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Nineteenth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1901.

Number 949

 

 

—————
WILLIAM CONNOR

WHOLESALE
READY MADE 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.

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Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

 

    
  

Cheap and Effective.
Send for samples and prices.

C. H. HANSON,
44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 
   
 

Credit Cidveces Colectons,
and Commerial <Litugatione

Widdicomb Bldg, Grand Rapids.
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit.

L. J. Stevenson, Manager
R. J. Cleland and Don E. Minor, Attorneys

Prompt attention to all kinds of Collec-
tions, Adjustments and Litigation. Our
credit advices will avoid making worth-
less accounts. We collect all others.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

Established 1841,
R. G. DUN & CO.
Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

C. E. McCRONE, [lanager.

Offices

 

 

National Fire Ins. Co.
of Hartford

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

ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

—Glover’s Gem Mantles—

For Gas or Gasoline. Write for catalogue.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.

Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Gas
and Gasoline Sundries

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Tradesman Coupons

 

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

 

Getting the People.

4. Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Village Improvement,
% Diamond Drummers.
Editorial.

Editorial.

Clothing.

Shoes and Rubbers.
Dry Goods.

Hardware.

Knows the Signs.
Starting Right.
Woman’s World.
Butter and Eggs.

The New York Market.
Long Lost Brother.
Commercial Travelers.
Drugs and Chemicals.
Drug Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.

Window Dressing.
Hardware Price Current.

- Touching Elbows.

 

 

AUTOMOBILES AND GOOD ROADS.

The influence of the automobile in the
road problem is becoming more and
more manifest as the new mode of pro-
gression is developed. It is already
demonstrated that the prophecies of its
significance as a factor made in the
early days of its evolution are destined
to be far more than realized. There is
much to be done in the direction of
simplifying construction and securing
greater immunity from derangement,
but enough has been accomplished to
show that the goal of practicality is
attainable.

Possibly the most significant prin-
ciple employed in the construction of
the modern self-propelling vehicle is
that of elasticity. In the evolution of
the steam and electric roads ingenuity
has been exercised to its utmost to se-
cure perfect rigidity in the supporting
surface of the road. With the advent of
gigantic locomotives and tremendously
heavy electric cars, the necessity of pro-
viding the heaviest steel construction
possible has been recognized and met.
Fabulous sums of money have _ been
spent in making the most perfect and
strongest track possible, and_ the
mechanical perfection of the rolling
stock has taxed the utmost of mod-
ern construction. The results are won-
derful, but with the best that can be ac-
complished along this line the railroads
are still perishable. Human ingenuity
is not adequate to the task of providing
a way of sufficient firmness but that the
speeding loads will attack it and the
work of repair and renewing construc-
tion must be constantly urged. The use
of rigid surfaces of contact in transpor-
tation must always involve the destruc-
tion of both road and vehicle as long as
perfection is so far from attainment.

The radical difference between the
rigid principle of construction and the
elasticity of the new tires is that, in-
stead of being a means of destruction to
the supporting surface, the tires oper-
ate to bring it to greater perfection.
This principle was early recognized in
the use of bicycles, but it remained for
its employment with heavier loads to
show its effectiveness as a roadmaker,
The use of rollers in highway construc-

 

tion is still in its infancy; factories for
building the machines are crowded to
their capacity by the demand from all
parts of the country, and as the elastic
tire comes more and more into use, in-
stead of vehicles acting as instruments
of destruction, they are coming to sup-
plement and perfect the work of con-
struction. The elastic tire of a heavy
automobile is the best instrument that
can be devised to compress the mate-
rials of a highway. The heavy, rigid
rollers employed in road construction
must be used with enough moisture to
make the mass yield under the solid
surface of the wheels, but the elastic
tire exerts its pressure whether the ma-
terials yield equally or not. Given suffi-
cient drainage to prevent the accumu-
lation of mud and the tires will secure
a smoother surface, which they will con-
stantly perfect. It only remains to level
the inequalities, and also prevent de-
struction by the heavy tires and calks
of ordinary teaming, to secure con-
stantly improving roads with little ex-
penditure for road metal materials.

Gradually as the value of this prin-
ciple of elasticity comes to wider recog-
nition it will be permitted to do its
work without so much interference.
Public sentiment will come to recognize
that the driver of a vehicle which tears
up and destroys the highway is a public
enemy which must be suppressed.

Just now is the era of the full develop-
ment of transportation by the electric
trolley and its steel rails. The fact of its
rapid extension shows a demand for
local traffic which the steam railways
have failed to meet. It is not probable
that the trolley will supersede the older
system in any great degree, but its work
will be supplementary in meeting the
conditions of shorter travel. And while
this is the case the field will not yet be
fully occupied. Through the automo-
bile with its elastic tire there is bound
to come another system for still other
needs. This is already assuming form
in many of the older centers, lines of
the new vehicles being started with
wonderful rapidity, even while the
proper type of construction is not yet
fixed. And this is only the beginning.
The time is not far distant when regu-
lar lines of the new vehicles, with pleas-
ant, roomy accommodations, will noise-
lessly glide from town to town and, in-
stead of working destructively, to re-
quire a constant force of road menders,
will do no small share of the work of
making and maintaining their own
roads.

Because a pert telephone girl in Seat-
tle refused to connect a subscriber with
the fire department when he wanted to
give notice of a fire, a loss of $60,000
was incurred, and now the Bell tele-
phone company is being sued for dam-
ages by the person thus served and by
the insurance company which suffered
the loss.

 

A New Jersey man o8 years of age
has just had his leg amputated. The
longevity and vitality of New Jersey
people are supposed to be due to the
fact that the good die young.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

That an export of gold of over $18, -
000,000 in three weeks should not ad-
versely affect the financial situation in
this country shows that the underlying
strength is widely appreciated. The
fact seems to be recognized that it is
because the Old World is in need of
gold and that we have it to spare that
we are sending it forward. It is bet-
ter that it should be thus employed and
that we should have returns for its use
than that it should lie idle in our treas-
uries; but the timid financial mind is
generally sensitive to any material outgo
of the yellow metal, regardless of con-
ditions.

The strength manifested last week in
the stock market carried the average of
prices upward and closed with a_pros-
pect of still further advance and in-
creasing activity. This week the bears
are getting in their work on the report
that the United States Attorney General
contemplated action against Amalga-
mated Copper and other so-called trusts.
This report is sufficient to cause much
irregularity, not only in the shares in
question, but by sympathy all along the
line. In the face of the general strength
it is not thought there will be more than
temporary uneasiness on this account.

More seasonable weather has come to
the rescue of distribution and retail
trade and supplementary orders are be-
coming the rule, with premium for
early delivery.

The iron and steel industries are still
under a pressure of activity for early
deliveries. Pig iron to be delivered
this year commands a premium and
Southern furnaces are beginning to ad-
vance prices. Scarcity of cars is still a
serious factor in the Connellsville coke
region, where a production of 243,756
tons for the week makes a new high
record.

With a movement of grain and other
staples limited only by the lack of
transportation facilities, prices are
strongly maintained, corn especially
reaching the highest point for years.

Recent record breaking purchases of
wool are followed by enormous ship-
ments from Boston and heavyweight
woolens are in great demand, with
strengthening prices. Eastern shoe
shops are shipping at the rate of 25 per
cent. more than last year and price
changes are upward. A busy season is
already assured for next year’s goods,
and new factories are projected in the
South, There is some yielding in the
prices of hides, but leather is well sus-
tained on account of low stocks,

 

Li Hung Chang’s case was hopeless
when the doctors agreed on the verdict
that he could take only liquids into his
system. Sucha verdict as that would
tickle a Kentucky colonel into con-
valescence.

 

Chicago claims to be receiving great
benefit from the drainage canal. What
St. Louis claims, however, is some-
thing altogether different.

 

Some women are both good and true—
but most of them are too good to be true.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Getting the People

 

 

The Use of Devices for Catching the Eye.

The first two essentials in getting the
people are to gain attention and inter-
est. An advertisement may: be well
written and may contain that which
highly interests the customer, and yet
may lack distinction or may be so
buried with other display as to be
wholly lost to notice.

One of the curious things to those who
have given the subject study is the diffi-
culty of getting people to see things.
Take, for instance the work of circular-
izing among business men. After the
regular system of circulars and follow-
ups with a personal letter or so, the
caller naturally expects to find the mat-
ter a foremost subject. The experienced
caller, however, goes prepared for its
introduction, for he learns that the per-
centage of those who can be reached
by any method is small.

There may be some value in gaining
continued interest in the matters adver-
tised and so getting people to look for
the announcements. With the element
of interest the use of certain fixed space
may be good. But the main dependence
must be in making everything so plain
that as many as possible of those who
run may be made to read.

The use of borders is to give distinc-
tion and definition and to attract the

eye when possible by the repetition of | -

similar forms. The giving of distinc-
tion is the separation of the space em-
ployed from its surroundings. In this
the border proper serves only a part, the
white space between it and the matter
contained usually serves the more im-
portant part.

It was early recognized in architec-
ture that the eye is most pleasantly at-
tracted by the repetition of similar
forms. A single column is beautiful ;
a row of columns is far more beautiful.
So in the ornamentation of friezes, pan-
els and dadoes the constant study is to
give as great a number of the repetitions
of similar forms as possible. The same
principle obtains in the ornamentation
of a border, the eye is attracted by the
constant repetition of similar forms,
and usually the simpler the form the
more easily is the principle of repeti-
tion made available. It is on this ac-
count that a solid black line is not at-
tractive to the eye although it may serve
the purpose of distinction. Parallel
light lines are better for they give the
architectural quality in some degree,
which is totally lost in a single black
line.

Naturally the first thought in gaining
the eye is display. In this the tend-
ency is to make the principal line as
black as possible. A better study is to
make it as suitable to the subject and
space as possible. Fora iine to catch
the eye agreeably it must not be
crowded. Then let the letter be simple
and symmetrical as possible, and the
subject must do the rest. Subordinate
display should be made harmonious in
style and unity preserved throughout.
The use of panels harmonizing with the
border may be made effective, but sim-
ple rectangular shapes are the most at-
tractive in typography.

The use of cuts is often enlarged
upon and I need not go into the general
subject here. The value is various as
to the designs and appropriateness to
the subject. One feature that may be
noticed, however, is the use of the
architectural principle in these. Some-
times a row of simple designs is used

IT

JOKE!

But a yoke Overcoat is the thing.

A new line of yoke overcoats in all

shades just received. Also full box

overcoats without yoke.

$10, $12 and $15.

WILL FIND

In our Men’s Suit Department all
the newest fabrics and designs,

Thibet, Cheviot, Melton and Wors-
ted cloths in the latest cuts.

We are, still selling that $1.50

Hat for 1 13.

Prices

Boy's and Children’s clothing at

reduced prices.

Give us a call before you fill

your wants.

Come whether you

wish to purchase or not.

H. Stern & Coa.,

{21-123-125 East Mala Sirest.

 

One Price Clothiers.

 

 

[olasses and Syrup at
WHOLESALE!

I received a car load of Molasses last week and offer
same to the trade in bbis and half bbis. at es low figures as

can be bought snywhare.

A cac load of Syrup in bbis, half bbls, one gallon,
haif gallon and quart pails will arrive the last of this week.
This Syrup was bought before the recent advance and
those who have not got their orders in had better get. them
in at once.

Chas. Wellman

836 HURON AVE.

 

 

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! Beard, Goodwillie
WHOLESALE

Iron, Steel, Axles, Springs, Haraware,
Biacksmith’s and Wagenmaker’s supplies, Harness,
Robes, Blankets, Wagons and Carriages.

| Beard,

312.814 Huron Avenue.

 

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something os every os and its worth some-
thing to have every pair wear a few weeks
longer than Ts Now we can make the

of sh the family a good deal.
lighter than it has been, and every pair of
Shoes that we sell you is bound to give you
satisfaction. If they don’t do it, you know
‘where we keep store. The Spot Cash Shoe
Store. Spot cash sales mean no lossss, lowest

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for a border or panel with great effec-
tiveness. Then recently many are em-
ploying the repetition of the same de-
sign reduced in perspective, as the
Beaman portrait in pepsin gum and
some of the still more recent figure de-
signs. This is in recognition of the
principle of the attractiveness of re-
peated forms added to the architectural

effect of receding distance.
x * *

H. Stern & Co. show a display which
the printer has handled consistently,
but which I think employs too much
border and black in the display. I fail
to see the force of the first display line,
and I am afraid others may be as obtuse
aslam. A reason for things should be
sufficiently apparent to be compre-
‘rended by the ordinary mind. The fea-
ture of the advertisement is the prices.

