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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1901.

Number 937

 

 

A. BOMERS,
..commercial Broker..

And Dealer in
Cigars and Tobaccos,
157 E. Fulton St. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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« IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Got His Gum.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Getting the People.

%. Morning Market.

8. Editorial.

9, Editorial.

10. Clothing.

11. Dry Goods.

12. Shoes and Rubbers.

14. Village Improvement.
15. Clerical Career.

16. The Meat Market.

1%. Trade Winners.

18. Hardware.

19. The Happiest Moment.
20. Woman’s World.

22. Poultry.

23. The New York Market.
24. Clerks’ Corner.

25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current.

 

   

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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

31. Why Workingmen Cannot Pay Debts
Hardware Price Current.
32. The Golden Rule.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The opening of fall trade is with al-
most phenomenal activity in nearly all
departments. Many factories are work-
ing over time and in some cases ship-
ping and packing departments are run-
ning day and night. Perhaps the most
comprehensive comparison is found in
the bank exchanges, which exceed those
for the same month last year by over 44
.| per cent. While the benefits of this ac-
tivity are felt in all lines, particularly

 

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

Established 1841.

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

Books arranged with trade classification of names.
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars.

C. E. McCRONE, [lanager.

noteworthy gains are found in building
operations, where the limit seems to be
the ability to get materials.

The course of the stock market has
been upward until the interruption of
the holidays, and what would seem
singular in view of the strike agitation
is that the steel issues are taking the

 

National Fire Ins. Co.

of Hartford

Successor to
The Grand Rapids Fire Ins. Co.
CAPITAL, $1,000,000

lead. Financial conditions continue
favorable, with abundant funds for all
legitimate requirements.

High prices for promptly delivered
products of iron and steel have operated
to stimulate the independent com-
panies, which are crowding their ca-
pacity to the limit. But when time is

 

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner

Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
Corres-

the Food Laws of any State.
pondence invited.
1232 [Majestic Building, Detroit, [ich

not the principal consideration, orders
are taken by the trust without hesita-
tion in all lines of their productions.
Even the tin-plate mills, where the
strikers claimed a plate could not be
produced, are working with more than
*| their usual activity.

 

As the season advances the prospect

 

 

 

 

? oe ee eee eee. @ | of wheat taking the lead among agricul-
g WILLIAM CONNOR : tural products is increasing, the return
= WHOLESALE 3] to growers being the most profitable. In
@ READYMADE CLOTHING @\|spite of the unexpected abundance the
3 for all ages 3 | price is well maintained. Export move-
@ : | ment is very heavy, August probably
$ Removed to William Alden Smith 3|making a new record. Corn shows an
@ block, 28 and 30 South Ionia street. % improved outlook, but prices are kept
3 Open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 3 strong.

3 Saturday to I p. m. 3} Late returns from the South are less
@ Mail orders promptly attended to. . favorable for cotton. and there is more
3 Customers’ expenses allowed. @j| uneasiness regarding the danger from
i ees eebenee cold before the tardy crop is picked, al-

though at some points the movement has

 

Tradesman Goupons

already begun, port receipts for the
week largely exceeding last year’s. A

 

Southern cotton mills that may tend to
curtail operations, but New England
spinners are fairly busy and the goods
market is firmer. Gratifying reports are
received from makers of woolen goods,
mills frequently declining orders that
call for prompt delivery. Revival in
this industry is heartily welcomed after
the long period of depression, but heavy
stocks of raw material purchased far
above current prices, greatly handi-
capped the mills. Recent inquiries in-
dicate that the surplus has been depleted
and there appears to be a good mar-
ket for the large clip secured this year.
Shoe shops are urged to hasten ship-
ments and the healthy tone is reflected
in the leather market. Exports are also
a factor of importance. Belting makers
take all the butts offered at full values.

 

 

The world is being treated to another
scheme for the extraction of the ‘‘ root of
all evil’? from sea water. That gold
does really exist in the sea is well
known to every chemist, but the precious
metal is in such infinitesimal quantity
in proportion to bulk of water as to ren-
der the expense of extraction greater
than the actual returns. Many fake
schemes for an attack on nature’s labo-
ratory have been foisted on the world

the result that they have gained experi-
ence for the outlay.

as one with money in it.

same category as that of New York.

a.)

side the sad sea waves.
a tank for the storage of the sea water,

there you are!

highly problematical.

‘the future.

affairs of the world.
be restricted by artificial means now
and then but it can not be permanently
restrained. It is an influence that is
natural in its development and its ex-
ercise should be expected to follow as a
matter of course. Europe will become
accustomed to the situation after a time.
It has been slow inarriving at the point
of recognition, but it can now see the
whole prospect.

——

After reading all the scientific creeds
on the mosquito question, the wonder is
that so many of us who have fought with
and been bitten by mosquitoes every
summer of our lives remain to tell the

tale.

and people with more money than wit
have been tempted to go into them, with

The recent New
York scheme was heralded to the world
So there was
—for the projector; the investor got the
experience. The new scheme hails from
England, and may or may not be in the

The modus operandi is so simple as to
tempt every seaside hoiiday seeker to
turn his hand to the game in order to
break the monotony of existence ‘‘be-
It consists of

and as the gold exists in the form of an
iodide, alkalinity is imparted to the
water by means of some form of caustic
lime. This precipitates the gold, and
The chemical technique
is perfect on paper, but the outturn is

One noted European political phil-
osopher says that America, Russia and
China are to be the three great units of
However it may be as to
the others it is pretty certain that Amer-
ica will be a great unit of power in the
Its influence may

THE LESSON OF THE STRIKE.

After days of sparring for points with
the steel trust, the Amalgamated Asso-
ciation of Steel Workers appears to have
been driven to the verge of despair.
Complaints are coming from its ranks
and from those of its allies in the strug-
gle in which it is engaged with Mr.
Schwab and his associates that the
strike in which it is now engaged is ill-
advised. Loud murmurs against Presi-
dent Shaffer are being heard, amounting
in some instances to a demand for his
impeachment. Disapproval of his or-
ders is plainly manifested by the West-
ern branches of the Association, and
everything points to early independent
action on their part looking toa resump-
tion of work on a.non-union basis. Al-
together the future looks anything but
bright for the Amalgamated, face to
face with complete defeat as it must
eventually come, according to the latest
information from the scene of its opera-
tions.
At this distanec it appears, from what
has been made public with regard to
the controversy between the steel corpo-
ration and its employes, that it was pre-
cipitated in hot-headed haste by a
venal and unscrupulous leader who very
foolishly imagined that he was able to
cope with men who possessed an ample
supply of two things in which he is sad-
ly deficient—brains and common sense.
The lesson to be learned from
what can safely be foreseen, as the re-
sult of Mr. Shaffer's efforts in this case,
is plain enough. Learned and profited
by, it can teach but one thing and lead
to but one conclusion, and that is that
strikes are invariably unprofitable from
an economic standpoint. Even when
successful, their cost is greater than the
parties concerned can afford, to say
nothing of the losses entailed upon
thousands of people neither concerned
in nor responsible for the conditions by
which they are brought about. The de-
moralization occasioned by strikes and
the ever present danger of lawlessness
accompanying their progress are other
features making against them as proper
remedies for the grievances of labor.

 

 

The butter trade of Russia with Eng-
land is so great—amounting to about
$10,000,000 a year—that a special line
of butter steamers has been started be-
tween Riga and London. These steam-
ers are fitted with refrigerating appar-
atus and special butter trains will make
connections with them. The butter will

be carried in hermetically closed com-

Jamaica ginger.

 

 

labor controversy has broken out among

partments, and adequate supplies of ice
will be provided en route.

The latest census figures show that
Rhode Island is the most densely pop-
ulated state in the Union, with 407 peo-
ple to the square mile. Massachusetts
is second, with 349, and Connecticut
fourth, with 187. Nevada is the least
crowded, with ten square miles for
every four people, and in Wyoming
they have one square mile apiece.

 

An exchange tells how to serve cu-
cumbers and doesn’t say a word about

     
 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

GOT HIS GUM.

Summary Method of Expediting the Work
of Clerks.
Written for the Tradesman.

It was one of those general stores over
on the Lake Michigan shore where one
firm does all the business and the cus-
tomers are often obliged to take a back
seat. The Czar of the establishment
kept himself in a glass case in the rear
end, safely out of the way, and occupied
himself during business hours by writ-
ing numerous letters, interspersing this
duty with an occasional pull at a long
black cigar.

Next lower in the scale of office came
the Superior High Potentate, who
juggled the mail in the little coop set
apart for the dispatch of Government
business. In approaching this official,
remove the hat, bow three times and ob-
serve respectfully that there is no haste
about the matter anyway and that you
can just as well get your mail to-mor-
row. Itis well to do this in all serious-
ness, for it may expedite matters, and
one does not usually get his mail until
the next day anyway.

Below the Superior High Potentate,
and in more or less direct communica-
tion with the vulgar herd, could be
found His Little Serene Nibblets, who

_ Yeigned over the dry goods, the grocer-

ies and the boots and shoes, and who,
for a compensation, was supposed to
part with the goods in his charge to any
person who had the temerity and the
hardihood to communicate with him
upon so delicate and unwelcome a sub-
ject.

Under His Nibblets was an old man,
gray, worn and servile. He evidently
did most of the work, and went about it
as one who lived in constant dread of
being kicked and who would receive
any such attention with becoming grati-
tude. He worked slowly and painfully,
mever seemed sure of the price of any
given article, nor whether it should
properly be sold by weight or by meas-
ure. He made frequent appeals to His
Little Serene Nibblets, although he re-
ceived but scant acknowledgment or in-
formation from that dignitary.

There had been a ball game ata
neighboring village and two of the play-
ers, with their lady friends, had just
returned. They, together with His Nib-
blets, occupied an alcove behind the
grocery counter, and explanations as to
how it happened that their side got the
worst of it were being made.

‘It was a steal,’’ said a girl with
frizzly hair.

‘*Rank, rank !’’ added her companion
whose most salient characteristic seemed
to be the wearing of a yellow silk shirt
waist. ‘‘I got so mad I just squalled.’’

“‘Rotten decisions !’’ exclaimed a red
headed youth. ‘‘That empire’s a thief.
I’m jest waiting for my chance. 1'll
catch him alone some day, and then—
grrr!’’

“*“Wish’t I’d been there,’’ said His
Nibblets with a ferocious shoulder
shrug. ‘‘Might just as well ’agone,
too. Nothin’ going on here. Never is.
Don’t think I'll stay much longer,
either. After I’m gone, then mebbe
they'll find out how they’ll get along
alone—yes, they'll find out pretty soon
—then !"’

‘*Oh-h-h!’’ gasped both girls at once,
with intaking breath. ‘‘ Don’t go, please
don’t go. Goodness! We wouldn't have
no one to trade with—if you wasn't
here.”’

**I don’t know,’’ he replied doubt-
fully, ‘it depends. But I’m a thinkin’,
and thinkin’ hard, too, and when I once

 

make up my mind to a thing, nothin’
couldn’t hold me back.’’ Then, return-
ing to the original subject, he enquired :
‘*But how come it you got skinned when
you had the game so nigh safe?’’

‘‘Well, you see it was this way,’’ said
a fat young man with cheeks like a
baby’s, ‘‘it was all in the last inning.
We was twenty-four to their twenty-six,
and us to bat. Hent made a hit and got
first. Then Angus Campbell's Archie
bunted, and they both moved up. That
fetched me to bat and I waited till I
had three balls and two strikes and then
1 got a dandy right over the platter and
I lined her clear out into center. I
knowed it was good for a three bagger,
and I heeled it around the di’mond the
best I could. When I got to second the
other fellers was in, and the boys hol-
lered for me to make home and cinch
the game. I knowed their man never
could throw in the ball to put me out
and no chance of his making a ketch, so
I sailed right along, throwin’ grass and
sand like a lawn mower, and just as I
crossed the plate and hollered ‘score,’
dum ’f the empire didn’t yell ‘out.’
That blamed center fielder had stubbed
his toe in running, and fell head over
heels and him and the ball come to-
gether so’s’t he made a scoop.’’

‘‘Rankest empirin’ ever I see,’ vol-
unteered his comrade.

‘‘Well, he throwed it to second and
the side was out. We kicked and beefed
and told the empire it was a scoop, but
he stuck to it ‘twas a fair catch, and we
would of licked him only they was too
many for us.’’

I was quite interested in the account
of the game and had forgotten that we
had come in for a few supplies for the
camp and had stood there for several
minutes without apparently attracting
the slightest attention. But there was a
small boy near us for whom the great
game had as yet no perceptible attrac-
tions, and he was doing his level best
to get some one to notice him. He was
just a common, everyday boy—a very
homely, harmless boy, with a round,
sensitive face and honest blue eyes.

The old man was puttering around,
trying to do up a package of spikes that
had every appearance of being too much
for him, and His Nibblets paid no at-
tention to the boy other than an occas-
ional frown when he made himself too
conspicuous by rattling his money upon
the show case.

At last, in response to a clatter of the
coin more noisy than the rest, His Nib-
blets cast upon the boy a look of indig-
nation, annoyance and scorn that is
hard to describe, and said:

‘Say, kid, if you don't stop that, I'll
come out there and slap you!’’

‘*O, don’t,’’ protested the girl with
the yellow waist.

“‘I will, though, if he does that again.
I hain’t no wooden man.’’

‘‘I want some gum,’” said the boy.

‘*Wait till you get it, won’t you?’’

‘Te he,’ laughed the frizzly maiden.
‘‘He must be ina hurry for his gum.
Gum's likely to be scarce to his house. ’’

“I’ve gotter get it now,’’ whined the
boy. ‘‘Dad’ll lick me if I don’t hus-
tle.”’

“Well, if he don’t, I will. You don’t
need any gum, anyway. Gum’ll rot
your teeth,’’ said His Nibbs, facetious-
ly. ‘‘I’ve got something to do better’n
waiting on yaps like you be.’’

‘*O, get the little feller his gum,”’
said Yellow Waist, coaxingly. ‘‘If his

pa licks him he might weep tears into
the mixed candy,’’ and then she and
Frizzles giggled gleefully, and the boys |

 

grinned and snickered, and they all
turned their heads and looked tantaliz-
ingly toward the small boy.

It was very funny—something so out
of the usual humdrum of the country
store. And they went on with quip and
jest and banter, and the small boy wrig-
gled and squirmed and turned scarlet
under that volley of persiflage, and
wished he was home. But he still
wanted his gum.

Just then there strode in a typical
specimen of the product of the Northern
Michigan lumber woods. He was tall
and large, without an ounce of spare
flesh. He had hands like hams and
strength and agility were depicted in
his every motion. His eyes were blue,
clear and alert, and when he bent an
enquiring gaze upon the small boy and
asked what had kept him so long, the
youngster saw fit to make brief and
rapid explanation.

‘*Couldn’t git waited on,’’ said he.

The man looked over toward Nibblets,
who had returned to the discussion of
the ball game.

‘‘Did yo’ tell the man what yo’
wanted?”’

“*Yes, an’ he told me to shet up or
he'd slap me.’’

The big man’s face twitched curious-
ly as he stepped quickly to the counter,
reached forth, seized His Highness by
the collar and, with one hand and with-
out apparent effort, lifted him over into
the center aisle.

‘“*Mercy on us!’’ squeaked the girls.

‘*W-wh-what you doin’?’’ stammered
His Nibblets. :

**Make him quit,’’ commanded Friz-
zles, addressing the ball players. But
they, viewing with evident dismay the
vast hulk before them, shook their heads.

‘* *Tain’t none of our business,’’ said
Red Head.

‘*You bet!’’ acquiesced his compan-
ion.

‘‘Why didn’t yo’ wait on my kid?’’
demanded the giant.

“‘Pll have you- arrested. I'll call
the—’’ threatened His Highness.

The big man gave hima gentle shake,
much as one might a handkerchief to
straighten out the wrinkles, and then
repeated :

‘“Why didn’t yo’ wait on my kid?’’

‘*You quit that,’’ screamed His Se-
reneness, struggling ineffectually to get
away.

“*Yes, you quit,’’ said both ladies in
chorus.

‘* Why-didn’t-you-wait-on-my-kid ? '’
repeated the big man with an earnest-
ness that would. have impressed any
person not entirely besotted with self-
esteem. And he emphasized his ques-
tion with a double back action shake
that made the royal teeth rattle and_ the
imperial eyes bulge from their sockets.
Then Royalty was held at arm’s length
by the giant who waited for a repiy.

Unable to realize the situation and
overcome by rage and mortification,
His Serenity made a vain effort to kick
the big man, shrieking as he did so:

**Lemme go!’ e

“*Yes, let him go. He won't do it
again,’’ begged the ladies.

But the forest giant smiled quietly,
caught the foot before it descended,
doubled His Serenity into convenient
shape and then, laying him across a
neighboring box, spanked him method-
ically and thoroughly—spanked him
carefully and painstakingly—spanked
him with a_ hand that would cover the
end of a pickle keg or fell an ox—
spanked him, not as a novice in the
art, but as one who had done the work
before, who knew just how to do it and
who would spare no pains to make _ his

 

undertaking a pronounced _ success.

Then the big man stood His Imperial
Nibblets upon his feet and asked
quietly:

‘*Why didn’t you wait on my kid?”’

‘*T w-was b-busy,’’ was the rather
meek reply.

‘*Yes, he was busy,’
zles.

‘*What doin’?’’

‘*T-talking with these people.’’

“Yes, he was talking to us,’’ ad-
mitted Shirt Waist.

‘*Sellin’ goods?’’
man relentlessly.

“‘He was talkin’ about a game of
ball,’’ volunteered the boy.

**But we might have wanted to buy,’’
interposed Frizzles.

‘*Bail game, eh?’’ said the giant
sneeringly, giving His Excellence an-
other shake. ‘‘Talking up a game of
ball and too busy to sell goods?’’ an-
other shake. ‘‘Lots 0’ money in that
air.’”? Two more shakes. ‘‘I’ve been
thinkin’ fer quite a spell that I’d have
to have a little conversation with you.
Things hain’t been goin’ just to suit
me and I don’t like it. Last tradin’ we
done here we asked for golden syrup at
30 cents a gallon. Yo’ put 25 cent black
strap in the jug an’ charged us 40 cents
fer two quarts.’’ Another shake. ‘‘We
wanted K. T. soda, an’ yo’ gave us
your own kind that’s so bang fired poor
that it wouldn’t raise a b’loon that was
already fer startin’. Yo’ gin us dried
apples that was all peelin’s and cores
an’ dirt an’ so full of worms they was
only fit fer fish bait. Then I bought five
yards of all wool shirtin’ at half a dol-
lar a yard, an’ the piece you gin me
was half cotton and a yard short and _ it
had a hole in the middle that a calf
could walk through. You made a mis-
take of 50 cents in footin’ the bill, and
topped off by givin’ out 40 cents too
much change. Now yo’ fool around
with a pack of kids when my boy is try-
in’ to get waited on and tell him you'll
slap him if he don’t keep still.’’ An-
other vigorous shake. ‘‘Do yo’ s’pose
I’m going to stand that very long an’
say nothin’?’’

“He didn’t mean to do it—he was
fooling,’’ moaned Frizzles.

‘*You don’t have to trade here if you
don’t want to,’’ gasped His Serenity.

‘“*Is that so?’’ said the giant, sarcas-
tically, lifting His Nibblets clear from
the floor and waving him back and
forth meditatively, as one might a wet
rag. ‘‘How long did it take you to
find that out? I don’t suppose I have
to trade no place if I don’t want to.’’

And then the big man shook that
sprig of royalty until his coat ripped,
his collar button flew across the store,
and it seemed to the spectators that his
eyes must certainly leave their resting
place for a trip through space. Then
he set him in a convenient chair.

‘Set there, young feller,’’ said he,
‘‘and listen to what I’ve got tosay. I’m
goin’ to trade some place, and for the
present I’ve took a notion that 1’ll come
here. I like your style so well that I
can’t bear to think of going nowheres
else. It hain’t every place that a feller
can get good measure and his right
change back every time like he can
here. An’ then I like the accommo-
datin” ways yo’ have with your custom-
ers, and I’m stuck on the way yo’ jump
around and wait on folks the minute
they come in. I’m going to send the
boy here for stuff and if yo’ take pains
to do things right there won't be no
trouble with me; but the minute yo’
commence -to mix your drinks or fergit
to sell him stuff when he comes in or
give him a lot of old trash when he pays
for good goods or work the short change
racket or talk about slapping of him,
your Uncle Lij'll put on his war paint
again and call on yo’ personally, and
he'll give yo’ all the p'ints the’ is out
in the latest Pawnee cotillion. Johnny,
did you’ do your tradin’?’’

‘No, dad.’’

‘“Get your stuff then and come on.’’

‘‘I want some gum,’’ said Johnny,
again rattling his coin on the show case.

And Johnny was waited on so quickly
that he hadn’t a real good chance to ex-
plain what kind of gum he preferred.

Geo, L. Thurston,

assented Friz-

pursued the big

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Royal is the baking powder of
highest character and _ reputa-
tion, the favorite among house-
i keepers. "The cheapest to con-
sumers, the most profitable for
dealers to handle.

Those grocers who are most successful in business—who have
the greatest trade, highest reputation, the largest bank ac-
counts—are those who sell the highest quality, purest, best
known articles.
It is a discredit to a grocer to sell impure, adulterated
J and unwholesome goods; nor is the sale of such goods, even

though the profits on a single lot may be larger, as profitable
in the long run as the sale of pure, wholesome, high-class

articles at a less percentage.
Trade is won and held by the sale of the best, the highest
grade, the most reliable goods.

i ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Around the State

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Ida—Gilhousen & Co. have removed
their general stock to Sherron.

Union City—John Clay has sold his
grocery stock to Chas. Horton.

Caro—Cummins Bros, have opened a
grocery store in the White building.

Detroit—Julius Schultz has sold his
grocery stock to Prochnow & Schafer.

Channing—W. J. Boll succeeds W. J.
Boll & Co. in the dry goods business.

Battle Creek—Stringham & Orns,
meat dealers, have sold out to James
Darling. .

Jonia—U. H. Lazelle & Co. have
purchased the bazaar stock of Geo. E.
Nichols.

Battle Creek—Wm. H. VanSickle has
purchased the grocery stock of E. M.
Blakeslee.

Shepherd—Mrs. Ethei Lathrop has
purchased the grocery stock of Jas. H.
Cavanaugh.

Saginaw—The grocery store of C. M.
Heck & Co. has been closed under chat-
tel mortgage.

Detroit—R. Kroll & Co. have pur-
chased the dry goods and notion stock
of Carl Rinke.

Princeton—Hugh V. Sparks & Co.
succeed Frank Farquer in the grocery
and meat business.

Detroit—F. W. Schwartz is succeeded
by E. J. (Mrs. Albert) Livingston in
the grocery business.

New Lothrop—W. E. Gustine, of Cass-
opolis, has engaged in the mercantile
business at this place.

Deckerville—Arthur H. Grice has en-
gaged in the meat business, having pur-
chased the market of Nathan Purcell.

Capac—Geo. A. Balden has _ pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the
general merchandise firm of Warren &
Balden.

Butternut—G. R. Banton has _ pur-
chased the N. W. Daggett general mer-
chandise stock and will soon move into
the brick store.

Central Lake—R. Schomberg has sold
his stock of general merchandise to
Wolf Kaplan, of Detroit, who will con-
tinue the business.

Chase—Curtis Bros., of Reed City,
have purchased a warehouse and will
establish a flour and feed and farm
produce business here.

Lansing—C. B. Leonard has sold his
grocery stock on Butler street to Shank
& Reynolds. Both members of the new
firm reside in Lansing.

Frankfort—W. V. Capron has sold his
bazaar stock to E. Z. Guild, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Cassopolis—John B. Stemm will in
the future conduct the dry goods and
boot and shoe business of Stemm &
Gustine in his own name.

Constantine—Sevison Bros. have made
a deal for the J. R. Watson stock of
hardware and groceries at White Pigeon,
and the stock will be removed to this
place.

Indian River—R. T. Bower has sold
his drug stock to Edgar Rice,of Bloom-
ingdale. The sale was effected through
the Wants Column department of the
Michigan Tradesman.

Escanaba—Geo. M. Mashek has pur-
chased the interest of his partner, Ed-
ward Arnold, in the cedar business of
Mashek & Arnold. The deal includes
all ‘lands, standing timber, tools and
vehicles.

Petoskey--R. T. Bower has sold his
drug stock to the Eckel Drug Co., the

 

transfer to take place Oct. 1, and will
devote his entire attention to the manu-
facture and sale of his hair tonic and
headache powders.

Albion—F. F. Hoaglin has sold his
clothing stock to Barney Julius, of
Vicksburg. Mr. Hoaglin has been ac-
tively engaged in the clothing business
here for the last twenty-seven years.
Mr. Julius has been likewise established
in Vicksburg for nearly as long—twenty-
five years. He will continue the busi-
ness here at the old stand.

Gladstone—E. Buckman, one of the
well-known merchants of this city, at-
tempted to commit suicide Aug. 29 by
hanging. He had already suspended
himself from the ceiling when friends
rushed into the room and saved his life.
He recentiy failed in business and, be-
coming despondent, it is thought he
sought relief in death. A close watch
is now being kept over him. “

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Detroit Forging Co. has
been organized with a capital stock of
$100, 000,

Kalamazoo—The Michigan Steel Roat
Co. is considering the idea of removing
its plant to Freeport.

Dearborn—The Ives Automatic Door
Co, is the style of a new concern at this
place. The capital stock is $5,000.

Adrian—A. Breunig has purchased the
interest of his brother in the cigar man-
ufacturing business of Breunig Bros.

Mendon—The Morgan Glove Co.
writes the Tradesman that the report
that the business has been sold to John
Wuerst is untrue.

Niles—Joseph Goodman has sold his
garment factory to L. Schwabach, who
will continue the business. The factory
employs fifty people.

Saline—The Acetylene Lighting Co.
has been organized here with $5,000
capital stock. Charles Burkhardt is
President and A. J. Warren Secretary.

Battle Creek—The American Column
Co., Limited, succeeds Angell Bros. as
proprietor of the American Column
Co., and in the lumbering and interior
finish manufacturing business.

Manchester—The subject of forming
a stock company to operate a canning
factory here is being discussed by the
business men of the village and the
farmers of the vicinity with consider-
able interest.

Detroit—The Ives Automatic Door
Opener Co. has been incorporated with
a capital of $5,000 fully paid in. The
stockholders are: Louis Ives, 333 shares ;
Fred E. Gregory, 166 shares; William
T. Gregory, one share.

Detroit—A partnership with a capital
of $50,000, all paid in, has been formed
for the purpose of manufacturing and
selling the Dr. A. Reed cushion shoe.
The copartners are Arthur G. Holiand,
William Goodyear and Frederick D.
Rolison.

Cadillac—The Oviatt Manufacturing
Co., whose plant was burned some time
ago, will resume business, it having
been practically settled that a new
building will be put up on the old site.
From twenty-five to forty men will be
em ployed.

Hillsdale—The Adams Gasoline En-
gine Co. has purchased the entire busi-
ness and plant of the Olds & Hough
Gasoline Co., of Albion, and will move
the plant to this city at once and consol-
idate the two. Mr. Olds will enter the
employ of the Hillsdale Company.

Detroit—The Detroit Composite Co.
has filed articles of incorporation and
will manufacture advertising signs, toys

 

and novelties on a capital stock of
$5,000, with $500 paid in. The incorpo-
rators are: Wm. M. Finck, 497; Wm.
Schantz, Wm. H. Jansen and Wm.
Collins, 1 share each.

St. Ignace—The sawmill of Salling,
Hanson & Co. at this place has been
purchased by Thomas & Woodfield and
Wm. St. James, who wiil conduct the
business under the style of Woodfield &
St. James. Besides the mill, the new
firm has also purchased the lumbering
outfit, mill grounds and lands, and a
considerable amount of timber. It will
also add a shingle equipment to the
piant.

Lansing—The Stone Lumber Co.
plant has been purchased by a number
of our business men and will be con-
verted into a factroy for the manufac-
ture of automobile and carriage bodies.
The company will begin operations at
once with forty men, which is a small
force compared to the number it is ex-
pected will ultimately be given employ-
ment. The officers of the new company
are as follows: Lawrence Price, Pres-
ident; H. E. Bradner, Secretary and
General Manager, and E. S. Porter,
Treasurer.

Pontiac—It is still a question here as
to whether or not the axle trust organ-
ized in the East some months ago will
take up the options it has on the factory
of the Pontiac Axle Co. It was an-
nounced that the options would expire
September 1, but is now stated that they
are good until December 1. The axle
company here was organized by vehicle
men who are large users of axles, which
they formerly purchased of the trust. It
is pointed out that if the factory passes
into the new trust the factory men here
will again be obliged to buy trust axles,
and all they gain by selling the axle
plant will be quickly eaten up in the
advance the trust will place on axles
once it has control of the market.

—___ 2»

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades

and prices, call Visner, both phones.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids “~Retai] Grocers’ Association,
held Tuesday evening, Sept. 3, Presi-
dent Dyk presided.

The annual election of officers for the
ensuing year resulted as follows:

President—Fred W. Fuller.

Treasurer—L. John Witters.

Secretary—Homer Klap.

Vice Presidents—F. L. Merrill, John
Lindemulder, J. Frank Gaskill, Peter
Braun, Ralph Moore.

Auditing Committee—B. S. Harris,
J. Frank Gaskill, Gerrit Roesink.

Mr. Dyk presented his farewell ad-
dress. He has served the Association
faithfully and acceptably for the past
three years. J. Geo. Lehman also de-
clined to again accept the office of
Treasurer, giving as his reason the fact
that the person who occupies this office
should reside on the East side. He has
given the Association the benefit of his
experience and ability for several years.

Three new members applied for
membership and were accepted as fol-
lows: Bert Petter, corner Quimby and
Plainfield avenue; N. K. Jepson, 692
Cherry street, and Peter C. Cooper, 131
Turner street.

A complaint was brought before the
meeting to the effect that certain hucks-
ters occupy too much of the sidewalk on
the market, and the Secretary was in-
structed to communicate with the chair-
man of the Market Committee.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

Homer Klap, Sec’y.
06
The Boys Behind the Counter.

Holland—Peter Van Anrooy, formerly
clerk at the grocery store of Will Bots-
ford, has taken a position at Will Bots-
ford’s city bakery.

Eaton Rapids—Fred L. Munson, clerk.
at the Wiicox & Godding drug store,
has had such flattering offers from his
former employer at Ithaca that he has
finally accepted.

Kalamazoo—Louis Hyman, who has
been with the P. H. Loeffler Drug Co.
for the past seven years, will leave Sep-
tember 9 to take up a course of phar-
macy in Northwestern University.

Alpena—Hugh McGregor, of Ypsi-
lanti, has taken a clerkship in Wittel-
shofer’s book store.

 

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

L. J. Hoffer has purchased the drug
stock of J. G. Damsky at -190 Fourth
street.

The Grand Rapids Book Case Co. has
increased its capital stock from $20,000
to $35,000.

Mrs. J. M. Strehl has removed her

grocery stock from 23 Scribner street _to
11 Broadway.

 

 

M. D. Emerson succeeds the grocery
firm of M. D. Emerson & Son at 143
Livingston street.

Thos. Heffernan, druggist at Bald-
win, has added a line of groceries. The
stock was furnished by the Ball-Barn-
hart Putman Co.

S. W. Porter, who has clerked several
years for Howard E. Gill, at Northport,
has engaged in general trade at that
place. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie &
Co. furnished the shoes and Roundy,
Peckham & Co. supplied the groceries.
Lines of dry goods and clothing will be
added later in the season.

 

John P. Coeling, of the grocery firm
of Grebel & Coeling, at 283 Jefferson
avenue, has purchased the interest of his
partner, John Grebel, and formed a co-
partnership with Gerrit Smitter, former-
ly clerk in the crockery store of C.
Blickley, at 68 Monroe street. The
style of the new firm is Smitter &
Coeling.

The Produce Market.

Apples—Fancy_ stock easily fetches
$3@3.50 per bbl. and cooking stock
commands $2.25@2.75. Sweet apples
are in strong demand at $1@I1I.25 per
bu. Buyers are said to be visiting
every apple section in the country
and wherever possible they are placing
orders for full orchards or as much as
growers will sell. The effect is to stim-
ulate growers’ ideas of prices and be-
lated buyers are finding the price up so
high that it is prohibitive. Whether the
conditions actually justify this situation
only the future can determine. Some
say there is no reason for it, while
others equally as well informed say that
growers will be able to get whatever
they ask as there are no apples any-
where.

Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@
1.75 per bunch, according to size.
Jumbos, $2; extra jumbos, $2.25.

