dealers are already
beginning to agitate the question of
‘‘loss off’? on egg sales and it is now
announced that the Egg Committee of
New York Mercantile Exchange has
concluded to change the general rule of
Exchange sales from ‘‘at mark’’ as now
to ‘‘loss off’’ as has been customary
heretofore in this market after the ad-
vancing season begins to make egg
qualities very irregular. For several
years past, although the official rule of
the trade has recognized the loss off sys-
tem of selling during most of the year,
there has been a steady reduction in the
amount of business done on this old-
fashioned basis. I have been in hopes
that the change would soon become so
general as to warrant the Egg Commit-
tee in making the Exchange rules cover
sales at mark only—at all seasons—but
it looks as if the habit of fixing a time
for official loss off business would go on
until the independent action of receiv-
ers themselves makes the loss off selling
entirely obsolete. It is rather curious
that, with egg shippers nearly all de-
sirous of having their eggs sold at mark,
and with a great majority of receivers
themselves expressing a preference for
case count sales when their opinion is
privately asked, the old habit clings
so tenaciously, as far as Exchange rules
are concerned. —N. Y. Produce Review.

——_~». +>
Evolution of the Process of Butter Mak-
ing.

For many years in the past there has
been a steady advance in the efforts of
buttermakers to improve their butter
product so as to make it a more valu-
able food product and more profitable
as a farm product. The evolution has
been gradual, but sure, practically start-

“ing, we may say, with a few pioneer

cows on the farm and the butter churned
in the old up-and-down dash churn and
worked by the farmer’s wife or

daughter with a ladle and packed into
small kegs or earthen crocks.

 

Later on the farmers in sections found
it profitable to keep more cows than
necessary to furnish milk and butter
for their families, and the surplus of
butter was taken to the nearest store by
the wife to trade for groceries and other
articles for family use. From this was
the starting point of shipping what
was called store-packed butter, which
was butter of all colors, all tastes, all
flavors and all textures, packed in all
styles of packages, from an old soap
box to a flour barrel. Later on the
ladle was used to work the butter into
uniform color and texture; this was
called ladle butter and was packed in
tubs for marketing. Later on the ma-
chine butter worker came into use and
the butter packers and shippers com-
menced to put them into general use in
their packing houses, and from these
packing houses, called factories, the
butter packed in them evolved the
name of factory butter.

The next evolution was the collecting
the cream from the farmers and to one
station, where the butter was churned
and shipped to market in a more uni-
form and more valuable shape, and the
evolution in this advance was attended
again by the name suggested by the
method of making the butter, ‘‘cream-
ery butter.’’

Following the gathered cream system
comes the centrifugal separator, which
seems to be the acme of mechanical
perfection, and a name is again evolved
for the butter and that is ‘‘separator
creamery.’’ It seems as if buttermak-
ing has climbed to the top of the ladder
now at the beginning of this century.
But who knows? for the world is still
very young in modern science, and _ be-
fore the next ten years have passed the
centrifugal separator may be superseded
by some modern invention and cast
aside as worthless as an old up-and-
down churn.

Now it may be asked, what has all of
this to do with renovated butter? We
will answer, possibly nothing, but ren-
ovated butter is destined to have a great
deal to do with all of the above, as it
has been proven beyond a doubt that
the renovating system of handling roll
and other classes of irregular butter is
the very latest valuable evolution in
butter science and its very name, as
forced upon the manufacturers and deal-
ers in the State of New York,isa stamp
of endorsement by the State, instead of
being a brand of scorn, as intended by
its enemies.

Renovate is derived from a Latin
word which means to make new again,
and is a very good word, but it should
have a name that means better than
new.

The renovated butter, when made
from fresh or sweet roll or other sweet
butter oil, and properly made, is des-
tined to have a prominent trade and is
destined to hold it.

The writer has investigated the sub-
ject both among the domestic trade and
among’ exporters, and the universal
opinion among those who handle the
best grades is that it is satisfactory to
them for many reasons, first, that it
will keep longer; second, that it has
fine flavor and aroma, and third, that
it gives satisfaction to the consumer.
There has been a prejudice against ren-
ovated butter, due to the fact that at first
the process of renovating was used
mostly in renovating old rancid butter
and grease butter, by which process the
butter oil was separated and then mixed
with clean acidified milk to replace the
old objectionable milk ingredients that

 

had been eliminated. This _ process
proved successful to such a degree that
the packers of process butter started to
work on finest fresh roll butter, securing
pure fresh butter oil, which is virtually
the same and of the same flavor as the
oil of the finest separator creamery but-
ter, provided that the cows have been
fed on the same feed ration.

After the pure oil has been separated
from the rolls the process is to renew or
renovate it by combining with the oil
fine fresh skim milk acidified to a high
degree and imparting a flavor and
aroma equal to the finest creamery but-
ter.

It is our opinion that the time is
drawing near when all mottled creamery
will be renovated and all bad flavors
due to the milk will be eliminated by
the process and the mottled and tainted
creameries will be things of the past
and the finest renovated butter will be
at the top of quotaticns instead of at
the bottom, as at present.

There is one point of special interest
to this country in seeking the foreign de-
mand for American butter and that is
the amount of milk and water and also
of salt, as it is an established fact that
the nearer butter is to pure butter fat
the longer it will keep sweet, especially
in warm climates.

Glucose, salt and water have badly
injured the reputation of the American
factory butter, and the new process has
come just in the ‘‘winter of discon-
tent,’’ and we look for a ‘‘glorious sum-
mer’’ to be made, not by the ‘‘son of
York,*’ but by the new process.—Prod -
uce Commission Merchant.

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The successful man always sticks to
one thing until he gets there. So does
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Write us for prices for

Butter
and Eggs

We pay prompt cash. Our

guarantee is worth some-

thing. We have been in

business in Detroit for over

forty years.

PETER SMITH & SONS
DETROIT, MICH.

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General Produce and Commission
Merchant,

Detroit, Mich.

I want your consignments of

Butter, Eggs,
Poultry.

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vestigate, Send for weekly quotations.

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You can pay more but
can not find better

Our stocks are still complete.

SEEDS

All orders filled promptly and properly.

The best and only the
best are sold by us

Wecarry

the largest stocks and best grades of seeds for the garden, farm and flower garden.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.

Seed Growers and [erchants

Grand Rapids, [lichigan

 

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.
Your order solicited.

Bond to every customer.

These goods stand
We give a Guarantee

THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO.,

TOLEDO, OHIO.

 

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APPLES, ONIONS, CABBAGE
NEW GARDEN TRUCK

Special low prices this week on

MESSINA LEMONS

Fine Long-Keeping Stock
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Messina

Stock is fine, in sound condition and good keepers.

Lemons

Price very low. Write or

wire for quotations.

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Successor to C. N. Rapp & Co. :
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18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.

Special Correspondence.

 

 

New York, May 11—The coffee mar-
ket appears to be going from bad to
worse. Foreign advices are of a char-
acter anything but encouraging and,
with a huge crop almost assured, we
have a prospect of continued low rates.
Leading coffee importers in their last
Rotterdam circular say the Rio crop is
almost sure to be 10,500,000 bags and
may be more by 1,500,000. Certainly
this is not the route to higher quota-
tions. In store and afloat the amount
aggregates 1,201,581 bags, against g6o, -
993 bags at the same time last year. At
the close No. 7 is barely steady at 64%@
63{c. Buyers are exhibiting hardly any
interest in the mild grades and yet
prices are pretty well sustained, holders
showing no disposition to sell Good
Cucuta for less than 8c.

A few days of rather active trade in
teas have been followed by the usual
quietude and the market closes flat and
without any practical change in quota-
tions. Country dealers appear to be
pretty well stocked and at the moment
hardly anything is doing.

There is a confident feeling in the
sugar market and sellers all around are
pessimistic in their views. Every in-
dication is for a large crop of fruits and
other stuff requiring free use of sugar,

and the chances for ‘‘success’’ are
good. Quotations are practically with-
out change.

Just about the same condition of
affairs prevails in the rice market which
has governed for some time. The vol-
ume of business is not large, but is all
that could be expected at this season.
Prices show no change.

No animation exists in spices. Pep-
per is reported in some quarters as
rather more interesting than last week,
but as a rule the-situation is practically
the same as for many weeks past. Prices
are pretty well sustained and this is the
best feature observable. Singapore pep-

per in an invoice way is worth 13@
134%c. Zanzibar cloves, 9@g\c.

Offerings of open kettle molasses are
small and prices are very firmly adhered
to. Mixed goods seem to sell as well
as the straight article. A limited trade
is doing in foreign grades.

There is more steadiness observable
in the canned goods market and the
general conditien of the market seems
to be better than for some time. The
dullest article is tomatoes, which appear
to be in full supply and meet with only
moderate request. Peas are doing well
and corn is selling in a moderate man-
ner at about unchanged quotations.
The birth of some new can factories is
chronicled this week, one of which
numbers among its incorporators C. M.
Fenton, of the Erie Preserving Co.

Dried currants have shown consider-
able strength and some very good sales
have been made on the basis of 9@g 4c.
Apricots have done well and prunes re-
main quiet. Some enquiry is being
made for peaches of a low grade and,
“upon the whole, the dried fruit market is
in better shape than for some time.

Lemons have been in better request
and, as warmer weather begins, the
rates of course advance. Sicily fruit
sells for $2.50@3.25 for 360s and $2.50@
4 for 300s, the latter for very fancy fruit.
Oranges are doing well and California
stock is worth up to $3.75 for navels.
Bananas are doing well at unchanged
quotations.

During the week the demand for but-
ter has been very active and at the close
the market is well cleaned up on all de-
sirable stock. An advance of about %c
has taken place and best Western
creamery is worth iI9%%c; imitation

 

creamery, 14%@17c; Western factory,
12% @13C¢.

The cheese situation is rather cheer-
less. Most ‘of the old stock is cleaned
out, but there is little demand for new
and prices seem to be hard to raise
above 8%c for full cream white. Ex-
porters are doing nothing at all.

Really desirable Western eggs are
working out at about 14c for fancy stor-
age packing and 13%c for regular pack.
Receipts are fairly large and prices are
not likely to advance further.

Beans are firm. Choice marrow, $2.50
@2.55; choice medium, $2. 10@2.12% ;
choice pea, $2.10; red kidney, $2.05.

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Taking Care of the Berry Stock.

Grocers and merchants generally re-
gard the approach of the berry season
with considerable apprehension. Asa
rule the advent of this fruit brings losses
to the retailer, and many of these losses
are heavy ones and cut into the profit
on other lines of goods to a marked ex-
tent. The perishable nature of berries
is probably the direct cause of most of
the losses, and this can be guarded
against to a certain extent, if due care
and judgment are used in handling this
class of merchandise.

No doubt it would be to the advan-
tage of nearly ever dealer in the North-
west if no berries were handled during
the season, but the public demands them
and in this case the dealer feels im-
pelled to meet the demands of the public
and feeling obliged to handle berries,
he should therefore at all times strive
to make his losses as light as_ possible.

One safeguard against losses exists in
the proper buying of berries. Those
that look soft and uninviting are almost
sure to bring loss. They decay rapidly,
move slowly from the store, and are un-
satisfactory to the consumer after they
have been purchased. Many _ times
while there is a pronounced demand for
berries, the retailer will find it to his
advantage to leave the soft and mussy
fruit alone, even if he loses some trade
through the fact that he has no _berrries
on hand. As far as possible firm, good
fruit should be bought by the retailer.

After the fruit arrives at the store, if
there is time or any time during the
day when it can be done, the clerks
might profitably be put at work sorting
out the decayed or decaying berries,
from the good ones. The latter should
be replaced in the box, and enough
may be added to give reasonably good
measure. Berries look very inviting if
they are placed uniform on the top of
the box but it scarcely pays to put all
the large ones on top and the smal! ones
beneath. People are well posted with
regard to this trick, and the first thing
they do if they are suspicious is to turn
the box upside down for the purpose of
inspecting the lower layers.

In displaying the berries they should
be kept in a shady and cool place, and
it is much better to keep them in the
store, on a display table where they can
be seen, than on the display counter in
the street where they collect a fine as-
sortment of grit and dirt. Some grocers
have become so enlightened that they
display but a few boxes at a time—just
enough to attract attention. The re-
mainder they keep either in the cellar or
in a refrigerator until such time as they
are wanted. Berries when kept ina
cool place, should also be kept in a dry

 

 

place. Moisture in a cool atmosphere
results in more rapid decay than in the
dry heat. It brings mold, and when
berries have once begun to mold, it is
almost impossible to save them. De-
cay after that comes very rapidly.

In handling berries the old axiom that
the first loss is always the smallest loss
is very appropriate. If berries begin
to wilt or decay, by closing them out in
a crate lot to the housewife at cost ora
little below cost, it very frequently hap-
pens that more can be realized from
them than by holding to a stated price,
selling a few boxes at that figure and
throwing the remainder into the gar-
bage barrel. They are perishable goods
and they have got to be moved quickly
and to the best advantage. It is better
policy to take the loss all at once, and
be sure that it is no more, than by risk-
ing a heavier loss in the end.—Com-
mercial Bulletin.

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Clay county, Ill., claims to have the
greatest area in the world in any one
county in apples. One orchard has 640
acres and the acreage of the entire
county is over 41,000. A late estimate
gives the county 2,000,000 trees. The
average age of the orchards is eleven
years, which gives them several years
of heavy bearing still. Fifty per cent.
of the trees are Ben Davis. Other pop-
ular varieties are Rome Beauty, Mis-
souri, Pippin, Jonathan and Gano.
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mad.

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Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake.

 

Better than coffee.
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.

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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.

 

 

 

       
    
        

 

Chicago. Kansas City.

VINEGAR

LAW PROOF.

Use our goods and avoid prosecution by Food Inspectors.

CIDER

The Standard of Excellence for 24 years.

     

For prices see price current.

     

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Our Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE JUICE VIN-
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We also guarantee it to be of full

Prosecute any person found using our

strength as required by law.

packages for cider or vinegar without first

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J. ROBINSON, Manager.

Benton Harbor, Michigan.

 

 

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Paraffining Cheese—Broken Boxes—Mark-
ing Weights.

“‘T don’t think I like that idea of
paraffining cheese,’’ said a receiver;
‘“‘in fact, I am quite positive that I
don’t. It may have some value under
certain conditions, but for general trad-
ing purposes I believe it will be seri-
ously objected to by most buyers. But
I am not going to discuss that matter
now; I'll merely keep track of it and
see what comes out of it, and I’ll not
be the last one to commend it if the
trade takes to it. I rather like the plan
of using a double bandage on cheese,’’
he continued. ‘‘Some years ago the
Marshfield factories always put two
bandages on and I used to think there
was not anything like it. In the winter
when cheese was naturally molded on
the surface, we used to remove the out-
side bandage and with a little brushing
down the cheese looked bright and
fine.’’

* * *

Looking over a large stock of new
cheese in one of the prominent houses
of the trade, I was struck by the num-
ber of broken boxes and covers and I
asked the seller what was the occasion
for such poor cooperage. ‘‘Well,’’ he
remarked, ‘‘the boxes may not have
been in the best condition when they
left the factory, and you will notice that
in many cases the boxes are either too
large or too small for the cheese, If you
could follow the cheese from the time
they leave the factory until they get on
the docks here or even into our store

you would see that they get pretty rough |

handling, and it is very essential to
have the cheese fit nicely in the box. I
do not mean that they must fit so snugly
that you can hardly get them out of the
box, for that is an infernal nuisance,
but I think that factorymen should al-
ways buy uniform size boxes, and then
be careful to have each cheese _practic-
ally the same size. The cover should fit
on tightly, and should rest on the top
of the cheese. Any decided motion of
the cheese in the box will tend to knock
off the cover and split the box. Often-
times in shipping, the cheese are piled
up in the cars in such a way that they
are easily knocked about by the jerking

of the cars.’’
*k * *

An exporter happened to come along
at that time and | asked him what his
experience was on the lines suggested
by the receiver. ‘‘Well,’’ he replied,
‘‘of course we re-cooper all the cheese
before we ship:them, but even then you
would be astonished to see the condition
in which they arrive on the other side.
In the first place I don’t think they
make as good boxes in the States as
they do in Canada. They are apparent-
ly not as strong. But there is one thing
especially that breaks the boxes and
that is the way they are loaded onto the
steamers. Some of the steamship lines
have a great net into which a dozen or
more boxes of cheese are tumbled; this
is hoisted from the dock, over the side
of the vessel,and lowered into the hold.
Sometimes the net strikes three or four
times and when it does, covers are
often broken off the boxes notwithstand-
ing the fact that the covers are nailed
on before they leave the receiving de-
pots. 1am inclined to think, however,
that you will hear of more broken boxes
and covers early in the season than you
will later. Many of the factories carry
over boxes from the previous year, and
these get so dry that they split easily.’’
By this time my friend saw how de-
sirous I was of getting some points that

would be helpful to the cheesemakers

 

and he started the conversation again.
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‘“The marking of weights on the
boxes is a matter that you can profitably
touch on,’’. he remarked. ‘‘All the
cheese are weighed at the factories and
the weights are marked on the side of
the boxes. Sometimes this is done with
an ordinary lead pencil and the figures
are so indistinct that they can hardly be
read. This often becomes a source of
dispute or bickering, and it is so easily
remedied that attention should be given
to it at once. It is not necessary to
write large black figures, but they should
be distinct enough to be easily seen.
One of the receivers has his regular fac-
tories use a stencil, and it is a capital
idea as there is never any question
about the weights. Then there is an-’
other matter in connection with mark-
ing the weights that should be corrected.
A number of factories are so careless in
this that the upper part of the figures
come within a quarter inch of the top of
the box, and if the boxes have to be
trimmed down the tops of the figures are
cut off. For instance, I saw a box of
cheese that weighed 67 pounds and the
weight was marked so high up that in
cutting down the box the top of the 7
was cut off. and it was tested on 61
pounds. Somebody lost six pounds.
I noticed some cheese on the Erie dock
the other day that were marked in about
the center of the box, and close up to
the lap, which insured it against being
rubbed off. I thought it was a pretty
good plan.’’—N. Y. Produce Reveiw.