Chas. Wellman evidently wishes to
convey the impression that his molasses
trade is of some magnitude. The print-
er’s work is good except that he crowds
his border too closely.

A well displayed general hardware
advertisement is that of Beard, Good-
willie & Co. I should have spaced the
firm name a little farther from the bor-
der. The advertisement is an excep-
tionally good one.

Rather a formidable paragraph is
shown in the advertisement of B. C.
Farrand, Jr., and the printer has em-
ployed too large border and type for his
space. The matter is interesting and
readable, and the card will sell goods,
but less wording and smaller type would
sell more.

The State Bank of St. Johns uses a
generous space, which is more profit-
ably occupied than if it was crowded
with matter.

—_——_—_»> 0. ___
Making Reputation.

You are advertising yourself and
store, and nothing should be omitted
that would increase the attractiveness.
Polite clerks, with accommedating man-
ners, are great helps. Many poor people
may be among your visitors, but be sure
that the same degree of politeness be
accorded them that you would bestow
upon the rich. In these times, and for
that matter at all times, there should be
shown equal respect and consideration
for all. The character of your store is
what you make it; its reputation de-
pends upon what the people think and
say about it. If the reputation it re-
ceives among the people is good, you
have succeeded in widening your range
of trade, but if it is the contrary, no
system of advertising will give it a
standing among the people of the com-
munity. A reputation for fair and po-
lite treatment, neatness and orderly ar-
rangements, fine goods and good qual-
ity, is a thing much desired by every
retailer.—Clothier and Furnisher.

———_>+.____
Good Reason For Modesty.

An officer in one of the English Vol
unteer regiments who had made him-
self exceedingly unpopular with the
men was coming home one evening
when he slipped and fell into deep
water. He was rescued with great
difficulty by a private in his own regi-
ment.

_ The officer was profuse in his expres-
sions of gratitude and asked his pre-
server how he could reward him.

.... The best way,’’ said the soldier,
is to say nothing about it.’’

‘*But why?’’ asked the officer in
amazement.

‘‘Because,’’ was the blunt reply, ‘‘if

the other fellows knew I'd cntiod you

out they’d chuek me in.’’
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Untie yourselt, anyhow, long enough for us to talk to you.

You are a dealer in the fight with other dealers, aren't you?

You want to carry the fight into the enemy’s camp.

Want to be able to cut prices with a smile while the rival gets desperate.
All depends how close to value you can buy.

You must get the same value for less than your rival does.

Cry Pan-Hmerican Guaranteed Clothing

It’s the kind that fits and sells on sight,

Besides, we help you sell tt with various advertising methods.
Where we have spent money in the past to get customers—for ourselves,
We will spend tt in the future to get customers—for you.
We'll furnish your window ads.

We'll do your newspaper advertising.

We'll relieve you of all your advertising worries,

We've doubled our business by the right kind of advertising.
Well help you double yours, tf you say so.

Whether you're-a customer or not ‘‘machts nicks.”

Send us a postal just the same.

Well mail you full particulars,

Well send you the whole outfit express prepaid.

Don’t hesitate to call for help.

WILE BROS. & WEILL

MAKERS OF PAN-AMERICAN !
GUARANTEED CLOTHING. . BUFFALO, N. Y.

Detroit Office in charge of Mr. M. J. Rogan, 19 Kanter Building. Minneapolis Office in charge of Mr. W. A. Morse, Room 510 Boston Block.

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Vanderbilt— Zickgaff & Karslike have
opened a furniture store.

Adrian—Don C. Hoag will opena
meat market at 22 S. Main street.

Cass City—W. C. Jenks & Co., meat
dealers, have sold out to Harry Young.

Detroit—Hay Bros. succeed Shefferly
& Hay in the grocery and meat busi-
ness.

Cadillac—L. B. Bellaire has added a
fresh meat department to his grocery
store.

White Pigeon—Ray Colby has closed
out his grocery stock and retired from
trade.

Melvin—John H. Beal has sold his
general merchandise stock to Charles
Parkins.

8 Unionville—Isaac Berkovitz has re-
moved his general stock from Akron to
this place.

@ Holland—Gerrit Steketee has _ pur-
chased the boot and shoe stock of W.
Ham & Co.

Hastings—Guy Crook has purchased
an interest in the Hastings Halter &
Leather Co.

Brutus—H. Hinkley & Co. succeed
Homer Hinkley in the hardwood lum-
ber business.

Ortonvilie—F. C. Profrock has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock of
R. G. Brosius.

Scofield—J. W. Fulcher has pur-
chased the. general merchandise stock
of W. F. Fulcher.

South Haven—The Quaint Furniture
Co. has filed articles of incorporation.
The capital stock is $6,000.

Harrietta—S. J. Doty, general dealer,
has gone to Los Angeles for the winter,
accompanied by wife and daughter.

Berrien Springs—R. C. Bell has
moved into his new meat market, which
has been fitted up in first-class shape.

Traverse City—E. F. Ferris succeeds
Ferris & Champney, dealers in agricul-
tural implements and farm machinery.

Petoskey——Robert Wachman has
opened a fruit and produce house at
the corner of Petoskey and Michigan
streets.

Owosso—C. E. Underwood & Co.
have engaged in the grocery business
at the corner of Washington and King
streets.

Holland—E. S. Gale has purchased
the general stock of Teunis VanDyke,
and will continue the business at the
same location.

Memphis—H. O. Sink & Co. have
engaged in the millinery and grocery

 

 

business. The stock was purchased of
Sutherland & Co.
Sault Ste. Marie—Carlson & Farm

have opened a new grocery store in the
new block at the corner of Maple street
and Bingham avenue.

Ann Arbor—C. H. Major & Co.,
dealers in wall paper and paints, have
dissolved partnership. Chas. H. Major
continues the business.

Metamora—H. G. Perkins & Son is
the style of the new firm which contin-
ues the dry goods and grocery business
of Perkins, Heenan & Perkins.

Boyne City—Nurko & Frazer’s gen-
eral stock was badly damaged by fire
and water on Nov. 21. The fire origi-
nated in an office over the store.

Rockford—G. A. - Kelley, who last
spting disposed of his general stock at
the four corners six miles northwest of
this place to B. H. Putman, has re-
purchased the stock and resumed busi
ness at the same loca‘ion. aS

 

Baraga—Albert Grabower has packed
his men’s furnishing goods stock at this
place and removed it to Mass City,
where he has a store building in readi-
ness for the goods.

Gladwin—Mrs. J. R. Campbell! has
purchased the grocery stock of Mat
Crosson and will continue the business
at the same location. She has added a
bakery and restaurant.

Cross Village—Gerrison & Harris will
establish a branch dry goods, clothing
and furnishing goods store at Levering
as soon as the store building now in
process of erection can be completed.

Cheboygan—Leo Edelstein has leased
one of the stores in the brick bank block
which is being built in Boyne City,
and as soon as completed he will put in
lines of dry goods, clothing and shoes.

Benton Harbor—Frank Potts, for-
merly of Decatur, has purchased the
interest of Peter Tonnelier in the Bat-
tlement Drug Co. The firm is now
composed of Al. H. Wiggins and Mr.
Potts.

Ionia—Charles H. Bradley has sold
his furniture stock to Geo. H. Allured
& Son. There will be no immediate
consolidation of the stocks. Mr. Bradley
will go on the road for D. Wildman &
Co., of Detroit.

St. Joseph—J. W. Lush, who for the
past three years has been clerk at the
Three I depot, and Edward Rowe have
opened a food and grain store at 619
Ship street. Mr. Lush will have charge
of the business.

Battle Creek—Geo. L. Bernard,
proprietor of the Heath Home drug
store, has returned from a fortnight’s
hunting trip in the Upper Peninsula.
He is the only one of his party who
brought home a deer.

Port Huron—Woods & Marks have
withdrawn their petition for a receiver
and have sold their clothing stock to
Heavenrich Bros., of Detroit, the prin-
cipal creditor. It is stated that Mr.
Woods wil] continue the management of
the business.

St. Joseph—Emanuel and Amel A.
Herring have purchased the interest of
Alphonso Parish in the drug stock of
Herring & Parish. The new firm will
be known as Herring & Herring, the
other member of the firm being A.
Frank Herring.

Traverse City—Henry J. Pohl has
purchased the interest of August N.
Nelson in the firm of Nelson & John-
son, grocers and provision dealers. The
firm will hereafter be known as Johnson
& Pohl and business will be continued
at the old stand.

Petoskey—Sherman & Bryam cele-
brated the second anniversary of their
business career last Thursday at the res-
idence of Frank Sherman. A course
dinner was served, to which were in-
vited the clerks and the families of the
members of the firm.

Leslie—H. T. DuBois, general dealer
at Grass Lake, has leased the store
building now occupied by the clothing
and shoe stock of A. O. DuBois and
will remove his stock to this place. A.
O. DuBois expects to be established in
the. Dennis store building by Dec. 1.

Manton—M. Alvin, general dealer at
this place, has been committed to the
Northern Michigan Asylum at Traverse
City until he is declared sane by the
physicians in that institution. Mr. Al-
vin has been for several years one of
Manton’s leading business men, and his
affliction is deplored by his friends and
acquaintances in this village. His
hallucination is that he bas unlimited
wealth, and therefore is enabled to

 

possess anything through the use of his
imaginary money that he may desire or
covet. It is confidently expected that
the treatment he will receive at Trav-
erse City will fully restore his mind.

Jackson—The Jackson Hardware Co.
has been organized here to purchase the
hardware stock of Charles E. Barnard,
for years in the hardware business here.
The company is capitalized at $25,000,
with W, C. Starr, of Detroit, and J. A.
Taggart, of Toledo, principal stock-
holders. Both are experienced hardware
men. Mr. Taggart has been traveling
salesman for L. B. Williams & Sons, of
Dover, N. H., and Mr. Starr has been
connected with a prominent Detroit
hardware concern.

Detroit—December 1 Joseph J. Crow-
ley, an active member of the wholesale
dry goods firm of Burnham, Stoepel &
Co.. will retire from that concern, and
it is reported that Mr. Crowley, with
his brother, Wm. C. Crowley, a sales-
man for the same firm, will, with others,
organize a new dry goods jobbing
house, with capital of from $300,000 to
$400,000. Mr. Crowley’s retirement is
simultaneous with a _ reorganization of
the affairs of Burnham, Stoepel & Co.
The firm has a house in Kansas City,
as well as here, J. K. Burnham resid-
ing in the former city, and it is said
that Mr. Burnham will dispose of his
interest in the Detroit house to Mr.
Stoepel, who lives in this city, while
Mr. Stoepel will sell his Kansas City
holdings to Mr. Burnham. It is also
asserted that the firm will be succeeded
by a corporation.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Venito Brass Works
has changed its style to the Eagle Brass
Works.

Detroit—The Standard Cap Co. has
been organized with a capital stock of
$5, 000.

Charlevoix—The Charlevoix Sugar
Co. has filed articles of incorporation
with a capital stock of $300,000.

Levering—M. Palmer has sold his
sawmillto S. Vandermeer and H. Tim-
mer, who will continue the business,

Detroit—The proposition of the di-
rectors of the Michigan Stove works,
of Detroit, that the capital stock of the
company be increased from $300,000
to $3,000,000 has been endorsed by the
stockholders.

 

Bay City—The stockholders of the
Michigan Chemical Co. have voted to
increase the capital stock from $200,000
to $250, 000.

Macon—A new enterprise has been
established at this place under the style
of the Macon Creamery Co, The capi-
tal stock is $4,250.

Detroit—The Crescent Brass & Iron
Co. is succeeded by the Buckley-Hart
Manufacturing Co., which also succeeds
the Hart Co, in the manufacture of cab-
inet hardware.