Beans—Reports received from the
Michigan bean belt show that the
chances for a normal crop are excellent.
In Jackson county the yield will be go
per cent., against 75 per cent. last year.
The weevil has done some damage in
Calhoun county, but buyers are optimis-
tic. Heavy rains in Ingham county
buried many of the early varieties in
sand, and the damage from this source
is likely to be heavy in the other sec-
tions of the bean belt. Kalamazoo
farmers claim the hot weather ruined
the crop. Buyers declare these reports
are exaggerated. The bean harvest will
be at its height in a few days.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—The market is flat and deal-
ers are disgusted and discouraged over
the outlook. Extra creamery is slow sale
at 20c, and dairy grades range from toc
for packing stock to I5c for fancy tubs
and crocks.

Cabbage—$2.25 per crate of three to
four dozen.

Carrots—4oc per bu.

Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz. :

Celery—isc per doz. Fine in quality
and large in size.

Corn—Green commands 8@lioc per
doz. ee

Crabapples—Siberian are scarce and
high, commanding 60c per bu. and $2
per bbl.

Cranberries—The New Jersey and
Wisconsin cranberry harvest began Mon-
day. It is said that the crop in New

 

Jersey will be smaller than last year and
in Wisconsin about the same. eather
conditions have injured the berry se-
riously

Cnucumbers—15c per doz. for hot house
stock; 4oc per bu. for garden, stock;
12c per 1oo for pickling.

Eggs—Receipts last week were the
poorest they have been this season, in
consequence of the amount of shrunken
and sloppy stock included in shipments.
Candled stock commands 14@15c¢, which
enable dealers to net their shippers
I2@13¢.

Egg Plant—$1 per doz.

Frogs’ Legs—Large bulls, 40@45c;
medium bulls, 25c; large frogs, 15@zoc ;
small frogs, 5@t1oc.

Grapes—Moores and Wordens are
held at 15c for 8 Ib., and roc for snide
pony 4 lb. baskets. The crop promises
to turn out good.

Green Onions—toc for Silverskins.

Honey—White stock is in light supply
at 14c.. Amber is slow sale at 13c and
dark is in moderate demand at 11@I2c.

Lettuce—Garden, soc per bu. ; head,
6oc per bu.

Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy.

Musk Melons—Osage, Rocky Ford
and Cantaloupes fetch 75c per doz.

Onions—70@75c per bu.

Oranges—Jamaica oranges continue
very green, but they stand shipment
well and the relatively high prices ob-
tained for first arrivals seem to prove
that they are wanted. A strongly acid
fruit is liked by some because it is sup-
posed to have curative properties. This
has something to do with the consump-
tion of early Jamaicas.

Oysters—Dealers claim that the sup-
ply of oysters for the season which
opened Sept. 1 will be larger and finer
than for many years.

Parsley—25c per doz.

Peppers—75c per bu.

Plums—Gueii’s, $1@1.15; Green
Gages, 90c@$1; Lombards, 90c@$1.

Peaches—The market is in good con-
dition, considering the unfavorable
weather which prevailed prior to this
week. White varieties move off on the
basis of 50o@60c. Yellow varieties are
in good demand on the basis of 75@85c
for Red Crawfords, 75@goc for Barnards
goc@$1 for Ingalls, $1@1.25 for Reaves
and $1@1.25 for Early Crawfords.

Pears—Flemish Beauties, $1; sugar,
75c; Bartletts, $1@1.25.

Potatoes—75@8oc per bu. There is
now no shortage of supplies and the
market will probably work to a slightly
lower basis. The uneven condition of
the crop over the country continues to
attract attention, but late rains have
benefited those which were not too badly
injured by drouth to recover and the
later varieties promise a fair yield. The
chief complaint in those sections of the
country which have a good growth of
vines is that the tubers are small and
but few are found.

Poultry—The market is without par-
ticular change. Live hens command 7
@8c; spring chickens, 8@1oc; turkey
hens, 8@o9c; gobblers, 8c; spring ducks,
7@oc. Pigeons are in moderate demand
at so0@6oc per doz., and squabs are
taken readily at $1.20@I. 50.

Radishes—1i2c for China Rose; toc for
Chartiers.

String Beans—75c per bu.

Summer Squash—soc per bu. box.

Sweet Potatoes—$4 per bbl. for Vir-
ginias.

Tomatoes—Soc per bu.

Watermelons—14@15c for home grown.

Wax Beans—75c per bu.

+ 2.

A Connecticut man is seeking a di-
vorce from his wife because she stole
chickens. He should not be so impa-
tient; turkeys are scarce this time of

year.
———E—E e

Lee M. Hutchins, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co., is spending a couple of
weeks on the Les Cheneaux Islands.

——__~> 0. —___

Wm. T. Hess has returned to Charle-
voix from Thompson, where he spent a
week as the guest of Thomas Friant,

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The raw sugar market is in an
unsettled and demoralized condition,
despite an improved demand for re-
fined. Holders are storing sugar in pref-
erence to forcing sales. Prices show a
decline of 3-16c, making the present
price of 96 deg. test centrifugals now
3 13-16c. Holders, however, are look-
ing for a better demand shortly, owing
to the firmness and increased business
in refined sugar. There was consider-
able improvement in the demand for re-
fined sugars, attributed chiefly to buy-
ers being forced into the market, the
supplies on hand being insufficient to
meet the requirements of the consuming
trade. The trade has more confidence
in the future of the market and there is
a strong belief that prices will go no
lower this month.

Canned Goods—Still retain much of
the strength and activity which brought
them into such prominence a few weeks
ago and all indications point to a con-
tinuance of the present conditions for
some time. The interest is confined al-
most exclusively to the future of toma-
toes and peaches. The farther the sea-
son advances the more it becomes evi-
dent that, while the crop of tomatoes is
late, there will probably be during
September and October sufficient to
meet all wants. The peach crop, how-
ever, does not show up so well in point
of quantity, but in quality caanot be ex-
celled. Tomatoes continue firm at un-
changed prices. Spot stocks are about
closed out, and what few remain on
hand are bringing good prices. Spot
corn is scarce and firmly held, but fu-
tures are rather easy and packers show
more disposition to sell than they did a
week or so ago. Peas are meeting with
very good demand, especially for the
better grades. It is claimed that stocks
of all grades of peaches are light and
that there is a probability of a great
scarcity in this line before next season.
New peaches are selling a little slowly,
buyers taking but little interest at pres-
ent prices, which are considered rather
high. Gallon apples are firmly held.
It is understood that the total ‘shipment
of gallon apples from England to this
country is several thousand cases. One
feature in the market was a sharp ad-
vance in domestic sardines, due to the
scarcity and high prices of tin plate.
The Seacoast Packing Co. advanced
quarter-oils 35c per case and mustards
50c per case. Stocks on spot are be-
lieved to be light. Imported sardines
are very firm and fishing on the other
side is still reported very poor. The
tendency of salmon continues toward
lower prices. It becomes more evident
every day that the pack has been enor-
mous. Supplies of red Alaska actually
on the spot are light, however, and in
most cases full prices are obtained.

Dried Fruits—Stocks in almost all
lines are light and prices are well main-
tained. The consumptive demand for
practically all kinds of dried fruits has
become reduced to small proportions,
due largely to the heavy increase in re-
ceipts of peaches and other fresh fruits.
New prunes, however, are in excellent
demand at continually advancing prices.
The demand is for nearly all sizes. The
statistical position of prunes is sized up
by the California Fruit Grower as fol-
lows: ‘‘The Association now has on
hand a little over 30,000,000 pounds,
which should certainly be reduced to
25,000,000 before the new crop is ready
to move in any quantity. The coming
crop is variously estimated at from 50,-
900,000 to 60,000,000 pounds for the

 

State of California, a little less than
half of which will be in the Santa Clara
Valley. The Pacific Northwest will not
turn out much over 25,000,000 pounds.
Some place the figure higher and others
point to the recent heavy dropping and
say it will be lower. In Europe, while
the crop is very much less than last
year’s, one must not overlook the fact
that last season’s crop was enormous.
Prunes will run to large sizes this year
and new fruit will be ready in reason-
able quantity within two or three
weeks. Raisins continue firm and are
in fair demand, especially for seeded.
New crop peaches are easier and apri-
cots are very slow. Dealers say that the
demand for apricots is less this year
than for many years past at this season.
It is believed that prices have seen their
highest level for some time. Currants
are firm and are selling in a small way,
business being confined mostly to small
lots for immediate requirements. Prom-
inent holders say that stocks will be
largely cleared by the end of Septem-
ber. Recent estimates from Greece put
the crop lower, around 130,000 tons.
The first new currants are now expected
to arrive in this country the first week
in October. The regular fall demand
for dates is starting up and holders are
firmer, present prices showing a loss.
The new crop is progressing well and
shipments will be earlier than usual.
New Smyrna figs will arrive in this
country at an unusually early date this
year. The first lot is expected about
September 15. It is said that, if favor-
able weather continues, the crop will be
of good quality and, perhaps, the larg-
est on record.

Rice—Enquiries are good, but, owing
to small supplies, offerings for rice are
limited. There is a fair business in
both domestic and foreign goods at full

prices. Consumption continues good
and stocks are light throughout the
country.

Tea—The demand for teas is slightly
improved. Prices remain unchanged.

Molasses and Syrups—Dealers report
few orders for molasses. The trade con-
tinues to carry light supplies to meet
the usually slow demand incident to the
warm weather. Stocks are light in the
hands of dealers. There is no disposi-
tion to press sales and, in order to se-
cure supplies, buyers are obliged to pay
full prices for all grades. The spot
stocks of domestic and foreign straight
molasses show a further decrease, and
it is generally believed that, with early
cool weather, supplies will not be suff-
cient to cover requirements before the
arrivals of new crop. Prospects continue
favorable for a large crop. Reports
from Barbados are that the recent
heavy rains have been beneficial to the
sugar cane.

Fish—The market for mackerel is
very firm, prices having advanced $2@3
per barrel the past few days. Vessels
report finding very few mackerel, and
the present prospect is that there will
be a light catch.
now we should think the present was a
very good time to make purchases,

Nuts—Nuts are beginning to attract
considerable attention. Filberts are re-
ported stronger on the other side, stocks
in Sicily having been considerably re-
duced recently by exportations to this
country. New crop advices are favor-
able and the new crop will turn out, ac-
cording to all reports, something in ex-
cess of last season’s. Grenoble walnuts
are in good demand. The new crop is
reported to be a record breaker. Brazils
are higher with the tendency still up-
ward.

Rolled Oats—The market is weaker,
there being a decline of 15c on barrels
and 5c per case on competitive cases
and Nickel Oats.

Pickles—The recent drouth in the
West is reported to have had a serious
effect on the cucumber crop. The cu-
cumber fields are badly dried out.
Nothing feels the touch of a period of
drouth quicker than the cucumber, and,
unless there is a heavy rainfall soon,
there will be a great shortage in the
crop.

 

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Getting the People

Strong Conirasts and Startling Effects.

There was a time in the history of the
art of publicity when the great object
to be striven for was that which, by per-
sistent appeal to the eye or the ear,
should clamor loudest for attention. It
mattered little what kind of an impres-
sion was made, whether the rousing
from slumber by the uncouth tones of
the night watch and his clanging bell or
the more respectful appeal through the
pages of the ‘‘news letter’’—as the first
periodicals were designated—the great
thing was to gain attention. At that
time there was less of consideration for
the finer feelings and_ sensibilities,
probably on account of the roughness of
a more primitive mode of life or, what
is more probable, less consideration was
given to the need of making a better
kind of impression, on account of the
newer stage of the science. In its mod-
ern development the successful publicist
is the one who gives most careful atten-
tion to the kind of impression he makes
on the minds of his patrons.

There are some advertisement writers
—and their number is not few—who still
ape the primitive methods of the crying
bellman. These are they who deface
every available wall with the most glar-
ing contrasts of uncouth color, who in-
trude on the pleasantest landscape by
any means within their power, regard-
less of the execration such vandalism
must provoke. There has been a recent
protest along this line so vigorous that
it has greatly. diminished the work of
the paint vandal, but there is yet far too
much of disregard for public rights in
the intrusion of uncouth pill announce-
ments.

I -wish to speak more particularly of
the blood and thunder element in mod-
ern newspaper advertising. The first
thought of the advertiser is to make it
strong. He demands of the printer the
blackest, boldest and largest type that
can be crowded into his space. If he
uses a border it must be ‘‘good and
heavy.’’ The poor printer accedes to
the demand until his pages present a
Startling patchwork of repellent con-
trasts. Such work is not good adver-
tising. The eye instinctively avoids
ugly contrasts. Glancing through the
pages of any advertising periodical, the
attention is arrested by well-balanced
and artistic display. The eye dwells
with pleasure on a symmetrical, com-
plete and self-contained announcement,
while the hideous, patchy, black con-
trasts are avoided as are repelling or
forbidding localities in a landscape.

The judicious advertiser to-day
strains to make every approach to his
customer as pleasing as possible. His
signs are made artistic and unpreten-
tious,and in harmony with the surround -
ings. He doesn’t strive to -obtrude a
disagreeable, or worse, bill board in
every possible location. His space in
the paper is valued tothe full. The
preparation of the matter receives the
most careful attention he can give or
command. Moderate terms in moderate
dress do not stun the eye or shock the
artistic sense, but there is a candid,
sensible, artistic appea! which leaves a
lasting impression in behalf of the busi-
ness advertised.

eke

There are several things about the
hardware advertisement of R. I. Hen-
dershott which are worthy of comment.
In the first place the writer has used
material enough for five good_advertise-

 

 

 

A CORN HARVESTER

Corn h ting has be ade easy and rapid. No more corn cutters and
bausilies toy basal nes cearade The NEW OSBORN CORN HARVESTER

binding bundles by hand are required.
does the work.

than they can do it themseives.

Team Harness, Collars, fly nets. etc.

household should be without onée*

are right.

up-to-date.
come and see me.

Also have a nice line of heavy

Cream Separators.

Come and see what I have in-the line of CREAM SEPARATORS. No farm

Corn has come to be the profitable crop in this county,
of these machines and you can harvest sour own crop and your neighbors cheaper

Buggies and Harness.

1have a tresh lot of buggies just in from the factory comprising al] kinds
and styles and will make you a price that’s right.

Pumps and Well Pipe.

i have everything required in the pump hne and wifl make you prices that

Stoves and Ranges.

My assortment is complete. my prices are right and my stock is thoroughly.
If you are thinking of buying a new stove or range don’t fail to

R. I. HENDERSHOTT.

WEST END HARDWARE.
000000000000 0000S00SSOHOOCCCCCSE

Get one

   

 

 

 

‘The Wiring of Sense. |

Folks who have clothes wash them. and tolks
who wash clothes wring them. All folks don’t use
wringers: some folks twist their wrists in clothes
twisting. They get tired. They wear oat them-
selves while wearing out the clothes. Clothen
twisting squeezes out more wear than water. The
way to get water out of clothes is to use something
made to take it out, and that's a Wringer.

there ure poor Wringers and good Wringers.
A poor Wringer costs less and makes the clothes
cost more. A good Wringer costs more and makes
the clothes cost less.

 

 

If you want a good Wringer

with Warranted’ Rubber Kol!s and made of sclect-
ed material, bay of as We won't handle a Wring-
er with composition rolls

 

 

a. Ff. White & Son.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anbdududiud

 

   

 

  

 

 

INDEPENDENT CITIZENS
A ate TELEPHONE
EXCHANGE
S. E. Hosmer,
SYSTEM Manager.

 

We are not the
Only Grocers

On the street, but we are
selling the best goods mo-
ney cap buy as cheap as
they can be sold. and make
a living profit Give usa
call.

S. E. Hosmer & Co.
Phone Orders Promptly Attended to

4

 

 

 

 

Why do people
trade at Shepard’s?

Because when Shepard tells a thing
itis so EVERY TIME. Shepard

don’t palm off poor goods on custom-

ers. Every article coming from his

Store is the best, and always most
emphatically the lowest in price.

J. O. Shepard.

  

 

 

THE GOOD
OLD QUAKER

Once said tO his boy:
“Nathan, it is nut what
thee reads that makes
thee smart: it is not what
thee cats that makes thee
fat; nor what thee earns
that makes thee rich, but
what thee SAVES.”

This saving habit may ve
acquired through the
gleady use of a pass book
account in our bankz

 

THE ANTRIM COUNTY BANK,
Central Lake, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

To the People:

 

at the lowest possible price.
known Brook Bros.’ make.

Children’s School Shoes.
anteed. Come in and see the new Shoes.

We propose to be a public

benefit in the Shoe
Business.

We propose to sell the best Shoes made, and
We have received
in Ladies’ Fine Shoes a new invoice of the well
We have also secur-
ed the celebrated Keystone line of Misses’ and
Every pair fully guar-

R.R. EDWARDS.

4

A full line of

SCHOOL
BOOKS

$
$ "> SCHOOL ;
SUPPLIES |

At. :

WILDER'S.

 

basis

 

 

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-Do You Need

a New Plow?

Gry the Oliver
No. 99, Reversi-
ble Point and
Shear

It 1s the neat gmeral j
purpose plow ob
tbe market
Another good one 3g
the Banner Plow: No. 1

F. E. Slater, !

Farm Machinery. Coopersviile. ¢

 

 

 

arch cap at acl Se Raa

 

 

apes

 

O° OOOO OO Ong

 

ments—one devoted to each line. Such
advertisements could be written with
either of the subjects as the main dis-
play, and the other lines enumerated in
a panel separated from the rest and so
changed to one of the other lines each
week to excellent advantage. In this
way the reader’s attention is called to
all the lines, but one is given promi-
nence, and the change renews the in-
terest. While the type is fashionable it
is not distinct and is not attractive in
such an advertisement. There are too
much wording and too much repetition
of similar phrases, as ‘‘ prices that are
right,’’ which occurs three times, It is
well to be careful in punctuation—lack
of the possessive in the word ‘‘neigh-
bor’s’’ leaves it uncertain which are to
be harvested, the neighbors or their
corn.

A well-written and carefully-com-
posed advertisement is that of M. F.
White & Son. The wide white border
is effective. The display would be im-
proved by the use of plainer type.

J. O. Shepard says just enough and to
the point,and his matter is well handled
by the printer. Barring the prominence
of the superlative, especially in the last
sentence, the advertisement is a good
one.

R. R. Edwards has the material for a
good advertisement, but he has put in
some things which do not add to the
strength. 1 would strike out the first
line and display something pertaining
to the trade in its place and would also
omit the philanthropic proposition in
the last sentence.

S. E. Hosmer writes a modest adver-
tisement which is judiciously handled
by the printer. The result is exception-
ally good.

The Antrim County Bank makes an
effective use of the old Quaker saying
which cannot fail to increase its busi-
ness.

The seasonable advertisement of
Wilder shows how few words are nec-
essary to a striking and attractive result.

F, E, Slater writes a good implement
advertisement which will tend to sell
more than plows. It is a model of sim-

| plicity and the printer has done his

work well limited

space.

considering the

ee
Never Touched It.

One of the most remarkable feats in
the history of golfing was performed
near New York a few days ago. A
member of a_ well-known club offered
to bet that he would drive his golf ball
from an egg without breaking the egg.

The bet was taken. He set the egg
up with a little sand on the tee and
made a slight indentation in the top of
it on which the golf ball was to be
placed.

When the ball had been nicely bal-
anced on top of the egg the player care-
fully took aim, got an accurate swing
on his driver, and finally hit the ball,
making a long drive. The egg re-
mained uninjured.

——__2-e
- The use of paper for window and _ in-
terior decorations has been the direct
cause of a great many disastrous fires,
and to those who make use of this ma-
terial for the purpose of decorations the
following formula, which it is claimed
will render paper fireproof, will be of
interest. Make a solution of ammonia
sulphate, eight parts; boric acid, three
parts; borax, two parts, in one hundred
parts of water. The paper should be
immersed in this solution and afterward
pressed with a hot iron. I do not know
from a personal test whether this process
will do what is claimed for it, but it is
at least worth a‘trial byanyone who is
interested in_the subject.

  

  

 

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

  

7

 

MORNING MARKET.

 

Quarters Already Too Cramped for Large
Offerings.

As we pass the height of the season it
is found that the market grounds which
were planned to meet the needs of the
future are already really inadequate for
their purpose. In a number of instances
the crowd of teams on the main market
street has been so great that those stand-
ing in the alleys were hopelessly penned
in and had to wait for the outward
movement to begin before they could
leave their places. Order and good na-
ture are well preserved, considering the
density of the crowd, but it will not be
long before there will have to be an ex-
tension of the space. Some growers
find it desirable to secure their places
at a very early hour—in some cases as
soon as midnight—although just why
this is necessary is hard to conjecture.
It may be a continuance of the habit ac-
quired during the time of the street
market, when it was necessary to spend
much of the night to secure a favorable
place.

While the peach easily takes the lead
in products, it is not as dominating as
has been the case in other years. There
is great variety in the sizes of the loads,
and in many cases a few baskets will
appear in loads devoted mostly to other
fruits or even vegetables. There is also
great variety in the qualities offered.
Some are small and knarled; others so
overripe as to barely escape the notice
of the inspectors ; but all seem to sell at
prices making it worth while to bring
them, A noticeable feature of the mar-
ket is the great variation in prices, es-
pecially as between the yellow and the
white varieties. The change to drier
weather is making a difference in the
lasting qualities and is giving buyers
much more confidence. A general com-
plaint is the scarcity of labor in pick-
ing and preparing for market; indeed,
this is a great trouble in all kinds of
farm work. Plenty of employment at
good prices in the cities is seriously
affecting the rural labor market. Road
improvement, railroad building and
other industrial enterprises are being
postponed for the same reason.

While apples take the place next to
peaches in quantity, there is little inter-
est in this staple. Prices are good and
the offerings seem to sell, but loads are
generally small and broken—often only
a few baskets with other fruits or vege-
tables. Plums would seem to come next
in quantity. These are noticeable for
their pale color—the damp _ weather
affecting the appearance. There is
much complaint of rotting on the trees
and picking is hurried in many cases
to save the fruit. Pears are offered free-
ly, but many of these are pretty hard.
There is a tendency to spottiness in
much of this fruit and a great deal of it
is falling from the trees before ripen-
ing. Grapes are not as abundant as
might be expected at this time, although
offerings are considerable.

There are the usual variety and
abundance of most vegetables, although
potatoes are noticeably scarce, and
prices, while lower than before the
break a couple of weeks ago, are still
high enough to prevent reasonable com-
plaint from the grocer, The _ great
trouble with this product is the tend-
ency to streakiness, especially when
grown in wet soils. Potatoes will be po-
tatoes before the winter is over. Other
vegetables are unlimited in quantity,
but prices are exceptionally well main-

tained.
—_ 2702s —_—__

Mutations in Cigarette History for Twenty
Years.

From Tobacco of Aug. 16.

“We begin our review with the year

that closed June 30, 1881, twenty years

 

ago. At that time the cigarette was not
known outside of a few of the larger
cities. The industry was in its infancy,
for the product, made up by the tedious
and expensive hand process, had at that
date reached the insignificant total of
503,873, 783,and while there were several
manufacturers in the field, none of these
had come into prominence or taken a
commanding place in the trade. A fac-
tor which probably played an important
part in keeping the manufacture of cig-
arettes within narrow boundaries was
the tax of $1.75 per thousand, although
the price at which the goods were then
sold was much higher than at a later
date, and certainly high enough to afford
a good profit to the manufacturer, job-
ber and retailer. Still, the growth of
business was small, comparatively
speaking, although it was steady from
year to year.

Within two or three years a vast
change came over the industry. The
Internal Revenue tax on cigarettes was
reduced May 1, 1883, to 50 cents per
thousand, but at the close of that fiscal
year on June 30, the production figures
indicate only 602,237,810 made and
withdrawn for consumption. But what
then occurs? During the next twelve
months the total tax-paid product was
pushed up to 908,090,723, or in other
words,a 50 per cent. increase was added
to the production of the previous year,
and from that time forward for fifteen
years there was no check to the ever
Increasing consumption of paper-
wrapped cigarettes, until the dull times
of 1893 temporarily disturbed the ad-
vance movement.

From the year 1885 competition which
had hitherto been more or less friendly
began to grow more aggressive. From
1885 to 1890 Over 235,000,000 cigarettes
were annually added to the number
made and consumed. With the tax still
at 50 cents per thousand, a production
of 2,233,254, 680 is recorded for the fiscal
year 1890. The fierce storm of competi-
tion soon to break loose was not then
anticipated.

By 1893 one company was in the field,
and shortly after that date several of the
leading tobacco manufacturers were
making preparations to preserve their
business intact by introducing cigarettes
in enormous quantites and at or below
cost. This campaign was purely retali-
atory in its nature and the statistics of
production show how intensely bitter
the fight was, for over I,000,000,000 was
added to the tax-paid product in less
than four years. The low tax rate made
the 25-cent packages possible.

The campaign of retaliation which
went on between 1894 and 1897 produced
marked results. It cut big holes in the
profits of the manufacturers and sent the
Statistics of production up to the 4, 153,-
252,470 mark in the year last men-
tioned. The public conscience was so
aroused that the sessions of every state
legislature found willing advocates of
anti-cigarette laws. Some kind of a
measure for the repression of the sale
and use of cigarettes had been passed
in every state of the Union, we believe,
yet so long as the tax remained at 50
cents per thousand these laws were of
little effect in curtailing production.

Within the next year competition was
somewhat lessened, but the increase of
the tax from 50 cents to $1 per thousand
has much more to do with checking
further growth than all other factors
combined. The increase took effect July
24, 1897, and with it a new classifica-
tion separating the paper-covered cig-
arette from the all-tobacco variety, and
calling the latter little cigars.

Within the last three years 1,476,629, -
o98 cigarettes have been clipped from
the record, and the repressive laws and
ordinances are scarcely more stringent
than they were in 1898. This means
either that an equivalent of at least
200,000 smokers have ceased to use
paper cigarettes or a larger number are

-more moderate in their use.

———_> 29>
A Green Little Epitaph.

A green little boy, in a green little
way, a green little apple devoured one
day, and the green little grasses now
tenderly wave o’er the green little apple
boy’s green little grave.

 

FREE RAW SUGAR.

Plea For Early Action by the Coming
Congress.
From the American Grocer.

Will Congress grant it? If public
sentiment is followed, free raw sugar
will be among the results of the next
Congress. When such journals as the
New York Evening Post and New York
Journal of Commerce look with favor
upon the proposition for free raw sugar,
we may take courage and work for its
attainment. The Evening Post denom-
inates the matter ‘‘a persistent force of
self-interest which coincides in some
degree, also, with the public interest,
and which will work untiringly and
without ceasing for the introduction of
raw sugar from Cuba free of duty.’’
Not alone from Cuba, but unlimited free
raw sugar, with a protective duty of %
cent per pound on refined.

If Congress gives the country free raw
sugar, it places a premium on the ex-
tension and multiplication of American
industries and can work no harm to
the beet sugar industry of the United
States. The foremost fact is that the
grower is getting $4 per ton for the beets
he grows, and if the sugar companies
were compelled to pay $5 per ton, and
thus add greatly to the gains of the
farmer, it would still be possibie for the
beet sugar factories to produce granu-
lated sugar at 3 cents per pound, and
obtain a profit sufficient to pay 8 to Io
per cent. dividend on the capital in-
vested,

Free sugar cannot hurt the farmer,
nor his close ally, the sugar maker.
Neither interest needs much, if any
protection, and, with cheap land, mod-
ern machinery, and latest methods, they
can defy competition with countries
that grow sugar under favorable natural
conditions. The American beet sugar
industry can hold its own if Congress
gives the people free sugar.

In 1890 Congress removed the duty on
sugar, the only staple besides wheat un-
iversally used. And what was the re-
sult? The per capita consumption in-
creased fifteen pounds; American pre-
servers almost destroyed the trade in
English jams; American canners found
a rapidly extending market for pre-
served fruits; the confectionery industry
took on new life; every family saved
enough yearly to pay for a_ suit of
clothes for one of the children; and
every industry into which sugar entered
gained in capital and trade.

When the United States Treasury
found its credit in danger, Congress
deemed it wise to restore the duty, and
it is a significant fact that from that
time the per capita consumption fell off
below the average of the period of free
sugar.

To-day the Treasury has an enormous
surplus; a revenue greater than its ex-
penditures ; a credit second to no other
government in the world. Could there
be a more propitious time for Congress
to give the people free raw sugar—
‘the greatest boon it could confer on
the American people?’’ We believe the
next Congress will.

It will not check the farmers’ pros-
perity. The growers of beets have
demonstrated they do not need a duty
on raw sugar, and, therefore, it is in
order that the people should be blessed
with free raw sugar. It has been
granted to Hawaii and Puerto Rico and
enjoyed by Louisiana and the beet
growing States.

Even in those particular States where

 

beet culture is established, the benefit,
outside of the profit to the manufacturer
of granulated at 3 cents a pound and the
extremely large advantage to the farm-
er with beets at $4 a ton, is denied to
the community, because the price inci-
dental to the reimposition of the 2 cents
a pound revenue advances the price
from 3 cents to 5 cents, which goes into
the Treasury of these beet corporaticns.
The Sugar Trust’s demands for one-
fourth of a cent a pound are multiplied
by eight by the inordinate greed of these
beet companies. We all look forward
for Mr. McKinley, with the aid of his
party, to further add to his renown by
granting this inestimable gift to the
people of the United States,

0
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont was forced to
abandon her proposed ‘‘ patent medicine
quadrille,’’ which was to have been a
feature of her dance at Newport recent-
ly. She was compelled to take this step
owing to the avalanche of letters and
telegrams which the announcement of
the entertainment brought down upon
herself and upon her invited guests from
the proprietors of patent medicines and
from their advertising agents. Eager to
avail themselves of such a favorable op-
portunity to advertise their ‘‘cures’’
among the ‘‘four hundred,’’ they offered
not only to design the costumes worn to
represent each particular remedy, but
also to defray all the expenses in con-
nection therewith, some even being im-
polite enough to offer monetary consid-
rations if their proposals were accepted.
oe

Some philanthropic individuals in
Chelsea, England, are talking of estab-
lishing a woman's college of matrimony,
where the duties of a wife will become
the subject of a two-year course of study.
The curriculum will embrace not only
the usual branches of housewifery, such
as cooking, serving and laundry work,
but it is intended to deal with physiol-
ogy and medicine as well, so that the
students will receive mental discipline
in connection with the manual training.

 

 

 

The «Aan Arbor’’ Gasoline Lamps

Exclusive Territory

Pressure System for store lighting.
Send us the dimensions and height of
your store and let us figure on your
lighting. Correspondence solicited.

The Superior Manufacturing Co.,
Ann Arbor, Mich.

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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.

Gond Light—the Pentone Kind

Simple and practical. Catalogue if you wish.

 

 

Pentone Gas Lamp Co.
Bell Phone 2929 141 Canal Street
Grand: Rapids, Michigan

 

 

CONTRACTING ROOFERS

State Agents

Established 1868.

Coal Tar, Tarred Felt,
Asphalt Paints,
Roofing Pitch,

2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel
Ready Roofing, Sky Lights,
Eave Troughing,
Galvanized Iron Cornice
Sheet Metal Workers

~H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Ruberoid Roofing, Building, Sheathing and
Insulating Papers and Paints.

 

  

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E. A. STOWE, EpItTor.

WEDNESDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 4, 1901.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Kent i

John DeBoer, being du
poses and says as follows:
I 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 28, 1901, and saw the edition
mailed in the usual manner. And
further deponent saith not.
John DeBoer.
Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this thirty-first day of August, I901.
Henry B. Fairchild,
eu Public in wast es Kent County,
ich.

STATE OF of Kent |

y sworn, de-

 

 

GERMANY’S NEW TARIFF.

A good deal has been said about the
ill-feeling which exists in Germany to-
wards the United States, and no little
of it has been attributed to the discrim-
inating duties levied by the United
States upon the bounty-protected beet
sugar of Germany.

Possibly that fact has something to
do with the matter, but the real cause
for the envy and jealousy, for that is
just what is the matter, is the successful
competition of American products with
the German in the markets of the
world; but, above all, there is the anger
of the agricultural, known as the Agra-
rian, class at the great quantities of
American grain and provisions imported
into Germany.

-The Agrarian class, composed of the
agriculturists and landholders, is able to
dominate the Imperial Parliament, and
it is in response to the demand of this
powerful class that a new tariff has
been made, raising the tariff duties on
all food stuffs imported into the coun-
try.

Under the new tariff, raw cotton, po-
tatoes and fresh fruits remain free of
duty. Petroleum and its products, lu-
bricating oil, paraffin, etc., are un-
changed from the present rate. The
principal and more important advances
are in food materials, notably cereals,
meats and live animals. The increase
in the present treaty rate of 83 cents
to $1.54 per 100 kilograms in the duty
on wheat will affect most directly the
United States, Argentina and Russia,
which countries exported to Germany,
in 1900, 465,933, 479,928 and 278,195
metric tons of wheat respectively. The
advance on rye will affect principally
Russia, which sold to Germany last year
834, 327 tons of that cereal, against 21,906
tons from the United States. Oxen, hogs
and poultry come mainly from ‘Austria-
Hungary and Russia.

