GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901. Number 941 and Commercial sLhgatone Grand Rapids Offices: Widdicomb Building. Detroit Offices: Detroit Opera House Block. L. J. Stevenson Manager R. J. Cleland and Don E. Minor Attorneys Expert adjusters and attorneys on collec- tions and litigation throughout Michigan. THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841, R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. C. E. McCRONE, [ianager. National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford Successor to The Grand Rapids Fire Ins. Co. CAPITAL, $1,000,000 ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 IMajestic Building, Detroit, [ich. | :senagapepagcaaetteen WILLIAM CONNOR WHOLESALE READYMADE CLOTHING for all ages, Removed to William Alden Smith block, 28 and 30 South Ionia street. Open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday to I p. m. Mail orders promptly attended to. Customers’ expenses allowed. sic aniacinaddoeal A. BOMERS, Commercial Broker.. And Dealer in Cigars and Tobaccos, 157 E. Fulton St. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. BES \WANGSr * :=* =%— 48} an Serre 7 Roe ra Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St.. Chicago. Ill. Tradesman Coupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Dominion Day. 4. Around the State. * 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Getting the People. 7. Cargo of Sugar Turned to Taffy. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. Clothing. Shoes and Rubbers. Clerks’ Corner. Window Dressing. Renting Letters. Dry Goods. Woman’s Start in Business. Woman’s World. Butter and Eggs. The New York Market. The Meat Market. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Hardware. Hardware Price Current. Caviare’s Rising Price. 24. 2%. 28. 29. 30. 31. O2. TREADING ON DANGEROUS GROUND. The Grocery World is a live trade journal which pursues the lines laid down by its editor with great energy and fearlessness. The Tradesman does not believe that the Grocery World would knowingly advocate any measure or plan of action which would tend to place its readers in jeopardy or subject them to unnecessary expense, but in recommending that merchants and asso- ciations of retail dealers advertise their bad accounts in newspapers, it ought to know that it is treading on dangerous ground. While there is not necessarily any liability attached to advertising the account of a dead-beat, there is a great element of danger in treating a miscel- laneous assortment of accounts in this manner, because of the liability of the merchant advertising an account which has been paid or stating an amount which might be incorrect or of getting a wrong initial or of mis-spelling a name, which might correspond to the name or initial of some other man in the community, who would thus have just cause for bringing a damage suit. It is not an unusual thing for a news- paper to be mulcted in damages to the amount of several hundred dollars through the erroneous publication of a name, coupling it with some crime or misdemeanor which was committed by a man of similar name; and the time has not yet arrived when the average merchant is sufficiently careful in keep- ing his accounts to justify him in ad- vertising for sale accounts which may not be correctly set down in his books. The objection that would apply to the advertising of book accounts will not apply to the advertising of judgments, because a judgment is prima facie evi- dence. of indebtedness, while a book account is not. Better than either method, however, is the adoption and ‘maintenance of a system which will prevent the making of bad accounts. For nearly twenty years the Tradesman has persistently preached the doctrine of protection, instead of retaliation, believing that any plan which prevents the making of bad debts is worth a dozen machines for squeezing money out of dead-beats, because both experi- ence and observation lead to the belief that the time, worry and money ex- pended in collecting doubtful accounts are seldom compensated by the trouble involved in making such accounts. In other words, the merchant is money out whenever he trusts a customer who com- pels him to resort to radical measures to enforce collection. INCREASE IN HEALTHFULNESS. The United States census bulletin on mortality shows that the length of life in this country is increasing. The great gain is in the lower death rate among children under five. The death rate among this class is very much lower than it was twenty-five years ago. The improvement within that period has. been little short of marvelous. Children under the age of five are pe- cularly susceptible to bad sanitary con- ditions, and it is along the lines of san- itation that the greatest progress has been made. Adults live longer than they used to because the conditions all about are constantly improving. The _ sur- roundings in every dwelling place are better than they were, and, what is quite as important,the opportunities for getting good food are very much better. There is more money in circulation, people are more prosperous, and they are putting into their stomachs a higher grade of food than was the case twenty- five years ago. The question of diet has received very close attention, and on all sides new and nourishing foods have been put on-the market at a very low price. The increase of general knowledge among the masses has to do directly with the greater longevity. People in the ordinary walks of life who formerly knew nothing and cared less about hy- giene are well informed now through the great spread of practical knowledge by means of newspapers and periodicals. The result is that our people realize and recognize at once dangers to health and well-being that formerly had no exist- ence for them. They see the pitfalls almost as readily as the most expert and avoid them. Twenty years ago one of the most prolific sources of sickness was polluted water, the use of which was almost general. On the farms you would find almost invariably that the well and the cesspool were so close to- gether that the water was of necessity deleteriously affected. Most people could not believe that so long as water was ciean and sparkling it could carry contagion. It is understood that some- times the most dangerous water is the best looking. The result of this is that typhoid, which was so common fifteen years ago, has been very largely put under control. There is a lesson for the youth of the land in the message sent by Czolgosz to his father as the gates of Auburn prison closed behind him. ‘Tell my father,’’ said the condemned anarchist, ‘‘that I am sorry I left such a bad name for him!’’ GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. It is not at all strange that trouble in the financial centers of the Old World should be a material influence in our stock markets, so, when heavy liquida- tion is the rule there, we must submit to some depreciation here. It remains to be seen whether we have yet reached a position where we can contend with a considerable European reaction without serious consequences here, but, in view of the fact that we have met all the other accepted causes of financial panic without injury, it is not too much to believe that we can meet this danger safely. Of course it is inevitable that our stocks should suffer in the lessened foreign market and in sympathy with foreign declines, but the general un- derlying strength of the situation here gives assurance that such influences will be only temporary. The notable features in the industrial world are the continually increasing earnings in producing works and in transportation. Aside from the un- favorable situation of copper, there are few that do not report constantly accel- erating returns. It is probable that the speculative fever had too far discounted the strength in the red metal and a re- action is the result. There is certainly no diminution in its consumption in this country, but it would naturally be one of the first to suffer in the troubles in Europe. It is a reassurance that this stock has taken its place in the lists of which recoveries are reported, indicat- ing that the decline is not likely to be serious. The general situation in the financial world is exceptionally favorable. Col- lections are generally good and all needs of legitimate trade are anticipated by prompt Treasury payments. The situation in the iron and steel industries is rapidly improving since the labor interruptions, which had caused heavy accumulations of work. Many old contracts were delayed and new orders were held pending the set- tlement, which have since been placed, assuring plenty of work for a consider- able time at profitable prices. It is still to be noted that prices are not allowed to be unduly inflated so as to avoid the curtailment of the market. The textile situation is so far im- proved that, instead of threatened re- duction of prices, which was averted by philanthropic purchases of white goods for the print mills, there is now tbe threat of demanding an advance of wages. Orders for heavy weight wool- ens are good at the mills and quota- tions for wool are maintained. Ad- vances in prices are reported in many lines of footwear, with best grades in leading demand. Many factories re- port their works engaged until the be- ginning of the year. The provisions of the will left by Mr. McKinley are of sucha nature as to add to the love and veneration in which his memory is held by the people of the country. It is a long lane that has no turning, and Czolgosz broke down at last. * MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DOMINION DAY. How the Event Was Celebrated in Stub- bleville. Written for the Tradesman. Dominion Day is the. only public ho]- iday in Canada that is celebrated ex- ciusively by Canadians. There are many holidays, but all, with this one exception, are either observed by all Christianized countries or by all parts of the British Empire. Dominion Day is to Canadians what the ‘Glorious Fourth’’ is to Americans. It is cele- brated by games, sports, pyrotecnic displays and unique processions of va- rious kinds. No patriotic oratory is indulged in and yet it is quasi—na- tional in character. It is not a celebra- tion of the birth of a nation, but it is a celebration of the birthday of the Do- minion, and the world is daily learning that the Dominion is a federation of states or provinces of no mean _propor- tions. But I am ‘‘eppisodin,’’ as Sa- mantha Allen would say, and must ‘‘resume, and go on.’”’ This year Hanksburg celebrated on the Queen's birthday and Wheytown had a ‘‘doins’’ on Jubilee Day; and so when Dominion Day ‘‘hove in sight’’ the coast was clear for twenty miles all around Stubbleville. Time was when Stubbleville alter- nated with Hanksburg in getting up celebrations, but about twenty years ago the old village was run over by a rail- road and killed, and after the funeral the bereft trade was divided among the neighboring villages—Wheytown suc- ceeding as Hanksburg’s running mate in celebration honors. This year Whey- town celebrated on Jubilee Day, and thus it happened that the nearest Do- minion Day celebration was full twenty miles away. This was an opportunity for the raising of a little revenue which Budge Bottleby, landlord of the ‘‘Stub- bleville Roost,’’ determined to grasp by the foretop. He had seen better days in an American town, and although he had struck bottom—or Stubbleville, which is the same thing—he stil] had one eye left for best chances. He saw that the opportunity might not occur again until the Queen had reigned an- other sixty years, and that if he ever made ‘‘a haul’* at the expense of the business men of Stubbleville, now was the time to do it. Although gone to seed Stubbleville has not parted. with her village sport. His name is Adolphus P. McStiff, but everybody calls him Dolph. Asa rep- resentative of his class, he possesses no distinguishing characteristics which make him better or worse than the vil- lage sport of any other village. His wife is a prominent church member and a leader in village social circles. Dolph does not belong to the church. _ ‘It would be detrimental to the position he holds as Lord Mayor, Privy Coun- cilor, General Custodian of Secrets and Universal Umpire for the village. He holds down one or two township offices, shaves notes, speculates on sporting events and is ever on the still bunt for game. He dresses well and lives well. He is built on the ‘‘good Lord good Gevil’’ principle, and is quite as much at home in the tap-room of the **Roost,’’ or in the little back parlor at the ‘‘Retreat’’ over in Hanskburg, where dollars are won and lost in man- ipulating pieces of cardboard, as he is when sipping in the basement of the Stubbleville Baptist church or chatting with the ladies of the Home Mission Circle. Everybody says he is a good fellow, and it is not for me to negative a universal affirmative. ‘‘Well, the scheme’s all right, but ye’ve got to doa little funny work if ye succeed,’’ said the village sport when Bottleby broached the subject one night at the ‘‘Roost.’’ ‘‘You couldn’t pull the business men and citizens for the necessary boodle . yourself, an’ ye couldn't get the people to meet and ap- point a committee to take charge of it. Fact is, it’s been so long since Stubble- ville went to seed I’m afraid some o’ the people’d drop dead if a brass band happened to strike up anywhere on the street.’’ ‘*T'll tell ye wot we'll do,’’ said Bot- tleby, ‘‘yew just draw up a subscription paper an’ I'll head ’er with $20. Then you put down $10 an’ help the thing through an’ after the show I’ll give it back to ye, see?’’ ‘*Yes, I see—that is, I don’t see any- thing in it for me,’’ said Dolph. ‘*Oh, well, ye know I’m allus willin’ to whack up an’ do wot’s fair,’’ said Bottleby, ‘‘an’ now less spring ’er on, hey?’’ ‘‘All right, I guess we understand each other now,’’ said the village Privy Councilor, as he put down his name for a ‘‘ten.’’ ‘‘Now you take his paper up to Junebug & Son’s where you do your trading, an’ pull their leg for a ‘five,’ see? Then hold up the butcher fora like sum an’ strike the little baker for all you can get, see? Sing ’em a song of patriotism, see? Tell ‘em a_ big crowd brought to Stubbleville would put money in their pockets, whereas, it wouldn’t benefit me a particle, finan- cially, see? and then blow ’em my gen- erous give-down, see? After you do that we’ll get up a programme of sports an’ then rope in a self-constituted com- mittee to shoulder the responsibility and carry the thing through. ”’ And that is the way the thing was got up. The accommodating committee was made up of that class of handy fel- lows found in every village who dearly love to show off their petty officiousness in a crowd when clothed with some pygmean badge of self-constituted au- thority. By means of a little lightning-rod elo- quence backed up by much impertinent persistency, the business men and citi- zens of Stubbleville were wheedled out of about $75. Even old Crawfish Pigley, who keeps a general store on the corner opposite Junebug & Son, put his name down for $2; but when the collector called for it the night before the cele- bration, he got mad and kicked his wife’s pet dog out of the back door, found fault with the entire programme, and swore up and down that it would be the last time the face of clay would ever bamboozle him into paying out money for any such fool business. It was the first time old Piggle was ever known to donate a cent for any public purpose whatever; and he was so mad over it he would not go outside his store dur- ing the celebration, and while the Cal- ithumpians were passing he went down cellar and swore at. the butter and kicked the mouse-trap through the cellar window. Some donated expecting to get it back in an increase of trade, but the larger number charged it up to expense ac- count as ‘‘blood money,’’ the same as contributions to the various auxiliary church societies operated by the ladies, God bless them. Of course, the celebration was a howl- ing success. Refreshments at the ‘*Roost’’ were diluted for the occasion so that the crowd might celebrate all day and not be able to get outside of a sufficient quantity to make them drunk before the show was over. Little Briton, the lame cobbler: who lives near the ‘*Roost,’’ got an early start and was run in by his wife before the potato race came off, and because she locked him in the bedroom, he smashed the furni- ture and set the bed on fire. Farmer Filltub must have loaded up on hard cider before he left his own barnyard, because he, too, had his old familiar jag on in advance of the crowd. One of the officious gentlemen of the self- constituted committee, had his head punched for discovering a contrivance for climbing the greased pole secreted in the pant-leg of a colored tough. The pounding reduced the swelling in the committeeman’s head and was one of the best things that happened. The cross-eyed, freckle-faced kid that won first prize in the bun-eating contest swallowed string and all and came within a hair’s breadth of choking to death. The Junkheap brass band was hired for the day and because the com- mittee ordered them to play ‘‘Annie Rooney’’ for the fifth time, after they had played every piece they knew, they got mad and went home before the baby show came off. Taken ail in all, the celebration might be considered a most beautiful affair were it not fora dis- graceful scene enacted in the street right in front of the ‘‘Roost,’’ got up by old mother Bubspanker just because Chap Jowles tore her old striped petticoat while performing with it on in the Cal- ithumpian procession. Of course, there will always be some to find fault. The storekeepers, for instance, found fault because it was the poorest day’s trade they had had in a long time. The butcher growled because he killed an extra calf and two lambs and _ had ‘half of it spoil on his hands. The baker kicked because he had a lot of stale goods and rotten fruits on his hands, and every law-abiding and moral citizen in the village found fault just because the crowd yelled, swore, drank whisky and celebrated in the usual way. It beats all how particular some folks are. Now, Budge Bottleby and Adolphus P. McStiff are not of the particular kind. They know what a _ successful celebration is, and they say the celebra- tion at Stubbleville was everything that could be desired. Funny, isn't it? E. A. Owen. —__—_ 0 2. Cape Cod Cranberry Harvest Begun. From the New England Grocer. The cranberry harvesting season on Cape Cod is now on and the growers are getting their crops gathered without de- ay. Already heavy shipments of berries are being made to Chicago and the Far West, and the markets of the East, es- pecially New York and Boston, will re- ceive but a small share of the crop gath- ered on the Cape. Better prices pre- vail in the West than are offered in the commission houses in the East. The Western buyers have a decided advantage over the Eastern commission house owing to the fact that they pay spot cash for the berries as soon as they are loaded on the cars, while the com- mission house waits until the berries are sold and charges deducted before they make any returns to the buyers. This method of doing business on a cash basis was started several years ago and has been found to be giving gen- eral satisfaction both to the growers and buyers, ——_>2.__ By all means make a living, but re- member that there is something more important than making a living, and that is making a life. Advertising Accounts For Sale in News- papers Risky Business. William B. French, Boston, a recog- nized authority in the United States on matters of commercial law and equity, has prepared the following brief on the plan of publishing and offering for sale the accounts of delinquent customers, by advertising names and sums in the columns of local newspaper, adopted and carried into execution by the Utica Retail Grocers’ Association : I have your letter, in which you ask my opinion ‘‘on the system of attempt- ing to collect bad debts by advertising them in the local papers in Utica.’’ Accompanying your letter is a slip cut from a trade journal of Sept. 23, con- taining an article entitled ‘“A new way to collect old debts. ’’ : From that article it appears that the proposed system is the conspicuous publication, in a newspaper, of the ad- vertisement, by sale at public auction, of accounts payable, giving the names and addresses of the debtors and the amount claimed to be due from each debtor. I understand that you also wish to know whether, in my opinion, such a publication as that proposed in the above mentioned article, exposes those making or procuring the publica- tion to civil action. A false statement concerning a per- son, by written, or printed words tend- ing to impeach his honesty, or integ- rity, or to injure his reputation, is libelous: its publication actionable ; and all those who assist in the publica- tion are liable therefor- The impeaching false statement need not be in express terms; but the use of any apt words which, in connection with other words, and in view of the circumstances in which they are used, naturally impute an accusation affecting a person’s character or reputation, will give an action to one who is injured thereby. Words which are made the basis of an action must be construed in the sense in which the readers or hearers are jus- tified in understanding them, and the meaning of the words must be deter- mined by the judge or jury, from the evidence submitted at the trial, concern- ing the facts and circumstances under which the words were used. It is impossible for me to advise you with certainty whether the publication of such an advertisement as that de- scribed in the article to which | have referred will give a cause of action to a person named therein, because the words do not necessarily impute an accusa- tion, or reflect upon the character of the person named; but from what I know of the methods of collection agen- cies, and from what is disclosed of the purposes of the new system in the ar- ticle, I think a judge or jury would find, upon trial of an action for libel based on such a publication, that the one inserting the advertisement in- tended thereby to accuse the persons therein named of being dishonest, of being ‘‘dead beats,’’ and that the ad- vertisement was made for the purpose of extorting money; and further, that those reading the advertisement would so understand it. If these facts be found, and the ac- cusation is false, the person injured thereby is entitled to recover damages from all who actively assisted in pub- lishing the advertisement. In conclusion I have to say, ‘that in my opinion the new system is perni- cious and that its adoption and use by an association, coliection agency or newspaper is likely to invite dangerous and expensive litigation. ——_>42_____ Recommendation Which Was Literally Correct. A kind hearted gentleman dismissed a gardener who used to steal his fruit and vegetables. For the sake of the man’s wife and family, however, he gave him a testimonial worded thus: I hereby certify that A. B. bas been my gardener for over two years, and that during that time he has got more out of my garden than any man I ever employed.’’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN “he following from the advertisement of a prominent wholesale grocer . should be read and pondered by every dealer: “Some grocers succeed where others seem to work just as hard and yet fail to achieve much—it is just as important to know what to push as it is how to push—pushing pure and pleasing products produces prosperity, but pushing poor stuff drives trade away.” It pays infinitely better to push a baking powder like “ Royal,” an article of known merit, whose good qualities are recognized and appreciated by all consumers. Royal Baking Powder 1s easy to sell, and when sold there is always a pleased purchaser. Royal Baking Powder is largely advertised and that helps the dealer; but a pleased pur- chaser 1s the best advertiser for your store, because she will recommend to others that dealer who has pleased her. Royal Baking Powder is the highest class baking powder, made from pure cream of tartar, and absolutely free from alum or other harm- ful ingredient. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. ore ttig ie ’ MEG Santee a ~ Sere he date eercennicmcty ae = Nee RT 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN - Around the State Movements of Merchants. Bronson—G. A. McMasters, cigar manufacturer, has removed to Batavia. Grayling— Robert Meyers has removed his general merchandise stock to Lewis- ton. Lansing—Porter & Smith have sold their grocery stock to Morris C. Bow- dish. Delton—J. F. & A. D. Williams have sold their furniture stock to Aldrich Bros. Juniata—John Daugherty has _pur- chased the grocery stock of James H. Mead. Laurium—Louis Marmes, dealer in general merchandise, has removed to Antigo, Wis. Charlotte—Densmore & Co. have opened their new racket store in the Lockard block. Gagetown—T. C. Maynard is suc- ceeded in the drug business by Mrs. Ella V. Maynard. Belding—W. J. Mosgrove has sold his Bridge street meat market to Smith & Hines, of Rockford. Hastings—Fred Spangemacher removed his hardware stock from dleville to this place. Greenville—W. W. Slawson continues the drug business of G. R. SJawson & Co. in his own name. Sturgis—Bailey & Rider, black- smiths, have dissolved partnership, M. L. Ryder succeeding. South Haven—W. E. Stineman & Co. have purchased the bakery business of Frank D. Scofield & Co. Coldwater—Joslyn & Carpenter suc- ceed Joslyn & Norris in the bakery and confectionery business. Detroit—Thos. J. Digby has_ pur- chased the interest of his partner in the grocery firm of Digby Bros. Cassopolis—S. B. Thomas has his new building completed and has re- moved his grocery stock thereto. Lansing—Sabin & Creyts, dealers in hardware, have dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by Walter D. Sabin. Central Lake—John Vaughan has pur- chased the interest of Hugh Vaughan in the drug stock of Vaughan Bros. and will continue the business in his own name. New Haven—A new banking institu- tion has been organized at this place has Mid- under the style of the New Haven Savings Bank. It is capitalized at $20, 000, Lake Odessa—Scheidt & Mclntyre will shortly be located in their new meat market. W. L. Johnson has opened a second market at the old Harry Hubbard stand. Belding—S. L. Ellsworth has sold the Palace bakery to G. E. Shaw and Hub VanBuskirk, who will continue’ the business under the style of Shaw & Van Buskirk, changing the name to the Gem bakery. Marshall——-The_ People’s Clothing House, composed of J. W. Fletcher, R. B. Fletcher, T. C. Fletcher and Geo. Fletcher, has leased a store building at Benton Harbor and wil! shortly remove to that place. Cadillac—Aaron F. Anderson has re- tired from the shoe firm of Anderson, Olsen & Coffey, after having been en- gaged in the business for fifteen years, and is succeeded by Olsen & Coffey. Mr. Anderson will devote his entire at- tention to the lumbering business of Johnson & Anderson. Lake Odessa—Hart & Hollenbeck, dealers in furniture and hardware, have dissolved partnership, W. W. Hollen- beck retiring from the business, which will be continued by Guy N. Hart in his own name. Boyne City—Mrs. F. A. Schoolcraft has opened a bazaar store in Mrs. Mc- Wain’s millinery building and_ will carry a line of glassware, earthenware, tinware, graniteware and women’s fur- nishing goods. Bailey—Geo. Hirschberg has sold his dry goods stock to Nathan Barth, who has removed it to Grant, New Mexico. Mr. Hirschberg will remove to Grand Rapids and engage in the fruit and produce business. Marcellus—Isaac Solomon has _ re- moved his clothing and boot and shoe stock into the building recently pur- chased by him. The building just va- cated will be occupied by H. Koehl with a stock of boots and shoes. Kalamazoo—Geo. E. Bouck has _ sold his meat market at 810 Washington ave- nue to Tyson & Mason, who will con- tinue the business at the same location. Mr. Bouck has removed to Grand Rap- ids, where he has re-engaged in the meat business. Kalamazoo— The Omaha Packing Co., of Omaha, Neb., has established.a wholesale agency for the sale of its goods inthis city. The business is in charge of A. Anderson and C. Van Duine, with headquarters at the Ander- son market on Portage street. Milford—The affairs of the Milford State Bank, which closed its doors in September, 1891, have finally been set- tled and the receiver discharged. The creditors have received 16.3 per cent. of their claims, which is more than they had any expectation of getting at the time of the collapse. Traverse City—F. C. Thompson, whose drug stock in the Tonnelier block was destroyed by fire in May, is in the city for a few days. Mr. Thompson has been filling a position in the drug store of Church & West in Grand Rap- ids, but he is seriously thinking of starting in this city again, if he can se- cure a location to his liking. Jackson—E. C. Morrisey, trustee in bankruptcy in the Charles Snow matter, sold the shoe stock at public auction Sept. 24. The stock, minus the exemp- tion of $250, amounted to $671.35. There were also accounts amounting upon their face to about $500. They were sold to Benj. Williams, the stock at 27% cents on the dollar, or for $184.62, and the accounts for $36. The bid must be confirmed by the United States District Court at Detroit before the sale is valid. Manufacturing Matters. Ludington—The Handy - Things Co. succeeds the Cartier Enameling Co. Detroit—The Wayne Chemical Co. has filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $10,0CcCo. Flint—The Durant-Dort Carriage Co. has increased its capital stock from $1,200,000 to $1, 500, 000, Anchorville—The Anchorville Milling Co, has been organized at this place with a capital stock of $5,000, Hermansville—The Wisconsin Land & Lumbering Co. has increased its cap- ital stock from $220,000 to $250, 000, Port Huron—M. R. Wood, general manager of the Port Huron Salt Co., has resigned and it is rumored that he will start a soda ash plant just south of the salt block. Detroit—The style of the cigar man- ufacturing firm of John C. Sullivan & Son has been changed to John C. Sulli- van & Co. East Jordan—B. E. Waterman is building an extension of 30 feet on the south end of his factory and will add more machinery and put in a sash and door factory for winter stock work. Pontiac—Sylvester Cole has purchased the interest of his partners in the Acme Carriage Co., one of the recently organ- ized carriage factories here. He will conduct the business alone, and con- tinue the manufacture of high class vehicles. Cheboygan—Chicago capitalists plan to build a large oxalic acid factory here, to use up the sawdust which has ac- cumulated from the sawmills. The plant will be the only one of its kind in America, the acid heretofore having been imported. Plans are being drawn for the factory. Adrian—In all probability the refrig- erator company will discontinue busi- ness here after the present stock is closed out. There are 1,400 boxes of this season’s make which will be carried over. The company was: organized last January and, from present indications, will soon be a thing of the past. Detroit—The shareholders of the American Alkali Co. will on Oct. 3 vote on a proposition approved by the di- rectors to make the outstanding pre- ferred stock full paid by issuing two shares of full paid, par value $50, for five shares of preferred on which $20 shall have been paid. Of the $6,000,000 preferred stock, $2,400,000 will then be outstanding and $3,600,000 will have been retired. Port Huron—The McMorran Milling Co. has commenced suit against the National Surety Co., of New York, to recover the amount of an alleged de- falcation of an employe, A. E. Eller- thorpe, of Carsonville, a grain buyer. The McMorran company claims to have been insured with the surety company against loss from defalcation by its em- ployes and that Ellerthorpe, while buy- ing grain for them, failed to account for some $2,700, but the surety company re- fused to pay the shortage when called upon. Detroit—M. Rafelson, President of the Imperial Cap Co., 116 Jefferson avenue, died at his home, 68 Sherman street, Sunday morning, after a_ six weeks’ illness, from a complication of diseases, at the age of 32 years. Mr. Rafelson came to Detroit from New York about six years ago and in com- pany with E. V. Brigham and G. Mc- Knight established a cap factory. He was a member of Dirigo Lodge No. 30, F. & A. M., New York, and Court Bagley I. O. F., and the Protegted Home Circle in Detroit. He leaves a widow and three children. Kalamazoo—John McLarty, who was the founder and principal owner of the French Garment Co. for several years, but who has not been actively engaged in business for several months, is about to again embark in business in Kala- mazoo. He has secured quarters over 215 Nerth Rose street and, under the name of the Diamond Skirt Co., has as- sociated with -him his two sons, James and Jobn, Jr. The new concern will start about October 15 in a small way and will enlarge the plant as the busi- ness may demand, manufacturing high grade petticoats and other ladies’ wear- ing apparel. Galesburg—-When the promoters and advocates of the Galesburg canning fac- tory were laboring to secure subscrip- tions to the stock, there were not want- ing those who based their refusal upon the presumption that the locality would never produce material sufficient ‘‘to make it pay.’’ Six weeks ago the fac- tory went into operation and since there has been a constant procession of teams drawing all kinds of seasonable fruits to the market thus created. In fact, it has been difficult to obtain the help necessary to care for the quantities de- livered, and it is now very evident that those who subscribed ‘‘to help the town,’’ incidentally helped themselves in a financial sense. Pathetic Farewell. A country minister in a certain town took permanent leave of his congrega- tion in the following pathetic manner: ‘*Brothers and sisters, I come to say good-bye. I don’t think God loves this church, because none of you ever die. | don’t think you love each other, because you have not paid my salary. Your donations are mouldy fruit and wormy apples, and ‘by their fruits ye shall know them.’ Brothers, | am going away to a better place. I have been called to be chaplain of a penitentiary. 1 go to prepare a place for you, and may the Lord have mercy on your souls! Good-bye. ’’ aa RO The Boys Behind the Counter. Kalamazoo—David H. Lull, of South Haven, has taken a position with the Brownson & Rankin Dry Goods Co, He was formerly in Schoolcraft. Ionia—Leon Sayles, who has for some time past been in the employ of F. W. Stevenson & Co., has secured a position in Lansing with a shoe firm. Traverse City—Claude Thompkins has resigned his position in the grocery store of McCluskey & Clancey to accept a position in the Boston Store. —_—__>_2>—___ Limburger in a Divorce Suit. Franklin, Penn., Sept. 283—The right of a husband to whip his wife because she disobeyed him and insisted upon buying limburger cheese against his protests is one of the points in a di- vorce case here. The defendant is S., D. Fleming. The wife charges him with cruelty, and the limburger cheese figures as a cause of provocation, it be- ing shown that the odor was disagree- able to him. ——_>2#2.___ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. HONEY WANTED Will pay cash; write or see us before selling. M. ©. BAKER & @O., Toledo, Ohio WROUGHT IRON PIPE We have a large stock of % to 8 inch Black, % to 3 inch Galvani ‘ect 2 inch Galvanized Plugged and Reamed Pipe, sat can fil "aedeee” uae Malleable and Cast Iron Fittings, Valves, etc» Mill and Well Supplies. GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY COMPANY 20 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Grand Rapids Gossip John Mros succeeds Mros & Schar- mach in the meat business at 87 Stock- ing street. Geo. E. Bouck, formerly engaged in the meat business in Kalamazoo, has opened a market at 321 West Bridge street, corner Pettibone street. Thomas Heffernan, general dealer at Baldwin, has added a line of shoes. The Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. furnished the stock. Ed. M. Metheany and Geo. W. Lackey have purchased the patent and good will of the Automatic Printer Co. and will continue the business under the style of Lackey & Metheany. The business was established by Dr. L. D. Marvin, D. B. Austin and P. Vander- linda, who perfected the device and introduced it to the attention of Michi- gan merchants before disposing of it to Messrs. Lackey & Metheany. —-_—_»-0-2 The Grocery Market. Sugar—The refined market is very quiet. Buyers have not much confidence in the market and continue to limit their purchases to such supplies as are abso- lutely needed to fill urgent wants, and new orders were light. Refiners are still behind in making deliveries, but are gradually getting caught up. The expected decline was realized yester- day, when all grades were reduced 15 points. Canned Goods—There were _ few changes in the canned goods market during the past week. Business was active and the tone one of firmness, but trade is not as active as it was in Aug- ust. ' The trade seems to be poorly sup- plied and buyers are steadily securing stocks of all lines. Tomatoes are firmer and very active. It is now a well-known fact that the tomato crop all over the country is a partial failure. It is not believed that the total pack during the entire season will exceed 70 per. cent. of the output of 1900. There is no ac- cumulation of stocks. The warehouses have plenty of spare room and the packers are shipping tomatoes as fast as they are packed. Therefore, it stands to reason that such a line as tomatoes, which are always in demand, should ad- vance. Gallon tomatoes are scarce. The pack of this size is the smaliest for sev- eral years ; we believe prices for this size will show a material advance shortly. Many think that prices of all grades and sizes of tomatoes will soon show quite an advance and that now is a good time to buy. In contrast with the tomato market, the corn market continues very easy, with but littlhe demand. The stocks of all grades of peas are very light—far more than is_ generally known. The best quality of all sifted grades, as well as the best standards are practically sold out. There are still a few good seconds on hand, but an or- dinary buying movement will quickly clean them up. There is very little to say about the peach market. The buying has been for small lots, but they are numerous, just the sort of orders that carry away stocks without attracting any attention. Gallon: apples are firm and fairly active. Pineapples are high- er as a result of the recently increased duty. Domestic sardines are lower. The Seacoast Packing Co. has reduced its prices 35c on &% oils and soc on 4% mustards and some of the outside pack- ers have made prices 1oc lower than the combine. The salmon market is rather unsettled and prices show a wide range. The consumptive demand, however, continues active. The remainder of the market is unchanged. There is not anything of sufficient interest to report in any other line, but the market closes very strong all along the line. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market, as_a whole, is rather quiet and un- changed. Raisins, however, are attract- ing considerable attention, as the Asso- ciation has named exceedingly low prices on the new crop goods. The trade has taken hold very freely, but sales were comparatively small, as the quantity offered at the low price was limited. The general feeling was that the low price tactics would force the growers into line and that prices would be decidedly higher soon. There were, however, reports from the coast that prices would go still lower. Prunes are in some request at previous prices. Peaches are in better demand and are moving out quite freely. There isa small trade in apricots, but no very large sales are made. The demand for currants continues slow. Some new Symrna figs have arrived, but are meet- ing with a very slow sale, on account of the continued warm weather. Evapo- rated apples are slightly weaker as the stock begins to come in more freely. We do not think, however, that there will be any material decline in prices at present. Rice—The rice market is firm, with good demand. Sales included a general variety of most all grades, for which unchanged prices were obtained. Busi- ness will probably be of a hand-to-mouth character for a few days, as the opinion is prevalent that prices will gradually go lower when the crop moves more freely. Tea—Stocks of tea show a decrease and, with the improved statistical posi- tion, it is the general belief that prices will go higher for green teas. The dis- tributing business was moderately ac- tive. Prices are firm for all grades and some grades show an advance of 4 @'%c. The arrivals of new crop teas continue small and, as supplies are light and well controlled, there is every reason to believe that prices will ad- vance. Buyers continue to adhere to the hand-to-mouth policy and confined their purchases to small lots, but there was more disposition shown to trade, Molasses—The statistical position of the market is growing stronger and prices for all grades show a hardening tendency. Stocks in dealers’ hands are small. It is believed that the supply will hardly be adequate to meet the wants of the trade hefore the arrivals of the new crop. Reports from New Or- leans note favorable crop prospects and, as the crop will be late, it is not ex- pected that any large receipts will come in before October 15 or Nov. 1. The corn syrup market is weaker and prices have declined tc per gallon and 6c per case. ‘Fish—The macketel market is very firm, the catch being nearly over and the stocks very light. There is no pos- sibility of any decline in values, and every probability of an advance. ———_> > ___ Fred N. Blake, book-keeper and ac- countant for the Vinkemulder Company, was married Sept. 24 to Miss Emily Taylor, of Grandville, the ceremony oc- curring at the residence of the bride's parents. The happy couple will reside in Grandville for the present. ——_» 0.____ The man who is imprisoned for life no longer dreads being found out. The Produce Market. Apples—The situation is changing materially. Receipts are largely in- creasing and prices are easier. Instead of buyers doing the seeking, farmers are looking for buyers, who are grad- ually picking up supplies of choice va- rieties, paying as high as $2 per bbl. for the fruit alone. The crop is turning out better in quality and larger in quan- tity than was expected earlier in the season. The Baldwins grown in this vicinity are especially fine in quality. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Butter—The butter market is ruling steady. Trade is not active, but a fair demand exists which is confined prin- cipally to fancy makes of creamery. Other descriptions are holding steady. The receipts are small. This is one of the influences creating the firmness, Extra creamery is in active demand at 21c. Dairy grades range from 12c for packing stock to 15c for fancy tubs and crocks, Beets—$1.25 per bbl. Cabbage—§$2 per crate of three to four dozen. Carrots—$1.25 per bbl. Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz. Celery—i5c per doz. Corn— Evergreen, 8@1oc per doz. Egys—Receipts are not large and the market gradually strengthening. Deal- ers pay 15@16c and hold fancy candled at 16@I17c. Egg Plant—75c per doz. Frogs’ Legs—Large bulls, 4oc; me- dium bulls, 20c; large frogs, 15c; small frogs, 5@Ioc. Grapes—Wordens fetch 12c for 8 Ib. and ioc for 4 1b. baskets. Delawares command Isc for 4 lb. and Niagaras 12c for 8 lb. baskets. Green Onions—ticc for Silverskins. Honey—White stock is in light sup- ply at 14c. Amber is slow sale at 13c and dark is in moderate demand at 11 @i2c. Lettuce—Garden, 5o0c per bu. ; head, 6oc per bu. Mapie Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Osage and Canta- loupes, 65c per doz. Onions—In strong demand at 75@85c per bu. Oranges—The new crop of California oranges is growing well. As to its size, the best authorities say it will not be so large as last year, the navels perhaps being 20 per cent. lighter than in the season now closing. Valencia lates and seedlings will be about the same as in the season of 1900-1901. Parsley—zoc per doz. Peppers—Green, 6oc per bu. Plums—Blue Dawsons are in small supply at $2.25@2.50 per bu. Peaches—Old Mixons, 60c; Gold Drops, 60@70c; Smocks and Salaways, 65@8sc per bu. This week practically ends the season, although Salaways will continue to come in in limited quanti- ties for three or four days next week. The season has been one of the best and most profitable ever enjoyed by this market. Prices have been fairly well maintained and neither growers or deal- ers have just cause for complaint, tak- ing the season as a whole. One grower stated yesterday that he marketed 400 bushels of Smocks from one acre of tree this year at an average price of 50c per bushel, which paid him better than any other variety of peaches or any other crop he could raise. Pears——Flemish Beauties, $1.50; sugar, $1; Bartletts and Duchess, $1.75 @2. Potatoes—The cry of a short crop has been kept up so !ong that many dealers have begun to think such was the con- dition. A few cool heads who were posted have maintained all along that the crop of late potatoes would be good and sufficient to keep the price down to 50@6oc during the season. Poultry—The general feeling among poultry receivers is that shipments will be heavy during November and Decem- ber. The market is weaker and a trifle lower on fowls and springs. Live hens command 6@7c; spring chickens, 74@ 8%c; turkey hens, 8@gc; gobblers, 8c; young turkeys, ioc; spring ducks, 7 @oc. Pigeons are in moderate demand at 50@6oc per doz.; and squabs are taken readily at $1.20@1.50. ; Quinces—$I.40 per bu. ame Radishes—i2c for China Rose; , 1oc for Chartiers. String Beans—75c per bu. Squash—Hubbard commands 2c per eer i Sweet Potatoes—Virginias have de- clined to $2.75 and genuine Jerseys to $3. Tomatoes—s0@6oc per bu. Watermelons—14@15c for home grown. Wax Beans—75c per bu. ——___--_ +. >_> ___— The Grain Market. Wheat has been very steady during the week. Receipts in the Northwest have again been very large, while the Southwest receipts are falling off.. The only reason that the receipts are falling off in the Southwest is that the farmers, owing to the shortness of the corn crop, are feeding wheat in place of corn, as they claim it is more profitable with the present high price of beef and pork to feed it than to sell at present low prices. Some claim it nets them goc@ $1 per bushel, by feeding it. Our ex- ports have been very large again, ac- cording to Bradstreets’ report, being 6,470,000 bushels from both coasts. Our out shipments have been nearly 79,000, - ooo bushels since July 1,against 39, 000, - ooo bushels during the corresponding time last year. Yet with this enormous export demand, our visible increased 2,500,000 bushels, which looks rather large, taking the outflow into considera- tion. Futures have remained the same as before. Corn, although the increase was only 500,000 bushels, has sagged off 1c. The reason for the small reduction in price is that the long interest wanted to see more moving out,as the amount in sight is 13,000,000 bushels, against 7,000,000 bushels last year. However, it will be a hard task to depress the market when there was only a trifle over a half crop raised, Oats were rather strong and more are wanted. The visible is only 8,900,000 bushels, against 11,425,000 bushels last year. Stocks in Chicago are only I,900,- ooo bushels, which isa remarkably small amount, and it would not take much of an effort to ship them out. Rye was somewhat easier, being 1c lower, as distilleries have not started yet. However, they will probably start in the near future, when choice rye will be wanted. Beans have slumped off fully 20c per bushel for October. Detroit quotes them at $1.65. The harvest seems to have been larger than was counted on earlier in the season. The flour trade is fair. The mills are running full, excepting the Star, which is being overhauled and changed toa sifter system. Mill feed seems to be in demand as much as ever and the supply is not equal to the demand. Receipts for the week were: wheat, 35 cars; corn, 4 cars; oats, 2 cars; flour, 4 cars; beans, I car; hay, 1 car; straw, 2 cars; potatoes, 4 cars. Receipts for the month of September , were: wheat, 175 cars; corn, 10 Cars; oats, 18 cars; rye, 2 cars; flour, 9 cars; beans, I car, hay, 5 cars; straw, 4 cars; potatoes, 8 cars. Mills are paying 7oc for wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. —_> 22. —____ Reports of the presence of bubonic plague come simultaneously from Rio Janeiro and Naples. Eternal vigilance will be the price of immunity in the United States, tthe scope ethane Og win " i Lats lorandienie pinbrce persia cet pes ee acti ROD eo geen Hm te Getting the People Emergency Schemes in and Around the Pan-American. A good place to study the latest in what may be called emergency adver- tising is in and around the Exposition at Buffalo. Naturally the great adver- tisers of goods for general sale could find no more favorable field than when the whole country is so widely repre- sented. Thus the booths for the na- tionally advertised confections, etc., many occupying beautifully designed buildings, are the finest that money and artistic ingenuity can command. The local merchants have taken ad- vantage of any schemes they could hit upon, and the country around Buffalo and the Falls is thoroughly exploited with signboards and signs on build- ings. If this country were to impose taxes on such signs, as is done in many of the European countries, the revenue from that locality would be consider- able. Among other of the emergency schemes is the guessing contest by a local clothing house. Every day a suit of clothes is given to the one who guesses nearest to the attendance for each day at the fair. The scheme is proving very successful and profitable. At first thought it might be considered rather expensive, especially as the scheme has to be widely advertised in the local papers in addition to the cost of the suits, but as the guesses have to be recorded at the store great numbers are brought there. The contest is prin- cipally of local interest as the visitors do not think of it, being too much oc- cupied by the exhibition. By the oper- ation of the scheme many thousands of the residents of Buffalo are made ac- quainted and every suit given out has its influence on the lucky guesser and on the circle of his acquaintance. There was a fad for guessing schemes, as_ the number of seeds in a pumpkin, some years ago, but as these were long drawn out the interest could not be main- tained. A contest every day with some- thing worth while as the prize will keep up the greatest interest. I do not think the intrusion of so many ugly glating signs in places of natural beauty and interest is of great value. There is a sense of intrusion and impertinence which does not con- duce to the permanent success of the advertiser. There is not enough consid- eration given to the kind of impression produced. Thus at Niagara one is dis- gusted to look over to the Canadian side and see the view monopolized by gigan- tic bill boards and built-up signs. The advertiser succeeds in making an im- pression, but not in the interest of his wares. Perhaps the most ingenuity in getting before the people is shown by the kite signs so widely displayed. At the Ex- position one sees first the kites and gradually his attention is attracted to the banners they sustain. In such a place, especially in connection with the Midway, there is no incongruity and the advertising is no doubt profitable. It may aiso be at the Falls, but to my mind even the daring ingenuity which 3erves to sustain a great streamer with ““Kabo Corsets’’ over the abyss is not enough to compensate for the incon- gruous intrusion hefore the eyes of those who appreciate that most wonder- ful of our Eastern views. The State of New York and in smaller degree the Dominion have done well in conserving 2 Fall is Here ity to call and see the finest line of ladies consideration. Yours for business e e - e Winter is Coming And we want every lady in Nashville and vicin- ever shown in Nashville. We have them in three. fourths lenghth, box coat and automobile, in all shadee. We can sell you a garment ascheap as anyone can, taking quality into ~ Ww: want this to be an opening wedge into public fa- vor for our new drug store. The new drug store: opens Thursday, September 26th, and is going to be in every way as good a drug store aa it is possible for ns to make it. Not at sll in the spurat of barstung, tat in the way of information, we would like te say'that we are a graduate of the New York City College of Pharmacy, and have deen ap? proved hy the Michigan State-Beard ot Pharmacy, and that we havg had over ten years of active service in preparing, dispensing and and analyzing of medicines. We not only know how to compound prescriptions with the ve-y hest af eare and acturacy, but the State Board of Examiners know that we know it. We look upon pharmacy as a profession. We shall strive in every Way to bny and make only the purest, freshest, and hest medicines ; i Bat a modern dug store is sumething more than place where pure pharmacy is practiced. | Like other drug- gists, we handle perfimnes, toilet articles, liquors for medi- eal purposes, wall paper, rubber goods, and other lines of goods usually found in a well equipped drag store. We have made onr home among the people of Elk Rapids and we are very anxions io hecdme useful public servants We want it to become generally understood that onr drag store will satisfy the people with thé price they pay, aud satisfy them with the treatment they receive. In conclusion, we would like to say that we will en- deavor from time Yo time to tell you as mach news abont our stere in this space as will prove interesting to jou and prof- itable to us all. ELK RAPIDS PHARMACY M. E-BUTTS, Prop. 000000006000 GOsecsecese n Voekmog weeds ven eri ett £0 eee ee Pet lak tis ey OD e90e0e0e oo &. = = & n > e 2. Fine tet. Virgiv Viele. Heather Boney. aaehey Cini Lily of Lazot, end the etter new Kiivlg 10c. cake. 25c. box ‘ - US 70000000000 At Sc. a Transparent Glycerine. The kind we have sold furs years. SCHOONMAKER'’S Drug Store. Next door to postoftice. Socccemeccoe Stylish Hats and Furnishings _ Yes our new fall and winter lines are brime full of style. They were bought from the best manu- facturers, whose makes are the ac- knowledged stand- ard of excellence. We are receiving new styles daily and invite your inspec- tion. JACOBI itive 109 WASH. AVE. N. Rich Brothers sina a ita tia a ts i ‘Now You Need. | Underwear And We nave the kiné you ought to wear. Men's heavy striped Underwear. 25c. Men's wool fieeced and ribbed Underwear, 50c. Men's Natural Wool Underw ear, Tic. Men's all wool Underwear, including Wright's Health brand, $1.00, Men’s Wool Union Suits $1.50 and $2.00 And a New Hat We have those stylish broad- rimmed Golf Hats at $1.00 to $2.50. Stiff Hats in leading shapes. $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. At $3.00 we sell a guaranteed hai—a new one for every one that fails to satisfy. It is the Wilson Hat and ts equal to the $5.00 kinds. . Remember our merchant tailoring department with ite fine showing ef new suitings and overcoatings : 2 We Are Ready With 8 good showing of tat! Styles of MILLINERY for your inspection. If you ere wondering what sort of a HAT to buy come and took over our large stock of fal goods. Come in and see us, we ere always pleased to show you our Millinery. MRS, A. A. ABRAMS 226 Washington Avenue So. No other Flour she'll use instead— 4 Pearl Flour makes perfect brerd LIGHT BREAD depends more on the flour than on the cook. You cannot make good. seat, @ppetizing bread with poor jour, PEARL High Patent is the friend of every bread maker, & pure. rich flour of unrivaled qual ity. All the wealth of the whe t is retained. Use PEARL and your loaf will be light, sweet and of dc. licious flavor. Ge0, Wood & Bro. Makers. of. Flour in 8t. Johns S for 38 years. PEARL LEADS THEM ALL the natural beauties of Niagara from the sign man’s desecration, but on the Canadian side there is too much private property which affords opportunity for disfigurement. ' + £ Thos. A. Welsh has written a strong and seasonable advertisement of winter capes and jackets and his printer has given him as good display as the space and cuts will admit—an exceptionally good result. The complimentary ad- dress, ‘‘Yours for business,’’ could have been omitted to advantage. Then there is an incongruity in introducing the subject of dried apples. These are, no doubt, well enough in their place, but there is no apparent relation be- tween this sort of evaporated fruit and ladies? wrappers. Dried apples are all right and may well be made the sub- ject of another advertisement with arti - cles more intimately related, but it is a mistake to spoil a symmetrical and well rounded advertisement by the introduc- tion of something wholly foreign. The Elk Rapids Pharmacy writes a businesslike and interesting statement of the opening of their new drug store and in spite of its length it will be read by many people. A little shorter it would have caught more readers. The border is too heavy for the type and to the casual reader the relation of the first display line in type to the gen- eral subject is not apparent. Rich Brothers succeed in introducing all their lines in a single small adver- tisement, and that with good effect. One style of type would have given more unity of design, but for all that the ad- vertisement is a good one. well written and well composed drug advertisement is that of Schoon- maker’s Drug Store, but it is unfortu- nate in being barred ina black ugly border, which would be too heavy fora hardware store. A simply written and plainly com- posed hat advertisement is that of Jacobi the Hatter. The writing is ex- ceptionally good, and if the word ‘“‘yes’’ in the first paragraph had been omitted would make a good model. Mrs. A. A. Abrams writes a simply worded and well expressed millinery advertisement, but the printer has treated it with too much heavy type. The result is not bad, however. Geo. Wood & Bro. crowd their space with too much matter and the printer introduces too many styles of type. The rhyme at the beginning is not sufficient- ly obvious and not very strong. There is material here for a good advertise- ment, but it needs trimming and ar- ranging. Torpedo Gravel Roofing Coated with Best Asphalt and Fine Torpedo Gravel. Is more durable than metal or shingles. Write for sample and price. Manufactured by H. M. Reynolds & Son Grand Rapids, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Cargo of Sugar Turned to Taffy. Here is the story of a ship that started with a cargo of sugar and reached her port with a cargo of taffy. The sea has no other story quite like it, or none that has ever been recorded. The ship was the Charing Cross, from Rosario, Ar- gentine Republic,and the strange meta- morphosis in her hold was not discov- ered until she arrived at her dock in London. The cargo—31!,000 bags of sugar—was stowed away in four different compart- ments of the ship, and the work of un- loading began on the day following her arrival. The-ship and dock hands rapid- ly cleared the first, second and fourth holds without experiencing any diffi- culty, but when they came to unload No. 3 they found that the sugar there had become one solid block of a dark brown substance—twelve thousand bags, equal to one thousand tons of sugar, had been converted into taffy. The mass was as hard as marble,and it was found impossible to unload it in the usual way. The hard substance was firmly attached to the sides of the vessel, and had encompassed everything else in its grip, so nothing could be done but dig the stuff out. A body of forty men, using picks and shovels, was employed in breaking up the taffy berg in the hold of the ship, and after thirty days’ labor the men at length succeeded in clearing away the last bill of taffy. It had taken eight men only nine days to unload the other three hatchways, containing the major balance of the cargo, the minimum rate at which a shipload of sugar can be discharged being fifty tons a day per eight men. But the combined efforts of forty men engaged in clearing out the taffy pit in the ship’s hold could not turn out more than five tons a day. The determination of ‘the congealed mass to resist the onslaught of the forty men resulted in the breaking of about one ton of iron tools of all sorts, in- cluding wedges measuring three feet long, which got twisted and bent like so many limp candles; pickaxes, whose strong points got flattened out; chains, the strong links of which snapped in two; great iron bolts that got splintered like clothes pegs, and huge crowbars that got bent like hairpins. If these twelve thousand bags of sugar had not got converted by a mysterious agency into taffy their removal from the ship would have cost only $165, but in the present instance the cost of digging out the hardened stuff cost $2, 350. The sugar market has lost twelve thousand bags of ‘‘fly fancy,’’ as sugar is called at the docks, but confection- ers and brewers have bought the taffy, giving $35 a ton for it, or less than half its original value. Altogether, making of that thousand tons of taffy means a loss of $5,000 in the aggregate, but the ship has become famous, for the Charing Cross is now referred to as_ the ‘*taffy ship.’’ The cause of the transformation can not be discovered. The sugar was loaded in tropical weather, and those particular bags which went wrong must the }. have contained sugar which was in an abnormally moist condition. The hold in which it was stored is just abaft the engine room, and subject to great heat. The subsequent change of temperature, from torrid to frigid latitudes, helped to solidify the mass. 2-2 Why Is a Newspaper Like a Woman? One bright friend came in the other day with what he thought was a conun- drum. ‘ ‘*Why is a newspaper like a woman?”’ The various answers were: ‘*Because both have to be known to be appreciated.’’ ‘*Because it has to have some one to run it.’’ ‘*Because both are good advertising mediums.’’ ‘*Because both ‘have to be pressed.’’ ‘‘Because it sometimes changes its dress and tells tales.’’ The correct answer is: ‘‘ Because every man should have one of his own, and not be running after his neigh- bor's.’’ ——_~s_ +> ____ Spoke Too Quick. Wife—How do you like my new hat? Husband—The idea of paying big prices for— Wife—Big prices! Why, I made it myself, Husband—Um—yes—er—as I was saying, the idea cf paying big prices for such monstrosities as the milliners are showing! Now your hat is a_ work of art. Looks as if it came from Paris. Beautiful, my dear! 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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — SBcncangbaneswan Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY One Dollar.a Year, Payable in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Communications invited from practical business men. es must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of aith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their aye ¢c as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the ees until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When a? = any of our Advertisers, Please say that you saw the advertise- ment in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Ep:rTor. WEDNESDAY, - - OCTOBER 2, 1901 STATE OF MICHIGAN t a County of Kent - . John DeBoer, ae duly sworn, de- 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 September 25, 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 twenty-cighth day of September, Igol. i B. Fairchild, see?! Public in and for Kent County, ich. A GENERATION OF PROSPERITY. While it is amusing as well as inter- esting to read that the countries of the Old World are disturbed by the prosper- ity of the New and foretell! from our success only coming failure and disaster to themselves it is not until we go back a period in our history and compare what we were then to what we are now that we can feel that our friends on the other side of the sea have any grounds for the fears that possess them. The bureau of statistics of the Treasury De- partment has published a table on the ‘; Progress of the United States in Its Material Industries’’ and thus furnishes means for comparing what we were thirty years ago with what is the condition of things to-day. It is hardly possible to give more than a hasty glance at a few of the many matters presented, but from those few it is easy to find much to ac- count for European alarm. In population we find that in 1870 we were a nation of 38,558,371 souls and in 1900 we had 76, 303, 387, a gain of 98 per cent. In 1870 the salaries paid in the public schools amounted to $37,832,- 566; in 1900 the sum _ was $128,662, 880, a gain of 240 per cent. The number of newspapers and periodicals thirty years ago was 5,871; now it is 21,178 or 261 per cent. greater now than then. The receipts of the Postoffice Depart- ment at the earlier date were $19,772, 221 from the 28,492 postoffices; at the later date they are $102, 354,579 from the 76, 668 offices in existence, an increase of 169 per cent. for the number of postoffices and an increased public patronage of the department of 418 per cent. There were 9,157,646 telegraph messages sent in 1870 and 79,696,227 in 1900, an in- crease of 770 per cent. during the thirty years. Against 52,922 miles of rail- ways in operation in 1870 stand 190,833 miles at the closing year of the century —the whole telling a story of change in the life and the thought of the nation during a generation which history has never before recorded. The’ hair-lifter, however, remains to be mentioned. The largest increase in the complete statistics of the bureau is that of 15,376 per cent. in the amount of steel produced, the figures running from 68,750 to 10,639,857 tons, and the next largest is that of 3,130 per cent. in the tonnage passing the Sault. Another item producing complacency here and consternation ‘‘over there’’ is that while imports of manufactures of iron and stee] have declined 37 per cent., exports have increased 1,008 per cent., a fact which furnishes good and _ sufficient grounds for the talk of ‘‘the invasion of Europe’’ by this country with which the European newspapers have been stir- ring up their readers for some months past. Of the agricultural staples corn has hardly kept pace with the population, but wheat has more than done that and cotton has more than held her own at an increase of 228 percent. How to get rid of the surplus is more than ever the important problem for this country to solve. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof; but to-day it is a matter of congratulation, irrespective of that problem—which Europe is fearful that we have solved at her expense—that in a single generation this country has gone forward at such rapid strides as to fill with wonder and astonishment those nations which until now have looked upon this country as second rate and_in no way able to grapple with the lead- ing powers of the world. The municipality of Vienna has un- der consideration a project for the dis- posal and utilization of the sewage of the city which at present is discharged into the Danube. In England so-called sewage farms are now quite common in connection with the smaller cities, and the plan has been adopted by both Ber- lin and Paris, but to all of the systems in use there is more or less objection, and even with the best of them there is much room for improvement. The scheme under consideration in Vienna consists in the application of a method developed by Herr Noebel, of Posen, by which the liquid part of the sewage will be utilized for the double purpose of irrigation and enrichment. It is in- tended to convey the sewage in pipes to an extensive plain of poor land which suffers from lack of water, due to inad- equate. rainfall, over which it is not to be carried in trenches, but the surface of the land is to be irrigated by sprinkling the sewage water over it. It is said that by this plan the land will not be over-saturated, as it frequently is on the sewage farms at Berlin and Paris. The system is stated to have been already in use at Posen, with sat- isfactory results. The speech that President McKinley made at Buffalo, his last public utter- ance, is destined to be quoted frequent- ly in future. It was a speech upon which he expended much time in prep- aration and represents the conclusions of the ripest study. Three phrases are said to have formed the nucleus of this remarkable deliverance. They were: ‘‘Expositions are the timekeepers -of progress,’’ ‘‘Amity is better than an- imosity’’ and ‘‘Reciprocity is better than retaliation.’’ From these three ideas the Buffalo speech was developed. If you don't know where success lies, perhaps you know where it is not, and that will show you what to avoid. THE WARS OF THE FUTURE. The struggle for supremacy in this twentieth century and, perhaps, for others beyond it, between the nations of the earth will be between those that possess the greatest amount of raw ma- terial, particularly of iron and coal, with a population skilled in the art of manufacturing them. To-day the chief object of each na- tion is to lead in commerce. In order to do this, it is necessary to be able to produce articles of common use at the lowest cost commpatible with quality, and, thus provided, the nation which can sell cheapest at a profit will lead the others. The nations of the Western world which to-day are accorded the first rank are the United States, in America; Great Britain, Germany, France and Russia, in Europe, and China and Jap- an,in Asia. The Great Republic of the West is endowed above all the countries of Europe in coal and iron, in cotton, wool and food products. Surpassing them all, except Russia, in population, the American Republic must finally rise to the head of all the nations, even al- though all of them should make a com- mercial coalition against her, and sev- eral should enter into an armed alliance against her. The problem of an armed coalition is, however, extremely complex, since among the European nations there are so many varied and often conflicting interests that it is pretty sure that there will be no universal combination against the United States. Russia, which, for lack of development, is to-day weak in many ways, will one day become the most powerful of European nations; but her interests are so entirely separate from those of the United States that the two powers are not in any way likely to come into serious conflict; therefore Russia is not expected to engage in any European coalition against the United States. Great Britain, with vast pos- sessions in every quarter of the globe, will never be wantonly attacked by the United States, while there is more or less danger to her of hostile collision with European countries. Under any conditions of peace it will always be necessary to prepare for war and the coming era will be one of vast steel.and steam navies. The steel ship is a floating fortress; its sailors are machinists who give no regard to winds | and waves, but whose business is to steam through them and in spite of them, in order to enable the garrison of artillerists to meet or evade their floating foes. One writer on the future of marine warfare expresses the belief that the floating steel fortresses will be discarded, save for harbor defense; while the open sea will be kept by swift cruisers armed with a few high- power guns, and ferotected by plating only in a few vital parts, the entire ves- sel intended to assume the most daring offensive tactics, ready to shoot or to ram as might be necessary, but depend- ing most on swiftness of steaming. War on land will mean, more than ever, keeping the men under cover, while machine guns and far-reaching rifles will be most in demand; while the horse, that was thought to have seen his last days of usefulness in war, will be required to transport the troops to and from the line of hattle. On land and sea alike there will be an unceas- ing demand for swiftness of movement, accuracy of marksmanship with guns of far-reaching range. H. S. Wells, an imaginative writer of fiction who, some time ago, amused his readers with his remarkable crea- tions concerning a war with the inhabi- tants of the planet Mars, expresses the belief that flying machines or aerial ships will play a great part in the wars. ot the future, hurling dynamite and other explosives from the clouds upon hostile ships and armies; but the bal- loon has continued to defy all efforts to make it a reliable and controllable ma- chine, and promises so little in the fu- ture that it may be well-nigh discarded from the paraphernalia of war, save as a means of overlooking a battle field, or of escaping from a beleaguered city. However this may be, the great con- tests of the future, whether in war or in peace, will depend on each nation’s en- dowments in iron and coal. They are going to be the chief elements of power in the future. The Canadian papers seem to be tak- ing a rather roseate view of the future of the dominion as a wheat producer, and attention has been drawn to the fact that, whereas the production is increas- ing at a pace totally outside the growth of the population, the production of this country shows a material decrease on the same basis. Of course, some offset must be found by the Canucks for the slow growth of the population, and this offset has been found in the increased prosperity of the country, but any real comparison between a country of 3, 500, - ooo people and 77,000,000 is rather be- side the mark. Still, there is room for thought even in the comparison which has been drawn. The Toronto Globe points out that in 1880 the production of wheat in the United States was nearly ten bushels per head of population; in 1889 it was 7.8 bushels; ten years later it had dwindled to 7.2 bushels, and in I900 it was but 6.8 bushels. Across the border this decline, it is generally thought, will be continuous until a point is reached when this country will absorb the whole of its production, leaving nothing for export. In this case Great Britain, which is our best cus- tomer, will of necessity have to rely on Canada for its main supply. In the meantime, however, other sources. of supply may be opened out or present ones materially increased. If so, Can. ada will not be the only peddler on the road. Numerous are the ways which have been discussed for putting a stop to the inordinate expense which often attends the burial of the dead, but as yet the matter has ended in mere discussion. Respect rendered the dead is a great thing, but when fashion and pride com- bine to make this solemn duty weigh so heavily as to spell impoverishment to the poor widow and orphans, it is time to cry a halt. This subject of burial reform has been tackled in a thoroughly practical way by a society recently or- ganized in the little town of Soquel, Cal. Nearly every adult in the town has signed the roll of membership; one of the members has been engaged as undertaker, and another as grave-dig- ger. The coffins are to be made by the undertaker, and are to be plain, al- though strong and well finished. A neat wagon is to take the place of the con- ventional hearse; the mourners will walk to the cemetery, and the total cost ofa funeral is to be about $20. On the occasion of a death, each member of the organization is expected to render what assistance he can to the afflicted family, and to attend the funeral. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 JUST AN ORDINARY MACHINE. The civilized world is just now giv- ing undivided attention to the automo- bile. Like the horse owner each be- lieves his own is the best and each na- tion holds itself in readiness to be con- vinced that its genius and its workshops hold the second place in the excellence of its machine. France with the hered- itary right of ‘‘all gall’’ mounts her lat- est achievement and proudly declares that nothing under the sun can pass or surpass it. Germany, true to her in- stincts, thinks and realizes and says nothing, but sends her automobile spin- ning along the capitals of Europe and wonders what the inhabitants think of that, andthe Englishman, nothing loth, improves the opportunity and triumph- antly points to his work of genius and unchallenged asserts that ‘‘there’s a ma- chine to stand the shock of coming ages. In the meantime the Yankee has been doing three things at once—whittling, whistling and thinking—and the result is ‘‘suthin’ that’ll go ’n’ that’s ‘bout all.’’ It is nothing to brag of—just a beginning as one might say—but with that to start with the thinking goes on and the end is success. That is the history of the automobile in the United States. The method of testing is somewhat different. Any ma- chine will go if the road is smooth and level; but that is not the American idea. This nation puts little confidence in the dress parade. The spick and span is all well enough—it is appreciated— but there must be something under the spick and span to find favor. So when the American automobile is ready for its work it must prove itself equal to the American requirements. It must go up hill and down dale. It must stand the American road as it finds it, not as it ought to be, and it must get over that road fast enough to satisfy the spirit of a people determined not to come in second. Such an automobile has been making a trial trip and been pronounced a suc- cess. A gentleman of Chicago left that city Aug. 1 for a trip to New York via Boston. A machine of eight and a half horse power was used, geared slightly for increased speed. It accomplished the distance between Chicago and Buffalo in four and a half days, one day being deducted for two stops during the journey, and so making the actual time three days and a half—something more than 165 miles a day. The longest day’s run was from Oneida to Albany. From Albany to Boston and New York the hilliest routes were taken for the sake of the scenery and twice the two automobilists found it necessary to walk up hill on account of the loose, fresh gravel. Twice on the entire run, when the front axle broke, the machine was driven by other power than its own and traveling was done regardless of the weather—the log of the run showing that the work done at all times was far in excess of that accomplished by ma- chines that recently took part in the en- durance test from New York to Buffalo. Now, then, the American makes no claim of having produced a perfect ma- chine. He even admits that it is crude* and imperfect and needs—it will be sure to have it—no end of improvement ; but with the work of his brain and hands, without the aid of a mechanic or professional, he can go farther week in and week out on the American road as he finds it and subject it to more rough usage than any other machine which has so far been invented can stand. It is a simple, common $1,200 affair and, take it all beats everything on the road. It is not necessary to dwell at length upon this automobile or upon the trip it has taken. The point is that in the rough the American invention is ahead. Perfected, it will outstrip still farther all rivais. Its superiority will create a demand for it everywhere, and the sup- ply will satisfy the demand. Like all that is best it will go where the best is wanted and the result will be that Europe will be again ‘‘invaded’’ by American genius, and when European patience ceases again to be a virtue there will be the usual outcry. The fact is what is destined to be will be and the sooner the Old World settles con- tentedly down to the inevitable the bet- ter it will be for all concerned. in all, THE HONESTY OF THE MAN. There is an irresistible tendency on the part of most Americans to estimate the honesty of a public man by inverse ratio to his private fortune. The man who while prominent in politics becomes wealthy is looked at askance and with evident suspicion. Perhaps the most notable example of that sort of thing is personified in the career and wealth of Richard Croker, whom _ everybody believes has amassed a fortune by corrupt political practices. Another wealthy man in politics is Mark Hanna, but he escapes criticism on this account because his riches were all gathered be- fore he became an important figure in national affairs. Every one recalls in- stances where large political influence and quickly acquired fortunes have at least been coincidences. It does not necessarily follow that a man who has grown in wealth and grown politically at the same time has made the former the result of the latter, but there is always a suspicion about it which occasions comment even although undeserved. McKinley’s career was singularly free from criticism of this character. He was richer at his death than at any pre- vious time, but was far from wealthy as wealth is reckoned nowadays. The value of his estate is variously esti- mated, the highest, including large life insurance, not exceeding $200,000, During his four years in the White House an annual salary of $50,000 en- abled him to save money, but when the probate court has finished with his es- tate his widow will not be a wealthy woman. Very many men in public life, while they never take a dollar for their vote or for their influence, see no harm in taking timely advice from those in a position to make it profitable and by in- vestments thus suggested are enabled to reap rich returns. During his long career Mr. McKinley steadfastly refused to indulge in stock or other specula- tions. His surplus funds were de- posited in banks. He was exceptionally conscientious in this respect and it was never successfully charged that he profited a penny’s worth in such a way. In official station he had frequently, in- deed almost continually,to do with those things which affect business, especially manufacturing and consequently the markets, but through it all he kept his skirts clean and was in every respect a strictly honest man. What he accom- plished, the honors he earned, the fame he reached and the reputation he en- joyed signally verify the aged maxim which says that honesty is the best policy. We look backward regretting or for- ward hoping, while the present stands offering us flowers, PLATT’S PLANS REVERSED. The plots and plans even of those politicians who have the greatest repu- tation for cunning and for shrewdness often miscarry. An interesting instance is afforded by political relations be- tween Theodore Roosevelt, now Presi- dent of the United States, and Thomas C. Platt, senior Senator and Republican boss of the State of New York. These two have very little in common. Their ideas and their ideals regarding the public service are very far apart. Al- though Platt consented to Roosevelt’s nomination for Governor it was com- pulsory, not voluntary. The Republi- cans were anxious to carry the State and fearful of. their ability to do it. Roosevelt, just home from the Spanish war, was a popular hero. He was ina campaign where probably any other man at the head of the same ticket would have been defeated. Even Roose- velt won only by 17,786, a very narrow margin in a vote amounting in round numbers to 1,350,000. Platt did not want him, but he appreciated his in- ability to win with anybody else. Roosevelt’s fame was by no means confined to his own State. He was es- pecially strong and very popular in the West, where there was an evident deter- mination to consider him asa future presidential possibility. Platt, accus- tomed to look a long way ahead, feared that with the colonel of the Rough Rid- ers in the White House the latch string might not always be hanging out for practical politicians like himself; but there was another reason coming closer home. It is customary to give governors two terms, and one term of Roosevelt at Albany was quite enough for Platt. The Governor must be made way with somehow and the cunning schemer thought he saw in the Vice-Presidency a shelf where he would be barmiess. Nothing but his nomination at Phila- delphia could have prevented his re- nomination for Governor. So Platt set himself and all his forces at work to put him on the ticket with McKinley and was materially aided therein by the honest, heartfelt good will of the Rep- resentatives from many other states. He succeeded, as he supposed, in putting Roosevelt on the shelf. All that was only a little more than a year ago. Roosevelt stood out against tremendous pressure at Philadelphia as long as he could and then when further opposition seemed useless, yielded as gracefully as possible and entered upon the campaign with his characteristic energy and enthusiasm. Platt stroked his whiskers and smiled, thinking he had accomplished his purpose and si- lenced an unruly factor. Other vice- presidents had cut small figure in na- tional politics and. been wafted easily to oblivion. There were indications, plenty of them, that Roosevelt’s career as Vice-President would not conform to established precedents, and already men were organizing clubs to boom him for the presidency in 1904. Suddenly an assasin struck down President McKin- ley. It came like lightning from a clear sky. Roosevelt was quickly summoned from Mount Marcy to Buffalo, where he took the oath of office as President of the United States, entering upon an administration which, if his life is spared, will continue at least for three years and six months. Mr. Platt, who connived to put the man he could not control out of the line of promotion, put him squarely in it. In trying to be per- manently rid of Roosevelt as a factor in national politics he unwittingly helped to make him the very head of the Government. Platt must rub his hands in anything but glee when he contemplates the situation to which he was so great a contributor. Roosevelt’s worst enemy never charged him with being too stupid to appreciate a situa- tion nor accused him of having a poor memory. It is to President Roosevelt that Senator Platt must go begging for this or that appointment. The condi- tions are suddenly and unexpectedly changed and the advantage is all with the man whom Mr. Platt had calculated was safely laid away upon the shelf. EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS. With the growth of the country and the moving of the center of cereal pro- duction farther West, the former custom of shipping the bulk of the grain crops to Europe via Eastern ports has given place to the shipment of the surplus in- tended for export through Southern ports. This diversion of traffic, while it has affected more or less al] the East- ern ports, has principally hurt New York. While New York is still the largest exporting point in the country for breadstuffs, that port is rapidly los- ing that distinction. For the eight months of the present calendar year, Baltimore is only behind New York to the extent of $8,000,000 in round fig- ures. The Southern ports have been rapid- ly gaining in their grain shipments, while the Eastern ports have been _los- ing. One of the latest examples of this is afforded in a compilation which shows that of the increase of 63,781,967 . bushels in the wheat exports in the eight months of Igol over last year, less than one-tenth was gained by New York, while New Orleans and Balti- more ran a close race, with more than one-third of the gain realized by these two Southern ports. Taking the values of all breadstuffs exports for the eight months, it is found that of a gain of close to $40,000,000 over a year ago, Baltimore realized one-fourth, and the smallest gains were made by New York and Philadelphia. Interesting as this showing is from a Southern point of view, it is made even more pronounced when the totals are reduced to percentages. Brought down to percentages, while the country as a whole gains 26 per cent., New York shipments gain only 9 per cent., and New Orleans leads with a gain of 70 per cent. in its shipments. Other percentages shown are those cf 54 per cent. by Boston, 48 per cent. by Balti- more and 45 per cent. by Galveston. The friendship of William McKin- ley and Mark Hanna was a thing that some of their political opponents scoffed at as being only such a friendship as exists between conspirators. It is now reluctantly admitted that McKinley leaves behind him no sincerer mourner than Hanna. His grief at the death of the President was ofa kind not to be simulated. The bond between the two men was like that between brothers, Hanna was not ‘‘the power behind the throne’’ in the McKinley administra- tion. He was the President’s steadfast friend, and it was to promote his friend’s success that Hanna went into politics and remained there. It is not likely that he will care to continue much longer in public life now that McKinley has gone. Many people labor like an ox ora mule, and have to be pressed or they will not earn their feed. ethee ght Pissed nee Ee elon arpa ve th ae ‘ Loin N etnies 4 a 4 : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN | Clothing Fads and Fashions From the Standpoint of a New Yorker. At last the fashions for autumn and for the winter, too, have reached me, and I am free to say that some of them are very delightful, as well as present- ing to one’s vision more than one dis- tinctly novel idea. First and foremost, I find myself tempted to record the ap- proach to these shores of a topcoat from England that seems to me to come very close to the Lorder lines of artistic per- fection. ~The plate depicting the coat is shown to me by my tailor, who has made some of them already and who is enthusiastic over the garment. It is made in full box style and is built practically on the form of the late lamented Raglan, with the exception of the shoulders and sleeves. Incidentally I may remark that the Raglan is a creation of the past and can not be changed into an up-to-date coat by any tailor, so if you want to be correct you might just as well throw yours away if you have one, or, better still, give it away to some poor but honest person and have done with it. The new coat, then, is cut very long and full, without any seam in the back and with perpen- dicular pockets and cuffs turned up from two to four inches from the limit of the sleeves. The garment is made sin- gle or double breasted, at the pleasure of the wearer, and is built with a pointed lapel and a flare to the skirts. The material of which the coat is made varies according to the temperature in which it is intended to be worn. When made in the lightweight materials it is of the same stuff throughout with a featherweight lining and no ornamen- tation on the collar. When the heavier materials are used the collar, of course, is of velvet. The coat, perhaps, looks best of all when made double breasted out of a heavy lamb’s wool mixture, or of smooth meltons or kerseys. These are the winterweights, although if one’s taste run to extremes, in the following of new fashions, it will be just as well to have two or three of the coats of weighs suited to our erratic atmospher- ical system. I should have said in the first place that the skirt of the coat ex- tends a little more than halfway from the knee to the ankle. Hanging as it does in full and graceful folds, and making almost any sort of a figure look dignified, the coat that 1 describe ought to stand a fair chance of becoming pop- ular. *x* * * 1 notice with some pleasure an incli- nation to resuscitate the three-button cutaway with long skirts that was one of the agreeable features in the lives of discriminating men five or six years ago. I have always held that this was one of the most graceful garments for morning wear, and I take the liberty of thinking so still. In the pleasant re- vival, the skirts of the cutaway are to taper off sharply from the waist line, which waist line adheres sharply to the figure and ascends to the shoulders and to a narrow collar in a way to give de- light to men of passable build and to the eyes of all beholders. Seen at its best, this cutaway will be seen in soft black unfinished worsteds. It is an agreeable relaxation from the severity of the eternal frock and may be worn without violation of good taste at almost any function, from an afternoon tea to a wedding. I give the stamp of my approval to the disposition of reputable tailors to induce their customers to return in the making of sack coats to the straight- backed garment. The so-called ‘‘mili- tary’’ sack, with the absurd waist line and the lower edges and sides not with- out the suspicion of whalebone in them, has happily been relegated to the obliv- ion merited by all impossible things. It was a nightmare and deserved indecent burial. The sack coat worn by well- dressed men to business this autumn will be made with four buttons and cut full in front with round corners. The double-breasted sack in rough and heavy materials will be worn only for walking in bad weather, when one de- sires to dispense with an overcoat. -_ +. + I have seen the very newest and most swagger thing in the way of an evening suit. It is made of very dark oxford gray unfinished worsted. The uninitia- ted may find food for surprise in the idea for an evening suit—I decline to make use of that grotesque phrase, ‘‘dress suit’’—but, as men of learning know, an oxford gray is practically a black with infinitesimal gray threads running through it. Seen in day- iight, the cloth might have a gray tinge to outward seeming, but as nobody but a Hindoo would wear evening clothes in the daytime, that is scarcely worth con- sidering. In an artificial light, however, the oxford gray becomes a delicate and delicious black, and I could never con- vey to you if 1 were to try for a week any adequate idea of the exquisite con- trast afforded by the cloth itself and the silk facing on the lapel of the coat. To look at such a creation makes one wish one could afford to purchase a new evening outfit once a month. Perhaps some of us can. * + & The subject of trousers is always a momentous one with me. It is so easy to err either in the direction of too much somberness or of too striking an effect. Authority as I claim to be, I acknowl- edge I have been sorely distressed at times as to the exact type of trousers to be worn to best effect with a frock coat. I am relieved, therefore, to find that so eminent an authority as Joseph L. Day agrees with me in the notion that the frock coat is, after all, a garment of ceremony, and that any other trousers than dark ones with possibly a bright stripe by way of relief, when worn with it, constitute a barbarism. If one must have further relief, it may be obtained with a white waistcoat. The trousers themselves will be cut invariably in medium pegtop style, that is to say, with a tolerably full knee and an ankle sufficiently narrow to fall gracefully over the boot.—Percy Shafton in Ap- parel Gazette. —__-_-—~. 4 > Industry and integrity give affluence and influence. M. Wile & Co. Famous Makers of Clothing Buffalo, N. Y. Samples on Request Prepaid Ask to see Samples of Pan-American Guaranteed Clothing Makers Wile Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. You Scll from thc Book Any merchant can make big profits selling our clothing by sample. We furnish, FREE OF ALL EXPENSE, a complete outfit, consisting of a large sample book, containing two. hundred and ten samples of Men’s, Boys’ ahd Children’s Suits, Trousers, Overcoats and Ulsters. Every prevailing fashion is represented and can be sold at about half the prices charged by the tailors to the trade. This clothing is fully guaranteed in every partic- ular—is correct in style, perfect in fit, and made of the finest materials. With the book we send all instructions, advertising matter, tape lines, order blanks, envelopes, etc. THE OUTFIT IS FREE SEND FOR IT IF YOU WISH TO SELL CLOTHING BY SAMPLE EXPRESS CHARGES WILL BE PREPAID David Adler & Sons Clothing Co. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Bright Outlook for the Clothing Trade. ‘Business, thus far this fall, has been much the largest in the history of Chi- cago merchandising,’’ said H. C. Lyt- ton, President of the ‘‘Hub,’’ Chicago, in answer to the question. ‘‘I am not speaking for myself only, when I make that statement. The same applies to all the better merchants. In many cases business has, up to this time, been nearly double what it was last year—and last year was a wonderfully good one. It made some sales records which at that time we did not hope to surpass this season.’’ ‘*When did fall buying begin?’’ ‘*That is rather hard to say,’’ was the reply, ‘‘as we began selling fall goods in July. It continued to improve much too rapidly for our preparations and we have within the month been com- pelled to get into the market for goods for all of our departments of men’s ap- parel.’”’ “‘Is it inferred from that that your early orders have been sold up?’’ ‘‘No,indeed! It is the fault of deliv- eries. Manufacturers are not getting the goods to us as we wantthem. They are behind and this compels us to go into the market for stock to keep us going until our ordered goods do come.’’ ‘*Are you cancelling the undelivered portions of your orders?’’ ‘*Oh, no! We need them, and _ shall want more, too badly before the season is over to shut off any source of sup- ply. Only this afternoon I increased several orders yet unfilled, and have duplicated quite a number of our orig- inal ones. You may judge from that how we expect fall trade to hold up its now rapid pace.’’ ‘What cause do you assign for the tardy delivery of goods?’’ ‘‘Inability of manufacturers to get them out. Generally speaking, most of the merchants were not anticipating such a fall trade or such an early one and the clamor for gouds has made the manufacturer do the best he could to send some here and some there and divide his product as best he could. I do not think strikes or any similar disturbances have at all affected the manufacturers, consequently it would seem that they are, this season, caught in a position where they are unable to cope with the wonderfully increased de- mands made upon them. Our hat buyer has been in the market twice since the season opened and is now short of stock. "’ ‘*Do you think the death of the Pres- ident will have any effect on the busi- ness in its present fine condition?’’ ‘*No, it will not!’’ was Mr. Lytton’s reply. ‘‘The country has been brought to such a prosperous state and the con- ditions governing merchandising are too stable to be affected even momen- tarily. The promise of President Roose- velt, ‘to continue unbroken the policy of President McKinley,’ was one of the most bracing that could have been ut- tered to allay any doubts that might have arisen as to the continued pros- perity of this country. Besides, retain- ing the present cabinet strengthened President Roosevelt’s promise and maintained the confidence we have in the present administration. There are too many good men at the head of this administration for the passing of even the Executive to affect the present con- ditions, providing his successors con- tinue his wise and noble aims—and we are assured that they will continue them.”’ ‘*What is the outlook from now on?’’ ‘Our excellent trade will not only continue uninterrupted, but will greatly increase with the first bit of cold weather we have. As to the class of goods selling best? The better and best grades are far in the lead. People do not want cheap goods now and are pass- ing them for the better grades. Ina word the outlook has never been as bright at any time in the history of merchandising in Chicago, ’’ —_—__> 2. ___ The Question in Neckwear. The situation among neckwear man- ufacturers is at present, as it has been for some time past, very interesting. Neckwear manufacturers have been much perplexed as to what they shall make up in shapes for fall and winter. The great question has been: What will be the fate of the high band turn- down collar? If the highband turndown collar passes out of fashion there will obviously be an opportunity for large shapes that there has not been since it has been in vogue. The indications of a change of style in collars this fall, with the natural desire of the leading cravat makers to produce something new and different, have put the neckwear people in something of a predicament. Will the effort to push large scarfs be a success? Will various prominent buyers succeed in this effort that they are mak- ing? The neckwear people have had to consider these questions. The result has been that many have compromised. They have decided to make the narrow four-in-hand, but wider—from an inch and _ three-quar- ters to two inches anda half. They have made a graduated four-in-hand three inches wide at the end. They have made up,or are going to make up, a sufficiently large quantity of large scarfs to supply what they individually think will be the probable demand for them. Some of those who deal only with that class of the popular trade which is affected slowly by changes of fashion are working upon the standard imperial and the usual narrow four-in- hand. Those who cater toa fine and discriminating trade are making up ascots and large shapes in dark colors. Black and white effects will, as usual, be much in demand. Various shades of gray (in some cases in combination with green) are also expected to be in demand, because of the pleasing con- trast of those colors with the waistcoat of afternoon dress. If the waistcoat is high in cut (as seems to be the tend- ency), many prefer that the large scarf shall be brighter in tone than if the opening were a larger one. Oriental effects in patterns are among the bright- est shown, while checks and plaids are not favored.—Apparel Gazette. ee Collar and Cuff Manufacturers May Leave Troy. Troy, N. Y., Sept. 28—Genuine alarm is expressed at a document which has been sent to Mayor Conway, signed by the leading collar manufacturers, in which they say that unless the ‘‘reign of terror’’ which has existed about their shops since the strike began last sum- mer is discontinued they will be obliged to leave the city or appeal to higher authorities than the Mayor. The _ pro- test to the Mayor was sent on Friday, and to-day the manufacturers’ associa- tion sent copies to the daily papers. The protest is long, occupying about a column and a half. It reviews the his- tory of the strike, and enumerates the. assaults that have been committed in the city arising from the differences between the employes and the manfac- turers’ association. The State laws governing the case are cited and quoted. After giving the particulars of the case, the document ends as follows: ‘‘We deem it wise to lay these facts before you, that the seriousness of the situation may be fully understood, and in the hope that it will be possible for you to take such steps as will permit those in our employ and those desiring to return to our employ to go to and from their work without molestation or intimidation. If you are unable to fur- nish this protection, the manufacturers must either appeal to higher authorities or ‘transfer their business to other points. ’”’ The protest is signed by Cluett, Pea- body & Co., the United Shirt and Col- lar Company, the International Shirt and Collar Company, George P. Ide & Co, Tim & €o., H.C. Cartis & C€o., Van Zandt, Tacobs & Co., Searle, Gard- ner & Co., Fellows & Co., the Wilbur Campbell Stephens Company, Hall, Hartwell & Co., E. W. Marvin, George A. Brockway, Joseph Bowman & Sons, Holmes & Ide, the C. H. McClellan Company, Coon Brothers and the Miller Hale Shirt and Collar Company. It is commonly considered that this is a direct rebuke to the_ police force, charging them with incompetence, and indirectly a challenge to the entire city administration. The manufacturers say: ‘‘We helieve there is no trade in the country furnishing so many advan- tageous conditions as that of collar cut- ting, paying higher wages or furnishing more constant employment,’’ and they rightly consider that their employes, being engaged in the chief business of the city, have a right to all the police protection necessary. 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Moreland Bros. & Crane, Adrian, Michigan. - Le ‘1 e 3 3 et te A i aE 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers Passing of Noisy Shoes—Quiet Heels Now. ‘There is far less noise at the foot now than formerly, if we except the click of the feminine heel on the pave- ment,’’ observed the grizzled retail shoe dealer to the scribe who was prodding him for shoe reminiscences. ‘‘You may have noticed that a good many people wear their athletic and bicycle footgear on the street, especially in inclement weather. Most of these shoes are prac- tically noiseless, being furnished with rubber taps and heels. But with the rubber heels alone the tread is compara- tively inaudible, for most persons in walking land on the heel first. The rubber heel on dress shoes is of quite recent adoption, and its use is steadily increasing. The athlete uses it for promoting his agility and obtaining a sure footing, as well as for the protec- tion it affords him against jars in run- ning or jumping. The linemen and electric lamp trimmers adopt it as a measure of security against shocks which might otherwise prove fatal. The ordinary pedestrian is gradually coming to recognize the merits of a cushioned heel as a promoter of health, and, for that reason, as! said at first, there is less noise at the foot than ever before. The human heel, tough as it seems to us, isa vulnerable point in our anatomy, and whatever can be done by the shoe- maker to protect it will prove a blessing to mankind; and this is being done effectivel y by the rubber heel. ‘*T don’t know just why it is that our heels should be so vulnerable; but the fact remains that a blow upon the heel, although it be only the slight impact between it and the pavement, produces a slight concussion at the heel, brings on headaches and even worse nerve dis- orders in some instances, and this con- stant jarring of the brain may be almost entirely obviated by means of an elas- tic heel on the shoe. The sensitiveness of our heels, perhaps, may be explained by supposing ourselves to have been held by the heel, like Achilles, when Thetis plunged him inthe Styx and made every part of his body invulner- able except the heel by which she held him, and where the fatal arrow of Paris entered.’’ Be this as it may, the anatomist tells us that the os calcareus is a bone not to be trifled with if we would retain sound bodies, and the doctor assures us that the telegraph from our heels to our head never fails to announce to the brain any rough treatment of the former members. An outside rubber heel or an inside elastic cushion to the shoe wili insulate this telegraphic connection between heel and brain, and the latter will not be bothered with painful messages from the foot. The inside cushion is not to be obtained without some unwieldiness at the rear end of the shoe, but the rub- ber heel simply takes the place of the leather one. The noise of the sharp staccato click of the woman’s heel is likely to con- tinue for an indefinite period, because the genuine rubber heel is hardly adapt- able to the high, slender support de- manded by most women; and they seem loath to come down to the_ sensible height and breadth, suitable for affixing rubber heels to. The time may come, however, when the gentler sex will adopt common sense heels with rubber attachments; but it may be for years, and it may be forever, that they shall ’ go on clicking out those painful heel messages to their aching heads. The woman who wears high, slender heels with the idea that they add grace and beauty to the feet and gait, knows but little of the laws of health. Their effect is just the contrary; and they, in some instances, actually break down the arch of the foot on which ease of progression and grace of form depend. This effect is produced by the crowding of the foot into the forward part of the shoe, so that the posture of the feet is that of walking down hill continually in high heeled shoes. The doctor says, among other things: ‘‘In the case of girls who wear high heeled shoes there often come numerous deformities and derangements, and there is, in some instances, positive altera- tion of muscular structure and function, accompanied not infrequently by in- flammation, contraction and _ partial paralysis of the muscles of the leg.’’ Every person who has given the sub- ject careful thought and study knows that in raising the body upon inordi- nately high heels it is thrown out of its normal position and the natural center of gravity is destroyed. The physiolo- gist declares that ‘‘this natural line of gravity or equilibrium, passing from the brain to the feet, can not be dis- turbed and displaced day after day without deranging the normal relation of muscles and organs and thereby in- ducing disease. An unnatural strain is also put upon the muscles of the foot, leg and thigh.’’ The ill effects of the narrow, stilted heel are more apt to be produced upon immature subjects, because the bones are not yet fully formed and hardened; but the adult person does not escape the in- jurious effect of the unnatural position occasioned by this presence, nor does any foot or body ever become immune to the damage that high heels can _pro- duce on the wearer. ‘*The human heel,’’ says the shoe philosopher, ‘‘that has the least poster- ior projection forms the least secure foundation for the body, and produces | a tendency on the part of its owner to lean habitually forward in order to pre- serve its equilibrium.’’ As it is impos- sible to overestimate the importance of a knowledge of the formation of the human foot to the lastmaker and the shoemaker, a closer study of the human heel may not be out of place here. While lasts of the same length and width representing some particular style are supposed to be exactly alike, the vari- ous feet to whom the shoes made on them shall be allotted in the course of time are by no means counterparts of each other in form; and in no respect, perhaps, is this more conspicuous than at the heel. Many heels viewed on the naked foot seem to form an almost per- pendicular line with the lower part of the leg instead of assuming a graceful concave curve at their union. This peculiarity is sometimes the result of natural scantiness in the length of the heel bone itself; but it is also, in some instances, only an apparent curtailment, the effect being produced by an enlarge- ment of the powerful tendon achilles, or strong tendon which unites the muscles of the calf to the heel bone. But in either case it is a difficult heel to fit with a shoe that will not shift made on the average shaped last for normal feet. ‘*This posterior projection of the hu- man heels,’’ says the anatomist ‘‘is a great aid to man in walking or even standing. As we depart from man, the foot becomes more contracted ; the part Milwaukee, Wise, Septe 25, 1901. Mre Dealer, Western Michigan: Dear Sir:--I will call on you soon with Bradley & Metcalf Coe's line of shoes for springe We have made your wants a study and for the coming season we have for you shoes that are second to none in style, finish, quality and prices that will surely interest you and increase your shoe trad€e Thanking you for past favors and trusting you will wait for me, I remain Yours truly, EDe GOULDING. “OLD HICKORY” No. 84 Men’s Seal Grain (not Woelfel Seal) Balmoral, Double Sole and Tap, Pegged Bottom, one piece Bellows Tongue and fitted with three rows of thread, one row being extra heavy and waxed. 