i MEAN ENCED 3 pie ES (So Nhe IES SN TPR ee NOS mE eee eS SENT a eS NIN di OWL @ Sey 1S fe Ts NI RS I ae i a5 a) Caer ‘ ; 0 yp D) PEAR awd Ey 8 B , IDs } A Si We te ee LG) A AAA OTE E: TA TRO Cea ee ET aS CnC Li aA eZ Mx (ae q aN a 4 AN yy) A 4 AW PROS ees KW (A SEAS OR: SS SD ey) AW) ORS a 2 ect NEP RS SORT NN Cine eave ee A ed ee NN oe PUBLISHED WEEKLY (5 OG eee TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS <="? PAE $31 PER YEAR 4 ONO RESO MLE Ai POMP OLA ORE GELS LESS SE DL ES ORS Eighteenth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1901. Number 934 ON eo ee } The Best Is the Cheapest There’s room for argument here, but there’s none > when the CHEAPEST IS ALSO THE BEST. BEACON FALLS are the pest first quality rubbers on the market and the cHEapEst. ww W~ WA THE BEACON FALLS RUBBER SHOE CO. f BEACON FALLS, CONN. fA ! Made in all styles. Write for catalogue. « = a SS SR RO eo. eo. wr. RA | a iy py it RE a Tr eit If so, and you are endeavoring to get along without using our improved Coupon Book System, you are mak- ing a most serious mistake. We were the originators of the Coupon Book plan and are the largest manufac- : ~ turers of these books in the country, having special machinery for every branch of the business. Samples free. Correspondence solicited. | TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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 F 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 “ne CELEBRATED Sweet Loma ‘ur TOBACCO. NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. (Against the Trust.) WHEAT GRITS Contain the Heart of the Wheat With the addition of sugar and milk (or cream). or sugar and butter, they are an ideal and complete food. No better Cereal Food can be produced and the price is less than that asked for other and less desirable cereals. Easily cooked, delicious to eat, easy to digest, easy to buy ($2.00 per case of 24 2-lb. packages). Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., Holland, Mich. Wg ata eeed eeu ieee dialed DAA 8 ne nn PENWVEUWECUVURUUVOWWNNWU. Be nae sae Bay Shore Standard Lime is the leader because it sells easier, slacks quicker and does more work ae than any other lime on the market. Better send for prices and further in- formation. BAY SHORE LIME CO., Bay Shore, Mich. AANA SAVVY dV ON Fans for Warm Weather Nothing is more appre- ciated on a hot day than a substantial fan. Espe- cially is this true of coun- try customers who come to town without provid- ing themselves with this necessary adjunct to com- fort. We have a large line of these goods in fancy shapes and unique designs, which we fur- nish printed and handled as follows: oe $ 300 200086) ae 4 50 B00 sa. 0 Se 400. ....-------. 7 00 Bos. oe 8 00 fose. 15 00 We can fill orders on five hours’ notice if necessary, but don’t ask us to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid it. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Michigan Uneeda Business is Growing all the Time helps the growth along NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. i ahs " } i i. ‘ ~ t - baz Lett Volume XVIII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1901. Number 934 H 9909090009 00O00 09000005 THE 3 v INS. co. Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. 4 90000000000000000000004 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. habia iaas . od aR ecetaciariow WILLIAM CONNOR WHOLESALE READYMADE CLOTHING for all ages, Removed to William Alden Smith biock, 28 and 30 South Ionia street. Open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday to 1 p. m. Mail orders promptly attended to. Customers’ expenses allowed. Rete ccc ia 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. Wl. ‘. C el Cdwues Collec lon, Bees and Commercial sCihgation. Grand Rapids Offices: Widdicomb Building. Detroit Offices: Detroit Opera House Block. L. J. Stevenson Manager R. J. Cleland and Don E. Minor Attorneys Expert adjusters and attorneys on collec- tions and litigation throughout Michigan, THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841, R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. C. E. McCRONE, [lanager. Tradesman Goupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. 3. Forty Years Ago. t. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Window Dniessing. 7%. Village Improvement. 8. Editorial. 9. Food Adulterations. 11. Almighty Dollar. 12. Shoes and Rubbers. 14. Clothing. 15. Dry Goods. 16. The Meat Market. 1%. Candy and Hair Oil. 18. Hardware. 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. Men of Mark, Hardware Price Current. 32. The Grocery Market. AN IMPORTANT REGULATION. A good deal has been said at one time or another about the proposed organi- zation into a union of those rendering domestic service under the name of cook, second girl, waitress, etc. The comprehensive name of Working Wom- en of America has been chosen for this union and the rules it has determined on, if correctly published, do not differ very materially, either as to price or privileges, from the practice which ob- tains where the union is not in exist- ence. There have heen five rules given out as governing mistresses as well as maids and No. 4 is such as to suggest either that some clever humorist has been at work, or that a strictly femi- nine characteristic and ambition are to be crystalized into a union regulation. Rule 4 in full reads like this: Domestics shall be ailowed such hours off on Monday as will permit them to visit the bargain counters of the stores and enjoy on that day the same privil- eges enjoyed by the mistress and her daughters. The irresistible temptations of the bargain counter were never made more emphatically prominent than in this rule. It is quite right in calling ita privilege which the mistress and her daughters enjoy and, of course, is one to which every other female member of the household is entitled. But in view of the prayer, ‘‘Lead us not into temp- tation,’’ is it really wise to put before working women whose wages are not large the special temptation to buy what they do not really want and to spend their money for what they could get along without? It means many a Tues- day morning without funds. Presum- ably Monday is fixed not because it is wash day, but because in Chicago it is bargain day, but that is a movable feast and in cities where the department stores offer their bargains on Friday that day can be subsituted. The gen- eral adoption of that rule will be notice to the sneak thieves to ply their ne- farious trade on the afternoons when the mistress and her daughters as_ well as all the help have flocked to the bar- gain counters, with nobody to watch the house. Illegal entrance and safe exit will be easy and Monday will be a busy day for several classes of people. Some statistician is always presenting himself to tabulate figures showing what immense amounts of money are spent in this or that form of amusement and then pointing out how much of this or that more useful commodity could have been purchased with the same amount. One of these prosy individuals who fancies himself a smart Alec estimates that the American people spend a hun- dred million dollars a year on vaca- tions, and then he wants to know if it is worth the price. He figures out how many public libraries might have been secured with this amount, how many schools, colleges, hospitals, homes, asylums, etc. The truth about it is that the American people get better value received from no other expenditure. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. One of the reasons why the Yan- kee leads the world in enterprise and energy is that he takes a little rest now and then. The American works twice as hard as a foreigner while he is at work and then he goes to take a rest, coming back reinvigorated, rejuvenated and refreshed. Away with the grad- grind who calculates vacation statistics! No one ever supposed there was a dearth of doctors in this country, but probably few believed the over-produc- tion is as great as the Journal of the American Medical Association declares it to be. That authority says that al- ready there is one doctor to every 600 of the population, and that while 1,600 physicians die annually, the colleges turn out nearly 6,000 to take their places. The lesson which the organ of the profession draws from this statement is that there are enough medical col- leges for a long time to come and that no more should be licensed and opened for business. Even a smaller number than is now in operatior will be quite sufficient. With these statistics in mind it would be appropriate’ for those now holding charters to raise the standards both of entrance and of graduation. If there is any professional man in the world who ought to know everything possible about his business before he is permitted to practice it, that one is a physician. The Siberian railroad which the Rus- sian government expects to have in full operation soon will not be remarkable for the speed of its trains. Under the most favorable conditions, it is stated, trains will consume at least four weeks in the journey from Moscow to Port Arthur, That will be the summer schedule. In winter, and for nearly half the year, the officers of the road will decline to guarantee the transit in less than six weeks. The explanation is that over a large part of the road a speed of from seven to nine miles an hour is the best that can be made. These people who wish to stop war because it has become too deadly should turn a little of their attention toward the boarding house biscuit. GENEKAL TRADE REVIEW. The only disturbing elements in the march of industrial activity are those connected with labor. The greatest dis- turbance naturally is the steel strike on account of its immediate effect on the largest industrial property ever capital- ized in this country. The San Fran- cisco trouble is of importance in that it puts a stop to export movement from the principal Pacific port. Then comes the notice of a reduction of wages in Fall River cotton mills which promises to produce a bitter contest in that in- dustry. Aside from these every indica- tion is favorable to a continuance of the present record-breaking activity and volume of business. Stock prices have followed the lead of the steel shares and these have fluctuated in accordance with indications from the strike field. The movement on the average has been a decline of a few points in both indus- trial and transporation shares, but the yielding is small and more encouraging indications this week are turning the movement upward, The great factor in the present tide of prosperity in this country is the power of the people to buy—to spend money. Travel to the Pau-American Exposition, to resorts, and the buying of goods per- taining to amusements and luxury are on a scale that argues the greatest abundance. Of course there must be some disturbance caused by the labor troubles of such magnitude, but the effect can not be great or lasting with such tremendous underlying strength. In industrial circles the general con- dition of activity is hardly disturbed by the steel strike except as enterprises are held back which depend upon fu- ture delivery of material. Prices of steel products have advanced somewhat in view of what is feared. The only thing which stands in the way of the greatest activity at the highest prices ever paid for labor is the suicidal attitude of the strikers. The Fall River cotton industry has long contended against a scale of wages which eliminated profits in that trade. An organization was effected some three years ago to see if some remedy could not be devised in the way of curtailing output to bring yrices to a living basis. This has been found impracticable and the organization has been dissolved and now comes the action of the proprietors cutting wages I5 per cent., which prom- ises to lead to a bitter fight. Reports from most New England woolen mills and shoe shops indicate full operation until winter on the orders already in hand. A news item just received says that a New York minister who has just wed has refused to pay more than 25 cents for a wedding fee. This looks rather niggardly to us, but we must remember that he knowns the woman better than we do. King Edward in selecting his title may be whatever he wants to to Ireland, Australia or India, but the fact that he can not be anything to Africa is the fly in his ointment. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People The Summer - Bargain Season — Getting Ready For Fall. Now comes the time to plan the work for fall trade. The summer season has been notable for the attention given to clearing sales. This is coming more and more to be a feature of summer trade and, of course, it must pay or it would not gain so much prominence. Taking it on the whole I am inclined to the belief that there are real reductions in the prices of goods, for the public is shrewd enough to demand the carry- ing out of the terms of the advertising. If this be true the ‘merchant is giving away a considerable proportion of his profit, which would not seem to be the best business policy. At the best it is advertising to gain the attention of bar- gain hunters. Each dealer must be his own judge as to the degree in which jhe shall encourage this element of trade. There is one feature of this kind of dealing which has not been enough con- sidered: the season clearing sales are educating a large class to wait for the reductions and so losing the custom in the regular trade. I apprehend that one trouble which tends to the increase of bargain sales is the difficulty found in preparing adver- tising to gain the attention. The ad- vertising preachers have exhorted the continuance of the publicity through the dull seasons, and the space and time must be filled. To patiently pound away with no appreciable immediate results is too much for the patience of the average dealer. Then again the competitors are gaining attention and trade by bargain methods. There is the choice between less sales at regular prices with many distressingly dull days or by incurring the evils of the bargain methods keep more prominent- ly before the people and show a sem- blance of business at least. My prejudice would be in favor of the steady pound- ing, recognizing the dull season as far as would be inevitable and keeping prices at the right basis. But now comes the time for regular business again. To anextent never be- fore known the consuming public in this country is provided with money. All have work at high wages; all products are sold at good prices. The merchant, then, is justified in making his prepa- rations for an abundant trade at good profits. Orders for fall goods are being placed with a liberality recognizing the conditions, and the work of the adver- tiser must be on a corresponding scale. Spaces should be generous and the prep- aration of the matter should have the most careful attention. The dealer should bring to the task the best of his ability and experience, either in the actual doing of the work or in obtain- ing the assistance of the best advertis- ing experts the circumstances will war- rant. The advertising portion of the mer- chant’s work during the next weeks is important, but it does not fol- low that he must employ the sensational or unusual. The adherence to ordinary methods with increased care to secure thoroughness and to make the most of every advertising possibility is what is necessary. Do not trust the work to in- competent pretension or to subordinates whose abilities and experience are less than your own. * * The selling of goods at wholesale from samples and then selling the sam- ples at retail has come to be a decided few] | Sample E=< Shoes At about 33: per cent | Discount. These are the greatest bargains ever offered in footwear. Suny shoes are made frdm select stock aml aresthe correct styles. Our Great Offer: *® %*% “* %& $1.00 Shoes for $ .70 $3.50 $1.50 Shoes for $1.10 $4.00 $2.00 Shoes for $1.40 $4.50 $2.50 Shoes for $1.75 $4.75 $3.00 Shoes for $2.10 $5.00 This lot of Sample Shoes which we have placed on saje include Men's. Ladies’, Boys, and Misses’ and Child's Shoes in all the latest styles. See these bargains immediately = YONKER | | Read ~~ *® & ‘Shoes. for $2.5 for $2.75! for for $3.50 for Shoes Shoes Shoes Shoes a ©: Cc: oe 45 Western nee ? Buggies We show the greatest line of Buggies ever brought to town. Wecan show you good Buggies at lower prices than firms that pay out immense sums of mon- ey for expensive salesmen. Fruit Ladders Now is the time to make your purchases in this line. We are headquarters for the best Ladders made. Fly Nets Ww. We are making a specialty of Fly Nets. Perhaps you think of buying one. Is so just drop in and see the biggest line in town. A. Anderson & Son. 3000606059040 6226000 3D C. Horton & Son, 3- ® Cash Grocers. We have been in business five weeks and in that time our trade has doubled. Why?’ Because we are doing a —— Cash business, and can sell for less p: than who do a credit business, No clerks or bookkeeper to pay you get the benefit of ‘their wages.. Try us and be convinced by our prices that we do as we" advertise. D.C. Horton & Son, 7S South Main St. : S66¢ b WE HAVE! THE FLOOR enn Now believe us when we tell you that we have one of the nicest and most up-to-date stocks of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE of anyone in the city. If you don’t believe us just try us and wecunvince you. We also have agoud prompt delivery “jn eonnection. We will call and take your order if you will only say so. We pay the highest market price for butter and eggs. Give usa call and see what we can do for you. Wedeliver goods to any part of the city. COLE BROTHERS KALKASKA, MICHIGAN. SMOKE UP SNOWFLAKE THE BEST FIVE-CENT CIGAR ON TRE MARKET, Good, Clean Smoke. MADE IN TRAVERSE CITY. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. CARL M. FIERCE, ©0096000000 Keeps Fresy Long A loaf perfectly light and yet molsture-retain wy like the real home-made, is Vap’s Brean The housewife accustomed fo @ e de her own baking will appreciate both the qualiticn and convenience “(@ e@ of using this perfect bread. ‘The e@ time sho has heretofore givento e bread baking may be devoted ty more congenial vecupation when e sho can buy as gat bread as she @ tm» bake, 6 prin “+8 is MS 6 000000000000 Where Did You Got That! Rat? ‘The most humans device for a horse. Seve their lives, makes-¢h: ible and enables them to york im het A few dimes invested in a HORSE HAT peor Leatred dellare im bere |Buy Ono {24% iT. TAYLOR'S: Marness and Trunk Store, 208 East Main St, > Becayed Teeth 3 r atewrsct Vortena goes ne new set. For plates ese DR. RICKERT Over Lang's Store. -—well, all —_ then; we can furnish ith anything ou want Ia this line at— ; ° — PRICES. always keep the: best th market affords in teats and : oe Comm and see usat the sid Loren J. Barrett. bargain factor in many localities. In this city the sample idea is coming to great prominence in connection with the furniture trade and great numbers of pieces which have never been on a sample floor, for every one that has, are sold as samples overa considerable part of the country. From this and similar conditions in other lines the word ‘‘sample’’ is coming to have a value which is being utilized for all it is worth. G. C. Yonker has a sample sale of shoes, in which the price feature is made effective. 1 should criticise it in that there is too great a number of prices. Fewer in_ the list and those in round numbers and for popular adver- tised prices would be more effective. Too many prices with no special distinc- tions only serve to confuse and fail to gain attention. The advertisement is well composed except that white space would be more valuable than the acorn, the border is poor and the type crowds the space. W. A. Anderson & Son have a well written advertisement of three special- ties in which they argue the saving of salesmen as a reason for cheapness. This may have a weight with some, but others will surmise that salesmen gen- erally make their way by increased sales or they would not be used. The advertisement is crisply written and the printer has given it consistent, suitable treatment. D. C. Horton & Son have another ar- gumentative advertisement which seems to me a little lame in logic. For in- stance, at the beginning of one’s busi- ness the volume of it is generally rep- resented by zero. If in five weeks they have only doubled that quantity their business is not yet very extensive. Then an army of hustling clerks is suggestive of cheap distribution. Arguments of this kind are not generally very strong factors in trade. The printer has done his work well and consistently except that all the type faces are too large for the space. A well written and beautifully printed advertisement for a grocery is that of Cole Brothers. My only criticism in the writing is that there is a little too much of the small type matter.. The printer’s work is exceptionally clear and sug- gests the kind of business the adver- tisers claim. An exceptionally good display. Carl M. Pierce writes a good cigar advertisement except that 1 fail to ap- preciate the ‘‘up’’ in the first line. Per- haps its unusualness serves to gain no- tice. The printer’s display is not bad for a hardware store; lighter treatment would be more suitable for a cigar. Van’s Bakery makesa good argument in favor of its bread production, which is handled well by the printer except that his border is too heavy. T. Taylor writes a very pleasant ad- vertisement suggested by the fad for hats for horses. The printer would have done better to keep to one style of type. Dr. Rickert furnishes an advertise- ment which is no doubt effective to those interested, but the subject is not a pleasant one and so does not conduce to general publicity. Loren J. Barrett has a well written meat advertisement which has had care- ful attention from the printer. —__~7 4. Willing to Oblige. ‘‘What nice things you said about that man in his obituary notice! Don’t suppose you'd say such nice things of me?’’ said the citizen. ‘*Oh, yes, 1 would; with pleasure,’’ ‘replied the polite newspaper man, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 FORTY YEARS AGO. Reminiscences of Early Days on Monroe Street. It it not given to many men to look back over a continuous residence of sixty years in Grand Rapids. There are a very few who have been here longer than that; but the ranks of the pioneers have dwindled until only a few of the ‘‘old guard’’ are left to tell the story of their early struggles and triumphs. Among those whose names have been indentified with the progress and prosperity of the city that of Ran- som C. Luce holds an honored place. As merchant, manufacturer and banker he has always taken an active and en- ergetic part and to his efforts are due, in no small degree, the rapid strides the city has made as a banking, manu- facturing and mercantile center. ‘‘The vast changes which have taken place in this city, when told,’’ said Mr. Luce, ‘‘sound more like some of Baron Munchausen’s tales than sober reality. Here is a picture of Monroe street from about in front of the old Catholic church to Campau Place. It does not look much like the Monroe street of to- day, does it? Well, the difference be- tween the Monroe street of the picture and Monroe street when | first made its acquaintance is about as striking. The changes are more marked in the busi- ness center of the city, of course, where the buildings were of all shapes and sizes. The stately structures of to-day, elegant and magnificent architecturally, as most of them are, present the strong- est kind of contrast to the buildings of early times. They were severely plain in outline and were finished and fur- nished in a style to suit the times. The Luce block was a tremendous departure from the style which had prevailed previous to its erection. It and Martin L. Sweet’s hotel building were the fin- est in the town when that picture was taken.’’ When Mr. Luce built his block he was laughed at by Canal street people, who asserted that it would be an ele- phant on his hands, because the city was growing north and Monroe street would never amount to anything. Now nearly all the wholesale houses are south of Pearl street. Mr. Luce sent to Buffalo for a brick machine to make the bricks for the front of his building. The ma- chine made but one brick at a time, but, as Mr. Luce remarked, ‘‘they were bricks.’’ The first tenants on the ground floor were James Lyman, dry goods, Hodenpy! & Terhune, variety store, and Wm. T. Powers, furniture. Among the tenants on the second floor was the late Dr. Bliss, who afterward became famous as the physician in charge of President Garfield from the time the President was shot until his death. The following story is told about Dr, Bliss: He and his brother joined the Federal army as surgeons at the break- ing out of hostilities in the beginning of the Civil War, and was with the Union troops at the battle of Bull Run. Their friends in this city awaited news con- cerning them with considerable anxiety after the disastrous result of the con- flict was known. All fears for their safety were allayed, however, when a telegram was received from Dr. Bliss, saying, ‘‘Zena and I are all right.’’ They had run with the rest of the Fed- erals. Few of those who knew Dr. Bliss in ‘‘the days before the war’’ ever dreamed of the eminence to which he ‘was later to attain in his profession. In Luce’s old hall, Booth tread the boards ‘‘in mimicry of life.’’ Bu- chanan, whose gout made hima terror to all about him, also played in the old hall, prior to 1860, besides a host of lesser lights. Many a ‘‘merry jibe and jest passed from lip to lip’’ on its stage and its walls frequently rung with the delighted laughter of thousands who now peacefully slumber in their quiet graves. The days of usefulness of Luce’s hall as a theater long since passed away and Powers’ and the Grand took its place; but many still living re- member it as the place where many a pleasant hour was passed, and passed, too, with just as keen a sense of enjoy- ment and appreciation as comes to the habitues of the more modern houses of amusement. At the time (1859) the above picture was taken, the ground floor of the Luce block was occupied by R. C. Luce, groceries; then came J. W. Winsor, dry goods, and next, Wm. T. Powers, fur- niture. The next building was occupied by L. D. Putnam with a stock of drugs and medicines. In the old Abel build- ing were Mrs. Pierson, milliner, and cluding the buildings which occupied the site of the present Gunn block. The burned buildings were immediately re- placed by more substantial structures, most of which have, however, since been replaced by business blocks which would be a credit to any city in the land. To one acquainted with ‘‘Grand Rapids as it is,’’ the accompanying il- lustration will show the marvelous prog- ress the city has made in the compara- tively short period of forty-two years, In those days small frame buildings— dwellings and stores—were sandwiched between the small brick stores which then adorned the street. Where the Commercial block stood -is now the Tower block. W. D. Foster's building has disappeared and the immense estab- lishment of Foster, Stevens & Co. has taken its place. The site of the old Rathbun House is occupied by the stately Widdicomb building, one of the finest mercantile structures in the State, Spring & Company’s store, the Boston Store, and other large establishments Lower Monroe Street as It Looked in 1859. John McConnell, hardware merchant. Wm. H. McConnell owned and occupied the next building and kept a general store. The landlord of the old Rathbun House, which occupied the corner of Monroe and _ Waterloo streets, was Charles Rathbun. Next to the Rathbun House was a small one-story frame building. This was occupied by W. S. Gunn as a bakery and ‘ two-shilling eating house.’’ The ground floor of the old Irving Hall was occupied by S. R. Sanford as a drug store. Next came the building owned and occupied by W. D. Foster as a hardware store. The firm, as can be seen by the picture, was Fos- ter & Metcalf. Facing Monroe street, on what is now Campau Place, and par- tially on the site now occupied by the Tower block, was the Commercial block. It was occupied by Carlos Burchard, clothing, and A. Roberts & Son, dry goods, grain dealers and lum- bermen. In 1857 a fire broke out ina livery stable in the rear of L. D Put- nam’s drug store. It destroyed every building on that side of Monroe street as far down as the McConnell block. Crossing the street, it burned from the corner of Ottawa street down to and in- have replaced the small pioneer stores of forty-two years ago. The unpaved, dirty ‘street of those early days has been replaced by a solid brick road- way, while the occasional oil lamp which dimly lighted up a very small por- tion of the street in its own immediate vicinity has been replaced by the bright, all-pervading glare of the electric light. A steady stream of humanity now flows along the street where then the meager population of the village trod; but walking is not fast enough for the ‘“swift’’ people of to-day, and so the lightning has been harnessed to rapid transit and we are whirled along at a speed which would have turned the heads of the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundations of the city on a sub- stantial and enduring basis. —__>-2.___ Willie’s Idea. ‘ Isn’t it awful how thin Mr. Hen- peck is now,’’ remarked Mrs. Gabbie to her husband, ‘‘and he used to be so stout.'’ ‘*Perhaps,’’ chimed in little Willie, remembering his trouble with his bi- cycle tires, “‘ perhaps his wife forgets to blow him up regular, like you said she uster.”’ How the Ice Cream Sandwich is Made. ‘*l had had,’’ said a man of an in- vestigating turn of mind, ‘‘some little curiosity concerning the ice cream sand- wiches which in the past year or two have become so popular an article of sale as 1 cent per in the city’s streets, and I stopped the other day at the cart of a vender and bought one. I had ob- served in a general way that this odd sandwich was composed of two thin cakes or crackers, with a thin layer of ice cream between. I now discovered that the crackers used are specially de- signed and made for the purpose; and how the sandwich is made up without breaking these thin crackers all to pieces was also revealed. ‘‘An essential part of the vender’s outfit is a cracker holder which is made of tin and which has attached to its under side a handle by which the ven- der holds it in use. The holder is sim- ply a little flat tin plate, the size of one of the two crackers that form the outside of an ice cream sandwich, Say two inches by one,and having a low flange around three sides of it. Flanged around on three sides thus it holds the cracker securely while the sandwich is being made; and, projecting as they do just above the cracker, these three flanged sides make it possible to spread over it a thin layer of cream of precisely the cracker’s size; while the absence of the flange on the fourth side permits the complete sandwich to be slid out read- ily there without the slightest danger of breaking it. ‘‘From a long row of them standing on edge on the top of the cart the ven- der took a cracker which he laid gently in that flanged holder. 1 found the crackers used in those sandwiches when I came to get mine to be a thin, deli- cate, freshly-baked, and _ altogether agreeable sweet cracker, having regu- larly placed lots of little indentations in it, like those in a waffle only smaller and many more of them. “‘Having placed this first cracker thus in the holder the vender did not, as I had previously supposed he did, cut off a thin slice of hard cream from an ice cream brick to form that part of the sandwich, but with a suitable scoop he scooped out of the freezer a portion of cream which, with a deftness that could have come from long practice only, ‘he spread over that cracker with an abso- lutely uniform thickness (perhaps thin- ness would express that part of it better or more accurately), doing all this with just two sweeps of the scoop. ‘And then he laid another cracker on top of the cream, which settles into the indentations in the crackers and is thus prevented from slipping away from be- tween them and slid the completed sandwich out of the holder and handed it over. ‘‘The cream was not as good in its way as the crackers were in theirs, but it might have heen worse, and what | thought of the ice cream sandwich as a whole may perhaps be gained from the fact that, having bought one for investigation’s sake I bought another for my own.’”’ —__~>_4~__ Cold Storage Eggs the Lever. Chicago, Aug. 8—Regarding the egg situation, the extreme hot weather made itself felt in the egg line, not in any particular section but over the entire producing points. Ten days ago it looked as if high prices would prevail, but the heavy rainfall revived the crops, making way for new hopes for the farmers and since that time cooler weather has been more general. The market has been crowded with heated stock and prices advanced materially, mostly owing to the heavy losses and not from scarcity of eggs. We do not look for high prices. The market will possibly rule around 15@16c, in our opinion, for some time at least. Cold Storage eggs will be the lever to hold down prices. Coyne Brothers. 8 A tramp abroad in the morning for your health is worth two at the back door looking for something to eat. +> (ance mi To meet a funeral procession isa sign that there has been death in the neigh- borhood. 