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Write for catalogue. % ‘ enitiiallliniaimeeisim — oe ene “> ‘ Naar If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using our improved Coupon Book System, you are mak- ing a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the Coupon Book plan and are the largest manufac- turers of these books in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business. Samples free. Correspondence solicited. 4 TRADESMAN COMPANY i GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. “ne CELEBRATED ¥' SweetLoma ‘ ‘cur TOBACCO. fii NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. (Against the Trust.) - { » A WHEAT GRITS as Contain the Heart of the Wheat With the addition of sugar and milk (or cream) or sugar and butter, they are an 7 EGG Baking ¥ Powder} Nearly every dealer who has ideal —_ ——— No —_ — — can = —* — the price is re i ; less than that asked for other and less desirable cereals. Easily cooked, delicious Y corresponded with uS has bought to eat, easy to digest, easy to buy ($2.00 per case of 24 2-lb. packages). A. from us and every dealer who Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., Holland, Mich. ae nas bought is satished and so are his customers. EGG BAKING POWDER Home Office, 80 West street, New York. Western Office, 523 Williamson BI’dg, Cleveland. Branch Offices: Indianapolis Detroit Cincinnati Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Columbus : is the leader because it sells easier, slacks quicker and does more work than any other lime on the market. : Better send for prices and further in- Fn formation. BAY SHORE LIME CO., Bay Shore, Mich. Capital and Brains These attributes are essential to a grocer in transacting business, but to GET ALL YOUR PROFIT and economize your time it is necessary to secure a Stimpson Computing Grocers’ Scale They are better than an extra clerk and will make you more money than most salesmen. They absolutely prevent the most minute loss and are superior to all other scales on the market. Ask for further information. It’s to your advantage. THE W. F. STIMPSON CO. DETROIT, MICH. I I eS eS CXS} wi = SCOTTEN-DILLON COMPANY | '; Ss TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS Ss | as INDEPENDENT FACTORY DETROIT, MICHIGAN SS ss OUR LEADING BRANDS. KEEP THEM IN MIND. Ss : f ‘ CS FINE CUT SMOKING | PLUG CxS) Z oS UNCLE DANIEL. HAND PRESSED. Flake Cut. CREME DE MENTHE. CXS s oS OJIBWA. DOUBLE CROSS. Long Cut. STRONG HOLD. aS | 3 eS FOREST GIANT. SWEET CORE. Plug Cut. FLAT IRON. oS l SWEET SPRAY. FLAT CAR. Granulated. SO-LO. ES) > COs SNE3_ The above brands are manufactured from the finest selected Leaf Tobacco that money can buy. See quotations in @%S 4 j r ; price current. aS bo ’ | ’ | a ae Dp) 2 es a J “4 ki v _ Ta ee o S AEs Gi aw \} b A DESMAN Volume XVIII. ASSOCIATE OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES an and Mich- igan Tradesman, Grand Rapids. Collector and Commercial Lawyer and Preston National Bank, Detroit. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841, R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Rooks arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. C. E. McCRONE, Manager. Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 1.W.Caamene Pres. W. FRED McBain, Sec. 9000000000060900060006004 ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. a hbbbbbb bbb bb bp bt by 4, 4 i ee ee a ee ee ae ee ee ee Wholesale Ready Made Clothing Nearly all kinds, for all seasons, for Men, Boys and Children. Meet WILLIAM CONNOR who will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, until Aug. 8, and you will see a large line of samples to select from. Customers’ expenses allowed. Or if you prefer, write him, care Sweet’s Hotel, and he will call on you. He pays prompt attention to mail orders. PyvvvvvvwvyvvyVvVVyVUUW?W?* FUG UVUGVS GUVOVVOS OD yYyYyuvuvvvvVvvvyvVVVVVVUGQ?. FOF FOS GF GGG OOOO VU VU rvyyvvvvvvvVvVvVvvvvVvvVYWYVWYVUWW?*. GFP OOOO OOOO OOOO ETC CCV OUVS DS A. BOMERS, Commercial Broker.. And Dealer in Cigars and Tobaccos, 157 E. Fulton St. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. é ay) 2 > Sw ! week) 2) 4 Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 8S. Clark St.. Chicago. Ill. Tradesman Goupons GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1901. IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. - Muskegon’s Big Day. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. Village Improvement, - Clouds Rolled Away. Editorial. 9. Editorial. Clothing. Dry Goods. Shoes and Rubbers. Gaining Ground. Hardware. “The Best Laid Plans.” - The Meat Market. Window Dressing. Woman’s World. Butter and Eggs. The New York Market. Clerks’ Corner. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Random Reflections. Hardware Price Current. Weaned From Dirt. 12. 14, 24, 28. 29. 30. 31. GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. It was impossible that with two such adverse factors as the drouth scare in the Southwest and the steel strike there should not be something of a reaction in stocks, but the strength of the situa- tion is indicated in that the breaking of the former and the more favorable out- look as to the latter should be sufficient to cause a prompt and rapid recovery. Considering that the reaction was from a higher level than had been attained in many years it would not have been ac- counted strange if the reaction had been considerable and the recovery to a lower point only, but the rapid and steady rise seems to warrant the pre- diction that the new records will soon be broken unless some new cause of un- easiness sets in soon. The most noticeable feature of the general situation is the fact of unabated distributive trade. Retail business in general is reported better than has been known through the summer months for many years. There is no prominent line of trade which is not enjoying excep- tional activity and that with no appar- ent indication of reaction in the near future. A favorable indication is that there is greater ease in the money mar- ket than for a long time past which is the more remarkable that it accom- panies such great activity. The iron and steel situation shows undiminished activity in all lines in spite of the strike restrictions. Diffi- culties at the mills are of constantly de- creasing importance. Such price changes as have occurred have been up- ward, but these have not been enough to cause uneasiness. No sign of decrease is visible for structural shapes or for railway equipment. The effect of the drouth scare was naturally a strong speculative advance in corn, and by sympathy in wheat, and the same causes led toa strong stimu- lation in the live stock market, as the producers did not like the idea of feed- ing so high priced corn. While the re- action attending the changed prospect is considerable it is not so rapid as would naturally be expected. The unexpected increase in the supply in the hide mar- ket on account of the stimulation in live stock shipments caused a decline, but this did not extend to leather or the fin- ished products. The midsummer sea- son lessens the ratio of shipments of boots and shoes from Eastern shops, but that fact does not argue any decrease in activity. Asa fact, work is assured for months to come. When they are preparing for any great ceremony in England it is customary for merchants and others to take out poli- cies insuring them against loss in case anything should happen to stop the event. So they are figuring on the pos- sibility that King Edward may die he- fore his coronation, which is scheduled for next June. The insurance companies conclude that the chances are ten to one that Edward will be able to don the crown at the appointed time, and they are offering policies at 10 per cent. rates. Putting sentiment on a business basis in this way is a trifle odd to American merchants, but the English storekeepers have learned by experience not to put their faith in kings without some precaution. A St. Louis newspaper which kept tab states that nearly every patient taken to the city hospital during the hot wave was a_ steady drinker—meaning, of course, a steady drinker of ardent spirits. The facts may not involve a temperance lecture, but they form their own comment on the foolishness of in- dulging in ‘‘hot stuff’’ on. hot days, even when disguised as a cooling bever- age. A few years ago Phoenix, Ariz., the center of the Salt River valley, was a sagebrush desert. It now has 25,000 in- habitants, with an assessed property valuation of $10,000,000. All this is due to the introduction of water, which, brought in canals from distant streams, has turned the desert into a fertile val- ley, covered with ranches and dotted with small towns, American cotton seed is responsible for a tremendous increase in the _pro- duction of cotton in Russia, Middle Asia, Bokhara and Khiva. The year Ig00 shows an increase of 44 per cent. over 1899 in the Asiatic lands, and the increase in the Russian district is 28 per cent. Most of the former corn fields are now being planted with corn. After a thorough study of the drink question in Russia, Stanislas Prosper, a St. Petersburg editor, has published a book in which he seeks to prove that the government monopoly and the clos- ing of saloons on Sunday have led toa great diminution of the evil of intem- perance. A New York couple committed suicide together because they could not live apart. The foolkiller was evidently after them, and had they married they would probably have killed themselves rather than live together. Number 932 ALTOGETHER TOO GREEDY. Corporations enjoying valuable fran- chises granted by municipalities usually deem it the part of wisdom to avoid controversy and conflict with common councils and other governing bodies, but the recently-organized gas company at Traverse City appears to court trouble of this sort. When the franchise was granted, several months ago, the Com- mon Council reserved the right to de- cide where the mains should be laid later on. The franchise was accepted under these conditions, and in the meantime several of the aldermen have undertaken to educate themselves on the subject. They find that in a city like Traverse City, which has a complete alley system, the proper place for the mains is in the alleys, and the Council has so notified the company. The officers of the company, who have acted all along as though they were spoiling for a fight, insist on laying their mains in the streets and have actually gone into court and asked for a mandamus to com- pel the Common Council to grant the use of the streets for that purpose. In the interest of fair play and good government, it is to be hoped that the municipality will be able to maintain its position, because it would -be a menace to cities everywhere to have the corporation sustained in the contention that it is greater than the body which granted a concession which constitutes its chief stock in trade. The franchise was worth $25,000 in the money markets of the world the moment it was turned over to the promoters of the enterprise, and it would seem as though such a gift ought to satisfy the most greedy fran- chise grabber, without supplementing it by legal proceedings which will natural- ly antagonize every thoughtful property owner in the city. How many persons who daily eat sandwiches are aware that it is to an ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich that that popular form of food owes its name? The story runs that the Earl in question was very fond of playing cards, and in order to prevent having to stop to eat he used to have a slice of meat put between two slices of bread and eat these as he played. This got to be called a ‘‘sandwich,’’ but gradually the inverted commas were dropped as the word became an accepted one in the language. The present Earl became Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in 1881. He was once military Secretary at Gibraltar, and has been attached to spe- cial embassies to various capitals of Europe. Where do all the coilar buttons go? A man in Lyons, N. Y., coughed one up the other day. He doesn’t remember having swallowed it and thinks it must have got into his midst when he was an infant, but somehow failed to find re- pose in his vermiform appendix, whence it might have been rescued by enter- prising surgeons years ago. We should not waste all of our pity on the Boers; it is winter now in the Transvaal. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People A Few Words on the Object of This Column. Iam in receipt of considerable corres- pondence relating to the manner in which I treat the advertisements which are brought to my attention for criti- cism. A few writers seem to think that I am actuated by a spirit of know-it-all, which gives my utterances an offensive- ly dictatorial quality, as though my ob- ject was to ill naturedly express all the fault possible and to assume that my way is necessarily the way. Generally, ’ however, the writers appear to recog- nize correctly that the object is to ex- press as much as possible of suggestion as to my ideas of how the work might be improved, with a view to serving the interests of those who have possibly not had as much experience or are not able to give the subject much thought. One writer expresses the situation so aptly and with such a spirit of appreci- ation I am constrained to quote: Marshall, July 22—The Statesman seems to offer you a wide field for criti- cism, judging from the several mentions the advertisement compositions have had of late. We are not finding fault at all, in fact, are glad to have you point out where we err in your judgment, al- though our foreman takes issue with you occasionally. It is the writer's be- lief that you have been generally correct in your diagnosis of our advertisement malady, but what is especially pleasing is the manner in which you have crit- icised, being careful not to hurt the feelings of our patrons. Statesman Printing Co. It would be an easy matter to publish examples of good work in advertising as suggestions leaving the criticisms to the readers as is done by many trade journals. There may be some beneft in this, but I can see but little more than for the readers to select samples from the host constantly urging atten- tion. The object of criticism is suggestion. Any quantity of samples of good work alone will do but little in this direction. The student of publicity, who has given the subject long and careful attention, may be able to learn from such sources, but the average advertiser will gain more by having the points of excellence indicated, the faults pointed out and suggestions made for improvement. The manner in which my criticisms have been received indicates that my object has not been generally misunder- stood, but, of course, I am occasionally subjected to an ill-natured response. It is impossible in hastily going over the subjects for criticism to prevent some mistakes. Then my judgment is subject to the same limitation as another’s; I can only express my opinion, and if in doing so there seems to be a positive- ness which strikes the reader as too ar- bitrary, I trust the object intended will disarm any feelings of resentment. + + « A. W. Morris writes a catchy adver- tisement which is readable and wili not Jeave a bad impression. He has done well to break up his matter into short paragraphs, especially as he introduces so many subjects. The principal criti- cism I should offer is that there is too many kinds of suggestions for one ad- vertisement. The cartoon in the ‘‘drop in prices’’ would afford an excellent topic for another week. Then if the display had been made to fill the space, giving plenty of white and possibly a border the result would be fine. The writing is good and the printer has done his work well considering the intrusion of the HOT Weather 2K Our weather “Profit” says slightly warm weather con-|; tinued throu- ghout July. We have made seductions on many lines for this month, so you can have most all the Profit, for instanee: . gE" We are selling many Straw Hats, have about 100 ieft, 10cte will buy you one, why pay more. Then we are selling the 20c and 25c ones at a re- duction also. . §@PGet you a pair of our famous 5c Socks, plenty warm enough for now, and they will wear, and wear, J can’t tell you how long. Then you need u pairof our Good Suspenders. We have a big assortment. This sweaty wu-ther is sure death to suspenders. fe" Ob, yes! You will want a pairof our Brag Cracker Jack Overalle to fasten your suspenders to. Our Overalls—but no use telling you again of their good qualities for you have tried them, and declare you will wear no other kind. e@-We veany forgot. How odd you would look without a shirt. The kind we recommend and sell are the gnes that are made upon bonor and guaranteed to stand hard wear. Made bv the same firm that makes our Good Overalls. Our Shirts are 36 inches long, do not rip. all seams double atitched. buttone well sewed on and then the cloth is ali O. K. Maybe you want some of the above. (9 Butter and Eggs are as good here as any other kind of money. A. W. MORRIS, anager. THE LITTLE CASH STORE The Cool Store 1s the name that Has heen ac- corded the City Drug Store: 4 is nndoubtedly the coolest place mm the city to enjoy an ice cream soda, ar to wait*for a car. There's no coolness in-your welcome........ : City Drug Store The Walsh-De Roo Mingo. $ OFFERS TO FARMERS Pree Storage of wheat and rye. Loans on grain stored with them. Insurance on grain at a low rate, if desired. Bring in your grain whenever convenient and sell when $ the market suits you. True Economy oF Muslin Underwear does not mean that you should sew and drudge. It means rather that you give oarefnl attention to this underwear offering with its heaps of well-made, prettily trim- med goods, with prices reduced just right for shrewd bargain buy- ers. i Women's Vests Our stock abounds with vests of every kind tor this warm weather. —light, dainty, and easy-priced. The J, S. Goodyear Co, Hastings. Mich. SAVE 10 CENTS You pay 4c a pound for first-class Rolled Oals in bulk when you buy a few ponnds at atime. You pay for time and package todo them up. Why not buy a few pounds more at a time and save 10c. ~ 9 lbs. Nudavene Flakes 25c These are first-class oata. We sell them eleap but they : are not cheap goods. We sell them at A small profit. Costs nothing to do them up and what we make is clear gain We have them put up this way to save you money . PANNA Oar ERO Rene ne On nnn & 3 } HORR BROTHERS j : Cash Grocers 3 Fa ee l aa 400 dollars eo seseet worth of new, bright, summer dress styles of goods in the market There 1s no excuse for sendmy to Chicago or New York for goods. We have them and will sell thew cheaper than you can yet them outside, Come and see for yourself Silk Foulards, Batiste, Silk Tissue, Swivel Silks, Organdies, Dimties. Toil Du Nords. Pique. Skirt Liven. and a full line of the latest Dress Trimmings now ready for your inspec- goods ; have becn added this week to our already large stock. We are bound to have the latest & IST OSG Se SRST TSI ast | aHOMER & JOHNSON MAKE HAY while THE SUN SHINES and buy ‘GROCERIES Selby’s LITTLE BUSY STORE. A few prices for you to con- sider. 4 lbs Fine Rice............., 25e 6 Cane Beans. ...... 2.2... 25¢ ‘4 Ibs Sears Crackers.......... 250 1 Ib 50c Japan Tea........... 40c Granulated Sngar per ]b...... 6e Light C eet uu be You get right prices, prompt attention and » fresh goods at our store. Meat Market. Our large trade in this line gives our market a special deal every day—nice fresh stock at lowest prices. Fresh Fish on Thursdays. Yours tor Business, [George B. Selby cut, but the work would be better with the cut put into next week, A general characteristic of the adver- tising Work of the Walsh-DeRoo Mill- ing Co, is its directness and simplicity. The example before us is a good indi- cation of their style. The printer’s dis- play is good but he would have done better to’ adhere to the use of one style of type. His use of white space is es- pecially commendable. : Horr Brothers have a convincing logic in their statement which can not fail to sell goods. The subject is one to inter- est and the simplicity of statement can not be excelled. Had the printer used a type one or two sizes smaller for the paragraphs so as to gain a little more white space inside border it would have been an improvement. Then the ex- tended French Clarendon in the last line is out of harmony with the rest of the type. Homer & Johnson have another dis- play commendable for its simplicity of expression and the printer has done his work well. I am a little too old fogyish to quite endorse the entire dropping of capitals in the display lines, but 1 sup- pose it is done with a purpose. The use of white space inside the border is exceptionally good. A happy idea well carried out is that of the City Drug Store. It is a valuable feature especially for a drug store to have an airy and pleasant salesroom and no pains should be spared to give an appearance of this character. Then nothing is better in hot weather than the taking the coolness asatopic. I have the criticism to make that as cities in this country are quite common there would be a wider benefit in indicating some particular city. The J. S. Goodyear Co. write a con- vincing announcement of ladies’ under- wear in terms calculated to gain fem- inine attention. The printer has done well in selections of type but I would lead the paragraphs a little closer so as to give more room for the display lines. The advertisement is a good one. George B. Selby writes a good sea- sonable grocery advertisement, the best feature of which is the price table. The printer would have done well to adhere - to one style of display if possible, and the Italic complimentary address would be better omitted and its place taken by a dash like the one above ‘‘meat mar- ket.’’ —___~-9 > Cigars Are Rights and Lefts. ‘‘It is not always because a cigar is badly made that the wrapper curls up and works off,’’ remarked a tobacco dealer the other day. ‘‘It is often be- cause a right-handed man is smoking a left-handed cigar. Sounds strange, hey? Well, a ‘left-handed cigar’ is one rolled by the maker’s left hand, for all cigar- makers must be ambidextrous. A piece of tobacco for a wrapper is cut on the bias and is rolled from left to right on the filler. The other piece, for reasons of economy, is then used and must be rolled the opposite way by the opera- tor’s other hand. Hence, a smoker who holds his cigar in his right hand some- times, in twisting it about, rubs the wrapper the wrong way and unloosens ate! : ——_s-2>___ Leading Him On. The summer girl and the summer young man had exhausted al! other sub- jects of conversation, when they turned to the crops. ‘*T guess the corn fields of the West are in a bad way on account of the dry spell,’’ said he. ‘Yes, that seems to be the case,’’ she assented, coyly; ‘‘but I don’t think the Pop corn crop will be injured.’’ fter that, what could he do but pop? MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 MUSKEGON’S BIG DAY. Programme Prepared for the Third An- nual Picnic. Muskegon, July 30—The Executive Committee for the grocers and butchers’ Picnic to be held in this city August 8, to be attended by the butchers of Grand Rapids and the retail merchants of Grand Haven, met yesterday and form- ulated the official programme for the day. It promises to be a rousing event, with no flagging of interest or excite- ment from the official sunrise at 5:05 a. m. until the display of fireworks in the air at 7:30. The Grand Rapids butchers have promised to be here en masse and will bring with them the Grand Rapids Newsboys’ band, a mus- ical organization which is a warm fa- vorite in Muskegon. The Grand Haven Business Men's Association has not yet taken any formal action, but it is con- sidered a certainty that all lines of trade will close up in that town on August 8 and the dealers will migrate to Muske- gon. Altogether 1,500 visitors are ex- pected. Hi There will be plenty of badges for everybody. These are contributed by the Muskegon Milling Co., L. A. Bud- long Co., of Chicago, and H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburg. Altogether; 10,000 badges have been provided. Many firms 5:15 p.m. High dive and silde for life. 5:30 p. m. Balloon race. 6:00 p. m. Picnic supper. 7 330 p. Balloon ascension and m. fireworks display in the clouds. 8:00 p. gi. Dancing. The following will be the prizes for the events: Molasses race—ist $1, 2d Soc, 3d 25c. Each contestant will receive 25 cents. Men’s swimming race—ist $2, 2d $1, 3d Soc. Tub race—ist $2, 2d $1, 3d 5oc. Greased pole—ist $2, 2d $1, 3d soc. Log rolling—ist $5, 2d $2. The prizes for tne ladies’ swimming race have not been determined. Special prizes will also be distributed, including prizes to the grocer and butcher longest in business. Oe 0 - Special Features of the Grand Rapids Morning Market. The past few days have been charac- terized by more of a break in volume, especially in fruits,than has been usual, owing to the heavy rain and to the fact that it is between seasons. Red and black raspberries have nearly disap- peared. Cherries are seen but seldom. Their sucessors have been somewhat Joint Executive Committee of the Third Picnic of Muskegon Grocers and Butchers Chas. Schoenberg D. A. Boelkins August Riedel Will Castenholz John A. Smith Cc. . Richards will distribute fans, puzzles and other souvenirs. The following is the official gramme as arranged : 5:05 a. m. Sunrise—by the sun. g:00 a. m. Modern Woodman band will board street cars and give trolley circuit to end of Ottawa street, then to Lake Michigan Park and finally to Mona Lake Park. j 9:00 a. m. to 12m. reception up town of visitors by committees and Beer- man’s band. : 12:00m. Picnic dinner at Mona Lake Park, followed by the following exercises : pro- 1:00 p. m. Selection by Beerman's band. 1:10 p. m. Address of welcome by Mayor William Moore. 1:15 p.m. Address, ‘‘Grocers and Butchers, ’’ —— J. E. Turner. 1:30 p. m. Address, ‘‘The Pure Food Law,’’ Lieut. Col. J. R. Bennett. 1:45 p. m. Selection by Grand Kap- ids Newsboys’ band. _ : " 2:00 p. m. High dive and slide for life. 2:15 p. m. Molasses race. 2:45 p. m. Men’s swimming race, 3:00 p.m. Tubrace. | 3:30 p. m. Ladies’ swimming race. 3:45 p. m. Greased pole race. 4:15 p. m. Log rolling contest. __ 4:45 p. m. Exhibition of Mayo life boat. slow in making an appearance, but with settled weather they will soon be on hand in sufficient quantities. Blackberries are beginning to come freely and the wet weather makes them look fine, but they are generally rather sour. Prices are higher than for years past and everything is quickly sold. Prices of all small fruits have been too high for general household canning and the demand for blackberries will, un- doubtedly, be large throughout the sea- son, however great the quantity. One effect of the heavy rains is the rushing of the early peach market. The first appeared only a week ago, but the offerings on the Tuesday market were large. Growers report that Alexanders are rotting badly and that they will be rushed in as quickly as possible. While offerings were unexpectedly large prices kept up well, although many dealers fought shy, preferring to handle the Southern Albertas. As to the general peach crop growers report good pros- pects if rain does not keep up and, with the empty cans, there is sure to be enough demand to keep prices at a healthy basis at least. Apples are ap- pearing freely and sell promptly at $1 for good ones. A few knearly little pears were seen, but this fruit can hard- ly be said to be in market. Potatoes are still holding the place of interest in the vegetable market. The quantity offered seems to be large, but the price keeps up around $1 for good ones. In other vegetables prices keep up well, aided doubtless by the inter- ruptions on account of rain. Taking it all together the week has had less teams than for a long time past. Even the Tuesday market, although the weather was good, was smaller than for the corresponding day in many weeks. The most notable feature of the mar- ket continues to be the round prices asked and taken. A few years ago 25 cents was considered good for many articles which are now sold at $1. With money going into the hands of the farm- ers at this rate, there can not fail to re- sult a tremendous trade in every line. To the poor all things are said to be pure; but don’t think for a minute this includes boarding-house butter. The darkest hour is always when you can’t find the matches. The Thomas is fitted with 3 H. P. Gasoline Motor. Quadricycle The seat can be easily and quickly substituted for the box or both front wheels and axle can be removed and replaced by one front wheel, making a Motor Tricycle (3 wheels) price $350. Thomas Auto Quad, $450. We also have the Thomas Motor Bicycle—a 2-wheeler called the Auto-Bi—at $200. the market. The cheapest line of satisfactory Automobiles on Auto Quad Delivery, $450. If desired the delivery boxes can be made in different designs to adver- tise different lines of business. Catalogue on application. We want good agents. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Newaygo— Hartman Bros. have leased the White Cloud grist mill. Ovid—W. B. Cox has purchased hardware stock of John H. Robson. Adrian—Knox & Wheeler succeed A. L. Knox in the flour and feed business. Adrian—John Mulzer has disposed of his stock of groceries to Leonard Beck. Muiliken—W. H. Ranger & Co. are closing out their general merchandise stock. Evart—O. C. Bath has purchased the jewelry and wallpaper stock of Chas. E, Bell. Cement City—A. W. Mason succeeds Mason & Hungerford in the hardware business. Fairfax—S. R. Wagoner has _pur- chased the general merchandise stock of Frank Wright. Grand Ledge—T. B. Inkley & Son, boot and shoe dealers, will remove to Greenville Sept. 1. Kalamazoo—Jones & Gordon succeed Richard R. Brenner in the bakery and confectionery business. Ludington—The Pere Marquette Tele- phone Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $30,000, Harbor Springs—W. W. Pearl con- tinues the meat business of Pearl & Ferguson in his own name. Hancock—The Hancock Finnish Trading Co. is succeeded by the Han- cock Co-operative Finnish Trading Co. Muskegon—D. B. Jones has re- engaged in the grocery business and has leased his old stand at 303 Clay avenue. Evart—Avery A. Smith has purchased the interest of his partner in the firm of Smith & Bath, proprietors of the Evart roller mills. Marshall—Fred Zanger has sold his dry goods stock to Chas. A. Cudworth, of Armada, who is already in possession of the premises. North Adams—The Morehouse & Co. drug stock, which was sold at bankruptcy sale, was bid in by E. A. Dibble, of Hillsdale, at $780. Lansing—The R. H. Piper drug stock was bid in at chattel mortgage sale July 29 by A. C. Bauer, who bid $200 and / assumed the first mortgage of $500. Lake Linden—Ernest Thibault has purchased the grocery stock of J. G. T. Joyal. He was formerly connected with the dry goads house of L. Hennes & Co. Menominee—Frof. Cox has resigned his- position as principal of the high school to accept a more lucrative and promising position with Penberthy, Cook & Co. Copemish—A. L. Gleason has _pur- chased the interest of James McGuire in the hardware’ firm of McGuire & Gleason and will continue the business at the same location. Blanchard—W. H. Myers has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the dry goods and grocery firm of Myers & Houghton and will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Sault Ste. Marie—C. W. Pickford has sold his stock of dry goods, furnishings and shoes to David Rosenthal, a whole- sale auctioneer of New York City, who will ship the stock to that place. Six Lakes—Will A. Wood has con- tracted to sell his drug stock at this place to Collins Bechtel, formerly clerk in the drug store of Dr. L. D. Mills, at Coopersville. The transfer is to occur on or before Sept. Io. Lansing—Chas. H. Griffey has pur- chased an interest in the grocery stock formerly owned by Hull & Lewis,at the the corner of Washington avenue and Shia- wassee street. The business will be continued under the style of Hull & Griffey. Sherman—G. A. Lake & Co. have- purchased the hardware stock of S. W. Rose. It is understood that H. B. Stur- tevant is the ‘‘Co.’’ member of the firm. Mr. Rose has removed his drug and book stock into the store building across the street. Alma—Fred Hammer has purchased the interest of Wm. Milleman in the meat firm of Milleman & Hammer. Mr. Milieman has leased the furniture and fixtures of the market of E. R. Griffith and will continue the meat business at that location. Benton Harbor—J. W. Johnston and D. H. Patterson, who organized the Lake Shore Coal Co. some months ago, have purchased the coal stock of E. E. Godfrey. They will put on a line of wagons and other facilities for the de- livery of coal and wood. South Haven—The South Haven drug store, over which there has been consid- erable wrangling the past few days, has passed into the ownership of Chas. H. Rogers, who has closed his drug store next to the Clifton Hotel and will con- solidate it with the new store. Port Huron—Arrangements are heing made for a matched game of baseball between the grocers and butchers of Port Huron. Alderman O'Sullivan has been invited to umpire the game and has promised to bring with him the shillalah brought from Ireland by Wm. Canham. Altona—Eli Lyons foreclosed _ his mortgage on the general stock of M. B. Armstrong July 25 and will continue the business in his own name, as a branch of his Lakeview store. The business will be in charge of J. C. Kel- sey, formerly connected with the general store of the late Nelson Higbee. Houghton—The I. E. Swift Co., which established a branch wholesale and retail] hardware store here and erected a large warehouse about a year ago, will dispose of a portion of the stock at the Ishpeming store and bring the balance to the Copper country, making Houghton the home of the firm. Muskegon—The celery crop is said to be seriously affected by the recent heavy rains. The larger farms all report that decay and blight have made their ap- pearance. Many farmers were in the middle of the first crop and in conse- quence the ceiery was not boarded up and was completely unprotected from the elements. It will run two and one- half or three dozen to the box, however. Three Oaks—Benj. Letgers, who con- ducted the dry goods and grocery _busi- ness at this place, although for the past three months he has represented a whole- sale house as traveling salesman, has decided to retire from trade and has transferred his store building to Mr. Hoopengamer, of Syracuse, Ind., and sold his store fixtures and a portion of his stock to Mr. Green, who will remove to the new location. Howard City—W. H. Campbell & Son, who have been engaged in the gro- cery business here for several years, have uttered a trust mortgage on their stock of goods. Their liabilities amount to $909.37 and the stock inventories $765. Other assets consist of book ac- counts, good, bad and indifferent, amounting to perhaps $800 or $1,000. Mr.Campbell has long been in ill health and has been struggling hard to make his business a success, : Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Michigan Soap Works has doubled its capital stock, it now being $50, 000. Croswell—The Croswell Milling Co. has increased its capital stock from $5,400 to $11,000, ™ Pontiac—The capital stock of the Pontiac Spring Wagon Works has been increased from $50,000 to $100, 000. Delray—W. B. Ewing & Son, saw- mill operators and dealers in hardwood lumber, have sold out to Wm. R. Tompkins & Co, Frederic—Henry Ward is planning to boom Fredric. A passenger train is to run from here to East Jordan, South Arm and Charlevoix in a short time. Mr. Ward has finished one of the finest mills in the county. It is a band saw, head, stave and hoop mill and handle factory, and will employ 200 men. He is going to have excursions run to Frederic and have auction sales of lots. A fine hotel is to be built, costing $25,000, and they want a bank and are building houses and business blocks. Mr. Ward says they expect to have a town of 5,000 in a few years. Battle Creek—The Malted Food Co, has been organized with a capital stock of $400,000, of which $312,000 has al- ready been subscribed. C. C. Beach, Treasurer of the Nichols & Shepard Threshing Machine Co., is Chairman; Guilford Leslie, a lumber dealer at Michigan City, is Vice-Chairman; H. P. Moyer, ex-President of the Battle Creek Pure Food Co. and formerly of Des Moines, Ia., is Secretary and Gen- eral Manager and W. J. Smith is Treas- urer. A factory building costing $60,000 will be erected and the company expects to begin operations by the first of next year. The new food is a secret prepa- ration. - Albion—The Albion Wind Mill & Implement Co. is an appropriate name for the concern that was formerly the Union Wind Mill Co. of this city. It will not be broad enough, however, if it continues to take on new industries. Last week it absorbed a manufacturing ette, is circulating on both sides of the river, binds the signers to close their stores, commencing August I at 6 p. m. every evening except Tuesdays and Saturdays. To make the agreement binding it is necessary that the signa- tures of the merchants on both sides of the river be secured. Ironwood—Jas. Devoy, of the Iron- wood cash grocery, closed his store promptly at 8 o'clock last Tuesday evening, being the first to inaugurate a movement that should be __ general throughout the city. Manager Hough, of the Ironwood Store Co., at once closed his three stores and Davis & Fehr fol- lowed suit. Since Tuesday, these three concerns have closed their places of business at 8 o’clock each evening, and will continue to do so, Saturday and Monday evenings and pay-days_ ex- cepted. Battle Creek—Spencer Pomeroy has resigned his position with Stevens, Gordon & Co., clothiers, to accept a more responsible one with the Hall Truck Co. N. L. Comfort, manager of the truck company, has resigned, and will be succeeded by Mr. Pomeroy. Belding—Bert Buch, formerly with R. R. Edwards, has resigned his _posi- tion to accept a similar one with O. C. Miller & Son,-of Greenville, at an in- crease in salary. —> 2 —____ Programme Prepared For the Pharma- ceutical Convention. Detroit, July 30—The following pro- gramme has heen prepared for the nine- teenth annual convention of the Michi- gan State Pharmaceutical Association, to be held in this city Aug. 13 and 14: Tuesday Afternoon. President's address. Secretary’s report. Treasurer's report. Paper by Joseph Helfman—The Busi- ness Phase of the Druggist’s Relation to the Medical Profession. Report of Secretary of Board of Pharmacy. Report of delegates. Tuesday Evening. Moonlight excursion on steamer Sappho, tendered by Nelson, Baker 0. institution located at Homer and oper-|& C ated by James H. Cook. Now it has under consideration the plan of taking on the Arndt hay tedder and Mr. Au- gust Arndt, of this city, is the inventor. The machinery of the Cook institution has been moved over from Homer and is now being set up and a portion of the Albion plant overhauled to accom- modate it. The Boys Behind the Counter. Stanton—Alfred Hansen, who for the past two years has been employed in Hawley’s department store, has taken a similar position with C. H. LaFlam- boy, of McBride. Menominee—The Clerks’ Union of the twin cities, encouraged by some of the merchants is making a final effort to se- cure the signatures of the merchants to the early closing movement. The agree- ment which H. B. Simcox, of Marin- Wednesday Forenoon. Report of Trade Interests Committee. Paper by B. K. Van Naten, M. D.