Higher duties are levied on many

 

manufactured articles, by which, so far
as American products are concerned,
bicycles and shoes will be most affected ;
but while the increased duty on agricul-
tural products is of large interest to
the countries that have been hitherto
shipping those articles to Germany,
what is of vastly more concern to the
German people will be the increased
cost of the necessaries of life.

It is calculated that the people will
have to pay in an average year for im-
ported food about $18,000,000; but, in
addition to that, they will have to pay
the enhanced price on all the home-
raised food products which will be pro-
tected by the tariff. United States
Consul General Mason, at Berlin, in a
report to the State Department at Wash-
ington, quotes the Berlin Tageblatt to
the effect that the increased prices of
food will ‘‘revolutionize the whole eco-
nomic, industrial and commercial
status of the German people, drive a
large proportion of the laboring classes
back to a diet of black bread and _pota-
toes, diminish the productive strength
of the nation and its subsequent power
of competition and, by provoking re-
prisals from agricultural nations like
Argentina, Austria and Russia—to say
nothing of the United States—imperil
the foreign markets for German manu-
factures, which have been to so large
an extent the mainstay of the empire’s
export trade.’’

The new law will take effect on Jan.
I, 1904, so that between the dates of its
enactment and enforcement there will
be a period of probably a year or more,
during which, Consul Mason thinks, its
provisions may be to some extent modi-
fied by concessions granted reciprocally
in commercial treaties with other na-
tions, which, as is expected, may be
negotiated during the intervening
period.

 

There has been a serious decline in
the earnings of the English railroads
and there are no signs of improvement
in the immediate future. Commenting
upon the statistics a London corres-
pondent remarks: ‘‘This decline- of
railway receipts is almost invariably the
first symptom of a wave of trade de-
pression such as now seems to be be-
ginning to pass over.Germany. British
shipowners predict that next year will
be bad, and the year after very bad. If
these premonitions are verified, bad
times are before the British railways,
and already the directors are coming
in for searching criticism.’’ In some
quarters there is a disposition to find
other reasons besides trade depression.
The Westminster Gazette says the Eng-
lish railroads are not up to the times
and that their service is far behind that
in America. The remedy for the pres-
ent unsatisfactory conditions, it de-
clares, is to give cheaper, better and
quicker service. England’s faith in
nearly all its time honored institutions
is being badly shaken nowadays, but
England will probably wake up and
hold a prominent place in the proces-
sion, even if she ceases to be ‘the
leader. Trade depression in England
if long continued would be a loss to this
country, for England is one of our best
customers and if England stops selling
it will also stop buying. The things
that Englishmen buy from us are chiefly
the things that enable them to live and
they will of course buy only according
to their ability.

 

Horses ought to wear rubber shoes in
this era of electricity,

 

RN EEN E REE NRT SM ST

ba ree aaa

 

ANOTHER HEALTH FAD.

There is no end of fads about pro-
moting health. It goes without saying
that good health is about the most val-
uable possession any man or woman can
have. Accordingly it is a theme which
affords expansive field for speculation
and experiment. The ills to which
mankind is heir are numerous and how
to cure them attracts the attention not
only of the most learned scientists, but
as well of the vast army of cranks and
fakirs. The other day the Brooklyn
Eagle gave nearly a column of space to
a letter from a man who declares that
going barefoot is a universal panacea.
He says that the bottom of the human
foot must be brought in touch with the
soil and that if it is, there will be an
end to many maladies. He points out
that the savages who go barefooted do
not suffer from very many ailments
common to a higher degree of civiliza-
tion.

The Eagle’s correspondent says that
people troubled with insomnia have only
to walk a little while in the garden or
on the lawn barefooted just before retir-
ing to secure refreshing sleep. He says
the people who go barefooted never
suffer pulmonary troubles, heart disease,
cancer, toothache or pooreyes. The fact
remains, however, that the average of
human life is longer among the civil-
ized, than among the uncivilized peo-

ple. The tribes whose members go bare-

footed the year round do so because of
the climatic conditions, and are almost
as scantily clothed in other respetcs.
The rigors of the northern country de-
mand protection for the feet as well as
for all other parts of the body. Whoever
should go barefooted out of doors for
a few minutes about six months of the
year in this region would in all proba-
bility have some pulmonary troubles in
short order. Horses and dogs are cited
in support of the enthusiast’s argument,
and yet horses and dogs in this climate
have many ills and the veterinary sur-
geons do a rushing business the year
round. Those periods are very short in
which some unbalanced mind does not
suggest a new theory for prolonging
life, but those who are led astray there-
by and induced to desert established
methods for self-preservation, as a rule
pay the penalty, which sometimes is
heavy. Those who expect to insure
good health by going barefooted every
day will do well to take out an insurance
policy with some good company for the
benefit of their families at the earliest
opportunity.

 

Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith is enthusiastic over the prospect
for the extension of the free delivery
system to all the rural communities in
the United States. In an address de-
livered on Grange Day at the New
Hampshire state fair the Postmaster
General announced that before the pres-
ent fiscal year ends the department will
have carried this service over 8,000
routes, bringing the postoffice to the
doors of more than 6,000,000 people
residing in rural districts. There are
in all 21,00c,000 people to be eventually
reached by the rural delivery system.
The statement that nearly one-third of
them now enjoy its advantages is em-
phatic evidence of the progress that has
been made in the few years since this
innovation was introduced. The terri-
tory already covered is larger than that
of all England. The Postmaster General
gives to the grange credit for the influ-
ence it has exerted and the assistance it
has rendered in extending the service,

and he says, frankly, that the govern-
ment owes as good service to the peo-
ple in rural districts as to those in cities
and towns. The benefits are now so
generally appreciated that there is no
likelihood that any power can prevent
the extension of free delivery to every
nook and corner of the land.

 

There are few lands where the Amer-
ican tourist is not welcome to-day. The
American spends his money freely and
if anybody renders him a service his
reward is sure to be generous. There
are countries in Europe that are jealous
of the position the United States has
gained and that would, if they could,
check its further advance, but personally
Americans are nowadays treated witha
very satisfactory degree of respect. As
‘*citizens of no mean country’’ they re-
ceive the consideration that is their
due. The power of the Government
that is behind them protects them from
indignity. It is not often that the ex-
ercise of that power is required in that
behalf, for Americans have a way of
taking care of themselves wherever they
go, and they go everywhere. There
have been times when Americans ex-
cited intense animosity, but those
times appear to be happily past. Even
in Spain, which was violent in its
hatred in cOdnsequence of the war with
this country, it is reported that Ameri-
can visitors are treated with the utmost
courtesy. It is actually said that they
are the recipients of especial attentions.
Americans abroad can do a great deal
to produce a favorable opinion of their
country and it is to be hoped that the
good feeling now manifested toward
them will not for any reason be dis-
turbed.

The old feeling of quasi hostility on
the part of the farmers toward the rail-
road is rapidly disappearing. The in-
terests of both are identical. The latter
realize when the farmers are prosperous
it means increased profits for them,
while the tiller of the soil has long since
learned that the managers of the ‘‘soul-
less corporations’’ do not lie awake at
night studying ways and means by
which they can squeeze his last cent out
of him. The latest object lesson along
these lines is furnished by the state-
ment of Paul Morton, Vice-President of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,
who says if it becomes necessary the
road will haul corn into Kansas at re-
duced rates, so that farmers may fatten
their live stock. This is not the first in-
stance of the kind, either. Years ago,
when the grasshoppers had eaten up
every vestige of growing grain in the
Sunflower State, the same road _ brought
thousands of bushels of wheat, oats and
vegetable -seeds into Kansas and dis-
tributed them without reservation, ex-
cept that, if the farmers paid it back
when they were able, ‘‘it would be all
right ;’’ or, if they were never able to
pay back, ‘‘it would be all right any-
how.”’

 

Not so much money as usual will be
required to move the crops in the West
this year. Out of 580 banks in the great
growing states, 422 report they have
more funds on hand than at this time
last year, 122 are in about the same
condition, and 30 are not so well sup-
plied as they were a yearago. The
West is prosperous and is destined to
become less and less dependent upon
the East for financial assistance.

 

_The British Islands are better pro-
vided with rivers than any other coun-

 

try of the same size on the globe.

 

 
 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

9

 

HOUSEKEEPING BY CONTRACT.

The present is an age in which the
economies of living and of business
have come to be of great importance.
In every new country, rich in the pro-
fusion of its natural products, and in
which the scarcity of laborers makes
high wages for those that can be se-
cured, there is, naturally, a vast waste,
because nobody sees any necessity for
economizing in the material and meth-
ods of living and of business. But final-
ly there comes a time when all the econ-
omies must be looked after, because the
neglect of observance of them means
failure or success in the strenuous com-
petition that is sure to arise when busi-
ness and social organization shall be
fully developed.

Such a time has come in the life and
industries of the United States. The
conditions ‘which permitted cotton, for
instance, to be sent thousands of miles
from the fields where it was grown, to
the mills where it was manufactured,
have now disappeared, and it has been
realized that the mills which are put in
operation in the immediate vicinity of
the cotton fields, are able to drive from
competition those far-away mills which
once enjoyed a monopoly of the spin-
ning and weaving. A like rule obtains
in every other line of manufacturing
and, as a consequence, the old-time
waste and extravagance in business and
living need to be eliminated and all the
economies available practiced. In this
connection may be mentioned some in-
teresting experiments in applying the
economy of wholesale methods to the la-
bor of family life. Of course, merchan-
dise can be bought in large quantities
much cheaper than at retail, and the
organized labor of a given number of
skilled workers can accomplish by such
co-operation vastly more than could be
done by the same number, each individ-
ual working separately and of his own
motion. Acting on this idea, in 1898
the Committee on Domestic Service of
the Boston branch of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae, feeling that the
solution of the domestic problem lay,
not in work with the individual domes-
tic employe, but in the evolution of
housekeeping, decided to study the
possibility of having more housework
done outside the home. Laundry work
is gradually being done more and more
in public laundries, and the standards
of work as to cleanliness, the treatment
of the clothes, and the quality of the
work, are rising. Cleaning is being
done more often by outside agencies
coming to the house by the day. The
tendency to buy wholly or partially pre-
pared food is in harmony with this de-
velopment and with the principles ‘gov-
erning the industrial world.

The need and value of the work be-
ing so clear,the Domestic Service Com-
mittee was transformed into a Commit-
tee on Domestic Science, and investiga-
tions were started in laundry work,
cleaning and foods. When the difficul-
ties of the work were seen, it seemed
wise to do but part at a time, and the
work on foods was chosen as most im-
portant. It was determined by the
Committee that a scientific study should
be made of present facts in regard to
this debated question of the preparation
of food, in or out of the house. Careful
experimenters were enlisted and the
work was begun under the direction of
Miss Gertrude Bigelow, a graduate of

Wellesley College. The operations

thus carried on during the year 1899-
Igoo are summarized in the August bul-

 

letin of the Massachusetts State Bureau
of Labor.

The carefully conducted experiments
fora family, varying at different times,
of from ten to fifteen persons, demon-
strated that the home-cooked food could
be prepared more cheaply, because out-
side establishments were conducted in
order to make a profit, but the idea was
that a co-operative establishment, in
which the costs were borne by all the
participants in proportion, with the ob-
ject of making expenses and no consid-
erable profit, would be much more eco-
nomical than individual home cook-
ing. But since families must eat sev-
eral times a day, the necessity for keep-
ing a kitchen was ever present, whereas,
in laundry work, which only has to be
done once a week, and requires the em-
ployment of extra help,the cost of home
work was greater than that hired out.

Moreover, when food was procured
from outside establishments there was
no assurance that it would be received
warm, and often it had to be heated.
The experiments embraced every de-
scription of food, including soups, fish,
roasts of meat, fowls, vegetables and
desserts. Some figures of actual cost
may be interesting in this connection.

In the first experiments the average
cost per person per meal, including fuel
and labor, was 0.25569 cents when all
the food was cooked outside. The same
food was prepared at home at an aver-
age cost of 0.16485 cents per pefson per
meal. In other words,, the cost per
person per meal was 55.10 per cent.
more when -the food was purchased
ready cooked than when the cooking
was all done at home.

In the second series of experiments,
in May, Igo1, the average cost per per-
son per meal outside, including fuel
and labor, was 0.19533 cents, while in-
side it was 0.15 cents, that is, the
ready-cooked food cost 30.22 per cent.
more than that prepared in the house.

Without doubt, the day will come
when, in cities, institutions whose busi-
ness will be to furnish and deliver
cooked meals to families will be found
on every hand, and they will make it to
the interest of consumers to patronize
them. But whether the relieving of
married women from the serious duties
of housekeeping will be generally bene-
ficial remains to be seen. When the
men of the family go out to work, the
women are supposed to be charged with
the care of the home. They should be
relieved of drudgery, but would it be
wise to have the house run by contract-
ors, with no home duties for the women?

 

It is stated that a movement is now
on foot in the City of Mexico to estab-
lish a permanent display of the goods
of American manufacturers, and at the
same time to piace in at least one of the
great cities of the United States a sim-
ilar permanent display of the products
of Mexico. By this means it is believed
that trade between the two countries,
which is now rapidly increasing in vol-
ume, will be still further stimulated.

 

Statistics of farm labor prepared by
the Agricultural Department show that
farm laborers—those who work for hire
—are a decreasing element as compared
with the entire number of those who do
the farm work of the United States. In
1870 they constituted 48.9 per cent., or
nearly one-half of the agricultural work-
ers; in 1880, 43.6 per cent., and in 1890,
35.8 per cent., or a little more than one-
third.

 

ADMITTING CHINESE LABOR.

In the course of a year, the act of
Congress which excludes the Chinese
from immigration into this country will
become void and, although it has been
accepted as a matter of course that
Congress will re-enact it, there is a very
decided certainty that active efforts will
be put torward to prevent the prolonga-
tion of the law.

There is a strong and growing de-
mand for the admission of Chinese labor
into the country and its colonies, and it
is based on two considerations: One is
a requirement for cheaper labor, caused
by the strenuousness of competition in
the varidus manufacturing industries,
wherein each nation is contending with
all the others. The other is the belief
that Chinese labor can be used to com-
bat the infamous tactics of the walking
delegates in handling ignorant working-
men who are the victims of trades union
organizations. :

The expiration of the Chinese Ex-
clusion Act will occur next May, and it
is stated that in the New England,
Southern, and Middle Western States,
where the Chinese are not known, and
where there is a clamor for cheap labor,
and where the pauper labor of Europe
has proved undesirable, the feeling in
favor of a repeal of the Exclusion Act
is very strong. In the Hawaiian Islands
there is the same demand for cheap la-
bor. All the planters there and all the
large owners of sugar stocks in the
States and in the Colonies are almost
sure to take a stand in favor of Chinese
immigration to the islands. Not only
this, but there is a feeling among cer-
tain employers of cheap labor that the
conditions of the Exclusion Act should
be modified.

In this connection, United States Sen-
ator Perkins, of California, has declared
to the San Francisco Examiner that
the public would be surprised to learn
what prominent men have spoken to
him on the subject of the Chinese Ex-
clusion Act, and against its re-enact-
ment.

Of course, white labor in California
will resist all it possibly can the admis-
sion of Chinese labor to fill up all the
fields of industry, not only in the Col-
onies, such as the Philippines, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico, but also in the United
States. The Chinese are not desired
for employment as skilled laborers, for
they have not the training necessary to
make them useful in the higher
branches of manufacturing, but in all
the lower branches of work, where no
special training and experience are nec-
essary, the Chinese can be used, and it
is safe to say that neither whites nor
negroes can successfully compete with
these Asiatics.

It is not only a matter of great mo-
ment to white labor, but is more than
ever of vital interest to the negroes. If
this country is to be flooded with Asiatic
pauper labor, it is certain that it will
sound the doom of the negroes, the great
majority of whom are unskilled labor-
ers and would suffer most from the
competition of the yellow hordes.

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BETTER SANITARY CONDITIONS.

Sometimes there is an inclination to
regard scientific innovations as fancies
and fads possessing no real value and
conferring no real benefit. The scien-
tists do not always agree among them-
selves as to the importance of discover-
ies in their fields of investigation. In
methods of sanitation there bas been
such agreement, however, that general
application has resulted with advan-

 

tages which all can perceive. The
statistics recently issued by the Census
Bureau, showing how the death rate in
American cities has decreased during
the past decade illustrate in a striking
way the change that has been wrought.
The health of the nation has improved
and with it the period of longevity has
lengthened. Boards of health have con-
tributed to this desirable result by the
adoption of measures to prevent, isolate
and control cases of contagious and in-
fectious disease, by showing the neces-
sity for pure water and efficient sewer-
age. The ravages of many diseases have
been materially checked, consumption
among them. Scientific study has made
the nature of communicable diseases
better known and has developed means
of prevention if not cure. Great strides
have been made along this line in re-
cent years. Opposition has been en-
countered but the new methods have
been so successful that public sentiment
strongly supports and demands their
use. It is encouraging to have the evi-
dence of improvement that is now pre-
sented in official statistics. Health
authorities will gain new inspiration for
their tasks. Much has been accom-
plished but undoubtedly much more may
be done to improve the sanitary condi-
tions in cities and villages. Cleanliness
is a virtue that is growing in popular
estimation. Clean streets are not only
favored but insisted upon in every up-
to-date town. In like manner the pub-
lic will be sure in the future to require
that every possible means be employed
to preserve and promote the general
health. There will be no looking back-
ward except to observe advances that
may be made.

 

THE GOLDEN AGE OF LABOR.

A writer in the Forum relates some
interesting facts collected by him ina
search for the ‘‘golden age’’ of labor.
Many unthinking persons entertain the
idea that the condition of those who
toil is not so favorable now as in times
past. There is frequent reference to the
good old times carrying with it the
impression that the present time lacks
advantages that formerly existed. In-
vestigation shows that the number of
hours of labor required of the wage
earner has steadily decreased while the
rate of wages has in most instances in-
creased. Conditions, it is true, are not
altogether satisfactory to-day, but the
causes for complaint are decidedly less
grievous. Mr. Ghent, the writer of the
Forum article, expresses the opinion
that ‘‘the disparity of condition between
a laborer and a Charles Carroll ora
George Washington was probably greater
than exists to-day between a laborer and
a Carnegie.”’

In the last hundred years the -work-
ing man has gained important benefits
and especially in the United States have
his interests been advanced. In all
countries there has been some improve-
ment but here the men who work with
their hands have secured the most gen-
erous treatment. The ‘‘golden age’’ of
labor is the present age. Much has been
accomplished through organization and
legislation, but the greatest gains havé
come through education and apprecia-
tion of the fact that the progress of the
race can only go forward as the condi-
tion of the masses reaches higher
planes. The millennium has not arrived.
Capital and labor do not yet work en-
tirely in harmony. They will clash in
the future as they have in the past, but
labor is destined to more and more
neatly obtain its full reward without
putting hindrances in the path of capi-
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Clothing

Beginning of Success With the Coatless
Costume.

The coatless man is wholly and indis-
putably an American institution of very
recent origin. Men have gone in their
shirt sleeves during the heat of the mid-
summer days from time immemorial,
but this custom has nothing whatever
to do with the birth of the coatless cos-
tume of a year ago and its pronounced
development and increased popularity
this year. We have just reached the
beginning of success with the coatless
costume.

American men are dressing closer to
comfort than to ethics in dress, yet are
not violating the rules of the latter with
apparel that is not genteel, refined and
dressy. In midsummer negligee dress
America has set the style for the fash-
ionable world. During the present
season Frenchmen have sought for and
to some extent have picked up the coat-
less costume. Englishmen have not.
It-is said that the only coatless cos-
tumes seen in London this year were
those worn by American tourists. In
England it is the custom on hot days to
wear the cutaway or frock coat primly

 

 

buttoned over a waistcoat, high collar

and stiff tie, the climax being reached
with a silk hat. Many institutions in-
sist upon the silk hat on their employes,
even down to the office boy. It is an
absurd custom, but is one that dates

- back to an indefinite period.

In one respect Americans have set
aside ethics of dress, but have paliated
the offense by adopting a coatless dress,
which has been both neat, fresh and
dressy—a vast improvement over the
old alpaca coats, the limp linen coats
and trousers and the still more dilapi-
dated-looking seersuckers of our fathers’
early days.

The coatless costume really came into
existence as a mode of dress late last
season, when the shirt waist sprang into
such prominence and furnished an un-
limited source of fun-stock for the
humorous writer. The lateness of the
season prevented the real fashionmakers
from giving the subject the thought
and study it warranted.

The dress of this season is such a
vast improvement over that of last as to
immediately affirm that brains and ex-
perience have been at work on the va-
rious articles of apparel which go to
make up a coatless costume.

The negligee shirt, which in cities
has answered the purpose of the dressy
man for a shirtwaist, has been designed
and made with a view of its being worn
with or without a coat. The patterns
and colorings have had the same _atten-
tion and selections have been along the
same line.

The greatest and most marked im-
provement in the coatless costume is
noted in the trousers designed for mid-
summer. They are no longer the baggy
affairs which masqueraded as outing
trousers several years ago, and only
held the name for the reason that they
were made long enough to roll up at the
bottoms, had belt loops, and buttons
sewed on the inside of the waistbands.
To-day these trousers are neat and trim
around the hips, fitting snugly across the
back and hips which almost entirely
Support the trousers. The
across the abdomen necessary to get a
fit around the waist in the old trousers
has been eliminated and now men who
can not endure pressure on the stomach
by belt or waistband can comfortably

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wear them. The leg design is no
longer straight, but is conforming to the
man. Undoubtedly the trousers as they
have been made by the better class of
firms for midsummer this season have
done more toward increasing the popu-
larity of the coatless costume than any
two other reasons.

Attention of the creative and invent-
ive mind next turned to the suspend-
ers, which the majority of men must
wear. The old six-end style gave way
to the simpler and better two-end style.
Now only the one button over each hip
is used—at the very point where the
support is most needed to hold up the
trousers. These are light summer sus-
penders and are worn under the negligee
shirt or shirtwaist.

These are most notable improvements
in the coatless costume over that of last
year. They have added greatly to the
popularity of the costume by getting
nearer to the sensible and the practical.
They are but starters on the road to suc-
cess.

Men are now dressing cooler and more
sensibly than at any time in the history
of clothing, and their demand is for a
costume that will more nearly give them
the comforts in business that a woman
enjoys on the streets. They want light
clothing and little of it in sweltering
hot days, and they are getting nearer
to their wants every day.

The success of the coatless costume
this season will undoubtedly spur shirt
manufacturers, clothing manufacturers
and makers of furnishing goods to great
efforts for next year’s wear. There will
be many improvements, and marked
ones, too.- The shortcomings that have
become apparent this season will be
corrected next. It is not predicting im-
possible things to say that the number of
coatless men next year will be fully
double that of this season. The style is
established and is now on a sensible,
practical footing. Apparel Gazette.

——_~> 0 2>__
Women’s Natures Apparently Changed by
Shopping.

‘*Ever go shopping?’’ asked the ob-
servant man of his youthful companion.
‘‘No? Well,- probably you will some
day. If you do, just notice the women
—a suggestion that is needless, by the
way, because you can't help it. Now,
ordinarily,I like to look at the women—
they are a pleasing sight usually—but |
don’t like to see them when they are

shopping. It seems to change their na-
tures entirely.
‘‘No, 1 am not referring to the

threadbare bargain counter jokes, nor
do I mean that bargain counters change
their demeanor. I suppose they do, but
I have always carefully refrained from
observing the feminine gender at a bar-
gain counter. But the atmosphere
contiguous to the big stores has an effect
on a woman that is wonderful—awful,

‘‘My wife induced me to go down
town to a department store with her the
other day while she selected somé dress
goods that she wanted. I noticed the
different manners of the women. They
think nothing of shouldering a man out
of the way. And as_to other women!
Why, each one seems bent on being as
discourteous as possible. I am not a
lightweight, as you know, but I was
shouldered and pushed by big women
and small women at times when I
thought I was the least in the way.

‘“In the stores and in the street they
walked on my heels, dug their elbows
into my sides and knocked my hat off
half a dozen times, Did they apologize?
On the contrary, they glared at me as

| passed through that portal, and not a

 

though I were the one who had done the
injury.

‘*T can stand a good deal when it is
necessary, but in this case I thought
after a few minutes in the store that I
had stood enough. So I went outside to
let my wife, whose conduct was no bet-
ter than that.of any other woman, get
along by herself, which she seemed to
be amply competent to do. And here I
experienced the worst treatment of all.
I know what I am about to tell you will
seem like a joke ora falsehood, but 1
give you my solemn word of honor that
it is the truth,

‘‘As I passed out of the big door I
held it open for a woman to enter.
There is where I madea mistake. I
noticed afterward that shopping eti-
quette requires that you let go of the
door as soon as you can, no matter if it}
hits anybody or not. I. bowed as she
passed, expecting to receive her ac-
knowledgments. Did I get them? Not
even a Stare to resent my impudence.

**Such a stream of women was pass-
ing in that I dared not let go of the door
for fear of hitting one of them with it.
I recovered from my astonishment in a
moment, and thought I would see how
far this thing would go. I counted the
women who passed through the doorway
I was keeping open. In the space of a
very few minutes, believe me, 110 women

single one of them acknowledged my
courtesy by so much as a glance of

 

 

thanks. Finally, I closed the door
gently and turned around to receive a
glare of disgust from the woman who
would have passed through next had I
continued to hold the door open. I might
have been standing there yet holding
that door if I had waited for any ac-
knowledgment from the women.

‘‘T tell you, my boy, woman is a glor-
ious creature ordinarily, but I’d_ rather
be in a crowd waiting to enter the scene
of a prize fight than among a lot of
women shopping.’’

M. Wile & Co.

Famous Makers of Clothing

Buffalo, N. Y.

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Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—The condition in the
staple end of the cotton goods market
shows but little change this week from
what we have previously reported. It
is slow in changing, although there is
some slight alteration for the better.
Heavy brown sheetings and drills are
limited for home consumption, and
prices are slightly irregular. Bleached
cottons are receiving a fair amount of
attention in the way of small and me-
dium sized orders at previous prices,
but sellers of all leading tickets hold
steady. There is small demand for den-
ims, and the market is reported as be-
ing quite irregular in some sections.

Prints and Ginghams—Printed fabrics
show an improved request by way of
the mails, and also from buyers in the
market. The agents are only sorry that
they cannot supply the demand for cal-
icoes. Prices are higher and show a
tendency to advance still more, and it
is probable that the demand will in-
crease as soon as the situation is fully
understood by the buyers. Stocks are
very small and constantly decreasing,
the demand already being ahead of the
production.

Cotton Blankets—Have been moved
freely at first hands on account of the
demand on the jobbers by the retailers.
A portion of this business has necessar-
ily been turned down on account of the
inability of agents to comply with de-
liveries as demanded. Nearly all are
wanted at once or within a very short
time.

Shirtings—Are in good demand, not
only for shirting, but other purposes,
and anything that can be found for spot
delivery is wanted at once. These
goods are well sold ahead in the most
desirable patterns, and stocks are not
being replenished to any extent. A
large number of the looms that would
naturally make these goods are now busy
on entirely different fabrics.

Dress Goods—The spring season is
still in the prospective stage. Here and
there goods are being shown, principal-
ly of foreign make, and a limited vol-
ume of orders have been taken. There
are a considerable number of foreign
lines ready to be shown when the proper
time comes, and some of the domestic
staple lines are nearly ready for the
buyers’ inspection. Agents, however,
are not inclined to show undue haste in
launching their new lines on the mar-
ket.
show any great desire to start the ball
rolling on light weights, and the agent
is disinclined to force his attention.
Comparatively little will be done on the
new lines until after the 1oth of the
month, and it will be ten days or two
weeks longer before the market will be
generally open. The feeling of the trade
is overwhelmingly in favor of plain
goods, and the course of the demand is
expected to be very much in the nature
of a repetition of last season. A good
business is anticipated on sheer fabrics.

Knit Goods—Prices on spring goods
are very unsteady, caused partly by the
extreme unsettled condition of the yarn
market, and partly, although toa more
limited extent, by overanxiety on the
part of some manufacturers to undersell
the others. This extreme cutting of
prices in some cases causes watering of
goods, and subsequently cancellations.
The manufacturer in these cases sees
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dered at the price accepted, without
himself losing money, and so the goods
delivered are quite a different thing
from those submitted to the buyer. We
have noticed balbriggan underwear in
the window of the retailer, that was
claimed to have been made from gen-
uine combed Egyptian yarn, selling at
25c per garment, when, as a matter of
fact, no underwear of that kind can be
profitably retailed under soc per gar-
ment.

Carpets—The market from the job-
bers’ standpoint has continued quiet.
As this is usual at this season of the
year, there are very few who are disap-
pointed at the volume of business. Re-
garding an advance in prices, the job-
bers and cut-order stores do not antici-
pate any higher values this season. In
fact, they claim that at the present level
the volume of business with some has
been below expectations. Some New
York selling agents have obtained of
late some very fair orders for the best
ingrains and art squares. In general,
the season has been a serious disap-
pointment to many manufacturers of in-
grains. Occasional mills have been
found this week which are quite busy
on ingrains. While the majority are
now winding up their orders, some are
stopping their looms as soon as orders
in hand are completed, and after Sep-
tember 15, a large number of ingrain
looms will be idle. When the writer
asked a large manufacturer the cause of
the short season, he replied that there
were various reasons, one of the most
important being the fact that in the
West, where such large business had
been done for many years, the failure
in the corn crop, besides other local
causes, had induced the Western buyers
to remain at home instead of coming
East to place orders until they were sure
of future conditions.

Straw Mattings—The sales are now
falling off as compared with the distri-
bution earlier in the season. Imports of
China matting have, to some extent,
been reduced during the past few
months, while the Japanese matting is
increasing in volume. Prices. remain
steady at former quotations.

Smyrna Rugs—The months of July
and August have been noticeable this
year, as there have been a number of
job lots sold in fair quantities at lower
than regular prices. Buyers will be able
to obtain them at cut rates after Sep-
tember 10, and from that time on into
the fall months the prices will be firmer
and held for an advance.

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A Correct Estimation of Values.

One of the first things to learn in life
is to put the proper value on things. It
is most unfortunate for an American
youth to be brought up to think that no
one is successful unless he has been
able, by hook or crook, to lift himself
above the common order of mankind.
No man is supposed to be successful
who has not lifted himself out of pov-
erty. The American youth is seldom
told that to perform the common duties
of life is to succeed. Somehow or other
the word ‘‘success,’’ is nearly always
linked with fame or with the attainment
of great riches, when it applies, just as
readily, to the man who rises in a mod-
erate way in city and in country. The
fact is that most of us can never hope to
be. rich. The greatest wealth of this
country is not among the millionaires,
but among the common honest people,
who are content to do their duties,
cheerfully, willingly, as well as they
know how, and then save part of what
they make.—Success.

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Shoes and Rubbers

Trials and Tribulations of the Average
Dealer.

The writer happened in a store the
other day just as the proprietor and his
clerks had finished the examination of a
shipment of shoes for the fall trade, and

 

 

_ were boxing them up to be returned. ‘‘I

am sorry,’’ said the dealer, ‘‘for more
reasons than one, to be compelled to re-
turn these goods. In the first place |
need them, or rather I need the shoes I
bought, and I don’t know where I can
have them duplicated in time. I sup-
pose I will be compelled to pick up
something from the jobbers to take their
place.

“*To say that I am very much disap-
pointed does not half express it. In the
second place when | notify thése people
that I have returned the shoes fora
cause, they are going to be mad about
it, and will insist that they are as good
as the samples, etc. If they happen to
belong to this Manufacturers’ Protective
Association we read about they will, no
doubt, send in my name to be placed
on the unfair list. But what am I go-
ing to do? I can not allow myself to
be coerced into accepting these rank
imitations of the shoes | bought for fear
that 1 will be branded as a ‘‘kicker.”'

“‘In my opinion, to make things
equal the retailers should organize a
protective association also and keep an
unfair list of the manufacturers and
jobbers who will continue to send out
goods far inferior to the samples they
show the trade. Iam happy to say that
I believe these people compose a very
small percentage of the whole. Every-
thing else being equal, their proportion
is about the same as the unfair retailer,
and if we are going to keep a record at
all, why not be fair and give both sides
to the controversy a chance?”’

The writer looked over this lot of re-
jected shoes and, taking the price into
consideration, the dealer was certainly
justified in returning them. They were
men’s shoes, Vici Kid welts, kid lined,
and the price was $2.50,which now days
pays for a pretty fair article. Scarcely
any two pairs of this lot were anywhere
near alike. In fact, several pairs did
not mate at all, the right shoe would be
made of a nice soft piece of stock and
the left would contain a coarse grained
piece of leather from a much heavier
skin. The tips on some were very
crooked, and in nearly all of them the
linings were full of wrinkles. This
man was certainly justified in refusing
to accept such a lot at $2.50,

We made the acquaintance some
time ago of a man who manufactures a
specialty line of shoes and he admitted
that he made his samples from stock
costing from 4 to 6 cents a foot more
than the leather he put in the goods and
paid nearly double for finishing. Of
course, we all expect samples to look a
little nicer than the general run of the
goods, but such a difference as this is
too much.