Reed City—Gerber & Strable have
bought the old Wenzell Bros. shingle
mill plant, and will at once putina
maple flooring plant, making three such
mills in this town.

Gladwin—S. O. Churck & Bro., of
New York City, have purchased the
stave and heading mill of Edward Jen-
nings, including the stock on hand, the
consideration being $14,000,

Holland—W. H. Beach & Co. have
secured the services of E. Misner, of
Grand Rapids, as head miller for their
new mill. He has been with the Valley
City Milling Co. for some time.

Roscommon—The Hanson Lumber
Co. will add a shingle mill to its box
factory at this place. This plant works
up jack pine into box material, and the
firm has timber enough available to
keep the plant in operation a number
of years.

Harbor Springs—Chapman & John-
son, whose sawmill plant is now loca-
ted near Pleasantview Center, have de-
cided to remove it to this place. They
have secured piling ground on the bluff
and will move the output of this winter
there and, in the spring, will remove
the plant. They have a cut of about
thirty million to make and will undoubt-
edly add other machinery which will
make a complete manufacturing plant.

Saginaw—John McLean, for some
years one of the heaviest stockholders
in the Saginaw Specialty Co., and
manager of the business, has disposed
of his interest, and is about to remove
to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he will en-
gage in the lumbering and planing mill
business. The management of the Sag-
inaw Specialty Co. has passed to Leon-
ard Van Houghton, who was one of the

organizers of the company and who will
devote his entire time to the business.

 

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades
and prices, call Visner, both phones.

 

 

Cover Your Steam Pipes

Asbestos Pipe Coverings, Asbestos Paper, Asbestos Mill Board,
Asbestos Cement, Asbestos Packings, Mineral Wool, Hair Felt.

GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY COMPANY

20 Pearl Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Buy the Most Perfect Talking Machine Made

 

"HIS MASTER’S VOICE’’

Buy it of us. Prices $12
to $25. Until Dec. 1 we
offer extra inducements,

besides prepaying ex-
pressage. Write for par-
ticulars.

POST MUSIC CO.,

Lansing, Mich.

SEED POTATOES WANTED

Wire us what kinds you have for sale and quote prices.

M,. ©. BAKER & @O,,

Toledo, Ohio

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

_MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grain Market.

Wheat has ruled rather strong during
the past week, while sales have not been
as large as expected, and an advance of
1%c in winter wheat can be recorded.
Spring wheat, December, was only up
about '%c, while cash No. 2 red winter
was fully 3c above December. Cash
winter is held very firm. The high
price in the coarse grains helped to
sustain the market. The receipts in
the Northwest have been very large.
Exports were again over 5,000,000,
while the visible made another gain of
3,235,000 bushels, while last year it de-
creased 100,000 bushels. The wheat
feeding process in the corn belt goes on
as usual. Wheat is selling in Kansas
around 6oc. Corn is selling at 64c at
the same place. It is estimated that
fully 50,000,000 bushels will be fed,
which sooner or later will affect the
market. The large receipts inthe North-
west had a depressing effect. Receipts
in the Southwest are below the usual
amount, notwithstanding the large crop
that was raised in Kansas and Okla-
homa. Texas will have to import
wheat, as her crop was only about
4,000,000 bushels. Notwithstanding the
large increase, the market held firm and
the short sellers could not depress the
market.

Corn decreased 692,000 bushels and
the market closes 3%c higher than a
week ago, aS receipts are not coming
along as fast as wanted. The weather
also was not favorable for the curing of
new corn. Taking all things into con-
sideration, corn is in a strong position
for a still further advance. While a
break in prices was predicted, the con-
trary took place.

Oats, as well as corn, are very strong.
Prices were advanced 2%c over the
previous week and more were wanted.

 

 

Rye also jumped up 1%c per bushel. |-

It looks as though this cereal would ad-
vance still more, as the export demand
is large.

Beans are held very firm. There does
not seem to be very much change and
the demand is about equal to the sup-
ply. Holders are not anxious to part
with what they have on hand.

Flour, owing to the firmness in wheat,
is strong. An advance dof Ioc per _ bar-
rel for domestic trade is being de-
manded.

Mill feed is $1 per ton higher and,
with pastures getting short, prices will
be advanced still more.

Receipts have been as follows: wheat,
50 cars; corn, 2 cars; oats, 2 cars;
flour, 7 cars; beans, 3 cars; hay, 5 cars;
potatoes, 32 cars.

Mills are paying 75c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
9
The Produce Market.

Apples—The market is strong but
prices are too high to be very active.
Good stock is running from $4@4.50
per bbl. for Spys and Baldwins and
$3.75@4 for other varieties.

Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@
1.75 per bunch, according to size. .

Beans—Local dealers pay $1.25@1.50
for country picked and screened, hold-
ing city picked at $1.75@1.80.

Beets—$1.25 per bbl.

Butter—Factory creamery commands
24c for fancy, 22c for choice and 2oc for
storage. Dairy grades are firm and in
good demand, fancy commanding 17@
Igc. Choice fetch 15@17c. Packing
stock goes at 12@13Cc.

Cabbage—$z2 per crate of four dozen.

Carrots—$1.25 per bbl.

Celery—15c per doz.

Cranberries—Have sustained a sharp

 

advance, Jerseys command $8@8.50
per bbl. Waltons, $3 per crate for fancy.

Dates—4% @5c per Ib.

ggs—The market is strong and firm
at 3I9@22c for strictly fresh‘and about
18c for storage. Receipts have been
liberal beyond expectation.

Figs—Three crown Turkey command
lic and 5 crown fetch 14c.

: Game—Dealers pay $1@1.20 for rab-
its.

Grapes—$5 @6 per keg of Malagas.

Honey—White ‘stock is in ample sup-
ply at 13@14c. Amber is in active de-
mand at 12@13c, and dark is in mod-
erate demand at 1o@!I!Ic.

Lemons—Verdellis range from $4.50
for 300s to $4.75 for 360s. Maioris com-
mand $5 for 300s. Californias, $3.50@
3.75 for either size.

Lettuce—12%c per Ib. for hothouse.

Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy.

Onions—The market continues to
strengthen, and quotations have ad-
vanced 5@15c during the past week.
Yellow Danvers fetch $1.05@1.10 and
Red Globes command $1.10@1. 15.

Oranges—California are now in mar-
ket, commanding $3.50@3.75 per box.
Jamaicas are held at $3.25@3.50 per
box. Floridas fetch $3.25@3.50 per
box.

Parsley—zoc per doz.

Potatoes—The market has evidently
gone crazy, but prices range around 75c
per bu., although local competition fre-
quently forces the buying sprice up to
goc. Dealers are looking for a reaction
from the high prices which have pre-
vailed during the past month and are
hedging accordingly.

Poultry—The market is strong, par-
ticularly on turkeys, which were very
largely contracted for Thanksgiving
trade. Chickens are scarce and strong.
Dressed hens fetch 7@8c, spring chick-
ens command 8@oc, turkey hens fetch
lo@iic, gobblers command g@toc,
ducks fetch 1o@11c and geese 9@Ioc.
Live pigeons are in moderate demand
at 60@75c and squabs at $1.50@2.

Sweet. Potatoes—Virginias have ad-
vanced to $2.25. Baltimores command
. and genuine Jerseys $3@3.50 per
bbl.

Winter Squash—Hubbard fetches 2c

per Ib.
——>2__

Service Has Been of the Best.
T. E. Flanegin & Co.,
General Land and Immigration Agents.
Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 17, 1901.
Commercial Credit Co., Grand Rapids.

Gentlemen—We beg to acknowledge
receipt of your valued favor of Oct. 14,
enclosing check for proceeds of collec-
tion on our claim No. 366. We desire
to thank you for your prompt attention
to this matter and desire in this con-
nection to say that the service which
you have given us on collections has
been of the best and, taking into con-
sideration the class of claims which we
have submitted to you, the results have
been more than satisfactory.

We shall be very glad indeed to give
you such collections as we have and
will send you a big bunch of them
within a few days.

Yours truly,
T. E. Flanegin & Co.
—_> 2. ____

The Grand Rapids Match Co. has
evidently been fortunate in securing the
services of Henry Stire, a practical
matchmaker of Germany, who now has
charge of the composition used in the
factory. The new blue top match man-
ufactured under Mr. Stire’s formula is
one of the most perfect matches made
and is evidently destined to meet with
a large sale.

—->- «> _____

Claude Lamoreaux and M. R. Alden
have formed a copartnership under the
style of Claude Lamoreaux & Co. and
engaged in the butter and egg business
at the corner of Ellsworth avenue and
Oakes street.

——_> «2. _____

The successful man always sticks to
one thing until he gets there. So does
the postage stamp.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market is
somewhat firmer in tone, but with
prices unchanged, 96 deg. test cen-
trifugals being still quoted at 3%c.
Refiners were rather inclined to make
purchases, but offerings were small, as
holders remained confident and, with
expected light receipts of raw sugar in
the near future, it is generally believed
that prices will harden. It is reported
that planters in Cuba are making prep-
arations to grind sugar cane, but re-
ceipts of new sugar will be light until
after December. The world’s visible
supply of raw sugar is 1,840,000 tons,
against 1,600,000 tons a week ago and
1,240,000 tons the cotresponding time
last year. The refined market is quiet.
Buyers operate cautiously and purchases
were confined to such lots as were
needed to fill immediate wants and it
is not expected that they will take hold
very freely until they see what the mar-
ket is going to do. The demand for
Michigan beet granulated is good,
there being a steady demand for this
sugar.

Canned Goods—-The canned goods
market, as a whole, is very quiet, but
prices are firmly held on practically all
lines. Buying is chiefly of small lots
for immediate use, but is large enough
to keep the market in good condition.
Tomatoes are firm, but the market is
generally inactive and sales are few. It
is in just such shape, however, that any
little additional demand would send
prices up still further. Corn is also
quiet. Holders’ ideas are about Sc per
dozen higher than the trade are willing
to pay, consequently very few sales _ re-
sult. There is not much to say about
peas this week. The market is dragging
along, the orders are plentiful, but
small, but are sufficient, however, to
justify the belief that all of the best
grades and qualities will be sold out
very shortly. Lima beans are very
scarce, but are not in very large de-
mand. String beans are somewhat
stronger and prices have advanced 5c
per dozen. Baked beans are firm, with
good demand. Pumpkin continues
scarce, but is less wanted as dealers are
now fairly well supplied. Good qual-
ity gallon apples are getting scarce.
The buying of this line has been excel-
lent up to this time. These are sauer
kraut days. A great deal of canned
sauer kraut is sold during November
and December, and the trade on this
article has been very good this year. A
very fine article is being packed now
and trade on it is gradually increasing.
The demand for peaches of all grades
is very good. Prices are unchanged.
The oyster market is quiet, except-
ing for the fresh stock, and it will con-
tinue so until after Thanksgiving.
There is very little buying of cove oys-
ters at this time of the year, but all of
the packers anticipate a lively trade
just as soon as the Thanksgiving holi-
days are over. The market for domes-
tic sardines is in rather better shape.
The recent cutting has stopped and full
prices are now maintained and demand
is fair. Salmon is dull with very little
interest manifested in any grade.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
is in very good condition, with much
better demand for all varieties. Prunes
are decidedly firmer, and an advance of
Yc is noted on some grades, with some
holders not having any at all to offer.
The small sizes are scarce and limited
orders for these sizes are accepted.
These small sizes are, however, what
the trade most want and many are will-

 

ing to pay a premium in order to get
them. The raisin market is quiet and
well supplied with stock. Loose mus-
catels are in very light demand, but
seeded are going out well at. full
prices. There is also a good demand
for the London layer and fancy cluster
raisins for the holiday trade. Peaches
and apricots are both rather quiet, but
it is expected that the demand for
peaches will soon increase, partly on
account of the small supply and high
prices of evaporated apples, which are
quite a factor as regards the consump-
tion of other dried fruits. Currants
continue firm, with a continuance of ac-
tive demand from all quarters. The
tendency of the market is upward, and
provided the present heavy consump-
tion continues, there is every reason to
expect a higher range of prices between
the present time and the Christmas hol-
idays. Dates are a trifle easier. Stocks
are quite large and the Hallowi dates
show poor quality and do not sell nearly
as well as the Sair and Khadrawi. Figs
are firm and selling well, with prices
about %c higher. Supplies are light
and the demand is very active. The
consumptive demand for figs this year is
very heavy and the market is in excel-
lent shape. There is no change to note
in evaporated apples and the situation
is practically unchanged. Stocks are
exceedingly light and very firmly held.

