BN FFE RFS LOB DINE LER EC 9 RENO GOR OA EAST ME f . VEE S77 OOF WOE (FON SC: @ ee 3 KAY'S : ASS ZINTA ( . # a Oe CE NG al Macsere cece MISSA ee 22d) A Gen Py 5 SQ re . a ENC — e Vi x ) YAO Zi 2 ; ry oy 2 Ee fh GaN 7 NR G9 CGE) SE CR BN) 39 oS \* ae eG Zp! ae y a KOC CC EASE \( POSE IS Re RO Ro) yo EW) TOONS NG aes (CTS IN Ws ae WZ LOG NIN SON -@ PUBLISHED WEEKLY YONGE: Brea 7e TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS2 230) 9 Ste $d PER YEAR 2 + SARC SB I ELE SSS STS IDOI SA NN BB ooo. wT € The Best Is the Cheapest There's room for argument here, but there’s none Eighteenth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1901. Number 933 when the CHEAPEST IS ALSO THE BEST. BEACON FALLS are the pest first quality rubbers on the market and the cuEapEst. WZ W~ WA THE BEACON FALLS RUBBER SHOE CO. f BEACON FALLS, CONN. ; Made in all styles. Write for catalogue. 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 5 free. Correspondence solicited. | TRADESMAN COMPANY . GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . WHEAT GRITS 1 Contain the Heart of the Wheat With the addition of — and milk (or cream). or sugar and butter, they are an } y ideal and complete foo No better Cereal Food can be produced and the price is | less than that asked for other and less desirable cereals: Easily cooked, delicious q to eat, easy to digest, easy to buy ($2.00 per case of 24 2-lb. packages). Walsh=-DeRoo Milling Co., Holland, Mich. d Z \ SRV ~+ - | Bay Shore Standard Lime Nearly every dealer who has corresponded with us has bought from us and every dealer who nas bought is satished and so are his customers. EGG BAKING POWDER Home Office, 80 West street, New York. Western Office, 42 R'ver St., Chicago, Branch Offices: Indianapolis Detroit Cincinnati Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Columbus is the leader because it sells easier, — Hf 2 than any other lime on the market. Better send for prices and further in- = ae formation. : - BAY SHORE LIME CO., Bay Shore, Mich. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAARAAAAA AAA AR A AA AARAAARAAAAAAAR - : slacks quicker and does more work ‘ Fo a ret — Plug ~*~ } y Cadac’ askin = * MADE BY THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO C0. (Gnderendane ~+ - ee at AGAINST THE TRUST. See Quotations in Price Current. Vue Ve lee fl + Grocers Will Please Commit to Memory= —- 1 wn) ee ‘ \ ROASTED xx» PACKED BY : Mee im \ r -. a : PRINCIPAL COFFEE ROASTERS BOSTON.MASS..U.S.A. The most reliable Coffees—those best developed—the most excellent Coffees—are roasted and packed by Dwinell-Wright Co., Boston—with Western offices in Chicago. This firm, one of the oldest in the United States, does not confine one’s selection to a few brands—as do many of its contemporaries—but offers a choice from Over Forty Different Coffees—from which the grocer can pick those best adapted to his peculiar needs; quite an advantage, isn’t it? Dwinell-Wright Co., it must be remem- bered, has done more to promote the sale of good coffees than any other firm in the world, and its business reputation and the completeness of its modern facilities far exceed those of its competitors. Certainly a plausible reason why it can serve the trade at competitive figures and with dependable coffees. Your next duty obviously will be to buy Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Coffees. : 4 ' 4 l : a — ape ‘ i 1 ‘ The following houses are exclusive agents for Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Boston Roasted in the State of Michigan: OLNEY & JUDSON GRO. CO., Grand Rapids, [lich. _ SYMONS BROS. & CO., Saginaw, [lich. : C. ELLIOTT & CO., Detroit, [lich. JACKSON GROCER CO., Jackson, [lich. B. DESENBERG & CO., Kalamazoo, lich. MEISEL & GOESCHEL, Bay City, [lich. moaa'nealainaatalanaiaainaaiatalnnatatnnaiata aan ataiaia aaa a9 ' a eget ' \ —* \ r b -. he ~~ 4 ' 4 - we a ¥ ! 4 wy oy in N zy : | aa Y A & Aun Se, Flee _ AA _ OWA 22 Tey US a if 4 ) ba, A DESMAN Volume XVIII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1901. Number 933 THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841, R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classitication of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. C. E. McCRONE, [anager. eo Gin 9 37 » Conservative, Safe. J.W. js Pres. W. FRED McBar, feed 0000000000060000000000- ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. — ° a > > b > bn > bn bo FEV EC VVUVUVUVVUY islets, WILLIAM CONNOR WHOLESALE READYMADE CLOTHING @ ¢@ ¢ for all ages. Removed to William Alden Smith block, 28 and 30 South Ionia street. 3 Open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday to 1 p. m. Mail orders promptly attended to. Customers’ expenses allowed. 90000000 00000000 0000 A. BOMERS, ..Commercial Broker.. And Dealer in Cigars and Tobaccos, 157 E. Fulton St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. ASSOCIATE OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES State Bank of Michi; igan Tradesman, Grand Ra) eo Collector and Commercia Lawyer and Preston National Bank, Detr References: and Mich- ~ Tradesman Coupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Street Fair Week. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. 10. Clothing. 11. Dry Goods. 12. Shoes and Rubbers. 16. Saw the Town. 18. Hardware. 19. Window Dressing. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Butter and Eggs. 23. The New York Market. 24. Clerks’ Corner. 25. Commercial Travelers. 26. Drugs and Chemicals. 2%. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 29. Grocery Price Current. 30. Grocery Price Current. 31. Supplies Not Equal to Demand. Hardware Price Current. In the Toils. 32. MOSQUITO LORE. The New York Board of Health has adopted the theory that the germ of malarial fever can exist only in the hu- man body and_ declared war on the ‘‘anopheles’’ mosquito which contracts the disease by biting malarial patients and subsequently communicates it to other persons. The Board has also de- cided to ask the assistance of physicians in spreading knowledge of the true cause of malaria and of measures of prevention, and in the collection of data which will aid it in fighting the disease. In this connection it is worth while to note that Dr. L. O. Howard, of the Department of Agriculture, who has made the subject one of deep study, has classified the American mosquito as far as recognized. It appears that the ano- pheles and the culex are the most com- mon of the American mosquitoes, and of these the latter are supposed to ex- ceed in number. Yet the anaopheles is the more dangerous, for this species is supposed to be the one which gorges on the blood of malarial persons to convey the parasite to healthy victims, thus in- oculating them. Should a man of a scientific bent of mind, awakened in the stilly watches of the night, succeed in capturing his tormentor, he can eas- ily determine to which species it be- longs. Carefully grasping it between thumb and forefinger or impaling it upona pin, he can see the antennae. If they are densely covered with long hairs the specimen is a male and can be released with the assurance that he has never bitten the investigator, nor will he ever do so. On the other hand, should the hairs be short and sparse it is a female, and should he discover a_ yellowish white spot near three-fourths of the length of the front margin of the wing, or find that the palpi is wholly black, let him beware, for he holds in his hand the deadly anophele, the distrib- utor of malarial germs and the dis- turber of peaceful nights. By examining its legs he can find if it has scales. If it has he is the captor of a culex, a voracious species. Per- haps it has a straight proboscis and a brown or yellow body. This is a meg- arbinus and not of much account. megarhinus is a blue-blooded Southern mosquito and seldom gets further North than the Distrct of Columbia. Should its legs have many nearly erect scales and a yellowish brown body, then it is of the genus psorophera, the largest of the yellow or brown mosquitoes. But if it is an adult and seems to be an un- der-sized, insignificant looking insect of apparently harmless tastes, it is likely to be one of the genus aedes, the small- est of mosquitoes, All members of the human race are strongly advised to make it a point to kill one of the anopheles whenever pos- sible, and the destruction of the culex is recommended. It is also well to an- nihilate the psorophera, megarhinus and aedes. In case of a doubt existing as to the species, it is suggested that the victim destroy it without delay. BRAINS AND BEAUTY. A sensation was lately produced in Paris by the declaration of a noted French writer that the reign of beauty is over and that the brainy woman is gradually assuming the throne so long occupied by the possessor of loveliness of face and form. The declaration has given rise to widespread discussion and has provoked comment on this side of the Atlantic. It is considered remark- able that such a declaration should be made in Paris, the home of women fa- mous for their exquisite charm. The brainy woman is probably met with more often to-day than ever before. The advantages which women have enjoyed during recent generations have brought to many a degree of attraction that they would otherwise have lacked. But has the brainy woman wrested the scepter from the woman of beauty? The woman who possesses intellectual attainments is respected and admired, but is she liked and loved as her beau- tiful sister is? Many plain women have fascinating qualities and they exert a powerful influence in the circles in which they move, but do they rule hearts as the beauties do? The brainy woman is apt to be regarded as a queer creature, especially if she has no abil- ity to amuse, and is essentially serious in her temperament. The _ heautiful woman, it is true, can not hold the throne unless she has some degree of in- telligence or cleverness, but there is no escaping the conclusion that beauty still constitutes the chief asset in a woman’s fortune. This is demonstrated by the conduct of women themselves. Never in the world’s history have women prized beauty more than they do to-day. Never were there so many methods employed to develop and _ pre- serve beauties of feature and figure. The average woman devotes quite as much attention to the improvement of her looks as to the improvement of her mind; and in doing so she is wise. Beauty and brains are both to be de- sired and the truly charming woman is apt to possess a happy combination of mental and physical graces. It is no trouble to see that wealth is a curse—so long as the other fellow has it. The GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The fact that the steel strikes came at a time when stock values were near their highest average for many years made it easier for their influence to affect values than it would if the level was lower. It is not strage then that the progress of the strike should be attended by a considerable decline in prices led by the steel interests. It is impossible that the threat of a long struggle under such circumstances should not have a marked speculative effect. That the decline is purely the result of the labor contest is show by the fact that there is no abatement in business activity or important yielding in prices of com- modities in any direction. Continued rains in the grain region are putting the yellow cereal into a better condition than was thought pos- sible a few days ago. While there will be less of the corn crop than last year, wheat promises to exceed expectations and the aggregate vaiue of both grains will keep up to that of last season at least. There are two significant indications of the strength of the general situation, viz., the continued increase in railway earnings and the unequaled bank clear- ings for the season. About every road in the country reports a steady gain in traffic, notwithstanding the heat of mid- summer, when trade is supposed to be quiet. Bank clearings for July were 50 per cent. more than for the same month last year and exceeded those of any July on record. In the woolen trade come reports that Eastern manufacturers are all busy and that present prices are heing declined for future delivery. Wool is improving a little in strength as the new clip comes forward, such price changes as occur being upward. Cotton goods are quiet with fair export movement. Slow domestic markets and light foreign de- mand tend to a weakness in the price of cotton. While sales of footwear are at unchanged prices,the shops are many of tnem engaged for months ahead and refuse contracts for future delivery. The weakness in leather and hides caused by the drouth scare has recov- ered in the improved situation. There was a fear that with the inter- ruption in the steel manufacture on ac- count of the strike the price of the raw materials would suffer, but so far every- thing is sold promptly and no sign of weakness is manifest. Good foreign contracts are being secured in struc- tural shapes in spite of British and German competition. Since the adjust- ment of the machinery strikes there is renewed activity and strength in that line. It is estimated that the waste from unintelligent cooking in the United States is over $1,000,000,000 a year. This figure has been indorsed by Prof. William Matthew as about correct. Prof. Marshall, the noted English economist, estimates that about half as much is wasted annually by the work- ing people of Great Britain in a simi- lar way. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People The Proper Use of the Circular and Hand- bill. There is a general contention on the part of authorities and writers on public- ity that the best means of reaching the people is through the daily or weekly press. As a general proposition this contention is doubtlessly correct, but there are cases where the columns of a newspaper that will reach the merchant's constituency may not be available, or it may be desirable to supplement the work of the regular medium by other means. It is worth while, then, to con- sider the proper use of the much abused circular and handbill. The conventional handbill of the coun- try printer is often a curious produc- tion. In many cases there is such a de- mand for auction bills and small posters that a press and type are kept for the special work. The paper employed is the cheapest print, the ink little better than tar and the printing rollers have seen so long service that all printing qualities have long since departed. The product of such apparatus may meet the needs of the auction bill or the requirements of the law in notices of legal sales, but they are poor representa- tives for the wares of the progressive merchant. The use of such crude ma- terials may save a few cents on the work but its principal convenience to the printer lies in the fact that no care is required to keep them in proper con- dition for their work. A press for good work must be kept in perfect order and good ink and rollers rapidly deteriorate in quality and must be used and fre- quently renewed. On this account it is more difficult for the merchant to get the best work and he is tempted to ac- cept the vile stuff that comes from slov- enly neglect. Even when the handbill or circular is the product of more care it is usual to make the mistake of trying to express too much. The merchant is too apt to think it must include everyhing to be effective and so he crowds it with mat- ter until he precludes all possibility of its being read. In the preparation of a handbill or circular the same rules should apply as in preparing advertising for any other medium. Instead of trying to enum- erate all the articles in the store iet it -be confined to a few leading ones, bet- ter one or two, that will serve to inter- est. Let the display be simple and as far as possible in a uniform style of letter, instead of showing a mixture of all the incongruous faces in the print- er’s collection. The difference is that the eye is attracted by artistic suitabil- ity, while a hodge podge of styles is re- pugnant and is instinctively avoided: Don’t try to say too much. Select something that you think can be made to interest and say about that what you think will be interesting. Avoid solid paragraphs and make your language as simple and candid in manner as pos- sible. The object of the handbill, as of any other advertising, is to bring the customer to the store—it will not sell the goods. But possibly a still more difficult problem than the production of the bill is its circulation. Too often this work is delegated to the small boy whose idea is to get rid of them as expeditiously as possible. If entrusted to the hands of distributors it should be to those espe- ‘ cially instructed in the work and who have some judgment as to placing them where they will be of use. GREAT Mid-Summer SS. eee Clearance Sale! prices we are making on all these goods. For the next 30 days we will sell all Summer goods at greatly reduced prices, as it is our aim to keep nothing but a good clean stock and to have the odds and ends all cleaned up. Be sure and get one of our bills and see the 3 Sale Commences July 17 and Closes August 17'0] RUT O TY UTA aT Warmer & Sackett. Snennananenennnnnnnnnnnnnnannnens buh ha he be be bb hi bn hn by ty A Ww Abr br tna ha bn bn bn he bn hr he tn tn br th he bn tn ht tp FF FGF VV VO VV OEE VUVUVUVUVUVUVeUVUUY > DR.E.S.DOOD&SON. 3 y + DRUGGISTS AND BOOK SELLERS. > > BUCHANAN = MICHIGAN. 2 , We would respectfully request all who are indebted to us ta 3 > call and pay their accounts 4 y > Many sre small, some are large, we want both. We have > us. We hope that you will each take this as a personal matter » a give it your attention at jour carliest convenience. $ that are mentioned below. must be got out of the way at this time of the year to make room for fail and winter goods.: We might call it a rem- e ° e es es e ® e es e e e e e e e eo e a Ccccccccevccccces WE are going to have a genume eleaning up sale now, on goods Such goods nant sale, as it is just what is left of the summer goods, and they will go at About One-Half Off Ladies’ shirt waists, ladies’ summer skirts, ladies’ fancy underskirts, white and colored dress goods, ladies’ gauze underwear, wrappers, summer jackets and capes, silks and satins, towels by the pair, colored table and bed spreads, stock collars and rosettes, mosquito netting, etc.. In our other lines—boots, shoes, clothing and men’s furnishings —we will give great reductions. Space will not permit us to say all that we would like, but ask you to see us before you buy. Do it as a favor to yourself, as we are bound to beat competition at this time of the year regardless of cost. Don’t fail to see us now. If you don’c buy come anyway and sée that we'do just as we advertise, so you can tell those who want to buy. R. Schomberger’s Main Street. Next to The Tavern. FV VV VV VT VVC VVVUUVUWTUUCCCe pprccooccccscoocosqcceeEmmecooooosoose‘ss CLEAN-UP} Centrai Lake. Mich. Kee-Wah Coffee should be drank in 500 Hastings homes and in 500 more in the vicin- ity. We will refund youi money if it does not please you.. The BEST 35c Coffee in Hastings. GC, W, CLARKE & COMPANY, becssecescese eesesesoese secccace OUR COAL q MANES WARM FRIEND... STOCK FRESA AND COMrLeia i The Miller, Ryder & Winterbara OMPANY. 24W Main st ‘ See eecssaceses secnshesesecs THETRAMPSAID se expan fountain pen for n never Pen idk gold finely finished and every one warraated. Only $1.00 each. Regu: lar price $1.75, WELLS & MORGAN Cattle ron s oustle rallied for tech Urposes, Sud fed and nied for Youd purpose it haven't been getting meat Secs, Say tecoiocen fut a der? LEON J. IVES, Successor to C. vee & Son. © ‘Where credit ts pore = eettle- ments m 0960409 09905000009 TO THE E PUBLICS , t. WHITEREAD 3 125-127 Mich. Ave. East. 00999000990 099008 SSO HOOCOHHC OOS OEOCOOOOOO i OP 00666106000 6O0600G OO o There are localities where the papers do not cover a merchant's clientage effectually or where he must pay for | much circulation that does him no good. This may. be suppiemented by circulars, either for handing out or, what is better, for circulating through the mails when the expense is not too great. For this the work should be as artistic as possible. Often it may well be a four page folder, printed on both sides, and just adapted to fit a good, white, regu- lar size envelope. Let the matter be small in quantity on each page. The inside may be occupied by the special object of the circular, while the first is devoted to a general notice of the store and the last to attractive reasons for trading therein. * * Warner & Sackett have a correct idea of the amount of matter for their space. Their announcement of the midsummer sale is well worded and to the point. I should have spaced the ‘‘clearance sale'’ further to the right and should not have tried to make a full line of the name at the bottom and should have used type to correspond with the other display. As a general rule duns through the press are not good business practice. If it gains the attention of the debtor at all the impression given is not a pleas- ant one—it does not incline him to come into the store. Then the impression is not good for those who do not owe. If the merchant has been so unfortunate as to get too many on his books it is a matter which should be kept from the public and more direct means should he employed to remedy the trouble. The design of Dr. E. S. Dood & Son’s ad- vertisement is good and the printer's work is deserving of that which will be of more use in trade getting. Another clean-up sale, that of R. Schomberger’s, is as well handled by the printer as is possible with so much matter. with about one-half of the matter the re- sult would have been read ten times where this will be once. There is ma- terial here for a good advertisement, but it wants heroic trimming. The print- er’s display could not be better. C. W. Clark & Co. have an effective- _jly worded and displayed advertisement for Kee-Wah coffee. I have an idea that I would try again on a name be- fore I tried to gain the public ear; but I have known of successes with perhaps as outlandish designations as this. A taking little catch is that of the Miller, Ryder & Winterburn Company. A uniform style of type would per- haps not be practical here. Wells & Morgan make a good turn on the traits of the tramp and the pen which is calculated to amuse and gain attention. The printer’s work would be improved with a lighter border. Leon J. [ves has a well worded butch- er’s announcement which is well handled by the printer. It would have been better if the side border had extended all around. Iam not in favor of pub- lishing terms of business in an adver- tisement unless they are cash. R. C. Whitehead has a formal an- noucement of his resuming business, which is well handled by the printer. ——* 6 .___- Learned the Difference. Mother—What! Have you been fight- ing again, Johnnie? Good little boys don’t fight. Johnnie—Yes, I know that. I thou “ he was a pd little boy, but after I him once | found he wasn’t. —__-»- 4. _____. Never threaten to kiss a prett rie girl— always beg ner pardon afterwa Had the writer been content . & | 4 - > —_ \ =" | » < > ( , - Zw Leen »~ 9 meh - MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Royal is the baking powder of highest character and _ reputa- tion, the favorite among house- keepers. ‘The cheapest to con- sumers, the most profitable for dealers to handle. Those grocers who are most successful in business—who have the greatest trade, highest reputation, the largest bank ac- counts—are those who sell the highest quality, purest, best known articles. It is a discredit to a grocer to sell impure, adulterated and unwholesome goods; nor is the sale of such goods, even though the profits on a single lot may be larger, as profitable in the long run as the sale of pure, wholesome, high-class articles at a less percentage. Trade is won and held by the sale of the best, the highest grade, the most reliable goods. 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a Around the State Movements of Merchants. Addison—The M. H. Moore Hardware Co. has sold its stock to Crandall & Lapham. St. Clair—C. E. Spencer has pur- chased the grocery stock of W. H. Chevalier. Lansing—Longyear Bros. succeed Horton Longyear in the furniture and carpet business. Benton Harbor—The Hopkins Drug Co. is the style of the new firm which succeeds F. S. Hopkins. Ann Arbor—Miss A, F. Lovell suc- ceeds Henry R. Lovell in the variety and fancy goods business. Hillsdale—Wallace Foote has _ pur- chased the interest of his patrner in the grocery firm of Hiller & Foote. Wayland—John C. Yeakey has re- engaged in the meat business. He will occupy the building owned by him. Saugatuck—John Bright has sold his drug stock to O. B. Jerrells, formerly prescription clerk for H. J. Crawford, the Ithaca druggist. Charlevoix—Luke & Jones have sold their drug stock to A. B. Fleischer, of Detroit, who will continue the business at the same location. Kalamazoo—The coal, wood, flour and feed firm of the Miller, Ryder & Winterburn Co. has merged its busi- ness into a corporation under the same style. Athens—A. E. Underwood, who has been engaged in the mercantile business here for the past twenty-five years, has sold his stock to C. G. Morris, of Pine Creek. Leslie—L. M. Russell has sold his stock of dry goods and clothing to Ben- jamin Stern & Co., of Croswell. The business will be continued at the same location. Nashville—Henry Glasner has pur- chased the general merchandise stock formerly owned by Merritt & Messimer and removed it to his building on South Main streeet. Fennville—The furniture and under- taking firm of Dickinson & Hutchins has dissolved partnership, W. W. Hutchins continuing the business in his own name. Benton Harbor—Morrow & Stone have purchased the grocery stock of Krieger & Seel, on Territorial street, and ‘are moving the goods to their own store on Water street. Howard City—Fred Holt, of Traverse City, has purchased the W. H. Camp- bell & Son grocery stock. He has not yet decided whether or not he will re- side here permanently. Custer—Sayles & Boughton expect soon to close out their general stock here and engage in the same line of business at Greenland, Ontonagon county, where they found a good opening. Muskegon—R. W. Christie has en- gaged in the hardware business, having purchased the J. A. Miller stock for $3,100 from trustee R. A. Fleming. The stock inventoried $5, 350. Port Huron—Frank Faulkner, who has conducted a butter, egg and fruit commission house on Water street, has retired from business. He has entered the employ of the Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. - Kalamazoo—F,. N. Maus has sold his drug stock at the corner of East Main and Edward streets to his nephew, Frank J. Maus, of Hastings, who will continue the business at the present lo- cation under the style of the City drug store. eer . Williamston—Frank P. Van Buren’s new cold storage is now well under con- struction. The old cold storage plant, which was burned last spring, was a model one, but this one will be about one-half larger and as nearly complete in every detail as it can be made. Menominee—The interest of the late Frank Penberthy in the wholesale gro- cery firm of Penberthy, Cook & Co., has been suld to the other partners, W. O. Carpenter and C. I. Cook. The price is withheld, but it is understood that the estate realized a substantial sum. For the present the firm name will re- main unchanged. Charlotte—S. G. Newman, who pur- chased the stock of the late F. H. McGrath and, after adding materially to it, engaged in the grocery business here, having decided to return to Union City, has sold the stock to W. N. Har- mon and Fred Stocking, who have al- ready taken possession. Saginaw—J. J. Friedman, of Michi- gan City, Ind., has purchased the stock of ladies’ suits, cloaks, etc., of R. C. Buehler & Co. and will conduct the business hereafter at 215 Genesee ave- nue. H.C. Miller, who has had charge of the business since the death of Mr. Buehler, some years ago, will retire from business. Saline--This town boasts of the sole and only acetylene city lighting plant in Michigan. P. W. Shults, of Ypsi- lanti, is one of the promoters of the en- terprise and it will be put in operation at the time of the Saline celebration, Aug. 14. Delegations will be present from Wayne and other neighboring places to see how the thing works. Adrian—The drug stock of L. T. Lochner has been disposed of to out- side parties, Dr. O. E. Pratt, of Ypsi- lanti, and Burt L. Hayden, of Belle- ville, being the purchasers. Mr. Locd- ner will continue to push the Huron remedies, the laboratories being located in the upper stories of the building in which he has formerly been conducting business. Ypsilanti—Only two Ypsilanti busi- ness men have refused to sign the agree- ment to close business houses for the Put-in-Bay excursion on Aug. 14—one for the reason that he does not propose to stop doing business for anything short of death and the other because he dislikes affixing his signature to such a document, although he says he has no objection to closing if his competitors will do the same. Marquette—Local merchants are not paying the $25 license fee required by the new city ordinance very freely. Less than half their number have called on the City Recorder to obtain their li- censes. This ordinance was designed to afford the business men protection and the city officials express surprise that they do not hasten to fulfill its con- ditions. A query being put in many circles asks, ‘‘Is this but another of these ordinances made mainly that they may be neglected?’’ Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—Adler, Berlin & Co. suc- ceed the Berlin Cap Co. in the manufac- ture of caps. Marshall—The Michigan Cement Post Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $10,000, Detroit—The Caille Bros. Co. suc- ceeds the Caille-Schiemer Co. in the manufacture of coin machines. _ Bancroft—The Callard Furniture Co. will remove its plant from West Haven to this place. It will give employment to about twenty men. Watervliet—A new creamery enter- prise has been established here under the style of the Watervliet Creamery Co. The capital stock is $3,500. Adrian—The veneering branch fac- tory of Lesh & Young, at Romulus, will be removed to this city and joined to the plant here. This will necessitate the employment of about twenty-five more men. Zeeland—J. P. DePree & Sons have sold their store building to the VerHage Milling Co. for a consideration of $2,000. It is reported that the firm will dispose of the stock and discontinue business, St. James—The shingle mill of Wil- bur Gill burned last week, the loss be- ing estimated at about $5,000. The plant was removed last winter from In- terlochen. Mr. Gill has made arrange- ments to cut his shingle stock at North- port. Cedar Springs—The firm of Miller & Hartman, of the Cedar Springs “Milling Co., has dissolved partnership. The business will be continued under the style of H. Miller & Son. L. N. Bush, representing Mr. Hartman here, has re- turned to Delton. Hart—Articles of incorporation of the Hart Potato Starch Co. have been filed, with a capital stock of $9,000, divided into goo shares, $6,000 having been paid in. The stockholders are C. H. Seager, 300 shares; W. J. Ward, 300 shares, and S. H. Paxton, 3 shares, The Boys Behind the Counter. Saginaw—N. H. Cowles, who had charge of the cloak department of the Bay City Cash Dry Goods Co. for seven years, will take the management of the cloak department of the Metropolitan Dry Goods Co. here about Sept. 1. Petoskey—J. J. Fox, of Grand Rap- ids, has assumed the duties of salesman for the Fochtman Furniture Company, Ltd. Mr. Fox was formerly in the em- ploy of the Heyman Co, St. Ignace—Louis J. Newrnark, of Detroit, has taken a position in the dry goods department of the J. H. Stein- beger store. South Haven—Dr. P. C. Bailey, of Detroit, who was formerly connected with the South Haven drug store, has severed his connection with that store to take a position as pharmacist with Wm. Remus & Co. at the Red Cross pharmacy. Grand Rapids—Corie Dykwell, who has been employed by the Zeeland Cheese Co. as cheesemaker for several years, has taken a clerkship with Otto Bros. Belding—Charles Loree succeeds Bert Beach as clerk in the shoe store of R. R. Edwards. Jennings—W. E. Biglow, who re- cently moved to Cadillac, has secured a position with J. F. Nelson and will move his family back again. Battle Creek—Fred Dowdle has re- signed his position as drug clerk with Erwin & Van Haaften, Jefferson avenue, south, to accept a more profitable one as traveling representative of a Kalamazoo firm. Big Rapids—W. W. Munger, who has been prescription clerk for Geo. F. Fairman for the past eight years, has gone to Traverse City to take charge of the drug department of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. —___—_-¢ 2 Slander on Northern Michigan. The Michigan Farmer recently pub- lished a communication purporting to come from Big Rapids condemning the ‘*pine and hardwood lumbered lands*’ lying north of the north line of Kent county as worthless, the abject poverty of the region being described as fol- lows: The abandoned homes, the deserted villages, the poor, starved livestock, the listless, hopeless aspect of the ma- jority of the people met through all the territory speak no uncertain language and is a living evidence of its being an undesirable field for stock and general farming. When the article appeared in the Farmer, it was supposed that it was ad- mitted through an inadvertance on the part of its editor, and his attention was immediately called to the matter with a view to his correcting, editorially, the statements made by the correspondent. This has not been done, although re- peated demands have been made upon him to do so, and it is therefore reason- able to conclude that the Farmer is de- termined that the statements made con- cerning the northern half of the Lower Peninsula are to stand. ———_>2>__ Annual Picnic of the Copper Country Butchers. Calumet, Aug. 5—The committees ap- pointed at the recent meeting of the Portage Lake Butchers’ Association to make arrangements for the picnic which will be held on Wednesday, August 21, in the Hancock Grove, are hard at work. The butchers of the county are invited and undoubtedly they will enter into the spirit of the annual event with the same vim and vigor that made the picnic at Calumet last year such a suc- cess. No public advertisements have yet been made, but this work is to be commenced next week. The committees on music and lunch have their plans all laid. The Portage Lake butchers will have one of the best parades that has been witnessed for many days and the other butchers of the county will also join in this event. Much interest is created in Calumet, Hancock and Lake Linden as to who will represent these towns in the kill- ing contests. Each town is to have its crack butcher kill a steer and dress it in a race against the others. The steers will be brought to the picnic grounds, and each man will kill his animal and dress it. This contest will not only be interesting to the butchers, but will be watched by numerous others. The fast- est man in each town will be selected for this work, This picnic has become an annual event which many look forward to with pleasure and it will receive the same encouragement and support this sum- mer as it always has in the past. PEACHES WANTED Carlots or Less. M. O. BAKER & CO., TOLEDO, OHIO WRITE OR WIRE US FOR PRICES Miller Standard Soda and Acid Fire Extinguishers Built of heavy copper; 3 gallon capacity; tested to 350 Ibs. per square inch. Made according to specifications of National Board of Fire Underwriters. An extinguisher might save them. Price $12.00. Are your buildings worth protection? Grand Rapids Supply Company 20 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich. wer 40x MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is slightly weaker, prices showing a de- cline of 1-32c, making the present price of 96 deg. test centrifugals 4 5-32c. Re- finers are not in the market and there is little disposition shown to trade. Offerings, however, are limited and holders exhibit no anxiety to market supplies. The dulness of the refined Sugar market is the chief depressing factor. No improvement is expected right away as new crops are not far off and Cuba is holding about 100,000 tons of sugar. The refined market is dull and orders are for immediate use only. Prices for all grades of refined have declined 10 points. Canned Goods—The market for near- ly all lines of canned goods continues very firm and in many _ cases shows marked improvement. The crop re- ports, as a rule, are quite discouraging and help to keep the market very firm. The apple crop is reported almost a failure in the East. The corn pack will not exceed 50 to 70 per cent. of the 1900 pack. The tomato acreage is far below the past five years and the crop is look- ing very bad. At the high range reached by spot tomatoes there is less disposition to buy and few large sales are reported at the moment. Futures have sold very freely, however, and most packers have entirely withdrawn from the market. The unfavorable crop reports and the high price of tin have been largely the cause of the recent heavy buying. Spot stocks of 3 pound tomatoes are exceedingly light and the trade is now thoroughly alive to the strength of the situation, and anything in the nature of a bargain in any line is snapped up quickly. Standard corn is very strong at 2%@sc advance. There is a very urgent demand for these goods, but stocks are light. Fancy grades are firmer in sympathy, but at present little wanted. While peas continue to be neglected in the rush to buy corn, tomatoes and fruits, there are indications of more interest, which seems the commencement of better buy- ing in this line. It may be the forerun- ner of an active demand for peas, which the short Wisconsin pack makes one of the strongest of all the strongly situated lines of canned goods. If buyers sud- denly awake to the strength of peas they will find them not so easily obtainable. They will also find a rapidly advancing market. Wisconsin’s pack was hardly more than half of last year’s. Gallon apples are firmer and very difficult to get at any reasonable price, as stocks are so closely cleaned up. Some _ hold- ers who have fair stocks are asking an advance of 10@25c per dozen. Practic- ally no future gallon apples are offered, as packers do not feel disposed to sell goods until they have them actually in the cans. Peaches are high and in good demand. Salmon on the spot is quiet and unchanged. There isa _ very greatly improved run of salmon on the Columbia River and reports from the Puget Sound indicate that a _ record breaking run of sockeyes is in progress there. Reports from the Coast say that the Columbia River Packers’ Associa- tion is handling 3,500 cases of salmon per day. Other packers are doing equally well, but it is impossible to handle all the fish caught during this unprecedented run. The pack to date is about 225,000 cases and, should the supply hold until August 15, the pack will reach about 475,000 cases. This pack can be put up with one-third the present supply, for gill netters are not taking one-sixth of the fish that could be caught, contenting themselves with one drift daily. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market is doing better and the demand is greatly increased by the failure of the crops of many of the small fruits. We are receiving still further advices in re- gard to the evaporated apple crop and it looks now as though the crop will not be over one-quarter of last year’s out- put, which means that apples wili prac- tically cease to be a factor in the fruit market this season and, as they are the great leveler of prices for all classes of dried fruit, it is easy to see what that means. This, in connection with the fact that the whole Eastern fruit crop is short, means an unprecedented demand for California dried fruits. Already that demand has started and prices are slowly but surely climbing. Both peaches and apricots will be much higher. Owing to the fact that there will be no cheap apples for European shipment this season, it means a corres- ponding increase in the demand for California fruits and, with only about half a crop of apricots and two-thirds of a crop of peaches, the dried fruit mar- ket will, undoubtedly, go to extremely high prices before winter. The spot market for both loose and seeded raisins is higher and more active as a result of the sale of the entire remaining hold- ings of the raisin association—said to be 600 cars of loose—to the Seeded Raisin Co. It is stated that the entire quantity purchased is to be seeded and disposed of before the new crop comes in, if possible. Prunes are firm at about c higher prices than were quoted a week ago, while the situation on the Coast is said to be stronger, the Cured Fruit Association having withdrawn quotations. The large sizes of prunes are scarce on the spot and in good re- quest. Sizes 70-80s and 80-90s were lit- tle wanted, but there is quite an active trade in g0-1oos. Peaches are in fair demand from the consuming trade, but little is doing in apricots. Rather more interest appears to be taken in future apricots, but buyers’ views are still about !4c lower than holders. Currants are in fair demand at unchanged prices. Advices from abroad state that the new crop is apparently going on well and an output of about 135,000 to 140,000 tons is expected. The cutting of the fruit is about commencing and it is to be hoped that no rains will occur while the fruit is on the ground, thus insur- ing a crop of fine quality. There are a great many enquiries for evaporated apples, but stocks are practically ex- hausted. Reports from the new crop are quite discouraging and the outlook is for very high prices. Rice—There continues to be a gen- eral demand for rice, attributed to shortened supply and the fact that the trade has been lightly stocked. Prices remained strong and all grades of gen- eral assortments were well patronized. A scarcity in cleaned is reported in New Orleans and prices continue firm. Reports were received that the domestic rice crop would turn out about the same as last year in quantity. Teas—General market conditions pre- sent no change in particular and no large sales are reported. Prices con- tinue steady for most grades and holders thus far have refused to make any con- cessions in price. At present prices are low for all grades, but are not attractive enough to cause free buying. Molasses and Corn Syrups—The usual summer dulness is apparent and _ busi- ness is practically at a standstill in gro- cery grades of New Orleans. The corn syrup market is exceedingly strong and prices have advanced again '%c per gal- lon and 3c per case. Fish—The mackerel market continues very firm. Arrivals are light and are being taken at advanced prices. If ar- rivals continue light, it looks as if prices would be still higher. Nuts—The California walnut crop promises to be considerably larger than last year’s, latest estimates placing the output at about 700 cars. It is expected that prices will be considerably lower than last season. New crop filberts are somewhat lower. Peanuts are in good demand at previous prices. Rolled Oats—Rolled oats are very firm, but prices remain unchanged. ———_s¢2>___ The Produce Market. Apples—Sweet Boughs have put inan appearance this week and readily com- mand $1.25 per bu. They are large in size and fine in quality. Duchess and Red Astricans have been compelled to take the back seat to Sweet Boughs, and are weaker at $1@I.10 per bu. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Jum- bos, $2.25. Beets—45c per bu. Blackberries—$1.75 per 16 qts. Butter—Extra creamery is strong at 20@21c. Dairy grades are without par- ticular change, ranging in price from 12c for packing stock to 14c for choice and 16c for fancy. Cabbage—$1.75 per 3 bu. bbl. Carrots—12c per doz. bunches. Celery—16c per doz. Cheese—The market is booming. More cheese is going out than a year ago. There is a large consumptive de- mand for all kinds. At recent factory sales better figures have prevailed and this has caused the improvement here. Speculative feeling runs high on the Chicago Cheese Board and offerings and bids on 1,000 lots are freely made. Corn—8c per doz. Cucumbers—18@2oc per doz. Currants—Cherry, $1.20 per 16 gts. Common, $1 per 16 qts. Eggs—With cooler weather the condi- tion of current arrivais of eggs has im- proved. It has been almost impossible to make shippers believe the extent of damage their eggs suffered in transit during the extreme hot weather. It is estimated that four times the eggs were destroyed by weather conditions than ever before in the same length of time. One of the largest single holders of cold storage eggs—who is now out of busi- ness—estimated that 400,000 to 500,000 cases of eggs had been spoiled by the heat. Local dealers pay 1o@1ic on track and hold candled at 12@12c%. Frogs’ Legs—Large bulls, 45@soc; medium bulls, 25c; large frogs, 15@2oc ; small frogs, 5@tIoc. ° Green Onions—toc for Silverskins. Green Peas—$1@1.25 for telephones and marrowfats. Honey—White stock is in light sup- ply at 14c._ Amber is slow sale at 13¢ and dark is in moderate demand at 11 @i2c. Lemons—Messinas have declined to $5.50 for choice and $6 for fancy. Rhodis, $6.25: Lettuce—Garden, 5oc per bu. ; head, 6oc per bu. Maple Syrup—$i per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Gems command 6oc per basket. Cantaloupes fetch $1.25@ $1.50 per crate, Onions—75c per bu. Oranges—Late Valencias from Cali- fornia are held at $5 for 96s and 112s. The smaller sizes command §$5.50@ 5.75. The first of this season’s Mexican orange crop arrived at St. Louis last Saturday. The present crop is fully as good as last year but not much larger. The bulk of it will come to the South- west and a few may come to this mar- ket later. Mexican oranges have never sold profitably here, however, and ship- pers prefer not to try too many expen- Sive experiments, Parsley—3oc per doz. Peaches—Alexanders are now at their best, and found an outlet at 75@g95c per bu. Early Rivers will begin to come in freely the fore part of next week— earlier still if the weather should be very warm. Peaches are making a good showing in New York State. The four- teen counties reported make the aver- age 55 per cent. Onondaga reports a Ioo per cent. crop. Chemung is the lowest, with 20 per cent. only. Peppers—Green command $1 per bu. Pineapples—gz per doz. for Floridas. The season is waning. Plums—Red Marianas command $1 per 16 qt. crate. Burbanks fetch $1.25. Potatoes—The scare about potatoes which attracted considerable attention a week or more ago seems to have been unwarranted. It is between seasons now, which is given as the reason for the comparative shortage and the early crop has suffered seriously. It is re- ported that the late crop, all through the East, is quite as good as it has been in recent years and that there will be no trouble about potatoes as soon as the present between-seasons’ time has passed. The price on the Grand Rap- ids market has held up to 80@goc and local dealers are able to obtain $1 for all the stock they can secure. The tub- ers now coming to market are very small in size. Poultry—Prices have sustained a sharp decline in nearly all lines. Live hens command 6@7c; spring chickens, 9@ loc; turkey hens, 8@gc; gobblers, 8c; spring ducks, 1o@12c. Pigeons are in moderate demand at 6oc per doz. and squabs are taken readily at $1.20@1. 50. Radishes—t12c for China Rose; Ioc for Chartiers. String Beans—$1 per bu. Summer Squash—7sc per 2% bu. box. Tomatoes—$1.25 per % bu. basket for home grown. Watermelons—20@25c and Indiana stock. Whortleberries—$3.75 per ceipts are small. —_—___—_o~¢—.___ M. J. Clark is spending two months in Washington, purchasing timber for himself and for the Clark-Nickerson Lumber Co., of Everett, in which cor- poration he is the leading spirit. It. has been remarked that the only time M. J. is truly happy is when he is in a forest, surrounded on all sides by heavy timber and, judging by the letters he has recently sent his partner, Frank Jewell, the summer of Igo01 has been the most enjoyable he has ever experienced. SGaEFT ET NT inePeme il eacoeja AEE SUES Wm. N. Rowe, President of the Val- ley City Milling Co., will celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of his mar- riage to Miss Cilina G. Pearsall Friday evening. The celebration will occur at the family residence at 184 North Pros- pect street and will be participated in by a large number of relatives and friends of both parties. — oe ee O. B. Clemens, neighborhood sales- man for Brown & Sehler, is down for a large sized thrashing at the hands of E. A. Moseley, who took Clemens’ direc- tions as to how to reach a certain sec- tion in Plainfield township, got lost in the woods and drove around in despair until late at night in the effort to find a well traveled road. —__2 2. C. S. Comstock and Thurlow L. Weed have formed a copartnership un- der the style of Comstock & Weed and engaged in the grocery business at Pe- toskey. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. —_> 6. _____ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones, for Missouri bu. Re- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN STREET FAIR WEEK. How to Make It Profitable For the Mer- chant. The street fair has come to be such an accepted institution in most of the smaller cities and towns of the North- west, that due preparation should be made for it by the merchants who ex- pect to reap the benefits. Now, Mr. Merchant, is the time to begin your preparations for the street fair, even if it is not to be held until a month or six weeks later. By taking plenty of time you will have abundant opportunity to make all of the necessary prepara- tions, and to plan so that your firm and your store will stand forth as the most enterprising in your locality. This will serve as an advertisement through- out the fall and winter and will bea good investment for the future as_ well as during the week the street fair is held. One of the first considerations is to make your store attractive and neat. Ar- range to have as much of your fall and winter stock on your shelves as you can possibly have shipped to you. The advantage in this exists in the fact that it will make your stock look much more complete, and at the same time will help you to sell goods during the re- mainder of the season. Shoppers dur- ing street fair week may look over your fall and winter line and, after noting what you have in stock, will, later in the season, patronize you, if you have goods that have taken their attention. They will remember this long after the street fair has been held. Have the store bright and clean when the street fair opens, for there will be little time to clean it during the next few days, while the crowd is thronging it. Make special preparation for the comfort and convenience of your lady customers. If there is no rest room in your town, where the women from out of town can go to clean up and rest during the time between events on the programme, fit up your own rest room and welcome them to it. In all proba- bility you can find a niche in your store where you can arrange a sofa or a lounge and a few chairs, a writing desk, and other conveniences. If not on the main floor of the store, you may be able to fit up a convenient rest room upstairs on the second floor. Clean out a little of the rubbish, and put curtains around the space, then arrange it so that it is tidy and inviting, and extend an invitation to out of town shoppers to avail themselves of it. The next step is to arrange your show windows. Street fair week, the show windows must receive special! attention, and there must be a special appropria- tion, for their proper arrangement. The city will be full of attractions that will absorb the attention of the people, and they will have little time to devote to the prosaic displays of goods in store windows. Devote at least one of the windows to some unusual display. Start a contest of your own, if need be, and advertise that you will offer a special prize for the largest pumpkin brought into your store before to o'clock of the opening day of the street fair. Have it understood that the size of the pump- kins will be judged by their weight, and then take three of the largest eén- tered in the contest, and arrange them in the window, placarding each with the name of the grower, the weight, the circumference, and the prize awarded for each. Drape American flags at the back of the window, or colored bunting that will give prominence to the win- dow itself and will harmonize with the pumpkins. You need not confine your- self to pumpkins, Mr. Merchant, but can decide upon any vegetable or any line of farm produce that will attract attention. In the second window you may dis- play merchandise attractively, or, if you do not care for the advertisement which you can secure through a window display, you may fix up a window which will attract the attention of the little ones, and through them attention of their elders. This can be done with little expense, if carefully attended to. Secure from nearby woods a quantity of green moss and arrange this in the win- dow to represent green grass. Use glass for a lake, and by arranging the moss around the edges or in a circular shape, a pretty effect can be created. The re- mainder of the scene can be filled in to suit yourself. A miniature house and barn may be placed in the center of the window, with toy dolls to represent the people, and the contents of a Noah’s ark to represent farmyard animals. Ar- range paths running from the house to the front of the window, by cutting a place in the moss, and by covering the floor of the window with fine sand. Mounds of earth can also be covered with moss to represent hills, and a most effective country scene will be the result. It does not require much ingen- uity to create such a window as this, and practically no expense, while the children who visit the street fair will go wild over it. The moss may be kept green for several weeks by wetting it each morning and night. However, the advertising features of such a window will not bring direct results. It will at- tract attention,and advertising is largely a matter of attracting attention to a] store or a firm offering merchandise for sale. The next step is to attract attention to the front of the store. Here is the point at which there should be a lavish display, if possible. It is to be pre- sumed that most merchants go in ex- tensively for decorations during street fair week. The idea is to give a gala appearance to the entire town or city, and this can only be accomplished through proper exterior decoration by each individual. Bunting up and down the front of the store always attracts at- tention and is a very good means of decorating, if the merchant does not de- cide in favor of an original design. Possibly a canopy of bunting would be practical, especially if the street fair was to be held at a season of the year when there was little likelihood of rain. This can be easily and cheaply ar- ranged. Secure six two by four tim- bers and place them at intervals along the outer edge of the sidewalk, taking care that they are sufficiently braced in- side and out, so that they will stand the strain of one or more persons leaning against them. On top of these two by fours place another running the entire length of the space over which your can- opy is to be made. From this piece of timber stretch your bunting to the store just above the store front, so that it will not be in the way of the awning, eae QLD RELIA Oem a) @ BEST. GALVANIZED IRON CORNICE State Agents Established 1868. Coal Tar, Tarred Felt, Asphalt Paints, Roofing Pitch, 2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing, Sky Lights, Eave Troughing, Sheet [etal Workers Contracting Roofers Ruberoid Roofing, Building, Sheathing and Insulating Papers and Paints. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich. NO MORE DUST without raising dust. | NO MOFE a DISEASE -\ - * 7? i ~~ MICHIGAN taking care to have the store end of the bunting slightly higher than the outer edge of the canopy. The bunting should be sewed together at the edges to pre- vent it from flapping up and down in the wind and should be stretched as tightly as possible, and in this way it will be made to shed the rain. The up- right posts on the outer edge of the side- walk may also be properly decorated. They should be twined round and round with bunting of the same color as the canopy, so that the upright posts will be completely concealed, as well as the two by four placed across the top of them. Red, white and blue are always appropriate for such decorations, but it is probable that this will be used so extensively by others who decorate their stores that the more progressive mer- chants will be in favor of some other color or combination of colors. Orange and white work nicely together, as well as orange and black. Orange is very appropriate for the reason that it typifies the harvest season, and is, therefore, in accordance with the theory of the street fair itelf. Yellow and olive green or yellow and a yellow shade of green also make a good combination; blue and bluish green, and blue and a bluish yellow, while yellow and black make a very striking combination. Any of these would be appropriate for the ex- terior decoration of the store. In the interior, bunting may also be used in decorating the shelving,and the ceiling. It may be used in festoons along the shelving, or may be draped from the ceiling in the center of the store to the shelving, forming one or more canopies. The legs of special display stands in the center of the store, where they are prominent, may also be entwined with bunting. By adopting this style of decorating, a gala appear- ance may be created, both in and out of the store, and the merchant will give the impression that he has_ entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. The next thing to absorb the attention of the merchant is his advertising. This should be done on a liberal scale. Double up your space in the daily or weekly newspaper for several weeks before the street fair istobe held. Talk street fair, and your street fair plans in these advertisements, and nothing else, so that people will understand you in- tend doing something special fair week and will be curious to visit your store. You are aiding the general committee on advertising by this course, but you are aiding yourself a great deal more because you are making yourself the central figure, and your store the cen- tral object in connection with this event. This is legitimate and along the lines of good business principles. But newspaper advertising should not be the only kind that the merchant who wants to create an impression during street fair week should indulge in. The majority of people,no matter what event they participate in, are delighted to carry away a badge, if one is given to them, and retain it in tbeir home for months afterward. If there is any weak- ness of which the American people as a whole can be declared to be guilty, it is that of wearing badges. Badges are appropriate at a picnic,at a convention, sometimes at church socials, at meet- ings of various kinds, and, Mr. Mer- chant, you can extract some advertising out of the badge idea in connection witb vour street fair. Have several thousand neat badges printed on cheap gold or orange ribbon, stating on them: ‘“‘I attended the street fair at ——, August 5 to Io, Igor.’ In smaller type underneath this, on the face of the badge, or in large type on the reverse side, have your firm name printed with: ‘‘Compliments of Jones & Co., Deal- ers in General Merchandise. ’’ The printer in your town can prepare these badges for you, and you can_pur- chase the ribbon, but probably you have it in stock. Advertise that you will give these badges away to all who attend the street fair, and as soon as this gets noised about, you will have your. store full of people clamoring for them. Some of the visitors will walk half a mile, if necessary, to get one of these cheap badges. All to whom you give them, of course, will not buy goods, but they will advertise your business for you free of cost, and this is quite an item, espe- cially as the badge will be a standing advertisement as long as they retain it. Another idea that might be utilized during street fair week is to purchase several hundred toy balloons, and have the name of your firm printed on them in white or black letters. It does not matter much what the color is, just so that it will show. Offer these balloons to persons who purchase a dollar’s worth of goods from you during the week, They will delight the children and will attract the attention of the older people. By purchasing the bal- loons in quantity lots you ought to be able to get them as low as 6 or 8 cents each, and the advertising feature of their distribution will be worth consid- erably more than that to you. The principle that should be followed is to make as much as possible out of your advertising street fair week. Make such advertising count, not alone for the immediate present, but for the fu- ture as well, and decide upon some unique idea that will keep your name in the minds of the consuming public long after street fair week has passed from the memory. Now as to participation in street pa- rades during fair week. In most in- stances very little direct advertising can be derived from this source, but every merchant should make it a point to im- press upon the public at large that he is public-spirited and willing to gotoa reasonable amount of expense in pro- moting any enterprise which is for the public good. This is indirect advertis- ing which does not always bring an im- mediate return, but does so eventually, If the merchant is in the grocery busi- ness and is desirous of preparing a float for one or more of the parades, he will not find it difficult to decide upon a motif. There is the idea that you sell pure foods, which should be impressed upon the public at large. Purity of foods is being regarded more and more as es- sential by every consumer, and anything along this line is most likely to be noted and will bear good results. Another idea which would create some amusement, might be to secure a very fat man, dress him in the apparel of Uncle Sam, place him on a throne, with a canopy over the top, and place at his feet a variety of groceries. On the float might be the following appropriate sug- gestion : ‘‘Mr. Fatman Always Bought His Groceries of John Jones & Co,’’ Another idea for the grocery depart- ment would be to typify the old time corner grocery, with its smoking kero- sene lamp, its stock of goods piled in- discriminately about, the cat sleeping in the prune bag or in the coffee sack, TRADESMAN | and other ideas worked out along this | line. This should bear an appropriate | motto: ‘‘This is How They Conducted the Grocery Business Fifty Years Ago. Visit Our Store and See How We Con- duct it in the Twentieth Century. John Jones &Co.’’ These ideas are crude, and must necessarily be merely suggestive, for the reason that the character of the float must depend upon the money that is to be invested in it.—Commercial Bulletin. Never sit in a draught. If you do a doctor will be the one to cash it. SOUVENIR ART(ATALOG /s NOW OUT AND READY FOR DISTRIBUTION ~ a WHO CONTEMPLATE TAKING A (COMMERCIAL COURSE WILL FIND THIS OF GREAT VALUE. (COPIES MAILED FREE UPON APPLICATION. ~ qn bd FT ae ate Ni COMMERCIAL OLLEGE, ANDIANA. A Suggestion When you attend the Pan-American Ex- position this fall it will be a very good idea for you to see the exhibit of Thomas Motor Cycles and Tricycles and Quads in Transportation Building. A MONTH is all it costs fer the | 20c VERY BEST GAS LIGHT equal to 10 or 12 coal oil lamps anywhere if you will get the prcaterce Brilliant Gas Lamp. for Agency. @ Brilliant Gas Lamp Co., 42 State, Chicago You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Auto-Bi, $200 If you are at all interested and thinking of taking up the sale of Automobiles or Motor Cycles—or contemplating buying a machine for your own use—we extend AJAX Dynamite Works Bay City, Michigan Dynamite, Caps, Fuse, Battery Supplies for Rock Work and Stump Blasting. a special invitation to you to visit the factory of the E. R. Thomas Motor Co. while at Buffalo. The Thomas is the cheapest practical line of Automobiles on the market. ADAMS & HART, Grand Rapids Michigan Sales Agents Are you not in need of New Shelf Boxes We make them. KALAMAZOO PAPER BOX CO. Kalamazoo, Michigan Richmond, 10 Spiced Sugar by Sears. j j j f s Order a box or can of each. Frequent in the varieties of cakes you CREASE. We are presenting Samples for asking. SEARS BAKERY, G é é é é All have the crowning flavor found only in goods made Commence at Once Now is the time to take ad- vantage of summer requirements. ing for ‘‘Sears READY To SERVE Goons’’ to avoid the incon- venience, worry and heat of home baking. (Remember «Rube Sears’’) wa w— wR wh CA A TE a ee ee New Summer Sweet Goods § Beechwood, 10 cents cents Tops, 8 cents Your customers are look- Changes handle MAKE YOUR TRADE IN- something new continually. rand Rapids, Mich. 8 ‘MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SicncangpaprsMan 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. 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Fairchild, Notary Public in ate Kent County, Mich. STATE OF of Kent | y sworn, de- A TUDOR INHERITANCE. The facts are not to be gainsaid. There is no desire to gainsay them. The statistics of this country for the past five years at least furnish unques- tioned proof that, if it be guilt, the United States is guilty of a prosperity as wonderful as it has been unlooked for. More than that, this prosperity is due to an energy, a determination, an aggressiveness that is unparalleled in the history of any nation, and the re- wards are correspondingly great. Be- ginning with the acorn, we have become the oak—so high, so wide-spread, so vigorous that its shadow has reached the remotest corners of the earth. [t was expected from the beginning that Amer- ica would feed the hungry world and it has. It was not expected that it would ever do more than that and it has! It has raised the raw material; it has in- vented the machines to manufacture it; it has done the work better than the rest of the world has been able to do it; it has entered the world’s markets with its goods and the world, purely human, has turned from the commonplace to the best and filled its warehouses and its homes with the best manufactured goods known. The result is that industrial and commercial Europe is finding its occupation gone and, if reports be true, stands with clinched fists, threatening with combined armies and navies to wipe out of existence its common enemy and secure by the force of arms what it has failed to get by the gentler arts of peace. To the readers of the Tradesman this is no new idea. Long ago these columns predicted this very condition of things. Then, as now, it saw that, if history re- peats itself, the time was coming when the old world would be arrayed against the new—hemisphere against hemis- phere—with the advantage on the side of the Western world. So far this coun- try has been following a beaten track. Holland and France tried commercial conclusions and ‘‘the Grand Monarque’’ was obliged to give way to the com- bined forces of Holland and England, but Holland was so severely crippled that Great Britain succeeded her as the commercial center of the world and France has never recovered from the effects of that defeat. IEngland has re- tained her supremacy until now and direful things are predicted if she finds ull | that it must be given up. Germany has been finding fault with us for years, Russia has been dissatisfied quite as long, France’s scowl and shrug have become chronic and the other powers are greatly interested in what the times foretell. The war cloud is bigger than a man’s hand and is growing rapidly. When will the shock come? Never, in all probability. Europe’s great de- sire to form a combination against the United States is only surpassed by her greater reluctance. There is everything to discourage her. This country’s his- tory has in it nothing comforting to those who wish her ill. To those who study her there is much meaning in her quaint advice: ‘‘Don't monkey with the buzz-saw!"’ It is true that our army amounts to little and our navy to hard- ly more ; but when France, regardless of the advice, thrust her finger into Mexi- can affairs, it was not withdrawn soon enough to save Maximilian. Spain, with a monarchical jeer, laughed at the whirring saw and lost her navy. Eng- land was determined to change the boundaries of Venezuela but, wiser than her European sisters, she saw in capi- tals the first word of the fateful advice and stopped. The combined gunboats of the powers would be appalling, but the nation whose Monitor rammed the Merrimac to her destruction and _ revo- lutionized naval warfare is equal to other emergencies now unknown and unheard of. Financially, the combina- tion is not promising. We have too much gold and silver in our coffers and a great deal more in our mines. Our mountains are so many upheavals of coal and minerals. We have too much corn and wheat. There are too many foundaries and we are too skillful in the manfacture of iron and steel—mate- rials that enter into the make-up of the buzz-saw ! Behind all this there is something else—-this nation’s sound common sense. It understands itself and its relations to other countries and, in the attainment of its purposes, it knows how far to go. It is not beset with uncertainty. It knows its wants, but it knows, too, its limitations. In securing the one it will in its earnestness trespass aggressively upon the other, but it never goes too far. The European growl is heard and it will be heeded; not from fear—that does not enter into the American make- up—but because it knows that it has gone far enough, is willing to acknow]l- edge the just demands made upon it and gracefully accedes to them—a char- acteristic that we have inherited from our English ancestors, as the careful reader of the biography of the Tudor family will willingly admit. The fire which cost Davenport, Ia., a million dollars a few days ago was started by a cigarette which a freckle- faced boy smoked in a lumber yard. The $80,000 fire at Sioux City, in the same State, on the same day, had a more curious origin. The heat of the sun as it passed through the plate glass show window of a dry goods store was so intense that it ignited the goods dis- played therein. A BATTLE OF GIANTS. Every person who has given atten- tion to the controversy which has for several weeks been in progress between the steel trust and the Amalgamated Association has learned that there is no real grievance at issue. The striking employes have not been the victims of grinding exactions, long hours of labor and starvation wages. On the contrary, there is no dispute either as to hours or wages. The only question at issue is the recognition of the union—which means the humiliation of the employer, the stultification of the employe and the ex- altation of the walking delegate. In this age of the world the article of steel enters more generally into the uses of civilized life than any other, and it is indispensable. The business of the present day would be impossible without iron or its carbonized form known as steel. The extraordinary im- portance of steel is seen at a glance in these few words from the charter of the trust, setting forth the objects for which it is formed: ‘‘To construct bridges, ships, boats, engines, cars and other equipment; railroads, docks, ‘slips, elevators, water works, gas works and electric works, viaducts, canals and other water ways, and any other means of transportation, and to sell the same and otherwise to dispose thereof, or to maintain and operate the same.’’ When the vast industries controlled by the steel trust became consolidated under one control, it was realized that there had been created in the industrial world a power which had not previously existed, and hardly had it become es- tablished in control of its enormous business, employing laborers to the number of several hundred thousand, than an effort was made in the interest of organized labor to induce its army of workmen to join in a strike. The combat now just beginning is a veritable war of giants. It is organized labor against organized capital. Up to the present moment the struggle has only been a preliminary skirmish. It has not- grown to the proportions of a tremendous warfare. The strike has only extended to a few of the trust mills, and there has been, so far, no calling out to take part in the strike of the trust’s army of workmen. The hopes that have been entertained of an amicable settlement seem to have faded out and left little prospect of any arrangement, since the only possible ad- justment is in the surrender of one side or the other. The trust management has declared it will not yield. What the labor management will do in the premises remains to be seen; but, if, on the side of organized labor, the men shall determine to rally to the standard of no surrender, then the two combatants will join issues in a conflict which, if peaceably conducted, will resolve itself into a contest of endurance. On the side of the trust there will be enormous capital, and the only question to be asked by its management is how much of that capital and of the trust’s business it can afford to lose before it will surrender to the demands of the la- bor union. On the side of union labor, it will have to be determined how long several hundred thousand workers, with a million of pcople dependent on them for support, can live without earning any wages. There is also another element to be considered in the problem. It is that not all the work people are members of the labor organizations. That is the weak side in many strikes. There are always men who will not bend their necks to the union yoke and bind them- selves to quit work and give up the sup- port of their families at a word of com- mand,so there has seldom been a strike in which the industries effected have been brought toa full stop. If all workers could be brought into the union, organ- ized labor would occupy a much strong- er position than it does; but so long as any considerable number of workers re- fuse to become the slaves of venal and unscrupulous union labor leaders, agita- tors and walking delegates, there will be a thorn in the side of the strikers. Should all hope of a settlement be- tween the steel trust and the labor trust be abandoned, then matters will become serious. Not only will the union work- ers in the trust’s various industries quit work, but so vast a movement may in- volve a universal sympathetic strike, so that every union laborer in the United States may stop working and earning in order to carry on the great battle toa finish. Such a _ sympathetic strike would be most unwise and suicidal on the part of those who have no direct — concern with the controversy between the steel trust and the hot-headed pres- ident of the union iron workers, and such a consummation is certain not to take place, unless it shall turn out that the present time and occasion have been chosen by organized labor to precipitate a great struggle with organized capital, so that, with every wheel of industry and commerce wholly stopped, the com- parative endurance of the two contest- ants might be fuliy tested. It is most unlikely that the present has been chosen for such a conflict, but it is certain that a great battle of Ar- mageddon is sooner or later to be fought between labor and capital, and, when the struggle shall come, it will not be a peaceful trial of the powers of endur- ance of the contestants, but it -will de- velop into a vast, widespread and bloody revolution, resulting finally in vast changes in the Government and institu- tions of the country. Let us pray that so great an evil, if it must come, be postponed in the hope that true _philan- thropy and wise statesmanship may de- vise some efficient remedy. The Supreme Court of New York has decided a case which will interest those whose pictures are published in defi- ance of their objections. A young woman in Rochester entered suit for damages against two companies because they published lithographs of her with- out her consent. Judge Ramsey, in rendering a decision in favor of the plaintiff, held that the right of property in one’s features or limbs can not be denied and must be protected by the courts. Hecited instances where a dis- regard of this principal might result in considerable financial loss. A queer will case has just been de- cided by the courts in Minnesota. The witnesses to the instrument had stepped through a doorway into a room adjoin- ing that in which the testator lay at the time of the signing of the will and had affixed their signatures at a table exact- ly ten feet from the testator, but just out of his sight. It was testified, however, that he was sitting on the side of his bed at the time, and could have seen the witnesses by stepping forward two or three feet. The attestation and sub- scription of the will under these circum- stances were sustained. King Corn will now take a drink on Jupiter Pluvius, qi Ma Q “ey MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 GROWING MACARONI WHEAT. The arid region of the United States west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains covers a broad belt from North to South, embracing Western Texas, Indian Territory, the greatest parts of Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. It is well known that the soil of this vast region is extremely fertile, lacking only water to make it'the richest agri- cultural country in the world. But, in addition to its other extraordinary capa- bilities, the United States Department of Agriculture has just announced it to be an ideal region for the production of the sort of wheat from whick macaroni is made. Macaroni, which is the staple food of a great body of population along the coast and islands of the Mediterranean Sea, is made from wheat peculiarly rich in gluten, which is that part of wheat flour corresponding to the lean or mus- cle of meat, while the starchy constituent corresponds to the fat. Ordinary wheat flour will not make good macaroni, be- cause it is deficient in gluten. Gluten, as it is found in macaroni, is an excellent diet, corresponding in many respects to lean meat, and being quite as nourishing. Macaroni wheats differ radically from the ordinary bread wheats, and in the field look more like barley than wheat. The heads are flat, compressed and bearded, the beard often being black; the chaff is usually golden yellow, but sometimes black; and the grains are large, hard, yellowish white, and clear, or, in wheats of the best quality, some- times translucent. There are also oc- casionally velvet chaff varieties. In Europe they are known simply as_ hard wheats or durum wheats. The grain is so much harder than that of the hardest bread wheats, and in the best varieties contains an unusual amount of nitrogen and a correspondingly small amount of starch. The quantity and quality of the gluten make them exceedingly valuable for making macaroni. They are ex- tremely resistant to drought and resist the attacks of leaf rust and smuts to an unusual degree. The macaroni wheats at present in use in Europe are chiefly from the Russian plains or steppes. A commissioner from the Department of Agriculture was sent to Europe, after inspecting the corres- ponding region inthe United States, and he found precisely the same condi- tions. There is declared to be a cer- tainty of a good demand for all the hard wheat that can be grown, and the chief markets are Marseilles, Bordeaux, Genoa and Naples. According to the official returns, about 15,000,000 pounds of foreign macaroni is imported to this country each year, solely because, being made from true macaroni wheat, it is considered to be of better quality than our domestic mac- aroni, which is made almost entirely from bread wheats. Moreover, the im- ported macaroni sells at a much higher price. Of course, all the cost of the im- ported product will be saved to this coun- try if the farmers and millers will fur- nish our factories with the right kind of material, which they can easily do, and the factories are anxious to have the ma- terial. Although these wheats are considered to be of value chiefly for making mac- aroni, the idea that they do not make good bread is quite erroneous. A very large amount of macaroni wheat is an- nually employed in Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and other Medit- erranean regions for making bread, which is considered to be of excellent quality, as it is certainly most valuable as a food product. On account of its real merits, the consumption -of this wheat, rich in gluten, can not be too great or general. THE MILITIA PROBLEM. While at first consideration there might appear to be but a single view to take of the agitation now in progress over the proposed remodeling of the na- tional militia laws, a more careful ex- amination of the question soon leads to the conclusion that it is a many-sided problem. The avowed purpose of those who desire a charge in existing laws is to make the militia force of the country —that is to say the organized force known as the National Guard—prompt- ly available for service in time of war. In fact, it is proposed that the guard should be, to all intents and purposes, a reserve force to the regular army, to be called to the colors at once on the outbreak of war. Under existing laws, the President of the United States has the power to call into the active service of the National Government all, or any portion, of the militia for the purpose of repelling in- vasion or quelling internal insurrection. This precludes the employment of the militia for service abroad. The new law proposed contemplates making the organized militia available for any class of service, whether at home or abroad. In most of the Eastern States where a numerous and well-equipped militia force is maintained, it is contended that the National Guard is a state force, pure and simple, and enlistments in it are to do service within the borders of the state only. This force, it is held, ought not to be drafted into the national army in war, except for limited peri.ds. There is something in this contention, and the alternative has been proposed that a separate and distinct national militia be organized. While the idea of a national militia appears attractive enough, there is a serious obstacle in the way of sucha force in the Constitution of the United States which reserves to the states the control of the militia and the appoint- ment of the officers. It is certain that the militia contem- plated in the original law was intended for service in the event of war, and not merely for state duty, although the con- trol of the militia was reserved to the states, as well as the appointment of all the officers. While the growth of the various states has developed the need of militia for purely state purposes and the maintenance in nearly every state of a regyjarly organized force, whose main service is to maintain order and enforce the laws within the state’s borders, these forces are still parts of the militia con- templated in the national militia law, and can no more evade answering a call from the President of the United States than any other portion of the militia. While there is room for discussion as to just how the militia is to be organized and controlled, there can be no doubt whatever that the entire militia force is intended primarily for the military serv- ice of the country in time of war. Any change or improvement in the existing laws which will make the militia more efficient and better equip it for active service in time of war is to be welcomed. It may take nine tailors to make a man, but ninety-nine collectors can’t make him settle. MISTAKES OF DIET. The animal and, in a higher degree, the human digestion is the most won- derful system of chemical action in the world. The meat and drink put into the human body are decomposed and re- composed into an almost innumerable variety of compound substances. Out of this food, whether in solid or fluid form, are created by the chemical and physiological powers of the human sys- tem the bones, muscles, nerves and other parts of the body, so that every organ is supplied with all that is need- ful to its operation and maintenance. The material substances which make up the human organism are not numer- ous, consisting of several gases and mineral salts, but the ability of the chemical and physiological powers of nature to combine these substances is almost infinite, the resulting compounds being almost innumerable. It should follow that the greatest at- tention should be paid to the quality and quantity of the matters which are to be used for the nourishment of the body and for the uses of its wonderful system of creation and repair. Diseases are results of some sorts of assaults upon the body or its particular organs. side, such as those made by mechanical injuries or extremes of heat and cold or by the microbes which are always ly- ing in wait to bite us. Then there are attacks from the interior by those same terrible microbes which have come into the body by being inhaled with the air we breathe or in the food and drink we swallow. However, the most wholesome food is capable of producing the most injurious effects when taken in excess or under conditions when the digestive system needs rest. Then there are articles of food which, however beneficial to some persons, are injurious to others, there- fore the matter of diet should be one of the leading considerations in the preser- vation of health. The medical man is not alone concerned with the healing of diseases. He should be largely inter- ested in preventing them. The skilled mechanician can display his real use- fulness vastly more in maintaining his machinery in a state of the highest effic- iency than in repairing it after it shall have suffered some catastrophe. It is said that in China, a country whose people are intensely practical, the doctor is paid only so long as he keeps his patrons in health, but when they become sick the pay stops. Noth- ing could be more intelligent than such a course; but with the enlightened no- tions of the Western world all is differ- ent. The people of boasted culture and intelligence wholly neglect their med- ical adviser and his advice until they are stricken down by disease. Then he is sent for in a great hurry and the sufferer eagerly gulps down doses of disagreeable drugs; but when the pa- tient shall have been restored to health, he immediately disregards all the doc- tor’s counsel and particularly that in re- gard to diet. Few men will restrain themselves from eating and drinking the articles forbidden by the physician when there are no aches in the big toe or pains in the stomach or head. It is only when the outraged organs are punishing the offender for his improper eating and drinking that he remembers that his own transgressions were the cause of his troubles. Intemperance in eating does not differ in its injurious results from excess in the use of intoxicating Some of these attacks are from the out-, liquors or in any other over-indulgence. There is the pleasure of eating long after the demands of nature are satisfied that causes the trouble. It is in the en- joyment of a mere indulgence that drives to excess. These matters are well set forth by President Hyde, of Bow- doin College, in the July Atlantic, in an article entitled ‘‘ The Cardinal Virtues :’’ The temptation to intemperance comes chiefly from a false abstraction of pleasure. Finding that some function 1s attended with pleasure, we perform the function for the sake of the pleas- ure; forgetting to consider the end at which the function aims, or even disre- garding the end altogether. A man seizes on one or another of the more sensitive parts of his nervous system, and then contrives ways to produce con- stant or frequently recurrent excitation. Thus the glutton crams his stomach, not for the nourishment and vigor food will give him, but for the sensations of agreeable taste and comfortable disten- tion. Muscle must toil, brain must plan, and every other organ do extra work,simply to give the palate its trans- ient titillation and provide the stomach its periodic gorge. Of course, it all applies to those who use liquors, tobacco or opiates to ex- cess. They all sacrifice health, mind and morals to the momentary gratifica- tion of some debauched and unnatural appetite. But to go back to the ‘‘bon vivant,’’ there is no drunkard or opium fiend more blamable than he, because by excessive indulgence he is destroying his capacity to enjoy the pleasures of the table. The drunkard wants ‘ever more drink and the opium fiend is al- ways ready for more ‘‘dope,’’ but the man who lives to eat soon finds himself unable to do so, because nature revolts against the burdens he puts upon her. If men were only as wise as they know how to be, they would find out the diet which is best for them and then stick to it. If it is best to become a vegetarian, let one adopt a diet of grain and roots and fruits; but let no man start out with a hobby in these matters. He needs able medical advice, based on a knowledge of his physical system, and so let him live and enjoy. The man who is not rich needs more than any other his health and vigor. When it is in his power to get the most out of them, he is a fool not to do so. FOOLISH POLICY. The New York Spectator, a weekly publication devoted to the interests of insurance, takes occasion to make some highly proper remarks upon the false and most foolish policy of a city trust- ing its water supply to the control and possession of a private corporation. The matter came to public attention in an occurrence at Houston, Texas, where the public water supply is owned by a private company. Recently the city hall in that city was destroyed by fire, and the several companies that carried insurance upon it to the extent of $40,000 have refused to pay the loss, on the ground that the water supply was insufficient and the pressure inadequate to enable the firemen to control the flames. The companies insist that the city shall bring suit against the water com- pany for the amount of the loss, hold- ing that the water supply has been noto- riously insufficient for a long time, and that the city has taken no measures to enforce its contract. The city council had, at the last reports, refused to act in the matter, and the insurance com- panies refuse to pay the loss. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clothing Fads and Fancies Peculiar to New York City. I notice on the streets here what | take to be a result of the shirtwaist agitation, namely, that people pay much attention to having their garments of lightweight. The papers of the country have stirred us upto the folly of wearing unnecessary thicknesses of clothing during the hot weather and although we are not ready to abandon coats, we take care to wear very light- weight garments. I believe that the next two or three years will see decided changes in the material of hot weather clothing, very largely, if not entirely, as a result of the shirtwaist agitation. Whether we will get an improved silk fabric for our summer clothing ora light cotton or linen fabric, or something dur- able and comfortable in woolens, I have no idea, but I believe that people have been roused to the need of dressing comfortably and that this will have its effect on the material and make of clothing for summer wear this summer. * * * Of course, a fancy vest is not indis- pensable to a golf costume, but if any is to be worn a fancy vest of French flannel is very pretty for the purpose. The vest to which I refer is single breasted, closing with five pearl but- tons and having a deep notch at the bottom. The flannel is white with a broken stripe design, varying from a half inch to an inch and a half in width, in various soft colors. a stripe in gold, green and narrow lines of red breaking up the stripe. The effect was striking, but quiet. * * * There are times in the summer when an overcoat is necessary, especially at the mountains, where the nights are chilly, or at the shore, where they are damp. If one is in evening dress con- siderations of comfort will decide whether the overcoat be worn, although if a man has any considerable distance to go he will have to wear one as a pro- tection to his clothing. I have seen men so careless as to wear a short covert coat over their dress coat. The proper coat is a long one, either a Chesterfield or a Raglan of lightweight, which prop- erly covers not only the body, but the tails of the dress coat. Still some indi- viduals prefer to have peculiar garments of their own contriving, and such a gar- ment was lately made by a prominent tailor uptown for a heavy dresser visit- ing summer resorts. The coat was made of unfinished gray worsted, single breasted and cut like a surtout with long skirts, waist seam and three seams in the back all welted. It was cut in snugly to the figure and half lined. Such a coat does well enough if one wishes to attract attention. An actor or any individual to whom notoriety is the breath of life will find such a garment valuable, but a gentleman will have no use for such a contrivance. - * == While the game of tennis is not the rage, as it once was, it still has its devotees and, like the game of golf, it has its appropriate outfit. Duck trous- ers are quite the thing to wear on the courts, and with them either a sweater with open collar or a light cotton or flannel shirt. It is well to have the shirt made with sleeves cut short at the elbow,as a matter of convenience. Some good dressers have the lower half of the sleeves made to button on at the elbow so that they can be removed if conven- One design was] P ient. Still others wear a garment that ris a combination of shirt and drawers, like a one-piece bathing suit. The legs of the garment come halfway down the thighs and the shirt has an attached collar of the same material as the shirt. These garments are made up in light French flannels, usually white with fine stripes in colors. They are sometimes also made in madras or that light mate- trial known as madapollam, a delicate fabric which is often used for the body of fine dress shirts. By the way, I know of no better way to have your dress shirts made for summer if you are look- ing for comfort. Ina game where there is such constant and violent stretching as there is in tennis and where the drawers and shirt are apt to work apart a garment combining shirt and drawers has advantages of its own. But if one does not care for such a garment, sleeve- less underwear and light drawers reach- ing only to the knee are better than full-length underwear. Duck trousers with a white madras or flannel shirt with fine hair line stripes in color, low- cut tan shoes, socks of a heather tone, and either a low collar with small bow, or a stock, make up a pretty tennis cos- tume.—Apparel Gazette. 2 -._____ Permitted to Speak. ““Mabel’’ he said, with an apparent effort as he gazed down into her dreamy eyes, ‘‘you’ve always been a sister to me, haven’t you?’’ The long-expected moment had at last arrived and she gazed coyly at the floor. “I’ve tried to, George,’’ she whis- ered. ‘‘And if I were to say something to you that should only be said by persons who are intimately acquainted, and who thoroughly understand each other, you would not take offense?’’ She thought it rather queer that he should view a simple proposal in this light, but she tremblingly assured him that she would not. ‘*Then, Mabel,’’ he continued, low- ering his voice to a quaver, ‘‘I apol- ogize for my boldness in saying it, but while I leaned over to turn the page of your music I busted off two of my _sus- — buttons. Will you sew them on?’ And trembling inwardly, but regain- ing her outward composure with an effort, the brave girl went into the other room and brought forth the necessary implements. ——_>-22>_____ The Power of Superstition. ‘‘I wish I wasn’t superstitious,’’ said a well-known young man. - ‘‘I'd have it taken off.’’ ‘*Have what taken off?’’ ‘‘Why this great big mole on my nose. ’’ ‘‘What are you afraid of about it; bleeding to death?’’ *‘No, no; it’s just bad luck to have a mole taken off. It’s worse than having a black cat cross your path or even to have a hooting owl light on the roof. **I don’t know why it is bad luck, but my black mammy used to say, ‘Chile, don’t yo’ nebber let ’em try to take dat mole off’n your nose.’ ** “What’ll happen, Aunt Sarah, if I do?’ I used to ask her. ‘* *T dunno, chile. Some folks say as the place won’t nebber get well and some say as two mo’ll come _ back. Don’t nebber pester what de Lord has gin yo,’ or He mought make it wo’se.’ ‘*The old negro woman’s doctrine was too deeply imbedded in my early edu- cation for me to outgrow it, even after twenty years.’’ Ask to see Samples of Pan-American Guaranteed Clothing Makers Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. Owe © M. Wile & Company f te 4 -F 7 eN Buffalo’s Famous and Largest Clothing House ae Cordially invite the Clothing Trade and their friends to make their establishment, at 48 and 50 Pearl their stay in Buffalo while attending the ex- Street, their headquarters during position. All possible conveniences are provided for, such as rooms, information bureau—in fact, we WA Ww ws every detail which will tend make your stay pleasant. We Shall Be Pleased to Have Our Friends Take Advantage of the Same WU Wele § TT CLS LAL eT Cw WR WS. a ar, as. 2. The Shoe Jobber Secure in His Position. A question that is agitating the trade to a considerable extent is ‘‘what will become of the jobber if manufacturers continue to encroach upon his domain?’’ There are some in the trade who reason that the jobber will be eliminated, but if they have such an idea in their mind they want to get rid of it. The jobber is fully as essential to-day as a distrib- uter of shoes as ever before. Were it not for the jobber many of the small and growing retail dealers who are in business all over the country, would not be in existence. They owe their sus- tenance to the fact that the jobber is in business. In many cases they are car- ried over some very rough roads through the assistance rendered by the jobbing houses with whom they do business, and which would not be possible were they trading with the manufacturer, It has been stated that jobbers have lost con- siderable trade on account of so many manufacturers selling direct to the re- tailer, but it is also true that the job- bers have added fully as much new trade by the continual entrance into the field of new shoe stores, Very often deaiers who follow out the policy of ordering all their goods direct from the manufacturer, are mighty glad that the jobber is still in the field. Coming on the end of a season this is especially true. When thev run short of sizes and can not be accommodated by the manufacturer, they call on the job- bers to help them out. From many points of view the jobber is with us to stay. He will be a factor, and an im- portant one,in the distributing of shoes, so long as men with limited capital re- tail shoes. They are compelled to rely upon the jobber to help them along, and such men, when they become prosper- ous are not the ones to soon forget a fa- vor, with the result that they continue to do business with the jobber, to a cer- tain extent, indefinitely. Then again there are such a variety of styles and sizes for the average re- tailer to carry, if he is desirous of meeting the demands of customers, that he would not be able to cater to his trade intelligently if it were not for the jobber. Jobbing houses carry such im- mense stocks that they are at all times prepared to supply all needs, and deal- ers know that they can obtain any size, style or design of shoe that they may have a demand for with the least pos- sible delay. The jobber is not only a necessity to the small retailer, but in numerous in- stances he is a_ necessity to the small manufacturer. There are concerns man- ufacturing shoes to-day who would not be in business were it not for the aid they secure from the jobbing houses. There are concerns who look to the job- bers to meet their pay rolls each week, and they are never disappointed. There are many other points that could be brought forward in connec- tion with the value of the jobber asa handler of shoes, but it suffices to say that the jobber is a benefit to the retail- er, a necessity as a distributer of shoes, and in many instances a god-send to the manufacturer who is struggling along in the race for fame. The manu- facturers of specialty shoes have not in- jured the jobber to the extent that is generally believed. It has been the policy of most jobbers not to handle many shoes selling to the dealer above $2, and, in fact, of late years the limit has been reached at $1.75. Consequent- ly the manufacturers of specialties who heretofore sold to the jobber have thrown out their cheaper grades and have gone direct to the retailer with a higher priced shoe. Asa result they have not taken away the trade of the jobber on the cheaper lines, so it can be readily seen that the jobber is as prominent a factor in the business to-day as ever be- fore. The expense of distributing the goods cannot be avoided, whether the work is done by the manufacturer himself or by the jobber and the risks of the accounts must also be considered. It is a great mistake, therefore, to assume that there can be a saving of the jobbers’ profits in buying from the manufacturer. The jobber is able to distribute the expense over a larger amount of sales and, as a rule, for the average lines can give a lower price to the cealers than would be possible if each manufacturer had to bear the expense and risks of selling his own goods.—Boot and Shoe Re- corder, A 8 Competing With the Specialty Store. One of -the great features that has aided in making the manufacturers’ specialty stores a success is extensive advertising. Another feature is that they are sold from maker to wearer. It was the specialty store that inaugurated the free-shine system. The first fea- ture has led many dealers to add spe- cialty lines to their regular stock. Man- ufacturers have produced named _ shoes, placed them in retail stores, advertised them in magazines, etc.; but their numbers have become so great that out- side of a very few of them they promote but little trade for the dealers selling them, so that if you desire to carry a named shoe it is better to select a name and have it copyrighted. In deciding on the name it is well to have a contest, offering a prize to the person submit- ting the accepted name—have a proviso that the name shall be suggestive of lo- cal surroundings. If you do not have a contest, adopt a name that will be suggestive of the city you live in. Hav- ing decided on the name have your shoes made to your order with special name stamped on the sole, and then have the firm and special name on a silk label in every pair of shoes. Ad- vertise them extensively, using news- papers, signboards, catalogues, circu- lars, etc. A good advertisement that could be used in connection with a spe- cial-named shoe would be to issue a lit- tle booklet. Entitle it ‘‘ Treatise cn the Feet.’’ This could be compiled with very little expense, and _ distributed with other advertising matter. In such a booklet you could, in treating on a bunion, call attention to the fact that your No. 14 last was especially adapted to feet so afflicted. Use another number last when treating on ingrowing nails, Another for corns on the small toes, and so on. Give instructions on how the feet should be fitted. Where the free- shine system is in vogue in the com- peting manufacturers’ stores adopt it for your store. V. A. Plunkett. ——>_ 6 > J. E. 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The doubtful propriety of the low- neck dress has frequently been argued in and out of society circles without thus far having resulted in the covering of the female bust with more delicacy. This questionable fashion has finally led to the inauguration of a social function unblushingly called the ‘‘low-neck din- ner.’’ Of course, this subject is out of the province of the shoe man, and the modeste warns him to ‘‘stick to his last.’’ In our trade, too, we have what the sarcastic shoe reformer terms the ‘‘low-neck’’ shoe, which, by reason of its location on the body, however, is not open to the charge of contributing to- ward indelicate exposure. The low shoe and slipper are old friends; and, despite the warnings of the doctor and the sarcasms of the reformer, they are not likely to be displaced from women’s toilet. But the dainty low shoe can never incur the charge of being a menace to health on the street when re- enforced by a tasteful and Stylish over- gaiter, such as the modern manufacturer has provided for my lady’s foot. But, although these are often things of beauty and health preservers, the fact that they in some measure detract from the superior beauty of the ornate low shoe, by concealment, render the Overgaiter less acceptable than could be desired. But it is on hygienic as well as on aesthetic grounds that the low shoe wearer rests her claims to its use. In support of the practice she turns upon the reformer his own argument in fa- vor of less shoe or no shoe at all,to give the abused foot a chance to be what its Creator designed it. She quotes the benefits to be derived from the emanci- pation of the foot from imprisonment in modern shoes, the freedom of the toes and the unrestricted license of the upper part of the foot gained by use of the primitive sandal. It may well be sup- posed that the freedom of the foot rest- ing upon a ‘sandal and tied to it bya few straps would have all the liberty and comfort it could get. The devotee of the new shoe does not ignore the fact that in this covering the sandal-freedom of toes is not attained, but, loyal to her favorite footwear, she pronounces it the next best thing for the foot, because it has begun a reform of the high and injurious shoe at the top, by cutting it down. The modern slipper is the nearest approach now to the old sandal; but even this, when furnished with Straps, is provided with broad easy setting bands, placed. where they will be the least uncomfortable, and yet retain the slipper in place. Our lowcut slipper, without straps or other visible means of retaining it on the foot would have astonished the ancient sandalmaker. He could not have constructed a low slipper so that it would retain its grip upon the foot while walking without the aid of bands or strings to keep it on the foot. The secret of this close union of foot and slipper is modern, of course. By a peculiar but simple spring in the last, the slipper sole is made to assume such a position that when the foot is in it and the weight of the body resting on the foot, the slipper binds itself secure- ly to the wearer and keeps in place. ‘Should women wear straight shoes, or rights and lefts?’’ asks the novice ; and the veteran shoe man replies by asking another question, ‘‘Are women’s feet rights and lefts like those of men, or straight?’’ Time was, and not so very long ago, either, when any old straight thing was regarded by the shoe- maker as good enough for a woman’s foot. Now this is changed, and the ex- acting feminine foot demands its rights, and all the shape it can get in footwear, just like a man’s or even more so. ‘*But,’’ observed the novice, tenta- tively, ‘‘if straights were all right for our grandmothers, why not for our sis- ters and wives?’’ ‘“They were not all right,’’ returned the veteran. “A Straight shoe on a right or left foot was never right; nor can it be, until, in the process of evolution, straight feet are produced. I remember well enough when there was but little shape to women’s shoes, and when, for the most part, they were constructed of coarse and stiff ma- terials.’’ Continuing, the gray-headed dealer spoke his mind thus: ‘‘It may be that the fair sex were mostly to blame them- selves for this lack of discrimination in their feet and shoes; for, as a rule, they are averse to the bother of Studying the patterns of their shoes for points of difference. Of course, with the advent of button shoes, this matter regulated itself, and it was not necessary to look at the soles. But when things did take a turn in the diagrams of shoe soles for women’s feet, they were made, at first, with so much crookedness that the order of nature at the foot was reversed ; and this extreme was actually worse than the Straight shoe. “Still, the old-time lastmaker stuck resolutely to his crooked last, and it was as hard to induce him to modify his lines as it is to persuade the heavy headed cobbler to mend his life-long ways. A straight last would, in fact, have been better adapted to normal fem- inine feet than were some of those ser- pentine soles. ’’ ‘Making lasts, either Straight or rights and lefts, after stereotyped pat- terns and expecting them to conform to the various topographical surfaces of human feet is like making hats on va- rious sized blocks and Supposing that they will conform to the multifarious bumps of human heads. Modern meth- ods have changed all this, ‘‘Straight shoes, when there were no right and left fastenings to guide the wearer, were a boon to the indifferent woman when in a hurry to dress, She could get up in the dark and take either shoe that came first to hand and thrust it upon the most convenient foot and it was sure to be the right one. A man, however, had to go by instinct or feeling in the dark with his mated shoes, and often got things mixed at that.’ Another old shoe dealer was ungallant enough to assert that women ought to wear straight shoes even now, because they can not tell right from left except by the buttons. To this a woman replies that men are naturally. more crooked than women, and she clinches her argu- ment by adding that she never wears her stockings rights and letts, and never ex- pects to, either, The experienced shoe dealer declares that there is one sort of shoe from which no compensation of pleasure can be derived. It is the hard, stiff-soled thing, now but seldom seen, Whether we wear flexible or rigid soles, the foot in time shapes the shoe to the utmost of its ability to suit its requirements, When there is little or no pliability in either upper or sole, then the shoe No. E1912 Girls’ Box Calf. Wedge Heel, % D.S., Lace, Dainty Tip. ot $0.85 le ee 1.00 ie 1.15 We have these in all possi- ble varieties for girls and lit- tle gents. Always carried in stock for immediate shipment. CHICAGO, ILL. Lo Henderson’s “Little Red School House” Shoes Are justly famo better than bef School House” Shoe shoe for the retailer to handle and for made of the best of s everything is added t ore. The 20th Century Method is to buy direct from the factory. Have your name put on our “ Helpful Hints’? list. C. M. HENDERSON & Co. ‘“Western Shoe Builders” Cor. Market Monopolizer If you wish to obtain a monopoly on the school trade of your town, here us the country over and this It is our purpose to absolutely the best and tock, stitched with three S ( hat skill can devise to keep it in the lead’ is your chance. year they are even make our “Red most satisfactory the parent to buy. It is rows of best silk- Better try it! and Quincy Sts. ~ - asap , é * ‘ ie IE iy ; { ct, : m- ¥ er- : or at- 4 to : 4 of j la- si lat us dy h- no he nt 4 1e ¥ EE Le st it” ~ » = + . « * Sage Ea fone ee ' ‘ € MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 shapes the foot ; and this is, materially, the ‘‘destiny that shapes our ends.’’ Now, old shoes, like old wine, grow better as they grow older, more mellow and companionable, provided, in both cases, that they are composed of good materials. This is an important argu- ment for buying—of all things in cloth- ing—good serviceable footwear. Our feet are degenerating in direct ratio to the worthlessness of ourshoes. The old Greeks and Egyptians did not have to use their feet for shoe stretchers, con- sequently they were always sound and symmetrically shaped. Referring to squeaky shoes, less com- mon now than formerly, if it were only fashionable to have that sort of audible footwear we should all try to get the most squeak we could for the money in our shoe. There have been some 1sola- ted cases of this sort before now, but that sort of noise has never become very popular. Out in the Azores Islands, where the ox cart is still used, with its solid wooden wheels, the driver takes pride in having the proper amount of squeak go with his cart. No farmer out there is satisfied without this harsh, rasping noise; in fact, the people once rebelled against a law that was passed to prevent creaking carts from entering the cities. But creaking shoes in places of amusement never provoked legal suppression. It is not the shoe that makes the most squeak which is_neces- sarily the best shoe to wear, any more than the shoe dealer who makes the greatest noise is the man most implic- itly to be trusted in fitting our feet and making cash drafts upon our pockets. People are a little shy of these now. Now as to the best uses to which we shall put our feet and lower limbs for the best results in health,that depends a good deal upon the physical conditions of the owner of the members. in the matter of exercise, whether walking, running, jumping, skating, working a machine or a bicycle or kicking a foot ball, we might be safely guided by the scriptural injunction: ‘‘Prove_ all things; hold fast that which is good.”’ The shoe man is not deeply interested in the form of exercise that people shall indulge, further than that he would ad- vise plenty of good shoe-destroying ac- tivity on the part of the wearer. The health of the latter does not directly concern the maker or the seller of foot- wear; but yet the best health promoting exercise, and that which is most largely resorted to—that of walking much—is the best promoter of our trade ona large scale. More violent exercise is provided for by more indestructible shoes, which lower the percentage of destruction. In walking, as has been remarked, the heel naturally reaches the ground first and imparts more or less of a shock to the system, depending upon our nat- ural elasticity and that of ourshoes. In running or jumping, the bail of the foot strikes the ground alone, and the con- cussion is not so great because of the greater elasticity of the forward part of the foot. Men differ materially in their gaits; but between men and women, there is a marked contrast in the walk, produced in great degree by the differ- ence in physiological construction of the two sexes. They are slightly unlike in the construction of the lower limbs; the dress affects, to some degree the steps of women and makes them shorter. And, then, shorter feet in women tend to make shorter steps. A woman with mannish shoes, even, can not, unless she be an Amazon, attain a man’s long, measured stride.—E. A. Boyden in Boot and Shoe Recorder. ——_>42___ Anecdote of Marshall Field’s Boyhood. The annnouncement that Marshall Field will provide a large sum for building, on the Lake Front of Chi- cago, an adequate and permanent home for the museum which bears his name calls renewed attention to the personality of the greatest merchant prince the world ever saw. It is commonly be- lieved that Mr. Field has never experi- enced anything but flattering recogni- tion of his business genius, but, accord- ing to a story which is related by some of the older citizens of Pittsfield, Mass., there was one occasion on which the commercial gifts of the merchant king failed to make themselves appar- ent. . When Marshall Field was in his teens his father decided he would make a merchant of the boy, and took him to Pittsfield, where he was placed in the store of a family friend. The father re- turned to Conway, and several months passed before he again visited Pittsfield to learn what progress his son was mak- ing. The keeper of the store received the father of his apprentice very cor- dially, but hesitated for a moment when he_ was asked, ‘‘ How’s the boy coming on?"’ ‘*Hate to say it,’’ was the reply, ‘‘but I guess you might as well take him back with you. The fact is, I don’t think he’s cut out for a merchant!”’ This anecdote is one of the chief tra- ditions of Pittsfield and is related with great relish by the men whose recollec- tions cover the period of Mr. Field’s boyhood apprenticeship. Mr. Field is a plain, reticent man, without pretensions to any fads or spe- cial lines of philanthropic interest, and finds his chief recreation in the game of great affairs. —__--6 Saying the right thing at the right time is equivalent to keeping your mouth shut when you have nothing to say. O°O'O'O' OOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOOO® @ e - We Carry : e ¢ Shoes and Rubbers ° ° That are trade winners and will ° e e e make money for you. © @ e vA THE WESTERN SHOE CO. & @ TOLEDO, OHIO @ ©lLLSLO290909,909909009,090% Jo Pr Po ProFoeFad ro baba baba dati baba ba Ga bbb bb br br 4» dbo br bpd ty tn tn by tn i tp tp tp tp tp oh dp tp tp tp te ee a ee ee ee ee eee TRACE manu Putnam Candy Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. QUICK SELLERS are what you need during the hot spell. 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FLAT CAR. Granulated. SO-LO. aS oS The above brands are manufactured from the finest selected Leaf Tobacco that money can buy. See quotations in CxS) price current. oS SS ce x DEAS EASES SS ESE 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SAW THE TOWN. Why Jim Bought All |His Goods of One House. One day the main works of a whole- sale house was jacking uf the private secretary and getting ready to close his desk for the day when in blew a country customer. The head of the concern would have given $7 if he could have got out and caught the elevated before the country customer showed up. How- ever, he was politic, and he knew he must not throw down a buyer who dis- counted his bills and was as good as old wheat. So he gave a correct imitation of a man who was tickled nearly to death. After calling the country cus- tomer ‘‘Jim,’’ he made him sit down and tell him about the family, and the crops, and collections, and the pros- pects of duck shooting. Then, select- ing an opportune moment, he threw up both hands. He said he had almost forgotten the vestry meeting at five o'clock, and going out to dinner at six- thirty. He was about to call off the ves- try meeting, the dinner, and all other engagements for a week to come, but Jim would not listen to it. As a com- promise the head of the concern said he would ask their Mr. Byrd to take charge of the country customer. They could surely find some way of putting in the evening. He said the Oratorio club was going to sing at Music Hall, and also there was a stereopticon lecture on In- dia. Jim said he would prefer the stere- opticon show, because he loved to look at pictures. The head of the concern said that the country customer would be sure to like their Mr. Byrd. Everybody like Byrd. His full name was Mr. Knight Byrd. He pushed on a few buttons and blew into several snaky tubes, and put the whoie shop on the jump to find Mr. Byrd. The latter happened to be ina rathskeler not far away. When _ he heard that there was work to be done in his department he brushed away the crumbs and hot footed up to see the boss. : ‘In presenting Mr. Byrd to the coun- try customer the head of the concern laid it on with a shovel. He said that Jim here was his friend, and the house con- siderd it an honor to entertain him. The country customer sat there feeling sheepish and unworthy, but a good deal puffed up just the same. Then the head of the firm made his escape and the country customer was in the hands of Mr. Byrd. Mr. Byrd was known in the house as the human expense account. No one ever accused him of being a quitter. He was supposed to be hollow inside. Whenever a friend of the firm showed up, Mr. Byrd was called upon to take charge of him and entertained him to a standstill. The boss was troubled with dyspepsia and conscientious scruples and a growing family and a few other items that prevented him from going out at night with a visiting trade. He had it arranged to give each one of them a choice mess of beautiful lan- guage and then pass him along to Mr. Byrd. Mr. Byrd was a rosy and red headed gentleman, with a slight overhang below the shirt front. He breathed like a rusty valve every time he had to goupa stairway, but he had plenty of endurance of another kind. For years he had been playing his thirst against his ap- petite and was still a safe bet, which- ever way you wanted to place your money. His batting average was about seven nights in the week. He discov- ered that alcohol was a food long before the medical journals got onto it. Mr. Byrd's chief value to the wholesale house lay in the fact that he could meet all customers and close up half the places in town and then show up next morning with a clean collar and white carnation and send in word to lead out another country customer. Mr. Byrd’s first move was to take Jim to a retreat that was full of statuary and paintings. It was owned by a gray-haired beau named Bob, who was a ringer for,a United States Senator, all except the white coat. Bob wanted to show them a new tall one called Mamie Taylor, and after they had sampled a couple Jim said it was all right, and he believed he would take one. Then he told Bob how much he had taken in the year before and what his fixtures cost him, and if anvbody didn’t think he was good they could look him up in Dun, that was all. He said he wasa gentleman, and that no cheap skate in a plug hat could tell him where to get off. This last remark was intended for an inoffensive person who had slipped in to get a rhine wine and seltzer and was pronging about 40 cents’ worth of lunch. They got around Jim and quieted him, and Mr. Byrd suggested that they go and eat something before they got too busy. The country customer would not leave the art buffet until Bob had promised to come down and visit him some time. When they got into the street again the country customer no- ticed that all the office buildings were set on the bias, and they were produc- ing a new Style of spiral lamp-post. They dined at a palm garden that had padding under the tablecloth and a Hungarian orchestra in toe corner. Mr. Byrd ordered eleven courses, and then asked Jim what kind of wine he usually had with his dinner. This is an awful question to pop to a man who has_ been on rain water and buttermilk all his life. Jim was not to be fazed. He said he never ordered any particular label for fear people might think he was an agent. That was the hest thing Jim said all the evening. Mr. Byrd told the waiter to stand be- hind Jim and keep busy. When Jim began to make signs that he could not stand any more, the entertainer told him to inhale it and rub it in his hair. Along toward dessert Jim was talking in the tone used by Mugsy McGraw when he is coaching the man who is playing off from second. He was telling how much he loved his wife. She would have been pleased to hear it. Mr. Byrd paid a check that repre- sented one month’s board down where Jim lived. They fell into a horseless hansom and went to see the Hity-Tity variety and burlesque aggregation in a new piece entitled ‘‘Hooray! Hooray !’’ Jim sat in a box, for the first time, and wanted to throw money on the stage. The head usher had to come around once in a while to ask him not to let his feet hang over, and to remember that the company could do all the sing- ing without any help from him. Mr. Byrd sat back slightly flushed and watched the country customer make a show of himself. It was an old story to him. He knew that the quiet school trustee kind of a man who goes home at sundown for 364 days in the year, with a morning steak and a roll of reading matter under his arm, is the worst In- dian in the world when he does find himself among the tall houses, and gets it up his nose. ; Royal =f Garden -: « fe = 16aS t ka as In pounds, halves and (t : ace ne quarters ew | Seed | 24 | x JAPAN ‘ = a B. F. JAPAN vas So [Sgeteede TE YOUNG HYSON uf | or GUNPOWDER ENG. BREAKFAST ¢ 5 CEYLON oy OOLONG er BLEND © Retailed at 50c, 75c, and ff Be $1 per Ib. | BOUR'’S Celebraied Brands. grocer. choicest teas grown. iho Write for particulars. a =<. TRADE MARK —Se 4 1 The J. M. BOUR CO., Toledo, Ohio. ~~ EEE . , ; New=-19oI=Teas | -)- The advance shipment of our High Grade Quakeress and Queen Brands New Crop Teas Has Just Arrived from Japan Nothing finer in the tea line ever came to this market. We talk Quatity; THAT builds up your Tea trade. We'll do the rest. WORDEN GROCER CO., Importers Grand Rapids, Michigan celia easels Give us an order. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN He allowed Jim to stand and yell when the chorus struck the grand finale, and a little later on, when they had chartered a low-necked carriage, and Jim wanted to get up and drive he stood for it, although he had to make a pretty _talk to a couple of policemen before he landed Jim at the hotel. If this were a novel there would be a row of stars inserted here. The sun was high in the heavens when J. E. TURNER Who is to address the annual picnic of the Muskegon Grocers and Butchers on the subject of ‘Grocers and Butchers.” ‘“The dog that you gave to Bob.’’ “*Did we go back there again? I re- member the first time. ’’ ‘“Yes; it was in there that you wanted to run a hundred yards with any man present for chalk, money or marbles.’’ ‘‘Where are we now—at the hotel?’’ ‘‘Yes, and everything is smoothed over. The night clerk has agreed not to swear out a warrant.”’ Jim did not comprehend, but was COL. J. R. BENNETT Who is to address the annual picnic of the Muskegon Grocers and Butchers on the subject of “The Pure Food Laws.”’ the country customer opened his eyes and tried to remember, and then tried to forget. Some one was sitting at his bedside. It was Mr. Byrd, the long- distance entertainer, looking as sweet and cool as a daisy. afraid to ask. ‘It may be that I was a mite pol- luted,’’ he suggested. ‘‘You were a teeny bit pickled about 2, when you tried to upset the lunch wagon, but I don’t think any one no- ing that the night traffic makes so much noise on those hard stone pavements, it is almost impossible to get the usual amount of sleep. The head of the concern put his O. K. on a voucher for $43.60, and it occurred to him that stereopticon lectuers seemed to be advancing, but he asked no ques- tions. Ever after that Jim bought all his goods of this one house. He had to. Moral: Scatter seeds of kindness. George Ade. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900 Walter Baker & Co, uu. PURE, HIGH-GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES Their preparations are put up in conformity to the Pure-Food Laws of all the States, Under the decisions of the U. S. Courts no other chocolate or cocoa is entitled to be labelled or sold as “‘ Baker’s Chocolate” or ‘‘ Baker’s Cocoa.” Grocers will find them in the long run the most profit- able to handle, as they are absolutely pure and of uni- form quality. TRADE-MARK. In writing your order specify Walter Baker & Co.’s goods. If other goods are substituted please let us know. WALTER BAKER & CO. Limited, DORCHESTER, MASS. Established 1780. Michigan Fire and Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. . M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. WuHItNey, Secretary. M. W. O’Brien, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. DIRECTORS. D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, $, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. x Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. - Baldwin, Hugo © Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace, @ james McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry @ ‘Hayden, Collins’ B. Hubbard, James D. Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills, Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S. G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy, Chas. C. Jenks. QVELQDODOSOOGOOQOQOOQOQOOQOOOCE @ @ @ @ © @ © @ © | oo - Get our prices and try our work when you need Rubber and Steel Stamps Seals, etc. Send for Catalogue and see what we offer. Detroit Rubber Stamp Co. 99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich "O29 4W HLINS HY Judges appointed to act at the Third Picnic of Muskegon Grocers and Butchers. Capt. H. J. Woods W. H. Barney Hon. Lincoln Rodgers E. L. McDouell Francis Jiroch 16 ‘Before I give you the{photograph of myself, which you requested last night, would you care for anything in the way of ice water?’’ he asked. Jim did a sincere groan, and said he could use a barrel of it. ‘*Did I request a photograph?’’ he asked, as he felt for the boundaries of his head. ‘*You did,’’ replied the entertainer. ‘‘And you gave me your watch asa keepsake. I have brought the watch and all the money you had left after you had bought the dog.’’ ‘‘What dog?’’ ticed it,’’ said Mr. Byrd. ‘Take me to_the noon train,’’ re- quested the country customer. ‘‘Tell the conductor where I live and send me the bills for all that I have broken.”’ ‘*Everything is settled,’’ responded the entertainer. ‘‘But why tear your- self away?’’ ‘‘I am through,’’ replied Jim, ‘ why tarry?’’ Mr. Byrd took him to the train and arranged with the porter of the parlor car for a pillow. When the country customer arrived at home he accounted for the eyes by say- “so, nomical as well. and blue tin packages. AXLE GREASE has pecome known on account of its good qualities. Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is 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- Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white ILLUMINATING AND Merchants handle HIGHEST PRIOB PAID FOR EMPTY LUBRICATING OILS PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER STANDARD OIL CO. CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Advantages and Defects of the Hot Air Furnace. The improvements in the warm-air furnace for the past twenty years have been wonderful. One of the most note- worthy improvements in furnace con- struction in the last decade is the splen- did quality of iron used in their cast- ings, combined with good workamnship. Although this class of manufacturers is very few in the United States, yet they are the ones that will win out in the end. Another noted improvement is in the grate construction, and in propor- tioning the grate surface to the radia- ting surface. The firepot has received marked attention, as well as the com- bustion chamber. One of the most neglected points to- day in furnace construction is the proper fitting of joints, door frames, etc. In the first place, taking it froma Sanitary point of view, the steam, or hot water heater, with a direct system, is not to be compared with the warm air furnace. What can be more health- ful than a flow of pure, fresh air, prop- erly warmed, with the house well venti- lated? In the second place, take either steam or a hot water heater, with an in- direct system, it will cost so much that comparatively few can afford to put ina plant of this kind. As fora direct in- direct system, I do not consider a_ suc- cess. The combination hot air and hot water, when properly constructed, is proving a decided success, and is grow- ing into favor very fast. The principal defects of furnaces are there are too many cheap, worthless fur- maces on the market. There are a few manufacturers in the United States that take pride in keeping their goods up to a high standard. They employ skilled workmen and pay them good wages. Some of them have been manufacturing furnaces for the past half century, and have built up a reputation, and just so long as they keep their furnaces up to the high standard they have placed them, just so long will they enjoy that reputa- tion. There are furnaces on the mar- ket to-day that the iron in the casting would hardly be fit to put in window weights, say nothing about the sand holes, warped plates, ragged edges on flanges of cup joints, etc. You may take twenty different makes of furnaces, set them all up ina row and set a man to putting jackets on them, and how many of them will he find that he can doa satisfactory job on? I will venture to say that at least in fifteen of them he will find the following defects: The base ring will be smaller than the casing rings, or one casing ring will be smaller than the other, or the crab or feed door section does not come out ona line with the base or casing rings, and when he puts the door frame on and screws up the bolts the consequence is there will be a flat front instead of a true circle, as it should be. The next one, perhaps, he will have to take file, hammer and cold chisel, and file flanges and chisel the knobs out of the cup of the firepot, and a hundred and one other little things that could just as well as not, and ought to be, done in the foundry. One other defect | find in some _fur- naces of to-day. Where they use a steel radiator with cast top and bottom, is the use of rods to hold the radiator together. These rods expand very easily, causing the cement to crack, and in a very short time there will be a leakage of gas. I look to see nearly all of the manu- facturers of first-class furnaces, who have not already done so, to adopt the tubular form of furnace, for I think that it has been demonstrated time and- time again by our best heating engineers that air can not be warmed by radiant heat alone. I think that the tubular form of furnace is the best furnace on the market to-day, when it is con- structed in the proper manner. Next is the triple radiator form, but the fur- nace that has more cooling surface on the outside than there is heating surface on the inside, will soon be passed. | look to see marked improvements in the air blast furnaces in the near future, for the economical burning of soft coal. There is not at the present time more than four air-blast furnaces on the mar- ket that have their air supply propor- tioned to their grate surface. This point ought to have more careful attention. A few words to the manufacturer on the manner that they market their goods. I think that the manufacturer that cares to build up his trade, also cares to uphold his reputation, should employ traveling salesmen that. thor- oughly understand the heating business in every detail; one that can, if called on, figure on, lay out and proportion a job, so when it is installed it will be a success. There are some manufacturers that manufacture both stoves and fur- naces. They, in some cases, employ a first-class stove salesman. They also burden him with the furnace branch of the business. In nine cases out of ten he does not know the first rudiments of the heating business but they give him tables and rules, if he is out in a small town, and his customer asks him to go out witb him and figure on a heating job. He will go, look at the house, then take out his little book of tables and rules and say, J think that this fur- nace will do the work. Perhaps he will sell the job. When it is installed it does not give satisfaction. It would have been better for his customer if be had not made the sale. It would also have been better for his employers; while, on the other hand, if they had a man there that knew the furnace business and gave the customer instructions how to set his furnace, locate registers, proportion hot air pipes, cold air supply, etc., the jab would have been a success, and would mean more business for the customer, as well as the manufacturer. To sell stoves it takes a salesman that under- stands the stove business, but to sell furnaces it takes a man that thoroughly understands the heating business in all of its branches. Therefore, I say that if the manufacturer cares to uphold his reputation in the future he must employ salesmen to sell his stoves and salesmen to sell his furnaces.—S. E. McLaughlin in American Artisan. s+. —____ The Neglect Cure for Warts. Warts are curious things. They come and go mysteriously, although their go- ing is frequently marked by exasperat- ing delays,and there are almost as many infallible cures as there are warts, the only trouble with these cures being that they are useless when applied to the particular wart you happen to have. They are only good for other people’s. ‘‘In my opinion,’’ said a club man, who was discussing the subject with a friend one day, ‘‘a wart is merely the outward correspondence of some mental excrescence. Get rid of that,and it goes away. ““Let me give you a bit of my own experience,’’ he continued. ‘‘Last year I went to Europe. For about three years I had had a wart on my lit- tle finger, on which I had tried every- thing I could hear of, but without effect. It only grew larger. ‘*Well, in the excitement of preparing for the trip and of the journey itself, | forgot all about my wart, and when I looked for it, about six weeks later, it had vanished, without leaving the slightest mark. I simply forgot it, and it had no mental condition to feed on. I see you have one on the back of your hand. Forget all about it for a few weeks, and it will go away of itself.’’ > Stories vs. the Real Thing. “‘Yes,’’ said a young man, ‘‘I’ve quit, and I want to say that 1 think these stories of the way men get ahead in the world are all fairy tales. I’ve tried the methods and know. Only a few days ago I read about Tom L. John- son making his first big hit with the manager of a street railroad by_pick- ing up the scrap iron he found lying around. ‘You're the kind of a careful man [| want,’ said the manager, and he promoted him right away. That was enough for me, so I began picking up things whenever the boss was near. ‘* “What are you doing?’ he demanded yesterday. ‘* *There’s no use letting these things go to waste, sir,’ I answered, for that’s what Tom Johnson said. “* “Of course not,’ he said, ‘and we hire men for a dollar a day to do just that class of work. But we can't afford to have clerks wasting their time over it. Hump yourself back into the office now or I’]] have you on the pay roll as a day laborer.’ ‘*So I quit. Somehow things don’t seem to happen in reai life the way they do in print.’’ Nobody so wise but has a little folly to spare. Summer Resorts ON THE G.R. & I. ‘* The Fishing Line’’ | } | | | | | | } The oe Department of the Grand allway has issued a 36- Rapids & Ind page booklet. entitled ‘“‘ Michigan in Sum- mer,’’ that contains 250 Northern Michigan. Interesting information is given about these popular resorts: Petoskey Bay View Harbor Springs Harbor Point Wequetonsing Roaring Brook Emmet Beach Walloon Lake It contains a list of hotels and boarding houses in Northern Michigan, with their rates . and — o. fares from the principal points in ¢ This booklet will be sent free upon request to C. L. Lockwoop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Grand Rapids, by the day and Michigan. 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 trip via the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway ana R: week ictures of resorts in Mackinac Island Traverse City Neahtawanta Omena Northport Northport Point Edgewood and other points e Middle West. Over 100,000 Brilliant Gasoline Gas Lamps Sold ia the last four years and Over 50,000 Halo Pressure will be sold this year or we’ll miss our guess. No trouble to do it—there are no competitors. Our lamps are known world wide and are wanted everywhere for Homes. Stores. Streets. Churches, Schools, Tents, Gardens, Resorts, Mining, Fish- candle power. George Bohner. ing, ete. We make all kinds that are good and permitted by the insurance companies. Best Gas Light 20 cents a month. Brilliant Gas Lamp Company, 42 State Street, Chicago. Sena ee « — OR a Storm Lamp, 2 to 400 candle power. DHOOOOOOOOOOOOHGHOOGOHHGHOGHHGGUGD sensing nao nn Cee ware, etc., etc. 31, 33, 35: 37> 39 Louis St. Sporting Goods, Ammunition, Stoves Window Glass, Bar Iron, Shelf Hard- Foster, Stevens & Co., 10 & 12 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, Mich. ’ SSOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOSSSSSSSSOS Awi jo wis ‘ + a ae ew mrp MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 Window Dressing Special Reasons Why Simple Trims Should Be Attempted. As one goes about the streets of any large city, gazing at the window dis- plays at this season of the year, he in- voluntarily exclaims, ‘‘Why is it that merchants will not consider the weather and dress their windows less heavily?’’ A window crowded full of goods is par- ticularly bad, and if we repeat that say- ing a hundred times, elaborating on it in every conceivable way, it is only be- cause dealers persist in a very bad style of window decoration. In the summer, of all times, there is reason for showing as few articles as possible. People have not the time or the inclination to stop in the broiling sun to inspect a multi- tude of articles. They give a quick glance as they pass and a few articles are enough to catch their attention. Some trimmers find it advisable from time to time to dress a window with only one article. The one article is shown in a_ window otherwise without decoration or the window is trimmed with a variety of artistic accessories, such as drapery, artificial palms or flow- ers, and one handsome shirt, suit of clothing or other article of merchandise is mounted upon a standard and put in the window with a show card calling attention to the line and the price of the goods. When a merchant knows his trade well enough to know that on a cer- tain day substantially all his business will be on a certain line of goods, he has a special reason for trying this method of display. It must be ad- mitted that it is not possible for some dealers to force business out of season if they expect to make any profit from the business they do, and _ therefore elaborate displays all the year around are not necessary for them. Ata time when the bulk of the season’s business has been done and little more is to be expected there is a special reason why a very simple trim should be attempted. One merchant got an idea for sucha trim from the sport of archery. He prepared a large bull’s-eye by taking a large hoop and mounting it upon legs like an easel. This hoop he covered witha large sheet of cardboard, painted in concentric circles like a bull’s-eye. To the center of the eye he attached a new shape of tie, which was stuck fast to the bull’s-eye by an arrow driven through both. The bow and quiver were shown at the foot of the easel, and above it was a sign, saying, ‘‘ Your eye can find no better mark than one of these ties.’’ . * * * It is not a bad idea to have special covers made for sidewalk cases, as well as for the windows, as very often the heat of the sun or the dust and dirt will inflict injury upon them and their con- tents. Strips of canvas awning remnants can be cut up either into plain strips of the necessary size or (better still for the square showcases) sewed together into square-topped bags, which can be slipped over the cases. upon these coverings, so that they are not entirely useless as advertising me- diums. A merchant should calculate upon using every bit of display space open to him, whether it be in his win- dows, on his showcases or in the col- umns of his paper. Sometimes these temporary coverings can have attached to them signs painted either upon paste- board or cloth, which will attract atten- tion to the goods in the store. It is advisable to have the name of the store painted) Triangular show cards are useful when attached to the window pane up and down the sides of the window casing. A row of them so placed will give much information without unduly obstructing the view of the contents of the window. A very small triangular or wedge shaped card i$ sometimes used, with the price on it in small figures. It can be slipped into the knot of a bow, the edge of a collar or anything of the sort, and is very useful to denote the price ofa small article of haberdashery to which it is desired to call particular attention. —Apparel Gazette. >> How to Ascertain the Proper Percentage of Profit. In estimating the profits that a stock of goods should earn, too little attention is sometimes paid to the cost of carry- ing on the business. No niatter how small or large a busi- ness may be, its success depends on a thorough understanding of the figures. Invoices must be compared with orders and carefuly kept, a cost book provided and each item recorded, and every mat- ter of expense be thoroughly guarded against if the business is to be pre- served against loss. In figuring cost so as to determine the rate of profit, not a single known or ascertainable item should be omitted. It is generally a good plan for the owner to credit him- self with a certain salary each month and to charge the amount against ex- pense or merchandise account. When a credit business is done, a certain per- centage should be provided for a loss on bad bills. In figuring on the rate of -profit, it is a common mistake to group all goods under one head and to add a fixed per- centage for profit. Under this system, all goods: are expected to realize the same percentage even although some are necessarily quick sellers and others comparatively slow. Ifa certain line is in good demand at a fair price, there is more money in moving it quickly for a reasonable profit than in holding it at a figure which the customers will not feel like paying. Slow selling goods of a staple character can stand a higher per- centage of profit and their sale will compensate for the smaller advance over cost made on others. In this way an average rate of profit can be struck, and the result will be more satisfactory than if it had been attempted by fixing a uniform rate on each separate line. Nevertheless, each line should be made to bear its proper burden of ex- pense. This can be determined by the amount of sales for any previous period and by dividing the differentdines into departments. Conditions vary from time to time, and in this case a rule that was formerly correct may not have a proper or profitable application, but by comparing them together and _strik- ing an average, it will not be difficult to determine the share of expense which each line should bear, and where this has been done the percentage of profit in each case can be easily ascertained. —Hardware Hints. ——__> 0~.—___ Refused $1,500 For One Log. Greencastle, Ind., July 27—Near the southern edge of this county is a walnut log for which $1,500 was recently re- fused. It was found by a man who was making an excavation in the bank of a creek, and who, realizing partially the value of his discovery, went to the own- er of the land and secured possession of the piece of timber for $75 He dug it out of the sand and clay, and a lum- berman who examined it offered the price first mentioned. The owner asked $1,800, The timber has been covered for possibly centuries, and the wood is as black and hard as mahogany, GRAND RAPIDS PLASTER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of rece" GYPSUJT WALL PLASTER =: We make a specialty of mixed cars of Land, Calcined and Wall Plaster, Portland Cement, etc. Write us for booklet and prices, Perfection Peanut Gabinel and Warmer The No. 1 Perfection Peanut Cabinet and Warmer is perfect. It will double your sales and treble your pro- fit, as you can buy more at a time for less money without It puts them before the public in a well finished glass case. It warms only such quantity as you wish; it warms them loose or in sacks. loss on stale nuts. 100 pounds of peanuts will make you more money than 5 barrels of sugar. It costs 1 cent per day to run it and it is perfectly safe. It is warranted not to smell or smoke. If not satisfied after 10 days’ trial we will refund the money. Price $5.50 F. O. B. Detroit. 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OQDOGOOSE ie 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Face to Face With the Old, Old Question. The room was dark, except for the dim glow of a street light that shone in through the open window. It was that psychological moment when women let down their back hair and get into some- thing loose and tell things, because it is dusk and they feel confidential, that they repent in sackcloth and ashes the next day when it is light. I could only see the girl’s profile, dimly silhouetted against the back of her Morris chair. We were too intimate to feel the need of making conversation with each other and there had been a long silence, broken only by the faint tinkle of ice in our long glasses. Pres- ently the girl began speaking in rather a hesitating tone: ‘*Jack’’-—-she began. ‘*Yes?’’ I enquired, with large en- couragement in my voice. ‘*Wants me to marry him,’ on. ‘‘So I have perceived any time these last two years,’’ I put in. There was another silence that I broke by asking: ‘*Well, what are you going to do?’’ ‘‘I don’t know,’’ she answered in troubled tones. ‘‘ You see, it’s like this, I like him too well to say ‘no,’ and not quite well enough to say ‘yes.’ If mat- rimony was a four-year contract, shouldn’t mind signing with him for it, but when it comes to letting myself in for a life job I don’t feel sure that my affection is equal to the strain.”’ ‘‘It has always seemed a pity to me,”’ I remarked, ‘‘that the true test of love comes after marriage, when it’s too late to do you any good, instead of be- fore, when you would still have time to crawfish away from the altar. It’s like eating cucumbers and green apples to see whether they agree with you or not. The information you derive isn’t worth the colic it costs. If you can still feel an affection for a man who criticises your housekeeping with a three-days’ beard on his face, your love is founded on the rock of ages and nothing § can shake it.”’ ‘‘There’s the rub,’’ replied the girl: ‘‘that’s just what I want to know in advance. I like Jack’s society in homeo- pathic doses. Willa taste for it grow on me, like a love of olives, or will too much of it pall on my palate, like too much pudding?’’ ‘‘Somebody has said,’’ I suggested, “that the real question is not can I live with a man, but can I live without him.’’ ‘‘Oh, that’s nonsense,’’ replied the girl with conviction, ‘‘one can live with only one eye or one tooth, but it’s far better to have the usual number. I’ve no notion of hobbling through iife without a husband just because I can get along without a man attached to me.”’ There was silence for a moment, and then she remarked: ‘*Jack’s a fine fellow.’’ I assented. ‘“‘And he could give me a home. ”’ I assented again. ‘And he’s desperately in love with me’’ I agreed again. ‘And I am very fond of him, but—’’ ‘*But what?’’ I asked. ‘‘He isn’t my ideal,’’ she went on desperately. ‘‘He isn’t to me what I am tohim. I like him. I respect him. she went — good 1 admire every one of his good quali- ties, but he couldn't thrill me with 3,000, 000 volts of electricity. ‘‘Fond as I am of him, I know that when | am with him there is still always something lacking for which my heart thirsts and hungers. There are heights in my nature he will never scale; depths he has no plummet to sound; doors to which he has no key. ‘‘If I marry him I shall never know one pang of jealousy. I shall never have to worry over the state of his affec- tion or grow gray trying to keep young and beautiful for fear I shall lose his love.’’ ‘‘Life on a mill pond,’’ I remarked oracularly, ‘‘may not be exciting, but it is safe.’’ ‘*Ye-e-s,’’ she answered, doubtfully, ‘‘but if one misses the rapture of love oneself—if one thirsts for champagne and gets only cambric tea!’’ ‘‘The French have a proverb,’’ I re- plied, ‘‘that in love one kisses, the other suffers himself to be kissed. The ques- tion with you is, shall you kiss or be kissed?’’ ‘‘Yes,,’’ she answered, ‘‘Is it better for a woman to love or be loved? Is it better to be somebody’s ideal or marry your own ideal?’’ ‘‘Ideals,’’ I said, ‘‘are like the peaches in a basket under pink mosquito netting. They look so alluring that you spend your last cent in buying them, and then, when you get them home, they are hard and knotty and worm- eaten and you throw them out the back door. ’’ The girl sighed. ‘*Besides,’’ I went on, ‘‘if you ask me, I should say that a woman ought never to be more than half as much in love with a man as he is with her, to start on. A man begins married life with a fixed capital of do- mestic affection, and it is only in ex- ceptional circumstances that he replen- ishes it. His business, his clubs, his outside interests tend always to draw him away from his wife. Every lover knows the color of his sweetheart’s eyes and the gown he likes her best in. By the time a man has been married ten years, he has forgotten whether she has any eyes or not, and the only remarks he makes about her clothes are when the bills come in. ‘‘A woman, on the contrary, is al- ways adding to her stock of love. Her world narrows down to her husband and home, and almost any man who treats his wife half way decently can count on being loved more than he deserves. There’s something of the cat in everv woman that makes her snuggle up toa warm hearthstone and purr under any hand that rubs the fur the right way. ‘Of course, the ideal is perfect love on both sides, but in a world that is full of misfit hearts, as well as other un- equal things, this is seldom attained, and this habit women have of falling in love with anybody who is good to them is nature's way of evening up things. ‘‘A man should always marry the woman he loves and the woman the man who loves her. The man who is always trying to live up to his wife’s approval has a beacon before his eyes that leads him into doing the very best that is in him. The woman who is trying to live up to her husband is the most miserable creature on earth,tortured by a thousand jealous fears and envies. ‘‘Believe me, my dear, there is more peace and rest in being the idol before The President of the United States of America, -SREETING : To HENRY K.OCH, your Clerk, attorneys, ager:3, @alesemen. and workmen, and all claiming of holding through or under you, Wher cas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘“‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant's said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading manner. o AVituess, The honorable Metvitte W. FuLier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two. {sear] ROWLAND COX, [sscxxp) Complainants Solicite,. S. D. OLIPHANT, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 whom incense is burned than there is in being the incense burner.’’ ‘*Then, after all, remarked the girl, ‘‘I may never meet my ideal.’’ ‘‘And if you do, you may not be his ideal,’’ I suggested. ‘‘That is true,’’ she agreed, ‘‘and Jack is a dear boy, and I am very, very fond of him,’’ and then she added a lit- tle wistfully, ‘‘but it is hard to make up one’s mind to bread and butter when one wants cake, isn’t it?’’ But I only laughed as I held out my hand in the dark to say good-night. ‘Cake is mostly indigestible,’’ I said, ‘and we repent having eaten it when it is too late.’’ Dorothy Dix, ——_~>2.__ The Universal Discontent and Rebellion Among Women. While much of the so-called ‘‘child study’’ of the present day may be dis- missed as a fad, yet there is no doubt that if intelligently prosecuted it may shed some light on the various sociolog- ical problems of the age. One of the most original and successful investiga- tors along this line is Prof. Earl Barnes, While at the head of the department of education in Stanford University he came very near producing an _insurrec- tion among California mothers by his ‘striking proof that most children are natural liars. All that kept the walls of the university intact was that each mother believed her own children to be the exception which prove the rule. Two years ago Prof. Barnes went to Cambridge, England, to do some spe- cial work and attracted so much atten- tion by his new theories that he was pressed into service by the university and a permanent professorship was offered to him. Among his interesting researches there he had the following question proposed to the boys and girls in the public schools who were about 12 years old: ‘‘Would you rather be a manora woman when you grow up, and why?’’ Of the 302 boys who returned answers only two would be willing to be women —one because ‘‘women have much more sense than men,’’ and the other because ‘‘the female sex is good without any trouble, but it is hard for the male sex to be good.’" About 35 per cent. of the girls wanted to be men. The reasons given by both boys and girls showed a pathetic observance of the way in which women are sacrificed in the home and wronged in the labor market. Both agreed that a man’s lot is far easier than a woman’s. Most of the boys would hate to be a woman ‘‘ because she has to cook and sew and take care of babies and stay in the house.’’ The girls want to be men because they have watched the mother do these things and have decided that the father has much the best of life. ‘‘They pay men better for work.’’ “*Women are always cheated out of their money when a relation dies.’’ ‘‘A man can have his own way at home and en- joy himself when his work is done and have a holiday on Saturday afternoon and Sunday.’’ ‘‘Men can go all over the world, but women have to say at home.’’ ‘‘Men can talk politics and vote.’’ ‘‘A man can belong to trades unions and keep his job, because no- body will take it, while plenty of women will take hers. In fact, there are too many women in the world.”’ These are some of the answers given by those discriminating little creatures. A few of the girls wrote: ‘‘I would wish to be a woman because it is God's will.’’ ‘‘I would choose to be a woman because nature made me one and we must be content.’’ ‘‘I would rather be a woman because she has feeling for other people and men have just feeling for themselves.’’ ‘‘l want tobe a woman so as to train my children right. Men just hit them and swear at them and make them worse.’’ ‘‘Women have to suffer and be strong and that is a noble lot.’’ Is there a moral to this story? Does any remedy suggest itself for this dis- content among women? Yes. Admit- ting that by nature woman is unequally handicapped in the struggle for exist- ence, shall this be accepted as a justifi- cation for increasing this handicap by every obstacle which custom and pre- judice have been able to devise? The dictum of the ages to woman has been to this effect: You are unfitted by na- ture for many of the vocations of life, therefore it is the duty of man to in- crease these disadvantages to the utmost possible extent. You are not as strong as he is physically, therefore you must have no opportunity for bodily develop- ment by rational dress, by the gymnas- ium, or by athletic sports. Your brain is not equal to that of a man, therefore you shall not have a chance to develop it by means of an education. You are not competent to follow the manifold oc- cupations of men, therefore you shall not be allowed to prove by actual exper- iment that perhaps this may be a mis- taken estimation. To permit you to hold property and control your wages would bring about social chaos, therefore you never shall have the opportunity to demonstrate the truth or falsity of this belief. You know nothing whatever of the science of government, therefore you shall be kept in ignorance and denied all participation. Suppose this precise logic should be applied to the men of our new posses- sions—by nature you are densely ignorant and you have the instincts of barbarians, therefore God intended that you should remain in that condition and that we should rule over you. What chance would there be for the development of these races? On the contrary, our first move is to establish schools, to place these men in subordinate positions of trust and responsibility as a training for higher ones, and to arouse their ambi- tion by the promise of full power as scon as they are prepared for it. Ex- actly the opposite method has been em- ployed in the case of women among ll of the so-called civilized nations. Every effort has been made to hold them down to the inferior position in which it has been declared that God and _ nature placed them, instead of offering every possible assistance to enable them to rise above it. Women themselves and the few brave souls among men who have recognized their obligation to one- half of humanity have had to fight for every inch of ground which has been secured. Every gain made.has proved the utter fallacy of the objections urged against it, but even this fact does not lessen the opposition to the next step. The rignt of woman to physical de- velopment, the right to the highest edu- cation, to choose an occupation, to con- trol wages, to own property, all at length have been conceded. Those contests are ended. Men are no longer vexed by the continual demand for those _privil- eges, and they are pleased with them- selves for granting them. Women have taken peaceful and happy possession of this much of the kingdom and they have infringed upon no man's rights by so doing. The battle for a voice and a share in the government is now in prog- ress. It will be fought to a finish and women at last will gain the victory. What, then, is the remedy for this universal discontent and_ rebellion among women? There is but one answer —remove the cause. One would sup- pose that men would be sick unto death of this never-ending, ever-increasing clamor; that they would be anxious to secure relief for themselves; that for the good of the household and the commun- ity they would desire to stop this agita- tion and have women settle down to the peaceful pursuits of life. There is not a man of intelligence who does not know in his heart that this dissatisfaction and revolt is on the increase; that the ranks of the insurrectionists are being con- stantly augmented; that the forces are led by the ablest and strongest women, and that surrender on the part of men is merely a question of time. Women are demanding only what is reasonable and just and right—simply fair play. If our advanced civilization stands for anything it stands for this—fair play among nations and among individuals. If our Government means anything it means equality of rights—not merely between man and man, but also between man and woman. The man who is un- willing to grant to every other man, and to all women, the full liberty which he himself enjoys is not entitled to that lib- erty. Women do not desire to take away from any man one single right which he possesses, they only want individual freedom for themselves. Let the man who denies this sit down in solitude, look himself in the face and search his soul for justification. | Cora Stowell. ———»>-2 a All Wanted To Be Editor. ‘‘Well,’’ asked the professor, ‘‘did you attend our commencement and meet our graduates?’’ ‘*No,’’ answered the editor, ‘‘I didn’t attend, but I’ve met them all, I guess, How many young men did you gradu- ate this year?’’ ‘*Two hundred and twelve,’’ answered the professor. ‘‘Then one of them must be ill,’’ said the editor. ‘‘Up to date, two hundred and eleven have been around to strike me for a job.’’ We Are Advertised by Our Loving Friends HAMILTON CLOTHING CO, TRAVERSE CITY, MICH, June 18,1901, Michigan Brick & Tile Machine Coes Morenci, Mich., Genitlemen—Regarding the Gas Plant you installed in my store building last January, I will say that we are getting very excellent 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 mch 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 meets every requirement so far, for cooking, grates as well as lighting. I have been well satisfied with both plants. Dic. Yours truly, Gran Neale 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. There seems to be a pretty general impression among egg men that the long period of excessive waste in summer egg production has redeemed the egg situation and made a very favorable outlook for the future instead of the most unpromising one formerly indi- cated by the excessive spring storage of high priced eggs. And, indeed, it must be admitted that the situation of affairs has been considerably improved. Col- lectors in many sections have been obliged to reduce prices for eggs to such an extremely low point that marketing has been interfered with, farm consump- tion has undoubtedly increased, and of the eggs collected and packed for gen- eral current distribution only a small proportion has shown quality fit for use in any good class of trade. It is also true that these abnormal conditions have made it necessary for Eastern dealers to go to the refrigerators for fine eggs, and to do this current values had to be raised to the point at which re- serve stock could be brought out at a profit, at an unusually early date. Furthermore the strengthening of pop- ular sentiment as to the future of the egg market has created more or less speculative demand for fine lines of early packed refrigerators to hold against later requirements and considerable lots have changed hands at prices that would have been out of the question before the hot weather proved to have been so dis- astrous to current qualities and market- able quantities. * * * It is quite possible, however, that the potency of present conditions to fully save the season’s operations in storage eggs may be over-estimated. That the situation is improved there can be no question, but that enough stor- age eggs will be absorbed during the period when fresh production is abnor- mally below consumptive needs is cer- tainly questionable in view of the ex- cessive holdings. It is worthy of note that in Boston, where accurate figures of storage holdings are given from week to week, there was no reduction in stock up to July 20, although the rate of in- crease during the earlier part of the month had fallen to very small figures. Here in New York there is believed to have been some decrease during the past two weeks, but it could hardly have amounted to more than 12,000 to 15,000 cases considering that some eggs have continued to goin also. It is not im- probable that there will be some in- crease in the supply of fresh gathered eggs during August. Country prices have been forced so low that on fairly useful goods there is a pretty good chance of profit and should weather con- ditions turn fairly favorable we might expect enough fresh stock, attracted by the relatively high values for prime qualities, to lessen the use of storage eggs if not, for a time, check it alto- gether. But even with a _ continued moderate summer use of reserve stock it is probable that the fall season will still find the warehouses carrying relatively large supplies, and as fall prices must rule pretty high to unload at profitable figures consumptive demand may be un- favorably affected. . + + It is interesting to speculate upon the condition of affairs had we been free from such excessively unfavorable weather conditions this summer. Re- ports from many sections indicate a total waste of eggs amounting to some 50 per cent. ; and in some Southwestern sec- tions the prices paid for eggs on a loss off basis are said to net the farmers only 2 or 3c per doz. for the total quantity brought in. Such instances may be ex- ceptional, but they indicate the enor- mous extent of the waste and yet our receipts for July up to this time have been greater than those of last year. This fact, in view of considerable use of refrigerator eggs, might be consid- ered as an indication of unusual summer demand, but it must be remembered that outlet for a large quantity of poor stock has been iesocll by extremely low prices ; there are no evidences that regular trade in the better channels is any better than usual.—N. Y. Produce Review. 8 Adulterated Flowers Now. From the Lancet. Many persons have been _ rudely shocked to find that a flower for which perhaps they gave a considerable sum and which they took to be genuine proved subsequently to be artificial in every particular, Within our own ex- perience not long ago the attention of a gentleman sitting at dinner was drawn to the fact that his shirt front and coat were gradually being covered’ with streaks of a brilliant red color. He was wearing a bright carnation in his but- tonhole which at quite a short distance, as it appeared subsequently, deceived perfectly. Even the perfume was ad- mired. The ‘‘flower’’ had just been watered to freshen it and it was then seen that on the water drops detaching themselves they were of a brilliant red color while the ‘‘carnation’’ gradually assumed a faint variegated appearance owing to some of the coloring matter be- ing washed out. General incredulity was expressed that, at first sight, the flower could be anything but real. A laboratory examination, however, soon brought the whole truth to light, and the results are remarkable and certainly a credit to the ingenuity of the designer. There was not the vestige of a carna- tion about it. The ‘‘flower’’ consisted of slices of turnip neatly cut and dyed with acid magenta; the stems and leaves were of twisted cloth dyed a dark green with chromium; the bloom was a very fine starch powder delicately dusted over the stems and leaves; and the sup- port to the whole clever fabric was a concealed iron wire. Asynthetic amber- colored oil known as ‘‘oeillet’’ com- “eas the deception in giving a per- ume wonderfully imitative of the gen- uine carnation. Altogether we can hardly conceive of a cleverer deceit and it is satisfactory to be able to add that so far as our observations went it is free from positive harm except to wearing — n carefully searching the various materials for irritating substances and poisonous metals we could not obtain the slightest evidence that such were present. It is clearly possible, how- ever, that the colors used for artificial flowers may contain substances injurious to health—such as for example, arsenic, —_—__ 4 -.___ Common Purpose. ‘*Young Smiggins was so troubled about his debts that he joined a don’t worry ciub.’ ‘*Ves 2 “And he found its membership made up chiefly of the men he owed.’ MOSELEY BROS. JOBBERS OF CLOVER, TIMOTHY SEEDS 7 ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS POTATOES ONIONS LEMONS 26, 28, 30 AND 32 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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. 20000000 090000060000000000000000 00000000 00000000 ¢ GEORGIA ELBERTA PEACHES WATERMELONS GEM MELONS Have car Peaches and Watermelons received daily. Send us your orders. car Gems due Wednesday. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, 14-16 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOSOOSOS OOOO 09020004 000000300000000000000000 pee Gi: Bik 5 ye 70a; OE ae Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. 98 South Division Street Grand Rapids, [lichigan 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. 9 North Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. SEASONABLE | SEEDS “2 Prices as low as any house in the trade consistent with quality. Orders filled promptly. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., S04 Stowers and Merchants, 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 on the market. We give a Guarantee Bond to every customer. Your order solicited. THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. Price very low. Write or MILLETS, FODDER CORN, BUCKWHEAT, DWARF ESSEX F. J. SCHAFFER & CO. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, CALVES, ETC. BUY AND SELL LEADING PRODUCE HOUSE ON EASTERN MARKET We'll keep you posted. a card. Just drop us DETROIT, MICH. BRANCH AT IONIA, MICH. i, bs 4 a oe Me oh me, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, Aug. 3—Receipts of coffee continue very large. At the primary point of shipment, Rio, the receipts, combined with those of Santos, aggre- gated during July the huge total of 1,413,000 bags, against 722,000 bags for the same month last year—almost double. In store and afloat the amount now aggregates 1,295,318 bags, against 664,344 bags at the same time last year. Yet it is said the market is ‘‘stronger’’ owing to a report from Brazil that a short crop might be expected, as the flowering of the trees is very light. Other reports denied this and assert that the chances are excellent for an- other good crop. Anyway, the business done here was on a moderate scale and buyers are not at all anxious to take on any large amounts. At the close No. 7 was quotable in an invoice way at 55¢c. Mild coffees are steady and the amount of business going forward is all that might be expected. Good Cucuta closes at 7c. East India sorts are quiet. The interest of the sugar market has been concentrated on the news of new refineries to be erected. One, the Knickerbocker, will it is thought, have Mr. Ross, of the Ross & Sprague Co., Cleveland, as its President. It will be some time before this mill is turning out its 1,500 barrels per day, but no one doubts its erection ‘and the trust will have another competitor. In actual business there has been little doing and sales have generally been of small lots, as purchasers do not seem inclined to buy ahead of current wants. Quotations are practically unchanged. It is said that new crop Formosa teas, to arrive via Suez canal, could be bought for 11%c in bond. The general market is dull, the distributing trade being very uninteresting. Supplies of rice in grocers’ hands appear to be light and during the week some very satisfactory orders have come in, both by mail and wire. Head rice ranges from 6% @63c and some sales of the better sort of Patnas have been made at 54 @5éc. Japan, 43% @5c. A fair amount of business has been done during the week in spices and prices are well sustained all around. Singapore pepper is worth 124%@123c in an invoice way. West Coast, 12 @12%c. While little actual business is being done in molasses and little is being looked for this month, the general feel- ing among the trade is one of satisfac- tion and, with stocks running. low, a good fall trade is looked for with con- fidence. A _ good molasses crop is looked for this year. Good to prime, 17@30c. The demand for syrups is fair, supplies light and prices firm. The canned goods market is some- what irregular, but the tendency is up- ward on almost everything. Orders have been coming in from the West at a great rate. Bids for large lots of corn from the West have been unfilled at 7oc. Corn, tomatoes apples and berries are all soaring, but whether the advance will last is to be seen. Apples are worth $2.75 for N. Y. State gallons; at least, this is the asking price in many instances. In Maine the corn crop is good and the quality excellent—and Maine will lose no time in taking ad- vantage of the fact. Already the range is from 80@8s5c. Standard peas are worth ahout 85c, although some lots of desirable goods have been quoted at $1. Tomatoes, 85c for No. 3 regular New Jersey packing. Baltimore expects to see goc tomatoes this month, Prunes and raisins are both attracting more and more attention. The demand slanting racks. has been fair and prices appear to be well sustained. California and Oregon together, it is estimated, will produce 110,000,000 pounds this year. This with the 50,000, 000 or 60,000, 000 pounds of old stock on hand would seem to in- dicate cheap prunes for the masses. Currants are firm. Fewer orders have come to hand for lemons and prices are somewhat lower than a week ago. Sicily fruit ranges from $4.50@5.50. Oranges are steady for best grades, California fruit ranging from $4 through all fractions to $6. Bananas are enjoying a regular boom and Aspinwalls range from $1.10@1.20 per bunch; Limons, up to $1.85. There is a moderate trade in butter and prices remain firm with a little advance over last week for best Western creamery, which is now worth 20%@ 21c, The latter, however, is probably outside, and some really good butter can be bought for 20c. Aside from the best grades, there seems to be a very good supply of other sorts and Western imitation creamery is certainly not over 17¥4c. Factory, 14%@15c4. The export trade, which was thought to be improv- ing, is dull and, in fac‘, almost nil. Cheese supplies are moderate and the market generally is in pretty good shape. Fancy full cream, 93/c. Best grades of eggs bring 17c for Western and the price is well sustained. Western refrigerator, 14@17c. Regular pack, 10o@14c. The bean market gains in strength every day and Western buyers are much in evidence. Choice marrows, $2.90@ 2.95; choice pea, $2.40@2. 