The writer was in a store recently
while the dealer was looking at a line
of ladies’ shoes. The salesman showed
him a very pretty sample at $1.60. The
dealer looked it over carefully and said,
“*Can you send me as good a shoe as this
sample for $1.75?’’ The salesman said
he could. ‘‘Well, you can send me
thirty-six pairs just like that $1.60 sam-
ple at $1.75,’’ he said. He liked the
shoe and thought it a good one for
$1.75,and he knew it could not be made
for $1.60.

 

Dealers are also complaining of the
season just passed. They say shipments
were very unsatisfactory. Many were
from three weeks to four months behind
time, others came along on the _install-
ment plan and at intervals so far apart
that it caused loss of sales, to say noth-
ing of the annoyance of being com-
pelled to ‘‘stand off’’ waiting custom-
ers from day to day with promises that
never matefialized. If the dealer would
insist upon being served promptly or
not at all, some of these manufacturers
who take orders for more goods than
they can possibly deliver on time might
turn over a leaf for the better.—Shoe
and Leather Gazette.

——_>-42>—___
Hard Competition for the Small Dealer.

Has the specialty shoe come to stay,
or is it, to a certain extent, a ‘fad that
will have its run and then go by? This
is a question that is puzzling the aver-
age retailer, and a question upon which
there is a wide difference of opinion
even among those whose judgment—ow-
ing to their large experience and close
observation of the trend of affairs—is of
value.

By some it is believed that this twen-
tieth century is to be the great age of
specialties; that it is the modern way
of doing business, and that to achieve
success one must conform to it and be-
come a specialist. On the other hand,
there are those equally competent to
judge, who are firm in the belief that
specialty shoes are but a passing fancy,
and that they will soon lose their nov-
elty, and, although perhaps slowly, yet
surely, pass out.

But while opinions may differ as to
its future, all are agreed that the advent
of the specialty shoe marked a new era
and inaugurated a radical change in the
method of retailing shoes. It is also
agreed that its effect has been detri-
mental to the great majority of retail
shoe dealers, and especially so to those
situated in or near large business cen-
ters. Retailers, especially in cities,
with small or medium sized stocks have
been gradually losing their trade on cer-
tain grades of men’s and women’s
goods until to-day that part of their
business is seriously affected. That such
is the fact is not surprising when we
consider the advantages the specialty
store, in some respects, has over the
average retailer.

In the first place, the specialty shoe
is thoroughly advertised. Advertise-
ments are prepared by experts in their
line and are written in such a way as to
arouse a Curiosity and create a desire
among the people to see the shoe they
have heard and: read so much about.
The second, and, I believe, the greatest
advantage enjoyed by the specialty
store, is that it has the sizes and widths
and can properly fit nearly every one that
visits the store.

While a customer may find in a regu-
lar shoe store, at the same prices, goods
of equal style and value as the adver-
tised shoe, yet he can not find the com-
plete run of sizes that is found in the
specialty store. People were never so
particular about the fit of a boot or
shoe as they are to-day. For instance,
the man who was once satisfied with the
fit of an 8-4 boot now demands a 9-2,
having found possibly by a visit toa
specialty store that 9-2 was his size and
width. Of course, such a customer is
lost to the average store, and there are
many such customers.

Yet, notwithstanding all’ the advan-
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exceptions they have not been paying
investments. This failure to net a profit
on the money invested is owing chiefly,
although not wholly, to heavy expenses
—high rent, costly fixtures and furnish-
ings, expensive advertising and bcing
obliged to depend upon a manager and
clerks for the success of the venture.

Some may think that as these stores
are operated by manufacturers they can
sell goods at a smaller price, and yet
make the same percent. of profit that is
made by other stores. That is not so,
for rent, help, fixtures, advertising, in-
surance and other incidental expenses
will cost the manufacturer the same that
they would cost any one else, and the
amount he would save by putting goods
of his own manufacture in the store
would be more than offset by the amount
he would lose in being compelled to
trust his whole investment to a manager
and clerks. In other words, I believe
that the man who personally conducts
his own store can save more than the
difference between what it would cost
him and what it would cost the manu-
facturer to put the same goods into a re-
tail store.

Such phrases as ‘‘From maker to
wearer,’’ ‘‘Save the retailer’s profit,’’
etc., have a very pleasing sound and
may appeal to some, but any person of
ordinary intelligence knows that if
goods are sold at retail, a retailer’s
profit must be paid to some one, either
a manufacturer, jobber or exclusive re-
tail dealer.

During the past year very few spec-
ialty stores have been opened, and no
shoe has appeared which has acquired
more than a local reputation; their
existence, like so many of their prede-
cessors, has been very brief. The nov-
elty has worn away; sharp competition
is met, and under these conditions noth-
ing but very expensive advertising will
to-day cause an unusual demand for
any particular make of shoe, whatever
name may be given it.

That the specialty shoe some time
ago reached its zenith and that the re-
action has already set in is very appar-
ent to close observers of affairs and con-
ditions. How far the pendulum will
swing in the opposite direction none
can tell, but the regular retail shoe deal-
ers may rest assured that in the future
the specialty shoe and the specialty
shoe store will not be the disturbing ele-
ment in their business that it has been
in the past.—F. W. Gilbert in Shoe Re-
tailer. ae
Where the Responsibility For Shoddy

Shoes Rests.

A retailer in a recent contribution
makes the following observations on
shoddy shoes:

‘*A sole leather counter and inner-sole
are to the shoe what a solid foundation
is to a building, without these essentials
you have nothing. If the shoe-wearing
public would stop and consider that
from twenty-five to fifty cents more per
pair will buy a sole leather counter and
inner-sole, the only foundation a shoe
has, they will find that extra amount
spent will prove in the end true econ-
omy. The average dealer tries to sell the
shoe that can be sold for the least pos-
sible money, regardless of quality, when
the object should be to sell nothing but
a solid leather shoe at live and let live
prices. These are the kind of shoes
that give all parties concerned a better
article than could be bought twenty
years ago, and are selling for less
money than they did then, with leather
higher to-day than it was at that time;
then why buy the shoddy article? Come,
let us reason together and drive the
shoddy goods from the market and one
and all demand all leather shoes, and
let the shoddy article die with the

 

nineteenth century, never again to find
a place with the shoe wearing public.
One of the main things that has given
them a place is the profit in the sale of
them. The cheaper the shoe the larger
the profit.

‘*Much can be learned of the charac-
ter of people by the condition of their
shoes, also much can be learned of the
character of the retailer by the quality
of the shoes he sells,’’

Are retailers responsible for the man-
ufacture of shoddy shoes? Traveling
men who pay: more than casual atten-
tion to such. things, say that with the
manufacturer or wholesaler who is so
anxious to place his line that he makes
credit cheap, he is equally responsible.
If there was no demand for a shoddy
article, the people who make them
would soon find the business unprofit-
able.

The truth of the matter is that the
number of retailers who are continually
clamoring for something cheap is large
enough to keep shoddy stuff on the mar-
ket. As long as there is a demand for
a thing, just so long will it be produced.

The people who demand the cheap
article are not always actuated by a de-
sire to increase profits at the expense of
their reputations—to get something for
nothing.

One great trouble is, credit is so
cheap now days that most any one can
engage in the retail business. The re-
sult is that in every community we find
people engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness who by rights have no business
there, they are totally unfitted, financial-
ly and morally. They frequently have
no business capacity whatever, but the
anxiety of some wholesale house to
have their goods handled in the town is
responsible for their entry into the ranks
of the retailer. They are given credit,
and nine times out of ten abuse the
privilege.

Sometimes because they are dishonest
and frequently from ignorance, they
indulge in expensive advertising with-
out any conception of the profits the
goods must bring in order to pay all ex-
penses. Standard makes of shoes are
sold so close that the merchant who
knows what he is doing can not com-
pete. He knows there is bound to be
an end to such things, but the other
fellow does not know or perbaps he
does not care, and the slaughter of
profits continues on his part until the
others in desperation begin to demand
something that looks good fora little
money in order to undersell him without
loss to themselves.

The merchant who buys recklessly is
another cause. Right in the middle of
the season he awakes to the fact that he
is overloaded, bills begin to come due
and he must have money. His shelves
are loaded with goods that are not mov-
ing. There is only one thing for him to
do, he must make some kind of a spe-
cial sale, so he cuts prices and slaught-
ers profits. He will try to come out even
if possible, but he must turn the sur-
plus into money,even if he is compelled
to do so at a loss. The careful, conser-
vative dealer for these reasons is con-
tinually at a disadvantage. Fortunate-
ly these conditions do not exist in all
parts of the country, but they do occur
too frequently, for the good of the trade.
Organization on the part of the retailer
would be a long step in the direction of
reform.

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Drawing the Line on Jackson.

A good story is told in Missouri at
the expense of her once famous Gov-
ernor, Claiborne F. Jackson. Before he
solved tbe enigma of lovelock he had
married five sisters—in reasonable
lapses of consecutiveness. After one
wife had been lost and appropriately
mourned he espoused another, and he
kept his courting within a narrow cir-
cle of his own relatives, for he rather
likee the family.

The antiquated father of these girls
was almost deaf,and when the Governor
went to this octogenarian to ask for his
surviving daughter the following con-
versation ensued :

‘I want Lizzie!’’

‘“*Eh?”’

‘‘I. want you to let me have Eliza-
beth !’’

‘*Oh, you want Lizzie, do you? What
for?’’

‘*For my wife!’’

‘*For life?’’

**T want—to—marry—her!’’

‘‘Oh,- yes! Just so. I hear you,
boy.’’
“‘I’m precious glad you do!’’ mut-
tered the Governor.

‘‘Well,’’ slowly responded the vet-
eran, ‘‘you needn't halloa so that the
whole neighborhood knows it! Yes; you
can have her. You've got ’em ali now,
my lad, but for goodness sake, if any-
thing happens to that ‘ere poor mis-
guided gal, don’t come and ask me _ for
the old woman!’’

Jackson solemnly promised that he
never would.

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A novel way of administering justice
and bestowing impartial punishment on
juvenile offenders was shown ina Chi-

cago court the other day. Two boys
were on trial for fighting, accompanied
by their respective mothers. The justice
simply had the mothers swap sons and
then administer spankings. The pun-
ishment the urchins received was vig-
orous.

buildings are to contain well-appointed
bathrooms. The impulse was given two
years ago when the Paul Revere School
was erected, and now bathrooms are to
become a regular adjunct of the public
school system. Five new schoolhouses
are to be opened this fall and each is
provided with bathrooms. The teachers
in the Revere School report that under
the beneficent rule of cleanliness the
scholars are better in every way, they
themselves are able to do more work by
seeing clean children all day, and the
school work has increased in results.
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Village Improvement

Ups and Downs of Village Improvement
Society Work.

Written for the Tradesman,

While in the lexicon of the Improve-
ment Society there is no such word as
fail, there are times when it does seem
as if it would have to be written in the
appendix. When the world is busy
planting its garden and putting its
yards in order enthusiasm is unbounded.
The ideals are high and everybody set-
tles down to business confident that the
bali of progress fairly started, will be
kept in motion, and the advancing sea-
sons will be a record of unbounded suc-
cess. The theory is all right, but the
practice is often deplorable. This sum-
mer wiil answer for an illustration. The
outlook until the beginning of June was
fine. Things picked up, looked as if
they were to stay picked up. Then be-
gan the unparalleled heat, then the im-
plements of industry were abandoned,
and nature asserting herself was not long
in reducing affairs to their original con-
dition.

‘‘About this time,’’ as the old
““Farmer’s Almanack’’ used to say, the
reign of the weeds begins, and the gar-
den that dallies with them is lost. Not
a corner nor an inch of territory is free
from invasion. From the modest, del-
icate chickweed—the biggest unmiti-
gated hypocrite that ever sneaked into a
garden—to the burly burdock and the
incorrigible purslane, eternal vigilance
is the only guaranty of victory. They
may be eradicated root and branch at
sunset, but sunrise finds them as fresh

 

 

as the morning, and exulting over their]

early start and the progress already ac-
complished. Ifthe sluggard ever gets
tired of going to the ant, he will find
the consideration of the garden weed
quite as profitable.

The wholesale neglect of weedtime is
painfully apparent even before mid-
summer. By that time hoth the Goth
and the Vandal have scaled the barriers
of civilization and taken forceful pos-
session of the fertile fields and gardens
and roadsides leading to them. Vacant
lots are their rendezvous, and in the ab-
sence of the owner they pitch there their
tents. without leave or license. Ac-
knowledged robbers of the soil, they
settle down at once to their nefarious
business, and, stealing the nourishment
of the grasses from under their very
feet, flaunt their plunder in the faces of
the plants they have ignominiously
robbed.

While the invasion of the dooryard
by the weeds is discouraging to the Im-
provement Society, it is often a matter
which will correct itself. The too jubi-
lant pigweed, before its seeds are ripe,
in the very hour of its rejoicing, is
liable to give point to the well-known
text: ‘‘In the morning it groweth up;
in the evening it is cut (pulled up) down
and withereth.’’ There are times, too,
when the ambitious ‘‘pussly’’ radiates
too far from its center and the indig-
nant gardener noting it, cuts its blood-
sucking root and throws it into the alley.
It is the vacant lot and the neglected
roadside that are the thorn in the flesh
and awaken despair in all but the most
hopeful. ‘‘We are still fighting dirt and
weeds, ’’ is a recent wail from Colorado.
“Neglected lots and the roadside bor-
dering upon them fill us-with dismay, "’
Sighs a city society of the Middle
West. ‘‘The ladies of the Society make
a special request that citizens cut the
weeds.and make their places more tidy

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before the opening of the state fair,’’
pleads a Lincoln, Neb., daily paper.
‘‘A motion was made and carried to
donate $5 to be used towards the clear-
ing up of vacant lots in territory under
the care of the organization,’’ reports
another newspaper, and so from one
end of the country to the other the Im-
provement Societies are wrestling with
an evil which should have no existence.
A non-resident’s lot, instead of being
exempted from fine for negligence,
should be taxed for the extra care which
a well-ordered town in self-defence is
forced to give it. It is often unfencéd;
it is sure to become the nursery of the
rankest and most persistent weeds, and
forlorn from curbstone to alley, is often
the sorest eyesore of the neighborhood.
The only redeeming feature of such
lots is the remarkable mass of color
which the height of the season here
offers. The discouraged soil of the New
England pasture surrenders at discre-
tion at the bars and the victorious
golden rod taking the field for its camp-
ing ground, pitches tent after tent un-
til the old pasture becomes another field
of the Cloth of Gold. Within the shadow

 

of the Rockies the honey flower crowds
the empty lots of Denver with its pur-
ple plumes, and the Middle West is gor-
geous now with the shining shields of
the sunflower. Two squares from my
desk a city lot, forgotten by its owner,
is a mass of waving yellow. The grass
was killed in spring. The purslane and
the knotgrass joining forces, fought
their common foe in vain, and the weed
of the prairie had its own way. The
field is a grove of sunflowers varying in
height from three feet to ten, the larg-
est flower from ray-tip to ray-tip, meas-
uring five inches. A month from now
the seed cups will alone remain and the
birds and the Nebraska winds will see
to it that the seeds are widely scattered.
How to stop the evil remains an unan-
swered question. One of the most feas-
ible comes from Denver, where the So-
ciety has received encouragement in the
form of substantial donations from citi-
zens, a condition of things, it is feared,
not generally found in other cities of
the Union. R. M. Streeter.
—___»2e__—
How the Irishman Rattled the Conduc-
tor.

A big, good-natured-looking Irishman
boarded a street car and took a seat far
in the front. He showed evidences of

 

being a hard-working citizen in his
clothing and the smudge on his face and
hands. In his mouth he wore his treas-
ure, a black, short pipe, which showed
evidence in its color and in its pungent
odor of months of tender nursing and
petting. .

The conductor saw the pipe. The
rules said: ‘‘ Three seats in the rear for

smokers.’’ The man with the pipe was
three seats from the front. The ire of
the transit company’s retainer rose
accordingly. He was a bit of an Irish-
‘man himself.

‘‘D’y know th’ rules of the com-
pany?’’

‘*Oi do not.’’

‘*Can’t ye read?’’

‘*Oi kin not.’’

‘*No schmokin’.

‘*Who’s a schmokin’?’’

‘*Ye’ve yer poipe in yer mouth. ”’

‘*Oh, have Oi! Oi! Oi’ve me shoes
on me fate, too, an’ Oi ain’t walkin’,”’

The conductor retired temporarily
defeated in the battle of wits. Present-
ly he came back to the assault.

‘*Did Oi get yer fare?’’

‘‘How do Oi know if you got it or
dhe company? Shure, Oi didn't hear
ye ring it up.’’ .

The conductor was so ‘‘rattled’’ this
time that he rang up four transfers in-
stead of the four nickels that he had
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CLERICAL CAREER.
Its Advantages Over That of the Lumber
Shover.

Jack sat on a dry goods box at the
end of the counter waiting for the store
to close, when he intended to havea
regular heart to heart talk with the
senior clerk. As the store was in the
country it was usually kept open until
8 or half past, as the trade demanded or
the loafer dictated.

At last Mr. Freemont drew the blinds
and bolts, figured up the counter books
the other clerks had forgotten or neg-
lected, counted his cash, and _ finally
announced that the rest of the evening
was at Jack's disposal.

‘‘Well, Dick’’—Mr. Freemont, al-
though 40 years old,never received from
child or adult a more dignified title—
‘‘l’ve got a soft snap at last, and
thought 1 might as well stay and re-
ceive your congratulations.’’ This ina
rather patronizing tone. ‘‘For five
years now I've rastled slabs in a mill,
shoved lumber, stayed in dirty camps in
the winter, and worked at every old
thing that was hard. Up at 6 o'clock
every morning in summer and earlier
yet in winter, and not know a minute’s
rest until 8 at night, and I’ve got tired
of it. So last night I went and saw
your boss and he said he would take me
into the back room to handle feed and
do the heaviest work for awhile, and
meanwhile work me into the groceries
- and dry goods. Then if I suit, I’m to
have the first vacancy asa full fledged
clerk.’’

Jack spoke in a somewhat excited
voice and with a smile on his round
face the length of your arm. The face
of the older man was something of a
study, the smile indicating a little cyn-
ical amusement.

‘‘Have you your breath yet, Jack?
May | get a glass of water—a fan—any-
thing? When do you expect to com-
mence this soft snap of yours,anyway?’’

‘‘Oh, you can do a lot of sneering if
you like. You clerks all doa good deal
of talking about how hard you have to
work and all that, but I notice you
don't leave the store unless you get
kicked out.’’

‘“Come,.Jack, don’t look cross. It
spoils your dimples and takes away
that expression of perfect faith in the
unexplored that it so clearly shows. Sit
down again and let me turn the kaleid-
oscope of your future as a clerk before
you. My experiences of the past ten
years may open your eyes a little and be
of some use to you in the time to come.”’

‘‘Well, fire away, but remember that
I don't take everything that your cyn-
ical views of things suggest as gospel.’’

‘*You're going to begin your duties
next Monday, believing that this lit-
tle rosebud idea of a ‘soft snap’ of yours
is going to blossom into a blush rose.
Well, it won't. It will simply blast.
In the first place you will have to get
down here at 6 in the morning to sweep
out and dust befe. ‘he store opens,
while at the mill youn had to get
there until 7. Still, while you’re serv-
ing your apprenticeship shoveling feed,
it won’t be quite as bad as when you
commence to work into groceries and
dry goods. Your ‘soft snap’ will then
become manifest to you, having people
watching you weigh butter and lard and
thinking, and also hoping, you're try-
ing to cheat them out of an ounce or
two in order that they may find fault
somewhere. When you have so far ad-
vanced that you can grin at a kid that
has just tipped over a jug of molasses
on the counter, and can assure its moth-

 

er that it was all right to set the baby
on the counter to play with the pretty
jug; can take the penny all sticky with
molasses that the little one holds out to
you, and wait, with a broader and more
admiring grin, if possible, while it se-
lects the kind of candy it wants—by the
time you can do all this, I say, you
will be fit to give a little assistance on
the dry goods side. Now is where the
‘snap’ actually begins; in fact, it would
be a pretty good name to describe some
of your customers, At a dry goods
counter is where you meet with the very
meanest or best qualities in a person.
It is where an extravagant person
spends money he can’t afford to spend
in that way; where a stingy person tries
to jew you down so that he may feel he
has made a bargain; where an idle
person. makes you fill up the counter
with goods she has no intention of buy-
ing. ~Here is also where you will some-
time meet the man or woman who will
insist on your measuring all the calico
they may buy with a yard measure in-
stead of by the folds, and they are es-
pecially anxious for you to do it if
there are other customers waiting.’’

‘‘Can’t you think up a few other
things against clerking?’’

‘Just a few to-night. You have been
accustomed to leave your work when
you wished to see a ball game, go fish-
ing, visit another village, or do any of
a dozen other things, and could easily
supply another an to take your place.
Pleasures outside town are no go if you
hold your job in a store. You must be
there all the time, and even your even-
ing doesn’t commence until half-past 8
org.’”’

‘*And may I ask why you have kept
on clerking the past ten years? I should
have thought you would have shoved
lumber in a sawmill for a year or two
just for relaxation.’’

Dick laughed and answered :

‘*In a store you get all goods you re-
quire at cost and 10 percent. You get
the experience that will help you in
any business you may be employed in
later better than any other training you
could go through; you get an oppor-
tunity to advance, and acquire the pol-
ish, if desired, that an European educa-
tion couldn’t give; lastly, my boy, any-
one who enjoys studying either Darwin
or human nature—they are a good deal
alike, you know—really enjoys clerk-
ing. That’s why I’ve always kept
at it.’

‘*Yes, it would be strange if you
doubted Darwin’s theory,’’ answered
Jack, as the clock struck 11 and he rose
to go. ‘‘On the whole, I rather think
you’re the missing link yourself.’’

Louise Cameron.
——__> 2. ____

The planting of trees in the public
streets seems to have its drawbacks as
well as its advantages. At least this
seems to be the experience in Fortland,
Oregon, where, as elsewhere in the
United States, there has been consider-
able planting of shade trees. The pop-
lar, from its quick-growing habit and
the ease with which it could be pro-
cured as compared with many of the
other varieties commonly planted for
the purpose, seems to have been exten-
sively used. Its deep-rooting habits,
and the numerous fine shoots which it
sends through the ground in search of
water, have, however, proved its ruin,
and the fiat has gone forth for its de-
struction. Many of the breaks in the
sewers have been directly traced to this
habit, and the increasing expense to the
city from this cause has prompted the
cutting down of the trees.

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The light must be good, must be safe, must
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Must be reasonable in cost; should be easy to take care of; easy to
manage; simple, yet the best.

One that does not increase your Insurance premium; all these and
more, too, you get if you have a Michigan Gaselene Gas Machine
and.use Welsbach lights of too candle power each, or Gas In-
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You can have a light in any spot or place in your building or the
building next to you, or in the next block, or across the street, or
in the street, or anywhere you can run a gas pipe to

Any style of fixture can be used, chandeliers, pendants, side brackets,
anything that you want for the store, the show windows, the

The light is the whitest, strongest, steadiest, safest.
It, unless it is daylight, and on a dark day, or ina dark store,

Do not be satisfied with the trade you have, but increase it by having
the best lighted store in town.
than it does the other fellow with his poor yellow light.

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The Meat Market

World Shy Fifty Million on Sheep.

The estimated total number of sheep
in the world is 469,526000, a decrease of
53,178,000 from the estimate made by
Mulhall in 1887, and of 70,518,000 from
estimates made a few years later. This
would appear, at first glance, to be of
serious import to the wool manufac-
turing industry everywhere, more espe-
cially in connection with the production
of fine grades of woven goods. It is a
fact, however, that the stock of wool in
the: world appears to be as large as
ever, and prices for wool are so low
that the producers declare that they are
unremunerative. There has been a de-
cline in the aggregate number of sheep
in the European countries of 40,000, 000,
or Ig per cent., in a comparatively short
period. The number of these animals
in Germany decreased from 25,000,000
in 1873 to 11,000,000 in 1897. The num-
ber in Spain has decreased one-half
since 1880, and Hungary has only two-
thirds as many as were in that country
thirty years ago. The flocks of Great
Britain, France and other European
countries are not increasing, as all the
available grazing lands have been util-
ized for years. Russia is the only ex-
ception to the general European de-
cline, but the increase there has been
slow in the past few years. However,
it is the only Old World nation that is
likely to increase its holdings of sheep.
Australia, which was formerly noted for
its immense flocks, is falling behind
witb alarming rapidity. The Argentine
flocks were seriously depleted last year
by floods, which destroyed millions of
sheep, the losses more than equaling the
natural increase. The same was true,
on a smaller scale, with reference to
Uruguay. In the United States there
are fewer sheep than there were ten
years ago, but the flocks are again slow-
ly increasing. Not only has there been
a decrease in the number of sheep in
the world, but there has been a gradual
changing from the merino, cr the fine-
wool breeds, to the mutton-producing
breeds. There are economic reasons
for this, the most important being, as
before mentioned, the relatively low
price for wool and the increasing de-
mand for mutton. The latter has been
stimulated by the improved facilities
for preservation and transportation of
meats. *

The frozen meat trade has apparently
revolutionized the sheep husbandry of
the world. Sheep can be slaughtered
and transported any number of miles
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ships provided with systems of refrig-
eration, with the quality of the meat
often improved upon reaching its des-
tination. In the year Ig00 the number
of frozen wethers exported from the Ar-
gentine Republic to England was
2,372,939. and the number exported
from Australia to the same country was
over 4,000,000, For the first quarter of
Ig01 the number of frozen wethers ex-
ported from the Argentine Republic was
683,972. This shows in part how great
the demand for mttton is and how the
flocks are being depleted thereby. Prob-
ably this will result in higher prices for
wool and the consequent increase in
certain countries of the flocks of merino
sheep. As the situation is now, the
only increases are in flocks of large-
bodied animals reared only for the pur-
pose of disposing of them as mutton. —
Butchers’ Advocate.
> +> —___
Good Meat at Two Cents a Pound.

One of the most promising branches
of business in Paraguay is that of cattle
breeding, because of the splendid qual-
ity of the pastures and because the
country is one of the best watered in
the world. The northern part of the re-
public is specially promising for _start-
ing cattle farms, as land there is of
good quality and cheap. The cost of
one square Spanish mile cf land meas-
uring 4,300 meters on each side is
$1, 000.

Meat is cheap, perhaps cheaper than
anywhere else on earth, since a bullock
four years old is worth only $10 gold.
The hide, tallow and grease being val-
ued at one-half that sum, there remains
say $5 as the value of from 300 to 350
pounds of meat, being less than two
cents per pound for meat of the best
quality without bones, Under these
circumstances it is evident that it would
be a most profitable business to estab-
lish a meat preserving factory for the
manufacture of extract of beef and of
salted beef for the Brazilian and Cuban
trade, where many thousands of tons of
the. last-named article are consumed
annually by the native people.

Because of such an _ abundance of
cheap meat, and desirous of encoura-
ging the meat preserving industry, the
government of Paraguay has lately
passed a law providing for the intro-
duction free of duty of all things neces-
sary for equipping such a factory, pro-
vided for the small export duty of 15
cents gold on the finished product of
each bullock or cow. Wages are ex-
ceedingly low. The present pay fora
good laborer is but $5 gold per month,
or 15 cents per day, including board.

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College Diplomas for Killing and Curing.

The scheme of teaching persons by
mail how to become lawyers, actors,
detectives, etc., has not yet been ex-
tended to include the butcher business.
Any man so apt as to be able to learn
how to buy, cut, and sell meat and
make money at it, simply from reading
printed instructions, would do better

 

if he instead went into the law business.
In Germany they have a butcher's
school of instruction, where the students
are taught the business from A to Z.
Good butchers are turned out from that
school, but there really is not a demand
for so many as are to be found looking
for work. What will become of the
butchers in this country when a school
similar to the one in Germany is opened
at Minneapolis, Minh., is a problem
that fills one with dismay. It is to be
conducted in connection with the Min-
nesota Agricultural School, and $7,000
has been appropriated for erecting the
building. Students who take a butcher
course will be taught how to kill, dress
and cure. We understand that hogs are
to be given more attention than cattle or
sheep, but that ‘‘all branches will be
covered.’’ In a few years, we presume,
it will be common to see in meat mar-
kets diplomas stating the owner isa
graduate of a college and has taken a
full course in butchering and curing.
Without a business training, however,

 

his diploma will be of no use to-him
aside from obtaining a position at the
usual salary in the market of some prac-
tical butcher who does not know a di-
ploma from a diplomat.

——_»>02.—__—_
Want Cheaper Tallow.

According to a report current in Kan-
sas City, Mo., Western soap manufac-
turers are planning to form an associa-
tion to buy their tallow, rosin, etc., at
cheaper prices. This was the decision
of a secret gathering in Kansas City of
representatives of several large firms in
and west of Chicago. No attempt, it is
said, will be made to control the prices
of these commodities. The names of

the firms are not known at present.

—__>2>—___
Man With the Heavy Thumb Again.
The Widow—The butcher offered me

his hand this morning.

The Maid—And did you accept it?

The Widow—No, indeed. You see,
he tried to work it off on me with the
steak, but I made him take it off the
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Courteous Treatment of Customers and
Unimpeachable Honesty.

In this boasted and boastful age when
by-products of every sort are being con-
verted into cold cash, a man ought to
investigate himself occasionally to see
if anything is going to waste which
might be utilized. Courtesy has a com-
mercial value as much recognized and
sought after as capital, and yet some
men are not cultivating it but let the
opportunity go to waste, while they are
growling at fortune’s scanty favors. In
fact, courtesy has a value above cash,
for you can not go into the market and
buy it with money or its equivalent. If
the commercial agencies rated men cor-
rectly they would invoice their moral
and mental qualities just as much as
their stock, fixtures and accounts.

The entries might appear something
like this in the scale of 100:

Honesty, 75 per cent.

Executive ability, 90 per cent.

Courtesy, 95 per cent.

And so on through the list of attri-
butes which make up a man’s character.

It is a fact that a man’s reputation for
honesty and ability enters largely into
his rating, and justly so, and yet I know
men with a fair amount of both and a
stack of dollars on top of them, who
failed because they were cranky or
crabbed or unpleasant to deal with.

Courtesy in business ought to be re-
garded as much of an asset as_ honesty,
and among employes it ought and does
in many places.command a premium in
the shape of higher salary or advance-
ment in position.

I know of a popular restaurant, made
so not because they serve better or more
appetizing dishes than others, but the
proprietor is a brisk, genial man, wel-
coming his guests with an appreciative
word, and his waiters are polite and
pleasant and really seem to belong to
the same race of people as yourself,
while the cashier is so affable that all
through the meal you anticipate the
pleasure of paying her.

It is evidently no accident that these
people are associated in business to-
gether, but the proprietor knows that
people come again to a place made
pleasant and attractive by courteous
treatment. The general public will
even go to considerable personal in-
convenience and overlook many objec-
tionable features for the sake of dealing
with one who succeeds in _ pleasing
them. I knew a man whose business
did not seem to suffer in the least be-
cause of his sharp practices because he
had such a frank, friendly manner that
people would rather be swindled by him
than treated fairly by his less courteous
competitors. Now this is not an argu-
ment for winning manners and dishon-
est practices, but an illustration of what
can be done notwithstanding a known
reputation for trickery. Add to the
courteous treatment the most unim-
peachable honesty and the combination
is doubly strong.

As an illustration of how much the
ladies are influenced by the bearing of
those who serve them, two women sit-
ting near me in a railroad car were tell-
ing their troubles. The older lady was
complaining, apparently with some
cause, of the treatment she had received
from the ticket agent and the incon-
venience it had caused her. On account
of that the entire system from section
hands to general manager was con-
demned, a boycott declared, and when
she reached the home of her friend, who
was an official of the road,it was prom-

 

ised. that the offending ticket agent
should be punished in a manner befit-
ting his offense! And the younger
woman opined that such employes ought
to lose their positions. It is a ‘‘dead’’
certainty that the railroad or the store
which allows its employes to be dis-
obliging to its patrons is going to lose
its patronage and the lady patrons will
be the first to go.

It may be that a railway company can
exist without its lady patrons, I don’t
know about that, but I do know that a
merchant who loses his lady customers
may as well close his doors. The women
are the principal buyers of merchandise,
whether they hold the purse or not.