Rice—The market is in very good
shape, dealers reporting a better dispo-
sition on the part of buyers to take hold,
with more freedom, and business, on
the whole, showed a satisfactory in-
crease, with all indications pointing to
a very active demand. Advices from
New Orleans state that prices were ad-
vanced '4c per pound on good head rice
and higher prices are being asked for
Japans because of short supplies.

Teas—The market is very strong,
with good demand, buyers showing
more disposition to take hold. Green
teas are scarce and held at higher
prices. Most importers were not in-
clined to market their light holdings as
they anticipate higher prices in the
near future. Black grades were steady,
in sympathy with the strong tendency
to prices for green sorts. The lower
grades attracted most attention.

Molasses and Syrups—The molasses
market is very firm, especially for the
better grades, which are scarce. This
firm feeling onthe part of holders is in-
creased by the reports from New Or-
leans that considerable damage has
been done to the crop through frost and
the fact that the crop is fully three
weeks late. The trade, however, are
disposed to operate cautiously, pending
the settlement of strikes, which will be
followed by freer arrivals of molasses
and probably lower prices. The corn
syrup market is very firm with halfa
cent advance on barrels.

Nuts--Trade in nuts is very active
and the demand for almost all varieties
is very good at full prices. Brazil
nuts show an advance of %c and are
much wanted at the advance. Walnuts
are firm and in rather light supply.
Tarragona almonds are also scarce. Fil-
berts are firm and in good demand at
high prices.

Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market
is strong and prices have advanced toc
per barrel and 5c per case on competi-

tive cases.
—_——__-+_.20>—______

The Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’
Association has adopted a resolution fa-
voring the proposed repeal of the 10
cent tax on tea.

 

 

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Village Improvement

The Grotesque in Landscape Adornment.
Written for the Tradesman.

‘‘What is one man’s meat is another
man’s poison’’ finds a fit illustration in
the work of the improvement society in
general. The urban brotherhood longs
for the very conditions which the rural
organization deplores and the country
laborer in the field of the beautiful for-
gets as he looks upon the work of the
town that distance lends enchantment to
the view. When the city officer takes
his walks abroad with the intention of
improving his surroundings, he is con-
stantly brought face to face with the
crude efforts of the well-meaning past.
Easily won wealth has at some time out-
stripped the culture that should go with
it, and with the mistaken idea of mak-
ing nature beautiful has banished exist-
ing natural loveliness by an attempt ‘‘to
gild refined gold and to paint the lily.’’

It is the older parts of the country
that suffer most in this respect. Because
trees ‘‘ from the foundations of the earth’’
have been considered an element of
beauty in the landscape, trees it is and
the grounds devoted to beauty and shade
are so densely shaded that the grass,
also quite an essential of the beautiful,
sun starved, turns pale and dies. The
ambitious school committee in the farm-
ing district has been found fault with
because he lets ‘‘the schoolhouse by the
country road a ragged beggar sunning’’
remain a beggar sunning, and he has-
tens to repair his neglect by planting
trees enough for a dozen schoolhouses,
and what is more to the point so plants
them that the yard resembles a piece of
wildwood instead of the cultured tract
intended. He has ‘‘copied nature’’ for-
getting, if he ever knew, that landscape
beauty lies in foliage clustered, not
sown broadcast. There is, indeed, and
rightfully enough, a reluctance in cut-
ting down these well-grown trees, es-
pecially when they are the relicts of the
original forest; but when the beauty of
the landscape calls for the sacrifice it
ought to be made but always under the
direction of the artist. In many in-
stances the trees are not too large to be
transplanted and they should be at
once removed, thus adding beauty to
two ‘‘beauty spots’’ instead of being a
blemish to one.

More than one unhappy locality in
this broad country of ours has been—
shall we say cursed?—by the prosperous
citizen who has the money but lacks
the knowledge of spending it. His in-
tentions are the best in the world; he
simply ‘‘don’t know how.’’ He has
passed the age when personal wants
and wishes have little force. He likes
to be known as ‘‘the richest man in
town,’’ and he likes to show it in a way
to catch the public eye. Indifferent to
personal adornment he blossoms into
architecture. From tradition he has
heard of the ‘‘castled Rhine’’ and the
beauty of the English park and he de-
termines to combine the features of
both in his bit of American territory,
flat as the prairied West can make it.
There he builds his castle and there he
plants his trees and when the whole is
finished and he sits down to enjoy them
and the congratulations that he thinks
he has every right to expect, amaze-
ment gives place to righteous indigna-
tion when he learns that his estate is
nicknamed ‘‘Jones’ Folly,’’ and that ‘‘a
fool and his money are soon parted.’’
While this is bad enough the worst
remains to be stated; for not contented
with his castle and his park he has _ in-

 

 

a ert steerer

 

sisted on adorning his grounds with
wild animals in iron and there they
stand to-day the proof of his foolishness
and the horror of every improvement
society that has ever heard of them.

It would be a pleasure to state that
this public ornamentation with the gro-
tesque is limited to the ‘ unfortunate
few,’’ but the statement if made would
be incorrect. Here is where the pros-
perous rural society has the advantage
of those in town; they can build from
the ground up on modern plans with
modern ideas with comparatively few
prejudices to overcome, while the town
is hampered by them. That same love
of the iron deer and the plaster of Paris
monstrosity has at some time in the past
taken his seat at the city council table,
and in his ‘‘gravity and profound con-
ceit’’ dictated the ‘‘beautifying’’ of
the town. In many instances the foun-
tain in the park has been the object
of his attention, and with the honest—
there's the pity of it!—desire of doing
something for the public good, he has
turned a deaf ear to every lesson of his
childhood and hoped to benefit growing
and intelligent Christian humanity by
pure, unadulterated paganism.

In the whole world there is nothing
quite so pleasing to the human ear as
water music. Whatever its mood it
takes possession of us. The awful pas-
sion of the ocean, the solemn anthem of
Niagara, the rippling laughter of the
mountain stream, at their best are only
hints of the numberless melodies that
nature is constantly singing to her hu-
man children and every note is dear to
them; for every note suggests a tune
that comes from nature’s heart. It is
nature’s song to hidden human nature—
the touch that makes us kin—and so we
like this music best when it comes to
us untrammeled by even a hint of art.
It is strange then that this country boy-
hood, with this best of music sounding
in his ears, transferred to town, should
even think of anything unsung by na-
ture. In all his brookside wanderings
with hook and line, in all his country
dreamlife by stream, or lake or sea, has
he ever seen or wished to see the water,
like an ejected Jonah, belching from a
petrified whale or dolphin into a dam-
aged marble basin, while just above a
pagan water-nymph pours or tries to
pour from a pagan pitcher—always out
of order !—a petty stream that accident
has reduced to a dribble? And yet the
ambitious capital of an ambitious West-
ern State is to-day trying to teach the
beautiful to its populace, hungering
after it with that strange conglomeration
of distorted and incongruous art. AmI
wrong in believing that the Western
fountain was designed to be a faithful
copy of a fountain in Grand Rapids?

I may be wrong in my conclusions,
but I do not believe that America is
quite ready to be satisfied with this
grotesqueness in landscape adornment.
Here, with limitless lands and countless

 

deer, the iron imitations are wholly out

of place. We want no inverted whales
or dolphins spouting water for our
amusement, and pagan Hebes can be at
home only at the banquet tables of the
gods. I would not if I could pluck even
a feather from Le Notre’s fame nor de-
tract a single splendor from his foun-
tains at Versailles or St. Cloud. The
ear that hears them and the eye that has
been gladdened by them has each heard
and seen what neither can forget; but
they will admit that these wonders be-
long only to Versailles and St. Cloud.
The American toiler ‘‘will none of
them.’’ He wants the brook song of
his childhood and the fountain whose
cool splash hints of the dripping **‘cool-
ness that rose from the well.’’ It is
the drinking-place at the junction of
Cherry street and State, not the sea
monsters in the park, that is fulfilling
its esthetic mission in Grand Rapids
to-day, and that fountain in its plain-
ness, set up in memory of a faithful
horse, is proving,as plainly as the pure-
ly simple and appropriate can, that the
grostesque in public ornamentation is
having its day and that the day for bet-
ter things is dawning.
R. M. Streeter.
See
Business Maxims.

Do not rest satisfied in the belief that
you control the trade and that it is sure
to remain with you without effort.

Buy within your means, then you are
sure to be able to pay in like propor-
tion.

Be always as good as your word.
Your reputation for memory and con-
scientiousness depends upon it.

Few men are so constituted that im-
pressive airs and haughty demeanor will
draw them trade.

A serious, attentive demeanor while
you are waiting on customers will insure
you their respect.

Nine times out of ten it is safer to
give credit to the poorly-clad person
than to the over-dressed swell.

Never decry your opposition. It is
tangible evidence that you feel sore
over his power to secure trade from
you.

Be popular if you have the power to
be so, but always remember that kind-
ness and sociability afford the keynote.

Keep your credit good by using it
sparingly. It is like your bank account,
the more you use it the weaker it be-
comes.

Always remember that your best cus-
tomer consults his own interests in deal-
ing with you. Few persons are so gen-
erous as to prefer others before them-
selves.

The straightforward business man
who has his price, and sticks to it, is
safer to deal with than the sharper who
will meet you at one point and do you
at another.

————_>_2.___

The increasing necessity for a knowl-
edge of business methods among women
of wealth has led the Boston Business
League, a club of women, to arrange
meetings where business methods and
the laws affecting women and children
will be studied. Subjects for discussion
will include banking, insurance, laws
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DIAMOND DRUMMERS.

 

Precautions They Usually Take to Prevent
Robbery.

No set of commercial travelers carry
such a precious stock as the diamond
salesmen. There are about a hundred
traveling salesmen in this country whose
stock consists of diamonds, and all but
a very small percentage of them travel
for firms in this city, for this city has
always been the diamond market of the
country. Of course, there are many
jewelry salesmen who take along with
other stock a limited amount of pre-
cious stones, but they are not in the class
with the kind mentioned who carry no
other goods and are not bothered with
sample trunks or satchels.

Few as is the number of traveling
diamond salesmen, they probably carry
a combined stock of a value equal to
that carried by ten times their number
in other branches of trade, or which if
converted into dollars would probably
be equal to the capital stock of some of
the largest concerns for which other
salesmen travel. From the point of view
of the light-fingered gentry one of these
salesmen would be worth for a ‘‘touch’’
one hundred of his fellow travelers and
yet one rarely, if ever, hears of a dia-
mond salesman coming to grief from
contact with this class. Few as have
been the instances of jewelry salesmen
being robbed on the road, the cases
where diamond salesmen have suffered
in this manner are even fewer. If you
ask the travelers, whose starting point
is the Maiden Lane district, why this is
they will tell you that the diamond
salesman is a peculiar kind of individ-
ual and that to catch him napping it
would be necessary to sit up a good
many nights. While on the road out-
wardly he appears as_ careless and
debonair as any other drummer who
lolls around the hotel or plays cards in
the smoker, yet underneath there is a
caution in his make-up which is re-
quired of the man who sells the most
costly of the gifts of Mother Earth.

When it is taken into consideration
that a traveling salesman for almost any
of the diamond houses of John street
and Maiden Lane seldom starts out on a
trip of any length with less than $100, -
ooo worth of diamonds in his wallet and
more often the stock is worth three
times tbat sum, it would seem to the
average man-that they would have to be
possessed of the caution and nerve of
ten other men, and that is just about
what the diamond salesman has, Then,
too, it would seem to be necessary that
he possess the confidence of his house
to an extraordinary degree unless the

‘firm employing him cared to expend the
amount of money necessary to have him
followed hy detectives every time he
started out on a trip. While this is true
of some of the men who carry large
quantities of diamonds over the country,
yet probably three-fourths of diamond
salesmen on the road are members of
the firm for which they travel. If the
business belongs to one person, generally
he himself takes goods on the road.