45. —__>2.—____ The Bath of the Orange. From the Los Angeles Herald. Fresh from the tree an orange is still very much alive, with the oil cells ex- panded and the mystery of growth not yet suspended. Cut off from the sap supply, a change takes place. The skin draws closer to the pulp and gives off moisture that would cause sweating if the fruit were packed at once. But first these dust stained travelers must have a bath. By the bushel—if only this were the land of the good old bushel basket— the newcomers are dumped into a long, Narrow tank of water, at one end of which is a big wheel with a tire of soft bristles. The wheel revolves so that the lower edge works in connection with an- other set of brushes in a smaller tank below, and the oranges, after bobbing about in the big tank, pass between the wet brushes and come out bright and clean. This washer is a neat machine and does away with the more primitive yet picturesque method of hand washing. At some of the smaller packing houses may still be seen groups of women, sometimes white, sometimes brown skinned, each with a tub of water and brush, scrubbing busily away at the yellow piles. that never seem to grow less until the last hour of the day. After their bath the oranges are spread out in the sun to dry on long, At the lower end they roll off into boxes, to be carried away to the warehouse for their rest. An orange needs a deal of grooming, it would seem, before it is ready for market. The washing was not enough. There must be a brushing, too. And after the days of curing, the oranges are fed into a hopper which drops them single file onto a belt that runs between revolving cylindrical brushes. This for a smooth, shiny look. +2 > The Retort Courteous. She—Did it ever occur to you what poor talkers the men are? He—Did you ever consider that it is the women who teach babies to say things? . Pitless Prune Produced. From the San Francisco Bulletin. Adding to his already long list of hor- ticultural triumphs, Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, has produced a prune with- out a pit. Years of experiment, years of hard, patient work on the part of the Santa Rosa wizard were required to perfect this latest marvel. The hybrid is understood to be a cross between a plum and a prune. This discovery will create a sensa- tion among fruit driers and fruit pro- ducers the world over. The pit of the ordinary prune has been a great draw- back to the popular consumption of the delicious fruit. Burbank’s creation has no pit, but a tiny seed that is edible and in no way requires removal. —_>+.___ The Rub. She—I’m sure, Mr. Goodby, there are many girls who can make you far hap- pier than I could. He (dolefully)—That’s the trouble ; they could—but they won’t. Geo. H. Reifsnider & Co. Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs, Cheeze 321 Greenwich Street, New York Roferences: Irving National Bank of New York and Michigan Tradesman. Waa vce ale livin Established 1876 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. 22.—__ Three New Members—Another Picnic to Be Held. Grand Rapids, Aug. 6—Grand Rap- ids Council, No. 131, United Commer- cial Travelers, played ball Saturday afternoon at the ball grounds at the end of Division street car line. C. P. Rey- nolds captained one nine, which proved the winners, and Franklin Pierce went down in defeat with the opposing nine, the score being 15 to 7 in favor of Rey- nolds’ team. Charlie is a pretty hard man to down, but Frank says to watch close for the next game, for something is going to drop down hard, Saturday evening, at the regular meeting of the Council, the following candidates were initiated into the fold of the best order in the world: . Milton H. Gunn (Clark-Jewell-Wells 0.). Walter L. Lawton (Dr. Miles Medi- cine Co. ). Otto A. Krause (Hirth, Krause & Co. ). The picnic at North Park in July proved such a very enjoyable family gathering that it was decided to hold another one in August, and the _follow- ing committee was appointed: S. H. Simmons, B. J. Launiere and J. C. Emery. We will try and announce next week when and at what place the picnic will be held. JaDee. —_—__2>0.>__ Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool. The hide market does not fluctuate much, holding steadily at the decline. The market is well cleaned up and there is a good demand for all offerings. The quality is good and stock is wanted, but there is a limit to price tanners will pay. No advance is looked for. Pelts are in good demand and there is no accumulation. Rrices are low, in sympathy with wool. Tallow moved more freely, but at no advance. Stocks are ample for present use. Wool is selling at old prices very freely. Mills are running full and over- time, consuming large quantities of wool, of which there is a supply equal to all wants. Prices do not advance. Margins are small for handling and all are busy. Our markets are below the foreign, just enough to prevent imports to any extent. Foreign supplies are large, however, and ready to come for- ward on any advance that may be had above to-day's prices. This has resulted in much of the holdings in the country going forward on sale or consignment. There are large holdings still in Michi- gan awaiting the future. Time alone can solve the question of profit in hold- ing. The wool will be wanted, and it is low in value. Wm. T. Hess. —__> +. ___ Making His Pile. ‘Early and late he is working— Says that’s his natural style; He wasn't cut out right for shrinking, And they say he is making his pile. “Married, of course,’ I suggested, ‘With babies to climb on his knee?” No; too many dollars invested— He’s never had leisure, you see. “No hand for sports—isn’t active; And ask him to go to the play. And he’ll say it’s mighty attractive— He’d be glad to—on some other day. “And suppose you suggest that he’s losing The joys that make life worth while; He declares your ideas are amusing And asks: ‘ Ain’t I making my pile? “““No wife to dispute my dominion, No children to go to the bad; Give me cash, in my humble opinion, The best friend a man ever had.’ “If you speak of the pleasures of giving, He puts on a cynical smile, And remarks that ‘you’ll learn more by living.’ Poor fool—but he’s — fle,” —Frank Putnam. ———_s42—___- Where Ice Cream is Not a Luxury. Newport is the millionaires’ play- ground, the aggregate of the wealth of the summer colonists amounting to over a billion dollars. Thus, in July and August, Newport is the richest town in America. Six hundred thousand dollars is spent in the town itself, among the merchants, during the season, and the town has more banks than any other place of its size in New England. Not more than a thousand persons make up the personne! of this stately colony—and 2,000 servants. A small boy recently summed up Newport in these words: ‘“They eat ice cream three times a day.’’ ——__» 2. ___ If all the men who expect to go to Heaven do go, it will be a mighty de- pressing place for some of us who slip in accidentally. FAILED TO PAY. Balloon Ascension Did Not Bring In- creased Trade. The last issue of the Nashville News contained the following reference to a stroke of enterprise on the part of the merchants of that town which culmi- nated last Saturday : The merchants of the village have made up a purse and will havea balloon ascension in the village on Saturday afternoon of this week. The ascension will be made by Prof. B. McClellan, one of the most successful aeronauts in Michigan, and that it will be a success is assured. There will be a new feature connected with the ascension, which has never before been seenhere. When the balloon has reached the limit of its flight, the aeronaut will discharge a huge torpedo, which he carries up with him. The effect of the torpedo explo- sion is to blow the aeronaut and his par- achute from the balioon, and the usual parachute drop follows. It will bea sight well worth seeing, and should at- tract a large crowd. For the purpose of ascertaining whether the ends justified the means, the Tradesman addressed the following letter to sixteen of the leading mer- chants of the town: We note that the merchants of Nash- ville raised a fund last week for the purpose of securing the services of an aeronaut to give a balloon ascension and beg leave to enquire, for publication, if you consider the investment a good one? In other words, did you receive enough extra trade to justify you in contributing to the fund or do you think that the permanent advantage to Nash- ville is a sufficient compensation for the investment? The replies received to the letter up to the hour of going to press are as fol- lows: O. M. McLaughlin (clothing): In answer to yours concerning our balloon ascension, would say that trade was not materially increased, but I think that possibly such events tend to make this a popular trading point. Glenn H. Young & Co. (hardware) : We are in receipt of yours of Aug. 5 and, in answer to your enquiry, would Say that it has been a question in our minds for some time as to whether such events pay or not, for in our business we think that we do not have any bet- ter, if we do as good, a trade on such days of attraction as other days; but, on the whole, we think that it keeps us before the people and helps them to form the habit of coming to Nashville and perhaps in that way it may dosome good. H. Roe & Son (meats): We can not see as the balloon ascension which oc- curred here last Saturday was of any benefit whatever to the merchants, for the extra people who come into town on such a day are here mostly for sightsee- ing and do not come to trade. W. H. Kleinhans (dry goods and shoes) : In reply, would say that I think it did not pay. Frank J. Brattin (hardware) : So faras my trade was concerned last Saturday when the balloon ascension was made, it was very light and I heard one other hardware dealer say that his trade was light. There was a large crowd in town, but what trading was done seemed to be mostly groceries and meat. I am sure I did not receive enough extra trade to justify me in contributing to the fund. Neither do [| think it was any advan- tage to the town in any way. H. C. Glasner (general merchandise) : I was not in business last Saturday, but, judging from the number of people here, it seems to me that it would be all O. K, I will begin business Aug. 7, in a new store which I have just com- pleted. C, L. Glasgow (hardware): Reply- ing to your favor regarding the mer- chants here raising a fund for a balloon ascension, will say that the fund was not raised by the merchants here, but from them by a lady in the interests of the balloonist. She came here several days previous to the date of the ascension and secured pledges of $1 from each business place so far as possible. Just how much she secured I am unable to learn, but she asked on the start for $35. . The ascension, made by a local man hired by her, was a success and every one who witnessed it seemed pleased. It took place at 4:30 p. m. and attracted a fair crowd—no larger than is here on many Saturdays—but not knowing when the ascension would take place came earlier in the afternoon. Earlier in the season we had a farmers’ picnic and a balloon ascension and following for sev- eral Saturdays entertainments of differ- ent character. As to the benefits to be derived, it is not an easy question to answer. We found before the series of entertainments were over that they seemed to have lost their drawing power, as not many left their trading places to witness them. As regards the results from the recent ascension | think it would have been nearly impossible to have enthused a committee of business men to have attempted raising the fund and it was only accomplished because the amount asked was so small that while each business man seriously ques- tioned the result he gave the $1 rather than be among the ones who were not willing to take the chance of its doing the town some good. We noticed the people were continually on the move watching, for fear they should not see it and were thus uneasy and not settled down to trading. It brought few new faces to town. In my personal opinion it is like advertising in the dull sea- sons. It pays to keep before the pub- lic, even if you do not expect immedi- ate results. —_> +> ___ A drapery store in a Connecticut town is conducted by three men named Eng - land, Ireland and Scotland. They met for the first time in America. Scotland married England’s sister and Ireland is engaged to another sister. The son of the first union is called Ireland England Scotland. Reserved for the Boys In view of the congested condi- tion of the Petoskey hotels durin 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 - Dec. 31, 1901 HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - -. Dec. 31, 1902 WIikRtT P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904 JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905 President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Secretary, HENRY HEIM aw. Treasurer, W. P. Doty, 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. ScHMIDT, Grand Rapids. Pwo Kinds of Druggists and the Outcome. These words are accredited to an an- cient ruler, philosopher, moralist, and man of the world. He had a wide range of experience, a profound insight into human character, and formulated a code of ethics which has not been equaled in any later period. We are not unmind- ful of the fact that there is a surface cynicism widely prevalent which puts aside sentiments such as this and as- sumes that there is but one standard by which success may be measured in any sphere of human effort, and that but one object need be held before the mind’s eye in order to meet all the conditions necessary to a prosperous career. So firmly has this taken hold upon the thoughts of many men that to attempt to controvert it places one in the posi- tion of being laughed at for his pains. It has grown into a habit to make light of the substantial; to say that the com- mon things bring success; that the peo- ple love to be humbugged and deceived ; that in order to succeed one’s standards must not be too high; that you must seek to pander to the selfish interests of men if you would win their support, no matter what sacrifice of principle must be made. In support of this theory incidents are given of temporary success, and ex- periences are related of how adherence to the higher motives has ended in dis- appointment and failure. But the ob- jection to conclusions drawn from such experience is that they have been taken at too short range. Who are the men, after all, who have reached middle life and are known as the successful men, those whose integrity in the commercial and social world is established and who are men of influence and character in their respective communities? Invari- ably they will be found to be those who have not only served a toilsome appren- ticeship in the ascending steps of their chosen occupations, but whose entire business careers have been characterized by dealing honorably and squarely with their fellows, even when such a course has not at the time appeared to be in their own interests. Once upon a time, in a certain large town, were two drug stores located with- in a half block of each other on the principal business street. Their capital and financial resources were about equal, For several years it was a ‘‘neck and neck’’ race between them as to which did the larger business. One kept open all day Sunday and each night until 11 o'clock. The other closed from Saturday night until Monday morning and each evening at 9 o’clock. The one was os- tentatious, if not ‘‘loud,’’the other con- servative, if not plain. The motto of one was, ‘‘Make money off your enein- ies if you can, off your friends if you must, but make money;’’ that of the other, ‘‘Do a square business, keep only first-class goods, give every cus- tomer, as nearly as possible, the worth of his money, sell nothing poor or cheap, and get an honest profit on every sale.’’ Thirty years passed. The man who was continually ‘‘doing’’ his pa- trons when opportunity offered is long since out of business without means and minus the respect or confidence of his associates or neighbors. The other es- tablishment is doing a larger business than ever, the older members having re- tired with a competence, and their suc- cessors are conducting the store in the same iocation upon the same general business principles which characterized it for more than a generation. ‘‘Which wins?’’ The one flourished like a gourd vine, the other stands like an oak inthe forest. —_> 42> _ Clerk’s Views as to How Customers Should Be Treated. A clerk, to meet favor from his em- ployer, must hold the old customers of the store and seek to make as many new ones as possible. In order to do this he must treat all customers with due consideration and try to study their different peculiarities, ever being mind- ful of the fact that nature does not en- dow all persons with the same qualities. Your workingman customer of perhaps little education must be treated with the same thoughtfulness as your customer of more polished manners. Remember that the money of the former is just as good as that of the latter. The work- ingman may come into the store, buy an article, and then discuss one of his hobbies ; this may not seem worthy of your attention, but do not snub him and cut him short just because you have a iittle more education than he. Have patience with him, converse with him pleasantly according to his ideas, there- by gaining his favor and also holding him as a customer. Another class of customers with whom the clerk must have a good deal of pa- tience are the women who literally have to be treated ‘‘ with kid gloves on.’’ One of these comes into the store, asks for an article in the household line, such as an atomizer or syringe, and when she buys it it must be perfect. The writer recently waited on one of these, who was a very good customer of the store. She wanted to purchase an atomizer, so one was shown her, but she thought the Stopper did not fit exactly right. An- other was shown her, but according to her idea the bulb did not seem strong enough. Several more of the same kind were laid on the counter before her and she inspected them very closely. In the meantime three or four customers came in, and each time the writer was told to wait on them as she had plenty of time. Finally she found three differ- ent good parts on as many atomizers and wanted to know if these parts could be taken off and put together to make one good atomizer. This was done to her satisfaction and she left the store with her purchase. Had she _ been treated with curtness or in a disagree- able manner she might have become offended and never entered the store again. Then there are the children customers of the store who demand a part of the clerk’s attention and no little of his patience. Treat them with due courtesy in the same manner as you would their elders. Should they do some little thing in the store not altogether to your liking do not yell at them in a harsh manner as though they were heathens, but try to correct them in a polite way. A good many children are very sensitive, and the impression made on their minds by a clerk's treatment of them goes a long way toward the success or non-success of a store. There are a hundred and one ways in which the patience of the drug clerk is tried, and one must cope with them in the best manner possible in these mod- ern times of competition or else go un- der. It pays to be patient with all the customers of the store, for hardly any person cares to enter a second time where they expect to meet a surly and impatient drug clerk. Therefore be pa- tient as you can with your customers, for he who possesses a great amount of patience has a good deal to place on the credit side of his reputation as a drug clerk. A great deai may be said as to the best methods of becoming a successful drug clerk and pharmacist; and the means to which one must resort to make his calling a success are both numerous and varied. But there is one thing which is apt to be overlooked by the majority of druggists and clerks of to- day, and that i8 tact in dealing with customers. The majority of the success- ful druggists owe their success almost entirely to the wonderful amount of tact they dsplay in handling trade. A clerk must treat all customers with due con- sideration and courtesy. A man who brings a prescription to a drug store is either ill himself, or some of his friends are ill, which circum- stance renders him irritable and often unreasonable ; and in dealing with such a person the clerk’s patience is often put to a severe test. He will fret and fume and hurry the clerk, which will tend to make the latter speak his mind too freely, and words are apt to follow which might result in the loss of that customer. Not so with the careful clerk, however, who has made it his business to cultivate tact. He will at once see that the controversy with a customer may be a question of dollars and cents to him, and he will control himself and trust to his tact to get him out of any difficulty which may arise. Many drug- gists might take an independent stand and assert that they didn’t want such a man’s trade. Now that is a great mis- take, a mistake which a careful person never makes. The man who has made a fortune with the mortar and pestle and is about to retire might be excused for airing his independence in such a manner, but hardly the poor clerk or pharmacist who is struggling for suc- cess in his calling. No one engaged in the drug business can afford to lose a single customer, for by so doing he is foolishly turning trade over to some rival druggist; and then, again,one customer may be the cause of influencing many others to trade where he trades, and in the end the independ- ent druggist who ‘‘didn’t want that man’s trade’’ may become doubly and trebly the loser.—Albert R. Harrer in Pharmaceutical Era. ————_>2.—_ Good Diarrhea Mixture, Tincture of opium deodorized, 1 ounce. Tincture of rhubarb, 1 ounce. Tincture of lavender comp., I ounce. Tincture of capsicum, 2 drachms. Tincture of camphor, 2 drachms. Chloroform, 2 drachms. Oil of cinnamon, ¥% drachm. Oil of peppermint % drachm. Brandy, 4 ounces. Take one-half to one teaspoonful at a dose. Repeat in two or three hours, if necessary. This is an old formula somewhat changed, but it is one of the best com- binations known, The Drug Market. Opium—ls dull and unchanged. Morphine—Is in good demand and prices are steady. Quinine—Has declined 2c. This re- duction was expected on account of lower prices for bark at the last Amster- dam sale. Menthol—Is in good demand and get- ting scarce. Prices have consequently advanced. Bay Rum—Owing to the removal of the duty, Puerto Rico has declined. Other imports are unchanged. Oil Pennyroyal—The demand _ is large at this season and prices have advanced. Oil Peppermint—There is a large de- mand for export and the price has ad- vanced sc per Ib. Oil Wormwood—Is very scarce and has advanced. —_>22>____ Women Would Know. Knapp—I see a great statistician says that considerably more than half the population of the world is feminine. Snapp—Ridiculous! If that were so how would he account for the fact that ‘‘one-half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives?’’ FREE Consultation, Examination You are under no obligation to continue treat- ment. Dr. Rankin has n established in the same office ten years and his practice is sufficient evidence of his skill. Catarrh, Head and Throat Is the voice husky? ou ache all over? Is the nose oo up? Do you snore at night? Does the nose bleed easily? Is this worse toward night? Does th~ nose itch and burn? Is there pain in front of head? Is there pain across the eyes? Is your sense of smell leaving? Is the throat dry in the morning? Are you losing your sense of taste? Do you sleep with the mouth open? Have you a pain behind breast bone? Does the nose stop up toward night? Go or write to DR. C. E. RANKIN, Powers’ Opera House Block Grand Rapids, Michigan Graduate of University of Michigan and Illinois School of Electro-Therapeutics Mail Treatment Dr. Rankin’s system of “‘Home Treatment” is well known and highly efficient.. Send for free symptom blank. 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. sceseesesa,, Fred Brundage Wholesale Druggist 32 and 34 Western Avenue Muskegon, Mich. School Supplies and Stationery Complete lines now ready. Wait for =f ® travelers. You will not be disappointed. : | f 4 3 f- A ‘ £ € ‘ ms nena, re Y — é Q Yer Ae a ‘ ‘ ~~ 4 - =< Ny - a nm ~ we et ‘ r= q - ve Oe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Advanced— Declined— Quinine. cidum onium Mac......... 60 gz Co.. c 50 — Copaiba 18@ 1 25 | Toluean >... o Aceticum ........... $ 6@$ 8/| Copaiba.............11 1 25 | Tolu Sons 50 Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75 bze -. 1 50@ 1 60} Prunus virg.. Soa ae. @ 50 Boraeie. 5.6.2 s. @ 17 stg - : > : = Tinctures Carbolicum .. -.-- 80@ 42} Srigeron ..... . Aconitum Napellis R 60 itricum..... 47 50 porn aca oe . 1 8@ 1 90 Pp a so ee = 5 | Geranium : @ 7 coomios } — = Nitrocum.. . isa 16 Gossippil, ‘Sem. “ea. 50@ 60 = oes sees Oxalicum............ 12@ 14| Hedeom - 1 60@ 1 75 | 408s an vith... & Phosphorium, dii.. @ Junipera - ae = Salicylicum ..... 52@ Lavendula ..... -- 9@ 2 00 = nana a Sulphuricum .. Limonis . ...., 130@ 1 10/4 ai Chaconne. « = Tannicum........... Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 00 ana a — +teeee Titanic 0. Mentha Verid....... 1 60@ 1 60| 2enZ0 ae 60 oo Morrhue, ‘gal... ._!. 1 10@ 1 20 | Benzoin Co... -. 50 Ammonia =i el 4 00@ 4 50 | Barosma............. 50 Aqua, 16 deg......... “— 0. ...... 8 75@ 3 00 Cathars. teeeeeees = Aqua, 20 deg... De 6@ 8 | Picis Liquida........ 10@ 12 = tte eee eee es ? Carbonas .. see 13@ = 15] Picis Liquida, Bal... @ | vardamon.........-. _ Chloridum........... w@ 14| Ricina -.1. 96@ 1 02 Castors... Co........ 5 Aniline ‘Saaua” ae @ 100 jae Cerna wwcccocsce 1 00 Rose, ounce......... ‘666 ~:~ = Succini .............. 40@ 45 Cinehona «.. rae rs cn RRR 90@ 1 00 | Coehans Co.......-- Bp | Samtal .222222..0.22.2 2 78@ 7 09 | Columba ............ 50 Sassafras. 55@ 60 | Caen wei a 8 oo Sinapls, ess., ounce. 1 0@ 1 | Cassia ‘ai Go. 50 Cubebe........ po,25 2@ 24 1 1 60) Hj italis 50 Juni ernie Se 6@ 88 Thy MO ae Se i so Ere Sea 5 thoxylum ....... 1 70@ 1 75 Thyme opi. eee 15 * $9 | Ferri Ciloridu 35 Balsamus nro SE ntian ... 50 Copaiba Potassium Gentian C 60 gigas: Bichon pec citcas 15@ 18 | Gulaca... 60 Oh a in a da il chromate . hag ge pk = Sponges ss than box..... 70 a ve. = aa 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, brown......... 1@ 13 Rue. oz. pkg 39 | _ Carriage.. 2 50@ 2 75| Glue, white......... 15@ 25 Tanacatum V oz. pkg 22 Nassau sheeps’ wool Grana Parad = = hymus, V...0z. pkg 95 | _Carriage............ 2 50@ 2 75| Grana Paradisi...... Thymus, 1 t hi 3 a 2@ 55 Veit oe xtra sheeps Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @150 ieydrers, Chlor Mite @ 1 00 Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 20 Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20) wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25} Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 110 Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20] Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @1 20 ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage @100 HydrargUnguentum 50@ «60 Oleum vert. for sate use. “* ichtyo ia. es Absinthium......... 60O78) meu... 610m 75@ 1 00 Amygdalz, Dulc.. 38@ 65 40@ 3 60 ‘Amygdale, Amare. 8 25 Syrups 60@ 3 85 ety ae ca ok 2 00 caaee @ 50 @ 50 Auranti Cortex...... 2 20 Cortex @ 50 80@ 85 Mateo... 2 85 cca @ 50 is 65@ 75 Gajiputl- ee 85 colmecue @ 6 2 ‘Arsen et Hy- Caryophyill... eee ees 80 fe eae @ 8 @ 8 Secs ae seed 2 eee @ 50} Liquor rPotaas Ata = Ghenopadil st evaces ee cinalis. 50@ 60/| Magnes ip Cinnamonil ......... 25 date att cla 50 | Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% 40 ge he oe 4 2 50 Mannia, & _ e@ 60 Menthol.......:..... Picis Liq., quart Picis Liq., pints. .... Pil Hydrarg. . -po. 80 Piper Nigra...po. 22 Piper Alba....po. 35 Piix aa. pees Plumbi Acet......... Pulvis Ipecac et ot =o thrum, boxes Q Quinia, S. P. & W.. Quinia, S. German.. Quinia, Y Rubia Tinctorum.. @ 4 40 | Seidlitz Mixture..... <0@ 22) Linseed, pure raw.. 82 05@ 2 30} Sinapis.............. @ 18| Linseed Rowe 83 95@ 2 20 ae Ope... .... @ 30 Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 9%5@ 2 20 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Spirits Turpentine.. 41 46 @ 4 Voes @ 41 65@ 80/ Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's @ 41 Paints BBL. LB. @ 10 Soda, Borag.......... 9@ 11 35@ 37 / Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11/| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8 Soda et Potass Tart: 23@ 25 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 Soda, Bi-Carb 3@_~—s 55 | Putty, commercial... 2% 2%@3 @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash...... 3%@ 4/| Putty, strictl —— 2% 2%@3 @ 1 00/ Soda, Sulphas @ 2) Vermilion, rime @ 85/ Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60|_ American 13@ 15 @ 50| Spts. Ether Co...._! 50@ 55 | Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75 @ _ 18| Spts. Myrcia Dom.. @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 4@ 18 @ 30! Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16 @ 7/| Spts. Vini Rect. %bbl @ Lead, GRRE 64@ 7 10@ 12! Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 64@ 7 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ Whiting, white Span “@ 90 Strychnia, Crystal... 80@ 1 05 | Whiting, gilders’.. @ % @ 75) Sulphur, Subl. 24%4@ 4} White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 2 25@ 30/ Sulphur, Roll.. 244@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng. 8@ 10| Tamarinds.......... — ow oe, @ 140 31@ 44/ Terebenth ee: 28@ 30) Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 34@ 44/| Theobrome2... - 60@ 65 sag ««44| Vania... /9 wg 00 Varnishes [= Ss Zinci Sulph.. : 8 1 No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 50@ 4 75 ous Extra -ss. 1 60@ 1 70 0@ 50 BBL. GAL. | Coach B a caste ieee 2 75@ 3 00 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 0 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 10@_ 12| Lard, extra.......... 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 @ 65) Lard,No.1.......... & 50 | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 76 HOLIDAY GOODS We wish to assure our customers that year. we shall this season show an even. more complete line of Holiday Goods than last Our Mr. Dudley will call and dis- play samples as soon as the new lines are complete. Our customers can place their entire time if they wish, saving the time and orders” with us” this season at one trouble of looking over several smaller Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED Canned Apples Crackers Hand Picked Beans Pickles Family Whitefish DECLINED Sugar Package Coffee Index to Markets By Columns a Col. A Akron Stoneware............ 15 Alabastine ........ - Ammonia..... ~. 8 Ree aeons. ............... 1 B Bakin — Sos ceceseie cle cee asic 1 ee 1 a ‘ 1 ee 1 oes OE" ——————— 2 Cc eee 14 Ee 2 oe foes. ; ——<. aaa 3 Chewing Gam................ 3 eS 3 eee 3 (Giethes Eines. .........._..... 3 SSS 3 Co a 3 eee 3 Condensed Milk.............. 4 Coupon Books...............- 4 CT 4 Crea Sereer ........-. 5 D Dried Mrulfs...-........-.... & F . 5 Hides one Poms... 13 I Pee ee 6 J eee ee ees 6 L Lamp Burners.............-.. 15 — a Becee ee = ear y “Globes eee eee ib ERED oe ac isl a 7 Re ee 7 M ees a Meat Extracts................ 7 Manes Z aaa 7 N ae 14 oO oe ees 15 ieee 7 Wowaser Palls.........-......_. 7 ] — 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 Ga aes Rae eal caer : ahs 9 : ee 9 ee 10 ae Pee = ee ee . Tenis Saas... 12 ec de pc ee ll eee ss ll Ne cece 12 Vv Wem ee 12 Ww Washing Powder............. 12 eee 13 Woalhenare Sees as wanes 13 Wrapping Paper............. 13 = Te ee 13 AXLE GREASE doz. gross Aurora. . 55 6 00 Castor Oil. ! 60 760 Diamond...) 50 425 Pree es. 75 9 00 IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00 My I> S uf : Nw CPE as Mica, tin — 2 909 Paragon .. “55 «6 00 BAKING POWDER Egg 14 lb. cams, 4 doz. case...... 3 75 % lb. cans, 2 doz. case. 3 1lb. tans, 1 doz. case. 37 5 Ib. cans, % doz. case...... 8 00 44 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45 \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1 60 3 02., 6 02., 20 9 02Z., a 80 1 Ib., . . 00 5Ib., 1 doz. case. ............ 9 00 Royal 10esize.... 90 14 Ib. cans 1 35 6 Oz. cans. 1 90 1% lb. cans 2 50 % Ib. cans 3 75 1lb. cans. 4 80 ». 31b. cans 13 00 2 5 lb. cans. 21 50 BATH BRICK AOOONICN Bepeee 2 BLUING Arctic, 4 0z. ovals, per gross 4 00 Arctic, 8 Oz. Ovals. per gross6 00 Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 70 80 Small size, per doz.......... 40 Large size, per doz.......... 75 BROOMS No. 1 t. : ..2 50 Ne. 2 Carpet... 2 15 No sceenes = & ° asi lor Gem.. --2 40 Common Whis -- oS Fancy Whisk.. ..1 10 Warehouse.... --3 25 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8in............. 45 Solid Back, 11 in ............ 95 Pointed Ends................ 85 Shoe MO Rete a 1 00 die ee 1 30 Me 6. Oo 1 70 PU Bon scae Sea eek 190 BUTTER COLOR W., R. & Co.’s, 15¢ size.... 1 25 W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.... 2 00 CANDLES Electric Light, 8s.. gaan Electric — a 12% Paraffine, 6s. . See Paraffine, 128... il Wicking ae mene Goops pples 3 lb. Standards, co... 90 Gallons, standards. . 3 00 Blackberries Standards .......... 75 Beans ca mE TE ABR IGS.I 1 00@1 30 Red Kidney......... 75@ 85 Se 80 Wet... 85 Blueberries BiAnGANE oe 85 Brook Trout 2 Ib. cans, Spiced .......... 190 Clams. Little Neck, 1 1b..... 1 00 Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 150 Clam Bouillon Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92 Burnham’s, pints.......... 