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Midland—Eugene Randolph has sold his grocery stock to Wismer Bros. Dollarville—Krempel & Taylor suc- ceed Krempel & Stansbury in general trade. Oxford—James H. Lee has retired from the produce firm of the C. L. Randall Co. Mason—The Mason Cold Storage Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $14,000. Beal City—Anthony Hanses has pur- chased the general merchandise stock of J. J. Martin & Co. Port Huron—Doe & Cody are opening a new grocery store at the corner of Erie and Butler streets. Cheshire—Merle Stowe is preparing to build a wall under his store and to make other improvements. Detroit—James J. Kennary continues the hardware business of J. J: Kennary & Co. in his own name. Gaylord—The Gaylord Co-operative Association has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000. Alma—Fred H. Hammer has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the meat firm of Miileman & Hammer. Algonac—Folkerts & Linn, dealers in groceries and hardware, have dis- solved partnership. The business will be continued by Thos. Linn. St. Joseph—Morrow & Stone have sold their grocery stock to Charles and Samuel Miller, who will continue the business under the style of Miller & Son. Adrian—The drug stock owned by Dr. Treat & Co. has been sold to A. B. Thompson, who has been manager of he store since its establishment by Dr. Treat two years ago. Grand Ledge—Mrs. Weaver, of Sun- field, has purchased the bazaar stock of Mrs. J. Halsted and will add a stock of dry goods in the store from which A. O. moved his stock of drugs. Owosso—The grocery stock of Stephen B. Pitts has been sold to E. L. Bunt- ing and B. A. Fillinger, who will in the future conduct the business under the firm name of Bunting & Fillinger. Ann Arbor—Ex-Postmaster E. E. Beal, who has been in the retail shoe business since leaving Uncle Sam’s em- ploy, has sold out his stock to Hugo Parcheski, of Detroit, and will retire from business. _ Kalamazoo—The Swindell Brothers Cold Storage Co. has filed articles of association with the county clerk, with a capital stock of $20,000, one-quarter paid in. A wholesale and retail busi- ness will be done in produce, etc. Whittemore—Stoutenberg & Wismer will dissolve partnership Aug. 15. A. B. Wismer will succeed to the grocery and hardware business here and D. A. Stoutenberg will succeed to the general merchandise business at Prescott about Sept. Io. Traverse City—J. L. Keach, of In- dianapolis,has purchased the warehouse a few rods east of the G. R. & I. depot and is repairing and improving it. The building will be used as a cold storage for fruits and vegetables. Charles Jeffries will have charge of the business at this place. Owosso—The first annual convention of the Michigan Hay Shippers’ Associa- tion will be held in this city Thursday, August 15. Albert Todd, of Owosso, is President, and H. J. Hankins, of Elsie, Secretary. A number of promi- nent hay dealers from throughout the State are expected, and the meeting will be one of much interest and value to those attending. Lansing—Frank L. Young has pur- chased from Smith G. Young, of the Michigan Produce Co., the two ware- houses on Michigan avenue east. He will look after the buying from farmers and have charge of the retail business in Lansing. Smith G. Young will de- vote his time entirely to buying from shippers in Michigan. The shipping business will be conducted under the firm name of Smith Young & Co. Holland—A petition is being circu- lated among the merchants to have the early closing movement again estab- lished September 1, closing the stores at 6 o’clock every evening except Tues- days and Saturdays. It is desired to have ail the merchants join in the movement, including the groceries, clothing, shoe and dry goods stores. The merchants are taking more kindly to the movement than previously and it is expected that it will be adopted with- out any trouble. Detroit—Walter J. Gould, the veteran wholesale grocer, died at his residence in this city Sunday, and was buried Tuesday afternoon. He had for a long time suffered from Bright’s disease and early last spring was compelled to retire from active participation in business. He went to the sanitarium at Flint, where his health became greatly im- proved, so that he was able to come home in June, but the disease was not conquered and he gradually weakened. Last Wednesday he lost consciousness, and did not regain it until a few min- utes before his death. Mrs. Gould and R. S. Gehlert, his partner in business, were at his bedside when he passed peacefully away. . Saline—Two strangers claiming to represent the Dr. King’s Medicine Co., of Elkhart, Ind., passed through the outskirts of this village recently, taking in the farmers as they went, selling medicine at $1 per bottle with a written guarantee if not satisfactory to have money returned by Weinmann & Math- ews, one of the leading druggists of this place. Charles Graff, one of the unlucky farmers visited, thinking that he received no help from the medicine, called on the druggists for his money. They told him~ that they had never heard of such a medicine and could not give him his money back. Upon further investigation it was found that the strangers had sold nearly 100 bottles and had worked other places with the same scheme. Manufacturing Matters. Lansing—E. Bement’s Sons has in- creased its capital from $500,000 to $1, 250, 000. Three Rivers—F. A. Rohrer succeeds Rohrer Bros. in the cigar manufactur- ing business. Caro—J. D, Wilsey & Co. is the style of the new company which succéeds Julian D. Wilsey in the saw and _ grist mill business. " Bay City—The Hecla Cement Co. has closed the deal for its site on the river front in West Bay City. © The property comprises 175 acres. Detroit—Zackarias & Mason have merged their shirt waist factory into a corporation under the style of the Zack- arias & Mason Co. The capital stock is $100, 000. Sebewaing—The Sebewaing Sugar Co, offered to donate sufficient stone for two and a half miles of stone road if the township would open up a certain piece of road and lay the stone. The propo- sition was snapped up and the com- pany’s taxes for the next ten years will be devoted wholly to stone roads. Lowell—The firm of Avery & Jobn- son has been changed to Avery & Hug- gins, John Huggins having purchased the interest of Morris Johnson in the planing mill. Jackson—W. B. Burris has merged the Central City Cigar Co, into a corpo- ration under the same style, with a cap- ital stock of $5,000, Mr. Burris is | President and A. W. Stitt is Secretary and Treasurer. Fostoria—Glinn’s shingle mill, one mile west of this place, burned last Sat- urday, with 150,000 shingles owned by S. F. Farwell, of Genesee, who has for the past two years been cutting and shipping logs and shingles. No insur- ance. Battle Creek—The K orn Krisp Co. is the latest addition to the already large number of health food companies in this city. It was organized Aug. 12 with an authorized capital stock of $200,000, The food is different from any other manufactured here. Charles D. Fuller, of Kalamazoo, is Chairman of the com- pany, and F. A. Fuller, of the same city, Secretary; Joseph W. Bryce, of this city, Treasurer. The other direc- tors are D. L. Merrill and Francis A. Kulp, of this city. oe The Boys Behind the Counter. Ironwood—Axel Carlson has taken a position in the store of the C. E. Erick- son Hardware Co. Kalamazoo—Harry S. Spindler, who has been connected with the Edwards & Chamberlin Hardware Co. for the past three years, has resigned to take a sim- ilar position with Morley Bros., of Sag- inaw. Evart—H. W. Johnson, manager of the E. F. Birdsall Co., Ltd., who has been laid up with rheumatism fora number of weeks, has gone to Mt. Clemens for treatment. J. B. Shaugh- nessey,of Saginaw, is here in his place. Nashville—Ralph Shoup, of Climax, has taken a clerkship in the clothing store of G. W. Gribbin. Calumet—The members of the Clerks’ Social Club of this city are making great preparations for their third annual picnic at Section 16 park, Thursday, Aug. 22. Three years ago the Clerks’ Social Club was organized and for a time had the very best of standing. A\I- most every clerk in the city became a member and many an enjoyable time was spent. Calumet people will well remember the preparations that were made for the first annual picnic in. August of 1899. Every store in Calumet was closed and the clerks, numbering several hundred, paraded the streets early in the morning, after which they repaired to the grove and spent the day in merrymaking. Fora time after the picnic and also last year everything went along finely in the Club and then some of the members commenced drop- ping out. This led to others doing like- wise and for a time it looked as if the organization was on the verge of disin- tegraticn. However, such was not the case and to-day the Club is as strong, if not stronger, than it has been at any time since its organization. Some weeks ago a meeting was held and _ the annual picnic was discussed. It was decided that August 22 should be the date for the celebration this year and accordingly plans and preparations are now going on to thatend. Early in the morning the clerks will form a line of march at their hall in the Gately- Wiggins block and, headed by the fa- mous Calumet & Hecla band, will par- rade the principal streets of the city. After the parade, which will end near the Yellow Jacket railroad crossing, rigs will be in waiting and the picnickers will go to the park. Here the fun of the day will commence. The afternoon's program will consist of a bowling con- test, races and other sports open only to the clerks. The fat men’s race and the merchants’ race will be open to clerks and their employers. Liberal prizes will be offered and the races are certain to prove very interesting. Martha Lodge, O. D. H. S., will serve the meals. Dur- ing the afternoon a grand open air con- cert will be rendered by the band, which will also furnish music both afternoon and evening for those wishing to dance. This year George Lewis, prominently connected with the Club, will act as grand marshal of the day, and his aides will be Angus McDonald and Joseph Foster. William L. Hagen, of Laurium, has kindly consented to act as orator of the day. Mr. Hagen’s ability as a speaker is well known in Calumet and the entire copper country and his ad- dress is certain to be well delivered. The clerks will leave no stone unturned to make their third annual picnic a grand success and will have the help of the entire section in this undertaking. They have done a great deal of good since their Club was ‘first organized, donating several large sums of money to various good causes, and they cer- tainly deserve the help and attention of the public at large in return. It is ex- pected that a number of the Portage Lake and Lake Linden clerks will take in the picnic. ——_———_>2>—__ Ate His Bonnet. An English driver for a Market street business house persuaded his employer to buy a straw hat for the horse during the recent hot spell, and on Tuesday the horse appeared without the new head- gear. ‘‘What has become of the horse's bonnet, Harry?’’ asked one of the firm. ‘*Don’t you think it is hot enough this morning?’ “* "Ot enough. That it is, sir, but the bloomin’ ’oss hate the ‘at afore | could put it on ‘im this morning,’’ said ’Arry. ——> 02> ____ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. Cotton Rubber Lined Mill Hose Write for prices. ' Grand Rapids Supply Company 20 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich. PEACHES WANTED Carlots or Less. M. O. BAKER & Co., WRITE OR WIRE US FOR PRICES TOLEDO, OHIO - mostly old and shop worn. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip H. Toncray has opened a grocery store at Lilley. The Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. furnished the stock. G. M. Hartley & Co. have engaged in the grocery business at Dighton. The stock was furnished by the Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. The annual meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association will be held next Tuesday evening, at which time election of officers for the ensuing year will occur. The sixth annual picnic of the Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Associa- tion, which was held at Mona Lake last Thursday, was a complete success in every respect. The itinerary included a rail trip on the Pere Marquette from Grand Rapids to Ottawa Beach, where one of the steamers of that system was boarded and headed northward to Mus- kegon. The water trip was a very en- joyable feature and appeared to be ap- preciated by every one present. The boat touched the dock a little after noon, where a special train was in readi- ness to convey the excursionists to Mona Lake, under the auspices and guidance of the Reception Committee from the Muskegon Grocers and Butchers’ Asso- ciation, which held its third annual picnic at the same place and acted the part of host to the visiting butchers and their friends. After dinner had been finished a welcoming address was made from the speaker’s stand by Mayor Moore, of Muskegon, after which two excellent addresses were made by Mus- kegon gentlemen, both of which appear verbatim elsewhere in this week’s paper. Sports and contests of an exceed- ingly amusing and entertaining char- acter occupied the attention of the crowd from 2 o’clock until dark, no mishap occurring to mar the pleasure of those present. The Grand Rapids excursion- ists had the option of returning *by boat at 6:30 or by train at 8 o’clock and the crowd was about equally divided be- tween the two methods of transporta- tion. All spoke in the highest terms of praise regarding the manner in which they were received and entertained by their Muskegon brethren. Hon. Peter Doran enjoys the reputa- tion of having landed the first bankrupt in durance vile—in this State, at least. The person thus incarcerated is Henry Jaffe, who engaged in general trade at Alba during the summer of 1889, at which time he purchased a stock of merchandise valued at about $4,000 from a man named Walsky at Bay City. Jaffe was adjudicated a bankrupt July 18, 1900, at which time he claimed to have a_ stock on hand worth $4,000, Geo. H. Reeder was appointed trustee and had an inventory taken, disclosing goods aggregating $2,541.60 in value. Sales were made to the amount of $189.83, when the remainder of the stock was sold at $1,353.44, which was the highest price which could be ob- tained for the goods, because they were Jaffe kept no cash book or other books of account, but on investigating the matter the trus- tee found that Jaffe purchased goods to the amount of $4,812.91 from Jan. 1, 1890, to the date of his failure, during which time he paid only $720.96 to his merchandise creditors. Acting on this discovery the trustee filed a petition Nov. 12, 1900, asking that Jaffe be com- pelled to disgorge. The matter came up before Referee Blair, who made an exhaustive investigation of-the subject, concluding that Jaffe failed to account for property to the amount of $4, 325.21 and ordering that he restore to the trus- tee goods or cash to the amount of $3,000, The order appears to have been ignored by Jaffe, and last week Judge Wanty took the matter under advise- ment and issued a peremptory order, directing Jaffe to hand over $1, 500 forth- with or be committed to the Kent county jail for contempt of court. Jaffe appears to have given no more attention to Judge Wanty’s mandate than he did the referee’s order, in consequence of which he is now playing checkers with his nose in the Kent county jail, where he is likely to remain as a guest of Uncle Sam until such time ashe is willing to disgorge a portion of the property which he is wrongfully with- holding from his creditors. ———_> > __ The Produce Market. Appies—-Duchess are in best demand, commanding about $1 per bu. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Jumbos, $2.25. Bananas are doing well, the principal demand being for local and nearby distribution, with some re- quest from outside parties for shipping qualities. Country dealers are not anx- ious buyers, but some are sent to the country every day. The shortage of berries and other small fruits helps bananas largely. Receipts are heavy, but demand is sufficient to clear them out. Beans—Handpicked have advanced to $2.75 per bu., which is the highest point reached in this country since the civil war, when the price went to $3. Few beans remain in the hands of the growers, although local dealers occasion- ally pick up 100 bushel lots which have been held by the grower for a favorable market. All indications point to a large crop of good quality, although reports from New York growers complain that the weevil, which ordinarily infests growing wheat only, has transferred its activity to the growing bean vines, with serious results. The same complaint reaches the Tradesman from Belding, in this State. In the vicinity of Howell the fear is expressed that the vines and leaves are so heavy that the beans can not ripen readily. Beets—45c per bu. | Blackberries—$1.75 per 16 qts. Butter—Extra creamery is strong at 21c. Dairy grades are without particu- lar change, ranging in price from 12c for packing stock to 14c for choice and 16c for fancy. The market is holding steady. There is a firm feeling and limited offers of fancy creamery stock. Cabbage—Advanced to $2.25@2.40 per 3 bu. bbl. The early crop is as scarce as potatoes. From everywhere come orders to dealers for cabbage. The quality is not good and complaints are constant. The late crop promises to be good in most sections. A good ship- ping demand from the South and South- west still exists for our home grown vegetables. The section around Grand Rapids was fortunate in securing rains enough to keep vegetables grow and this season has heen a harvest urand Rapids vegetable dealers. Carrots—soc per bu. Celery—16c per doz. Cheese—Dealings in cheese on the Chicago Board were larger last week than ever known. For two days the offerings amounted to over 24,000 pack- ages each day, while the usual quantity traded in amounts to about 5,000 pack- ages. Prices are regarded as high, but the market remains steady. Reports from factory sales in Wisconsin say about everything offered is taken. Twins are bringing 93(@1oc and other goods in proportion. Corn—8@toc per doz. Cucumbers—2oc per doz. for hothouse ; 50c per bu. for garden stock; 15c per 100 for pickling. Eggs—Local dealers pay about 12c for receipts and hold candled stock at 13¢. The market is becoming more interest- ing to the dealers as the situation be- comes more uncertain. There is a good, healthy market for fresh, choice goods. Frogs’ Legs—Large bulls, 45@soc; medium bulls, 25c; large frogs, 15@ 20c ; small frogs, 5@toc. 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 for choice and $5.50 for fancy. Rhodis, $6.50. Lettuce—Garden, 50c per bu. ; head, 6oc per bu. Maple Syrup—$i per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Gems command 85c per basket. Cantaloupes fetch $1.35@ 1.50 per crate. Osage, $1.60 per crate. Onions—Advanced to 85@goc per bu. Oranges—Late Valencias from Cali- fornia are held at $5 for o6s and 112s. The smaller sizes command $5.50@5.75. Parsley—3oc per doz. Peaches—Early Rivers are nearing the end and move off freely on the basis of 60c. Hale’s Early are now in their prime, commanding about 75c. Yellow Triumphs are beginning to come in freely and find an active demand at $1 @1.25. Pears—$1 per bu. for small sugar va- riety and $1.50 per bu. for Clapp’s Fa- vorites, Peppers—$1 per bu. Plums——Abundance, $1.25; Bur- banks, $1.40. The crop is not going to be as large as was anticipated earlier in the season, Poultry—The market is in better shape than a week ago and some varie- ties are stronger in price. Live hens command 7@8c; spring chickens, 8@ 1oc; turkey hens, 8@gc; gobblers, 9c; spring ducks, 1o@tic. Pigeons are in moderate demand at 6oc per doz. and squabs are taken readily at $1.20@1.50. Radishes—12c for China Rose; toc for Chartiers. String Beans—¢1 per bu. Summer Squash—75c per 24 bu. box. Tomatoes—$1.50@1.75 per bu. Watermelons—18@2s5c for Indiana Sweethearts and Missouris. —_>_2___ Grand Rapids Re-insured in the National. The National Fire Insurance Com- pany, of Hartford, Connecticut, has purchased the business of the Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Company, Mich- igan’s popular company. This gives the policy holders of the Grand Rapids Insurance Company a capital of $1,000, - ooo and assets of $4,851,789. No change whatever; all business transacted as heretofore ; all losses paid and adjusted from this office; ne stranger to deal with. This company will act the same as the home company. All policies guaranteed by the Na- tional. Our agency remains the lead- ing and largest agency in the city. W. Fred McBain. It seems incredible that the sales of stamped paper by the Postoffice De- partment should have increased close to 50 per cent, in seven years, but the sta- tistics of the Department show this to be a fact. Population has not increased more than I5 per cent. in that time. The average expenditure of every man, woman’ and child in the United States for postage stamps was not quite $1.04 in 1894, and it was nearly $1.35 in the fiscal year just closed. This does not include the receipts from periodicals and alleged periodicals, sent from the offices of publication. Postage is so cheap that it is hard to believe that seven years ago people were economiz- ing in letter writing, but it is easy to believe that with the revival of business there has been a great increase in com- mercial correspondence. James A. Morrison, of the Shields- Morley Grocery Co., at Colorado Springs, is spending a couple of weeks with old friends and acquaintances here. The Grain Market. « There was only one side to the wheat market. Cash wheat was up 4c per bushel and September futures, 3%4c. The reason for it was the large export shipments, being nearly 9,0c0,000 bushels, which was the largest weekly shipment we ever have had. The larg- est previous weekly shipment was in November, 1898, when there was one week the shipments were 7,000,000 bushels. Monday’s shipment was 1,600, - 000 bushels, which makes the shipments this season, on this year’s crop, over 35,000,000 bushels. The question arises, How long will these enormous ship- ments last? And still the bear clique says there is no export demand. The Government crop report for August I was issued Saturday and was also what may be called a bullish re- port. It showed spring wheat 15 points less than on July 1, and it was 80 per cent. against 95 per cent. the previous month. Corn showed up only 54 per cent., against 81 per cent. July 1. This large declinc in the spring wheat condition caused wheat to advance 2c. Of course, there may be some reaction, as it is natuarl after such an advance. It is not many weeks since September sold down to 64c, while to-day it sold at 74¥%c. Should our exports keep up, wheat will look cheap at present prices later on. Our visible decreased 2, 150, - ooo bushels, which leaves 20,000,000 bushels less in sight than the corres- ponding time one year ago. Corn was 6oc for September deliv- ery, while the crop is only about 60 per cent., possibly less, or about what was mentioned in last week’s article—1, 300, - 000, 000 bushels—will be all that will be gathered, against 2,100,000,000 bushels last year. Prices are high, but may go a little higher. We think it dangerous to go short on it and would prefer to be on the long side. The amount in sight is very small, indeed, taking the con- dition of the crop into consideration. Oats are also higher. September oats have sold as high as 38c. The cause for high prices is the same as on corn— a very short crop. The oatmeal mills are also making large contracts at pres- ent prices. Rye moved up about 3c, as the large demand for export is from this section. Our rye will mostly be exported, as it is hardly good enough to go into the dis- tillers’ hands, on account of its uneven- ness. The distilleries want only the very choicest of rye and, on account of their not being able to get what they want, they have advanced the price of whisky already. Beans, not to be outdone, have climbed up to $2 per bushel for hand- picked and $1.95 is asked for October, which seems to us extremely high, and the short sellers we think will make money. Flour is steady, with an advance of fully 25@30c per bbl., on account of the upward tendency in wheat. Mill feed is as strong as ever. The demand exceeds the production, $17 for bran and $18 for middlings being the going prices at present. The trend of all cereals seems up- ward. The bear element are taking a back seat, being very much demoralized, at least at present, while they have been in clover along time. It is the bull’s time now to doa little crowing. Re- ceipts have been: wheat, So cars; oats, 5 cars; malt, I car; corn, 16cars; flour, 13 cars; hay, 3 cars; straw, I car. Millers are paying 70c for No. 2 red wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Window Dressing Right Way and Wrong Way of Trimming Windows. In all the work of the world there is a right way and a wrong way of setting about one’s work. Some men will work twice as hard as others and devote twice as much time to doing the task that they have in hand, but with only one- half the success of their fellows who work deliberately, quietly, and yet with astonishing rapidity. In window trim- ming these characteristics of different men stand out wtih such striking prom- inence that some men are altogether im- possible as trimmers in stores where work has to be done with a minimum of friction and time. They are faith- ful, reliable and conscientious, but un- systematic and slow. A trimmer must work with method if he is to get the best results, and a few hints on method may be of service to people who have not a system of their own. It is not al- ways necessary to make a diagram of a trim on paper, although in making up a window such a diagram is always helpful. But it is necessary for the trim- mer to have a perfectly clear and definite idea in his mind of what he intends to accomplish. First of all, he should know what article or line of ar- ticles he proposes to make the star fea- ture of his display. He should know just what portion of the window is to be devoted to the various units of these articles. He should decide what par- ticular units of display are the central ones for each portion of the window, and thus having arranged for the central figures in the display and grouped the minor figures in proper relation to the central figure, all that he has to do is to fill in the rest of the window in such a way that the central figure and the rela- tions of the minor figures to it stand out with perfect clearness. The window man can learn a lesson from the meth- ods of the advertising man. In writing an advertisement, the advertising man decides, first of all, what he is going to make the subject of his advertisement. He then classifies his material accord- ing to the different lines. He next puts each line in shape, so that it receives just the amount of attention that its rel- ative importance deserves. After he has put each section of his advertise- ment into shape he chooses the most Striking position in the advertisement for the star line. After having put this in the central position, all that is neces- Sary is to put the remaining portions of the advertisement in positions of greater or less prominence, according to their importance. Some window men have no definite idea of what is the most con- spicuous position in their window, with relation to the different backgrounds that they employ. Other trimmers have no definite idea of how to display differ- ent articles in units of display of more or less prominence. When a subordi- nate line is displayed with the greatest taste and the star line is shown in awk- ward or commonplace units, a bad win- dow is the result. + += ££ One of the best arguments for plain and simple trimming, the display of a few simple articles in a window simply decorated, is that it keeps the merchant from unduly filling his windows with articles that he ought to hold in reserve. As one looks over the windows of the smaller stores he is impressed with the fact that in the majority of cases a bad and inartistic effect is so frequently to be seen, not because the materials were lacking, but because they were used in quantity, with the hope that quantity would atone for lack of quality in their arrangement. * x Some merchants have found that they could attract much attention to their windows by using smal] sheets of paper with prices and short phrases type-writ- ten upon them instead of the regular written window card. They have found that people will stop to read a type- written sheet or slip of paper when they would pass by an ordinary window card, because the typewritten sheet has a per- sonal quality that the price card lacks. As a change from the stereotyped meth- od of using window cards the scheme is worthy of trial. Sometimes a tele- graph blank or letter head is used and the matter given either in a dispatch or letter form.—Apparel Gazette. os Poor Way of Competing With the Cutter. Lots of people think they know how to fight the cutter. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the argument which runs something like this: ‘‘The cutter sells nothing but trash, so that the way to compete with him is not on price, but on quality. Point out to your trade that your goods are better —very much better—and that you don't sell such goods as the cutter sells at = | Si This argument is all right and it will work, but only with some cutters. There are two sorts of cut rate grocers and I know what I’m talking about. There is the sort that sells good goods and there is the sort that sells bad. There isn’t any real reason why the man who runs a chain of stores should sell trash. He buys in such quantities that he can afford to sell the very best and sell it below the usual prices, too; but all cutters don’t do that, nevertheless. Still, some do. Don’t you see how foolish the argu- ment I spoke of is when you get up against a cutter who sells good goods? And don’t you forget it, there are some who do. Suppose you try to meet a cut- ter like that with the plea that your goods are so much better than his that you have to get more money for them— where will you be when the consumer tries the two, side by side, and finds yours, if anything, poorer? Will you have done yourself any good? Will you have met the cutter? Not much! Listen to something I know about the quality of goods one big cutter sells. Before I begin, let-nobody imagine that I’m puffing any cutter or pleading the cutter’s cause. If 1 wanted to puff cut- ters I'd mention names. | am merely doing what | can to correct the wrong impression that all cutters sell poor goods and that the way to compete with them is therefore on quality. Not long ago a certain big buyer wanted some information abvut the quality of tea his competitors were selling. As he is a_ thorough fellow, he went. out in the open market and bought from retail stores probably twenty-five samples of different priced teas—30 cent, 50 cent, 80 cent, $1 tea, and so on. These samples. were collected from all sorts of stores. Some were bought of the biggest tancy grocery store in the city—a store that has a reputation for handling only the best and deserves it. Some were bought at one of the big cut rate stores, some of little cut rate stores, and some of ordinary single stores. These samples were subjected to ex- pert tests by a number of tea people who knew nothing about where they came from or what they cost. The re- sult was that the big fancy store and the big cutter were found to be giving the best value for the money. It is an interesting and significant fact that one of these samples came from the store of a grocer who had one of the big cutter’s stores to compete with. Tests proved it to be among the poorest, but it was afterward demon- strated that his jobber, and not he, was to blame. Another instance is interesting. The same buyer wished to lay down some standards for himself on California canned fruit. To dothis he worked the same scheme he had with tea—he sent out and bought a number of cans, These cans came from about the same _ vari- ety of stores that the tea had come from —some from the same big fancy grocery store, some from the same big chain- store man, others from ordinary single stores. These cans of fruit were examined just as carefully as the tea. The result was the rather surprising disclosure that the big cutter was selling the very best canned fruit in the lot—better even than the big fancy store that has peaches packed under its own label and makesa big time about them. There are some people who will doubt this, but I assure you that these things are absolutely true. The standards which the buyer adopted were the qualities which the cutter sold. Now, doesn’t it begin to develop how foolish it would be to work the quality racket in trying to compete with a cut- ter who sells even better goods than one of the finest grocery stores in the city? No, brethren, I am not booming the cutter, Rather than that, I am trying to save some grocer the humiliation of making an argument that he can’t jus- tify.—Stroller in Grocery World. 2 2>__ Wishes Every Merchant Was a Subscriber. The Sherwood Register reproduces the opinion of the Tradesman on the display advertisement sent in for crit- icism by A. W. Morris, of that place, adding thereto the following comment: We copy the above from the Michigan Tradesman, which, among many other good things, devotes considerable space to criticising ‘‘other people’s’’ adver- tisements, and we unhesitatingly say that we believe it is all right. It will not only help the merchant in writing his advertisements, but is practically the ‘‘first lesson’’ in advertising, and we wish every merchant in our village was a subscriber to the Tradesman and would make a study of this subject. The advertisement referred to above appeared in the Register week before last and was re-produced in the Trades- man, with the above criticism. It was not ‘‘set’’ or ‘‘composed’’ as a prize advertisement, but it happened to meet the eye of the Tradesman’s critic with the above approval. As Mr. Morris changes his advertisements weekly there have no doubt, been others which would meet the Tradesman’s idea much better. ——>_ > —__ Tobacco Dealers Frown Schemes. At the last meeting of the Retail Cigar and Tobacco Dealers’ Associa- tion of Greater New York it was voted to send all tobacco manufacturers a copy of the resolution adopted advising all retailers against displaying notices that announce that pipes or smoking articles will be given away by manufacturers of tobacco with their goods, and resolving that members of the Association wili not redeem or forward coupons, tags or wrappers for that purpose, or otherwise assist in the promotion of such schemes, This resolution was embodied ina circu- lar stating that while the Association did not wish to antagonize the manu- facturers, it was deemed advisable to call their attention in this manner to the injustice of the premium. {on Premium Are you not in need of New Shelf Boxes We make them. KALAMAZOO PAPER BOX CO. Kalamazoo, Michigan A Suggestion When you attend the Pan-American Ex- position this fall it will be a verv good idea for you to see the exhibit of Thomas Motor Cycles and Tricycles and Quads in Transportation Building. 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 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 aa eA) Pa EAVE TROUGHING Established 1868. Coal Tar, Tarred Felt, Asphalt Paints, Roofing Pitch, 2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing, Sky Lights, Galvanized Iron Cornice, Sheet [Metal Workers Contracting Roofers BEST. ber eae State Agents Ruberoid Roofing, Building, Sheathing and Insulating Papers and Paints. H. M, REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 Village Improvement The Tree in the City. Amid the fret and fever of the street, Calm, peaceful, and serene this giant stands; Amid the strite, the worry of the town, His mighty heart remains in deep repose; Among the seething multitudes of men, Their restlessness can not di-turb his rest. I watch tne emerald ocean of his leaves, And every heaving billow of joy— The joy of living, joy of strength and health, Of peace of mind, of duty well performed. For he has kept the law with God and man, Done well his part. nor sought to shun his lot; So, hearty, hale, and wholesome, he uprears In green old age a tower of hardihood. Like some old man whose youth was free from blame, Whose temperate manhood brought him no re- proach, He reaps the rich rewards of goodly years, Erect and strong in gray magnificence. I touch him, and I tread old scenes again, A barefoot boy upon my father’s farm: I hear the warble of a wheat-field quail, I gather sprays of dewy wilding flowers, I breathe soft odors of the apple blooms, And hear the cow bells tinkling in the lane, A schoolboy in the old schoolhouse again, I hear the children droning at their books, I see my little sweetheart’s soft brown eyes. O patriarch of the multitudinous leaves, Content and calm, amid this rush and roar, Still uncontaminated in this strife, Free from repining for the fields and woods— Teach me the grandeur of thy deep repose, Teach me the glory of thy goodly soul, That I may walk with conscience undisturbed Amid the struggles in the marts of men! Walter Malone, ——_>- 2 __ Oxygen and Moisture Given Out By Trees. Utilitarians consider the trunk the important part of the tree. The trunk is a wise makeshift of nature which towers aloft, and tries to lift the vital organs of the tree—the leaves—out of harm's way and into purer air and brighter sunshine. Beneath the ground the strong roots and rootlets have hun- dreds of eager, thirsty mouths which take nourishment from the earth. Water and mineral matter are carried upward| by the process of capillary attraction to the leaves in the crown and the branches for digestion and assimilation. A leafless tree stands little chance of liv- ing. Trees denuded of their leaves by caterpillars and other mischievous things are deprived of their stomachs and lungs at once. Every leaf on a tree is unceasingly industrious day and night. Examine the linden leaf, or, in fact, any leaf will do—the truth applies to all—and notice how its surface is spread to catch the sunshine. The under side of the leaf has a different appearance. The tissue is tenderer and a_ network of breathing pores. A section placed un- der the objective of the microscope re- veals tiny cells filled with a greenish liquid called chlorophy!, which pays an important part in the domestic economy of the tree. When undigested food from the ground has been carried to the leaves the chlorophy! seizes it, and _ un- der the influence of sunlight changes it to nourishment. The chlorophy! also breaks up the carbon’ dioxide with which it comes into contact, and, lib- erating the oxygen, sends it out into the atmosphere. Digested food materials are carried from the leaves to all parts of the tree and aid in its growth. Leaves as the lungs are necessary in the process of breathing. Like animals, the tree needs oxygen and breathes much after the manner of a human being. Not only is the life giving air taken into the lungs, or leaves, but it is inhaled through tiny openings in the bark, just as men and animals transpire through the skin. These tiny breathing holes are called lenticels, and may be seen plainly on the bark of cherry and many other kinds of trees. As the tree drinks water, it sweats and exhales water va- por along with the oxygen cast off from the carbon dioxide, Tons and tons of moisture are evap- orated from wooded areas. This is an- other beneficial act. Water vapor in the atmosphere is essential to agriculture. Trees transpire through cracks and _fis- sures in the bark, where the lentices are hidden from sight. This is espe- cially true in old trees. From time to time scientists have computed the leaf area of trees and the results have been astonishing. An ordinary linden leaf has a surface of ten square inches. Multi- ply this by the number of leaves on a branch and calculate the leafage area of the tree. This entire surface is liber- ating oxygen and water vapor day and night. In the arid sections of the West the people are beginning to see that forestry and irrigation are the factors which will count for their prosperity. About one million square miles, or more than one- third of the United States, is forest land, The destruction of forests has been so extravagant that the Govern- ment has taken the matter in hand and decided on thirty-eight reservations where the forests will be under intelli- gent supervision. There has been some misunderstanding in regard to these re- serves, although the intention is to pre- serve the forest and encourage the growth of young trees at the same time the land available for settlement will be increased. As_ forests conserve the rainfall and influence the humidity of the atmosphere, newly planted forests will wedge in between farms on the reservations and farms penetrate the clearings in old forests. Sheep herders and settlers must be taught inteiligent forestry and tree wisdom spread broad- cast over the land before the tree re- ceives the reverential respect due to it. —__>2.>__ Scarcity of Fruit and Produce in the East. From the New York Tribune. The battle between the tarmer and his arch enemy, drouth, has been this year sufficienetly prolonged and desperate to attract the attention of even the city dweller whose thoughts on the subject of the distribution of produce generally go back no further than the corner gro- cery. It is the fact that he is suffering now that turns his mind to the conflict which has gone on for weeks all over the country. The price of potatoes has risen by leaps and bounds. Lettuce has no longer a heart. Tomatoes are full of knots. Cucumbers are a snare anda delusion. String beans won’t string, despite the efforts of the cook. The bills rise as the quality falls off, and something isevidently wrong somewhere. How wrong a glance at prices for this year and the corresponding week last year will show. Of all the farmer’s army it was the potato battalion which suffered most in the fight. Report would have it en- tirely routed, but things are not so bad as that. However, potatoes last week brought $4 and $5 a barrel, while at a corresponding time a year ago the same could be bought for not more than $1.75, an increase of about 100 per cent. Cu- cumbers, and poor ones at that, were worth $1.50 and $2, while a_ similar uantity last year cost only 75 cents. The price of corn has risen nearly 100 per cent. ; tomatoes more than that. For cantaloupes one pays at wholesale just about twice as much as last year. Ber- ties, almost alone of all that the market offers, are about the same in price and quality. New Jersey has been a heavy sufferer from the drouth, and that, of course, se- riously affects the comfort of New Yorkers. Jersey fruit of almost every kind has been injured, and everything, practically, yields only a ‘‘short crop.’’ The same is true of Long Island. The outlook for the future is, how- ever, less disheartening than might be supposed. All over the country potatoes are small, and the crops not equal to the average, but New Yenk State and New England have still a good many to offer, and the West will send a fair sup- ply. The reports of the potato famine have been undoubtedly exaggerated. The Fruit Trade Journal, after investi- gating the situation, declares that things are not so bad as they are painted, and that this winter will not see the tower- ing prices which have been predicted. Several prominent merchants maintain that the shortage is only temporary. If the potatoes were larger the crop would be satisfactory. At any rate those nerv- ous persons who have been expecting to see potatoes served in a separate course as the luxury of the dinner table may calm their fears. The humble murphy takes on a new importance, but is not going to be too exclusive. As to the other vegetables, of less consequence to the welfare of the State, there is no great hope. This year the luscious cu- cumber is shorn of its glory on every side; those who can not live without plump and juicy tomatoes must seek diligently for them, while string beans are a memory. Reports have been circulated to the effect that the Maryland and Delaware peach crops are failures. This is more than half truth; to be exact, this year will see about 4,000 carloads of peaches taken from those two States, while 12,000 came last year. There are plenty of peaches in Georgia, however, and Michigan has 80 per cent. of the usual crop. The fruit is good in spite of the drouth. Apples are few and far between this year, but there will be enough for this country. Every state has some ap- ples, and a_ few report as many as last year, but others count gloomily on only a quarter of what were picked last sea- son. The enormous apple industry affects many people and the crop is al- ways watched with anxiety. In 1896-’97, for instance, a great apple year, a little under 3,000,000 barrels of apples were exported from this country, putting in circulation something over $6,000,000. It is not to be wondered at that so much space should be given to the considera- tion of the apple crop. Amid these tales of shortage and high prices comes the cheering news that there will be grapes enough to go around without stinting anybody. After all, the New Yorker will not fare so badly. The best of everything will come to him, and in spite of the disastrous results of the recent fight a fair proportion of every part of the farmer’s army has been left to tell the tale. —_—_—_»0.___ Apples Thirty-Two Per Cent. of an Aver- age Crop. Grand Rapids, Aug. 7—It has been our custom for five or six years to gather Statistics for our own information only regarding the apple crop of the State of Michigan. Our correspondents are all evaporator operators, who naturally are interested in the condition of the crop in their own locality, as upon it de- pends their business. These reports are, therefore, more accurate and reli- able than reports from individual farm- ers or storekeepers. Thinking it might interest you, we give you a synopsis of our report: It embraces replies from seventy dif- ferent concerns located in sixty-four different towns in twenty-nine counties, which takes in the apple district of the State. Of these, twenty-four report 10 to 20 per cent., twenty-seven 25 to 35 per cent. and nineteen 50 per cent. of an average crop, 50 per cent. being the highest estimate made. One very sig- nificant fact is noticed, in that of the seventy reporting, thirty-four say that they will not run this season, while eleven are undecided. Reports from other apple growing states and our own personal observation of orchards in Ohio and New York State would indicate that the above is about the run of the crop in the country. We make no predictions, but give you the benefit of our figures and you can draw your own conclusions. Hastings & Remington. + .__ The railroad engineer may not be a society leader, but wealth and fashion frequently follow in his train. 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Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertise- ment in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Eprror. WEDNESDAY, - - AUGUST 14, 1901. County of Kent John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. I printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of August 7, I901, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this tenth day of August, Igor. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. STATE OF MICHIGAN { oe THE QUEST FOR THE POLES. After several years of apathy, the craze for discoveries in the polar seas has broken out afresh. No less than three expeditions are about to start, or have already started, for the North, one being American, one Russian and a third Italian. All three of these expe- ditions are uncommonly well fitted out and, if equipment and money can achieve success, they are better fitted to prove successful than the many previous attempts which have failed. One of the expeditions, the Russian, proposes to simply crush its way through the ice packs to the north pole. The great ice-breaking vessel used by the Russian government to keep open a channel at Kronstadt is to be used for the expedition. This mammoth ship has already demonstrated her ability to crush through an immense ice field, and the promoters of the polar adventure feel confident that she will be able to crush her way through the Northern ice packs and reach the pole. One of the other expeditions pro- poses to push its way by ship as far northward as possible, and then to make the rest of the journey over the ice. The third expedition proposes to penetrate as far northward as_ possible, and then drift with the ice, hoping that the direction of the currents may bring the expedition in the neighborhood of the pole. While the interest in attempts to reach the north pole absorbs popular attention, the Antarctic seas are not to be neglected, as no less than four sepa- rate expeditions will sail southward. It is not expected that any of these expe- ditions will reach the south pole, but it is hoped that they will add materially to the geographical and scientific knowl- edge of the, so far, unknown regions within the Antarctic circle. The most important of these expeditions is the British expedition, to be sent out under tndetecontaftnonreiteteenentninipaneesce aie tihentaantnsecetssinpnicnk sles ies arena the auspices of the British Geographical Society. A fine vessel has been built expressly for the expedition, and no money has been spared in fitting out the ship in a most thorough manner. While it may be doubted if the results achieved by these venturesome attempts to reach the earth’s extremities justify the great risks which are run, the mak- ing of such attempts can not be pre- vented, love of adventure and a restless seeking after new discoveries serving to bring forward a new set of explorers more rapidly than the older set disap- pears. As long as the poles remain un- attained, we may expect to find people ready and anxious to make the attempt to reach the goal, no matter what the danger. It would, therefore, be useless for the great governments to attempt to prevent these expeditions; hence the policy of actually encouraging them has been adopted, as such encouragement, by making every possible provision and adopting every safeguard, actually minimizes the danger as well as insures better scientific results. The people who are trying to kill the mosquitoes with kerosene oil are in _re- ceipt of a lot of gratuitous advice, a part of which is to the effect that the remedy is worse than the disease. All that of course is a matter of opinion. Some people would prefer the smell of petroleum to the bite of a mosquito, in fact, the majority presumably would hold to that view of it. Another sug- gestion is that mosquito killing birds be encouraged and that therein lies the clearest avenue to the extermination of this insect pest. There are not very many birds fond of mosquito diet. The ornithologists say that the whippoorwill and the purple martin are the two which could be best depended upon for such a service. If the little sparrows which infest this region could only be edu- cated to prey upon such insects as prey upon humanity it would be a great scheme. It would be quite a difficult undertaking to multiply the whippoor- wills and purple martins in sufficient number and then keep them equally distributed. Perhaps the kerosene oil test will prove more satisfactory than was anticipated, but until something effectual is found there will be no lack of amateur suggestions. eee The drouths which several sections of the country have suffered of late have naturally given rise to enquiries as to the cause. It is said that in many sec- tions there is less rain than formerly, and in such cases one of the reasons in- variably assigned is the destruction of the forests. An abundant and permanent water supply is one of the most im- portant things to any community, be it urban, suburban, or rural. The forests are the great conservators of moisture. The subject is receiving more attention nowadays than ever before,and although it savors somewhat of locking the barn after the horse has been Stolen, it is never too late to mend. Legislators are heeding the appeals of scientists and steps are being taken along the line of practical forestry. There is little dan- ger that this subject will have too much attention. a ese The strike microbe now has the trust by the pocketbook and the striker by the stomach. Which will be the first to capitulate? ania eat | Mrs. Allien’s bank account looks like $250,000, and her reputation like 30 cents. HOW RICH MEN BECOME RICH. The last issue of the Saturday Even- ing Post contains a contribution from the pen of James J. Hill, President of the Great Northern Railway, on the subject of ‘‘Young Men and Specula- tion.’’ Mr. Hill was one of the leading char- acters in the vast speculative movement in railroad stocks last spring, a move- ment which came dangerously near wrecking extensive financial interests, and did cause serious losses to many operators. After declaring that the only road to wealth is by hard work, he thus discourses on speculation as follows: There is always an element of chance, but it is never the predominating ele- ment. Chance simply presents the op- portunity, and opportunity is merely a vehicle for human endeavor. The man, young or old, who thinks otherwise, who believes that it is luck alone that makes riches, and ill luck that keeps men poor, starts out with a false notion. It is inevitable that he should come to grief in the scheme of life. The craze for speculation that sweeps over the community now and then grows largely out of the conviction that success is luck. Such a craze is more injurious to the prospects of the young men who are carried away by it than war or pestil- ence. It means not alone the loss of money, but the ruination of character. It leaves its victims standing on a false platform, where they are consumed with a desire to get something for nothing, and lose all appetite for hard work. It unfits them for sincere effort, and al- most without exception produces a de- moralization that blights their entire existence. Whether the young man who makes his first speculative venture wins or loses, the result is equally bad. If there is any difference at all, it is in favor of the man who comes out a loser in his first venture. With him at least there is a chance that he will wake up to the hopelessness of speculation as a means of acquiring wealth, and that the lesson taught will result in leaving him a useful working member of society, in- stead of a drone who thinks that he may get along by dipping into the honey-pots of others. Doubtless Mr. Hill has done some hard work in his day, but he did not acquire his millions in that way. The man who, from the first day of his em- ployment for wages, should hoard like a miser every cent of his earnings, save what was required to sustain life, could not in a century accumulate any great sum of money, and, as for hard and faithful work, it will do little more than support and bring up in decency an av- erage family. Mr. Hill has no very high opinion of the college man in business, although, as he says: So far as my experience goes, the young men whom they turn out for us are better workers and more successful than the young men who have not had the benefit of a college course. A col- lege education certainly has a broaden- ing and refining effect, unless it goes to the other extreme and makes a prig of a man. But the results achieved by college graduates in competition with non-graduates are not sufficiently pro- nounced, so far as we have gone, to set it down as a hard and fast proposition that a higher education is required by a man in a business career, and that with it he gives better results to his employer, The question must be left open far some years to come, until we have had an op- portunity to observe more closely and scientifically. To-day equally good authorities may be found on either side of the proposition. Of course, the only success that is esteemed by such a man as the one quoted is, that which accumulates wealth, a career which is given to but few. In the old times, when an estate of a few bundred thousand dollars was considered a fortune, the goal of success was attainable by hard and faith{y! work, and in gaining and maintaining the confidence of others in business. But when a man must command tens and hundreds of millions to be consid. ered rich, it is certain that no work, however faithful and unremitting, and no honesty in business, however con- spicuous, can accomplish any such re- sults. Other means must be found, and often enough those means are of ques- tionable honesty, if not actually crimi- nal. a a The world has not seen, and is no: likely to see until the millennium, the last of the universal language crank. Every now and then he bobs up like a Jack-in-th’-box, shoots off his elaborate- ly formulated ideas, and, mayhap, se- cures a few adherents who are ‘‘tarred with the same stick.’’ The world smiles at his revolutionary ideas, won- ders that he should have been allowed to stray so far from the maternal apron strings, and then quietly relegates both him and his ideas to the limbo of in- nocuous desuetude. Few, except the crank himself, lose any gray matter in pondering over the new idea, and the world, at least, is no better nor worse off than it was before. The volapuk crank got a brief hearing ; the esperanto died aborning, but still there are others, The newest of the new idea or project in this line bails from Paris, and prom- enades under the name of “*Soiresol,’’ and is, if anything, built upon a much more crazy foundation than either vola- puk or esperanto. Under this new scheme ideas are to conveyed by words built up from the seven names of the notes in the musical gamut, which are said to be the same in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Per- sian and Chinese. The plan is very pretty and very elaborate. One word for one idea—that is the scheme. Here are a few of the words so constructed: **Domifado’’ is a man, ‘‘Remifasi’’ is a house, ‘‘ Redorefa’’is a shirt, ‘‘ Fado- remi’’ is the country. The idea was started as long ago as 1817, but is only now being pushed to the front in Paris. The concert of the nations is not far off! ee The San Francisco Argonaut is dis- turbed about the Belgian hares, which are very prolific. It is authority for the Statement that the descendants of one pair of healthy hares would in five years number 2,809,322. It points out how in Australia these hares became a pest and millions of money were expended in ex- terminating them. During three suc- cessive years there $730,000, $1,250,000 and $2,500,000 were paid as bonus to persons who killed them, and that the catch thus paid for represented 35, 000, - 000 scalps, and still the hares abound in Australia. The Argonaut warns Califor- nians against the possible hardships in that State which have cost so much money and done so much damage on the other side of the globe. Death for incurables is being advo- cated by some medical men, who think such a course will tend to strengthen the human race. They admit that it is a startling proposition and may be slow of realization, but they are confident the time will come when it will be done by law. The necessity will need to be much more apparent than it now is be- fore a law of that kind goes on the statute books. Prejudice in the mind shuts out proof, however convincing. ~~ ¢ 4 ~ L 4 — ~Ee : } MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 FOOD ADULTERATIONS. Good Effect of the Enforcement of Whole- sale Laws. * From 1871 to 1901 laws have been passed at nearly every session of our Legislature, regulating the manufac- ture and sale of articles of food, but not until 1895 were they anything but dead letters. An act passed in 1893 provided for a Dairy and Food Com- missioner with authority to enforce the laws ; but as only $1,000 was appropri- ated for carrying on the work, the Commissioner could practically do nothing except draw his salary. In 1895, the general food law, known as the ‘‘ Redfern Act,’’ was passed with an annual appropriation of $10,000, Un- der this act, as amended by the Legis- lature in 1897, giving an increase of $8,000 annually, the department has been working. Of all the states in the Union sixteen have general food laws, Illinois being the last to enact such a Statute, which came into effect in 1899. Nearly all the countries of Europe have for years been living under very strin- gent food laws. Under the law prevent- ing adulterations, the English are living longer and better than we. Dr. Foster stated before the English Medical So- ciety lately that a man’s natural life- time is 100 years, and that all could live that long if they met with no ac- cident and lived properly. From Dr. Farr’s observation of the march through life of 1,000,000 children, he found that the English were living longer than formerly, as there had been a gain of two and one-half years in the average life of the people. He claims that the largest amount of sickness is due to in- sufficient and impure food and that the first essential to life is pure food. There is great need for intelligent public conception of the extent to which the adulterations of food is carried on and for a rational public demand that the evil be corrected, so far as possible, by national and state legislation, properly constructed and vigorously enforced. When told how many of the foods upon which they depend for daily nourish- ment are adulterated, counterfeited and cheapened, nine persons out of ten are dumbfounded ; and it is because of this ignorance on the part of the public in general that food manufacturers have been enabled to go to criminal and al- most unlimited lengths in their fraudu- lent and often harmful practices. If consumers would once realize how they are robbed in purse and damaged in health by unscrupulous manufacturers and dealers, a powerful correcting force would at once be set in motion. With- out this force—the force of public sen- timent—no law can be made effective and no political, social or industrial evil corrected I do not wish to be understood in what I may say as criticising our State Legislature, for at their session in 1897 they did more for the Dairy and Food Department than couid reasonably be expected from what little knowledge they had of the two previous years’ work. The work was effective for just that particular time, but the people knew little of it. Few complaints were made, therefore but little newspaper ad- vertising. Generally speaking, 1 be- lieve the legislators mean well, but not over one in fifty of them has more than a vague idea of the construction of the food laws of this State, nor can he have unless he devotes special study to them. For this reason, some special acts have * s by John R. Bennett at annual picnic of cee grocers and butchers at Mona Lake. been killed which would have strength- ened the powers of the Dairy and Food Department. This was true of both our 1897 and Igo1 Legislatures, and to-day the consumer is getting the worst of it. I especially refer to the killing of the act regulating the manufacture and sale of baking powder and the amendment bill restricting the use of preservatives in canned and other articles of food. I know of no article of all the food prod- ucts sold upon our market that is so much of a fraud and deception as_ bak- ing powders. Had the baking powder bill been passed, thousands of dollars would have been saved to the consumer, not saying anything regarding the in- jurious effects I.believe the people have received through the use of many of these powders, The total value of the food supply consumed in the United States, ac- cording to the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, is, at a low esti- mate, $4,500,000,000, of which 2 per cent. is adulterated, amounting to $90, - 000,000, of which go per cent. is of a character non-prejudicial to health. Except for sake of argument, this state- ment, and the result shows that there is $9,000,000 worth of poisonous food prod- ucts put annually on the country and $81,000,000 of fraudulent products. This immense sum of money is simply stolen from the people each year by men who coin fortunes by cheating consum- ers. Information acquired by our De- partment during the last few years leads me to the conclusion that the estimate made by the Government was too low for Michigan. It was not long ago I was informed by one of the leading whole- sale grocers of this State that before the food laws came into effect 90 per cent. of all the goods he sold were adulter- ated. On the basis that the food sup- ply consumed in the United States is $4, 500,000,000, Michigan’s proportion, according to her population, would be about one-thirtieth, or $150,000,000. The very lowest estimate possible I would dare place upon this as being adulterated prior to the enactment of our food law in 1895 would be 15 per cent., or $22,500,000, although the Gov- ernment’s estimate is only $3,000, 000, As an illustration of what the cost has been to the consumer in just one sim- ple article of food found adulterated upon the market of this State, let me state that in 1895 there were 19,937,422 pounds of whole pepper imported into this country. Michigan’s consumption, according to its population, would be one-thirtieth, or about 665,000 pounds. When ground and put upon the market, the average price is about 30 cents a pound or a total cost to the consumer of about $200,000; but not more than three- fourths is ground for sale, which would reduce the cost to about $150,000, as whole pepper is not adulterated. At the time our State food law came into effect (Sept. 1, 1895), samples of pepper were taken quite generally without knowledge as to their purity and, under analysis, go per cent. proved to be adulterated. The adulterated samples contained from Io to go per cent. of substances other than pepper, showing them on the aver- age to contain about 50 per cent. of adulterants. Thus one-half of the total amount, less than Io per cent., found pure, would leave about $70,000 of good hard money that was paid out each year by the consumer for something supposed to be pepper, when it was mostly buckwheat hulls, wheat, rice, corn, ground olive stones, and such like, touched up with a little cayenne pepper to give it snap. To-day 3 per cent. would cover all the adulterated pepper being sold upon the market in this State. Adulterations are of two kinds—in- jurious and non-injurious to health—and exist to an extent that threatens every species of food supply. Whiie those adulterations are mainly commercial frauds practiced by unscrupulous man- ufacturers, manipulators and dealers for the purpose of deceiving their customers and adding to their gains, yet there are also to an alarming extent poisonous adulterations that have in many cases not only impaired the health of the con- sumer, but frequently caused death. Under our statutes, adulterations may be classified into three distinct groups: 1, Those that are considered by all concerned simply in the light of frauds. 2. Where an article consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten ani- mal or vegetable substance or articie, whether manufactured or not, or, in case of milk, if it is the product of a dis- eased animal, Those that compose this group cannot under the present laws and appropriation be successfully regu- lated by our Department and must be left for the present to local legislation. 3. Where ingredients which are poisonous or injurious to health have been added. This group has been sub- ject to many discussions ‘‘as to the effect upon the public health.’’ The relation of this class of adulterations to the health of the consumer cannot al- ways be shown in a very clear light. In fact, the opinions of scientific men and other distinguished persons differ wide- ly on this question. This class of adulterations may in- juriously affect the public health in two ways: First, when the actual condition of a food unfit for consumption, on ac- count of change or decomposition, is obscured; and second, when the sub- stances added for this purpose are in themselves injurious to health. Iam of the firm belief that any article of food containing any substance, that is ques- tionable as to its being deleterious to health, should be required to be labeled in a manner so conspicuous that the consumer could not be deceived or urged into the purchase of a doubtful or injurious article without knowledge. The bill that was killed in the Public Health Committee of the House at the last session of the Legislature, which I have heretofore referred to, contained such a requirement. If the people only knew the quantity of questionable, in- jurious chemicals they are compelled to take into their systems every day of their life for the want of sucha law, and over which our Department now has no control, they would rise up en masse and demand that the Legislature take immediate action to stop this growing evil; and until such action has been taken, manufacturers will contiune to use such chemicais, and the consum- ers to shorten their lives. During the work of this Department hundreds of pounds—yes, I can say thousands of pounds—of adulterants have been found in articles of food that were being sold in this State, a few of which I shall here make special mention, and which have been gradually improving, until at the present time, with few exceptions, it is more difficult to find the adulter- ated than it was to find the pure. An- alysis of samples taken by inspectors have shown as high as 70 per cent. starch in mustard; pepper that con- tained nothing of that article except the hulls, the balance being made up of rice, corn, wheat, cocoanut shells, ground olive stones and cayenne pepper; cream tartar made principally of corn starch, acid phosphate of lime, alum and plaster Paris, Six years ago it was almost impossible to find a pure article of cream of tartar on the market. Gin- ger was found adulterated with an equal amount of plaster Paris. The greater amount of ground or broken coffee upon the market was composed of from 15 to 50 per cent. adulterants ; in fact, it was quite difficult to find a sample of any ar- ticle that was not colored to improve its looks or something added to it, or taken from it, to cheapen, not excepting lard, butter or milk. The selling of a distilled vinegar costing the manufac- turer not more than two or three cents a gallon, was colored, falsely branded and sold all over the country for pure cider vinegar and at a price utterly paralyzing the sale of genuine cider vinegar. The same state of affairs exists with ole- omargarine, which is one of the most vexed questions with which the court of public opinion has to deal at the pres- ent time. Each kind of butter has its friends and its enemies and they are by no means confined to the producers of and dealers in the respective commodi- ties. It is sufficient to say that the same arguments used to defend artificially colored vinegar are advanced in sup- port of artificially colored oleomarga- rine. Even when the dealer displays the cards ‘‘Oleomargarine used or sold here’’ and labels the packages, the fraud is but partially checked, for the greater part finds its way to hotel, res- taurant and boarding house tables, where its color enables tke proprietors to im- pose upon their guests, who generally believe they are getting butter and would not eat oleomargarine knowingly. The natural color of oleomargarine is white or very nearly so. It would not in its natural color be mistaken for but- ter, but when colored yellow it is very deceiving. I have always been taught that white is an emblem of purity, but the manufacturers of oleomargarine do not seem to think it the proper color for their product. Manufacturers and deal- ers in such painted wares know better than anyone else that the principal part of their trade is owing to the fact that the majority of those who consume such articles are not aware of what they are using. Statistics show that during the year 1900, 87,800,000 pounds of oleo- margarine were marketed and sold in the United States, not one pound of which was manufactured in this State. This product costs the manufacturer 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN about 7 cents a pound to make, includ- ing the 2 cents Government tax (when paid). Michigan consumes about 3,000, - ooo pounds annually and pays from 16 to 20 cents per pound for it, the price always being a cent or two below but- ter. I would ask, Who is benefited? Not the farmer—not the grocer or the butcher—not the rich man or the poor man—but alone the foreign manufac- turer. Compel the sale of oleomargarine for what it is, in its natural color, and it will take it out of competition with butter and soon bring the price within reach, where the poor man who can not really afford to buy butter will be able to purchase a wholesome substitute for half the price he is now paying. The rich man will not have thrust upon him a counterfeit product or the poor man defrauded and robbed of his hard-earned money, which in either case should call for certain and effective punishment. In 1897 the anti-color oleomargarine law was first enacted in this State and, through the vigorous enforcement of that law by the Dairy and Food Department, the sale of oleomargarine was largely decreased and the price of butter slight- ly increased. There are about 52,000,000 pounds of butter made annually in Michigan. If the price of butter was raised only 2 cents, we had a gain of $1,040,000 to the benefit of the home producer. At the time the anti-color law came into effect—September, 1897— there were more than 350 oleomargarine dealers in Michigan, but in the follow- ing year there were less than forty. This anti-color law was declared invalid by the Supreme Court in December, 1808, on the grounds of a technicality in its passage by the Legislature. This same law has again been passed by our Leg- islature and will go into effect about September 1 of this year, and a vigor- ous enforcement of the same may be looked for. Glucose is probably the leading adul- terant upon the market. It is largely used in syrups, molasses, jellies and cheap confections and has only about one-third the sweetness of cane sugar. It is wholesome and nutritious, but ow- ing to its cheapness and its close rela- tion to cane sugar, the sophisticator is enabled to cheat and defraud the con- sumer. From its cheapness, immense quantities are used in the manufacture of ‘‘Imitation Fruit Jelly,’’ which was formerly known and sold for pure fruit jelly. This jelly was made by mixing together glucose and water, with a very little apple juice colored with red ana- line. Hundreds of tons of this stuff were sold at less than 4 cents a pound for pure apple jelly, raspberry jelly, grape jelly; in fact, any kind of jelly a person desired. Since the law of this State has compelled the labeling of it for what it really is and prohibited its being artificially colored, the demand is now virtually nothing. As one evidence of what the Depart- ment has done under the present law, I will state that in May, 1899, I made a thorough inspection of fifty-one stores in the city of Muskegon and found adul- terated goods in forty-one, there being only ten free from that class of goods. The articles found consisted mostly of mustard, flavoring extracts, spices, jel- lies, cream of tartar, vinegars and syrups. The sum total amounted to over $500. In December of the same year I again made an inspection of the same stores and found adulterated goods in only eighteen out of the fifty-one, a gain of twenty-three stores or 45 per cent. over the May inspection, the sum total amounting to less than $75. In March of the present year I again made an inspection of the same stores and found only three out of the fifty-one that had adulterated goods, amonting to less than $5, a condition of which the gro- cers of Muskegon may well be proud. In fact, all throughout my Western dis- trict, | have found the stores in the last year exceedingly free from adulterated goods. In several of the smaller towns I have been unable to find a single arti- cle wrong in any store. I also find the merchants these days pleasant, always ready to extend the glad hand of wel- come to an inspector, making his work much more agreeable than in 1895 to 1897, when the law was new and every dealer thought his business was going to be seriously injured every time an inspector made his appearance. Now they hold up both hands and say, ‘‘Let the good work go on.’’ So far no retail grocer has been prosecuted for a viola- tion of the law, except where he sold goods that had been condemned upon his shelves. In my opinion there are some who ought to be—not from will- fulness, but more from a careless disre- gard of the law. Monthly bulletins are issued from our Department to nearly all the grocerymen in the State, giving information regarding goods not salable and by whom manufactured or sold. A little time spent in comparing these published condemned goods with their stock and then removing the same, if any, would be of great assistance to the Food Department in clearing the mar- ket of unsalable goods. Merchants should not depend wholly upon an in- spector doing all the work for them, for the time is not far distant when the re- tailer will have to assume more of the responsibility than he has in the past. In conclusion, allow me to say that from a personal knowledge of the work of the Dairy and Food Department since its inception, I am confident that there has been at least 90 per cent. im- provement in nearly all food products subject to adulteration being sold or offered for sale in this State. If that is true, the consumers of Michigan are being saved nearly $3,000,000 a year, based upon the United States Govern- ment’s estimate of only 2 per cent. adulteration; but I am of the firm be- lief, as I have before stated, that it is tco low an estimate for Michigan and ought not to be less than 15 per cent., and if 15 percent. is nearer the mark, the consumers are being saved over $20, - 000,000 a year, and this at a cost to the State of less than $20,000. There is no question that the people of this State have not realized the dan- ger they have been in or are even now standing or they would give greater sup- port and demand greater protection; and for the people to demand is for them to secure. ——_>22>____ Clerical Sore Throat Explained. Deacon Scrimp——Humph! Think you’ve got to have a vacation, eh? Struggling Pastor—Yes, the doctor says I must go off until this cough is cured, Deacon Scrimp—Well, I’d like to know why preachers are always getting bad coughs. Struggling Pastor—Well, you see, we have to visit it around a good deal, and we are always asked to hold a little service before leaving, and I think our throats become affected from breathing the dust that flies from the family bibles. —————_—___-s—.o___ When a mean visits your orchard and meets the watch-dog, it is a sign that his errand will be fruitless. ym MJ “ 4b S S S SO OO OOO Os oe -S MICA AXLE GREASE has pecome known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle 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- nomical as well. Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white and blue tin packages, ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING OILS PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS STANDARD OIL CO. Z iS Z SS SS ZB (2 (ZB 2 Z FS SSSSSSSSSE . . . . . . , . . , , I Owe ws a, ar. ‘rt. a, ar. a © ws. a, a, a. SSO New Summer Sweet Goods Beechwood, 10 cents Richmond, 10 cents Spiced Sugar Tops, 8 cents All have the crowning flavor found only in goods made by Sears. Commence at Once Order a box or can of each. Now is the time to take ad- vantage of summer requirements. Your customers are look- ing for ‘‘Szars Reapy To Serve Goops’’ to avoid the incon- venience, worry and heat of home baking. Frequent Changes in the varieties of cakes you handle MAKE YOUR TRADE IN- CREASE. We are presenting something new continually. Samples for. asking. SEARS BAKERY, Grand Rapids, Mich. (Remember «Rube Sears”) WNW a Own ae. as ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. Mercantile Associations Constitute Its Greatest Antidote.* A characteristic story is told of a cer- tain American lady who was traveling in one of the countries of Europe and was present at a certain Catholic gath- ering where one of the cardinals of the church of Rome was presiding. The cardinal spoke and, in a voice that sounded throughout the vast cathedral, said: ‘‘All here kneel before me but monarchs.’’ She locked down the long aisles and seats and saw all kneel be- fore the prelate save herself. She alone remained standing. The cardinal, see- ing her standing, again repeated the sentence, ‘‘All here kneel before me but monarchs.’’ Still she knelt not. He then walked down the long aisle to the back of the cathedral where she stood and said: ‘‘Madam, did you not hear what I said, that all here kneel before me but monarchs, and why did you not kneel?’’ ‘‘ Because,’’ she said, drawing herself up proudly, ‘‘I, too, am a mon- arch.’’ ‘‘What,’’ he replied, ‘‘Are you not an American lady?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ said she, ‘‘but we are all monarchs in Amer- ica.’’ The United States stands without a rival, We have not grown through conquest like the European nations, but by the paths of peace. No other nation is blessed with such great natural ad- vantages; no other country except Rus- sia borders upon two great oceans and no country has so many harbors and such a sea coast. I believe that this nation was reared for a lofty purpose, but I am afraid the tendency of the age is to think too little of country and too much of the Almighy Dollar. A man would be more than human if he could fitly express in words the senti- ments which crowd upon one upon such an occasion as this. The poet says, ‘‘There are billows far out in the ocean that will never break on the beach, there are waves of human emotion that can find no expression in speech.’’ Haw- thorne, Mrs. Stowe, Aldrich and other great masters of portrayal of subtile thought and feeling which elude us_be- fore they reach our lips or are stranded upon the bar of our personality on ac- . count of the shallowness of our vocabu- lary, would feel themselves oppressed to-day for words to express what I feel, and at the threshold of this very pleas- ing occasion I can but remember that speech is silver and silence is golden. The written history of eloquence dis- closes the fact that silver speech, like the beautiful in painting, scupture and architecture, is but an attempt on man’s part to express a lofty ideal, while the unwritten history of the human heart teaches us that its deepest emotion, whether of joy or of sorrow, can not be expressed in words. One may _ chat gaily with his friends while journeying through fields of lovely flowers and var- iegated foliage, but when he ascends the mountain height and witnesses the glory of the rising or the setting sun in the presence of this,the grandest of nature’s scenery, he can but stand in golden si- lence with uncovered head. I am thinking what a beautiful spot and what beautiful surroundings these are for a gathering like this, the oc- casion and the picnic being made _pos- sible through the efforts and foresight of that splendid organization of men known as the Grocers and Butchers’ As- sociation of Muskegon. I say splendid *Address by Hon. Jerome E. Turner at annual picnic of Muskegon Grocers and Butchers’ Association at Mona Lake. organization, because there is no other word that I can use that will better de- scribe it. This organization and others of like nature are doing more to-day, in my opinion, than anything else to has- ten the time when all business men will believe that ‘‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,’’ and thereby enable them and their families to lead happier and better lives. See what the grocers and butchers of Muskegon have done. They inaugurated the early closing movement in Muske- gon, now participated in by nearly all lines of business, thus giving the busi- ness man more time to devote to his family and friends and their pleasure and comfort. My friends, any move- ment that tends to teach mankind that there is something else in this world be- sides the mere rush and scramble after the Almighty Dollar in this age of busy activity, can not be but a good balance wheel upon the tendency of the age in which we live. It teaches mankind that it is not necessary to be rich or great or in high position to be happy in this world. Not long ago I was reading of the grave of the old Napoleon, a great tomb of gilt and gold fit almost for a dead diety—and as I looked upon the sar- cophagus of black Egyptian marble, I thougth of the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world. I saw him in my mind’s eye at Toulon. I saw him at Ulm and Austerlitz; I saw him in Egypt in the shadow of the pyramids and I saw him in Russia where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter’s withered leaves, and I saw him at Liepsic in defeat and disaster, driven by a million bayonets back upon Paris, clutched like a wild beast and banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius and I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where chance and fate combined to wreck the fortunes of their former king, and I saw him last at St. Helena, with his hands crossed behind him gazing out upon that sad but solemn sea, and I thought of the widows and the orphans he had made, of the tears that had been shed for his glory and of the only woman who bad ever loved him pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition and I said to myself, as far as I am con- cerned, I would rather have been a French peasant and in times of peace worn wooden shoes; 1 would rather have lived in a hut with a vine grow- ing over the door and the grapes purple in the kisses of the autumn sun; I would rather have been that French peasant with my loving wife by my side knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me;I1 would rather have been that French peasant and gone down to the silence of the grave un- known than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great. No, my friends, it is not necessary to be rich or great to be happy. The happy man is the contented man; the contented man is the happy man. It is surely, then, such organizations as the Grocers and Butchers’ Associa- tion that help to make the world happy. No person can be said to live a full life or a life that is at all satisfactory unless he or she contributes something to the value of life for others. Hence the man who lives only for himself, regardless of the welfare of his fellow men, ought to be regarded as a moral nuisance, contaminating the air of heaven and a useless member of the community in which he resides. Such a man usually has a smal! mind and a smaller soul, The question of this age is not, Who were your ancestors, but who are you? As the poet says: ‘‘We live in deeds, not in years; in thoughts, not in breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial.’’ We should count time by heart- throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels deepest, acts the best. A young man once asked the presi- dent of a college in Michigan if he could not take a shorter course. ‘‘ Yes,’’ said the president, ‘‘but that depends on what you intend to make of your- self."’ When God wants to make an oak, He takes a hundred years, but when He only wants to make a squash, He only takes a few weeks. Yankee in- genuity is untiring and _ progressive. However, we hazard our reputation as a phophet that no inventive genius will ever patent a machine bearing the in- scription: ‘‘Drop a_ nickel in the slot and take out an education.”’ My friends, look around you here in this star-begirt vestibule of creation and contemplate the beauties of nature. This beautiful park, so beautifully studded with the sturdy oak, the droop- ing beech and the whispering pine and many others—these grand old denizens of the forest, arrayed in nature’s love- liest garments, greet you and invite you to-day, my friends, to a good time be- neath their protecting boughs. Go back with me to the days of the Argonauts and look for the golden fleece; go back with Vascoda Gama and look for the Eldorado; go back with Ponce de Leon and look for the fountain of youth; go back to the Light of Asia and see that great white arch spanning the sky, with mist for its masonry and vapory pillars. Go back, if you please, to the days of your childhood and see the bag of gold that hangs upon the shimmering iris of the rainbow. All these things, my friends, are but the stuff that dreams are made of—intan- gible, incomprehensible, impossible— but the condition of things in this world that, in my opinion, will be brought about by such organizations as the Gro- cers and Butchers’ Association, I think is no dream, but we can prophesy, with a good deal of assurance, that they will come to pass. As a recent writer has said, ‘‘I see our country filled with happy homes, with firesides of content, the foremost of all the earth.’’ I see a world where thrones have crumbled and where kings are dust. The aristocracy of idleness has perished from the earth. I seea world without a slave, man at last is free. Nature’s forces have by science been enslaved. Lightning and light, wind and wave, frost and flame and all the secret subtle powers of earth and air are the tireless toilers of the human race. I see a world adorned with every form of art, with music's myriad voices thrilled, while lips are rich with words of love and truth; a world in which no exile sighs, no prisoner mourns; a world in which the gibbit’s shadow does not fall; a world where labor reaps its full reward, where work and worth go hand in hand; where the poor girl trying to win bread with the needle— the needle that has been called the asp for the breast of the poor—is not driven to the desperate choice of crime or death, of suicide or shame; I see a world without the beggar’s outstretched palm, the miser’s heartless, stony stare, the wail of want, tbe livid lips of lies, the cruel eyes of scorn; I see a race without disease of flesh or brain, shape- ly and fair, the married harmony of form and function; and, as I look, life lengthens, joy deepens, love canopies the earth and over all in the great dome shines the eternal star of human hope. ———>-2>___ The Girls of Holland. From the Humanitarian. In Holland, the mass of every class go to public schools and all mix to- gether. Education begins at 6 years of age in the public schools, and at 12a girl is examined and passes on for a five years’ course in the higher burgher schools, of which Holland possesses seventy-two. The coeducation of the sexes 1s an admitted principle. In the primary schools boys and girls are brought up together, they learn side by side, and are on familiar terms from early childhood without the smallest ill resulting. A great point is made of languages, and no Dutch girl of the upper or middle classes is considered educated who can not speak English, French and German more or less flu- ently. Probably owing to the system of ed- ucation in force, the women folk are inclined to grow up somewhat independ- ent; we are told that the prejudice against women working for a livelihood has almost disappeared, and even rich women sometimes choose a profession. They include doctcrs, dentists, many of them first-rate, photographers, and gardeners. About 1,000 girls hold posts as assistant chemists, some 3,000 as nurses, trained in the White Club Homes, and on a par with the very best of their profession, A woman is curator of the Natural History Museum in Haarlem, and another holds the same post at Utrecht, while a third is head dispenser at a hospital in Amsterdam, The railway, post and telegraph offices are largely served by female clerks, who altogether outnumber the male. Girls in Holland have a great deal of liberty. They pay calls, shop and go to parties at the houses of friends with- out a chaperon, walk and travel alone, cycle, and have tennis and wheeling clubs in company with young men. They enjoy their fun and freedom, and are in no hurry to find: husbands. Mar- riages are not arranged, and the par- ents’ consent is only asked after a proposal is made and accepted. 20. ___ A woman in Kalamazoo has resolved . to indulge in no more ‘‘baby”’ talk. She dislocated her jaw in saying ‘‘goo, goo,’’ to her infant prodigy. When a physician had adjusted her jaw the woman turned to the baby and said: **When I talk to you again I will speak United States. No more baby talk for me.’’ It is probably too much to hope that other mothers will profit by her ex- perience. Any man can write for a newspaper— but to insure getting it he should en- close the subscription price. 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers Healpfal Hints in Starting and Conduct- ing a Store. We have noticed that one great trouble with the average young man who has worked asa clerk for some one else for a number of years, and who starts in for himself, is that he knows too many nice fellows, who represent ‘‘So- and-so, who make a dandy line of goods ; used to sell stacks of ‘em in the old place. Must have some of ’em in my stock.’ So he buys a small lot here, another smal! lot there, until he is dangerously near the limit of his capital. The goods arrive, he hasa week or two of selling from them and every one of his lines has a size or two missing. Result, his capital is tied up, he has a store full of goods, not a com- plete line in the lot. We believe that just this foolish clinging to an old love, losing sight of changed conditions, has been the rock on which many a prom- ising small shoe business has been wrecked and sent to the bottom. It stands to reason that the fellow whose money is limited must buy light and buy often. He can’t afford to buy ahead for four to six months. Neither can he, for the same reason, afford to wait a month or six weeks for a manu- facturer to put through a size-up order. He wants his goods from the man who can supply them on short notice and give him promptly the sizes he needs. So we would advise the man of small means to buy largely of the jobber or the manufacturer who carries a stock on the floor. Now, we believe this is the right and safe course for several reasons. First, the jobber is willing and expects to book small orders. You need not feel under obligations to make your order count even cases. You order in only what you feel you actually need for one week or two weeks’ business, secure in the knowledge that at the end of that time you can duplicate the goods in any needed sizes. Again, you can get from two or three good jobbers the vari- ety of styles and leathers that would probably compel you to open a dozen accounts were you buying direct from the maker. Then, again, throwing all your trade to a few houses makes your trade valuable, whereas, scattered among too many it is not worth anything to any of them. Here is another con- sideration: You can't afford to keep the variety of widths that the big fel- lows do, But you'll find if you can promise a customer that you will have the needed size in a couple of days he will wait for it nine times in ten. Your jobber will be giad to supply you the needed size. But above all other consid- erations is the fact that you can, by buvig in this way, keep your stock fresh and well sized-up. Of course, it is nice to have your goods made up expressly for you, with your name on the lining, your own style carton, and soon. But this paper is not dealing in sentimentalities. It is just simply a question of making money. We like the idea of the dealer’s name in a shoe, But that isa matter easily accomplished, even if you do buy from the jobber. Have a neat circular stamp made with movable date in the center if you like. Stamp each pair of shoes as you sell it. You kill two birds with one stone. You get your name in the shoe and at the same time head off the lying hog who comes into your store to kick about the wear of a shoe he says he has had only four weeks, while the stamped date says fifteen. You can make your cartons uniform by having printed two sizes of labels of uniform color, with narrow blank strips to match, and pasting these on the front of your cartons and the cover. But we must pass on to the question of what to buy. It seems to us, the best motto any shoe dealer could hang up in his store would read something like this: LEATHER SHOES. WE SELL NO OTHER KIND. Make this your motto and stick to it, no matter how tempting may be the chance of a little extra profit with the shoddy kind. Don’t make up your mind in advance that because your place is small your prices must be so, too. Peo- ple expect to pay a fair price and will do so without question, once you get their confidence. And you never will get their confidence with shoddy goods. Don't buy any shoe you can not trust. If the fellow down the street is selling a boy’s shoe for 90 cents and you can’t buy a shoe to compete with him that is made of leather, tell your customers so frankly. If they want to try the other man, let them. They’ll come back to you, never fear, and think the better of you in the end. Don't try to show all the novelties the big fellows are showing. Your trade will not expect it of you, and, besides, you will lose money on them. Just so far as you can, stick to staple lines. If you feel you must put in novelties, touch them very lightly and try to get them of some one who carries them in stock. You can buy pretty much any- thing that way to-day if you just look around you and keep posted. Generally it does not pay the small dealer to advertise in the regular daily papers. He is not big enough or strong enough to draw trade from places re- mote from his place of business, and the rates in the big dailies are too expen- sive for him. In most large cities there are small papers devoted to a particular section of the city. Here is your field. This paper reaches just the people you want to reach. Get a good space in it. Buy a few cuts. They are cheap and add immensely to your advertisement. Occupy your space every week. Ad- vertising, to yield best results, must be continuous. Put nothing into them but facts that can be backed up with the goods. Nine times in ten you'll get better results if you let the newspaper man write your advertisement. He is used to writing ; you are not. If there is no small paper such as we have mentioned publish one yourself. There are several very good little books published, some weekly, some monthly, with attractive reading matter, for which vou would have to furnish only title and advertising. Get some of your neighbors interested and contract for one of them and distribute it gratis. Wm. Hahn & Co., of Washington, D. C, who have had a phenomenal growth from a small beginning, give away a ticket with each pair of shoes costing $1 or more, twenty tickets entitling the holder to a $1.50 pair of shoes, or $1.50 allowance on a better pair. Try some- thing like that.—H. T. Dougherty in Shoe Retailer. —_—~o2s2—_ One of those Kansas editors has been attending a church fair and here are his views concerning it: ‘‘A church fair is a function where a man spends more money than he can afford, for things he does not want, to please people he does not like, for the benefit of the heathen, who are better off left alone.”’ Coming! | Our salesmen will call on you soon with a complete line of shoes for fall and imme- | | diate use. Your orders will be highly ap- | preciated by us. Yours truly, Bradley & Metcalf Co. Milwaukee, Wis. | LEGGINGS Over Gaiters and Lamb’s Wool Soles. (Beware of the Imitation Waterproof Leg- ging offered.) Our price on $6.00 Send ps your advance order early before the rush is on. Send for Catalogue. HIRTH, KRAUSE & Co. MANUFACTURERS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Men’s Waterproof Legging, Tan or Black, per dozen........ Same in Boys’, above knee...... Geo. H. Reeder & Co. Wholesale Boots and Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich. There is no disappointment in RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO.’S Grand Rapids made shoes. © © ® ® $ WHY? 4 © ® © © © ® © SEOSESSESESSS Because neither money, pains nor brains are spared to give FIT, WEAR and COMFORT. a v | ‘ ‘ j pone enn ES eer se 4 ete t ei a v | ‘ ‘ j pone enn ES eer se 4 ‘ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 18 Jobbers Who Are Price Cutters and Imi- tators Must Go. The question as to the position of the jobber in the shoe trade has been much discussed, and the ideas are varied enough to suit ali interested. A pretty fair summing up would be that the job- ber’s position is just about what he makes of it for himself. The jobber can be a decided advantage to the manu- facturers and retailers, or he can work injury for both, The province of the jobber, of course, is to distribute the product of a certain number of factories to the retailers who want the goods. This work of distribu- tion involves an expense. There must be salesmen to take the orders, clerical force to keep the accounts, shipping department for forwarding, and _per- haps more important than all adequate provision for collecting the accounts. The expense can not vary materially, and if the manufacturer undertakes to do the work he must figure the cost in his selling price. The jobber who com- bines the work for several factories can easily make a decided saving in the ex- pense total and give a better result in the prices to the dealers. This is par- ticularly true in the lower priced lines that have to be sold on close margins, and which are therefore handled almost entirely by the jobbers. In the higher grades the manufacturers by selecting customers among the larger buyers and decreasing the risk of collecting can do their own distributing to good advan- tage. The jobber can be an injury to the trade on the other hand, when he un- dertekes reckless competition. Some men have an idea that the only way to get business is to cut prices or give longer time. Some jobbers in their efforts to force sales at all hazards drop the prices and depend on getting the goods somehow in some shape from the manufacturers. They are able in some cases to get imitations of good lines, poorly made, and of a quality that can not prove satisfactory. The prices of such goods are in turn quoted to the salesmen selling the good lines and at once there is trouble. Other jobbers de- mand lower prices from the manufac- turers or a cheapening of the work in some way in order to meet the terms of the price cutters. Often good lines giv- ing good value have to be abandoned because of the prices at which the in- ferior imitations are offered. Some jobbers, when they find a dealer has already bought, will quote very low prices for the sole purpose of making the dealer feél bad. Of course, orders would not be filled at prices quoted, but it is considered smart business by some to make the dealer feel dissatisfied with the house from which he has ordered. It often succeeds in leading the dealer to think that he has paid too much, so that he makes claims for rebates or de- lays his payments, while the reports of lower prices offering in the meantime are working trouble all along the line. It is needless to say that such a policy is demoralizing and an injury to the business. A few experiences of this kind make manufacturers determine to market their own goods and make re- tailers decide to buy direct from the factories so that they can be sure of something reliable in quality. Unless the jobber can do his work properly in distributing he has no legitimate place in the business and if the price cutting and substituting tactics were general with the jobbers there could be no doubt that the latter would have to go. The jobbers who have won success and are holding their own are not of the class described. They appreciate the evils of price cutting and also the im- portance of keeping up the standards of quality. The jobbers’ associations aim directly at suppressing the evils as far as possible by agreements for uniform- ity in terms and some understanding about prices on staple lines at least. The leading jobbers are also making it a point to handle more specialties and lines from factories that are sure to prove of good value to their retail cus- tomers. This renders them in a great measure free from the raids of the price cutters, and their service is a benefit to the trade. They will remain and pros- per while the other class must gradually but surely disappear.—Boot and Shoe Recorder. —_-3-+>____ More Opinions on the Nashville Balloon Ascension. Kocher Bros. (dry goods and shoes) : We think the balloon ascension on Sat- urday afternoon was a damage to trade. On last Saturday we did not have our usual trade until after the ascension, and as it did not occur up until after 5 o’clock, it was too late to expect much. P. H. Brumm (grocer): Yes, we merchants here raised a fund and had a balloon ascension Saturday afternoon. As there was a very light breeze, the balloon went straight up, making as pretty an ascension and parachute drop as was ever witnessed by the people of Nashville. As to the benefit, I do not consider that I received direct results sufficient to compensate me for my in- vestment. I think, however, had it been advertised more extensively and a little further ahead, the results would have been better. You-see, I am a_ be- liever in advertising. I think some at- traction of this nature or something else given every week, every two weeks or monthly, would prove a benefit to the merchants and the town in general, as it would have a tendency to draw the people here who would naturally go elsewhere—as, for instance, the people who live midway between this town and the neighboring towns or, in fact, a little nearer or very near the neighbor- ing towns. If they can come here and witness some attraction, they would come here to do their trading, inasmuch as they can buy just as cheap here as at the neighboring towns and at the same time see the attraction, whatever it may be. I do not believe, however, that an attraction of this nature given only once or twice during a season will prove of any material benefit whatever unless it is advertised so that the people living at a distance can have a chance to hear of it and come. Thomas A. Welsh (general merchan- dise) : From a business standpoint I do not think the ascension made any money for me. However, it drew a large crowd of people to the town, but the most of them came to see the as- cension and stood around where the balloon was going to go up. I do not think such things help trade for that particular day, but I believe that they help to keep the town before the public. —__.—|~@¢—___ New Kind of Bug. Cleveland is the field of activity of an ‘‘ankle bug,’’ which promises to rival the ‘‘kissing bug’’ in evil noto- riety. It is partial to low shoes and openwork hosiery, and its bite is said to be so severe that the swelling some- times extends to the knee. In some cases the victim has been crippled for a week or more. The local scientists have not yet discovered the insect that causes the mischief. ¢ We Carry Shoes and Rubbers That are trade winners and will make money for you. THE WESTERN SHOE CO. 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Milwaukee Dustless Brush Co. 121 Sycamore St. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clothing Assortment of Garments Necessary to Man’s Happiness.} How many suits of clothes does a man need for wear during business hours if he is to have a thoroughly well-groomed appearance? I should say three suits at least, with four extra pairs of trousers. He will wish to wear three suits, both in order not to wear any one suit more than one day ata time, and also for the pleasure of more variety in his dress than he can have with two. He will also need extra pairs of trousers so that he need not wear one pair more than one day in the week. If it is a man’s ambition to be thor- oughly well dressed he must either de- vote much attention himself to the care of his garments or get a man who will do so for him. He must not wear any one article of clothing for any length of time if he expects it to preserve its shape and freshness. The presser can do much to renew the youth of a gar- ment, but he can not give to it a shape and set that has been strained out of it by long and unremitting wear. After all, the most pleasing thing about a well-dressed man is the look of perfect order and freshness that comes from having his clothes perfectly cared for. In our large cities there are now many concerns which will for a modest sum keep one’s clothes in perfect order, pressing them and repairing them as frequently as one wishes. With such aids the man of modest means is able to present an appearance superior to that of his wealthier associates, the initial cost of whose clothing may be much greater, but who give little atten- tion to its proper care. In the middle of the summer one does not expect ordinarily to see any sudden changes in the matter of neckwear worn. The summer tie this year has been the batwing, with either square or pointed ends. The tie with square ends has been worn pretty generally. I suppose, therefore, that it is about time to say that the bat with pointed ends is now the proper thing. Rutterfly ties have dropped into the background, but 1 should not be surprised to see them worn again soon. I see that some of the lead- ing haberdashers are showing De Join- villes and narrow derbies made of a silk of basket weave. The ground color is white and the pattern consists of fine vertical woven stripes of black, pink, blue or lavender. The material is very soft and light and is quite pretty. These hot and muggy nights serve one good purpose at least. They remind me to put in a special and extended plea for pajamas as against the old-fash- ioned night shirt. I am sure that every . one will agree with me when I say that a night shirt is so beautiful and grace- ful a garment that it is fit to be seen in the bed chamber exclusively. It is not strikingly well fitted for street wear, nor is it even apt to be considered per- fectly proper for a hurried exit trom a burning building. There are striking and obivous reasons for appearing in it in public as little as possible. Pajamas, on the contrary, have, both in mate- rial and in fashion, a full dress appear- ance in comparison with the night shirt that makes them especially pleasant to their wearer. Their wearer never looks quite like a fright. He is always pre- pared for emergencies, and, most im- portant of all, his entire body is kept constantly covered through the hours of the night. Physicians will bear me out in the statement that some of the worst of summer colds are due to the expos- ure of the uncovered body during these hot nights. We toss and tumble in the heat and in the morning wake to find ourselves with heavy colds. But pajamas will keep us thoroughly cov- ered at night. We can’t get them twisted about our necks, and they give up just that measure of body covering that makes the difference between sick- ness and health. All this is rather of a medical nature, but I like occasionally to call attention to some utilitarian rea- sons for adopting a particular form of apparel. I have seen some very well-made pa- jamas of Pongee silk trimmed with loops of pink silk cord. Another fine material is a plain white-corded linen fabric, very light and thin. The jacket of the pajamas made of this material has a low-cut standing collar and is fin- ished in some cases with a delicate line of color along the edges of the collar and jacket. The lightness of the suit and the character of the material make it a most comfortable thing for summer nights. However, I suppose that force of habit will lead many people to cling to night shirts, and I would hint to such persons that they will be more comfort- able if they will wear the night shirt with standing collar, which is cut away in front, or with no collar at a’l. The old-fashioned, high-collared article should be reserved for winter unless one is an invalid.—Apparel Gazette. >. —___ Simple Method of Avoiding Car Sickness. ‘*In spite of modern improvements in transportation methods,’’ remarked a gentleman who travels considerably, ‘“‘there is a great deal of suffering on trains and ordinary steamboats from what may be called seasickness, a sick- ness caused by the motion of the train or the boat, or sometimes a street car will produce he same nauseated condi- tion. I have known many persons who even shunned elevators for this reason, and they would not think of taking a long ride ona street car. Train sick- ness is very common, particularly with women, and many of these dear crea- tures look upon a railroad voyage as an abomination in the sight of men. Of course, where sickness results under conditions of this sort, permanent in- jury might result from persisent travel- ing unless some method were devised to check the tendency. Women are fond of traveling generally and if there is any way of removing an obstacle in their path they will find the way. ‘‘It has remained for a woman, of course, to solve the problem. I was talking to a bright young woman yes- terday and she gave me the most solemn assurance that she had found a_ remedy and, having tried it herself, she knew that it was the proper thing. She said she used to suffer a great deal from train sickness and had the most violent head- aches imaginable. A lady friend told her to slip a piece of paper over her breast and she would not suffer. She tried it, and with the best of results. She never travels now without it, and she said she knew a great many women, and even men, who had resorted to the Same remedy with the same satisfac- tory results. I have been suffering a little myself from train sickness, and the next time I make a long trip I will slip a plain piece of white paper down on my breast between my shirt and the naked hide, just to see what virtue there is in the remedy, and I am credulous enough to believe that the results will be good.’’ Ask to see Samples of Pan-American Guaranteed Clothing Makers Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. We will furnish (to clothing dealers only), our hand- somely illustrated Fall and Winter sample book.show- | ing a big assortment of cloth samples representing our FREE Boy’s and Children’s Ready-to-Wear Clothing, enabling —_ to select your season’s order and and present requirements as thoroughly as though selected from our enormous wholesale stock, Sample Book ready for distribution Limited issue. 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Staple Cottons—The cotton goods market shows a continuation of the quiet aspect which we reported last week. There is very little change in the character of the demand and spot business has been very limited on ac- count of the small number of buyers in the market. The business coming to hand through other channels has failed to show enough increase to have any appreciable effect. This means _ that every division is quiet except where business is being taken in the way of advance orders for next spring. In this direction there has been considerable doing. In spite of the quietude of the business for this season, however, sell- ers are not disposed to make conces- sions; neither has the easy tendency of raw material given them any anxiety apparently, There is nothing at all un- usual about the present dulness, and it is not even more marked than is usual at this time of the year in spite of what many are saying. For next spring fine grades of white goods and cotton goods have been bought up in many cases with considerable eagerness, and prices are said to be extremely good. Prints and Ginghams—The break in certain lines of printed goods which we announced last week has had no effect on the rest of the market, and this change in price was simply because they were held at a higher price relatively than the rest of the market. Dress Goods—There is very little be- ing done just at this time. It is true that the duplicate business is improv- ing slowly, but jobbers are not yet do- ing a very large business, and unti! busi- ness in second hands improves there is going to be a very dull market. Every- thing points to a very late opening for the spring season. There is nothing in the present condition of the market to encourage an early opening, and there are many good reasons why spring showings should be held back as long as possible. There has been a little feel- ing of the market by the foreign dress goods men, and the result has not been at all satisfactory. As a result even the foreigners are not making much effort at this time. There is no doubt but that styles are having a depressing effect on the market. It has been held within such a narrow range for so long that the life has been taken out of it. It needs some new vogue to liven things up, and yet the future does not hold out much hope in this direction, and in venturing on fancies no one is willing to go further than the most modest effects. There is every indication that tailor-made garments are going to be even more popular than they have been and as a result buyers are paying par- ticular attention to broadcloths, Vene- tians, and other goods of this class. Linens—The linen market has been improving steadily for some time, and during the past week the improvement has been very noticeable. There are a number of representatives of foreign manufacturers now in New York, and more of an effort is being made to look for business. The manufacturers are beginning to realize that there is a to- morrow as well as a to-day, and are be- ginning to show more consideration for their customers. There is a certain amount of business to be done before the product of the new crop can come from the mills, and it is a nice business to handle; for buyers are more than firm. The increasing business is an in- dex to the shortness of stocks and prices no longer frighten any one, as they are Supported by natural conditions and maintained by a liberal buying public. The best demand is still for the better class of goods, and despite the condi- tions under which the market has been, and is, laboring the fall retail business promises to be more than usually good. Woolen Goods—The statistics of im- ports and exports of wool and woolens for the fiscal year ending June 30, com- pared with those for the year just pre- vious, establish some important facts. The total imports of wool were only 104,000,000 pounds, against 156,000,000 pounds last year. Imports of clothing wools decreased from 37,000,000 pounds to 31,000,000, Only 5,000,000 pounds of combing wool was imported as against 1I,3000,000 pounds for the year just before. Carpet wool imports shrunk from 106,000,000 to 67,000,000 pounds, and while 31,000,000 pounds were im- ported from China in 1899-1900 only 8,000,000 pounds were brought in last year. Imports of manufactures of wool decreased from $16,000,000 to $14,500, - ooo, while our exports of wool goods were 50 per cent. larger than during the last year of the Wilson bill. Imports of wool substitutes during the latter period aggregated 44,000,000 pounds, against 200,000 pounds last year. Knit Goods—The decision of the Am- erican Knit Goods Association not to raise the pirces of fleeced goods came somewhat as a surprise, as it was freely predicted in some quarters that there would be a 12%c advance. Business of the fall duplicate order has picked up considerably since the meeting, not only in fleeces, but in other heavyweight lines as well. The preliminary buying was of such a limited character that it seems plausible that the jobber still needs a lot of fall goods. The action of determining not to show fall samples for 1902 until after October 5, is a thor- oughly commendable one, and one _ that will have a very potent influence in strengthening the condition of fleeces, providing, of course, that that agree- ment is rigorously upheld. Carpets—Velvets continue to head the list, as far as the demand is concerned, and many mills are doing their utmost to fill all their initial orders for Septem- ber delivery. Some very striking pat- terns in rich reds, browns and greens in velvets are shown this season, and it is no wonder that a good part of the buy- er’s attention has been given to these goods. The designs are much smaller this season than last, and the colors more pleasing to people of good taste, and the life of the carpet may be de- scribed as being in the background. The call for a good body Brussels is very large, and the orders received so far fall but little short of exceeding those for velvets. A good body Brussels is as serviceable as any carpet made in this country, and the public has be- come aware of this fact, if our opinions are correct. The cheaper Brussels does not receive much attention. —_>--2+->—___. The Handicap of a Name. Poppers—Now, we haven’t christened the baby yet. My wife wants to give him a fancy name out of a book, but I won't have it. Ascum—Wby not? Poppers—Because, then, he’d grow up to be homely as blue mud and tough as nails. 1 never knew it to fail. ——— oe Never be a clam. If you must be anything of the kind,“be a turtle; then you will have a little snap about you. Brought Along His Proof. A man walked into the water works office the other day and said he wanted to make a complaint. He was an ex- cited man, who breathed hard, and seemed to be anxious to have his case attended to at once. ‘“Say,’’ he remarked, as he passed a large colored handkerchief around his generous expanse of neck, ‘‘I want to complain of a woman who wastes the city water, and I want you to go right up there and shut it off.’’ The clerk at once scented a neigh- borhood quarrel, with an incidental de- sire for a petty revenge. ‘‘How do you know she wastes the water?’’ he asked. The complainant’s face grew dark. ‘‘How do know it?’ he cried. ‘“Why, she threw a bucket of it on me!’’ The clerk kept a straight face. ‘Have you any proof of the charge?”’ he asked, with a serious air. ‘‘Proof!’’ echoed the complainant. ‘‘You bet I’ve proof! I ran all the way down here so’s you could see how wet [| am,’’ Then he departed, highly satisfied with the promise that the case would be investigated. ——_»>e>___ The cheapest watch made will not vary a second ina year—if you don’t wind it up. ‘* Little Red School House’’ Shoes Will build up your business. C. M. Henderson & Co. Chicago, Il. ‘* Western Shoe Builders ” Cor. Market and Quincy Sts. An Assortment of handkerchiefs way beyond any we have ever offered (and that is saying a great deal) is what we call your attention to. We have the embroidered goods both hemstitched and with scalloped edge from 45 cents to %4.50 per dozen; plain white hemstitched from 25 cents per dozen up; col- ored borders 12 cents up, and silks go cents to $4.50. Our salesmen will ‘‘show you.’’ Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mlch. be ee ee ek ee ON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee ee ee eh eh ek OO Oe BE BB RR aR Pa EE HE a. TE WANTED Buyers to inspect our lines of DUCK COATS Rubber Lined and Unlined KERSEY PANTS MACKINAW COATS Our line this year is the best and largest we ever carried. We havethemat all prices and assorted colors and patterns. P. STEKETEE & SONS, WHOLESALE DRY GOODs, SN TBS OOOOGOOOGHOOOHOOGHHHHHOHHHOGO SSSeeses SSSSeees 1,000,000 Pounds Standard Binder Twine Nice and new, which averages 500 feet to the pound, put up in 50-pound flat bales, on hand for quick orders. that has been wet, at any price. Binder Covers and Thresher Covers for sale. Tents for sale and rent. THE M. I. WILCOX CO., 210-216 WATER STREET, TOLEDO, OHIO. GOOOHHGGHHUOGHHHHHOGHHHHGHOG We handle no twine SSSSSSSSSSSSSSee 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN : The Meat Market Would Kill the Beef Business. I predict that you will find that where cattle tuberculosis is plenty, human tu- berculosis is so rare as to hoid nc rela- tion to it; that while you are in the thick of bovine tuberculosis you are practical- ly outside the consumptive belt. The greatest importance that bovine tubercu- losis has attained has been due to the belief that it has caused much of our human consumption. If you find a per- son suffering from tuberculosis you must not jump to the conclusion that it is due to infection from meat, milk or cream, or from the inhalation of bovine bacilli. I opine that within a few years it will be difficult to find professional men who hold that cattle tuberculosis is much of a menace to the human race. E. Moore. In justice to Dr. Moore it must be said that since the time he made his opinion public some men learned in the science of disease have announced that they agree with him. Prof. Koch is the latest. However, while it may be true that tuberculosis can not be communicated to a person eating meat cut from an animal infected with the disease, it would be an impossible task to convince the consuming public of it. There are some who do not eat meat, and if these can be made certain that there is no danger of contracting dis- ease from eating meat they may join the army of meat eaters. But they would not eat it if they did not know it was inspected first and the diseased meat condemned. If all the scientists in the world were of the same opinion as Dr. Moore and Prof. Koch, their opinions would make but little differ- ence to the public. The millions of consumers would soon hecome_ vegetar- ians were the Government inspection service as applied to beef discontinued. Common sense impresses one strongly that meat from a steer having tubercu- losis is not desirable food. Science may be right, but if this Government ac- cepted the statement of Dr. Koch as fact, and permitted the slaughter for food of tuberculous cattle, the beef busi- ness would be knocked in the head. — Butchers’ Gazette. >» ___ Trying to Revive a Dying Boom. The impression has become general that the Belgium hare boom has sneaked away into some dark corner to breathe its last, but the following, from a Des Moines, la., correspondent, shows that there is still some life in it and that means are to be employed calculated to put vigor into the sadly crippled boom: The Des Moines Belgian Hare Asso- ciation expects to establish a market for rabbits in Des Moines this fall. Anes- tablished butcher will be secured to handle the market if possible. If this course is not feasible, the Association will establish a market of its own in charge of one of its members. Belgian hares sell now at the butchers for 20 cents a pound, dressed. Nice, juicy young ones, weighing from three to four and one-half pounds are eagerly bought by people who relish the meat, that is much like spring chicken, only sweeter and nicer. A pound of Belgian hare meat gues further, it has been dis- covered by connoisseurs, than any other meat, on account of the few and very smal] bones. We have heard the same thing about the demand for Belgian hare meat be- fore. We read in a Western paper that people in New York City were blocking the sidewalks in front of the butchers’ shops crying forthe meat; and when we investigated the report, we failed to find a butcher who was handling the meat, or who had any customer ask for it, or who would know where to get it if he did have an order for it. We were told that poultry would be put out of business by the hares, that Belgian hares were a better investment than nat- ural oi] stock, but our horoscope editor said the Belgian hare was a new style of gold brick. We are inclined to be- lieve the Belgian hare has seen his most prosperous times. We think he is a ‘“has been,’ andthatno amount of boom- ing will bring him back to active life. oe Fresh Beef in the Philippines. To supply our soldiers in the Philip- pines with fresh beef is not an easy problem. The distance from this coun- try to the islands is great, and the cost of transportation enormous. There is a large refrigerating plant there, and for the forces on duty within a reasonable distance of the plant it is an easy enough matter to secure good beef; but for those who are stationed many miles from the cold storage house it is differ- ent. There have been suggestions in regard to the method of obtaining fresh beef for our troops without the Govern- ment being excessively taxed for the supplies. General Kobbe found that the favorite proposition was for the commanding officer to fix a price per head on cattle found on the islands, and then seize the quantity necessary for the troops. The authorities do not regard such an action as a just one. They be- lieve, moreover, that it would operate to the prejudice of the idea which army officers are trying to implant in the minds of the Filipinos, for instance, that the latter have rights which are to be scrupulously guarded and respected. Another plan that has been tried, and found to work satisfactorily, is a fresh beef fund allowed for the soldiers. The fund amounts to about $50 per month for a company of seventy-five men, for something like 7 cents per pound is cal- culated upon. There are always one or two butchers in a company, and these men are provided with the necessary money to go out and purchase good beef. Often they can make a good bargain at 5 cents per pound. The remaining 2 cents per pound is then used in the pur- chase of vegetables and fish, etc., and the benefits resulting are very good in- deed. The butchers of the company also kill the beef, for it has been found that the native method of slaughtering makes the meat tough. 0 Instructed as to His Duties. A young clerk ina wholesale house has been spending a large portion of his salary for the last few days buying cigars for friends who are ‘‘on’’toa joke that was perpetrated on him. His employer engaged a new boy and as soon as the boy came to the establish- ment he was instructed in his duties by our friend, who had been promoted to the position of assistant bookkeeper and given a small office by himself. About an hour after the boy started in, the ‘‘boss’’ came around and seeing him working, asked: ‘*Has the assistant bookkeeper told you what to do?”’ ‘Yes, sir,’’ was the prompt reply; ‘‘he told me to wake him up when I saw you coming around.”’ ——_> 0. _____ Butchers Not Immune From Tuberculosis. From the Butchers Advocate. About once a_ year a story goes the rounds of the daily press to the effect that butchers are immune from con- sumption. These stories have been per- mitted to go uncontradicted for so long that they have gotten to be generally be- lieved. Now, the truth is that the percentage of butchers who die of consumption is quite as large as the percentage of those engaged in any other ordinary line of business. My reason for giving space to this is that some butchers might be led to believe that they really are im- mune from consumption and _ therefore become careless of their health. AJAX Dynamite Works ]}_ Bay City, Michigan Dynamite, Caps, Fuse, Battery Supplies for Rock Work and Stump Blasting. Summer Resorts ON THE GRE. ‘* The Fishing Line ’’ The gs Department of the Grand Rapids & Indiana ctype, Poe issued a 36- page booklet, entitled ‘“ Michigan in Sum- mer,” that contains 250 pictures of resorts in Northern Michigan. Interesting information is given about these popular resorts: Petoskey Mackinac Island Bay View Traverse City Harbor Springs Neahtawanta Harbor Point Omena Wequetonsing Northport Roaring Brook Northport Point Emmet Beach Edgeweod Walloon Lake It contains a list of hotels and boarding houses in Northern Michigan, with their rates by the day and week, and passenger fares from the principal points in the Middle West. This booklet will be sent free upon request to C. L. LocKwoop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Grand Rapids, 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 and other points Haas ELC hy eT eS =! a FINE CUT UNCLE DANIEL. o>. IASC OSES NSSIISENS TIS SCOT TEN-DILLON COMPANY TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS INDEPENDENT FACTORY OUR LEADING BRANDS. SMOKING HAND PRESSED. Flake Cut. DETROIT, MICHIGAN KEEP THEM IN MIND. OJIBWA. DOUBLE CROSS. Long Cut. STRONG HOLD. FOREST GIANT. SWEET CORE. Plug Cut. FLAT IRON, SWEET SPRAY. FLAT CAR. Granulated. SO-LO. The above brands are manufactured from the finest selected Leaf Tobacco that money can buy. See quotations in price current. PLUG CREME DE MENTHE. AY : KQ HC W @l R I) 4 Ae (i y) : ni = 1c i) yy Ys al { ' } ea We yw oe ai MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 CANDY AND HAIR OIL. They are Staple Articles With Central Lake Swains. Written for the Tradesman. He was quite tall and wore at least a ten and a half shoe. He had well greased sorrel hair, parted in the mid- dle, rows of warts across his knuckles and a colored glass pin with three balls fastened to his necktie. : The lady with him was attired in white, but her dress bore slight traces of travel, and the bunch of pink rib- bons on her breast was rumpled and disordered. ‘‘I wanter git five cents’ worth of candy,’’ said he to the clerk. ‘‘O, Johnny,’’ said she, ‘‘get ten. Yeu know we both like candy, and five cents’ worth won’t last no time.’’ ‘‘All. right, Alviry,’’ he answered with a sweet smile, ‘‘I'll pay fer all the candy yo’ kin eat. What kind’ll it be?’’ ‘‘Let’s take cream candy. awful good.’’ ‘‘Yo’ bet we’ll get some o’ that, an’ some readin’ candy, too. That’s the best kind to have fun with.’’ ‘*O, do. I forgot all about the read- ing candy. Them motto hearts is love- ly. Let’s not get no cream candy.”’ “*Yes, we will, too. We'll have both kinds. If the’s anything elst yo’ want, jest holler out an’ we’ll have it.’’ **Le’s not buy any more candy. I’d rather have a bottle of scent 'n so much sweet stuff.”’ ‘‘What kind of scent do yo’ best?”’ ‘*What kind do you?’’ ‘*T like any kind you like.’’ ‘‘Well, you pick it out.”’ **No, you.”’ ‘IT won't, so now!’’ ‘‘All right then. v'ilets.’’ ‘‘White laylock ’s nice, an’ so’s Jockey club. Why don’t you git some o’ them?’’ “*T got lots o’ That’s like Le’s take sweet that to home, but I don’t care; git what yo’ want. Tell yo’ what I be goin’ to get, though.’’ **What?”’ **Some hair oil.’’ ‘*O, don’t get no hair oil. I tell you what’s lots better’n hair oil—meat fryin’s.”’ ‘*Meat fryin’s!’’ ‘Yes, sure.”’ ‘‘Aw gawn.”’ ‘‘No, no foolin’. Don’t you know about that? It’s the best thing out.’’ ‘*Meat fryin’s is no good.’’ ‘* “Tis, too: ‘*Yo’r jest a foolin’.’”’ ‘*No, I hain’t. Jest let me tell—.’’ ‘‘Wall, I don’t want none on my plate. Say, mister, have yo’ got any hair oil by the bulk?’’ “Wait till I tell you about the meat fryin’s Johnny. Meat fryin’s is handy cus you always got ‘em in the house, an’ the’ hain’t nothin’ so good.to take the goominess out o’ the hair.. Then they don’t cost nothin’ neither, an’ hair oil does. You jest try it once an’ see if I hain’t right.’’ ‘‘I don’t care if it is cheap and handy. I don’t want no meat fryin’s when a quarter’s worth o’ hair oil’ll last me three months. 1’m sot on some things, I be. Mebbe I’ve got the hair oil habit. But I don’t care if I have. I’ve allers had hair oil an’ the Lord willin’, I allers will. If yo’ wanter sop yer head in the gravy bowl yo’ kin fer all of me, but I'll eat marsh hay with the cows afore I’H quit my hair oil.’’ ““You think you’re a dood, don’t your’’ ‘“Perhaps I hain’t no reg’lar out an’ outer, but I hain’t no Rube neither, not by a blamed sight !’’ ‘“I'd like to know bow much you lack of it.’’ ‘‘About what Intermediate River lacks of bein’ a crick. Haw, haw.’’ ‘‘O, you’re smart, hain’t you. You can jest take me home right now, an’ you bet I won’t come to the street fair with you neither.’’ ‘‘All right, I'll take yo’ home. An’ nex’ time you come to town, an’ wanter know jest how good the walkin’ is, yo’ better come with Stingy Green Peter- son, ‘*He’s get a better team 'n yourn. ’ “Yes, 'n’ he wouldn't hitch ‘em up to take the Queen of Europe toa tin weddin’. He says it’s hard enough on ‘em to log up foller an’ plow pitater ground without haulin’ a passel o’ young wimmen around the country to doin’s. ‘‘He’s better off’n you be. He’s got money in the bank. He kin buy you an’ sell you ag’in if he wants to.’’ ‘*He otter have money, that feller. He never spends none. Yes, yo’ better go to the street fair with Stingy. He'll buy yo’ a hul slab o’ bacon fer yer hair = it don’t cost nothin’, An’ say, yo’ better take some vittles along in yer pocket. He might fergit to ask yo’ to dinner.’ ‘Don’t worry about me. I can get along all right,’’ she replied, bravely, but there wasa trace—just a trace—of a tremor in her voice, and she looked away from the young man and out of the window upon the street as she spoke. ‘*The’s goin’ to be a balloon assump- tion ag’in this year,’’ suggested her escort after a short silence. Do you mind how good it was last time? I thought that little woman’d git broke in two when it yanked so on the sstart.’’ Alviry nodded. ‘‘An’ then, the best of all was when she lit on the telegraph wires an’ fell into the barb wire fence. Gee! | thought there one spell she’d get chawed ail to thunder on the barb wire. That was the best of all. Yo’ hain’t forgot that, have yo’, Alviry?”’ The lady shuddered a little. membered. “‘T bet if they have another balloon this fall, the feller’ll git killed. Mebbe it'll be a woman, too. Jest think! As long as I've lived, I hain’t never see no one killed fallin’ out of a balloon. Say, yo’ hain’t forgot about that ice cream they had to the little stand around the corner? That same feller’s comin’ again this fall.’’ Alviry looked around timidly. ‘‘T hain't agoing.’’ said she, gently. **Yes, yo’ be, too,’’ retorted her es- cort warmly. She shook her head, and looked out on the street again. ‘Why hain’t yo’ goin’?’’ he queried, anxiously. “*O, nothin’,’’ said she, sadly. ‘* Tis, somethin’, too,’’ he insisted. ‘*Tell me what it is.’” ‘‘Nothin’ much, only I hain’t goin’ alone.’’ “‘I forgot,’’ said he, penitently. There was a large looking glass in front of him, though, and he winked at him- self blandly, as he added: “*I s’pose y’ wouldn’t go with me?’’ ‘*Mebbe I would if I was asked.’’ “*Well, will yo’, then?’’ a ae ae ‘Say, mister, gimme five pounds of She re- ’ the best candy yo’ got. kinds an’ mix it up like.’’ ‘‘F-i-v-e p-o-u-n-d-s-! Johnny, you'll bust yourself !’’ exclaimed Alviry. ‘‘That’s all right,’’ he replied, as he settled the bill. ‘‘I won’t bust nothin’ but my pocket book. The’s allers re- joicin’ among nations when a declara- tion of peace is fixed up an’ it’ll be the same with us. We'll be good as long as this candy holds out. If yer ready now, let’s go. ‘I'm ready if you be, but I think you forgot something. ’’ ‘‘No, I hain’t.’’ “‘T bet you did, though.’’ ‘*What was it?’’ Your hair oil.’’ ‘‘O, blame the hair oil! I don’t want none. I’ll use meat fryin’s or mutton taller or wagon grease, and yo’r hair dope’ i _-be my hair dope to the end of time.’ Geo. L. Thurston. I want all You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ——— uU SOUVENIR ART(ATALOG /s NOW OUT AND READY FOR DIs Tabet! TION ~ LYMM ecto note a oan A (OMMERCIAL (COURSE WILL FIND THIS OF GREAT VALUE. (COPIES MAILED FREE UPON APPLICATION. ma aT oar, COMMERCIAL © GLLEGE, INDIANA. Sc. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS and G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR wae GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. A Trade Maker Fanny Davenport Sc Cigar Trade Supplied By: B. J. Reynolds, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Phipps, Penoyer & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. Moreland Bros. & Crane, Adrian, Michigan. 4 Bata tata Bata banda dy Gp tnt ty dy tn tn tp tn dp Baba tn br dnb Bn tin tn dp dpi An. rwvuvwvvvvvuvuvuvvvwvw™ a bn be bn o> GFUVUUVY so taba da dn bnth Oo OO 4 Or: 4 4 4 6 44. POF FOF GF FFG OVO SO OSE SCT SCG SS B. W. PUTNAM, President. Se en ee Ee eee ee Te eee Putnam Candy Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Established 1865. EXPERIENCE has taught us how to make the finest candies. Call and inspect our line and establishment when in the city. PD bra Da Da ba Dab bn bn bn bi br 6 BO Ob On Oi OO OO bi a ba bn bn bn bn bb bn bn bn bp bn bn bi Ln Li Li bi hp i in Li di di bn ty ty te i OT TO TOPE UU UCU UC CCS R. R. BEAN, Secretary. Se ee ee ee ee Se eT ST Or OOOO eC OOS VO OCC C CC OECCUUCCC CCC 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Drastic Measures To Curtail Catalogue Competition. Written for the Tradesman. In taking up the consideration of this subject with a view to recommending a remedy, it is desired to examine its bearings upon the interests involved, without prejudice, and to suggest a rem- edy that shall be both justified and practical. Ifa brief philosophical ob- servation may be permitted by way of introduction, it may be remarked that it is a principle in natural philosophy, that every atom in nature seeks rest or equilibrium ; consequently agitation and struggle proceed until that point is reached. In the realm of matter it is the center of attraction, interpreted by the law of gravitation; in the province of mind it is justice, interpreted by the law of truth, and in the commercial do- main it is equity, interpreted by the law of compensation. Agitation, there- fore, in all cases is the direct result of an unsatisfied condition and is in per- fect accord with natural law which, be- ing absolute and immutable, it is wise to avoid conflict therewith so far as pos- sible. Our economic condition, not yet having reached its equitable center, must necessarily continue to bump along toward that goal, occasioning more or less inconvenience, resting briefly now and then upon some pro- jecting natural artificial ledge of fan- cied stability only to be jolted off again toward its ultimate destination. . Every concussion occasions more or less bruises and futile murmurings and dollars are inadvertanly but oftener intentionally jostled out of some pockets into others whose owners by natural instinct and skillful practice have become expert in adjusting these handy receptacles tothe best advantage; this peculiar dexterity having been attained by but few has the effect of concentrating these handsome and useful little souvenirs of the jour- ney into very limited ownership. The present agitation in which we are invited to participate is precipitated by a conflict between two opposing systems of merchandising; it is the province of this article to deal mainly with that side of the controversy near- est to us. What the local merchant is pleased to regard as his rightful domain is being encroached upon to his hurt and damage; his rights to honorable subsistance by means of a system which has heretofore enjoyed the undisputed sanction of custom, are being grievious- ly infringed ; he owns to being without adequate means of defense ; as a matter of justice he is entitled to a fair and impartial hearing and should his inter- ests not prove to be in conflict with the principle of public policy—which in the absence of specific enactment is the su- preme law—then his claims will be en- titled to equitable adjustment. In ad- dition to whatever rights and privil- eges he may be seized of under the law of self-preservation, there are his joint interests with the members of the com- munity in which he does business and his involuntary partners in this connec- tion are truant to their own best inter- ests to permit an injury to be inflicted upon him, much less to be the volun- tary instruments in the hands of an alien interest to inflict such injury. For if there were no local merchants there would be no town; there being no town there would be no market; being no town or market, there would be no com- mercial activity, no transportation fa- cilities; production in the absence of a convenient market would be less remun- erative, real property would decline in value, labor would be less in demand and the false economy inspired by cat- alogue inducements would meet its just deserts in self-inflicted and desolate is-} olation and pecuniary damage. The very people who think it shrewd policy to send away this cash to build up an alien enterprise, and to work off their old produce and long-winded accommo- dations on the local merchant are com- mitting financial suicide if they have any substantial investment or interest in the vicinity. The very facilities they enjoy and which enables them to eco- nomically patronize a foreign market are made possible by the presence of the local merchant and should he be com- pelied to go out of business or to quit the locality, they may depend upon it that these facilities will not long re- main at their command. So that on the grounds of public policy, of priority of tenancy and of the right of self preser- vation, the local merchant is entitled to relief. The success of either system in controversy depends upon popular pub- lic favor and that is influenced largely by economic inducements. The cata- logue system was, no doubt, at first in- troduced for convenience and afterward continued for economical reasons and finally relied upon to increase business: how well it has met these requirements is evidenced by the injury done to the local trade. The fact that it requires a considerable outlay of money at first to inaugurate a catalogue system deters any but the stronger concerns who are in a position to handle a large trade from attempting it, so that it would be impractical for the smaller retail estab- lishments to meet the competition by the same means. If all the retailers who are affected by the encroachments of the catalogue system, handled sub- Stantially the same lines of goods they might club together on a co-operative plan and issue a catalogue between them, each taking as many copies as he could use to advantage, with his busi- ness card on the title page as if it had been issued by him exclusively, and then let each mail them according to a pre-arranged plan. If this suggestion could be followed sytematically, it might at least have the effect of divid- ing and demoralizing the catalogue business to such an extent that it would become unprofitable to the concerns de- pending exclusively upon it for trade. The popular appetite must be either satisfied or diverted. No doubt the encroachments of the catalogue competition is felt in all branches of the retail trade, more per- haps in the smaller country places than in the larger cities, although the aggre- gate of trade diverted by this means must be very much greater, even in the cities, than is generally realized, owing to the proportionately larger amount of general business transacted. The ex-, tensive advertising and fierce competi- tion among the city merchants would naturally have a tendency to divide the attention of the bargain-hunter and in- duce him to partially distribute his fa- vors locally. If, as is confidently stated, the catalogue trade in some localities exceeds in tonnage the receipts of mer- chandise by the local merchants, it is certainly a condition demanding imme- diate attention on their part as well as a matter for surprise that they have per- mitted the development of this menace to their business and have not instituted a vigorous agitation sooner, The cata- logue system, having acquired the sub- stantial confidence and patronage in those localities, will be exceedingly difficult to reclaim the favor. It has been suggested that recourse be had to legislation. The time honored association of the ‘‘law and the profits’’ is no doubt responsible for this sugges- tion. It is one of the most peculiar characteristics of human nature that, having determined what it supposes to be its interests and the means by which those interests may be advanced, its first impulse is to clamor for a law to compel everybody to conform to its idea. 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. The Imperial Gas Lamp Is an absolutely safe lamp. It burns without odor or smoke. Common stove gasoline is used. It is an eco- nomical light. Attractive prices are offered. Write at once for Agency. The Imperial Gas Lamp Co. 132 and 134 Lake St. E., Chicago CASH REGISTER PAPER Of all kinds. price list. Standard Wabash, Indiana Quality best; prices guaranteed. Send for If in need of a Cash Register address Cash Register Co. GRAND RAPIDS PLASTER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of Reliable It has Durable equal We make a specialty of mixed cars of Land, Calcined and Wall Plaster, Portland Cement, etc. Write us for booklet and prices. | iz . 4| oe) D i Cc Bo ra a lamps are known world candle power. George Bohner. Over 100,000 Brilliant Gasoline Gas Lamps Sold in 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 everywhere for Homes, Stores, Streets, Churches, Schools, Tents, Gardens, Resorts, Mining, Fish- ing, etc. 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. wide and are wanted Storm Lamp, 2 to 400 candle power. DOOOHOOGOOO HOH HHHOOHDHHGHOGOGD ware, etc., etc. 31, 33, 35» 37, 39 Louis St. Sporting Goods, Ammunition, Stoves Window Glass, Bar Iron, Shelf Hard- Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. ’ 10 & 12 Monroe St. SSSSESSESSOSOSSSSOSSSOSSESESESSS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 The complaint for which relief is Sought in this case seems to emanate from the weaker side in the controversy. Now law, as practically applied, is for the use and benefit of the stronger, otherwise it could not be enforced. The complainant must therefore develop Strength before appealing to the law if he may hope to obtan any satisfaction thereby, In any case it is very doubtful if a law could be framed that would cover the points at issue, whose meshes would intercept pumkins after the Supreme Court should get through with it. Pub- lic policy is charry of any law enacted in restraint of trade and so long as the catalogue houses shall conduct a fairly honorable business to the satisfaction of their patrons it may well be imagined that the law would be appealed to in vain, Probably the most that legal re- straint could be presumed to accomplish in this application would be to provide a rigid system of inspection to prevent deleterious or adulterated goods being delivered in the jurisdiction covered by the enactment, fixing a percentage fee to be charged for the service, based on the invoice price and the same to be paid by the shipper. This, at best, would be but a subterfuge and would, no doubt, prove a cumbersome and fre- quently evaded undertaking and of questionable satisfaction withal. In the opinion of the writer, the com- plainants have the easiest, quickest and most effective remedy in their own hands and it is simply to combine and withhold their patronage from any man- ufacturer or jobber who will not agree to refrain from selling to the catalogue houses. It will, perhaps, be remembered that some years ago the manufacturing and wholesale jewelers and watchmakers be- gan selling to dry goods and department stores. The retail jewelers all over the country combined and gave them no- tice to stop it or forfeit their patronage. The leading manufacturers and jobbers very promptly complied and the few who showed a disposition to deny the demand were soon glad to get into line, and while more or less cheap jewelry has continued to find its way into the show cases of the dry goods and depart- ment stores, it ceased to interfere seri- ously with the legitimate jewelry busi- ness. If a combination to boycott should conflict with existing law or subsequent enactments, such legislation or any like- ly to be enacted, would not prevent the members of the combination procuring their supplies through a central pur- chasing agency, or from the travelers of houses bearing its endorsement, the agency to be amenable to the combina- tion under general instructions to place all orders and conduct all business for the best interests of the combination, in which the principle of discrimina- tion for the sake of protection could fig- ure as a silent feature and no charge of complicity to boycott could be proven. The central purchasing agency would be the safest check to prevent the sale of goods to catalogue house through the complicity of third parties. This per- haps could not be absolutely prevented unless it could be arranged to prevent the sale of any goods whatever by the houses patronized by the combine ex- cept to such as were members of it. In. the present crisis both the city and the country retailers may, if they will, rec- ognize the opportunity of their lives. The country trade is perhaps effected more seriously by the catalogue busi- ness, while the city merchant has the department store to contend with; let both unite in a mutual compact, ina common cause, to refuse patronage to every jobber or manufacturer who _ per- mits his line to be handled either by the catalogue houses or the department Stores, and they may confidently rely upon such a strong combination as _ this would make, to bring the leading job- bers and manufacturers to comply with their wishes. Success in this undertak- ing would give them absolute control of these goods, and under judicious Management the consumer will soon learn that satisfaction is inseparable from fair prices. This advantage emphasized by each retailer to impress upon his wavering patrons the fact that the catalogue and department houses can not buy the best goods and therefore can not sell the best to their trade, carry a few samples of the cheaper lines of goods for com par- ison to clinch the argument; and keep- ing up a hot crusade against the obnox- ious opposition all along the line can not fail to curtail its influence if it does not render it unprofitable to continue. The extended radia covered by the catalogue houses may render it neces- Sary to embrace several states in the combination under one management. There ought not to be any difficulty in securing the loyal and active co-opera- tion of every merchant who has suffered from either of these encroachments and this would have the effect of covering the entire range of their influence. No doubt that a majority of the job- bers could be depended upon to favor the combination and to lend their aid in bringing the manufacturers to com- ply. The manufacturer will naturally incline toward the side which commands the preponderance of trade if obliged to choose between the contestants and the assistance of the jobber may be a fortunate resource to secure quicker re- sults, A combination of the character indi- cated, once formed, would be in an advantagous position to effect other _re- forms and to secure concessions in many respects, not now possible. It might be advisable to issue a gen- eral call for a State convention to be composed of representatives chosen by popular selection by and from among the merchants in every city and town, at which convention plans and details may be fully discussed and formulated and the organization perfected. Where mercantile organization already exists the combination might be effected through such. The motive for this combination might be further utilized to interest every retailer or other business man to unite with an existing local organiza- tion which in the absence of inspira- tional zeal may have lost some of its persuasive influence in the acquisition of membership. In the meantime developments would probably indicate the proper course to pursue when the combination should get down to active work, for it may be deppended upon that the opposition would not quietly submit to anything that promised to de- prive it of any business. But this ar- ticle is intended to suggest measures to help the invaded as against the invader, as it would be out of place perhaps to prognosticate as to what the ‘‘other fel- low’’ might be doing all this time. J. M. 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We will Prosecute any person found using our packages for cider or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom. J. ROBINSON, Manager. Benton Harbor, Michigan. FREIGHT TRACERS One copy for R. R. Co., one for your customer, one for yourself, all written at one time—s5o0 CENTS PER BOOK of roo full triplicate leaves. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CE on lo Oe oe 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Is Venus to Be Supplanted by Minerva? A famous French philosopher and student of sociology has just made the startling announcement that the reign of beauty is over for women—that it is ’ gray matter in the brains and not roses on the cheeks that count now, and that in these times it is the plain-faced Mrs. Krugers and Mrs. Gladstones that in- fluence men, not the Cleopatras and Ninon de |’Enclos. Inasmuch as the supply of feminine pulchritude has never been enough to go around, and in the hand-out most of us got short measure of that supply of good looks that is popularly supposed to be a woman's birthright, this is a comforting theory, but is it true? Have men for- saken the shrine of Venus to worship at that of Minerva? Is it really better for the girl who wants partners at the dance to know how to do problems in higher mathematics than to know how to do her hair? If you yearn for the admira- tion of your brothers is it more advan- tageous to have a wide knowledge of philosophy than it is to have wide open blue eyes? Has the millenium of the ugly woman really come, when men yearn to embrace a large and nobby forehead, instead of an 18-inch waist? This was the question that was put to a number of women who had forgathered the other day for a cup of afternoon tea. After the conundrum had been pro- pounded there was silence for a bit, and then the woman in the blue linen gown said: ‘‘Well, I’m not putting my experi- -ence up against the French pbhilos- opher’s theory, but so far a | can see, beauty is still the winning number in the feminine lottery, and brains, at best, are only a sort of a consolation prize.”’ ‘*Yes,’’ put in the woman in the pic- ture hat, ‘‘when you tell a man about a new woman, the first question he asks is: ‘Is she pretty?’ not, ‘Is she intelli- gent?’ and if you can answer the first question in the affirmative, it does not matter whether you can answer the sec- ond at all or not. Any little gump who has a flower-like face can marry the wisest college professor in the commun- ity, any day she wants to. Leta girl have golden tresses on the outside of her head and the inside may be as empty as a cocoanut shell, yet she will be besieged with suitors.’’ ‘*That’s so,’’ agreed the woman in the blue linen. ‘‘I have seen a girl wreck her whole season by going around with a copy of Ibsen in her hand, because she thought it looked literary, and she didn’t have enough sense to know that you could not have dragged a man up to talk to her with a block and tackle for fear she would ask him about trans- cendental philosophy. Any young woman who aspires to write ‘Ph. D.,’ after her name had as well abandon all hope of writing ‘Mrs.’ before it.’’ ‘‘Well, you see,’’ I suggested, ‘‘men have had a monopoly of knowing it all so long, they still think a woman who knows anything is poaching on their preserves, and to my mind the clever- est thing a clever woman ever does is to conceal] from men how clever she is.’’ ‘‘The very idea that brains will carry a woman as far as beauty is arrant non- sense,’’ went on the woman in the pic- ture hat. ‘‘Why, you just have to look about you every day to see how untrue that is. Did you ever see a pretty woman stand up on the street_car? } Did you ever see a swell and fashionably dressed one ever have to open a window for herself on thetrain? On the con- trary, wherever she goes men are falling all over each other to do things for her. She can not enter any sort of a place without every masculine creature in sight remembering that she wants the shady side of the car or the end seat or the best view. Would any man do that for the homely woman, although she was Minerva and Aspasia rolled into one? Not much. He would say to him- self that she was strong-minded and was just as able to stand up and cling to a strap as he was.’’ ‘‘One of the things that makes me tired,’’ said she of the blue linen, ‘‘is man’s inconsistent attitude on the women’s clothes proposition. I don’t suppose there is a man living, who, when he wants to show up the superior- ity of his sex over ours, does not jump on the way we dress. And I agree with him. I know that it is nothing but rank idiocy that makes us go around sweep- ing up bacteria with our skirts and cramped up in stays until we can not draw a breath halfway down our lungs and perched up on heels that make walking an agony. Moreover, it is surely enough to make the angels weep when they see that one-half of the pop- ulation of the earth spend whatever brains God gave them, and all their strength and energy and time in think- ing about clothes, but what are you go- ing to do about it? Men say, Why don’t you break away and do as we do? Get somebody to make you a sensible dress, with plenty of pockets in it and defy fashion. ** Now and then you finda woman who is silly enough to take them at their word. She abandons stays. She wears bobby skirts and short hair and man- nish hats and flat-heeled shoes, and every man she meets flees from her as if she was the plague. You could not hire one to escort her to the theater and he would drop dead with heart failure at the very thought of taking her out to dinner. She is the living exemplifica- tion of his theory, but when he appears in public it is with a woman who looks as if she had stepped out of one of the kangaroo pictures in the fashion magazines.’’ ‘It ought not to count in business,’’ said the woman in the white duck, ‘‘but it does. Everybody thinks the pretty typewriter is a joke, but she is not. It is almost absolutely impossible for an elderly and homely woman to get a place, no matter if she can write a million words a minute, and it is not because the men employing them are flirtatious, either. It is just because they like to see a pretty, fresh young girl, sitting around, and I do not know that I blame them. I like to see her myself.’’ ‘‘A woman who is at the head of a department in a big and _ successful business in New York told me a curious story along this line,’’ I said. ‘‘She was always exquisitely and fashionably dressed, her hair was modishly arranged, and in the color of her cheeks and the deepening of her eyebrows there are just the faintest suggestion of a help out to nature. We got quite well ac- quainted and at last she said to me frankly that no woman in business could afford to be old and ugly, no matter how clever she was, unless she was an out and out genius. ‘‘I had dingy hair and pallid cheeks and used to wearany sort of hand-me-down clothes,’ she said, ‘and thought that hard work and ability were all that counted. Finally it dawned on me one day that | was be- ing continually passed by for some smart-looking creature who would sweep in with a rattle of silk-lined skirts and a flash of diamonds. There were little favors to be extended, little advantages to be given, little business courtesies to be shown, and the pretty, fashionably dressed women got them every time. Whatever else I am, I am nota fool. 1 did not need to have a hint given me more than once. 1 went out and per- oxided my hair and bought me some good clothes, and—’ she waved her hand airily—‘and I amhere. Of course, 1 do not say i could have gotten here on the strength of my altered appearance alone, but I am dead sure! would never have gotten here without it.’’ “‘T don’t really think that men are such beauty worshipers or that they know how much distinction they make between a smart woman and a dowdy one. It is just unconscious cerebra- tion that makes them always extend the best courtesies that are on tap to the best looking and best dressed woman present,’’ put in the blue linen, ‘*And her brains?’’ | enquired. Lom wih Fare Summer Lamp A Cottage Lamp Just the thing for these warm nights. Always reliable; no complicated valves and gen- erators to clog. Every part sim- ple and _ practi- cal. Guaran- teed one year from date of sale. Exclusive territories as- signed to relia- ble a g ents. Write for cata- logues and rices. Manu- actured by Pentone Gas Lamp Co., 141 Canal St. Grand Rapids, Mich. 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. WuitTNzy, 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, Ch en Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, 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. og Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- ney, Dr. J. B. Book, E F. Peltier, Richard P. OOOOCOOC ene Harbeck, Chas. oy, Chas. C. Jenks. ® : DOODODOOOODOHODODHOHOOSOQOOODHDOOOODDHHOODDODOOO ZG. POPPPTTTYYTTNYT NL. we S{lryyryyyy — —_ CD “< =. nf Cet “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell you that they are only trying to get you to aid their WeWw Ot. SG tt EE ES Who urges you to keep public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. UL UNA Nd tht LUNdb LM LUA A NdkdAANAMNALUUNN Sapolio? “i it wel the revevoveeeevaveeeeynereveerervaneenoanee yoni UU [ , Aa — @o ®QOO@QDOOOOO DOQOQO®DO©OOHOHOOOOEOOOOOOOOO MII YY yy ee “~ At —— eT | for the clear color in soft cheeks. * sounds like a page from a ‘‘ Ladies’ —_— + , exhaustively. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 ‘*Bah,’’ cried the woman in the white duck. ‘‘He does not consider them at all in making up his estimate of her. A man always thinks of a woman’s brains as he does of a pocket medicine case—a thing to be kept out of sight and only useful in household emergencies. ’’ ‘‘At any rate,’’ I said, ‘‘if a woman has brains, whether she is good looking or not, she can make her way in the world, and—’’ ‘If she is pretty,’ murmured the only girl in the party, twirling a ring around her finger, ‘‘she won’t have to make it. Some man personally escorts her.’’ “‘Well,’’ I added comfortably, ‘‘ most of us are married and none of us would take a prize at the Pan-American beauty show contest, and—’’ ‘‘There’s no accounting for men’s tastes,’’ said the woman in blue linen, raising her cup. ‘‘God bless them.” Dorothy Dix. Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Face Powder. Out of every hundred women, in al] Save the poorer classes, probably eight- five use face powder, and the number of boxes of powder sold in the course of each year mounts far into the millions. One New York firm alone sold last year Over 300,000 boxes of a well-known face powder. Evidently women endorse the powder habit; and the woman who is blessed with a fair allowance of com- mon sense does no harm to her complex- ion by the habit, and confers a boon upon humanity by making herself better to look at than she would be without the powder. Fresh air, diet, rational bathing and exercise wili do wonders toward giving a woman a good complexion, but they will not always keep the shine from her nose and the high polish from her chin. A ‘‘shining morning face’’ may be all right in the proverbial school boy, but it is a lamentable thing ina young woman, Then, too, where there is one fine Complexion there are a thousand poor ones, and powder, used judiciously, will do them no harm and hides many of their defects. A well-known New York complexion specialist, whose clientele embraces nearly all the famous beauties of stage and society, is a living refutation of the theory (evolved by the masculine mind) that women have no sense of humor. For more years than she would care to count she has made a practice of preserving the orders and personal letters of her most important patrons, She has also formed a most interesting collection of newspaper clippings, giv- ing interviews with public women noted for their good looks. In these inter- views, the reporter inevitably asks the prima donna or actress or writer or lec- turer on physical culture, or whomso- ever she may be, to explain the secret of her radiant complexion and perennial youth. The celebrity explains. With slight variations the s¢crets all look alike to the casual reader. Exercise figures largely. Hot baths, cold baths, electric baths, massage are discussed Brown bread is a magic name. Milk is the elixir of life. Ten hour’s sleep, each day, is responsible It all Home Companion,’’ or Rules for Ra- tional Living. Almost one is tempted to be good in order to be beautiful. Now the aforesaid complexion spe- cialist has pasted these interviews in a big- book. Opposite each one she has ters which she herself has received from the subject of the interview. The re- sult is delightful reading for any one with a sense of humor. Madame Ay, on one page, tells the reporter of the diet, etc., by which she has retained her youth and beauty. On the opposite page is a letter from Madame A. : ‘Kindly send me six jars of the Per- fection Retiring Cream, two pots of the Supreme Lotion, three bottles of the Bleach, two boxes of Rose Powder, three of white, one of yellow. The last rouge suited me better than any you have ever made me. Let me have an- other jar of it and send mea tube of the lip salve.’’ Those who insist that women of intel- ligence do not use powder would have Sustained a severe shock had they, by chance, attended a lecture given in an Eastern city, some years ago, by an eminent authority upon chemistry, be- fore a scientific women’s club. The mental elite of the city were out in full force and all went merrily or at least intellectually, until the lecturer paused, in his illustrative experiments, and said: ‘‘I’m very sorry; but I must ask any of the ladies who use face powder con- taining bismuth to leave the room, dur- ing this experiment, as the gases I am about to set free have a peculiar affinity for bismuth and turn it purple.’’ Whereupon, with three exceptions, the assembled feminine seekers after truth rose and fled from the room. They were not positive about the bismuth, but they were taking no chances. The number of kinds of face powder upon the market is legion and the price is no criterion of merit. Many of the cheap powders, while not fine and deli- cate, are harmless. Some of the most expensive powders contain elements which render them disastrous to the skin. A good rice powder, made by a trustworthy firm, is generally liked, and innumerable women will use no other powder, but it is more likely to show upon the skin than other finer and softer powders, and, for that reason, many women object to it. With powder, as with soap, perfume is in many cases a danger signal; and, although certain perfumed powders are a luxury, they are usually to be avoided. The tinted powders, too, are, asa rule, more to be feared than the white. As for the manner in which the powder must be applied—that is a sub- ject in regard to which feminine pre- judice runs high. The woman who uses a chamois skin powder rag scorns the advocate of a soft linen cloth. The woman who powders with a piece of a white silk stocking would despise a powder puff, and the woman who by long use has reduced a red flannel Square to the ideal condition for a powder rag, would retire from society if the red flan- nel were lost. Save only her hairpins, there is really nothing to which a woman becomes so attached as to her powder rag. Taking them all into review the powder puff is probably best of the class, but it must be used warily. One can not rub the powder into one’s face with it. That is its fault and its chief merit. It is harder to remove oiliness and shine with a puff than with a rag, but the pores of the skin are less clogged by its use. Of course, the pores ought not to be filled with anything, but at least in the city that delightful condition of things is an impossibility, and the dermatologists insists that since one is bound to have her facial pores clogged pasted the telegrams and autograph let- been on the street an hour, it is infinite- ly better for the skin to dust a pure clean powder into the pores before start- ing out. The great fault with nine-tenths of the women who powder is that they do not cleanse the skin thoroughly after the use of powder. The carelessness with which many women wash their faces is held to be little short of criminal, ‘‘A casual dash of cold or warm water will not wash either dirt or powder from facial pores. The face should be washed carefully in moderately warm water, with a pure olive oil or castile soap or with almond meal. If a woman uses a soft wash cloth she should, at least oc- casionally, wash her face with a com- plexion brush, in order to cleanse the pores thoroughly. After rinsing the face in cool water, it is a good plan to ruba very small amount of cold cream well into the skin until it is quite absorbed and leaves no trace of oiliness. Then take a powder puff and dust a pure powder over the face, and one is in condition to defy inspection and weather. Of course, powder will not make a complexion good, but it will help along. It has given to women a solace which religion or love could not afford, and even were the doctrines which Mrs, Hunt has _for- mulated to be taken up as the war cry by other stern critics, women innumer- able will serenely powder their faces, and set those smiling monuments to the virtues of powder, steadily against re- form. Cora Stowell. —>- 2» ll judge a woman’s cooking by she sends to the church social. ——_-»s>t>__ Man is caught by his tongue and an Never the cake ox by his horns. B. B. B. Will you do it? PON 2 Ae VOR Some think but do not, Some do but think not. Neither succeed. One must both think and do, Or think another into doing. We think you ought to handle COFFEE Olney & Judson Grocer Co. Grand Rapids Give us an order. with dust and dirt by the time she has Has Just Arrived from Japan Nothing finer in the tea line ever came to this market. We talk Quatiry; THAT builds up your Tea trade. We'll do the rest. WORDEN GROCER CO., Importers Grand Rapids, Michigan iii ier 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ae Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. The egg receipts last week continued to show very serious effects of heat and many marks that lost but three or four dozen eggs to the case the week previous made a loss last week of from ten to fifteen dozen. In fact, nearly all receiv- ers reported their receipts to have lost heavier than the week before. Much Illinois, Indiana and Michigan stock was so poor as to be worth only 5@6c per dozen, some even lower. Marks that sold at 12c week before last were of a quality that commanded but 7@8c last week. The generally poor quality of the eggs caused dealers to sell freely at almost any price they could get to afford a clearance. One receiver stated he had more poor stock than at any time this season and he sold as fast as he could, as he considered it unwise to refuse any reasonable bid. The egg shippers may be having a hard time of it this summer, but the egg receivers’ position is-none the less enviable. *°* & The situation in Nebraska is pretty clearly defined in the following state- ment made in a letter written by an egg shipper of that State to a firm here: ‘‘In regard to current stock there is simply none coming in, or, in other words, 99 per cent. of them are rotten and it is not safe to ship what are good across he street because they would be rotten before they got there.’’ *x* * * There have been several complaints recently by merchants against a sort of bunco game that has been worked on them by a slick gang of egg buyers. These buyers, it is said, examine a lot of eggs, say of a quality that will com- mand g@loc, and accept them, giving in payment their checks. When these checks are presented for collection the banks say payment is refused, and the buyers explain that they found the eggs mostly rotten when they got them to their places of business and stopped payment on the checks. They state, however, that they will give $1.50 or thereabout for the stock. Their offers have generally been accepted by the merchants, for they knew if the eggs were returned to them they would be rotten, as the members of the gang would have them fixed up. One dealer who was a victim of these buyers said it was nota very slick scheme, yet one that had worked very well for the rea- son that some of the merchants, being anxious to keep their floors clean of this poor stock, took some chances with the buyers as they were the only ones who would purchase this grade of eggs, and he thought it would be well for receivers to look out for members of the gang. coe se The continued poor quality of the current receipts of eggs is giving hold- ers of storage stock a chance to work out some of their goods at very good prices. In fact, it has been so difficult for some dealers to get a sufficient sup- ply of current packed eggs of good qual- ity to meet the demands of their trade that they were obliged to draw on the refrigerators. A letter received Mon- day by one of our large egg dealers from Illinois states that the weather there was very hot on Saturday last and that the eggs were so poor as to make it hardly worth while to ship. Other sections, however, are having cooler weather and present collections of eggs should be of somewhat better quality. *x* * * ‘*T don’t know what we would do without the Jewish egg buyers,’’ re- marked a receiver recently. ‘‘We would very likely have had to throw a very large portion of our egg receipts in the river, for they were so poor in quality no other class of buyers would take them.’”’ * * * With eggs at 2@3c per dozen at coun- try points, farmers are not bothering their heads much about taking them to market, and it would have paid many collectors better if they had kept some of their shipments at home instead of paying freight on a lot of worthless stuff that in some cases was condemned by the Board of Health officers when it ar- rived here. The price on rotten eggs here is no higher than in producing sections.—N. Y. Produce Review. —_~> 0. ___ The American Hen. The American hen has toa certain degree come into her own. By the poultry press and the hen men of the agricultural press she has been crowned the ‘‘queen of moneymakers.’’ Statis- tics of the most imposing kind have been piled up in great array to demon- strate her earning capacity. While the census bureau has not attempted to col- lect poultry statistics as thoroughly as it might, and while the statistics bureau of the National Agricultural Depart- ment has not attached the importance to the industry which those most inter- ested in it think it deserves, still, there is sufficient reliable data at hand to show that the poultry products of the United States reach very nearly the $3,000,000 mark annually. Every year the setting hen and the busy incubator between them, turn out 3,500,000,000 chicks which live long enough to reach the market in one form or another, while the annual egg crop is fully 13,- 000, 000, 000,000 dozen. Great is the hen. She adds more to the wealth of the nation by $90,000, 000 than do all the coal mines in the coun- try. Cotton, corn and wheat are the only farm staples which exceed in value her output. She deserves to strut a little if she likes. >> ___ Will Mangosteen Supersede the Orange? From the Southern Clinic. There is every reason to suppose that before long a most delicious fruit, new to America, will dominate our markets; already a few specimens have found their way to seaboard cities. This is the mangosteen—native to the Moluccas and extensively cultivated in Ceylon and Java, and latterly introduced to Jamaica and other portions of British West Indies. It is about the size of a small orange, spherical in form, and when the rind is removed a juicy pulp, ‘‘white and soluble as snow,”’ is re- vealed possessing a most delicious flavor —something like a nectarine, with a dash of strawberry and pineapple com- bined. It promises, in a few years, to supersede the orange in popular favor, and attempts are already being made to introduce it into the Southern United States. ———_ << —___—_ Some jokes should be printed on thin oo so the reader could see through them. 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. + illic ha a et eta WATERMELONS CANTALOUPE, GEM AND OSAGE MELONS Fine fresh stock in constant supply at lowest prices. Send us your orders, We want to buy Cabbage, Potatoes, Onions and vegetables. Write us about anything you have to offer. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, 14-16 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 090000000 00 iCipe SLE RO LIE ALL Lee Soria yey, ya . eee pr Stam f ies Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. % #) ) 98 South Division Street Grand Rapids, [Michigan .° /' 4, 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) Price very -low. Write or ! © . i ¥ — 4 MILLETS, FODDER CORN, ¢ eine t L \ BUCKWHEAT, j} DWARF ESSEX r fe | ROPE, TURNIP SEED. ieee Prices as low as any house in the trade consistent with quality. Orders filled promptly. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., See S;ewers 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. MOSELEY BROS. | JOBBERS OF CLOVER, TIMOTHY SEEDS eal a ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS ee POTATOES ONIONS LEMONS ~~ 26, 28, 30 AND 32 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \ 6 ear s ‘ > ; acm \ LEADING PRODUCE HOUSE ON EASTERN MARKET F. J. SCHAFFER & CO. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, CALVES, ETC. BUY AND SELL We'll keep you posted. Just drop us a card. ae DETROIT, MICH. | BRANCH AT IONIA, MICH. a ’ _ ¥ b] oe ae = © ’ Sit * a 4 ¢ eine t L a ‘ 2 . bg Se + . > | ame ’ \ ¥ ‘ >» MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 The N ew York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence, New York, Aug. 1o—Witk the return of cooler weather the buyers are coming. They come singly and-in droves and the grocery district is beginning to be full of rush and roar from one end to the other. This time the report is that Brazil is ‘‘not a free seller of coffee at recent rates’’ and, asa consequence, we are supposed to have a firmer market here. The only reason for Brazil's ‘‘firmness’’ that could be discovered was that re- ceipts at primary points aggregated only 45,000 bags, against 61,000 bags at the same time last year. But no matter. It is certain that retailers are not in- dulging in the coffee-buying habit to any great extent and neither jobbers nor roasters were purchasing more than usual quantities. At the close Rio No. 7 is quotable in an invoice way at 5% @5%c. In store and afloat the amount aggregates I, 405,031 bags, against 687, - 348 bags at the same time last year. There is a business in the market for mild sorts that can be called active by comparison with what it has been, and good Cucuta is worth 7@7%c. East Indias are quiet. At the auction sales of tea about the same level of values has been main- tained, but on the street there is no ani- mation whatever. When one considers that the 70,000,000 people of this coun- try drink only 90,000,000 pounds of tea during a whole year, there is not apt to be a very exciting market. Matters move along in an even sort of way and, while dealers are not making the profits of former years, there is still a ““good living’’ for some of them. Sales made to the grocery trade are, asa rule, of small lots. Very little new business is being done in sugars. Brokers report quiet- ude and, witha lower basis for raws, the market is featureless. The sales going forward are of small lots as buyers evi- dently think a decline may set in at any time. The building of new refineries goes on apace and the battle for free Sugar is already began. Three cent sugar may yet be ours. There is bound to be a battle royal in Congress this winter. A good many small orders for rice are coming in and dealers generally report an improving market. With supplies light and enquiries becoming more nu- merous the immediate outlook is for well sustained prices. Prime to choice Southern, 54% @6c. Foreign sorts, as well as the domestic, are meeting with improved demand. Japan, 43/@5c. Spices are quiet and altogether the outlook is hardly as favorable as a month ago, and that was bad enough. Still, matters might be worse, and with the advancing season dealers are in- clined to think improvement will soon be noticed. Singapore pepper, 12%@ 123¢c; Amboyna cloves, 11%4c@12. Monotony prevails day after day in the molasses market. Stocks are light and quotations are decidedly firm. No changes in quotations have been made for some time. Syrups are in moder- ately active demand and prices are well held. Round lots of prime to fancy, 20@27c. The canned goods situation is about as active as last week and a large quan- tity of goods has changed hands. New York peas are worth from $1@1.50 and the supply is not overabundant. Balti- more advices are in the direction of higher prices and nobody seems to know when the end will be reached. Gallon apples are worth $3 a doz. and some packers are refusing even this. Salmon is an interesting article and, as prices are irregular, it is taken to mean that the trust has not yet got all the wheels oiled. There is less demand for tomatoes, but the market is neverthe- less in good shape, with New Jersey brands strong at 85@87%4c for No. 38. In dried fruits the firmness noted re- cently continues and dealers seem fairly well satisfied with conditions. The range of quotations is well sustained and in nothing is there any decline. Lemons have advanced about 15@25¢, owing, perhaps, to the warmer weather prevailing again. Sicilies are worth from $3.75@4.25. Oranges are decidedly firm for the better grades and prices range from $4@6 per box for California fruit, which is all there is. Bananas keep their ad- vance and Aspinwall firsts are worth $1.20; Limons, $1.80@1.85. Aside from the best grades, the butter market is rather weaker than a week ago. Sellers are willing to make slight concession if they find it necessary to effect sales and fancy Western imitation creamery will not bring over 17%c. Best Western creamery, 20%c, with sec- onds to firsts 1714@2oc; finest Western factory, 15@15 4c; renovated, 17@17 %c. Cheese is dull and possibly somewhat lower than a week ago. State full cream, large size, will not fetch over 9%c. Quite a good deal of stock will have to go into cold storage, as the quality is not of the keeping kind. Best grades of Western eggs are worth 17c and the supply is not very ample. Most of the stock is selling at 13@16c. The quantity of stock which is a little ‘‘off’’ and showing the effect of heat is large. Medium beans are scarce and worth $2.45 for choice; marrows, $3; pea, $2.55, and the same for red kidney. ——_>2>___ Raising Watermelons Without Seeds. From the Denver Post. Former State Senator Swink has been working on the seedless melon proposi- tion many years. During the long win- ter nights he sat up and wrestled with the great problem, ‘‘How can it be done?’’ Often daylight found him ex- amining minutely and microscopically the seeds he had cut and hacked and desiccated, in his efforts to determine how to get along without them. And early one morning about five months ago, so it is related, Mr. Swink came bounding into breakfast after one of his all-night sessions and startled his wife and children by shouting in a perfect spasm of glee: ‘‘I’ve got it! I can do it!’’ Then, it is said, he rushed away with- out explaining to his astonished family what on earth he meant. But Mrs. Swink is reputed to have said: ‘‘Never mind; father knows.’’ And as ‘‘father’’ stands quite well in the estimation of his family, the mere knowledge that he knew was quite suffi- cient for all. Swink selected certain kinds of seeds, planted them at certain unusual distances apart and began to watch for the first signs of their germi- nation. After spying on the plants as they grew, it became known that he had really put some momentous enterprise on foot. Later Mr. Swink brought and laid before his family and friends a huge, long green melon and, dividing it clear- ly at one stroke of his big knife, dis- played to them the pink interior of a splendid emerald sphere without a sin- gle seed. This was but the small begin- ning of a great end. Of course, Mr. Swink will not reveal the secret process by which he (cut off a melon’s hope of posterity and at the same time renders its fleeting presence here most beneficent and beloved. The seeds in the melons have always been considered a great drawback and while they do not act as complete neu- tralizers of the joys of such luscious gormandizing, they have by many been recorded as a serious menace to the lives of the eaters. ee Not Brought Up That Way. When on one of the recent hot days the lady of the house sent her maid out to do the marketing, she admonished her to get everything fresh, and said: ‘‘Now, Mary, get some String beans. Break one of them to see if they are fresh, and get two pounds of tripe, and pinch the tripe.’’ Mary looked blurted out: ‘‘Sure, I wasn't brought up that way, ma'am, and if you want anything pinched you’ll have to go out and do it yourself,’’ ——_>2—.___ When a dog howls under a man’s window at night and there is a gun handy, it is a sure sign of an early death—to the dog. indignant, and then Geo. H. Reifsnider & Co. Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs, Cheese 321 Greenwich Street, New York References: Irving National Bank of New York and Michigan Tradesman. 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. » > ~~ + ~ bd ” “ a 3 e ~<, ay os » * \ aa MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip — GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Ra ids; Sec- 1 A. W. Stitt, Jackson; easurer, JOHN W. Scuram, Detroit. : United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale; Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw. firand Rapids Council No. 131, U. ¢. T. Senior Counselor, W R. COMPTON; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker, Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. Boyp PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. W. F. Gallinger (Sherwin-Williams Co.) has returned to Grand Rapids after a six weeks’ summer vacation, which was spent on a farm near North Branch. He has taken apartments at the Plaza. Daniel Cleland (Ideal Clothing Co.) is taking a fortnight’s vacation from business cares and improving the op- portunity to visit the Pan-American and New York City. He is accom- panied by his wife. L. W. Wolcott, Northern Indiana rep- resentative for the Sherwin-Williams Co., who has been ill at the home of his brother-in-law, R. V. Goodremont, for the past two weeks, has recovered sufficiently to return to his home at In- dianapolis. Geo. Pierce, Michigan representative for Burroughs Bros., of Baltimore, was somewhat disconcerted at Manistee one day last week by being mistaken for a member of the State Pardon Board by a hackman. It is claimed that. George turned green and pink and several other colors during the interview. Arthur H. Fowle (W. F. McLaughlin & Co.) sustained several bad cuts on his left hand while traveling on a Pere Marquette freight train a few days ago. He was about alighting from the train at Jennisonville to take the interurban into the city when the train stopped so suddenly that he was thrown against a window, breaking the glass and cutting deep gashes in several fingers. ——_> 0. _____ The Danish Method of Handling Eggs. The benefits of co-operation applied to the egg trade appear in a striking manner in the results obtained in Den- mark. The Danish - producers have founded everywhere throughout the country co-operative associations that propose to furnish fresh eggs, of good quality, for exportation. The majority of the producers are enrolled therein. Regulations of remarkable ingenuity as- sure the regularity of the operation of such associations. For example,in order to ascertain by what member a bad egg has been delivered, it is required that the shell of every egg shall bear the name of the producer marked witha rubber stamp. Large numbers of depots are established near the railways, and to these every producer is obliged to bring his eggs at least three times a week, The deliveries at each depot are controlled by a special employe, who has the right to refuse eggs that are several days old. The others are class- ified according to their size. This double operation of examination and classification is effected automatically by means of a very ingenious apparatus, which consists of a dark chamber for the examination by transparency, and a long table provided with bars for the classification. . An endless, jointed, metallic belt carries the eggs in the first place into the dark chamber, where they are ex- amined by means ofa lamp, and thence to the table, where they are classified. With-this apparatus five girls can class- ify and pack twelve cases of 100 eggs in thirteen minutes. The English have improved this machine by separating the examination from the classification. The eggs, placed in a slightly inclined receptacle, enter cups jointed to the endless belt. This latter, in carrying them into the boxes, gives them a ro- tary motion. The belt is actuated by a small hand wheel placed to the right of the examiner. To the left of the latter there is a drawer designed for the re- ception of the defective eggs. Owing to such an arrangement, the eggs are examined very rapidly. The operator, instead of examining the eggs one by one through the light, has merely to cast a glance at the rows that are passing over a lamp, in order to eliminate the bad ones and leave the others. The belt, continuing its mo- tion, leaves the box with the examined eggs, and discharges the latter on the other side of a long inclined table. The classifying apparatus is very sim- ple. It consists of an inclined table, one of the extremities of which has a certain length of its surface covered with felt. It is here that the eggs are deposited, to be afterward slid over the glass surface of the table. The latter is provided here and there with parallel bars that arrest the different sized eggs upon their passage. The girls who slide the eggs over the table remove those that lodge between the bars and place them in special receptacles that flank each of the spaces. The manufacturers of the new apparatus claim that four girlscan classify and pack with it 1,440 eggs in ten minutes, The Danish depositories provided with such apparatus are capable of rap- idly and surely inspecting the eggs that are brought to them by producers and of shipping only fresh and perfect ones to London. They are, moreover, held responsible to the consumer and are heavily fined in case of shipment of de- fective eggs. The English highly ap- preciate the results of aso well-ap- pointed organization. The Danish ship- ments to London are daily increasing, especially tothe Aerated Bread Com- pany, which has more than four hun- dred creamery establishments in the English capital. ——_+2.___ Apple Crop 46 Per Cent. of an Average Crop. At the annual convention of the Na- tional Apple Shippers’ Association, held at Toronto last week, the compiled ap- ple crop report for America and Canada showed an average of 46 per cent., as follows: Ontario, 35, good; Nova Scotia, vase good; New Jersey, 40, fair; Pennsyl- vania, 40, fair; New York, 20, poor; Maryland, 50, inferior: Virginia, 65, fair; West Virginia, 65, good; Ken- tucky, 35, poor; Tennessee, 35, poor to fair; Ohio, 40, poor; Indiana, 40, poor; Illinois, 4o, fair; Missouri, 45, good; Arkansas, 50, good; Kansas, 45, fair; Nebraska, 45, good; Colorado, 85, good; lowa, 25, poor; Wisconsin, 15, fair; California, 90, fine; Oregon, 80, good: Washington, 85, good; New England, 25, fair. These figures are based on the aver- age crops of the past five years. Re- ports also show there will be but few cider apples and that the evaporators will get little or nothing. There are yet in the freezers of the country 500 cars of evaporated apples to be carried over, PREMIUM SCHEMES. Excess to Which They Are Sometimes Carried. The big tobacco manufacturers who work premium schemes with their plug tobacco have brought an awful ocean of undesired tobacco juice into the world. The P. Lorillard Co., of Jersey City, one of the biggest concerns in the busi- ness, are using whole quarter pages in the city dailies to push their premium schemes. Here are a few of the legions of things you can get if you chew enough : A razor, if you consume 60 plugs. A fountain pen, if you consume 150. Six teaspoons, if you consume 200, A pair of stylish corduroy trousers after you chew 450 plugs. A mantel clock, if you consume goo. A counter scale for chewing 1,800, A sewing machine, for chewing 2, 500, To those of my readers who are mathematically inclined, I should be interested in knowing how many times a man must expectorate while chewing for a pair of corduroy pants. I should think if he lived in a city, and stayed around home much, there would be water in his cellar all the time. I knew of an old lady once who be- came greatly exercised over a premium scheme that a big tea firm started. They offered a new set of dinner dishes after you had bought so many quarter pounds of tea. The old lady needed a new set of dishes, so she started in to drink tea for one. She drank tea for breakfast, dinner, supper and_ before she went to bed, and between meals whenever she could crowd it down. By the time the poor old soul had con- sumed enough tea to get the dishes, she had drunk herself to death, and couldn't use ‘em. That’s the way I should think it would be with the man who sstarted in to win a pair of those stylish corduroy pants. By the time I had chewed up 450 plugs of Lorillard’s Best, I don’t believe I would be interested in whether the pants bagged in the seat or not. Still, it is comforting to think that you could be buried in ’em. Women are the worst premium fiends in the world, premium men tell me. Wouldn't you like to belong to a family where the mother of it believed in get- ting things for her house by premiums? Imagine us all sitting comfortably at the supper table some night as happy families should. After. the dessert mother says: ‘‘l need a new sewing machine, and I want you all to help me get it. The P. Lorillard Co. offer to give a splendid machine to all who chew only 2,500 plugs of their Loril- iard’s Best. It seems to me that every member of this family ought to do something to help me get that machine. ”’ Only 2,500 plugs—what a series of long, happy chews stretch before us! I can see Grandpap and little Willie star- ing hopelessly at each other. Neither one chews tobacco, but mother needs the machine, I-have no doubt that lots of little Willies have learned the tobacco-chew- ing habit on account of their mothers’ itch for premiums. Mamma yearns for new parlor curtains, and little Wilie isn’t doing anything just now, so he is started in to help chew out the curtains. In some paper the other day I saw a story about a dog that chewed tobacco. What a cinch an animal like that would be for one of these economical ladies who like to get premiums! Why, I would keep old Rover working all the time, if 1 owned him. I should see that he kept me in sleeve buttons and alarm clocks; in fact, I wouldn't give him a thing to eat but Lorillard’s Best. I wonder if all of my readers realize what an easy way of getting the neces- Saries of life this tobacco premium scheme offers. You want a new counter scale, say. To get that you've got to chew only 1,800 plugs. Say you have five members in your family: Grandpap, mother, little Willie, yourself and Brid- get. That means a mere bagatelle to each one—only 360 plugs—a few nights’ pleasant work! You want to go about the thing in a business-like way. It is best to buy the whole 1,800 plugs at once, then you’ll have ’em inthe house, and can bite a hunk off whenever you like. Give each one his 360, and make a rule that each must chew twelve plugs a day. Make that rule apply to Grand- pap, too—don’t let him off to bed until he’s got rid of his dozen, no matter how he begs.—Stroller in Grocery World. —__>2.