There are cases, however, where the
diamond salesman is only an employe,
but in these cases most of the selling is
done on commission and there is a lot
in it to the salesman whenever he makes
a sale. Hence the risk to,the house is
pretty small. One of the largest houses
in the diamond district has a salesman
out most of the year who is not'a mem-
ber of the firm. Yet he frequently starts
witb loose stones in his wallet aggregat-

ing in. value $500, 000.

Implicit confidence is placed in him

 

and he has never violated it. Even if
he were unscrupulous his commission is
so large that it would pay him more to
keep the confidence of his employers in
the long run than to disappear with his
wallet with the certainty of being
tracked by the Pinkertons, to whom such
matters are generally intrusted by the
diamond dealers and jewelers of the
United States.

The diamond man carried his goods
in a wallet about ten inches long. This
wallet is invariably carried in a pocket
on the inside of his vest. The diamond
salesman rarely travels at night. One
reason for this is that time is of no par-
ticular concern. Another is the greater
risk in night traveling. When he does
travel at night he either keeps his vest
on or else he wears a shirt inside of
which is a pocket similar to that in the
vest. Of course the necessity often does
arise of night traveling, and to be ready
for it not a few diamond salesmen al-
ways have with them such a garment in
order to be comfortable and not have to
go to bed in the sleeper with the vest
on. Diamond salesmen seldom talk of
their business while traveling, because
they do not exactly care to be known.

Diamonds are always shown in papers.
All of the salesmen carry a certain
amount of what is called in trade par-
lance ‘‘melet,’’ that is diamonds below
a carat in weight, generally of the size
suitable for mounting in jewelry. Of
course, the diamond salesman tries es-
pecially to sell the largest stones, weigh-
ing from a carat up. These are what
make their stock so valuable and to sell
only a small portion of them is worth a
trip from one coast to the other. What
astonishes those to whom care seems to
be an essential in selling valuable goods
is the custom pursued in the diamond
business, and for that matter, the en-
tire jewelry business, of leaving goods
on what is called ‘‘niemorandum.’’ A
diamond salesman, if a jeweler tells
him that he believes he can get a cus-
tomer for some of his stones, will leave
a paper of diamonds with the jeweler
without anything given as security, but
with the understood right to get them
back when he wants them.

At the end of a week or two the dia-
mond salesman will walk into the store
where he left the stones, weigh them
up with a little pair of scales he carries
in his pocket and for the difference in
weight of the stones he left in the first
place he will charge the jeweler. That
is why the diamond salesman travels by
easy stages, as often he has to wait in a
place for two weeks to make a sale of
this kind.

As a result of the reign of prosperity
that this country is now enjoying, it
now is the largest diamond buyer in the
London market, where practically all
diamonds are originally sold. It has

\far outstripped England, which up to

three years ago took more of the stones
than any other country. Consequently
the number of diamond salesmen has
increased a little, but even now their
number is few. Diamonds are never
sent through the mails or by express,
and consequently these few take around
with them all the stock outside of that
kept here to be sold over the counters
to dealers who take them away them-
selves.—N. Y. Sun.
—_> 2 —___—
In Trouble Again.
‘‘John writes,’’ said the old man,
“‘that they’ re goin’ to send him to the
legislatur’. -
‘Lord save us!’’ exclaimed the old
lady. ‘*What’s he been a-doin' of
now?"’

 

THE RAY BILL.

 

Needed Amendments to the Present Bank-
ruptcy Law.

The Judiciary Committee of the Fifty-
sixth House of Representatives has re-
quested the National Association of
Referees in Bankruptcy to gather statis-
tical information from the leading mer-
chants of the United States in respect to
the operation of the national bankruptcy
law and to ascertain their views as to
what amendments should be secured to
make this law more just and practical
in its operation and more satisfactory
to the mercantile interests of the coun-
try. In accordance with this request
the association has sent to the business
men of the country a list of questions
with a hope that the answers may be
helpful to the Judiciary Committee in
considering the subject. ~

Attached to this list is a copy of an
amendatory bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Ray on February 13, Ig0I.
This bill would annul the present bank-
ruptcy law so as to exclude from con-
sideration—in addition to property con-
veyed, transferred, concealed or removed
with intent to defraud creditors—all
property that is exempt from seizure or
execution under the laws of the United
States or of the State in which the bank-
ruptcy proceedings were begun, insol-
vency to be determined by the test that
the aggregate of the property shall not,
fairly valued, be sufficient to pay the
debts. It allows receivers, marshals
and trustees additional compensation
for their services. It makes it an act of
bankruptcy for a corporation to have
been put in charge of a receiver or
trustee on the ground of insolvency. It
provides that any incorporated company
owing debts, and any corporation en-
gaged principally in manufacturing,
trading, printing, publishing, mining
or mercantile pursuits (on petition of
an officer or stockholder of such corpo-
ration duly authorized either by a vote
of a majority of the stockholders pres-
ent at a meeting of stockholders called
for that purpose or on the written con-
sent of stockholders holding at least
one-half the stock of such corporation),
shall be entitled to the benefit of this
act as a voluntary bankrupt.

It provides further that the bankruptcy
of a corporation shall not release its
officers, directors or shareholders, as
such, from any liability under the laws
of a state or territory or of the United
States. It amends subdivision 6 of sec-
tion 14 of the present bankruptcy law
relating to discharges so that it will be
unnecessary to prove fraud on the part
of the bankrupt in the intent to conceal
his financial condition; and it prohibits
the judge from granting a discharge
where the applicant (1) obtained prop-
erty or credit upon a ‘‘ materially false
statement in writing made by him to
any person for the purpose of obtaining
credit or of being communicated to the
trade or to the person from whom he
obtained such property or credit; or (2)
made a fraudulent transfer of any por-
tion of his property to any person; or
(3) has been granted a discharge in
bankruptcy within six years; or (4) in
the course of his proceedings refused to
obey any lawful order of, or to answer
any question approved by the court.”’

It amends subdivision 2 of secticn 17,
in that it makes liabilities—not neces-
sarily judgment in actions—for frauds,
and alimony due “or to become due or
for maintenance or support of wife or
child or for seduction of an unmarried
female, debts that are not affected by a
discharge. It amends subdivision a of

section 21 so as to render the wife of the
bankrupt amenable to the order of the
court to render testimony concerning
the acts, conduct or property of a bank-
rupt whose estate is in process of ad-
ministration under the act. It also
amends in many important particulars
section 48 relating to compensation of
trustees, section 57 relating to proof and
allowance of claims and section 64 re-
lating to debts having priority.

Taken all and all the bill appears to
be in the main much more favorable to
creditors than the bankruptcy law now
in force. Many important suggestions
will undoubtedly be received by the Na-
tional Association of Referees in Bank-
ruptcy from those who are most directly
interested—the merchants and business
men throughout the country. It is to
be hoped that, helped by these sugges-
tions, the Judiciary Committee of the
Fifty-seventh House may be able to
draft an equitable bankruptcy law and
one that will not afford any loop-holes
through which dishonest men may be
permitted to legally escape from the
payment of their just and lawful debts.
—N. Y. Commercial.

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WEDNESDAY, - - NOVEMBER 27, 1901.

 

 

 

 

STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Kent { ss.
John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:
am pressman in the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge
of the presses and folding machine in
that establishment. I printed and
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November 27, 1901, and saw the edition
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John DeBoer.
Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this twenty-third dayof November, 1901.
preg! B. Fairchild,
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ich.

 

 

WILL STAND MANY STORMS.

From time to time imaginative per-
sons of a pessimistic turn of mind de-
vote themselves to predicting dreadful
evils that are to come upon this earth
of ours and devote it and its inhabitants
to destruction.

The astronomers are fond of predict-
ing great terrestrial catastrophes to be
caused by the collision in mid-heaven
of our globe with a fiery comet. Some
geologists love to picture the time when
the internal fires and forces of the earth
will burst forth with a terrible convul-
sion and rend it to fragments, while
other foretell the time when those fires
will burn out, leaving the planet honey-
combed with cavities which were caused
by steam and gases, but which, by the
dying out of the fires, leave innumer-
able and enormous caverns, into which
the waters of the seas will retreat and
there will be no more evaporation, and
no more rain, and, therefore, no more
water in reach of vegetation, beasts and
the human race, which will all perish
through drought and thirst.

There are others who draw their in-
Spiration from the ancient sacred and
profane prophets, and interpret the wild
obscure declarations of those seers to
set forth dreadful visitations of death
and destruction which are to come upon
the present generations of the earth’s
inhabitants. The numbers of these fore-
casters of evil are quite considerable
and they are constantly cropping up to
foretell the end of all things, which they
declare to be immediately at hand.

A statement is going the rounds of
the newspapers to the effect that ac-
cording to Berosus, one of the ancient
historians of the Babylonian Empire,
when Noah’s deluge overwhelmed the
earth and its inhabitants, the planets
Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn,
with the sun, were all ranged together
in the sky, in the sign Capricorn, and

 

that whenever those same _ heavenly
bodies should again assume the same
positions another destructive cataclysm
would overtake our earth. It is said
that a clay cylinder dug up from the
ruins of Babylon, and now in the Brit-
ish Museum at London, sets forth this
statement.

It now comes out that there will be a
general gathering of the planets in the
sign of Capricorn during the coming
month of December, and if there is any
virtue in the prediction, there ought to
be a terrible visitation.

A reference to the predictions of the
modern’ astrologers, Zadkiel and
Raphael, fails to disclose any such
frightful state of affairs. They both
predict an amount of trouble greater
than usual, but no signs of a deluge or
a terrestrial conflagration are visible.

The good people ot this part of our
planet are exhorted not to give them-
selves up to thoughts of disaster, but to
live as nearly up to the requirements of
the Golden Rule as possible, and to
make ready to enjoy the Christmas fes-
tivities, as usual. In all probability,
some individuals will pass away, but
the earth will stand. Let us trust so
to the end, since not even with the San-
to-Dumont flying machine can we soar
away to any other planet.

CITY RING IN NAPLES.

European countries appear to be imi-
tating all of the industrial and political
vices of the New World. They are
having quite as much trouble about the
tariff in Europe as we have had in the
past and seem about to have in the im-
mediate future ; the question of trusts is
now as much a European as it is an
American question; and now they are
having in the European cities pretty
good imitations of our municipal polit-
ical rings.

In the popular election just held in
Naples the political machine of that
city was overwhelmingly defeated. The
machine is said to have been in every
particular up to the American model. It
was corrupt, dishonest and extravagant.
It depended on election frauds to per-
petuate it in power. It put through all
sorts of jobs and schemes to the enrich-
ment of its members. It took bribes.
It blackmailed everybody who could be
reached and had among its agents noted
criminals and Camorrists.

A considerable portion of the press of
Northern Italy was in favor of not al-
lowing the Neapolitans to elect their
own city government, but the king’s
taking the matter into his own hands
instead. But the royal commission took
the opposite view and determined to
leave the question of the reform of
Naples to the people of Naples. The
result has justified the wisdom of the
commission and shows what the people
anywhere can do, once they are thor-
oughly aroused. The Camorra with
which the ring government had allied
itself was once a patriotic society or-
ganized to revolt against the atrocities
of the Neapolitan Bourbons. But with
success and the lapse of time it has de-
generated into a gang which exists sole-
ly for plunder by any sort of nefarious
means.

And thus it will be seen that munici-
pal reform is taking root everywhere.

If Miss Stone’s captors do not soon
get that ransom money they will be un-
der the necessity of borrowing money to
make Christmas gifts with.

Trust not a woman's tears; it is her
nature to weep when she wants her way.

 

NATURE AND JUSTICE.