3 60 Burnham’s, quarts........ 7 20 Cherries —_ —— Se ce 85 es al his sais ae” asi 115 Corn Pee 80 eee 85 Wane. 28... 95 French Peas Sur Extra Fine............ = ~ as 11 Gooseberries Standard ............ 90 Hominy Standard............. 85 Lobster 1 85 3 40 2 35 Mackerel Mustard, 1Ib........ 1 75 Mustard, 21b........ 2 80 Soused, 1 Ib......... s 1 75 Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 80 Tomato, 1Ib......... : 1 75 Tomato, 2 Ib......... 2 80 Mushrooms eae . 18@20 Butteas . . 2... 22@25 ——- Oops, 126... . cz iCewe, 2... 3.3: 1 55 Cove, 1lb Oval...... 95 Pp Marrowfat .......... 100 Early June.......... 1 00 Early June Sifted. . 1 60 4 Pineapple amen... te 1 25@2 75 See 1. 35@2 55 Pumpkin Per... .; 70 Good .... 75 POOR oo 8 Raspberries Standard bebe snows os 90 Russian — \ Ib. cans.. ——< oo ip, CO8R. cos. 1 Ib. can.....-... ....2..., 12 00 Salmon Columbia River, talls @1 85 Columbia a flats @1 95 i eS 1 20@1 40 Pink Alaska 1 00@1 10 Shtiowps Standard............ 150 Sardines Domestic, \s........ 4 Domestic, Ss 8 Domestic, Mustard 7 California, 148....... 11@14 California 4%s...... ‘ 17@24 French, 4S.......... 7@14 mech, 448......... : 18@28 3 Strawberries Standard............ 85 Poesy... 1 25 Succotash Pete 90 eee 1 00 Pee 1 20 Tomatoes Pee ee. 90 pee 95 Peney .... 22... 110 Ganong. ............- 275 — Columbia, pints. . eoeee2 00 Columbia, % pints.. Bec see ec 1 25 CARBON OILS Barrels Moceme.... -.- @10% Perfection............ . @ 9% Diamond White. . @ 8% D. S. Gasoline......... @12% Deodorized Naphtha.. @10% — Mee ce 29 @34 e ook 210% @10% @ll @il @11% @10% @10% @i1 @i1 14@15 @17 Limburger. . ee 13@14 Pineapple. . 50@75 Sap 0.. 19@20 CHEWING GUM American Flag Spruce.. 55 eng B Popsin 5. 60 Black Me ee ies 55 rset Gum Made....... 60 EE cease 55 Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00 BUGAT 108... .......... 55 Worse. oS 55 CHICORY Bulk : eA ee 4 Drees 6% Remener ss 6 CHOCOLATE Walter Baker iis — *s. German —: : 23 Premium .. 31 Breakfast Cocoa........-.... 46 unkel Bros Vienna Sweet ......... .... 21 aa 28 Poe 31 CLOTHES LINES Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.. 1 Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 80 ft. — ee... 1 Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... COCOA Clievelana:.. 2.2... ae Cononia, 8 2... — Ms... se oe trent isi ie since etic ae Van Houten, %S............. Van Houten, \¥s.. a Van Houten, %s.. Sioaes Van Houten, 1s...... eee seeeeee Special Combination... ......15 rench Breakfast...........17% Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21 Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 Dwinell-Wright Co.’s — White House, 60-1s.......... White House, 30-2s.......... 28 Excelsior M. & J., 60-1s.. ..21% Excelsior M. & J., = ced 20% Royal Java.. sia nis oO Royal — & Mocha... earl 26% Arabian M Borden ‘Eagle eae ues : : — Le ese AMRONE 4 50 AM. ce Cc lenge .--3 75 Dime.... . ..8 35 Peeeer 3 80 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any denom... 1 50 100 books, any denom... 2 50 500 books, any denom... 11 50 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00 Above quotations arefor either Tradesman, Superior, Economic = Universal grades. Where 000 books are ordered at a time cae receives specially printed cover without extra charge. Coupon Pass Books Can be made to represent any ae _— 10 — “i a 1 . acon oo 11 50 i 20 00 Credit Checks 500, any one denom...... 2 00 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00 2,000, any one —— . 5 00 Steel punch.. Ph 75 CRACK cERS National Biscuit Co.’s brands Butter BOPONOEE bs coos co sass sce wee 644 OW VOrm:. .0.0 02. cS oo. 6% Oe ee 6% beac es ed 6% Wrotverime. .. 0 -.. ... .... 6% Boge Ree oe 6% Boge, fe. co... 8 Long Island oe. 13 Zephyrette.... . 13 EEA ge eG ee ee 7% Farina Se cigcec wcuel eee Extra Farina.............. 6% Saltine Oyster. ............ 6% Sweet Goods—Boxes OM se 10 Assorted Cake......:..... Ce ON ce: Bent’s Water.............. Cinnamon Bar............. Coffee Cake, Iced......... Coffee Cake, Java Cocoanut Macaroons Cocoanut Ta’ Cracknells. .... Creams, Iced Cream Crisp. Currant Fruit rosted Honey Frosted Cream............ Ginger Gems, l’rgeorsm’ll > Snaps, * 6... G wcisees ccag) SDE Geman Cakes........... 9 Graham Crackers......... 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea ence cote 16 Honey Fingers............ 12 Iced Honey oe Gceies 10 mperials.. oe Jumbles, Honey.. ees ae 12 Lady Fingers.............. 12 Lemon Snaps. Sess es Set ee Lemon Wafers............ 16 Marshmallow.............. 16 Marshmallow Creams. .... 6 — Walnuts. ... _ gS nes ane ae 11% M&k Bisouit. ........ 22... 7% ee — ios ecie Wasi read, XXX pretzelettes, — made.. W. F. McLaughlin & | Pea: 0. Pretzels, hand made. 8% Scote! foot kies 9 Seana Lunch. 7% Si Cake,,....... 8 Sugar Cream, XXX....... 8 Squares............. 8 Suftance Sie ce dulcul eg cess 13 ‘Pitehe PUN oes co 16 Vanilla Wafers............ % Vienna Crimp............. E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked sini Standard Crackers. Blue Ribbon Squares. Write for complete price list with interesting discounts. CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. wooden — ae 30 Bulk in sacks.. <...20 DRIED FRUITS. Apples Sundried . sae Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. Ss = a Fruits CEN sis 9 B aga SDs sceu = Nectarines .. Ree ae Raspberries ..... - ‘ California Prunes Ib. 4 cent —— in 86 Ib. cases Eeghorn .............. Corsican . ee cee rants California, : Ib. package. Imported, 1 Ib ne Bocce 112 Imported, bulk. bee eserves 11% P Citron American 19 Ib. bx... Lemon American 10 Ib. bx.. Orange American 10 Ib. bx.. isins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown......... se Muscatels 2 Crown 5 Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 6 ; Loose Muscatels 4 Crown L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib 5x@ L. M., ed Se Sultanas, ee Sultanas, package .......... ae GOODS ss eeee Dried Tima... i... e. 7 edium Hand Picked 2 50 Brown Holland.............. 2 50 Cereals Cream of — pees ee 90 Grain-O, small . ee 35 Grain-O, large.. «2 25 Gra RBG ces cect. Postum Cereal, small. . -.1 35 Postum Cereal, large....... 2 25 Farina 241 1b. packages ............ 1 50 Bulk, per 100 Ibs............. 3 00 ominy Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... ..... Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ 3 50 Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 1 75 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 _- DOX.....55.. GO Imported. 25 Ib. box......... 2 50 Pearl ‘Barley COMMON oe 2 40 CONE 2 90 jE cna 3 40 Grits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. 00 00 70 90 Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 30 Green, — B.S 1 40 Split, Ib ie ed Oats Rolled jee bbl.. «5 39 Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sacks. 2 60 Monarch, bbl...... Seog rupee 5 00 Monarch, % bbl.. -..2 65 Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. ......2 40 Quaker, cases............... 3 20 East India.... -- 2% German, sacks. .. 3% German, geo package.. 4 yn, 110 Ib. cncks accesses 44 Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3% Pearl, 24 1 Ib. eemages pecs 6 Cracked, bulk.. eae 242 b. packages .. ee _FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla Lemon ost 2 io >. 80 20zfullm.2 10 20z full m.1 25 No-3fan'y.3 15 No. 8fan’y.1 75 . Na ~~ - rhd A aX 4 » MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 > ~ rf INDIGO Sausages 10 Madras, 5 Ib. boxes .. _..B5 | Bologna . 5 Whitefish mie 2 8. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes....-.50 | Liver... : 4 | 100 Ibs No.1 No.2 Fam salina 1% ae titi aN y iB pele Gee — : 7% | 40 Ibs........ 5 30 ie 4 50 haat 15 Ib. pails P en... 1 85} BI a : 741 ote 90 re 445 & + 2 07 —=y 120 20z panel. 75 | 30 1b. ~ gmap = Tongue .. a 6% Se... 75 42 a ( z taper..2 00 4 0z taper..1 50 ——— Headcheese . uy © lieu — 430 Bice c 9 4 30 te he eee e in oa oe Cana: } =... a a 10 75 Canary, Smyrna..... -% 2 Aye Bot MR = 11 09 | Gardamon, Malabar... oa LYE : Pigs’ ‘Fee t a Basin. —— 12 Japan Condensed, 2 doz....... % bbls., 40 Ibs. . 1 55 | Mixed’Bird.....71.1022775777 4% Sundri A Condensed, 4 doz..11.1.1.1.2 2p | % PDI, 80 Ibs. § 60 | Mustard, wihite111.7.700.2: 9” Sundrled, eholeer..°......2.30 MA’ ea Ki Tripe Rappy: ee aad jundriod, fatiey............. 40 D aa Regular, medium........ ¥ we No. ‘ton — yesh s s brands. % bbls., 40 Ibs... 1 = Gattie Rene 187 Regular, choice ......... a Anchor Parlor .... 4 = % bbis., 80 Ibs. . 2 25 SHOE BLACKING See ees Geen Beene aoe s Ses 40 a No. 2 Home........... 222077 1 30 Casings Handy Box, large. .. onisin eae | Remet ae ~~~ = ow Rt Report Pelee | Pork . ; ; o1 | Handy Box’ small 2200270. 2 50 20 1-Ib. packages...... eae Basket-fired, enatee. 2... 35 : Wolverine......2...2022257074 50 — rounds. a 3 pas S Royal Polish...... 6 Ib. packages........... 1% Nite acumpeenepedinemecs: 40 & ja Bog 200 40z2..... 2 MEAT EXTR ACTS a middles........ 10 er’s Crown Polish..... 8 | Kingsford’s Silver Gl Siftings... PER a NEN No.4T . 152 No.3T... 20g | Armour & Co.’s, 4 0z.. coe 60 SNUFF 40 1-Ib oss | Fannings.......... 20... — 20z. Assorted Flavors 75e. | Liebig’s, 2 oz............ 7 Solid, dal — ob — wo+ 3G Se a Le neenrey — Our Tropical. MOLASSES _ Rolls, day. Paoae 1@. |Penieee ce Common Gloss Gunpowder 20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 New Orleans a cae ae Jars.---. 43/14, packa Moyune, medium 4 = — measure, Lemon... 1 50 Faney Of o- =Aie.. Ce 40 | Solid, creamery He is B. T. Babbit aoe 3-Ib. packages... ana a6 woos cholo we. 2235 d - ante, Vanilla. 96 | CMMOP......:........... |. . Cammed Me TT ae ey fae 4 0z. full measure, Vanilla. 1 20 | Fair. co * Bi cues —_ ed Meats — Best............. 4 00 oa ‘wi. ee CL big | Pingsuey, medium. 2222 122.35 a - Standard. ll if — 2 50 eaver Soap Co. brands Barca 3% | Pingsuey, choleo.....2...... 30 2 0z. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 Half-barrels 2c extra Roast beef, 2 tb Ib... “= f ssrcseeee- 314! Pingsuey, fancy............. 40 \ 2 oz. Panel Lemon.......... 60| 5 MUSTARD n, 4S +¢ _ fox orse Rad Tan sea a, ae ER Horse Radish’ 3 oo 90 = ti Tanglefocc, per case... 3 20 Bayle’s Oolery. 1 dos Fe en 90 BE — i : 9 PYVS VON eee cece (4) er on i FRESH MEATS isa. Potted tongue Ms. = =i gal, kegs........... 125 gue, 90 Beef Bulk, 3 gal. kegs......... 1 10 RIC eS ial - - ee ut 2 es Bulk, , 5 gal. Kegs... ~oas 2 aie ae oa Sooo , : Cece. x Hindquarters . — ou on ——— LN TENT 80 | Carolina No.1 ...1.2.2221777) 8% cc rau | 3 V, inane o = ee ao. 2 Carolina No. 2. coment a eS ae, | ee Se tee oo 3 2h — Rounds.............. 8%@ 9 Stuffed, 50z............07. ° 99 Imported. 50 oe eee 08. -:-6 50 ae — opie ss eee 1 45 —— No. 1............54@ | 100 cakes. small size......... oc “4 eee. 30} gee doe Baa see cone A@ Bell & Bo sal ae =e i Pork PAPER BAGS Java, No. Se — Oi Jonnn te Tossed... QT Continental Paper Bag Co. | Table... -— | hn a a Pott] = Boston Butis........ g _ AsK your Jobber for them. P ‘SALERATUS | Detroit Soap Co. brands— Shoulders 2.00000... @ 8% Giakt Mieues | Cane ee Big Bargain...21.12222: % Cg Leaf Lard... =| @8 min Sao aa. a oe Chas. Pope Guuce : Mutton Bottom Sacae, | Des nar Bee eee oe ons 300/ German Family........_ 2 15 Reet tad Lh he 4 q fe sages ..3 15 ye 2 45 ans) Carcass... 3... 62 74H@ 95 | %-- = 50 | Emblem... ooo 2 10 ooo il Co, brand— = Mn. 9%@10 | 1 e.1% ee ee 3 00| N. K. Fairbanks a _— ~ = Veal 2 1 00 yan — = Me 3 00 Santa Cla a —— Careass .............. 8 @9g | 3: 12 |@ L SODA Erown.. e : 72 GRAINS AND FLOUR | 5°. 1 45 Granulated, ae ‘a won Wheat 6. 170 ras —— 100 1b: cases....1 (0 | Fels brand— a a ao Wheat ............ s@ be i eS {> i a 66 6 2 40 ump, 145 Ib. kegs... ... 85 | Gowans & Sons brands— 4 00 { gos ~~ Be 2 60 neAL - = 7 ee 3 25 oaibranda la 315 uckeye 2 ig5.. a Ne ses a ssosseesese 410 Be :> 415 ] > bags nts aaa 3 00 = (= pti o $B le fab |) Sb. bage 20S JAXO rw md a 7 om ae Ere 550 |. In5bbl. lots 5 per cent. di Lal tathe reo Graham seoosseea 3 oD count S- “eles lone E 3 00 i: = i Buckwheat .. Ao oo 4 09 pte ce ee 4 % Diamond Grvys a — ea? delivered 2 95 SSS SSS SASS SES RATA SSS | 4 a... ee 4% Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. oe. -1 40} Johnson Sc enon -2 90 | Best Gloss Starch, 50 Ib _pubiest ts Geusl cash ye PARIS GREEN a a _ = bags.3 00| Silver ee Co. brands— . Se Gloss Starch, 40 Ib..... | Best Com ee een ’ slew est Gloss Starch. 6lb.. i re n 1 — baa in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Bulk ae cae 14_| Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. = = >| = Family... ee 2 70 Bost con Starch, Glb..... | Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. 7 —. eee i 1b each... 2... 18 = barrels, 20 141b. bags.2 8 Ci — oe 2 50 | Best Gloss Stach ib vee | Best ee aes Set en nee (ie ee a tooo eee Fd sakes U7 249) Works: Ventce, iii, | Chas. Pope Glucose thin bol. - } - Diamond .— ee i rs PICKLES was 2 amen Gs Grades” - a sesess 8 90 — | Chicago, 11. amond \s.. Medium — -o002 95) Bt si 60 Se AOMO a hs ontorden Grocer Co. Co.’s ifrana” Barrels, 1,200 count ....... 550| 28 a seve-B 15] Aeme Be. veee oo. 3 3 a —— Quaker 4s..... 102222122 8 70 | Half bbls, 600 count *"""3 95 | S6Ib. sacks............. 22 | eo Sr rte 4a] te pomeen.......... 5'4 | Chol a 4 o —— 3 70 Small 28 Mb. amc oa | Paes 3 70 | 11D. packages.......... oe teen 30 Sd ieee on & Gamble brands— STOVE POLIS i ieiuw a ceces coue 36 Spring Wheat Flour Half b Bes ,400 count prteeel 00 | 56 Ib. dairy Mt aril Dai Lenox ...... 0... esses 3 00 = Oolong Clark-Jewell-Wells 00. # Brand S, 1,200 count . "4 00 | 98 Ib: dairy in drill b = PRS S Toney. — ee 400 Formosa, fancy....... eeeeacd 42 p Pillsbury’ 8 Best 6s... 4 40 PIPES Mehta ’ s Eyory, 10.02.0000 2006.00) .. 6 75 =— pmedium.............. 25 Pilisbury’s Best {s....... 4 30} Clay, No. 216..... 1 86 Ib. dairy in iinen inten “ = & Co. brand— moy, Gligled............5... 32 Pilisbury’s Best %4s....... 4 20 | Clay, T. D., tal — 70 Lo Ol Sewer mata a 3 00 English Breakfast ~ ep ury, . Best iis paper. 4 20 Cob, — « 86 Ib. dairy in = cies oo ABW oe brands— a , oy eee eee eee ae 27 { s' S paper. 4 oe Solar ee: ee. | Oe ON SS See Bf pf | UNOICE..... 0... eee cece ween 34 Ball- Barnhart Putmaa’ *§ sBrand]| 4g POTASH — 56 Ib. sacks...... — 25 Old Country.............. 3 20 : EE PT re rea acewene ante 42 J ce Banana nen ete cons sapotto, wie otTtne re " ae Ceylon, oh ndia Duluth Imperial %s....... 415 Babbitt's Dek 4 00 | Granulated Fine.. g5 | paPolio, Kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40 i ee ie otes Mls iced all 32 a. Duluth Imperial 4s... ; 4 05 | Penna Salt Co.’s. 2202222222! 3 09 | Medium Fine....22222.222.2. 90 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz. ........ 2 40 az) ae 3 — | = ee ee eee } lo. Z Wingold Wolf Cs. rang — SALT x ei ie oid RAT wineaa — Be rreled Pork Gosani ue ac | Sees English. --- ot cg ane 4 20 .-seee @15.50| Georges genulne...... SPICES No. 4, 3 doz in case, gr Ine ‘E Sidson | @ 6% , , STOSs . 4 50 Goresata 48... 8 noe i = = — selected...... g 7 nie Whole Spices No. 6, 3 doz er a aay 7 20 eresota ks srrrtres 449 | Short cut....2.../21 @1 50 | Strips or bricks.. eee GD | SAAS PIUO . owe oe OP aces eececeee Seane a ae ee * Que 50 | Si Strips o or eee ..... 6%@10% | Cassia, China in mats..... = Below are given New York Worden Grocer Go.is iran a ase gees @ 3% | Cassia, Batavia, inbund.. 28 prices on sugars, to which the Laurel \s.. on 4 30 Gi8 po | Strips alibut. Cassia, Saigon, broken... 3g | Wholesale dealer adds the local Laurel 8.000.000. secs ees 4 20 Dry Salt M. Strips. essesese eee eoee--+-10 | Gisela, Saigon, tn ie ele ee ee oe Laurel is. + eon ry eats TL IIIIISIISIE! | Cloves, Amboyna...... Ce shipping puint, ving you credit ~- J= Laurel %s and is # paper. 410] Beis _-- eee ele % Trout ae, Zanzibar..... 14 oe Lynne - the amount ae ek * ie aaah 9% | No. 1100 Ibs. .............. ‘hi see a 6) cet ote nee ee . waa 2 65 Peececces 8% ea ee 270 Nutmegs, 105-10 eccce 50 to his ship in pe, Harghaees | - nee Smoked Meats ce ee 75 | Nut » 105-10....... - 40 | 99 ound ss. a neluding 35 00 aa. Hams, 121b. average. ou No. 1 —- Lo eS Panpns Meamneie inci 35 | bab _ s for the weight of the Bald cs eee ee aes 35 00 Hams, 14Ib. ’ re, 18 omers’ brand. o pe OS ee Hams, 16Ib. average. 11% | roland white Moone Ri Don io, —------ 5S ae 85 ar lots, clipped. es Se 40 | Hams’ 201 rage. 11% | Holland white , 25 Pepper, s nO 99 | Gul Llitisiseseseeeee. 5 85| Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands. P peadlyy ein 2 pea Hams, 20lb.average. — @ 1145 | Holland White hoopesbbl. 6 00 Pure Ground in Balk -) | Crushed ..........0...0.... 5 85 | Little Columbian ran ee Feed and Millstuffs Shoulders (N & Y cui) @ 13, | Holland d white hoop’ mets. 82) AllsplC@..-----eeseeeeeseee 16 CUDES woes sess sees eee 5 60 | Columbian... ..2.0. 02.38 Go St. Car Feed, screened .... 23 00 | Bacon, clear... ... 10% 7% | Norw inl Cas i aa. Saueas Pecpdee 5 45 | Columbian Extra.. .-55 00 No. 1 Corn and Oats... .. 22 50 California hams. a ‘yf | Round 100 0 Ibe. acs ielanneeee 48 | XXXX ee. 5 50 comeneian Tava te Se ~. Ae: tac me 22 50 | Boiled Hams........ 2 und 40 Ibs... 22.22: - isda Wi gaa sca nvineible......90 00 | Winter Wheat Bran..... 22 00 | Picnic Boiled Hams lin. 60 | Ginger, Afriean.-..-.-./. 15| Fine Granulated. ...-..0.. 6 38 =o 5 _ iene Oss lane ri Winter Wheat Middiings. 17 00 | Berlin Ham pr’s’d. @ — Bloaters.......... ae Ginee’ —_— De 18 | Coarse es nies 5 35 | Fortune Teller..... .. 35 00 Aaa Screenin: Mince Hams : i ger, ee 25 5 45 a: . 35 00 \ TOCMINGS ........ 2.6. .006 16 9 Mackerel aCe........ ie 65 | Extra Fine Granulated... 5 45 | Quintette 35 00 Corn Mess 100 Ibs. . .... 12 25 | Mustard.. 1g | Conf. Granulated...... 560/G.Jd. Johnaon Cigar Co.’s brand . As Cor, car lots............. Mess 40 Ibs. .............. 15 20| Pepper, Singapore, black: 20 | 2 #0. bags Fine Gran...... 5 50 ’ Hay — — oo 1 33 | Pepper, Singapore, white. 28 Sib. b. bags Fine Gr Gran. aa 5 60 No. 1 Timothy car lots... 730 | Non 1 106 —_ Sete soto 113 ean er, a Cae 20 Pn maemate a coeee 570 iC » BE No.1 Timothy ton lots. i | No.1 40 Ibs. 22020220207. "4 60 “eeuie | Contectoners A002 «BB - %|No.1 10Ibs............... 120 Gann No. 1, Columbia A........ 500| aN ro lw {| No.1 8lbs......22022207. 120) Barrelie...cscescreeeeeeee 28 | NOr 2) Windsor Aw... 4 95 %& | No. 2 100 Ibs. co~ Sana 95 | No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 95 j 2 No.2 40lbs.......... “""°" 3 49 | 1 doz. 1 gallon cans. . "3 40 No. 4, Phoenix A......... 490 ; No.2 101bs. ..........2.2. ~ 95 | 1 402. % gallon cans. <2... 22211 95 — 5, Empire A.......... 4 85 No.2 8lbs............... 71 2402. 4 galloncans......... 97 Ne (Rate son mere 4 75| 8.0. W........0.-22.200002 85 00 0 Tavecccccccccescccsccee 4 654 Cigar Clippings, perlb..... 96 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ubetsky Bros.’ Brands. Butter Plates Mixed Candy B. Le ees - fee eee ee 00 | No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 | Grocers.............. @6 Gold Star...............--- No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate... .- 50 Competition. Ta @7 H. Van Tongeren’s nee. No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate... .... 551s cea @ 7% Star Green.............. 5 00 | No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... Conserve............. @ 8% Fine Cut Egg Crates — ot . 8% Uncle — ee eee ee 58 | Hum Dumpty ..........- 2 25 Ojibwa... 2.0... --.- eee eee 38 | No. ngndion agg ee 30 | Broken steee @ 8% Forest ee 38 | No. 2; complete ...... en 95 | Cut Loaf............. @9 Senet Gorey... .-.... 35 1 Pi English Rock........ @9 ee 57 en ee Kindergarten ....... @9 Sweet Loma. *7"""gg | Round head, 5 gross box.... 45} Bon Ton Cream..... @ 9 Golden TOp.........-....--..28 | Bound head, eartons........ 62| French Cream....... @10 Eigen... 58 Mop ee Dandy Pan.......... @10 oe a 23 | Trojan spring .. 90 — © son Cream ee 34 | Eclipse patent spring . - 85) mixed ............. @15% Peseiee uae: 50 | Nolcommon................ 75 onan Cream mix.. @13 Protection. ..........2..- 20+ 38 aa oo — wala , = Fancy—In Pails ee 40 19 cotton mop heads..... x mene a ee ae | iead Noo 700s 90 on ; a - = EE Ee ee 39 Pails Fairy Cream Squares 12 Plug 2-hoop Standard............. 1 40} Fudge Squares...... 12 ie toe 36 3-hoop — cies nabes 1 60 Peanut Squares i. 9 Creme de Menthe........... 60 | 2-wire, Cable.. ++ ++--1 80) Fruit Tab., as. wrap 12 TE 40 | wire, Cable -1 70 | Sugared Peanuts... 10% Be 35 | Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25} Salted Peanuts. ..... 12 Sweet Chunk................ 37 | Paper, Eureka....... -2 25) Starlight Kisses. .... 10 oe 33 ‘| Fibre.. 12 40 San Blas Goodies.... @12 eens 24 ““‘Poothpicks | Lozenges, plain ..... @ 2% Kolo ste ccee scene ccteeeceeees 36 | Rardwood .... .-...........- 2 50 | Lozenges, printed... @10 veteeteeeeeeeee cece es ----36 | Softwood ......... ..........2 75 | Choe. Drops. ........ @11% Hiawatha at seeccccees cee eees te 1 80 | Eclipse Chocolates... @13% Battle Axe .............-++- Oo 1 50 | Choc. Monumentals. @14 eee Soc cee a Tubs ae Chocolate. . = tandard Navy.............. um Drops.......... 5 Spear Head, 16 0z.........-- 43 | 20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....6 0 | Noss Drops... @% 18-inch, Standard, No. 2..... 5 00 Spear Head, 80z........---45 | 1¢ inch; Standard, No. 3.....4 00 | Lemon Sours........ @10 Nobb Twist Cees ieee oleae 49 20-inch, Cable No. 1 ca 6 50 ——— eocccescce 10 NE 39 | ie inch’ Cable. No.2 "8 00 Ital. Cream Opera. .. 12 ce Hopesty................. 45 16-inch. Cable, No. 3.5 00 Ital. Cream Bonbons Toddy., sank nh sn urls ls a 35 No. 1 Fibre... . 7 cence eens en 4 20 Ib. pails......... @12 el 38 No. 2 Fibre... oc oy 5 Molasses a = Piper ES 64 No. 3 Fibre... "2 20 . pails. @14 Rc cn erienicees 81 oad olan Wadies = Fahy Cae 36 Wash Boards Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Piasb Bab... ee 32 | Bronze Globe... ~-2 o ———— Dewey ....... .175| Lemon Sours . @55 Hand Pressed. . ol Double Acme, +03 7B oe Drops.. @s60 Doubie Cross . ete, Single Acme.. 2 2 a Drops. @65 Sweet Core..................40 | Double Peerless 3 25 a . Choc. Drops.. @85 37 | Single Peerless. ...2 60 | H. M. Choe. - t. and 37 | Northern Queen . .250| DK. No.12.. @1 00 ...27. | Double Duplex... .3 00} Gum Drops.. aoe @30 ‘99 +| Good Luck ..... 2 75 | Licorice Drops... .: @75 a 1 Gnipeea 2 25 a plain..... @55 28 ood Bowls =—" — @s60 --82 | 11 1n. Butter................. 75 Impertats @60 -.37 | 13 in. Butter..... weeeeed 00] GO —"- @60 --37. | 15 in. Butter -1 75 | Molam = @55 -.40 | 17 in. Butter -2 50! Frond Mad G seceeee @55 --35 | 19 In. Butter...... .3 00] ¢ B tho 8, Pep. 80 @90 ----24 | Assorted 13-15-17... 1 75 ‘aon int ns, Pep. pi s — se tteee cee es = Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50 String — + e’s Cameo....... weeeeee- 40 | wqwrapprmnc PaPprR | IS ks. ........ Honey Dip Twist............ 39 WRAPPING PAPER —- Berries § @60 Myrtle any Ce 40 | Common Straw............ “1% aramels Yum Yum, 1% 0z............ 39 | Fiber Manila, white....... 3% | Clipper, ool pails. . @9 = Yuu, 1 ib. paile ccoeceee 37. ‘| Fiber Manila, — 4% | Standard, 20 lb. pails @10 ee 37 No. 1 Manila... 4 Perfection, 20 Ib. pls @12% Corn C Cake, 244 0Z........---- 25 | Cream Manila............. 3 | Amazon, Choe Cov’d @15 Corn Cake, 1lb...........-.. 23 +| Butcher’s Manila.......... 2% | Kosker 2 for 1¢ pr bx @55 Plow Boy, 1% 02............- 39 | Wax Butter, short count. 13 /| Big 3,3 for 1c pr bx.. @55 Plow Boy, 3% 02.............37 | Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20 | Dukes, 2 for 1c pr bx @60 Peerless, 3% 0Z.....-..-+--+- 34 | Wax Butter, rolls......... 15 | Favorite, 4 for ie, bx @60 nea =n seseceeeeceees . YEAST CAKE AA Cream Car’ls'3Ib @50 ator, 244 0Z....... 2.606. Indicator, 1 1b. pails ........ 31 pas o--- == FRUITS Col. Choice, 2% 0Z........... Sunlight, oe aoe BO Oranges Col. Choice. 8 0z.....--...++. 31 ght, 1% Florida Russett...... @ Yeast Cream, 3 doz. -1 00 Florida Bright TABLE SAUCES Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -1 00} F _ aN FIGNE....-- @ LEA & Yeast Foam. 1% doz........ 50 See taeaes oes g . FRESH FISH Late Valencias...... Gé 00 PERRINS Per Ib. | Seedlings............ @ @ 2 | Medt. Sweets @ S AUCE Troi - @ 9 amateas ............ @ = oe . . . am gee : @ The Original and . Lemons Ciscoes or — “ 5 Genuine Bluefish . . ee E g 12 | Messina, 300s........ 6 OC@6E 50 Worcestershire. | Live Lobster..... - @ 22 | Messina, 360s........ 5 6 00 Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75 | Boiled Lobster........ @ 20 ae rteeeee 4 75@5 50 Lea & Perrin’s, small. ea 2 50 oo see @ . eee 4 75@5 50 Halford, large. . ws. 375] Haddock ....-......... @ Bananas Halford, small.. oe — 1 Pickerel......... @ 9g Medium bunches.... 1 50@2 00 Salad Dressing, large..... 55 =a cece ee eee ceee cece @ Hh Large bunches...... Salad —— —_ ne 2 75 smoked Wi White oer S 10% Foreign Dried Fruits Cotton, 3 ply. neo dwcn on poe 16 Col River's: eae i @ 12 Californias, @ Cotton’ 4 ply.........-..--+-- 16 | Mackerel.............. @ 15 Gal. . pie 110 ben be @ Hemp, 6 ply... aa | HIDES AND PELTs | BONG, noice 10 ee 0% Flax, mentivim Cae 20 The Ca) ee eee cane 12 Ib. boxes... 12 Wooi, 1 Ib. balis............. 7% | Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as | Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... VINEGAR follows: Naturals, in bags... Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 Hides Dates Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 No.1 6% | Fards in 10 Ib. boxes Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. -11 No. 2 5% | Fards in 60 Ib. cases. Pure Cider, Red Star........12 No. 1......... @ 8 | Hallowi.............. 5 @5% Pure Cider, Robinson. .... ..10 No. 2......... @ 7 | _ Ib. cases, new. .... Pure Cider, Silver........... 11 g 7% , 60 Ib. cases.... 4% @5 WASHING abana NUTS Gold Dust, regular.......... 4 50 Almonds, Tarragona o ond Bust, Se... 00 Almonds, Ivica ..... _— Acmonas, California, Pelts, each.. - 60@100| soft snelled.. 16@18 — O~ om... .. peeesce cs Brazils,..........- 11 Tallow Puberis ...........: 12% Rub-No-More .............-. 500) Moe. @ 4% | Walnuts. Grenobles. 13% Bearing 2 20) Mes @ 3% | Walnut», soft shelled Seowem 3 50 Wool T ornia No. 1. 13% WICKING Washed, fine........ is@ie | rable —_ hole = No. 0, per gross.. os cat Washed, medium... 1 Pecans, Med.. 10 No.1 ; per gross... SUG ee Unwashed, fine..... 11@13 | pecans’ Ex Large... i No. ?, per gross..............35 | Unwashed. medium. l@I6 aaa : No. 3. per gross 55 Pecans, Jumbos..... @12 See ic CANDIES Hickory Nuts per bu. WOODENWARE Ohio, new Stick Cand ’ @ Baskets bbs. pails | Cocoanuts, full sacks 50 95 | Standard ..... @ 7% | Chestnuts, per bu... 15 | Standard H. H @7™% Peanuts 30 | Standard Twist..... @8s | Fancy, H.P.,Suns.. 5%@ 00 | Cut Loaf... @9 | Fancy, H. P., Suns 50 Roas - 6%4@7 00 | Jumbo, 32 Ib......... @ 7% | Choice, H.P., Extras 25 HH @10% | Choice, H. P., Extras 75 @10 Roasted ........... e 25 Beebe ecu @s !Span.shilldNo.in’w 7 8 AKRON sTONEWARE Butters So Gal DOr GOP. 6... sic een os 48 2 to6 gal, » Der Bl 6 el ONO re 52 10 gal a Boe ae eager Sc 65 Pe eal onen. 84 15 gal. meat-tubs, eacn..... 1 20 20 gal. meat-tubs, each..... 1 60 25 gal. meat-tubs, each... ee 2 2 30 gal. meat-tubs, eacn................ 27 Churns 2 to 6 gal., ee. Eapoe await Gs 645 ‘hurn Das Ore: per Gz... Milkpans \% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 48 1 gal. nat or rd. bot., CRON 6 Fine Glazed Milkpans \% gal flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., esch............ 6 Stewpans % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10 Jugs a6 pal. per dez.............. 60 \4 gal. per doz.. i. 45 1 to 5 gal., per gal.. eeeSs Nee c cust ea 7% Sealing Wax 5 lbs. in package, per Ib .............. 2 LAMP MBURNERS Wie Os ee 35 ie So 45 iS 60 ee See 110 a ee a Ao 50 DA ee 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of : ~~ Me: DRGR. ee Pe tee i 3 EE ——————— 2 24 First Quality No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 8 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00 No.2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 90 XXX Flint No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrai — & lab. 3 75 No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00 Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 00 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 5 00 No. 2 hinge, —— and labeled..... 5 10 No. 2 Sun, oe Bulb,” for Globe EAMNB oe ere. oo 80 La Bastie No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 00 No. 2 Sun, plain bulb; per doz........ 1 25 No. 1 Crimp, per doz.................. 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.................- 1 60 Rochester No. 1 Lime (65¢ doz).................. 3 50 No. 2 Lime (70¢e doz).................- 400 No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)°*** ............-. 4 62 Electric No. 2 Lime = 407) bce ek ooo cae 400 No. 2 Fiint (80e doz).................. 4 60 OIL CANS 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 1 35 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 155 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 2 87 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 80 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 5 00 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 4 50 5 gal. Fa aly. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 40 5 = may COUR 7 60 5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas.............. 9 00 LANTERNS No. 0 Tubular, side --. 475 No. 1B Tubular. 7 2 No. 15 Tubular, dash.................. 7 25 No. 1 Tubular, a Se 7 50 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp............. 13 50 No. 3 Street lamp, each.............. 3 60 LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢ 45 No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢ 45 No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, er bbl.. 2 00 No.0Tub., Bull’ ‘Ss eye, cases i doz. each 1 25 MASON FRUIT JARS. —. Seated eicbuee sa euuiet 6 26 eS 6 50 Half ‘Gallons ee ee ce 9 25 Caps and Rubbers.................... 2 40 MS ee 25 & 35 Glover’s Gem Mantles are superior to all others for Gas or vasoline. Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers Importers and Jobbers of GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES RT CTT AR a ht te Or STATEMENTS, RADESMAN ENVELOPES, eV y.A ha COUNTER BILLS. cr ren Neds “Summer Light” Light your Hotels, Cottages and Camps with the ““NULITE”’ Indoor Arc. Outdoor Arc, Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps. electricity or carbon gas. lamps. ble. superior to Cheaper than coal oil No smoke, no odor, no wicks, no trou- Absolutely safe. A 20th century revolu- tion in the art of lighting. Are Lamps, 750 can- = power. for indoor or outdoor use. Table mps, 100 candle power. Chandeliers, Pen- cate Street Lamps, etc. 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, Ill. on. The Prompt People Our customers call us the “prompt people’? because they can order almost anything of us by telephone, telegraph or letter and getit at once. We appreci- ate a man does not want anything until he orders if 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? AIKAAR OD Brown & Sehler Grand Rapids, Mich. | PARIS GREEN LABELS The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who break bulk must label their Eackeges 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. APRPNPPIIRS aba by Gr bn tr Bb bo bn br Bn bp br br by bn Ln bi by bp bn Lp i Li i i a i i i hi a i i i i i OFF DG FOOD GGG SST VOT FTF % - -| MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 Supply Nowhere Near Equal to the De- mand. The week has been between seasons in the local fruit market, as the late berry crop proves disappointing as to quantity. To be sure, offerings have been considerable, but in the ocean of demand they have disappeared so quickly as to seem small. Prices of blackberries continue high and, with the exception of a few huckleberries, they monopolize the small fruit market. Taking the season through in the berry market prices have ruled so high that little canning has heen done. The de- mand for immediate table use seems to have absorbed everything. A factor of more influence than ever in increasing this demand is the more perfectly or- ganized express service which dis- _ tributes the fruits all over the region in direct railway communication.~ The fruit shipping points on the lake shore are occupied in supplying the Chicago and other trans-lake markets, and so it falls to Grand Rapids to furnish all the towns outside the fruit region to which its railways radiate. It is an interest- ing question as to the extent to which this phenomenal demand will stimulate the growing of small fruits in the radius of our improved roads. It is certain that this industry has not yet reached its climax by any means. However, the same movement for better roads is op- erating the same here as in all localities where conditions will enable the local produce to take the place of outside shipments. This will naturally operate to preserve a healthy condition in the market, but there are more than enough points where fruit can not be raised to insure the keeping up and increasing of the present consumption. With a more plentiful supply prices will resume the basis at which the goods can be handled with more profit by the dealer, The feature in the vegetable market is the quickness with which the abund- ant offerings are taken. The plentiful rains are keeping the produce in as fresh, healthy condition as earlier in the season. It is within bounds to state that there has never been so abundant a market of the finest quality. The rains which have contributed to the growth have also kept the roads in the finest condition. There has been no trouble to protect the goods from dust and the cool weather has contributed to preserve its freshness and health-giv- ing qualities. There is no doubt that this feature in the city’s food supply is a potent factor in securing its freedom from sickness, which is reported as prevailing through- out the city. ——_>2.