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business conditions and the develop-
ment of the many natural advantages of
the town and surrounding country.
Nearly all the business men run on the
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town and a description of its excellent
location as a summer resort and man-
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induced Sears & Nichols, who have a
large canning factory at Chillicothe,
Ohio, to erect and operate a similar
plant there. One of the buildings is
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others are each 6ox150 feet. All are two
stories high. The engine and boiler
house will be 36x42. These buildings
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soon be ready for operation. They are
contracting with the farmers to plant
500 acres of peas, 600 acres of corn, and
as large an acreage as_ possible of
beans, beets and tomatoes. They will
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They expect to employ 600 to 700 hands
for six months in the year, 200 to 300
for the next three months and sixty to
seventy-five for the remainder of the
year. Considering the unusual resources
of the surrounding country in all things
which this company will require, it is
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Woman’s World

The Most Dangerous Book Published in
Twenty Years.

1 see that the first public victim of
‘*An English Woman’s Love Letters’’
has just been announced. A _ Boston
woman has just gone crazy from read-
ing them and has committed suicide.
She was a rich and educated married
woman who read incessantly and, after
indulging in an emotional debauch of
that dopey piece of literature, she shot
herself, because she had taken upa
mania that she was hopelessly in love
with some man who was not her hus-
band. The other man existed only in
her imagination, overwrought by ex-
cessive devotion to love fiction, but that
did not prevent the tragedy.

To my mind, ‘‘An English Woman’s
Love Letters’’ is the most dangerous
book that has been published in twenty
years. For one thing, it is a wild wal-
low of sentimentality that is irresistibly
fascinating to most women. For an-
other, it throws a halo of poetry and
romance about the biggest fool perform-
ance on earth. It justifies the sentimen-
tal letter. It makes attractive the spec-
tacle of a woman slopping over with
gush and spreading her heart out on
paper and ransacking the language for
red-hot terms in which to express her
devotion, and the worst of it is that this
baneful example is sure to have thous-
ands of followers. among women, who
will be inspired by it to indite letters
that they would give their eye teeth to
have back again.

These are the real] victims of such a
book. Not the one or two who may com-
mit suicide and whose names get in the
papers. The world is no worse off for
the loss of a few intemperate novel-
reading fiends, but it is worse off for
the unhappiness and shame and trouble
women can bring on themselves by
writing silly, sentimental! letters to men.
Compared to ‘‘An English Woman’s
Love Letters,’’ I should give a young
girl ‘‘Sappho,’’ or ‘‘Camille’’ for Sun-
day reading. If she had a grain of
sense in her head she would never be
tempted to imitate the example of hero-
ines whose whole lives were a vivid il-
lustration of the truth that the wages of
sin is death, but I should know that
nothing but almighty grace and a lack
of knowing how to write would save her
from sitting right down, after reading
‘*An English Woman’s Love Letters,’’
and sending off a ream of gushing
twaddle to some youth with whom she
fancied herself in love for the moment.

Just why it should always be a temp-
tation to women to write love letters,
nobody knows, but it is. All of us have
felt it. Some of us have had sense
enough to resist it. Most of us have
succumbed and written sentimental out-
pourings that it makes us blush even
yet to remember, and that leaves us won-
dering what the fool killer could have
been doing that he let us escape—prob-
ably because there was no use in mak-
ing an example of one when the crime
was universal.

Deep down in every woman's soul is
an unsatiable yearning to love and be
loved romantically. She may have
gumption enough to realize that bread
and butter are better and more satisfy-
ing in the long run than fine words.
She would not even, in all probability,
exchange her honest young grocer for
any long-haired poet who ever indited
sonnets to his lady’s eyebrows, but the
hunger for sentiment isstill there. This

 

 

 

 

the love letters supply to her. It is the
poetry and the glamor of the affair, and
the very moment a girl begins 10 feel
tender towards a man she begins to want
to express herself in mixed metaphors
and high-falutin’ phrases. Nine times
out of ten these lead her into saying
more than she intended to say. Itisa
kind of poetical license she allows _her-
self, and she hasn’t the faintest idea
how they read in cold blood to other
people.

If these effusions, in which a girl
gives herself away on every page and
bankrupts the dictionary on endear-
merits, were only addressed to the man
to whom she was betrothed and whom
she expected to marry, some excuse
might be offered for her folly, but this
is not the case. Girls write such letters
quite indiscriminately to any man with
whom they have a passing flirtation,
and the wonder is not that they get in-
to trouble so often, but that they escape
at all.

A pertinent illustration of this is be-
ing offered just now in New York,
where a few days ago a beautiful young
woman, who belongs to a rich and fash-
ionable family, drove to the police sta-
tion and hysterically begged the police
to give her a package of love letters she
had written to a man who had been ar-
rested for swindling and which were
found in the prisoner’s pocket. All she
knew of the man was that she had met
him at a summer resort and they had
gotten into a flirtation and a corres-
pondence, but she had written him  let-
ters that began, ‘‘My darling sweet-
heart,’’ and that ran the whole gamut of
affection. Her family had never even
heard of him, and she declared she
would be disgraced if the letters were
made public. She did not get her let-
ters back, though. It is always easier
to do things than it is to undo them.

Nor is this an isolated case. I can
match it with another that I knew per-
sonally of in Grand Rapids last winter,
where the gushing and silly letters of an
innocent young girl fell into the hands
of an evil and jealous woman, and it
was just by a miracle of good luck and
diplomacy that she was kept from using
them and hopelessly smirching the girl’s
name. Many a drummer goes about
with his pockets bulging with affection-
ate missives from girls all along his
route. Every good-looking actor is
simply bombarded with adoring letters,
that are only too sadly often compromis-
ing, from girls who do not even know
him by sight off the stage, but who feel
constrained to write and tell him of
their love. And the writers of these let-
ters, niné times out of ten, are girls of
good family and position, who ought to
know better, if they do not. I was once
talking to a popular matinee idol, and
asked him what he did with these silly
letters.

‘*Oh,’’ he replied, ‘‘I never bother
to read them. I give them to my wife;
they amuse her. I would send them to
the girls’ fathers if I thought there was
any hope of their turning the Mamies
and Sadies across their knees and giv-
ing them the spanking they deserve. ’’

Of course, when a woman writes a
silly, sentimental letter to a man she
justifies it by thinking nobody will see
it but the one to whom it is written,
and she soothes her one remaining
remnant of prudence by adding a post-
script saying, ‘‘Burn this.’’ It is time
for women to take the fact to heart that
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Ninety-nine show the letters you write
them and boast of your devotion and the
other one leaves your precious missives
around in bureau drawers and old coat
pockets. The locked desk, with the se-
cret compartment where women's love
letters are kept safely tied up with a
blue ribbon, is a fiction of the novelist.
It does not exist in real life. Be as-
sured of this, that if other people do
not read your letters, it is because they
don’t want to, not because they do not
have the opportunity. Keep this fact
steadily in mind when you write to
Henry Adolpbus.

Nor need any woman cry out on man
for lack of honor in this. Why should
he be more careful of your reputation
for discretion and reserve and maidenly
modesty than you are yourself? If you
put down in black and white that you
adore and worship Tom, Dick and
Harry, that you count the hours when
they are gone, and life is a howling
wilderness without their presence, I see
no particular reason why Tom, Dick
and Harry should keep a secret that you
have blazoned to the world. I say noth-
ing of those rash and reckless young
women who send kisses by mail, because
they are beyond the reach of any argu-
ment. That is a depth of folly that I
can not even imagine any woman de-
scending to.

Do not do it, girls. If you have
formed the sentimental letter-writing
habit, stop it right now. Never write
another one. Never write a man how
much you love him or call him pet
names until after you are married to him,
and then you won’t want to andyou will
be safe, for you will know that it is al-
ways better to keep something in re-
serve. If you feel so sentimental that you
are bound to gush, write it out and burn
it yourself. Then you will know it has
been destroyed ; but do not trust Henry
Adolphus to doit. He might show it
to that hateful Smith girl, who was your
rival; he might leave it around so that
the office boy and the other clerks would
have fun with it. Besides it is not cer-
tain you will marry Adolphus. Always
keep one eye on the future man. I have
known more than one promising affair
broken off by an old love letter turning
up inopportunely. Never send a letter
to a man until you have kept it twenty-
four hours in the ice box and are cer-
tain it is properly chilled.

In one of Miss Braddon’s most de-

-lightful stories the heroine is a great

flirt. ‘‘I have said all things to all
men,’’ she says with virtuous self-com-
mendation, ‘‘but, thank heaven, there
isn’t a scratch of my handwriting in the
length and breadth of England.’’ I
commend her example to all girls. Say
what you please, but do not gush on
paper.

I would also call your attention, little
sister, if you are enamored of ‘‘An
English Woman’s Love Letters,’’ and
feel like imitating her example, to the
ending of the book. She did not get
the man. He flew the coop at the last.
A great mystery is made of it, and the
matter is not explained, but I feel posi-
tively confident it was those letters that
did the business. No man could stand
that much sentiment. She choked him
to death on sugar plums.

Do not write too many letters any-
way, and when you do write make it
short. A twelve page letter is a crime
in these strenuous times. When it is
full of gushing sentiment it ought to be
a capital offense. Always keep your
tenderest thought to yourself, and re-
member that so long as men admire teh

 

bud more than the full-blown rose, just
so long will maidenly reserve be the very
flower and perfume of girlhood.

Dorothy Dix.
———>____-
Changeableness Her

Charm.

We have all laughed over the experi-
ence of the man of the world in ‘‘ The
Ambassador,’’ who said he had written
250 sonnets to as many different ladies
or to the same lady in 250 different
moods, but the cynicism, like all true
satire, has a grain of truth at its core.

Oliver Wendell Holmes declared
somewhere that every man is three per-
sons. The John Smith he thinks he is;
the John Smith other people think he is
and the John Smith he really is. If this
is true of man it is infinitely more true
of complex woman. She is no one
personality but a hundred and it is one
of the things that makes her of perpet-
ual interest. You can never be sure you
have guessed your riddle or really come
to the end of exploring the labyrinth of
any woman’s character. Just as you
think you know her like a book she does
the unexpected thing and you have to
start your study all over again from a
new point of view.

No sane person would undertake to
prophesy what a woman would do under
any given circumstances. We have all
seen the woman who would go into hys-
terics when the cook left meet a great
sorrow and calamity with the unflinching
courage of a hero. We have seen the
woman that we despised as a silly doll
baby rouse up in some emergency and
show an executive ability and a good
hard business sense that was nothing
short of miraculous, and, on the other
hand, we have known women who had
enjoyed a reputation for intelligence
and strength of character who simply
went to pieces and became nothing but
limp bundles of wails and reproaches in
the day of adversity.

If woman shows this many-sided view
of herself to the general world, the
diamond still has another facet when it
is turned to the man she loves. One of
the mysteries we all vainly try to solve
is what certain people see in each other
that mutually attracts them. ‘‘I can't
imagine what he saw in her to want to
marry her,’’ we cry, and, dullards that
we are, it never occurs to us that she
has shown him perhaps a side of her
nature of which we have never had even
a glimpse. The heart has many cham-
bers, but there is one—beautiful beyond
all the rest—to which the general world
never penetrates. Many a woman whom
we esteem dull and commonplace and
uninteresting has within that secret
apartment treasures of sympathy and
love and tenderness that would dazzle
us with their glory if only we could
penetrate into it and share its riches.

In a way this many-sidedness of wo-
man makes her seem fickle and capri-
cious. ‘You never know how to take a
woman,’’ men _ cry, _ disdainfully.
‘‘They will laugh in the morning at a
thing that shocks them in the afternoon.
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days running,’’ and so on, and women
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inconsistency is the result of a connec-
tion of ideas too subtle for men to un-
derstand,any more than the mercury can
explain why it shrinks in its tube at the
approach of a storm.

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chiefest charm. It is not variety of
which we tire, but the dead level of
monotony. Cora Stowell.

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**Gracious! my back’s 3lmost broke, ’’
said Phil Ramsay, as he straightened
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every row half a mile long and almost
ten acres of the blamed stuff. Father
expects me to pull it all. I’ve a good
mind to skip out.’’ He sat down be-
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soliloguy: ‘‘I wouldn’t mind the hard
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seems to please him. He is forever
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liam, '’ asked a pleasant-faced woman,
coming to the door.

‘*T was a wonderin’ why Phil wa’n't
in, to help with the milkin’,’’ answered
the man, crossly.

“*Most likely he was in the middle of
a row when quittin’ time come and
wanted to finish it,’’ replied his wife.
‘*He’ll be here shortly.’’

** Bosh !"’ exclaimed the man irritably.
**More’n likely he’s laid down and fell
asleep. He’s a gittin’ to be the pro-
vokin'’est youngster ’t ever was. I swan!
it beats me what’s got into him lately.”’

‘‘Now, William, you don’t ought to
be too harsh with Phil. The drivin’
process won't work with him nohow.”’

The woman came out and put her
hand on her husband’s arm. Her voice
seemed like a prayer as she continued:

“‘If you’d only let him see that you
love him more’n all the world besides,
he’d act different towards you, I’m
sure. He's a great big fellow, but he’s
only jest turned 16. If you’d jest put
yer arm around him once in a while,
when he sets down by you on the door-
step of an evenin’, you'd win his heart
back again, I know. He’s jest a achin’
fer some expression of affection from
you, while you hide yer love for him as
if *twere a thing to be ashamed on.”*

The woman turned and re-entered the

 

house. There were tears in her eyes.

The man walked slowly towards the
stable, a milk pail in each hand. His
anger towards his scn was by no means
appeased by what his wife had said.
He felt that she was talking nonsense,
yet he would not hurt her feelings by
saying so. He vented his spleen on the
cows instead, and as a result one of
them spilled a foaming pail of milk in
his lap. Had his son appeared at this
juncture there would have been no
doubt as to what would have happened

to him.
* * x

Just about this time an eastbound
freight train on the Union Pacific rail-
road was rushing along at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. A brakeman,
lantern in hand, was making his way
along the tops of the cars towards the
engine. Clambering down to a flat car
sandwiched into the middle of the train,
he discovered a boy seated in the cor-
ner, stealing a ride.

‘‘Hello, youngster!
think you’re going?’’

The boy was frightened, but he an-
swered bravely enough, ‘‘No place in
partic’lar, "cept as far as the train’ll
take me.”’

where do you

‘*Well, you don’t expect us to carry
you for nothing, do you?’’ the brake-
man enquired. ‘‘Got any money?’’

‘*Yes, I’ve got a dollar and seventy
cents,’’ the boy answered reluctantly;
‘‘but I need it to buy grub with till |
find a job.”’

‘*Where did you get on?’’

**Back at Walker’s Creek, where the
big grade is.’’

**Let me see, that’s over forty miles
you have ridden so far. On a passenger
train that would have cost you a dollar
and a half. You give me the seventy
cents and I'll call it square. You can
ride to Salina, thirty miles further.’’

Unwillingly the boy gave up his
precious money, which the brakeman
pocketed.

‘*Now remember, you will have to get
off just before we pull into the yard at
Salina. The railroad police arrest any-
body bumming rides, so don’t be fool
enough to get caught, or they’ll work
you on the chain-gang as a vagrant,’’
said the brakeman, as he clambered to
the top of the forward freight car and
disappeared.

With throbbing heart the young run-
away alighted from the train as it
slowed down to enter the yard at Salina.
How strange it seemed to be a wanderer
and homeless! The lights of the town
twinkled in the darkness; but there was
no friendliness in their gleam. He
knew that at that very moment there
was a lainp on the casement of a win-
dow seventy miles away shining across
the night to guide his footsteps home.
He thought of the love and anxiety that
shone in that light; of the tender, lov-
ing hands that had trimmed it and
made it bright forhim. His heart smote
him when he thought of his mother,
perhaps at that moment in tears, pray-
ing for his safe return. This veiw of his
conduct had not presented itself when,
with aching back and wounded heart,
he had left the corn field and struck
out across the prairie for the railroad.
Now, as he came face to face with the
stern reality of loneliness, his heart was
wrung with shame and anguish. How
kind and tender his mother had always
been, ever ready to intercede for him
with his father, whose patience he had
so often tried! Under the influence of

these thoughts he returned to the rail-

  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

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road with a half-formed resolve to board
the first train going towards home.

While he waited beside the track
pride gradually took the place of his
better resolve as a picture of his humil-
iation, should he return, presented itself
to his mind. His father’s anger, the
dreadful thrashing, the jeers of his ac-
quaintances all passed before him in
rapid review. The power of the gen-
tle mother’s love to call him back van-
ished before pride’s insistance and he
again turned his face towards the town.

One by one the lights went out as the
homeless lad wandered aimlessly from
street to street. He had spent twenty-
five cents of his precious dollar for bis
supper and, discovering that it would
cost fifty cents for a-bed, had deter-
mined to sleep outdoor. He remem-
bered passing a haystack on the edge of
the town, and was walking dejectedly
in that direction when a_ policeman
stopped him and demanded to know his
business. The boy answered truth-
fully, but the officer was not satisfied
and at once placed him under arrest.

‘‘I’ll find you a bed in the lock-up
to-night, young man, and I miss my
guess if you don’t wish you’d never
seen the town of Salina!’’

Realizing that resistance was useless,
and frightened beyond the power of
speech, the boy walked jailward be-
side his captor.

Ashamed and_ humiliated, with
parched tongue and trembling limbs,
Phil Ramsay stood in the justice’s court
next morning, and heard himself sen-
tenced to the chain-gang for thirty days.
The charge was vagrancy. The horror
and disgrace of it all! What would his
father and mother think if they knew?
He looked with tearful eyes into the face
of the judge, but there was no sign of
pity. He held out his hands suppli-
catingly only to hear the judge com-
mand, with brutal distinctness, ‘‘ Take
him away and put him to work and
when his time is up see that he leaves

the town.’’
* * x

Night after night a lamp that was
trimmed and burning stood in the win-
dow casement of the farm house on the
prairie, sending its gleam far into the
darkness. Many times each night anx-
ious, hope-inspired eves followed its
rays only to turn away tear-dimmed and
disappointed.

‘*You might just as well pull down
the blind, Mary,’’ said Mr. Ramsay, as
he followed his wifejs straining gaze.
‘*Phil has thrown us over for good. It's
more than a month now since he left
and he hasn’t written you a line. You
better make up yer mind that he wa’n't
wuth yer love th’n to be a worryin’ yer-
self to death a thinkin’ every sound you
hear in the night is him a comin’
home. ”’

‘‘Don’t, William, don’t!’’ exclaimed
his wife. ‘‘Ye’ll break my heart if ye
talk like that. I can’t bearto hear ye
Say aught ag’in the boy. He's gota
good kind heart and if he only knew
how mine is bein’ broke day by day
I’m sure he'd come home to me!’’