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By this means we derive the full benefit of our feet, and are enabled to make those rapid changes and multiplied combina- tions of movements, according to the probable direction of the expected im- pulse, that are necessary in boxing, wrestling and similar feats,’’ The importance of the projecting heel is, in all of these movements, very great; as by its presence we retain a firm foothold, and without it we should often be thrown over backward. Even the bear, although naturally a clumsy sort of quadruped, is enabled, by reason of the length of his heels,to make a fair show of standing on his hind legs. But, to get back to the modern noise- less shoe, which gives rise to the old shoe dealer’s remark, ‘‘there is less noise now at the foot than formerly,’’ and to look for some of the causes that have led to the desirable change. It is but natural that the introduction of the rubber heel for shoes should claim first attention. This is now no longer an ob- ject of curiosity even to the average shoe wearer; it is growing in favor, and its adoption as a staple in the trade seems pretty well assured. It is claimed, and not without reason that any person who has once walked on rubber cushions at the back of his feet will never go without them. They seem to be a sort of new century innovation on the same line as the rubber tired wheels of vehi- cles, noiseless and pleasant. It is also claimed for these attachments that they will prevent shoes from running over at the heels. This seems like a very strong contention ; if they will do more to keep things in level condition at the heels than solid sole leather filled with steel nails can do, they will be a boon to shoe wearers. One is more ready to admit the ‘‘sure-footed’’ claim, be- cause, as everyone knows that nine per- sons out of ten who fall on the ice slip up at the heel and so over backward. But there were other noise producers at the foot, not yet quite in the distant past. There was the heavy stiff-soled shoe with but little flexion at the bot- tom, which when the ball came down on the pavement, made itself disagreeably audible. Lighter soles with great flex- ibility have removed a large percentage of that useless clattering noise. Then there was the old-time musical footgear that proclaimed its presence and even its distant approach by sounds unlike anything else on earth—the squeaky shoe, This, too, is passing, and will soon be included among the ‘lost arts;’’ in fact, with modern meth- ods of shoemaking it is quite likely to become so completely lost as never to be found again. The old-timer recalls for the scribe the days when the solitary late comer to church walked leisurely up the aisle, with his boots squeaking so that the sound of them filled the build- ing and the thoughts of every worship- er there. This is now a rare occur- rence, because the squeak has been ex- tracted by modern methods of shoe building. This is not to be regretted. The old-timer, too, recalls the fact that squeaky shoes were not always re- garded as a nuisance and as disturbers of the peace. In fact, some people rather liked this audible property in their own shoes, because the squeak of the things were taken as a sign of new- ness, as few old shoes retained suffi- cient energy of sole to make much effort at self-asseriion. It was at one time deemed desirable even to insert between the inner and the outer sole a piece of ‘“squeak leather’’ to increase the sound capacity of the footwear to its maximum extent. Now, the squeaky shoe was supposed to derive its power for sound through the agency of friction caused by the two soles rubbing together when they were walked in; much on the same prin- ciple that the cricket produces his harsh, stridulous sounds by means of friction of his wing covers against each other. Many people, however, were averse to squeaky shoes as a means of drawing too much attention to them- selves; so various remedies began to be sought after to abate or remove the trouble. The most simple was by soak- ing the soles in water, but this afforded only a temporary relief. When dry they would go on squeaking again as_ loudly as ever. A more effectual way was to drive a few nails or pegs through the soles, uniting them so that friction ceased. Noiseless shoes are often a desidera- tum, apart from their genteel place in social ethics. Policemen, ushers, sex- tons and undertakers admit this; and the hospital nurse recognizes them as a necessity in her business. Sole leather imparts a variety of sounds, like a fid- dle string, according to the manner in which it is manipulated. Some pro- duces a sharp crackling noise, others a ringing vibration, while some shoes are noiseless in this respect. There is far less noise under foot now. The squeaky shoe and the squeaky wagon wheel are left back in the past century to take their places among the relics of former days.--E. A. Boyden in Boot and Shoe Recorder. ———_—~> 4» —_—_ Everything in Readiness For the New Season. At this season of the year the shoe dealer is beginning to receive his fall goods, and in order to get down to busi- ness it is absolutely necessary to make a study of the trade and follow it up, if possible, by a fall opening. There is one thing which should have your atten- tion before you decide on your fall opening. Shoe men have become rather lax lately in inspecting the goods which they receive from the manufacturer and jobber. This has resulted as the sea- son has advanced in their making claims upon the makers, which they very rightfully refused to entertain. If the goods are examined immediately on their receipt, there will be no necessity for claims in the future, and you will, therefore, avoid many unpleasant dis- cussions with the salesman on his next trip into your territory. It is not a difficult matter for you to make an inspection of your fall shoes immediately on receipt of same. Tak- ing out a pair here and there usually satisfies the majority of retailers, but if you have had trouble with your manu- facturers in the past, send one of your clerks into the stockroom with full in- structions as to what you’ consider ‘*goods up to sample.’’ If he is in any way bright he will undoubtedly notice all of the little faults which give you no end of trouble before the goods have been on your shelves two months. One of these faults is very poor heel seats. Others are bad foreparts and short tips. These things are so apparent and so distasteful to the eye of prospective customers that it is well to take the bull by the horns and refuse at once to keep the goods. If, on the other hand, you have found that your goods are up to sample, it would be well for you to rearrange your shoe department. The summer shoes which you have placed in the most con- venient position, so as not to delay the clerks in handling, should be replaced by the fall shoes, which, in all proba- bility, you will sell from now until! next spring. This rearrangement might cause a few days’ work, but this will be more than offset by the time which you will save when you have the fall goods placed in a forward position. After this has been done take the sum- mer shoes out of your windows, form up some of your new fall styles and make a window display which will be both neat and attractive. If you use display tables, have the display in keeping with the windows. Get out a neat cir- cular to the trade announcing a fall opening and inviting their patronage. Do not expect that every one who comes into the store and looks over the fall shoes will buy, but rather be anxious to show prospective customers what they may expect in the future in the way of ready-to-purchase shoes. Of course, if you can afford it you can carry on a much more elaborate fall opening. You might decorate the in- terior, arrange a handsome window trim and send invitations to customers to attend. You might give a little souvenir as a memento of the occasion. This, of course, all costs money, and is something which every shoe man is not able to carry out. Instances could be cited where shoe men have issued elaborate invitations, hired a band of music, engaged an opera singer and done everything that was possible to create the impression that they were far ahead of the times. They have spread an elaborate shoe display on either shelving, absolutely refused to serve any customers with shoes on the day of the opening, deco- rated the salesmen with swallow-tail coats and neat boutonnieres and stood them, like so many foreign diplomats, receiving prospective customers for the whole day. But inthe end they have not made as much out of the opening as the man who has gone along in a sys- tematic way and kept within his bounds. Trade is very peculiar, and often you will find people who, when they see you put on so many airs, feel that you are taking all this out of the goods that you are selling and not giving them the same value for the money as your more staid competitor in the next block. This only applies to sections, and it is often feasible for the successful retailer to give such an opening. But if you intend to do it, do everything thorough- ly. Make your windows, your interior arrangement, your show cases and your goods all equally worthy of mention. Another point which many retail shoe merchants seem to forget when they put in a new stock of goods, and a matter which costs more or less discord during the day, is whether or not the clerks be- come acquainted with the new shoes. It is often the case that a customer will enter the store and ask for something which has been placed in stock, but with which the clerks have not yet be- come familiar. After futile attempts to serve the customer, he is eventually allowed to leave the store when the goods are actually on the shelves. Furthermore, you will find salesmen who are not acquainted with the shoes in the window, and a customer, after try- ing to describe the shoe desired, finds it necessary to replace his shoe and take the clerk to the window in order to de- scribe the article which he wishes to purchase, These are points which make a weak system and which ought to be remedied with all possible haste.—Shoe Retailer. SHOE System—perfect. Makers of Shoes. we a. a. a. a. a. ee. a SEO RE SR a a ee SE a a. a a. On A EB RE BB BSB OE SE SG SRE GR a Cause: Leather—best money can buy. Machinery—most modern obtainable. Workmanship—efficient, first class. Effect: Shoes stylish, up-to-date. Shoes unexcelled for wear. Shoes completely finished in every detail. Shoes most satisfactory in every respect. Apply the above logic to our own factory shoes and you have the reason for our successful shoemaking. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., j LOGIC Grand Rapids, Mich. EE a a >. a. ee. cordivan shoes made by a THE PROPORTION OF WEAR between the average child’s and young girl’s shoe and that of a woman’s is as three to one—unless the ideal calf or RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO. are those in question—in which case the .balance of wear will almost invariably be in favor of their GRAND RAPIDS MADE SHOES. Si Ble mie peng cb ee eee 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner. Tom Todd’s Theory of Climbing Up in the World. Written for the Tradesman. “oe You 2” ’ ° ee Me : , That first paragraph was uttered in a tone of withering contempt by a dealer on Ottawa street something less than a hundred years ago. He had advertised for a boy and before the store was open Tom Todd, the boy, had been sitting on the doorstep long enough to wear a hole in his trousers. Anyway, that is how he accounted for the tear when the clerk presumed to call attention to it. If the storekeeper’s condensed re- marks are unproducible in type that unmistakable ‘‘Me!’’ is more so; but it requires time, place and circum- stances to convey to the reader what it was in the applicant for the position to turn the contempt into a smile of ap- proval. It was uttered by a twelve-year- old, ‘‘tattered and torn’’ and frowsy, who with the air of a king had followed ‘‘the firm’’ into his private office and had stated at once the object of his call. Taking in the boy at a glance—his rags and his general unkemptness, he had growled out his ‘‘You?’’ half question, half exclamation and turned to his mail, when the ‘*Me!’’ with fifty thous- and exclamation points caused _ the storekeeper to turn two astonished eyes upon his visitor. That time he didn’t see the rags nor the frowsiness but an unkemp lad somewhat under size with head erect, right foot forward, chin up—deeply dimpled and to bea decided square, one of these days—and a pair of black eyes looking him full in the face from the shock of hair that hung low, on his medium strip of forehead— face, form, attitude, each, in its intense- ness, proclaiming the boy to be ‘‘every inch a king!’’ The storekeeper hadn’t looked at the indignant youngster a quarter of a min- ute before he felt ashamed of himself and with his first-opened letter still un- read he said with kindness in face and voice, ‘‘I don’t believe you’re equal to the work to be done.’’ Quick as a flash came back the un- expected answer: ‘‘ ‘You can’t tell by the looks of a toad how fur hec’n jump!" ”’ The ‘‘toad’’ idea seemed for a mo- ment so pat and so amused the store- keeper that he called out to one of the clerks to ‘‘take this ‘toad’ out into the back store and give him a chance to jump,’’ and in the meantime the head of the house kept his eyes open to see how far this unpromising toad could leap. For the next fortnight all that the man saw pleased him. Striking into a cheery whistle Tom Todd—it soon be- came ‘‘Todd’’ for short—went into the lengthening out business in the back store with a vim that startled everybody and set them all to repeating the prov- erb about ‘‘new brooms.’’ In this in- stance the proverb wasn’t worth even “*30 cents.’’ In the first place, there was noise enough out there for three grown men to make and for the whole morning it sounded as if the whole es- tablishment was coming down so that twice the proprietor started for the back room with a ‘‘What in thunder!’’ took a good look both times and came away with an approving nod. There was. an interval of silence about noon and then the uproar went on until to- wards night. The attentive ear in the office took note of the quiet and cailing in the clerk in charge directed that the boy should have the rest of the day for himself. The delivery of the order brought the king or the toad, as the reader pleases, to the door of the office. ‘*The clerk says I may go home. Won't you gimme m’ pay for a day or two, ev’ry night? We’re all on us "bout starved.”’ There were tears in the pleader’s voice and eyes, but he stood there, ‘““every inch a king,’’ and like a king was ready to abide by his employer's decision. John Gray was not a man given to sentiment and he was not inclined to break in on a settled custom, but one good look at the boy in the doorway was enough and taking a dollar from his pocket he put it into the boy’s hand and bade him good night. The lad went home and the proprietor went into the back store. Lighting the gas, he looked with amazement upon Tom Todd’s day’s work. In less than a day the twelve-year-old had brought order out of a month’s accumulating chaos. ‘*The boy and his proverb are all right’’ he said to himself as he went back to his desk. ‘‘ ‘You can’t tell by the looks of a toad how far he can jump,’ but by jingo, there’s a difference in toads so far aS my experience goes and I like this sort !’’ The next day when Tom Todd was waiting on the doorstep for the open- ing-up clerk, that official didn’t know the boy until: he had come close to him. He had his hair cut and the luxury of soap had been added to the water of his morning bath. What was as com- mendable as it was unexpected was an array of ten finger nails without a hint of black to disfigure them. Better than all that he had lost the ‘‘lean and _ hun- gry look’’ that had haunted him the day before and, braced by a good sup- per, a sound sleep and a better break- fast, he looked more like King Lear than the crazy old king himself. John Gray saw, heeded and kept his own counsel. He also kept his eye on the boy. He noticed how Tom Todd kept improving every day. If it wasn’t in one way it was in another. The rags followed the dirt and the early haircut. The work put into his hands bore the sign manual of the righted-up store room and with it all there was a some- thing about his workmanship, no matter how humble was the task in hand, that indicated a delight and ‘‘level best- ness’? which went straight to the pro- prietor’s heart. After five years had come and gone and the boy, to all intents and purposes a man now, strong and ready and ‘‘the likeliest man on the _ force,’’ had strengthened the confidence placed in him from the first, the storekeeper, when the two were out for a Sunday afternoon ride, asked the boy how he happened to steer clear of the good-for- nothingness that so often makes imps of boyhood. ‘That's easy,’’ was the reply. ‘‘All a boy has to do is work and keep his mouth shut. I am better off than most boys for I had something to work for from the start. ‘Ma’ isn’t my mother, you know. She took me in when I was almost a baby and we had a tough time of it until that day I came to the store. Turn about’s fair play, you know; and sc when my turn came I was so glad to begin to pay her off that it seemed to me I never could do enough and I never want to stop; and all that first day I couldn’t think of anything but the sup- per. enough she was going to have. Working and keeping still and having Ma to work for’s what did the business for me, and I guess that’s all there is to it, anyway.”’ ‘‘I guess that’s right,’’ said John Gray and touching the horse he thought, ‘*It’s no wonder that you can’t tell by the looks of a toad how far he can jump!’’ Richard Malcolm Strong. ee ee Stumbling Blocks in the Pathway of Co- Operative Buying. I have studied and thought a good deal about co-operative buying, because it is a mighty important economic movement—the sweeping out of the middle-man. There is one weak point scheme, as I see it. I don't believe grocers know enough about goods to buy for themselves. Now don’t get all ruffled up until you hear my explanation. In the past every retail grocer in busi- ness, short of the very big ones, has bought of the jobber. He has depended on the jobber, when it came to the qual- ity of goods, a good deal more than he likes to admit. On a good many goods the retailer has depended on the jobber absolutely. How many grocers could buy tea and know what they were getting, without outside help? Or coffee? Or rice? Or spices? Or syrup? Or molasses? Or a whole lot of other things? Mighty few. Don’t get into your heads that I’m throwing any stones at grocers—the av- erage grocer actually has not time to learn much about the goods he sells. It takes years in the coffee business to pick out grades and be sure you are right, and so with a lot of other things. Some grocers can do it, but they must have had more leisure than the average. In the average case, the grocer tells the jobber’s salesman what he wants and trusts to the iobber’s honesty to send it to him. If he does not get it, the only way he has of knowing it is by hearing his customers compiain. Some jobbers are as honest as the sun and never slipped up ona retailer in their lives. And some are not, but that is another story. It is only natural that the jobber should know more about goods than the retailer. He has buyers who train in nothing else. They rub up against coffees, for instance, every hour in the day for years—comparing grades and estimating prices—it would be mighty strange if they didn’t know their busi- ness. They know it so well, in fact, that it is as easy as falling off a log for them to deceive.a retailer who knows less, With the retailer, coffee or tea is one of a hundred things—he has not time to study them. Although, unquestionably, many grocers could know more about such things than they do. In the past, all of the expert knowl- edge of the jobbers’ buyers has been at the retailers’ service. Now, co-operative buying proposes to make a most radical change in all this, ‘‘Let the jobber go,’’ it says, ‘‘we do our own buying. ”’ The question is—does the retailer know enough about goods to do his own buying? Of course, he can hire it done, but when you go to that expense, you are taking the juice right out of in the co-operative buying—what difference whether you pay your margin of profit to a jobber or pay it to a buyer in the form of salary? No, sir, the strong point of co-operative buying is that ‘it gets cost down by eliminating expense. That is why I say—is the retail gro- cer, separately or collectively, a suffi- ciently educated buyer to buy for him- self? It does not seem to me as if he was. I was witness once to an attempt made by a clerk to go into business for himself. He came to me before he did it and asked my advice; said there was a good opening at such and sucha place and he thought he could raise a little money. I only asked him one question—did he know the business? He said very positively that he did. He had only been in it about. ten months, but he still thought that what he did not know about the grocery business would go into a very small book. I told him that if he was sure to go ahead. He went ahead and some time after told me himself that when he got in that new store, without the employer who had always told him what to do, he felt like a ship at sea without a rudder. He did not know which way to turn, for what he did know about the grocery business was but a grain of sand beside the mighty ocean of what he didn’t know. Well, that is a good deal like the re- tailer when he breaks away from the jobber whose honest knowledge he has depended on in buying—a good deal more than he thinks. .He must look mighty sharp or he will be at the mercy of the salesmen, for occasionally you’ll find a salesman who believes that tak- ing advantage of ignorance is more fun than eating.—Stroller in Grocery World. ——_> 02> __ Bound To Get Her Money’s Worth. ‘‘It puzzled me for some time,’’ said the portly party, ‘‘but the explanation was simple enough from the standpoint of my wife. During the trying hot spell we had in July she visited a sister who lives in the Northern part of the State. When she left I told her to wire me when she got to her destination so that ‘I would know that she had arrived safe- ly. I said that the word ‘‘arrived’’ would be all that was necessary, and I would know from that that ali was well. In due time I received a telegram from her which read ‘Arrived,’ the big black bug and the big black bear.’ ‘“‘I sat and looked at the telegram in blank amazement, trying to figure out what she meant. I concluded at last that the message had been mixed up in sending, so I went to the telegraph office and had it repeated. The answer came back that it was correct and ac- cording to the copy that had been filed, Fearing that the heat had affected my wife's head, I boarded the first train and imagined ali sorts of dire things that might have happened to her. ‘Goodness,’ she gasped, when I ap- peared on the scene, ‘what has brought you here?’ “This telegram,’ said I, breathing a_ sigh of relief, ‘perhaps you will be kind enough to explain what you meant by such a fool jumble of words!’ Why,’ says she, ‘the clerk said it would cost no more to send ten words than it would to send one; so I decided to have my money’s worth!’ ‘Well,’ said ,1 ‘it seems to me that you might have picked out a less idiotic combination. i Why, you see,’ she answered, ‘that was what the car wheels said all the wer a here, so I just put itin to fill —_—__2-0——_____. The time to kill a di ‘ starts to grow. weed is before it MICHIGAN TRADESMAN <=, .®, .w, ww, > => > > => >. sssssss: p wa ° => >>> >> => ~~, a, -W, A Sa, Sa a, Sa. “a a “A Bas < 2 e EEE OOS aes Q a ae FOO IOI OOOO OOOO Ir r rrr OPEL EOE AE EE ORI BOO IE I IOI I I I I IT > SF a How Do These Strike You? Our men are now on the road with the = PT a, - a Sssss5° most attractive line of shoes that ever went —S yA out from our factory. We've been manufacturing shoes more ee. £9 49 49 49 41 = e ° ° ° . than half a century and still we are making improvements. e . 3 ¢ D D) e » =, © © D We are exclusive manufacturers. © =, .@®, .a, We are in the great distributing center. I's sss I'S No. E 2000. Girls’ Dongola Wedge, % D. S., | by 2 > $0 2 Eace!| Damcy Bip ou a | 12% an 8 os We make everything from cacks to creoles. e > ? > e e » ? =, :' ~~, a, ¢ . : Just drop a card to our “Depart- ment E” if you wish to have a sales- a, « e OP man call. A request to “Department E” will also get your name on our regular “Helpful Hints” list, which means valuable retailing ideas free. No. E 4235. Men’s Patent Leather, Dongola Top, Balmoral, % D. S, Machine Sewed, Princeton Tip..........-. ee a $2 00 C. M. Henderson & Co., ‘Western Shoe Builders” Cor. Market and Quincy Streets, Chicago, Illinois Ceccceccccccccccccce SSSSSSSSSseSSeSesccesesseSeSseseeessee & 2 ; bs s x 4 = wy La ra 4 2 Es 3 re eee enon MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Window Dressing Originality the Secret of Success in Win- dow Trimming. One great secret of success in window trimming, as in everything, is to be original, to keep out of the rut. The successful trimmer must ever be devis- ing something new or must at any rate do the old things in such a fresh and novel way as will impart character and a spice of originality to a really thread- bare idea. He should do nothing one week in the way in which it was done during the preceding week. Routine is fatal stagnation. It is impossible to remain in the same position—one must go forward or backward. Each time a display is made it should be an im- provement on earlier displays of the same kind, and should in its turn sug- gest change and betterment in future displays of similar articles. Of course, considerable labor and thought are im- plied in such efforts for novelty, and a place above the ruck, for originality, although it will do much, will fail if alone depended on for success. Hard and steady work is also essential. The window trimmer will succeed who _pos- sesses, or patiently cultivates, original- ity, and at the same time spares no work incident to the realization of his ideals. The combination of originality and hard work commands success. e+ + There are certain men who will al- ways regard ready-to-wear clothing, de- spite its present acknowledged excel- lence, as an abomination and an impos- sibility, and such men will pay large prices for custom-made garments rather than submit to the indignity of wearing even the most elegant and irreproach- able ready-made clothing. It is a good idea for retail clothiers and department stores, having a custom tailoring de- partment, to draw attention to the fact by a display of fall and winter material in the piece, together with a few com- pleted garments of the materials shown, and a card of prices. This is now be- ing done at many popular stores. At one place I noticed half the space of a large window was devoted to a display of this nature and the other half of the window was occupied by fall and win- ter hats. The beautifully draped and handsome material, shown with the hats so evidently intended to be worn with it, made quite an unusual and attractive display. es. + The method followed in the windows of wall paper establishments suggests another idea for the attractive display of fall and winter materials in the piece. The fixture used should not be less than five feet in height and should have a heavy base and a top of suffi- cient size to conveniently support a bolt of material. Arrange the desired num- ber of bolts in a semi-circle and un- wind enough of each bolt to reach the floor in a graceful sweep, about a half yard of the stuff lying ruffled, and so as to conceal the base of the fixture. Turn the sides of two or three of these units under, rather above the middle, and pin them together in an easy curve. Arrange a finished suit, overcoat, or other garment made of the material on display across one arm of a handsome chair placed in the center of the semi- circle. *x* * * The arrangement of displays in un- usualy large windows is a very difficult matter on account of the quantity of material to be tastefully disposed, and because fixtures large enough to fill the window generally create a stiff and la- bored effect. In a display of neckwear at William Vogel & Sons, New York, this fixture difficulty was cleverly avoided by using brass chains attached to the roof and floor in the front and rear of the window. Crossbars were attached to this chain by means of hooks and the neckwear beautifully draped on these bars and on other fixtures in the body of the window. The result was very graceful and effective. <_< 2 * The trimmer whose stock of fixtures does not include any of the oaken vari- eties so often described of late in these pages will do well to have some made. In almost every furnishing goods depart- ment and store of any modish preten- tions fixtures made of oak or other light woods have, for the present at any rate, largely superseded those of nickel. There is certainly a very sympathetic and graceful quality in these wooden fixtures, and they have also the advan- tage of being made in shapes not hither- to procurable in metal, and which are especially adapted to novel and striking ideas of display. Manufacturers of nickel fixtures are now offering nickel imitations of the most popular styles. Some of these are very elegant and de- sirable, others are fitted with bases of a white glazed porcelain, adorned with rings of gold color, giving a rather hard and inartistic effect.—Apparel Gazette. ——_>_ 2» ___ Your Best Salesman. The object of your window display is not to show how many classes of goods you have, for all. classes of goods are not equally desirable; neither is it to build up a reputation for yourself or your window dresser for having the most elaborate and gorgeous window display ir your town, but it is a means to an end—an advertisement for your goods. A merchant should never dress his window for any purpose other than as a means to advertise his goods. The window, like newspaper advertising, is intended to bring results. If the work is badly done, the effectiveness intended will not exist, and the advertisement will bring no results. In making your selections for fall window dressing, be sure to have the latest and the most appropriate fall goods, and begin the advertising in your window as soon as possible. As the season advances other novelties will appear; get them and put them in your window for a change. If you do not change your window display with new goods, be sure to change the arrange- ment as often as two or three times a week. You must never let the public think your window display old-fashioned and monotonous. People like change, and hence fre- quent changes sharpen the intellect and develop attention.—Clothier and Fur- nisher. —___© 9 _ A Common Mistake. A New York dry goods merchant has related’ his experience as a newspaper advertiser, and among the pieces of ad- vice which he gives to others is this: ‘It is a mistake to advertise only at in- tervals. The man who does this loses the cumulative benefit of publicity. His business name is not kept constantly before the public. He is virtually a new advertiser every time. It is profit- able to cultivate among the people the habit of looking every day for your an- nouncement, ’’ Not Entirely Happy. ‘“You remember Thrailkill, that used to have such hard work making both ends meet?’’ ‘Ves, I heard he inherited a fortune. Poor fellow! He needed it badly enough. What use did he make of it?’’ ‘*You know he had a mania for old and rare books. Would rather handle them and gloat over them than do any- thing else in the world. Well he bought out a secondhand book store.’ , ‘‘And I suppose he’s happy now.’ " “*Yes—except when somebody comes in to buy a book.’ —_—>_2 2. Cosey Corner in the Home. Church—Have you a cosey corner in your house? Gotham—Oh, yes; my wife has ar- ranged two of them. G “You must enjoy them after a hard day's work.’’ ‘Enjoy nothing ! and my wife's dog occupies the other! The cat has one ? Kirke Scherer, F. A. James McMillan, F, E. Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M.'B. Mills, Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S. Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. m. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- Michigan I Fire ool Marine © Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Cash Assets, $800,000 D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. D. M. FERRY, Vice Pres. Net Surplus, $200,000. 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A. brands of Fine Candies and Chocolates Mixtures, Creams, Penny Goods and Cough Drops. rVVvVUVVVVYVVVVVvYyVvVvVvVvVYyVvVvVvVvVvYyVVvVVVUVYVVUVUUVUVYUUUCUCCUCCCCCC?C?* pwYwvvvvuwvevvvvvevvevvuvvvvvvvvVeCCCCY PPPGO OG POFFO GO VGF FO FT STOTT FOTO OOS OO C ST R. R. BEAN, Secretary OP POD ODO NPGS WSS hb i i i i hh eh Royal oval Warden Tea Teas. ™ ste “t 2 Peer Le BOUR'S Celebraied Brands. SO tne TRADE MARK See fa our'’s aint Oval arden 6a In pounds, halves and quarters, JAPAN B. F. JAPAN YOUNG HYSON GUNPOWDER ENG. BREAKFAST CEYLON OOLONG BLEND Retailed at 50c, 75c, and $1 per Ib. The best business propo- sition ever offered the grocer. Absolutely the choicest teas grown. Write for particulars. The J. M. BOUR CO., Toledo, Ohio, RON ceennan recess eecteatt ee A RIG re Phe peter meen MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Renting Letters a New Occupation. Did you ever hear of renting letters— yes and selling them, too—the ordinary enveloped missives that the postman hands you, the kind that our Uncle Sam carries from point to point at the rate of 2 cents per carry? Not the love letter kind. They are for sale, too, but ina different way. Publishers get them and give posterity the benefit. But the let- ters of to-day that command favorable rates in an extensive market are the letters of business. This is in connection with that more or less admirable industry known as ‘‘the mail order business.’’ The man or woman who has a mail order scheme must have ‘‘names.’’ He or she must know to whom to send the care- fully worded circulars which are to be productive of a golden harvest. The old way of the mail order agent was to insert an advertisement in one of the many hundreds of little papers that peo- ple in the big cities seldom see, but which have wide circulation in the rural districts. That was a pretty good way, but to-day the mail order man thinks he has a much better one. He procures a list of names of per- sons who have answered previous ad- vertisements and to the people on this list he addresses a circular. This is to him a great saving. It narrows down to a special field. Instead of declaim- ing to a scattered and necessarily par- tially uninterested congregation, he has the advantage of addressing a carefully selected audience all attention. One big New York dealer in letters, in speaking of his specialty the other evening, said: ‘There is no way that a man in my business can so quickly develop and promote his interests as by the judi- cious use of letters. On the average mail order proposition they invariably yield prompt, profitable returns to the user. I own to-day in the neighbor- hood of 1,000,000 of the freshest, best assorted and most desirable agents’ and mail order buyers’ letters in the United States. A million sounds like a pretty big number, but then, there are a pretty big percentage of us who may be inter- ested in this or that scheme. The post- age alone on these letters represents in the original, $20,000, ‘I am constantly buying letters and as constantly selling them over again. When a man places an advertisement in one of the little journals that circu- late through the country districts I send him a letter, offering to buy his letters after he is through with them at so much per 1,000 or so much per Ioo. Usually he sells them fast enough. ‘*Then I put an advertisement in the little journals calling the attention of chaps who are contemplating offering something along the same line as was offered by the man from whom I bought the letters. They are, of course, anx- ious to reach, without taking a round- about course, such people as would be specially interested in their offer. That’s where I come in. Sometimes I sell outright, and again, I simply lease the letters, getting them back to use when another man springs a similarly appropriate scheme.’’—New York Her- ald. ee Raising Rubber in Our Colonies. The United States Department of Agriculture is reported to have begun actively the investigation of the sources of rubber and the possibility of produc- ing on American territory an important part of the material used in our facto- ties. The first expedition is likely to be sent to Mexico and part of the results of its work may be a report on the methods of the American companies now raising capital for planting rubber in that country. It is not too much to say that the deparment does not regard favorably the methods of some of these companies, and would not hesitate, if supported by proof, to warn the pub- lic against them. Having determined the proper conditions for cultivating the Castilloa elastica, the next step will be to learn whether the tree can be grown successfully in Cuba or Puerto Rico, or our possessions in the Pacific. Another expedition, which is likely to be on a larger scale, will be in the: nature of a botanical study of the Ama- zon region, from the headwaters to the Atlantic ocean, noting any plants of economic value which may _ possibly prove, after experiments have been made,to be suited for cultivation in any American possession. But it is expected that the most important result of this expedition will be a report on the Ama- zon rubber species, which shall be more accurate and more exhaustive than any- thing which has yet been written. The authorities at Washington are not con- tent to assume that the Hevea rubber species can not be domesticated outside of the Amazon basin. As for the Philippines, the investiga- tion into the rubber situation which has been set on foot is within the province of the War Department, through which the administration at Manilla is still directed. It is known that many persons connected with the government of the Philippines are alive to the possibili- ties in the way of the existence of India rubber and gutta-percha there, and the principle will be adhered to strictly of protecting these and all other natural resources on the public domain.