—___ When to Treat a Boy With Tact. ‘*Good mothers show every estimable quality but tact toward their sons,’’ re- marked a young man recently. ‘‘Un- selfishness, devotion, kindness and sym- pathy are all given in full measure and running over, but the faculty which they take with them into society as a matter of course, which divines what should and should not be said, seems to be considered as superfluous in regard to their children. The kind mother is constantly, albeit all unintentionally, offending the susceptibilities of that hypersensitive creature, the half grown boy, by her personal-allusions and re- marks when in company. I remember how I used to dread going out with my mother just on that account. I never knew what she would say, and I fairly used to squirm in anticipation when I heard her mention my name. The dear creature was so proud of me and of my small achievements and, with the ex- aggeration of self which is so common with young people, I always felt that I was being dragged into prominence in the most ridiculous fashion when she talked of me. ‘‘ Another trait of a boy which mothers are apt to ignore through want of tact is an intense dislike to being quoted. It is all right if he relates an incident or criticises a comrade himself, but to hear his remarks repeated vexes him ex- cessively. Many a time have I seen a school friend flush up to the roots of his hair with annoyance when his mother all unwittingly has alluded to something he has told her about the boys. A youth is a queer creature-- rough and almost callous in some things, oversensitive and foolishly thin skinned in others, and a mother with tact will understand his many contra- dictions and earn his gratitude and confidence by humoring them.’’ y+, S____ Happiness in Work. John Ruskin helieved that men and women ought to like doing good work and be happy in it. He has this to say in support of the theory : It may be proved with much cer- tainty that God intends no man to live in the world without working; but it seems to me not less evident that he in- tends every man to be happy in his work. It is written, ‘‘In the sweat of thy brow’’—but it was never written, ‘‘in the breaking of thine heart’’— ‘“‘thou shalt eat bread.’’ And I find that as, on the one hand, infinite mis- ery is caused by idle people, who both fail in doing what was appointed for them to do and set in motion various springs of mischief in matters in which they should have had no concern, so, on the other hand, no small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take upon themselves and force upon others of work itself. Were it not so, I believe the fact of their be- ing unhappy is in itself a violation of divine law and a sign of some kind of folly or sin in their way of life. Now, in order that people may be happy in their work these three things are needed: They must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it—not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of other people for its confir- mation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, what- ever the world may say or think about it, se oa__—__ Difference Between Character and Repu- tation. ‘*Sir,"’ he said to the manager of the store, ‘‘I want to warn you against that clerk at the ribbon counter. I under- stand he has a wife in the East and left her on account of his bad habits, and his character, sir, his character’’— The visitor became emphatic and ex- cited. ‘I beg your pardon,’’ interrupted the manager ; ‘you were saying something about his character.’’ ‘“Well, sir, they say’’— ‘‘Ah, quite a difference, my dear sir; quite a difference. My friend, such people as you may establish a reputa- tion for a man, but you can’t touch his character. A man's character is what he is; his reputation is what people say he is. Good-day, sir.’’ And the young man at the ribbon counter just kept on working and didn't feel a breeze. Wood Wanted in exchange for Lime, Hair, Fire Brick, Sewer Pipe, Stucco, Brick, Lath, Cement. Wood, Coal, Drain Tile, Flour, Feed. Grain, Hay, Straw. Dis- tributors of Sleepy Eye Flour. Write for prices. Thos. E. Wykes, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 Levels Hardware Pr 1Ce€ Current Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks oe Adze Eye......................$17 00..dis 70—10 aps Metals—Zi a 2 ont, — Bee eee Saas 2 600 pound casks ” oe ™% cks’ Waterproof, perm... ec intern. aOR RNS ORE 8 Ely’s Waterproof, per m......_.. 60 Miscellaneous Cartridges Bere Cae 40 No. 22 short, per m........ Se ee 75 No. 22 long, per m........ 3 00 | Screws, New List ..............0...... 85 No. 32 short, per m....... 5 00 | Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50&10&10 No. 32 long, perm......2000..00000 00, 5 75 | Dampers, American................... 50 a P ae Molasses Gates 0. - M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 20 abbey No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, perm... 1-20 | Sropouint’ Pattorm. oo... ese. oe Gun Wads ee Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M.C... 60 Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, perm... CE eee 60810810 Black edge, No.7, per iy gar eeaem go | Common, polished --.2 22227222 227222. 70&5 Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron New Rival—For Shot “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 mak ae a. er | “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 279 75 No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge — 100| Broken packages 4c per pound extra. — - a 5 . 90 Planes 1 z 90 %, wg 4 -— * § eee 60 a 4 in = : 2 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy........... 50 154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00 Bench, first yuality.............. 00.04. O = : : . 12 2 = Nails ; : =) 2 Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. a bs be: : m2 = Steel nails, base........ 22.2.2. 2 2... 2 eo 3 i ; a 4 = Witendile nasa, 2 85 + ** ea... Base Discount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance..........-. 2.0... i 5 Paper Shells—Not Loaded 8 advance... ... ee ace 10 No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . en 20 No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100... 64 oe ttt eee tee ee ee eeeeee ee eens = Gunpowder ee 70 Kegs, 25 lbs., per ee #00) Wines advatiee...... 50 ¥ kegs, 12% Ibs., per % Rees .. 2 25 | Casing 10 advance..................... 15 44 kegs, 634 Ibs., per 4 keg........... i | Casing Sadvanee........ 2... 8. 25 Shot Pasing 6 advance -............-.2+ ++. = In sacks containing 25 Ibs. mist 1@ advances... Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 16) sean canes ra Snell's Augurs and Bits ‘- Barrel % advance.................... 85 Jennings genuine. ....1.1222277.777.7" 25 Rivets Jennings’ A 56) iron and Tinned... 8... 50 Axes Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 First Quality, S. B. Bronze......... 6 00 Roofing Plates First Quality, D. B. Bronze. - 222222. 2. 2 00 | 14x90 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50 a Quai’ aa a ——o 6 50 | 14x99 IX, Charcoal, Dean...... 7 50 9 its te SEO). 2. ae soso oe 10 50 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean... l 13 00 Barrows 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50 SR 12 00 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 6 50 EC et 29 00 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00 Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 Cia ae 60 Ropes Carriage, new WOE ne eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 6 Sisal, % inch and larger............... 8 Per eects» ee oe Ee 1 Buckets I I iio ge cores ce ca Tiwsaw on “ Butts, Cast ea Cast Loose Pin, figured ...... ca 65 Sash Weights Wrought Narrow .................. 60 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00 Chain Sheet Iron %in, 516in. in. Kin. com. smooth. com. Com. Se - a $ @G.... BG. ... 4%e, ae Se > a ae 4 a = a Noein 3 30 Cuca a fae 2S = Tro ars Oe OO Cast Steel, per Ib...................... Ce 3 80 3 60 Chisels All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Socket Firmer ..............0..00.0... 65 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra. Socket Framing................000 000. = Shovels and Spades Co ee cane seen eee GEM We 8 00 mee tn eee rcec cw 85 | Second Grade, Doz........2.22222227. 7 50 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............net es pease ey 19 oe Der Ce 1 25| The prices of the many other qualities of solder AGFUSTADIO ate 40&10 | in the market indicated by private brands vary Expansive Bits . according to composition. Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 40 uares Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3,$30.....00000277! 25 | Steel and Iron...... - ee 70 Files—New List New American ey 70810 i Game CNOISOD'S...... 2. ee cee ee cece ce cous 70 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal................ 2... $ 8 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps.................) 70 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal..................... 8 50 Galvanized Iron ware PX Comveoml.... kk 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 Discount, 60 Gauges 10x14 10, Charcoal... 22... cece ccce 7 00 ' $4x00 TC, Chareoal.. 2... 0. oo. cl. 7 00 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60810 | 10x14 IX, Charcoal..............2..222. 8 50 Glass po 2 ee ie 8 50 Single Strength, by box...............dis 30&20| Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 De ae ieee? See ee rs pe Boiler Size Tin Plate Se 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, Hammers 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, } per pound.. " Maydole & Co.’s, new list..............dis 33% Traps Yerkes & Plumb’s.....................d18 40810 fecek Game. Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... 30c list 70 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...... 40&10 Hinges Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3....................d18 60810} tom’s....... oo ee cee ese eeee 65 Hollow Ware Mouse, choker per doz............... 15 Pots ° 50&10 | Mouse, delusion, pes doz. 1 25 Ketties .. aa Wire Spiders... ee SB 50&10 | Bright Market................0 00.0000. 60 Horse Nails Annealed Market... 0... 2... .. 15... 60 Coppered Market...................... 50810 Au Sable ee Tinned Market... 50&10 House Furnishing Goods Coppered Spring Steel. 7222772222717: 40 Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 25 Japanned Tinware................0.... 20810 | Barbed Fence, Painted................ 2 95 Iron Wire Goods Bar Irom.............0.02ecececceeeeeee2 25 6 rates MN so ee etd eaek cou k toa 80 Eine Date 3 c rates | Screw ee 80 Knobs—New List Se < 80 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75 | Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 80 Door, porcelain, fa . trimmings....... 85 Wrenches Lanterns —— Adjustable, Nickeled........ > Regular 0 Tubular, Doz........ ueaaee 500 | ile hed dasa gees coceasuece Warren, Galvanized POUiE so. 6 00 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought... 70&10 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IN THE TOILS. The Regal Manufacturing Co. Swindler Landed in Jail. Marion, Ind., Aug. 6—Sometime ago the Tradesman published an article in regard to the transactions of the Regal Manufacturing Co., of Chicago. Later on you also published an article in re- gard to this same concern in connection with a suit which we had commenced against it in the Chicago courts. As there have been some very interest- ing developments within the past thirty days in regard to the Regal Manufac- turing Co.’s affairs, and as you ap- peared to be anxious to serve the inter- ests of your constituents by getting at the bottom facts of the matter, we take the liberty of giving you the particulars regarding late developments which show that you were not far out of the way when you denounced the man Reid as a swindler and his scheme one of the most dangerous ever devised. About thirty days ago it was discov- ered by the First National Bank that W. J. Reid, the owner and manager of the Regal Manufacturing Co., had been bringing forged notes to them to be discounted and secured the money ona great many of these notes to the amount of about $14,000. When the Bank brought the matter to his attention and threatened him with arrest, he said that he was entirely innocent in the matter; that the notes had been brought to him by an advance agent in his employ by the name of McCoy. He was given two days by the Bank to adjust these mat- ters or be placed under arrest. In order to keep from being arrested he went toa friend, a well-to-do busi- ness man of Chicago, H. H. Stoddard, President of the Smith & Stoddard Manufacturing Co., who had been re- ceiver for the Rega! Co. a few years ago when Reid was having trouble with a partner, and explained the whole cir- cumstances to him, saying that he had been a victim of this man McCoy. He further offered to turn over his entire business, representing personal property and about $80,000 worth of accounts, to Stoddard, providing Stoddard would pay the notes at the Bank, which he did. Reid was to remain in the employ of Stoddard and about a week later was started on the road to make collections. Just how much was collected is not known at this time, but only about $209 was sent in, the balance being kept by Reid. Stoddard’s attorney, realizing that everything was not right, started to find Reid and finally located him in Kansas City, where he was promptly arrested on a charge of embezzlement. When searched various checks, men- tioned in the enclosed newspaper clip- ping, were found on his person, and in his grip was found a number of valu- able papers belonging to the Regal Co. which he had sold to Stoddard. Reid is now in the Cook county jail and, being unable to furnish bail, will probably be compelled to stay there un- til his trial comes up, when he will un- doubtedly be sent to the penitentiary for a term of years, A representative of this firm was in Chicago during the month of July and was partly instrumental in securing Reid’s arrest. We are also pleased to say that our litigation with the Regal Co, is over and that a satisfactory set- tlement has been made with Mr, Stod- dard. Mr. Stoddard intends to run the business on a different plan from the way it has heretofore been run by Reid and we are satisfied that those who have been having trouble with the Regal Co. under the management of Reid will have no trouble with Mr. Stoddard. Those of your readers who have been victimized by Reid would do well to communicate with Mr. Stoddard, whose office is at 217 East Washington street, who will give them further information in regard to the future operations of the Regal Manufacturing Co. and the settle- ment of all disputed claims now pend- ing. | We trust the information we_ have given you will be of interest to both ‘yourself and your readers. Miller & Barley. The newspaper clipping referred to by the writers of the above communica- tion is as follows: Kansas City, July 28—William J. Reid, said to be a well-known Chicago merchant and formerly from Iowa, where his family and connections are among the wealthy and prominent citizens of the State, was arrested in the lobby of the Midland Hotel this afternoon on the charge of embezzlement. The warrant was issued upon complaint of W. N. Gemmiill, a Chicago attorney and senior member of the law firm of Gemmill & Foell. The specific charge is the em- bezzlement of $400 in money and_prop- erty from Horace H. Stoddard, a Chi- cago capitalist. According to Attorney Gemmill, this is only one item in a long list of charges which will be preferred against Reid. The most important of these is an alleged forgery whereby he (Reid), it is claimed, obtained $14,000 from the First National Bank in Chicago about a month ago. Reid does not deny that he obtained this amount from the Bank on worthless notes, but claims that a clerk named McCoy turned over the forged notes to him for negotiation. Reid, it is said, admitted to Attorney Gemmill having collected money for the face of the notes amounting to about $14, coo. When searched $210 in cash was found in Reid’s pockets. Several checks were also found. One was for $215.47, made by Daube, Cohn & Co., on the First National Bank at Cameron, Texas. An- other was for $18, made payable to the Regent Manufacturing Company at Shellsburg, Iowa, and still another for $17.40 was signed Mausbaum & Fehard, Greesbeck, Texas, and payable to the Royal Tailoring Company. None of these checks had been indorsed by the payees. Several other checks were found in his possession, making an a ggregate of about $1,000. Reid broke down completely when locked in at police headquarters. He retired to a corner of his cell, and plac- ing his face between his hands wept bitterly. He is 28 years of age and un- married, It is said he was formerly in the saddlery business in Chicago. He consented to accompany Attorney Gem- mill and a special detective to Chicago without a requisition and they left with him to-night. Reid said before leav- ing that he had no explanation to offer, but he felt confident he would be ac- quitted of the charges against him. > 30> The Grain Market. Corn has been the all-absorbing topic. Rains came at last, but they did not help the corn crop in the corn belt, as it came too late. The most that is esti- mated by the experts is 1,500,000,000 bushels; some put it at 200,000,000 bushels less. As the Corn King, Geo. H. - Phillips, transferred his trades to another house, so he could get his ac- count in shape (so he says), it kept the corn trading normal. To-day, how- ever, the market did not sell off, as ex- pected, but kept around 58%c- for Sep- tember. This isa large price. How- ever, should the conditions prove as bad as reported, corn may look cheap later on. The visible made a fair decrease of 783,000 bushels. Wheat has gained about 2c per bushel for cash and futures. Our exports have been double in July this year what they were in July, 1900, being over 26,000, - ooo bushels, against 13,000,000 bushels during the same time last year. Wheat and flour exports were 6,484,000 bushels during the week. The foreigners seem to buy largely, notwithstanding our large crop, but we can easily export about that amount weekly during the coming cereal year. Argentine will not have much to export until the new crop is harvested, which will be in January next. . Reports from the Northwest—that is, the spring wheat crop—show damage by the hot weather in some sections and too much rain in other sections. How true this is the. future will show. We are rather in doubt as to the reports, re- membering that last year the report came that farmers would have to im- port seed. We all know they seem to have had enough wheat in the Dakotas and Minnesota and did not have to im- port seed, so we take the present report with a large grain of allowance. The visible made an increase of 1,105,000 bushels—about usual for this time of the year. Had our exports not been of such mammoth proportions, the visible would have shown much larger increase. While we have had a bountiful crop, the millers do not find it very plentiful at present, as farmers are not selling, be- ing busy with other work and the _pres- ent price does not suit them. The Government crop report will be issued on Aug. 10, which will probably give a more correct estimnate of corn and spring wheat. Oats held their own, on account of the light crop. From the present outlook they will not be lower. Rye is strong around present prices— 40@42c per bushel from farmers’ wagons, Beans are lower. October are quoted at $1.86 in carlots for hand-picked. Flour has had an upward tendency, owing to the advance in wheat. Mill feed is as strong as ever. The demand is urgent, especially from the East. The mills have all they can doat present. Receipts of grain during July have been: wheat, 216 cars; corn, 34 cars; oats, 50 cars; flour, 21 cars; beans, 5 cars; hay, 4 cars; potatoes, 11 cars. During the week: wheat, 46 cars; corn, 18 cars; oats, 15 cars; flour, 3 cars; beans, I car; hay, 1 car. Millers are paying 66c for wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. ——_> 2. Amos S. Musselman, President of the Musselman Grocer Co., is spending a few days in the Upper Peninsula, the objective point being Marquette, where a joint meeting of the various prison boards of the State will be held. —_> 2. ____ Gilbert J. Haan, manager of the wholesale department of Lyon-Kymer- Paimer-Co., is taking a week's respite from business cares and responsibilities. Businasanls 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. OR SALE—GOOD ESTABLISHED GRO- cery business in town of 6.000; a bargain for the right person. Will not sell except to good, reliable party. For particulars address Grocery, care Michigan Tradesman. 983 Pree SALE CHEAP—ONE ROLLING LAD- der, with 70 feet of track. Address No. 981, care Michigan Tradesman. 981 A SMALL CROCKERY STOCK OF NEW staple stuff can be had for 80 cents on the dollar. Address No. 982, care Michigan Trades- q 982 man Wy ANIED -DEUG SSTOCK, ONE THAT invoices from $1,000 to $1,500. Address Edgar E. Tice, Bloomingdale, Mich. 9 O EXCHANGE—GOOD PAYING DOWN town business property for farm or stock of merchandise. Chance of a lifetime. Owner must realize at once. C. E. Herington, House- man Building, Grand Rapids. 979 frok SALE—IF SOLD BEFORE SEPT. 1, one of the best drug stores in the State. Average daily sales for July. $39.29. No cut rates, Do not care to sell after Sept. 1. Ad- dress No. 986, care Michigan Tradesman. 986 a 80 ACRE FARM FOR SALE OR trade, Box 33, Epsilon, Mich. 985 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 ciose the estate. John L. Wallace, David McDonald, kxecutors. 9.3 Ok SALE—A HAKDWARE 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 for a@ person Wishing to commence business. Apply to Peter Doran, Rooms 19-20 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 972 EAT MARKET STOCK FOR SALE. SHOP and fixtures to rent Does a business of $24,900 to $25,000 annually. Good chance for a ood butcher. Address No. 974, care Michigan radesman. 974 A 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 | es 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; mull 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 SOR SALE—COUNTKY STORE DOING good business. For particulars address J. B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 966 NOR SALE—IN THRIVING CITY OF 4,000, confectionery, ice cream soda, cigars and tobacco; business good; cash trade. knquire at 382 Canal St., Grand Rapids. 965 ANCELONA, J. L. FARNHAM WISHES 4V¥i a buyer for his stock of goods, consisting principally of groceries and shoes. He will sell his store building or rent same. = 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: opportunity for a boot and shoe firm. Geo. H. Sheets, Grand Ledge, Mich. 964 NOR SALE—SMALL CAPACITY SAWMILL in good repair; one-half million feet of logs ready to be manufactured and more in sight. Reason for selling, owner has no knowledge of manufacturing. Address Box 64, Boon, P. O, Wexford Co., Mich. 950 YOR SALE—DRUG STORE IN A THRIV- ing Northern Michigan resort town. Stock invoices about $1,500. Best of reasons for selling. Bright new stock, good trade. Address Bower’s Drug Store, Indian River, Mich. 947 POR SALE, CHEAP—#i,500 STOCK GEN- eral merchandise. Address No. 945, care Michigan Sradesman. 945 OR 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 perannum. The Phila- delphia Chemical Co. is building a plant near my store. It appropriated nine million dollars for this; our — 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. 939 OR 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 pied 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_ a SALE—AN UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE and implement stock, invoicing $3,000; lo- cated in Northern Michigan; doing a good bus!- ness. Address No. 913, care Michigan Trades- 913 man. yes 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 Michi ; doing a prosperous business; also have a fine shipping business in fruit and potatoes; also a warehouse which I will dispose of. Object of selling, have other business elsewhere that will require all of my attention, Address No. 856, care Michigan Tradesman. 856 ge 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 ichigan 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 MISCELLANEOUS W ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST. Address No. 984, care Michigan Trades- man. 984 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 rigs er general store. References. Address Mich. : May, Star City, 978 - en + 14 ¢ Ie v . } a 1 r 9 \ |DID YOU EVER know of a grocer who handles them but what will say that Standard Crackers and Blue Ribbon Squares are the best goods on not made by a trust. current. E. J. KRUCE & CO., DETROIT ©0000-00-00000 0000000000000-0000000000-00-000000000000000 the market and are See quotations in price q 2 2 CROROH ON OHOH CROROROHOHOHONOHOROEOCHOHOROHOROROEOEOE If you want to secure more than $25 REWARD In Cash Profits in 1901, and in addition give a] thorough satisfaction to your patrons, the sale of “4 but one dozen per day of : FLEISCHMANN & CO.’S YELLOW LABEL m COMPRESSED YEAST P L will secure that result. ¥ ; + Simple ~ Account File A quick and easy method of Es- pecially handy for keeping ac- Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. _ Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St. SOROCHSROROHOHOROCHOROROHOC SOROHOROROROBOHONOHOSOROHO keeping your accounts. count of goods let out on ap- proval, and f-r petty accounts with which one does not like to encumber the regular ledger. By using this file or ledger for charging accounts, it will save one-half the time and cost of keeping a set of books. Charge goods, when " \ -. purchased, directly fh on file, then your cus- y tomer’s bill is always . - ready for him, ‘and he can be found quickly, : on account of the special index. This € saves you looking over several leaves of a day book if not posted, & s when a customer comes in to pay an account and you are busy wait- = a ae ing on a prospective buyer. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS Travelers’ Time Tables. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- ident, HOPKINS, Ypsilanti; Secretary, E. A. Srowk, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Graud Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. Dyk; Secretary, HOMER KLAP; ‘Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association President, E. MARKS; Secretaries, N. L. KOENIG and F. H. CozzENns; Treasurer, C. H. FRINK. Kalamazoo Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’ Association President, E. P. Cross; Secretary, HENRY J. SCHABERG; Treasurer, H. R. VAN BOCHOVE. Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C LITTLE. Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association President, H. B. SMITH; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOKHN Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc- PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, 'tHos T. BATES; Secretary, M. B. HOLLY; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Pt. Harvas Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. PERCIVAL. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. Calumet Business Men’s Association President, J. D. CuppiHy; Secretary W. H. HOSKING. St. Johns Business Men’s Association President, Taos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER- HoEKs. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAs. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, JoHN G. EBLE; Secretary, L. J. Katz; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. Muskegon Retail Butchers’ Association President, MARTIN BIRCH; Secretary, C. D. RICHARDS; Treasurer, WM. SMITH. ‘eee Cone) PERE MARQUETTE Railroad and Steamship Lines. Fast trains are operated from Grand Rapids to Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Saginaw, Bay City, Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Tray- erse City, Alma, Lansing, Belding, Benton Har- bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points, making close connections at Chicago with trains for the south and west, at Detroit and Toledo with trains east and southbound. Try the ‘Mid-Day Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids 12:05 and 12:10 noon, each week day, arriving at Detroit 4:05 p. m. and Chicago 5:00 p. m. H. F. MOELLER, G. P. A., W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A. GR AND Rapids & Indiana Railway July 1, 1901, Going North. aily ex Su ex Su exSu Ly Gd Rapids... .405p 745a 200p 1045p Ar. Cadillac.... -- 645a 1125a 440p 210a Ar. Traverse City.... 830a 130p 650p ..... Ar. Petoskey......... 930a 250p 7235p 5 35a Ar. Mackinaw City...1120a 415p ..... 6 55a Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm, ar’g at 9:00pm. Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m, 11:30 am, 12:20 p m,5:15 p m and 9:20 p m. Going South. ex Su ex Su Daily ex Su Daily Ly. G’d Rapids. 710a 150p 600p 1230p 9 35p Ar. Kalamazoo. 850a 322p 745p 145p 10 55p Ar. Ft. Wayne..1210p 650p ToCnicago 1 45a Ar Cineenes! G2p oo. 6 55a Trains arrive from the south at 3:55am and 7:20am daily, 1:5¢pm, 9:35pm and 10:05pm except Sunday.! Pullman sleeping or parlor cars on all through trains 4:05am ‘Northland Express” has dining car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City. 2:00pm train going north has buffet car to Harbor Springs. 9:35pm train going south has through sleeping cars to Cincinnati, St. Louis, Indianap- olis and Louisville daily. Except Except Except MUSKEGO. Sunday Sunday Sunday Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7 35am 153pm 5 40pm Ar. Muskegon........ 9 3 10pm 7 00pm Sunday train leave Grand Rapids at 9:15am. Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 7:00pm. Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm. Trains arrive from ee ee at 9:30am dally, 1:30pm and 5:20pm except Sunday and 8:00pm Sunday only. CHICAGO TRAINS G. R. & i and Michigan Central. TO CHICAGO Except : Sunday Ly. G’d Rapids (Union depot) -1230pm 9 35pm Ar. Chicago (12th St. Station) 525pm 655am 12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago with Pull- man buffet parlor car attached. 9:30pm train has through coach and Pullman sleeping car. Daily FROM CHICAGO Sanday — Daily Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm 11 30pm Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot) 10 05pm 7 29am 5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with Pullman buffet parlor car attached. 11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping Take G. R. & I. to Chicago 50 cents to Muskegon and Return Every Sunday Gond Light—the Pentone Kind Catalogue if you wish. Simple and practical. Pentone Gas Lamp Co. Bell Phone 2929 141 Canal Street Grand Rapids, Michigan oe a | Loe PELOUZE POSTAL SCALES THE HANDSOMEST AND BEST MAdE THEY TELL AT A GLANCE THE COST OF POSTAGE IN ee NED ae eae oe ae) ee) NATIONAL:4LES.$3.00. UNION :2 /2 LBS.$ 2.50. THEY SOON PAY FOR THEMSELVES IN STAMPS SAVED) dane) ale Oe CHICAGO. Mitre ae HARDWARE & STATIONERY DEALERS Sele) en. 4 44-11 et DISFUTED AcCcOU: Ee ol ae= CONTENTMENT We make four grades of book: in the different denominations. sampres” ONINQUIR OMPANY. TRADESMAN, ~ RAPIDS, MICH Seep SE SE UE OR HUE HE we ee TR that will establish any retail business on a cash basis and draw a large increase of cash business in a wonderfully short time. IT ts a success. The cost is small. It’s free for the asking, Don’t delay. Write us at once. Trio Silver Co., 133 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. FNP SBA OD OG. RS DB BRw rr Mm EE EE. SEG. GE TUR eR UH NEW ¢ on f seen > >. ar ¢ Rael 0 x > U w Ey wok wt ead cri am =z wt: SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS CATCHES THE GERM AS WELL AS THE PLY. _ Sanitary. Used the world over. Good profit to sellers. Order fromJobbers. SEALED STlGhY ! The Imperial Lighting System Patents Pending Economical, brilliant, durable, reliable and sim- f : ple to operate. A light equal to an electric arc at avery low cost. The Imperial Lighting Sys- tem is far superior to the Electric Arc, being softer, whiter and absolutely steady. From a tank the gasoline is conveyed through an entire building through a flexible copper tube that can be put through crevices, around corners and concealed the same as electric wires, and as MT many lights as may be desired can be supplied eit from the same tank. The Imperial System burns common stove gasoline, gives a 1,200 can- dle power light, and one gallon of gasoline burns 16 hours. All lamps are fully guaranteed, and are trimmed complete with full instructions as to installing and operating the system. We also manufacture a complete line of Air <. and Gravity Pressure Lamps. Write for illus- trated catalogue. THE IMPERIAL GAS LAMP CO., Sole Manufacturers 132-134 E. Lake St., Chicago, II., U. S. A. at orm le tthe eR Twa Ct dad Zap saber” of oa _ furs pe H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Write for our Catalogue, ‘‘ The Commercial Traveler,” if you are thinking o adding to your business or of going into a new business. We solicit a share of you: 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 In double sheets 9x16 inches. Patent wax border edges which prevents run- ning or dripping. 25 double sheets (50 single) in fancy box, per box............ $ 30 Per case of 10 fancy boxes.............. 2 75 Brooms In spite of strong advance in broom corn we quote as follows while the stock lasts. Our special bargains: ‘Leader,’ medium fine, 3 colored sew- oe ON Oe “Belle,” choice quality, 23 Ibs., 4 col- ored sewings, fancy lock finish, a fine carpet broom, per doz.................. 1 95 Wash Boards The best 25c or 30c board. “Concave” washboard saves splashing, has more rubbing service, keeps water in center and has ventilated back. Warranted a quick seller, per doz...... 215 Paper B: Three grades, all sizes, see catalogue for complete list. 1 lb. bags, per 500, Cream Manila, square.................. 32 1 55 Galvanized Ir a Tubs No. 1, best grade, per ¢@- 5 No. 2, best grade, per d ................ 6 OF No. 3. best grade, per doz............... 6H Wood Butter Dishes Wire Ends, 250 in Crate. 1 ID. Size, PEP GEALO. oe cs 4 2 Ib. size, per crate...... oe we 4 OUD. ire, PET GEALO. i... ee 5. 6 Ib. size, per erate...... 2.0... .......... 6 Stone Butter Crocks Fine White Glaze, “Macomb” Brand. % gal. (5 Ibs.). per doz.................. A Gal, (10 Ips.) per. doz... .... 2... Tz 2 gal. (20 Ibs.), per doz................. 1 44 Clothes Pins Best Quality, Full Count. “Star,’’ per case, 5 gross................ “Carton,” per case, 12 cartons of 5 doz. Cee Splint Clothes Baskets Made of best splint, 2in. wide, size of basket 20x19 in. wide, 12 in. deep, per Nec 2 26 SOS SONATE) Sos OSes} ESS OBS 2S3 SS 29S. OSSesaes3 SASS Pe eS eS SEARS SS BeAr eS SSeS iThe Hottest Weather Ever Won't affect our Spring Balance scales the slight- All danger of loss to yourself and dissatis- faction of your customers is obviated by this new BSS NS] PUTING THE COMP = SCALF C0. est. loaned ZU ecoaee eee) oe Rae ee : Bd) nla materials ahine) ae peed o >) Suite don stoasis sb tales | iu Cea eee er) PETRA eres i i Ia Sas ico SoS CATA ~) (i Scales. ASAIN ASI AS invention SERIES BARA EAA Ae rightly classed with the greatest of them. The old objection to spring balance scales on account of their variance in weight due to the changes in the weather has been completely overcome in this discovery and application of the Thermostat to our Money Weight Automatic Spring Balance Consider the saving, the convenience and the satisfaction to be had in a thoroughly reliable scale. Dayton, Ohio It is the wonder of the century and is Consider the easy terms on which they are sold, then send us your order. 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