+ ee

Late that night a heavy freight train,
going west, labored up the grade from
Walker’s Creek. Two brakemen were
seated on the top of one of the cars.

‘*Did you take in any coin this trip
yet?’’ one asked of the other.

‘*Yes,’’ was the reply, ‘‘I got a half
a dollar out of a youngster that got on at
Wilson’s Station. He swore to God it
was all he had. He said he was going
to get off along here somewhere. I'll

 

go back after a bit and
the truth.’’

‘“What do you suppose that light,
away off there on the prairie, is kept
burning for night after night?’’ en-
quired the man who had first spoken.

‘‘Hain’t an idee,’’ was the careless
reply, ‘‘unless they’re afraid tosleep in
the dark.’’

There were other eyes besides theirs
that looked at that light and their owrer

knew why it was kept burning.
ee

An hour later there was a timid knock
at the farm house door. Eager answer-
ing footsteps crossed the room within
and the door was opened wide.

see if he told

‘*Phillip!’’
**Mother!’’ Mac Allan.
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‘Can Multiply in Sixty-four Different Ways.
From the Indianapolis News.

Arthur F. Griffith, commonly known
as the lightning calculator, and con-
ceded to be the greatest mathematician
in Indiana, was .born on a farm near
Milford, July 13, 1880. From the time
he was able to talk until the present his
whole thought has been on the subject
of mathematics. When but a small lad
he would frequently count the number
of potatoes his mother peeled, or the
number of the ears of corn husked by
his father. One day he counted the
number of sticks of wood sawed hy sev-
eral men, the total being 6,583.

When Griffith was to years old his
parents moved to Milford, and for the
next seven years he attended the public
schools there. The teachers were un-
able to teach him anything in the line
of mathematics, and found it very diffi-

cult to interest him in anything else ;.

so, at the age of
ceased.

The extent and diversity of Griffith's
mathematical knowledge was first known
to the public about two years ago, and
since that time he has been progressing
rapidly in all branches of his favorite
study.

Sornewhat doubting what he had heard
of Griffith, Ernest H. Lindley, associate
professor of psychology at Indiana Uni-
versity, sent for him in November,
1899. Griffith remained at the Univer-
sity for three months, studying algebra
and giving exhibitions before the
classes. Atthe end of three months, in
charge of Prof. Lindley, he was taken
to Yale University at New Haven,
Conn., where he dumbfounded all by
his rapid calculating and the able man-
ner in which he could explain how he
could work all problems propounded to
him.

Griffith is about 5 feet 8 inches in
height and weighs 180 pounds. His hair
is very dark and his eyes iet black and
exceedingly bright. He talks very fast
and with a slight break in his speech,
which makes it somewhat difficult to
understand him.

Griffith now has eight different meth-
ods of his own for addition, ten for
division and sixty-four for multiplica-
tion. He can take any number between
g70 and 1,000 and raise it to the fifth
power in thirty-nine seconds without
the use of either pencil or paper, while
in working with pencil and paper 360
Operations are necessary. Griffith can
mentally add three columns at a time,
divide any set of figures, multiply any
set of figures in from one to forty sec-
onds and extract square and cube roots
in from three to fifteen seconds. He re-
members every problem that he works.
The kardest test which he has yet been
given, so he claims, is to stand and see
a freight train pass with twenty or thirty
cars and then tell the number of each
car in order and to what road each be-
longs.

17 his education

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Window Dressing

Trims Appropriate to the Early Summer
Season.

Already the first breath of hot weather
is felt and the trimmer is reminded
that he must prepare to give his win-
dows an appearance attractive to the
perspiring man on the street. Awnings
are to be put in shape and although that
is not a part of his work, it affects his
work because the awning helps or hin-
ders him in his displays. A fresh, cool-
appearing window is more and more
necessary every day, and the soft
bosomed shirts, belts, summer neckwear
and clothing that are displayed demand
surroundings that suggest comfort and
coolness and not the snug warmth and
heat of winter.

 

 

Negligee shirts and belts should from
now on begin to occupy a conspicuous
position in the windows. These shirts
with the loose folds and the graceful
shapes that they easily assume look far
better when they are shown in the win-
dow with collar and tie placed in _posi-
tion on them. Bent lightly over the bar,
with belts twisted upon the bar in neat
shapes on either side of them, they
make an attractive display that ought
to be profitable. An attractive mixed
trim can be made by hanging negligee
shirts on the bars in the manner sug-
gested and covering the floor of the
window with boxes of belts or single
belts knotted in different shapes, to-
gether with gloves and bunches of scarfs
spread out at intervais in fan shapes.

x * *

It is well to devote one window en-
tirely to suspenders at this season of the
year, for when men are buying their

 

spring clothing they should make a
change of suspenders also. A good ar-
rangement of suspenders can be made
by setting in the window two or three
haberdasher’s trees, on each bar of
which a box of the suspenders is fas-
tened with the suspenders in the box
displayed in the package. One or more
pairs of the suspenders are draped on
each bar about the box and the floor of
the window is occupied by window
stands and boxes set on end, all being
arranged irregularly, but so that the
contents of the boxes are visible to the
onlooker. Another way of displaying
suspenders is to fasten a pair flat on an
oblong strip of paper, which is then fas-
tened by mucilage to the glass of the
window, with the suspenders pressed
close to the glass. This method of dis-
play is unusual and has the advantage
of utilizing little space, while the light
shut out from the display need be as lit-
tle or as much as the trimmer desires.
* * *

Turnips, while useful, are not ordi-
narily ornamental, but an ingenious
window man has found a way to utilize
them in his windows. He take a large
turnip and cuts out a good-sized hollow
in its bottom. This hollow he fills with
water and then suspends the turnip in
his window, bottom upwards, by means
of a cord tied about it. The water and
the heat of the window cause the turnip
to put forth shoots which twine upwards
about it, and are curious to see, if not
beautiful. As a means of introducing
vegetation into the window some trim-
mer may find the turnip man’s idea use-

ful or suggestive.
*x* * *

‘In the spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love,’’ and
it is likewise true that the young man

 

who meditates calling upon a young
lady will arra@y himself in the best- that
his means afford. On dusky spring and
summer evenings he will stand with his
companion at the garden gate and talk
and talk until older people wonder what
he can find tosay. This habit of the
young man can form the subject of a
spring clothing trim. Across the back
of the window runs a_ whitewashed
picket fence with a gateway in the
middle and with the gate slightly ajar.
On one side of the gate stands a female
figure, while on the other side, with his
arm stealing in the direction of her
waist, is a young man dressed from
head to foot in the extreme of youthful
elegance. The home of the young lady
is seen in the background against a
night sky in which the stars are shin-
ing. The foreground of the window
shows the various articles of clothing
and furnishings that are required by
the young man who wishes to appear at
his best on spring evenings. Window
cards which call the attention of young
men to the social exigencies of the sea-
son will be appropriate. Instead of a
simple picket fence an arched gateway
and stone wall can be put in. The
wooden framework is covered with bur-
lap, which is painted a stone color, with
size colors. Vines are then trained over

it to give it a natural appearance.
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In many parts of our country the
early part of the month of May is cele-
brated by the children with parties, ex-
cursions to the woods and fields, and by
hanging baskets filled with wild flowers
on the doorknobs of their friends. These
celebrations of the coming of May come
down to us, antiquarians say, from the
time when our ancestors were tree wor-
shippers. Certainly they are;very_pretty

 

observances and contain also a hint for
the trimmer who is now putting in his
May trims of children’s clothing. Fancy
baskets filled with wild flowers can be
introduced into May trims. They can
be attached to the various window fix-
tures by bands of ribbon or scattered
about the floor of the window, while the
window cards are illustrated with de-
signs and display phrases referring to
the coming of May. Another idea is
to put in a representation of a children’s
May party. A May-pole is erected in
the middle of the window with a circle
of children around it, each child hold-
ing in its hand the end of a strip of rib-
bon or cloth, the other end of which is
attached to the top of the pole. The
ribbon or strips of cloth are of different
colors. The pole is an ordinary pole
painted in various colors, with a sheaf
of flowers bound to its top. The back-
ground of the window can be filled by a
painted drop representing a May land-
scape. The children’s figures can be
dressed in a variety of costumes, more
or less fancy, according to the tastes
and means of the trimmer. Such a pic-
ture window is appropriate, inexpensive
and attractive, while the grouping is
very simple, things which can not be
said of all picture windows.—Apparel

Gazette.
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To Keep Away Mice.

A scientist now tells us he has dis-
covered that mice have a wonderful an-
tipathy to peppermint oil, and that
some of it placed around their haunts
will successfully keep them away.
There are a good many who are contin-
ually fighting these little pests, and the
suggestion may be worth trying. There
are many objections to the use of poi-
sonous articles for the elimination of
mice, and this discovery, if proven to
be effectual, will?no doubt be a boon; to
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the _ eee
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President, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand
retary, A. W. Srirt, Jackson;

: easurer,
JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit.

 

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. (. T.
Senior Counselor, W R. Compron; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

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President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, Gko. F. OWEN,
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Arrangements For the U. C. T. Trip to
Kalamazoo.

Grand Rapids, May 14—One of the
biggest, jolliest and best things that
Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, United
Commercial Travelers, has for some
time looked forward to is its trip to
Kalamazoo next Friday morning to at-
tend the meeting of the Grand Council.
All of the arrangements are perfected.
A special train has been secured on the
G. R. & I., which will leave the union
depot at 9 o’clock sharp. The girls are
requested to be on time at the depot and
the boys are to report at the Council
rooms at 8 o’clock in marching uni-
form and march to the depot, headed by
the band, jolly Franklin Pierce carrvy-
ing the elegant new U. C. T. banner.
All having hats are requested to bring
them to the hall, and those not already
supplied will be furnished them. {[t is
earnestly hoped that every member will
report at the hall, so as to make as large
a showing as possible on the way to the
depot, but if it is not possible to get to
the hall, don’t miss the train at the ap-
pointed time, for it will not wait. The
Entertainment Committee in Kalamazoo
has spared no pains to make all ar-
rangements for the comfort and accom-
modation of its invited guests. The
report also comes from the Committee
to the effect that the Board of Managers
of the Insane Asylum will not, during
the convention, receive patients wear-
ing a U. C. T. badge. JaDee.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Any traveling man who happens to
know of a practical hotel keeper who is
seeking a location will do him a favor
by suggesting that he investigate the
advantages of Coopersville.

A Hillsdale correspondent writes: D.
L. Kinne, who has conducted the Keefer
house of this city for the past two years,
has sold the lease and furniture to W.
S. Pettinger, of Trenton, N. J., who
took possession to-day. Mr. Kinne
will go to Coldwater in a few days,
where he has purchased the Arlington
house.

Kalamazoo Telegraph: John Van
Brook has a position on the road with
the French Garment Co., of this city,
with territory in Illinois. He will make
Chicago headquarters. Mr. Van Brook
will be greatly missed at the Olin,
White & Olin store, where he has been
employed for thirtéen years, and by
many friends in Kalamazoo. He isa
member of Kalamazoo Lodge, No. 25,
K. of P., and Kalamazoo Company No.
g, uniform rank.

Marquette Mining Journal: Post-
master O. G. Youngquist has received
the resignation of Assistant Postmaster
Edward Farnham, to take effect as soon
as his successor is appointed. Mr.
Farnham is to take a more lucrative
position on the road for Morrison,
Plummer & Co., wholesale druggists of
Chicago. It is abouta year since Mr.
Farnham went into the postoffice as Dr,
Youngquist’s assistant. Since that time
he has made many friends in the postal

 

department, who will be sorry to lose
him as a fellow worker.

Hancock Copper Journal: W. A.
Washburn has taken a position as _trav-
eling salesman for Houghton county
with Close & Bawden, the Hancock
wholesale and retail warehousemen, and
will enter upon his new duties Monday.
Mr. Washburn is an energetic business
man and will make a success of his
work. He is a member of the Han-
cock council and for two years con-
ducted a men’s furnishing store here,
selling out the business late last winter
to Frank Francis & Co. Close & Baw-
den handle flour and other mill stuffs
and building materials, including brick,
lime, sewer pipe, etc. Mr. Washburn
will sell these lines and will ‘‘make’’
Calumet, Lake Linden, Houghton and
Hancock.

>> —___
Bankruptcy Law and Commercial Paper.

President J. B. Forgan, of the First
National bank of Chicago, recently
made an address-in Minneapolis before
the Bank Clerks’ Association, of that
city, in which he called attention to a
defect of the federal bankruptcy law
which is believed to have heen previous-
ly overlooked. It is that no provision
is made for contingent liabilities in the
law. In other words, a bankrupt may
have indorsed commercial paper which
at the time of his going into bankruptcy
is not yet due, but upon which at matur-
ity it is found necessary to fall back up-
on his indorsement. Such a liability
against a person in bankruptcy is worth-
less unless the paper matures in time to
file the claim with other liabilities. The
First National bank has _ therefore
adopted the plan of requiring the fol-
lowing guaranty of each person selling
it commercial paper:

I guarantee payment of the within
note or bill promptly at maturity, or if
the undersigned should become insol-
vent prior to such maturity (notwith-
standing the note or bill may not be due
by its terms) promptly on the occurrence
of such insolvency.

President Forgan also referred to the
present condition of the money market,
with commercial paper scarce and _ in-
vestment brokers representing Eastern
capital bidding with banks for local
lines of credit which hitherto the banks
have had at paying rates, as an _ invest-
ment for their deposits. As a stimulzus
to business enterprise an easy money
market may be considered desirable,
but from the view point of the banks
Mr. Forgan summarizes it as follows:

With a plethora of money, a scarcity
of desirable paper, an army of brokers
soliciting it, and all the banks hunger-
ing for it at rates which leave no mar-
gin to provide for possible losses, the
commercial paper market cannot be
said to be in either a natural, a healthy

or a Satisfactory condition.
——_20._

Great ingenuity is often displayed by
office holders to geta salary. Something
new in that line is reported from Vine-
land, N. J., whose mayor under the
charter is a non-salaried official. In
order to get to the public crib the chief
executive has succeeded in having him-
self appointed as janitor of the city
hall, and although the salary is a small
one, only $25 a month, he counts it bet-
ter than nothing. The other candidates
for the office of janitor were a colored
policeman, the public dog catcher and
three women. The mayor by virtue of
his greater political influence distanced
all competitors and secures the janitor-

ship and the salary.
—__>0>___

Men and watches are judged by their

works; both have wheels.

 

DONT’S.

 

Good Warm Advice for Commercial Trav-
elers.

Don’t come into a store trying to sell
goods with a cigar in your mouth. It
isn’t business like.

Don’t come into the store chewing
gum or tobacco. It doesn’t look nice.

Don’t be fresh with the salesladies
even although you happen to have
sold them goods before; you lose their
respect.

Don’t, under any circumstances, ask
a buyer out for a drink or a dinner. It
isn’t right, and the man who employs
buyets would not encourage this under
any conditions.

Don’t pull out your order book and
say you sold Olney & Judson so much,
and Phelps-Brace so many. The aver-
age buyer doesn’t care a rap what you
sold the other fellow.

Don’t show your temper when the
buyer tells you he can not use your
goods this time. It is bad taste and
may Cause you to lose a second attempt
to show your samples.

Don’t tell a buyer he ought to buy a
dozen of this when he gives you an or-
der for a half dozen. He knows what
he needs better than you do.

Don’t accept a small order sneeringly ;
remember, ‘‘From small acorns large
trees grow.’’

Don’t make a buyer feel as if you
knew it all, and he didn’t. It makes
him feel sore against you, and you will
be the loser.

Don’t ever bring another drummer in
the store and introduce him to the buy:
er. This is a presumption that the
buyer doesn’t relish.

Don't ever tell a buyer you came all
the way from New York to see him and
sell him goods. This doesn't go nowa-
days.

Don’t promise to give one firm the
control of an article unless you mean
it. If you don’t keep your promise your
name is *‘Dennis’’ forever more.

Don’t make any promises unless you
intend keeping them. Better not prom-
ise too much.

Don’t speak disparagingly of a com-
petitor’s goods. This never accom-
plishes any good.

Don’t give a buyer a duplicate, un-
less your firm’s name and address is on
that duplicate. This is important.

Don't say mean things about a buy-
er, although you have cause to guard
your mouth. You may sell him some
day, if you keep your tongue, but you
never will if you cast mean remarks.

Don’t bribe a buyer. It is despic-
able, low, contemptible. Should you
occasionally make a sale this way, you
will surely regret it in the long run.

—__> 0. ___

A Puzzle to the Age.

The Standard Oil Company is spoken
of variously. Sometimes it is called an
octopus. If so it is the biggest octopus
the world ever saw. Sometimes it is
spoken of as a great benevolent organi-
zation, giving employment to hundreds
of thousands, keeping the price of oil
down, and thus benefiting a large part
of the world. If this representation be
true it stands as the most stupendous
union of philanthropy and self-interest
the world has ever seen.

Some years ago, with the aid of the
press and the decision of courts, we at-
tempted to follow the allegations of cor-
ruption, oppressive exaction, and ex-
tortion against the congeries of corpora-
tions included in this company; but
when the cases were wound up, while
we found many of them to be false, by

 

the common consent of all concerned,
in tracking others we were in wander-
ing mazes lost. There are men high in
its management, whom we believe in-
capable of doing a thing which they re-
gard as dishonest or unjust. But the
whole scheme with its ramifications is
so colossal, its power so vast, and its
retinue of legal counsel and experts in-
cludes so much brains and knowledge,
that we watch the growth, note the at-
tempts to overthrow it, read the state-
ments of its benefits and the fierce de-
nunciations by its opponents, and won-
der whereunto it will grow and how
soon it will be top-heavy.—Christian
Advocate.

 

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Found the Thieves of His Turkey Fruit.

Rochester, N. Y., May 11—James H.
Breeze, crier of the Rochester courts,
found his turkey eggs disappearing so
fast that he got the hired man to watch
for the thief. There was an insane man
in the vicinity of Parma, Mr. Breeze’s
home, at the time and he was suspected
of stealing them. After he was taken
back to the asylum the eggs continued
to disappear. The hired man found
nothing.

Finally Mr. Breeze got tired of pay-
ing double wages without apparent re-
sults, and decided to be his own de-
tective. He discovered that the thief
was only a black crow, after all. Mr.
Breeze one day came upon an egg which
he knew was newly laid. Standing be-
side the ivory-white egg was a black
crow, and the crow was eagerly devour-
ing the egg. The next day more turkey
eggs disappeared, and the cawing of
the crows back of the house irritated the
court crier more than he could tell.
Then the hired man irritated him still
further by saying that the crows were
pulling up his young grain.