___ Big Crop of Arizona Olives. The annual harvest of olives has just begun in Arizona, and the ranchers who planted the olives only ten. or twelve years ago are now being re- warded by the biggest crop they ever gathered. The trees began to bear about six years ago, and the orchards have been constantly enlarging. The nne flavor of the fruit and the quality of the oil have established the reputation of the Arizona olive, and there is a good demand for it. The California indus- try is considerably older than the Ari- zona industry, the olive orchards there being now worth nearly $1,000,000, There is hardly a part of the State without its olive orchard; fifteen or twenty mills are producing olive oil, us- ing eight and a half pounds of fruit to make a quart of oil. There are now about 25,000 acres of olive trees in Cal- ifornia and over r,000,000 trees, many of which have not yet come into bear- ing. se 2>—___ A New Industry. From Gunton’s Magazine. The road engineer has _ gradually created a new industry in this country in the past ten years. His profession is one that offers extensive inducements in many directions, and bright minds find employment therein for talents that are of the highest order. Communities all over the country are awakening to the fact that road building is a science just as much as railroad engineering or bridge construction, and that roads can not be built by those not thoroughly familiar with the question. The mere placing of broken stones on a roadbed and rolling them in does not produce a good road any more than the piling up of dirt in a continuous bank produces a good roadbed for the steam engines and cars. There is workmanship of a high- ly technical character that counts, and scientifically trained minds must meet new conditions and adapt the road to different needs and circumstances. Reserved for the Boys In view of the congested condi- tion of the Petoskey hotels durin the summer season, I have add thirty-tive rooms to the Imperial Hotel which I have set apart for the use of the commercial trade at $2 er day, although my ~~ Pane rate is $2.50 to $4. 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. 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 Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - A. C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - JOHN D. MutkR, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905 President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Secre HENRY w ; HEIM : nae, W. P. Dory, Detroit. Examination Sessions. Sault Ste. Marie, August 28 and 29. Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association. President—CHas. F. MANN, Detroit. retary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit Treasurer—W. K. SCHMIDT, Grand Rapids. Is an Interchange of Board Certificates Desirable? That a man competent to practice pharmacy in Massachusetts is likewise competent to practice it in Michigan or California, is a statement which can scarcely be refuted. Recognizing its truth many people have been urging for years that there should be a universal reciprocity between the state boards of pharmacy—that one board should ac- cept the certificate of any other in lieu of an examination, thus doing away with the hardships entailed upon the licensee of having to pass another ex- amination in case he should move to another state. But between these two propositions there is a distinction with a very great difference. A man who is truly competent should of course be al- lowed to practice anywhere: but the mere fact of registration is by no means always an evidence of competency. There is a great discrepancy in the standards and requirements of the different boards of pharmacy ; some are much lower than others; some boards are less capable than others of really discovering whether applicants come up to their requirements or not; before a number of the boards it is comparative- ly easy for the quiz-compend crammer to sail by with colors flying; and until from out this chaos something like definiteness and uniformity has been realized it is folly to talk about the uni- versal interchange of certificates. It would be unfair to the competent men in the calling ; it would lower a general standard which now is not sufficiently high; and it would afford the public health and safety an insufficient degree of protection. This seems about the position held by most of the speakers in a discussion of the subject which developed at last year’s meeting of the Ohio State Phar- maceutical Association. It was sug- gested by one member that the supply of good registered men in Ohio was inadequate, that this was due to the fact that the necessity of passing the board examination prevented men in near-by states from coming into Ohio, and that consequently the law should be so amended that the Board of Pharmacy wouid be allowed to accept the certifi- cates of other state boards regardless of whether those boards accepted the Ohio certificate in return or not. This prop- osition was opposed by every one of the six or seven speakers in the resulting discussion. Professor Beal pointed out that it would result in ‘‘encouraging pharmacists of other states to come into Ohio and discouraging any from going out.’’ Professor Arny declared that “‘any man outside of this State who is afraid to come up before the Ohio board is not the kind of pharmacist we want!’’ Mr. Ogier, the Secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, asked if it were fair to the young men who had passed the rigid examination of the Board to put into competition with them men who had been subjected to an inferior test in another state. “‘I hope,’’ he declared, ‘‘that this Association will have more good, sound sense than to entertain any such proposition !’’ We are gratified that the Ohio Asso- ciation had the ‘‘good, sound sense’’ which Secretary Ogier called upon so vigorously. It is entirely probable that in a few instances hardship is worked upon deserving men in compelling them to submit to a new examination when they desire to enter another state. But this hardship is insignificant when compared with the harm that would be worked were interchange of certificates made general. Moreover, as Professor Arny and one or two other speakers in the Ohio discussion declared, a man who is really competent ought to have no trouble in passing a board examina- tion at any time. —Bulletin of Pharmacy. —_—_—~>-2 Sterilizing Sponges. As is well known, it is a rather diffi- cuit matter to completely _ sterilize sponges; in fact, when boiled, whether in pure water or in alkaline or carbol- ized water, the sponges lose their elas- ticity and absorbent power. Elsberg has, however, found a method of perfectly sterilizing them without in any way im- pairing their properties. The sponges ate first immersed fortwo days in di- luted hydrochloric acid to remove all calcareous matter, then carefully washed with cold water, and boiled for fifteen minutes in a solution of the following composition : Potassa, I part. Tannic acid, 3 parts. Water, I00 parts. It only remains to rinse the sponges in a suitable antiseptic solution, and to preserve them ina 5 per cent. carbolic acid solution. —_—_>-_ 2» —_____ Cement for Porcelain Letters. The failure of some cements to hold is due to the difference in the rate of expansion of the glass and porcelain. A cement which is likely to overcome the difficulty is made as follows: Slake fifteen parts of fresh quick lime in twenty parts of water. Melt fifty parts of caoutchouc and fifty parts of linseed oil varnish together, and bring the mix- ture toa boil. While boiling, pour the liquid on the slaked lime, little by lit- tle, under constant stirring. Pass the mixture, while still bot, through mus- lin, to remove any possible lumps, and let cool. It takes this cement two days to set compietely but when dry, it makes a joint that will resist a great deal of pulling, whether from expansion or contraction, or force acting directly (as a wedge) to pull apart the pieces united with it. By thinning the mix- ture down with oi! of turpentine, a bril- liant, powerfully adhesive varnish is obtained. ———_>_# +> ___ Formula for Barbers’ Hair Tonic. (A) Tincture cantharides, 3 drs. Tincture capsicum, 1 dr. Ammonia, 2 drs. Glycerine, 2 drs. Cologne water, to make 16 drs. (B) Tincture cantharides, 4 drs. Ammonia water, 4 drs. . Rose water, 2 ozs. Glycerine, 4 ozs. Bay rum, 9g ozs. (C) Tincture capsicum, 3 drs. Tincture cantharides, 3 drs. Aromatic spirits ammonia, 1% ozs. Oil lavender, 1 dr. Tincture cinchona, 2 ozs. Alcohol, to make 16 ozs. H. W. Sparker. —_2302.—_ _ - Don’t think for a minute that because a man has done you a favor he is yn- der everlasting obligations to you, How to Mix Paints. The following table will be found serviceable as showing how simple pig- ments are to be mixed for producing compound colors: —o white, yellow ochre and red. Chestnut—Red, black, and yellow. Chocolate—Raw umber, red and black. Claret—Red, umber and black. Copper—Red, yellow and black. Dove—White, vermilion, blue and yellow. Drab—White, yellow ochre, red and black. Fawn—White, yellow and red. Flesh—White, yellow ochre and _ ver- milion. Freestone—Red, black, yellow ochre and white. French Gray—White, Prussian blue and lake. Gray—White lead and black. Gold—White, stone ochre and red. Green Bronze—Chrome green, black and yellow. Green Pea—White and chrome green. Lemon—White and chrome yellow. Limestone—White, yellow ochre, black and red. Olive—Yellow, blue, black and white. Orange—Yellow and red. Peach —White and vermilion. Pearl—White, black and blue. Pink—White, vermilion and lake. Purple—Violet, with more red and white. Rose—White and madder lake. Sandstone—White, yellow ochre, black and red. Snuff—Yellow and Vandyke brown. Violet—Red, blue and white. In the combinations of colors required to produce a desired tint, the first-named color is always the principal ingredient, and the others follow in the order of their importance. Thus, in mixing a limestone tint, white is the principal ingredient, and red the color of which the least is needed. The exact propor- tions of each color must be determined by experiment with a small quantity. It is best to have the principal ingred- ient thick,and add to it the other paints thinner. —___»¢——__—__ The Drug Market. Opium—lIs dull and slightly lower. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is firm at the decline. Alcohol—Has again advanced 2c, on account of higher price for corn. An- other advance is expected. Very high prices will probably rule during the next year. Whiskies—For the same reason, are firm and advancing. Cocoa Butter—Has declined, as usual at this time of the year. Higher prices are looked for later on. Menthol—Stocks are light and there have been two advances since our last report. Prices are very firm. Nitrate Silver—Is lower on account of reduced price for metal. Essential Oils— Peppermint is stead- ily advancing on account of light crop. Pennyroyal is very firm at the recent advance. Sassafras is scarce and has advanced. Cedar leaf is in better sup- ply and has declined. Insect Flowers—Have advanced in the primary markets. Higher prices will rule for powder during the coming season. Gum Camphor—Has -declined ic per lb. Linseed Oil—Has declined gallon. 10¢C per ———_> + ~.___ Saccharin for Sugar. From a German government report it appears that the German sugarmakers have become much worried over the pos- sibility of saccharin taking the place of sugar for commercial purposes. It seems that there is in Germany an? im- perial law regulating the trade in artifi- cial sweet stuffs, which was enacted for the very purpose of restricting the sale of saccharin. Now, it appears, this law not only does ndt restrict, but it has really increased the sale of the artificial sweet. ‘ According to the report the saccharin manufactured in Germany last year was the equivalent in sweetness of over 50,000 metric tons of sugar. The Ger- man sugar makers have figured that the sale of this quantity of saccharin pre- vented the sale of 50,000 metric tons of sugar, and, therefore, caused a loss to the Imperial Treasury of $2,370,000. The sugar manufacturers of Germany are evidently not so much interested in how much they were out of pocket by the sale of saccharin, and now propose that the sugar manufacturers of Ger- many demand the enactment of a law which should require that saccharin should be sold only as a drug, and that a tax be imposed upon it sufficiently heavy to discourage Germans from buy- ing the stuff for anything but medicinal purposes. 0 Dying in poverty is easy enough. It’s living in poverty that comes hard on a fellow. —— -- — -©- ~<-- -- Some old-fashioned folks, like ballet girls, keep their fortunes in their stcck- ings. 9999900083, ; Fred Brundage : pS Druggist & i 32 and 34 Western Avenue Muskegon, Mich. School Supplies ; and Stationery Complete lines now ready. Wait for our travelers. You will not be disappointed. SEECCEEEEE CEEEESECE FREE Consultation, Examination You are under no obligation to continue treat- ment. Dr. Ra n established in the [ nkin has same office ten years and his practice is sufficient evidence of his skill. Catarrh, Head and Throat Is the voice husky? Do you ache all over? Is the nose stopped up? Do you snore at night? Does the nose bleed easily? Is this worse toward night? Does the nose itch and burn? Is there pain in front of head? Is there pain across the eyes? Is your sense of smell leaving? Is the throat dry in the morning? Are you losing your sense of taste? Do you sleep with the mouth open? Have you a pain behind breast bone? Does the nose stop up toward night? Go or write to DR. C. E. RANKIN, Powers’ Opera House Block Grand Rapids, Michigan Graduate of University of Michigan and Illinois School of Electro-Therapeutics Mail Treatment Dr. Rankin’s system of “Home Treatment” is well known and highly efficient. Send for free symptom blank. 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. 7. ” pp» ¢-¥- wo > y “" | WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Menthol. ni. scie os $9 Set Seldlitz Mixture... “@ 22 | Linseed, pure raw.. 72 ro ° biel @ 18 Linseed, aE Advmmesd—On Peppermint, Menthol, Alcohol. Morphig Mal.” - ; 1 300 2 20 ar OPE is: @ 30| Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 ‘hn eclined—Gum Camphor, Ou Cedar Leaf, Linseed Oil, Nitrate Silver. Moschus Canton.... @ 40 re ~— Spirits Turpentine.. 41 46 a eal _ ce 65@ 80 snuit Scotch, DeVo's @ 41 Paints BBL. LB. 4 ‘ — Conium _ pecs 60 | Seillz Co.. @ 50] Os Sepia....... ae 350 37 Soda, [on a... mu Red Aceticum . 8 | Copaiba . oe 180 1 25 | Tolutan.... @ 50| Pepsin Saac, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. oa 9 | Ochre, yon os Benzolcum, Gama” 70@ 75 Ecchi es iatng home 1 4 1 60} Prunus virg @ 50 oD “ aos tateeine os @ 1 00/Soda, Carb... AG 2 | Ochre, jalen — i 2 os ea a OOM sees 17 S......... 1:00@ 1 10 Tinct leis Liq. N.N.36 gal. Soda, Bi-Carb.../1. : Carbolicum .......... 42 | Erigeron ........2.!) 1 10@ 1 20 oo : ae OS Eee’ cenumorcial.. 244 73608 aoe : = oa on 1 20 | Aconitum Napellis R eo eee i aaa @ : = Soda, Ash........... 3%4@ 4 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 @ Soda, Sulphas.. @ ~~ 2/ Vermilion, rime yb » Hydrochior.........” 3@ 5 /| Geranium, ounce @ 7| Aconitum Napellis F 50 | Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85! Spts. Cologne.. Ameri trocum........ 22. 8@ 10 Gossippit, ‘Sem. gal. 50@ 60 0: Fes S Pil Hydrarg...po.8 @ 50|Spts. Ether Co...) 50 * 3S et ee 108 75 a fae ae 14) 0 i. 50 | Piber Aiba” PO. a , Spte, Myris Doi a. | omg in a a 2 : reen, Peninsular 1 Saipan aR | mors 1 $OR 2 Atop Hatiosa, =| Pee gt) Sole Vintec wont | Teng beg ae le tae Bipar’.°°°. 1 xq 1 a0 | Auranti Cortex...... 50 | Pulvis poe 6 Oi 1 30@ 1 60/Spts: Vin Rect.bgal —@ | Whiting white Span °™% "9g a onin Mee PB alps. RINMRRIESE "pauper of sa/ ieee: gS mmonia ulphur, S a 6, Paris, hn “(> ggumspgae en ag oie 28 aaa | Geactti, vs au Go| Sulphur Roll". 2g of | Wale, Faia ag, © Aqua, 20 deg... Agee 6@ 8 Li ail. : 00 | Capsicum .. 50 | Quinta SP aw . amarinds .......... 8@ 10} _ cliff.. @140 ak aa. eS Liu da, ‘ai: . z aan 7%] Galta’ Sena” = 2 a rane... 2 30 Universal. Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 Chioridum..--2 22... 12@ 14 96@ 1 02 | Cardamon Co... _ | Quinia, N.Y...) 34@ 44| Vanilla... 2222227." 9 oo@ie 09 Varnishes 5 L Aniline rind. : soot 1 00 Castor n= -nooseeece 00 Rubla Tinetorum.. 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph..../. 77! 7@ an See oS oe es Oils a ~ t eee Bae chona Denne one. raconis... seteceecs 1 70 to coos vo Fam] Golub ccc | Ray Me $e wit... ?%5 O%%| Conch Body 2B 8 sc oanes, | 2 | Casam sai - Sapo S accieeace @ 2 Lard, Oxtra.... 0... 60 70) Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 . Cubebee........ po, 25 2 24 ere omar 1 50@ 1 60 — Co.. as Pe Rie tesanwn we 45 50| Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75 i Sroweseccceee 6@ 8] Lhyme............... 40@ 50} Visitalls............. ; eee 708 1 75| Thyme, opt.... 21.7) “2 1 60 Fert ¢ “cit se 50 3 oe ‘eidadsiiniin Theobromas ...._._. BE 20) Gert oridum - = Copatba.........-.-- 50@ 5b Potassium Gentian G 60 eee 1 86 | Bi-Carb.............. 15@ 18| Guiaca.... +}e 50 Terabii, Canada.. 60 a a cael 13@ 15/| Guiaca ammon 60 Sees 50 —— -- a 2@ 57 ae 50 . Sicha Garb one e-o-e- “i ae 1 15 a 75 Abies, Canadian..... 18 Chloris. ii jo — ' = a a Cassi... ......+. 5.2. 12 | Iodide... 000202277: 2 2 40 | Lobelia .. ui 50 r v Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure $ a 50 Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15/| Nux Vomica.. 50 er A ga Myri . 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7 WiOP.. 75 12| Potass Nitras.. 6@ = 8: | Opii, comphorated.. 50 — rae 12 Prussiate Bere sees 23@ 26{| Opii, deodorized..... 1 50 mW: s So cs le 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18| Quassia ............. 50 Ulmus.. .po. Pera 15 Radix oe 50 Extractum Mere eine wesc on 50 Aconitum............ 4 $y —— Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 25 Altes «00000020000 20@ 33 | Sangulnaria..... Bo Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28 30 | Anchusa . SN 0@ 12 Stra an : 50 Hematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12] Arum po.. —. £< See 89 a Heematox, 18........ 1 14] Calamus. 40 | Valerian’ 77 . 69 Heematox, Re a. 14 15 Gentiana .. eee ‘po. “45 = 15 Veratrum Ve rid a 59 le Heematox, 4S....... 16 17 | Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Zingiber eride... 50 ae did Ferru Hydrastis Canaden. @ 7% aa 0 15 | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 8 Miscellaneous 2 95 | Hellebore, Alba, b Po. 12@ 15| Aither, Spts. Nit.2 F 30@ 35 + 75 | Mula, po.. .. 18@ 22| ther, Spts. Nit.4F 3@ 38 49 | LPecac, po. 3 60@ 3 75} Alumen............. 24@ 3 15 | itis plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40] Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 2 Jalapa, 1 Pr ee 25@ 30 ———. orem 4@ 50 Ei ce ele mon 0. 5 per ewt.. 80 Podophaites: po.. — = Antimonie Potass T “00 50 W : h ae? 7 | Biel. on, vetoes 7@ 1 00 | Antipyrin.... @ 2 € wish to assure our customers that Flora Bhely pv.......2.". magpie | Argent! oe @ 50 * © Arnica. 30. s 1S = Spigella e 35@ 88 an teed ie = a 2 h lI ‘thi h Shien 22 ria. -po. 18 | Balm uds. Authemis- tes sess sees _ = semmets.--D “* @ . on sais Wwe S a HS Season — Ss. 10W- an _even more > F< Folia Smli, ii inl i 65 Caloiun Chior is. @ 9 a 7m: on cinalis alcium Chlor., %s.. 10 Barosma............. 45@ 48] Smila: @ = Calcium Chlor., Bs. 2 12 com lete A f H lid G d h 4 Cassia a Acutifol, Tin- ee Sella , Bo. 35 10@ 12 Cantharides, Rus.po @ 30 1p! ine oO ollday OOdS — t nan last . See: eee ¢ Zlaue oe =: a + aleriana,Eng. po. 30 95 | Capsici Fructus , po @ . . and 4S ....... oe 2g 20 Valeriana, German. un 29 | Caryophyllus. pe 15 12@ 14 year. Our Mr. Dudley will call and dis- Oya Urat,.... 3.5... .. 8 10 | Zingibera.......... 14@_~=:16 | Carmine, No. @ 3 00 . Gummi Zingiber j... 25@ 27| Cera Alba. . 50@ = iBS Acacla, Ist picked... 65 — 8 = l 1 h Acacia’ 2d picked... 45 Anisum i ‘se a play Samples as soon as t ie new lines are Acacia, 3d picked .. 35 | Apium (giavéieons). 13@ 15] Centraria............ @ 10 TG — sifted sorts. = = Meee 4@ 61! Cetaceum........ ||. @ 45 cacia, po........... 45@ 65) Carul.....277", Po. ‘15 10@> 11| Chloroform 22.2”. i Se a i | Cardio °°."° 1 dag 1 to | Chore, sgl , 3m complete. Our customers can place their Aloe, Cape....po. 15 12 d rene iri po. 40 30 8@ 10 — Hyd Crst.... 1 40@ 1 65 Ammoniac. Del cies 60 lie Caen Pp. & WwW 3 = Assafetida.. “po. id 45 Seta 15g | 18/ Cinchonidine, Germ. 38 _ 38 | entire orders with us this season at one Catechu, 1s 13| Foeniculum.......... @ 10 Some lista dis. a _ ee —— se Los aeeal - ee pe... ... 7@ 9! Creosotum P @ 3 | i ; sues a BE | j j Catechu, 48........ AHL gd. bua” ef 8] ree “pbL 75 @ 2 | time if they wish, saving the time and Eup orbium...po. 35 40 | Lobelia .....0...0.... 45@ 50| Creta, precip...... @ 11 Galbanum........... 00 on Canarian.. Sie | Greta aes. @ 8 Gamboge ......... po 70 - 4%4@ 451 Crocus ... 5@ 30 | bl f ] ki on. oe 30 | Sinapis “Aiba” - 2 mes - 7 = _ trouble of looking over several smaller Kino........p0. $0.75 75 | Sinapis Nigra. . 11 12 ec ie @ oa Sulph. 2.227077 644@s8 | ~~ aa ae eee pectic cies g . = — noep ere aerate 7@ 10 | a aa Frumenti, W. D. Se i ry oon. 6. 49005.00 ‘oa? = Frumenti, D: F. a 2 we 3 5 mene al numbers. = = lines. b\ Shella, bieached..:. 40@ 45 | Frumenti.. 1 25@ 1 50| fervor’ PO: — \ Tragacanth....-..-.- 60@ 90 | Juniperis Go..0.'T... 1 65@ 2 00 | ETB --P0. 90 85@ 90 coo snare Juniperis CO... 1 75@ 3 50| Gare White. mere — | .E.... 1 90@ 2 10 ss Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...“ 1 Gambier -— 2 - Gupatorium..oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto. 2.77.7 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, Cooper: -.." > ¢ lia ......0Z. Pkg 25 | Vini Alba....222. 2277 1 25 2 00 | Gelatin, French... - aon --0Z. pkg 28 Snor Glassware, flint,box 75 & 5 ~~ | > Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 ae box 70 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 | Florida smnaps' wool 1@ 13 —“eeeeee oz. pkg 39 | carr 2 50@ 2 75 - 2 = rf - tum V 02. pkg = | ee sheeps wool “ eee ier = ° ° lon 3 a | fae ‘}|/ Hazeltine & Perk ers ca —_ ? Humulus............ 55 +p - naeeeae Pe eg 1 w| Hydrate Chics Miia "G15 aZeitine €rKINs Calcined, Pat........ - 60 Extra yellow s poop? Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @_ 90 Carbonate, rae... 5. 8@ 20| wool, age..... @ 1 25 | Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @110 he Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20] Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @ 1 20 D C U ( O ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 2] carriage. @ 100} HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60 g ey Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @ 7 = drar a eee ee @ 8& -) * — absinthium......... 6 0@ 7 00 “ane e140 —. aeae Ces on Syrups eens, Resubi 40@ 3 60 G d R : d M : h : ¥ ke 2 00 aa ss 60@ 3 85 aTran apiqdas, ichigan 10@ 2 20| Aurantt Gortex..2/:. «5 | LUpuln sg & Sy 2 65@ 2 85 DEF ...eeeecceee «= @ BO] Ma acis 65@ 75 . 85 | I cae eas @ 60| Liquor Arsen et Hy- @ | Rhel Aroai””"7""""” @ bo iis mromsArinit mp 2 aes. Oedar............... @@ &| Bhel Arom.......... quorPotassArs 10@ 12 7? Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@ 3 = Sele ene g 60 | Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% o0e e808 -sereres 50 fT pees cove SQ, 60 | os cenanenatt 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 Some Canned Goods Seeded Raisins Rolled Oats Flour Pickles Jelly Hand Picked Beans DECLINED Index to Markets { 2 By Columns AXLE GREASE | hain j doz. gross | NO.3...-....-.- 222 0.-+-- +++. Aurora. . 6b ee ee ee a 110 OC te Ol ae OL 1 75 A | Diamond 102007222707. % 4%! BUTTER COLOR Akron a. dpe eos . | Frazer's 9 00: W., RB. & Co.’s, 15¢ size... a taeeeeecees : oe|~.. R. & Co.’s, Be size.... ee Axle Grease............ ile 1} | wiectrie a a a B | Electric Light, 168....... .... 12 Bakin Powder. en a 1| e Lignt, ne rng | — so | Paraffine, ie 1 | Wicking .. ae : CANNED Goons ; ples Butter Color.........-........ 2 - tient os Cc i | Galions, standards... 3 00 NN ie occ be pcc tees eos 14 - Blackberries eee tere ec kay 2) | Standards eae 80 Canned Goods................ 2| Mica, tin bones. . 4B 9 00 Sensi © ap cerry eeceeses erree : Paragon .. oe CW oe 1 00@1 30 Chooses IS 3) BAKING PowpER | Red Kidney..." 136 8 OS seed — 85 SR ee ope ee ede 3 i Blueberries — BO sce, ; Standard .......-....-. 85 ey ud ei ieee ocd ures 3 Brook Trout a : | 21b. cans, Spiced.......... 1 90 ieee ec ceeee a Condensed Milk.............. 4 lames. Coupon Books................ 4 — a : = OE 4 e Neck. eae ieee Teeter .... ....-....... 5 r ek a oa D “4 Ib. cans, 4d0z. case...... 3 75 = . ; Sebel 3 60 Dried Fruits................. 5) % Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75 | Burnham’s, pints... ea: ¥F 1 lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 75 Burnham's, ona ee 7 Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 5 Ib. cans, doz. case...... 8 00 Red Standards Caine Fish and Oysters............. 3) ree a SS wii..............: Flavoring xtracts........... 5 J AXO N ore ie I cee ese wins weve 6| % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45 ~~ sete cee eeeeeee ” = os eh ie bree nee 14} & Tb. cans, 4 doz. case... 85 on i ipt arena anise = G 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1 60 ce French a Grains and Flour ............ 6 Queen Flake Sur Extra Fino...........- 22 H 3 02., 6 doz. case. 2 70) Exes Eme........-,-..... 19 I es oor s pebe conn cvne 6 | 6 0z., 4 doz. case. Oot aa cc ee 15 Hides and Pelts.............. 13 | 9 02., 4 doz. case. +) Mowe. ......-... 25.5 ee il I 1Ib., 2 doz. case 4 00 berries voce g | 5lb., 1 doz. case............. 9 00) Standard ...........- 90 J : Royal Hominy = OO poo oe se % Se Ae 6 a: Standard — Lamp Burners................ 15 4b cans 1 35/ star yw p.......... is 1 85 Lamp eye pete yes 15 6 0z. cans. 1 90} Star,1 Ib............ 3 40 EES EES pe 15 4 Ib. cans 2 50 Picnic Talls......... : 2 35 pcre Globes pikes by ae cae 15 % Ib. cans 875 Mackerel I oo oi cece pee ee ices 7 %, Ib. ‘Mustard, 1 Ib a 17% cette cess eo bewe pees : 1lb. cans. 4 80 Mustard, 2 Ib. ms eae 2 80 M Yaz 31b. cans 13 00 eee 3 = pec ocues . be I re coc woe cous cwcpee 7 ie ‘ Soused, 2 Ib........ : Meat Extracts................ 7 5 Ib. cans. 21 50 Tomato, 1lb......... 175 Molasses ........-.---.---+ 20. 7 Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80 ee 7 BATH BRICK ie eahiniciamas N MemOrieeit.. 8. eo... 2s i tiesto . 18@20 Us ous 16) Pe 22@25 oO Oysters BLUING y Oil Cans.. Arctic, 4 0z. ovals, per gross 4 00 | Cove, 11b............ 85 i Olives .... , Arctic, 8 oz. ovals. per gross& 00 ore Se: ce. 1 = Oyster Pails Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 09 | Cove, 1 Ib Oval. io Peaches OD. 6 ois ws 2 7 a a ae, Paris Green.................. 7 Volo 22 1 65@1 85 I icine ope cag sues speu 7 ag Paes... oe Standard ........... . 1 00 Provisions. .... qo 7 Fancy....... a ine 1 26 eee ea 8 Marrowfat .......... 1 00 s Early June.......... 1 = Baleratus.............-.-.0... ‘ Early J = a 1 es eens eS bo nee ne é-a0 emaarns 8 Grated ...:.......... 1 ss MN OR orice eee cascp cin 8 RA Sepa NaS GiE a 1 35@2 55 en Bee eerie cece : Pumpkin os COSCO LOS HOCS BELLO e SE OSEe ‘air eS a. ‘Biacking sees ee 9 Gane oe. 75 Peeed + Hes sens bebe whee owns 9 WOT oo iyo core 85 aS SCE a aR Si Small size, per doz.......... 40 aD Eee eae 9 Large size, perdoz.......... Bh Baspberrics me oh eee re 8 BROOMS tandard............ . ie 1 3 7 . icssis ce ee ° 1 60 Parlor Gem.. .2 40 Salmon Table Sauce.................. 12} Common Whisk........./1: 95 | Columbia River, talis @1 85 oe ioe cies e asus ta oene 11} Fancy Whisk.. .++e+e--1 10 | Columbia River, flats @2 0) ND os occ ce 11} Warehouse.. See wee cer eens 1 30@1 40 PE ip cpus bins rest wees 12 BRUSHES Pink Alaska......... 1 10@1 25 Vv Scrub Shrimps UE a baci ocug ks ey cane 12 | Solid Back, 8 in.. Standard............ 1 50 Solid Back, 11 in . mo - Washing Powder: Seon badges 12 | Pointed Ends..... Domestic xs... 8 MONE es cine sceccdleccevc: 13 Shoe Domestic. Mustard. 7 ete. ad ee da SEER Bois sce vics asicabekeevecc California, 4s....... 11@14 rapping = bette eee eees 13 yo. ? se ooeebues cpey ica e cice aes 168...... | con ly: Reeve 000s 006 coe cccseceoss F rence CEE gma et WOO Coos i LO see French, %s.......... 18@28 4 Strawberries = Sh a SL See : . A eek ee 90 ee... 100 WE cies cca 120 Tomatoes ee a. 90 ae... : . Gabon 275 eer Columbia, ae bapcege ae Columbia, % pints.. Roeed os we 12 CARBON OILS Gi0% oe eee ase @iL Kiversit. @il as 14@15 Leiden ... @17 Sampareer..-.....5.. 13@14 Pineapple . 50@75 ee 19@20 CHEWING GUM American Flag Spruce.. 55 Beeman’s Pepsin.......... 60 Black Jack.......... ne 55 — Gum Made.. 7 1 00 55 55 CHICORY B LA else Oe ee 4 Frenck’s Cpeeeees pes: ke < se 6% Beers ce 6 CHOCOLATE Walter _ - — s. German Sweet.. 23 Premium .. 31 Breakfast Cocoa............. 46 Runkel Bros. Vienna Sweet ......... .... 21 Wee oo 28 Pree 31 CLOTHES —— Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.. -1 00 Cotton, 50 ft. per doz.. --1 20 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.. 11 49 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........ 1 60 nD, 80 ft. en ---1 80 Jute, 60 ft. per doz.. <5 oe Jute, 72 ft. per doz......... 95 COCOA il Sos ide 41 35 33 42 45 12 20 38 70 30 41 42 20 Ib. bags...... 2% Less —_ oe . 3 Pound packages ......... 4 COFFEE Roasted ey c HIGH GRADE 8 al 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.......... 8 Excelsior M. & J., 6@-1s.. ..21% Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20% Revel eR, ee 26% Royal Java & Mocha........ 26% Arabian Mocha............. 28% OT BPR on es bak 22% Mocha & Java Blend........ 23 Fancy Maricaibo..... -..18% Javo Blend.. -17% Golden Santos 17 Ja-Mo- . -15% Hexcaleion Blend. -14% No. 55 Blend... pooner 14 Oo Common.............. snbawre 10% air ..... ll RONOR e eo ca 13 NO 55a bec ea gp ces 15 tos TROUT 6 oo oo 5 on os keene eicee 11 ne se —ooone CN Ss ose ceccb ete ens cus. 15 eon penuis Capbes Saeckaweces 2 bo biducs shaken ts cathiee cats 2 Choice...... Joe'esneseses sal Mexican NN ae voici ao rear nses 16 Woes ioc ee eae 17 Guatemala CRS hic ecied eoerde pees 16 Java Mocha DOIN. 6 occ eee oe 21 Pesheas New - —— Arbuckle. -.10% Dilworth. ..........-..000+- 10% Jersey. - --10% OE oes peepee sees ae 10% McLaughlin’s xxxx McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. " Extract Valley os % gross.. vi} Felix’ % . es 15 Hummel’s 5 toll % gross... ease 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 143 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden — ee cag 6 40 Cc . cet tccd oe ..5 75 ..4 50 42 .-3 90 ..3 35 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 are for either esman, — Economic or Universal ere 1,000 books are eet ata time anmeee receives specially printed cover without extra charge. Coupon Pass Books Can be made to represent any ee — 10 — 50 books.. 1 50 ape TOONS. co 2 50 500 books . 11 5o 1,000 books . 20 00 Credit Checks” 500, any one denom.. 2 00 _ any one denom 3 00 any one — 5 00 aa punch.. 75 CRACK cERS National Biscuit Co.’s brands Butter Bev Soo cscs es 6% OW SORE 6% PAY ooo een cca cae 6% PE i 6% WVOIVOTIND. ...- .. 5... Sy. 6% da Soda 7s eet eee ea 6% pode, Clty. 8 Long Island ee: eeaieeus 13 Zephyrette.... ............ 13 PASe oo 7% Farina... 644 Extra Farina.. 6% Saltine Oyster............. 64 Sweet Goods—Boxes Anima a Sous. t l'r; To Gin = Snaps, a ee Grandma Cakes........... 9 Graham eect ees ccs 8 Graham Wafers........... Grand Rapide genase Honey Fingers............ Iced Honey Genpen bites Imperials. ete Jumbles, Honey.. pisses: Lady Fingers.............. Lemon Snaps.............. Lemon W;: Marshmallow.............. 16 Marshmallow Creams..... 1 Marshmallow Walnuts. .. MOY At Mixed POCO ce Bisewte 2. o.oo. Molasses Oe cce Molasses Bar... Moss Jelly Bar.. Newton............ r Squares............. 8 DU ce as TEs PUM oes cls... 16 Vanilla Wafers............ 16 Vienna Crimp............. 8 E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods Standard Crackers. Blue Ribbon Squares. Write for — — list with interesting discoun CREAM eaaatan 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes..... 30 Bie OOO 29 DRIED FRUITS Apples Sundried . Evaporated, 60 Ib. boxes. 7 ne Fruits 9@ 3% Raspberries ....... P California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 90-100 25 Ib. boxes .. 4b 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes 60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes 6% 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes 734 40 - 50 25 Ib. — 8% 30 - 40 25 Ib. boxe: 1% cent “Citro 9 86 Ib. ‘cases Leghorn.. Seri scees sce Kl Corsican . piece ol Ae ‘Currants California, 1 Ib. package.... Imported, 1 lb package.. Imported, bulk. Peel Citron American 19 Ib. bx... Lemon American 10 Ib. bx.. Orange American 10 Ib. bx.. Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown Loose Muscatels 3 Crown Loose Muscatels 4 Crown L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib...... L. M., Seeded, % Ib.... Sultanas, package .......... FARINACEOUS GOODS ans Pred EAMG: Soc 7 Medium Hand Picked 275 Brown Holland..... 2t0 Cereals Cream of Cereal... _ 20 Grain-O, small -1 35 Grain-O, large -2 25 Grape Nuts...... 1 35 Pos Cereal, s 1 35 Postum Cereal, large....... 2 25 . — 24 1 Ib. pac! inte k oe Bulk, per 100 = Pee cies 2 25 Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... .... Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ -.3 80 Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 1 +0 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60 Imported. 25 Ib. box........ 2 50 Pearl Barley Comme oe cs 8. 2 40 CROGIN oc 2 90 fe ES aC J 3 40 Grits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. Diu Me utunes wt Ib. es . -.2 00 Ppa 3B mR Seneeis” SGesese ee ee 100 Ib. tage Leacee nee one 2 90 Green, Wisconsin, sane -1 30 Green, “sitet = a Be Split, eae ete te cane Soe Oats Rolled dco bbl.. ---5 50 Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sacks.... 2 75 Monarch, bbl...... Ri cexscacs ae Monarch, % bbl...... .2 75 Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. . .2 55 Quaker, as foe .-3 20 - oO OE TO ies ew te 2% German, sacks.............. 3% German. — package.. 4 ‘a Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 44 Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks. 3% Pearl, 24 1 Ib. ackages peau 6 ea) Cracked, bulk............... 3% 24 2 tb. packages .... 2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla Lemon 10zfullm.1 20 1ozfullm. 380 2 oz full m.2 10 = full m 1B No.3fan’y.3 15 N 3fan’y 1% C a + a> ” » a wm be > > ~ ~ jf oh » » v r > r 2 the * & & od ~~ »v T my ‘ > yi reg o-\ ss i) © 7 Vanilla 2 0z panel..1 20 20z panel . 3 0z taper..2 00 402 taper. .1 50 Lemon 75 00 - 2 08 20z. Assorted F lavors 75¢. Our Tropical. 2 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 75 4 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 1 . 2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 30 Standard. 20z. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 20z. Panel Lemon.......... 60 FLY PAPER Tanglefoot, per box.......... 35 Tanglefocc, per case........ 3 20 FRESH MEATS — Carcass. ee 6 @8 Forequarters . . 5 @6 id. es ae 8 @9 Loins No. 3.. 10 @14 Ribs..... ag 9 @12% Rounds......... 8 @&& Chucks.. nan. - oe Plates 200 a @ 5% Pork Dressed ale @7 EOS cc @3 Boston — @8 Shoulders ..... @ 8% Leaf Lard.. @8 Mutton WORCASS oot T%@ Ie Baebes. 2s 9%@10 Veal CArGnag e625) 8 @9 GRAINS AND FLOUR Wheat WINNS ooo oe 70 Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents. 4 aes £238 Second Patent............. 3 85 PUM oe ste e e 3 65 Cr ie, 3 20 ee es. 3 30 Buckwheat ................ 4 00 Wes ices se ass cccsseeess (SOM a to usual cash dis- Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad- ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s — Diamond s Diamond \S............... s i Diamond s.. 3 75 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand NE 8 oe os cs we 3 70 AOE EM se 3 70 Quaker $66................. 87 Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell- ogg Co. = a i 4 60 Pi Pillsbury’s Best s... Pillsbury’s Best \s.... Pillsbury’s Best Fo. aper. 4 40 rnhart- 5 Ball-Ba ~~ Brand Duluth Imperial }%s....... 4 40 Buluth Imperial Xs... : = Duluth Imperial \s....... Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand Wingold \8.............. 44 Wingold 4s Sede aia ot 4 30 Wingold \s.............. 4 20 ae. & —— era a Guan ca. ‘ = Ceresota %s. Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand” 1 4s. 3 4 30 40 410 410 2 75 2 85 39 42 Feed and Millstuffs St. Car Feed, screened .... 23 00 No. 1 Corn and Oats... .. 22 50 Unbolted Corn Meal...... 22 00 Winter Wheat Bran....... 17 00 Winter Wheat Middlings. 18 00 Screenings ................ 16 00 Corn Corn, car lots............. 58 Hay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 = Etre faa 20002000 eeeecere Re 40 Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 40| © INDIGO Sausages Whitefish > Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55 | Bologna............. 5% No.1 No.2 Fam| Fair. Pure deeses es = 8 4 55 S. F., 2,3 “ 5 1b. boxes...... 50 Poon Sie eee leads 7% 100 pa ae a 7 Good - c No. a a S ELLy _ |Frankfort........... | 7% | 40 Ibs........ 3 30 “i ‘meine 1 90| BOF -ssescsccccessss 74 | 10 Ibs... 90 teu ‘; aon 34 | BlOOd on cooceae 6%) 8 Ibs... 2... 75 ae 430 30 Ib. pals... eee é _SEEDS No. 14 4 30 LICORICE = Anise... pe ene No. 15 4 30 UO co a Extra M Beet No. 16 ttteeeeeee 4 30 Calabria a ra Mess.......... Sicily... hae zo Root.. os a LYE ae Pigs ’ Feet Sundried, medium .......... 28 Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 +. = ee: Sanavted, jr eee S Condensed, 4 doz... ..2 25 Regular, medium...... i ise Diamond MATCHES b and i bbe 2 i “ane Regular’ fancy. esi 40 ’s brands. s., on a ‘a Gorn | mORtllar, fatieg No. 9 sulphur............... 1 65 | % bbls., 80 Ibs... 13% SHOE BLACKING _| 4011p pankord’s Corn Basket-fired, ee An Pp z' ts we oS Basket-fi chor Parlor ........ --1 50 Casings : Handy Box, large.......... 2 50 | 20 1-Ib. packages... ... | aaa -s No. 2 H as 111 30 | Pork | a1 | Handy Box; small. 125| 6 lb. packages... .. 1.7. 7% Basket-fired, » fancy = “14 00 | ROT P| beatae esac alam Acad (oe) eS ee Wolverine... i "1 50 Boot arise - Miller’s crown —_ a *5| Kingsford’s Silver Gloss Paani: mace meas MEAT EXTRACTS _|Sheep................ FF 40 1-Ib. Se en ee sce seamacrs a | Scoteh, in biadders......... Sepia a Gunpowder Liebig’s, 2 oz.............. 2 75 | Solid, on" oa a oc v Maccaboy, » in jars.. 35 Sans Gee Moyune, medium 2 sea Rolls, =: a ae —_— ve = Jars.-.2) 43 Lb. packages Se 5 | Moyune, choice....... <2 ew Orleans | OLS, creamery..... - pac! es 4 Moyune, fancy..... oo Faney Open Kettle.. Lr 4o | Solid, creamery. :*"’ 14 | B. T. Babbit rand — 6Ib. backages 5 Pingsucy, me tum 3 ne ae 35 Canned Meats : Babbit’s Best............. 40 and 50-Ib. boxes......... 