I have often seen that demonstrated.
A man may look at goods and partially
select what he thinks necessary, but if
he does, he will usually say, ‘‘I will
have my wife call and look at them be-
fore you send them up,’’ and when he
comes with her to show her what he has
selected, she will say with the utmost
unconcern, ‘‘O, that isn’t what I want
at all,’’ and calmly proceed to make
her own selections. It is because ladies
are the largest patrons of the store and
because they are easily attracted or re-
pelled by the manner of the salesman,
that no merchant can afford to ignore
the business value of courtesy.—Uncle

Reuben in Furniture Journal.
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Carlyle wrote a considerable amount
of readable matter in his day; but in
all his works we have never run across

a line that contains as much suggestion |

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All the elements of success are there.
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conspicuously from the simple sentence.
If this mighty thinker had never pro-
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Hardware

Changes Which Have Taken Place in the
Blacksmith Business.

One often hears the remark that black-
smithing in the small country shops
does not pay any more, and that things
used to be different in the good old
- times. True they were, yet it cannot
be denied that business with the aver-
age country blacksmith and wagonmaker
. has not kept pace with the times and
that on the average there is not as much
work, or as much money in the business
as formerly, and not enough to compen-
sate for the time and labor expended at
it. All of us will remember that and
- recall many of the good old blacksmiths
who retired from the business with a
snug competence, able to take life easy,
before having reached a good ripe old
age. Also many old men at the trade
now and struggling young men, who are
working hard to get along at all, and
. who never seem to hope for the time
coming when they can quit and retire,
but are destined to believe that they
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This is particularly true of the old
smiths in the trade now, who have come
down from the past generation and who
still cling to the old way of doing things
and continue business in the same old
way of their fathers and grandfathers,
but it was always that way. The rich
and poor have always been with us and
always will be. It is noticed more so
now. The trade itself has lost none of
its money-making power, and if any-
thing the chances are better now than
before. There are just as many if not
more acquiring a competence at it and
laying something by for a rainy day as
formerly.

We know of many young blacksmiths
who but what seems a short time ago
started in business with almost nothing
and have become pretty well fixed and
are independent of to-morrow. But one
hears on the other hand that times have
changed since then. Surely they have
and will continue to keep changing, but
we have to change with them and adapt
ourselves to the ever-changing condition
of things. Time was when the country
blacksmith was a power in the land
and his shop was the place where every
one came for counsel and advice, and
his opinion was eagerly sought after on
all questions, politically, socially and
otherwise. History brings us down the
records of many illustrious blacksmiths
and they have played not an unimport-
ant part in the history of the world. He
was the only mechanic outside of the
village carpenter and wheelwright, and
almost everything in the way of tools,
household utensils, farm implements,
wagons and carriages, weapons, etc.,
used to be made by him, and it was no
wonder that people looked up to him
with awe. He became quite a manu-
facturer in a small way, and employed
many hands and many large factories
had their origin from such a small be-
ginning. In fact the blacksmith was
the nucleus of all such enterprises. In-
ventive genius then stepped in and took
up the work of the blacksmith, im-
proved upon his methods, and with the
aid of machinery soon made everything
which he used to make by hand or with
such limited power as was at his com-
mand. It was not long before the
blacksmith was distanced unless he as-
sociated himself with the new ideas.
Many did, and as a result many a nice

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who was the founder of it. But the
work of the average smith became more
and more confined and narrowed, until
it finally came down to the general run
of repair work as it exists in the coun-
try shop to-day. Then the enterprising
hardware merchant stepped in and the
machine dealer came‘ along and took
about all of the remaining prerogatives
of the blacksmith away. The mail or-
der houses also stepped in with their
catalogues and complicated the business
still more, threatening even the very
foundations, not only of the blacksmith
business, but that of the hardware mer-
chant and the implement dealer -also.
Thus the blacksmith lost heart and
bowed to the inevitable and contented
himself with doing all he could, and it
is no wonder that the business declined
and is not now what it used to be.

The blacksmith and wagonmaker is
as much entitled to do business, to buy
and sell to the merchant as his neigh-
bor. It is not necessary or well for him
to put in all his time at the anvil or the
bench. His sphere of influence can ex-
tend beyond it. However it is too true
that the blacksmiths have given up the
struggle too easily and until now the
other fellows think that the blacksmiths
have no right to do business or keep
anything for sale at all. Yes, and even
question his right to buy his own goods.
They think that the supplies should
come through their hands. This is pure
selfishness and is happily dying out,
and the modern jobber of heavy hard-
ware has knocked holes in the once_ in-
vulnerable armor of the country store-
keeper.

When the smith is asked why don’t
you keep such and such an aarticle, the
answer is, ‘‘Oh, they keep it at the
store, and it would not pay me to keep
it, and.I do not want to bother with it.’’
They do not reflect that the store keeper
would not bother with it either if there
was nothing in it. Or the smith would
say we have no room for it, and from
the looks of his shop he has not, but
with a little thought he could make
room and have more room than he _ had
before. It does not cost much to put
up a shelf and takes but very little time
to display such goods to advantage so
that everyone can see them. -As a mat-
ter of fact almost all the blacksmiths
and wagonmakers who have made any
money at all at the business have
made it that way. Not by hard work
alone, but by doing business.

We recall some who started in busi-
ness with their neighbors at the same
time and commenced in a small, mod-
est way to keep everything called for
in the business. They soon got the
name and the reputation, until finally
it was said, ‘‘Go there first, and if you
can not find it there you can not find it
anywhere.’’ Work followed as well,
and they have been able to retire from
business while their neighbor still keeps
plodding along. We do not wish to
enumerate all of the goods which the
smith can sell. Every season has its
seasonable goods, and the judgment of
the smith will dictate what he can han-
dle to advantage and sort up a good
stock.—Crow Bar.

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The Happiest Moment in That Young
Man’s Life.
Written for the Tradesman.

When the office bell tinkled and John
Boyd, dentist, left his patient in the
chair to say ‘‘Good afternoon’’ to the
newcomer, he halted an instant on the
threshold almost paralyzed with amaze-
ment. There in the middle of the room
stood the last man he ever expected to
set eyes on in that place and the man
felt the awkwardness of the situation
more than the young dentist.

‘‘Didn’t quite expect t’ see me, did
ye?’’ was the long, lean, lank, old man’s
greeting as the doctor appeared. ‘‘ Waal,
it’s jest this way: I hain’t got but tew
teeth thet meet 'n’ I’ve be’n a tryin’
every darn dentist in town to fill ’em
and have the stuff stay ’n’ they can’t
dew it, 'n’ fin’lly, Jed Wadekins told
me about a tewth ye fixed f’r hima
year ago 'n’ showed it tew me ’n’ here
I be. Naow, ’f you think you c’n fix
them teeth you go ahead and dew it,
*n’ I'll pay ve for it.”’

‘‘Well, Mr. Rankin, just be seated
until I finish a little job 1 have on hand
and then I'll look at your teeth. Just
make yourself at home. I will soon be
ready for you.’’

If Dr. Boyd had not been the owner
of a pair of ears equal to any emergency,
the smile he put on would have gone
clear around his head. The dream of
his boyhood and youth was about to be
realized. From the earliest of his or-
chard-robbing days up through his
struggling youth this man had been his
relentless foe. He did not care now for
the pants-dusting that he had suffered—
the fun was worth its price—but after he
had put aside boyish things this mean
old man’s spite had followed him and
Asa
farm hand he had hired him and al-
though the boy was then a man in
strength and stature and did a man’s
work in the haytield when pay day came
he was offered a boy’s wages and went
home leaving the money in the old
cheat’s hands.

When urged by his old teacher, who

knew his ability and his worth, to ap-

ply for the winter school in a neighbor-
ing district,this same old man had done
his best to thwart the ambitious boy.
He got the school, however, taught it to
a successful finish and was put down as
the best teacher the district had had for
years. As long as it was possible the
young man had kept to himself the pur-
pose of his life, fearing the opposition
he knew he would receive at home and
especially by ‘‘old Rankin,’’ and when
it was known that John Boyd was ‘‘de-
signin’ ’’ to be a dentist the neighbor-
hood was in an uproar and Rankin laid
himself out to do his worst. He laughed
at him and ieered him to his face and
behind his back. He called him an up-
start and a fool and when the young fel-
low left for the four years’ course at the
university old Jim Rankin was at the
station an hour before the train left and
used every minute of the time in mak-
ing all sorts of fun of ‘‘ our promisin’
boy’’ who was so dumbed stupid that
he’s got to have ‘‘fower years to larn
how to pull teeth.’’

John Boyd, student, kept his temper,
but when the train left Birlinburg he
made a vow deeper than the.silence he
had kept that if the time should ever
come he'd get even with old Jim Ran-
kin, so help him—Moses!

All these things rushed through his
mind while he was finishing the work
on hand and then with the coast clear
he stepped to the door.

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‘““Now, Mr. Rankin, if you’ll please
come this way,’’ he said and an instant
later the vile-mouthed, vile-minded and
vile-souled old man _ stretched himself
out in the chair with the comfortable
assurance of a man about to indulge in
the luxury of a shave.

“‘Now, Mr. Rankin, I must tell you
beforehand that I don’t know whether I
can do anything for you or not. With-
out doubt it's a hard case or the other
dentists would have been equal to it.
In the first place you have an unusual
jaw. One can see at a glance that its
development has had its due lack of ex-
ercise. Open your mouth, please. That
will do, I intend to stand on the out-
side.’’

A glance told him that only the slight-
ly uncommon was called for, but it took
five good minutes before the examina-
tion was over,during which the operator
balanced his old-time spanking account
with compound interest at 25 per cent.
Then with a jab into the nerve that
lifted the old devil from the chair, the
dentist stepped back and looked at his
victim.

‘“Well, Mr. Rankin, it’s just what I
was afraid of. I don’t believe I care to
tackle that case. In the first place it
will hurt you more than you can stand’’
—it was Jim Rankin’s boast that he
could saw off his own leg without winc-
ing—‘‘in the second place I shall have
to charge you more than you can afford
to pay,and I wouldn’t undertake it any-
way without having the money before I
lift an instrument. My price will be
twenty-five dollars. There comes my
two-o’clock patient’’—the office bell
tinkled—‘‘and that’s all I can do for
you to-day. If you say yes 1 can make
an appointment for you day after to-
morrow at nine. If that suits you come
in at that time loaded and I'll give you
the worth of your money. Sorry to
hurry you, Mr, Rankin, but the young
lady is waiting for the chair. Good
morning. ”’

Purple with rage and not daring to
swear before the young beauty who had
come in at the doctor’s nod,the old man
strode out of the operating room and
out of the office without attempting to
speak. He went straight to his team
and started for home and not until he
had passed the city limits did he dare
to trust himself. There his thoughts
found expression and the skies __re-
sponded with a denser blue. That day
and the next, he cursed and swore, but
‘the day after to-morrow’’ found him
in the dentist chair, the conditions all
met—** ’twas the only thing I could dew
and the job had ter be done’’—and the
doctor began to balance the account of
years.

Hurt? It was condensed agony; and
for three mortal hours the torture went
on until there was not a misdeed on the
memory record which did not have its
pain item on the other side of the ac-
count. ‘Then the dentist stopped.

‘‘There, Mr. Rankin, that's all I can
do for you to-day. About day after to-
morrow you come in and I'll see how
the thing’s going to work. I don’t be-
lieve the filling will get loose much be-
fore that time!’’

“‘I d’ know of anything more ’t ye
c’n dew th’ aout it’s t’ put in a bolt ‘n’
a nut on the aoutside. By g—um!
Thet’s the d—est piece of blacksmith-
in’ I ever had done f’r me!”’

It is a pleasure to state that that job
of dentistry was a success. It took some
time for the patient to get over the
shock, but after that it was the old
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there 'tis. Jes’ look at it. Twenty-five
dollar job, but arter I got threw I knew
‘Id got the worth o’ my money! ’Fe
want yer teeth looked arier got’? Doc-
tor Boyd.’’

When Jim Rankin’s praise was
poured into Dr. John Boyd’s ears that
gentleman smiled ‘‘and that was all he
said!’’ Richard Malcolm Strong.

———_>_4.>__
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Woman’s World

Having the Courage of Our Convictions.
A woman who is a bit of a philosopher
told me the other day that she had dis-
covered the true secret of earthly bliss.
“*What is it?'’ I asked. ‘‘A way to
make money on Wall Street or a sure
system for playing the races?’’

‘‘Neither,’’ she answered, ‘‘although
both of your suggestions might bea
valuable annex, but my discovery is
merely that the way to be happy, al-
though alive,is simply to have the cour-
age to live your own life in your own
way. When you can do that you have
conquered fate. Criticism can not dis-
turb your calm. Gossip slips off of
your impervious armor as harmlessly
and easily as the proverbial water off of
a duck’s back. Reproof, even, is a
boomerang that recoils on the one who
dares assai] you, and leaves you unhurt.

**You simply ignore the fact that any-
body has a right to object to anything
you do and say and think, so long as
you do not interfere in any way with
. them. You put a few ‘no trespass’ signs
around your liberties and _ pleasures,
and, presto! the thing is done and you
find yourself living in a kind of Utopia,
where you are more than queen and
your will is law.

‘*The only trouble and the only reason
individual Utopias will never become
popular is because at heart we are all
cowards before other people’s opinions.
There’s a streak of yellow in us all that
struggles to the surface when we think
about doing what we want to do, in-
stead of what we think Mrs. Jones or
Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Brown would ap-
prove of our doing, and nine times out
of ten it is the Browns and Smiths and
Joneses that settle the big questions of
life for us, instead of our own con-
sciences and judgments. We could not
be any more afraid of our neighbors’
windows if there was a Gatling gun be-
hind every lace curtain, instead of a
pair of eyes.

‘But think of the vistas of happiness
my scheme opens up when you have
emancipated yourself from the fear of
other people’s eyes and tongues. Who,
for instance, suffer the most by being
poor? Not the honestly poor people,
where the wife does the cooking and
sends a cheerful and contented man out
with his lunch pail every morning—
there’s no pity coming tothem. The
people to be sorry for are the shabby
genteel—those who ‘break their necks
trying to keep up with the rich and who
Starve through a winter to give a pink
tea in the spring.

‘‘Do you suppose any of us would do
that if we had the courage to live our
own lives? Not much, We should sim-
ply not waste our breath and strength
and nerves trying to keep up appear-
ances which, after all, do not even fool
a baby and we should settle down into
good, comfortable, unpretentious poor
ways and be happy.

“‘Then we should not work ourselves
to death over idiotic causes that do not
amount to a row of pins. Now, I have
not a word to say against the women
who go in for the daughters of this and
the grandmothers of that. ‘Live and let
live’ is my motto, They enjoy that
kind of thing and I am willing they
should have their share, and mine, too.
There are women who are born to be
chairmen of committees and run mis-
sionary meetings and rob people at
church fairs. Let them, I say, but let’s
let those of us who don’t get anything

 

 

 

but the backache and headache and
remorse of conscience out of such things
brace up and say ‘No’ when we are im-
portuned to head committees and lead
movements that do not move.

‘*Nowadays a tacit acknowledgment
of inferiority seems to be implied by
the very fact of a woman not belonging
to clubs or being interested in reforms,
and it has driven into the ranks thous-
ands of women who do not care one
button for the cause they have spoused,
for, alas! our sex are not Columbuses
who discover new worlds of thought.
They are sheep who will follow any
leader over the fence, and it’s my _ pri-
vate belief that you could stampede
even a missionary meeting if somebody
would move to buy chocolate creams
with the collection, instead of sending
pajamas to the heathen.

‘*Think, too, of the way we bore our-
selves reading books we loathe and
hearing music we don’t understand, for
the benefit of our neighbors. Not long
ago I was at a literary gathering of
women—or one supposed to be literary—
and a new book, very deep, very ab-
struse, very profound, was being dis-

 

cussed. I understood from the remarks
of the others that they had found it so
fascinating they couldn’t put-it down
and that they simply doted on it. At
last some one asked me what I thought
of it, and I said, ‘Well, I tackled a few
chapters in the front, and I couldn’t
make head nor tail of them. Then I
grappled with a middle chapter with no
better results, and then threw it away.
Life is too short and there are too many
good books to amuse and entertain to
worry over a conundrum like that ;’ and,
would you believe it, every woman in
the room came down off her high horse
and told the truth and admitted she
didn’t know what the book was about
and had only read it because she thought
it was ‘cultured’ to have rubbed up
against it, even if she took nothing
away. For my part I am thrilled with
pity at the very spectacle of a woman
wrestling with Ibsen and Maetterlinck
when I know if she had the courage to
lead her own life in her own way she
would be reveling in Marie Corelli and
Laura Jean Libbey.

‘*Same way with music——just look
at the difference between a grand opera

 

audience and a vaudeville performance.
There’s an expression on the Wagner
audience that says as plainly as print:
‘I know this is the proper thing to do,
and I am going to sit it out if it takes
my eye teeth.’ But the other audience
that is getting ragtime music is just
one broad grin. You can tell across a
whole restaurant whether a man is
eating the thing that is good for his
stomach or the thing he likes.

‘“‘The worst feature of it all is, we.
haven’t the courage to live our own do-
mestic lives as we wantto. Manya
girl and man marry to please their little
world instead of themselves. I have
known a girl stifle an honest love for a
poor young fellow just because her
friends expected her to marry rich. I
have seen a young man forsake a pretty
shop girl, who would have been a real
helpmeet to him in life, just because
his addle-pated acquaintances turned
up their noses at a working girl.

‘‘Nor does it stop here. To any
sensible person one of the sad sights
is that of a young couple going, as soon
as they are married, to live in a hotel
or boarding-house. That way extrava-

 

 

‘The President

of the United States of America,

GREETING:

To

HENRY K.OCH, your Clerk, attorneys, ager.s,
Sealiesmen. and workmen, and all claiming or
holding through or under you,

Wher cas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that

it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District.

of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein

complained of, and that the -said

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘““SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap.

Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY

KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do
absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words
substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, :

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,

that which is not Complainant's said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO” in any

false or misleading. manner.

eo
Witness, The honorable MEtvittx W. Futur, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and ninety-two,

[sear]

ROWLAND COX, .

[

Complainants Solicitos.

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SIGNED)

S. D. OLIPHANT,

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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gance, flirtations, gossip, estrange-
ment, divorce lie. 1 can not but be-
lieve that, if they had the courage to
live their own lives, these young people
would start some sort of a home, be it
ever so humble. But, because they
can’t afford a fine establishment and
costly furniture and servants, they de-
liberately jeopardize their happiness in
life. If I were a girl and a man pro-
posed boarding to me, I should say,
“Not while there is a three-room cottage
to be bad, and a gas cooking stove to
light as the altar of a real home.’ And
if I were a man and a girl was not will-

bors’ opinions. They are the moral
police that keep us straight.’’

‘*Pooh!’’ she replied, scornfully,
‘‘who enjoys being policed !’’

Dorothy Dix.
~~» 4 ___
The New Point of View.

‘‘Don’t you tell what you are going
to do or what you are not going to do,’’
I heard a wise matron say once; ‘‘you
don’t know what’s in the future or how
circumstances may alter everything.’’
She herself had started out at 15 to
make many plans and confided them to
the world at large, only to learn later
that it meant unkind ridicule if they

many qualities that I like immensely.’’

Women who like to go, and long for
excitement, find themselves tamed down
into very domestic creatures, caring a
great deal about their homes. Women
who only ask for housewifely duties find
themselves trotting around to all sorts of
amusements, and enjoying the life.
Women who frown on Bohemian ways
are transformed into the ieast formal
and most delightful of hostesses. Women
who are Bohemian are surprised some
day at the way they are observing the
conventionalities. A woman. is aston-
ished when she finds herself not only

naturally brings one’s self into line to
be contented with what is, Only it will
be easier to adjust one’s self to the new
if the world has not been made a con-
fidant of one’s early plans and views,
Cora Stowell.
ea a
Magnitude of Department Stores.

A way of bringing the bigness of the
department stores within the realization
of the reader is by reference to the size
of its purchases. One store in Chicago
bought in one bill a stock of granite
kitchen ware which filled seventeen cars
that were made up into a special train.
Another of these great institutions
bought a trainload of shirt waists on a
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“— : circumstances which are to come, so she ple to operate. A light equal to an electric arc
co? sure system of education that turns out coe ek aeleae  beeell ce ans Bice at avery low cost. The Imperial Lighting Sys-
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‘*We may know our little Mary is as
“highly strung as a violin, with every
nerve tuned always to the snapping
point. We may know our little James

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from the same tank. The Imperial System
burns common stove gasoline, gives a 1,200 can-
dle power light, and one gallon of gasoline burns
16 hours. All lamps are fully guaranteed, and
are trimmed complete with full instructions as

true reasons are the ones which are not
given out to the public. She may be
thoroughly convinced that a certain life
is the only one which she is fitted to

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has more brain than brawn or that our
little —Tommy is of the slow, plodding,
methodical kind, but who nevertheless
are generally around when the prizes are
distributed, but who need time. When
we think of it, we know that Mary
should be restrained at school instead
of pushed; that James should develop
muscle instead of mind; that infinite
patience should be shown Tommy, but
we don’t have the courage of our con-
victions and, because we are afraid
other children will get a grade ahead or
know more than ours, we let the help-
less little creatures be ground through
the mill, to come out often and often
mental or physical wrecks.

‘*Last and most glorious of all,’’ ex-
claimed the philosopher in petticoats,
rising and going over to the mirror and
settling her hat, ‘‘when we acquire the
courage to live our lives our own way
we won't be bored by bores. We. shall
simply refuse to pay duty calls or to go
to places we don’t want to or to know
people who tire us. Now we play
whist when we hate it and smirk and
smile at receptions and say ‘How love-
ly,’ when people are treading on our
corns and bawling inanities into our
ears. We make martyrs of ourselves in
a hundred social ways because we are
afraid, if we don’t show up at the card
club or Mrs. Borem’s, small and hun-
gry people will say we are not in soci-
ety. When we emancipate ourselves we
simply won’t care for their opinions,
You remember that delicious old story
of the doughty old merchant who re-
turned to his natire town with a fortune
gotten in devious ways. Everyone was
most curious to know how he became so
rich, but he never gave his secret away.
Instead, he built a great house, and
over the doorway he had carved, ‘They
say—they will say—let them be saying.’
In that is the whole philosophy of hap-
piness—indifference to the barnyard
cackle.’’

‘*Oh, I don’t know,’’ I answered, *‘I
think there's much virtue in our neigh-

 

lead, and twenty years hence may find
her leading just the opposite sort, be-
cause circumstances have changed so
that her point of view has changed. She
may be cocksure that she will never do
certain things that her friends do, only
to find herself, several years later, do-
ing those same things.

It does not always take years to make
a woman change her point of view on
small matters. I have seen a girl who
has ranted about the foolish custom of
wearing a train skirt wearing one in a
year’s time, with all the pride and
haughtiness of her companions. She
will shamefacedly excuse herself by
saying: ‘‘You know the tailor insisted
on my having a long skirt, said the
others made a woman look gawky, and
so what could I do?’’ I have seen a
woman who declared she would live
way out in the suburbs rather than live
in a flat dwelling in the tiniest of flats
in the heart of a city all because ‘‘John
could not possibly be so far away from
his business and it costs so much for
car fare.”’

When she had made her first state-
ment about the flat there was no ‘‘John’’
in sight and the young woman had
never been obliged to consider the cost
of anything. I heard a young woman
say about four years ago that she thought
evening bicycle riding with a young
man was wholly improper and bad form.
Two years later she was enjoying such
rides greatly, and in extenuation she
said: ‘‘Well, you see, the men are all
working and they really have no other
time to ride.’’

A young woman with a keen sense of
humor looked quizzically at her hus-
band of a year and said: ‘‘Do you
know, you are everything I said 1 would
not marry? I declared I would not marry
a man who would make me obey, that
I would not marry a man who would ex-
pect a thousand little attentions, and
who did not care a rap about society.
But, then, | didn’t know you when I
made that statement, and you have so

 

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Poultry

Peculiarities Pertaining to the Handling
of Poultry.

‘*You might say a word about mixing
young spring ducks and geese with old
in live poultry shipments,’’ suggested
a live poultry receiver. ‘‘These small
spring ducks and geese are so small and
poor that buyers do not want them ex-
cept at very low prices, and where a
few are mixed with fine old stock they
ruin the sale of the whole coop as far as
full prices are concerned. We receivers
do not have time to sort over stock, as
you know, and sell it as received. Buy-
ers never see any but the poorest when
buying and one thin spring duck or
goose in a coop is liable to cause a good
buyer to turn away.’

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**Much of the poultry has been com-
ing in late and a great deal of money
has been lost to shippers owing to the
poor condition of the stock on arrival,’’
said a receiver. ‘‘We had one shipment
which was nine days on the road and
you can imagine the condition it was
in when it finally reached here. We
could not find out where to place the
blame as the railroad bringing it into
this citv claimed there was no delay on
their road and it must have been on the
roads handling it before it reached the
point where their road took itup. This
shipper tried for two or three weeks and
this week and last week we have not
had any stock from him. I presume he
is shipping toa nearer market. It is
unfortunate, however, as it keeps the
stock away from the market and these
new sections which are opening up
should be encouraged as we need the
poultry.’’

 

 

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‘‘We are receiving very little poultry
just now,’’ said a Washington street re-
ceiver. ‘‘Most of our poultry comes
from Ohio, and eggs have been doing
so well from this section that poultry
has been held for the eggs, shippers
making more money in that way. We
are receiving some very nice eggs and
getting high prices for them.’’

2 = +

A great deal of poultry came in late
last week, both live and dressed. The
market for live held about steady and
the only difference the delay made to
shippers was perhaps a little heavier
shrinkage by being on the road a day or
two longer than usual.- With the dressed
poultry, however, it was different and
the delay favored shippers in most cases
as the market strengthened Tuesday and
again Wednesday and Monday’s ship-
ments which did not get in until Tues-
day received the benefit of Tuesday’s
advance. The same thing occurred
Wednesday with the stock that came in
which should have been in the previous
day. Later in the week the market
showed less strength.

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“‘It was only a comparatively short
time ago that we receivers would not
consider splitting %c on a poultry
sale,’’ complained a commission man
the other day. ‘‘And now it is just a
fight all the time to keep from selling
on the %c basis. Last week, for ex-
ample, when the fow] market was weak

 

there were hundreds of barrels sold Yc
under quotations, I presume a good
many returned the full quotation and
lost their commission on the goods in
order to keep shippers satisfied and I
tell you it is dead wrong. We should
get together and stop this 4c business
or the first thing we know you market
reporters will be quoting by quarters.’’
I assured him he was about right and
that while we had quoted the market on
a \c basis only in rare instances it was
shaping that way and as the market re-
porters simply had to follow the sales
they were powerless to prevent a quar-
ter cent quotation if the commission
man made sufficient sales to warrant its
recognization.—N. Y. Produce Review.
——___o-0-e__-—
Frog to Succeed Belgium Hare.

A new industry is about to be
launched in Southern California, which
is destined to enter the field as a rival
of the hare industry as a meat supply-
ing business. A student of animal life
and characteristics has discovered, in
Belgium, a_ frog of large size and sym-
metry, long vertebrae, slim-pointed
forelegs, with feet of a bright rufus
color, and large, fleshy hindquarters,
which when prepared for the table form
a meat food that surpasses in flavor and
nutriment all other kinds of game and
fowl, the Dakota snipe even included.
They, like the American frog, are _pro-
lific, but their peculiar characteristic is
that their hindquarters can readily be
removed as often as every two weeks
and new ones grow in their place with
remarkable rapidity and apparently
causing very little inconvenience to the
frog. A nest of thirteen has heen or-
dered; one buck and a dozen breeders,
at an expense of several thousand dol-
lars, as all are pedigreed prize winners.

These gamey little animals supplied
the various committees at a recent ex-
position held in that country, with legs
for breakfast every day during the con-
tinuance of a long-protracted show.
Lord Roberts and General Kitchener
tried to bring to bear all the diplomacy
of England to secure this nest with
which to supply the army in South Af-
rica with regular rations. They ex-
plained that the transportation of a nest
could be made with comparative little
difficulty, and when once at the south
banks of the Tugela, which they have
seized, they could stock the river with
them and be prepared to stay there in-
definitely. The Belgian authorities,
however, would not permit the purchase
as it would be a breach of neutrality
law. Thus at a much less expense they
were secured for this country by Prof.
Pat Murpky, whose name will in time
to come be revered by the posterity of
the American people as a great bene-
factor to his race. C. W. Roach.

—__ 9-2 _____

Tourists in Europe this year have
been admonished to remember that
matches are a government monopoly in
France and are liable to be taxed at the
rate of a franc per match if an attempt
to smuggle them in is discovered, writes
a Paris correspondent. These govern-
ment monopolies lead sometimes to the
exercise of an almost childish tyranny.
In Italy, for instance, where salt isa
monopoly, and is consequently at an
exorbitant price, it is a punishable
offense for the private individual to ex-
tract it from the sea water.

D. O. WILEY & CO.
20 Woodbridge St. West, Corner Griswold, Detroit, Mich.
Commission Merchants
AND
Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Country Produce
We solicit consignments of Fruite, Butter, Eggs and all Country Produce.

References: Preston’s National Bank, Mercantile Agencies.

F. P. REYNOLDS & CoO.

Dealers in Foreign and Domestic

FRUITS

Berries, Early Vegetables, Cranberries, Sweet Potatoes. etc. Send for quotations.
12=14716-18 Woodbridge Street West, 40-42 Griswold Street,
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

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H. F. ROSE & CO.,

Fruits and Produce on Commission
24 Woodbridge Street West, Detroit, Mich.

Members Detroit Produce Exchange and National League Commission Merchants.

Correspondence solicited. Reliable quotations furnished.

prompt returns.

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

Quick sales and

 

 

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R. HIRT, JR.
34 and 36 Market Street, Detroit, Mich.

FRUITS AND PRODUCE

Write for Quotations

References—City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies

 

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Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited.
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MOSELEY BROS.

—Jobbers of———
ALL KINDS OF FIELD SEEDS

Potatoes, Onions, Lemons, Peaches. Carlots or less.
Correspondence solicited.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades. : _
Special Correspondence. -

New York, Aug. 31—September buy-
ers are here now and are making liberai
purchases in all lines. Groceries, boots
and shoes, hardware and dry goods are
all booming, and no such thing: as
strikes seems to enter into the situa-
tion. Only one thing attracts New York
from its business and that is Lipton
and his yacht. When it comes to sport,
all other things drop.

Coffee is mighty quiet. Supplies at
primary points are large every day,

 

 

- amounting to some 83,000 bags at Rio

and Santes on Friday. In store and
afloat the amount aggregates 1,681,287
bags against 763,330 bags at the same
time last year. These figures are larger
than the mind can grasp—supply now
more than twice as great as last year.
From July 1 to August 28 the receipts
at Rio and Santos aggregate 3,074,000
bags, against 2,011,000 bags at the same
time last year. Package coffee has been
in fair request during the week. Both
the leading grades are quotable at gc.

Tea dealers are encouraged to think
that the bottom of the dull trade has
been reached, and that now we are on
the up grade. Let us hope they will not
be disappointed! There has been quite
a good demand during the week and es-
pecially for Formosa grades, while Japans
and Chinas have received due enquiry.
Prices are, perhaps, not perceptibly
higher, but there is an upward tend-
ency and that is something.

Now that we are in the height of the
canning season the long hopedfor en-
quiry for sugar has set in and there is
really quite a-rush, in fact, some refin-
ers are said to be oversold several days.
Orders have come by mail and wire
from all parts.

Speaking of sugar, aside from the
market a moment, it is evident as time
passes that the trust is getting into
shape to make a great fight in Congress
this winter for free sugar. It is not
likely it will succeed, but the wires are
being laid with great skill. Free sugar
will mean dead beets, and the beet men
will never say die. Of course, the cry
of 3 cent sugar is an attractive whoop;
but 3 cent sugar will not be here right
away.

The demand for rice has been of fair
proportions and altogether the situation
is fairly satisfactory. The crop of
Louisiana and Texas will, it is thought,
be about 2,250,000 bags. Stocks in
dealers’ hands are not large, and the
sales have been sufficiently numerous to
élean the market up well at prevailing
rates. Choice to head, 53% @6Xc.

With the advance there is a better en-
quiry for spices and sales have been
made at well-sustained quotations. Buy-
ers are hardly high enough in their bids
to interest sellers, but there is a very
small margin between them. Zanzibar
cloves, 734c; Singapore pepper, 12%c.

Little is doing in the way of actual
business in molasses, and both sides are
simply waiting for some cooler weather.
Good to prime, 17@30c, or same as for
several weeks. Syrups are rather limited
in supply, and, with a pretty brisk de-
mand, quotations are firm.

The question of obtaining a sufficient
number of cans is a most important one
with some canners just now. They will
sell no futures until they know where
they are at, and this is hard to ascer-
tain, so long as the strike at the mills is
on. There is a_ good demand all
around. The pack of corn in New
York State promises to be large and the
quality is all that can be desired.