Mr. Breeze was told by one of the
neighbors to:soak some corn in strych-
nine and kill the crows with it. He
tried it, but instead of the crows dying
two turkeys gave up their lives after
eating the poisoned grain. His next
experiment was to insert a quantity of
strychnine in turkey eggs and strew
them around the yard. In two days the
bodies of six crows adorned the back
field. So Mr. Breeze thinks he has
proved that crows are egg thieves.

SaRaEEEEaadtikaite amie

New York City schools abandon the
vertical system of penmanship, and re-
turn to the slanting style. Criticism
from business houses of the vertical
style brought in by graduates of the
schools are said to have brought about
the change.

A Hotel Mantesooes
Wanted

with some capital, to build and con-
duct a first-class hotel in the ——
village of Coopersville, Mich., locat
on the line of the finest interurban
railway in America. No better open-
ing in the State. A paying invest-
ment for the right man. A fine site,
with plenty of foundation stone, can
be bought cheap if taken soon. For
articulars address C. DeVos, Secre-
ary Business Men’s Association,
Coopersville, Mich.

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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.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

 

 

Term expires
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw -_ - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
A. C. SOHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904
JOHN D. MutIR, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905

President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Secretary, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, 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.
President—CHAS. F. MANN, Detroit.
Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit
Treasurer—W. K. SCHMIDT, Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

Profitable Side Lines For Country Drug-
gists.

When we speak of side lines, we en-
ter a field limitless in extent and replete
with resources. In the good old days,
long since gone by, there was no de-
mand nor necessity for such innovations ;
but as the exploiters of our profession
multiplied and competition increased
it became necessary for additions to the
regular line of stock to be made in or-
der that the traditional ‘‘two ends’’
might not become estranged. Those
whom we Call pioneers in the profession
tell us that cigars and choice tobaccos
were one of the first additions to be
made. But now these articles are con-
sidered an essential and not an auxil-
iary. So intimately associated with the
business have they become, in fact,
that it has taken a judge of the Supreme
Court of one of our New England States
to decide that cigars are not drugs.
Toilet articles and sick-room requisites
come next in order of succession, no
doubt, and they, with the soda foun-
tain, have also from long association
come to be regarded as _ indispensables.
High grade confectionery, paints, oils
and stationery have also won a stable
position as necessary adjuncts.

Among the more recent acquisitions
are uptical goods, wall paper, photo-
graphic supplies, fishing tackle, athletic
goods, insecticides, plants and flowers;
yes, and in isolated cases, light lunch
counters in connection with the soda
fountain. Of these, the old standbys
(cigars, toilet articles, sick-room requi-
sites, confectionery, stationery, paints
and oils) are expected to be kept in
every drug store and hence do not re-
quire the attention in our advertising
that should be bestowed on the newer
additions. However, these stocks
should be kept fresh and should be
displayed at as good advantage as_pos-
sible at all times, as stale, out-of-date
goods in an unkempt condition are sure
to direct trade to your competitor. Your
friends will: stand -by you only so long
as you use them as well ora little bet-
ter than the other fellow does.

In agricultural districts there is a
large and increasing demand for in-
secticides of various kinds, ranging
from Paris green to Bordeaux mixture.
There are standard formulae for the
more common sprays and mixtures, and
a few carefully conducted experiments
will enable one to evolve others; then
by doing a little judicious missionary
- work among the farmers, explaining to
them the merits of each kind for par-
ticular 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 antici-
.pate the wants of the farmer in this
direction and attempts to overcharge for
what preparations he does keep, he can
not justly complain if the trade is grad-

 

ually absorbed by other lines of busi-
ness conducted by men of better judg-
ment and business discretion. Favor-
able legislation gave druggists an ap-
preciable advantage by charging ex-
cessive prices, but they have lost nearly
all this business since ‘‘the bars were
let down.’’ It pays to be just, even if
you have a corner in the market.

An ingenious method of advertising
stationery and wall paper is to make up
a quantity of envelopes from wall paper
and havea neat, catchy advertisement
printed either on wall paper or some
special brand of stationery you wish to
call attention to, and mail it to your cus-
tomers. A mailed circular will receive
careful attention where an ‘‘under-the-
door’’ variety is never noticed.

Many pharmacists perfect themselves
in fitting glasses, and find the invest-
ment of labor and time incurred a
profitable one. This branch should be
given more attention than it receives,
especially from country druggists, whose
customers live remote from regular
oculists and opticians.

Photographic supplies are undoubted-
ly becoming the most popular side line
of the day. The camera ‘‘fiend’’ is
everywherepresent and must needs in-
dulge in all the fads pertaining to the
business, and to whom shall he turn for
supplies but to the ever accommodating
knight of the pestle and postage stamp?
The chemicals required in making the
various baths and solutions are a part
of our legitimate stock, anyway, and
the mechanical supplies can be readily
classed with stationery and like goods;
and besides, many of us belong to the
aforesaid class of ‘‘fiends’’ and hence
are in a position to give valuable ad-
vice to the uninitiated, those usually
referred to as amateurs.

It is not an infrequent occurrence to
see dark rooms in connection with the
store, where developing may be done
either by the proprietor for profit, or it
may be maintained for the convenience
of patrons as a feeder for business. The
idea is worth considering, anyway.

Athletic and sporting goods are car-
ried by nearly all country druggists and
by many town druggists; they are con-
venient lines to handle, as they hold
sway only for a short season and the de-
mand for them is usually brisk. A
limited space display in one of your
windows is generally all that is needed
in the way of advertising, using a lib-
eral supply of price cards if the com-
petition be sharp.

As for plants and flowers, they speak
for themselves ; and while not yielding
a great profit, they are very useful for
decorating purposes and attract atten-
tion and trade from a class of customers
not reached in other ways.

I have no sympathy with the theory
advanced and practiced by some, who
convert their places of business into
miniature department stores, dabbling
in miscellaneous notions and succeed-
ing in nothing, thereby lowering their
professional] standing without adding to
their commercial prestige.

In general, only those side lines
should be handled that do not encroach
on your neighbor’s business. If your
brother druggist is supplying all the
needs of the neighborhood with a cer-
tain line, better let him continue and
thrive and yourself .launch out in a field
not already occupied, where you may
also thrive, than to inaugurate an op-
position to him in which you are sure to
have a price war and finally get the
trade in such a condition that there is
nothing in it for either of you,

 

Wars of conquest are no longer toler-
ated among the enlightened nations of
the earth; neither should unjust compe-
tition exist among the members of a
profession supposed to be actuated by a
high sense of honor, justice and consid-
eration for the rights of others.

S. R. Crabtree.
———_>0.—___
The Drug Market.

Opium—Continued favorable reports
from the growing crop have brought
about another decline. The article is
tending lower.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—On account of higher prices
paid for cinchona bark at the Amster-
dam sale, the New York Quinine &
Chemical Works has advanced its price
2c. It is now the same price as P. &
W. German manufacturers have not as
yet advanced, but are expected to ina
day or two.

Alcohol—The 4c advance noted last:

week was withdrawn by the distillers,

Cocaine—The advance of $1 per oz.,
noted last week, is well maintained, and
it is very firm on account of a further
advance in cocoa leaves.

Quicksilver—Is very firm. A further
advance is looked for.

Mercurial Preparations—Are as yet
unchanged.

Oil Lemon Grass—Is very scarce and
has been advanced.

Oil Anise—Is tending higher.

Oil Peppermint—Has been advanced.

Short Buchu Leaves—Are scarce and
firm.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm and _ tend-
ing higher.

Please the Children.

A prominent St. Louis druggist who
is located near one of the public schools
has a barrel of gumdrops of various
colors dumped in his show window,
which he advertises and sells at an _un-
usually low price. For one penny a
child can get enough gum and sweet for
a whole crowd of school children. He
also advertises car tickets and postage
stamps taken at face value. He says
he sells this special article below cost,
but that he finds his old Sunday school
lessons true, that when you sow seed on
fertile Soil it will bring a ten or even
a hundred fold crop.

——_—o- 2-2 —___-
Vaseline For Deformities.

A remarkable surgical resource is
published by Dr. Gernusy, of Vienna,
based on the fact that vaseline, injected
into living animal tissues, is unalter-
able and non-irritating. It would raise
depressed scars or flattened features, or
fill out the place of bones partly re-
moved, until new tissues were formed;
also constrict varices and _ hernias,
counteract incontinence from dilation,
and tide over excisions. Le Semaine
Medicale gives the directions—white
sterilized vaseline composed of solid
and liquid paraffine, melting at 40 deg.
Fahrenheit.

Blood-Writing.

Ask anybody for a wooden match, and
on a piece of blank paper (previously
prepared) write your name in bold,
blood-red characters. This is accom-
plished by having first rubbed over the
surface of a sheet of note paper some
red iodide of mercury with a piece of
cork. Take the paper so prepared and
hold it over the flame of a candle or
lamp, slowing moving it to prevent
burning. The red color will quickly
disappear. Anything now written or
drawn on the paper with a pointed
piece of wood will appear as if written
in blood,

 

Foam For Soda Water.

This: may be made by adding the
white of one egg to one pint of water,
stirring well, and, after standing for a
short time, straining, or, better, if it is
not all to be used at once, adding to
eight ounces of water, straining and
adding an equal quantity of syrup—the
latter tending to preserve it, This can
be used in the proportion of the white
of one egg to the gallon of syrup, being
one-half greater quantity than is usually
recommended.

—_———__-o-0 2. -.—
A man’s body may be an earthly ten-
ement, but he objects to being called a

Talk No. 7

Remember Consultation by [ail or.at
Office is Absolutely Free

Dr. Rankin has been established in the same
office ten years and his practice is sufficient evi-
dence of his skill.

Catarrh, Head and Throat

Is the voice husky?

Do you ache all over?

Is the nose stopped up?

Do you snore at night?

Does the nose bleed easily?

Is this worse toward night?

Does the nose itch and burn?

Is there pain in front of head?

Is there pain across the eyes?

Is your sense of smell leaving?

Is the throat dry in the morning?
Are you losing your sense of taste?
Do you sleep with the mouth open?
Have you a pain behind breast bone?
Does the nose stop up toward night?

 

 

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 Treatment” is
well known and highly efficient. Send for free
symptom blank.

 

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Fred Brundage

Wholesale Druggist
32 and 34 Western av., Muskegon, Mich-

 

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Heematox, S....... 14@ 15] Gentiana....._ 0.15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... 50
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Ferru ae fanaden. e _ Miscellaneous
Jarbonate Precip... 15 Hellebore, Alba, po. 1 15 | ther, Spts.Nit.? F 30@ 35
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25/ Inula, po............ 4 29 | Hither, Spts. Nit.4F 3@ 38
Citrate Soluble...... 75 Ipecac, po......2..77 3 60@ 3 75 mney 24@ 3
Ferrocyanidum _ 40 | Iris plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40|Alumen, gro’d.po.7 3@ 4
Solut. Chloride. . 15 oo 6
.. 9 | Jalapa, pr........... 25@ 30| Annatto..............
Sulphate, com’l. . weaee aranta, %s........ @ 35| Antimoni, 4@ 5
Sulphate, =" - Podophyllum, po... 22@ 25 ‘Antimonie Potass T 40@ 50
bbl, per ewt. . ie 75@ 1 00 Antipyrin .. i @
Sulphate, pure.. 7 Rhel, ae @ 1 25| Antifebrin .... 2.22: @ 2
Flora hei S ase ote 75@ 1 35 | Argenti N om OZ... @ 651
Arnica ee 18 Spigel 35@ 38] Arsenicum.......... 10@_ 12
SS Sanguinaria.. 0. 15 @ 18| Balm Gilead Buds... 383@ 40
Anthemis............ 22 25 'p
Matricaria Sa 35 on seus 40@ 45| BismuthS.N.. 80@ 1 8&5
sina Sene 60@ 65 | Calcium Chior., “is. @ 9
Folia Smilax, officinalis 1 H. @ 40| Calcium Chlor., 4s. @ 10
Baro: 38@ 40/ Smilax, M.. @ 25| Calcium Chior., 4s. @ 12
Cassia y Acutifol, ‘Tin- Scilla: BO. 35 10@ 12/| Cantharides, Rus.po @ 380
nevelly .. 2@ 25 Symplocarpus, F ceti- Capsici Fructus, @ 15
Cassia, Acutifol, Aix. 25@ 30| ‘dus, po............ @ 25/| Capsici Fructus, po. @
Salvia ‘officinalis, 4s Valoriona. Ene. po. 30 @ 2 Capsici Fructus B, po @ 1
Said 4B oo...) se 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20| Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14
Uva Ursi. : 8 10 | Zingiber a........... 14@_=:16 | Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
zingiber Sa 23@ 27| Cera Alba.......... 50O@ «5S
Gammi j Cera Flava.......... 40@ 42
Acacia, 1st picked... 65 pone Coceus . @ 40
Acacia, 2d picked .. 45 | Anisum .......po. @ 12) Cassia Fruetus.. @ 35
Acacia, 3d picked.. 35 apium (g (gravéieons). 13@ = 15 | Centraria. @ 10
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28 z 41®@ 6 elnonann.. @ 44
Acacia, po. . pr 65 Carui ecsoleale cia -po. "18 12@@ 13 Chloroform . 55@ 60
Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 12 14| Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 75 | Chloroform, ‘squibbs @ 110
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 12 | Coriandrum... — 8@ 10} Chloral = Crst.... 1 40@ 1 65
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 30 | Cannabis Sativa. |... 44%@ 5 | Chondrus............ 2@ 25
Ammoniac..........- 60 | Cydonium........... boa 1 00 Cinchonidine, P.&W 3@ 48
Assafcetida....po.45 45@ 50/ Chenopodium . 12| Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Benzoinum.......... 50) 55 | Dipter Odorate.. "1 eB12 Cocaine ............. 6 55@ 6 75
Catechu, 18........:. 13 | Foeniculum.......... @ 0 | Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 70
Catechu, 4S......... 14} Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9|Creosotum........... 35
ea SG (ie 4@_~=s Bs | Crea... 2
Ksuphorb ees Sas 73 | Lini, ee. eee bbl.4 4%@ _ 5| Creta, prep.......... 5
orbium.. -~ ” @ _ 40} Lobelia 35@ 40) Creta, precip........ 11
a @ 1 00} Pharlaris Canarian:. 4%@ __s5 | Creta, Rubra odes @ 8
65@ 70) Rapa 44@ 5 Crocus 30
@ _ 30/ Sinapis Alba.. 9@ 10/ Cudbear..... @ «4
@ 75/|Sinapis Nigra. 11@ = 12| Cupri Suiph. 644@ 8
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ont «po. $0005.20 3 50a 3 60 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, allnumbes. @ 8
Shellac .............. 2 35 Frumenti, D.F.R.. taste Emery pO @ 6
Shellac, bleached. 40@ 45 | Frumenti............ 1 50) Ergota’ 9 8@ 9
ae, 55: 60@ 90 Juniperis « —< T.. oe — Flake e Witte Pe 12@ 15
Herba Saac N. £.:!: 1 90@ 2 10| Gala. cite a
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 60 | Gambler a a
a .0z. pkg 20 ni Oporto... - 1 25@ 2 00| Gelatin’ French. .... 35@ 60
Sea ee oz. pkg 25 ni Biv ccs sce 2 2 Glassware, flint, box 75 & 5
jorum ....0z. pkg 28 Sponges Less than box 70
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 ’ 1@ 13
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 a sheeps’ wool . ee 1b 35
Feeaootum ¥ oc. PRE Sz | Nassau sheeps wool | GIVG® 4G
Thymus, V...02. Pkg 25 | velvet extra sheeps’ Humulus 25@ 55
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @150 Hpdrarg. Chlor Mite @ 1 00
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 2
Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, age..... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub’m g 1 10
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20 Com sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati 1 20
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20 @100| HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60
ohein. Hard, for slate use. 6.3) .---- @ 8
Yellow Reet, for chthyobolla, Am 6@ 70
Absinthium......... 6 50@ 7 00! slate use........... @140 Indigo........ 75@ 1 00
ase 65 Iodine, Resubi...... 3 40@ 3 60
8 25 odoform..... 3 6@ 3 8
2 20 60 | Lycopodiu so 8
2 Lycopodium
2 90 50 Macls occ Oe ae
851 60 — “Arsen et Hy-
80 50 wont Sp oe @ 2
10 50 ——— otags Arsinit 10@ 12
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Morphia, S., P. & W. 2 35@ 2 60 | Sinapis ao @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 64 67
Moi = 8., i. ¥. = Te ‘opt... es @ 30| Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
. 2 25@ 2 50 uaa De Spirits Turpentine... 39 | 45
Machen Canton: @ 4 @
yristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80 snuit Scotch, De Vo’s @ 41 | Paints BBL. LB.
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 Soda, Berag. 7... 7% iH
Os Sepia... 35@ 37! Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8
Pepsin as H.& P. Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @A
Seo. @ 1 00/ Soda, Carb.......... 1%4@ 2| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
—_ Lia. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb : 5 | Putty, commercial.. 214 24@3
Seem c @ 2 00| Soda, Ash...... 3%@ 4/| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts.. @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas. . @ 2) Vermilion, Prime
Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 Spts. Cologne... @ 260; American . 1@ 15
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50|Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55/| Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75
Piper Nigra...po.22 - @ 18] Spts. Myrcia Dom.. @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 4@ 18
— Alba.. —_— 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular.. 13@ 16
Piix Burgun...... 08 7 | Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @ Lead, a es 6%@ 7
Plumbi Acet......... 12 a Vini Rect. 10gal @ | Lead, white. ........ 64@ 7
Pulvis Ipecac et oH 1 300 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect.5 gal @ | Whiting, white Span @ 9
Pyrethrum, boxes Strychnia, Crystal... 80@ 1 05 | | woe gilders’.. @ 9%
0., doz @ 75} Sulphur, Subl 2%@  4/| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 2
eiceen BV.....: 25@ 30| Sulphur, Bou. .. 24@ 34 | | Whee. Paris, Eng.
Quassiz.............. 8@  10| Tamarinds.......... @ 140
Quinia, S.P.& W... 36@ 46/Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30 | | weaaeemead Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Quinia,S. German.. 34@ 44| Theobrome.. Le 60@ 65}
Quinta No Vo... Sie 44) Vania . 9 00@16 00 | Varnishes
Rubia Tinctorum.... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. 7@ 8}
ee pv 18@ 20 Oils | No. 1 Turp Coach. . 1 10@ 1 20
ee Se ee 4 50@ 4 75 Exverea Turp........... 1 60@ 1 70
enguie — 40@ 50 BBL. GAL. | Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00
po, W.. 12@ 14} Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
see Be 10 «=-12| Lard, extra.......... 60 70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Sapo G.. @ ii Lard, No.1.......... 45 50 | Jap.Dryer,No. 1Turp 70o@ 75