Maurice Maeterlinck discourses of
‘‘The Mystery of Justice’’ in the- Fort-
nightly Review for November. What
he has to say there, however, is only
part of a complete essay which will be
published later, in volume form. It is
his object, first of all, to discover the
source of justice. He accepts no theis-
tic explanation of anything in man or
nature, but he asks: ‘‘If there be no
judge, what justice is there? None other
than that which men have made for
themselves, not only by their laws and
tribunals, but also in the social rela-
tions that no definite judgment governs?
Is there nothing above this human jus-
tice, whose sanction is rarely other
than the opinion, the confidence or mis-
trust, the approval or disapproval of our
fellows? Is this capable of explaining
or accounting for all that seems so in-
explicable to us in the morality of the
universe that we at times feel almost
compelled to believe an intelligent
judge must exist? When we deceive or
overcome our neighbor, have we de-
ceived or overcome all the forces of
justice? Are all things definitely set-
tled then, and may we go boldly on; cr
is there a graver, deeper justice, one
less visible perhaps, but less subject to
error; one that is more universal and
mightier?’’

Maeterlinck freely admits that such a
justice does exist, and he declares that
it is infallible and irresistible; but he
would know where it is lodged, and
whence it issues to deal out reward and
punishment: ‘‘Does an inflexible, un-
deceivable moral principle, independ-
ent of man, exist in the universe and in
things? Is there, in a word, a justice
that might be called mystic? Or does
it issue wholly from man; is it inward,
even although it acts from without ; and
is the only justice, therefore, psycho-
logic?’ Clearing the way for the en-
quiry, he argues at length that there is
no such thing as a _ physical justice.
There is, he asserts, no moral reaction
in nature—the physical world. A man
may suffer in consequence of impru-
dence, but he suffers neither more nor
less because of the character of his mo-
tives in such a case. If, on a cold day,
one throws himself into the water to
save a fellow creature from drowning,
the consequences of the resultant chill
will be the same as if one had fallen in
while seeking to drown a brother man.
Nor is there justice in the sufferings in-
flicted by the operation of the law of
heredity. It would he a strange justice,
says Maeterlinck, that would throw
upon a son, and even upon a remote
descendant, the burden of a fault com-
mitted by a father or any ancestor. It
is true that a son must sometimes suffer
because a father has undermined his
own health; but the sufferings of the son
must be the same whether the father's
motives be heroic or shameful.

‘‘But,’’ says Maeterlinck, ‘‘in the
course of adapting ourselves to the laws
of life, we have naturally been led to
credit with our own moral ideas those
principles of causality that we encoun-
ter most frequently; and we have in
this fashion created a very plausible
semblance of effective justice, which
rewards or punishes most of our actions
in the degree that they approach or {de-
viate from, certain laws that are essen-
tial for the preservation of the race,
* * * This idea, however deeply in-
grained although it be in the hearts
and minds of the least credulous and
least mystic of men can surely not be
beneficial. Our morality becomes like

 

the insect which, perched on a falling
rock, imagines that the rock has been
set in motion on its own special be-
half.’’ But while it may be granted
that nature, the physical universe so far
as it is known to man, has not been so
constituted that of itself it can either
teach or enforce any complete system
of justice, it does in its own sphere as-
sert the supremacy of law and the cer-
tain punishment of disobedience. There
is a physical health and a moral health,
and both depend on the observance of
certain fixed conditions.

Universal benevolence, good will,
may be regarded as conducive to the
happiness and prosperity of mankind;
but no such rule of action is found ex-
plicitly declared in nature. The mys-
tery—and Maeterlinck admits the mys-
tery—is how the principle came to be
set up as a law of life. But, for that
matter, the mystery is just as great in
regard to any conception of duty. If
the theory of evolution must be accepted
in its most unqualified form, it should
still be said that although the moral
law may have been evolved, it is not
the law of evolution—not the law which
spares only the strong and the fortunate.
Evolution on its own ground can find no
basis for morality but utility, and ut-
terly fails to show how even the most
enlightened selfishness can be _ trans-
formed into magnanimity.

There is in human nature a sentiment
of spiritual worthiness, a feeling that it
is unbecoming to steep the intellectual
and moral nature in mere animalism;
that selfishness is the dominant trait of
the narrow and the mean; that revenge
is degrading, and that one can not
wrong another in any way without do-
ing violence to his own dignity. Whence
came this high ideal of nobility?

 

The French stockholders of the Pan-
ama Canal Company are much cha-
grined because the American commis-
sion has rendered a report favoring the
Nicaragua route. They had hoped to
have the American Government buy
them out and relieve them of a project
that is too great for them to carry. A
good deal of work has been done on the
Panama route, but it is far from com-
pletion and must be abandoned if the
American Government proceeds as now
indicated, for two canals across the
isthmus are not needed and the one op-
erated by private enterprise could not
compete with one under the auspices of
a rich government determined to make
it a success. The French promoters will
make a fight against the Nicaragua
route in Congress, but they are not like-
ly to win.

 

 

The question whether consumption is
a ‘‘loathsome or dangerous disease,’’ is
to be tested in the United States Court
in the case of a man named Thomas P.
Boden, who came from Ireland and was
found by the immigration officials at
New York to be suffering from con-
sumption. He had money, and there
were ample guarantees that he would
not become a charge upon the public.
It was purely on account of the disease
that the officials decided to deport him
to Ireland, but a writ of habeas corpus
was obtained, and the courts will de-
cide whether the view of the officials is
correct. The question is a new one,
and the decision will be of wide inter-
est,

| tttSSSSSSESuEnsnene
———

On Christmas day Chauncey will

speak once more and then forever after
hold his peace,

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

WITH PROFOUND REGRET.

It was an old sentence learned years
ago at school and given first to the world
in the old Roman Senate that came up
to express best the modern thought.
There had been troublous times in the
Empire, then at its zenith. The civil
war had racked Rome to its foundations
and the victorious general, thinking
more of the welfare of his country than
of personal resentment, pardoned almost
without stint those who had opposed
him. Among them was a man who for
years had been bis enemy, and even he,
at the intercession of friends, was par-
doned and restored to his estates. The
announcement of his decision had hard-
ly left the Dictator’s lip when the Ro-
man orator, whom all aftertimes have
revered, arose in his place in the Senate
and, eulogizing in the strongest terms
the magnanimity of the Dictator, de-
clared that that day he had surpassed
all his former victories because ‘‘he had
conquered himself.’’

It is much to be feared that other sur-
vivors of civil wars have the same _les-
son to learn. The clash of arms and
the peace that follows it is one thing ;
the triumph that comes when the shock
of war is over is quite another and they
who come from the battlefield with their
shields or on them alone can testify
whether the physical or the mental vic-
tory is the greater; but of this there is
no doubt—the warrior that conquers
himself alone is victor and not until he
has made that self-conquest is he deserv-
ing of the name and its rewards.

Never in the history of the world has
a war been waged where prejudice had
gained such complete control as it had
in the great rebellion. For years before
the contest it had had full sway and it
made the most of it.

Labor and the man that did it were
both degraded, and when the culmina-
tion came the prejudice had become a
hate so strong that the blindness attend-
ing both made it impossible for them to
see that justice could only come with
their defeat. Time has more than jus-
tified the result. Slowly and painfully
the Nation passed out of that dark
shadow and just as slowly and just as
painfully it has been thought that the
South was conquering herself—that she
had so conquered. For more than a
generation she has been bending to the
tremendous task that confronted her and
those years bear ample evidence of the
work she has done. Her once desolate
fields are burdened again with harvests
and the old flag again floats proudly
over them. War has gone. Peace has
come and under its white wings it was
hoped that the old hate and the old
prejudice had died to be known no
more; and so when resentment found
recent expression because one of the
hated race had dined with the Presi-
dent at the White House as an honored
guest, there was, aside from the well-
merited reproof it called forth from
every self-respecting section of the
country, a profound regret that the
South can not yet be eulogized because
she has conquered herself.

There is little need of repeating here
the well-known and_ well-expressed
opinions which the absurd criticism of
the President’s action has called forth.
The rebellion is too recent and too
many men are now alive who fought
‘that rebellion to its death to have the
country greatly moved except in deri-
sion at the statement that the dinner at
the White House will tear apart again
the recently united sections, There will
be no ‘‘tear.’’ No ‘‘race war’’ will fol-

 

low nor will any ‘‘bitterness’’ worth the
minding spring up. The President of
the United States will continue to ex-
ercise his privilege of inviting to his
dinner table such distinguished persons
as in his best judgment the country will
delight to honor, and the country has
every reason to believe that the future
will show as the past has shown, that it
can rely implicity upon the President’s
uprightness and good sense in extend-
ing the courtesies of the Nation to those
only to whom honor is due. Confident
in this, it is with profound regret that
the country at large is forced to admit
that the time has not yet come when it
can say to the South, in the words of
the old Roman orator, ‘‘ Hodieno vero
die te ipsum vicisti’’—‘‘Truly this day
have you corquered yourself.’’

TETANUS AND HORSE LYMPH.

The ‘announcement made recently
that there had been, in St. Louis, seven
deaths from tetanus (lockjaw) of pa-
tients who were under treatment for
diphtheria with horse serum, created a
profound sensation throughout the coun-
try among the people who look to that
serum for recovery from the dreadful
throat disease.

The matter was taken up by the Cor-
oner of St. Louis, and, after investiga-
tion, he has brought in a verdict fixing
the blame on the Health Department of
that city, charging it with negligence
in the preparation of the serum which
the Department had been making for
free distribution to the public institu-
tions and to physicians throughout the
city.

This verdict, however, while it
blames somebody, does not reassure the
people who have lost confidence in the
serum treatment. There is no evidence
that the medical men of the St. Louis
Health Department failed to exercise
due care. They selected horses that
gave every indication of being in good
health for the production of the anti-
toxin serum, and the fact that it con-
tained lockjaw poison or bacteria shows
that it is not easy to determine the free-
dom of the living animal from specific
morbific toxins. There is no evidence
on record that lockjaw has ever been oc-
casioned by vaccination for protection
against smallpox with lymph from
cows, although other diseases may have
been communicated.

The entire problem of contracting
deadly poisons or toxins with animal
lymph is still enveloped in much ob-
scurity. The value of vaccine (cow
lymph) appears to have been estab-
lished, and so, to some extent, has been
the hydrophobia treatment; but the
Koch serum for tubercular consumption
seems to have proved worthless, and
now a serious blow has fallen upon the
vaunted specific for diphtheria.

These adverse facts, while they warn
us against accepting with too great con-
fidence the efficacy of any serum treat-
ment, declare in the most strenuous
terms the necessity for further experi-
mentation to determine in the most rig-
orous manner all the conditions involved
in such methods of treatment, so that
their limitation in the way of adaptabil-
ity and efficacy may be better known.
Until better assurances can be given,
the friends of a diphtheretic patient
will tremble at the administration of ‘the
horse serum and its dire possibilities.

———————

The pessimists are ever with us, First
they said turkeys were going to be
scarce, but when it turns out that tur-
keys are plenty they declare the birds
will be thin. They forget the stuffing.

 

MR. CARNEGIE AND HIS CRITICS.

Everybody who reads the newspapers
is more or less familiar with the history
of Andrew Carnegie. He was not al-
ways a multi-millionaire, but he had
good executive ability and understood
his business. By skill as an organizer,
by energy and enterprise, he built up
one of the greatest manufacturing in-
dustries of this or any other country.
He gave employment to thousands of
men and paid millions of money in
wages. As often happens in other like
establishments, there was not always
unanimity of opinion in the matter of
wages between employers and employes,
but the labor troubles of his concern
were no more numerous than those in
other like establishments, and although
he may have been wrong in his attitude,
he was no more so than hundreds of
others have been. Having amassed an
immense fortune through his own efforts
he retired from business and set about
spending his money for the good of
others, building libraries here, there
and everywhere, donating immense
sums to educational institutions at his
old home in Scotland, and only the
other day he distributed a fortune
among several of his old employes who
believed that their services had been
properly compensated when rendered.