Dried fruits seem to gain strength
every day. Offerings of prunes and
raisins are light,and quotations are well

 

sustained. Valencia off stalk raisins,

534@7c; California 3-crown, 6%c;
seedless muscatel, 64%@6%c. Domestic

dried of almost all sorts fetch full fig-
ures. Fancy evaporated apples in bulk
are worth 9c, and in cartons some
brands will fetch 1234c. The supply is
very light.

Lemons and oranges have both sold
fairly well, and prices are about un-
changed. Sicily lemons range from
$3.50@3.75. California oranges, $3.75
@5.50. Bananas are worth $1@1.12%
per bunch for firsts.

The butter market remains practically
as last week. Best Western creamery
is still held at 20c, and seconds to firsts,
17@1gc; Western imitation creamery, 15
17c; Western factory, 14%415%c.

In cheese little is doing, either in the
way of export or with bome trade.
While best full cream stock will bring
958c, this is certainly top and some very
good stock has been sold for 9%c.

The egg market is firm. The demand
seems to be quite equal to the supply,
especially of the better sorts, and fresh-
gathered Western will bring 18%%c, av-
erage sorts of same, 17}4c,and refrigera-
tor stock, 16@17c.

Some 2,000 hags of foreign beans were
received Friday. The demand is gen-
erally rather light. Choice marrows,
$3; choice medium, $2.75. ~

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Use Your Money in Your Own Business.

In the present rapid age the desire to
““get rich gquick’’ has blinded many
merchants who several decades ago
would use all their brain energy in de-
veloping their business, and has made
them alert for outside schemes and
propositions which promise riches in a
remarkably short space of time. Their
business is secondary to this inclination
to invest in outside schemes.

A New England merchant advises
merchants to use their money in their
own business and gives as the key to
success the discounting of bills. He is
undoubtedly right and mentions a thing
that too few merchants look seriously

upon.

The average country merchant will
usually take the last minute of the
eleventh hour to pay his bills, looking
upon discounting in the light that his
money is worth as much to him as the
earned discount, or he doesn’t think of
it in any light except that a bill must
be paid on such a date and waits until
the last minute of that date before mail-
ing a check, although his money may
be idle days before that date.

Merchants in general should give this
matter more serious consideration. It is
a matter of profit in many ways to the
small dealer as well as the large one.

Manufacturers and jobbers favor cash
buyers to. the limit of their terms, be-
sides favoring them with ‘‘good things’’
in the way of bargains which are never
suggested or shown to slow-pay dealers.
Clearings and jobs are always offered
first to the cash buyer. He invariably
gets the best there is of all deals and it
is his discounting his bills that works
in his favor.

Bills taken up in advance, even if it

-be at the cost of unusual exertions, save

money and worry to the merchant and
buy favors at the hands of the men he
deals with. He will not only feel the
beneficent effects in this way, but will
fee! them in the freer swing given to his
business. A forestalled obligation gives
a merchant an independence that is
worth much and makes him a keener,
shrewder business man.

The danger that besets a merchant
who has money on hand is that of the
temptation to use it in some outside
speculation—in schemes foreign to his
business and his knowledge, and for
which he relies upon the arguments and
persuasion of the projectors. A man
with a keen, shrewd mercantile spirit

 

and training is not usually keen in mat-
ters foreign to merchandising and the
majority of those who enter into specu-
lative schemes in their anxiety to get
rich rapidly prove to be the most fall-
ible of lambs in the hands of unscrupu-
lous operators,

No business thrives so well as the one
which receives the undivided attention
of the owner.

Merchants who have spare time and
money should turn them to the advan-
tage of their own legitimate vocation;
make money by anticipating bills, thus
securing a margin for enlarged opera-
tions.

—_> 2 .__

Are Willow Trees Lightning-Proof? _

From the Cleveland Leader.

‘‘In all my forty years’ experience
with trees and plants,’’ said a well-
known gardener during one of the thun-
derstorms this week, ‘‘I have yet to hear
of a willow tree being struck by _light-
ning. Spruce trees, whitewood, and
pine trees sometimes almost seem to at-
tract the electricity, and oak and other
large trees and even many small trees
are often maimed and killed. But wil-
low trees seem for some reason to be
immune to death or injury in this
shape, and I have never seen or even
heard of a tree of this family which
lightning has ever struck.”’

 

Twelve Good Business Rules.

1. Have a definite aim.

2. Go straight for it.

3. Master all details.

4. Always know more than you are

expected to know.

5. Remember that difficulties are only
made to overcome.

6. Treat failures as stepping-stones
to further effort.

7. Never put your hand out farther
than you can draw it back.

8. At times be bold; always prudent.

9g. The minority often beats the ma-
jority in the end. |

10. Make good use of other men’s
brains,

11. Listen well; answer cautiously;
decide promptly.

12, Preserve, by all means within
your power, ‘‘a sound mind in a sound
body.’’

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The people who look for trouble are
always the ones who find fault.

Geo. H. Reifsnider & Co.

Commission Merchants
and Wholesale Dealers in
Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs, Cheese
321 Greenwich Street, New York

Roferences: Irving National Bank of New York
and Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

Order direct from the grower

Red, White and Blue Grapes

by thousand baskets, ton or carload.
No fruit shipped on commission.

WM. K. MUNSON, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Proprietor of Vinecroft

Rural Route No. 4

Citizens Phone 2599

 

J. B. HAMMER & CoO.

WHOLESALE

FRUIT AND PRODUCE DEALERS

Specialties:

Melons, Oranges in car lots.

119 E. FRONT ST.,

Potatoes, Apples, Onions, Cabbage,

Write or wire for prices.

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Messina

Stock is fine, in sound condition and good keepers.

Lemons

Price very low. Write or

wire for quotations.

E. E. HEWITT,

Successor to C.

9 North Ionia Street,

N. Rapp & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Clerks’ Corner.

Why So Few Shoe Clerks Achieve Success.

Almost every day you will find clerks
complaining about their lot in life, say-
ing that there are more fortunate peo-
ple than they who have been able to

 

 

succeed, while they themselves have.

continued along in the same old rut,
never being able to advance themselves,
never being able to make a better show-
ing under any circumstances. I will
not say that in all cases this is a fact,as
you are bound to find an exception to

. the rule, but on the grand average the

fault lies solely with the clerk.

Let us start at the beginning and take
the boy as he enters the- shoe store.
What are his first duties other than do-
ing a few errands and assisting the help
by getting shoes out of the stock? They
have little to do but to learn their busi-
ness. The first week they are very en-
thusiastic. Everything seems to be of
interest to them. They pick up little
odds and ends of the business and
note every point which will be of value
to them in the future; but right here is
where they begin to fall away. They
associate with the older boys in the
store, learn their ways, fall into that
old rut of simply doing what they have
to, and letting the future take care of
itself.

All these things have been noticed by

the employer, and he is not slow to

realize that this boy will have to be
driven in order even to earn the small
salary he is receiving at the present
time. In this condition he drifts along
in the store until eventually, simply
through age and length of time, he is
permitted to go on the floor to sell
shoes. His incompetency is here noted,
and very often after being talked to sev-
eral times by his superiors they find
that he is unwillng to grasp the situa-
tion and he is quietly discharged. Thus
he starts off in life without a solid foun-
dation, which is necessary for success.
The old saying, ‘‘As a twig is bent so
the tree is inclined,’’ follows, and rare-
ly, if ever, will you find this young man
able to sufficiently recover himself to
ever command a position which pays
more than $12 a week.

How many shoe clerks will you find
who are willing to enter shoe stores five
or ten minutes ahead of time in the
morning or wait five or ten minutes
atter the regular closing hour of the
night? They figure it out that the day’s
work is done; that they have returned
measure for measure to their employer.
While in one sense this may be true,
they are nevertheless losing the most
important moments of their lives, and
through their desire to get away, they
never reach that degree of intimacy
with their superiors which would permit
them to take an interest in their welfare.
Have you ever met a buyer or manufac-
turer who is not willing to assist a
young man who is willing to help him-
self?

The clerk knows that the buyer’s time
is taken up during the business of the
day, and if there are any moments
which can be spared for his instruction
they will surely come after the business
hours. With all this knowledge he would
rather pass it by than to deprive himself
of the fifteen or twenty minutes which
would be necessary in order to attain it.

Have you asked yourself the question
why, in the last ten years, women have
obtained such a foothold in shoe depart-
ments? I have, and I have endeavored
to figure out the reason. It is simply

 

this: Women shoe clerks are much
more attentive; they take greater care
in endeavoring to please their employ-
ers’ customers, and do everything in
their power. in order to make themselves
of value to the house that employs them.
It is not the woman clerk that you will
find lingering around the counter; that
is late every morning; that wants an
extra fifteen minutes for her lunch; that
is continually grumbling that the trade
is extra heavy; that believes she is
worth more money than she is getting,
and a thousand and one other com-
plaints which are possible alone to the
man clerk.

She is always anxious to obtain knowl-
edge, ever willing and ready to assist a
customer, rarely, if ever, thinking she
knows it all, and the result is that to-
day in the greatest number of shoe de-
partments in the country the women out-
rank the men by at least four to one.

I do not wish to have any one infer
that I believe all shoemen are to be
classed as those I have just spoken of,
but I do say that the grand average will
be found among this number.

Now, as to how to get away from
this, how to regain their lost prestige,
and how to make themselves more valu-
able to their employers is undoubtedly
what any shoeman will ask after reading
this article. It can be summed up in a
few words: Prove by your attention
that vou are anxious to succeed; be
willing and courteous; do as much as
possibly lies in your power for the store
in which you are working, and always
remember that your employer's success
is your success. If you have a bright,
practical, up-to-date shoeman in your
department, follow his example, learn
his ways, and remember that it was his
trade-winning ideas which have placed
him in the position that he is in at the
present day.

If you do this you are certainly on the
high road where no shoe woman can
follow ; but even although this is a fact,
there is one thing more which is abso-
lutely necessary for you to remember;
make it your eleventh commandment
and keep it always in your mind. It is
this: ‘‘No shoeman knows it all, and
you are never too old to learn.’’ Just
another word. I wish to quote to you
an old, typified saying, which it would
also be well for you to remember: ‘‘A
thing is never worth doing unless it is
worth doing well.’’—J. R. Leacock in
Shoe Retailer.

> 2.
A Government Soap Contract.
From the Washington Star.

‘‘We invited bids some time ago,’’
said an official of the Navy Department,

‘‘for a number of minor supplies, and
among the articles required was a small
amount of scouring soap. We awarded
the contract for the latter to a merchant
in New York, and on informing him of
the acceptance of his bid advised him
of the formalities which he must ob-
serve in supplying the Government,
how he was to have his contract drawn
up in triplicate, and a lot of other nec-
essary red tape, and aiso acknowledged
the receipt of his certified check for
$100 to guarantee the faithful execution
of the contract. Now, the value of the
soap we wanted. just then totaled $3,
and when the merchant received the
department’s communication he _ evi-
dently adjudged the game not worth the
candle, for we received a very nice lit-
tle communication from him in which
he stated that on reconsideration he
would withdraw his bid,and would send
on immediately as a gift to the Govern-
ment enough soap to cover our needs.
I don’t think his letter was meant to be
sarcastic. He was just accommoda-
ting.’

A Trade Maker

Fanny Davenpo
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Trade Supplied By:

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids; Sec-
retary, A. W. SrittT, Jackson; easurer,
JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit.

 

 

 

United Commorcial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;
Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, W R. ComptTon; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association

President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN,
Grand Rapids.

 

 

Third Picnic of Grand Rapids Council.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 3—The third
and last picnic for this season given by
Grand Rapids Council No. 131, United
Commercial Travelers, was carried off
successfully under the very able manage-
ment of the Committee—S. H. Sim-
mons, J. C. Emery and B. J. Lawrence
—at Jenison, Saturday afternoon. The
different cars until 3 o’clock kept bring-
ing down members and their friends
until a gathering of nearly a hundred
had assembled at the grounds. A wag-
onette—I think that is the proper name
—had been secured to convey the ladies
from the car to the picnic grounds, and,
after successfully climbing the ‘‘ladder
of fame,’’ leading from the ground to
the summit of the vehicle and all were
comfortably seated in the luxuriously
cushioned seats, the driver, with a crack
of his whip that would have put the
ringmaster of Barnum & Bailey’s circus
to shame, guided the fiery charger with
its human cargo of dear creatures—our
wives and sweethearts—to the ball
ground, where at 3:30 the ball game was
called under Captains Bodwell and
Reynolds. The game was to be five in-
nings, but as it stood a tie of 8 to 8,
another inning had to be played to de-
cide the winning side. Bodwell’s side
went to bat and got nit, and then it was
left for Reynolds’ men to make but one
move to win the game. The first two
men going to bat went out so quick it
made their hair change color. Then
Charlie Reynolds, with blood in his eye,
took the club. It was just one man they
wanted, and already two men were out.
Charlie made a good fly, but it was
stopped so quickly that he only got to
first. Lawrence then batted and, by a
good hit, sent Reynolds to third, and
it was then left for Phillips to do the
same thing to get Reynolds in. He did
it very nicely, knocking a good fly out
in the field, which brought Reynolds in
and gave his side the game. It wasa
very exciting game all through, with
many funny incidents. The first run
Byron Davenport made he got mixed,
thinking probably he was running a fat
men’s race. When he came to he found
himself many yards from first.base and
the first baseman holding the ball in his
hand and Umpire Will Holden calling
him out. It was all right, By. You
must remember bases are laid out dia-
mond, not in a square. Carlyle in
catcher’s box was ruled out of order
once for having his mask on upside
down. Probably he thought the other
side was going to be such an easy mark
that he could stand on his head part of
the time and catch them out. Itis sug-

ested that at the next game clubs be
urnished with straps on, so that brother

Lawton can strap the club down so it|/&

will not get away from him. Two of
the prettiest catches made during the
game were on third by Brooks, when he
jumped over three feet in the air after
the ball and caught the man out. The
other was by Reynolds catching a fly
and putting the man out. The Land
Kickers were noticeable by their pres-
ence and none were louder than Burns
and Bodwell. It was also noticeable
that Roy Baker was on the losing side.
The only time the ambulance was called
into service was when ree making
third base, was hit with the ball on the

cheek. Luckily, it did not land a little
higher up, as it might have proved a
more serious affair; but Phillips ina
short time was himself again and on
went the game.

One of the star play-

 

ers of the afternoon was Japenga, mana-
ger of the Jenison Mercantile Co. store,
who played on the winning side.

In the ladies’ running race, Mrs. Iohn
C. Emery proved herself the fleetest on
foot and was awarded first prize—a five
pound box of bonbons. {In the ladies’
egg race there were seven contestants.
Mrs. L. F. Baker covered the distance
first, but in going to the judges’ stand
dropped the egg, and Mrs. John D
Martin, being next under the wire and
having successfully carried the egg, was
awarded the prize of five pounds of
Parker House coffee—is a new brand, I
imagine. In the contest of throwing
the ball, nearly all the ladies present
took a chance. There were under curves,
outer curves, drops and, in fact, all
kinds of fancy throwing, but Miss Min-
nie Reynolds proved herself a_ ball
thrower of considerable experience and
easily won over all the others by several
feet. She was awarded as a prizea
beautiful pen knife. In the standing
broad jump, Sam Simmons proved the
winner and received a necktie. Also in
the running broad jump Sam got first
prize—a box of cigars. In the running
jump it was very close between Sim-
mons and Phillips, but Sam probably
had on cushioned shoes and so won out.
After the games were ended, the wagon-
ette was again loaded and carried its
occupants to the hotel for supper, ac-
companied by the band. A bountiful
repast was served and many thanks are
hereby extended to mine host, Frank
Porter, and his estimable wife for their
supper. After supper, the party went to
the dance hall and made merry until the
10 o’clock car took the picnickers back
to Grand Rapids.

One thing we must not forget to men-
tion, and that is the cake walk. Mrs.
Will Holden was awarded the prize—a
bottle of perfume. If Will Holden put
as much real genuine ginger in his work
of selling goods on the road as Mrs.
Holden did in that cake walk, all Will
be weil.

The day came to a happy ending, all
voting it the very best time had this
season. A vote of thanks is extended to
all who through their efforts made the
picnic a success, to the Committee for its
arrangement and carrying out, to L. D.
Moody for the wagonette (with a step
ladder) furnished for the ladies, to those
who furnished the excellent music for
the dance in the evening, to Mr. and
Mrs. Porter for their very fine supper,
and to every person who came and en-
joyed themselves, and, by so doing,
helped to make the day a success. To
those who did not attend, we can truth-
fully say that they missed one of the
best times this year. JaDee.

> 2.
A Heritage of Hearts.
They whose hearts are whole and strong,
Loving holiness,
Living aae from soil of wrong,
Wearing truth’s white dress—
They unto no faroff height
Wearily need climb;

Heaven to them is close in sight
From these shores of time.

Only the anointed eye
Sees in common things—
Gleam of wave and tint of sky—
Heavenly blossomings.
To the hearts where light has birth
Nothing can be drear;
Budding through the bloom of earth,
Heaven is always near.
Lucy Larcom.

 

Advertising Catch Phrases.

An ordinary price on extraordinary
oods.
Shelves overcrowded—prices must be
cut,

Leave a dollar and make your selec-
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Let those begin to save who never
saved before.

If you see them elsewhere, the price
is higher.

Yours not to question why—yours but
to come and buy.

2-2. ____.
Business Repartee.

Strange Lady—What’s the price of
this iron bedstead?

Dealer—Twelve dollars, madame.

Strange Lady—How much if I pay
cash?

Dealer—Madame, if you don’t pay
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Merchants Who Can Be Influenced by
Small Bribes.

‘*O, old Jones is an easy mark,’’ said
one drummer to another, as they sat
talking in the hotel office. By this he
meant that it is an easy thing to sell
goods to Jones. Happening to overhear
the remark, and being acquainted with
the speaker, I asked him to tell me why
he considered Jones an easy customer
to sell to. He replied that Jones bought
a good many things that he did not
really need and that he seemed to have
a mania for buying. ‘‘Why,’’ said he,
**T have sold Jones goods enough of one
kind to do him two years, when he had
no possible use for more than enough
to do him for three months.’’ Not long
after this conversation occurred, Jones
failed in business and his creditors said
the reason for the failure was ‘‘over-
stocked on unseasonable goods.’’ The
fact was that Jones invested his money
in goods he could not sell, and, when
he needed the money to buy other goods
with or to pay other bills, he could not
realize it from his foolish purchases.
There are lots of Jonses in business yet,
and in time they will fail unless they
quit buying goods they do not need. It
will be as bad with them if they buy
more than a reasonable quantity of any-
thing, no matter how salable it is.

‘That cigar will be worth $100 to
me,’’ said another drummer, as_ he
bought a 15 cent cigar of the newsboy
at the hotel. The next time I met the
man _ I asked him to explain how a sin-
gle cigar would be worth a hundred
dollars. ‘‘That is easy enough,’’ he
replied. ‘‘It’s this way. Smith is par-
tial to that particular make of cigar,
and when I give him one of them, he
invariably orders more goods of me than
he would without the cigar. When I
get him into a buying humor, it is no
trick at all to sell him an extra $100
worth of goods.’’ ‘‘But, do you con-
sider it honest to impose on him in that
way,’’ I asked. ‘‘Of course, it is hon-
est, if Smith is fool enough to bite at
such a bait,’’ the man replied.

‘‘If Smith is fool enough’’—that tells
the whole story. The man is on the road
to sell goods, and he does not scruple
about selling a dealer an overstock, or
about selling him goods that he will
find hard to dispose of. If the dealer
refuses to buy more than he needs the
salesman tells his neighbors that he is
a hard buyer. If he buys too much, he
is known as an easy mark. If he has
prejudices that the salesman can im-
pose upon, or if he has weaknesses
that can be taken advantage of, the
salesman is very likely to offer him in-
nocent bribes.

A dealer in our town has a weakness
for good dinners. A certain salesman
knows it and makes a habit of inviting
the merchant to take dinner with him
whenever he is in town. The dinner
costs the salesman 50 cents. Itsells $50
worth of goods for him. For the sales-
man it is a good investment; for the
merchant it is an expensive dinner,
when he calculates how many dollars’
worth of goods he has bought that he
would not have bought without the din-
ner. Usually he does not need the
extra goods, and they are hard to dis-
pose of.

Occasionally a salesman is unfair to
his customer, but as a general rule he
will not impose on a customer who
knows what he needs, who buys nothing
he does not need, and who will not ac-
cept or be influenced by cigars, treats,
dinners, theater tickets, free rides or

 

other bribes. All these things are bribes
—offered to the man for his own trade.
They are usually expensive for the man
who accepts them. If you want a hotel
dinner, it is cheaper to go and buy it
for 50 cents than it is to pay the sales-
man the profit on $100 worth of goods
you do not want nor need.

Have you ever taken time to think of
these matters? If you have not done
so, now is a good time to sit down
alone and carefully calculate how very
costly a drummer’s cigar may be for
you.—Yours Yruly in Merchants’ Jour-

nal.
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Gripsack Brigade.

H. G. Bedford, head clerk at the
Peninsular Club, has engaged to cover
the city trade of Chicago for the Ne-
waygo Portland Cement Co. Mr. Bed-
ford is a man of excellent character and
is to be congratulated on securing so
promising a position.

Jackson Citizen: F. E. Hollen, who
for the past three years has represented
in Michigan the tea and coffee house of
J. H. Conrad & Co., Chicago, has en-
tered the service of the Central City Soap
Co., as its Indiana representative, with
headquarters at Indianapolis.

Commercial travelers who have
banded under the name of ‘‘Gideons of
the State of Illinois,’’ held a two days’
rally at Chicago Saturday and Sunday.
The Society is composed entirely of
traveling men who have pledged them-
selves not to use profanity, drink intox-
icants or play poker. A membership of
2,000 is claimed. The Gideon button
which members wear is known to com-
mercial travelers the country over.

George W. Hill, for many years trav-
eling representative for D. M. Ferry &
Co., died suddenly at his residence in
Detroit Sept. 3 as the result of a stroke
of apoplexy. Deceased was Sercetary
of the now defunct Michigan Commer-
cial Travelers’ Association for several
years, and conducted a seed business in
Detroit for a long time. Mr. Hill was
born in Ypsilanti, April 21, 1839. He
enlisted in Detroit August 16, 1862,
with the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, but
was later transferred to the Seventh
Regiment, where he served throughout
the war, taking part in many engage-
ments and becoming a prisoner at the
battle of Yellow Tavern, Va., May 11,
1864. After the war he served a short
time in the cavalry in the West, but was
mustered out March ito, 1866, at Salt
Lake City. Besides a wife, Mr. Hill
leaves one son, John N., who is in the
seed business in Toledo, in addition to
the daughter, Miss Jessie N. Hill, a
teacher in the Palmer school, who lives

at home.
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Casuistry.

‘*T see that some of the college pro-
fessors have been discussing the subject
of lying. Now, honestly, do you think
there is ever a time in any man’s life
when he is justified in telling a lie?’’

‘‘I do. The man who lives next door
to me has his second wife,and when she
gets him in a corner and wants to know
whether he doesn’t care more for her
child than for all three of the little ones
who have only a stepmother, I tell you
it’s all right for him to lie, and to lie
hard.’’

 

It isn’t always the girl with the most
bathing suits who gets into the swim.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.
Rates $2 per day. Central location.
Trade of visiting merchants and travel-
ing men solicited.

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

 

 

 

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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

 

 

4 Term expires

L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901

HENRY ,»Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902

Lo Sowumacien Ama Arbor - Desai ise
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JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905

President, A. C. SOHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, W. P; Dory, Detwolt.
Examination Sessions.
Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. :
Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—JoHN D. Mu1R, Grand Rapids.

Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit.
Treasurer—D. A. HAGENS, Monroe.

 

 

Importance of Always Having Mixtures
Alike.

There is one feature of prescription
refilling that is often the cause of much
annoyance to the pharmacist. It is the
fact that at times a renewal will differ
in some minor detail—in the appearance
of the mixture or package—from the
original prescription ; and this is a phys-
ical condition which certain of the pub-
lic are wont to look upon with suspicion
of error. This divergence from _ the
original may be in the color of a liquid
preparation, in the color or kind of a
pill coating, in the dusting powder used
to protect pills from adhering to one
another, and in other matters of little
moment from a medical standpoint, but
of gross weight in the eyes of a layman.

It is not to be expected that a non-
pharmaceutical mind should reason the
cause or insignificance of these little
variances in the general appearance of
a remedial agent or combination of
remedies. To the uninitiated, unim-
portant moves often mean much. When
a prescription is once filled the patient
expects that, to the smallest detail, it
should present the same appearance
each time it iscompounded. The slight-
est disparity will often arouse a tumult
of doubt. Let us imagine, for example,
that a patron presents a prescription for
sugar-coated pills of some composition;
and that when they are taken it is noted
that the color of the coating is pink.
The prescription is refilled—the color
of the pill coating has changed—it is
now white. Very likely the pharmacist
from whose store they came is mis-
trusted until he has reassured the pa-
tient. But a second occurrence of such
a naturegmay not so easily be set aside
as unimportant.

While it is sometimes quite difficult
to avoid these disparities in refilled
prescriptions, such annoyances will usu-
ally be obviated by system and disci-
pline in the prescription department,
preventing a ‘‘refill’’ from causing anx-
iety in the mind of the patient by
differing in appearance from the orig-
inal prescription. In well regulated
pharmacies where the potency and man-
ifold advantages of system is thoroughly
appreciated, it is an edict of the pre-
scription department that whatever re-
Cipe there may be doubt about when

the time comes for it to be refilled, must U

be supplemented by a ‘‘working for-
mula’’ in the handwriting of the opera-
tor. For instance, the color ofa pill
coating should be made note of in lead-
pencil on the face or back of the pre-
scription blank. The kind of dusting
powder used for pills should be recorded
in order that the prescriptionist may
not be led into fault by the patient who
returns a perfectly empty box. If no
specification appears on the prescription
as to whether the pills, if ready-made,
are to be gelatin or sugar-coated, the
one filling the prescription should make
a note of the kind of coating given.

 

Often a physician will prescribe a prep-
aration peculiar or common to the pro-
prietary manufacturer without specify-
ing any particular brand, which makes
necessary a marginal annotation by the
prescriptionist telling what make of the
product was employed, in order that a
difference. in color or consistency may
not be noticeable in a renewal through
the use of a dissimilar brand.

If the prescription for syrup of hydri-
odic acid’ is filled with a clear, color-
less syrup, it is important that it should
not be refilled with a product of straw
or amber color, and vice versa. To ex-
plain that a slight alteration in the color
of this preparation is an immaterial
effect of time will not always reassure a
distrustful mind. A physician's call for
compound syrup of hypophosphites
should not be refilled with a cloudy
syruf nor one with a distinct precipitate
if a clear preparation has been origin-
ally given. Syrup of calcium lacto-
phosphate acquires a straw color, deep-
ening to brown through age. Syrup of
the phosphates of iron, quinine, and
strychnine is discolored by time with
the formation of a precipitate, either of
which change may cause a renewal to
differ in appearance from the original if
care is not observed. Many products of
the stock shelf—syrups, tinctures, etc.
—may prove the cause of creating dis-
trust in the manner we suggest if care-
ful, constant attention is not given by
every attache of the prescription de-
partment to the smallest details of pre-
scription compounding and refilling.

That a physician’s recipe when re-
filled should be an exact counterpart of
the original is a matter of moment—a
subject of no little import to a pharma-
cist, because from both a business and
professional standpoint absolute confi-
dence of the public must be maintained.
A thought or accusation of error or in-
competency in prescription compound-
ing is something which the pharmacist
should avoid at all cost, and the drug-
gist who is careful and provident will,
if necessary, make copious notes upon
the manner of filling a prescription, in
order that a renewal may be an exact
duplicate in physical as well as chem-
ical or medicinal nature.—Joseph Hos-
telley in Bulletin of Pharmacy.

———_> 22 ___
Twelve Out of Fifteen.

The Michigan State Board of Phar-
macy held a meeting at Marquette
August 28 and 29. There were fifteen
applicants present for examination,
twelve for registered pharmacist certifi-
cates and three for assistant papers.
Nine applicants received registered
pharmacist papers and three assistant
papers. Following is a list of those re-
ceiving certificates :

Registered pharmacists, T. A. Cam-
eron, Pickford; C. D. Church, Ypsi-
lanti; Wm. H. Fouch, Allegan; J. J.
Gorilla, Ironwood ; W. C. Gates, Rock-
land ; Gustaf Johnson, Marquette; J. J.
Renaud, Chicago; H. H. Ruona-
vaara, Calumet; O. E. Thibault, Han-
cock.

Assistant pharmacists—Alex. Brun-
ner, Howard City; L. H. Smith, Deck-
erville; E. D. Wilson, Newberry.

All members of the board were pres-
ent.

The next meeting of the board will be
held at Lansing Nov. 5 and 6.

—__>2>—___
Misunderstood.:

“‘I would like a straw with this
lemonade,’’ said the lady at the table
to the server of the beverage.

‘‘Hey?’’ ejaculated the waiter, who
was hard of hearing.

**No; straw, I said.’’

 

The Elevation of Pharmacy.

The elevation of pharmacy depends
primarily on a higher standard of edu-
cation for those entering on the study of
pharmacy. While our colleges are be-
coming more efficient each year, the re-
quirements for entrance have not been
raised in keeping. In consequence the
mind is not always sufficiently devel-
oped to assimilate the teachings of the
colleges and much is lost. Pharmacy
is to-day a combined profession and
business. As a profession it is second
only in importance to that of medicine,
and as such the preliminary education
required should be as high as that nec-
essary to enter a college of medicine,
not only as a foundation for a thorough
and intelligent understanding of phar-
macy, but to deter those from engaging
in it who are mentally and morally in-
capable of appreciating the responsibil-
ity resting on them.

In some respects the responsibility
resting on the druggist is greater than
that on the physician. The physician
writes a prescription, and whether or
not he gets the results expected depends
largely on the druggist’s knowledge of
the purity and medicinal efficiency of
the drugs dispensed. He may use none
but the products of pharmaceutical and
chemical laboratories of known reputa-
tion, but drugs deteriorate with age,
and unless he is thoroughly acquainted
with their appearance and knows the
changes likely to be caused by age or
other agency, he may use an article that
has lost its properties.

Many useful vegetable drugs of high
medicinal value have come into disre-
pute from these causes. (In my own
experience a veterinary physician had
almost given up the -use of Cannabis
India because of unsatisfactory results.
I called his atttention to a product of a
well-known laboratory, and since he has
used gallons of it with invariably good
results, )

With a first-class education the would-
be pharmacist enters a drug store with
a mind so trained that he observes, and
understands what he is taught. On
entering college he is able to follow his
instructors and assimilate their teach-
ings, think for himself and see when
and how to apply the knowledge im-
parted.

When he leaves college he is not only
a graduated but an educated pharma-
cist—educated as far as the college
can take him. He will realize that his
education has really just commenced
and will not rest there, but experiment,
study, read the drug journals, keep
abreast of the times, and strive to add
continually to his knowledge, so that
year after year he may become a more
useful member of his profession.

He will not be satisfied to attend only
to the business of pharmacy, but will
take pride in the more important pro-
fessional side as well. He will impress
the public with a sense of his knowl-
edge and ability, and will raise him-
self to a position in the community
where he will be looked up to and re-
spected as much as a member of any
of the other learned professions.

Wm. Mallard.

—_——__+0.__

The Drug Market.
Opium—Is weak at unchanged prices.
Morphine—Is unchanged.
Quinine—On account of lower prices

for bark at the Amsterdam sale on
the 2oth, ail brands have declined 2c
per oz,

Bismuth Preparations—Are steady at
the decline noted last week.

 

Menthol—On account of scarcity, has
reached extreme prices. Stocks to ar-
rive are quoted lower.

Ichthyol—Has declined.

Salol—Is lower.

Sugar of Milk—Was advanced by the
combination Sept. I.

Linseed Oil—Has been reduced 5c
per gallon by the American Linseed Co.
—___» 2 -____

Cow’s Milk Made Like Human Milk,

Prof. Rotch’s plan is very simple,
and is substantially as follows: Leta
quart of good cow’s milk stand in ice
water six hours, then siphon off from
the bottom twenty-four ounces, leaving
eight ounces of the top or cream, which,
on the average, contains ten per cent.
of fat. Now to make the nearest ap-
proach to human milk, that is four per
cent. of fat, seven per cent. of sugar
and two per cent. of proteids (4-7-2),
take the above eight ounces of cream
ard add two and one-half ounces of
milk, one ounce of lime-water, eight
and one-half ounces water and seven
and one-half ounces milk sugar.