 

 

 

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, Columbia, pints. . ek Zz
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- | Columbia, i a... 16 * ae
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their = filled at CARHON tts :
rket prices at date of purchase. MpORne 668s... - @u CREAM TARTAR an
Te - Perfection. » @10 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes. ....30
ae — : oa Bulk in sacks.. ae yy
. 8. Gasoline.........
ADVANCED DECLINED Deodorized Naphtha.. @10 —— FRUITS
Cylinder............... 29 @34 Package Sundried . Ppies
Currants Domestic Cheese Engine 19 @ uD @i% ~
Lee caime ke scan Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. ‘boxes. @5%
Codfish3 Family Whitefish Black, winter.......... Calif ia F
_CHEESE A ceae fornia a . ee
—... a “ani | Blackberries <0. °°.
Amboy City. “ “ @9 McLaughlin's XXXX Nemes a a
Elsie... Ae @10% McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to POOMON oo 8 @l1
Emblem a @10 retailers only. Mail all orders | Pears.................. ‘
Gem...... ae @ direct to W. F. McLaughlin & oe eens... Thy % Py
Index to Markets f 2 Gold Waa... 8M 0.4 Catone. © ae sapere :
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By Columns ALABASTINE BUTTER COLOR Rivers 3 = pales Clty He gross... : ‘iipecete gp ren —, ee Ye
White in drums............. g| W., R. & Co.’s, 15e size.... 1 25 Brick .. 14@15 Henne fs foil % gross. 90-100 25 Ib. boxes . @4
Col. | Colors in drums............. 10 W. R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.... 2 00 Hummel’s tin % gross oo 25 - boxes . @ 4% ~
A bt sce = ——— Soc ce cone = sissies oon a Leiden. - ee eu Substitutes 60-70 3 Ib. soni : 3 ea
ee ee 5 | Colors in packages.......... c Light, 8s............ OT... 2... ee Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake 3 : :
a . Less 46 per cent discount. | Electric Light, 16s... ....12% | Pinea - Be 50@75 | 12 packages, % case......... 1 75 deo —- = ating = @ 6% * oe
Ammonia....... 1 AMMONIA aoe oo eee Sap : 19@20 | 24 packages, 1case .. .....350| 35-4998 Ib; bose. =
Axle Grease......... 1 Per Doz. Wice ee ee = CHEWING GUM CONDENSED MILK % cent less In 56 Ib. cases i
B Arctic 12 oz. ovals........... 75 ~~. ANNED GOODS’ American Flag Spruce.. 55 4 doz in case. Chie vr Res
ee , | Afetic pints. round.......... 1 10 Apples ee ton ee: 60 Gail Borden Eagle .......... 6 40] reghorn n a
ee, 1 AXLE GREASE 3 1b. Standards... 70 | Largest Gum Made G0 | CIOWD.-+- 0+ cree eeeeene ee -++-8 28 | Corstean oo ee
ae doz. gross | Gallons, standards. . 2 00 55 nth "4 BO ietante
Ee en ae 1; Aurore ..55  =-6 00 Blackberries 00 4 95 | California, . Ib. package... 10%
Brees 1| Castor Oil: : -..--60 7 CQ} Standards........... 75 55 "23 75 | Imported,'1 Ib package... 1037 --<
Butter Color.................. 2 Diamond 0. o ae . ; — 55 d = 35 Imported, bulk..... 1... 10%
Wee ee 14 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 a - : ; : ; : ; i - 75@ = COUPON BOOKS Citron dinetne ts Ib. bx. 13 =~ 4 »
Se 2 as 85 50 books, any denom... 1 50| Lemon American 10 Ib. bx. "10%
ee Penes.---— 2-- 2 : Blueberries 100 books, any denom... 2 50 | Orange American 10 Ib. bx .. 10% ae
ee ie cee 3 Sik 95 | F s “ 500 books, any denom.. 41 50 Retsine
Carbon Oils ........--++++---- ; Brook Trout Schener’s................ 0.05 6 | 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00| London Layers 2 Crown.
ea Sea etc cts 3 2 Ib. cans, Spiced .......... 1 90 CHOCOLATE "Above quotationsareforeither | London Layers 3Crown. 1 78 +
a Se ee 3 Clams. ‘Aube Tradesman, Superior, Economic | Cluster 4Crown......
Chi es Se 3 Little Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 001 Asahencia Swook a1 | OF r Universal grades. Where | Loose Muscatels2Crowhn 6K
ooo Sigel attgee a 3 Little Neck. 2 Ib... .. TS trash Swen 19 | 1,000 books areordered ata time | Loose Muscatels3Crown 6 ~ iy
Clothes Lines. ......--......-. 3 Clam Bouillon nh scaeaee receives specially | Loose Muscatels4Crown 7
cae es 3 Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92] Yankee Premium.. “") 37] Printed cover without extra|/ LL.M Ae | ea :
— ee ree eae ear $ : Burnham’s, ion aos 3 60 Waiter Baker @ Gs. is charge. 1. u Seeded, % Ib... 7 @ » he
Gondeneed Mii. 20202227207 4 Burnham's, SS coe oeamags 7 20) German Sweet.. 23 Coupon Pass Books Sultanas, bulk ..............
eee ee Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00 herries Premiu: 31| Can be made to represent any | Sultanas, package |.
Coupon Books............-... 4 P "55 6 00 | Red gies 85 RE ee y » package ..........
Praekers 4| Paragon.. : — is Breakfast Cocoa.. poses, ot — 10 yore SS GOODS ae
roam Tartar... 5 BAKING ‘POWDER ae ary Runkel Bros. 50 boo! a 1 50 Bean
D aoe a ee es ——_ SWOPE... 8. * = books: i es 2 > Dried Lima.. ee aa!
a 5] 34 Ib. cans 3 doz............ 45 | Good 80) Premium. ...c020°<2202.2.12 81] 1,000 books22222212221.1. 20 00 Brown Holand ‘7 :
F % Ib. cams 3 doz............ 75 Fancy............. 95
se tens Bae 100 amit eee CLOTHES LINES Credit Checks he
Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 Bulk. Vt!" 49 | Sur Extra Fine.... 92 | Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .100| 500, any one denom...... 2 00 | Cream of corsa 90
Fish and Oysters... . 2 oo ee ee ee Extra Fine.............00" 19 | Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 20] 1,000, any one denom...... -— Grain-O, small . 35
——— _— 5 Arctic Mas ee ee 15 | Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 40 | 2,000, any one denom...... Grain-O, large..." 25
Fly Pa -- §[Gon. Reg, Tembies......... Sites ee Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 60 Steel punch... 22.98 Grape Nuts........77" aa
Fresh Meats......0000 0000000 = Ese Gooseberries Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 1 80 CRACKERS Postum Cereal, smail - 35
ee ern fe : Standard ............ go | Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80 | The National Biscuit Co. quotes | Postum Cereal; large... 25 A ner
G ii ominy Jute, 72 ft. = a AGES EE 95! as follows: Wein
wesc eerie cone 6 tere eeseeee 85 B 241 :
—e Lobster Ambrosia, % Ib. tin cans.... 42] Seymour...... a Bulk; ero Coe .> + She
H ymour. 6 pe ee See oes eae 3 00
ae 6 —_- 2 tlie SUR ° 1 85 eo 34 Ib. tin cans.... 44] New York.... 6 miny
pee cece tr ne Te cr : ane 3 40 | Cleveland.................... 41 Ha,
Heres eee POE: .. 5... 13 Picnic Talls. eo a 2 35 | Colonial, eo ae 35 i. ued : Ms — m0 1b sack Bede tion ie ccrant 80 &
itis . ; Mustard, Mecmere! =, | Colnlal, a... .0----..--.-. 38] Wolverine. secs. 6 | Demet MOI ook 2
Co - eee ee oc oy, | musccareni and Vermicelli ~*
ee 6 | 34 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 3 75 Soused, 1 Be : 1 75 | Van Houten, ¥s............. 12 | Soda es oe ee 6% Tmported. 25 Ib. box...” a i
% Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75 | Soused, 2 Ib........ : 2 80 | Van Houten, \s....... Rn  : aprtepag -n hyane  I igina vicsitern cal en op Poe ee t
= 11b 1d 3 75| Tomato, 1 Ib 1 75| Van Houten, %s 3 | Long. — Wafers....... 13 Pearl Barle + -—s
Lamp Burners..............-. 15 | 5 tb, cans, % doz. case......8 00 | Tomato, 2b... .. 2 80 | Van Houten, ‘is...0...°.°:!. 79] Zephyrette............... 13 | Common ...... se ceoeoee2 40
Lamp Chimneys ee 15 . ’ : gore Mushrooms Webb ei AE Sips 30 af “Oyster Chester. ... Se 2 90 i
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” cams, 4 doz. case... —ae on D. ee eee
Matches....................5. 7/1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1 60 95 Sem ype em et ee a Goods—Boxes = i
Meat Extracts a ce Peaches eee ew wae A _ eee Ki Ce ie i
NINN coo eset oss E. COFFEE a
Pee oe Roasted ua. :
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Bees. SS Cay Coffee Cake, Iced......... f
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Oil — ISHS eG sie aici Vena 15 BATH BRIC 100 HIGH GRADE. ocoanut Macaroons...... 2
Olives -.-.--.------- see seen ee 7 American ........-.-.+.-.+++ 70 ly June 1 00 SaeEEES —— cena ’
Oyster Pats... ee 7 | English... cooeee 80 Karly June, Sifted. 1 60 ae ee ae
: “BLUING eapple Special Combination.. “35 Cream Crisp..... 2.0. 20002 i
Peper Bas... 7 — Oe eo oeee 1 25@2 75 | French Breakfast. . "a7 | Cubans... P au = >
aoe Se eee : ND uate ss ea 1 35@2 55 | Lenox, Mocha & Java.......21 | Currant Fruit............ 7 ot
Pip ngage ee aca hireepeidge Z so Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24_ | Frosted Honey.. na po
ee ; Good 70 | Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 | Frosted Cream............ a 3
ee 7 75 | Supreme, Java and Mocha .27_ | Ginger Gems, 1° eorsm'll 8 -— =
Provisions..... a cde eee. C 85 Dwinell- Wright Co.’s Brands. coe 5 Snaps, N. B. C.. 6 om. Sante bu.. 8 : }
7 og MSGARIGRUUL Lg oe cee cece cece 10 9 o Ss. 2 0.00 bope'ne
es 8 90 oon House’ = eee = Gratien Cakes... “5g Split, Ib.. eda y »
Ss Excelsior M. & ; mag “OH Graham Crackers......... 8 Rolled ed Oats
EE een eae . 2 ss 32 3028,,...20 | Graham Wafers... 2.2. 12 | Rolled Avena, bbl.. 410 3
e i  . 8 “Sos S:-----302 | Grand Rapids Tea... 16 | Steel Cut, 100 ib. sacks. . 215
— 8 : ue “ - 12 00| Royal Java.................. % | Honey Fingers............ 12 Monarch, BH. 8 80
Salt Fish g | Large, 2 doz. oo... 22.20. 75 Salmon eae cone Be REI... 267 | Iced foney Crumpets..... 10 | Monareh, ¥% IR 2 00 I um
ees 9 | Afetic, 4 oz, per gross... .: 4 00 | Columbia River, talls @1 35 | Arabian Mocha ............ 28 | Imperials.. ... 8 | Monarch; 90 Ib. sacks. . ..1 85 v?
onenn wane ee g | Arctic, 8 oz, per gross...... 5 00| Columbia River, flats _@1 95 | Aden Moch..................224 | Jumbles, Honey........... 12 er, cases.. 3 20
9 | Aretic, pints, per gross.... 9 00| Red Alaska........- 1 200@1 40 a res ~ Lady Fingers.. 12 : #
9 BROOMS ink Alneka. . 1 00@1 10 | Tayo Blend. 22 a7eg | Lemon Sna oa S ites tele... 2% a »
9 Sh rimps Lemon W: ot 16
No. 1 Carpet. . 2 50} Standard............ 1 59 | Golden Santos............... 17 | Marshm amaten 16 German, sacks.............. 3%
9 | No. 2 Carpet..200 0000.00 2 15 Sardines Ja-MO-Ka .....- 2. cesses 15% Marshmallow Creams... 1g | German. geen ew: 4 4 2
No. 3 Carpet................. 1 8 | Domestic, \s........ 5 ee Blend.............. 14% | Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
No. 4 Carpet.. --1 60 | Domestic, %s ....... g| No. 55 Blend... ............ 144 | Mary Ann............. "' “g | Flake, 110 Ibs <a Bes 44
Parlor Gem... ..2 40| Domestic, Mustard. 7 Rio Mixed Picnic. -"".. |: : Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3% -
Common Whisk. . --- 85| California, ys....... 11@14 | Common..................... 1034 | Mtik Biscuit. ........ io Pearl, 241 1b. packages..... 6
Fancy Whisk................ 1 10| California %s.. 17@2% | Fair ........................-11 | Molasses Cake... 1.12227” Wheat a
Warehouse.. ---+-8 25 | French, 348.......... Wanis | COMnlee...... 5. oe 13 | Molasses Bar.............. 9 | Cracked, bulk............... 3% oe
BRUSHES " French, Be sean 18@28 | Fancy........... ent areen ones 15 Moms Jelly ae 242 Tb. packages ............2 50 ;
Ww es Santos MOWIOB. ce
Solid Back, 8 in.. ---- 45) Standard............ 85 | Common...... Soe eae a 11 | Oatmeal Crackers......... 3 FLAVORING EXTRACTS s Ee *
Solid Back, 11 in . 95 | Fancy ............... 1 25 | Fair.........................14 | Oatmeal Waf FOOTE & JENE®
Vv Pointed Ends....... 85 Sucdoinkse GMMR 15 | Orange Crisp.............. s -
Vite. 2) S Ree ee Wit PONE es a cess oe coos apc 17 Orange Ger Gom..... A
w . _— Seem eeics +e Ged 1 00 | Peaberry.....................13 | Penn
Washing Powder............. Sia. 1 79| Famey........ cates 120 Maracaibo Pilot ~%
WMI oe ceo e ce cs es ieee "190 Tomatoes WME eee te csee cua vessel | Pretzelettes, hand oo. Highest Grade Extracts
Woodenware................. ai seca eteen? a... ae a5 | Chole... eee cece se d6 fore v, —— ;
Wrapping Paper............. 13 Good .. : 90 Mesicad ee ta ; co — in ice « a
= Rt Clee. so aco oo ere 16 a. 202 ?
Sugar Cake oS fullm.2 10 20z full m.1 25 '
WebstCake 2:2 13 2 40 | Fancy.............. 00.0... ‘47 | Sugar Cream, XXX....... No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Jennings’
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"2 0z. 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

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Reg. 2 0z. D. C. Lemon...... 75
No. 4 ——. D. C. Lemon ...1 52
20z. D. C. Vanilla...... : -
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla. .
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20z. Vanilla Tonka..........
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon........
FLY PAPER
Tanglefoot, per box..........
Tanglefoot, per case........ 3 20
FRESH MEATS

Beef
Carcass......... 7 @8
Forequarters . - 6 @6%
Hind ue pies 8 @9
Loins No. ee -- 11 @Mu4
Ribs 11 @13
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CAPeERS .(.. co: 8%@ 9

Dae: 3.2. 94%@10
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CAPCABE <. 0 i 8 @9

GRAINS AND FLOUR
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Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 25
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No. 200 Lookout, 144 bx..... 1 25
No. 500 Select Society, 144...4 00
No. 200 Williams Per ect, 144.1 35
No. 2 Lily, 144 boxes......

No. 100 Park, 432 boxes..... 2 =
No. 80 Poetry, 720 boxes

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Diamond Match Co.’s Santi.
No. 9 sulphur 1 65
Anchor 1 50
No. 2 Home... 1 3c
Export Parlor....... 4 00
Wolverine. -1 50

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 0z. 45
Eaebig sa, 2 ez... 8. 75

MOLASSES

New —
Fancy — — 40
Choice.. ae pee 35

ee 26

bee eee <2

Half-barrels 2c extra

MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz.. «at 7
Horse Radish, va. Ae ee 3 50
Bayle’s Celery. yee peso ae 1 75
Bulk, 1 gal. ‘wa become tics 1 25
Bulk, Sal. kegs..... 2... 110
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs........... 1 00
Manzan aT Os... 80
Queen, pints............... 2 35
CHOON, 19 OF) i og 4 50
Queen, 28 02....... 7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz 90
Stuffed, 8 oz... - 16
Stuffed, O88 co: 2 30

YSTERK PAILS
Victor. NE So 10 00
Victor, quarts. . --15 00
Victor, 2 quarts.. --20 00

 

PAPER ‘BAGS
Continental Paper Bag Co.
Ask your Jobber for them.