—India Rubber World. ———_>-2.___- Poor Way to Advertise. The Business Men’s Association held an important meeting last evening and unanimously voted to subscribe to an agreement not to advertise in small pro- grammes and the like outside of the regular newspaper and other established publications. The question was talked over at length, and it was stated that there was more or less of a threat of loss of business in some cases of requests for programme advertising if the mer- chants did not advertise. Moreover, it has been learned that often the business men subscribed to help along some _so- ciety when asa matter of fact the pro- gramme was sold to a regular canvasser who made the greater part of the profit, the society or organization getting very little. In case a deserving object of some special nature came along, the Sec- retary could investigate and report to the Association. Among those who took part in the discussion were the leading merchants and business men of the city, and the sentiment was unanimous that the programme solicitation of advertise- ments had passed the stage where it could be tolerated.—Springfield Repub- lican. ———~> 9. One Kind of Conjunction. ‘‘What is a conjunction?’’ asked the teacher. ‘*That which joins together,’’ was the prompt reply. 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The market for ducks and brown osnaburgs remains quiet, and without material change. Bleached cottons are firm, but without further advances in any lines. Coarse colored cottons are firm throughout the market, and a moderate business is pro- gressing. Prints and Ginghams—The demand for prints to-day has been quiet for both staples and fancies. Buyers have stopped considering the future for the present. They feel, for one thing, that prices are as high as they are likely to be, and as they have placed quite gen- erous orders for future delivery, they are more concerned with getting goods for immediate use. They let other ends of the business go. Orders all around are, however, of quite a moderate character. The tone of the market is maintained in the same firm condition that has been noted for several weeks, and in many cases orders are accepted ‘‘at value’’ only. Mourning prints in blacks and whites, grays and solid blacks have been generally cleaned up. Percales have been in moderate request at firm prices. Printed flannels have ruled quiet and without change in price. Fine printed fabrics are well sold up, and very firm. Ginghams in both staples and fancies have seen a moderate business only, but the tone of the market is firm. Knit Goods—It goes without saying that the fall deliveries have been marked by an unusual punctuality. One result of the quiet season, according to a prominent manufacturer, will be that goods will be fully up to the qualities shown in samples, for this reason: Buy- ers are not anxious to receive any goods but those that have not been watered in the least. In a time like the present they are more particular than in a rushed season. They have more time to examine deliveries closely. The manufacturer is aware of this fact and is sure to be unusually careful, especial- ly as the jobber may not need very much of an excuse to cancel goods later on. The spring season is progressing on very satisfactory lines. Fancies con- tinue to be among the most popular numbers. Prices remain firm on almost every line of importance. Buyers have placed the majority of theirorders. The volume of business done has _ been good, and has been tempered witha degree of conservatism that is a good sign, as it does not look as if there had been any overbuying. On some of the cheap grades of balbriggans there has been a great deal of competition, and with it the inevitable price-cutting, of course, but these are the few exceptions that prove the rule. Carpets—The fall season in the car- ' pet trade is drawing toaclose. To- day nearly every mill outside of those aaa oft NOS os engaged on ingrains is extremely busy in turning out duplicate orders, which in most cases will keep them running in full for some months to come. All the business for this season has been placed, and when manufacturers have finished all their present duplicates preparations for the spring trade should be under way. In fact, some of the large mills are beginning to look to- wards the new season, and slight prep- arations have been going on in the way of making up designs and weaving samples. Asa rule, however, the ma- jority of the mill men so far have given the coming season but little thought, their minds being too much occupied in filling their contracts for the one that is now so near its end. As the new sea- son approaches, the enquiries as to what the coming season’s prices will be become the more numerous. The smaller manufacturers and the carpet yarn spinners are particularly anxious that a good-sized advance over the prices of to-day should be made so that a fair-sized profit, as they express it, can be made. With a continuance of the conditions that rule at present, the indications are that their anxiety may be allayed by at least some advance, either small or large, over present prices. Perhaps, however, it may be a trifle too early to make any predictions, on the strength of to-day’s market, re- garding a subject on which so many seemingly unimportant events act so adversely. The retail trade are now beginning to dispose of this season's goods to the public very freely, accord- ing to their own statements, and if a continued demand is experienced throughout the fall, there should be no more than the usual amount of surplus goods left on the market at the time the spring goods are formally opened up. The cut-order trade report that they are now beginning to experience about the same amount of business as they had last spring, which will be remembered as one of unusual satisfaction to the trade. They report that this season’s call is largely for the finer grades of carpets and also for the medium grades. Brus- sels and velvets are good sellers as are also the axminsters and tapestries. The 34 goods continue to be the feature of the manufacturing end of the carpet trade, and very few pieces outside of these grades command the buyers’ at- tentions. The standard makes of some of the well-known Eastern mills are conspicuously prominent in the large jobbers’ warerooms, and these makes are having a very large demand. In- grain carpet manufacturers, especially in Philadelphia, report an exceedingly quiet business, with no hopes for any change for the better this season at the most, owing to the late date. One or two of the large mills in New England are said to be doing a good business in ingrains, but presumably the ingrains referred to are no doubt above the aver- age supers. Philadelphia manufactur- ers report a slight improvement in 3- plys and all-wool ingrains, but still the market continues to remain in an un- satisfactory state. It can not be ex- pected that much more business will be done for this season, for the usual open- ing of spring goods is only a short dis- tance away. The demand at present points largely towards all-wool goods and 3-plys. Rugs—Manufacturers are doing a good business in Symrna rugs, although more active seasons have been experi- enced than at present. The buying public are beginning to come into the market, now that cool weather is upon us, and it is thought that their purchases may improve the market very material- ly. Wilton rugs are in good request. —___>_2 > ____ The Maxims of Judy. Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and I will show you one who has never tried anything. It is a mistake to eat all you can, spend all you have, tell all you know or show all you feel. Ever since I knew of scsi: I have been wanting to employ Schwab, J. P. Morgan and John Wanamaker, for there is no trouble in getting business—the trouble lies in getting men. A bad pup often makes a good dog; and I would rather undertake to reverse the force of a bad man than loan - own to a weak one. Don't tell me what you have of beauty, strength, education, money or genius. The only thing I care to con- sider is what you are doing with it. You can’t escape criticism, for if you save your money, you are a miser and a hog, and if you spend it you are a spendthrift and a dog. Many practice humanity to get the under hold. Set your stake, and before you reach it set it further ahead, Some people kick at everything they don’t understand. I would rather fail and know the cause, than succeed and know not why. He that opposes us sharpens our wits and becomes our helper. I can tolerate a man who fails to ac- quire an education, or one who never gets a dollar ahead, but I soon grow tired of a person who does not have sense enough to have a good time.— Geo. W. Stevens in Success. HANDS UP! We pay special attention to the needs of the northern Our line of Mittens, Socks, Mackinaws, Kersey and Duck merchants. Gloves, Coats, Kersey Pants, Blan- kets and Comfortables is a good one. Look us over. If you can’t do that send us your wants by mail and we’ll take good care of them. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, MIch. Eten e eee ee eerrereree Comforts We have a big line of comforts and bed blankets. The prices at present are less than last year. Now is the time to buy them as the assortment is complete and the prices are right. ; and Bed Blankets \o : Our traveling men will call on you in a few days and show you a full line. aa want to see you and oe*, at eer Are Oy ry Si M7 M ras ee* Oty iy Sey bey Sey ey ad x) ay i) [0.8°0.@° oe 9 When You re in the City on business or pleasure, don’t forget that we have a line of SHOW CASES that will interest you. We We Are Always at Home at the corner of Bartlett and South Ionia streets, two blocks south of Union Depot—handy when you come in, handy when you go out. Come and See Us = Eves re Co. P. STEKETEE & SONS Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. oe - hy MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 WOMAN’S START IN BUSINESS. Girls Who Have Learned to Rely on Them- selves. The girl who goes to work nowadays differs in many particulars from her predecessor of a decade or more ago. The most striking point of difference probably is her independence of her old friends and her willingness, even her determination, to look out for herself once she has taken the step that trans- fers her into the ranks of the workers and out of the leisure class to which she belonged. When a girl formerly decided to start out for herself, she looked about the cir- cle of her friends to see how she might do something in the line of her work for them, If it was millinery or dress- making, she appealed first to them and really began her career as a worker with the idea of getting most of her patronage from them. Even further back in the history of woman's efforts to help herself it was on her friends that she relied. If she made pickles or put up jelly, she did not put her products on the market at first, but sought to have her friends buy them. If they did, she considered that she had been fortunate and it was only after a year or two when her friends thought that they had helped her along enough and ceased to buy that she learned that she had made a false _ start in relying upon a circle of customers who were not attracted by the quality of what she offered nor by any real need of it, but bought only through friendship and a desire to help her. And that is not the way to begin any kind of busi- ness that is to continue prosperously. So the girl who works to-day tries to get as far as she can from the patronage that comes only from good will. She likes to start out dependent only on the customers that the quality of her work may attract and hold. Of course her customers are likely to be from her own social circle until she has made a repu- tation in business. But that difficulty is now frequently got over by the manner in which the women start. One of the most prosperous of the so- called society milliners began her work two years ago with a milliner who had been established for some years. ‘*L had bought hats from her when I never supposed | would have to think of the way I should get the money | wanted,’’ she said, ‘‘and madame knew that I had taste and could frequently suggest things to her that she never thought of herself, not because she hadn't the ingenuity or the imagina- tion, but because she was so much oc- cupied that things didn’t occur to her. ‘‘One day after I couldn’t afford to have just as much as | had always had, she asked me if I had ever thought of going to work. I told her that I had been discussing the matter with my mother tbat very morning. ‘**Come to me,’ she said, ‘I have too much to do, and you are just the person to relieve me. 1 want somebody who is a lady like you to stand here and see that the customers are properly re- ceived, and I know that you have taste enough to make me_ suggestions at times. You will be as well paid here as you would be anywhere and the work is not hard. And the easiest thing about the work for you here will be your in- dependence from your friends. I won't require you to ask them to come and buy my hats, because you are in the shop, and that will be a greater relief than you realize. Business that is built on that principle is rarely lasting, and there is no class less likely to help you really than your friends after the nov- elty of your shop is worn off. Here with me you will begin in a business- like fashion, and all the progress you make will be on your merits.’ ‘‘Of course, I had no idea of depend- ing on my friends when I started out, but I had always thought that a girl could count on them to a certain ex- tent. It was only after I had taken the place with Madame that I realized the truth of what she said. Some of my girl friends came to the store like bricks and bought hats that cost a lot, but there were not enough of them to make existence profitable. Even the most in- timate began to drop away after awhile, just as all women do because they want an occasional change in their milliner. I could not help thinking how I would have fared if I had been compelled to rely on the support of my friends.’’ This young woman repeated the opin- ion of most of the women who have learned for themselves that only the ability to please the great public will bring them success. Not only is the patronage from the public larger than that from one’s friends, but it is more profitable for other reasons. Casual pur- chasers are likely to exact less in the way of accommodation than friends supposed to be anxious to help the struggling young tradeswoman who is at the outset of her career. It isa fact that the rich are sometimes able to drive a better bargain than those who are not so liberally supplied with the means to do what they want. And they are very likely to do this in the case of their friends. ‘*Well, why in the world should I pay Mary Brown, whom I have known all my life, $30 for that hat?’’ one customer of a young milliner asked at her open- ing the other day. ‘‘I can get it for the same money at Clementine’s.’’ It did not make any difference to her that the bonnet had come from the same house in Paris as that shown by the French milliner. She had known Mary Brown for a _ long time and it was too much to expect that she should receive for a hat the same price that a French milliner would ask. This was her view and many customers of their friends reason in the same way. It is just such experiences that have led the young women who now start in business to rely on what they can do to please the great public rather than to expect to make any permanent progress through the help of their friends. They know that they may expect but little from that source. It may help to start them a little way on their path, but it will never keep them going.—N. Y. Sun. = --@--~< Behind the Scenes. Circus Manager—What’s all that row in the dressing room? Attendant—Oh, the man who walks barefoot on swords ran a splinter in his foot. WORLD'S BEST Ss — ee w 5C CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND CG. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CoO. 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HANRARARAAARARARARARARARARARARARARARAAARAR Brilliant Halo Lamp, 400 Candle Power Cheaper than a Candle Guaranteed good for any place, Cottage or Mansion, Store, Church, Factory, Street, Garden, Mine, etc., etc.; wherever good and safe light is wanted. Over 100,000 in Daily Use at an average cost of about 20 cents a month, and our prices are lower in proportion than lamps that have no record. Brilliant Gas Lamp Co., 42 State St., Chicago Many hundred times more light from the and Halo Gasoline Gas Lamps 100 Candle Power George Bohner nesta bile seas Mace ap gting a ti Ma be he gina hors ee a See ni ASM MID RENE " REE BN ERR ETRE OTE Te PRAM Ab ees Wash 9 aA pie ete ne kame LON = nh ee aera minemateaernabe nd. cece ibe Sanemap ais pvaneeedte reer « De eh ree Behe rama toiota 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Responsibility of the Mother for the Child’s Looks. It must occur to every thoughtful per- son that the occupation of being a mother is a much harder job nowadays than it used to be. Time was when the comfortable belief prevailed that chil- dren were merely little animals, and if they were kept reasonably clean, fed when they were hungry, kissed when they were good and spanked when they needed it, a woman felt that she had done her full duty, and could leave the rest to Providence. Sometimes the children were pretty and healthy and strong, and then the mother complacently took credit to her- self for them. Often they were homely and sickly and delicate, and when they died she wept bitter tears and spoke of mysterious afflictions, but it never oc- curred to her that she was in any way responsible for the tragedies she la- mented. We have gotten a long ways now from those cheerful, happy-go-lucky views of a mother’s duties—so far, indeed, that the intelligent mother who tries to do her part by her family stands a good chance of being crushed under her load of responsibility. The present view of the child is not of the little animal who will grow up the way he was born, but of something infinitely plastic that the mother’s hand may shape physically, mentally and morally into whatever she chooses. _ It is a platitude to say that the mold- ing of character lies almost entirely with the mother. There is no luck in the way children turn out. The result is al- ways the inexorable and inescapable logic of cause and effect. Men do not sow tares and expect to reap wheat, and no parent who lets a child grow up uncontrolled, disobediem, undutiful, has any right to look for his teachings to bear any harvest but sorrow and anx- iety. The days of miracles are past, and nothing is going to happen to change the selfish, head-strong boy or girl into the loving and considerate man or woman. . There is not a single sil.y girl who brings shame and misery on herself ; there is not a wild boy who breaks his mother’s heart by his dissipation ; there is not even an unsuccessful, no-account loafer who have not a right to reproach their parents with their fate and say, ‘‘This is your work. If you had con- trolled me while I was a child, if you had taught me to bridle my passions and my appetite, if you had instilled the habit of obedience in me and taught me persistence of purpose and industry, I should not now be the poor, ruined creature that you see. I blame you with my wretched life and ruined happi- ness.”’ A few years ago I was sitting ona hotel piazza with a group of women, and one of them kept calling to her lit- tle daughter, a child of 10, who had been ill, and telling her to come into the house. The girl did not even pay her mother the courtesy of a reply, and the mother turned to me and said: ‘‘I can do nothing with her. She doesn’t obey a word I say and I have absolutely no control over her.’’ ‘‘Whether she comes in out of the rain or not,’’ I replied, ‘‘doesn’t matter much, but what are you going to do when she gets grown? You have estab- lished no habit of obedience in her, she has no respect for your judgment, no care for you feelings. There will be nothing to which you can appeal if the day ever comes when you will need to save her from making some terrible mistake—when you will need to save her from herself.’’ The other day I heard the sequel to the story. The girl grew up, and by and by she made the acquaintance on the street of people her mother could not know, and when her parents roused up to a sense of their duty at last, at- tempted to control her, she laughed at them and defied them and went her way, and there came a day when her mother would have been glad to look upon her dead face and know that she was safe. This is an old view of an old subject, and it is only of late that we have come to realize that the mother is as much responsible for her children’s physical welfare as she is for their mental and moral development. The other day | had this subject forcibly impressed upon me in a curious way. I was talking to a ‘‘beauty doctor,’? a man of deeply scientific attainments who devotes his great skill to making people better look- ing, and ke boldly declared that a mother who lets a child grow up ugly is a criminal. ‘‘Of course,’’ he said, ‘‘I am not speaking of those horrible deformities that pass all human skill, but just the little blemishes that mortify and annoy people all their lives. Think, for in- stance, of dooming a man to go through the world how-legged or knock-kneed when the simplest of surgical opera- tions will remedy the defect. The same thing may be said about the teeth. Nothing is uglier than a tusk or crooked teeth, and half the time the whole mat- ter could be remedied simply by having a tooth drawn in time and giving the other teeth room. ‘‘Then, there’s the nose. It is just as much a mother’s duty to train up a nose in the way it should go as it is for her to cultivate proper manners in her little ones. There’s absolutely no use in a mother submitting to the affliction of permitting her child to have a hide- ous nose because it was born with one. The soft tissues can be molded early in life. A thick nose can be made thinner by regular treatment, such as compress- ing it daily, either with the fingers or with instruments made with springs and padded ends so as to clasp the nose. A clever woman I once knew adjusted a clothespin so it did the work perfectly. Many noses are wrung and twisted out of shape by the two vigorous use of the handkerchief. A pretty nose is one of the rarest and most important elements of good looks, and it is surely a moth- er’s duty to see that her child gets one naturally, if she can, artificially, if nec- essary. ‘Flopping ears can be trained to grow close to the head by being kept bandaged back while the child is young. Pretty hair can, of course, be secured by proper brushing and cultivation, while a good complexion, woman's crowning charm and beauty, is simply the result of proper food. Ninety-nine out of a hundred sallow, pasty skins are merely the visible and outward sign of a childhood diet of pickles and pies and candy. ‘‘A beautiful form can be secured to any child by physical culture. A good walk and a graceful carriage, two ele- ments of beauty that are not sufficiently The President of the United States of America, FREETING 3 To HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager:s, salesmen. and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, Whereas, 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, Complainart, 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 a 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. @ avituess, The honorable MELVILLE W. Futter, 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, [sicneD) ° Complainant's Soliiter S. D. OLIPHANT, Cer’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 appreciated, can be taught as easily as the a, b, c’s, and, therefore, I say that it is absolutely in the mother’s power to say whether her children shall be good-looking or not. If she has the in- telligence, the industry and the pa- tience she can cultivate beauty where none really exists,and outwit old Mother Nature herself. ‘‘It is also in a mother’s power to determine the health of her family. It used to be that when a woman had del- icate and sickly children she simply resigned herself to what she called the inscrutable will of Providence, and let them die or grow up into thin-chested, spindling girls and boys who were doomed to semi-invalidism all their lives. ‘*Now, if soe be intelligent enough, she fights disease for her children. The most robust family I know were all puny children who belonged to what our grandmothers would have called a consumptive family and would have re- signed to an early grave. From the time they were born, their mother began to build up a constitution forthem. They were reared on simple and nourishing food, their muscles were trained, they were taught to breathe deeply and they grew up into splendid specimens of vigorous and joyous young man and womanhood. ‘‘Show me a woman’s children,’’ went on the professor of beauty, ‘‘and | will tell you what sort of a woman she is. If they are rusy, bright-eyed and healthy she is a woman of intelligence and industry. Ifthey are pasty-faced and sickly, nine times out of ten it is the direct result of their mother’s ignor- ance and laziness. ‘‘Being a mother—’’ I began. ‘‘Being a mother,’’ interrupted the professor, ‘‘is the greatest profession on earth, and the one that requires the widest knowledge, and it is this that makes the unanswerable plea for the higher educaticn of women. It is ig- norance, and not intent to murder, that makes a woman give her baby a cucum- ber pickle to cut its teeth upon, and with a race of educated mothers we shall produce a race that will not only be strong and healthy, but as_ beautiful as the ancient Greeks.’’ Dorothy Dix. a Woman’s Work at the Pan-American. That golf, tennis and country club life has not banished the womanly art of needlework is proved by the exhibit of this work at the Buffalo fair. All day long crowds of women are grouped about the cases filled with lace work, embroidered linen, drawn work and the old-fashioned tapestry embroidery. The _ linens embroidered in the colored wash silks in floral designs are easily the most attractive and interesting of the specimens, for the work is still com- paratively new, and the manufacturers of the silks are constantly improving on their colorings and adding new ones for the various designs. The strawberry, with its leaves and blossoms, seems to have been brought to the highest perfection, many speci- mens of this design being shown behind handsome frames and having all the appearance of an exquisite and finely finished water color. Baskets of straw- berries, in which the wood is faithfully copied in silk and the fruit piled in a glass dish, showing its crimson through the frosted dish, show to what wonder- ful perfection the silkmakers have brought their wares, as well as display- ing the skill of the modern woman with her needle. The linen work shows up in contrast to the cases of more somber work, the tapestries, some of them, portraits of notabilities, resembling oil paintings in the fidelity with which the flesh tints are reproduced. But the linen work showing the flowers standing well out from the white surface, perfectly coun- terfeited not only in color but in the curve of the petal, which is now so per- fectly reproduced by the underfilling of soft cotton, is admirable evidence that embroidery can not be relegated to the lost arts. A centerpiece which has pleased most of the women visitors is a combination of the tea rose with delicate sprays of maidenhair fern. Then there are others showing the poppy, the pansy and the orchid, all beautiful, as though the col- ors were laid on with a brush, instead of a needle, and possessing a softness and sheen which no brush could ever impart. It is true that in a case nearby a sewing machine company has an ex- hibit of similar articles, claimed to be done by their machines, but while these things at first glance look the same as the handmade pieces, no one can ex- amine the floral reproductions and fail to see the difference between the me- chanically made centers and those made by hand. A young woman demonstrator illus- trates how the work is done on the ma- chine, and it is a slow and_ unsatisfac- tory-looking process to any one who knows the pleasure of embroidering by hand, one of the chief pleasures of life to the home woman. The _ stamped linen is stretched on rings, as for hand- work, and is manipulated under the rising and falling needle, the ring be- ing worked back and forth, and fre- quently turned in order to insure the proper direction. It looks extremely tedious and tiresome and would appar- eutly tax the eyes to the utmost. An interesting exhibit in this room is an autograph quilt valued at $30,000, made in silk crazy patchwork, each patch bearing a distinguished name traced in pencil by its owner and then worked in silk by the maker of the quilt. More than a thousand celebrities are represented in this unique collec- tion. While it is undoubtedly interest- ing and valuable, it can not be called beautiful. Crazy patchwork, which gained a great vogue when it first came out about ten years ago, was a clever method of utilizing old scraps of silk, but the work was. never especially pretty. It was odd and bizarre and suggested its name. Another exhibit upon which the enor- mous value of $8,000 is placed is an old, fashioned ‘‘sampler-work’’ worsted afghan. It is one of the old-time bits of work upon which an infinitely great number of stitches were placed to make the background as well as the design. To the modern woman the old-fashioned work does not appeal. Unlike old lace, it has not the charm of delicacy to recommend it. China painting, which a few years ago was not only a fad with women, but promised to become one of the pay- ing vocations for feminine hands, seems to have lost its vogue generally in the last five years, and the fine show- ing of decorated china at the Buffalo exhibition is a surprise to those who have lost their first interest in the work. The showing of lace work indicates that this form of needle work will dis- place the linen embroidery in popular- ity. Its delicacy and wonderful origi- nality of pattern are such that Ameri- can laces, it would seem, will excel the foreign-made article before many years have passed. Cora Stowell. en aan Not Getting Her Share. Eunice had been doing some figuring on her slate. ‘‘Papa,’’ she said, ‘‘do you know this country eats about 2,600,000 tons of sugar every year?’’ ‘*No, I don’t know it,’’ replied papa, taught by past experience to be cau- tious. ‘‘Well, it’s so. I saw it in a paper.’’ ‘*Yes? What of it, dear?’’ ‘Nothing, only I’ve been finding out how much every man, woman and child in the United States eats, on an aver- rll ‘*Well, how much is it?’’ **It’s about 66 pounds a year. I don’t believe I eat the half of that, and yet you make a fuss every time I want—’’ ‘*That’ll do, child. I surrender. Here’s a quarter. Go and get your box of candy.”’ a es Hustlers and Non-Hustlers. ‘‘T tell you,’’ the sprightly passenger in the pepper-and-salt suit was saying, ‘‘there is nothing like get up and hus- tle. I hustle. If business doesn’t come to me [ go out and hunt it. Yesterday [ made nearly $11 repairing sewing machines. Had six jobs. I can afford to take a holiday once in a while.’’ ‘*Well,’’ slowly replied the passenger in the suit of sombre black, ‘‘I’m not so good on the hustle. I’ve had only one job in the last six months."’ ‘*That’s too bad,’’ returned the other sympathizingly. ‘‘What’s your occupa- tion?’ ‘* Building lighthouses. ’’ a Important to Know. She—The fortune teller says I shall marry money. He—Good! Did she say how I was to make it? --The Michigan Gasolene Gas Machine-- = The above illustration shows how a Michigan Gasolene Gas Machine may be used in every part of the house—for Light, Heat and Fuel. Send for illustrated descriptive catalogue, giving full particulars. Manufactured, guaranteed and sold by MICHIGAN BRICK & TILE MACHINE CO., Morenci, Mich. f if 5 4 Saat WE 7 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. The egg situation has taken on a de- cidedly stronger aspect during the past week. There has evidently been a con- siderable increase in the current con- sumptive requirements of our local trade incident to the return of citizens who spend the summer out of town, and it has come at the same time with a ma- terial decrease in our receipts of fresh gathered eggs. The recent rapid ad- vance in prices is a direct result of these conditions. Recent advices from the West have indicated some decrease in collections and some increase in outlets. Probably the country accumu- lations that occurred during August were largely marketed during the first half of September for collectors are now generally reporting a lighter run of stock. There is also doubtless some holding back of production in the hands of farmers. Demands for fresh eggs from Southern points and from the far Western mining sections have lately been increasing, and have stimulated prices at Western shipping points to such an extent that the margin on East- ern shipments, based upon the values recently ruling here, have been wiped out. The natural result has been a lighter Eastward movement, and the indications now are that a larger part of the Eastern consumptive demand will, hereafter, have to be supplied from the refrigerators. The advance in fresh gathered eggs lately established has been sufficient to divert a larger part of the consumptive demand to refrigerator eggs and to relieve the stringency of the Situation considerably. Offerings of refrigerators are still very free, and while the slight weakness previously noted has been recovered from, there has been no advance commensurate with the advance in high grade fresh and the difference in value is now more nearly normal to the season than it has been heretofore. x * * Last year the price of Western fresh gathered reached a 2o0c loss off basis only a few days later than this year, and the advance to that point was then maintained steadily up to October 15, when 2Ic was reached and carried with- out a break up to November 2. Later there was a rapid rise in prices, fancy Western reaching 27c during the month of November. The only reason for an- ticipating a less extreme advance this year lies in the earlier date at which prices have been forced above a 20 per cent. basis and in larger remaining sup- plies of refrigerator eggs—but it proved last year that more desirable held stock could have been moved to advantage than was held over into the late fall and winter months, so that the present Situation seems to offer promise of at least a satisfactory wind up. It must, however, be considered that reserve stocks are probably more than ample for all requirements up to the turn of the year and that the later markets depend entirely upon the character of the win- ter weather. Egg production is receiv- ing more and more attention every year in those Southern sections from which winter egg supplies may be drawn, and F. J. SCHAFFER & CO. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, CALVES, ETC. while the possibilities of extreme win- ter values, resulting from widespread bad weather, are still a part of the gam- ble, they are becoming less every year. + + + A lot of kids of both sexes got into a freight car loaded with eggs over in Jersey City the other day and, break- ing open some of the cases, filled their pockets with the hen fruit and engaged in a battle with dire results, A detec- tive appeared on the scene and arrested one of the youngsters named Mamie Burk, twelve years old. She needed cleaning before incarceration.