H. W. Sparker.

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Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier 00220722 8@ 8
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50) Gelatin, Cooper. .... @
—— 0z. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin; French. .... 35@ 60
He... oz. pkg 25 | Vint Aipba-....... 2. 1 25@ 2 00 Glassware, flint, box 75 & 5
Ma, She Pip OZ Pkg = Sponges pox 70
ume Viewoe eke 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool :
ee oz. pkg 39 | _carriage....... 2 50@ 2 75 5
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22 =o sheeps’ wool a @ 2
Thymus, V...0z. pkg 25 | _ carria: , 2 0@ Hosanine . 5@ 5S
Velvet a sheeps’
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @ 150 Hydrars Chior Mite @ 1 00
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ a aa = =. + eS ; =
Carbonate, Pat.. 18@ 20] wool, carriage..... @ 1 25 | Hy: _— _ a im @ iz
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, ba es mmonia @ a
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage........... @100 = rarg —— “= S
Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @ 7 = th iaeane ha 70
Absinthium 6 50@ 7 00 Yellow Keot, for indigo. 7 1 00
Amygdale, Dulce...) 38@ 65) SIMt° US...» @ 1 40 | joaine, Resub 40@ 3 60
Amygdalz, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 yr upe odoform.... 6U@ 3 85
IOS oo 1 85@ 2 00} Acacia .............. @ 50} Lupulin..... @ 5s
pee Cortex...... 2 10@ 2 20| Auranti Cortex @ 50 a. 80@ 85
Be eects 2 65@ 2 85 | Zingiber. - a @ 50 acis 65@ 75
Cajiputi ............. 80@ 85 Ipecac. Me Mm @ 60 oe Arsen et Hy-
Caryophylli.......... 75@ 80/| Ferri Iod.......... ue @ 50 rarg Iod..... @ 2
AY .......0.--.-+. 60@ 85) Rhei Arom.......... @ 50} Liquor. otassArsinit 10@ 12
Chenopadii.......... ‘ 22> sane Officinalis. = . — Bulph = “
onl ...:..:.. 18 Senega ........00 e000 Magn ‘
eeeeececosce 4 0 Scillz... eee reeevere a 8O ie eeesccoe 0@ 60

 

 

 

 

 

Menthol............. @ 5 50 —— booty O@ 22
Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 05@ 2 30| Sinapis.............. . @ 18
Morphia, S., N.Y. Q. 1 95@ 2 20 Suu, Sacea opt.. - & oa
Morphia, Mal........ 1 95@ 2 20 accaboy, ‘De
Moschus Canton.. @ 40! Voe @ 41
Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80} Snuff, Scott, DeVo' s @ 41
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 ‘Soda, B 9@ il
Os Sepia. 35@ 37 | Soda, fon ie 9@ 11
=“ Saac, H. &P. Soda et Totnes Tart! 23Q@ 2

ee @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2
Picis Lig. N.N.% - Soda, Bi-Carb.. 3@SCi*B

doz @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash........... 34@ 4

Piels Liq., ; quarts... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas....... a 3
Picis Liq., pints..... @_ 85! Spts. Cologne... @ 2 60
Pil Hydrarg. ..po 80 @ 50} Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18 — Myrcia a @ 2 00
Piper Al al 35 @ 30 s. Vini Rect. @
Piix Burgun... @ 7 Sots: Vink Rect. bbl -@
Plumbi Acet......... 10@_ 12 — Vini Rect. 10gal @
Pulvis Ipecac et ot 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. — @
Pyrethrum, boxes Strychnia, Crystal... —— 1 05

P. D. Co , doz. @ 7) Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 4
Pyrethrum, pv..... 25@ 30/ Sulphur, Roll.. eo a
Quassiz. S@ 10| Tamarinds ..........
Quinia, S. P. & W. 30@ 40) Terebenth Venice... 2
Quinia, S. German 20@ 40 —— Bees oe os 65
Giunta, N.Y... 8... 30@ 40 Bk. 9 = :
Rubia Tinctorum. 12@ 14 Zinel Sak

— Lactis pv 20@ 22 Oils

RArAGIS fc... 4 50@ 4 75
Sema ee 40@ 50 BBL. GAL.
Sapo, W.............. 12@ 14] Whale, winter....... 70 70
Rape we. 10@ 12} Lard, extra.......... 60 70
Bape Ge. @ | Lard, No. 1.......... 45 50

 

 

Linseed, pure raw...
Linseed, Potted aeae

Neatsfoot, winter str 54

Spirits Turpentine..
- Paints

Red Venetian. .
Ochre, yellow Mars.
Ochre, yellow Ber. .
tty, commercial...
Putty, strictly pure.
Vermilion, rime
American . i
Vermilion, English.
Green, Paris.. ne
— Peninsular...
Lead medics. nce oie
Lead, White, - oo.
Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gilders’.
White, aris, Amer.:
Whiting, P Paris, Eng.

  

Universal Prepared. 11
Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...
Extra Tur

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BBL. LB.

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HOLIDAY
GOODS

 

 

We wish to assure our customers that

 

we shall this season show an even more

 

complete line of Holiday Goods than last

 

year.

Our Mr. Dudley will call and dis-

 

play samples as soon as the new lines are

 

complete.

Our customers can place their

 

entire orders with us this season at one

 

time if they wish, saving the time and

 

trouble of looking over several smaller

 

lines.

 

 

 

 

 

Drug Co.,

Hazeltine & Perkins

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

 

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.
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at

market prices at date of purchase.

Prices, however, are lia-

—

4

Mexican
ROIOD . ccccc cc sceus ceo ccs case 16
WARGY.. o.oo econ cence s ones 17
Guatemala
WRG. os ska 16
Java

 

Tutti Frutti

Vanilla Wafers............

Vienna Crimp............. 8

E..J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods
Standard Crackers

Blue Ribbon Squares.
Write for complete price list
with interesting discounts.

CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 Ib. wooden ——. pas 30
Bulk in sacks.. ace

DRIED FRUITS
Apples

 

ADVANCED
Dried Apples;
Leader Milk
Lake Trout

DECLINED

Holland Herring
Rolled Oats
Caraway Seed

aRKs 88S &S

or
Columbia, pints... ieee
Columbia, % pints... Si eecuioos
CARBON OILS

mh tO
RS

New York —_
Arbuckle......... .
Dilworth. ..........-.eeees- 108

Sundried @7
Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. @10
California Fruits
on ADTINNSS <5. ows cs 9@ 9%

McLaughlin’s XXXX Blackberries ..........
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to | Nectarines............
ee only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., Chicago.
Extract

ae City 4 gross.

% a
Hones tol foil, % gross... .. 85
Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1143
CONDENSED MILK

4 doz in case.
— _— _ Sanaa
Crown.. Secoec ce
Daisy... a ace ees ee acee
Champion .. Sebi scien eet
pT ae oe
Challenge ..............0--
PM oe ce co
TieRAOE ee
COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denom... 1
100 books, any denom... 2
an books, any denom... 11 50
000 books, any denom... 20 00
apr quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic
or Universal grades. ere
—_ books are spear at : ao
customer receives specially
CHICORY printed cover without extra
Bae... ...<... wees cee eeeee charge. Log = nse S
Sewer ee eee ener eer ew ee ee Coupon Pass Books se useatels 4 TOWwn
aoa """" Gy | _ Can be made to represent any | L- M., Seeded, 1 Ib. .....
Schener’s.-.. -----cs+s+-- ni a — 10 down. L. M., Seeded, % Ib.... 6%
CNOMECL’S.... o202 ccccess cece books... se BD Sultanas, bulk Le ass
“ ter Baker & Co.'s. i 100 books....... Sultanas, package ..........
alter er 0.'S. INACE
German Sweet.. i 500 books.. FAR Beans GOooDs

Premium : — Died ima...
Credit Checks —
Breakfast Cocoa... Bros. 500, any one denom.. Medium Hand Picked”
Veesen Gaeuk 21 | 1,000, any one denom...... Brown Hollan
Me 2,000, any one denom...... Cereals
1 Cream of Cereal.....
Stee punch Se pictletiele or Grain-O il
CLOTHES LINES CRACKERS Seale ts eee.
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.. National Biscuit Co.’s brands | Grape Nuts............ (
Cotton, 60 ft. per o — Cereal, smail.-..
otton, per doz. ostum Cereal, large.......
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz. Farina
Cotton, 80 ft. ae - 241 1b. Lage, a
Jute, 60 ft. per doz. Bulk, per 100 Ibs.............
Jute, 72°ft. per doz.. a
COCOA. Flake, 50 Ib. sack cee
Cleveland...... eae pearl 00 Ib = eee Suet
earl, 1 SRS os ic
Colonial, 4S ........-- bogs cnet sak Wanauee
Domestic, 10 Ib. box.........
Imported, 25 Ib. box.........
Pearl Barley
Oommon . 5. ... os occ
CRONNE... os coe eet.
WOODNTO oo ss ol cee

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

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Deoitorized  Napitha.,
29 @34

 

Index to Markets| . {
By Columns

 

AXLE GREASE
doz.
55

 

Pea:

Plited ap

Prunnelles . See sioe

Raspberries .. Le Lakasice
California Prunes

gTOss
Col Aurora... 6 00
A *| Castor Oil. ..60 = COLOR
—. — ee cess Frazer’s .. eae W. ok 8 60.8, 15e size...
see 0.’s, 25¢ size
a
Electric Light, 8s
pai —_ 168...
Paraffine, 6S.......
Ti 4 Paraffine, 12s.
WY CARD Oat Wicking.
ets pengep pee
’ : CANNED Goops
eee os : M x : ‘Apples
Butter een oesaces B 4 3 1b. Standards aaa
Cc Gallons, standards. .
Blackberries
Standards .......... .

4% cent less in 50 Ib. cases
Cit

ron
Leghorn..
Corsican .

nim n nana
ZZ SRSRSARS

‘Currants
California, 1 lb. package....
Imported, 1 lb package -12
Imported, = Bee Sets ends

‘eel
Citron ‘aaa 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

mene. ©. 52. 2 es :
CHEWING GUM

American Flag Spruce..

— 's Pepsin..........

Black Jack

Largest Gum Made.......

Sen Sen

Sen Sen Breath Perfume..

Sugar Loaf..............--

Woestan-.. kk.

ss
ee = ee --75
Parag es
BAKING POWDER
Egg

8

Blueberries
Standard .......-.....-
Brook Trout
2 Ib. cans, Spiced.........-
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 Ib.....
Little Neck. 2 Ib.....
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s, % pint.....-..-.
Burnham’s, pints.......---
Burnham’s, quarts........
Cherries
Red Standards........
Wie |... se

ee

Coffee

Condensed We
a MOORE. occ. co
COR each. ko ween secs
resin Partar .-.: .<..::..-:--

D
wand Srila. -....3..-.. <2...
é F

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144 lb. cans, 4d0Z. case...... 3 75
% Ib. cams, 2 doz. case...... 3 75
1lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 75
5 Ib. cans, % doz. case...... 8 00

JAXON

44 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1

Queen Flake
8 OZ., 6 COZ. CASE. .... 22.2000
Her : 02Z., : =
ceases nena 13 | 9 0Z. OZ.
Hides and Pelts ; 1b —

Indigo........ = oe g | 51b., 1 doz.
J

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nt nh pape eae eee
NO

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coats

Farinaceous Goods..
Fish and Oysters...
re xtract:

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French Peas
Sur Extra Fine.........-..-
Extra Fine...-...........-.
Fine.

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Standard.............
Lobster

Star. % Wh. .:......- ee
Star,1 Ib...........-
Pienic Talls.......-. a
Mackerel

Mustard, 1Ib........

PD oo ete a cae coon 6

L
Lamp Burners.........------- 15
Lamp Chimneys........------ 15
RUNES oc oon ses acne 15
Lantern “Globes eed cae enes 15
—

10esize.... 90
14 Ib. cans 1 35
6 oz. cans. 1 90
¥% Ib. cans 2 50
% lb. cans 3 75
1lb. cans. 4 80
3 1b. cans 13 00
5 Ib. cans. 21 50

oda, City
Long Island ae. pesee Le
Zephyrette.... ... oe

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Meee co.
Farina.. ees :
Extra Farina......... sets
Saltine Oyster.............
a Goods—Boxes

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Sasasa BSR AR S

Van Houten, %s.
Van Houten, 4s.
Van Houten, %s.
Van Houten, 1s.

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Anim
perenne OARe ss os
Se vena ae
Rents Water..............
Cinnamon Bar............-
Coffee Cake, Iced.........
Coffee Cake, Java.........
Cocoanut Macaroons......
Cocoanut Taffy
Creeknons..... 5... ......-
Creams, Iced.
Cream Crisp..
Cubans.......
Currant Fruit. .
Frosted Honey............
_.15 | Frosted Cream............
rench Breakfast... ........17% | Ginger Gems, l’rgeorsm’ll
iam, Mocha 8 aig" =— er Snaps, N N. B.C...
ov't Java an ocha..24 eee Green, Wisconsin = ja
Private Estate, Java & Moe26 | Grandma Cakes........... Green, Scotch, bu..........-
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 Graham Crackers......... li ‘ bu..

Ib..
Graham Wafers........... _ oe
raat Wriet Core Baods. | SAN ag rae a Ou

_ ee : one ee... , —
Whe oe Teed Honey Crumpets..... ae
Set ee M. & J., 30: oe Jumbles, Honey........... ee eee
anak... dee: | Lady Fingers.....-..-. 0... Quaker, cases...
Arabian Mocha............. 284% ee Sa Sago :

Honk Ein one nnoes

Aden Moch
Freeman Merce. Co. Brands. German. broken package
Tapioca
Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 44

WSTGEO. ook ll
Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3%

Porte Bican:.. -.2 656555 6s. < 14
SeenON 18%

Pearl, 241 1b. packages..... 6

Wheat

Parker House J &M....... 25
Cracked, bulk............... 3%.

Monogram J & M........... 28
Muandehling... "Saag aay 31%

R 242 tb. packages ............2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

FOOTE & JENKS’

Tomato, 1Ib.........
Tomato, 2Ib.........
Mushrooms
70 | Hotels... ...5..-..... i
Buttons. ...-....-.-- s
Oysters

COA —
20 Ib. —
Less quantity -. silks
Poun packages Soe oe.
OFFEE

Nene he
"SF Sesasssassee

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Tonsted

penne : oz. —_— , per gross 4 00 en,
retic, 8 oz. ovals. per gross6 00

Oyster Pee oe cee Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00

P

HIGH GRADE
Paper Bags........-..-------- fi Pi
Paris PORE Sic ook. 5 pices ‘I CorFE

100 Ib. DaEFEe «.-.- eco. <2
Peas

Special Combination..

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Small size, per doz..........

Large size, per doz.......... Raspberries

Standard............ "
Russian ee

1¢ Ib. CaMS........---..--

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Marshmallow Creams.....
Marshmallow Walnuts. ...
Mary Ammo. so...
Mixed Picnic..............
itck Siscuis. .... 0. 25.5.
Molasses Cake............
Molasses Bar..............
Moss Jelly Bar............
TRO oo col.
Oatmeal Crackers.........
Oatmeal Wafers...........

 

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Salmon
Columbia River, talls
Columbia River, flats
Red Alaska

Pink Alaska

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Fancy Whisk.. ceoteeeeeeee
Warehouse.. as es
BRUSHES Shrimps
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in...-......... sompemnigr meme
Solid Back, 11in............ Deseatte: 4s. mee

Pointed Ends................ tesa read, XXX J A xX O N

Domealier measined Pretzelettes, hand made.. Highest Grade Extracts

7| Fancy .. nis ad 8
California, 14s....... it h Cookies............ 9 Vanilla Lemon

California %s.. : ‘ oe lozfullm.1 20 1lozfullm. 80
ao 20zfullm.2 10 20zfullm.1 25
French, \S....... No.3fan’y.3 15 Nogfan'y.1 1%

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M INDIGO
olasu buK Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55
Pence Foore &JENK: cass» |S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes...... 50
= JELLY
an -7 Xen! E iE Ib. pails. per doz Ce Aa 1 90
Vanilla Lemon Pare. 22s es 38
20z panel..1 20 2o0zpanel. 75 Get DAM. ce a
3 oz taper..2 00 40z taper..1 50 ——
30
Calabria. a. 23
GI gs 14
ROO se
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz............1 20
aussi 4 ants eee ee eae 2 25
TCHES
Diamond ‘Maton Co.’s ae
Ne, 9 sulphur... 8...
Anchor.Parlor = 50
No. ee stock oe
Export a cs a .
Wolverine....
9 MEAT EXTRACTS
gS 18) ama earn
2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75¢. AChE a2 O20. 7. son. 2 75
‘ Bho eo oo.
20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75
4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50 egy — — ststeees 40
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 | ;ivce.- ances 35
4 0z. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 Dnceeeecseercceeceaeceee =
Standard. aps ceea es vee cons eee
20z. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 —_ “en =.
20z. Panel Lemon.......... 60 Horse R eg = 175
FLY PAPER Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Tanglefoot, per box.......... 35 | Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. 1 %
Tanglefoct, per case........ 3 20 OLIVES
FRESH MEATS Bulk, 1 gal. kegs........... 1 3
Beef Bulk, SSalk kegs........... 110
Carcass.. ie 6 @8 Bulk, S gal. kegs. .......... 1 00
Forequarters . 5 @6 Manzan 7 ea , 80
Hindguarters .. 8 @g_ | Queen, pints............... 2 35
ins No. 3..... 10 @1i_ | Queen, 19 0z............... 4 50
mee 9 @12% UOC, 28 Oren ce 7 00
Rounds......... 8 @ 8% Stuffed, Be ee: 90
Chucks .. 5 @5% Seon’ S Of. cc ec 1
Plates .. a 4 @ 5% mired. 10 @7......:........ 2 30
ea _ PAPER BAGS
Dressed . na @ 7% | Continental Paper Bag Co.
_— a = Ask your Jobber for them.
Shoulders ........... @ 8% Glory Mayflower
Leaf Lard a @8 Satchel & Pacific
Mutton 2 — —
Carcass ..........0.6. PG Ge | LL ee 60
Lamps............... - 96@10 4 Soe cee cae. = o:
ee ee ey
Carcass ........2. 5-2. 8 @9 - Sree . ; =
GRAINS AND FLOUR Bean 1 70
Wheat C1... 1 06 2 00
WHOSE ooo 7 f............ 1 28 2 40
Winter Wheat Flour _ sett aeee ee eeee : = : .
a Local Brands pee ee 415
ee ceo 5 es
Second Patent. 3 85 a ay 3 52 5 =
Straight....... 5 OO aa 5 50
Clear ... 3 20 Sugar
Graham GSU Red %
— 4 . Ca 4%
MBiisa vs" "ih ais. PARIS GREEN
unt. ee 14
“Blotr in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- eps 4 ib, —= Lecce ™
ackages, ., OBER. ...... 1
ee s — Packages, 11b., each....... 16
marion: 566.. .... 52... D PICKLES
Diamond %8............... i 3
Diamond i4s.... |... 2.22. 3 85 Medium
Worden acapey Co.’s —,. Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 6 50
— — bases : . Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 75
RE AG es
cuoher a voce cw cote 3 80 Diese 3 — 8 00
Spring Wheat Flour Half bbis, 1,200 count... 14 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells = § — PIPES
Pilisbury’s = 8. Clay, N 170
Taye Bost xs. Clay, T. a hill eoune. 2. a
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. ; - (on; Ne. 3... .. =
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 20 "jose
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand 48¢ te ie
Duluth Imperial %s....... 4 40/, bbitt’s ar caste Pe
Duluth Imperial \4s....... 4 30 ra aes 50
Duluth Imperial 4S. 4 20 enna Sa eee ce coe
Lemon & — Co.'s Brand, PROVISIONS
eee one cece as ; = Barreled Pork
ee a wee QIB 7B
Iney,& Judson’s Brand acl gieren tt = 2
Ceresota 8... 440 OAT DACK..... .. .... @
Ceresota \s.. 4 30 Short cut.. etal @16 12
Ceresota 4s. — i |
OeWvonten rai a s Bran 40 | Family Mess... 2-2. @16 25
aeek Me ce 4 30 Dry Salt Meats
Laurel 48...........+-++++ 20) HOMeg. oes. 10
Laurel %s and 4s paper.. 4 20/ Briskets............. 934
Meal Extra shorts......... 9
NO sie con cotenwcu ee 2 75 Smoked Meats
Granulated ................ 2 85 Hams, 121b. average. @ 11%
Oats ams, 14lb. average. @ 11s,
ar 1h cs... ams, 16]b.average. @ 114%
Car lots, Clipped... ams, 20lb. average. @ il
Less than car lots. . Ham dried beef..... @ 13%
Feed and Millstuffs oe ee a i = 24
St. Car Feed, screened.... 23 00 ee
Moo Corn and Oats... .. 22 50 California hams. g —
Unbolted Corn Meal...... 22 00 | Bionic Boiled Hams @ 16%
Winter Wheat Bran....... 17 00 Berlin Ham pr’s’d. 8%
Winter Wheat Middlings. 18 co | Harun fam P a
Screenings ...............- Ce...
Corn Lards—In Tierces
Corn, car lots............. 54% | Compound........... 7%
Hay ee eae ce pe
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 00 %
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00 ig
HERBS é
eens ae ce anon
TERI oo ocio te oso vocis on aenece «ne %
Laurel Leaves... ee reese 1
Senna LOaves....-.sec. cee. -6+- 25 1

 

 

 

Sausages
Bologna ............. 5%
Liver ....
Frankfort... 1%
ork .... Th
oes ae, 6%
Wemgee oo y
Headcheese ......... 6
Beef
Extra — bidet 10 75
— J pea 11 50
Rump .. Soae 11 50
‘Pigs’ Feet
\% bbls., 40 Ibs....... 1 55
¥% bbls., 80 Ibs....... 3 50
Tripe
Kits. 15 Ibs...... 2... 70
¥ bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 25
% bbis., 80 Ibs....... 2 25
Casings
Perk... 21
Beef rounds. . 3
Beef middles. : 10
ROOD eco cc econ 60
Solid, dat Butterine
wy) a 124%@
Rolls, dairy... « Bb @
Rolls, creamery... lh cide 16%
Solid; creamery..... 16
Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 lb.... 2 50
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 17 50
Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 50
Potted ham, \s..... 50
Potted ham, s..... 90
Deviled ham, \s.... 50
Deviled ham, \¥s.... 90
Potted tongue, \s.. 50
90

Potted tongue, \s..
RICE

Domestic
Carolina head..
Carolina No. 1
Carolina No.2.
Broken .

     
 

Umporte
Japan, No. 1.. ++ BA@
Japan, No. 2.. -44@
Java, fancy head. @
Java, No. 1.. i. @
Table...

SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15

Dore cee 3 00
Dwight’s Cow........ ......3 15
a ec os lc: 2 10
Wyandotte, 100 %s.......... 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls............ 90
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 (0
Lump, bbls. cs SO
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs... SAS ee 85
SALT
Buckeye
100 31D: bags .-... 2... ......

  
   

gs

In 5 bbl. lots 5 per cent.
coun

enna Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags. 3 00
Table, barrels, 407 lb. bags.2 75
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bi 2 65
Butter, barrels, 20 14Ib. bags. 3 2
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.........
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 7

Common Grades
100 3 Ib. sacks........ oo2 26

GOG UD. saeKs.. 5.6... 2

25 10 1b. SAGs... 5... 2 05

Oe i. Steee se 40

we. SO 22
Warsaw

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 40

28 Ib. dairy in — bags..... 20

ton
56 Ib. dairy — ‘nen sacks... 60
56 Ib. dairy in —— sacks... 60
Rock

  

lar
GID. SACKR ee oy. 25
Common
Granulated Fine.. .
Medium Fine.. coca: aU
SALT ‘FISH
Cod

Georges cured......... @6
Georges genuine...... @ 6%
Georges selected...... @7
Grand Bank........... @é6
on or bricks.. - 64@10%

lock @ 3%

 

Strips..
Chunks...
as
No. 1100 Ibs. ....:......... 6 BD
Ne.t 40tba....... 2... oe 2 80

INO.1t 19%... ...... .... 78
NO. t Shi. ... 69
Herring
Holland white hoops, bbl. 19 25
Holland white hoops%bbl. 5 50
Holland white hoop, Keg.. 75
Holland white hoop mehs. 85
INGEWOSISE oc... cc tccs
Round 100 Ibs..............

 

 

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CMM 22
Bloaters......... acco 2 OO

Mackerel

Mess 100 Ibs. .............. 11 00
MeOns SAS. oo. eee s 2 Oe
Moss 10IDs. ........... 1 25
aoe 1 03
9 75
420
112
93
8 25
8 60
98
No. 2 SO cccccscecece 81

 

Whitefish
No.1 No.2 Fam
100 Ibs... .. .<:. 70 3 25
40 IDS... = 5. 3 30 1 65
10 IDs... .. 52. 90 48
Te 75 42
SEEDS
ee:
Canary, Smyrna............. 3%
Caraway . ee
Cardamon, Malabar... ...... "1 00
Roa 10
Hemp, Russian... <- &
Mixed Bird.. Soe owes
Mustard, , white... cite oeueccices &
Poppy... Selec tece as i
aon a
Cuttle Bone.. 14
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large......... 2 50
Handy Box, small......... 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish...... 85
Miller’s Crown Polish..... 8&5
SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders.. oe
Maccaboy, in jars.. cs, oo
French — in a. es 43

B. T. Babbit a
Babbit’s Best.............
Beaver Soap Co. brands

 

 

  

50 cakes, large size......... 3 25
100 cakes, large size......... 6 50
50 cakes, small size.... .... 1 95
100 cakes, Smiakl size... .... 3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny ......... 3 90
Pec 4 00
Detroit Soap Co. brands—
Queen Anne..... ........ 3 15
Big Bargain.. a
Umpire.... ....
German Family.......... 2 45
Dingman Sp Co. brand—
Do aa 3 85
N. K. ries brands—
Sanaa Claus... 2... 3 26
Brown ae oe aes. ae ae
Mk, 4 00
Fels brand—
20 4 00
Gowans ‘% Sons brands—
ak Teast... 3 25
Oak Leaf, big5.. . 400

JAXO r

Single box.. oe
5 box lots, delivere
10 box lots, delivered ..
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver Kin aah a sia
Calumet ‘amily... Boe, scales
Scotch a Mee Gagan
Cuba... eo ae
50 cakes ee a ccna
Ricker’s Magnetic .......
Lautz Bros. brands—

  

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SShS SRESSS SEE

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Co om Oo

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Tvory, 100z.... ..:.....:.
senultz s ron brand—

Oo © AP
S$ 8 as

Old Country Se eee a 3 20
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
SODA
BOROG 5.2... tk. BG
Kegs, English. .............. 4%

SPICES
Whole Spices
AMSpIOG. co eco... 12
Cassia, China jin mats....: 12
Cassia, Batavia, inbund... 28

Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 38
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 17
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 14
Mi 55

Ne eee cccece
Nutmegs, —. 50
Nutmegs, 105-10.. aaa 40

Nutmegs, 115-20 35
‘epper, Singapore, black. 18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pure Cane
aa sad wetla ge 16
Good . 20
Choice | 25

“STARCH

 

Kingsford’s Corn

  

40 1-lb. packages........... 6%
20 1-Ib. packages............ 7

6 Ib. packages........... 7%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss

40 1-lb. packages........... 7%

Common Gloss

1-Ib. packages............. 5y%
3lb. packages. coo
6-Ib. a, ~
40 and 50-Ib. boxe: asc. 8

BASTO oo. oc. |

 

No. 8. 4 45
No. 4 40
No. 10. 4 35
No. 11 4 30
No. 12 4 30
No. 13. 4 20
No. 14 4 20
WOO ees cece acess 4 20
TO TG es oc as 4 20
TEA
Japan
Sundried, medium .....

   

Sundried, choice.
Sundried, fancy..
Regular, medium.
Regular, choice .
Regular, fane ey lc
Basket-fired, medium......
Basket-fired, choice......... 35
Basket-fired, fancy.......... 40
TR ce cc ee 27
Siig... ca 19@21
Panes. «os 20@22

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium ...........
Moyune, choice ........ :
Moyune, fancy...
Pingsuey, medium...
Pingsuey, choice....... we
Pingsuey, faney.........45.4

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Best Gloss Starch, 501b.....
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb.....
Best Gloss Starch, 6Ib.....
Best Gloss Starch, 31b.....
Best Gloss Starch, 11b.....
orks: Venice, Ill.
Geneva, Ill.

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| Best Corn Starch....-.......5

Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl.
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl.
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil.
Best Laundry in bbl., thin boil.
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, Ill.

 

 

Common Corn

20 1-lb. packages.......... 534
40 1-lb. packages.......... 4%

STOVE POLISH

    
 
 

  

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No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross . 4 50
No. 6, 8 doz In case, gross . 7 20
SUGAR

Below are given New York

prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
shippi vais a — to your|@
s vint, giving you cre

. ee for a amount
of echi g buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 pounds for the weight of the
barrel.

 

 

epper, en white. = a cn 5 75
() aE ee 5 75
“Pure Ground t in Bulk ee a ae 5 50
Allspice.. : 16 | Powdered . 5 35
Cassia, Batavia... canes 28| Coarse Powdered... 5 35
Cassia, Saigon............. 48 | Xx xXX Powdered......... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 17) Standard Granulated. .... 5 25
Ginger, African.. --- 15] Fine Granulated. .......... 25
Ginger, Cochin............ 18 | Coarse Granulated........ 35
Ginger, —- eo 25 | Extra Fine Granulated 5 35
Mace. sereseceeeeeee  65| Conf. Granulated.......... 5 50
Mustard: 18 | 91b. bags Fine Gran... .- 5 40
Pepper, Singapore, black. 17/5 Ip. b s Fine Gran. EE 5 40
Pepper, ees white. 25) Mould | ee
Sam i, CAVERNS... scccee = Diamond ‘-_:. / c=
ABO 00. cone none ne woes ween Confectioner’s A..........
SYRUPS No. 1, Columbia YER 4 90
Corn No. 2, Windsor A.. ae
REE OIG ees cose tc cecal cee 0. 3, Ridgewood A.. 4 85
Pie ie os 26 _ | No. 4, Phoenix A 4 20
1 gallon cans, per doz...... 8 60| No. 5, Empire A 4 75
¥ gallon cans, per doz......2 00) 9, g..10........ 4 65
Gans, per dozZ......2 02 | 9, Ze cciee 4 65

 

 

Young Hyson

CHONG oo. oe ae, 30
PONY. cc cca acuee ce 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy....... savaces 42
Amoy, medium. Newcuen cua
Amey, GUOGS. 26.6 cc 32
English Breakfast
Meghan... 60s. cg 27
CHONG. oo 34
PONG. «oo. k ccc cece ce cae 42
india
Ceyion, cholee.......0... 2... 32
WOMOG 6. ecco. sci cies 42
TOBACCO
Cigars
A. Bomers’ brand.
Pee
H. & P. Drug Co.'s brands.

Fortune Teller.
Our a
Quin

   

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Be Os We vcs eis diccepcccce, eee
Cigar Clippings, per Ib..... 26
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

L $35 00

a.
Gold Sear... . 0. oc etd 35 00
Fine Cut

Uncle Daniel...........

Wa... 8.
Forest Giant.
Sweet Spray..

 

 

Cadillac......