— Emergency Cases in Drug Stores and How to Treat Them. Report of Legislative Committee. Report of Executive Committee. General! business. Wednesday Afternoon. Report of Pharmacy and Queries Committee. Paper by J. W. T. Knox—Advertising Retail Business. Report of Adulteration Committee. Election of officers. Selecting place of next meeting. Installation of officers. Unfinished business. Adjournment. Come one, come all! James W. Seeley, Sec’y. For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY CO. General Mill Supplies, Iron Pipe, Pumps, Well Points and Well Supplies. We want your business. ASK FOR PRICES 20 PEARL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. M. O. BAKER & CO. TOLEDO, OHIO Have fancy trade at top prices for all Northern Michigan cherries can get. Let us have your shipments. t At er eae ' on MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip P. DePotter has erected a new store building at Alpine and engaged in the grocery business. The Lemon & Wheel- er Company furnished the stock. Emil Rebentisch, formerly engaged in the grocery business on Straight Street, has ré-engaged in business at 265 Straight street. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Mynard E. Butts, formerly prescrip- tion clerk for Frank G. Thiers, the Mt. Pleasant druggist, will open a drug store at Elk Rapids about Aug. 15. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has the order for the stock. A. Vidro has sold his grocery stock at 184 Stocking street to Jos. F. Vidro, a nephew, who has clerked in the store for the past nine years. Mr. Vidro will continue the dry goods and shoe busi- ness at the same location. ~~» -_____- The Produce Market. Apples—Duchess and Red Astricans command $1@1.25 per bu. Receipts are small and the quality ‘is not first class. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Jumbos, $2, 25. Beets—i5c per doz. Blackberries—$1.75 per 16 qts. Butter—Extra creamery is strong at 2zoc. Dairy grades are in adequate supply to meet both consumptive and shipping requirements and find an out- let on the basis of 11c for packing stock to 13c for choice and 15c for fancy. Cabbage—$z.25 per 3 bu. bbl. Carrots—12c per doz. bunches. Celery—16c per doz. Corn—10@12c per doz. ears. Cucumbers—20@25c per doz. Currants—Cherry, $1.20 per 16 qts. Common §1 per 16 qts. : Eggs—Receipts show fearful shrink- age, on account of the hot weaher. The loss off ranges from one to five dozen to the case. Local dealers pay toc on track to those shippers whose stock and meth- ods of handling can be depended upon. Frogs’ Legs—Large bulls, 45@soc; medium bulls, 25c; large frogs, 15@z2oc ; small frogs, 5@toc. : Green Onions—toc for Silverskins. ‘Green Peas—$1@1.25 for telephones and marrowfats. eg ae Honey—White stock is in light sup- ply at 14c. Amber is slow sale at 13c and dark is in moderate demand at 11 @i2c. Lemons—Messinas have advanced to $6 for choice and $6.50 for fancy. Rhodis, $7. Lettuce—Garden, 50c per bu. ; head, 6oc per bu. Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Gems command 75c per basket. Cantaloupes fetch $1.50@ 1.75 per crate. Onions—Home grown command 75c per bu. : i Oranges—Supplies are light and very few are coming from the coast. Five dollars is asked for 96s and 112s. The smaller sizes command $5.50@5.75. Parsley—3oc per doz. Peaches—Home grown Alexanders are in plentiful supply at 60@goc per bu. As usual, this variety is so short lived that it will not stand shipping for any distance. Elbertas from Georgia and Alabama, carefully sorted, are held at $1.75 per 6 basket crate. A carof El- bertas which came in on consignment to a local dealer Tuesday is in such bad condition that fully half of the fruit had to be consigned to the dump. Pie Plant—6oc per 50 ib. box. Pineapples—Florida, $1.75@2.25 per doz., ——— to size. a Plums—California command $1.75 per 4 basket crate. : Potatoes—The market has sustained a decline, in- consequence of liberal re- ceipts from local growers and the price has receded to 70@8oc per bu. and will probably go lower before the end of the week. Poultry—Receipts are more liberal and the focal demand has lessened con- siderably, due to the resort season and the departure of the furniture men. Live hens command 7@7%c; spring broilers, 12@13c; turkey hens, 8@oc; gobblers, 8c; spring ducks, 12@1aqc. Pigeons are in moderate demand at 75c per doz, and squabs are taken readily at $1.25@I1.50. Radishes—i2c for China Rose; toc for Chartiers. String Beans—$1 per bu. Summer Squash—3c per Ib. Tomatoes—$1.25 per % bu. basket for home grown. The price will prob- ably decline gradually from now on. Watermelons—20@2s5c for Georgias. Whortleberries—$3.75 per bu. Re- ceipts are small. OO The Grain Market. Wheat has again dropped back in price. The large precipitation of rain in the drought districts was the main cause. While future wheat sold on July 22 at 7336c, it sold on July 29 at 67c or a loss of 63%c. Cash wheat, however, did not follow in the same ratio of de- cline, simply because farmers and deal- ers would not sell. The visible in- creased 114 million bushels where a de- crease was expected, as the exports from both coasts were 7,000,000 bushels, and the receipts as per daily reports were less than they were last year. It looks as though some one had made an error in computing the figures. The situa- tion is not changed. The United States has a large crop of wheat, while the continent is short. The cry from the bears is no export demand, still wé“ex- port more than we did and will prob- ably export more than any year in the history of the country, but it is ever thus. We give the continent wheat for a song, while we really are in position to dictate our own prices to them, as other exporting countries have depleted their stocks. It shows that out of 9,500,000 bushels in transit, the United States furnishes 7,000,000 bushels. Corn, on account of the rains, has dropped from the pinnacle cf 593c to 5236c, or a decline of 7c per bushel in one week; while the general belief is that where the hot wheater in the corn district existed that no amount of rain could make corn. Of course, this will show up later. Those expecting to see corn up in the 7os will have to wait. The Kansas farmer, however, is inde- pendent, as he can use wheat for ani- mal food if he has no corn. Oats, not to be outdone, have also settled back in price from 38%%c to 32%c. The visible in this cereal decreased 740,000, but the slump in corn took oats along. Oats, at present prices, are very cheap as well as the other cereals. Rye was also on the down grade and declined 4c a bushel. Beans, that is cash beans, are up 2o0c. This is owing to the dry weather, as beans have suffered in the bean districts. While rain may help them some, we will have a very short crop, the same as in corn. Flour has held up in price. Demand is good. The mills are sold ahead. Mill feed remains very firm, as pas- turage is very poor in most localities excepting Michigan; demand keeps up. Receipts were of the usual amount, being: wheat, 63 cars; corn, 6 cars; oats, 12 cars; tlour, 5 cars; potatoes, 1 car. Mills are paying 64c for wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. —-+_—>-0-e— + Sumner M. Wells, Secretary and Treasurer of the Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., is spending a fortnight with his mother at Penn Yan, N. Y. He is accompanied by his family. The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is somewhat stronger this week, showing a slight advance, which makes the pres- ent price of 96 deg. test centrifugals 4 3-16c. The demand is good, but offer- ings are light. The visible supply is 1,168,000 tons, against I, 170,000 tons last year. The refined market shows no change. The demand is good at pre- vious prices. Canned Goods—The excitement in the canned goods market during the past week has been intense. There has been a very unusual boom in prices and also an unusual demand for all kinds of canned goods. The entire market is on the upward move and _ values will in- crease from now on. The tremendous strength developed by tomatoes, corn and apples was the feature of the mar- ket during the past week, and while nearly all other lines shared the im- provement to more or less extent, prac- tically the entire attention of the trade in all parts of the country was centered on these three articles. Tomatoes were exceedingly strong and active, buyers taking large lots at constantly advancing prices when they once began to realize the true situation in the article and the general expectation is that prices will soon go still higher. So great has been the buying of corn that the best grades are almost entirely sold out. The mar- ket is much stronger and shows an ad- vance of 5c per dozen, with the prob- ability of prices going still higher. Re- ports from some of the corn packing sections are that it is being severely in- jured by the excessive heat. The posi- tion of peas seems to be ‘strengthening daily, latest reports from the West be- ing that the crop has been very in- juriously affected by the weather and that the yield will be much less tha last year. There is an advance of 5c per dozen on some of the best grades and the market is stronger on all grades on account of these discouraging re- ports. Gallon apples are exceedingly strong, with continued enquiry. Stocks are almost entirely cleaned up and prices are very high. There is a good demand for peaches and prices on fu- ture goods have advanced toc per dozen. Consumptive demand for sal- mon is active and the hot weather is re- ported causing a _ very good trade throughout the country generally. Alaska salmon is well cleaned up and prices are very firm. From present indications it will all be exhausted before the arrival of new packing from Alaska. Advices from many of the largest canneries in Alaska show that the pack to date is far below that of last season; in fact, the packers are at a loss to understand why there should be such a dearth of salmon in the North this year, as everyone ex- pected a good pack and made _prepara- tions accordingly. The demand for Columbia River salmon is light. The run of fish on the Columbia River is now reported larger. Dried Fruits—The scarcity of small fruits has resulted in more activity for dried fruits on the spot. Both prunes and peaches are in good demand from jobbers and some enquiry is noted for large lots. Prunes are firm, especially on the larger sizes, such as 40-50s and 50-60s, which are very scarce and in good demand. Some holders are even asking %c more for these sizes. The Ig00 crop of California prunes was about 5,000 cars and from other sources, such as Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, 7oo. to 800 cars. This year’s crop of California prunes is estimated to be 3,000 cars and other sources about 1,000 cars. Raisins are quiet. No large lots are purchased, but there isa fair de- mand for small lots, which constantly decrease the stecks. A short time ago the California Loose Raisin Associa- tion had about 1,600 cars of loose rais- ins on hand; to-day their entire stock is less than 500 cars and seeders will want every pound of them. There is no question but that owing to the crop conditions in California, the price of new raisins will be high. Advices from the various raisin districts are to the effect that this year’s crop will only be about one-half of last year’s output. Weather conditions have not been at all favorable to the growing grape crop. It would seem as though the damage to growing crops all over the world during the past thirty days had been very se- vere. The consumptive demand for peaches has picked up considerably, ow- ing both to the scarcity of small fruits and the higher market for evaporated apples, and good quality is scarce and firm. The California crop of peaches is not a large one. The quality this year is excellent and, in view of the scarcity and high prices of other lines of dried fruit, all the peaches dried this year will be badly needed. There is only a fair demand for apricots at pres- ent, but we think this will gradually in- crease. The crop last year was between 800 and goo cars. This season the out- side estimate is 450 cars and high prices are looked for. It is reported that the previous estimate of a fig crop of 80,000 camel loads probably will be cut down, as the result of the appearance of the disease known as bassara, which is said to be very destructive to the qual- ity of the fruit. The effect on the figs, it is stated, is to turn many of them black and to cause them to sour. Rice—The demand for rice is very good; in fact, it shows a marked in- crease over the movement for the cor- responding fime last year. Stocks are very scarce and prices have an upward tendency. The new crop is late and more or less affected by the prevailing drought. Showers have fallen in many sections, with beneficial results but opinions differ as to the general situa- tion. Some regard the outlook as more encouraging, while others do not con- sider there has been any material change in the situation since the early part of the month and that to cause any real improvement a much _ heavier rainfall is required. Teas—Teas are dull and only small sales are reported, most orders being for small lots for immediate use. Near- ly all buyers are well supplied and there is not enough trade to warrant a change in prices. Molasses and Syrups—There is no change in the market and business is rather dull. Buyers are well supplied and do not care to make very heavy purchases this time of year. The corn syrup market is very firm and prices show an advance of %c per gallon and 3c per case, with the probability of a further advance soon. Fish—The total catch of codfish last week at Gloucester is reported at 1,542, - ooo pounds, against 2,140,000 pounds for the corresponding week last year. The market is reported very firm, with good demand. Nuts—Filberts are slightly lower. The Sicily market is still declining, owing to the favorable outlook for new crop. Brazil nuts are very firm at unchanged quotations, Peanuts are in good de- mand at unchanged prices. Rolled Oats—In sympathy with the declining grain markets rolled oats have declined 25c fer barrel and 15¢ per case on all except Banner oats, which show a decline of 2o0c per case. Pickles—Prices for pickles are very firm at 50c per barrel advance. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Village Improvement Development of the Metropolitan Park System of Boston. All correct thinking is grounded in correct definitions. The American park is a recent recreation when compared with the parks of Europe. It was nat- ural for our ancestors, especially the ‘New England people, to think little of art. They came from the Old World to make homes in the new. Impelled by a strong desire for religious liberty, puritanic in action and in feeling, their prevailing motive was the church, a moral government of the communities which they planted. Most of them had few worldly goods. To build a home, a house that would shelter them in storm, a church plain and simple in which they could worship according to the dictates of their consciences, were the primal ideas. The first necessity, it may be said in the planting of all colonies, is protection against the in- clemency of the weather and _ provision for food and raiment. These necessities filled the mind and took up the activi- ties of the pioneers. Boston with its colleges, schools and universities has justly been considered the Athens of America. She has gen- erally been foremost in suggestion on public affairs, schools, reformations of prisons, improvements in highways, in general progress, in literature, science and art. Her leading men from observa- tion in travel and from their natural im- pulses saw that there was a great need of parks and boulevards for Boston and her environment. In press, pulpit, and on the rostrum, in clubs and at home, public opinion began to form itself into purpose in regard to public parks and in 1869 that matter was brought formal- ly before the city government and in 1874 a park commission was appointed, consisting of the mayor, two aldermen, three councilmen, and thtee citizens at large. This commission made a report the following November. This first commission and other commissioners appointed succeeded finally in securing legislation and means by which the park system of Boston was begun. The Back Bay was improved and the waste mud flats converted into most charming re- sorts. I have not time, although it would be great pleasure, to trace out the history of the magnificent work under which the grand park system of Boston has been so far completed. I refer to this work of the Bostonians because they set the example, they originated the American park idea, they have per- fected the building of roadways and boulevards; they have held closely to the natural features and conditions, never permitting nature to be marred if possible. When completed, the Metropolitan Park System of Boston will be, in my judgment, the grandest in the world. No finer scenery can be found, no better roads can be made. One of the great credits due to the people of Boston is that they never forget the service of a great man or woman. In some form, either a statue or some fitting monument rises to do honor to the men or the work done. The American park is to a very great extent, or will be, the Boston ideal of parks carried out in other sec- tions of the country as near as possible, fully and completely adapted to the nat- ural conditions. Much we owe to old Athens, all the world of beauty and adornment goes back there to borrow a column, an architrave, a pedestal, a -wilt. piece of sculpture, anything and every- thing that goes into the highest form of decorative art. Just so all of the West goes back to Boston, the Athens of America, for ideas on schools, colleges, institutions and methods of government, for institutions for charity and educa- tion. Just so we take her suggestions in architecture, in park building, in literature, in science and in art. If you ask me then what is the American park, I shall tell you that the American park of to-day is the Metropolitan Park Sys- tem of Boston applied in its best form to the natural conditions of the land, its contour, its water, brooks, ponds, trees, hills and dales of the locality where a park is to be built. L. E. Holden. ———_> 2. ____ How to Handle Cakes at a Profit in Sum- mer. The cake department of most city re- tail stores is a source of constant worry during the summer months. Cakes There is a good demand for them one day, and little demand the next day, flies hover about the case in which they are kept and invade it every time the door is left open, lighting on the cake and making it unpresentable, and in many instances unsalable. No certain rules can be laid down governing the sale of cake and bread in hot weather, but some few facts ob- tained by practical experience may be noted that will help retail dealers of less experience than others. To keep flies away from the interior of cake showcases, it has been discov- ered that cloves sprinkled on the bottom of the case, in the neighborhood of the door, and wherever the flies are to be found, acts as a preventative. A num- ber of grocers have used whole cloves in this connection and have found they were of great benefit in keeping flies out of the case. The odor of the cloves while it may be pungent at times, is not likely to seriously hurt the selling qualities of the cake, and cloves are much preferable to sticky or liquid fly paper in the case. Customers have a natural aversion to purchasing cakes which have a sheet of sticky fly paper on top of it or alongside of it. In all probability cloves will be found to be valuable in ridding other show- cases habited by flies. For instance, they might be used in the candy case, in the bread case, and around fruit which attracts these summer pests. It will cost very little to try the experi- ment, and if it proves a success it will prove of great benefit to most retail dealers. Local grocers who have tried cloves to rid showcases of flies pro- nounce this plan successful. In taking in stocks of cakes for the day retailers should invariably gauge their requirements by the weather, and it is always well to remember that it is better to have too little stock of this line, than to have goods which will be carried over until the next day. During cool weather, usually the requirements of the retail trade in the way of cakes are less than during very hot weather. Women forego baking operations during the very hottest days, and send to the retailer for their supplies. The nature of the weather is usually indicated in the morning by the time the bakery wagon arrives at the retail store, and the careful retailer can very closely gauge his requirements by mak- ing a study of the situation for several days during varying weather. Many retail dealers permit the sales- men for the cake wagons to put in as much stock as they want to. Asa con- sequence, the latter frequently consult their own judgment in this matter, and load the retailer up too heavily with stock. The dealer should be on his guard in this matter as well as in the purchase of other lines of goods. He should indicate the character of the cake to be handled, and the quantity to be put in stock. He knows the demand in his locality and can judge to far better advantage than can the transient sales- man who often has ideas about what the dealer should sell but not what he can sell.—Commercial Bulletin. —_> 2. _____ The Voices of the Trees. It may not be that every tree speaks with an individual tone when the wind breathes through it. But there is a difference in the voices of the trees which even the least experienced dweller beneath them must observe. If the pines utter a deep contralto tone, full of pathos and suggestions of the undying solemnities of the world, surely the voice of the maples is the stirring tenor, breathing the lively song of ac- tion, the chant of good cheer, and the prophecy of weal. The note of the pines is the murmur of the sea repeating itself in the depths of the forest. The note of the maple comes nearer to the blending sounds of a great city, where human life surges and breaks upon the pavements. It seems as if the maples had imbibed something of the life and spirit of that race by whose homes they have grown lo, these many ages, and as if they wafted back to the heart of the listener who stands beneath them the chorused voices of his own deep thoughts, his strong impulses his vigor- ousambitions. John Coleman Adams, 2» >_ A Case of Absentmindedness. The other day a young lady, daughter of a well-known business man, drove up to the door of a jeweler’s shop, went in and selected a turquoise and diamond ring valued at $150, She quietly made out her check for that sum and passed it on to the assistant. The alert young man glanced at it, and then looked en- quiringly up at the young lady. ‘‘There is some mistake here, I think,’’ said he, with an apologetic smile. The young lady flushed and demanded to know if the check was not for the right amount. She was told it was, but-— “But what?’’ she exclaimed, haught- ily. ‘‘Do. you mean that my check is not acceptable?’’ The assistant mildly acknowledged that he knew quite well who the young lady was, but explained that the check was not made out just as it should be, and he handed it back. The girl ran her eyes over it, and then turned a deep crimson. **Oh,’’ she exclaimed: ‘‘I see.’’ And then she proceeded to make out another check. s She had signed the first one, ‘‘ Your own sweetheart, Jessie.’’ ———_>2>___ Always the Same. Same old circus, Same old band; Same old sawdust, Same old stand; Same old bears and Same parade; Same old peanuts, Same lemonade; Same old clown and e old jest; -Same old crowd with Brand-new zest. Are you not in need of - New Shelf Boxes We make them. KALAMAZOO PAPER BOX CO. Kalamazoo, Michigan The Imperial Gas Lamp Is an absolutely safe lamp. It burns without odor or smoke. Common stove gasoline is used. It is an eco- nomical — Attractive prices are offered. rite at once for Agency. The Imperial Gas Lamp Co. 132 and 134 Lake St. E., Chicago Coal Tar, Tarred Felt, Asphalt Paints, Roofing Pitch, 2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing, Sky Lights, Galvanized Iron Cornice Sheet [etal Workers Contracting Roofers Established 1868, EAVE TROUGHING State Agents Ruberoid Roofing, Building, Sheathing and Insulating Papers and Paints. : H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich. Ree ENGRAVERS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ae St il a le ee ee ek ee). Ca made 4 assed i, oung en- e, I : ‘ getic nded r the yut—— ight- *k is iged ung 1eck be, * and And ther our I MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY And Grocers Had Good Weather For Their Picnic. The retail grocers of Grand Rapids met with their usual good luck, so far as weather is concerned, on the occasion of their fifteenth annual picnic. Only once have the grocers been treated shab- bily by the weather clerk. For twelve successive seasons the picnics — were greeted with glorious weather. Two years ago the spell was broken by copious showers early in the day. A year ago the weather was perfect and this year the weather clerk kept faith with his friends of the scoop and scales, although threatening clouds gave the horizon an ominous appearance early in the day and caused many faces to as- sume an anxious appearance until the clouds disappeared, about 9g o'clock in the forenoon. The delegates from Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and Lansing were met at the train by the Reception Committee and given to understand that they held the key. to the city and a passport to all the enjoyment they could absorb and carry around with them. As the visitors stepped from their trains they were greeted with salutes by the Fox battery, after which a _ procession was formed, with the Kalamazoo grocers as the guests of honor. Next came the Lansing news- boy’s band and the contingent from the Capital City. Hon. William Alden Smith, orator of the day, President Dyk and other officers of the Grocers’ Asso- ciation came next in carriages, and were followed by Newell’s band and a line of gaily-decorated grocers’ delivery wagons, William Andree was awarded first prize for the most artistic wagon.- Bert Petters and Fred Fuller secured second nd third prizes. Dinner was next in order, after which all repaired to Reed's Lake, where the real sport of the day was inaugurated about 1 o’clock, lasting until after 5 o'clock. The ball game between the Kalama- zoo and Grand Rapids grocers was won by the former team on a score of 8 to o. Only five innings were played, but that number was sufficient to demonstrate the superiority of the Celery City play- ers, The winners in the other contests were as follows: Fat Man’s Race—Edward Conway, first; Louis Lemstra, second; Charles Hoeckly, third. Smoking Contest—Robert first; George Bond, second; Haas, third. Ladies’ Egg Baking Powder Contest— Jennie Glutker, first; Annie McGingan, second; Mrs. Charles Anderson, third; Hattie Hamilton, fourth. Three-Legged Race—S. E. Koster and J. H. Schnabel, first; Earl Irwin and Louis Ganzel, second ; Jacob Med- ema and Henry Kooy, third. Boys’ Uneeda Biscuit Race—Francis Nelson, first; Thomas Walsh, second; Frank Johnson third. Nine O’clock Washing Tea Contest— Anna Blaas, first; Pearl Farrister, sec- ond; Mattie Ferwee, third. Tub Race—Clarence Boynton, first; Fred Schneider, second; Charles Drum- mond, third. Guessing Contest—Miss May Bolton, first; Miss Rose Boone, second; Mrs. E. M. Robinson, third; Miss Morgan, fourth. At the conclusion of the sports the crowd congregated at Ramona pavilion to listen to the address of Hon. William Alden Smith on the topic, ‘‘How to Run a Twentieth Century Grocery.’’ Mr. Smith spoke in part as follows: No one could be more appreciative of Jaeger, D. the high compliment conferred upon me by the Committee on Arrangements than myself. To be thus honored upon an occasion so full of entertainment and instruction and marked by such genuine holiday festivities, participated in by hundreds of grocers and their families in our city and scores from other places, touches me deeply and I thank you for it -and will endeavor as best I can to discharge the duty devolving upon me. This annual holiday occasion is both praiseworthy and creditable. The grocer and his assistant need a day for recreation and the public with whom you are so intimately associated readily yields to you this concession. The grocer in the conduct of his busi- ness becomes intimately associated with the family and the home, most sacred of all spots on earth, whether rich and pre- tentious or humble and lowly, and were all who wish you well to be gathered together this afternoon nothing less than nature’s vast tabernacle could contain all who would mingle with you. I am a firm believer in vacation and rest for the busy man, woman and child. Na- ture has appointed these beautiful lakes and rivers and decorated her forests and hillsides for our edification. Are we not unappreciative, indeed, if we do not occasionally appropriate them for our use and make them a part of our lives? Surely this is an occasion of genuine rejoicing, and to-morrow, although it be busier than yesterday, will be a bet- ter day for us all than though the tread- mill had ground its daily grist and we had retired to-night weary with the la- bor rather than surfeited with the pleas- ures and recreations of the day. Rest and recreation make men better citizens, better husbands, better fathers than un- remitting toil. Rest strengthens the sinews often so sorely tried and gives the heart a better action and the mind clearer thought. A century ago mercantile business in our country was centered in cities, no country stores having made their ap- pearance, while New York, Boston and Philadelphia supplied most "of the needs of the. smaller stores and the visits of the tradesmen to these markets were the distinguishing feature of that period. Their only competitor was the itinerent peddler who, while suspected by the thrifty New England housewife, was often patronized. These great stores in the cities mentioned resembling some- what the great wholesale warehouses to- day, of which every enterprising com- munity can boast, were free to go on un- hampered. Under the old order an an- nual trade of $1,500,000 was_ considered phenomenal and when the annual trade ran above $750,000 the firm was con- sidered to have a good sales account. To-day these figures are far from being out of the ordinary. The century just passed has seen won- derful changes in the store. The gen- eral store of the country town has given place to the great modern department store with its thousand conveniences. To-day millions of capital are invested where a century ago hundreds would have been hard to find. The poor man to-day has what the rich man of one hundred years ago could not possess with all his wealth, and what once were luxuries to-day are the commonest ar- ticles of daily use. In the triumphal march of the most progressive century the world has ever known the store has held a place in the van and all the signs of the new century point toward great- er progress and higher development with yet greater advantages for the peo- le whose need gave it a place in the industrial system. The Kalamazoo contingent evidently enjoyed the events of the day, judging by the following reference to the affair by the Kalamazoo Telegraph : The Kalamazoo grocers and meat dealers are doing business at their old stands to-day after a season of festivity spent in Grand Rapids Thursday. Their outing to the Valley City was a success in every sense of the word. The attendance was large and every fea- ture of the day went off smoothly and was much enjoyed, That the Grand Rapids brothers are past masters in the art of entertaining is the unanimous verdict. The Kalamazoo contingent was joined here by the delegation from Battle Creek and altogether made up 1,500 to 2,000 people who were conveyed to the Valley City on two special trains. The excursion from Lansing and the visitors from .other places brought up the total attendance of visitors to some 3,000 And they were ail out for a good time. According to programme the Kala- mazoo visitors led the parade, which was an imposing affair. It moved at 11 o'clock and it was somewhat after noon when Reed’s Lake, the scene of the main ‘doings, "’ was reached. There was music by the band.’ Boating on the lake furnished a pleasant diversion and || the programme of sports was a source of interest and amusement. The Tradesman is in receipt of the following communication from ex-Pres- ident White, of the Grand Rapids Re- tail Grocers’ Association protesting over the manner in which the prizes for the best displayed grocery delivery wagons were awarded on the occasion of the picnic: Grand Rapids, July 29—On Monday last I received a postal card, informing me that there would be a contest of gro- cery display wagons, which would im- ply the best display of goods incidental to the grocery business. With that un- derstanding we trimmed our wagon ac- cording to text. We showed a line of vegetables, fruits, canned goods, flour, sweet goods, pickles—in fact, a pure and simple grocery display—which no one else did. We do not wish to be per- sonal about the competition, neither are we acquainted with any of the judges, nor would we have referred to the sub- ject at all had we not been spoken to in regard to the matter by a large number of dealers and merchants who are not interested in us in any sense, who each and all told us that we had the only typ- ical grocery wagon on the street. When our wagon arrived at the starting point, the boy was ordered to take the trim- ming from the side of the wagon to show the name, which disarranged the trim and placed us somewhat at a dis- advantage. We did not send our name to be judged, but our display. To say the least, the competition was unfair and unbusinesslike. The judges must either have had wrong instructions or did not understand the principles at is- sue. If there were a competition of ar- tists for the best picture and one had a picture true to nature, hung with a com- mon cord on a plain frame, and another had an elaborate frame anda gold string and was not true to nature, would you award the prize to the gold string? String was an incidental with us, as groceries was the text. Edwin White. a Not the Honey He Meant. Frank Anderson was for years a well- known commercial traveler who regular- ly visited Galena, Kan. He was pas- sionately fond of honey, and the pro- prietor of the Galena hotel at which he always stopped always had some on hand for him. On one trip Anderson took his wife along, and as he ap- proached Galena he mentioned to her that he was getting to a place where he could have honey. When the pair were sitting at the supper table that night no honey appeared, and Anderson said sharply to the head waiter: ‘‘Where is my honey?’’ The waiter smiled and said: mean the little black-haired one? she doesn’t work here now!’’ And Anderson never did get it fixed up satisfactorily with his wife. ' You Oh, —>_ 22 __ Had Held His Own. “‘T’ve saved a heap o’ time,’ Meandering Mike, complacently. ‘‘By hurryin’?’’ asked Plodding Pete, said apprehensively. _ No; jes’ by takin’ it easy. Instead o’ pilin’ up wealt’ an’ havin’ to git poor by givin’ it away, I started out poor in de fust place an’ have helt me own manfully ever since. AJAX Dynamite Works Bay City, Michigan Dynamite, Caps, Fuse, Battery Supplies for Rock Work and Stump Blasting. You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Y20c A MONTH HE - ms coats fer the CAS LIGHT equal to 10 or 12 coal oil lamps anywhere if you will get the Writeatonce Brilliant Gas Lamp. for Agency. Brilliant Gas Lamp Co., 42 State, Chicago BORORC CHOCO OHOHOROHOHOEO William Reid Importer and Jobber of Polished Plate, Window and Ornamental Glass Paint, Oil, White Lead, Var- nishes and Brushes GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. W. FRENCH, Resident Manager. CTSCSSCSES Labels Simacdiud eenere The Law of 1889. Every druggist, grocer or other person who shall sell and de- liver at retail any gasoline, benzine or naphtha without having the true name thereof and the words “explosive when mixed with air” plainly printed upon a label securely attached to the can, bottle or other ves- sel containing the same shall be punished by a fine not ex- ceeding one hundred dollars. We are prepared to furnish labels which enable dealers to comply with this law, on the following basis: a Oss. a ae per M 06 ee... 40c per M 20 M.. --35¢ per M wo Peo. 30c per M Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Conoroccvccencccreneeneney : be = 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — Bomcangpapeswan Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee ‘ood faith. Subscribers may have the mal -_ address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all a are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mall matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertise- ment in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, - - JULY 31, 1901. STATE OF MICHIGAN County of Kent John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. I printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of July 24, Igol, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this twenty-seventh day of July, IgoI. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. CHRISTIANITY AND CHRISTIANITY. Rev. W. B. Leach, of Wicker Park Methodist Episcopal church, Chicago, and Prof. John W. Wetzel, of Yale Uni- versity, are not at all satisfied with the way things are going here on earth and have been making some rough talks about it. Parson Leach recently pictured heaven to his congregation as an Adamless Eden, while Prof. Wetzel is giving it out to New Haven church folks that the nation is losing faith in God and that our great cities are but a vast collection of sin and corruption. The drift of Parson Leach’s remarks indicates that according to his notion the men are heading for the penitentiary and a warm hereafter, while the women are going to church and pre-empting the choice locations in heaven. He regrets this, he says, because he likes men and will feel lonesome without them on the other side. Satisfied with the clearness of his own title to admission to the Im- mortal Presence, he desires no monopoly of the delights of the elect. “His gener- ous soul is sad because of the impend- ing fate of his fellow males and sorrows in advance over the sight of Eden in the clutches of a female trust. Disquieted by the prospect of fearful isolation the heaven he has in mind presents, and not liking the idea of being elbowed and pushed aside by crowds of dia- phanous female creatures as he wanders disconsolate along the golden streets, it is natural for him to feel bad about it. But seriously, does the reverend gen- tleman know what he is talking about? Has he ever studied church life with sufficient care and intelligence to war- rant him into essaying the subject he has broached? Apparently not, unless we are to conclude that he is striving after notoriety rather than seeking to bring humanity to an appreciation of the beauties of Christianity. The testi- mony of earnest and faithful pastors throughout the United States is that while they are not as devout or as demonstrative aS women, men’ are holding up their end everywhere in church work. Men must be judged by their deeds, and it is certain that as many men are swayed by Christian sen- timents and beliefs to do good as women, and there are enough men de- serving heaven to make that state any- thing but lonesome. Men have more to occupy their time than women. They have their families to provide for and their business to attend to, and often lend countenance and support to the religious work of wives and children without ever person- ally appearing therein. Would Parson Leach have it that the contribution of means, encouragement and faith are not to be noted with favor by the Great Judge of all? Dr. Frank M. Mason, another Chi- cago pastor, does not agree with Dr. Leach at all. ‘‘It may be,’’ he says, ‘that men do not attend church services as regularly or as zealously as women, but I believe that in their own way they are doing their share to attain salvation. Look at the vast membership of the Young Men’s Christian Association in America. I do not know the figures as supplied by statisticians, but I am con- vinced that the men of this country are as eager for salvation and have as good a chance as the women.”’ As to Prof. Wetzel, his lamentations bear the old, familiar brand. He is one of a class of mortals, peculiar to no sin- gie epoch, whose perpetual mission is to discover a predilection on the part of humanity to take to the figurative tobog- gan slide that leads to destruction. He has mistaken the direction of the cur- rent of American thought. Loss of faith in theological dogma is to him the equivalent of loss of faith in God. To quote from the Chicago Inter Ocean: ‘‘There is less faith in theological dogma than formerly, but the undercur- rent of American thought is flowing to- ward the fundamental principles of Christianity. The religious unrest of to-day, which many preachers are prone to regard as an evidence of rebellion against the church, is only symptomatic of the popular yearning for a larger and clearer knowledge of religion and a simpler means of living religiously.’ There is no evidence of loss of faith in God inthis. American people are simply looking for a nearer cut to the Creator. They are looking more to essence than to form of worship, earn- estly seeking the way to an ideal Chris- tianity which shall know but one church —a universal church based upon a hope of salvation for all instead of upon the doctrine of damnation for those refusing to accept any particular interpretation of the sacred word. With regard to the great cities, Prof. Wetzel has fallen into an error peculiar to superficial observers when he alleges that they are given over to sin and cor- ruption. Virtue, unobtrusive, prevails in them toa much greater extent than vice. The latter, rising to the surface as the scum on the ocean, is apt to hide the clear depths below it from the view of careless pessimists who would rather find the bad than the good. No great city must be judged by its slums, for there is nothing in common between those who inhabit them and the great masses of their population whose homes are zealously protected from contamina- tion and who are as law-abiding and God-fearing as the people of the aver- age country community, THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE. Although a country without kings, the United States is the most king-ridden land on the footstool. Yesterday Iron was proclaimed a monarch and the loy- alty of the Republic was conceded. Cot- ton and Coal receive the plaudits of the people and now ‘‘Corn is King!’’ is the exultant cry as his imperial majesty sits enthroned in the royal chambers of the limitless West. ‘‘Corn is King!’’ The golden grain bends its tasseled head in stately acknowledgments and the hungry world near and afar rejoices and makes ready its barns and bins for the coming harvest. In spite of sun-baked soil and burning hot winds, blistering as they blow, and the lack of rain, from horizon to horizon the serried columns of the corn fields stand. A few weeks more and the sun will have done its work and then from lands and to land’s end the yellow of corn will be ready for the power behind the throne—the hired man. Look at it as we may, the head that wears the crown is powerless without the hand that holds the hoe; and what- ever there is of American royalty lies in the fact that here is recognized the close relationship between them. Chance and circumstance decide who shall wear the one and wield the other and here, as nowhere else, is it insisted upon that wearer and wielder shall alike be kings and alike willing and worthy for the work that falls to them. In the United States the position of the hired man _ has always been supreme. Never a prince and never a pauper, he has ‘‘looked upon his world but as_ the world’’ and played the part with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his audience. Royal and proud of it, he is the father of a long line of kings—every one of them the builder of his own throne, the wearer of his own velvet and the maker of his own scepter and crown. There is no realm where his children do not reign, soathat wherever be the kingdom he still remains the power behind the throne. That is the condition of things to-day. Corn is King. By the square mile his domain is measured and every foot of it is covered by the ripening grain. The hungry world is waiting for it to be harvested, but it is the man with the corn cutter, not the king on the throne, whose word is the law and whose ‘‘ Thou shalt’’ is the dictum waited for. The times have changed since the world first knew the hired man. In the early days, when the Western world was young, he stood in his manly strength, ready with his bare right arm on the edge of the corn field to begin his day’s work. Dewy morning was in the sky and the sun was hardly above the horizon when the day’s toil began. ‘‘Dewy eve’’ saw the end of it, and all through the toil- some hours his back bent to his work with brief intervals for food. He had but one thought—to furnish a day’s work for the man who hired him and to be known as a workman who gave full measure for value received. The king on the thorne owned the farm and the harvest and their relationship ended when the job was done. A single thought cheered him—by unremitting industry and persistent saving to earn a farm of his own and so in time to lay down the implements of the hired man and, don- ning the robes of royalty and the scep- ter, to take his acknowledged place among the kings of the earth—by right his very own. That is not the hired man of this day and generation,. Corn is indeed king, but he is only a figurehead. These lands are his, the crop is his. Machine and motor belong~ to him, but all élse save the disposal of the corn is in the hands of the power behind the throne. The hours of labor, the wages of the workman, what he shall eat and what he shall drink and whom he shall employ are not matters of kingship now. The hired man takes care of them. No team or workman is now a-field a minute earlier than 7 o’clock. There is an hour’s nooning, no matter how threaten- ing the clouds are, and at 6 o'clock sharp the men goto supper. There is no ‘‘dickering’’ about wages. Three dollars a day, more or less, is the sched- ule price the ‘‘king’’ is forced to pay and that means for every man—the poorest as well as the best—with the un- derstanding that no man is to be dis- charged, whatever the provocation un- less the hired man says so. There is no need now of working for a farm of his own. - Here is the farm, here is the farmer's capital—everything is the hired man’s and he uses them for his own profit in his own way. Truly, things have changed and the world is upside down with the hired man on top! From the hired man’s point of view it is much to be doubted if the modern way is the best, even for the hired man. It may seem for the time a delightful thing to dictate to another what he shall do with what is strictly his own, but it is a dangerous thing, It is an abuse of power; andif history teaches one lesson more strenuously than another it is, that he who so abuses that power is hoisted sooner or later by his own petard. Monarchy has tried it, time and again, and failed and the hired man will find no better food for thought after his day of eight hours’ toil is done than the Bourbon kings whose abuse of power prepared the way of the French revolu- tion; and Robespierre, the abuser of that same power which the French mob put into his hands, met the same fate. The hired man of sixty years ago un- derstood this. It remains to be seen whether his descendants are as wise as he. Certain it is that the abuse must come to an end and just as certain it is that the author of it will reap the har- vest that he himself has sown and culti- vated. A small hubbub has been created in California on account of the determina- tion of the Yosemite commissioners to establish an electric plant in that famous valley. There are people rushing into print and flourishing their hands as they exercise their lungs, declaring that it is a great piece of vandalism, a sin and a shame. There are, of course, ad- mirable facilities -for a moderate sized electric plant in the Yosemite, and the undertaking does not smack of unseem- ly commercialism. The principal pur- pose of the plant will be to furnish light. One critic especially is very much disturbed lest the commissioners shall turn an electric flashlight upon El Capitan: or Yosemite Falls. The ob- jector neglects to mention how moun- tain or water can be injured thereby. Some of the Vermont papers are sur- prised at the apathetic way in which many towns in the Green Mountain State have received the suggestion of an old home week in which to welcome back the absent sons. It is intimated that it is due to a lack of a progressive spirit and a willingness that somebody else shall do the work needed to carry out the project. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 SUN SPOTS AND HEAT. For intensity, extent and duration the recent heated term surpasseS any on record, by which is meant any mentioned in the official records of the weather bureau. .These are the only reliable weather records we have and whatever antedates them must rest on the’ mem- ory of ‘‘the oldest inhabitant’’ or other equally unreliable tradition. It is enough that there is no evidence that this part of the world has ever experi- enced a term of equally intense heat throughout as wide an area and lasting as long as the present one. Amida va- riety of other comments it has probably raised some conjecture as to what causes it. One does not have to be a scientist to know that the sun is the source of heat, but science fails to inform us with any degree of certainty whether solar heat is the result of chemical com- bination or mechanical force,and why it should vary so greatly at different times under seemingly identical conditions. It is the opinion of some that the sun spots have much to do with variations of heat and scientists are keeping close watch on the changes connected with them, with a view, if possible, of dis- covering a series of coincidences and perhaps establishing a theory. About a year ago the French astronomer Flam- marion stated that the earth was about to enter a period of five years the sum- mers of which would be the hottest in history. He based his prediction on sun spots. But one summer does not prove a theory any more than one swal- low makes summer. Most scientists re- gard Flammarion as a sensationalist. Nevertheless Sir Norman Lockyer, who is not a sensationalist, recently stated that ‘‘the seasonal rainfall and great heats in India follow certain changes in the sun, and that of the famines so de- vastating there can be a forecast made from known solar changes, and that as the weather of India is interlocked with that of Africa, and that again with the Western Hemisphere, the understanding of the causes in one place will naturally give a clew to those in other parts of the world. This suggests a connection between sun spots and great heat, but Goes not advance a theory. It is gener- ally conceded by scientists that the sun spots are controlled by periodicity and reach their greatest maximum about every eleven years. It is also well es- tablished that the periods of maximum sun spots are also periods of maximum disturbance in the earth’s magnetism. It is quite within the limits of possibil- ity that science may yet establish a _ re- lation. between sun spots and heat suffi- cient to predict years of excessive heat and drought with as much certainty as the weather is now predicted a day or two in advance. IN THE MATTER OF LEADERS. It is customary to find a great deal of fault with political leaders and they are referred to as bosses, that being in- tended as an opprobyious epithet. -Un- fortunately. a good. deal that is ‘said about the political boss is true and much of} the criticism richly deserved. The business of leadership, however, is by no means confined to the field of politics. It makes its influence felt everywhere. In all vocations, associa- tions and organizations there are those who seem to do the thinking and the talking for the others, and although it is often said that the tail can never wag the dog, the fact remains that in prac- tical operations the minority often rules the majority. Those who are active, aggressive and energetic take the lead and the others meekly follow. Those who have the power are fond of using it, fond of the publicity and prominence thus accorded. A very excellent example of that sort of thing outside of politics is furnished by the labor troubles which are just now attracting so much attention. A few men by their ability and energy acquire prominence in their local organizations and climb from these into places of power in the larger aggregations. When they think it is a favorable time to strike it seems an easy matter for these leaders to influence the others and im- press them with the same idea. Once the tide sets in that direction, the rank and file seem helpless and, whether they want to work or not, are compelled to quit and would be ostracized and sub- jected to all sorts of indignities should they venture to assert their independ- ence. Practical unanimity is secured in the vote, because objection would be sure to bring down a storm upon their heads. It sometimes happens in this way that strikes are ordered which might better have been avoided. An example is furnished in the case of the stationary firemen, who were advised by the executive officers of the United Mine Workers that their quitting work was not opportune and that they must return to their places. The same operation of leadership is exhibited in a variety of ways in all the affairs of. every day life. Take the churches, for example, where the preacher is, of course, the authorized head of the organization. In every church there are a few men recognized as its moving spirits. When they think it is best to make repairs, the money will be raised and the repairs made. When it occurs to them that this, that cr the other thing should be done it is promptly inaugurated. When they think the minister better look elsewhere for a field of usefulness the wise pastor will go flock hunting. The rest of the church members and congregation follow where the few lead. Sometimes it happens that the leaders have a falling out among themselves, set up rival factions and then there is a church row. In the fra- ternal organizations there is a handful out of every hundred ready and willing to do the thinking and the acting for the remainder and this course is usually acquiesced in without serious objection. So on through all the various relations of life there are some who naturally lead and others who as naturally follow. Upon the character and the wisdom of the leaders, therefore, much depends. They set the pace. They are the leaven which leavens the whole lump. There is a great deal of talk about minority representation and yet in every organi- zation it is actually the minority which does the business, a fact due to the will- ingness of the majority to have it so. Mrs. Hetty Green has been talking about money. Being the richest woman in America, she may be regarded as an authority. ‘‘People should have more sense than to listen to wild talk of get- ting rich ina night,’’ says Hetty, and then she goes on at length to warn folks against investing in hazardous schemes which promise quick returns. Hetty never was foolish with any of her money. She knows how to hang on to it about as well as Russell Sage. The example of Andrew Carnegie is entirely lost on them. The man who is satisfied with himself is very easily satisfied. A NATION OF GADDERS. The intense heat did not come early enough to prevent the perennial fault- finder from making his annual protest against the exodus of the summer. ‘‘Millions upon millions are spent in gadding about by the American people who can’t afford it and who would be far better off at home. Our cities are full of large, cool, well-appointed houses whose owners, with a mistaken idea of comfort, have: deserted them for the summer and, for the sake of indulging a fad as foolish as it is expensive, have packed themselves for the summer in the sweatboxes of the various resorts at four dollars a day. The steamers are packed with passengers for Europe and that continent is carrying ona thrifty in- dustry in its extortionate entertainment of Yankee guys and gulls. By Septem- ber the tide of travelers will return, with nothing to show for their outing but tan and depleted pocketbooks and, more tired than when the vacation came, they will be ill prepared for the exhaust- ing work of the coming year; but so it is. The American masses will never grow wise.’’ The old, wel!-worn wail has been heard and answered time out of mind, but the gadding still goes on. The city flits to the country and the country flits anywhere to get away from home. Maine takes a trip to California and the broad West hies with her chil- dren to New England and the East to visit once more the old homestead and press once more the hands that blessed her when she struck out for herself. New Orleans is no hotter than St. Paul and the citizens, for a change, exchange residences for the summer. The coun- try to a man when summer comes is de- termined to go somewhere, goes, comes home all tired out and goes cheerfully to work for another ten months to get ready for another gadding; and so it goes on until the people of the United States have come to be looked tpon as the biggest gadders on the face of the earth. Let it be granted without argument and look at the other extreme. The **masses’’ in Europe do not travel. In England, for instance, men are born and live to a good old age without ever going out of sight of the home chimney. They are stay-at-homes and carefully hoard the money their American cousins so lavishly spend in travel: Behind their hedges and their home walls they shut themselves, as their ancestors did, within the feudal castle, knowing noth- ing and caring nothing for the world outside. Tradition controls them. The old has stood the test of time and is good enough for them. They are a law unto themselves in manners and in speech and the countryman from Lan- caster, should he wander into the neigh- boring country of York, would be more of a stranger to his fellow farmers there than the orange grower of Florida would be to the lumberman of Oregon. There distance and time have ended in _isola- tion; here they have been annihilated. The condition tersely stated is, ‘‘Gad- ders versus stay at homes,’’ with the advantage ten to nothing in favor of the gadders. The fact is, the national characteris- tic of going somewhere and_ seeing somebody is the fundamental reason of our being ahead in matters national and otherwise. Extremes are constantly meeting and comparing ideas. On the principle: that knowledge is a recogni- tion of. differences, this constant run- ning about is the surest way of increas- ing it. From the Atlantic to the Pa- cific the only hayseed found is the man who separates himself from his kind and tongue, manner and raiment de- clare the separation. The result is that a people numbering 75,000,000 souls are to all intents and purposes a unit, while Lancaster and York that a rivulet divides are remote and strangers to each other. Gadding, then, is a virtue. It is your genuine leveler. It rubs off the corners and it takes out the conceit. It na- tionalizes the masses and uplifts them and, while the home-comers in Septem- ber have only empty pocketbooks, they have brought with them the value of what they have spent more than a hun- dred fold. We are, indeed, a nation of gadders, but we are, too, the leader of the world and we have won the place by that very gadding which the fault- finder so heartily condemns. ~ AN EVOLUTION IN BANKING. The announcement that a third New York bank will shortly increase its cap- ital stock to $1,000,000 serves to call at- tention to a very noteworthy change which is taking place in the banking business of the United States. It is not very long since there were important bank consolidations in Boston, with a view to securing larger capital, and at the same time reducing the cost of Operating a number of small banks by replacing them with a few banks of large capital. The increase in capital by New York banks is not merely to cheapen the cost of administration so much as to provide the institutions with the means of meeting the increased demands of the country’s trade. Not many years ago there was a tend- ency shown to diminish the share capi- tal of banks, owing to the difficulty of so increasing the earnings as to pay the dividends required by shareholders. As a result of this policy there are a number of banks with small capital stock which carry large surplus funds, The banks have now discovered that more capital is needed to do business offering, and that small banks are handicapped in competing with the big institutions. Another reason for a considerable in- crease in their capital by some of the important banks of the country is the great expansion of our foreign trade. In competing for foreign business, our merchants must be in a position to compete in all lines and in all countries. Heretofore European business men have had some advantage in the better finan- cial arrangements they were able to make. The European banks, with their enormous capital, were ina better po- sition to discount long-time paper and finance the foreign trade. Our business men have discovered that to compete with Europe in Central and South America they will have to furnish the same financial facilities which are fur- nished by Europe. The _ average American bank, with its comparatively small capital, has not been in a position to discount long-time foreign bills, or to loan importers money on long credit. It is largely with a view to remedying this drawback that the capital of a num- ber of New York banks either has al- ready been increased or will be in the very near future. China is to pay $17,000,000 per year until 1940 for the trouble to which the powers were put in suppressing the Boxers. The Chinese must conclude that at these rates they can not again afford to make. the ‘‘foreign devils’’ dance, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clothing Chicago Credited With Having Corset Men. ~ Chicago has the name, if she hasn’t the game, of having corset men —that is, the ‘‘shirtwaist corset man.’’ Cor- sets are not uncommon among the army officers in Europe. They are known to be worn by the snappily dressed officers in England, France and Germany, and it is not an unusual thing to see adver- tisements for men’s corsets in the papers and magazines of these countries. The masculine corsets of Europe are very different articles from those which some Chicago men are accused of wearing and which several leading haberdashers are Said to carry. The writer, in enquiring into the fact or falsity of the allegation, unearthed several interesting items which are, however, foreign to the subject of cor- sets for the shirtwaist man. The shirtwaist man is now so plenti- ful on the streets that pedestrians have ceased to turn and look at him. Close observation of these men does noi dis- cover any signs of a taper waist and a chesty upper effect. In fact, the hot weather makes the reverse the rule. Men are wilted and droop from the shoulders in a manner that could not possibly be done if any of them wore a corset. Toe majority wear their belts so loose that they prove the fact that the trousers are being supported by in- visible suspenders. Next came a visit to the leading hab- erdashers. With one exception none could give the least information con- cerning them. They did not carry them and would not know what to order to filha masculine want of this kind. The one haberdasher referred the writer to a prominent corset manufacturer, who gave out some interesting facts con- cerning corsets for men, but these were not for shirtwaists. The manager of this large corset concern gave out the following information : ‘‘Since the coming in of the athletic or military style of coats for men we have had calls from tailors for men’s corsets and made probably twenty last fall and winter.’’ ‘‘No,’’ continued he, ‘‘we have not had a single call for a man’s corset to be worn with a shirtwaist. There is really no need of us making them espe- cially. If the man who wants a corset for this purpose is shrewd he can find any number of open-mesh, very low, women’s summer corsets that will meet his demands at about one-tenth the price of the same thing made to a special or- der. He could ostensibly buy it for his wife and no one would be any the wiser.’ in answer to the question as to what kind of special men’s corsets he had made he replied: ‘‘The corset made to special order for wear under the mili- tary or athletic style of clothing is short, just enclosing the short ribs and resting full on the hips, very short and stubby below the waist line. The ribs in front are soft and easy to wear, while the stiff steels are used at the side and back. When tightly drawn at the waist a 38 measurement is reduced to 32 and 31 inches. It is much heavier than the women’s corsets and is in consequence, a warm and very uncomfortable article to wear, even in winter. Our price for these especially made corsets is $20 each. ‘‘In the twenty corsets made for men during the fall and winter season three were ordered by Chicago tailors and 1 don’t know whether or not those corsets stayed in Chicago. The bulk of orders came from rather small cities, princi- pally south of Chicago.’’ These facts and conversation readily discourage the belief that any man]. wears a corset under a shirtwaist. The idea is exactly opposed to the province of the shirtwaist. The man who affects one is one who will be found to be stripped down to the fewest possible garments, and they of the coolest pos- sible nature.—Apparel Gazette. a Little Change in the Style of Men’s Belts. Men's belts follow the trend of their other articles of wearing apparel in changing very little from year to year, unlike belts for the fair sex, which show a variety of changes from year to year. This year is no exception. Men's belts show a little more change this summer than is usually the case, but the changes are not very marked nor manifold. The changes are chiefly in the width of the belt, and in the prevalence of certain leathers over others. It is a little too early as yet to judge which styles and leathers will meet with the most ap- proval in the eyes of the better class of dressers, but the following are likely to be all the go, according to a number of unquestionable authorities: the best dressed men will wear belts that are extremely narrow, roughly speaking, from % of an inch to 1% inches in width. The cheaper grades are about 4 of an inch narrower. The principal colors in the finer grades are either very light tan, cream or black. There will be fewer browns, while gray will attain a fair degree of popularity. The leather chiefly used on the fine belts consists of grain leather in the lighter colors, and black seal. Ooze or suede is in fair demand. Patent leather belts are not worn by many stylish dressers. A very great variety of buckles are to be noticed. The buckles on the finer belts are nearly all made of brass, those on the more inferior belts of nickel. They are of good size, but it will be seen that those of brass are somewhat more flat than the nickel affairs. Most belts have a neat stitching along the edges, which gives them a _ very neat appearance. Both ring belts and those without rings are in good taste. The ring belts in the good grades have a distinct improvement. In fact they can hardly be called ring belts, as the neat- est in appearance have the different pieces of leather connected by two lit- tle brass affairs that are ovular in shape, and that have a brass bar between them. I notice quite a few braided belts in the shop windows. So far they have met with a very flattering reception. The styles in this line are quite varied. They are to be seen in all the leathers; some of them are entirely braided, while others only in parts. The finest belts have the leather turned; that is, the leather is made about twice the size of the belt width; the ends are pared and are turned to meet in the inside of the belt. On some of the high-priced belts the workmanship is s6 fife that it is impossible to see where the pared leather meets. The leather fobs attached to the belts are meeting with fair suc- cess. They look very neat and nobby, but are not particularly practical. A fob, when worn detached, is used as a means of pulling out the watch when the owner wants to see the time, a_ sort of handle, as it were, while in the at- tached fob this is manifestly impossible to do. ——_> 2. ____ Time is money—until you take a Waterbury watch to the pawnbroker. NY IFESPTPTESPNPTISISIEZ This space belongs to G. H.. Gates & Co. Detroit, Mich. IPN yyy dbdadsdid FUiibibiddddbdbdbdbdsine Owe Ws. ar. a, ar M. 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You can doa large profitable business with it. DAVID MA. PFAELZER & CO., Largest Manufacturer - of Boy’s Clothing CHICAGO, ILTINOITds. . Cw A SE SS. SE A. A > « ~~ =? @ i . * MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods Weekly Market Review of the Principal Staples. Staple Cottons—Heavy brown sheet- ings and drills continue steady, with a limited business, and the same may be said of lightweight sheetings. Ducks and osnaburgs show no_ change. Bleached cottons are selling in moder- ate quantities, and the market is in good shape. Wide sheetings are inac- tive; cotton flannels and blankets are without feature. All stocks of coarse colored cottons are well under control, and prices are well maintained in spite of quiet buying. Prints—There has been a moderate business under way for printed calicoes, but with no new features since our last report. In both staple lines and fancies, a moderate business only has been under way. Fine grades of printed fabrics are in steady request for next season, and a good business has already been accomplished. Dress Goods—In the dress goods houses business is reported as very light, with nothing doing, either in the present lines or as regards enquiry con- cerning the spring season. There are hopes of a good business soon, but about the only thing to base these hopes on is the fact that as yet not much has been sold. The jobbers are prepared to at- tend to all the business that will come their way, and although the buyers with large orders have not as yet put in their appearance in any large numbers, it is felt that as soon as the garment manu- facturer finds out what is wanted he will not be slow in making his presence felt, and aid in starting the market ata good, stiff pace. The cloths that are bought are the same things that have been the only moving features of the market; that is, the plain goods, al- though there is a feeling in some quar- ters that a change from these ‘‘Quaker- ish’’ cloths would meet with success, Underwear—The manufacturers of underwear have had their samples be- fore the buyers long enough to form a pretty good idea of what the wholesale end of the business will want for light weights. One of the chief features that will later be presented to the retailers will be an enormous range of fancies. Especially is this true of women’s goods, and in these will be seen a great va- riety of embroidered effects on the vests. This has been growing more pronounced for several seasons, and no longer will a simple crocheted edge suffice. Some of the latest creations are handsome enough, as one buyer re- marked (a lady, too), to wear as an evening waist. They are handsome and no mistake, many of them, and consid- ering the immense amount of work on them, very reasonable in price. If the many lines of handsomely embroidered undervests do not have a tremendous sale next spring and summer, it will not be the fault of the artistic goods or the prices. Of course, the style of the shirt waist this season has much to do with this, for it is so delicate and dainty that whatever is underneath is easily dis- cerned. All the manufacturers making ladies’ knit vests are striving to outdo each other and the results are marvelous. Some of the importers have found lines that go to the limit, in fact, run over the limit and have produced almost monstrosities in the way of garish effects. Hosiery—The hosiéry market has been somewhat quieter during the past week, partially because the retailers have been looking among the jobbers for certain fancy patterns and have been unable to find them. The demand for plain goods has decreased somewhat of late, but the retailers’ fancy stock has been lowered very materially, and they have had to replenish. The retail trade has kept up to the top notch, and the wholesale end of it will not bea particle behind. Stocks of both are quite low, and, in fact, fancies have passed al- most directly from the manufacturer to the retailer through the hands of the jobbers, delayed but a very short time with the latter. Fall hosiery is selling ‘in moderate quantities, but the demand at the present time is somewhat lighter than is usual at this time of the year, probably owing to the fact that summer lines are so very lively. It is a mistake for retailers to delay on the fall goods too long, because there is no averpro- duction, and at the time the goods are wanted in a_ hurry, the buyer may not be able to find them. Almost every day a visitor to the market sees new ideas brought out by enterprising manufactur- ers, both in men’s and women’s lines, and the array for this fall is something marvelous. For early fall there will be good sales of certain open work lines in all parts of the country, but these are expected to be good also all winter in the Southern States. Look out for the cheap lines of these goods, for the cus- tomers after the first washing will find more open work than they bargain for, and this will do you no good whatever. Better urge them to buy nothing less than 25c qualities. These are about as low as anything worthy can be retailed. Carpets—The situation in the carpet trade continues to show improvement. Orders are beginning to show more vol- ume, both in size and numbers, and a very good season is looked for when the usual fall buying commences. Manu- facturers are feeling more confident as to the near future. Taking everything into consideration, the present market conditions are such that they can not be complained of. While it is true that we have from time to time stated that actual business was not as favorable as it was made out to be, yet we can con- servatively state that for this season of the year, general business is as good as could be expected, if not better. The fact that the sales of carpet wools the past week in the Philadelphia market have shown an increase of from one to two hundred thousand pounds over the amount that has been usually purchased of late, is evidence enough that the manufacturing end of the business is beginning to show more life and that mill men in general are placing more confidence in the future of the market. The mills in the vicinity of Philadel- phia, broadly speaking, are fairly well employed. Those that run on the finer carpets, such as the wiltons, body Brus- sels, and especially, the velvets, are actually busy, and the same can be stated of those that turn out the better grade of tapestries. In fact, the bulk of the present business has been done in the 3 goods. The ingrain mills, how- ever, are fairly busy, but the future de- mand does not look as promising as it might. The large New England mills are reported to be working on good- sized orders that will keep them well employed for some months. These or- ders were mostly for their standard grades, so widely known to the buying public. Smyrna Rugs—Continue to sell well, and mills have been receiving orders that will keep them busy for some months. The large sized rugs are re- ceived with much favor by the public, and more of these sizes are being turned out by the mills. Prices, however, are considered to be on a low basis, and the anticipations are that they will show some advance before long. Wilton rugs are in fairly good request. Prices are very firm. —__~ 4. Defeats Its Object. It seems that the shirtwaist is bound to he ridiculed in some direction or || other in a manner which only fans _ into]! flame the dormant prejudices that may have quieted down after last season’s chaffing. Now it is a ridiculous girdle corset brought out by a woman. This corset girdle is intended to give a sufficiently firm foundation to insure the snug ting of the shirtwaist and maintain the waist connection without wrinkles. It is fashioned after feminine ideals and is composed of broad tapes which cross and recross. They take their stiffness from whalebones and nat- urally are as uncomfortable, warm and distressing as the skeleton corset worn by women. The patentee has wholly misunder- stood the masculine shirtwaist. Its par- amount object is to impart all possible coolness to the wearer. The addition of a corset or any contrivancee under- neath adds warmth to the garment and attains no desirable end. The shirt- waist or negligee shirt has a blouse effect at the waist and there is no reason or desire to rid this portion of wrinkles. In bringing out this novelty the cardinal virtues of the shirtwaist are eliminated. Ask to see Samples of Pan-American Guaranteed Clothing Makers Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. Of a dozen good reasons why you ought to look over our Fall line of Dry Goods and Men’s Furnishings. Our salesmen will tell you. “5 Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. FOR BO SE SR a eR ee ST BP SS SB SB BB Bn OB BOB ewe We have received for fall busi- ness a nice line of FLANNEL- ETTES. in great demand and it will be \, wise for you to place your order " goon to insure a good assortment. Write for samples. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, j FALL These goods will be aE BR aE a ea ee eH GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BENS SB BE RE REESE SE SE a aR a aR we 0-0-0-0-0-00-000-0-000-000-000-00-0000-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0000-000000000-0-0 not made by a trust. current. : x | | are the best goods on WE KNOW 9 that if you will send us an order we can prove to Q your entire satisfaction that Standard Crackers and Blue Ribbon Squares the market and are See quotations in price E. J. KRUCE & CO., DETROIT 0-0-0-0000000000000000 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers Dame Fashion Sets the Styles and Others Pervert Them. I have been simply spending my time lately trying to understand the problem of the human understanding, and it is the most vexing thing that anyone ever struggled with. If you had ever given the matter special attention you would have been surprised to find out how small a proportion of your understand- ing is in your head. Now I have the greatest reverence for people that make shoes—I do not think there is anything sO pretty as a pretty shoe, nor so neces- sary. I am not even objecting to the shoe itself. I thought I was quarreling with Dame Fashion until she convinced me that I was not. Really we had the most hopeless falling out the other day that we have ever had. If it hadn't been that she observes such unruffled politeness, and that I never lose my temper, something dreadful would have happened. This is the way it began: Dame Fashion was sitting by a diamond-paned window in her boudoir when I happened torun in. At the time I was wearing a pair of my prettiest shoes and limping as gracefully as | knew how. She slow- ly turned her head from the contempla- tion of the landscape through the win- dow, and said: ‘‘Bon jour, mademoi- selle.’’ I repiied in the same language and in precisely the same words with the exception of the last one. After this slight formality she re- marked: ‘‘I see you have a little pe- culiarity in your gait this morning.’’ ‘‘Which gate, madam?’’1 replied. ‘*T didn’t know you could see our gar- den fence from your window.’’ Of course 1 knew what she was talking about, but who likes to have his infirmi- ties made light of? ‘Oh, well,’’ she said, ‘‘if there is any uncertainty about it we had better drop the subject; I am sure you will find it more pleasant under the circumstances to take a seat on the divan and rest your weary feet.’’ One can never accuse her of a rude manner, but this provoked me to a few little remarks at her expense. ‘ Well, madam,’’ I said, ‘‘I thought you had a way of setting the styles.”’ ‘*No doubt of it,’’ she replied, ‘‘and I notice you have a way of perverting them.”’ i ‘‘Oh, I suppose you are referring to my new shoes?’’ ‘* Precisely.’’ Then I began a long monologue. ‘‘I have been squandering more cash on shoes lately than it takes to keep most girls in candy for six months. I havea row of shoes standing against the wall in my closet more than a yard long— and they are such pretty shoes! The fact is I have been thinking of origin- ating some style of dress decoration (to be used after the manner of the Indians’ strings of beads, porcupine quills, etc. ) made of strings of pretty shoes hung in festoons on silk cords. I would like to do this so that people might know that the reason I wear the old ones most of the time is not because I do not own any others.’’ With this I relapsed into silence and leaned back among the cushions to ob- serve the effect my remarks would have upon Dame Fashion. Presently she turned around and did me the honor to look my way. At last she said: ‘‘Let’s investigate the sub- ject. What is the greatest difficulty you have been meeting lately in regard to your footwear?’’ ‘* Pointed toes, ”’ **Well,’’ she said, ‘‘aren't there any but pointed toes to be had in stylish shoes?’’ ““Yes, in shoes that weigh some- thing less than a ton.’’ Of course I ex- aggerated, but I was in an exaggerating mood. ‘*Well,’’ she said, ‘‘for what purpose do you buy pointed toe shoes?’’ ‘‘Why, for the purpose of making a respectable appearance when 1 am walking,’’ I replied. “*So you believe in walking in pointed shoes?’’ ‘“‘Oh, no; but ‘one may as well be out of the world as out of faspion,’ and when I am dressed for an evening and have occasion to do a little walking be- tween times I am obliged to suffer the consequences, ”’ Then she began a monologue on her side. ‘‘Now,’’ she said, ‘‘we will con- sider the subject of walking shoes. The greater number are heavy, at least in appearance, but the cork sole is the re- deeming feature of the heavy shoe, for the woman who does not care for weight. For the one who has developed a great deal of muscle and is a sort of feminine Hercules there is the heavy shoe cut exactly after the pattern of the man’s shoe. There is also the plain broad toe, hand turned, that can be se- cured at almost any time, past, present or future. You will observe that the great difficulty is that you mortals do not do any close observing. Somebody wears something effectively, and imme- diately you all go and do likewise—and then the trouble begins. We will say, for instance, that the heavy men’s shoe has been introduced by a woman who has indulged in out-of-door recreation, golf, tennis, mountain climbing, for many years past; and whose training in physical culture has been thorough in every way. She is popular, however, and beautiful, and looks well in this heavy shoe; and any number of you poor little humans who have never had such advantages as these immediately burden yourselves with men’s shoes and then sink in abject prostration beside my footstool and weep because I lead you such a pace. | do lead you, indeed, as far as your sense will allow—beyond that you lead yourselves, ‘*Now,’’ she continued, ‘‘we will dis- cuss the variety of shoes in their differ- ent uses. When you are dancing, for instance, you are standing very little of the time except when engaged in the dance. You naturally rest on your toes anyway in taking the dance steps, and the high heels of your slippers are very suitable. The pointed toe and high heel should be donned only when one intends to spend the evening at home or to take a carriage to the theater or other entertainment; and in purchasing these shoes great care should be taken to have them sufficiently long so that the wid- est part of the foot shall fall at exactly the right place in the widest part of the shoe. The point of the shoe, you see, is then merely a decorative effect entirely outside of the general contour of the foot. If one has not many cents in his pockets he must make up the deficiency by having a great deal of sense in his head ; and if you can not afford enough shoes so that you can change for the different occasions the only sensible way to do is to purchase about two pairs | which are reasonably suited to the needs of the case, even at the sacrifice of a. little daintiness.’’ See In the Stores! In the Factories! On the Farms! In the highways and byways of this part of our country you will find that Progressive Busy People Who are neither footsore nor weary are wear- ers of the RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO.’S GRAND RAPIDS. MADE SHOES GOOOOOUOGDOOGDHOOOGHOOGOGOOGO SEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS O2LOLOLOLOLSLS® | COEEESSESEEEGeEeEeS Shoes must—_-—_—_ Fit to Wear Our own make of shoes are made to fit, will therefore give the longest wear. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. r) Makers of Shoes e Grand Rapids, Michigan CL LeLLYOLOYOLOLYOLEYOLY/E® Coming! Our salesmen will call on you soon with a complete line of shoes for fall and imme- diate use. Your orders will be highly ap- preciated by us. Yours truly, Bradley & Metcalf Co. Milwaukee, Wis. LEGGINGS Over Gaiters and Lamb’s Wool Soles. (Beware of the Imitation Waterproof Leg- ging offered:) Our price on Send us your advance order early before the rush is on. Send for Catalogue. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. MANUFACTURERS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Men’s Waterproof — Tan or Black, per dozen.. Same in Boys’, above Sonia. ee GROHOR OCHOROHOR CHOROCHOROROHOROHOEOR BOROROCHOROROROROROHOCROROROHOC CROHOR +t >» , ied < ¥ ’ terials, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 18 The great fad for the coming season will be the half-top shoe. It presents an effect that reminds one of the foot- wear of the Puritan maiden. The ex- tremes in walking shoes are, as I have suggested, an imitation of the men’s footwear, but in somewhat lighter ma- Tanned shoes have gone out completely, dress shoes are of the usual materials—soft kid, patent leather, cloth tops, etc. A very pretty little tie, not necessarily an oxford, is a low, pointed shoe laced with variegated rib- bons. Mollie Morris. ——_>2.___ How Are You Going to Conduct Your August Sale? What arrangements are you making in order to insure a success of the sale that you are going to carry on during this dull season? You know that hav- ing the goods on the shelves is not all that is necessary to make this sale a winner; therefore, it would be well to look around and figure the best possible methods to bring it to the notice of the buying public. Those who really needed shoes have bought them, and the great bulk of humanity will. shun the shoe store from now until September—unless Special inducements draw them to it. If we would shake off this stupor we must bring forth a circus or a bargain sale. As we do not deal in the former, we must have recourse to the latter. Let us do a little circus advertising ; the people like it. Put out posters—say, the summer girl or the shirstwaist man upon them, examining a canvas or a tan shoe—with the printed matter on them containing little more than the date and details of the sale. Let the circulars used in advertising the sale be short, snappy and convincing in argument. Let them be interspersed with shoe cuts. The summer girl and the shirtwaist man should be in evidence in the news- paper advertisement space, along with the facts and figures of the sale. If you are not able to reach your trade through the medium of the daily papers, which is often the case in large. cities, it would he well to make a local can- vass by getting out a neat circular. By this is not meant an ordinary dodger, such as you have printed for $1 per thousand, but a circular neatly printed, enclosed in an envelope and addressed to the lady of the house and delivered by a boy, or one or two of the clerks in the store, if you are not rushed prepar- ing the goods for the event, so that the sale may be brought primarily to the notice of those who are most likely to purchase. Do not forget that if you use a special style of poster, or a special cut in your window, to have the same displayed on the circular you distribute from door to door. It might also be well, if there are factories in the locality, to have those circulars distributed to the employes as they leave the building. This means of advertising, properly conducted, is productive of much good, and it should not be forgotten that this class of trade are not particular as to which store they patronize so long as they secure a bar- gain when they want shoes. If no electric fans hum their breezes in the store let them be added, and give them. mention in the advertisements, People patronize cool places in summer. A free use of the hose on the paving in front of the store’ will add to the cool effect. As shoe stocks are greatly reduced at this time they should be lowered so that all shoes may be reached from the floor, The less effort on the part of the clerk the cooler he can keep, and the cooler he is the better he can sell. Let us diverge from the beaten path of precedent and eschew the jumble of the bargain rack and table during this sale. Samples of thé lots to be sold should be put on shoe forms and each given a separate and conspicuous place in the store. Shoe forms bring out the lines of a shoe in a manner to make it more salable. The windows should be trimmed in light summer colors. If means for an artificial fountain are at hand they may be utilized with profit. The play of water in a_ window is bound to attract attention. ; If the sale that you are going to carry on is of shoes all of one price, it would be well to arrange one large price card in the window, stating the price of the shoes and the character of the sale. If you intend running a sale for women’s, misses’ and children’s, or two or three various departments, it will be neces- Sary to use more price cards than one. If you have two windows do not let one window be dressed with your regu- lar stock goods and the other window with sale goods. Wipe out all appear- ance of your regular manner of conduct- ing business and by your general dis- play and outward appearance give your customers to understand that your store has been thrown open to this special sale which you are now conducting. This will infuse prospective customers with an amount of confidence which they would not have if you went at it in a half-hearted way. The shoes we wish to sell at this sale are, of course, the odds and ends of the season’s business—patent leather boots and oxfords and those tans which have been sticking, along with the special shoes ordered for the sale. A few can- vas shoes may be used asa drawing card. If not in stock they may be had, on short notice, from the jobber. Sam- ples of all shoes to be sold must be well displayed.—Shoe Retailer. ——--_> 4 +. ___ Black Shoes Have Had the Call. Lyon Correspondence Shoe and Leather Gazette. One of the fads that has taken hold of the feminine class is the wearing of colored laces in their shoes. Among the strings noticed are blue, red, old gold, yeilow, and the latest shade is bottle green. It isreally amusing to note how a fad will take. In years past such in- novations would not be thought of, but to-day they are looked upon as common- place affairs. The colored shoe has not had much of a demand this season. One manufac- turer stated to the writer that he had prepared for a good demand on this class of shoe, but finds that he was mis- taken, and is anxious to get the colors that he has made up off his hands. ‘‘I have one hundred and fifty cases of col- ors upon the floor that I am particularly anxious to move, but I fail to see the demand that was predicted as soon as the hot weather arrived. ‘‘If other sections of the country have turned on colored shoes, as has been the case here in the East, the manufactur- ers, as well as dealers who stocked up on colored shoes, in anticipation of a demand for them, will be out a good many dollars, from not being more cau- tious in the matter. Black shoes have had the call and they certainly will be in demand during this fall and winter.’’ “Black Cat” Plow Shoe will stand all sorts of hard wear. C. M. Henderson & Co. * Western Shoe Builders ” Chicago, Ill. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. Wholesale Boots and Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich. 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Ask your dealer x and blue tin packages. required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that ¢ Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- to show you Mica in the new white \ ILLUMINATING AND ; ae LUBRICATING OILS Y y PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD 34 THE WORLD OVER ¢ HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS STANDARD OIL CO. ds U ‘4 ) U 4 a w 4 U ) 4 4 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GAINING GROUND. Annual Report of Citizens Telephone Co. of Grand Rapids. Your company has completed five full years of active paid service in its Grand Rapids phat, and you are as- sembled to consider the results of the past and take such action as you deem wise for the future control of your prop- erty. During the fiscal year just ended with June 30th last, there has been such —— your directors and officers elieve, as will prove gratifying to you and toour patrons. The report of Mana- ger Tarte made to the directors at their July omy: contains, among other things, the following statistics: Your system, exclusive of your interest in the Muskegon Exchange, on the Ist day of July included 6,967 telephones, of which 3,588 were in the Grand Rapids city plant. These were distributed as fol- lows—the statistics of the plant a year ago are given in the former figures, the present. condition in the latter, in the sub-joined table: Grand Rapids............ 3,314 3,588 Bata 6 Big Rapids......... re te 6 8 Cannonsburg.............. 8 Cedar Springs............ 62 79 pea ee 10 9 Peewee 67 84 Pease i Me Rfoame 315 396 Te 54 102 MEORIOM ay BeSBwae 52 81 Partiand 2 Reaverse City... . 2... 459 Mebane 6 Pecene 40 63 Paes 10 21 BeMewMe 53 63 Caledonia 2... 19 icasmevea | 12 12 opemish ‘i 8 Helews 33 47 ee 2 Eos Oe Sa 8 Balame ee 10 Ramee es 782 «of Maddievilie........ .... 109 Mewagee 08, 27 27 Rocktera. 00 24000 54 122 Leelanau County.......... 67 Vermontville ............. go 136 Toll Stations........ ee 84 88 foetal... 6,967 It will be seen that your plant has made a net gain of 1,541 telephones in the entire system, of which 274 are in Grand Rapids, during the year. In the Grand Rapids plant this growth of 274 hones was distributed as follows: 121 in the first six months of the fiscal year and 153 in the last half of the year. Of course you will remember that our pur- chase and control of the Traverse City system was subsequent to our meeting a year ago; that part of your plant has been rebuilt, very greatly enlarged and directly connected by copper circuits with the balance of your system since that purchase, which was paid for in stock of your company. Mr. Tarte’s report states that you now own 1,616 miles of toll circuits, of which 709 miles are copper metallic, 849 are iron metallic and 58 miles only are *‘grounded.’’ This word ‘‘grounded’' means that the line consists of but one iron wire, not a pair of wires which is included in the statement that circuits are ‘‘metallic;’’ formerly pretty much all telegraph and telephone lines were grounded circuits. That service is nothing like so good as metallic. In your system, as you will notice, over 96 = cent. is full metallic. There have een added to our toll system during the past year by purchase or construction, chiefly the latter, 273 miles of copper eittatlic and 217 miles of iron metallic circuit—the copper circuits are far bet- ter than iron, and in new work much the iarger portion of that now con- structed is made of copper. During tk« year there were added to the toll system 194 miles of poles; many more miles of poles were added to the exchanges, es- ecially in the construction of farmers’ ines, but these are not included in the toll circuits. There are now 774 miles of poles in use in vour toll line system, which mileage will be considerably in- creased when the work now in progress is completed. In this same connection, as one of the elements in the growth or progress of your system during the year, it should be stated that 89 per cent. of the Grand Rapids Exchange system is now equipped with metallic circuits, where- as but 60 percent. of the smailer ex- change of a year ago was then so equipped. This means a very consider- able betterment of service in all respects both in local communications and toll line connections. It also means a con- siderable diminution of ‘‘troubles’’ in the system, and of the expense of car- ing for them; but of that phase of prog- ress, more later, Your company is now building addi- tions to its system which include small exchanges at Freeport, Clarksville, Alto and Elmdale and considerable enlarge- ment of pretty much everyone of the exchanges in the southern portion of its territory; it is building a new toll line from Hastings to Lowell and additional copper circuits from Grand Rapids to Lowell, from Grand Rapids to Newaygo and from Cedar Springs to Harvard; work on these is well advanced and, when completed and present orders for service are carried out, will add over 300 telephones to our system outside of this city. Additional orders for service in all our exchanges are received con- stantly. The growth of the plant at the present time is almost or quite as rapid as during the year just ated. In another direction the progress of the year is manifest. During the month 6}of June 15,987 conversations between people in Grand Rapids and people in other towns—such connections we call switches—passed over our toll system, an increase over June, Ig00, of 1,157 switches. During the fiscal year, there were 176,665 Grand Rapids switches, an increase of business as against the pre- ceding year of 27,454, or almost pre- cisely Ig percent. ‘he larger portion of this increase was during the latter half of the year and the ratio of growth in this department of your business is greater this month than was ever before enjoyed by your company. Previous to this month, the largest number of Grand Rapids switches ever cared for in any one day was 753, and when that figure was reached, it was considered a notable advancement in the business of the company; but on five days of this month, that figure has been exceeded with 871 on the Ist, 833 on the 2d, goo on the 3d, 775 on the sth, and 829 on the 8th. The largest week in the history of the company’s toll line business previous to this month was the last week in June, when there were 4,115 completed Grand Rapids switches. The first week of July raised this figure to 4,424, and last week reached the very gratifying total of 4,340. I do not wish to weary you with figures, but such statements become important for com- parison, and are especially suggestive as indicating conditions and tendencies. When we speak of Grand Rapids switches, the statistics given have no reference to the business between any other stations or connecting lines of our system outside of Grand Rapids, nor have they any reference to the toll line messages passing through Grand Rap- ids, as from Muskegon to Lansing, or from Holland to Lowell. In these ele- ments of your company’s business, quite as large and scasiivier growth has been enjoyed. In the financial statement, it is be- lieved that the figures given will be quite as gratifying as those relating to the growth of your system. Including the dividend declared at the last meet- ing of the Board of Directors, on the 1ith inst., checks for which will be mailed on the 2oth to each and all of vou, there has been and will be paid sut for the year $39,243.12 on that ac- count alone. All the expenses of oper- ation, insurance, taxes, etc., have been met from income and your lines, switch- boards and instruments have been kept in such good condition, your manager says, in his report to the directors, that ‘‘we are in the unusual condition of having a plant that is appreciating in value instead of depreciating.’’ This is because of the large expenditures for reconstruction, repair material and maintenance; these three items alone aggregate almost $40,000 for the year. After paying all dividends, 8 per cent. for the year, every expense of opera- tion, maintenance as above indicated, etc., there was an undivided profit in the year’s business of $14,405.99. Your directors decided to carry $10,000 of this to your surplus fund and to charge the balance to depreciation. The growth of ‘the company’s busi- ness in revenue during the year is also indicated by the changes during that period in exchange rentals. These rentals from the different exchanges of the system, Grand Rapids and others, were: For the first quarter, $25,804.40; second quarter, $29,031.92; third quar- ter, $29,816.99; fourth quarter, $31,- 109.13. It will be seen that in the ex- change rentals alone the earnings of the company are at the rate of more than $20,000 per year larger at the end of the fiscal year than at the beginning of the year. The changes in the toll line rev- enue, when analyzed, are quite as grat- ifying; and when the work now in progress, as heretofore suggested, is completed there will result an addition in excess of $4,000 a year in exchange rentals, and more than a corresponding growth of toll line income. Could your system stand still in its present condi- tions, your gross annual revenue would be slightly in excess of $160,000, a fig- ure which probably will surprise most of you. Of course, it is true that, with increased business, a larger number of phones, and greater mileage of toll lines, there is also an increase of ex- penses, but it is certain that during the coming year at least, without extraor- dinary and very unusual conditions, ex- penses will not increase proportionately with income. On the basis now reached the net earnings for the year we have just entered upon will be larger, after paying dividends, than the year which has reached so fortunate a close. During the year, as you know, you STONEWARE We can ship promptly all sizes of Stone- ware—Milk Send us your order. Pans, Churns and Jugs. W. S. & J. E. GRAHAM Grand Rapids, Michigan Summer Resorts ON THE G. R. & I. ‘* The Fishing Line’’ | | | | | Rapids & Indiana Railwa:; page booklet, entitled ‘ mer,” that contains 250 pictures of resorts is given about these popular resorts: Roaring Brook Emmet Beach Walloon Lake Edgewood by the day and week, and This booklet will be sent free Michigan. trip via the The oe Department of the Grand has issued a 36- ichigan in Sum- Northern Michigan. Interesting information Petoskey Mackinac Island Bay View Traverse City Harbor Springs Neahtawanta Harbor Point Omena Wequetonsing Northport Northport Point and other points It contains a list of hotels and boarding houses in Northern Michigan, with their rates assenger fares from the principal points in the Middle West. upon request to C. L. Lockwoop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Grand Rapids, The summer train schedule goes into effect June 30. Time cards and full information regarding connections, the ‘“‘ Northland Ex- press ’’ with cafe car service, will be sent, and assistance given to plan a comfortable Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway in Owe Wn. a. a a Sn SO New by Sears. Order a box or can of each. CREASE. Samples for asking. SEARS BAKERY, Grand Rapids, Mich. (Remember «Rube Sears”’) vantage of summer requirements. ing for ‘‘SzEars READY To SERVE Goops’’ to avoid the incon- venience, worry and heat of home baking. Frequent Changes in the varieties of cakes you handle MAKE YOUR TRADE IN- We are presenting something new continually. Summer Sweet Goods Beechwood, 10 cents Richmond, 10 cents Spiced Sugar Tops, 8 cents All have the crowning flavor found only in goods made Commence at Once Now is the time to take ad- Your customers are look- So é > ¢ eH pga ¢ a 4 i & L he A pm it t is ne oie t \ _ ' \ y < , i aT > 4 a 4 ¢ y i \ y < ae _s « t + ¢ ae fn ¢ & \ fe ' \ = ag ‘ ” [ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 directed that the authorized capital of your company be increased to one mil- lion dollars. Since that was done your directors have formally decided to sell $100,000 of new stock to take care of growth which has been made, is in progress, and is expected and intended to occur during the next six months. There has been sold and issued $580, 380 of stock, as against $396, 100 issued a year ago, so almost precisely $70,000 of the stock recently authorized to be sold Is yet to be disposed of. In the sales already accomplished since the increase of capital stock, quite a large number of new stockholders have been secured, and numbers of those who have held stock heretofore have increased their Investments with us. Of course, as you are aware, the entire authorized capital is all common stock—every dollar in the company’s investment is precisely as good as every other dollar—and is being placed in the pool as it is sold. More than $500,000 of the stock — issued is included in that agreement. It will gratify you in this connection to hear that your neighbors of the Union Co., on the east and north of us, have copied your pooling agreement, and that other telephone companies, several of them in this and other states, have done the same thing, or are preparing to do so. In a sense, your company has set an example in telephone investment, in this direction, which has been gen- erally heard of among the independent companies and very heartily approved. The wisdom of your action in providing this agreement has been amply justified by experience, and undoubtedly is an element of great strength to your com- pany. While our own immediate conditions are pleasing, the situation of the inde- pendent telephone movement of the State is far more satisfactory than it was a year ago, Very important and beneficial changes have taken place during the past twelve months. At the time of our annual meeting in 1900, we were compelled to make report to you that the Michigan Telephone Co. (Bell) but a short time before had bought in- dependent plants, including the Detroit exchange, the New State system and the Kalamazoo system. At that time there were in the entire State but about 18,000 independent telephones outside of the Detroit and Kalamazoo systems, which were really then Bell property, although operated as _ independent plants. Now there are in the Lower Peninsula of the State somewhat more than 25,000 telephones in the independ- ent systems in operation, and new in- dependent plants are building in De- troit and Jackson. As all of you know, Mr. Ware, who has been identified with this company since its organization, in March resigned his position of Secre- tary of your company to accept the gen- eral managership of the Peoples Tele- phone Co. in Detroit. It was believed that encouragement of that enter- prise and assisting to make it first class in all respects would prove most beneficial to all the independent inter- ests of the State, including our own, and country. That corporation, with an authorized capital stock of two and one- half million dollars, has entered with great energy upon the building of a plant intended to include an ultimate of more than 12,000 phones in that city, which is to be one of the finest systems in the world, full copper metallic, with all the lines converging to one central station or switchboard. Mr. Ware, who is with us, doubtless will be able to give you some idea of the progress he is making. The same interests—7o per cent. of the capital is provided 2 our Ohio friends connected with the United States Telephone Co. of that State—are also building the Peoples Telephone Co.'s plant in Jackson and now have more than goo contracts for service in . that city, and a large force of men put- ting in conduits and raising poles. These interests propose building with- out delay a connection from Detroit with the U. S, Co. toll lines which now reach Jackson and Owosso, and will cause the erection of first-class inde- pendent exchanges in all towns large and small in Southeastern Michigan. Within the past forty days, quite a num- ber of franchises have been granted for exchanges, at Romeo, at Mt. Clemens, at Monroe and other points, and appli- cations for franchises are pending in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and other towns. A franchise was granted in Toledo on the 12th. A year ago, the Bell Co. seemed to have the impression that it had effectually squelched the independ- ent movement in Southeastern Michi- gan and very seriously damaged it in Southern Michigan; but to-day the in- dependents in Michigan have brighter prospects and more encouragement than before the Detroit, the New State and the Kalamazoo plants were sold. It will be apparent to all of you that the building of such plants, the re-occupy- ing of the territory indicated, will very greatly increase the toll line business of your system and your net income, and will greatly strengthen your system; fewer of your patrons will feel com- pelled to use Bell telephones to reach their business connections in other por- tions of the State, and at the same time, while your competitor is busy meeting this new competition, your system will not be subject to such serious on- slaught, such strenuous efforts to share patronage with you or to divert busi- ness from you. You were informed at your last meet- ing that contracts had recently been made with the U. S. Telephone Co., of Ohio, and with other telephone com- panies of this State, running twenty-five years, for a considerable increase of toll line facilities and for an interchange of business. Since then the U. S. Co. has built a first-class copper metallic toll line from Saginaw through St. Charles, Chesaning, Oakley, Henderson, Owosso, Bennington and Laingsburg to a con- nection with your exchange at Lansing, where your toll line system is reached; thence through Mason, Eden, Leslie, Rives Junction, Jackson, Napoleon, Norvell, Manchester, Clinton and Tecum- seh to a connection with the Adrian ex- change, which was reached last week. This line will be finished within a very few days to Toledo and to connections there with the great Ohio and Indiana systems. In Ohio there are now 70,000 independent telephones, a number con- siderably larger than the Bell Co.’s licensees have in the Buckeye State. This connection at Toledo means also a connection through to Pittsburg, Pa., over lines now completed, and includes, in a comparatively short time, toll line facilities to reach the Atlantic coast at Philadelphia, Baltimore and other im- portant points. It goes without saying that, with increased opportunities for service to many thousands of telephones at hundreds of points not now access- ible, the toll line-business of your own system will be very largely increased. While mentioning the fact that, in the very near future, through the completion of the United States Co. system, you will be able to reach the Atlantic coast, it should further be mentioned that the independent movement has begun to develop in the Middle and New Eng- land States in the past few months with a vigor and enthusiasm that promise much. The independents in Balti- more report that they already have more phones in service than the Bell Co, has had in fhe entire State of Maryland heretofore, and their plant there is growing fast. The Keystone Co. expects to begin to give service in Phil- adelphia by the 1st of October. Bank- ers and capitalists in that city are pro- viding millions of dollars for a larger and Coat plant than the Bell now has there. Judge Thomas, President of the Nationa! Independent Telephone Asso- ciation for the past five years, recently General Manager of the U. S. Co.’s lines in Ohio, has accepted the Presi- dency of the Telephone, Telegraph & Cable Co. of America, and has entered upon his duties in New York City. He is one of the most able, aggressive and earnest independent telephone men in America. When invited to the Presi- dency of this great corporation, which had begun building Greater New York and Greater Boston, and toll lines to connect those great cities, he consented upon these conditions; That ample means shall be provided for building first-class plants; that the stock shall be pooled so that adverse interests cannot buy it and thus secure a control, and that first-class plants shall be built and oper- ated upon an absolutely independent basis, with perfect good faith as toward patrons and other independent interests. That he has entered upon his duties is roof conclusive to all who know him intimately (of whom your Secretary is one) that these conditions have been conceded, and that, as fast as money and men can provide them, New York and Boston are to have genuine independent telephone systems. It means much to the independent interests throughout the country, and not a little to ourselves. When your company was first organ- ized many of you were more or less_ in doubt about the patent situation. The Bell Co, claimed to own pretty much all ‘of the important patents upon the art of telephony, and its representatives fre- quently announced that, because of such control of patents, independent com- panies could not possibly give satisfac- tory service ; indeed, could not continue in service because their plants could be closed for infringement. As you have known, heretofore, this company has had ample experience in that direction, in- variably successful and without expense to its treasury. You have been informed from time to time by your officers that it did not seem probable that any real hindrance to your business would arise from patent litigation or decisions. The most important patent of all undoubt- edly, in the opinion of the Bell Co., was that which has been so noted, the Berliner patent. The Bell Co. claimed that under this patent no practicable telephone could be operated except by itself or its licensees ; that all independ- ent telephones using carbon transmit- ters with batteries were infringements. In February last Judge Brown, of the United States Court in Boston, handed down a decision which declared that the Berliner patent was invalid upon four important grounds, one of which was that Berliner did not make the in- vention claimed in his patent. No one conversant with the facts has any idea that, in case of an appeal, Judge Brown's decision will be reversed or radically changed. This decision has had a pro- found influence for good upon the in- dependent telephone situation. E. B. Fisher, Sec’y. ——-_+> 2. Promised Not to Mention It. A well-known clergyman tells of driv- ing along a country road one winter’s night, when just ahead of him he no- ticed a woman walking. Drawing up his horse, he asked the woman if he could give her a lift. The woman got in an they drove along for some distance. When he had set her down at her own gate she thanked him, and he politely answered: ‘*Don’t mention it.’’ ‘*No, 1 won't,’’ said the matter of- fact woman in an obliging tone. It’s a wise father that knows as much as his own son. QCOOQOOQOQOOS OOMOOQOQODE QOQQDOOOO: Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. Watney, Secretary. M. W. O’Brien, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. DIRECTORS. D, Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. 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If you make known your failures they are likely to make it worse than it really is. Be pleasant and courteous to travelers, and when they call make them feel that they are welcome visitors. Don't give them what is termed the ‘‘marble heart.’’ A merchant makes a mistake by mistreating the traveling man. They are among our best friends. Try and find time to see and hear what they have to offer. Draw them out on their differ- ent lines, and they will tell you some things you do not know. We are apt to make a mistake by pat- terning afterothers. If you see a good thing, look into it carefully to see if it will be any addition to your business before adopting it. I have seen meth- ods used successfully by their orginator, and yet these same methods seem to be failures in the hands of others; or suc- cessful methods in one town may fail in another. If we all think and work out our own methods of conducting our business by adding this or that man’s ideas that seem adapted to our trade and condition, after examining into them closely, the effort it requires to do this makes us strong in executing our plans. We should study closely and try to understand what is necessary to reach our own trade. Again, I think it bad policy to have an iron-clad price. Require your clerks to maintain as nearly as possible a uni- form price. But certain customers and conditions require a different price from others; and the argument commonly used in favor of one price, ‘‘ Every man’s money is the same,’’ does not cover the case. Allow clerks as much latitude in mak- ing sales and arranging stock as you find their judgment is entitled to. Every man has some originality. Make them suggestions, but force them to use their own heads; and they are likely to make sales that you would have lost, or make some nice displays that you would not have thought of. And when they have made nice sales, or arranged certain displays, speak nicely of it. Don't wait until they have made a mistake and then ‘‘Jack them up.’’ There is more in the impression made on your customer’s mind by having your stock properly kept and displayed, followed up by the efforts and brands of goods you Carry. I do not wish to be understood as be- ing greatly opposed to system. On the contrary, the more system, the more success. But a long list of iron-clad rules and lots of red tape are by no means system. System makes rules and red tape, but they do not always make system. Get a good cash register. It will introduce more system into your business to the square inch than any- thing I know of. It tells when your store opened in the morning; it shows your daily, monthly and yearly sales; how many customers you had and how much each bought and how much each clerk sold, and many other things of interest and value. Your clerks have to be careful with it, which makes them more careful and accurate in other things. latest and best things; I am friendly to special brands that contain merit, when they can be con- trolled by the retailer in his town; but not those that you only speak of as being as good as some factory brand already introduced. I think, although handling a special brand that has merit,and talk- ing points over the factory brand, that it is best to have a factory brand, too. Not to have it often creates the impres- sion on your customer’s mind that you urge the special brand because you haven’t the other, and that you buy it because it is cheaper than the factory brand. Show the brand you control and talk up its merits. If your customer urges the factory brand on you, get it out and make a comparison. The mo- ment you convince him that the reason you push it is because it has advan- tages over the factory brand, your sale is made, ten to one. Establish a reputation of handling the best goods and you will get the best line of customers. When you have a call for an article do not show the cheapest thing, but something good, and name the price in a manner that gives the cus- tomer to understand you think it cheap for the article you are showing him. If he objects to the price or speaks of hav- ing been offered something cheaper, etc., then itis time enough to get out the cheaper article. When he sees the two together and you show him the ad- vantages of the good article, and the disadvantages of the cheaper article, he is apt to take the better, which is better for the merchant, even at the same profit; for the customer is likely to for- get the price he paid. But if the article he buys is worthless he never forgets it, although you may have sold it for less than cost. While I do not think it wise to drop something you have a good trade on simply to take up a new article in its stead, yet we should keep our eyes open and when new and attractive articles are offered take them and run them while they are new. Aside from the profit you make, it shows your customers you are in the lead and not following; that they do not have to send off for the that they can al- ways see something new at your store. Catalogue houses are one of the grow- ing evils that we have to meet; and just how to meet them is a great question. I believe the best policy is to say as little about them to our customers as possible. I think I should examine closely the latest and largest catalogues of those operating in my __ territory, studying their pian of doing business and locate their weak points. The dealer himself should not patronize them as that is an acknowledgment he can not afford to make. Success or failure depends upon self. I read some remarks from E. C. Sim- mons, one of the greatest hardwaremen in the world, that struck me very forc- ibly. The language I do not remember, but the idea was this, as I remember it: ‘‘If your business is not moving as you thought it should,examine yourself, see if you are doing everything in your own power to make it a success; and if you should find at any time it is neces- Sary to cut expenses by reducing sal- aries begin with your own. I have yet to see the first man who failed in busi- ness to acknowledge that he was wholly to blame. He may have been drunk three-fourths of his time, played poker seven nights in the week, spent half his time around a bucket shop, played the races, slot machines or any old thing, yet when he goes to tell you why he - failed in business, he seems to have for- gotten all these things, and will tell you of things that went wrong over which he had no control. However, we think if there is any drinking or gamb- ling to be done, the head of the house should do it all and then get out of business as quickly as he can after these conditions arise, because drinking or gambling will wreck any _ business whether done by boss or boys.”’ E. E. Mitchell. 0 Consequences. A woman threw a paper out on the roadside, and the consequences were a buggy ruined, a young horse spoiled, a child crippled for life. A man lighted a match in a barn, and the consequences were the barn was burned, the stock roasted, the grain a total loss. A boy drank a glass of whisky, and the consequences were a spoiled career, a depraved character and a ruined life forever. A girl said ‘‘Yes’’ toa fast young man, and the consequences were a pov- erty-stricken home, ignorant, vicsous children and a broken heart. 0 All barriers fall before work. Indus- try is invincible. There is no obstacle confronting life that hard work can not remove. his is the genius that con- quers—the spirit of labor. Let a person be possessed by a passion for work, and circumstances will inevitably be too weak to keep him down. Nothing is denied to industry. — —_—_— —_ = —_ EEE PTL — — 3 = Ep — | ee | aS Cottage Lamp Just the thing for these warm nights. Always reliable; no complicated valves and gen- erators to clog. Every part sim- ple an cal. Guaran- teed one year from date of sale. Exclusive territories as- actured by Pentone , Gas Lamp Co., 141 Canal St. Grand Rapids, Mich. are COUNTER MARKET CANDY POSTAL eenetete P eras etc GRAND RAPIDS PLASTER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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The reason given for making the request was that the boy had ‘‘been overdoing and while there was nothing the matter with him, he looked so sort o’ peaked and done up that his mother wanted to see what the Bellingham meadows would do to tan the boy up good and brown and blister his hands and set his. back to aching as yours and mine use to ache, Josiah, away back there in the fifties. Don’t expect much work out of him anyway. Let him put- ter around all he wants to. Take him over to that trout stream that you and I have whipped time and again. Send him back tough and stout in September and I'Jl make it all right with you. He’ll be poking along about the end of the week.”’ ‘‘I’m mighty glad he’s coming, ”’ said Uncle Josiah, looking over his steel- bowed spectacles at the big hulking young man of twenty-three whose size and build indicated an accumulation of Strength which the owner did not pos- sess. ‘‘I’m glad he’s coming, John Thomas. 1 want you to see what a young man can do for himself when he sets about it in good earnest. Rodney hasn't a bit brighter brain than you have but he’s all push and energy and they tell me he’s leading his class. I’m glad he’s coming and I hope his being right here in the house with you will stir you up and make you want to be something. ’’ John Thomas laughed. From _ his childhood up this Rod Higley had been forced down his throat three times a day as a reminder of what he might be and he was glad to put eyes on the paragon at last. How he would take the starch out of the conceited simpleton. He knew books, no doubt about that, but when you come down to men’s work in the hay field or on the farm anywhere— shucks! he’d show him! He had al- ways had his opinion of these college fellows, half dude and the other half impudence ; and once this one got there be’d show him, the little spindling, lily-livered, hollow-chested what you- may-call him. Him for a mode!! He’d show him which the model was, and so stop this endless nagging to ‘‘be some: body.’’ One thing he’d get shut up on —books. Let him undertake to play professor if he wanted to and he’d see! The letter came Monday and as he would ‘‘be poking along at the end of the week’’ so nobody expected on Tues- day morning that the young fellow com- ing to the hay field a little after ten could be the much wanted cousin. John Thomas woudln’t be expected to recognize him anyway and the appear- ance of the stranger did not tally at all with the idea he had been entertaining. The Higleys are all big fellows and Rodney had the family characteristic. If there was any advantage he had it in comparison with John Thomas and the ‘‘peaked’’ look which the anxious mother looked upon as incipient disease was simply the desirable result follow- ing a vigorous course of training at the college gymnasium. In other respects he was a fair representative of the up to date, all ‘round, first class college boy ready to meet men and matters as he found them without any doubt of holding his own and getting along fair- ly well. If John Thomas hadn't been pre- judiced he would have taken to his cousin on the spot. He had the Higley way of holding up his head and looking you squarely in the eye. The white straw hat with its broad black band looked well on the head of that well- proportioned and_ well-developed six footer and while the blue serge coat and the negligee shirt with the carelessly knotted tie at the throat and the white duck trousers and the well-fitting tan shoes were ‘‘natty’’ they were very handsome and made John Thomas de- cide to have some like them before the week was out. When he had got through shaking hands with Uncle Josiah and his cousins that ought to be enough, but it wasn’t. ‘‘Just introduce me to the rest of the men, Uncle Josh. I’m going to be out here with ‘em and _I want to know them,’’ and he took each by the hand as if he meant what he said. Then he went back to the house and hauled off his ‘‘toggery’’ so that when they came to dinner he didn’t look like the same man. Hat and jeans and shirt and shoes all made for service, was his make-up and after a hearty dinner with the rest of them he put on his hat and started for the hay field with the rest. ‘Where you going to put me Uncle? I’m not an orphan and my mother isn’t a widow so you can give me the hot end of the poker at the word go.”’ ‘Let him take a rake and start in ahead o’ me,'’.said John Thomas. ‘‘I’]l make his heels jingle !’’ He didn’t though. All through that hot July day the ‘‘spindling, hollow- chested’’ student raked as wide a swath as the rest and without a sign of weari- ness he kept out of the way of his cous- in’s aggressive rake. Sunset saw no blisters on his hands and he declined a ride home on the load because ‘‘the walk would do him good!"’ He met the test of companionship between supper and bedtime by being just a young man with the rest only he did everything as if he had done it at least a thousand times. John Thomas had evidently been the “‘head man’’ among them without turning over his hand and their aston- ishment was no less than his when he found that the ‘‘peaked’’ cousin was ahead every time. He beat at check- ers. He never turned up his nose at their greasy cards and ‘‘Old Sledged’’ them out of all patience. His quoit was always nearest the stake. His jump was away ahead of John Thomas’ and “‘he jest grabbed a crossbar in the barn with one hand and lifted hisself three times so that his chin touched it and all the time his foot didn’t tech ground.’’ All these things should have taught, John Thomas something, but they didn’t and it began to be a query with the men how long it would take to make him take a back seat. His one accom- plishment was loading hay. His fork, he contended, took the biggest load and no man in the hay field was so swift a loader. No college boy this side-o’ the kingdom with all the could not see that his cousin was not envious and had no wish to rob him of his honors, Finally when it was easy to understand that nothing but a trial would satisfy, Rod good naturedly ac- cepted and just as good naturedly deter- mined to do his best.. With a fair field and no favor the two ‘‘went in,’’ It was gymnasiums. thrown in could beat him at that and he: Greek meeting Greek, but John Thomas depended too much upon his reputation and size and his cousin whose muscles were all sinews depended upon nothing but skill and endurance and his load of hay was out of the meadow before John Thomas had touched his last hay cock. The defeat would have been humiliating enough if Rodney had not made things easy. “It couldn’t have been otherwise, Cousin John. I’ve been training ever since I was in college—and that's three years—and there isn’t an ounce of spare muscle on me. What you want to do is to come down there and take a gymnas- ium course. It would make a man of you in just the way you want to excel. So far as beating is concerned it wasn’t worth trying for and if you had had my training I couldn’t have done it. Shake hands on it.’”’ . It was so kindly said that the beaten cousin ‘‘had to,’’ and having gone so far the rest naturally followed. Cousin- ship ripened into friendship and when Rod went home John Thomas went with him. ‘I guess I’d better own up’’ the coun- try cousin said as they seated themselves in the car, ‘‘I made up my mind that you were a dude and that I’d take it out of you if I had a chance.’’ ‘‘So Uncle Josiah said in one of his letters,’’ Rodney quietly responded, ‘‘and I concluded to give you the chance !’’ The next remark that was made was upon another topic. Richard Malcolm Strong. Se En It is better to be sure than sorry; but if you are too blamed sure, you are sure to be sorry that you are sure. 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Co., one for your customer, one for yourself, all written at one time—50 CENTS PER BOOK of roo full triplicate leaves. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market Horse Meat as Food For Man. Why do we prize the meat of the hog and despise the meat of the horse? If one would be asked a question like the above, or one similar, the answer likely would be, ‘‘Why, simply because the people at large object to eating meat from the horse.’’ That this, of course, does not answer the question at ali, or at least is only begging the question, is plain enough; logically one would ask, ‘‘Why is this? It would seem as if this objection to horse meat was but a sentimental one, but just the sane, if it is a sentimental one, it is a very strong one and one very fairly established and fixed. Like all such fixed and seemingly unalterable opinions, they have come down to us by tradition,simply because our forefathers held the same opinion. Possibly the Mosaic law may have something to do with it, which says: (Extract from Third Book of Moses, Leviticus, Chapter xi. ) : And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them: Speak unto the children of Israel saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed and cheweth the cud among the beasts that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof, as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divideth the hoof and is cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. “ Of their flesh shall ye not eat and their carcass shall ye not touch, they are unclean unto you. This is the law of the beasts. . : To make a difference between the un- clean and the clean and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. Clearly, according to this law laid down by Moses, the horse would have been an unclean beast, because if a specified reference had been made as to the horse it would have had to read as follows: And the horse he divideth not the hoof and be not cloven-footed, and cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. But Moses made no reference in rela- tion to the horse. I have consulted va- rious authorities and students of the Talmud, and have received various answers. They claim, for instance, that the horse at that time was not a do- mestic animal; in fact wasa wild beast, and therefore not included among the animals likely to be used for food any more than the lion, wolf or tiger. An- other view was not quite as complimen- tary to Moses as we generally find it. It is claimed, namely: That when the laws were made or promulgated to the Israel- ites through Moses there seemed to be an anxiety to make them as unEgyptian as possible; that is, the Egyptians were in the habit of eating meat from the swine and certain other animals pro- claimed unclean, and it may be possible that the meat of the horse may have been included among other unclean ani- mals. A possible explanation might be found in the fact that the horse, having always been considered a noble animal, having higher qualities and greater animal sense than other beasts, doing or per- forming higher duties, such as carry- ing its master to war and conquest, be- ing fleet of foot, and therefore used for sport, in races, etc., greater care being paid to its breeding and raising, there- fore bringing higher prices than other domestic animals and considered too good for the purpose of slaughtering for food. A potentate’s rating of old in riches was not so much the amount or quantity of gold and silver he possessed as the amount of fine and serviceable horses he could muster. Arabs frequent- ly paying for additional wives with a number of horses, rating their qualities against the beauty of the women. The custom, therefore, which exists in most countries of the Old World to place knackers’ yards far from human habita- tion may be accounted for by a feeling of repugnance to see or have horses killed. It is a fact, however, that the business of the knacker is somewhat a despised one, and his place of business a shunned one; how much of this may be due to superstition is hard to say. In France and Belgium, of course, conditions are different; in Paris more especially so, where the sale of horse meat is legalized and carried on open- ly, under certain restrictions dictated by the authorities. But even there it has not that higher trade bearing and standing which is accorded the dealers in beef and pork. Those who have read ‘‘ The Mysteries of Paris’’ will remember that the author, in order to account for the great cruelty and bloodthirstiness of the principal vil- lain, attributes these qualities, or rather the engendering of these qualities, to the circumstance that the villain was, in bis earlier days, a knacker’s assistant, where his principal occupation was that of bleeding horses. The value of a horse is a potent factor when considered as an animal for slaughter. Under ordinary conditions a good horse brings a much higher price for business purposes than for beef, weight for weight, from the standpoint of the slaughterer. Even when nearly broken in health, and unsound in more than one vital part, a horse is still sal- able at the horse market; a huckster or small farmer is always able to get some work out of a horse so long as it is able to stand on its legs, and it is only when its usefulness is forever ended, so that its life in days may be counted, that a horse is sold to the knacker. It has been claimed by parties who have repeatedly tried to get authorities to allow horse meat to be sold in East- ern cities that in Montana and other Far Western States there were many herds of thousands of horses each, none of which ever had a shoe on its feet, run- ning wild over large tracts of land, per- fectly healthy, living on clean, grassy food, and in a perfectly fit condition for human food; it is also claimed that these horses could be raised and brought to market cheap enough to compete very actively with cattle and, if slaughtered under Government supervision, in- sure perfect safety as to sanitary condi- tions and inpection as to fitness for food ; quarters of horse meat transported in refrigerator cars could be delivered in the City of New York in such a condi- tion and at such a price as to enable the poorest person to obtain a good steak for a price in his power. How- ever, at the present time, there seems to be no crying demand for horse meat; beef, although somewhat higher than formerly, is still quite cheap when com- pared with prices which rule in Europe. Thé supply of the ordinary animals fcr food is so well systematized and regu- lated as to make it possible to supply animal! food of that kind for some time to come at a fairly reasonable price,and the chance to force the use of horse meat upon the public, on account of difference in price, seems to be some- what slight and far distant. © The traffic in horse meat is, therefore, a proper subject for health authorities for regulation and control. In New York City the Board of Health strictly enforces section 84 of the Sanitary Code, which reads as follows: And the slaughtering of horses for food is prohibited, and no horses shall be slaughtered in the City of New York without a permit, in writing, from the Department of Health; and no meat of slaughtered horses shall be brought into, or held, kept or offered for sale at any place in said city. Should the time ever arrive when the public, or a portion at least, would de- mand horse meat, it could only be sup- plied under the following sanitary con- ditions : 1. All horses brought to slaughter houses with a view of using same for food should be examined by a veterinar- ian or competent meat inspector. (a). Before slaughter as to possible defect of body or diseases of the skin. (b). After slaughter, in order to de- termine from the condtiion of the vari- ous organs, whether the animal was dis- eased or showed any signs of having had any disease, such as consumption, can- cer (actinomycosis), etc., which might make the meat unfit for human con- sumption. 2. Horse slaughter houses should be entirely distinct from slaughter houses of other animals, and supplied with all modern equipments and appliances for the disposal of blood, offal, etc., without removing same from the premises. All plans for such a slaughter house should be first submitted to the local Board of Health for approval. 3. The sale of horse meat should only be allowed in markets or shops distinctive in their character in so much that no meat of other food animals or parts of such animals would be for sale on the premises, and the market or shcp should bear a distinctive outward sign or emblem indicative of the business carried on inside. In bulk, horse meat is detected com- paratively without difficulty; the meat itself is remarkable on account of a pe- culiar dark purple-brown, from age, es- ° pecially if it is exposed to the air, sometimes even changing to a black- purple. The interstitial fibers are very fine, much more elastic than in beef; a horse steak, therefore, seems quite soft. The muscular layers part easily and the meat on that account seems softer notwithstanding the coarse grain. The odor is peculiar, unpleasantly sweet. The taste of raw horse meat is so decid- edly sweet that even an unsuspecting person would at once remark this pe- culiarity. This sweetness is caused by a large percentage of a peculiar sugar called glycogen, which is present in horse meat in very much larger propor- tion than in the meat of any other ani- mal used for food, and it is upon this sugar that the chemical identification of horse meat depends. The fat of horses is soft and oily, from a light to a dark yellow color. The poorer the horse the more yellow the fat. This fat, when a quarter of horse meat is hung out in the open air, on account of its soft character, will, by its own specific gravity, form small bag-like forms, and thus gives a quarter of horse meat a quite peculiar appearance. Herman Betz. —__~>_ 2. __ Some people marry in haste and then pause to think it over. Others think it over first, and then—don’t marry. 2-2 __- Life is full of trials—and the lawyers are glad of it. B. B. B. INTERN 2 IIR whl; ¥ Some think but do not, Some do but think not. Neither succeed. One must both think and do, Or think another into doing. We think you ought to handle COFFEE Will you do it? Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Grand Rapids R23 VPN ENR POCO OSU COCO CCC C CCC UC UC CCUCCUCOCCUUCCUCUCVVUVVUVU VT VV Viv ' rPouvuvVCC CCC CCC CCC CVCCCCCVCVCCCCVCVCVCCTC. PUG OUCUCTCCTOCUCUCTCCCTCTCTCOCUCOUU OUT UU V Always pure and fresh. VUVVUUOOOCOCCEOCCSCOCSTOSTSCST TCO STSCSTTSOSC CCST CEST TCC EIS Putnam Candy Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. QUICK SELLERS are what you need during the hot spell. Our package chocolates fill the bill. Ay > a> RAGS rvwWwvvuvuvvvvvWVvvWVvVvVvVGWVGVGe?rYwVvVvGYVTt}?8Y,* rev weVeVVuUVrVVUVvVUVUVVVUVUVUVUTVvVvVvVvVuN YT ryuvuvvvveveVe TC a i lan i tt tn tan tn tt i tite te ie et Te ei i rtd wouwre aA a ee eT ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ~ | | -~ we - By, ? } it) AB > ww vy | J Pind . MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 Window Dressing Clothing, Drapery, Ribbon and Scarf Dis- plays. In window trimming,as in everything else, there are times when very little effort is required to set things moving or to keep them moving, and there are other times when the amount of effort expended is altogether disproportionate to results, As the hot weather grows in intensity it may help or hurt business in your town. If things won’t move, do not blame the window man. If they do move, do not give all the credit to the windows. Try to determine how much is due to the heat and how much to personal effort. * * * A pretty background for a clothing window can be made in the following manner: The entire background is cov- ered with dark green cloth, plaited in simple folds. Against this background a framework of light rods is erected which divides the window back into three panels, arched top and _ bottom. The tops of the arches and the spaces between both top and bottom are fin- ished with a puffing of white cloth. Along the inner edge of the arches a thin line of puffing of rose-colored cloth or tissue paperisrun. Tissue paper of a rose color is then cut into narrow strips, which are twisted corkscrew fash- ion and fastened in parallel vertical lines against the background in the panels. Two scantlings are then taken and bound together at the ends, after which they are separated by placing a stick endwise between them to make the sides curve out. The whole is then cov- ered with white crepe tissue paper wound about it and the center filled in by strips’ of twisted tissue paper, rose- colored, interlacing diagonally. -0-e Things to Forget and Things to Remember. The things we ought to forget are the things we should remember, as a thous- and toone. Think what a great waste basket your head would be if you re- membered everything that had hap- pened to you or that, you had said or the rest of the world had said to you! I know a man with a phenomenal mem- ory—so phenomenal that he can dupii- cate a two hours’ conversation carried on at Elijah Wyman’s general store at Pocassett Corners, Me., forty-three years ago the seventeenth day of last Feb- ruary. Worse than that, he remembers the family history, in its divers ramifi- cations, of the seven men who did the conversing. And, worse, of all, he in- sists on telling the whole thing to me just as am rushing in copy for the last form at 5 p. m. of publication day. When I have shaken off my good friend of the good memory, and have time to stop to breathe and pray, | say: “‘Lord, I thank Thee that I can’t re- member some things that are past.’’ There are two good things to forget, namely: The great things you have done and the mean things others have done to you. The man who often sits down to run up the list of smart things he has said or the good deeds he has done or the great bargains he has driven will tire the rest of the world and_ lose time he might well employ adding to the sum of his greatness. The man who remembers his_ misfor- tunes, to keep an accurate account of them, comes to be one of the most dis- agreeable snags on the earth's surface. Better a man who praises himself than one who pities himself. Neither one is worth counting in the census. Suppose Abraham Lincoln had squat- ted around on a soapbox in the Spring- field grocery and whined about going barefoot winters, when a boy ; about the short meals of corn bread and bacon, the leaky log cabin and the general poverty of his youth, do you suppose the Lord Almighty and the American people would have called on him to Save the country? Not much! People who save countries are not absorbed in saving their own bacon, nor in whining over their spoiled bacon. They are so busy saving other folks that they forget all the forgetworthy things that are past. They throw them off as the life- Saving crew throw off their overcoats, and ‘‘press forward.’’ I knew a woman once, a farmer’s wife, who had about as good reason for pitying herself as had any woman with nine children, on a four-hundred acre farm ten miles from town. But I know from personal observation that when any neighbor or her baby took sick in the middle of the night, or at any other hour, there was a shout to Reuben to hitch up and drive for Aunt Sarah—this farmer's wife. Why should a_ whole neighborhood’s thoughts fly to Aunt Sarah in an emergency? Because she was wont to harp on her hardships and pity herself? No, indeed! If she hadn't pitied other people more than herself, she wouldn’t have died for other people eight years ago. She would have lived to a green old age like the people who Spare themselves for the love and pity of themselves. If somebody in this world hadn’t for- gotten things, even unto themselves, you and I wouldn’t have such a soft, easy snap of life as we are now having. —Deacon in Furniture Journal. —__+>2.____ Use of Cold Water in Cooking Corn. From the New York Sun. Green corn is one of the luxuries now in market. As a general thing it is cooked atrociously. For years, Ameri- can housekeepers have been cooking corn after the recipes to be found in the standard cook books, which invariably direct that the ears be dropped into boiling water and cooked for a time, varying according to the different authorities. According to people who have tried the method of an old Indian guide named Krum, corn should be cooked in cold water. Krum some years ago opened a mountain resort near Saratoga, and his way of cooking corn is espe- cially famous. One evening, two or three summers ago, a party of guests from the big hotels of the Springs journeyed to Krum’s for supper. Every one knew of Krum’s delicious corn, but people thought there was some virtue in the mountain corn itself and did not know the secret lay in the cooking. This night he served a dish of wonderful trout from that day’s fishing basket, as a course to follow cold cantaloupe. Then came broiled chickens small as pigeons, with great tomatoes, sliced, and then, in a large dish alone, with butter, pep- per and salt as its sauce, the fameus corn. It came on wrapped in its still smoking husks. Then one very beaatiful woman of the party announced that she would demand the secret of the Indian. She was told that he would probably snub her for her pains, but she persevered, and finally Krum stolidly led the way to his great charcoal range in the kitchen, with its refrigerator built in most modern perfec- tion outside the open doorway. He explained ina most picturesque cooking lecture that corn could not be cooked haphazard. It had to be timed as closely as an egg in boiling; it must never vary, and a minute too much or too little spoiled it forthe table. Krum's method he illustrated to his impromptu class. He selected four good ears of small, closely set and irregularly striped grains. Then turning back the outer husks he removed the silk adhering to each ear and assured himself that each was perfect. He removed the outer husks and carefully folded a good layer of the inner ones about the ear, fasten- ing them in a sort of twist at the top. These he placed side by side ina large pot and covered them over with additional husks, then with cold water in plenty. He placed the pot and its contents over a quick fire, watched it faithfully until the water bubbled and then timed it exactly four minutes. Then the corn was taken up, drained and was ready for service. This method is simple enough to try in any kitchen, but it is difficult to reconcile most housekeepers to the cold water and the lack of salt, which is not added until the vegetable is eaten. But once tried, the directions faithfully fol- lowed, and it will never be prepared in the old way. Most of the mountain guides cook corn in this way and some old Southern cooks know the virtues of cold water cooking. We Are Advertised by Our Loving Friends HAMILTON CLOTHING CO, ° TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan Brick & Tile Machine COey Morenci, Mich., ‘Gent lemen—Regarding the Gas Plant you installed in my store building last January, I will say that we are getting very excellent MICH. June 18,1901, results from it, and have no cause to regret the purchase whatever, We have about 65 lights in our building, ‘running on an average, say 45. We are lighting our rooms with mich less expense than we could by electricity; besides having a very much larger volume of light. The machine I put in my house in February Reets every requirement so far, for cooking, grates as well as lighting. I have been well satisfied with both plants. Dic. Yours truly, funtMetic 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. The long continuance of extreme heat in a large part of the egg producing territory and the enormous waste in cur- rent production is a factor favorable to the prospect of spring storage accumu- lations that must now be recognized as sufficient in extent to encourage a more hopeful view of the future. The posi- tion of high cost early accumulations has not yet been sufficiently fortified to make it safe, but every week that pres- ent conditions continue will make it better. Prior to last week it is prob- able that for every case of fine eggs taken out of storage another of less de- sirable stock was put away. But the use of the good stored eggs in current consumptive channels has lately ex- tended considerably and our local stor- age houses are now putting out more eggs than they are taking in. This is of course a favorable feature so far as it goes, but the reduction will have to continue for a considerable period in order to reduce accumulations to a safe point by the opening of the fall season. * * * The waste in current production is very great. On uncandled eggs arriving here from general Western points it is common to find a shrinkage of 8@10 dozen to the case and there are many instances where still greater losses are sustained. The waste may be and probably is in- creased during transit, but it is evident that it is almost equally serious at points of collection in the interior. In proof of this may be mentioned the small pro- portion of first quality eggs obtained by shippers who candle their goods closely before packing. The receipts of West- ern candled eggs lately arriving have very rarely shown more than 50 per cent. No. 1 grade and when the propor- tion has been as great as this the stock has usually contained so many heated eggs that top prices could not be ob- tained for them. A recent invoice from a shipper who candles closely contained only 163 cases of No. 1 eggs, with 268 cases of No. 2, and even with so close an assortment the high grade was not salable for as much as buyers have paid for the finest refrigerator goods. 