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Winter Wheat Flour Satehel & Pacific
Local Brands Bottom Square
Patents .. ve eee eevee, 28 50
Second Patent..... 2.22227: Pe 34 60
PCRMIG LE ee 44 80
OMOMR so Se fe 54 1 00
Graham .... Ss 66 1 25
Buckwheat. “nei 76 1 45
I ee eee eee See ee 90 170
Subject to usual cash dis-} got 7 20007! 1 06 2 00
ee a ee 1 28 2 40
Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-| 1971271127077! 1 38 2 60
ditional. a 1 3 15
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | 4470007000727" 224 415
Diamond 8................ 3 75 ‘fe 2 34 4 50
Diamond 4s.......... ee ie 2 52 5 00
Diamond \s. See em 5 50
Worden Grocer Co. "8 Brand Sugar
Quaker %s Sr Bede es ee 4%
Quaker \4S................. 3 CO Gray 4%
CnAnOE M66. US cst. oe 3 80 PARIS GREEN.
Spring Wheat Flour ae es .
Clark Jewell- ‘Wells Co. e —— Packages, \ lb., each..
Pillsbury’s Best ---- .. 460] Packages, % Ib., each. . t
Pilisbury’s Best \s.. 4 40} Packages, 1 Ib., each.......
Pillsbury’s Best \s.. 4 30 PICKLES
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 30 Medium
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 30) Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 4 50
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | Half bbis, 600 count......... 2 75
Duluth Tape Bees oo ne 4 40 Small
i eee te 14S....... 4 :> ae 2,400 a const gooee-e~al 50
ui | a S, 1,200 count .......
Lemon & Wheeler Go. 's ‘Brand PIPES se
Wingold %s.............. 40 | Clay, No. 216..........
Ww oa Bilin 560s. mace cass 4 30 lay, T. D., full count
WwW WBS.-...- 22-2 22 4-20 Cob, No. 3............
jIney & —— s —— POTASH
Cece -*: 4 95 | 48 cans in ease
panama 0 4 30| Babbitt’s........ 4 00
eee es ig Brana | Penna Sait Gos,.-177.1722.. 3 00
oe Grocer iat 8 — PROVISIONS
Laurel %8........... 4 = Barreled Pork
Laurel as Bc die gestae Ga 4 30 | Mess. 5 @16 50
faecal ‘oo os
Laurel es and is paper... 4 20 Clear back. @i6 50
Meal Short - a @16 00
ee 2 00) Pig .. @19 00
Granulated ................ 2 10} Bean... @i2 25
Oats Family Mess... @15 00
Oar loth Rump — Beef... @11 50
Car lots, clipped..... oe — — Meats ,
Less than car lots......... ——.---- soeees =
s Sacdeles ousuc
Feed and Millstuffs Extra shorts... .... 8%
St. Car Feed, screened.... 18 00 Simidked Moute
rely Hams, 12Ib. average. @ 11%
ae — average. -
» 16lb. average. 10%
Winter Wheat Middlings. 17 50 : -
Screenings ea 16 00 — . i g 12%
orn Shoulders (N. Y.cut) @ 7%
Corn, car lots............. 45% | Bacon, clear lest 10%@ 1%
Hay California hams...... 814
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 50} Boneless hams...... ll
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 50} Boiled Hams. 16
‘HERBS Picnic Boiled Hams @ 12%
Sage.. --15 Berlin Hams....... 8%
Hops Pores ee 9
Laurel Leaves. ................ "1B —
Senna Leaves.................. 25 | Compound........... 6%
a 8%
a — Vegetole ........... 6%
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ....... --55 | 60 Ib. Tubs..advance +A
8. F., 2,,3and 5b. | boxes......50 80 Ib. Tubs..advance %
JELLY ‘ae o> as war i
5 lb. pails.per - Seen ee 1 Ee . advan
si — Gees 35 | 10 1b. Pails..advance %
BO ID. PALS. .ces..c see vcevcces 62 Ib. Pails..advance 1

 

 

 

  

3 Ib. Pails..advance 1
Sausages
Bologna ............. 5%
Liver .. 6
Frankfort 7%
Pork 7%
Blood .- 6%
Ton acess 9
He on Hee Se 6
Beef
Extra Mess Sue 10 75
— sea 11 50
Rump .. : 11 50
eis? 2 ‘Feet
\ bbis., 40 Ibs... 1 50
% bbls., 80 Ibs.. 3 50
Tripe|
Kits, 15 Ibs.......... 70
44 bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 25
% bbis., 80 Ibs....... 2 25
Casings
Pork . Seed oc. 21
Beef rounds. ........ 3
— middles........ 10
Reale eles cia ail a 60
Solid, di -_. — @1
0! a 2 3
Rolls, dairy.......... 114@13%
Rolls, creamery. ee 1
Solid, creamery..... 14
Canned aoe
Corned beef, 2 Ib.. 2 75
Corned beef, 141b.. 17 60
Roast beef, 21b...... 2 75
Potted ham, \s..... 50
Potted ham, \s..... 90
Deviled ham, \s.. 50
Deviled ham, \%s.. 90
Potted tongue, \s.. 50
Potted — — 90

seaemie
Carolina head..
Carolina No. 1
Carolina No.2.
RONG oes

aeertes.
Japan, No. 1.....
Japan, No.
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‘SALERATUS—
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm = a: 3 15
De 8... : ..3 00

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Dwight’s Cow. --3 15
Rem 2 10
LEE 3 00
BOON ee 3 00
Wenwhelis, 100 as ee 3 00
SAL DA
Granulated, bois. 80
Granulated; 100 Ib. cases. 90
Tap, BOI 7E
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs........... 80
SALT
Buckeye
200 SU). fags... 2... 8... 3 00
SO Gib bags... : 00
22 $0 tD aes 75

In 5 bbl. lots 5 per cent. pe
— and one case 24 31b. boxes
ree.

Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.3 00
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 85

  

Butter, sacks, 98 IDS......... 27
Butter, sacks, SG ihe... 67
Common ee
100 3 Ib. sacks.. 2 25
60 5 Ib. sacks.. ons
28 10 Ib. sacks. . aid eal gles areas 2 05
GID. Skene. 40
28 Ib. —_— Be eee 22
56 Ib. dairy = drill —- cous 30
28 Ib. dairy = — —_ fos 15
56 lb. dairy in oF sacks... 60
Hig ns
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks... 60
lar Rock
BGM. sacks st 30
ommon
Granulated ee << oo
Medium Fine.. --..1 00
SALT FISH
Cod

Georges cured......... @6
Georges genuine se @ 6%
Georges selected 3 7

5
Strips or bricks @9
Pollock........ @3
alibu
SaPIe soos
Li eae ee oreo
Trout
Wo. 1 100 Ihe. 0s... 2. 5 75
moe Mie 2 60

NG. 0 TOR. oo. co c: 75
No. 1 a dee coda cece oe

Holland white —— ae 11 25
Holland white hoops%bbl. 6 00

Holland white hoop, keg.. 82
Holland white hoop mehs. 87
Norwegian ............2200

Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 00
Round 40 Ibs............... 1.50
CM eee 19
Bloaters.......... aoa 500

Mackerel

Mess 100 Ibs. . 12 25
Mess 40 lbs. .............. 6:20
Mess 10 Ibs. .............. 138
ess | Sie. oe a8
No. 1 100 Ibs. .............. 10 50
No.1 40Ibs............... 450
No.1 101bs......... secede
Tees BB -- 100
NG. 2 300 TMs ee ccc. 8 25
Net Se... SS
Nea: 2 ie. J... 98
HOGS BUG ccc bese ceccus 81

 

Queen Anne.
Big Bargain..
Umpire. .

Dingman. oo. oo. oS.

Santa Claus.

Fels a
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Oak
| Oak Lear: big5..

SODA

SPICES

ee Spices
Allspi
Cassia, Ghia in — =
Cassia, Batavia, in
Cassia, Saigon, broken.
Cassia, Sai: oot = —
Cloves, Am

Nutmegs, 105-10.

Pep] per, Oe

 

   
  

Batavia...

, Cayenne........

*“s¥RUPS
Corn
_—e.--- sues
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1 doz. _—,. cans. ....

 

2 doz. % gallon cans. .

German Family... 22.2!
Dingman Soap Co. brand—

pease a Co. brands—

N. K. iy a pg —

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Kegs, English. ..............

Cloves, 2 ia :
Nutmegs, —_
Nutmegs, 160

Pepper, Singapore, black.
Pepper, Singapore, white.

, Singapore, black:
, Singapore, white.

Pure a in Bulk

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TOTS

Single box. . Secs aoe OD
5 oo lots, delivered. 112 95
10 box lots, delivered .. -2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King ode coce O OO
Calumet vce poes Geos 2 70
— a 2 50
CUR: 2 40
50 AMG eo 1 95
Ricker’s Magnetic ee 3 90
Lautz Bros. brands—
ie AGmee oe. oo. 4 00
i 3 25
RRMEHOHIOS 22. 2.55 3. 4 00
aster 3 70
genet & ‘Gamble brands—
Wetec 3 00
feet : nom ae eee aa 4 00
Svory, Wor... .c. 5. ee. 6 75
Schultz Py Co. brand—
Me ee 3 00
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer... ......... 3 80
Old Coumiry 2... co. 3 20
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40

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Sundried, medium.......... 28
Sundried, choice............ 30
PnGbied., FANCY... o.oo... 40
Regular, medium Scat eal ees 28
Regular, choice ............. 30
Beogular, faney..............

Basket- fired, a Dieta 28
Basket-fired, choice. . “oe
— fired, famey.......¢.. :
Siftings Neder eceuche acs is621
Pe 20@22

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium ........... 26
Movyund, enoied .......,....- 35
Movyune, farey.............. 50
Pingsuey, WAGGA oo 25
Pingsuey, choice............ 30
Pingsuey, fancy............. 40

 

 

 

 

  

Whitefish Pure Cane
No.1 No.2 Fam/| Fair. at ae
100 The... .... 7 00 275 ae
Mm Te... 3 10 1 40| Choice . eoenes
ee 85 43 “STARCH
Sie... 71 37
SEEDS
J etn 9
Canary, Smyrna 4
CORAMOR cei i 8
ae Malabar......... 60
Ee ea 12
Hemp, i —— See oe el 4%
. 4%
Mustara. whe 9
——--. 10
sa de siecle ed no Sc ete. 4%
Cuttle Bone.. ac _ Corn
SHOE BLACKING 40 1-lb. packages........... 6%
Handy Box, large......... 2 50 | 20 L'Ib. packages........... 6%
Handy Box, small. oc: 1 25| 6 lb. packages........... 7%
xby’s Royal Polish...... ’
Miller’s a Polish. .... 8&5 ee ee
UFF a ee ——a.. cao. ~
Scotch, in bladders. 37 Le
Maceaboy, in jars.. eo oO Common Gloss
French Rappee, al fars...-. 43 | 1p, packages............. 45g
SOA 3-lb. packages a. 4
B. T. Babbit a | ackages.. “soe
Babbit’s Best............. 50-Ib. - Doxes.. Soe eae 3%
Beaver Soap Co. iabeaie” cae : caeee us 2 Oe
50 cakes, large size...:..... 3 25
100 cakes, large size......... 6 50
50 cakes, small size.... .... 1 95
100 cakes, small size.........3 85
Bell & oie brands—
pout Oil Johnny ......... 3 90
Oe eee Ged eee 4 00

Best Gloss Starch, 50 Ib..... 3
Best Gloss Starch, 40 Ib.....
Best Gloss Starch? 6lb..
Best Gloss Starch, 3lb..
Best Gloss Starch, 1lIb.....
orks: Venice, il.
Geneva, Ill.

 

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| Best Corn Starch:............
| Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl.
| Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl.
| Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil.
| Best Laundry in bbl., ‘thin boil.
| Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
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Common Corn
20 1-lb. packages... Ste
40 1-Ib. packages..........
STOVE POLISH

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No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross. .
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross
SUGAR
Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight froma gee York to your

shipping Pp puint, wae credit
on ¢ voice e € amount
of a — pays from the

mark ich he purchases

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Coarse Powdered. 5 65
XXXX Powdered......... 5 70
Standard Granulated..... 5 55
Fine Granulated. .......... 55
Coarse Granulated........ 5 65
Extra Fine ee 5 65
Conf. Granulated.......... 80
2 Ib. bags rine an eee gks 5 70
. Ib. a —_ _— oeace 5 70
ieonens Late 5 55
Confectioner’s A.. caex ee
No. 1, Columbia aaa 5 20
No. 2, Windsor A......... 5 15
No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 5 i5
No. 4, Phoenix A......... 510
No. 5, Empire A.......... 5 05
ee i. Be
Be Fee ca oes oes rua none 4 90

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Ce 30
Wamee se ce 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy.............. 42
Amoy, medium.............; 25
AMIOy, CHOLES... 2.20.02. 2. 32
English Breakfast
CO 27
ee 34
ARN ee 42
ndia
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Bald ‘Head Se

A. Bomers’ brand.
Plaindealer .

Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian........... 36 00
Coramidag.:... 35. 00
Columbian Extra........... 55 00
Columbian Special.......... 65 00
Columbian Invincible. ..... 90 00

H.& P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller............ 35 00
Our Manager.. . 35 00
Pigg ome

35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.'s brand,

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Cigar C Clippings, per Ib: .: _* 28

 

 

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Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands. Peering: o.oo 2 90 CANDIES
fe $35 00 | Scourine......... 2.0.00. 2.2 3 50 Stick ——.
scold Star: - 8. 35 00 WICKING bis. 7
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. | No. 0, per gross..............20 | Standard ............ 7%
Royal Tigers..........55@ 80 00 | No. 1, pergross..............25 | Standard H. H...... @7%
Royal Tigerettes.......... 35 00 | No. ?, per gross..............35 | Standard Twist. .... @8
Book Filled Tigerettes.... 35 00 | No. 3. per gross..............55 | Cut Loaf............. @9
Female Tigerettes........ 35°00 WOODENWARE cases
Night Hawk, concha...... 35 00 ke Jumbo, 32 Ib......... @ 7%
s ight a pore sees. = = Bushels Bas 95 eae ian ee ee @10%
neente Portuondo ..35@ eae toe eee eam.......
Ruhe Bros. Co.......-. 25, 70 00 ee ee 1 15] Beet Root.......22.7. 8
son Co... "" 35@11 ea Bg Mix
. J. Dunn & Go... -.35@ 70 00 | Splint, large. .... ‘= ee
McCoy & Co....... ....35@ 70 00 | GP es meduum .. - @6
The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00 | Thinow Ciethes. larg = 2 @z
Brown Bros. ..........15@ 70 00| Winow Clothes’ — =o @ 7%
Bernard Stahl Co.. ....35@ 90 00 | Wiow Clothes, small. _.8 ob @ 8%
Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00 a ta @ He
Seidenberg & Co......55@125 % | no. 1 Oval 950 In crate s . $-
Fulton Cigar Co... .-10@ 35 00 | No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate....... 50 | Cut Loaf o0"
A. B. Ballard & Co. ...35@175 00 | No’ 3 Oval’ 250 in crate... 55 | English Rock 2 9
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@110 00 | No’ 5 Oval’ 250 in crate... 65 | Kindergarten . é 9
San Telmo............. 35@ 70 00 . nao Bon Tos — @ :
Havana Cigar Co...... 18@ 35 00 s . @
Humpty Dumpty ........... 2 25| French Cream... @10
C. Costello & Oo....... 35@ 70 00| No. 1° complete 30 | Dandy Par 2
LaGora-Fee Co........ D0 1s. sesame = a Maas Gaus @
S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00 | “*- “» Complete .....-......- = eam ‘
Hene & Co... .... ...-.35@ 90 00 Clothes Pins Guatcuna @ib%
Benedict & Co....... 7.50@ 70 00 | Round head, 5 gross box.... 45 cam mix. . @
Hommeter Cigar Co. -_ = = Round ae reeks See 62 a Fancy—In Bulk
. J. Johnson Cigar Co.2 ; Blas Goodies....
Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00 Fee ae spring .......... 90 | Lozenges, pain.” si
Bock & Co............. 65@300 00 | Eclipse patent spring. . 85 | Lozenges, printed. ... @10
Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00} Nolcommon................. 75] Choc. Drops......... @11%
Neuva Mundo......... 85@175 00 | No. 2 patent brush holder .. &| Kelipse Chocolates... @13%
Henry Clay............ 85@550 00 | 1° b. cotton mop heads.....1 25! Choc. Monumentais. @l4
La Carolina............ 96@200 00 | Ideal No.7.................. 9 | Victoria Chocolate. @15
Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00 Pails Gum Drops.......... @5
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 2-hoop Standard............. 1 40 Moss Drops. ee @ 9%
Star Green.............. 35 00 | Shoop Standard............. 1 60 | Lemon Sours. .-...:: @10
ae Fine Cut * — ee Imperials.. . : @10
mele Daniel... 2... : .. 5 ’ a ee A
WU ce 38 | Cedar, all red, brass bounid'1 25 | Ttar Crean poems; «=O?
Forest Giant................ 38 | Paper, EureKa..............225]" 99 1b, pails......... @12
Sweet Spray..,.............- 35 OS ee Molasses Chews, 15
Gaiters 57 Tooth picks eS ee @14
Smock Uioma le 38 | Hardwood .... .............. 2 50] Pine Apple Ice. 12%
Goldee Tep.........5.... 25.2 23 PROMO ss 2 75 Maroons........, 12
Miseeie Ba | BAM 1 80 Golden Wafties.... i @12
— ee = Risa... Tabs a ciaia oe ae Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes
a 50 | 20-inch, Standard, No.1.....600| Lemon Sours....... @55
Pelocios 3g | 18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....5 06 | Peppermint Drops.. @60
Sweet Buriey....-........... 40 16-inch, Standard, No. 3.....4 00 | Chocolate Drops ns
eS 38 20-inch, Cable, No. 1.........6 50] H. M. Choe, Drops..
Teese ee 39 | 18-inch, Cable, No. 2.........6 00 | H. M. Choe. Lt. and
Plug 16-inch, Cable, No. 3.........6 00} Dk. No. 12......... @1 00
Wet trem 36 | No.1 Fibre..................9 45 | Gum Drops..... @30
Creme de Menthe........... 60 | No.2 Fibre..................7 95] Licorice Drops...... @75
eS ee ee 40 | No.3 Fibre..................7 20] Lozenges, plain. .... @55
eee 35 Wash Boards ———, printed... @60
Sweet Chunk Se 37 Bronze Globe.................2 50 pee. ---------- @60
ek OAS a eg US egos fa a S so al: ty bl igen es @60
Red es 2 Double Acme... nC 7 Seems eee. @55
ee ee ee eee mip Acme... 2.2... 2 wecccese @55
Rete 36 | Double Peerless:.......... 3 25] Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
eee 41 Single Peerless..............2 60 Cream Buttons, Pep.
a Se ca eee = ~~ ake $s
erican Eagle. . oa ouble Duplex..............3 00| String Rock.........
Standard Navy..... ..38 7 ee 2 75| Wintergreen Berries @é60
Spear Head, 16 oz --45 | Univetial oc... 2 25 Caramels
Spear Head, 8 oz --45 ood Bowls No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib
obby Twis ---43 | 11 In. Butter........ --- 751 boxes A
on iy = = oe : +. Penny Goods....77"
ones -- 5 in. Butter. ook ee ee ey eee
2 eA: 35 | 17 in. Butter..... 020000. ....2 50 FRUITS
a eee tr = o>. ee pee eae 3 : Oranges
per Heldsick.............. ssorted 1. Po cues oe ee
Boer sae 81 | Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50 meen — et ence e
Mey RRO. oS 36 WRAPPING PAPER Fancy Naveis....... @
ream Bop... 32 Common Straw............ 1% | Extra Choice... @
Smoking Fiber Manila, white. .. 3% | Late Valencias...... @
Hand Pressed... .-.......... 46 Fiber Manila, colored. 4% na. @2 50
Double Cross ..............- 37 | No. 1 Manila.......... ‘ia 3 003 50
Bees. Gere... - 40 Cream Manila......... 8) ieee @
oie ee 37 =| Butcher’s Manila.......... 2 eee ea @
POOR AVY... <....... 20... 37 | Wax Butter, short count. 13 |~” "CTL" "*
PMR a Wax Butter, fullcount.... 2u Lemons
— £ - bcos _— Wax Butter, ene 15 a, 300s 3
m Doo, We ieee wines coe é YEAS ess 360s 3 25@3 75
IXL, 6Ib.................. 28 | Magic, 3 doz................. 1 California 360s. 32 o 50
IX L, 30Ib...............-.. 32 | Sunlight, 3doz.......... -----1 00} California 300s....... 3 25@3 50
Honey Dew ................. 37 | Sunlight, 1% doz........... 50 iinet
Gold Bioelk.... -.... ss. 37 | Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00] Medium bunches 1 50@1 75
— eae een - — Foam, 3 oz aes: 1 00 aa ca
PB nce wes evecas cece ceceee eas ‘oam, cS RR cece eee eee
Min Dried 24 FRESH FISH Foreign Dried Fruits
a —e Se = Ree . bb. rigs
ea Camoo........... 2.4 Whi Be : Californias, Fancy..
Honey Dip Twist............ oo Pie BT Cal. pkg, 16 1b. boxes .
mgruc Wavy ............--2. 40 | Black Bass............ 10@ 11 Extra Choice, 10 Ib.
Yum Yum, 1% 0Z............ 39 Me ¢ 14 BONES oe. 9%
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pails........ 37 =| Ciscoes or Herring.... 4 | Fancy, 12 Ib. boxes. . 12
Cream. ................-.-.-- 37 | Bluefish............... @ 12% | Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Corn Cake, 2% 0z............ 25 Live Lobster.......... @ 2 , in “a
Corn Cake, 11b.............. 23 | Boiled Lobster........ @ 2
Plow Boy, 13g 02Z............. 39 eee Miura “a | | Fards in 10 Ib. boxes
Plow Boy, 3% 02............. 37 | Haddock .... 202.020... @ 7 | Fards in 60 Ib. cases.
Peerless, 3% OZ.............- 34 | No.1 Pickerel......... @ 7 |Hetow...... 5@5\%
Peerless, 13 0Z.............- 36 | Pike... oe cess a ae Ib. cases, new.....
Indicator, 2% 0z......... --28 Sec os g 4 | Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.... 4% @ 6
eg ners 1 ae pails .. + = — White..:..... 2 10 NUTS
Ol. Choice, 24% OZ..... al mapper. . 2 ll
Col. Choice. 8 0z............. 21 | Col River Salmon..... @ 12 —_ _e g”
TABLE SAUCES Mackerel.............. @ 16 ‘Acmonas, California,
Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75 HIDES AND PELTS soft saelled........ 16918
Lea & Perrin’s, smaill..... 2 50 Pee een Leer ae 11
Halford, large............. 3 75} CO., 100 Canal Street, quotes as | yijnorts 91! 7777 777 @12%
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TWINE 2a oe Table Nuts, fancy... ‘@l4
Cotton, 8 ply................. 16 | ured Neg «|G F4| Table Nuts, ehoiee.. 13
Cotton, 4 Pes se 16 Calfskins,green No. i @ 9 3 —s, = eee = os “4
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Wool, 1 tb. balis......:...... T% quan ory c mde ogy FF ae @ a
VINEGAR Pelts, each..........  50@1 10 | (OCoanuts,
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..8 | Lamb.................... Chestnuts, per Du.  @
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% gal., a, a_i 48
2 to 6 gal., per gal............. 6
8 gal. each....... 52
10 gal. each... Pee 65
$2 UML GRON, - oi. 2. Se 84
15 gal. meat-tubs, each........... 1 20
20 gal. meat-tubs, each........... cats 1 60
25 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2
30 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2 70
Churns
2teGpal., pere@al: 2 eos: 64
“hurn Dashers, per doz............... 84
Milkpans
% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 48
1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each............ 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
% gal flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each............ 6
Stewpans
\% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10
Jugs
$6.0, POF Gee. os eo ee ca 60
Ag POL OF EOF. ow, oe ke wee ees 45
2005 Gal. Or gal... . ss. 7%
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib............... 2
LAMP BURNERS
AO. 0 Mo 35
TO: 2 45
MQ: > PAR. ce 65
OS 1 10
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ON es 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 doz.
Pe OM 156
1 78
2 48