3% | Pingsuey, choice ---30 — 26 Cornea oat 21D... 2 50 DAR 3% |! Pingsuey, fancy............. 40 ee : orned bee! 17 50 Half-barrels 2c extra Roast rm. .... 2 50 Hore Ral tdore..1m|Ponettam ae orse sh, 1doz......... 175 » AS..... 90 Horse Radish, 2 doz...... |”. 3 60 | Deviled ham, s.. 50 rs} an Bayle’s — 1doz....... 1 75 hy ham, \s.. 90 VES Ported fOREUe, 348. oO oS STARCH | Bulk’ i= kegs este cuee: 1 2 a . aa 90 a, ulk, 3 gal. kegs........... 1 10 aa . Bulk, 5 gal. kegs... 1.2.1. 1 00 omentic ce Manzanilla, 7 02.2000 90 |, Garoltos bead a eoernge o% Fal Queen, pints............... 2 35 | Carolina No. 2. rena meen, 19 0z ............., 450| Broken -5% | 50 cakes, large size......... 3 25 Queen, 28 0Z............... 7 00 Seton senidceses ¢ 100 cakes, large size. . . Stuffed, 5 oz....... 0072777! 90] Japan, N pai 50 cakes, small size. 1 Stuffed, 8 oz............... 145 toon : No. ete -54@ 100 cakes, small size... 3 85 Stuffed, 10 oz... 222222227. 2 30| Jaya faney head Soe | ee oe srt brands— ) . OnnnHy ......... | Continental Paper Bag Co.| Tavs... @ | Pekin ees 2 00 pe al Paper Bag Co. ‘gieRAyGS” @ Detroit Soap Co. brands— Sa Ask your Jobber for them. Packed 60 Ibs. in box. - a ee 15 glory Mayflower | Chureh’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 oa 2 1 ee go poe 65 --3 00) German Family.......... 2 45 - — quare E 5 8 Co ae Dingman Soap Co. brand— Stabe = 50 se em. --2 10 Dingman. . 3 85 Beet a . Wenniisiia: sas ---3 00| N. K, Fairbanks | brands— Pe 2 .s yi 6, 100 %s --300| Santa —— . 325 Boras : : SAL SODA BROWER 8 ae so ee = : 25 Granulated, bbls............ ee 4 00 + isnaeeaimuena = ; S Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 (0 | Fels bine oer te a Lump, bbls. Seco 8 INA 4 00 . ue oe 1 28 2 40 Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs... ialvae on sa a & Gowans & Sons brands— om ae SALT =a 73 - nema: 1S 33 jee Tr —7 ren Oa in co ey 2 415 AGS... . eee eee 3 00 ; : = aa ooh ca : 50 6b. bags ....... 2.22207, 3 00 Ov > ae rs oo. | | ten. 2 75 JA =) N ciaoiebane Mie eee eau 5 50 = : bbl. lots 5 per cent. dis- Single box.. ..3 00 SSS SS SSSA SENSES en Sugar co Ti diate - — _ delivered --: Saas 2 Ce 4 ox lots, delivered........ Best Gloss S Hee Cage “4 Table, Cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 | Johnson Soap Co. — Best one Stara” 20 ID. ais Reet toon aia cs = 34 Table’ b ‘ ch, b . Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. PARIS GREEN T ble! oe 1003 Ib. bags.3 00| Silver Kin --+++. 3 60| Best Gloss Starch, 61b..... Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. oe able, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75} Calumet ‘amily .. foes oan 2 70 | Best Gloss Starch? Si... . Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil, Soa ce ae Buti er, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65 — cise < sees Oe) a Packages, % ib., each’. Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 85 | Cn ba. 7 = est Gloss Starch, | a owe Sed A bbl., thin boil. Packages, % Ib.’ each. Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 27 a... ve, Ill as. Pope Glucose Co., Packages, 1 b., each.. Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs...” 67 Ricker’ s Magnetic ae 3 0 a Chicago, Ill. PICKLES an Common Gr —— — — brands— ue GP Aeme 4 00 Barrels, 1 is i, 6 28 10 1b a Mareeba 25 | 20 4 ene. ine idee ee ‘ Ooume ......... 50 - SACKS......... oof UO} MEATSOIIOS.... 0... ...00... 4 OD | on ee ES oc cc cocci oss vevle chewel ences cacn Half bbls: 600 count...” 375| 56lb.sacks..............7, Masog 3 70 | 22 b. packages.......... OM sibetelaiss oases 38 duaall 28 Ib. sacks. eee | Proctor & Gamble brands— STOVE P OLISH Oolong » SATION... .... aeaeeas 42+ Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 8 00 | sé tb. datry marie bags... 40{ Ivory, éoz ia y Reve engaen bbis, 7 count ....:.°4 50 | 28 Ib. dairy in in drill bags. : S| tepee.. 2 = 675 ma ~ Amoy, ae IPES Senultz & — Engli 6. 56 Ib. dairy in — sacks... 60 a oe sie 3 00 AUC CTS maa ae y, T. D., eae 65 | 56 1b, dahee te eee ae “ A.B. Wiisiey brands— Bi eee —— Seed Seka wowace 34 mo No. 3”. --- 60] Good Cheer.............. 3 80 oul ue 42 eT ee ee ae ar Rock Old Country.............. POTASH 56 Ib. eo ae eee 25 sae ie ouring 7” ooo raise Saahee yaaa 32 s in case. polio, re 3 doz...... 2 40 pape oe Granulated Fine ‘ 85 | Sapolio, hand, 3doz......... 2 40 Penna Salt Co.’s.. cee ate 3 00 Medium Fine................ 90 SODA PROVISIONS; SALT FISH Boxes... . BY Barreled Pork Georges jae io. English. _— No. 4, 3 doz in ges cured......... @é6 SPICES. 0. 4, 3 doz in case, gross . 4 50 se @15 00 | Georges genuine...... @ 6% No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross 7 20 Back -... @15 75 Georges sem cue @7 el Whole Spices “ SUGAR ke . = 00 | & Strips a ao mer a a, China i ma 12 Below are given New York Pi 5 Pollbe Cassia, Batavia, in b a. prices on sugars, to which the ae @18 00 | Pollock................ @ 3% » 1D bun 28 | wholesale dealer adds the local Beate... eee cc. || G13 00 Halibut. Cassia, Saigon, broken... 38 freight from New York to your Family Mess......... @15 50 a Our customers call us the “prompt people”? because they can order almost anything of us by telephone, telegraph or letter and get it at once. We appreci- ate a man does not want anything until he orders it and when he does order it, he wants it at once. So we do our best to get it to him at once. Do you want this service? hi hi hi hi hi ha hi hi hi hi hn i ht be bp te tp rwwv The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who break bulk must label their pe 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 Brown & Sehler Grand Rapids, Mich. Ce ywyvvvvvw«wevevereewT a i bt i 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. Da Dn La ba ha Da Da Ba Da DB Bn Bh a i li i ee eee ee Dato bn ba bn ba baba bn be bn bn Dob bb bb bo bo bo bo Or Bp bi i i Dp i i i i i tn tp pp tp OO TTT OO FF SFIS GSS SSE WET TCC OCC CFF OV GS oa PaDaGa Ga Gaba Gn By Br Or bp dn by bn by dp Oy bn bp > b> ty tn Gp Gn NN OP PPFD NOOVS OUF OTC OCT OTS aie “a Lea ea QXLKOLPLLPLLOLLE a os * BS 1 e y 4 £ gy ¢ > a = tT - ath t h @ es a 4 4 » ee sa ' s ce \ & iY t 2 = - t= = } Pa 3 » L v ' | ' } a ti J " t Y ¥ * t f <+—— @Acw MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MEN OF MARK. C. H. Libby, Wholesale Butter and Egg Dealer. Charles H. Libby, was born at Caoti- cook, Quebec, Dec. 20, 1864. His father was a native of New Hampshire, while his mother was of English descent. The latter died when he was three weeks old and for the next ten years he wasa member of the household of his grand- father at Whitefield, N. H. On the second marriage of his father, he went to live with him at Burke, Vt., where he remained until he was 16 years of age, when he removed to Woodville, Mich., and made his home with his uncle, the late Lyman T. Kinney, who placed him in charge of his sawmill and Store, which necessitated his looking after the shipment of the lumber and the keeping of the time of the men in the mill. He remained there until 1882, when he removed to Grand Rapids. His uncle having been elected county sheriff, he assisted him in the Manage- ment of the county jail. Dec. 20, 1885, which was his 21st birthday, he was sworn in as a deputy sheriff, being probably the youngest deputy sheriff in the United States. On the retirement of his uncle from the position of sheriff, four years later, he entered the employ of Cornelius Fox, grocer at 95 South Division street, and in 1891, he pur- chased the stock and continued the busi- ness until 1898, when he sold the stock to Fox & Son and established himself in the butter and egg business at 98 South Division street. He has been ex- ceptionally successful in this business and has come to be regarded as a fair dealer and one who makes prompt set- tlement for all shipments. Mr. Libby was married Feb. 1, 1887, to Miss Rebecca J. Fox. They have no children and reside at 95 South Division street. Mr. Libby is by no means a ‘‘jiner,”’ being a member of no secret order whatever. On the same day that Cleve- land first took the oath of office as Pres- ident—March 4, 1885—he was sworn in as a member of the old Grand Rapids Guard and for the next dozen years he was identified in some capacity with the State militia. As long ago as 1886, he was elected quartermaster under Cap- tain McGurrin. In 1897 he went to Is- land Lake and assumed charge of the supply store of the entire camp. On the breaking out of the Spanish war, in the spring of 1898, he received a tele- gram from the State Military Board, then in session at Detroit, asking him to proceed to Island Lake and get ready to supply 3,000 men with the necessities, of life on the following Monday. This was on Friday, giving him but one full week day in which to assemble suffi- cient food to supply the camp. Instead of 3,000 men, about 5,000 men put in an appearance, but Mr. Libby was equal to the emergency and succeeded in handling the commissary department so satisfactorily that he elicited the commendation of nearly everyone inter- ested. He remained at Island Lake five months and during that time no deduc- tions were made from the bills he ren- dered either the State or the National Government. He did all his own book- keeping, having to keep accounts with forty companies, five regimental head- quarters and one brigade headquarters. He undertook to turn the detail work over to a book-keeper, but the experi- ment was nota success. His military education as quartermaster for his old company and as sutler for the encamp- ment of 1897 gave him the requisite ex- perience to enable him to handle the undertaking in such a way as to Satisfy himself and the Sate. ——__s---o__—_ Large Offerings and High Prices on the Morning Market. Already the dominating feature of the market is the offering of peaches. Al- exanders are about numbered with the past and Hale’s Early may be said to be their successors as to quantity, al- though there is a considerable abund- ance of other varieties. A noticeable feature, and one to be appreciated by consumers, is the unusual freedom of the peach stones, many of the usual cling varieties appearing as freestone, owing to some peculiarity of the season no doubt—probably the abundance of moisture. It is a promising indication of what the regular harvest will be that the early varieties are in such quanti- ties, and the fact that everything is sold at good prices is promise for the main- tenance of the regular harvest in that regard. A few yellow peaches are being offered and sell at about double the prices of the other fruit. Offerings of other of the large fruits are scanty, except apples. These are in considerable abundance and sell at exceptionally good prices. Indeed the feature that makes the farmer happy and independent this season is the fact that he can always get good money from the sale of almost anything he may offer. A few small loads of pears and less of the early varieties of plums are in evidence, but not enough to cut much figure. Tomatoes are in considerable quantities and sell for prices above any- thing ever known at this market. The blackberry season is not over, by any means, and the fruit commands the usual good prices and quick sales. Huckleberries are conspicuous by their absence, very few being seen. The profusion in varieties of vege- tables is something wonderful, as the later kinds begin to make their appear- ance. Cucumbers are in wagon loads, and it is to be noted that there is an in- crease in the number of wagons devoted to a single product, instead of the mixed loads formerly offered. This is partly to be accounted for by the fact that in the increase of output from the individ- ual farms additional teams are being put into the work and so each devoted to a particular variety; the load is made up of that most available and the rest is taken at another time. It is not often that the market has presented such pleasant features as to temperature and freedom from dust when the business was so heavy. The heat of the earlier season, with the Sins Hollow Ware one abundant moisture, appears to have | Ketties 20 50810 given the productions the greatest per- Sy 50&10 fection and the cooler weather of recent | au gable... en ge ae weeks has not been such as to injure the House Furnishing Goods quality of quantity. Then the days | Sampod Tinware, new list............ 78 have been ideal for the gatherers’ work. Iron j ; a 2 25 crates Altogether the situation, from the stand aa. 3 ¢ rates point of the fruit and vegetable farmer, Knobs—New List is about as pleasant as it could be - Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75 made. Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..... i“ 85 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 00 : Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00 Hardware Price Current Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........ dis 70 Ammunition Mattocks Caps Adze Eye......................$17 00..dis 70—10 G. D., full count, perm.......... 40 Metals—Zinc Hicks’ Waterproof, per m.. 50 | 600 pound casks...................00005 Th Musket, Or eo... ee ee 8 Ely’s Waterproof, perm. ....... 60 iia 4 Cartridges No. 22 short, per m.................., 2 50 Panne Oinisea. cn S heen ||US laeeee mentee 55 No. 82 long, per m..020020220. 2000000 6 %| tempts Sao See io we P PA Molasses Gates - 2 0. M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 20 TO 10 No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m... 1 20 Parone ease Se - Gun Wads Pana Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. mC... 60 Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, per m....., 70 ee ACM 60&10&10 Black edge, No. 7. per = Linieeime go | Common, polished --.7 22222222 2.I2222 7085 Loaded Shells Patent Planished Iron New Rival—For Sh “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 Drs. of 02. of a pee ““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27.9 75 No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 Broken packages ‘4c per pound extra. : i . - $2 90 Planes 1 2 90 , wg 4 - ££ 8 eae 00 i i = : = ; . Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy. .......... 50 154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00 Bench, first quality.................... Ls] - : : . 12 2 = Nails ; 1 2 Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. a > i : . ae ! 2 65 ane Big ist 12 2-70 | Wire nails, base... 2 65 Di 12 2-701 99 to 60 advance... Base Scount 40 per cent. 10 to 16 advance......... 5 Paper Shells—Not Loaded Sadvance... .......... 10 No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 72| Gadvance.... ............ “ 20 No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, ao: 100. 64 = — Stet tes tee ects ce eete eee eens . Gunpowder “ha ie apnea 70 Kegs, 25 lbs., per MOM eee 400) Fines advance... 50 44 kegs, 12% lbs., per % MOS... 2 25 | Casing 10 advance..................... 15 }4 kegs, 644 Ibs., per 14 Wi 1 25 | Casing 8 advance...................... 25 Shot eee Se emow Sede bens ecg ce = In sacks containing 25 Ibs. nis OE ores. = ts ee eueeen rH Snell’s Augurs and Bits Barrel % advance..................... 85 ee 60 Jennings genuine. ea 25 Rivets Jennings’ imitation... .... 220077777 60 | Iron and Tinned...................... 50 Axes Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 _— quality, - = — Se ese ig 6 00 Roofing Plates rst Quality, D. B. Bronze.......... 2 00 First Quality, 8..B.'S, Steel. ..1.11.11) 658] igeiX Ohare De CES Inst Quality, D. B. Steel... 2200221. 10 50 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean... |... 177” 13 00 Barrows 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50 SO ee Se 12 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50 | NA eS el ny --net 2900 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00 Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 2b ee ea 60 Ropes t SS ee F acne LE $4 00 Sand Paper Ge Pie acel, 1 ee in 50 Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured ...... wou etuE 65 Sash Weights Wrought Narrow ......000200727221777 60 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00 Chain Sheet Iron %in. 6-16 in. in. in. com. smooth. com, C : - NOR COE ee $3 20 Ee 7 ¢@ 6 e@. 5 G.... 4¥e. Nos. 15 to 17 3 20 BB ov o+ ose os 2-2) 2 3 30 Nee ee 3 60 3 40 Crowbars NGG G0 eae 3 50 Cast Steel, per Ib........ 000.000.0000... CPN we 3 80 3 60 All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches Wisiees Chisels g5 | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra. Framing...2 0000000000000, 65 Shovels and Spades orner.......... . 65 | First Grade, Doz..... ten 8 00 ee 65 | Second Grade, Doz...... 1227272777777" 7 BO Elbows Solder L i ee 19 — ea eae saimcppaangenccetn a 1 S aos prices of the many other qualities of solder Adjustable” tttesssersesseesesrseeeseGis 40819 | 10 the market indicated by private brands vary Expansive Bits according to gees <= . Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 40 Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; -_. 5 Meocland Brom. oc 70 Files—New List Tin—Melyn Grade New American ..2.0000...0............ 70&10 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal................ 2... $ 8 50 INIGROMGR Ecole 70 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal...............2..... 8 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps................ 70 | 20x14 IX, Charcoal... ,... 2.00... .0c08 9 75 Galvanized Iron Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 Tin—Allaway Grade List 12 13 14 ; 15 16, 17 | 10x14-IC, Charcoal................. 000. 7 00 Discount, 60 14x20 IC, Charcoal. ............ ccc. cee 7 00 Gauges 10x14 - eel. ES SE : = 14x20 . Msi hia oe a eect wg Stanley Rule and ee eae el ees Oe ee seine tasiealite die eae . Boiler Size Tin Plate ; SE ecg srg 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, wees ys a: ne 14x56 IX, for No.9 aes, per pound.. 10 Hammers raps peach, GAMA. fo 75 oe = cos mere list....... oe : aun Oneida Community, Ss. si 40810 Mason's Solld Cast Steel"... _.a0e ist ~~ 70 | Opeld2 Community, Hawley & Nor- 6s Hinges : Mouse, choker per doz... 15 Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3....................d18 60810 Mouse, delusion, pez doz... 1 25 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is weaker, prices showing a decline of 1-32c, which makes the present price of 06 deg. test centrifugals 4'sCc, with the tendency still downward. It is reported that refiners are fairly well supplied with raw sugar and receipts of raws will hereafter increase. In sympathy with the lower raw sugar market the refined market was dull and featureless. The demand is very light, buyers maintain- ing an indifferent attitude, and general expectations are that prices may be re- duced at any moment. The course of the market, however, will be regulated by the prices of raw sugar. ‘Canned Goods—The canned _ goods market has just passed through one of the most active periods in its existence, and the changes wrought in a short time were rather surprising. Most buy- ers have made their heaviest purchases by this time, however, and the market will probably now gradually settle down to a steady basis. The outlook for the canned goods market is very bright. The crop prospects for almost everything in sight are all that can be expected, and we think that there will be a good, active, steady market on most all lines for the remainder of the year. The to- mato market is very firm. Spot stocks are almost entirely cleaned up and most packers have entirely withdrawn on fu- tures. Holders are not anxious sellers as they believe prices will soon go still higher. There is considerable enquiry for corn, which is very firm. The out- look for corn is very unsatisfactory and unless there is a change which will in- crease the crop in localities least in- jured by drouth the pack promises to be much below the average. The pros- pects for even a fair pack are so poor that some packers have withdrawn from the market. Gallon apples are a trifle firmer with supplies mostly cleaned up. Holders are not disposed to let stocks go and are holding everything very firmly. Peas are unchanged, but every- thing is firmly held and business is be- ing done in a quiet way around quota- tions. The situation is so unsatisfactory that business is transacted only in smali lots, neither buyers nor sellers caring to undertake any large operations. The peach market is in very good condition and prices are firmly held. The sea- son is a little late this year, but the crop will be large enough and the qual- ity will be excellent. There will, how- ever, be very few of the pie and “‘sec- ond’’ grades. The present crop is all that could be desired and we will prob- ably see a healthy market, from which all hands will reap fair returns. String beans, which have been so long neg- lected, have been quite active and have advanced about 20c per doz., with a large demand. Pineapples have not shared in the buying movement, but they have been selling in a quiet way and the stocks have diminished without creating any stir in the market. There are, however, at present sufficient stocks on hand to prevent any worry of getting supplies and there have been no changes in price. There is a continuance of the large run of salmon in the Columbia River and on the Puget Sound, although it is not quite so large as it was last week. Canners have been running to full capacity, where they had plenty of help, but in some canneries there was a scarcity of help, which has been a great drawback this season. The pack shows a most decided increase over that of 1900. Press accounts of the run have been highly colored, yet it is the big- gest since 1897. Advices from Eastport note little change in the sardine situa- tion. The run of fish is about the same as previously reported, but packers are in a bad position because of the uncer- tainty regarding tin. The prospect of an unsettled condition prevents active business in any line. Dried Fruits—In most descriptions of dried fruit a moderate interest is needed, a larger proportion of the purchases be- ing limited to small iots, apparently for immediate consumption. For most va- rieties in the list there is a continued steady feeling which holds prices firm and causes holders to demand full prices on everything now inhand. Prunes are firm and are selling very well. Stocks seem to be very light all over the coun- try and many orders are turned down through lack of stock to fill them with. A short time ago there was apparently a large lot of prunes that would have to be carried over into the next season, but they have all gone into consumption and there is practically nothing left to be carried over. The raisin situation is stronger, both for loose muscatels and seeded. Apricots and peaches are very firm for both spot and future de- livery. Bales of future goods have been heavy, but spot stocks are small and demand is rather light at this season. Currants are in good demand at un- changed prices. Other lines show no change. Rice—Owing to the continued scarcity of stocks and unusually active demand, there is increased strength in the rice market. Sales were of good volume, be- ing far in excess of the corresponding period last year. The incoming season has a bright beginning and, according to reports, the situation never was freer from adverse features. It is believed that even if the production should ex- ceed present estimates, it will be far short of requirements, which have been greatiy increased by the good demand from Puerto Rico, and it is expected a further increase in demand will set in, due to the short crop in potatoes. Tea—The tea market is very quiet and general conditions continue unsat- isfactory. Prices, however, are steady and holders, as a rule, are not disposed to make any concessions of importance. The statistical position is daily grow- ing stronger. Molasses and Syrups—No new de- velopments occurred and the usual slow movement was experienced throughout the past week. Sales were confined to small lots of grocery grades of New Orleans, for which dealers realized steady values. Supplies continue mod- erate and will hardly be sufficient to meet requirements when the fall demand sets in. The corn syrup market is very firm and, on account of the expected difficulty in getting cans, prices for corn syrup in cans have advanced 6c per case. There is no change in bar- rels. Fish—While the Pacific coast salmon packers are in the midst of a very large run of salmon on that coast, the fishing interests on the Atlantic coast are high- ly pleased with the outlook for the mackerel catch for the season. For sev- eral years past the bulk of the American mackerel catch has been marketed fresh. This year, however, over 40,000 barrels of this fish have been put under salt. Most of the schooners now have salted mackerel aboard and there are signs of a grand revival of the packing industry ashore. In any event, the conditions augur well for the most successful fall catch in many years. Nuts—It looks now as if the almond crop for 1901 would be the largest in years. The estimated production for 1901 is placed at 41,000 tons. The out- look is excellent for the Malaga crops in particular. Brazils show a slight ad- vance. Peanuts are in good demand at previous prices. Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market is again on the upward grade and prices have advanced 30c for barrels, 15c for competitive cases and 15c for Banner oats. The grain markets are very firm and we do not look for any lower prices for rolled oats in the immediate future. ————————E——— Two Types of Stay-at-Homes. We see a man with underlip that has a down- ward droop, Upon his face a scowl as if he’d fallen in the soup! He roams about the busy streets in an uneasy way, And puts a surly accent on the things he has to y say. He goes into a restaurant and drops into a seat And wonders why they’ve not a thing fit for a dog to eat. And if you care to seek the cause that makes him feel so brown You'll not have very far to look; his wife is out of town. We see another man dressed up unusually gay. He wears a smile of gladness and a buttonhole bouquet; He joins the cruising parties where the white- topped schooners sail, And goo-goos all the pretty girls who chance to cross his trail, At striking of the midnight hour he yet is on the street, Is st enuous in his efforts to control his wabbling eet; He wears his hat tipped sideways on his beer- befuddled crown; The mousey knows the cat’s away; his wife is out of town. —__> 29> Reflections of a Bachelor. The ideal husband is the man who hasn’t got married yet. Marrying a drunkard to reform him is like frying fish to make beefsteak out of it. When a woman is dead sure that she has a man she is never dead sure that she wants him. A woman is never so much afraid she may lose a man’s love as she is that some other woman may gain it. No matter how much of a past a man has had, there are always some women who can teach him more than he knew before. —_—__»42s___ One of the surest keys to success lies in thoroughness. No matter how great the enterprise, small things must be re- garded. Busines Mons Advertisements will be inserted unde? this head for two cents a word the firs! insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisement- taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE CHEAP—GOOD BAKERY AND restaurant, building and lot. Fine oven in very finest town in Northern Michigan. Sick- ness reason for seling. Addiess Box 75, Cen- tral Lake, Mich. 96 pes SALE—A FIRST-CLASS LAUNDRY plant in Southern Michigan. Fully equipped and doing good business. will be sold cheap il taken soon. Address No. 998, care Michigan Tradesman. 998 ee KRENTI—A GOUD BRICK STOKE ON the best corner in the city; a good enter- pr.siug town; splendid chance for a good dry goods and shog business. Address Box 16, Clare, Mich. 9- "yess SALE—STOCK OF SHOES, CLOTH- ing and men’s furnishing goods; stock in- voices abo it $4.00); town iu Northwest rn Ib- diana. Address No. 938, care Michigan Trades- man. 988 KS? SALE—MEAT MAKKET; BESTSTAND in Alpena; must be sold quickly—#250 cash. Apply Sc:iven. 518 Baker St., Detroit, or Box 405, Alpena, Mich. 987 ye SALE-WELL-ESTABLISHED MEDI- cal practice, averaging $500 per month. Fine office and equipments. tle Creek, Mich. OR SALE—BOOT AND SHOE STORE IN good live Central Michigan city of 6,500 in- habitants. Stock invoices $6.000; doing a busi- ness of $12,000 a year; will sellfor 85c. Address No. 993, care Michigan Tradesman. 993 re SALE—A STOCK OF GROCERIES, shoes and dry goods in one of the best f rm- ing districts in Michigan; stock invoives about $700. H. P. Hansen, Amsden, Mich. r Address Box 2320, Bat- 934 S OMETHING TO INVESTIGATE—HOW pure air and good health can be secured and maintained by the use ot ‘The Miller Window and Wali Ventilator. For use in school rooms, offices and sleeping apartments. Recommended by physicians and school officials. Agents wanted. Descriptive circulars free. Address B _ Sherrick & Co., General Agents, ere i n 1 Ind. A BARGAIN—DESIRE TO SELL DRUG stock and fixtures, and store building if de- sired, iu small inland town; rai road building; only drug store within ten miles: reason ior sale, change of business; must be sold by Sep- tember 1. Address C. W. Merkel, Brookfield, Mich. 990 A* OPENING—A1L MEAT MARKET BUSI- ness; established trade of $2,0v0 per month; practically cash business; owner iost his wife; round toleave. Address Decker & Jean, Grand Rapids, Mich. 975 | pms SALE—GUUD EsTABLISHED GRO- cery business in town of 6.0u0; a bargain for the right person. Will uot sell except to good, reliabie party. For particularsaddress Grocery, care Michigan Tradesman. 983 ANTED—DRUG (STOCK, ONE THAT invoices from $1,000 to $1,500. Address Edgar E. Tice, Bloomingdale, Mich. prvk SALE—IF SOLD BEFUKE 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 HOICE 80 ACRE FAKM FOR SALE OR trade. Box 33, Epsilon, Mich. 985 hex SALE—A HARDWARE STOUK, JN- eluding furniture, fixtures and tinpers’ 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 ior a person wishing to commence business. Apply to Peter Doran, Rooms 19-20 Tower Block, Grand Kapids, Mich. 972 SPLENDID GENERAL STORE, HULEL 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 \OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS SHINGLE and tie mill in very best repair; center crank “ngine, 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. 9.0 ve SALE—COUNTKY STORE DOING good business. For particulars address J. 8. Adams, Frost, Mich. 966 Hee SALE—IN THRIVING CITY OF 4,000, confectionery, ice cream soda, cigars and tobacco; business g ; cash trade. Enquire at 382 Canal St., Grand Rapis. 965 “= SALE—SMALL CAPACITY SAWMILL in goud repair; one-halt 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 F R SALE—DRUG STORE IN A THRIV- ing Northern Michigan resort town. Stock invoices avout $1,500. Best of reasons for selling. Kright new stock, good trade. Address Bower's Drug store, Indian River, Mich. 947 p= SALK, CHEAP—$%:,500 STOCK GEN- eral merchandise. Address No. 945, care Michigan Tradesman. 945 XOR 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 per annum. _The Phila- delphia Chemical Co is building a plant near my store. It appropriated nine million dollars for this; our ship yards built the famous Erie and tashmo, and are building two vessels to cost over half a million each; have two large soda ind n any other plants; thisis the second largest shipping point in the State; our postoffive rates second; reason for selling, wish to take an in- terest in a wholesale grocery in Detroit. Carl Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 939 po SALE OR RENT—TWO BRICK STORES connected with arch, 22x80 each; suitable for department or general store, of which we hive need here; will rent one or both. Write P. O. Box 556, Mendon, Mich. 936 STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE for sale. Box 108, Rathbone, Mich. 922 l OMEYN-PARSONS PAYS CASH FOR stocks of merchandise (not a trader or broker). Grand Ledge, Mich. 920 NOR SALE—AN UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE and implement stock, invoicing $3,000; lo- cated in Northern Michigan; doing a good bust- ness. Address No. 913, care Michigan Trades- man. 913 gees 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 ——: ois @ 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 : GOING OUT OF BUSINESS OR IF YOU have a bankrupt stock of clothing, dry goods, The New = or shoes, communicate with Store, Traverse City, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS ANTED—SITUATION BY YOUNG MAN in general store; has had several years’ experience. Can furnish good references. Ad- dress No 997, care Michigan Tradesman. AN-AMERICAN ACCOMMODATIONS AT private house, conveniently located. Lode . 917 ing, one dollar each Address LeRoy 8. man, Sec’y, Buffalo Produce Exchange.’ —_a y(e 5 nononohonononcnononcnononononenenonononenonencnons ° If you want to secure more than e e ti $2 he SoS REWARD : a ': ; a) iE «|» @In Cash Profits in 1901, and in addition give : , ft» § thorough satisfaction to your patrons, the sale of s ( © but one dozen per day of : ~The. e _|, ~ FLEISCHMANN & CO.’s } | : YELLOW LABEL s ‘{\ $ COMPRESSED YEAST A be . will secure that result. ° | e Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St. . , Suonenenenenesenoncnenenesononenenenenenenenenenene™ Abner _ Junior Generator The best Acetylene Gas Generator on the market for private houses, schools, churches, lodge halls, stores, etc. From 10 to 50 lights. Write for local agency, in- formation, etc. Call at our exhibit at Buf- falo, Acetylene Building. The Abner Acetylene Gas Co., Simple Account File A quick and easy method of Es- pecially handy for keeping ac- keeping your accounts. count of goods let out on ap- proval, and fer petty accounts with which one does not like to encumber the regular ledger. By using this file or ledger for charging accounts, it will save one-half the time and cost of keeping a set of books. | Charge goods, when purchased, directly on file, then your cus- tomer’s bill is always ready for him, and can be found quickly, 7 on account of the “ = special index. This mi \.. saves you looking over several leaves of a day book if not posted, te 2 when a customer comes in to pay an account and you are busy wait- ing on a prospective buyer. » TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS _Travelers’ Time Tables. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- ident, J. H. HopKINS, Ypsilanti; Secretary, E. A. STOWE, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. Dyx; 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. SmirH; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association a President, A. C.. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc- PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, 1'HOS T. BATES; Secretary, mM. B. HO.uuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Pt. Hurvas Merchants’ and Manofacturers’ Association President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. PERCIVAL. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. Ce Calomet Business Men’s Association President, J. D. Cupp1Hy; Secretary W. H. HOSKING. St. Johns Business Men’s Association President, THos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W VER- HOEKs. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAs. RounpDs; Secretary, FRANK TNEY. 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. Tradesman Company LENGRAVE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. } 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. GRAND “*"* & Indiana Railway July 1, 1901, Going North. daily ex Su ex Su exSu Ly Gd Rapids........ 4065p 715a 2? O00p 10 45p As. Cadiiine ......... 645a 11254 440p 210a Ar. Traverse City.... 830a 130p 6 cp |... Ar Fetoskey......... 9s0a 2hop 7 35p 5 35a Ar. Mackinaw City...1120a 4 15p 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 1 50p 6060p 1230p 9 35p Ar. Kalamazoo. 850a 322p 745p 1 45p 1055p Ar. Ft. Wayne..1210p 650p ToCnicago 1 45a Ar. Cincinnall. 625p ..... | 6 oe 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 ears 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 Harhor Springs. 9:25pm 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 1 53pm 5 40pm Ar. Muskegon... .... 900am 310pm 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 Muskegon at 9:30am daily, 1:30pm and 5:20pm exeept Sunday and 8:00pm Sunday only. CHICAGO TRAINS G. R. & i and Michigan Central. . Except ° TO CHICAGO Sunday Daily Ly. G’d Rapids (Union — 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. FROM CHICAGO except pally Ly. Chicago (12th St. Station) 5 15pm 11 30pm Ar. G'd Rapids (Union depot) 10 05pm 7 20am 5:15pm train runs solid to Grand Rapids with Pullman buffet parlor car attached. 11:30pm train has through coach and sleeping car Take G. R. & I. to Chicago 50 cents to Muskegon and Return Every Sunday ELECTRICITY and costs less than Kerosene Oil. The wonder of the age! A_ 100 Candle Power Light for one week for 2 cents, Each Lamp Fakes and Burns Its Own Gas! NO SMOKE! NO DIRT! Perfectly safe. Over 100 styles for indoor and outdoor use. Every tamp warranted. Sells at Sight. Agents coining money. Write at once. The Best Light Co. 82 E. 5th St., Canton, O. Dab ale) Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Write for our Catalogue, ‘‘ The Commercial Traveler,” if you are thinking of adding to your business or of going into a new business. We solicit a share of your : : : —. . 5 ne of our Shi d patronage and aim to retain your trade by giving full value at the lowest prices. rN. One of o si Catalogue sent to merchants on request. Don’t wait—mail us your order. } Leaders j u Knocked Diamond Fly Paper Galvanized Iron Tubs s . in In double sheets 9x16 inches. Patent No. 1, best grade, per doz............... 5 45 : D wax border edges which prevents run- No. 2, best grade, per doz............... 6 00 : Cigar own ning or dripping. 25 double sheets (50 - No. 3, best grade, per doz............... 6 90 “7 single) in fancy box, per box............ $ 30 Wood Butter Dishes J Cases Per case of 10 fancy boxes.............. 276 Wire Ends, 250 in Crate. on gs ee co Brooms A ib. size, per erate. (ce. 42 G ea -1In spite of strong advance in broom 2 Ib. size, per crate...... eee oo 47 corn we quote as follows whiie the & ib. Sige, Per CFALG... 8. 57 Se Writ stock lasts. Our special bargains: SID. 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Write RSS ESE SS | r If you want the very best money saving scale on earth, then you want the BOSTON and no other. Don’t think of buying a scale } of any other make until you have had a chanee. to investigate this statement. We back up our assertions with the best goods DSS 4 PUTING Gue COMP" SCALE C0. Ass ef SS te Ty, kK ~ , SASS AaSae on earth. Drop us a line for our catalogue D | and you'll get it. HL {. The Computing Scale Company; -} \F 5 Cee Dayton, Ohio