2 + 2 In a market such as we have recently experienced very little dependence can be placed upon egg quotations unless one has a very close idea of the quality of the goods in question. There is no regularity whatever in the quality of eggs arriving from different shippers in the same section, and even in a single shipment the losses range widely from one case to another, so that it is diffi- cult to get at a fair average by examin- ing a sample of the usual size. On eggs candled before shipment and packed in Northerly sections case count values have shown a range of fully 2c per dozen and on uncandled stock, even taking the better qualities from which regular buyers could get enough decent eggs to warrant them in taking out, the range has been fully 3c or more. Goods which have shown so much heat and loss as to throw them out of a good class of trade have had to go at the best offer obtainable—generally about 8@I1oc per dozen, with some lots of very poor qual- ity offering down to $1.50@2.10 per case.—N. Y. Produce Review. 0 Cheese Weighing Eleven Hundred Pounds. From the Buffalo Commercial. The largest cheese in the world was placed on exhibition in the dairy build- ing at the Exposition this morning. It occupies a proud position in the center of a magnificent collection of cheese, representative of all parts of New York State, Canada, Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan. This big cheese weighs 1,100 pounds. It is three feet in diameter and 26 inches in height. A better idea of its size can be gained when it is said that it is almost as big around as the boiler on the average locomotive. The cheese was made under what is known as the English Cheddar process, and while the texture is silky the cheese is as firm as butter. It is the product of 11,000 pounds, or 5,500 quarts of milk. When it is understood that the ordinary farmer’s cow gives an average yield of 5,000 pounds of milk a year, it will be seen that it would take an or- dinary cow two years and over to pro- duce sufficient milk to make a counter- part of the cheese now on exhibition. The cheese has been placed at the Exposition by W. C. Dunham, of Cuba, N. Y. It was made by Otto & Co., Cat- taraugus county, and will remain at the fair during the entire season. The cheese is large enough to give every man, woman and child employed at the Pan-American Exposition a piece weighing an ounce anda half. Supt. Hall is spending his time figuring how many cheese sandwiches it would make. ———__—_. 2. Four Crops of Potatoes in One Year. The possibilities of Hawaii as a fruit and vegetable growing country will be understood when it becomes known that four crops of potatoes have been pro- duced in succession on the same piece of land within twelve months. Radishes become edible ten days after sowing. Strawberry vines bear fruit all the year. The berries are of the finest flavor. Cabbage grows all the year and it ap- parently makes no difference whether it is planted in the spring, summer, autumn or winter. Parsley once sown grows forever, apparently. Lima beans continue to grow and bear for over a year, and they have to be gath- ered every week after starting to bear. Cucumbers bear the entire year, and so do tomatoes, which, with proper atten- tion, bear for years. Raspberries bear for six months. Pineapples come into bearing when the plants are four months old and bear in abundance for years. Lettuce can be planted at any time, and it develops quickly. The same is true of celery. ——_>_0._____ His Idea of a Sinecure. ‘*Well, my boy, and what are you go- ing to do now?”’ ‘*Well, dad, I don’t know. What I want is one of those fancy jobs where you do the least possible work for the very largest possible fee.’’ ‘Guess you are cut out for a corpora- tion lawyer, my boy.’’ ‘*No, dad, I was thinking of being a medical specialist.’’ Take care of the pennies and the dol- lars will be blown in by your heirs. Geo. H.: Reifsnider & Co. Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs, Cheese 321 Greenwich Street, New York References: Irving National Bank of New York and Michigan Tradesman. ALL GROCERS Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market will give them RED STAR BRAND Cider Vinegar. These goods stand for PURITY and are the best un the market. We give a Guarantee Bond to every customer. Your order solicited. THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. NEW SOUTHERN POTATOES NEW SOUTHERN ONIONS FIELD SEEDS LEMONS MOSELEY BROS. Jobbers of Fruits, Seeds, Beans and Potatoes 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigan Geo. N. Huff & Co. Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Pigeons, Squabs, Poultry and Game Guaranteed highest markets on all shipments. Send for quotations. 55 Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan Wanted at all times. : : : : : 3 GEORGIA ELBERTA PEACHES WATERMELONS GEM MELONS ° © ®@ @ ; Watermelons received daily. Have car Peaches and 3 ca: Gems due Wednesday. Send us your orders. 3 THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, 14-16 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OO POLO DFSOOOOSOOS 09020060 0660000000000000O OOOH 000 SOOO9OSS 60000660 pe De MGHA LE eae - Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. 98 South Division Street Grand Rapids, Michigan We are making a specialty at present on fancy Messina Lemons Stock is fine, in sound condition and good keepers. wire for quotations. E. E. HEWITT, Successor to C. N. Rapp & Co. Price very low. Write or 9 North Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. MILLETS, | BUCKWHEAT, S E = D> S DWARF ESSEX TURNIP SEED. Prices as low as any house in the trade consistent with quality. Orders filled promptly. SEASONABLE | FODDER CORN, | ROPE, ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., S224 Growers and Merchants, F. J. SCHAFFER & CO. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, CALVES, ETC. LEADING PRODUCE HOUSE ON EASTERN MARKET BUY AND SELL We'll keep you posted. a card. Just drop us DETROIT, MICH. BRANCH AT IONIA, MICH. {] “4 ) ‘ 7. aut ’ r a W 7 arena cal — ee TS \ rs eee “is KS be “4 a mes wai \ r T W a 4 we — 4 > ' t ' {] eH & MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, July 27—July goes out without much regret. It has been a hor- rible month, so far as personal comfort goes, and a good deal of it has been detrimental to trade. Friday came a grateful change, with much cooler weather and rain. The trade from now on will take a new lease of life and the fall season open with vim and vigor. The recent action of the wool trust in cutting the prices of manufactured goods has been the chief topic in the dry goods district and there is going to be fun ahead in the woolen industry of the country. Coffee is said to be ‘‘firmer.’’ This, we are told, is by reason of less pressure from Brazil to sell; but nobody is alarmed. In store and afloat the amount of coffee aggregates 1,193,291 bags, against 656,235 bags at the same time last year—almost double. Receipts Thursday at Rio and Santos aggregated 66,000 bags. With these figures in sight it will be seen there is precious little excuse for claiming a firmer market. Both jobbers and roasters say that the trade is purchasing in a very conserva- tive manner. Rio No. 7 closes at 5 58c. West India coffees seem to show a little more strength and the quotations are slightly higher. East Indias are neg- lected. The volume of sugar business is of an average character only. New _ busi- ness is of a hand-to-mouth character and dealers show little if any desire to buy ahead of current needs. The sugar question is one of a good deal of inter- est and if Mr. Havemyer’s hope of “‘three cent sugar’’ is realized it will mark an epoch. Little interest seems to be shown in the new crop of teas and the volume of actual business is limited. New crop Formosas are from 12%c up, but some lots are %c lower. New Japans, 17c up. Congous to arrive, 9c up, and spot, I2c up. Every indication is favorable for the seller of rice. Stocks are not large and there is a very respectable demand. Quotations are strongly adhered to and both foreign and domestic seem to be good property to deal in. Choice to head, Southern, 554@6%c; Japan, 434 @5c. The spice trade shows some improve- ment and pepper especially is well held, although not advanced, Singapore black selling at 12%4c. Amboyna cloves, 11%4 @i2c, Molasses stocks are light and no one is disposed to make them heavier. The hot spell has been entirely too much for this article and hardly anything kas been done. Good to prime, 17@3oc for round lots. Every day sees additional strength given to the canned goods market and sales are going forward at a lively rate. Last Tuesday a jam manufacturer came over from Boston and, on the strength of a probable advance in or owing to a short corn crop and a consequent advance in his jams, he took home at night $6,oco worth of orders—a fair day’s work, showing that if hot winds do blow in Iowa it is an ill wind, indeed, that blows nobody any good. Corn, tomatoes, peas, apples—everything, in fact—is strong. The apple crop in New York will not be over a quarter crop. There is certain to be a very short pack of peas and, in fact, the situation seems to warrant the retailer in taking on pretty good supplies of canned goods generally. : Lemons have lost some of their glory, as we are having cooler days and prices are lower. The demand is still good, however, and stocks are not overabun- dant, Sicily fruit ranging from §$4.50@ 6.25 per box. Trade is fair in oranges, with California selling from $4@6 per box. Bananas are quiet and unchanged. Aspinwalls, per bunch, 1.$10; extra Lo- mons, $1.65. Strength is being added to the dried fruit market daily although, as yet, this is evidenced only by a stronger feeling. Prices are not perceptibly higher, but several articles tend that way, especial- ly currants, which are worth gc for uncleaned in barrels, and toc for cleaned. After weeks and weeks at 19%c for best Western creamery the butter market has advanced Ic and the market is very firm. Arrivals are only moderate and desirable stock is snapped up at once. Further advances may occur, but above a certain point there will be less de- mand. Western imitation creamery, 152@17c; Western factory, 14%@15¢. A better feeling prevails in cheese and, as the quality improves, the tend- ency to advance quotations becomes more apparent. Best State stock is worth, for colored, 9c. Stocks of eggs are pretty well cleaned up and desirable Western goods will fetch 17c, with refrigerator stock 16@16%c. ———> +. __ How the Peach Crop Looks Through East- ern Eyes. From the New York Sun. This will be a banner year for peaches. The crop throughout the whole country is estimated to be about 75,000, 000 hush- els, and rather over than under that amount. The prolonged drought in some parts of the country has affected it somewhat, but not to any great extent and the hot weather of July has helped to atone for the backward summer in developing the fruit. Finer peaches and a larger quantity of them to the acre are being produced every year, due not only to careful till- age and cultivation, but also to a ruth- less thinning of the fruit when it first appears on the trees. The old-fashioned peach grower would have thought it sheer lunacy to cut off three-fourths of the peaches just as they were begin- ning to develop. Yet it is by just that method that more bushels of peaches are now being produced from the trees than they would bear if they were not interfered with and the fruit is im- proved and brings a higher price. Another important point about thin- ning out the fruit is that as a_ result of the operation only one-fourth of the usual number of peach stones is pro- duced and as the development of these is the greatest drain upon the vitality of the trees a profitable economy is effected and regularity of yield from season to season is promoted. The peach came from China original- ly and reached Europe by way of Per- sia, and America by way of England and Holland. The peach season now has been greatly lengthened by the ship- ment to our markets in refrigerator cars, sent at express speed, of Southern and California peaches. Immense tracts in Georgia are now solely occupied by peach orchards, a single one of which will pack and ship more than 3,000 peaches a day in July, which is the height of the peach season down there. : It is not necessary any longer, in these days of refrigerator cars, to pick the fruit before it has come to its full maturity and trust to its ripening on the way to market after it is packed. The peaches are allowed to ripen on the trees and are picked so far as possible just before they begin to soften. The pickers are trained to know the right stage ata glance. Every peach, as everybody knows, has its sunny and its shady side. It is by the hue of the shady side that the degree of ripeness is yudged. To ensure allfof the peaches getting the benefit of the sun the otchard is divided by straight avenues into rectangular blocks. After the peaches are picked they are sorted into three grades, according to quality. of the three grades all peaches over-ripe for shipment are put aside for the evap- orator and the grower makes his profit on them dried. Scientific gardeners are trying to in- troduce into this country some of the each-growing methods of France and ngland, which produce. wonderful peaches, although few. Over there peach trees are usually trained flat against a wall with a southern exposure or on a trellis a foot or so away from such a wall, and only a few branches of each tree are allowed to grow. Then most of the peaches on these as soon as the fruit develops from the flow- er are cut off, only a dozen or two, some- times a score at most, being allowed to develop. Such a peach tree as this does not look much like a tree. But the few peaches that are allowed to mature on It are marvels of beauty and juiciness and half a dozen of them in a cotton- lined basket cost from $3 to $8 in the markets, Economy is a good thing, but it is poor policy to set a hen on one egg, to Save eggs. This is expert work. Outside |* Established 1876 oo Charles Richardson Commission Merchant Wholesale Fruits Carlots a Specialty 58-60 W. Market St. and 121-123 Michigan St. Buffalo, N. Y. References—City National Bank, Manfrs. & Traders Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. 1+ A ft A ‘ * 1 " oe . @ ee ‘ f 4 < t —" ing Y , y) = - — —@ RO t * r V o : ‘ol yo iU 2 i y i < MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, Gxo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids; Sec- retary, A. W. Srirt, Jackson; easurer, JOHN W. Scuram, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale; Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. Senior Counselor, W R. COMPTON; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. Boyp PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Second Picnic of Grand Rapids Council. Isn’t there anything going? We are out just for fun— Grand Rapids Council, One Hundred thirty-one. At North Park Saturday, Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T., held the second picnic for the members, their families and friends. A crowd of about 125 went out in the after- noon and all, both grown people and children, had a thoroughly good time. In the three-legged race the following teams entered: Simmons and Rysdale; Goodwin and Ballard; Kolb and Ten- hopen. At the start Goodwin and Bal- lard took a tumble and were unable to regain their feet in time to do anything more in the race, leaving the finish be- tween Simmons and Rysdale and Kolb and Tenhopen. The former proved easy winners, receiving as a prize a barrel of crackers. The latter team was resented with a can of coffee. In the at men’s race, Reynolds, Pierce, Snits- eler and Miller entered for the honors, the first and second prizes—a barrel of pork—being awarded to Reynolds and Pierce. The next event was the lean men’s race and the following ‘‘shanks’’ lined up for the starting word: Sim- mons, Kolb, Rysdale, Spurrier, Korten- hof and Tenhopen. Rysdale proved the tleetest of foot and was awarded as first prize, a barrel of molasses. Sim- mons, being the next swiftest man, re- ceived a case of baby shoes. Sam wants to borrow a baby now and any person having one to loan, please send him word. The next interesting event was the ladies race—Mesdames Emery, Keyes, Compton, Dodwell, Tenhopen, Simmons and Misses Hattie Keyes and Walker. From the start Mrs. Emery took the lead and won the race, followed closely by Miss Walker. The first prize was a barrel of gum drops and the second prize a can of assafoetida. It was the opinion of those present that Mrs. Emery became proficient in the art of running from watching John make home runs in baseball games. Mrs. Compton started in well but,to use her own words, her ‘‘wind gave out.’’ The smoking contest.was a very amusing one to Doc. Goodwin, especially, as for fully half an hour after the game was over, he laid on the grass experiencing all the peculiar sensations produced by the first cigar, and every few minutes would exciaim, ‘*Oh, what a headache !’’—and he only received second prize—one can of smok- ng tobacco. When you see him smoking a pipe you will know the reason. Bal- lard won first prize—one box of cigars. The six to enter were seated in a row and each lighted his cigar at the same time, the cigars being the very finest that could be procured by the Com- mittee. Each cigar was marked and the one reaching the mark first was de- clared the winner. There was smoke enough from those six cigars to drive mosquitoes from a trout stream. A five-inning game of ball was played by two teams—Slippery Eels and Raw Onions. The former was captained by the great, only and original Franklin Pierce. They slipped through so many good chances of doing things that they proved that the sobriquet was aptly given, although the star play of the game was done when Brother Pierce, on Ist, unaided, made the double play of putting out two men, catching one man out and getting back to his base and putting out the other man. Charlie Reynolds was captain of the R. O.s, a July 27, term denoting great strength. Roy Baker was one of this team and was very happy to be for once on the win- ning side. The following is the score: Innings.......... E28 4:56 78 9 Raw Onions....... 0078x Slippery Eels...... 3032 86 Very many amusing things occurred during the games, which were entered into with much zest. At 6:30 supper was served in the dining room and a great abundance of good things was _ on hand, served under the supervision of the manager of the pavilion. After sup- per dancing in the upper hall was in- dulged in by many and the day and evening came to a close with many wishes from all sides that another picnic will be given next month. The judges for the different contests were W. R. Compton, B. J. Launier and W. B. Holden. The Committee having the prizes in charge was composed of D. M. Bodwell, H. E. Skillman and F. J. Davenport, and their efforts were fully up to high-standard mark. Thanks were extended to the following firms for con- tributions: Studley & Barclay, B. J. Reynolds, Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Worden Grocer Co., Musselman Grocer Co., Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Putnam Candy Co., Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Sears’ Bakery, A. Casabianaca, Vinke- mulder Co. and Maynard & Reed. Ja Dee. a gee Real or Imaginary New Wholesale Gro- cery House. — The newspapers of Northern Michi- gan are publishing the following item, with variations Charley Brooks, the grocery traveling man so well known in Cadillac, has de- cided to quit the road and go into the wholesale grocery business for himself. He thinks of locating in Cadillac, but has been offered inducements to go to Traverse City, and may eventually go there. The Tradesman has made diligent effort to ascertain the exact facts in re- gard to the projected wholesale grocery house, without result, as yet. Mr. Brooks, who is making Traverse City his headquarters for the summer, has been appealed to for information, but is as mum as an oyster. From outside sources, the Tradesman learns that Mr. Brooks claims to have secured the co- operation of two gentlemen who will contribute $75,000 to the capital stock of the proposed undertaking and that he will furnish $25,000 himself, so that the institution will start out with a paid-up capital stock of $100,000, The Trades- man regrets that it is not in a position to verify these reports or contradict them on the authority of Mr. Brooks. ——__2sto___ When Father Rode the Goat. The house is full of arnica And mystery profound; We do not dare to run about Or make the slightest sound; We leave the big piano shut And do not strike a note: The doctor’s been here seven times ince father rode the goat. He joined the lodge a week ago— Got in at 4a. m. And sixteen brethren brought him home, Though he says he brought them. His wrist was sprained, and one big rip Had rent his Sunday coat— There must have been a lively time When father rode the goat. He’s resting on the couch to-day And practicing his signs— The hailing signal, working grip, And other monkeyshines; He mutters passwords ‘neath his breath, And other things he’ll quote— They surely had an evening’s work When father rode the goat. He had a gorgeous uniform, All gold and red and b'ue, A hat with plumes and yellow braid, And golden badges, too, But, somehow, when we mention it, He wears a look so grim We wonder if he rode the goat Or if the goat rode him. >. ___ The most superstitious, as well as the greatest thinkers of the present century, admit that hens lay cass because they can’t stand them on end. PREMIUM SOAPS. Why Grocers Should Refuse to Handle Them. Which is the bigger fool, the retailer who sells his own goods without a cent of profit, or the one who distributes manufacturer’s premiums without a cent of profit? The conduct of a soap department in the retail store is a hard proposition. At present there are many entangling alliances attached to the soap depart- ment. A considerable number of soap manufacturers have conceived the idea that they must engage in the general merchandise business to sell their prod- uct. In other words, soap manufacturers are far deeper than almost any other manufacturers in the premium mire and most of them are offering books, magazines, crockery and anything else to those who will purchase their soap. This does not apply to all soap manu- facturers, but it does apply to a few that ought to know better. The retail grocer is justified in refus- ing to handle any soap or any other line in which there is a premium attached. It is common sense to suppose that the manufacturer of soaps who offers premius, in addition to selling his soap must do one of several things. He is obliged to pay for his premiums, conse- quently he must either deprive the re- tai: dealer of a portion of the legi- timate profit which belongs to him to cover the additional cost of these prem- iums; if he does not do this he must make an inferior quality of soap ora lightweight bar, and sell it at the same price as the good quality of soap, to covet the increase cost of the premium; or he must sell the soap at a higher price than soap of the same quality without premiums attached can be bought for. In most instances, it will be found that the soap premium manufacturer takes the cost of the premium out of the retailer, charging him more for the soap on the ground that the premium will sell it more readily. And every re- tailer who knows much about business is aware that it is about as difficult to sell soap with a premium attached, other things. being equal, as it is to sell Straight soap without premiums. Re- tailers will undoubtedly find it to their advantage to carefully study the pur- chase price of soap and_ ascertain whether or not they are paying for the premiums offered by the manufacturer through lessened profits. The cost of soap involves consider- able mathematical calculation. Manu- facturers have a_ habit of occasionally charging more for the soap and then offering one box free with a certain quantity. No matter what kind ofa “‘deal’’ is sprung upon the retailer he should figure out to a certainty just what a bar of soap will cost him and how much he is going to get for it. This is the only way he can arrive at any clear idea of his profit. Aside from the fact that the retail dealer often pays for premiums offered with soap, if he has a strict regard for the rights of others he should refuse to handle premium soap on general prin- ciples. Premium soap usually does the retailer an injustice by preventing him from selling other goods in stock, or by preventing his neighbor from making a sale of goods he carries in stock. There is no reason why the retailer should cut into the profits of his crockery depart- ment or the crockery department of his neighbor by distributing crockery soap premiums free of expense; there is no reason why he should cut into the profit of the bookseller by distributing yearly subscriptions to magazines, with soap, free of charge. The distribution of these premiums usually entails extra work upon the retailer, the display of them takes up room in his windows which could be more profitably used for goods which he was selling and making a profit on, and there is no very great reason why the retailer should indulge in these things. The best way to conduct the soap de- partment is to sell only those brands on which there isa profit. Cheap, snide soaps, sold at cut prices should not have any place in the stock of the intelli- gent, ambitious grocer. Premium goods do not sell themselves any quicker than goods on which there is a fair margin of profit, and which are sold because they are soap, and not because they are an imitation of it, and something must be given away to sell them. —Commer- cial Bulletin. ——_»-0 + Gripsack Brigade. D. D. Mitchell has retired as land- lord of Hotel Drew, at Otsego, and Mr. and Mrs. Ole Summer have rented the hotel and taken possession. Will Drew has been installed as clerk. John W. Schram, for the past ten years Eastern Michigan representative for the C. E. Smith Shoe Co., has signed a contract with the Western Shoe Co., of Toledo, to cover Detroit, Bay City, Saginaw and all intermediate towns. Mr. Schram is a salesman of discretion and experience and believes that the change he has made will be to the mutual advantage of himself and customers. George B. Caldwell, until recently Assistant Cashier of the Merchants’ National Bank, of Indianapolis, has ac- cepted a position as traveling represen- tative of the banking and bond _broker- age house of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Boston. Rollins & Sons have branch houses in Denver and San Francisco and a new house will be opened in Chi- cago January next, of which Mr. Cald- well will be placed in charge. Until then he will reside in Indianapolis. Mr. Caldwell will travel through /the States of Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Min- nesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and lowa. ——_>22.___ The only thing a man wants after he gets all the money he needs is more. Reserved for the Boys In view of the congested condi- tion of the Petoskey hotels = the summer season, I have adde thirty-five rooms to the Imperial Hotel which I have set apart for the use of the commercial trade at $2 er day, although my _ regular ransient rate is $2.50 to $4. I be- lieve this arrangement will meet the = and hearty patron- age of the boys. W. E. H. MARSH, Petoskey, Mich. Proprietor Imperial Hotel. The Warwick Strictly first class. Rates $2 per day. Central location. Trade of visiting merchants and travel- ing men solicited. A. B. GARDNER, Manager. Whiskey, Morphine and Tobacco Habits Positively Cured Full particulars and prices for the asking. Patterson Home Sanitarium, 316 E. Bridge St, Phone 1291 Grand Rapids, Mich, 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 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- - - Dee. 31, 1903 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904 JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905 Secretary, HENRY Her, aw. Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit. Examination Sessions. 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. ScHmIpT, Grand Rapids. Formula for Label Paste for Tin. Try_one of the following ; L Rye flour, 8 ozs. P. acacia, I oz. Glycerine, 2 ozs. Oil cloves, 40 dps. Water, gq. s. Rub rye flour and acacia to a smooth paste with 8 ozs. water. Strain through cheese cloth and pour into one pint of boiling water and continue to heat until thick as desired. When nearly cold add glycerin and oil of cloves. The addi- tion of acetic acid 1 oz., powd. alum 2 drs., may improve it HH. Dextrin, 20 parts. Acetic acid, Io parts. Water, 50 parts. Glycerin, 5 parts. Alcohol, 15 parts. Ill. Elastic Mucilage. Glycerin, 4% parts. Soft soap, 4% parts. Dissolve 1% parts salicylic acid im 30 parts alcohol. Shake thoroughly and add to a mucilage made of 139% parts acacia and about 270 parts water. Re- mains elastic when dry, does not have a tendency to crack. IV. Make a paste by dissolving rye flour in a solution of caustic soda, dilute with water stirring all the time. Add to this paste a few drops Venice turpentine for each half pound of flour. An important quality ina paste in- tended to affix paper to metal is that of not becoming absolutely dry. It should contain glycerin or some other hydro- scopic substance. As the surface of tin is always greasy the paste should con- tain some substance which will sapon- ify or cut the grease, or else sponge with dilute hydrochloric acid before attaching the label. Joseph Lingley. Odd and Humorous Enquiries Received by a Druggist. In the drug business many curious orders are received, sometimes through thoughtlessness, often however, due to lack of knowledge on the part of the customer. The writer kept a record for several years, among them were the following : 1 oz. of Oil of Bitter Almonds free from Hydriodic Acid. ¥% |b. of Odorous Iodoform. ¥ |b. of Carbon Di-oxide. 1 oz. Naphtalene for international use. 1 oz. Iron by Santonin. 1 oz. Colossal Caffeine. ¥ |b. Fluid Extract Hemorrhoids. 3¢ lb. Fluid Extract Castoria. 1 oz. Turpentine Hydrate. ¥ oz. Discoverine ‘‘ Keith.’’ 4 ozs. Red Oxide of Hydrogen. |b. Menthol from Toluol. 1 lb. Palapatable Boracic Acid. % oz. Phenol-Scullion. I oz. Crystal Oxide of Hydrogen (we suggested the ice man). 1 oz. Dislocated Thyroids. 1 oz. Calcutta Iodide. 1 oz. Banjo Ergotine. 1 gallon Asphaltum Vermifuge. 1 dozen Morphia Suppositories, sugar coated. 1 box Tanglefood Fly Paper. 1-6 dozen Jayne's Alternative. Glacial Acetic Acid in thin sticks. I oz. Formy! Tri-Chloride was asked for by a man who buys 3 Ibs. of chloro- form at a time. Methazine and Phenazone the syn- onyms of Antipyrin, are often used by physicans, that the patients may not know what remedy is being used. Then there are enquiries caused by the Pirates and Vultures in medicine—‘'‘the phil- anthropic retired missionary or the sea captain just returned from a voyage, will send any one absolutely free, a val- uable secret in medical treatment for peculiar ailments.’’ They certainly do that and more, for’ with the formula is supplied the infor- mation that the remedies being new, may not be found at the nearby drug store, therefore, the aforesaid philan- thropic, etc., etc., will send enough of the remedy for three months’ treatment for one dollar. This class of people cause numerous enquires for articles not to be found in any Pharmacopoeia or in fact anywhere on the face of the earth or the waters beneath. There are coined words or familiar names with’ additions to them, fake medical terms, as follows: Extract of Asiatic Cannabis Sativa. Extract of Halish Sativa. _ Extract of Verbena Hastata, etc., etc. Hexanitrate of Manitol. Tri-Bromide of Salol. The remedies actually supplied are very ordinary articles, that if truthfully named, could be bought for a small frac- tional part of the money expended G. R. Pancoast, M. D. >. ___ Nineteenth Annual Meeting of Michigan Druggists. Detroit, July 29—The nineteenth an- nual meeting of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association will be held in this city Aug. 13 and 14. Every druggist of the State is cordially invited to attend this meeting. Detroit affords an endless number of attractions at this season of the year. Every one likes to come to Detroit occasionally. Why not arrange to come when you can combine something of interest to your business with pleasure? A number of papers on subjects of general interest will be read. The sessions afford good opportunity for discussing both the commercial and scientific phases of your business. The Detroit druggists have arranged for a moonlight excursion on the even- ing of August 13 for the members and visiting friends. Everything that goes to make up a good time will be on board. Maybe you have not been inter- ested nor attended one of the annual meetings for years; if net, begin now. The Association is yours, you should be on and identified with its wel- are, Programme and detailed information will be mailed on application. James W. Seeley, Sec’y. —_+>0.___ How Mosquitoes Can Be Prevented. Prof. L. O. Howard, of the Govern- ment entomological division, recom- mends the use of crude kerosene oil on ponds or pools where the mosquitoes breed. A very little oil would go a long way, and the experiment wherever tried had proved successful in destroy- ing all aquatic larvae, including those of the mosquito. The kerosene seemed to exercise no deterrent effect upon the adult female mosquitoes, They still continued to attempt to deposit eggs, but in this attempt were defeated. One gallon of crude kerosene oil will, it is said, amply protect a pond of 100 feet Square for ten days, under ordinary conditions. Martin Neuss, The Drug Market. Opium—Is unchanged. Primary mar- ets are quiet, with downward tendency. Morphine—Is firm at the reduction of Ioc made by manufacturers last week, which makes a decline of 20c in mor- phine, which is not warranted by the price of opium, but is entirely due to competition among manufacturers, Quinine—Notwithstanding the lower price for bark at the recent auction in Amsterdam, manufacturers have not re- duced their price and the article is very steady. Alcohol—On account of higher price for corn, has advanced 4c per gallon and is very firm. Sulphuric Ether and Spirit Nitre— Have both advanced, on account of higher price for alcohol. Menthol—Is_ scarce and in active de- .mand. This has caused an advance of 15c per Ib. Balsam Peru—Is in small supply and has advanced 5c per Ib. Tonka Beans—Stocks are small holders have advanced the price. Oil Peppermint—Is -very firm and tending higher, on account of antici- pated small crops. Golden Seal Root—Stocks are low and higher prices are asked by holders. Colchicum Seed—Is in better supply and has declined. Linseed Oil—Continues firm. Prices are high and they are warranted by the high price for seed. ———_>-2>—___ Idiosyncrasy to Quinine. Dr. H. A. Hare reports a case of ex- traordinary idiosycrasy to quinine in the case of a man fifty-three years old. Pills containing about one-sixtieth of a grain of arsenious acid and two grains of qui- nine were given three times a day as a tonic.’ Within twelve hours after taking the first pill he developed an erythemat- ous rash all over his body, with intense itching and puffiness of the skin about the face. At the end of five days with the subsidence of the acute injection of the skin marked desquamation took place all over his body with the same freedom as is frequently seen in severe scarlet fever. No sooner had the symptoms appeared than the patient asked if he were re- ceiving quinine, and said that it always affected him the same way even in the smallest doses. On one occasion he took a calisaya cocktail before starting on a journey, and even this small quan- tity affected him so that he had to aban- don his trip fora time. His daughter, a woman of twenty, was affected in the same way. and Bacteria our Friends. | A bacteria-infested age may breathe freely again. French investigators have put guinea pigs through a thorough course of sterilization with fatal results, and the inference is that an unsterilized world somehow has in it elements of vitality which can not be put away with impunity. M. M. Charpin and Guil- lemonat have reported their experiments to the Academie des Sciences of Paris. They took twenty-seven guinea pigs, put them in disinfected cages, fed them with sterilized food and allowed them to breathe only sterilized air, and nine- teen of the twenty-seven died. Of twenty-nine other guinea pigs, treated as nearly as possible like the others save that no attempt at sterilization was made, only ten died. The first lot also lost much more weight than the second. The experiments seem to show that the vitality of an organism and its power of resisting disease are dimin- ished when its surroundings, the air it breathes and its food are sterilized. a A Useful Point. With the view of facilitating the work of the prescription counter most phar- macists keep a line of ready-made solu- tions of salts and alkaloids of definite strength. Many of these, notably potas- sium iodide, have a tendency to de- posit a crystalline growth around the lip and stopper of the bottle, and the ra- pidity of the growth increases with the outpouring of the liquid from increased capillary attractive surface. This diffi- culty can in a great measure be pre- vented by coating the lip and adjoining part of stopper with a thin film of para- ffin. This is easily done by warming the top of the bottle and stopper (which should be dry and clean) sufficiently to fuse a thin film from a piece of paraffin rubbed around the parts to be protected. Solutions poured from bottles so treated leave little or no drip behind, and the unsightly and wasteful creeping growth is thus prevented. Alex. K. Finlay. ————>2 A boil in the pot is worth two on the neck. Window Shade Headquarters Send us your orders. Large stock on hand. Special sized shades our spec- falty. Orders filled same day received. Write for Price List and Samples. Heystek & Canfield Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. & 99:93333333333333339399 Fred Brundage ; Wholesale Druggist : 32 and 34 Western Avenue Muskegon, Mich. School Supplies and Stationery Complete lines now ready. Wait for our ; travelers. You will not be disappointed. €CECEEEEE “Charity Covers a Multitude of Sins” So does ‘‘Catarrh.” The time has gone by when “‘Catarrh” is passed by by physicians with a joking remark and a suggestion to use salt and water. Up-to-date physicians realize the complications that follow and prescribe ac- cordingly. If they are not prepared to treat the case themselves—and few of them are—they recommend a specialist. We gave you the symp- toms of Nasal Catarrh; now append the most common symptoms of Catarrh of the Bronchial Tubes. Have you a cough? Are you losing flesh? Do you cough at night? Have you pain in side? Do you take cold easily? Is your appetite variable? Have you stitches in side? Are you low spirited at times? Do you cough on going to bed? Do you cough in the morning? Is your cough short and hacking? Have you a disgust for fatty foods? Is there a tickling behind the palate? Do you feel you are growing weaker? Is there a burning pain in the throat? Do you cough worse night and morning? Do you have to sit up at night to get breath? 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. ¢ é \ r Ly ' ‘4 ’ s is t 4 — ea pe i ‘ ! = 4 ——— a t ' \ i \ Ad « a> ew “_ ¢ 4 = ' ! ‘ q r A eS Bhi { 4 ! t r ( beg - 5 we, ‘ ‘ i r MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Advanced— Declined—Morphia meen —s _— es = 60 —. eo sant cs BM ’ Baking Powder............... 1| Diamo a “30 35 |W Se tox |S Gall B Borden ‘Eagle. ES 6 40 oak.” a NS 1\F 9 00 R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.. @10K Daisy. es “c7*" 7" 7s | 30-40 25 Ib. boxes ...... 7 ~ bo Bluing .. 1| 9 00 CA ae 14@15 Champion . ee Sor ee. cases Brooms 1| Electric Light, 8s.. ee ‘= Brushes . 1) Electric Light, 16s. . @17__ | Challenge ........s. cece ce. ..3 75 | LOSNOTD.... 2... 2. --0.e eee eee no is er oe. ........-..-.-.. 2} Paraffine, 6s....... 13@14 : ag Corsican .............. Bie - Parafine’ 125.7 a Dime reeeeeeees ee 8 nen ieee oe os — Reader ce . witig ¥ ih pack a al oo seg Rt = ae COUPON BOOKS Imported, 11 "Package... pe 112 i | ae = GooDs’ CHEWING GUM 21 ples American Flag Spruce. 55 50 books, any denom... 1 50 | Imported, bul Dope see es cues 11% é 3 | 3 Ib. Standards oe 90 | Beeman’s Pe Frag 60 | 100 books, any denom... 2 50 Me 3) Gallons, standards. . 3 00| Black Jack sree SEN 55 | _ 500 books, any denom. . : 11 50 | Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 } 3| Blackberri Largest Gum Made....... 60 | 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00} Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10% 3 | a ac: os 75 | Sen Sen 55 “Above quotations are for either Orange American 10 Ib. bx..10% el Se 3 | a —---~ con Sea Breath Perfume. 1 09 | Tradesman, Superior, Eeonomte Raisins 3 | ans Sugar Loaf t 55 | 0r Universal grades. Where | London Layers 2 Crown. 3} Mica, tin boxes. . ..75 900 a ee 1 00@1 30 an a 55 | 1,000 books are ordered at a time | London Layers 3 Crown. w y 3 | Paragon... - --55 6 00/ Red Kidney......... “eo customer receives specially | Cluster 4 Crown......... 3 | AKING POWDER String ............--- 80 CHICORY printed cover without extra | Loose Muscatels2Crown 5% oi B Egg War..... i an sens 85 ia ie cs : charge. ian Btusatels 8 Crown 6 a 4) ue CB iii RB ng caw ec ce cece cece cccccccc ce se uscatels rown 7 4 Standard .............. OG | Meee... 2.2.5... cose 4 Coupon Pass Books M., Seeded, 1 Ib...... 7 ; Franck’s 6% Can be made to represent any 4) Brook Trout na ao ee g” | denomination from $10 down. . M., Seeded, % Ib.... 5K@ v Cream Tartar ........--.----- 5 | 2 Ib. cans, Spiced ..........- 1 90 saa ara es man LN “honk ee Sultanas, bulk .............. D | Clams. Stor Baker & Co. 100 DOOKS............---. 2 50 | Sultanas, package .......... | Dried Fruits................. 5| | Little Neck, 1Ib..... 1 00 Walter a 8. 500 booKS................ 1180] FARINACEOUS GOODS ~ a F Little Neck. 2 Ib... .. 1 50 — -r+r++++ 23) 1,000 books. . - 20 00) ad Beans Farinaceous Goods.......... Clam Bouillon Breakfast Cocoa............. 46 Credit ‘Checks mee oe ee a Fish and Oysters............. 3 Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92 Runkel Bros po padheeren oro gi 3 09 | Brown Holland.. ane: xtracts........-.. Burnham’s, pints.......... 3 60 | Vienna Sweet ......... .... 21 : oy a -_ power sone ss ees oe me Geer 8 14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 3 75| Burnham’s, quarts........ i Cie a, 28 a oar. srrsss 9 08 | Cream of Cereal............. 90 Fresh eats settee tees eer eee 6| % Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75 Cherries Premise. .... 7. jes 31 NSE Grain-O, small .............. 1 35 Wralts ...-..-.--.--.-..-.-.-.- 14/ 11b. cans, 1 doz. case.....- 3 75| Red Standards........ 85 CLOTHES LINES 1 Biscuit Co.’s brand Grain-O, large............... 2 25 G | 5Ib. cans, % doz. case...... Reb) Whee 115 Cotton, 40 ft. per doz... 1-00| Nationa! ae 8 brands Gra Nuts oes ee 1 35 Co n, 50 ft. per doz. 1 20 utter ‘0S ereal, small.......1 35 Grains and Flour ...........- 6 ww > 4 ro) | aie Le sei ae 65 | Cotton, 60 ft. per doz. 1 40 | Seymour................... 6 | Postum Cereal, O...00.. 2 25 = os ee cee g0 | Cotton, 70 ft. per doz.....-..1 60 | New YOrk........- +--+ +++. 6 bib. packet i li ener nei iii ss tton 80 ft. r doz... Sook ee am) VY wc ccee we eces ceee cece pac. Ce Hides sie ies omaneemecaaat < Ib: as a % | Sate, 60 ft. per doz Po ee OMIM ow ssi os soc 6 Bulk, per 100 00 Ibs. eae 3 00 I og ae ie g9 | Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... 95 Wolverine. ........ 2.0.06 6% — ie ee 19 cocoa Flake, 50 Ib. oe es Queen Flake Sele BRO 6% | Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ 2 40 J 15 | Cleveland. . tuccete | ae P 1" 100 Ib K ae 6 | 3.0%., 6 Gog. cane. ............2 11 | Colonial 45 - Lae eae ae 35 | Soda, City......... Ses 8 ‘ear . SACK........... 117 6 0z., 4 doz. case 3 Colonial. s. 33 | Long Island Wafers....... 13 | _Maccaroni and Vermicelli * 9 02., 4 doz. case 7 oe = as 42 | Zephyrette... ............ 13. | Domestic, 10 > = -- 60 Lamp Burners.............--- ad ag ong . 90 5 ‘oust Imported. 25 Ih. box......... 2 50 Lamp Chimneys..........--.- = i. | io 12 | Faust oe 1% | co Pearl ‘Barley a BL LIDTIN, 45 | 5b. 1 doz. case. ............9 00) Standard...........:. 85 | Wan Houten, %s............. 12} Faust ..............0.- 204 ee es Lantern Globes............-- 15 Royal et Werte ss 6 : a ae 7 an, cs 1 85 38 | Extra Farina.............. 6% | Kmpiva = . Lye eee aac kane = 7 10e size... . 90 | Star,1 ee 3 40 70 Saltine Oyster a 6 ee M 14 Ib. cans 1 35 | Pienie “<< 235 30 Sweet Goods—Baxes Matches........-------------- : 6 oz. cans. 1 90| Mustard, 1Ib........ 1 75 . Meat Extracts... — 4 Ib. cans 2 50| Mustard, 2Ib........ 2 80 — Eee : % Ib. eans 3 75 | SOnsog’ 2 Ib... 2 0 N 3 1lb. cans. 4 80! Tomato, 1Ib......... 1 75 ae 14 i. 3lb. cans 13 00| Tomato, 21. see! 2 80 Oo eS - - ushrooms sy Ol Cams... eeosss ees 15 | 5 Ib. cans. 21 50) roteig. ow... ee . —-18@20 r= ies oe i nto Buttons........ a 22@25 ———————— 2 ys : Oyster — Pp "| Amerionmics.-..2...-.------ 70 | Cove, 1 = ee ee ae ai ce ie Piper Meek 7 | English. cosssceee ee BD a ee = HIGH GRADE Cubans .. Paris Green.......... ga “BLUING re scene a CorFFEES Currant Fruit 24 2 Ib. packages ............2 00 Pickies ee 7 | | Arctic, 402. ovals, , per gross 4 00| pig ve —— 100 B. yao eae "3 00 E oe 7 | Aretic, 8 oz. ovals. per gross6 00.| won, 200 ib. barrels . -5 70 Potash 7| Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 | Yellow -..--... ee aS ——_ Sas ga ie ag oa. —_ LP 100 Ib. oan. ee ..2 90 Provisions. ...- ever : Standard ........... : 70 | Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21 —” wees We ace cine 80 | Old Gov't Java and Mocha..24 Gladiator... Seana Green, Wisconsin, bu -1 30 i a 8 Peas Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 G oa Séeee wens : Green, Scotch, bu .1 40 ea 8 a : ee, eee ae eee See. eee ne peeectee ee ce ee i 0 Cee ee soe So Dwinell-Wright Co.’s — Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 5 30 _— ee ee oe 8 Early June Sifted.. 1 60 | White H 8 i ouse, 60-1S.......... Honey Fingers............ 12 60 Set cian ere mr 8 | Pineapple 25@2 75 White House, 30-2s.. "oR Iced Honey Crumpets..... 10 Sauerkraut... --.0..0........ 9 | 5g | Excelsior M. & J. 60-s.. --21% | Imperials....... 0.00.00... 8 EN oe torre ns : 35@2 55 | Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20% | Jumbles, Honey........... 12 ° 70 Royal Java. - .-.-26% | Lady Fingers poise cs 12 9 Royal Java & Mocha........ 26% | Lemon Snaps... 12 __ = Arabian Mocha............. 28% | Lemon Wafers............ 16 oe — sae mei eto fs eee: ne bycnnn 16 34 - 2 ae 6«|—)—h)l( (CL SEES .ti‘éj$’S§ «45 A Modis & Jove ieee... ...; rshmallow Creams. . 16 2 90 Fancy Maricatbo.......0." 18% | Marshmallow Walnuts... 1g | German. broken pae ee. 4 — 75 | Javo Blend.................. 7% | Mary Ann................. 8 Flake, 110 Ib. oie leis 434 - 10 00 ae anon Coen eae oe ee 17 Mixed Picnic 11% | Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks...--..... 3% g | Small size, per doz.......... 40 00 Se ea 15% | Muck Biscuit............... 7% | Pearl, 241 Ib. packages. .... 6 Large size, perdoz.......... 75 oa meet auepeereeaniol teat 14% | Molasses Cake............ 8 : Wheat BROOMS Salmon OE i 14 Olasses Bar.............. Cracked, bulk............... 3&4 Columbia River, talls 85 50 Ne. ? Carpe 2 50 | Columbia River, flats 95 242 D. packages ............2 0. 2 Cares... >... 2 15| Red Alaska.......... 40 FLAVORING EXTRACTS No. 3 Carpet. o. -.--1 85} Pink Alaska......... 10 No. 4 Carpet... .-1 60 Shrimps FOOTE & JENKS’ Parlor Gem..... --2 40} Standard............ w Common — oe Sardines A x O N Washing Powder............. AA poo Rela 32 si eos J Wie lekin Re pe pies cori 13 BRUSHES Domestic, Mustard. Highest Grade Extracts paremee 2. 60 Wrapping Paper........-..... 13 | Solid Back, 8 a 45 carton ae eee Vanilla Lemon - ¥ Solid Back, 11in............ 95 | French, ¥s.......... Los ful 33. 12 La 2 Wenst Onke..... 2.2 .s..0- vee 13 | Pointed Ends................ 85 | Fr ere . No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75 a ae a a ee a = SS www wesw eas wwe Ww ww Be a td ‘? + i y Fe ed Q 4 ! | \ . <@ - - » a ~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i) © 7 Vanilla Lemon 2 0z Ss 20 20zZ panel. 75 3 oz taper..2 00 40z per..1 50 2 00 00 ~152 No. 3T... 208 sorted Flavors 75c. Our Tropical. 20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 4 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50 2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 Standard. oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 20z. Panel Lemon.......... 60 FLY PAPER Tanglefoot, per box.......... 35 Tanglefocc, per case........ 3 20 FRESH MEATS Beef Carcass.............. 6 @8 Forequarters ....... 5 @6 Hindquarters ....... 84@ 9% Loins No. 3.......... 10 @14 Rips oS INK OORUGS es. 8%@ 9 Chucks.............. 5 @5% | a le Ee IS 4 Pork Wepeameg 2.62). @7 RE ee et @ 3% Boston Butts........ @8 Shoulders ........... @ 8% Leaf Lard........... @8 Mutton CARGARR ok! TH@ 9s TAMpe.. 2-2 9%4@10 : Veal CARCASS... 0. 0... @9 GRAINS AND FLOUR Wheat eee 64 Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands PRON a8 Second Patent............. 3 60 2 3 40 Oe 3 00 Granam 0.0.6.0... 8 08 Buckwheat - 400 ee oe — to usual cash dis- col unt. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Diamond \s............... : = Diamond 4s.......... os Diamond s............... 3 75 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand EGS acest Se CJUAMGr Meo 3 70 Quaker 48................. 370 Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand Pilisbury’s Best %s....... 4 40 Pillsbury’s Best \%s....... 4 30 Pillsbury’s Best %s....... 4 20 sbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 20 bury’s Best 4s paper. 4 20 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand] Duluth Imperial %s....... 4 25 Duluth Imperial \s....... 4 15 Duluth Imperial ¥s....... 4 05 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s — 4 4 30 4 8 Wingold %s.............. Siney’& Judson’s Brand Ceresota %8............... Ceresota a Sedeccscs wees — sota et wecececwae mo Grocer Co.’s =—— > > > Worden Laurel %s. ‘ Se EBS oo ooo. oe nase EMMTOL HES. oo... ccc ocak se Laurel 4s and \s paper.. > > esss 883 _ borage poe Soh ce ecte om ar lots, c! o Ss Less than a OS. oe. Feed and Millstuffs St. Car Feed, screened.... No. 1 Corn and Oats.. Unbolted Corn Meal...... Winter Wheat Bran....... Winter Wheat Middlings. Screenings ................ S8s 838838 ot bk Ana no - Corn Corn, car lots............. Hay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... HERBS we ee ee were cere recesses wens Laurel Leaves...........:ss..- Bb INDIGO Sausages Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ...........55 | Bologna ............. 5% 8S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes......50 eed ater tment se : JELLY Pork 0... i 5 Ib. pails. per doz........ 1 8 | Blood. || 6% PSD PAMe 35| Tongue... 9 SID pale 67 | Headcheese . 17.” 8 LICORICE Beef Bee 30 Calabria...” 23 | xtra Moss.......... ao Bolly ...000.2 uae... oe Roo er 10 a sable ama Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 ~ Ses ‘? Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 25 % bbis., 80 gen "7 MATCHES Kits, 15 Ibs.......... 70 Diamond Match Co.’s brands. 44 bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 25 No. 9 sulphur...........:... 1 65 | % bbls., 80 Ibs....... 2 25 Anchor Parlor ...........2_) 1 50 Casings No. 2 Home .................1 3¢ | Pork een sc esac uso 21 Export Parlor...............4 00 Beef rounds... 3 Wolvertne..... 2.2.0.0... 1 BO Hoe middles........ 10 arp ge eel cates Sea 60 MEAT EXTRACTS Armour & Co.’s, 4 0z...... 45 | Solid m—ae 11 @ Ravi s, 2 07 75 | Rolls, dairy......... 1%@ MOLASSES Rolls, creamery. .... 14% New Orleans Solid, creamery. .... 14 Prd Open Kettle........ 40 ice ee Meats ose. ce, 35 | Corn — 2 75 Me 26 Corned beef, 14 Ib. 17 50 eed ee | ae eef, 21b...... 2 75 Half-barrels 2c extra = ham, \4s..... 50 ‘otted i 90 Horse Radish 1 doe a 1 78 | Deviled ham, ‘4s... > Horse Radish, 2 doz......| "13 50 } aioe hem *S.... 90 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 175 | Sotted toneue: 48-- s OLIVES 0 ongue, %s.. 90 RICE Bulk, 1 gal. kegs ee cee sce we 1 25 Domestic Bulk, 3 gal. kegs........... 1 10| Carolina head................ 6% Bulk, 5 kegs Ls il win ei ah cian 1 00 Carolina No.1 6 Manzan lla, 1... 80 Carolina No. 2 ae : Ceara 5% Queen, pints.......00 0.0... 230) Broke Queen, 19 oz ...........22, 4 50 Imported, """’ aa De tease 7 00| Japan, No. Bs, gen WO, B OZ... s,s 90 | Japan, No. Beccles meee Suited, § az... 14 Java, fancy head... : @ Stuffed, 10 oz.............. 2 30 Java, No. ea ae @ PAPER BAGS Table.. poten aa soa’ Continental Paper Bag Co. Packed 60 Ibs. ty box. Ask your Jobber for them. Glory Mayflower Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 Deland’s 3 Satchel & Pacific | Dwight’s Cow... “ — Square | Emblem........ 210 eee 2 50 ot 3 00 * biog ocd eee = 60 | Wyandotte, 100 %s. 3 00 Miele eels o's wl elelcae 80 SAL SODA ; Tite t eee eens 54 100 | Granulated, bbis............ 90 See 86 125 | Granulated, 100 Ib. cases .._11 (0 Tt tttteeee eens 76 145 | Lump, bbis........ 2.0.0.0. 80 : Trtteeteeeeees iz 2 oy | Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs.222202101. 8 eS ( SALT oe 1 DIRE 138 2 60 Buckeye 100° SID. bags ..: 2... 4.4... 3 00 Res ec, 1 315 Me 2 24 415 OO Gib bags... .... 3 00 ie 2 34 4 50 22 14 Ib. bags he g Ae Willd as 2 75 ee 2 52 5 00 In 5 bbl. lots 5 per cent. dis- eT ae 5 50 fount and one case 2431b. boxes Sugar Tee. Diamond Crystal aga seseteeeetenees 14 Table, cases, 243 1b. b res 1 40 sa able, barre ns ee a ee es utter, barrels . -2 65 Packages, & Ib., each....... 2 Butter, barrels, 20 14]b.bags.2 85 Packages, % Ib., each.......17_ | Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 27 Packages, 11b.,each....... 1g | Butter —— 56 — eget oa oe 67 ommon Trades —o 10 2 1s SACKS... --- ++ 04-62 25 um 60 5 Ib. sacks. 2 15 Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 00| 28101b. sacks......... ++2 05 alf bbis un : 56 Ib. sacks. ............... 40 » 600 count......... 3 00 a Hh she 22 Small Warsaw Barrels, 2,400 count .........6 50 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 40 Half bbis, 1,200 count .......3 75 | 28 Ib. dairy - = bags..... 20 8. nm Clay, No a —— 170 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60 Ae ae ns Pog ? full count S 56 Ib. dairy tn th nen sacks. .. 60 POTASH 56 Ib. anes. pee welecee uses aco 25 ommoh 45 cans in case. Granulated Fine............ 85 Babbitt’s .... 2.2... 00......4 00 Medi Penna Sait Go.’s..02.0..2112! 3 09 | Medium Fine......-......... - PROVISIONS, SALT FISH Barreled Pork Georges cured......... @6 Te @15 50 Sous Secuine Eas $ &% eT 15 75 | Georges selected...... Clear back........... ais 00 Grand Bank........... @6 Short Cab git 50 ee oe bricks....... HB ee 18 50} Pollock................ eae @13 00 alibut. Family Mess......... @15 50 | Strips.............. ‘ -.10 Dry Salt Meats —_ rn Trou Bete, one- oe none 20 « of | No.1 10018... - ee. 6 00 Briskets............. 9% Extra shorts......... 834 2 —. sete ce cece eees a Smoked Meats a aA... Ce Hams, 121b. average. @ 12 Herrin Hams, 141b. average. 11% | golland white hoo : bbl. 11 25 Hams, 161b. average. 11% | Holland white hoopsbbl. 00 ams, 1b. average. 1s | Holland white hoop, Keg. 82 Shoulders(N.Y.cut) @ 7% ie —— ” Bacon, clear......... 10%@ 1134 | Round 100 Ibs..../7 7777.7" 3 00 California hams. .... @ 2% | Round 40 Ibs............... 1.50 Boiled Hams........ @ 174 | scaled . ee 22 Picnic Boiled Hams @ 12% pinstann Bio@ters....-.. 5s cs 1 ee Berlin Ham pr’s’d. 2 8% Mackerel Mince Hams ....... ana ae Lards—In Tierces Mess 40 Ibs. . - 520 Leeann. cee & ns . — P : - EO sooo Cees cake, 9 ess a 3. Vegetole ........... 74 | No. 1 100 Ibs. ........ 10 50 60 Ib. Tubs..advance % | No.1 40Tbs............-.. 450 80 Ib. Tubs..advance 4%} No. 10ibs, ;........... - FS 50 lb. Tins...advance 14} No.1 8 lbs. ccc 2 oe 20 Ib. Pails. .advance 1 No.2 100 Ibe, .:.2 =. 0.3... 7 00 10 Ib. Pails..advance % {No.2 40 lbs. ........... -- 810 6 1b. Pails..advance -- NOs IIe, ooo cick. ee 8 Ib. Pails..advance 1 m1 No, 2 8 lbs, eee cece eccese 50 cakes, large size......... 3% 100 cakes, large size........ 6 50 50 cakes, small size.... .... 1 95 100 cakes, small size........ 3 85 Bell & on brands— Coal Oil Johnny ......... 3 90 Reon 4 00 Detroit Soap Co. brands— Queen Anne..... .... 15 Big Bargain.......... oo 2 oe Boas German Family.......... 2 45 Dingman Soap Co. brand— Deewana 3 85 N. K. Fairbanks brands— Santa Claus.............. 3 95 rown aes 2 40 Wary... _: 4 00 Fels brand— ; APO 4 00 Gowans & Sons brands— Oak Heat 3 25 Oak Leaf, big5........... 4 00 Single box... 2... 2.2... 3 WU 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 95 10 box lots, delivered......__ 2 90 Johnson Soap Co. brands— Silver King............... 3 60 Calumet Family.... ..... 2 70 Scotch Family..... ...... 2 50 ee 2 40 50 cakes:............. 1 95 Ricker’s Magnetic ....... 3 90 Lautz Bros. brands— pie Acme. 4 00 ee Ne 3 25 MAENGHIOg. 4 00 Mester ag Proctor & Gamble brands— Pee 3 00 Ivory, 6 oz ones 4 EVOEY, 10107). 6 75 Schultz & Co. brand— a 3 00 A. B. Wrisley brands— Good Cheer .............. 3 80 Old Country.............. 3 20 Scouring Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3doz......... 2 40 SODA ON 5% Kegs, English. .............. 4% SPICES Whole Spices Allspice...... ieee es eat 12 Cassia, China in mats..... 12 Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 28 Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 38 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 17 Cloves, Zanzibar........... 14 Nutmegs, 75-80............ 50 Nutmegs, 105-10........... 40 Nutinegs, 115-20........... - 35 epper, Singapore, black. 18 Pepper, Singapore, white. 28 Pepper, shot............... 20 Pure Ground in Bulk Alispice...... a 16 Cassia, Batavia 28 Cassia, Saigon. 48 Cloves, Zanziba: 17 Ginger, African 15 Ginger, Cochin 18 Ginger, Jamaica. a eel alia aia a 18 , Singapore, black. 20 , Singapore, white. 28 , Cayenne.......... = SYRUPS Corn Barren ee Pal Oise co ee 25 1 doz. 1 gallon cans 83 40 Whitefish Pure Cane No.1 No.2 Fam ee 16 100 Iba@:......; 7 50 Bae Oe 20 . ees 3 30 Pa Cees 25 Redden, 90 43 8 Ibs... 75 37 — SEEDS Na 1 ec 9 ges Pe Canary, Smyrna o. 4 . Caraway .......... = 8 Cardamon, Malaba: 60 Celer Log Hemp, Russi - 4% Mixed Bird..... . 4% Mustard, white. 2 a -10 oe : ABO) --- 4% —— Cuttle Bone..... 22220001145 Kingsford’s Corn SHOE BLACKING 40 1-Ib. packages........... 6% Handy Box, large......... 2 50 | 20 1-Ib. packages........... 6% Handy Box, small......... 1 25 6 Ib. packages........... 7% Bixby’s Royal Polish...... 5 Miller’s Crown Polish..... & Kingsford’s Silver Gloss SNUFF 40 1-Ib. packages,.......... 7 Scotch, in bladders.......... Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 Common Gloss French Rappee, in jars. .-:: 43 | 1-Ib. packages............. 5 SOAP 3-lb. packages...... - 4% B. T. Babbit brand— 6-Ib. packages...... 5% Babbit’s Best............. 4 00 | 40 and 50-Ib. boxes. . 3% Beaver Soap Co. brands Barre 3% No. 8.. 4 65 No. 9.. 4 60 No. 10.. 4 55 WO, EL... 4 50 No. 12... 4 50 No. 12.. . 4 40 No. 14.. 4 40 No. 16... 4 40 No. 16.. a 4 40 TEA Japan Sundried, medium .......... 28 Sundried, choiee............ 30 pundried, fancy. ............ 40 Regular, medium............ 28 Regular, éhoiee .......... |. 30 Mogilan fisiey. 6... 40 Basket-fired, medium....... 28 Basket-fired, choice......... 35 Basket-fired, fancy.......... 40 Nie... 3T Siftings... Fannings. Gunpowder Moyune, medium ........... 26 Moyune, Choloe ............. 35 Moyune, faney. 0... 50 Pingsuey, medium.......... 25 Pingsuey, choice............ 30 Piupsney, fake. 40 N \ Best Gloss Starch, 501b..... Best Gloss Starch, 40 Ib..... Best Gloss Starch, 61b..... Best Gloss Starch, 31b..... Best Gloss Starch, 11b..... Works: Venice, Ill. Geneva, Il. _ Die eed LSS SSS react ae meuttocraanl SSS SSS Best Corn Stareh............ Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. a | Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. | Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil. | Best Laundry in bbl., thin boil. | Chas. Pope Glucose Co., | Chicago, Il. Common Corn 20 1-Ib. packages.......... 40 1-lb. packages..... os STOVE POLISH So See, - . S tutor 9-C.PMESCOTTE co nad dchel a RS 4 50 7 20 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 frora New York to your — puint, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. MG... Cut Loaf... suaue OOD MOMMA 5 95 Me co: 5 70 Powdered ........... 5 55 Coarse Powdered. ........ 5 55 XXXX Powdered......... 80 Standard Granulated..... 5 45 Fine Granulated........... 5 45 Coarse Granulated........ 55 Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 55 Conf. Granulated.......... 5 70 2b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 60 5 lb. bags Fine Gran...... 5 60 i DO Confectioner’s A.......... 5 25 No. 1, Columbia A........ 5 10 No. 2, Windsor A......... 05 No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 5 05 No. 4, Phoenix A... - of No. 5, Empire A.. 4 95 Te ee ee 4 85 TE Tevcecndeccovcntcensce, 400 | ee Paney 36 Oolong Pormoea, taney...) 5... . 42 Amey, Moditin...... 6... 25 Amey, Choles, 32 English Breakfast Pea 27 vee 34 ee 42 ndia Coytion, chofee........ 2... 32 ee 42 TOBACCO igarc ee OM 55@70 ee 35 00 Bald Head...... asia Wiaase'« ucea 35 00 A. Bomers’ brand. Plaindealer ................85 00 Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands. Little Columbian........... 36 00 Commie 35 Columbian Extra........... 55 Columbian Special.......... 65 Columbian Invincible...... 90 P. Drug A. Co.’s brands. Fortune Teller....... 35 Our Manager........ 35 GTC ae G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bran ( 00 00 00 00 00 00 d. c oN OW, cece ccc eet cacy ae Cigar Clippings, perlb..... 26 80 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ky Bros.’ Brands. Butter Plates Mixed Candy oe ae a $35 00 | No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 | Grocers.............. @6 Gold Star oa % 35 00 to a es eees ro Competition. .... . =. an Tongeren’s = . , 250 in crate...... Cee. Star Green "a So 5 00 | No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 65 canes @ 8% Fine Cut Egg Crates RE @ && Uncle Daniel................ 58 | Humpty D umpty ee 2 25 Emen .... -. ------ @9 eT 38 | No.1, complete ............. 30 — : @ 8% Mores, Gianms................ = No. 2 complete ............. 25 Feng: as covecs 3 ; ~~ alemmnaenaneene — Chethes Pins Kindergarten ...... = @ 9 Sweet Loma............0.., 3g | Round head, 5 gross box.... 45/ Bon Ton Cream..... @9 Golden Top................5. g3 | Round head, cartons........ 62 | French Cream....... @i0 Hiawatha....................58 Mop —. Dandy Pan.......... @10 Midcetais 28 —— spring .. 90| Hand Made Cream ap ter a 34 _| Eclipse patent spring. - 85] Mixed... @15% Prairie Rose................- 50 Nolcommon............_..... 75 | Crystal Cream mix. . @13 Protection. .............. 2... 3g | No.2 patent brush holder :: 85 Fancy—In Pails Sweet Burley...............- 40 | 12 ®. cotton mop heads....-125/ champ. Crys. Gums 8G Sigees CR os | Meal Ney... 90 Pear — = ee 39 Pails Fairy Cream Squares 12 Plug 1 40 | Fudge Squares...... 12 wae @nen. 36 --1 60) Peanut Squares. .... 9 Creme de za ie = = — = — Tab. as., wrap 12 Deseo ae r — ‘3 | Cedar, all red, brass bouiid:1 25 ote s -37 a Eureka..............2 25| Starlight Kisses... 10 -33 ---+-2 40] San Blas Goodies.... @12 24 ““‘Toothpicks Lozenges, plain... @ 9% --36 | Hardwood . _..- 2 oe lone. printed @10 36 | Softwood ......... ..........2 75 | Choe. Pope. @11% aeemee 1 80 | Eclipse Chocolates... @13% GME 1 50 |} Choc. Monumentals. @l4 Tubs Victoria Chocolate. . @15 20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....6 00 | Gum ees -->- @s 18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....5 00 teas seeeees @ o% 16-inch, Standard, No. 3 -4 00 Imperials tecceee 10 20-inch, Cable, No. 1.... -6 50 ee cee cccece 39 18-inch, Cable, No. 2 6 00 Ital. Cream Opera. mo 12 id Honesty................. 45 . oc ' . Cream Bonbons Toddy. 35 16-inch, — — sao 1b. pails @12 ae Ups — 1 Fibre... sees Molasses Chews, 1 Piper Heidsick.. -644 |No'3 Fibre. --7:7 98) "Db. pails... @14 ae = Wash Re oe Golden Wafties ...... @12 Jelly Cake....... - ards Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes en Globe.. scccescn a Pie Bop... ............<.-5 32 een mame fg @55 Double Wome 2 75 | Peppermint Drops.. @60 a Single Acme............... 2 25 | Chocolate Drops.. @65 ..40 | Double Peerless........... 3 25} H. M. Choc. Drops. @85 37 | Single Peerless..............2 60} H. M. — oc. Lt. and 37. | Northern Queen ............ Sto: we Ne. @1 00 27. | Double Duplex..............3 00 | Gum Drops...... @30 ..29 | Good Luck.... ..eeee.- 2 75| Licorice Drops. @75 o7. | Oniweteel 2 25 | Lozenges, plain..... @55 28 Wood Bowls — one Peed G60 ; 32 | 111n. Butter.. oo--> 15] Meitoos @60 Honey Dew ............. ..<. 37 |13in. Butter.................1 00 fecae Sas @60 Gold Block.................. 37 | 15 in. Butter.............. ..175] Molasses Bar 7 @55 Slee 40 |17in. Butter..... ...........2 50 Tae Minds Guan ae @55 35 10 in: Buiter... .. ........... 3 00 Satan See , Pe Ss. @90 Kiln Dried ................-- 24 | Assorted 13-15-17... ........1 75 | “Og ‘Wint ns, Pep. Duke’s Mixture. ............ = Assorted 15-17-19 ............ 2 50! siting Rock. 2777777. oS Fee cae || WRAPPING PAPER | |‘Winttreoon Haitian pe Myrtle Navy .. .40 Common Straw............ 1% Caramels Yum Yum, 1% 0z..... ...39 | Fiber Manila, white. ..... 3% | Clipper, 201b. pails.. @9 =— Yum’ 1 Ib. pails........ 37. | Fiber Manila, —- 444 | Standard, 20 Ib. pails @10 Lelie linneicinins ominie bine iniein 37 No. 1 Manila.. o- 4 Perfection, 20 Ib. pls @12% ane Cee 5 Oe... ...-....- 25 Cream Manila... icc eke 3 Amazon, Choe Cov’d ' @15 Corn Cake, 11b.............. 23 +| Butcher’s Manila.......... 2% | Kosker 2 for 1c pr bx @55 Plow Boy, 13 0z............- 39 | Wax Butter, short count. 13 | Big 3, 3 for ic pr bx.. @55 Plow Boy, 3% 02Z..........+.- 37 | Wax Butter, fulicount.... 2) | Dukes, 2 for ic pr bx @60 Peerless, 314 0Z.............- 34 | Wax Butter, rolls......... 1b | F Favorite, 4 for 1c, bx @60 —- cays sete cece eeeeee = YEAST CAKE AA Cream Car’ls 31b @50 CALOr, 246 OZ... ..... 2.2.2. Indicator, 1 Ib. pails ........ 31 morte, = oe eae : . FRUITS Col. Choice, 2% 02........... 21 Sunlight. 1% doz ene er 50 Oranges Col. Choice, 8 0Z..........2.¢ 2 Florida Russett...... @ Yeast Cream, 3 ET Florida Bright @ TABLE SAUCES Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00 | Fancy Navels cana é LEA & Yeast Foam. 1% doz........ 50 Extra Choice....... @ FRESH FISH Late Valenclas @5 00 PERRINS’ Per Ib. Seedlings... @ — ee $ :. — weets, @ SAUCE Black ‘Baa 2000.00... og ‘ia oe Palate The Original and | Ciscoes or Herring... @ 5 Lemons Genuine Bluefish .. .--. @ 12 | Messina, 300s........ 6 aes 50 2am: Worcestershire. | Live Lobster.......... @ 20 | Messina, 360s........ 5 6 00 aden... 335 Bolled Lobster Es @ 2 California 608 een 4 75g 50 Lea & Perrin’s, ' small oe 2 Bo | Cod.. seteeeees $ : OFDIS GUOS......- 4 75@5 50 Halford, large............. 3 75 Bananas _ Halford, small............. 2 25 @ 9 | Medium bunches.... “1 50@2 00 Salad Dressing, large. .... 45515 : Large bunches.... Salad Dressing, small..... 275|+° 10% Foreign Dried Fruits TWINE @ Oolten, 3 ply......- .... ...... 16 @ 12 Smee. 2 Coleen, 2 ply... ...- 2... 16 @ 15 2 Sho Ib. be See gute Pg FE ines asp eeume | Brite Shots, 20 0% Flax, medium............... 20 The Cappon & Bertsch Leather aoe 12 Ib. boxes... 12 Wool, 1 Ib. balls............. 7% | Co., 100 Street, quotes as | Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... VINEGAR follows Naturals, in — Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 bad Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 ~ Fards in 10 Ib. boxes Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. .11 é on Fards in 60 Ib. cases. Pure Cider, Red Star........12 o ri Hiatowi........-...<. 5@5% Pure Cider, Robinson....... 10 g Ho b. cases, new..... Pure Cider, Silver........... 11 @ 7% » 60 Ib. os 4% @5 a ed coco ~aana sean ' Gold Dust, regular.....:.... - gt Almonds, Tarragona - Gold Dust, BO eee ce Almonds, Ivica ..... Pelts Aimonas, California gg FE each.......... 50@1 00! soft snelled........ 16@18 Lamb.......... eeeereceee Rrazils, i 11 Tallow Fiiberts ............ 12% Rub-No-More . Net eee @ 4% | Walnuts. Grenobles. @13% Ge Boo @ 3% | Walnuts, soft shelled Wool California No. 1.. 13% Washed, fine........ s@ie | Table mn) fancy... - Washed, medium... 18@20 Pecans, Med ee 10 Unwashed, fine..... 11@13 | Pecans’ Ex Large... i Unwashed, medium. 14@16 P . s; Jum - ? @12 CANDIES Hickory Nuts per bu. ‘WOODENWARE Ohio, new.. Stick Cand ’ @ Baskets bis. pails Cocoanuts, full sacks > 50 Bushels ... cocscce | Le g 1% Chestnuts, per bu... — wide band. i ese 115 7% Peanuts Marke Ce @8 |¥Fancy,H.P.,Suns.. 5%@ 00 @9 | Fancy, B., Suns 50 -- 6407 00 @7% oo H. P., Extras = E gies Choice, H. P., Extras Willow © . oe. --5 25 | Beet Root @8 |Span.ShildNo.in’w 7 Ss AKRON sTONEWARE Hutters $6 AL DOP OM ess on - gal, per gal. 15 gal. meat-tubs, eacn........... 20 gal. meat-tubs, each......... 25 ar meat-tubs, each......... 30 gal. meat-tubs, each... Churns StoGgal., were@al.... |... ec. ‘hurn Das ers, per oe ey Milkpans 4 ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, cach............ Fine Glazed Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., esch Stewpans \% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 = fireproct, bail, oa eee: ..--:... Jugs iM Oal. Per aes... 5... oct 60 % . Per eee. 45 PS Sat, per eel...... oo... 7% Sealing Wax 5 lbs. in package, per Ib .............. 2 LAMP MBURNERS MO OUR: ss 35 iO 2 45 No.2 San. ..... ...: aan 65 No. 3 Sun 110 Tubular 45 i 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of : doz. OB ee 156 No. 1Sun........ gone tv tmtwweeren smerce 1 78 ING 28am 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. XXX Flint No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wra = & lab. No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... No. 2 Sun, wrapped and —— ae Sl No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled..... No. 2 Sun, “Sma! Bulb” - a “Giobe Lamps pieiome cee awison cd 3s elalt R8G5 SSSESR SRRKRRABES a. LC were Nee Ne GV ee Ve VVVwWwVvVvwVwuUVUwuvVvuVuVuWwwwwwwwvwvewwwwY TS CROTON GS ONG BO £ No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain......... No. 12 Tubular, side _— Saar a No. 3 Street lamp, each.............. LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢ No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢ No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. No.0 Tub., "Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each MASON FRUIT JARS. ue COI I DE bo Te ce ec ae ce 6 26 UN es se oe 6 50 Bialt Gatos 5. cso. ot 9 00 Caps and -‘Rubbers.................... 2 £0 TUS oon cee 25 & 35 Glover’s Gem Mantles are superior to all others for Gas or Gasoline. Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers Importers and Jobbers of GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES Office Stationery MART a2 ant 0) ar Nia he ENVELOPES, RADESMAN COMPANY. CRAND RAPIOS COUNTER BILLS. “Summer Light” Light your Hotels, Cottages and Camps with the ““NULITE”’ Table Lamp. Outdoor Are, Sncuiileheet Vapor Gas Lamps. electricity or carbon gas. Cheaper than coal oil lamps. No smoke, no odor, no wicks, no trou- ble. Absolutely safe. A 20th century revolu- tion in the art of lighting. Are Lamps, 750 can- dle power, for indoor or outdoor use. Table Lamps, 100 candle power. Chandeliers, Pen- dants, Street Lamps, ete. Average cost 1 cent for 7 hours. Nothing like them. They sell at sight. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Send for catalogue and prices. CHICAGO SOLAR LIGHT CO., Dept. L. Chicago, Il. TUCO STS ES The Prompt People Our customers call us the “prompt people’? because they can order almost anything of us by telephone, telegraph or letter and get it at once. We appreci- - ate a man does not want anything until he orders it and when he does order it, he wants it at once. So we do our best to get it to him at once. Do you want this service? Superior to W983 gonrrnn) Brown & Sehler Grand Rapids, Mich. LABELS The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who break bulk must label their see ig according to law. e are prepared to furnish labels which meet the require- ments of the law, as follows: 100 labels, 25 cents 200 labels, 40 cents 500 labels, 75 cents 1000 labels, $1.00 Labels with merchant’s name printed thereon, $2 per 1000. Orders can be sent through any jobbing house at the Grand Rapids market, TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. wv r r ‘. > — -_ je a ~ 7 { f y ! } : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 RANDOM REFLECTIONS. ‘‘Two months ago, with every pros- pect of the largest crop of small fruits in the history of the country,’’ re- marked a well-posted groceryman, ‘‘we were wondering how we could move our stock of canned goods with the least loss. Now the situation is reversed. In- stead of moving our stock on hand at a loss, we are confronted with the problem of a short pack and are wondering where we are going to obtain sufficient sup- lies to meet the requirements of our customers, ’’ e+ 8 She was a traveling salesman—or saleswoman. She boarded a northbound Pere Marquette train at the union depot and found the best coach well filled. Two seats facing each other were occu- pied by two young women who had spread themselves out in a manner pe- culiar to the female hog. The sales- woman requested one of the girls to move along so as to make room for her, but the request was ignored. It was re- peated somewhat peremptorily, without result. A third request, which was couched in terse language and uttered in a tone which resembled the rumbling of distant thunder, caused one of the young women to move along and make room for the saleswoman, but the ex- pression on her face showed that the ac- tion was not done gracefully. At the West Side depot two portly women, with babies in arms and other children hardly old enough to be out of arms, boarded the train. This was the golden opportunity for the saleswoman. Beck- oning to the women, she quietly relin- quished her seat to one of them and directed the other to the opposite seat, which directions were followed to the letter, including the assembling of four or five children who squeezed in between their mothers and the original occu- pants of the seats. The saleswoman stood in the aisle until she reached her destination at Sparta, when she leaned over the seat and quietly addressed the girls reminding them that selfishness is not a virtue and that it always meets its reward. The remarks appeared to add to the discomfiture of the young women, whose faces were already black with rage and disappointment. + * ‘*Do you know,’’ remarked a leading Grand Rapids grocer and a long-time officer of the local organization, ‘‘that I hunger for a return to the early days of the Association, when a grocers’ picnic meant what its name implies and not a crowd of people who have little or noth- ing in common with the grocery trade? In the halcyon days of the ’80s we used to get together as grocers and clerks and have a good time without the aid—and expense—of brass bands and_ street parades and the numerous spectacular features which have been added to the celebration from year to year. In those days I used to improve the opportunity to get acquainted with my brother - gro- cers, but now I would as soon think of looking for a needle in a haystack as to find a grocer in such a crowd. | at- tended this year’s picnic as a matter of habit, but there was no particular enjoy- ment in the event for me, because the original idea of a_ reunion of grocers and clerks has been superseded by the plan of making the event a money-mak- ing scheme for the street railway com- pany and the caterers and saloon keep- ers at Reed’s Lake. ++ * The writer has had his first experi- ence in settling a loss covered by fire insurance and candor compels him to admit that some opinions he had pre- viously entertained regarding the harsh- ness and cunning of all insurance ad- justers were erroneous. The writer has met adjusters in the past who boasted of the manner in which they ‘‘skinned’’ policy holders who had met losses by fire, but this type of adjusters appear to be in the minority—if, indeed, they have not been altogether superseded by men of broader ideas and better busi- ness methods. The loss sustained by the Tradesman in the Friedman conflagra- tion was wholly by water and the inter- ruption to its business by reason of one side of the Blodgett building being flooded from basement to attic and tem- porarily deprived of elevator service and electric light. The damage covered by insurance consisted in the wetting of a small portion of the paper stock car- ried by the company on shelves ad- jacent to the partition wall between the two sections of the building. The loss was carefully compiled by the writer and assistants and reduced to typewriter form, giving in detail the actual cost price of each article, including freight. Opposite each item was noted the page in the cost book in which the purchase price covering the article was to be found. Where lower quotations had been secured since purchases had been made, the letters containing quotations were made part of the exhibit. The loss footed up $1,170.94 and, when the adjusters called, they were informed that the fraction would be waived, leav- ing the damage at an even $1, 170. The adjusters took the schedule of loss, checked it over item by item with the stock-keeper, bantered a few minutes for a larger allowance for salvage and then announced that the loss was ad- justed at the figure claimed. Proofs of loss were made out promptly and within three days checks were received from the various companies interested for the entire amount, thus closing the account to the satisfaction of all concerned. Al- though the adjusters did not say so, the promptness with which the settlement was effected was probably due, in no small degree, to the care with which every detail connected with the loss was set forth and the facility afforded the adjusters to verify every price and sub- stantiate every statement made as to the actual cost of the goods damaged. Of course, the ordinary fire insurance pol- icy does not cover the loss incident to the interruption to business—it requires a special form for that purpose—but it appeared to be the intention of the ad- justers to fix the damage at a figure which would enable the insurance to re- place the goods actually injured or destroyed. ——> > Business Before Pleasure. The old man was smoking his pipe on the porch as the young man left the house. ‘“‘Things have changed since I was a lad,’’ suggested the old man. ‘‘How so?’’ demanded the young man. “*In my day when we went courting we didn’t burn one gas jet, let alone two.’’ “‘Possibly,’’ suggested the young man pointedly ; ‘‘if you had fallen heir to some gas stock about that time it might have made a difference.’’ Thereupon the old man went into the house and told his daughter that when it came toa question of getting a real good business man in the family she could have his consent at any time. ——_+>2.___ Never buy a thermometer in the sum- mer—they are always much lower in the winter, Hardware Price Current Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks —— Adze Eye......................$17 00..dis 70—10 + Caps Metals—Zinc G. D., full count, per m..... 40 Hicks’ Water roof, perm... BO Gnd pound casks... .. 8. 1% Musket, — sides tee 8 Ely’s Waterproof, per m..... Se 60 Miscellaneous Cartridges ie 40 No. 22 short, per m........ en 2 50 | Pumps, Cistern........................ 75&10 No, 22 long, per m.... 3 00 | Screws, New List.............0.0077"" 85 No. 32 short, per m... 4 95 | Casters, Bed and Plate............... 50810810 No. 32 long, per m.......0000.0 000000. 5 80| Dampers, American................... 50 ed ae a ibeonyges Molasses Gates : : M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 20 ’ ae 8 =—l1 a nnenmaag = | Gun Wads Pass — edge, - _ = ULM. €... 60 Fry, Acme ac ge, NOs. 9 and 10, per m...... 70 ak aa Black edge, No. 7, per — el ees go | Common, polished ... Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron New Rival—For Shot “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 Drs. of oz. of mas — Per ““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 75 No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 109 | Broken packages 4c per pound extra. es ; as . 10 $2 90 Planes 10 2 90 | Onio Tool Co.’s, fancy................. 50 ie ; = : a Sciota Bench............... 60 135 44 1% 5 10 2 95 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........... 50 154 4i% 1% 4 10 3 00 Bench, first yuality.......00...0.0..... a] = : : . 12 2 50 Nails : 12 2501 Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. — = = : : 2 2 Steel nails, base.................. esse 2 65 aes 3 ie ; = S Lo Wire falls, base 2 65 + eee... Base Discount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance..........-..... sees 5 Paper Shells—Not Loaded Saage 10 No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . 72| 6advance . . 20 No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64 ‘ ee Settee cette ee ce eeeeeee noes 2 Gunpowder SANT NT RN IN 70 Kegs, 25 Ibs., per keg....... .... .... 4 00 | Fine 3 advance.................... .... 50 yg Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % Roe... 2 25 | Casing 10 advance..................... 15 14 kegs, 634 Ibs., per 14 MOG 1 25 | Casing 8 advance...................... 25 Shot a oe eee eed. 35 In sacks containing 25 Ibs. 1 ia Te 25 Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 1 65 Finkh Gaatanee ccc : Augurs and Bits Barrel % advance.......... 1... |... 85 Na ee me 60 Jennings a 25 Rivets Jennings’ CRE 60) Iron and Tinned... 50 Axes Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 First Quality, 8. B. Bronze............ 6 00 Roofing Plates First Quality, D. B. Bronze. .... 2... 7: 9 00 | 14x90 IC, Charcoal ae 6 50 First Quality, 8. B.S. Steel. 1.171..." & 50 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.............. 7 50 First Quality, D. B. Steel. 2.10200... 10 50 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean... _... 1.221” 13 00 Barrows 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50 Ratlvoad. 0. See 12 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50 te OE ea Te a 29 00 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00 Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 REE 60 Ropes Carriage, new lict |........ ||” 65 Plow Te ma ae 50 ns inch and larger............... s Well, plain... Li $4 00 Sand Paper naa ee dis 50 Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured ............... 65 Sash Weights Wrought Narrow ..........0000772277" 60 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00 Chain Sheet Iron 44 in. 5-16 in. 3 In. % in, com. smooth. com. Com. «2. Bag 1 Siglo Bye oo AMO. | NOB OHO ons eens ceeseneen cee Sx TPG . ai ee. 3 30 BBB.......... 8% a = =< 6% ae 8 72 owbars ee ee Cast Steel, per Ib..................-... Ce 3 80 3 60 Chisels All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Socket Firmer ........................ 65 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra. socket Framing...........0..0.000 000, = Shovels and Spades en or seater Mirst Grade, Dot... 8 00 Socket Slicks........ a : % Oe ce ea esc, 65 Second Grade, Doz.............000277" 7 50 ows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.. -het 65 Aa 19 Corrugated, per doz........ 125) The prices of the many other qualities of solder Adjustable.................. ---dis 40&10 | in the market indicated by private brands vary Expansive Bits according to composition. Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 46 Squares Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.00. 200020227. 25 | Steel and Iron......0- tees sceseeee sees 70 Files—New List = ee eal eet aiee ieee a ce 70&10 ec 70 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal... $ 8 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps................ 70 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal........ ae 8 50 Galvanized Iron aeate TN Charooal 9 75 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. list 12 13 14 15 16. 17 Tin—Allaway Grade see 10x14 IC, Charo0al.........+... +++ +++ 7 00 Stanley Rule and Level 00.’s.......... “tude: ~~ Glass S4x20 TX, Chareoal..... 3c. 8 50 Single Strength, by box............... dis 80&20| Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 pou ie eke Dem = aa Boiler Size Tin Plate See ieee ee eae. Lee a 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, . Hammers 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, b per pound.. 10 Maydole & Co.’s, new list..............dis 33 z Yerkes & Plumb’s.............7"""""ats sais Steel, Game.. .... es : Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...” 30¢ list 70 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....”” 40810 Hinges Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3...................d18 60810] CONS... nec cece cwen ence 65 Hollow Ware Mouse, choker per doz............... 15— ee 50&10 | Mouse, delusion, pes doz........ .... ‘ + Kettles .....0...... 50&10 Wire eee laa 50&10 | Bright Market........................ 60 Horse Nails ‘| Annealed Market an eco 60 Coppered Market. 50&10 ANG te 40&10 Tinned Market 50&10 House Furnishing Goods Coppered Spring Steel. 7! 40 Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 | Raxhed Fenoe, Galvanised”. ; 3 25 Japanned Tinware..................... 20810 | Barbed Fence, Painted................ 2 95 Iron Wire Goods ee elon Crates | Bright................... 80 ENG Be aT 3 c rates | Screw Eyes 80 Knobs—New List oo 80 Door, mineral, ja; . trimmings........ 75 | Gate Hooks and Eyes..... eas 80 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... 85 Wrenche Regular 0 Tubular [neem —— Sane, Nickeled....... 3 0 a ‘ ed 5 00 elle atpscreur ante En eran ee EE Warren, Galvanized Fount.......°"’ 6 00 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, (Wrought. .70&10 Tin—Melyn Grade 82 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WEANED FROM DIRT. Influence of a Fastidious Customer on a Slovenly Grocer. The grocet whom I take as a text this week wasa mighty slovenly boy. He was slovenly about himself and about all his belongings. I went to school with him —his copy books were worse than mine, and 1 was no bar of soap at that time myself. This boy’s name was James, but we called him Jim for short. Jim grew up froma slovenly boy to what is worse—a slovenly man. His father was a grocer and Jim started in to learn the business, probably because it is easier to be sloppy in the grocery business, if you want to be, than in other business. He had been in the store or three or four years, when the old man died and left it to him, A few months after that, when Jim bad had a chance to impress his indi- viduality upon the store, I went in it one day. Ye gods! Of all the filthy places I was ever in that was the worst! It was Jim’s store and it looked like Jim. It was so dirty and disgusted me so that I said to Jim: ‘*Great Scott, man, why don’t you clean this place up? You've gota reg- ular pig pen here! How do you expect clean people to come into it?’’ ‘‘It’s swept every morning Jim answered with perfect good nature. As a matter of fact, it ought to have had the fire hose every morning. I didn't see Jim's place again for about two years, and when I went back there and looked around, | thought Jim must have died. It was soclean! Be- fore I could ask Jim came in, but it wasn’t the same man I had known at all. His finger nails were actually clean —a thing I had never seen hefore since I had known him. He had a clean shirt on, too. When | got my breath, I observed to Jim: ‘*Old man, I want to congratulate you on the appearance of your store. It’s as different from the way it used to be as day is different from night.’’ Jim laughed appreciatively, and said: ‘*T don’t think I'm sloppy myself as I used to be, am I?’’ I made some polite observation witb the grace which is characteristic of me. ‘*Do you wonder how it all came about?’’ he asked. Now, those who know me will ques- tion my truthfulness when I say that I was embarrassed just here, but I really was. To express surprise that a sloppy man could reform is scarcely a delicate thing to do, but I wanted to hear the story so managed to express some curi- osity. ‘“*Come back,’’ said Jim, ‘‘and I'll tell you.’’ The story was too long to be told in Jim’s own words, so I'll condense it. When Jim was in his prime as a sloppy grocer a rich maiden lady moved into his neighborhood. She rarely went out, but had a craze to do her own marketing, and Jim’s store was the only one con- venient to her house. Jim said that the first time she came to his store she ob- served, without circumlocution, that it was the filthiest store she had ever seen. She found fault with everything and told him she'd try him for a month, and if he didn’t do better in that time she’d go to another store, much as she dis- liked to walk any farther than she had to. Jim wanted her trade, for she bought lots of the best and paid every week. So he simply went to work to keep his place clean. It was hard work—Jim 9? wasn't clean by nature. Once the old lady asked him whether there was any law compelling grocers to wear black nails. Another time she asked him whether he couldn’t afford to wear clean linen. If he couldn't, she said, she would take pleasure in giving him some. That roused him, Jim said, as nothing she had ever had said to him had done, and he spent the most of that night taking a tumble to himself. Well, to make a long story short Jim gradually reached the point where he and his store were actually clean. It was hard work, he told me—nobody knew, he said, how hard it was. After it all, when he had gotten the store in fairly passable condition, and was able to see himself as he had been formerly, he went to the to lady and thanked her fervently and heartfully for making him over. After the standard was once raised,it was easy to maintain it toward everybody. Ever since Jim told me this story, when my pastor in the thunders of sacred oratory, propounds the well- known question, ‘‘Can the leopard change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin?’’ I answer mentally, ‘‘He can.’’ It’s a pity that every grocer whose methods, store or person is sloppy, can’t have a rich and fastidious maiden lady move into his neighborhood. — Stroller in Grocery World. SS eee Growing Importance of the Apple Crop. We may well pause in the discussion of steel and other manufactured exports to contemplate for a brief moment the meek and lowly apple and its import- ance in these United States. According to the Independent, the American apple crop of Ig00 aggregated 215,000,000 barrels, of which we ex- ported only 4,000,000 barrels. On an average yield of $2 per barrel—-the price in London runs from $2 to $4—this crop should have had an aggregate value of at least $430, 000,000, which is $130,000, - ooo in excess of the total value of our cotton crop in recent years. This money is, of course, distributed over a vastly greater area than the returns from the cotton crop are, and through a larger number of states and more diversified classes of people. Still the apple crop, as it grows and is handled, excites not a hundredth part of the popular interest that attaches to cotton, although its yield is about 44 per cent. in excess of cot- ton’s. ‘‘Our home families,’’ says the In- dependent, ‘‘do not spend a great deal of money for apples, but we are grow- ing frugivorous instead of carnivorous. ’’ We are inclined to believe that more money is spent for apples than the In- dependent imagines. If we export only 4,000,000 out of 215,000,000 barrels raised, the producers themselves, al- though numerous, could not make much of an inroad on the remaining 211,000, ooo barrels. We spend hundreds of thousand of dollars annually for apples, unconsciously for the most part, as they appear in cider, jellies, vinegar and the hundreds of condiments and other food products in which vinegar is one of the chief preservatives. If the apple is not quoted in the form of futures, its importance is none the less significant among American farm crops. ——> «2. ___ Heman G. Barlow, Secretary of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., left early in the week for Mackinac Island, whence he starts on a trip through the Georgian Bay. He is accompanied by his wife. Ought To Be Happy. From the Cincinnati Furniture Worker. Grand Rapids ought to be happy. Her furniture is now prominently men- tioned in Bradstreet’'s Weekly Business Review, sent out by the Associated Press, right along with Chicago cattle, Kansas City hogs, North Carolina tur- pentine, New Orleans cotton, Cincinnatl and Louisville tobacco, whisky, etc. There is more of a prominence in this than people think there is. —____> + »—___ Sebewaing—The Sebewaing Sugar Co. has asked of the township of Sebewaing the privilege of having its taxes for the next ten years used for the constuction of stone roads. The company also offers to donate the stone to make two and a half miles of road if the township will lay it. —_—___> 2.___ S. A. Sears, manager of the local branch of the National Biscuit Co., is spending a month at Buffalo. Bussnssanls 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. A= OPENING—A1 MEAT MARKET BUsI- ness; established trade of $2,000 per month; ractically cash business; owner lost his wife; ound toleave. Address vecker & Jean, Grand Rapids, Mich. 975 EAT MARKET STOCK FOR SALE. SHOP i and fixtures to rent. Does a business of $24,000 to $25,000 annually. Good chance for a good butcher. Address No. 974, care Michigan Tradesman. 974 RUG STOCK FOR SALE—THE STOCK of drugs of the late William McDonald, 115 South Burdick St., Kalamazvo, is for sale by the executors to close the estate. John L. Wallace, 953 David McDonald, Executors, “OK SALE—A HARDWARE STOCK, IN- cluding furniture, fixtures and _ tinners’ tools, at 62 W. Bridge St., in this city. Having bid in the same at chattel mortgage sale, it will be sold at a bargain, Everything in it necessary tor a person wishing to commence business. Apply to Peter Doran, Rooms 19-20 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 972 SPLENDID GENERAL STORE, HUTEL and livery, a great stand for business; good transient trade; number of steady. boarders. Sell or exchange for Al farm. Address R. A. Butwell, Wixom, Mich. 976 TOCK OF GOODS. SPLENDID OPENING to put in stock general merchandise in town in Northern Washington. Agricultural and min- ing center. Splendid inducement offered to the right party. Inquire of Meachem-Cameron & Co., 40 Wall street. New York City. 977 OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS SHINGLE and tie mill in very best repair; center crank engine, 12x16; plenty boiler room; Perkins shin- gle mill; bolter cut off, drag and knot saws; ele- vator; endless log chains; gummer; belting all in first-class shape; mill now turning out 40 to 50 M. shingles per day. Any one wanting such a mill will do well to investigate. Will trade for stock of groceries. Address A. R. Morehouse, Big Rapids, Mich. 970 )OR SALE—AN OLD-ESTABLISHED GEN- eral store business located in a town of 1,200 people in central part of Michigan. Stock con- sists of clothing, hats, dry goods, shoes and gro- ceries. Sells over $40,000 a year for spot cash. Rent, 8600 a year. (ood reasons for selling. Stock invoices now $18,000. Can be considerably reduced in thirty days. Will sell for 70 cents on the dollar cost price—no less, and must be a nearly cash deal. Write M. J. Rogan, care Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. 968 {OR SALE—DEPARTMENT STORE IN town of 1,200; stock about $20,000; annual cash sales $45,009; good reasons for selling; a bargain for cash; no trades. Address Lucius, care Michigan Tradesman. 967 Ts SALE—COUNTRY STORE DOING good business. For particulars address J. B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 966 NOK SALE—IN THRIVING CITY OF 4,000, confectionery, ice cream soda, cigars and tobacco; business good; cash trade. Enquire at 382 Canal St., Grand Rapids. 965 ANCELONA, J. L. FARNHAM WISHES abuyer for his stock of goods, consisting ——— of groceries and shoes. He will sell is store building or rent same. {OR RENT—BOOT AND SHOE STORE, established trade of five years, will be for rent Sept. 1, 1901; only one shoe stock in city of 2.200—one of the best towns for trade in the State; a growing town with lots of factories; a grand ——— for a boot and shoe firm. Geo. H. Sheets, Grand Ledge, Mich. 964 NOR-SALE—SMALL CAPACITY SAWMILL in good repair; one-halt million feet of logs ready to be manufactured and more in sight. Reason for selling, owner has no knowledge of eee oes Address Box 64, Boon, P. O, Wexford Co., Mich. 950 OR RENT OR SALE—HOTEL, WITH LIV- ery barns—the only hotelin town of 800 in- habitants; quite a number of furnished rooms; could give ‘Tamedione possession of hotel; the barns are rented at good price and doing profit- able business; location central; rent very rea- sonable. For further particulars address M. A. Hance, Agent, Olivet, Mich. 960 YOR SALE—DRUG STORE IN A THRIV- ing Northern Michigan resort town. Stock invoices avout $1,500. Best of reasons for selling. bright new stock, good trade. Address Bower's Drug Store, Indian River, Mich. 947 : SALE—SILUCK GhNERAL MERCHAN- dise, invoicing from $?,500 to $2,800, in good farming district at one of the best trading points between Grand Rapids and Cadillac. Good rea- sons for selling. Address No. 916, care Michigan Tradesman. 945 YOR SALE, CHEAP—$1,500 STOCK GEN- eral merchandise. Address No. 945, care Michigan Tradesman. 945 Ve SALE OR EXCHANGE—A STOCK OF dry goods, boots and shoes, etec., in the best town iu Central Michigan. Address No. 943, care Michigan Tradesman. 943 AKGAIN. DRUG STOCK, BUILDING and lot, invoicing $1,750. Must be sold be- fore Sept. 1, 1901. Write for particulars. Ad- dress No. 952, care Michigan Tradesman. 952 DRY GUUDs, Kee SALE-—STUCK OF shoes and groceries; invoice $4,000; goods bought new last year; will sell part or whole of stovk; located in small town in Michigan; splen- did country trade and townis growing. Address M , care Michigan Tradesman. 934 Kok SALE OR EXCHANGE—A GENERAL stock of merchandise in Southern Michigan, inventurying about $5,000. Will sell or traue all or part for good timbered land or summer resort ee Address No. 929, care Michigan radesman. 929 ye SALE—AN Al STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise, invoicing $20,000, doing a good healthy, strictly cash business. Best store in town of 800; have big farmers’ trade and get good p:ofits. Double store room, brick, good basement, solid plate glass front, gas and steam heat. Will sell or rent building. Am retiring from mercantile business, have other interests that require my attention. No trades consid- ered. and don’t write unless you mean business. W. W. Mitchell, Wood River, Neb. 928 NOR SALE—BEST MONEY-MAKING GRO- cery in the State, all sales spot cash; old es- tablished stand, 40x80; low rent; stock about $5,000; can reduce to suit; no unsalable goods; making over $3,000 net = annum. The Phila- delphia Chemical Co. is building a plant near my store. It appropriated nine million dollars for this; our ship yards built the famous Erie and Tashmo, and are building two vessels to cost over half a million each; have two large soda and many other plants; thisis the second largest shipping point in the State; our postoffice rates second; reason for selling, wish to take an in- terest in a wholesale grocery in Detroit. Carl Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 3 OR SALE—TWO GOOD _ BUSINESS chances; best small stock groceries in South- ern Michigan, and one-half interest in general stock. Oceana county; best location in the towns; ill health only cause for selling. Address Lock Box 418, Hudson, Mich. 938 VOR SALE OR RENT—TWO BRICK STORES connected with arch, 22x80 each; suitable for department or general store, of which we have need here; will rent one or both. Write P. O. Box 556, Mendon, Mich. 936 TOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE for sale. Box 108, Rathbone, Mich. 922 OMEYN-PARSONS PAYS CASH FOR stocks of merchandise (not a trader or broker). Grand Ledge, Mich. 920 OR SALE—AN UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE and implement stock, invoicing $3,000; lo- cated in Northern Michigan; doing a good busi- ness. Address No. 913, care Michigan Trades- man. 913 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 sellin , have other business elsewhere that will require all of my attention. Address No. 856, care Michigan 856 Tradesman. VOR 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 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 MISCELLANEOUS AN-AMERICAN ACCOMMODATIONS AT private house, conveniently located. Lodg- ing, one dollar each Address LeRoy S. Oat- man, Sec’y, Buffalo Produce Exchange. 917 ANTED—BY A YOUNG MARRIED MAN a position in a ~~ or general store. References. Address L. R. May, Star City, Mich. 978 N EXPERIENCED SALESLADY WISHES position in dry goods store. Best of refer- ences and recommendations. Address Miss VY. B., care Michigan Tradesman. 971 _ TU WORK IN LUMBER yard, saw mill and woods; also blacksmith and carpenters. Wolverine, Mich. ANTED—WOMAN COOK, GikKLS AND chore boy for boarding house. Address Lumber Co., Wolverine, Mich. 962 Address Haak Lumber Co., 961 ¥ @ NOHOHOROHONONOROROHOROROHOHORONOHOHOROHORORoROEORS ’ i ‘ e z raveiers Ime abies, | ° e ud e If you want to secure more than ’ a y S Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association p ERE M ARQUETTE ‘i € = P — <= Wataun, — a A oe —_== oo ent, J. H. HOPKINS, Ypsilanti; Secretary, 5 _ “ ® a E. A. Srowk, Grand Rapids: Treasurer, J. F: Railroad and Steamship Lines. a ° e TATMAN, Clare. Fast trains are operated from Grand Rapids ~/ a Lave a gp , : a i : a i e Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association to Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Saginaw, Bay City, r Petoskey ani sIr . ®@ In Cash Profits IN IQOI, and in addition IVE @ | president, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, Homer | P°foskey, a. etsice, Muskegon, Tene a “A e th h : f : ® KuaP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN erse City, Alma, Lansing, Belding, Benton Har- | a Orougn Satisfaction to your patrons, the Sale of . i bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points, making ~ i but one dozen per day of a Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association — sri ” — WS Sake oer Se e S Preeident, E. Manxs: § tari “ £ south and west, at Detroit and Toledo with : ee a nme: core yn * | trains east and southbound. Try the “Mid-Day x» 4¢@ a 3 e KoEnIG and F. H. Cozzens; Treasurer, C. e FLEISCH MANN & co. S a H. FRINK. Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids 12:05 and 12:10 . . ' S a noon, each week day, arriving at Detroit 4:05 [ ¥ L WwW Kalamazoo Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’ Association p. m. and Chicago 5:00 p. m. s E LO LABEL = President, E. P. CRoss; Secretary, HENRY J. H. F. MoELLER, G. P. ya \, {COMPRESSED YEAST ee § *tirasthotirezatinns, we Wovrans Do B ena . 8 one . ’ ae il } a e ; s Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association Rapids & Indiana Railway | 2 will secure that result 2 ieee © = Waren: Secretary, Bo July 1, 1901 e : a ITTLE, , ° te — . = i r i cc f = e Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St. = Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association _ ar ee Su ex Su exSu e President, H. B. SMITH; Secretary, D. A.| Lv Gd Rapids........ 405p 745a 200p 1045p + *mOHOROROHONCZOROROZOROROEOROROHORONCHOHOReEOEOECHOS BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Ar. Cadillac.......... 645a 11254 440p 2 10a panels Ar. Brat City.... 8302 130p 6650p ..... . «3s Ar. Petogkey......... 930a 250p 7235p 5 35a Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association Ar. Mackinaw City...11 20a 55a, 2 President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W | Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm, ar’g at 9:00pm. H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m, 11:30 oo am, 12:20 p m,5:15 p m and 9:20 p m. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association Gs acta te ex Su Daily President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F.| Ly. G’d Rapids. 7 10a 1 50p 600p 1230p 9 35p CLEVELAND; Treasurer, ‘WM. C. KOEHN Ar. Kalamazoo. 850a 322p 7 45p 145p 1055p a Ar. a hd gas 10p 650p ToCnicago 1 45a . ’ sae AP Cinema 62 6 55a Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association Trains arrive from the south at 3:55am and President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc- 7:20am daily, 1:5¢pm, 9:35pm and 10:05pm except PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. Sunday.i LL Pullman sleeping or parlor cars on all through . . . ae trains 4:05am ‘‘Northland Express”’ has dining Traverse City Business Men’s Association car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. 2:00pm President, 1HOS T. BATES; Secretary, M. B. train going north has buffet car to Harbor HOLLY; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Springs. 9:35pm train going south has through sleeping cars to Cincinnati, St. Louis, Indianap- olis and Louisville daily. 7 a Excep ixcep xcept MUSKEGO. Sunday Sunday Sunday Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7 35am 1 53pm 5 40pm a Ar. Muskegon........ 9 00am 3 10pm 7 00pm “ ; ae Sunday train leave Grand Rapids at 9:15am. Pt, Hurvas Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 7:00pm. President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. | Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm. PERCIVAL. Trains arrive from Muskegon at 9:30am daily, ——_ ae ae 5:20pm except Sunday and 8:00pm Alpena Business Men’s Association oe 7 P t, F. W. GILcHRisr; be CHICAGO TRAINS Si i a 5s S — 7 a, c © G. R. & | and Michigan Central. | . cae Except -_ Calumet Business Men’s Association a Pee pp aie Sunday Daily : Vv. G’ apids (Union depot) 12 30pm 9 35pm Hosa: D- Cuppriy; Secretary w. H. | LV. Chicago (12th St. Stat on) 525pm 6 55am i ———— conga ae : runs ~— vd _——— with Pull- i ) iati man buffet parlor car attached. St. Johns Business Men 8 Association 9:30pm train has through coach and Pullman ———, —— a ee RANK | sleeping car. 3 rer, CL ‘ : ne ee FROM CHICAGO Sundey Dally : ae Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm 11 30pm Porry Business Men’s Association Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot) 10 05pm 7 29am President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. 5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with HEDDLE. Pullman buffet parlor ear attached. Vers: 11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association nl President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W Ver-| Take G. R. & I. to Chicago HOEKS. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHas. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK 50 cents to Muskegon A quick and easy method of| Purnery. ’ ‘ and Return Every Sunday President, MARTIN BIRCH; Secretary, C. D. proval, and fcr petty accounts RICHARDS; Treasurer, WM. SMITH. ee . se “te” SUPERIOR TO ELECTRICITY and costs less than Kerosene Oil. The wonder of the age! A_ 100 Candle Power Light for one week for 2 cents. keeping your accounts. Es- Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association . ‘ President, JoHN G. EBLE; Secretary, L. J. pecially handy for keeping ac-| Katz; Treasurer 9° J. HUFFoRD. count of goods let out on ap- Muskegon Retail Butchers’ Association with which one does not like to encumber the regular ledger. By using this file or ledger for charging accounts, it will save one-half the time and cost of keeping a set of books. Each Lamp Makes and Burns Its Own Gas! NO ODOR! Charge goods, when purchased, directly on file, then your cus- NO SMOKE! NO DIRT! tomer’s bill is always Perfectly safe. Over 100 styles for indoor and outdoor use. Ever Lamp warranted, Sells at Sight. Agents coining money. Write at once, The Best Light Co. 82 E. 5th St., Canton, O. PayPiaiay ready for him, and, can be found quickly, » {@ on account of the special index. This Saves you looking over several leaves of a day book if not posted, when a customer comes in to pay an account and you are busy wait- vane ney” ing on a prospective buyer. : GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids a Combination Show Cases Are our specialty. We have been manufacturing them for ten years. Our cases are made by skilled workmen in a factory which is fully equipped with modern machinery and as we are making our cases in large quantities we are able to offer AT REASONABLE PRICES a line of goods the design, finish and construction of which can not be excelled Our catalogue shows a very complete line and we have cases suitable for the display of any line of goods. Write us for cata- logue and discounts. Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan 9299393993939999399999393393999 3339 South lonia and Bartlett Sts. . SE SE OR wa aR GE GE SR wR aR SR aR Pwm a f ‘We Have a Plan} that will establish any retail business on a cash basis and draw a large increase of cash business in a wonderfully short time. Ir 1s a swocess. The cost is small. It’s free for the asking, Don’t delay. Write us at once. Trio Silver Co., 133 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IIl. BD a. a ew ‘ii aetiaaiiescaaiiees i eee SE OE OR HR. . . G,. a. SEALED sTlchy CATCHES THE GERM AS WELL AS THE FLY. _ Sanitary. Used the worldover. Good profit to sellers. Order from Jobbers. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Write for our Catalogue, ‘‘ The Commercial Traveler,” if you are thinking of adding to your business or of going into a new business. We solicit a share of your patronage and aim to retain your trade by giving full value at the lowest prices. Catalogue sent to merchants on request. Don’t wait—mail us your order. Diamond Fly Paper Galvanized Iron Tubs In double sheets 9x16 inches. Patent No. 1, best grade, per doz............... 5 45 wax border edges which prevents run- No. 2, best grade, per doz......... i 6 00 ning or dripping. 25 double sheets (50 No. 3. best grade, per doz............... 6 90 single) in fancy box, per box............ $ Wood Butter Dishes Per case of 10 fancy boxes............... 2 76 Wire Ends, 250 in Crate. Brooms 1 Ib. size, per erate.........5..0...-..... 42 In spite of strong advance in broom 2 Ib. size, per crate...... Oe eee cs 7 corn we quote as follows while the 21D. Se Por CMe 2.2 ss ce 57 stock lasts. Our special bargains: Gib. Size, per erate... 66 ‘Leader,’ medium fine, 3 colored sew- Stone Butter Crocks ie per G07 Fine White Glaze, ‘“‘“Macomb” Brand. “Belle,” choice quality, 23 Ibs., 4 col- 4% wal. (5 Ibs.). per doz.............-.-.: 48 ored sewings, fancy lock finish, a fine a pal. 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