It seems to be getting fashionable for
sensational clergymen, apparently look-
ing for something to say which will at-
tract attention, to denounce Mr. Car-
negie and his benefactions. The latest
exhibitions of this character are pre-
sented by Rev. Dr. Hillis and Rev. Dr.
Pentecost, who have taken occasion to
criticise the philanthropist, character-
izing him as a ‘‘conscious or uncon-
scious humbug.’’ Men like Drs. Hillis
and Pentecost are very able and elo-
quent, doubtless accomplishing much
good by voice and pen, but is it not
possible that in their zeal they some-
times overstep the bounds of good judg-
ment and public policy? If they wish
to assail Mr. Carnegie because at one
time he had a labor trouble in his mill,
why not assail the officers of the steel
trust, a half hundred railroads and hun-
dreds of other employers who have had
like differences with their help? As-
saults such as they make upon Mr. Car-
negie are calculated to discourage phil-
anthropy and generosity everywhere. It
follows, aS a matter of course, that only
the rich can build libraries or endow
colleges. The poor can not do it, for
obvious reasons, It needs no argument
to demonstrate that good comes from
these donations. Why criticise, ridicule
and assail the man who just now is do-
ing more of it in this country than any-
body else? Mr. Carnegie believes the
wealthy have obligations to dispose of
their money where in their judgment it
will do the most good, and he is doing
it in an eminently practical way. He
is not the only rich man in the United
States, and others seeing his good ex-
ample and noting the general applause
accorded it, would naturally be induced
to go and do likewise if they felt sure
they would not be made the target for
the rhetorical assaults of men like Dr.
Hillis and Dr. Pentecost, recognized as
leaders of sufficient influence so that all
they say attracts attention, As a matter
of public policy and as promoting the
general welfare of the country, is it not
better rather to encourage and commend
Mr. Carnegie and other rich men like
him for giving so freely of their funds
in such a worthy way? Learned and
eloquent speakers who for lack of means
can not themselves make large dona-

 

tions to public or charitable enterprises
certainly ought not stand like dogs in
the manger, preventing others who are
able and willing. It certainly seems
like very poor taste and exceedingly bad
judgment. There is a homely old adage
that says a gift horse should never be
looked in the mouth. If millionaires
who give liberally are to be assaulted
and assailed from the public rostrum,
others similarly inclined will hold fast
to their money in self-defense, prefer-
ing not to give at all rather than to be
criticised and ridiculed. The time to
criticise their methods is when they are
making money rather than when they
are giving it away. Rather should Mr.
Carnegie and other benefactors be ac-
corded the credit which is their due.
However Mr. Carnegie came by his
money, is it not better for him to dis-
tribute than to hoard it?

 

The way to reciprocity is strewn with
obstacles. No concession to any foreign
countries can apparently be offered that
will not arouse the opposition of Amer-
ican interests. The adoption of the pro-
posed treaty with France finds objection
from the New England manufacturers of
jewelry. The American tobacco and
sugar growers object to any concessions
to the Cuban planters. Our new citizens
of Hawaii have now a free market. for
their sugar here, and they do not want
to share it with the Cubans. It is the
evident desire of American producers to
hold the home market for themselves
and to exclude foreigners entirely from
it. They want to sell to all the world
and buy nothing from other countries.
This policy would do very well if other
countries would consent, but when the
time comes that they can sell us nothing
they may have nothing with which to
buy from us. International trade must
stop where reciprocity in some form
ceases to exist.

 

Immediately following the assassina-
tion of President McKinley there was a
very general sentiment all over the
country that the next Congress should
consider some legislation calculated at
least to lessen, if not to stamp, out an-
archy altogether. Various suggestions
were made at the time in the public
prints as to how this purpose could be
accomplished. Representative Curtis,
of Kansas has a bill which he will in-
troduce next month, which makes it a
crime punishable with death to make
an assault with intent to kill either on
the President, Vice-President, members
of the Cabinet or Justices of the Su-
preme Court, and also providing severe
penalties upon anarchists. Presumably
there will be other bills from other
members, and out of the variety at least
one good effectual law should be se-
cured.

 

The pumpkin has climbed to an
eminence almost equal to that of its
neighbor, corn. The pumpkin has
gained appreciation by ceasing to be
common and becoming rare. Time
was when any farmer would throw a
pumpkin at you, but that time is not
now. The pumpkin is valuable pie
timber and is in demand at the canning
factories. A Chicago firm is reported
to have made a handsome profit out of
a recent corner in the ‘‘ yellow fellers,’’
and other firms are now seeking to re-
peat the performance. When it is said
nowadays that a man ‘‘thinks himself
some pumpkins,’’ it is to be understood
that he regards himself as entitled to a
place among plutocrats.

 

 

 

 

10

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Clothing

 

 

Trials and Tribulations of the Clothing
Clerk.
Written for the Tradesman.

He had wandered into town from the
wilds of Wayback where Uncle Danny
Briggs, with his seven by nine grocery,
represents all that is good and great and
noble in the mercantile line.

If his clothes were out of style and
his hair longer and more bushy than we
are wont to see; if his manners were
quaint and his speech peculiar, it may
be because those of Uncle Danny are
unusual, too, and the merchants of any
community exercise an unmistakable
influence upon the dress, the manners
and the speech of the people with whom
they are brought in contact.

There was no hesitancy about this
man. He had come to see the sights
and to make his wants known, and he
straightway proceeded with his mission.

“‘Hello, young feller,’’ said he to
the new clerk. ‘‘Is this Jones’ store?
*Tis, hay? Wall, that’s what I thought.
See the sign out in front, that’s how I
knowed. Can’t fool me much—not on

stores. J] hain’t no spring chicken, I
hain’t. Say, know Hent Liscomb? Do
hay? I thought mos’ likely ye did.

Hent doos some tradin’ here I reckon,
hay? Yas, that’s what he tol’ me. Says
he kin do pretty good here on some
things, so I thought I’d come an’ see.
Hent says ye hain’t half as bad as some
folks tries to make out, but course I
don’t ‘tend to know nothin’ about that.
Ye can’t allers tell about storekeepers.
Gin’lly pays a feller to keep his eyes
peeled with any on ’em. Thought I'd
come an’ look around a bit. Ye see
the’s quite a few out our way’s comin’

 

here if I tell ’em everything’s all right,
so ye’d better be kinder liberal with me
this time anyway. Ye see it’s ’bout
like this: We’re gittin’ sick an’ tired
of old man Briggs. He thinks every-
body’s gotter trade to his store an’ he
charges three prices fer all his stuff an’
pays less'n nuthin’ fer farmers’ truck,
an’ the’s half the time ye can’t give it
to him. Two pound o’ butter an’ a
dozen eggs’ll stock him up fer all win-
ter. If ye go to Briggs’s with two cab-
bages in yer wagon, ye'‘ve got to hide
one on ’em under the seat so's’t he
won't think yer tryin’ to glut the mar-
ket.

‘*An’ then he owes a lot to the fellers
he buys of, too, an’ I reckon they sock
it to him on prices, an’ send him a lot
o’ trash they can’t sell to no one elst.
O, that air’s the dumdest store ever
was,’’

After saying which, the gentleman
from Wayback scraped the ashes from a
clay pipe, blew noisily through its
stem and then began looking around for
something that he evidently expected to
find hard by.

‘*Say,’’ said he presently, ‘‘I’m kin-
der strange around here, but where d’ye
keep yer goozlin’ can?’’

‘*Keep what?’’ asked the new clerk.

‘*Yer goozlin’ can. Course I’d otter
know where it is, but 1 hain’t altogether
got onto things here yet. Jess show me
oncet an’ I'll be all right afterthat. I’m
quick to learn, I be.’’

‘Why I really don’t know,’’ admitted
the new clerk. ‘‘Is it anything in gro-
ceries?’’

The customer looked hurt.

‘’No goozlin’ can!’’ said he in an in-
jured tone. ‘‘No gozzlin’ can! Wall,
by Jinks! An’ Hent Liscomb said youse

 

fellers down here had everythin’.’’
There was a pause, and then looking
up quickly, with the light of sudden
inspiration in his eyes, he exclaimed:
‘*Wall, say, I didn’t think but what you
knowed. Mebbe ye call it the ‘poor
box.’ Where's yer poor box, ‘low me
to ask ye?’’

The new clerk scratched his head.
Then:

‘*Why, I guess I could find you an old
banana case. They’re about the poorest
boxes we ever get.’’

‘*O, the Dickens! I mean the poverty
bin, blame it all. The goozlin’ jar—the
pilferin’ can. Don’t youse fellers ever
keep no smokin’ tobacker around fer yer
good customers? You must be pretty
new. Where was ye brung upanyway?’’

The new clerk took the hint, the gen-
tleman from Wayback lighted his pipe
and continued :

‘*Old Man Briggs is middlin’ clost, |
but he aller keeps a box o’ smokin’
open fer the boys. I reckon he kinder
has to, an’ we calls it the ‘goozlin’ can.’
Course it’s s’posed to be only fer cus-
tomers, but anybody can smoke out of
it what wants. Briggs don’t never say
nothin’ ceptin’ when some o’ the lads
goes to fillin’ their pockets, an’ the’
couldn’t no one hardly blame him then.
You wouldn’t like it nuther. Say, ye
hain’t got no good pants I reckon?’’

‘*You bet we have,’’ said the new
clerk, glad of a change of subject.
‘*What kind would you want?’’

‘*Want the spang firedest best pair in
the shebang. I hain’t much fer style,
but it don't never pay to git cheap. I
allers want the best the’ is.’’

‘‘ About what size do you wear?’’

‘*Gimme the very biggest. Big ones
is warmer an’ they last longer. Then a

 

feller gits more fer his money, too,
‘Git good an’ git a plenty,’ ses I.”’

‘‘How would this pair do? These
are forty-four waist, thirty-three leg and
every thread wool.’’

‘*All wool an’ a yard wide,hay? War-
ranted not to rip, ravel ner run down to
the heel I reckon. Ye allers want to git
in the hull business. Wall, le’s see.
I can’t never tell nothin’ by sizes,’’ and
he took the bottom of a leg in each
hand and stretched them out. Then he
essayed to get the size around by meas-
uring the garment against his own
waist, and although to an unprejudiced
observer the pants were large enough
for two like the gentleman from Way-
back, the result to hiny seemed perfectly
satisfactory. So he gave a nod of ap-
proval and asked:

‘*How much?’’

‘*Five dollars,’’
clerk.

The customer laid the garment upon
the counter and turned around slowly,
taking deliberate and careful inventory
of the contents of the building. Then
he looked at the clerk in a superior way
and said:

‘*Prob’ly it’s wo’th it, but I didn’t
want to buy the hull store. It was jest
the pants I was a pricin’.’’

The new clerk looked disappointed.
‘*That’s what I meant,’’ said he. ‘‘ Five
dollars is the price of the pants.’’

‘*Five dollars for them pants?’’

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

“Yes, and they’re cheap, too.
They’ re fine goods whether you know it
or not.’

‘*Yes, they’re fine!’ was the sneer-
ing retort. ‘‘So’s a hemlock board fine
—after it’s split up. Them’d be fine in
a loggin’ foller, them would! Feller’d
bust the Dickens out of ’em fust time
he took a good lift on a cant hook. Old
Man Briggs never fergits to ask four
prices,an’ he’s got enough sight thicker
pants 'n them air fer two dollars an’ a
‘half. I reckoned you'd want about six
shillin’ fer *em.’’

‘*Here’s something for two dollars,’’
said the new clerk, sighing inwardly.
‘*Maybe that’s more like what you are
looking after.’’

‘*Two dollars, hay? Wall now, let’s
see. Is that all wool? O, I don’t
reckon it is. Le’me pull out a thread—I1
won't sp’ile 'em. No, that hain’t wool.
I d’no, though, mebbe it is, too. No,
I don’t believe it is, either. They fix
up stuff nowadays so a person can’t
hardly tell what it is made out of. Yes,
sir, that's cotton, every thread of it.
Course it’s cotton. By Jinks! They
don’t fool me much on pants I’ll tell ye.
But you bet I don’t pay no such price
fer them air. Say, Hent Liscomb
bought a pair o’ pants to East Jerdan to
the Jew store fer only one dollar that
was jest every bit as good as them.
Land! but they wore good. Course the
Jew wanted two an’ a half fer ‘em, but
Hent he told him ‘a dollar or nothin’.’
Jew he ses, ‘dollar an’ a halluf.’ Hen
ses, ‘dollar or nothin’ an’ I'll go to
Central Lake.’ Jew ses, ‘dollar an’ a
kevater.’ Hent ses, ‘my time’s vally-
ble. Dollar or nothin’,’ an’ starts off.
Jew ses, ‘take *em, but | lose money by
dot pizness.’ Jess es if a fellerina
store ever lost any money sellin’ goods!
Say, I wouldn’t mind givin’ ye a dollar
fer them pants.’’