—N. Y. Produce Review. ——_-->-6- Features of This Year’s Hay Crop. From the New York Commercial. The hay crop of the United States for this year amounts to about 51,000,000 tons, being slightly larger than last year’s, but under the one of 1899 and 1898. The latter crop (1898) was the largest on record, exceeding 66,000,000 tons. The crop gathered this year has been exceeded only seven times in the last twenty-six years, but it is 4,000,000 tons less than the average for the past ten years. One feature of interest is that this year New York State leads all others with a yield of 5,263,000 tons. lowa is a good second with a crop of 5,000,000 tons and South Dakota a poor third with a yield of 3,290,000 tons. Pennsylvania comes next with a crop of 3,159,000 tons. Comparisons made with conditions a year ago disclose great variation by in- dividual states. In 1900 lowaand Kan- sas were first and second, respectively, in point of hay yield. This year, as a rule, the states included in the territory east of Indiana and north of Virginia have a much heavier crop, while in the Southern and Western States the yield is short compared with production in 1900. —-—_—_»-@-# Corn Canning in Vermont. From the Burlington Free Press. Factories for the canning of corn and other products have been established but a comparatively short time in Ver- mont, yet enough is already known of the results of their operation to justify the most sanguine predictions of suc- cess for this industry. Indeed, in the light of present developments it is sur- prising that the field is not rapidly ex- tended, not only as regards the multi- plication of factories, but also in rela- tion to the canning of fruit and various kinds of vegetables. For example, a factory for the canning of corn was es- tabiished in Franklin county some time ago and operations have been begun with the expectation that a much larger amount of work will be done this year than was done last season. Seventy-two farmers planted corn for the company this year, 425 acres of land being de- voted to that purpose. It is also stated that 65,000 cans have been put up thus far, and it is estimated that the total output of this one factory for the season will be the enormous number of 800,000 cans. —_-> 0-2. Got Late Crop of Pickles. From the Syracuse Herald. Emory J. Brown, of Oneida, N. Y., has been trying an experiment in pickle production which is proving successful. On July 29 he planted a crop of pickles, using a field which had already pro- duced a crop of peas. The pickle vines have grown remarkably, have blossomed fully, and small cucumbers have already set. Mr. Brown will commence picking them for canning purposes this week. Those who claim to know of the growth of the cucumber vine pronounce this growth after such a late planting as wonderful. Next year many farmers will try the same experiment. > 2. How to Make Apple Cider. From the Orange Judd Farmer. Apples intended for cider should not be piled on the ground, for they will soon acquire an earthy flavor. This will taint the cider and lower its qual- ity. Neither should they be stored in closed bins without free circulation of air. Decay soon sets in and loss of quality is sure to result. Lay down some boards under the trees and upon these place the apples which are to go to the cider mill. They will keep very well in that way, but it is advisable to get them to the mill as soon as possible. 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 $ SWEET POTATOES At lowest market prices. 14-16 OTTAWA STREET, SPANISH ONIONS CRANBERRIES We are now in the market for ONIONS. us if you have any to offer. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, Write GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOOOODSSOOO000OS 60020006 00000000 0000000000000000 Rural Route No. 4 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 Citizens Phone 2599 Wanted in carlots only. We pay highest Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 Bell Main 66 Messina Stock is fine, in sound condition and good keepers. wire for quotations. E. E. HEWITT, Successor to C. N. Rapp & Co. 9 North Ionia Street, POTATOES market price. In writing state variety and quality. H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 304 & 305 Clark Building, Opposite Union Depot We are making a specialty at present on fancy Lemons Price very low. Write or Grand Rapids, Mich. Geo. N. Huff & Co. WANTED 10,000 Dozen Squabs, or Young Pigeons just before leaving nest to fly. Also Poultry, Butter, Eggs and Old Pigeons. on all shipments. Write for references and quotations. 55 Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan Highest market guaranteed LEADING PRODUCE HOUSE ON EASTERN MARKET BUY AND SELL le 3 “WANTED” We are in the market for BEANS, CLOVER, TOES AND ONIONS Correspond with us before selling. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALSYKE, POTA- We'll keep you posted. Just drop us a card. DETROIT, MICH. BRANCH AT IONIA, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- _ uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 28—Nobody is sorry that September is gone. It has been a month of sad memories and a partial suspension of business for some time. But now that it is evident no change will be made in the policy of the Gov- ernment, every day is showing more ac- tivity and for the next three months everybody thinks we shall have a mag- nificent trade. The coffee market is duller than usual and all recent attempts to bolster up rates have signally failed. The supply in this city was never so large and warehouses are almost as good as gold mines. In store and afloat the amount aggregates 2,196,568 bags, against 868, - 926 bags at the same time last year. Crop movement at primary points con- tinues large every day, running up to 80,000 bags. The demand has been of an average character and if anybody can see any reason for expecting higher prices than now prevail for some time to come he can see through a stone wall. West Indias are mildly enquired for and are generally found at a price satisfac- tory to the buyer, good Cucuta being held at 7!34c. East India sorts are quiet and unchanged. Teas at auction have shown some im- provement for almost all sorts and im- porters seem to be quite cheerful over the situation, which has shown steady improvement. There is no tea boom, of course, but, as compared with the situation prevailing six weeks ago, the present outlook is most encouraging. New business in sugars is mighty light. There is a little doing on old contracts, but the rush is over and we may look now for only the usual trade. Retineries are making prompt deliv- eries of hard sugars, but Arbuckles are said to be behind a week on softs. With the continued excellent de- mand it is a wonder that prices on rice have not advanced more than they have. The market is firm and dealers express great satisfaction with the present out- look. They would be glad to see pota- toes short every year. Only an average trade is being done in spices and hardly that. Prices are quite generally well sustained, how- ever, and it is probably as good a time to buy as will be found this year. Molasses is firm. The demand shows some improvement almost every -day and, as offerings are light of open-ket- tle goods, quotations are well sustained, although not higher than a week ago. Syrups are rather quiet and quotations are unchanged. There is a steadily advancing market on many lines of canned goods and, from present appearances, this state of things will continue right along. New Jersey tomatoes, standard 3s, can not be found for less than $1 and $1.05 for fancy, and stock is being rapidly taken at that. With a frost soon, the tomato market will simply boom and it will be well to ‘‘make a note on’t.’’ Dried fruits seem to sympathize with the canned goods market and, while the strength is not so observable, it is in- creasing. Prices are firm and the de- mand is good for many lines. The opening quotations made Friday by the California Raisin Growers’ Association caused considerable talk and a good deal of surprise is occasioned by the low prices named. Butter is firm. The market shows steady advance and best Western cream- ery is now firm at 22c and in some cases this figure has been slightly ex- ceeded. Firsts, 18@21%4c; Western imi- tation creamery, 15@18c; Western fac- tory, 14@15 4c. Exporters have taken all large colored cheese they could find at 95¢c, and the market generally is rather tirmer than a week ago. Small full cream cheese is worth 10o@1o%c, and small uncolored about Ic lower. Eggs are firm and the supply is not equal to the demand of the better sorts. Best Western, '22c; candled, 20@2I!c; regular pack, 18@Igc. 8 Changes Which Have Made Hop Growing Unprofitable. The question, will it pay to grow hops at present prices? is one that is being very generally discussed by growers at present. A proper answer involves about every interest, as the culture of hops has been for a long time the prin- cipal industry of this section. Upon it is based not only the success or failure of most farmers here, but in a large measure our financial policy. Merchan- dise, banking and transportation are largely modified by this crop, but under the pressure of low prices extreme ideas are developed in regard to growing of hops, and it seems difficult for the most intelligent farmers to keep themselves upon an equilibrium on the subject. Many reasons are given for the low price of hops, from the overproduction of the crop to the demonetization of sil- ver, and it may be that all of them have had some influence in bringing prices down to present figures. But we take the position that it makes little differ- ence whether we agree as to the cause of the decline or not, we must all agree that the decline has been great and that present prices are nearly ruinous. What, then, must be done to prevent further decline and further loss? They can certainly decline to plant, cultivate and pick hops just to keep their hands in practice and to furnish hops at cheap figures to brewers. They can re- duce their losses-by reducing their acreage. This they intend to do, some by plowing up their entire acreage of hops, while others will decrease, more or less, the extent of their hop fields. Such a course will cause our Pacific coast competitors to vastly stimulate their energies, and it would be only a short time before they would grow a much larger proportion of the world’s hops than they now do. It is certain that those who continue hop growing here will have to face their competition and must prepare to compete with them by paying closer attention to economic laws. Another solution of the hop problem advanced by some is that, if hop grow- ers would put themselves in position to determine and fix the price of hops, no power on earth could claim the mastery of such a combination. To do less, it is claimed, is to continue to be burden bearers for more enterprising people, while we accept, without complaint, the dictation of self-interested parties who control the entire hop product. Buta large majority of the growers take an opposite view of the situation and claim that all talk of holding hops back and forming associations is senseless, that the inexorable law of supply and de- mand regulates the price, and although other causes often affect the value of ar- ticles of commerce one way or the other, their effect is only temporary and the law of supply and demand always as- serts itself. The direct cause of the low prices of hops, they assert, is the nat- ural adjustment of the price to the sup- ply. That this condition will eventual- ly correct itself, if allowed to continue, is a natural law of political economy, but while the correction or adjustment is being wrought another natural law will also be at work, the law of the sur- vival of the fittest. The weaker will be crushed out and the stronger made more strong, the poor be made poorer, the rich richer. The approaching disaster should be modified if not prevented. It is quite evident that with present prices and prevailing conditions hops can not be grown ata profit. Like nearly all the other staple crops of this country, it seems to have had its palmy days. It is impossible to say what the future of this industry will be. L. W. Griswold. OO Characteristics of Japanese. Among the characteristics of the Jap- anese an American at once notices their love for children. It is doubtful if any Japanese child ever got a whipping. An American woman who became ac- quainted with a Japanese matron noticed that she allowed her little children to ramble thorugh the streets at will, and one day commented on it. ‘‘Why,’’ said the Japanese lady, what harm can come of it? Our chil- dren never quarrel, and no grown per- son would harm a child.”’ se **But,”’ said the American, ‘‘the child might get lost.’’ ‘*That would make no trouble,’’ was the smiling reply. 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NEW YORK cy €o a et Pes Ser L +OFfOuwo @ og Ys D ts Or wD ow ' @& a2 le a uv MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market The Meat Problem in the Sandwich Islands. Up to the present time the Hawaiian Islands have been supplied by home- grown meats, and the supply has been ample. In fact, it is recorded that the number of cattle ranging the grazing areas some years ago was so large in propertion to the consumption of meat that they were slaughtered chiefly for the hides, the carcasses having but very small value. Since that period the meat-eating population has increased, while the areas devoted to grazing and the number of cattle have gradually diminished, so that at the present time we are face to face with a situation in which the supply will no longer cover the demand. The supply of the country districts is furnished by the immediate localities. In some cases the sugar plantations have cattle lands which meet the demands of the plantation la- bor and of local private requirements. There are also large independent ranches. After the local demands have been satisfied, the surplus of meat cat- tle produced upon the several islands is gathered up and shipped to Honolulu, to meet the consumption of the city tables.- It. is thus seen that the first in- dications of short supply will be felt in Honolulu, and the meat supply associa- tions state that this is already the case. It has been found by investigation that districts upon the islands, notably Kauai, which formerly had a large sur- plus for shipment, are at this time barely meeting the increased and in- creasing local demands. Ranchmen report that “‘in given districts the sup- ply is now hardly adequate to the imme- diate local calls.’’ In view of these facts, it is at once apparent that the future meat supply of the islands, and particularly of Honolulu, will depend upon new factors and conditions. The present requirements of the city and of vessels making port at Honolulu are shown by the animals. slaughtered in 1898, as fcllows: Cattle, 8,780; calves, 1,578; sheep, 9,171; swine, 7,266. These data were furnished by William T. Monsarrat, veterinary surgeon and Government inspector of meats. Mr. Monsarrat not only possesses all data relating to the number of cattle slaught- ered, but he can aiso report upon the State of health of Hawaiian cattle. Con- cerning cattle slaughtered outside of Honolulu, data are not available. The course through which ranching may develop into a more remunerative industry and the means by which the home supply of meats may be rendered a sure factor and more nearly adequate to the growing demands of the com- munity are bound up with the future character ot other industries, more not- ably that of sugar. Formerly, and but little more than a quarter of a century ago, cattle were more numerous upon the islands. They had wider ranges to rove over an feed upon; they were the possessors of the land, and their value consisted chiefly in the labor and hides which they yielded. At that time the plantations, which were of smaller areas than now, were almost wholly worked by bullock labor. Even to-day there are still thousands of oxen used in plowing ‘and hauling, their energies being util- ized as mechanical force instead of in the form of meat. Inthe course of time, and that very recent, the sugar indus- try has undergone great expansion. The lands, some of which formerly were among the best for meatmaking uses, have been absorbed by the plantations, and the cattle have been gradually forced within narrower limits at higher altitudes. With the increase in sugar the number of cattle has become rela- tively and constantly less. A first result of this change was that an adequate supply of ‘‘cattle labor’’ was not avail- able. Room was thus made for mule and horse labor; more recently steam, as applied to the plow, has come in, and in some districts has almost wholly superseded animal labor in the field. With the extension of the use of steam for plowing and hauling, and the intro- duction of electricity where steam is less practicable, it appears a question of only a short time when the bullocks will be forever released from their yokes and the island cattle will be grown and used only for meat purposes. The pres- ent trend is wholly in the direction of a higher condition of things, and the rate of change is distinctly rapid. Any change or reversion of the present rela- tions of the sugar and cattle industries must depend chiefly upon the relative values of sugar and meat. At the pres- ent prices of sugar even the thinnest upland soils pay to plant with sugar cane. As an immediate fall in sugar values is not imminent, it is not ap- parent that an immediate change in the relations of the two industries will take place. However, this is not positive. When sugar declines from the present prices, which the cost of production makes probable in the near future (within the comparatively short time of three to five years as regarded by most authorities), and the price of meat goes up, then the land areas, respec- tively under sugar and meat production, will undergo some change. A fall of from I to 1% cents per pound in the price of sugar and an increase of the Same amount in the price of meat will put back certain areas of the uplands to meat production. This change would very materially aid the increased pro- duction of meat, and would not serious- ly if at all, curtail the output of sugar, since those poorer uplands are the least productive in sugar, although among the best quality for grazing at certain seasons of the year. Moreover, experi- ence has shown that a greater and more permanent increase in sugar production is practicable by leaving out the worst of the uplands from sugar and concen- trating labor, fertilization, and costly water upon the richer and more durable lowlands. There are other conditions than the relative values of sugar and meat that control the remuneration from ranch- ing, which depend upon the ranch own- ers. In the first place is mentioned the quality of the cattle, which is dependent upon the management of the herds. Very considerabie sums of money have been expended by well-known ranchmen and patrons of cattle breeding for high class bulls. Pedigree animals of such breeds as Shorthorns, Devons, and Scotch Angus (also some of the finer milk-yielding Jerseys and Alderneys) have been introduced and let loose upon the ranches. Considerable im- provement has resulted from the use of these high bred animals, yet the perma- nent results have not been anything like so great as they should have been, and for the following reasons: In the first place, the influence of the pure bred bulls, when let lose in the herds, was spread over cows and heifers of all sorts and sizes instead of their service being confined to selected animals that would have rendered the most immediate ben- efits from crossing with good blood. Of course, it is not so practicable a matter to isolate and paddock cattle on a large ranch as it is upon a modern farm. Again, the stock coming from the high bred crosses were not made the most of. The selection, omitted in the first com- ing together of the imported bulls and ranch heifers, continued to be neglected, no ‘‘culling’’ of the weaklings and un- der sizes being practiced, the breeding continuing from big and little, good grade and scrub cows alike. These mat- ters have been reported to the writer by several of the better known ranch own- ers, and the results are apparent. With better values in prospect for home grown meats, the management of the ranching properties will be brought under the more modern systems in respect to the methodic introduction and changing of blood and a careful selection and cull- ing of the breeding stock. At no pre- vious time have the inducements to do good work on the ranches been so great, nor has the certainty of remuneration been so sure for investment in meat production on the islands. Ranchmen will be prudent if they take immediate advantage of the present situation; if they do not, and the supply of home grown meat declines still further, the country will be obliged to enter upon the importation of frozen meats. This will only be profitable if done on a con- siderable scale; if large importations of meats are made it seems necessary for prices to fall, and home meat producers will be the first sufferers. The meat supply is a matter of prime concern to the city of Honolulu. It is in the first degree desirable that fresh meats shall be available for daily use. Frozen meats that have been a long period on the ice, and subjected to changes of temperature during movements in transit, are not the same as meats killed on the ground and kept in cool chambers for a few hours, or at the most a day or two, be- fore being consumed. It is found that meats and fowls that have been long on the ice spoil very rapidly in warm coun- tries after removal from the ice. But the argument for the necessity of a home meat supply in view of the contingen- cies of a war does not obtain, since if an enemy were able to cut off the is- lands from the main land of the United States it would be a much more simple matter to stop shipments between the is- lands, when Honolulu would be just as effectually starved out. Walter Maxwell. ——__~.+ 2. ___ His Good Nature Cost Him Over $1,600. Charles Wattler, a well-known Buffalo butcher, who is noted for his good na- ture and kindly acts, heard of three Chinamen who were arrested in Buffalo, charged with being illegally in the United States. It would be some time before they could be tried, and as_ they were without friends, the prospect of their having to remain in jail was gloomy. Their bail was fixed at $500 each. Good-natured Mr. Wattler heard of the plight the Chinamen were in and became their bondsman. The Chinamen disappeared and have not since been located. Efforts were made at Washing- ton te have the Treasury Department release its claim against the bondsman, but the efforts were fruitless, and last week Mr. Wattler gave his check for $1,640.84 to the United States District Attorney. a If we could get a shield from the fear of things that never happen, our troubles would be reduced go per cent. A Big Business in biscuit follows the sign of the In-er-seal. Fill in your stock ready for the fall rush. now and be NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids; Sec- retary, A. W. Srirt, Jackson; easurer, JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale; Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. C. T. Senior Counselor, W R. CoMPTON; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. Edward D. Clark, salesman-in-chief for the Michigan Brick and Tile Ma- chine Co., of Morenci, was in town this week on his way to Northern Michigan, where he expects to close several large contracts for lighting plants. Kalamazoo Gazette-News: George H. Phelps spent Sunday with his uncle at the Phelps House, Greenville. He returned Monday and will] at once go on_ the road for F. P. D’Arcy as sales- man for decorated china, his first trip being to Indiana and Ohio. Owosso Times: Arthur J. Bertrand, who has been employed for the past four years in the office of the Owosso Carriage Co. in a clerical position, has resigned to accept a place as traveling salesman for the Akron Gear Co., of Akron, Ohio, and left Wednesday to begin his new work. Lou. E. Phillips, Western Michigan traveling representative for the West- ern Shoe Co., was married Sept. 24 to Miss Margie Otis, daughter of A. D. Otis, manager of the Grand Rapids de- partment of the Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co. The happy couple will be at home to their friends at 148 Island street after Oct. 15. Ludwig Winternitz, the urbane travel- ing representative for Fleischmann & Co., of Cincinnati, has been in the city for the past four or five days, renewing his acquaintance with old friends and, incidentally, making some new ones as well, Mr. Winternitz was laid up for nearly a month with hay fever and asthma, but is rapidly recovering his old-time bonhommie. Jose A. Gonzalez is very happy these days over the improved condition of Cuba, where many of his relatives still reside. Prior to and during the Cuban war the sufferings of his family were severe and his resources were taxed to the utmost to keep them together and provide for their necessities. Now that peace is restored and the inhabitants of the Island have started on a new career of prosperity and happiness, Mr. Gonzalez’ joy is complete. John Schram and Wife Celebrate Their Pearl Wedding. Detroit, Sept. 26—A very pleasant time was spent last evening at the beautiful residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schram, 609 West Grand Boulevard, the occasion being the pearl or thirtieth anniversary of their wedding. Many beautiful and valuable presents were re- ceived by the host and hostess. The guests from out of the city were: Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Hart, Cleveland; Miss Isabella Hart, Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. A. Schram, Ashtabula; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davis and son and daughter, Stony Creek, Ontario; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Williamson, Walkerville, On- tario; Mr. C. W. Allen, Denver, Col. The guests from the city were Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Cheesebrough, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Condon, Mrs. Agnes Rolf, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Duffie, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. E. Dixon, Mrs. M. Howarn, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mothersell, Mrs. F. N. Hackett, Miss Nellie Dent, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ward, Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Heughton and daughter, Miss Jessie Schram, Mr. Rebert Schram, Mr. Stew- art Schram, Miss Lillian M. Schram; Master Norman H. Schram. Many letters of regret were received from friends at Grand Rapids, Bay City, Jackson, Port Huron, Sandusky, Toledo, Laport, Lima, London, Hamil- ton, Toronto, Stony Creek, Ont., Grassie, Ont., Grumbsy, Ont., and Montpelier, Ohio. The pleasant evening was brought to a close at 1 a. m. by many good wishes for long life and happiness from the guests and all wishing many returns to ‘*John and Fannie.’’ 8 Everyone Received a Prize. Grand Rapids, Sept. 30—Nearly sev- enty-five people—members and friends of Grand Rapids Council No. 131, United Commercial Travelers—gathered at the hall at the corner of Lyon and Campau streets Saturday evening, Sept. 28, the occasion being the first indoor party of the season. It was strictly a card party—progressive pedro. The two first prizes, consisting of 1co pounds of Lily White flour for both lady and gen- tleman, went to Mrs. J. D. Colson, 66 Sheldon street, and Henry Snitseler, 134 Clancy street. Everyone was given a booby prize; many amusing things being received. Will Holden received a baby’s nursing bottle—by the way not a very useful piece of furniture in the Holden family—and Mrs. Emery re- ceived a pair of men’s socks—some- thing that John seldom uses, but they may come handy. Brother Van was given a little tin pail, and he immedi- ately desired to start out to ‘‘rush the growler.’’ Charles Reynolds is going to join hands with Carrie Nation, as he now has a little hatchet of his own. Others who received rolling pins are going to join the bakers’ union—not Roy Baker, for his union consists solely of Mrs. Baker and himself. The party broke up at an early hour, all having passed a very pleasant evening and hoping that more such events will oc- cur during the coming winter. They will occur, and every member should make a special effort to come and bring some friend and make our parties this season a bigger success than ever be- fore. Remember our party for October, which will be announced iater on, and by your presence help to swell the crowd. Ja Dee. ——_—~> 6 > A Case of Conscience. From the Caledonia News. J. A. Leibler, Caledonia’s oldest gen- eral dealer, has more faith in humanity than he did. Recently a man entered his store and made the startling an- nouncement that twenty-five years ago, when he was a young lad, he forged a due bill for 35 cents and that he now wished to pay it together with the in- terest. Mr. Leibler ‘‘come to’’ in the course of a few minutes and informed the: man that the principal would be accepted but not the interest. The gen- tleman, who lives near the village, paid the money and departed. Jake says the religion that will trouble a man’s conscience and make him pay his debts is the kind he is looking for, but in the majority of cases it fails to prick the conscience sufficiently to touch | the pocket book. 0 What Constitutes a Market. From Detroit To-Day. When Lewis Cass deeded to the city the property on which the G. A. R. building is built, he stipulated that it should always be used as a market. Controller Blades asked the Corporation Counsel’s office what he would have to do in order to comply with the terms of the gift. Assistant Corporation Counsel McGrath has given an option on what constitutes a market. He says that the stores can not be rented for the sale of mere merchandise. To constitute a mar- ket, perishable goods, such as fruits, vegetables and meats must be sold, SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. A. P. McPherson, President of the Frank B. Taylor Co. Angus P. McPherson was born at Watford, Ont., July 24, 1867, being the fourth of a family of five children. His father was Scotch and his mother was of Irish extraction, which . explains where he obtained his mother wit and why he has been able to establish a reputation as one of the best story-tell- ers in the State. When he was a small child his father removed to Alvinston, Ont., where he remained until 18 years of age, receiving a common school edu- cation. His first mercantile experience was inthe general store of D. B. Currie, with whom he remained about six months. In 1885, he followed the for- tunes of his brother, who was then lo- cated in Saginaw, securing a position as driver of a delivery wagon for Mor- ley Bros. This vocation he followed for over two years, when he secured a clerkship in the retail hardware store of R. J. Clark, with whom he remained a year and a half. He then sought and obtained the position of house salesman for Foster & Post, wholesale and retail notion dealers of Saginaw, and, on Jan. 1, 1890, be was called into the office and told he could have a position as traveling salesman. He demurred to the proposition, preferring to stay in the store and make his mark along the lines laid down by him when he en- tered the employ of the house, but his employers convinced him that it would be to his advantage to conform to their wishes and take up the work of a trav- eling salesman and he reluctantly mapped out his routes, which included all the available towns north of the D. & M. Railway, and entered upon his new career with some forebodings. The experience of a few weeks demonstrated that he had made a mistake in think- ing that he was not cut out for a travel- ing salesman. He found friends wher- ever he went and readily converted them into customers as well. The vol- ume of his sales increased every month and each year’s sales showed a remark- able gain over those of the previous year. Advances in salary foilowed in rapid succession, so that within four years atfer he started out on the road he had come to be regarded as one of the most successful salesman in his line in the State. In the fall of 1893, he was offered a position as traveling rep- resentative for Frank B. Taylor & Co., importers and jobbers of cockery, glassware and house furnishing goods at Jackson, and accorded Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana as his territory. He has since followed the fortunes of this house, removing to De- troit when it transferred its headquar- ters from Jackson to the City of the Straits. On the death of Mr. Taylor and the re-organization of the business as the Frank B. Taylor Co., he was elected President, and shares with J. H. Russell, Jr., the duties and respon- sibilities incident to the management of the business. Mr. McPherson was married Aug. 17, 1892, to Miss Jessie A. Lamb, of Al- vinston, Ont. They have two. children, both girls, and reside in a_ pleasant home at 389 Bowen avenue, Detroit. Mr. McPherson is a member of Jack- son Lodge, No. 113, B, P. O. E., and Jackson Council, U. C. T., having been through all of the chairs of the latter lodge. He has no other fraternal affiliations, but he has a wide acquaint- ance among the trade in consequence of his having covered both the Northern and Southern portions of Michigan, and few men on the road have a larger cir- cle of acquaintances or larger list of warm personal friends. He is some- thing of an athlete and has a strong lik- ing for athletic sports, not excepting base ball, in which game he has achieved more than a local reputation as an amateur player. Mr. McPherson attributes his success to hard work,to the persistence peculiar to the Scotch race and to his ability to make and keep friends. 0 The ending of one of the saddest cases of retributive justice is marked by the sentence of Wm. M. Butts to five years at hard labor at Jackson State Prison. The career of Mr. Butts was notable in that no opportunity was lacking that any ambitious man could desire for ad- vancement in social life and in the ac- cumulation of wealth. In the first re- gard his relations were with the lead- ing families of the city and in his busi- ness he was given a remunerative posi- tion in one of the leading jobbing houses where his. opportunities for growth in business standing and for making money were enough to meet any reasonable desires. But he, with apparent deliberation—for he was a man of mature judgment and intelli- gence—chose his associations among the most degraded and not only squandered his own substance but used the funds that were entrusted to him by his em- ployers. The consequence of his crime endangered, and made necessary, the re-organization of his house, plunged his family into disgrace and grief and placed himself in the list of those whose personal existence is no longer recog- nized. In passing sentence the severe words of Judge Newnham were emi- nently appropriate ; there was nothing that he could say that was not in the way of denunciation. The sentence was as merciful as the criminal deserved, but the punishment in this manner of a man who has been used to the best in social life, although choosing the worst, is more than for a common criminal. —__ ~>-2@ ~< —_ Whenever an employe gets a notion into his noggin that the business of the establishment can’t run without him it is time to let him go. As soon as he gets that notion he commences to be of no account. The Warwick Strictly first class. Rates $2 per day. Central location. Trade of visitmg merchants and travel- ing men solicited. A. B. GARDNER, Manager. i aaa ORR ies SR ee NR _ Prep ae ss 3 res ” caiaiabitinns OTT anacate: Sissel Seah th oh etek nach ica, apie pipiens a nde ake Soe ye ree eet MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - HENRY wi: Ann Ar President, A. C. SOHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Secre > Y HEIm™ We. Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit. Examination Sessions. Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association. President—JoHN D. Mutk, Grand Rapids. Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit. Treasurer—D. A. HAGENS, Monroe. Pharmacy and Pharmacists Must Get Out of Old Ruts. I firmly believe that at present there is nothing of so great importance to re- tail pharmacists as our successful battle to recover lost ground. We surely have lost ground, although perhaps not as much as some calamity howlers try to believe. As long as I can remember, and my United States memory is good for thirty-four years, I have always observed that at all times somebody would be- moan the conditions of the present and praise the situation of fifteen or twenty years ago. But, having a good memory, I well remember that these same iden- tical pessimists were ‘‘kicking’’ just as hard fifteen years ago as they are now. While they now want us to believe that fifteen years ago everything was lovely and ‘‘flush,’’ I see them before me vividly as they appeared then,and what do I behold? They were just as_pessi- mistic as they are now, and all they could say was that times are hard, not at all as they were fifteen years ago! Therefore it is of the greatest interest to us not to lose hope. Let us be cheer- ful and all unite in the most loyal, hopeful, self-sacrificing support of that one Anchor of Hope, the N. A. R. D. ‘‘The press is mightier than the sword.’’ Give the pharmaceutical press your loyal support and more than that, your best thoughts. You can do it if you only say, ‘‘1 will.’’ Not all writers need be editors, nor are all edi- tors good writers. Some of them write by the yard—because they have to, not because they have something on their minds to write about. Whenever you have an idea to promulgate, don’t hesi- tate, don’t be timid—pick up your pen and write just as you think and feel, and send what you write to your jour- nal. In that way only can you get at the best thought and bring out new ideas. Cultivate this habit and you will soon be a better writer, and, what is worth more, a better and more care- ful reader of the pharmaceutical press. My next point of interest is the ap- prentice. Gentlemen, there lies the rub! Most of our present afflictions are due to the fact that we have been careless, if not reckless, about the new crop of pharmacists. In that way our ranks have become not only overcrowded, but overcrowded by undesirable, incompe- tent, unscrupulous material, the very material that resorts to ‘‘ peanut stand’’ tactics in order to get a ‘‘scoop’’ on competitors. Increase your ranks by men who believe in worth and merit, and you will find that such men will stand on their dignity, not allow the public to kick them around like slaves, nor the medical profession to set aside regards for pharmaceutical skill and thoroughness. One of the most im- potrant points that you should have in view constantly is: do not allow un- schooled boys to act as your apprentices! And, although it may be a task on your css ae. i a time, take the trouble to give your ap- prentices such a training as can only be had behind the prescription counter un- der intelligent preceptors. During dull hours: of the day or the evening, take your apprentice in hand, show him how to make pills, powders, and galenical preparations, and, last but not least, give him problems to work out in arithmetic, in, percentage, in the figur- ing out of doses in mixtures, and ac- quaint him with the metric system. Let there be a pharmaceutical com- munity of interest. between the active pharmacists, the colleges, and the boards of pharmacy; let all three agencies join hands to make the future pharmacist a more competent, a more self-respecting and a more reliable quantity. If you will permit me to draw on my experi- ence as examiner of applicants for reg- istration, 1 can assure you that my ex- perience has shown a pitiable condition of affairs to exist. What is the use of examining a candidate in theoretical pharmacy when we find that he is un- able to figure out how much morphine is necessary to make two ounces of a three-per-cent. solution, or how much strychnine there is in each pill if one- third of a grain is: used in making twenty-four pills. Such incompetent men ought not to be admitted to exam- ination, ought not to be admitted to colleges, nay, ought not to be permitted to become apprentices in a decent phar- macy. You can no more raise peaches on a huckleberry bush than you can make a good pharmacist out of a boy unable to figure out the simplest prob- lem in arithmetic. Let all good and true pharmacists who have the future of pharmacy at heart join hands with our colleges and boards to raise a better stock of young pharmacists than has been our lamentable habit in the past. Another point of interest is associa- tion work. The average attendance at our meetings goes to show that the value and importance of association is not ap- preciated as it deserves to be. Charity commences, or ought to commence, at home; and so it should be with associa- tion work. Every druggist, no matter in what humble village he may live, should constitute himself a committee of one and visit his neighbors and get the home circle started. It is said of us druggists, and I believe truthfully, that the majority of us are narrow and biased in our views. How can you expect a man to be broad and generous if he does not get away from his counter year in, year out? Let the druggists through- out the land get away from their daily surroundings once in a while, exchange opinions, swap lies with their fellow druggists—and what will be the result? By forming the acquaintance of your neighbors you will find that it is pos- sible to agree on a price schedule that affords a living profit—indeed, we have seen a little band of druggists in the city of Chicago get together, agree that they would all charge so cents fora pint of alcohol instead of 40, with the result that several of these druggists at the end of one year were over $100 ahead on one solitary item of their stock! Such results can be and are gained, and loca] organization is the secret of it! Join your local association, agitate affiliation of your local association with the State association and the N. A. R. D., and the battle is ours. While on the subject of associations I would like to go on record as an earn- est supporter of drug clerks’ organiza- tions. Let the clerks learn by experi- ence what association work can accom- plish, and the clerk of to-day will be an enthusiastic supporter of associa- tions when he becomes an employer. Our interests are in common and both classes of druggists should work for the common good of pharmacy. Attend- ance at association meetings is not only a powerful promoter of the welfare of pharmacy and pharmacists: it also com- bines pleasure with business. The average man can do much better work if he gets out of the rut once in a while. Life is short and the time to do things is while you are young. Don't live like ‘a clam—get out of your shell, get.a move on you and mix up with your brethren. W. Bodemann. ——___> 4. ____ Uniformity in Flavoring Prescriptions. ‘‘T bhaven’t seen it stated anywhere that doctors hold a convention every six months to decide what flavor they shall add to medicines to make them palat- able, but judging from prescriptions I am led to believe that they do some- thing of the kind,’’ said the drug clerk. ‘*At any rate, there are styles in flavor- ing, just as there are styles in sleeves and pompadours. ‘At present peppermint is the real thing. _Two-thirds of the prescriptions | put up nowadays are made pleasing to the taste by the addition of a harmless dash of peppermint. ‘‘Notwithstanding the popularity of peppermint, it is bound to lose its vogue in the course of a few months and be superseded by another essence. No flavor holds its own steadily for any great length of time. Take cinnamon, for instance. There was a time when that was all the rage and about a year ago half the medicine compounded smelled to heaven with cinnamon. Now you seldom hear of it in connection with a druggist’s laboratory. ‘‘Lavender is a _ nice flavor. 1 shouldn't be surprised if that was the fashion next introduced. It is more delicate than most of the perfumes used and is fully as efficacious in neutraliz- ing the nastiness of the other drugs. ‘*One of the queerest fads I can re- call in the seasoning of medicine was the sweet pea flavor. A good many pa- tients put up a protest against that. Sweet peas are all right in their place, and few are the people who do not like their odor, but there is a vast difference between the senses of smell and taste and what is pleasant to the olfactories may be nauseous tothe palate. This came to be the case with sweet peas, and finally the doctors switched off from them and began to recommend cloves. Then came a period of six months when our prescription department smelled like a clove factory. ‘These pleasing flavors neither add to nor detract from the efficacy ofa medicine, but many concoctions are so horribly bitter that some such conces- sion to the stomach is necessary. I sup- pose that as a rule it doesn’t matter to the patient what flavor is used, and the phase of the whole business that puzzles me is how do the doctors come to pre- scribe the same thing with such marked uniformity?’’—New York Sun. 2-9 -> Plaster of Paris Bandages. These may be removed by the fallow- ing simple method: Soak some cotton- wool in hydrogen dioxid; then with this moisten the splint down its entire length for a width of about half an inch. When it is thoroughly soaked, the plas- ter will be found in the same condition as when first put on, and the bandages only have to be cut with a pair of scis- sors, without any injury to the patient or any trouble whatever. The Drug Market. Opium—Is steady at prices. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—The market is unsettled. The American manufacturers have re- duced their price 1c per oz., but Ger- man manufacturers are quoting old prices. : Beeswax—lIs firm and advancing. Citric Acid—Has declined tc per Ib. Castor Oil—Has advanced 4c per gallon. Hypophosphite Lime—Soda and pot- ash has been reduced by manufactur- ers to 7c per Ib. Menthol—Has declined, on account of better stocks. Canada Balsam Fir—Is very firm at the advanced price. Oil Wintergreen—Has been advanced 5c per lb., on account of small stocks. Oil Peppermint—Continues to ad- vance, on account of small crops. Oil Erigeron—Has declined. Asafoetida—Is in large supply and dull. Prices have been reduced. Red Rose Leaves—Are in small sup- ply and have advanced. Senega Root—Is very scarce and has been advanced. Linseed Oil—Is still in the same con- dition as noted last week. The trust has no oil to deliver and outside mills are oversold. —__»> 2 >_ The Magnet in Surgery. From the London Globe. Dr. Garel, of Lyons, has drawna French nail about two inches long from the bronchial tube of a boy eighteen months old, from Buenos Ayres. The nail had been there for some time, caus- ing the child to cough much. Roentgen rays showed the position of it, and an electro-magnet drew it out. Another successful operation of the same kind has been performed by Dr. Piechaud, of Bordeaux, on a child of three years. In this case the trachea was opened to get a projection from the pole of the magnet near the nail. These experi- ments are well worth the attention of surgeons everywhere. a The woman wio tries to take up two seats ina car must be beside herself. unchanged 3333399399993 Fred Brundage Wholesale Druggist 32 and 34 Western Avenue Muskegon, Mich. School Supplies and Stationery Complete lines now ready. Wait for =f travelers. You will not be disappointed. 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He Pt ft et tpt det at bt pt tpt CD he et bt bet et DD ND et BO et et pt See eee eee eee S588 stiaiesic.plibinin isin | Lol ne ae Ie Oe 5 | Guiaca ammon...... 49 | Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 settodtttia Be ©e ae . -_ slieie 6 | Cinchonidine, Germ. > we © 2 - RE RRR Rak sidekla isat, Sanco — noon 8 np bw 5 5 suaidill bt nN NN Ah & bh eh bo aa SSSSsssus 8 s SSSsssss Setliza Co... <....... TDomGam cee os os Prunus virg......... Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R — Napellis = Aloes and Myrrh... Sau APMCR ooo. ec ks Assafoetida.......... yee Belladonna.. Auranti Cortex...... Benzoin ....... Benzoin G Barosma.. Cantharides Capsicum... oe Cardamon........... Cardamon Co........ BAO 1 Catechuj. . : Cinchona |. lee Cinchona Go... te oataces Columba . Seca Cubebe... ei cets Cassia Acutifoi...... Cassia Acutifol Co.. —" pedis bees Erg Feert Chioridum .. Gentian . Soecas Gentian Co........:. Guiaca.. 880 Hyoscyamus......... Gree ss Iodine, colorless. .... Opil, comphorated.. Opii, deodorized..... 1 Giinema . 2... ss. Ruatany............. eg ss Sanguinaria.. Serpentaria .. oo Tolutan . Valerian eS Veratrum Veride.. MiPiber ..... 2... Miscellaneous Ather, Spts. Nit.2F 30@ Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ AMWMGM <.20. 0.0... et Potass T saul Argenti O27... Arsenicum .......... Balm Gilead Buds.. Bismuth S. N.. as Calcium Chior., 1s... Calcium Chlor., %s.. Calcium Chlor., %4s.. Cantharides, Rus.po Capsici Fructus, Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici Fructus B, po Caryophyllus. ce 15 S8e00 : © CSSRSSRSasewBR SBTSSITSTISSSIRISSSARITISFSESRISSSSSESSSRASARSSSSSSSSSSS SSS SeeLESOO m -_ Carmine, No. 3 00 Cera Alba.. ns 55 Cera Flava.......... 42 Coceus . aeecs 40 Cassia Fructus. Bei 35 Centraria. . cole 10 Cetaceum.. : 45 Chloroform .... 60 Chloroform, squibbs Chloral Hyd Crst.. Ohoendrus............. Cinchonidine,P. & W i Zocisfolesooe isttadosootlda BESKAS Cocame ............. 6 Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 75 Creosotum. 45 Creta . 2 Creta, prep owaiee sco 5 Creta, pr ll Creta, ubra.. 8 — sia 30 bear. 24 cuatt Sulph 6 8 Dextrine . 10 Ether Sulph.. 92 Emery, al. numbexs. 8 Emery, po.. naa 6 i ‘po. 90 90 Flake = Se calaae 12@ 15 ee dae Q@ 2 Gambler ae 8s 9 Gelatin, Cooper. . Dees @ 60 Gelatin, French..... 353@_ «60 Glassware, flint,box 75 & 5 Less than box..... 70 Glue, brown......... 11@_ «13 Glue, white......... 15@ 25 Glycerina............ 17%%@ 25 Grana Paradisi...... @ 2B umulus 25@ 55 ene Chior Mite @ 1 00 a Chlor Cor.. @ 90 Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @110 Hydrarg Ammoniati @ 1 20 a 50@ «60 ere — @ 8 Ie — lla, Am... 65@ 70 Indigo.. ae 75@ 1 00 40@ 3 60 60@ 3 85 @ 50 ee oe occ. | CO — Arsen et Hy- a eal sil & @ 2 eee ~~ 10@ 12 Magtent: Supt 7B ug sla, pa, Mannia, 8. F........ 60@ 60 Menthol.. @ 476 Staple Mixture..... @ 22/| Linseed, pure raw... Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 05@ 2 30/S Ad eeepc cece an @ 18/ Linseed, ’ Dolled ees Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q. 1 95@ 2 20 =. opt. Bde tae. @ 30 Neatsfoot, ae str 54 60 Morphia, Mal........ 1 95@ 2 20 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Spirits Turpentine.. 41% 46 Moschus — @ 4 @ 4 Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80 sau Scotch, DeVo’s @ 4 Paints BBL. LB. Nux — ae 15 @ 10 Soda, — eae us @ 11 On Sepia. oS. 35@ 37 | Soda, aS, PO..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8 Pepsin _— H. & P. Soda’ x Fate Tart. 23@ 25/| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @ De oe a @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3 Picis tie N,N. gal. oda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5 ty, commercial.. 2% 24@3 a @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4/ Putty, strictly pure. 24% 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... 2;| Vermilion, Prime Picis Lig., pints..... @_ 85| Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60|__American . 13@ 15 Pil Hydrarg. . -Po. 80 @ 50| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55/| Vermilion, Engiish.. 70@ 75 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 14@ 18 Piper Alba.. —_ 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular. 13@ 16 Piix Burgun.. a 7 —_ Vini Rect. %bbl @ Lead, fed............ 64@ 7 Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12] Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 64@ 7 Pulvis Ipecac et Gi 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ Whiting, ee Span @ 9 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Strychnia, C — 80@ 1 05 | Whiting, gilders’.. @ % . D. Co., doz... @ 7% ———, Subl. 2%4@ 4/| White, saris, Amer. @ 1 2 Pyrethrum, pv...... 25@ 30/ Sulphur, Roll.. 2%@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng. Quassia............. 8@ 10|Tamarinds........2! 1). CN ce a, @1 40 Quinia,S.P.& W... 29@ 39] Terebenth + aaa 2 30 Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 Quinia, S. German 29@ 39 é Quinia, N. Y......... 29@ 32 Varnishes Rubia Tinctorum. 1 14 Saccharum Lactis py 20@ 22 1 10@ 1 20 BOA cn. os 475 1 60@ 1 70 anguis Draconis 50 BB .. 2.75@ 3 00 Sapo, W............. 12@ 14} Whale, winter....... No. 1 Turp -- 100M 1 10 Sapo M.............. 10@ 12] Lard, extra.......... 60 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Bane. Ges c @ 16) tard, No.t......... 45 50| Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 765 HOLIDAY GOODS GB Our Holiday line will be on ex- hibition at the Blodgett Building, opposite our store, from September 25 to October 25. We invite you to call and inspect our line. GB Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan 28 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. Prices, however, are lia- ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED Rolled Oats Sisal Rope Soap Chips DECLINED Hand Picked Beans Dried Currants Sundried Apples Sugars 4 Tomatoes PP oe ace y esos sos 90 Vara Rech NG 95 OST Gea Sper cite SESE 1 05 Gems... oe 275 = Columbia, pints.............2 00 Columbia, % pints.. Ree aeccicoes 1 25 CARBON OILS Barrels Index to Markets By Columns Col. : A Akron ae espe e ane 15 Alabastine . ce icceeeees: oe Ammonila.......------ -ee- eee 1 Axle GTease...... ...--.....0- 1 B Baking Powder.........-....- 1 Bath — a eee 1 Bluing .. .......----e+eee+ee2- RNS ae Brushes . eee ee eee ea Butter ime 2 Cc Candies..........----- 14 Candles. .......---.- 2 Canned Goods. . 2 Catsup.......... o 3 Carbon Oils .....- 3 Cheese.......----- 3 Chewing Gum.........- 3 mioory...--..\..-..---- 3 Chocolate..........--- : s Clothes Lines. .-......---- 3 EEE ere i ees 3 Gencamat....<....-.-.---- 3 a Seoee....----< . Condensed Milk.......-.-.--- 4 Coupon BookS.....--------++ 4 Crackers ......------ esse oes 4 Cream Tartar ........-------- 5 D Dried Frults................. 5 F Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 Fish and Oysters. .......----- 13 Flavoring Extracts......-.-.-- 5 Fly Paper......--.+++--+-+++- 6 Fresh Meats.......--- +--+ +++: 6 — es 14 G Grains and Flour .....-.----- 6 H Oe been els ook oer 6 Hides and Polts........-...-- 13 I Indigo.......---+- eee cere eee 6 J JOHY .. 052-25 2-0-3 sons 6 L Lamp Burners......--.------- 15 Lamp Chimneys.......------- 15 Tenterns..............-.-- --+< 15 Lantern Globes.......-..---- 15 BAGOFIOD « . ~~... 022 22s soe + 4 z Ly@.... ee eeee ve eeee eect cess z M Matches... ........ ce. 022s 7 Meat Extracts.........------- 7 EEE ee 7 MRE os cs eee ows we 7 N “ ee oes ope ick os mee 14 Oil — ee oc kee oe 15 Olive: seuss ee Dyer Pee 7 - Paper Bags.......------+--+--- 7 Wests Green... .-.-.-.-..--.- 7 ee wos 8. a ees 7 PIPES ..... 200 cree cee ee eeeee 7 tea eo 7 peeelann oe ee 7 R Rice .........--- 022-222 eee 8 Ss NOE oy os cee ce 8 Sal Soda...... a oS ae 8 ‘Salt Fish... 8 Sauerkraut... : Shoe Blacking 9 eo. c... : See ee oT Spices. 2 Bearch ....-....-.. . 10 Stove Polish ..:.. .- _ ee eas , 2 SYrupS.....--. ..---- eee eee ee 9 = Table Sauce ......-..-5---+--- 12 Oe et. ite eee 11 WN once he oes os ene 11 PMN | oo... so on is oo =o 12 : Vv Vinegar ........--------+----- 12 Washing Powder......-.----- 12 Wicking ....- .....--.-- .2-.<2+- 13 Woodenware.........---+---+ 13 Wrapping Fane: ga bios 13 Veast Cake...........-2---.-. 18 AXLE GREASE ‘i Stove a doz. gross i Beso cewee ecu ects tec 75 | Gem goo. Aurora ....... B56 00! NO.2..... ---- eee ee ee ee eee eee 1 10| Gold Medal. Stee, @ll Castor Oll.......... Ten - 7 GO} NO. 1... -e eee eee cree es 175 Ideal . ee a Qil Diamond ....... .50 4 25 BUTTER COLOR Jer Sey . ok scene @i1 TAME ck ocs ese 75 9001 W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size.... 1 25 Riverside. mes @il IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00] W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.... 2 00 = Soaks 14@15 CANDLES eee Electric Light, 88. ..........12 tia eee Electric Light, 16s. . 12% ei Ee 50@75 Paraffine, 6s....... vetoes esse 10M on 19@20 Paraffine. 128. Cceweccesee Wicking ..29 CHEWING euM CANNED Goons | American Flag spruce. i ca 100 | Black Jack.....--:.------- © Galions, standards.. «3.25 | Largest Gum Made.v---- ss Blackberries Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00 : Standards ........... 80 | Sugar Loaf.......-.------- 55 Mica, tin boxes.......75 900 Beans Yucatan .........-----eeeee 55 Paragon............ --55 6 00 Se ete eer, . 100@1 30 CHICORY | BAKING POWDER Red Kidney.......-. 75@ 85/ Bulk.... oe Egg String .........------ 80 | Hed . 22... ne oeeeeeeeence ee 7 Wak... -- se: Bi ag eee 4 Blueberries Franck’s ee 6% eee sete 05 | Gabonese. oe ul... 6 roo rou COLATE 2 Ib. cans, Spiced.......-.. 1 90 ee & Co.'s 1g, Clams. German Sweet. Se Little Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 00 | Premium .. Z ee a Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50 | Breakfast Cocoa i. Clam Bouillon Runkel Bros. — 4 _ ce teeees : = Vienna Sweet .......-. ---- 21 urnham’s, pints......---- WAM occ ne eu cee. ses 28 < - — _—_ ae = Burnham’s, quarts ee 7 20] Premium........ 0 -.---.--+- 31 i lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 75 Red standards mene CLOTHES LINES © 5 Ib. cans, % doz. case...... ‘Mia. Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .1 00 aay een Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 20 ey -% @) N Fair 20 Cotton, 60 ft.~per doz........1 40 Good SS cee ae act ee gp | Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 60 he mien ala 95 | Cotton, 80 ft. per ga -++2--1 80 % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45| Fancy... ...... Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80 \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 _French Peas Jute, 72 ft. per doz.. 95 1 Ib. eans, 2 doz. case......1 60 = ee BE ool las lg a a cocoa. Queen Flake eg a 3 0Z., 6 dOZ. CaSC...........--2 70 | Moyen. ......++2----2 02+: 11 | Colonial, 348 ........---+-++- 35 6 0Z., 4 d0Z. case... 3 20 Gooseberries Colonial, ee ee ee 9 02., 4 doz. case. 4 80| Standard ............ EppS.....-2-2+ 0 seceeeee cers 42 i lb., 2 doz. case. 4 00 Hominy IQUE oso ep ens os en ne 45 5 Ib., 1 doz. case...... 9 00 | Standard..... ...... 85 van Houten, %S......---..-. 12 Royal Lobster Van Houten; Ys.. ; SD Star 69h. ‘ 1 85 | Van Houten, S...--- pouice oe 38 in eet ©... -.--:- 3 49 | Van Houten, Is...... ST a. Talis... 2 35 Pc ta cac | | oacemne 30 34 Ib. cams 1 35 Mackerel Wilbur, 48.........--- +--+: 41 6 oz. cans. 1 90 Mustard, 11b ae 1 75} Wilbur, — cette eerereeees 42 ¥% Ib. ustard, 21bD........ 2 80 COCOANUT x > cans 2 50) goused, ilb..-..---- . 175] Dunham’s “%s. 22 96 4 lb. Cans 3 75 | Soused, 2 Ib........ : 2 80 | Dunham’s %s and \4s..... 26% 1lb. cans. 4 80| Tomato, 1Ib......... 1 75} Dunham’s YS.......------ 2 3 1b. eans 13 00 | Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80} Dunham’s %S.....--.--... ° 28 5 Ib. cans. 21 50 ushrooms ae es ee 13 . ; oes... oss ° 18@20 COCOA aeeate a 22@25 | 99 Ib. bags... a 2% BATH BRICK c —— Less quantity -. ae oe Ae. os oo. 1 55 | Pound packages ......... 4 eee os... ae ek. 95 COFFEE aegis Roasted BLUING ieee Arctic, 4 02. ovals, per gross 4 00 | $710. -----+s2-2e errno Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per grossé 00 | Yellow ...... eee 1 65@1 85 Cary Aretic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 | ctangara ron 7 Maney 1 25 HIGH GRADE Peas — ee 1 00 arly June.......... 1 00 Early June Sifted. . 1 60 Special a ne Pineapple Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21 1 25@2 75 | Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 35@2 55 | private Estate, Java & Moc 26 70 Supreme, Java and Mocha..27 75 | _Dwinell- Wright Co.’s —— White House, 60-1s.........- Ra: White House, 30-2s.......-.. 28 Standard... 15 | Excelsior M. & J., 60-1s.. ..21% Russian Gavior Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20% Re eae tS 5 | Royal Java........---+-++++- 26% ¥% Ib, cans : 00 —— —- & Mocha. . -26% Small size, per doz......-.- go] 21D: eae TIS a2 00 | Arann, Moen ae — ws omen ne = Columbia River, talis @1 85 Freeman Mere. Co. —— — a flats Guo 09 | Mavenm: 22. to No. 1 Carpet.................2 50} Red .ee.--. 1 89@1 40} Porto Rican................. > No. 2 Olle. ooo os 2 15 Piok aia, Seat 1 10@1 25| Honolulu ................... 18% oe. 3 Carpet... :. 52... ...-.- 1 8 Shrimps Parker House TERM .2.. 25 No. 4 Carpet... weeeese--d 60 | Standard............ 1 50 | Monogram J & M........... 28 Parlor Gem.. ee Mandenling. ..:..... -...-.. 31% Common Whisk. . Domestic, \s.. 4 Rio Fancy Whisk...... Domestic, %s . es 8 | COMMON. .........2ersceseese 10% Warehouse. . i Domestic, Musta: 7 | Fair BRUSHES | California, 4s....... California \4s.. jc Scrub French, 44s Solid Back, ee French, een ts Solid Back, 11in............ 95 Strawberries Pointed Ends................- 85 eeccteaar ae ea ae Shoe Pamey 3... PG oe acres tho ete 00 Succotash NR cos nc, oho ake eig cee Ot 90 ik pone neck eeeenep eee TT oie Sieben sen 1 00 MB os ks 545 ba asaccke eres #901 Pancy ........-.....0. 1 20 1 Choice,,,..+,+++ Mexican OG ns son os nos oo weve 16 WADGY.: . ..22. 022055 ce. 2 32.3 17 Guatemala OOMES..... .. = on cece. consee coos 16 Java DPPIORR 5 oo os oe ccc e ect wonccey 12% Fancy African ........------ 17 i acs. ee ee 25 Ge neces wae 29 Mocha Arabian....... cous canoe a Package New _— = Arbuckle... ..10% Dilworth. . Lio! McLaughlin’ 's XXX. McLaughlin’s Seed sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City % ——.- CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden — eee eee 6 40 Crown...) ..... ..-e Daisy SSeS BOM a Champion fee ae coe soa ee oe 4 50 Magnolia ............-.-0+-+- 4 25 Challenge .. ee Dime...... 3 35 tar... 4 00 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any = . 2a 100 books, any denom... 2 50 500 books, any denom.. 1,000 books, any denom.. * 20 00 "Above quotations are for either Tradesman, Superior, Economic or Universal grades. Where 1,000 books areordered at a time customer receives specially printed cover without extra charge. Coupon Pass Books Can be made to represent any Se _— _ down. 50 books.. 1 100 DOOnS......<..-...... 2 50 500 books.. cwececus ke OO 1,000 books.. . 20 00 Credit Checks 500, any one denom.. 2 00 1,000, any one denom...... ; -3 00 2,000, any one — Boake 5 00 Steel punch.. . 75 CR RACK ERS" National Biscuit Co.’s brands Butter SeyMour........-..se ee eeee 64 New York..............--- 6% Mamlle -. 2... 00-55... = 6% ale cs ce 6% Wolvorinoe. ........<--..-.- 6% Soda Soda ee ee 6% Boda, City. ......-........- 8 Long Stand Wafers....... 13 Zephyrette... ......------ 13 Oyster MaOMAE oo. oss oe 7% ee coe oe 64 Extra Farina.............- 6% Saltine Oyster...........-. 64 = Goods—Boxes Means cs tt Aunt Cake. oc. 10 Belle Rese. ................ 8 Bent’s Water.............- 16 Cinnamon Bart...........-- 9 Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10 Coffee Cake, Java......-... 10 Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18 Cocoanut Taffy...........- 10 Ceeemeres coe 16 Creams, food...........% -. 8 (Cream Crisp... --....... 10% Cubans. ooo | Currant rae 12 Frosted Honey...........- 12 Frosted Cream............ 9 Ginger Gems,l’rgeorsm’ll 8 Ginger Snaps, N.B.O..... 6G Cipereser 10% Grandma Cakes........... Graham Crackers......... 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 Honey Fingers............ 12 Iced Honey Crumpets..... 10 Tmperiais....... -...- 8... 8 Jumbles, Honey..........- 12 Lady Fingers ues eee 12 Lemon Snaps.............- 12 Lemon Wafers............ 16 Marshmallow.............. 16 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 — ae” Walnuts.... 16 8 Mixed I Pienie Seen Guay pela 11% Dee Pesos 7% Molasses Cake............ 8 Molasses Bar.............- 2 Moss Jelly Bar............ 12% Newtek 12 Oatmeal Crackers......... 8 Oatmeal Wafers..... Si oece 12 Orange Crisp dec oe es eae 9 a. Cake. . hoes Pilot Bread, eo. 7% Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8 Pretzels, hand made...... 8% Scotch Cookies............ 9 Sears’ Lunch.............. 7% Sugar Cake. Aa Sugar Cream, XXX. cats ie —= Squares. ...........- 8 RAGS. oo ct ck ec: 13 Tatti Frutti... ..<....<2 +. 16 Vanilla Wafers............ 16 re Wee ost 8 E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods ‘Standard Crackers Blue Ribbon Square S. Write for complete price list with interesting discounts. CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. wooden nares. Scand 30 Bulk in sacks.. oe DRIED ‘FRUITS. Apples Sundried . Evaporated, ‘60 Ib. boxes. California Fruits —_ Wes uy sete 9@ 9% kberries << Nectarines Peaches... @b @10 Raspberries .......... California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... . boxes .. 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes .. Ib. boxes .. . DOXxeS .. 60 25 Ib. boxes .. 50 . boxes .. b. boxes % cent less in 50 Ib. cases — QHSHOOO OID RRR FF Leghorn.. Co aoeee es OGPRICATL oo cco cores oecewe cs "9 Currants California, 1 lb. package... Imported, 1 lb package...... :.10 Imported, — eee Sonne ae 9% ee Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10% Orange American 10 1b. bx..10% Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. . London Layers 3 Crown. 2 15 Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 7 Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7% — ——- ; Crown 8 , Seeded, 1 Ib...... 8% i x. Seeded, x Ib.. 6% Sultanas, DUIK .......... ...- Sultanas, package ceet eu cep FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lima : = Wheat zo Wiese 02 oe 70 i 4 = 2 = Winter Wheat Flour 10... “1 38 2 60 Local Brands le -1 60 315 Patents .. Socccececes. -@ 201 -2 24 415 — Patent.. cee eee 3 70 | 16. -2 34 4 50 Straight Lctcsece. oO8) oe. .2 52 5 00 Second Straight. - Choos cee ee 3 30 | 25. : 5 50 Clear cg Red. 4% Gray % PARIS GREEN = a eicctcae ‘- Ce ace 14 a bbl. ad- | Packages, 4% each: ...... 18 moar ee Packages, % Ib., each....... 17 Ball-Barnhart- Putman’ s Brand Packages, 1 Ib., each....... 16 ad Sh PICKLES amond 4s. Diamond s.. 85 —_—— Worden Grocer Co. Ss rand Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 6 50 Quaker %s......... 3 80 | Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 75 Jone = ee ees tec eee 3 a Small {agrees Paige tees “| Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 8 00 Spring Wheat Flour Half bbls, 1,200 count .......4 50 Clark-Jewell-Wells 9 *s — PIPES Pillsbury’s a %s.. = Clay, No. 17 ee te Olay, T. ., fil oii oe Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 15| Cob, No. 3.. see sce OO Pillsbury’s Best 4s p paper. 415 POTASH Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand pain nein Duluth Imperial s....... 4 40 Babbitt’s : Duluth Imperial \s....... 4 30 Po a Salt Go.’ Duluth Imperial ¥%s....... 4 29 | enna salt Co. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s — PROVISIONS Wingeld a peeee soe ogee ; = Barreled Pork Wingold %s.............. 405 a : Olney & — s 5 Brand °8 BD Ceresota }8.. 5 @i8 00 Ceresota \s.. See eas ‘ 15 O21 00 Cercsots 48... .. .... 25... 05 @17 25 Worden ee aia *s Bianasd @17 60 Laurel %s Laurel _ Ecos a ‘ 15 Dry Sait Meats Laurel 05 | Bellies. . cee al 10% Laurel es and is paper.. 4 05) Briskets............. 10%4 Meal Extra shorts......... (10 Bolted .. : Smoked Meats Granulated -. Hams, 121b. average. @ 12% | Hams, 141b. average. @ 124% Car lots........... Hams, 161b. average. @ 12 Car lots, clipped Hams — — @ 11% Less than car lots Ham dried beef..... @ 13% Feed and Millstuffs Showers ON ry. cut) an = . _... 22 69 | Bacon, clear......... Rt. Car Food. sorsonod.... 2 69 | Calforaia hains.-..- @ 8 Unbolted Corn Meal...... 2 | eee ees eH Winter Wheat Bran....... ig 0g | Puen jams =. Winter Wheat Middiings. 17 00 | EE en pr’s @ : Screenings ...............- 16 50 NCO SAMS .----+- @ Corn Lards—lIn Tierces Corn, car lots............. 59% 8 Hay ay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10 50 | go 1p. Tu ie _ No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 11 50 % HERBS 4 % % 1 1 Sausages Bologna. 2.3. i... 6 EAGER eo 6 Frankfort 8 ork .... 9 —— pews egce eee 6% ie. aaa 6 Beef | Extra Mess.......... 10 75 Boneless........... 0. 11 50 Rump .. 11 50 ong” "Feet \ bbls., 40 Ibs... 1 60 % bbls., 80 Ibs.. 2 90 Tine Migs, 15 ts.:.... .... 70 4 bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 25 \% bbls., 80 lbs.. 2 25 Casings Pork . sce 21 Beef rounds. ........ 4 Beef middles........ 12 MEOGH co... 65 Solid, dal en airy.. : @13% Rolls, dairy... us @l4 Rolls, creamery... Riscce 17% Solid, creamery. .... 17 Canned Meats Corned beef, 2Ib.... 2 50 Corned beef, 14 Ib... 17 50 Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 50 Potted ham, 4s 50 Potted ham, 90 Deviled ham, \s.. 50 Deviled ham, \s.... 90 Potted tongue, \s.. 50 . 90 Potted tongue, %s.. RICE Domestic Carolina head ................ Carolina No.1... -.6 Carolina No.2. Broken . Imported. Japan, No. 1.. 4 Japan, No. 2.. Java, a head. Java, No. Table.. ‘SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Chureh’s Arm — Hammer. : 2 Deland’s.. Dwight’s Cow. Embiom ..:..:.... Wyandotte, 100 3 SAL SODA . Granulated, bbis............ Granulated, 100 lb. cases....1 10 Lump, bbis.. ol en Lump, 145 Ib. kegs.. Sec eecc ae 85 SALT Buckeye 00 Sih page... 3 00 SO Gib. pags ........... .... 3 00 STAT Page 275 In 5 bbl. lots 5 per cent. dis- count. Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.3 00 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 85 Butter, sacks, 28 IDS...-...s. 27 Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 67 Common Grades 100 31D. sacks:..... 02.2... 2 G06 Ib. sacks... ............2 28 10 1D. SAGA... ot. 2 05 DER GAORS. 40 2810. sacws ...... 22 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 40 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 20 Ashton 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks... 60 —— 56 Ib. —_ in linen sacks... 60 lar Rock GID. SAGNA. 25 Common Granulated Fine............ 85 Medium Fine.. Seeeccces OM SALT ‘FISH Cod Georges cured......... @6 Georges genuine...... @ 6% Georges selected...... @7 Grand Bank........... @é6 Strips or pricks.. - 64@10% Potleek.. 25. c. @ 3% Halibut. Pi ee ce 10 CUNEO i ae Trout No. 1 100 DS. . 2... 2... 6 No.l 26. ..°..... 3. 2 88 Ne.t Wie... 2... .:.... 78 No.1 8 _ See cae decnide 69 ; Holland whe oe bbl. 19 25 Holland white hoopsbbl. 5 50 Holland white hoop, Keg.. 75 Holland white hoop mehs. 85 NOFWeSiah .... 20... cece Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 00 Round 40 Ibs............... 1 50 CRIME oc ss cass os 19 Bloaters.......... 1 60 Mackerel. Mess 100 Ibs. . Mess 40 Ibs. . Mess 10 lbs. . Mess 8 lbs. No. 1 100 ibs Whitefish Pure Cane No. 8 450 No.1 No.2 Fam Sow TE aia Secliccctasecced IGT NG. & 4 45 100 Ibs........ 50 3 25 i EE Se 4 40 _— aes ue = 1 65| Choice . ae Te — ‘= Mee dees 48 0. 12 8 Ibs... 2... 75 42 ‘STARCH No. 13 4 30 SEEDS 0. 14 26 Anise. eg aoa Pe Canary, Smyrna... 122022. 3% i ees a os RGR araway . weuewes OMe TEA Cardamon, Malabar... 1.2.2. “1 60 Japan Hemp, isi shea "7 Sundried, medium .......... 28 Mixed Bird.......... 1020/77) 4 Sundried, choice............ 30 Mustard, , white.. Uae Sundried, fancy.............40 Poppy... cg Regular, medium............ 28 ae Sees 4 Regular, choice .............a0 Cite Boni. as Kingsford’s Corn __ | Womulan, faney io ------ SHOE BLACKING 40 1-lb. packages........... Basket-fired, choice. ........ 35 Handy Box, large......... 2 50 | 20 1-Ib. packages........... 7 | Basket-fired, fancy.......... 40 Handy Box, small......... 1 25| 6b. packages........... TAI Nhe ‘ Bixby’s Royal Polish...... 85 Siftings.. Miller’s Crown Polish..... &5 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss Fannings. L SNUFF 40 1-Ib. packages........... 74 a Scotch, in bladders.. ae Gunpowder Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 oe See Moyune, medium ........... 26 Z French Rappee, ves jars... 43 | 1-Ib. packages............. 5% | Moyune, choice ............. 35 SOA. 3-Ilb. packages... ae Moavune, faney...... ...02..; 50 B. T. Babbit uae piped ackages. sconce G6 | Pingeucy, medinm.........- 25 Babbit’s Best............. 00-1. boxes......... 4 Pingsuey, choice............ 30 Beaver Soap Co. brands ane oe ee 50 cakes, large size.........3 25 100 cakes, large size......... 6 50 50 cakes, small size.... ....1 95 100 cakes, small size.. ......3 85 Bell & Bogart brands— Coal a JORDY. 05.2... 3 90 PeGHi 00 Detroit Son Co. brands— Cae Bene... ........ 3 15 Big — Bees cee: “--" £75 oo, 215 German Family .......... 2 45 Dingman Soap Co. brand— Po ee 3 85 N. K. Fairbanks br: — Santa Claus. . 3 25 Brown.. NT rs —s. ..... 4 00 Fels brand— INSDGMA coos 4 00 eo & Sons aml Oak Leaf.. Stace Suse ae ae Oak Leaf, big5.. bee coca ce 4 00 JAXO N Pingeuey, faney.<.. . ....25<. 40 BEST OS RSET TH a 3 Om | a ta ee Ctr Co. SYNC mc oe GLUCOSE re CHICAGO. SSS S1 ugie bDOXx. SS 5 box lots, delivered... 17. a 95 : 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 90 | Best Gloss Starch, 501b..... Best Corn Starch.... . iit chee Johnson Soap Co. brands— Best Gloss Starch, 40 1b..... | Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. Suver Hing... ........ 3 60 | Best Gloss Starch, 6lb..... | Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. Calumet Family.... ..... 2 70 | Best Gloss Starch, 31b..... Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil. Scotch — eect peeces 2 50 | Best Gloss Starch, ilb..... Best Laundry in bbl., thin boil. erp 3 coe . 240 orks: Venice, Til. | Chas. Pope Glucose Co., cakes a 95 Geneva, Il. Chicago, I11. Ricker’ s Magnetic eee 3 90 | —_— Bros. brands— aoe ee Common Corn | Young Hyson Marseilles Cee eee 400 OHGHGL o. c e 30 ene 70 | 201-Ib. packages.......... Cee eee 36 Proctor & Gamble brands— 40 1-Ib. packages.......... 44% - ‘ Oolong je ON 3 00 lormoass, faney............:; Ivory, 6 =e 4 00 ee Amoy, medium........ cee. 25 ivory, 9 07...- 6 75 Avaoy, Cholee. 2.05 ...50. sa. 32 ~~ & Co. brand— i English Breakfast wees teee se tees we eeee WOGHIA oes sss cc0 cues nee A. B. Wrisley brands— Cee ea 34 Good Cheer. 2... 3 80 WANOG 6 cio cca 42 Old Cotmiey..: 2... 3 20 Scouring India Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40 Ceylon, choice........-....- 32 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40 PAG. cece eee ete cee. 42 SODA TOBACCO Do a | Kegs, English, ...........:. €% Cigars SPICES A. Bomers’ brand. Whole Spices No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross . 4 50| Plaindealer ................ 35 Allspice................---. 12| No. 6,3 doz incase, gross 720! H.&P. Drug Co. 's brands. oa pao in aa 12 Fortune Teller... 35 00 assia, Batavia, inbund... 28 Our Manager.. : 3 00 Cassia, Saigon, broken... ie 38 SUGAR Quintette . Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 17 — —— salar ae 14 oe. 55 cennenk, 75-80. Seeias 50 Nutmegs, 105-10. . wee 40 Nutmegs, 115-20.......... 35 Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 Pepper, = white. 28 ee. One ce ure cere in Bulk Allspice.. Cassia, Batavia... soles 28 Cassia, Saigon............. 48 Cloves, Zanzibar........... 17 Ginger, African........... 15 Ginger, Cochin............ 18 —" J ee Seis cee 25 ' emacs 65 a 18 Pepper, Singapore, black. 17 Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 Fen I per, — occ acdae 20 Sag bee 20 ‘SYRUPS Corn AMET os ois. cai wccias goes coo Gre Ds coe 25 « 1 gallon cans, per doz..... 3 50 % gallon cans, per doz...... 1 95 1¢ gallon cans, per doz......1 00 G. J. yaknnn Cigar Cos inane $w Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping I puint, giving you credit on ¢ voice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his Ts point, including or th 20 pounds e weight of the a 5 70 MERINO) 666 oo oe coun os ceesce é Cut Loaf..... 57 -- 35 00 Crushed 5 70 Sisar iippings. ‘per Pi. 26 ON goose coe cca ce 5 45 Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands. Powdered . BOOB Te oo. ic cciccsecenceceus $35 00 Coarse Powdered. -....... & 30) Gold Star... 0055 305s 35 00 XXXX Powdered......... 