Sweet Loma.......... Wise
Golden pees beite cdc padcembaae 26
Hiawatha.. wee sve deanas eae
Wolegtaia. ... 66 c..3.2eeos 28
OY ONE oor ae cnc enieens 32
Prairie Hose... idesduacuee

 

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Protection. .............. 226. 38
Sweet Burley..
Sweet Loma.
Tiger
Flat Iron
Creme de Menthe
ee =
Sweet ER oe cine scene 37
WO cs ooo kcws sone oso 33
PE a oe cae cs 32
oc ee oweent ace eve 35
J iscceentes pace ct some 35

 

Smoking
Hand Pressed..............- 40
CE eee ne eae 28
Sarees OOPS... ..605 225d 23 36
MOENOME ooo cee 35

 

Duke’s Mixture............. 38
Duke’s Cameo............... 40
Honey Dip Twist............ 39
Myrtle Na Josep
Yum Yum, 136 Be 40
Yum Yun, 1 Ib. pails........ .
Corn Cake, 2% 02Z..........-- 25
Corn Cake, 11b.............. 23

 

   

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Col. Choice, 8 0Z............. 21

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 
 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mop Sticks
85
75
85
mop heads..... 1.1 2

Pails
2-hoop Standard............. 1 40
3-hoop Standard. ---1 60
2-wire, Cable.. 1 50
3-wire, Cable.. -1 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25
Paper, Eureka... css ac aes cn ae
PTO. ... 2.2.55 TUININT2 40
Toothpicks
Hardwood .... .........<....2
eelcwoed .... c.g
Sa cl. ee
MO ee le 1 50
Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.....4 00
20-inch, Cable, No. S20
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.........6 00
16-inch mga = Sse 5 00
No. 1 Fibre... clase Scie ae
No. 2 Fibre.. <cocn cea
No. 3 Fibre.. a

Wash ‘Boards
Bronze Globe................2 50
RE oo cn sevce oes k OO
Double Acme. icesccencoce ae
Single Acme........... 2
Double Peerless........... 3 25
Single Peerless.. .-2 60
Northern Queen .. -2 50
Double Duplex.. -3 00
Good Luck ...... -2 75
Universal............... 2 25

Wood Bowls
a2 in; Boléer.;.-:..., .........
13 In. Butter......... 20sec. <l BW
15 in. Butter... .....,.---...1 7
17 in. But aaa nome
19 in. But ‘ meee
Assorted 13-16-17 .. -sonek oe
Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50

WRAPPING PAPER

Common Straw............
Fiber Manila, white.......
Fiber Manila, —,
No. 1 1 Manila..
Cream Manila...
Butcher’s Manila.......... 2%
Wax Butter, short count. 13
Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20
Wax Butter, rolls......... 15

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TABLE SAUCES YEAST CAKE
LEA & 09
PERRINS’ Bo

00
SAUCE -1 00
Yeast Foam, 1% doz........ 50
The Original and FRESH FISH
Genuine Per lb.
: Worcestershire. _ ;
> an) ee Boece on : 108 il
& Perrin’s, small. . 2 50} Halibut .. 5 @ 14
Haltord, large..........-.. 375] Ciscoes or Herring. @ 5
Halore sme seseee a Bluefish . tc ae a2
ressing a :
Salad Dressing. small..... 2 75 eerie 3 =
TWINE ee oe ° .
Cotton, 3 ply...
Co "4 ON oc oc eae @ :
Jute, ply a a <a
Hemp, 6 Fs ce eae ° 3 it
Flax, medium...............
Wooi, 1 Ib. balis.. pre 2G
VINEGAR @
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine. 80 grain..11 a
Pure Cider, B. & B brand rt Can Oysters
Pure Cider, Star...... oi ££. H. Counts........ 40
Pure Cider, Robinson..... ..10 F.S. D. Selects. .... 33
Pure Cider, Silver........... 11 | Selects .. Sepa 27
WASHING POWDER | counts.......... epg
Gold Dust, regular oe eas 4 50| ExtraSelects........ 1 $5
Gold Dust, 5¢................ 00 HIDES AND PELTS
7 A, pon & Bertsch Leather
—fiO~, Co., Street, quotes as
Sune:
Rub-No-More ............... 3 50 Hides
WOMETND, 5... 0.005502. 54cs- 2 90 No. 1 6%
RIS. 2. ot 3 50 trees 5%
WICKING gg sO ie
No. 0, per gross........ i No.1 @92
No. 1, per gross.. No.2 @7%
No. ?, per gross. No.1 @10
0. 3. Der gross. No.2 @ 8%
Pelts
Pelts, each.......... 50@1 00
Bushels.. ced OB PF aMMD. 526k occ wise senses
Bushels, wide ‘pand. 22777777 "7115 Tallow
Spline, Wargo. Ta O| NO bere | OB
Splint, medium i Mi aad ceases oe cee @ 3%
Splint, small Ranga ees 3 " Wool
iow Clothes. B-5.. 508 Washed, fine........ 15@17
Willow Clothes, medi “15 75| Washed, medium...  18@21
Willow Clothes, small....... 5 25 | Unwashi washed, fine..... 11@i4
Butter Plates Unwashed. medium. 14@16
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate. ae 45 CANDIES
0. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50 Stick Cand
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 55 a ails
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 65 | Standard ..... eee + 1%
— oe H. ae =.
Humpty Dumpty ...........2 25 Twist. .... 8
No.1, a steal: 30 | Cut Loaf............. —
0. 2, complete .............
— % | Jumbo, 32 Ib......... @ 7%
Clothes Pins Extra H. H @10%
Round head, 5 gross box.... 45| Boston Cream....... 10
Round d head, cartons........ Beet Root............ 8

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Champ. a Gums. 8
Pony Hearts........ 15
Fairy Cream Squares 12
Fudge Squares...... 12
Peanut Squares. .... 9
Fruit Tab., as. ae 12
Sugared Peanuts... 10%
Salted Peanuts...... 12
Starlight Kisses..... 10
San Goodies. @i2
Lozenges, plain ..... @ 9%
Lozenges, printed @10
Choe. Drops......... @11%
Eclipse Chocolates... @13%

Choc

Victoria Chocolate. . @15
Gum Drops..........

Moss Drops.
Lemon —

Teal Grea Opera. 12

 

 

 

Ital. Crema Decbens
iD. patie... 22. @12
Molasses ceenpeme xd
Ib. pails. @14
Golden Waities..... @12
Fancy—In 5 ib. Boxes
Lemon Sours. @55
oe Drops.. @60
HM. Choc. Drops:. Gee
. M. Choc. Drops
M. Choe. Lt. par
DK. No. i.... @1 00
Gum Drops....... @30
Licorice Drops...... @75
Lozenges, plain..... @55
Lozenges, printed @60
Imperials........ @60
ottoes . @60
Cream Bar.. @55
Molasses Bar. . @55
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
— pateons, —_
OR. @65
String Rook... 25... @65
Wintergreen Berries @60

Cli om il ~
pper, 2 pails. @9
Standard, 20 Ib. pails
Perfection, 20 Ib. pls
Amazon, Choe Coy’d
Korker 2 for 1¢ pr bx
Big 3, 3 for 1c pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for tc pr bx
Favorite, 4 for 1c, bx
AA Cream Car'ls 31b
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett......
Florida Bright......

Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. 5
Verdelili, tey 300..... 4
Verdelli, ex chee 300 4
Verdelli, fey 360..... 4
Maiori Lemons, 300. .
Messinas 300s.......
Messinas 360s.......

Bananas

Medium bunches....
Large bunches......
Foreign cag Fruits

Figs
Ga'pigivibbore =
. boxes
Extra, Chote, 10 Ib. -

Somer, 12 Ib. boxes... 12
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...

» in peek

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Fards in 10 lb. boxes @
Fards in 60 Ib. cases.
Hiahowi.; 35>. 5.525... 5 @ 5%
Ib. cases, new.....
, 60 Ib. cases.

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ib.
Almonds, Tarragor
onds, ona 17
Almonds, Ivica ..... g
Amonas, California,
soft shelled........ 16@18
a Se ae cigwee 11
aes @12%
Walnuts. Grenobles. @13%
Walnuts, soft shelled
ornia No. 1... 13%
Table Nuts, fancy... ‘@il4
Table Nuts, choice. 13
Pecans, Med...... 10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 11
Pecans, Jumbos..... @12
Hickory 3 = - per bu. e
Geaaneiee. felianein

Chestnuts, == bu. =

Fancy, H. B., Suns

Choice, H.P., Extras
Choice, H. P., Extras
Roas

 

Span. Shild No. 1n’w

-25 gal. meat-tubs, each.........-...---

 

 

AKRON sTONEWARE

Butters
M% gal., POr GOZ....... cece ceeeescceeee 48
2 to6 gal. per oe ceca sot antcenes 6
8 gal. each....
= gal. on eens. one ae ee oe one
rr ee ee Soe bss pip mee sos

gal. each
15 gal. meat-tubs, eacn..............-.
20 gal. meat-tubs, Geek: s. 6 2.

30 gal. meat-tubs, eacn..
Churns

2 to 6 gal., per gal..
‘hurn Das ers, per ise

Milkpans

% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz.........
1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, cach............

Fine Glazed Milkpans

% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... ....
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each............

Stewpans

\& gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.........
1 gal. fireproof, bail, pur doz.........

Jugs
M% Pal. per dOZ..-......c.e2cceceececces 60
14 gal. per dOZ.......-. 0. eesees eee eeee 45
ft05 eal, perpal....:: _....--... =... 7%
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib ....... teeeees 2
LAMP BURNERS

Ns oe

NO. 1 SUD......-... esses eee eee eee eee

SZREGR

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of § _

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Ae i 5
Ne 2 Bae. so. cso es ca 224

First Quality

 

 

 
  

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 85
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 90
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, erimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 75
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapp 1a0...... 4 00
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 00
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 5 00
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled.. 5 10
No. 2 po “Small Bulb,” for Globe
LAMPS....... ccceee cones cesveces 80
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 25
No. 1 Crimp, er Oi Se 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz................5- 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (65¢ doz).................. 3 50
No. 2 Lime (70¢ doz).. See eset 4 00
No. 2 Flint (80¢e doz)°*-- 4 60
Electric
No. 2 Lime ime a See scot aebac se: 4 00
No. 2 Flint (80e doz).................. 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 1 35
1 —- galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 1 65
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 00
3 - galy. iron with spout, per doz.. 4 30
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 5 75
3 = galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 4 50
5 gal. - iron with faucet, per doz.. 6 00
5 gal — Aes oc ews 7 co
5 gal. galvy. iron Nacefas.............. 9 00
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side lift. 4 75
No. 1B Tubular...... 7 25
No. 15 Tubular, dash.. 7 25
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain 7 50
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.. 13 50
No.. 3 Street lamp, each.. 3 60
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢ 45
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, a 15¢ 45
No.0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, bbl.. 2 00
No.0Tub., "Bull’s eye, cases i aE: each 1 25
MASON FRUIT JARS.
Ne ae tet ser oaks 6 25
Re ae orci ies 6 50
eer OO 9 25
Caps and Rubbers.................... 2 40
ee ls ces 25 & 35

 

 

Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others
for Gas or vasoline.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Manufacturers Importers and Jobbers of
GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

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pETTER OTE +971 HEADS

STATEMENTS, "1 DADESMAN
ah ae) TIT A he

COUNTER BILLS.
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“Summer Light”

Light your Hotels, Cottages and
Camps with the

““NULITE”’.

Indoor Arc,
Outdoor Are,

Incandescent Vapor Gas Lams. superior to
electricity or carbon gas. Cheaper than coal oil
lamps. No smoke, no odor, no wicks, no trou-
ble. Absolutely safe. A 20th century revolu-
tion in the art of lighting. Arc Lamps, 750 can-
dle power, for indoor or outdoor use. Table
Lamps, 100 candle power. Chandeliers, Pen-
dants, Street Lamps, etc. Average cost 1 cent
for 7 hours. Nothing like them. They sell at
sight. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Send for
catalogue and prices.
CHICAGO SOLAR LIGHT CO.,

Dept. L. Chicago, Il.

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

 

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Simple
Account File

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Most Economical
Method of Keeping
Petit Accounts

File and 1,000 printed blank

bill heads. .........5.'. $2 75
File and 1,000 specially

printed bill heads...... 3 00
Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand........... 1 25
Specially printed bill heads,

per thousand..... (ioass FOO

Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids.

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Why the Average Workingman Cannot
Pay His Debts.

Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 2—I enclose a
clipping that is interesting to me be-
cause written by one who makesa study
of poverty and who is in close touch
with that unfortunate class. Mr. Hazel-
tine is the superintendent of the munic-
ipal lodging house here and, while his
sympathy is with the poor, he is not one
of the kind who damn the rich man.
When you come to add whisky to his
figures, you see some one must suffer
cruelly and, of course, that strikes the
innocent mother and helpless children.

Fred H. Ball.

For a period extending over many
years the writer has heard severe de-
nunciations hurled at the workingmen
for their extravagances. Nothing is
more common than to hear those who
are well off in worldly goods upbraid
wage earners for alleged aping the man-
ners of their ‘‘betters,’’ and dreadful
warnings are at times given that, unless
some check is put on the luxurious _ liv-
ing of the dependent employe, the coun-
try will go to ruin and the country
authorities will be swamped under their
incumbrances.

It will be the purpose of this article
to examine into these charges of alleged
extravagances. Let us see what those
charges are. Let us take a family con-
sisting of husband and wife and four
children. Surely that is not a very large
community. Let us suppose that the
bread winner: is engaged at arduous
manual labor.

Now, would 3 cents a meal be reck-
oned an extravagant sum to enable such
a person to sustain his work? That
would mean for him an outlay for food
of 9 cents a day. His wife must live,
for although women talk they also work,
and they must eat; that means 9 cents
more. Children, as you all know, must
eat, too, and they consume as much
food as adults, if they can get it, and
thus, for the family at 3 cents a meal,
we have a daily outlay of 54 cents.

In such a climate as ours, coal is an
absolute necessity in winter, and in
summer coal or wood generally must be
used for cooking purposes. Suppose we
allowed 6 cents a day, or $21.90 a year,
for fuel, no one would say, with the
current prices of coal, that this is ex-
orbitant. Families, too, must live in
houses, and unless they own them they
must pay rent forthem. Suppose we
allow 30 cents a day, or $9.12 a month
for rent; surely such can not be called
high.

Then, people can not go naked; the
climate as well as the law would pro-
hibit this. For a family of six, such
as | am considering, 15 cents a day, or
$54.75 a year, for necessary apparel for
the body and necessary goods for the
home cannot be considered too much.
Now, people are in the habit of occas-
ionally getting sick. No one is exempt
from that possibility, and so if we
reckon 2 cents a day, or $7.30 a year, to
meet doctors’ bills no one will grumble
except, perhaps, the doctor himself.

He is a wise man who has himself
and his family insured, for should death
overtake any member, more especially
the bread winner, the burden thereby
imposed would be well nigh unbearable.
Suppose, then, we allow 5 cents a day
to pay premiums on six lives.

Let us see what all this amounts to for
this family of six persons. It is pre-
cisely $1.12 a day; will anyone claim
that the sums above given are exces-
sive? Surely 3 cents a meal does not
imply luxury nor will 30 cents a day
enable a family to live in the fashion-

 

able quarters. It may take them out of
the slums in some cities, but that is all.

I have not allowed one cent for lux-
uries, for tobacco for the husband, for
a street car ride for the tired mother
and children, for books for the latter
should they attend school, fora dentist’s
forceps to pull out an aching tooth, for
a church contribution, for one article of
new furniture, for a broken lamp chim-
ney, for a hundred little things that are
necessary to the happiness and comfort
of a home, and yet excluding these
things (and are they not almost as es-
sential as food or raiment?) we have a
daily outlay of $1.12.

The writer claims that the average
workingman doesn't work on an average
more than 200 days in a year, deducting
Sundays, holidays and days when no
work can be done or is procurable. He
doesn’t average $1.12, for the writer has
seen it stated that the daily income of
the workers of the United States, ex-
cluding professional men and business
men, is not over $1 a day.

How does the workingman live? You
may figure it out to suit yourself; you
may alter my figures to suit yourself,
but if you can show me where and _ how
he lives, paying all his debts, I'll make
my will in your favor when I die. And
yet we hear so much of the poor labor-
ing man, and the extravagances of the
workman and pauper. Where, in the
name of all that is reasonable, can you
find this family extravagant? Indeed,
there is less extravagance in the homes
of the poor than in the language of the
well to do. John Hazeltine.

——_» +. ____

Shortage of the Evaporated Apple Crop.
From the New York Commercial.

The average annual consumption of
evaporated apples is about 800 carloads
—that is, the world consumption, as
‘*world’’ is understood in a commercial
sense, The distribution is about equal-
ly divided between the domestic and the
foreign market. Usually at this time in
the season 250 carloads of cured apples
have been sold for early fall shipment
to Europe, but this year only fifteen car-
loads have been contracted for, the
heavy falling-off in the trade being due
to the rapid and sharp advance in
prices following the confirmation of a
very short crop of apples.

Of the 800 carloads of evaporated fruit
consumed annually, fully 250 carloads
are supplied usually by Wayne county,
New York, where are located 2,000
evaporators. This year, however,
Wayne county will do well if it fur-
nishes fifty carloads.

It is estimated, by those familiar with
the market for thirty years or more, that
the world’s consumption of evaporated
apples for this, the first year of the
twentieth century, will be reduced to 400
carloads, and that amount of fruit has
been carried over in cold storage from
the surplus stock of Igoo.

Should the present high prices hold,
no doubt many dryers, even where the
crop is light, will be stimulated to ac-
tive work. The market for green fruit,
however, is equally high, and this may
check such action. The attitude of
foreign buyers, too, is an important
factor.

The course of the market during the
next few raonths will be unusually in-
teresting. Future sales of cured fruit
often extend into January and even be-
yond, but this year buyers, thus far,
are not loaded with temerity.

—_>_2._
The Man Who Works His Jaws.
From the Carson City Gazette.

Monday was Labor Day and the fellow
who has not done a day’s work since his
father was a boy improved the oppor-
tunity to put up a great wail about the
oppression of labor by capital.

so

Between the years 1760 and 1776 100,-
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Caps
G. D., full count, perm........... ....
Hicks’ Waterproof, perm...... ......
Musket, — Ts os ec
Ely’s Waterproof, per m..............
Cartridges
No. 22 short, per m........ ..
No. 22 long, per m...........
ING, 32 short, per Bi...
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Primers

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m......
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m...

Gun Wads

Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M.C...
Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, per m......
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Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns

  

Drs.of oz.of Size
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge
120 4 14% 10 10
129 4 1% 9 10
128 4 1% 8 10
126 4 1% 6 10
135 414 14% 5 10
154 4% 1% 4 10
200 3 1 10 12
208 3 1 oe 12
236 3% 1% 6 12
265 3% 1% 5 12
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264 3% 1%
Discount 40 per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. .
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

Gunpowder
Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg....... .... ....
Ye kegs, 12% lbs., per % keg..........
4 kegs, 614 Ibs., per 4 keg...........
Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than B........
Augurs and Bits
Nee
Jennings genuine.....................
Jennings’ imitation....................
Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze............
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Buckets
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Butts, Cast
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Chain
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Crowbars
Cast Steel, per Ib........ 0... .....0 000.
Chisels
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Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............net

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Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 ..........
Eves’ t, Sts; 2.924: 3 90. sc .

Files—New List
New American ...........
Nicholson’s..........
Heller’s Horse Rasps.. daa

Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27,
List 12 13 14 15

  
 
 

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Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........
Glass
Single Strength, by box............... dis
Double ik De DOM. 26000 dis
By the Eight... oo... .... ... dis
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list..............dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s.....................dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........30¢ list
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3........:...........di8
Hollow Ware
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Horse Nails
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House Furnishing Goods
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Bar Iron....... cae
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Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... aa
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.......
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Mattocks

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Metals—Zinc
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Bird Cages ......... 40
Pumps, Cistern... 75
Screws, New List ....... 85
Casters, Bed and Plate. 50&10&10
Dampers, American....

Molasses Gates
Stebbing’ Pattern... 60... aden 60810
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans

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Common, polished... .... 205. 02.0 coe. 70&5

Patent Planished Iron

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 12 80

“B”’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 11 50
Broken packages %c per pound extra.

Planes

Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy. ..............-

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Nails
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Copper Rivets and Burs..............

Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............
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Sand Paper
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Sash Weights
Selid Eyes, per tom... 20:05... 0.32: 25 00
Sheet Iron
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Nos. 10 to 14 . ewe aeeue $3 60
Nos. 15 to 17 3 60
Nos. 18 to 21 3 70
Nos. 22 to 24.. 3 80
Nos. 25 to 26.. 3 90

Be ae cap Rp 4 20 40
All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 Inches
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Shovels and Spades
Wires Grade, Der. oo. ooo ss 8
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Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

THE GOLDEN RULE.

Instance Where Its Application Was Not
Appreciated.

My wife—God bless her !—is a good
deal more religious than I am and,
when { spend a Sunday at home, she
usually likes to drag me out to church
at least once during the day. It is some-
times a tough job, for 1 am an unregen-

' erate sort of a hairpin, but I often go to

please her.

I went last Sunday evening, and the
text was the Golden Rule—‘*‘ Do unto
others as you would have them do unto
you.”’

I spell it out, so that you fellows will
know what the Golden Rule is.

The sermon was all right. The
preacher was one of these plain fellows
who are doing the best they know how
in a dogged, honest sort of way to make
the world better. He’ll never set the
world on fire with his oratory, but what
he said was straight and good. The gist
of it was that a man has no right to go
through the world refusing or neglecting
to help his fellow-creatures. Everybody,
he said, would occasionally see a way
in which he could help his brother or
his sister, and it was wrong not to do
it,even though it seemed like meddling.

I’m not a fellow who believes in mix-
ing in my neighbors’ business much,
but what this preacher said rather
stirred me up. He believed it himself,
and that’s always convincing.

My wife and | discussed the sermon
as we rode home on the car. It wasa
soft, moonlight evening, the spell of the
service was on me—I felt like doing
noble deeds.

The next morning I kissed my wife
good-bye and went off on the road
again.

During that day I was in the store of
a grocer a few miles beyond Harris-
burg, Pa. In the interval of waiting for
the proprietor to get at liberty I noticed
the store boy. He was about I5 years
old and stood at the front of the store
doing some cleaning.

It was a good-sized store and there
seemed to be considerable business do-
ing. People would come in and ask
the boy questions and he would answer
them like a surly dog. 1 didn’t hear
him give one polite answer while I
stood there.

The sermon of the day before recurred
to me and I resolved to help this gro-
cer by calling down his insolent cub of
a boy. So after a particularly impudent
reply which he gave to an old lady who
had asked him whether the proprietor
was in, I said:

‘*See here, you wretched little whelp,
why can’t you find a civil word for
these people? If you answered my cus-
tomers like you answered Mr.—’s, I'd
break your head!’’

I admit it was pretty strong language,
but he was such an unpleasant little
beggar!

The boy looked at me insolently, and
then he said:

‘*Wot t’ "ell is it your business?’’

‘‘It isn’t any of my business,’’ I said,
‘‘and I’m sorry it isn't, for if it was
I’d pull the ear off you.”’

‘‘Go to +!’’ observed this prize
Sunday-school scholar briefly. Then,
to escape what I had ready for him, he
ran.

It seemed to me that the grocer’s in-
terests demanded that he be told about
this boy, so when | got at him I said:

‘*I'm going to do something for you
that I'd thank you to do for me under
the same circumstances, and that is to

 

tell you about that boy you’ve got. I
was standing by him when several cus-
tomers asked him questions, and he had
an impudent answer for every one.
When I called him down, as I knew you
would do if you were there, he told me
to go to a warmer climate. Of course,”’
I went on, growing more noble in my
own estimation ‘every minute, ‘‘a mer-
chant can’t be around everywhere at the
same time, and little things like this
boy's actions escape him unless some
friend tells him the situation.’’

1 paused and waited to be thanked.

The grocer said nothing for a minute,
then he said:

‘‘T never did have any use fora tattle-
tale, especially a man that runs around
telling tales on boys! I don’t believe
there’s anything you want to see me for
to-day, so I'll say good-day.”’

When I came to, I got up and feebly
walked out. What had hit me? What
had become of the Golden Rule? Had
I gone to church the night before or
hadn’t I?

A clerk was standing by the door as |
went out, I stopped and asked:

‘‘Say, who is that boy you’ve got
here, anyway?’’

‘*Him?f’’ he replied, ‘‘he’s the boss’s
son; ain't he a bird?’’

Thus did your uncle fulfill the Golden
Rule. This is what going to church
and getting impressed with a sermon
did for me!

After this 1 mind my own business,
and don’t you forget it!—Stroller in
Grocery World.

—_—_>2>—____
The Grain Market.

Wheat has run an even course with
not much change. Exports have not
been quite as heavy, still they have
been over six millions bushels during
the last week.. Of course, we all know
that we can not keep up such large ex-
ports, even with our large crop, as it
will soon show in the amount on_ hand.

We might mention that wheat has
been taken at one shilling a ton to Eng-
land, while they charge seven shillings
and six pence per ton for flour, giving
the millers there an advantage over
home millers. How long the American
miller will stand such discrimination
remains to be seen. It looks to us that
this difference in freight is all out of
proportion. The harvest in the North-
west is about over. Threshing does
not show up as much as was antici-
pated, especially in North Dakota,
where the wheat is light and not up to
standard.

Corn has sold off, on account of rains
coming, which have helped the late
corn; still best informed crop reporters
claim only half a crop. Pasturage also
has improved, which has a tendency to
make corn weak. Receipts of corn have
also been of a more liberal nature. All
this helps to depress the prices.

Oats felt the decline of corn and sold
off a couple of cents. We consider oats
very cheap at the present prices.

Rye also had a downward tendency.
The demand is not as urgent as it was
ten days ago.

Beans have dropped about 1I5c per
bushel for October and November deliv-
eries.

Flour remains very strong and the de-
mand is good, millers selling all they
make.

Mill feed also remains steady. It
looks as though prices were not going to
drop for some time owing to the large
demand.

Receipts for the week have been as
follows: Winter wheat, 69 cars; corn,

 

 

4; oats, 8; rye, 1; flour, 4; beans, 1;
hay, 6; potatoes, 3.

Millers are paying 7oc for wheat.

During the month of August the re-
ceipts’ were as follows: Wheat, 218
cars; corn, 48; oats, 34; rye, 4; flour,
31; beans, 3; malt, 1; hay, 2; pota-
toes, 4. C. G. A. Voigt.

—s- o>
Not in Business For His Health.
From the Cassopolis Vigilant.

A gentleman has been in town the
past two or three days trying to inaugu-
rate the trading stamp scheme of secur-
ing patronage in a number of Cassopolis
business houses and, so far as we can
learn, has met with no success. This
is as we think it should be, for the mer-
chant who conducts a legitimate busi-
ness needs no continuous prize giving
to secure trade, and neither he nor his
customer can afford it, while it is cer-
tain that the outsider who inaugurates
the scheme is not in the business for
his health and that he expects to reap a
profit from either the merchants or their
customers.

—__—>_.

A delegation of British mechanics
who are making a tour of observation
in this country express astonishment at
the methods they have seen employed in
our big manufacturing establishments.
While they had expected many sur-
prises, they had never dreamed of such
tremendous rush under high pressure,
especially such as was seen at the Bald-
win locomotive works, Cramp’s ship
yards, the great textile mills and iron
and steel works, and in the building in-
dustries. The American workman, they
said, worked faster and under higher
pressure and received more aid from
machinery than the British.

Why ought a thirsty man always to
carry a watch? Because it has a spring
inside.

Busia Hans

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

YOR SALE—A STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
wall paper, carpets, queensware and gro-
eceries of about $7,500 in a town of 1,000, sur-
rounded by a large farming trade We doacash
business of about $20,000 (in seven months of this
year. $12,000) and carry no book account. Have
a good room (electric lights) which can be
rented. Want to sell before fall business. Oct: 1.
Can show any interested party a profitable busi-
ness. Reasons for selling will be made known
by personal letter or visit. If necessary, can re-
duce stock to suit buyer. Thisis no job lot of
_— but is a strictly clean stock. Address
ox 115, Sycamore, Ohio. 38
ee SALE- STOCK OF FURNITURE AND
undertaking in good lively Michigan town
of fifteen hundred; great pening: reason for
selling, poor health. Address No. 29, care
Michigan Tradesman. : 29
OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise about $6,000; selling $10,000 cash
os annum (easily increased to $15,000); in a

 

 

 

ve town of 500 in Jackson county. est of
reasons for selling. Address L., care
Michigan Tradesman. 37

 

LEARANCE SALES CONDUCTED QUICK-
ly and without loss by our new method. It
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ever held. Start one now and doa large business
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Ave., Chicago, Tl. 36
OR SALE—$6,500 STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
groceries, shoes and store fixtures; long
lease and low rent of the best business concern
in city of 2,500. If preferred, I will sell part of
stock and rent half the store to desirable tenant.
No — or traders need apply. A. L. Brad-
ford, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 35
HO WANTS THIS GOOD OPPORTU-
nity of getting a business located in a
— town of 4,000 population, on good street;
rick store that can be rented; a clean stock
general merchandise, invoicing about $4,500;
will discount it for cash $1,010. Those meaning
business address No. 34, care Michigan Trades-
man. 34
ANT TO PURCHASE FURNITURE AND
undertaking business in city of not less
than 5,000 a. Will pay cash. Address
No. 33, care Michigan Tradesman. 33
OR RENT—BRICK STORE, 22x70, SUIT-
able for dry goods or general store; always
been a money winner. For pereeennes address
W. L. Arnold, Marcellus, Mich. 31

 

re SALE—BEST PAYING GENERAL
merchandise store in Mich gan. Good rea-
sons for selling. It will pay to investigate. Ad-
dress No. 27, eare Michigan Tradesman. 27
ARDWARE BUSINESS, WELL ESTAB-
lished, doing retail-wholesale business;
daily sales, $110 to $160. Will arrange special

 

terms right party; for purchase next thirty
days. Address Hardware, care Michigan
Tradesman. 30

re SALE—A CLEAN GENERAL STOCK,
invoicing about $1,800; good farming com-
munity. Reason for selling, other business.
Address Bert F. Wood, Newark, Mich. 26

ee SHOE STOCK FOR SALE AT 60
cents on the dollar. Address No. 23, care
Michigan Tradesman. 23

OR SALE—THE L. H. HUNT & CO. DRUG
stock, furniture and fixtures, soda fountain
and fixtures, appraised at $2,200. Will be sold at
ublic auction Sept. 7. 10 o’clock. For particu-
ars address Daniel R. Whitney, Assignee,
Lowell, Mich. 18

REAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A RETAIL
lumber yard. Address No. 17, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 17

ARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY NEW
stock, general line dry goods: and shoes; in
excellent location, booming city of Saginaw;
will lease store at low rate for number of years.
Reason for selling, to retire from business. Ad-
dress at ouce, F. Appenzeller, 110 N. Hamilton,
Saginaw, Mich. 16
ANTED—HARDWARE STOCK, INVOIC-
ing $1,500 to $’,000; doing good business;
town, 1.000 to 2,0 0 population. Address No. 5,
care Michigan Tradesman. 5

NA ERCHANTS DESIROUS OF CLOSING
4Vi out entire or part stock of shoes or wishing
to dispose of whatever undesirable for cash or
on commission correspond with Ries & Guettel,
124-128 Market St., Chicago, Ill. 6

OR SALE—#3,000 GENERAL STOCK IN
thriving Northern Michigan farming town
on Pere Marquette Railway. Good reasons for
selling. Address No.8, care Michigan Trades-
man 8
NOR SALE—A GENERAL STORE IN A NEW
lumbering town; an exceptionally good op-
portunity for a man to step right into an esta
fished business showing a good profit. With the
deal goes our gvod will and cashing of our labor
and timber orders. For information address
W. C. Sterling & Son, Monroe, Mich.

10 ACRE FARM CHEAP FOR CASH; OR
might exchange for business site. Chas.
Cranson, Hubbardston, Mich. 10

NO. 1 BUSINESS OPENING IN THE BEST

city in Central Michigan. Wishing to con-
fine myself to carpets and readymade wear ex-
clusively, I offer for sale my fine stock of dry
goods, which is one of the best in the city of
Flint. This is a fine chance for legitimate busi-
ness and too good a thing to remain on the mar-
ket long. Speculators and trades not wanted.
— and see or address E. Trump, Flint,

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ANTED—A SMALL. DRUG STOCK IN
good town for cash. Address D. M. Byers,
Fruitport, Mich. ¥99

OR SALE—STOCK OF JEWELRY, TOOLS
and material in Michigan county seat of
6,500 inhabitants. Invoiced $2,500 Jan. 1. Will
sell right for cash. Address Western, care
Michigan Tradesman. 2
OR SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED MEDI-
cal practice, averaging $500 per month. Fine
office and — Address Box 2320, Bat-
tle Creek, Mich. 994
OR SALE—GOOD ESTABLISHED GRO-
cery business in town of 6,000; a bargain for
the right person. Will not sell except to good,
reliable party. For particularsaddress Grocery,
care Michigan Tradesman. 983
ANTED—DRUG (STOCK, ONE THAT
invoices from $1,000 to $1,500. Address
Edgar E. Tice, Bloomingdale, Mich. 980
SPLENDID GENERAL STORE, HOTEL
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

NOR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS SHINGLE
and tie mill in very best repair; center crank
engine, 12x16; plenty boiler room; Perkins shin-
gle mill; bolter cut off, drag and knot saws; ele-
vator; endless log chains; gummer; belting all
in first-class shape; mill now turning out 40 to 50
M. shingles per day. Any one wanting such a
mill will do well to investigate. Will trade for
stock of groceries. Address A. R. Morehouse,
Big Rapids, Mich. 970
‘OR SALE—COUNTKY STORE DOING
good business. For particulars address J.
B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 966
OR SALE, CHEAP—%1,500 STOCK GEN-
eral merchandise. Address No. 945, care
Michigan Tradesman. 945
F GOING OUT OF BUSINESS OR IF YOU
have a bankrupt stock of clothing, dry goods,
or shoes, communicate with The New York
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 728

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

HYSICIAN WANTED, REGISTERED
pharmacist preferred. Drug business can
be bought. Address Drig Doctor, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 40
ANTED—AN EXPERIENCED REGIS-
tered pharmacist. Address T, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 39
ANTED—TRAVELING GROCERY
Salesman of experience to reside at Cadil-
lac, Mich., and travel in the territory contingent
> Address No. 32, care Michigan —
man.
ANTED—ASSISTANT OR REGISTERED
harmacist. Correspondence solicited.
J. 1. Main, Tekonsha, Mich. 28
ANTED—SITUATION BY YOUNG MAN
in general store; has had several years’
experience. Can furnish good references. Ad-
dress No. 997, care Michigan Tradesman. 997

 

    

 

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