First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 31
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No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
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No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapp Dp. .....
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No. 15 Tubular, dash..................
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain.........
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.............
No. 3 Street lamp, each..............

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No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢
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SHAW’S LIGHTNING ACCOUNT
KEEPER

A ledger file book for filing in perfect ac-
count order sales slips made by Carter
CrumeCo. and other makers. Hundreds
of five year customers attest to the saving
of 400 per cent. of tim: keeping accounts
by the Shaw Lightning Account method.
We have room for only a few names in
this space: C. L. Weinmann, G. W.
Johnson, Ann Arbor, Mich; Daane &
Witters, James Hughes, Braun & Hesse,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Prices reasonable. Address

 

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The Nineteenth Century has witnessed
wonderful development in mechanical
sciences—the railroad, telegraph, tele-
phone, electric car, all of which are so
necessary to mankind that we wonder
how the world thrived previous to their
invention.

The Twentieth Century will witness
greater progress, and the world is alive
with expectation.

The THOMAS AUTO-BI is a motor
bicycle brought to a high state of per-
fection, and it will rank as one of the
Twentieth Century wonders as its many
charming possibilities become known,
for it invites economy, pleasure and
utility to an extent not hitherto accom-
plished.

The THOMAS AUTO-BI entirely
dissipates the popular conception that a
motor bicycle is a heavy, dangerous
locomotive, to be ridden only on the
track by dare-devils, who invite death
every time they mount the ‘‘infernal’’
machine. As a matter of fact it is just
the opposite. It ‘is nothing but an or-
dinary bicycle made stronger to meet
the new conditions, with a little motor
weighing about 23 pounds, the complete
bicycle weighing about 80 pounds.

IT DOES NOT SIDE-SLIP—The
weight of the motor is near the head, on
the lower tube, and rests principally on
the front wheel. Experience has proved
this to be the proper place. If the
weight were too high it would be top
heavy. If too low, gravitation will in-
terfere with turning corners. If too far
back, the front wheels would be too
light for steadiness or vibration, and
cause skidding. As a matter of fact,
the AUTO-BI is much steadier and is
equally as safe in snow, ice, or slippery
streets as any bicycle.

SPEED is easily controlled by the
rider, and is variable from three to
twenty-five miles per hour.

INVESTMENT~—It will take you at
least as far, as fast, as safely and pleas-
antly as the most costly automobile
made. The first cost ranges from 1-3
to 1-10, The cost of care and operation
I-20 to I-90. One gallon of gasoline
will run it 100 miles.

PRICE—Anticipating a large trade,
the retail price has been fixed at $200,
allowing a discount to dealers, who will
give their patrons the same. careful at-
tention as in the bicycle trade. We
have already placed agencies in several
of the larger cities of Michigan, and
would like to hear from responsible
dealers who want to put new life into
their business, and keep up with the
procession.

There is nothing a good dealer can do
which will make himself more talked
about and help him to bring new _busi-
ness than to secure the agency for the
THOMAS MOTOR CYCLES.

Write for catalogue and further infor-
mation.

ADAMS & HART,

STATE AGENTS,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

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Nice Candy Boxes

He will tell you

Kalamazoo Paper Box Company
Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Proper Arrangement of the Cellar.

Because the cellar is not visited by all
the customers who come into the store
is not a sufficient reason why it should
not receive some care at the hands of
the retailer. It is sure to be visited
nearly every day by some one or more
customers and the effect created on the

“customer is often more lasting than that

created by the upper part of the store,
for the reason that if it is neat, clean
and well arranged it immediately
stamps the retailer as man who is pains-
taking and careful in all his business re-
lations with the public.

If there is a cellar connected with the
grocery store it is well to keep all the
heavy and bulky articles there. Arrange
on one side the barrels of molasses and
syrups, with neat dripping pans under
each faucet, if the old-fashioned kind of
faucet is used. These dripping pans
can be cleaned more easily than the
floor, they look neat, are inexpensive
and are, on the whole, economical. On
the opposite side of the basement may
be arranged the vinegar barrels, the un-
opened barrels and casks of pickles,
cider, etc. Space in the center may be
used for the storage sof packages of
canned goods, soap, tierces of lard,
packages of various kinds, tubs, pails
and heavy wares which it is desirable to
reach easily, and which if placed in
the general store-room on the first floor
would require more space than the
profits on them warranted.

The rear part of the basement can be
utilized for the potato bins, and bins
devoted to other vegetables. It is often
advisable to have these in the rear of
the basement for the reason that the
goods are unloaded from the alley back
of the store and chutes can be run
into the various bins without much
difficulty. If these bins are located in
one section of the cellar the dirt inci-
dental to potatoes and other vegetables
can be confined to that portion and the
work of keeping the cellar reasonably
clean will be greatly reduced. Back of
the section devoted to heavy packages
of goods, and extending nearly to the
vegetable bins, the center of the base-
ment should be devoted to barrels of ap-
ples purchased in the fall, surplus stocks
of oranges and lemons, sweet pota-
toes, grapes and other fruits and vege-
tables bought in bulk before the cold
weather commences.

The systematic arrangement of .the
cellar or basement in this way will be
profitable because it will reduce the
work of keeping it clean, and the gen-

_eral appearance to the chance visitor

will be much more attractive. Then the
surplus goods will have a_ certain
place and they can be found readily
when wanted for display purposes or to
fill orders upstairs.

Care should be taken to have all sur-
plus boxes and packages removed from
the basement when empty. They not
only clutter up the vacant space and
give an untidy appearance, but they are
a menace, owing to the possibility of
fire. All packing materials, such as
moss, excelsior, etc., should be removed
from the basement as speedily as _pos-
sible after a case is unpacked, for the
same reason. A fire in the basement is
a positive danger, for the reason that it
is not always discovered until after it
has obtained a good start, and in the
basement arrangement oe should
be done to prevent the possibility of a
conflagration.—Commercial Bulletin.

—_> 0+

Cars Enough, If Properly Distributed.

Grawn, May 11—We think the car
service is as rotten as it can be and, as
published, it is almost a ruination to

 

business. As stated, cars must be
loaded or unloaded in forty-eight hours,
but the railway companies can keep
shippers waiting for cars until their or-
ders are lost and will perhaps give you
a car so small that you can not get a
load in it; and if you ask for a larger
car, they will tell you that you can take
that car or none, after two or three
weeks’ waiting,and if it is not loaded in
the specified time—forty-eight hours—
$1 a-day charge is made for overtime.
We had it figured so fine that our forty-
eight hours expired at 12 o’clock noon
and we had the car ready by 1 o’clock,
but we had the dollar to pay just the
same. On one occasion we were delayed
by a storm and asked if we could not be
given longer time for loading, but were
told that stormy days counted just the
same as pleasant weather. At another
time a car ordered by us was taken from
our station. It was left at Kelena for
three weeks and I supposed it was lost,
but was informed, after a long delay,
where it was. The treatment received
by shippers is out of reason and I would
be glad if some way could be devised
to compel the railroads to give better
service. We claim that if the cars were
properly distributed there are enough
now to keep business going in proper
shape. If a shipper travels to any ex-
tent he will see on most every sidetrack
just the cars he is in need of and long
freight trains with any number of empty
cars going both ways. They are not
properly distributed and we are obliged
to wait, and many times when the car
is received our customer has cancelled
his order. I sincerely hope something
can be done to secure better service.
Discouraged Shipper.

——__+>-0~
Takes a Philosophic View of the Situa-
tion.

Mt. Pleasant, May 11—A deplorable
condition of affairs exists, but not uni-
versally over the whole country. It
would seem that this time the Western
railroads have had their innings.
Michigan has been virtually sidetracked

for the past eight months in regard to] Pl

shipping facilities. I do not think a
law could be made constitutional that
would compel any corporation to pay
for the overlooking of an application
from, say an individual who was sup-
posed to ship something. While I was
a shipper, I must confess that we all
changed our minds sometimes, and oftén
for good reasons. Before such a law
could be enacted, there would, undoubt-
edly, be a lining up of the shippers or,
possibly, a signing up at least. Rail-
roads have their failings, but we must
admit that they have their little troubles
and difficulties as well as the- indi-
vidual. Circumstances may change the
condition of things the coming season.
Frank A. Sweeney.
—__>2._
Friendship in Business.

It is a good thing to have friends, but
a bad thing to depend on friendship for
business. People in this era will not
pay more in one place for goods than
they can be bought for in another, even
for friendship. It is well to bear this
in mind in calculating upon friendship
as a factor in business. A man may join
all the societies in existence, and may be
popular in all classes of society, but he
must depend upon the merits of his
goods and his credit to sell at a reason-
able price, to retain the custom that
friendship brings. Friendship is often
more of a curse than a blessing in busi-
ness. Usually, it is a man’s friends
that ‘‘stick’’ him. The most of our
readers will agree that they have lost
more. money through friends than they
ever made out of them.

——__>42>__
Where He Would Find Nothing.

Two sons of Erin were sharing the
same bed, as well as the same bottle of
whisky. Pat waited until he found Mike
slept, when he quietly arose and
emptied the bottle. Soon after Mike,
waking, stole out of bed, and groping
about in the dark, was asked by his
companion: ‘‘ Phat are yez lookin’ fer,
Mike?’’ ‘‘Oh, nothin’!’’ says Mike.

‘“Well, Mike,’’ says Pat, ‘‘ye’ll find
a. over there in the corner of the bot-
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: Levels
Hardware Price Cu rrent Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70
Mattocks
Ammunition Adze Eye.................2+.+-$17 00..d18 70—10
Caps
Metals—Zinc
G. D., full count, perm........... 2... 40
Hicks’ Wate: roof, perm.... 50 600 pound i 7%
Musket, oo - a TTD 8
Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60 Miscellaneous
Cartridges OO 40
No. 22 short, perm........ ... 200 (ripe, Otstera 75&10
No. 22 long, perm............ 3 00 | Screws, New List ..............0...... 85
No. 32 short, per m.......... . 4 95 | Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50810810
ING. SA lomg, DOF Mh... so... kk. 8 5 80} Dampers, American................... 50
sii te ak Ge he — Molasses Gates
0. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 20 Paar 1
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m... 1 20 Teomaem ser aaiadia ee “=
Gun Wads Pane
Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M.C... 60 | Fry, A 60810810
Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10. perm... 70 | ETY: ACME..... 0... 22... eee ee eens 0
Black edge’ No.7, per er naa go | Common, polished... 2.22.00... 222. 7085
Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron
pe “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75
Pie — oe Per ““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25to27 9 75
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
Ss t+ @ % & & ti
: 2 90 | Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy... .......... 208 50
a ; 1% 8 . 3s... 60
ao 4 a : * ; = Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........... 50
154 4% 1% é 10 3 00 Bench, first yuality...............ccc00 "0
: : . 12 2 Nails
2 2 Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
— = - : = 2 “ Steel nails, base.... 22.0.2... eee eee 2 65
ed ; 2 Sew eee 2 65
% 1% 4 12 2. 70| 90 to 60 advance...........-- see eeee se Base
Discount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance.............. an 5
Paper Shells—Not Loaded SOGee 10
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . 72| 6advance.... .........4. 20
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100... 64 ; — “ =
Gunpowder 2 advance... 70
Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg....... .... 2... 4 00 | Fine 3 advance 50
i Kegs, 12% lbs., per % keg.......... 2 25 | Casing 10 advance... 15
14 kegs, 614 Ibs., per 4 keg........... 1 25 | Casing 8 advance.............. ccc. ccee 25
Shot a oe Sie cloa wiiealceca cen 3
In sacks containing 25 Ibs. s SOG
Drop, all sizes smaller than Be... 1 40 | Finish 6 advanes 2 22000.007000070007 4
Augurs and Bits Barrel % advance................. 000. 85
See 60
Jennings genuine..................... 25 Rivets
Jennings’ imitation.................... SO) tvon and Tinned... ........:-.. 2.0... 50
Axes Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45
a quality. = > _—.. isthe Sia be : . Roofing Plates
rs Y> D- b- DTONZE........... 9 00 | 14500 1G, Charcoal, Dean.............. 50
First Quality, 8. B.S. Steel... 1.0.7" $i | cst cee Eee 7
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 10 50 | 90x98 IC, Charcoal, Dean........... 13 00
Barrows 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Giade 5 50
Le ee uuu 12 00 | 14x20 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 6 50
Cee es. a0) ag 20x28-IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00
Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00
Ceci 60 Ropes
en HOE eee eeee ee cree eeee es 65 50 | Sisal, % inch and larger.............., 8%
cee Se aye Ce ele 12
Well, plain ! rae ma Se OT os at Sand Paper és “
Butts, Cast 8 ee
Cast Loose Pin, figured ...... ee 65 Sash Weights
Wrought Narrow ..................... 60 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00
Chain Sheet Iron
44 in. 5-16 in. 36 in. % In. com. smooth. com.
= gg 7 ee: . ee Sy d oe seu 8 eR DLNT ee
~ Sela sa i, 3 30
BEB... <2 «+. 8% ms & 6% ee 3 40
Crowbars em, 25 6096 3 70 3 50
Cast Steel, per Ib.................. Oe ee 3 80 3 60
Chisels All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
Socket Firmer ................ 0.00000. 65 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
tee = Shovels and Spades
e er
eee a mre Grade, Dan... 8 00
eGIRCN PORNO 65 Second Grade, Doz..................., 7 50
Elbows
Sold
Com. 4 piecg, 6 in., per doz............net 65 ee. rime Sn 20
———. per doz................... 1 25| The prices of the many other qualities of solder
Adjustable............................d18 40810 | in the market indicated by private brands vary
Expansive Bits according to composition.
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 40 Squares
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.............. 25 | Steel and Iron............. 0.0. .0s00e- 70
Files—New List
New American ..................... 70810 —— a
INIGHOISOI Sooo es 70 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal................ .... $ 8 50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................. 70 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal..... 2.2.0... 000.0005 8 50
Galvanized Iron Sete i Cnareeal.... .. 2... coe 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
eu 10x14 IC, Charcoal..........2.. 20.0004 7 00
s' Se, C8. 7 00
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60810 | 10x14 IX, Charcoal..... 2.0.0... 000.000. 8 50
Glass Serge FX, Charoeel. 8 50
Single Strength, by box...............dis 5@ | Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
— ae a. by pen = oan Boiler Size Tin Plate
a | 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers,
Manemers 14x56 1X; for No.9 Bollers, ¢ PF Pound.. 10
Maydole & Co.’s, new list..............dis 33% Traps
Yerkes & Plumb’s.....................d18 40810] Steel, Game.. .... .........-.-.-. 5. 75
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... 30c list 70 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...... 40&10
Hinges Oneida Community. Hawley & Nor-
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3....................d18 60&10| __ton’s....... Sy eee eda aig cae 65
Hollow Ware Mouse, choker per doz............... 15
i Mouse, delusion, pes doz.....-.. ..... 1 25
ORM os ues cs slag ce 50&10
Kettles ... y 50&10 Wire
Povlgt Morhot... oo we 60
Spiders......... 50810
Horse Nails Annealed Market... .............00s00- 60
bl di Coppered Market...................... 50&10
Au Sable ..........-........,.....--.-.018 40810 ‘Timed Market... 22.1 oo 22 c..  c 50810
ee Wersing Geet Coppered Spring Steel... 22022222202. 40
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 | Barbed Fence, Galvanized Soe wecetanas 3 25
Japanned Tinware................0.00. 20&10 | Barbed Fence, Painted................ 2 95
Iron Wire Goods
Oe ede cca cs oa al, 2D CRAMONS TrteG ea oon ek tee ace. 80
Pigs Bane Se rebee SOE a 80
Knobs—New List ee ee eae 80
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75 | Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 80
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 85 Wrenches
: Tubular ee in — Reais, Nickeled........ =
Regular 0 a he on pee ea eh
Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 09 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought..70&10

  

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

DEATH OF AN INVENTOR.