5 35 Fine Granulated. .......... 5 10 Fine Cut 21b. bags Fine Gran... .. 5 25 5 Ib. a 7 Cram.....:. 5 25 | Unele Damiek.... 0:2 ce 54 Mould cos ce O05) OF DWa.2. cls. 34 eae A. voccccc. Samp wowess GiAnGs:.. 2.25.22 3s: = Confectioner’ PSS ee 5 05 Sweet SOEAG No. 1, Columbia A........ Ob COMI i oo ae or No. 5 Windsor A......... 4 85 | Sweet Loma..... ...... 8264. No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 85 | Golden se ieee - oe cole Suaoie 28 No. 4 Phoenix A......... 4 80 | Hiawatha.. ace ecotaene dee No. 5, sees ee eee ys 4 25 | RONORPAM 6 oo. ck aca 23 ea 2 ee OBE ve ee on wees ic aia d ie 32 NO. Je. ccccceccccccccecceee 460 | Prairio Rose......... +++ 006-48 eee a, See aad Les Sees 80 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i3 i4 Protection... .....03...2.45.- 38 Sweet Burley coop ee teaauonee 40 Sweet Loma................- 38 I os cee des sev nee 38 Flat Iro Creme - Menthe...........60 — old J. Piper — Eich cose seed 63 a FIR non oa cn howe woe 80 J Paty en eS cadens ectee 36 Plumb Bob............ Renee 32 Smoking Myrtle Yum co. i ee cs Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pails........ ere ere ee Col. Choice, 8 0Z.........- at TABLE SAUCES LEA & SAUCE Genuine cm Lea & P. 's, large...... Lea & ro — ee by . . . bo PPO wD Pure Cider, Robinson. .... ..10 Pure Cider, Silver........... ll WASHING Se Gold Dust, eer ieee bens Gold Dust, eee teat eereeesee The Original and Worcestershire. 3 75 RubMOefowe Co., 100 Street, quotes as ee rb Ss evans s Cole 3 50 | follows: " Hides Green No. 1....... oi Green No. 2.....:.... 6 ce. 4. =; .. @ &% Cured No. 2..... @7% Calfskins,green No.1 @9 Calfskins,green No.2 @ 7% Calfskins,cured No.1 @10 Calfskins, cured No.2 @ 8% Baskets oa . Pelts ne ea asin coe sae sou Bits, OOOR....<.-... 1 00 Bushels. “wide band. . ook = TamD.:.:...5.< ieee cue eg AR eg es. =o, low Clothes, large.......6 25 Wool Willow Clothes, medium... 5 75 Washed, fine........ 15@17 Willow Clothes, small... .. 5 25| Washed, medium 18@21 Butter Plates Unwashed, fine..... 11@14 Unwashed. medium. 14@16 No. 1 Oval, 250 in crat 45 CANDIES No. 2 Oval, 250 in crat ee Stick Cand No. 3 Oval, 250 in cra - 5B bois pails No. 5 Oval, 250 in cra’ 65 | standard ... ‘@™ Humpty Dumpty ........... 2 25 are Ro areR zt he Cut a es ee 0. 2, complete ............. Jumbo, 32 Ib......... @7 Clothes Pins Extra H.H..2...222 Gio Round head, 5 gross box.... Boston Cream....... =; Round head, cartons........ 62 | Beet Root............ 8 Mop Sticks Trojan spring .. Eelipse pat — spring. ° a0. 2 oaiea | brush holder .. ae mop h Ideal N. 0.7 Pails 2-hoop Standard.. 3-hoop Standard...... at tees 2-wire, Cable.. eee 3-wire, Cable. Cedar, all rok bound. Paper, — RRARS 8 BOB et at et at BRRSSSS OS Tubs 20-inch, Cable, No. 1.. 18-inch, Cable, No. 2....... 16-inch, tore = es cope re. : : No.1 No. 3 Fibre.. Wash ‘Boards Bronze Globe........ os Double ps Single Acme......... Double Peer! iess...-.0..-. Single Peerless... Northern Queen .. Double Duplex.. Good ogee geese Universal............. No. 2 Fibre.. oe ee cecece ever crc) . 400-4 4% NUIOGMARARAD Seer nen SRE88SS8S FEa8 ais wi te tee ae Wood Bowls 11 in. Butter.... obec a Assorted 15-17-19 ..... sweccee Sin. Duper... .....-...-. wocces eee Om 00 BD et WRAPPING PAPER Common Straw....... Fiber Manila, white. . Fiber — cette Butcher’s Manila aeons RAK 00 > > Oo et bo xX Wax Butter, short count. 13 Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20 Wax Butter, rolls.... YEAST CAKE Magic, 8 doz... ......5..-.... 1 00 Sunlight, 3 doz. Sunlight, 1% doz...........+ 60 Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam. 1% doz........ 3 FRESH FISH Per Ib. - 8 2 - 8B 9 Halibut .. 15 Ciscoes or Herring. 5 Bluefish .. ecls 12 Live Lobster... oc 20 — Lobster........ = Oysters. Can — Bulk Oysters Counts Extra Selects........ Sep oc a. 5 Standards .......... HIDES AND PELTS The cappon & Bertsch Leather anal —— 10 Ib. seam — ta Ehote, 10 Ib. Fancy, 12 1b. boxes. ed, 6 lb. boxes... . S.... Fards in 10 Ib. boxes Fards in 60 lb. cases. Hallowi Brazils, . kiibe: rts Walnuts, Grenobies. Walnuts, soft shelled Califo: rnia No. 1... Table Nuts, fancy... Table Nuts, choice.. Pecaas, sige... cna : Bo. umbos..... ] ickory N — per bu. hio, new....... a, full sacks Chestnuts, er bu... ‘eanuts ome. = | a. ‘ancy, H. P., Suns Roasted ie Choice, H.P., Choice, H. P. eeevccecces Span. Shild No. 1n’w Mixed Candy Groeers.. . ........ se @ 6% en - @7 5 gaa ot MOE occ os cy co kas @ 8% Ribbon .............. @9 Le eaten @ &% Cub tame on. os. @9 English Rock........ @9 Kindergarten ....... @? Bon Ton Cream..... @9 as — ee @i0 icc shai oe @10 Hand Made Cream eeiicer ees @14% Crystal Cream mix.. @13 Fancy—In Pails Champ. Crys. Gums. Shy Pony Hearts........ 15 Fairy Cream Squares 12 Fudge Squares...... 12 Peanut Squares. .... 9 Fruit eg as. —— 12 Sugared Peanuits.. 11 Salted Peanuts...... 12 Starlight me esos 10 jes.. @12 Lozenges, plain ..... @ 9% comanyee, 1 printed @10 Chi I @11% aoe Chocolates... @13% Choc. Monumentals. @14 Victoria Chocolate. . @15 Gum Drops.......... @ 5% Moss Drops......... @ 9% Lemon Sours........ @ 9% —S- es 9% I Cream Opera. . 12 =. Cream Bonbons ee @12 Molasice —— = cle @13 Golden Waities - @12 Fancy—In 5 ‘Ib. Boxes Lemon Sours. @55 Peppermint Drops.. @60 Chocolate Drops.. @65 H. M. Choc. Drops.. @85 . M. Choe. - and we. 73.3. @1 00 Gum Drops.. @35 Licorice rops.. @75 Lozenges, plain. . @55 jones, Pe Brits @60 Imper a“ @é60 Mottoes . bis cscepies @60 Cream Bar.......... @55 Molasses Bar. . @55 d Made Creams. 80 @90 Cream Buttons, _— and Wint.......... @65 String Rock. . @65 — Berries @60 Cli om il “vag pper, 21 pails. @9 Standard, 20 Ib. pails @10 Perfection, 20 Ib. pls @12% Amazon, Choe Cov'd @15 Korker 2 for 1¢ pr bx @55 Big 3, 3 for 1¢ pr bx.. @55 Dukes, 2 for tc pr bx @60 Favorite, 4 for 1c, bx @60 AA Cream Car’ls 3b @50 oe ranges Florida Russett...... @ Florida Bright...... @ ‘ancy Navels....... @ Extra Choice........ @ Late Valencias...... @ Mee eck cca! @ Medt. eae ae @ Jamaicas............ @4 25 Pe ee LC @ Lemons Verdelli, ex fey 300. . @ Verdelli, fey 300. .... @ Verdelli, ex chee 300 @ Verdelli, fey 360..... @ Maiori Lemons, 300. . @ Messinas 300s....... 4 00@4 50 Messinas 360s.. 3 ae 00 Bananas Medium bunches.. 1 50@2 00 Large bunches.. ‘oreign Dried Fruits Figs Californias, Fancy. @ @1 00 @G8S SGOO STONEWARE Butters 4 oe ana MOE ioc fsa eas pes et gal.. oh es ie Sacto os SRESRRF aE nNNnee 30 gal. meat-tubs, each. Churns Vai Repo ge | Spl ae scree rriecsarses 6 “hurn Dashers, per G0Z...........+++- 84 Milkpans % gas fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 48 1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each............ 6 Fine Glazed Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., POOL... co sccke Stewpans al. fireproof, bail, per doz......... al. fireproof, bail, pur doz......... 1 Jugs 16 Gal POP GOR. oe cic. ce 14 gal. per doz......... itO > OA). per gal. .:... 2... Sealing Wax 5 lbs. in package, per Ib,............. LAMP BURNERS MO Oi ee N a8 % 1 99.09 Sk iS tb LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of : = Anchor Carton Chimneys Each chimney in corrugated carton. No. 0 Crimp.... eee. No. 1 Crimp..... No. 2 Crimp.......-. First Quality No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. No. 1 Sun; crimp top, wrapped & lab. No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. XXX Flint No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wra & lab. No. 2 Sun; crimp top, wra —— & lab. No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... No. 2 Sun, wrapped and pei bia No. 2 hinge, a ed and labeled..... No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe Lamps ee Cece Geeuke La Bastie : No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ No. 2 Sun, plain bulb; per doz........ No. 1 Crimp, per d0Z............+-+-- No. 2 Crimp, per d0Z................-- Rochester No. 1 Lime {re doz} Pesce es Sete Nee hoe SSR 823 wm bo Ao S88 san tt pe No. 2 Lime (70c doz)............. No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)***- Electric No. 2 Lime ie os eee Soe utep es cue No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz OIL CANS 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 1 gal. galy. iron with spout, per doz.. 2 gal. oan, iron with spout, per doz.. 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 wal. Tiling cans... .. <2... 22 ce 5 gal. galv. fron Nacefas.............. LANTERNS No. 0 Tubular, = EES BEE esses rast 1B No. 15 Tubular, asa Scie Scie seis east an No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain... No. 12 Tubular, side lamp............. No. 3 Street lamp, Onen......-.2-~.-. LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢ No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each MASON FRUIT JARS. . > ew SSssassan S88 BSS SRS SF wees ccececeese > O23 C2 wm ON CO eoyarae RSGR SISRRa ° bo Caps and Rubbers. i ac MAP ON Ss Sods co ic nea chet Soc ba Procan BRSRS bt an Glover’s Gem Mantles are superior to all others for Gas or Gasoline. Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers Importers and Jobbers of GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES Ce TRS RAasioa ha ee LO STATEMENTS, FN a EN ENVELOPES, LG COUNTER BILLS. a PN ee er A Suggestion When you attend the Pan-American Ex- position this fall it will be a very good idea for you to see the exhibit of Thomas Motor Cycles and Tricycles and Quads in Transportation Building. Auto-Bi, $200 If you are at all interested and thinking of taking = the sale of Automobiles or Motor Cycles—or contemplating —s a machine for your own use—we exten 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 GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900 Walter Baker & Co, u« PURE, HIGH-GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES Their preparations are put up in conformity to the Pure-Food Laws of all the States. Under the decisions of the U. S. Courts no other chocolate or cocoa is entitled to be labelled or sold as “‘ Baker’s Chocolate” or ‘‘ Baker’s Cocoa.” Grocers will find them in the long run the most profit- able to handle, as they are absolutely pure and of uni- form quality. TRADE-MARK. eee order specify Walter cods. If other goods please let us know. WALTER BAKER & CO. Limited, DORCHESTER, MASS, Established 1780. Tn writin: Baker & are substitute ee Simple Account File | : Most Economical Method of Keeping Petit Accounts File and 1,000 printed blank bill heads.............. $2 78 File and 1,000 specially printed bill heads...... 3 00 Printed blank bill heads, per thousand........... 1 25 Specially printed bill heads, per thousand..... pe seek Se oe FPRUVVUVIVeIVvVvVvVvuVvVvVvTVvVUVUVUVVUVUU UU VVYV Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. AbD» bd ALLA LAA AA AD AAA A Db bd bd bd bd bb bb bbb bbb bobo hbo naa at MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware American Wheels Still Popular Abroad. In view of the steady annual decrease in the exportation of American bicycles |, from 1897 to Ig00, inclusive, recent sta- tistics, indicating a stronger demand abroad for them, are interesting. The latest official statement on the subject, prepared by the Treasury De- partment at Washington, gives the amount of the cycle exports up to Aug. I, 1901. In July the value of wheels shipped to the United Kingdom was $37,140,as against $25,396 in July, 1goo. For seven months ending with July, Ig0!, the total of the cycle exports to that country was $354,196, as compared with $348,223 during a similar period last year. For the one month named, the ex- portation of bicycles to France was even more satisfactory than that to England, wheels to the value of $23,030 having been shipped there during July, 1901, as against shipments amounting to only $7,202 in the corresponding month of 1900. For the first seven months of this year, though, the total exports to that country were slightly less than those of 1900. Cycle exports to Central America and British Honduras have never been large, but in July of this year they exceeded, by about $300, those of the same month last vear, and for the period ending on July 31 last they exceeded the exporta- tions of that period in 1900 by nearly $3, 000. A striking increase is noticeable in the shipments to China. In July, 1901, the wheels sent to that country were worth $28,849, whereas, in July, 1900, cycle exports amounted to only $1,914; and in the first seven months of this year the shipments to China represented a value of $41,991, as against $16,294 in Igoo. Although the cycle exports to Africa in July of this year were somewhat less than those of the same month in_ 1go0, the total value of the shipments for the seven months exceeded by almost $20,000 the value of last year’s exports for that term, this year’s figures being $46, 780. Increases are also recorded in the ex- ports to San Domingo, British Aus- tralia, British North America and the British East Indies; while the statistics show little change in the value of the shipments to Cuba, other islands of the West Indian group and parts of Asia and Oceanica. It is true that the value of the exports to some other countries still continues to decrease. Germany, for example, imported American wheels to the value of $160,866 during the first seven months of this year, whereas during the same period of 1900 her imports amounted to $303,715. In South Africa, also, the sales of wheels made in the United States are not what they should be, and this is conspicuously the case in Argentina and Brazil. In these two countries, as in other parts of South America, bi- cycles of German make appear just now to be the most popular; but this state of things is due, for the most part, to the activity manifested there by the German cycle agents and the lack of push exhibited by the representatives of American manufacturers. Taking it all in all, however, Uncle Sam’s wheels, in spite of the lively com- petition in the cycle industry all over the world,are holding their own.—N. Y. Sun. >. ____ Prompt oe ‘Tl give that waiter,’’ said Rivers, “an order that will paralyze him.’ ‘*What will you have, sir?’’ presently asked the waiter. ‘Bring me,’' verulam and ova. ‘*Yes, sir.’ The waiter, a seedy-looking man in es went away with a strange gleam in his eye, and returned about fifteen minutes later witha large platter containing something hot. **Here you are, sir,’’ he said. ‘‘Ba- con and eggs. In ordinary English it would be 25 cents. In classic form it will be 45 cents. Culpam poena premit comes, as we used to say at collge. Anything else, sir?’’ replied Rivers, ‘‘some Hardware Price Current Ammunition a G. D., full count, per m. Hicks’ Waterproof, per mn. Musket, per m.. Ely’s Waterproof, ‘per m. i Cartridges No. 22 short, per m. : No. 22 long, per m. No. 32 short, per n. No. 32 long, per m.......-...... 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...... Black edge, No. 7, per m.............. Loaded Shells New Rival—For Shotguns ° asss Sass Clot ce bo bt 8s 838 Drs. of oz.of Size Per No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 120 4 1% 10 10 $290 129 4 1% 9 10 2 90 128 4 14% 8 10 2 90 126 4 1% 6 10 2 90 135 44 1% 5 10 2 95 154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00 200 3 1 10 12 2 50 208 2. 1 8 12 2 50 236 34 1% 6 12 2 65 265 3% 1 5 12 2 70 2 3% 1% 4 12 2 70 Discount 40 per cent. : Paper Shells—Not Loaded No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . 72 No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64 Gunpowder Mogs, 25 Ibs., per keg....... ...- .... 4 00 % kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg.......... 2 25 4 kegs, 644 Ibs., per 44 keg........... 1 25 Shot In sacks containing 25 Ibs. Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 1 75 Augurs and Bits SMO Bee ee en ee 60 Jennings genuine..................... 25 Jennings’ imitation.................... 50 Axes First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ 6 00 First Quality, D. B. Bronze. ........ .. 3 00 First Quality, . B.S. Steel... ...2.... 6 50 First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 10 50 Barrows Mallroa@.............. fo cooeoe 12 00 CONGR co... net 29 60 Bolts aa now Mee 60 Pew 2... ie eaeees 50 ‘ce Well, plain .. oso $4 00 "Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, sot Secis/cieeit cas cares 65 Wrought Narrow . Leeelciaie ces 60 ‘Chain 4¥in. 6-16 in. 36 in. % in. Com. 256.50. 7G... GG... 106: ... ae. eo. Se 8. Oe RG BOD. SA kk ee ks BA 8 BS Crowbars Cast Steel, per i........ 0.2.5... 6 — Socket Firmer . see sancigene 65 Socket Framing... pices Muled ceaeut 65 Sundin OOUNE cc so ooo. oo soos os 65 BOCHBE BHOMR cece h css cece cece ccc 65 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in. oe = --.--net 75 [eee + ber doz EP enna ne 1 25 soa ....-dis 40810 Saecectes Bits Clark’s —- $18; large, $26 .......... 40 Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; BD, We ce cdese cuss 25 Files—New List New American 70&10 Nicholson’s. — 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps. Big ceccl cuneate 70 Galvanized Iron Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 List 12 13 14 15 16. 17 Discount, 60 Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10 Glass Single Strength, by box............... dis 30&20 Double 1 Se at Dy ROR se. dis 80820 oe ..dis 80&20 Hanners Maydole & Co. 8, a list . dis 333% Yerkes & Plumb’s........ -dis 40810 Mason’s Solid Cast SOOO. ccs oe ce 30¢ list 70 —— Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3..... ....dis 60810 Hollow ‘Ware Pots. sees Seces 50810 eee 50&10 Spiders... ee ceases 50810 Horse Nails Au Sable . is 40810 House “Furnishing Goods Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Japanned Tinware................0.... 20810 Iron Bar Wrens oo oss. 8... eS Ree EG se 3 c rates Knobs—New List . Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75 Door, porcelain, ap. trimmings... bicias a 85 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 00 Warren, Galvanized Fount... 6 00 ioe Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks Adz ye: ..... 2... 1.0.2.0. -088e OC. dis 65 Metals—Zinc 600 pound ae ene ceac ae ™% Per pound.. Se dee ceeds ecesasecs aa 8 Miscellaneous Bird Cages .. 40 Pumps, Cistern.. 75 Screws, New Rise 85 Casters, Bed and Plate 50810810 Dampers, American..... Molasses Gates Stopems Pattern... ...-....... 2.22... 60810 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 Pans ry, Acme... 60& 10810 pa Seca po eae Sha Goes so ouescc eras 70&5 Patent Planished Iron “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 12 £0 “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 11 £0 Broken packages ec per pound extra. Planes Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . gcedecee 40 Sciota Bench.. fea aa 50 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy. Slee 40 Bench, first quality... . - ed eoenen 45 Nails | Advance over base, on both Steel and —_~ Steel nails, base.............22-eeeeee 2 65 Wire nails, =i cee cccwas 2 65 20 to 60 advance........-. Base 10 to 16 advance...... 5 8 advance......... 10 6 advance 20 4 advance 30 3 advance 45 2 advance...... 70 Fine 3 advance.. 50 Casing 10 advance. .... ............-..- 15 Casing § advyance................-...-. 25 Casing Gaayanee..-. 2... 22.2.2... 35 Finish 10 advance..................... 25 inten S agvanee.............:........ 35 Finish 6 aa vanee.. .... 2.2.5... 2 ce 45 Barrel 3 advance......-..- -.......... 85 Rivets Pom Gnd Time ose ss coast 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 Roofing Plates 14x20 IC, Charcoal, — Bld oceuse cae 7 5O 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean acucues 9 00 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean be 15 00 14x20 IC; Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 7 50 14x20 Ix’ Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 9 co 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 15 00 20x28 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 18 00 Ropes —, a -_ ont _— Sota ebicle alae a 8% Man . — 11% Sand Paper List acct. 19, ’86.. ooo G8 50 Sash Weights Solid Eyes, per ton... Sia aecn 25 00 Sheet ua com. smooth. com. OG: 100 oo. $3 60 INGO, 85 OO 80 se oc cei. 3 70 NGG. SA OSes 3 90 Nos, 22 to 24.. Peceecden ce 410 3 90 Nos. 25 to 26.. Seec aces cuce ne 4 00 Rl ae oe ee 4 30 410 ‘it Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. Shovels and Spades ress Grade. Dee... - 3... 8... Second Grado, Doz.................... Solder 8 00 7 50 %@% 19 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. Squares Hecck and Trom -... wo... 60—10—5 Tin—Melyn Grade 10e04 10, Ciaroene $10 50 14x20 IC, a 10 50 20x14 Ix, Charco 12 00 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Tin—Allaway Grade 10214 10, Chargoal............. 58. 9 00 14x20 IC; CRAROGRE. oo 9 00 10x14 IX, —— SESE a ee ie 10 50 14000 FS Ohareens. oo... 10 50 Each Gdditional X on this grade, $1.50 Boiler Size Tin Plate 14x56 1X, for No.8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, } per pound.. 18 Traps Steel, Game.. aoa 75 Oneida Community f “Newhouse’s...... 40&10 Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- ee eee 65 Mouse, choker per COR le. oo. 15 Mouse, delusion, pes doz.....-.. ..... 1 25 Wire rigs Mingo, 2s. 5 60 Annealed Market..................... 60 Coppered Market...................... 50&10 oT ae 50810 Coppered Spring Steel.. 40 Barbed Fence, alvanized............ 3 25 Barbed Fence, Petmeee.. os... 2 95 Wire Soret Bright... Sa eoee ae 80 Screw Eyes. Se a Oe 80 Figg oe 86 Gate Hooks and Eyes.. 80 Wrenches Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 80 eo = Coe’s Genuine. .... 2... 02+ 2--- eeeeceee Coe’a Patent Aegrienitnral Wronght..70 GOHOOHHHHOHOOOHHHOOHOHHOHGOOGG ware, etc., etc. 31, 33, 35, 37» 39 Louis St. SSESSESSSESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Sporting Goods, Ammunition, Stoves, Window Glass, Bar Iron, Shelf Hard- Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. eeeeeeeeeceeeoeeeees 10 & 12 Monroe St. ¥ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CAVIARE’S RISING PRICE. The Catch of Sturgeon Is Growing Less Yearly. The great decline in the catch of sturgeon in American waters is one of the reasons for the large increase in the value of caviare, which sold as low as $9 a keg in 1885 and as high as $105 a keg last year. Caviare is the most val- uable by-product obtained from the sturgeon. Until recently nearly all of the caviare obtained in this country was sent to Germany. John N. Cobb, an agent of the United States Fish Com- mission, has been investigating for the Government the sturgeon fishery of Del- aware River and Bay. This is the larg- est sturgeon fishing ground in this coun- try. Years ago the Delaware River and Bay swarmed with these huge fish. They were a nuisance in the river because of the damage which they did to the fish nets. Since 1870, however, sturgeon fishing has been pushed so energetically that. unless the fish are protected they are threatened with extermination. There has been a continuous decrease in the number of sturgeon taken by fishermen for the past ten years. The Delaware fishermen use gill nets to cap- ture the sturgeon and their season be- gins early in April and closes about the middle of June. The fishermen live during the season on small vessels or immense scows fitted with a cabin at either end if their camp is near a Swampy shore. Mr. Cobb explains the use of the gill nets, which average about 250 fathoms in length and twenty- one feet in depth: ‘‘The nets are always drifted. . The fishermen generally go out about two or three hours before slack water and put their nets overboard. As the fish feed near the bottom, the nets must be ar- ranged so as to reach close to the bot- tom. This is done by sinking the cork- line the necessary distance below the surface by.means of extra heavy leads on the lower line, and the net is kept track of by attaching to it wooden buoys, cailed ‘dabs,’ by means of ropes. The fishermen drift along behind their net, usually about the middle of it. Should a buoy indicate that anything has been captured in the net, the fisher- men at once take in that section, and if a fish has been gilled it is hauled in- to the boat and the net is reset. The sturgeon are taken aboard by means of long-handled hooks of round iron. Al- though from six to ten feet in length, they struggle very little when gilled. When being hauled into the boat they seem to lose all heart, and are generally rolled in like a log. They make a rather difficult object, however, to get into a boat, owing to their great bulk and weight. The two men forming the crew have all they can conveniently handle when a big female sturgeon is taken. A fisherman at Bayside has been known to handle a seven-foot female single-handed, but this was a very un- usual occurrence. The net is usually fished but once a day. It is taken in at slack water and the fishermen come back to camp with the ebb tide.’’ The cowfish which have hard roe of the kind usedin preparing caviare are the most valuable, being worth from $15 to $65 each, the latter price having been paid for an extra large one last year. Female fish which have spawned, or with soft spawn which can not be used for caviare, and bucks, or male fish, are valuable only for their flesh. The females average about 350 pounds each when taken from the water and the males only sixty-five pounds each. Fer- tilizer and oil are made from the refuse of the sturgeon. The caviare is prepaed in this way: ‘‘After the eggs have been removed from the fish, they are placed in large chunks upon a stand, the top of which is formed of a.small-meshed screen. On the under side is arranged a zinc- lined trough, about eighteen inches deep, two feet wide, and four feet long. The operator gently rubs the mass of eggs back and forth over the screen. The mesh is just large enough to let the eggs drop through, and as they sepa- rate from the membrane by the rub- bing they fall through into the trough and are thence drawn off into tubs by means of a sliding door at the end of the trough. After all the roe has been separated, the tub is removed and a cer- tain proportion of the best Luneburg (Germany) salt added to the roe, after which the operator carefully stirs and mixes the mass with his hands. The most delicate part of the whole opera- tion is in the manner of mixing. No direct rule can be given for doing this portion of the work, as the condition of the roe regulates the time consumed and the manner of handling. It requires practical experience to become profi- cient. ‘‘After adding the salt, the mass of eggs first dries up, but in ten or fifteen minutes the strength of the salt draws from the eggs their watery constituents and a copious brine is formed, which can be poured off when the tub becomes too full. -The salted eggs are poured into very fine-meshed sieves which hold about ten pounds each. In the caviare house are usually arranged long, slop- ing boards, with narrow strips nailed on each side. On these the sieves are placed and are left there from eight to twenty hours in order to drain thorough- ly. The eggs have now become the caviare of commerce and are transferred to small casks of either oak or pine, which have been steamed in order to prevent any possible leakage; the casks are covered and allowed to stand until the gas escapes and the eggs settle. The vacant space caused by the settling is then filled and the cask headed up and put in a cool place until ready for ship- ment. The casks cost about $1 each and hold about 135 pounds net. It re- quires about eleven quarts of salt to prepare a keg of caviare. ‘*Formerly only the hard roe was used in making caviare, but some of the fish- ermen have become so expert that they can handle roe which is medium soft and still prepare a fair grade of caviare.”’ Mr. Cobb estimates that 1,948 kegs of caviare were prepared in 1897 from sturgeon caught in the Delaware River and Bay and these were sold for $90, 738. During the season of 1899 only 700 kegs of caviare were obtained from this same district.—N. Y. Sun. ——_>2.—___ Apple-Picking Time. When September’s purple asters stay to wreathe October’s crown, And the misty, wooded hill slopes are red and golden brown; When morns are hazy purple and wild geese soutnward fly. And fiery crimsons linger late along the evening sky; When swallows on the barn roofs perch, to chat- ter of their fiight, When hints of frost are in the air and crickets chirp at night; Then come the pleasant days we lovein Autumn’s mellow prime, SS days of all the year—the apple pick- a me. For the laden boughs are bending low o’er all the orchard ways, The apples’ cheeks are burning red and father smiles and says Some sparkling morn, “I think to-day we might as well begin. Be smart now, boys! you'll need a week to get those apples in.” Fall. By the corn shocks on the hill, By the coal man’s awful bill, By the rustle in the reeds, By the books that Johnny needs, By these signs, by each and all, And by all the winds that blow We may guess and we may know Of the presence of the fall. ——__->-0 > Forgot His Mother Tongue. Findlay, Ohio, Sept. 27—Charles Grandi, an aged fruit dealer who came here from Italy a_ score of years ago, was called upon to-day to act as _ inter- preter for some Italian laborers. He started to talk to them and found that he had forgotten his native tongue and the men could not understand him. He has confined bimself to his room and will see no one. Ona piece of paper, which he shoved under the door, he had written. that he would not emerge until he had remembered the tongue of his fathers. A workman going up the gang plank of a vessel in an English dock fell and hurt himself so badly that he died ina few days. The judge decided that his family was not entitled to compensation because a ship was not a factory; on appeal this decision was sustained by another court, but further appeal to the House of Lords resulted in a verdict that a ship was a factory. It was a factory to the plaintiff in the action, because that was where he was earning his living; the ship was in dry dock and it was a factory; therefore, the workman’s family were entitled to re- cover. 2. Some day it will dawn upon the lead- ing men in the cities of the United States that municipal beauty is worth more in drawing trade and visitors than any of the devices that are now ex- pected to do this service. Some day boards of education may begin to real- ize that a cheaply planned public school building is not only an injury to the children, but an actual business detri- ment to the whole community. 2-2 A New Jersey octogenarian thought he wanted a wife and so he advertised. So many women responded that the old man became disgusted and decided to remain single. Men never want what they can too easily get. Huss Hanls Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—$7,000 STOCK OF DRY GOODS in good Southern Michigan town of 1,0.0 people. Will sell for 75 cents on the dollar if sold before Nov. 1. Address Bargain, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 78 )}OR SALE—30,000 ROLLS MEDIUM-PRICED wall paper at 50 cents on the dollar. Will sellin lots to suit the buyer. For particulars address No 79, care Michigan Tradesman. 79 pip sa ogee WANTED BY A FIRST-CLASS doctor; good town or city preferred. Do not care to buy unless small amount of office fixtures, but will rent property, Write No. 84, care Michigan Tradesman. 84 OR SALE—STOCK GENERAL MERCHAN- dise; no rubbish; no competition; cash re- ceipts last year, $10,000; will invoice $4,000; no trades; first-class location; no transients to deal with. Address Postmaster, Rose Center, Mich. 83 ir RENT—BRICK STORE BUILDING AT Bailey, 26x60 feet in dimensions, with eight living rooms overhead. Good location for gro- cery or general store. Rent reasonable. Ad- dress No. 82, care. Michigan Tradesman. 82 OR SALE—A WELL-ASSORTED STOCK of general hardware and farming imple- ments in one of the best towns of Michigan of about 1,500 inhabitants. Will also sell or rent brick store, with all the modern improvements. Best of reasons for selling. For further infor- mation call or address Jesse S. Harris, 86 Ash St., Detroit, Mich. 81 OR SALE—GENEKAL STOCK INVEN- torying about $1,200, located in inland town — — need an ag aoe cash Siness; will sell or rent store building. Will- ard Purchase, Corinth, Mich. sD OR SALE-—STOCK OF CROCKERY, glassware, tinware, graniteware, notions and fixtures, about $2,500 The best town in Michigan. Address Box 574, Alpena, Mich. 77 OCTOR—THE PEOPLE OF FOUNTAIN desire a good physician to locate there. — the Fountain Pharmacy, —— ich. f/ANTED—A SMALL SKCOND HAND safe a The Fountain Phar- macy, Fountain, Mich. 76 NOR SALE—A SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS in good location. Will invoice about $900. Can be bought cheap. Rent $10 a month. Sales $9 a day. Address D. H. Hawks, Goshen, Ind. 74 VOR SALE—DRUG STORE DOING PAYING business in town of 1,500; only one other store; best reason for selling; stock will invoice about $1,000; cash offers only will be considered. Address No. 72, care Michigan Tradesman. 72 a SALE—BEST LOCATION FOR CuoUN- try store in Southern Michigan; store with dwelling attached; long established good paying trade; is worth $%1.500 clean money per year to any hustler: no competition; small stock of absolutely new staple goods. Write for particu- lars. Address X, care Michigan Tradesman. 50 GENTS AND DEALERS WANTED TO sell Sear’s patent potato fork ee: Sells like hot cakes. Makes potato digging easy. Sample postpaid upon receipt of 25 cents, or $1.50 per doz. Barnett & Sears, Rose Center, Mich. 70 ANLEv—TU LEASE FURNISHED HO- tel in good town in Southern Michigan. Address 919 E. Madison St., South Bend, Ind. 67 NOR SALE CHEAP—FIRST-CLASS LAUN- dry; doing good business; good reasons for selling. Box 544, Reed City, Mich. 66 OR SALE—CONTINENTAL TOBACCO tags, $1 per 100. Have 2,000 on hand. Carl Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 65 Ke SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDER- taking business in town of 600. One of the best locations in Michigan. Business established two years. Best reasons for selling. Stock, hearse and buildings about $2,500. Address No. 68, care Michigan Tradesman. 68 OR SALE—CONFECTIONERY STOCK, fixtures, utensils and all tools necessary for making candy; also soda fountain on contract, and all apparatus for the manufacture of ice cream; situated in thriving town of 3,000 inhabi- tants; the only store of its kind in the town. The owner, a first-class candy maker, will agree to teach the buyer for one month in the manu- facture of candy. Reasons for selling. other business. Address No. 62, care Michigan —— man. 2 I WILL SELL WHOLE OR ONE-HALF IN- terest in my furniture business. The goods are all new and up-to-date; located in a town of 7,000: has been a furniture store for thirty years; only two furniture stores in the town. Address all correspondence to No. 63, care Michigan Tradesman. 63 WISH TO BUY A DRUG STORE FOR CASH in a good live town. Karl H. Nelson, Cedar Springs, Mich. 71 OR SALE—BOWEN’s GRIST AND SAW mills and other property to close up an es- tate. Might trade. ‘or particulars, address Box 56, Bowen’s Mills, Barry Co., Mich. 56 LANING MILL AND MANUFACTURING plant for sale or exchange for lumber or what have you? J. A. Hawiey, Leslie, Mich. 53 Ko SALE—A WHOLESALE AND RETAIL trade and manufacturing business, con- ducted for — twenty years; favorable and convenient location for trade and shipping; goods staple, non-perishable, with unending de- mand; — owner has made money out of it and wishes to retire; will be sold on favorable terms if taken soon. Address Arthur, 240 North Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 45 Prins RENT—A GOOD BRICK STORE, splendidly located in a thriving and growing business town. Address A. M. Colwell, Lake 46 Odessa, Mich. Gg ape es SALES CONDUCTED QUICK- ly and without loss by our new method. It beats any auction sale, fire sale or mill end sale ever held. Start one now and doa large business in the dull season. Terms and particulars by writing to New Methods Sales Co., 7701 Normal Ave., Chicago, Ill. 36 ‘OR SALE—$6,500 STOCK OF DRY GOODS, groceries, shoes and store fixtures; long lease and low rent of the best business corner in city of 2,500. If preferred, I will sell part of os — ——— the coer to —— tenant. o agents or traders need a . A. L. Brad- ford. Eaton Rapids, Mich. — ~g WAST TO PURCHASE FURNITURE AND undertaking business in city of not less than 3,000 population. Will pay cash. Address No. 33, care Michigan Tradesman. 33 AfERCHANTS DESIROUS OF CLOSING 4¥i out entire or part stock of shoes or wishing = —— = whatever ppg for cash or Ommission correspond w es 123-128 Market St.. Chicago, Ill. 7 = 7 SALE—GOOD ESTABLISHED GRO- cery business in town of 6,000; a bargain for — alte —s Will as sell = to good, arty. For particulars re care Michigan Teagenuan " mie pene SALE, CHEAP—%1,500 STOCK GEN- eral merchandise. Address No. Michigan Tradesman. oe 945 MISCELLANEOUS wa NTED—REGISTERED ASSISTANT pharmacist. Address, stating Wages and references, John Helmer, 9 E. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. 73 W ANTED— POSITION BY EXPERIENCED general merchandise or dry goods clerk. Good references furnished. Address X. ¥. 2; care Michigan Tradesman. 69 cei liste rune tae hur pcre eR Coe : = N Ratee, EEaee SnD preferred. Drug. business can be bought. Address Drug Doctor - : ug » care — ward ta na ilar omens abetgnpetent MEE EE IE SR ieR teem