When a man invents anything that
comes into very general use and plays
a prominent part in current events,
getting frequent newspaper mention and
widespread publicity, he is usually
reckoned a genius. It frequently hap-
pens that inventors die poor. The men
who have discovered some of the most
useful appliances in the world suffered
other people to make riches out of them,
ending their own lives in poverty. A
man who is credited with inventing
something which has made a name for
itself died at a little place called West
Baden, not far from Chicago, the other
day, as poor as the proverbial church
mouse. The dispatches said that his
friends raised money to give him a
decent burial. His invention, it is said
in the same dispatch, has enabled
others to make millions of money. It
was not patented nor did it become in
any sense a monopoly. Many resorted
to it, and because of it some got them-
selves into trouble.

The gentleman referred to was named
Van B. Triplet, although sometimes he
went by the name of John V. Tripp,
and his associates familiarly referred
to him as ‘‘Old Tripp.’’ He was 60
years of age when death overtook him,
and for forty years of that time he had
been busy with what he invented and
kindred things. Mr. Triplet is credited
with having been the originator and in-
ventor of the gold brick. It was in his
fertile brain the scheme was first con-
ceived and he was the first to put it into
Operation. It worked well, and his
failure to have it patented enabled oth-
ers to make use of it, and those would
be most interesting statistics which
should tell just how much money has
been wheedled and swindled out of
honest men by this contrivance. He
not only added to the paraphernalia of
crime, but he invented a new phrase,
because ‘“‘gold brick’’ has come into the
American vocabulary, and so well un-
derstood is it that it needs no definition.
The man whose ingenuity devised the
gold brick game died poor, as he de-
served to die. If he could only have
arranged for a percentage of the profits
which came to others who made money
thereby he would have been immensely
wealthy, even although his share had
been as little as 10 percent. As in
other cases his works will live after
him. Triplet is dead, but the gold
brick business is going on, and is like-
ly to go on for years to come, so long as
there are cunning rascals and greedy but
guileless people for them to swindle.

—_s >___
The Grain Market.

Wheat has been rather neglected dur-
ing the past week. The Government
crop report for May 1 showed the con-
ditions to be 94.1, against 91.7 for April
I—an increase of 2.4 points—but the
acreage was decreased over 2,000,000
acres. They figured on April 1a crop
of 450,000,000 bushels, but owing to the
decrease in acreage, the estimate was
reduced to 423,000,000 bushels on May
I, which, barring accidents, would be
the winter wheat harvest for 1901. We
know sometimes the ‘‘chickens are
counted before they are hatched,’’ and
it may be the case in this instance.
Michigan does not share in the same
glorious conditions as the remainder of
the winter wheat states. Providing we
have favorable weather from now on,
we may be able to harvest 18,000,000 or
19,000,000 bushels. Texas has a short
crop, owing to the wheat louse, a new

 

insect which has raised havoc with the
wheat fields in that section.

Owing to the decline in corn, wheat
did not show much life and the bear
element are selling large blocks on
scenery, but there may be an abrupt
change, should we not have favorable
weather from now on. However, this
is a large country and a failure in one
section may be overbalanced in an-
other, and as our transportation facili-
ties are of such vast proportions, wheat
can be transferred from one section to
another on short notice. Still, with the
small amount held in first hands, pres-
ent prices are not burdensome, being
a trifle below last week. Cash wheat
holds its own. Good wheat is scarce
and all grades are bringing good prices.
It looks as though there would not be
much change from the present price.

Corn has been on the down grade.
May is selling around s51c; July around
44c and September around 43c. The
corn bulls seem to lay low for May.
There is still considerable short corn
outstanding, which will have to be de-
livered during the month. For the
present, neither side shows much inter-
est and the market is dull. However,
there may be fireworks in May options
yet.

Oats made a decrease of 1,077,000
bushels, which had a tendency to ad-
vance the price about %c over last
week. All offerings were absorbed and
more are wanted. Reports of the grow-
ing crop are not as favorable as they
have been.

Rye held its own, but, as stated here-
tofore, there is not much doing and
there is rather an easy market for the
present.

Beans range about the same as last
week and are rather tame.

Flour is firm. There is more doing
at full prices. Owing to the good
pasturage, mill feed is more plentiful.
Millers are catching up their back or-
ders. Eastern orders are coming along
very well and the home market is not
So pressing. Prices are unchanged for
the present.

Receipts of grain during the past
week have been of rather a diminutive
order, being as follows: Wheat, 36
cars; corn, 7 cars; oats, g cars; flour,
2 cars; hay, 4 cars; straw, I car; pota-
toes, 16 cars.

Millers are paying 71c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
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The United States pays about $1,000, -
000 a week for coffee, all of which here-
tofore it has paid to foreign producers.
In the future—not immediately but by
and by, it can buy all the coffee it
needs of producers under the American
flag. The islands of Puerto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines are coffee
producers, needing only the capital and
application of American enterprise to
supply the world with its breakfast
drink. The coffee grown in the Philip-
pines and in Puerto Rico is said to be
of a high grade. Experiments in its
culture in Hawaii are pronounced en-
tirely satisfactory.

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A man was indicted the other day by
the federal grand jury, in St. Louis,
for passing counterfeit money. The
charge specified that he passed a con-
federate $5 bill at its face value. Judge
Marshall dismissed the indictment,
holding that confederate bills were not
counterfeit. The way to proceed against
the accused was by prosecution for
fraudulent dealing.

 

Hides. Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Woo).

The hide market holds firm at the
slight advance of last week. Offerings
are not large and are firmly held, with
‘sc per pound less bid than asked. The
demand is good and equal to the sup-
ply. The quality is much improved.

Pelts are at a low point and are being
sold more freely at a concession. Pull-
ers are piling up their wool to make the
average cost lower on holdings and lack
of orders on previous cost.

Furs are practically out of the mar-
ket. There are a few straggling lots
coming in to close the season. Values
are lower, as the stock must be carried
over.

Tallow is weaker, with light sales.
The demand is good, at lower values.

Wool comes in slowly at country
points, with only local buyers to take
it. No Eastern buyers are in the mar-
ket. Prices are 6@8c below last year,
and few buyers have nerve to take the
stock. Some localities, however, are
reported as paying within 5c of last
year. Sales are small and the Eastern
market draggy. Manufacturers buy only
as orders for cloth demand it.

Wm. T. Hess.
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After all, it is perhaps just as well
that Tolstoi, rather than the Czar, was
banished, for if the latter had to travel
he would be compelled to travel like a
turtle, with his armor plate shel] about
him, and, looking on such a spectacle,
the nations would be apt to give him
the ‘‘ha, ha!’’ where they give Tolstoi

their love and admiration.
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Palmer & Hobbs, dealers in dry
goods, clothing and shoes, Kalkaska:
Please find enclosed one dollar to pay
our subscription. We could get along
without your paper, we suppose, but
can not afford to do so. It is all right.

 

 

BusinsNanls

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

BUSINESS CHANCES.

ORs SALE—A NICE, CLEAN GENERAL
stock, inventorying about $1,800, in good
farming community. Reason for sellin . Other
business. Address No. 850, care M ichigan

Tradesman. 850
ANTED—SECOND HAND PEANUT
roaster, steam or spring power; must be
in first class condition and cheap for cash. E, A.

Lyon, Riverside, Mich. 850
1,500 WILL BUY, TO CLOSE ESTATE,
wheat and bean elevator, located in best bean,
wool and wheat section of Michigan; good com-
petition; only one other coal trade. Address

Quick, No. 849, care Michigan Tradesman. 849

OR SALE—THE BEST STOCK OF GRO-
ceries, having the best trade in one of the
best towns and in one of the best fruit and po-
tato sections of Michigan; doing a prosperous
business; also have a fine shipping business in
fruit and potatoes; also a warehouse which I
will dispose of. Object of selling, have other
business elsewhere that will require all of my
attention. Address No. 856, care Michigan
Tradesman. 856
OR SALE—JOB PRINTING OUTFIT—7x11
foot power self-inking press, 26 fonts type,
fixtures, etc.; invoices $200. Address No 855,
care Michigan Tradesman. 855

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTED— DOUBLE DECKER SHOW-
~ case, 5 to 8 feet long. B. J. Reynolds,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 845
YOR SALE—SECOND HAND SODA FOUN-
tain; easy terms. Charles A. Jackson, Ben-
ton Harbor, Mich. 843
{OR SALE—ESTABLISHED DRUG STORE,
about $1,800in stock. Fixtures and furni-
ture only #200; manufacturing town with good
farm trade; population 4,000; two new factories
this spring; new railroad building this year.
Reason for selling, other interests. Address L.
G. Ripley, Three Rivers, Mich. 842

JFOR SALE—WHOLE OR PART INTEREST
in a general hardware, tinsmithing and
lumbing stock, invoicing about $3,500, in a good

 

 

 

actory town in Southern Michigan. Ad ress
No. 824. care Michigan Tradesman. 824
{OR SALE—STORE AND DWELLING

combined and small stock of dry goods, gro-
ceries and shoes. Two miles northeast of Roch-
ester. Address E. C. Albertson, Rochester,
Mich. 835
FIRST-CLASS MARKET FOR RENT IN
a fine location; fully equipped with all kinds
of tools, torent orfor sale; for terms write to
Mrs. Ella Coney, 325 State St., Ionia, Mich. 833
NOR SALE—UP-TO-DATE DRUG STORE IN
one of the best towns in Michigan. Good
reasons for selling. Address No. 826, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 826
300 LOT, BALANCE CASH, FOR HOME IN
village or stock merchandise. 401 Bates St.,
Grand Rapids. 825
OR SALE—SMALL SODA FOUNTAIN,
also steam peanut roaster, cheap. Joseph
Hoare, Elk Rapids, Mich. 822

 

= FOR CASH—A BAKERY AND
restaurant, doing a $2,000 cash business
yearly; in the best town in Southern Michigan;
building in first-class repair and in good location.
For particulars address L. K. Gay & Son,
Morenci, Mich 847

NOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—AN EXCEL-
- lent flour mill and elevator, located in city of
25,000 population, situated on asphalt street, six
blocks from business district. Capacity of mill,
80 barrels ‘daily; excellent wheat country sur-
rounding; mill running night and day. Will sell
cheap or exchange for stock of merchandise.
Owner leaving for the South and must dispose of
all business interests here immediately. Address
P. O. Box 86, Marion, Ind. 827
OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise and fixtures, invoicing $3,000 to
$3,500; cash discount; best farming district in
Northern Indiana; good reasons for selling.
Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman. 810

WILL SELL HALF INTEREST IN MY
furniture business. The goods are all new
and up-to-date; located in a town of 7,000; has
been a furniture store for thirty years; only two
furniture stores in the town. - Address all cor-
respondence to No. 813, care Michigan Trades-
man. 813
YOR SALE—BRICK HOTEL BUILDING,
three stories, forty rooms, steam heat, elec-
tric lights, bar and llvery; rates, $2 per day;
town of 2,000 population. ‘Address Mrs. Fre
Kohl, Quiney, Mich. 785
OR SALE—A FIRST CLASS BOOK STORE
and news agency in hustling Michigan city
of 4,500 inhabitants; price right; terms easy.
Address 836, care Michigan Tradesman. 836
OR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF
groceries, crockery, glassware, lamps and
china, inventorying about $3,300. | Will accept
$3,000 cash if taken soon; location, the best and
central in a hustling business town of 1,500 popu-
lation, fifty miles from Grand Rapids; this is a
— for some one; best of reasons for selling.
Address B, care Michigan Tradesman aie
Free SALE OR RENT—TWO-STORY FRAME
store building, with living rooms attached, in
the village of Harrietta; possession given May 1.
Kar Particulars address J C.° Benbow, Yuma,
Wich, 770

 

 

 

 

 

 

HE ROMEYN PARSONS CO. PAYS CASH
for stocks of merchandise, Grand Ledge,
Mich. 735
F GOING OUT OF BUSINESS OR IF YOU
have a bankrupt stock of clothing, dry goods,
or shoes, communicate with The New York
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 728
ARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS OF
any kind, farm or city property or manu-
facturing plants that they wish to sell or ex-
change correspond with the Derby & Choate
Real Estate Co., Flint, Mich. . 709
ANTED— MERCHANTS TO CORRE-
spond with us who wish to sell their entire
stocks for spot cash. ee Purchasing
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, Ill. 585
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK IN VOICING
$2,000, _— corner store in the best town
in Western } a The best of reasons for
selling. Address No, 583, eare Michigan Trades-
man. 583

 

 

 

 

Ss STOCK FOR SALE IN A
thriving village in Southern Michigan. Write
for particulars.
Tradesman.

OR SALE—THE GENERAL STORE OF
the Squire & Sterling Mercantile Co., at
Omer, Mich.; doing a nice business; with it go
our good will, trade and cashing of our orders
for timber and labor. Here is a chance for the
right parties. Will be sold at once. For partic-
ulars address W. C. Sterling, Monroe, Mich. 853
I N CHARLOTTE FINELY LOCATED
storeroom, suitable for any business, for rent.

A. M. Lockard, Charlotte, Mich. 851
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR MER-
chandise—120 acres of land with good build-
ings. Address 840, care Michigan Tradesman.

840

Address No. 854, care Michigan

 

 

OR SALE—BEST PAYING GENERAL
merchandise store in Michigan; stock in-
ventories $7,000. Address No. 839, care Michigan
Tradesman. 839
VOR SALE—CLEAN

GROCERY sTOCK,

invoicing $500. One of the best towns in
Northern Michigan. Address No. 848, care
Michigan Tradesman. 848

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ANTED-POSITIONIN GENERALSTORE
by young married man, Swedish Ameri-
can; ten years’ experience in groceries, shoes
and clothing; country preferred; best of refer-
ences. Address O. Hansen, 383 Second St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 589
ANTED — REGISTERED ASSISTANT
pharmacist. Address No, 857, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 857

W ANTED_REGISTERED PHARMACIST

at once for about six or eight weeks; good

wages. Apply at once.
Michigan Tradesman.

ANTED—SITUATION BY YOUNG MAN

_, a8 traveling salesman or in general mer-

cantile store. Good references. Address Box
401, Elk Rapids, Mich. 852

Y ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST

q at once. State salary and age. Address
No. 838, care Michigan Tradesman. 838

ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK IN GEN-

eral store or manager of one or more de-

partments; long ex erience; good references.
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MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

 

Travelers’ Time Tables.

 

 

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres-
ident, J. H. Hopkins, Ypsilanti; Secretary,
E. A. Stow, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J.
TATMAN, Clare.

Graad Rapids 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.
KOENIG and F. H. CozzEns; Treasurer, C.
H. FRINK.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association

President, E. L. HARRIS; Secretary, UHAS.
HYMAN.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Maskegon Retail Grocers’ Association
President, H. B. SmirH; 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; Secretary, E. F.
CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KORHN

Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association

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

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, ':Hos T. BATES; Secretary, M. B.
HO.Lty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association

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

Pt. Hurvas Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association

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

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

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

Perry Business Men’s Association
President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E.
HEDDLE.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER-
OEKS. a
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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

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.
H. F. MoELLER, G. P. A.,
W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

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ex Su ex Su ex Su exSu
Ly Gd Rapids........ 745a 210p 10 45p 520p
Ar. Cadiliae.......... 1120a 540p 210a 900p
Ar. Traverse City....130p 750p 418a .....
Ar. Petoskey.........250p 915p 653ia
Ar. Mackinaw City... 415p 1035p 6 55a

Trains arrive from the north 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 il 0p
Ar. Kalamazoo. 850a 322p 8 35p re 1 00a
Ar. Ft. Wayne..1210p 650p 1145p To Cnicago
Ar. Cincinnati. 625p ..... Ce
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 Kapids.... 7 35am 205pm 5 40pm
AY. Muskegon........ 9 00am 320pm 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 6:50pm
Sunday only.
CHICAGO TRAINS
G. R. & | and Michigan Central.
TO CHICAGO Sunde Daily
Ly. G’d Rapids (Union depot) 1230pm 11 30pm
Ar. Chicago (12th St. Station) 525pm 655am
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago with Pull-
man buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train has through coach and Pullman
sleeping car. t
FROM CHICAGO Sasa! Daily
Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm 11 30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot) 10 15pm 6 55am
5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with
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

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Which are only a very few of the many hundred articles in our stock on which Merchants can save
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A. B. KNOWLSON,

—Wholesale—

Portland Cement, Lime, Land Plaster, Stucco, Fire Brick,
AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL.

Write for delivered prices.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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