‘*We can’t possibly sell them for that,
but here’s a pair for a dollar that I
should think you’d iike. They wear
awful good,’’ said the new clerk, adopt-
ing an .adverb, the value of which he
thought his customer would thoroughly
understand.

‘‘Yes, they might wear,’’ said the
man eyeing the garment critically,
‘*but blame them cotton things anyhow.
They git wet nine days afore a shower
o’ rain an’ stay wet ten days after.
Jinks! Wisht I c’d git some o’ the old
Canady grays ag’in! I wouldn't be-
grutch two dollars fer a pair o’ them
fellers. Ye could wear ’em four an’ five
winters by half solin’ of "em a time or
two, an’ then they’d do fer hackin’
around summers’ fer a Dickens of a
spell.’’

‘Think these’ll do?’’ enquired the
new clerk cautiously.

‘*‘O, I d’no. I wouldn't mind givin’
ye fifty cents fer ‘em."’

‘‘] couldn't take that very well.’’

‘‘How'd seventy-five cents be,
throw in a pair o’ galluses?’’

‘*Sorry, but it’s impossible.
lar’s the very best I can do.”’

‘*Wal, seen’ it’s you, I'll gin ye sev-
enty-five cents an’-ye kin keep yer gal-
luses, ’’

‘*No, I can’t do that, either.
lar’s cheap for them.’’

‘‘Wall,the’ hain'’t nothin’ small about
me but my feet. Them pants hain’t
sewed very good, an’ they’ll fade an’
shrink, but if ye’ll throw in the galluses
itself, I'll take ’em.

‘I'd do that in a minute if I could,
but it’s entirely out of the question.
Mr. Jones wouldn't allow it. The pants

an’

A dol-

A dol-

 

 

are the very best that we can possibly
afford to sell at that price.’”’

‘‘O, I know all about that. I git
prices from outside, an’ 1 keep posted
on what goods is wo’th. Them pants
don’t cost only forty cents by the box.
You've gotter git down on yer stuff if
ye expect to hold my trade. I kin doa
sight better’n that to Bellaire an’ don’t
ye never fergit it. lf I go to Bellaire,
that’s where all my neighbors’ll go,
too. Throw in the galluses an’ here’s
yer cash.’’

‘Say, now honest,’’ said the clerk in
pleading tones, ‘‘I’d get fired if I was
to do that. I can’t make prices any
different. I'll give you the best price
I’ve got and that’s all there is to it.
You’d better let me do’em up at a dol-
lar.”’

‘*Pretty blamed small, by Jinks!’’ ex-
claimed the man from Wayback.
‘‘Pretty blamed small fer a fact. Yes,
ye kin do ’em up an’ that'll end the
deal for you an’ me. Won’t throw in
the galluses with a bran’ new pair 0’
pants, an’ don’t keep no goozlin’ can!
I allers did allow that what Old Man
Briggs’ soul’d fit middlin’ loose inside
a mustard seed, but blamed if your’n
wouldn’t wander around fer a week on
the p’int of a pin an’ never cross its
back tracks oncet.’’

Geo. L. Thurston.
——____—~> 2.
Notable Features of the Hat Trade.

In the hat world, retail and wholesale
alike, the most notable feature is the
increased popularity of the black, soft
felt, including the already very popular
Panama shape. It is predicted that the
pearl alpine is a thing of the pastas far
as correct dress goes, for it has ‘‘been
done to death.’’

The demand for all classes of goods
continues to be excellent. In stiff hats,
for young men, the high crown leads,
and for the more elderly class a rounder
crown. The latest feature of the derby
is a ‘‘Panama’’ shape, designed on ac-
count of tbe popularity of the Panarna
straw and later the Panama felt.

Regarding the sale of silk hats, retail-
ers say that this season has eclipsed any
previous one. The latest creation, one
that has not yet been pushed in this
country, but has become recognized in
England, is the plain silk, similar to
the opera hat, but non-collapsible. This
hat has many advantages that are ob-
vious. A little careless handling will
not injure it, and even a wetting will do
no great harm, and it is probable that
it will become quite popular.

Manufacturers of straw hats have
made every exertion to prepare for next
summer a good supply of Panama styles.

aT

The Pan-American Exposition is
dead and vandals are hovering about
it. They have already broken and de-
stroyed much of the statuary and orna-
mental features, carrying away such of
it as might possess value. There are
twenty-five policemen on duty, but they
appear tu be unequal to the task of
guarding the property. In some in-
stances exhibitors who have been unable
to remove their exhibits have been com-
pelled to adopt special measures for
their protection. The Rainbow City
is in ruins. Once the life goes from
any creature or creation it becomes the
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Rubbers

Why Comparatively Few Boots Are Worn
Nowadays.

**Boots, once commonly worn by men
and boys, are now,’’ said a man ac-
quainted with the shoe trade, ‘‘worn
only by older and middle-aged men, and
by only a comparatively limited num-
ber of them, although it is a fact that
the sale of fine boots in this city has
slightly increased within the past two
or three years. The men who wear
boots are men who have worn them all
their lives and they cling to them from
habit, or they may prefer them, any-
way.

**Sometimes men have changed from
boots to shoes, and then changed back;
the shoes did not seem natural or com-
fortable to them. Oftener, however,
when the older man changes to shoes he
sticks to them, and by far the greater
number, indeed, of middle-aged and
older, as well as young men, wear now-
adays what, so to speak, everybody
wears, namely, shoes.

“*Still, in so great a city as this,
among so many people, the number in
the aggregate of those who wear bcots
is quite considerable,and in some of the
very largest of the shoe stores you would
find, quite unknown as boots are now to
the great majority, men’s boots in some
variety; perhaps as many as a dozen
styles of boots, instock. They range in
price from $5 to $12 a pair. You see
they cost more than shoes and asa
matter of fact they are worn for the
most part by men of means or in com-
fortable or easy circumstances.

‘And contrary to what might be ex-
pected of those still wearing boots, the
greater number, proportionately, would
be found in the city and not in the
country, where, if anything, the boot
has been even more generally superseded
by the shoe, in some form. I am
speaking now, you understand, of boots
and shoes as worn by the great majority
of men everywhere for the ordinary
purposes of a shoe. There are, of
course, regularly made and constantly
sold and worn, for older men and
young, riding boots and hunting and
fishing boots.

‘There are still made and sold to
some extent kip boots, a coarse, cheaper
boot, selling at about $2.50 a pair, worn
by some people in out-of-door occupa-
tions,as by street sweepers in cities and
by farmers in the country. It used to
be thought that following the plough
and all that, the farmers must have
boots, but mighty few farmers anywhere
in the country wear boots to-day. Some
do, to be sure, and there are older and
middle-aged farmers who wear fine
boots on Sundays and other occasions
from old-time habit, or because, like
the city man, they like them. But the
great majority of them wear, like al-
most everybody else in these days,
shoes of some sort, very probably a
high-cut blucher, which serves its pur-
pose well.

*‘Besides the riding boots worn by
men riding for pleasure or recreation,
there are some boots worn by horsemen
in general, but still practicaily the only
men who as a body now wear boots as
they go about their daily work are min-
ers, and one reason why they wear boots
is because more or less of their work,
in some mining,they do on their knees.

**They will tell you at a big wholesale
shoe concern with a trade reaching in
all directions and extending through
the country from ocean to ocean, that

 

 

they do not sell now one pair where
twenty-five years ago they sold a hun-
dred cases.

‘* Now all that I have said to you ap-
plies to leather boots, to boots worn, as
I said, for the ordinary purposes of a
boot or shoe. But there is a boot now
made that is extensively worn by men
in various special callings and more or
less by all sorts of men in wet weather,
namely, the rubber boot. Since its in-
troduction the sale of the rubber boot
has increased, and more rubber boots
are sold now than ever.

‘*The farmer of the present generation
who never, owned a pair of leather boots
and never thought of buying any, does
own, very likely, a pair of rubber boots,
and when it comes a wet day and he
needs such protection, he gets out his
rubber boots and puts them on and
stalks abroad in the wet, dry shod.

**In some mines the miners wear rub-
ber boots. Fishermen wear rubber
boots, and so on; and then there are
many people in out-of-door occupations
who wear them when they need them,
and rubber boots are worn by children.
And speaking of children reminds me
of the boots once universally worn by
the small boy, written about in innum-
erable stories, pictured in many pic-
tures, the little red-tops commonly de-
scribed as ‘Johnny’s first boots.’

‘*Why, fifty years ago, every father
gave his son at that Christmas time for
birthday when he had become old
enough to wear them a pair of red-top
boots, which little Johnny put on and
wore about with joyous, youthful pride.
No small boy’s happiness would have
been considered complete unless he
owned a pair of red-top boots; and the
red-tops were as staple goods in the
shoe stores as drums and sleds were
where they sold toys.

‘*But you would have to look to find
them, to get a pair of red-tops now, for
what once no boy thought he could do
without has now long been practically
out of use; the vast majority of the
small boys of the present day never
even heard of a red-top boot. They are
still made, a few, or they might be
found in wholesale stocks, carried over,
but held to meet occasional demands,
which, if they did come, would be like-
liest to be from some dealer who wanted
a pair for some foreign-born customer.
For the red-top boot was an institution
in foreign lands, perhaps, before it was
here, certainly it flourished there later,
and foreign-born fathers, most likely,
are those who make the far-apart de-
mands that still straggle in for them.
There is no more demand for them in
remote parts of the country than there
is here at the metropolitan centér, no
region where they still cling to them;
for everywhere throughout the country,
just as they are in clothes and _ hats, so
are they up to date in shoes.’’—New

York Sun.
—>_2 2 _____

Glad to See Her.
‘*So you overcame that old antipathy
of yours,’’ her husband remarked, ‘‘and
called on Mrs. Bobbles?’’

eso

**Do you think she was glad to see
you?’’

**T am sure of it.’’

‘*‘Ahem—you must have some reason
for that belief outside of her assur-
ances.’’

‘‘T have. I had on the old dress that
was made over twice, my hat was out
of style and my hair had come uncurled ;
while she had on a gown that couldn't
have come from anywhere but Paris.

 

Could she help being glad to see me?’’

 

The Stamp of Approval

When good old reliable merchants

buy our own make shoes year in and |

} The Stamp of Approval |

year out, buy them over and over
again and keep right on buying them,
that shows the Stamp of Approval.

> Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

, Makers of Shoes,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Just Think!

A complete line of Men’s Shoes

A complete line of Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes

A complete line of Misses’ and Children’s Shoes
A complete line of Women’s Shoes

A complete line of Slippers of all styles

A complete line of Rubbers

All Sold by

Bradley & Metcalf Co.

f Manufacturers and Jobbers, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Double Wear Rubbers

Lycoming Brand

Extra Heel and Extra Heel
Toe on on
Boy’s, Youth’s Men’s
Misses’ and
and Child’s Women’s

 

For durability they have no equal. Write for them to

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

28-30 S. Ionia Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

anes

How Are You Fixed for Rubbers ?

Have you any of the new specialties of the Boston Rubber Co.
in thetr line of Duck rolled edge goods? T, hey are especially practical.
There is the Lacit, like the Ltaska, only it laces instead of
buckles. The Lumber King, like the Michigan, also laces instead of
buckles, giving that desired close fit over the instep and around the
ankle. The Motorman’s Gaiter is a high cut shoe made with a rolled

edge bottom and a high tight top. Just the thing for strenuous
efforts in deep snow.

Our stock of these and all other rubbe
prompt shipments.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

     
        
          
         
       
        

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

18

 

Use of Display Cases Which Aid Sales.

We saw a clever little polish case on
display the other day which ought to be
installed in every small shoe store or,
for that matter, in every store where
there is not room to display a quantity
of small articles such as are found in
our large departments. It was a small
glass case about .two and one-half feet
in height, and just large enough to
carry two dozen boxes of shoe polish.
In gilt letters across the face of the case
the name of the polish and the price
were mentioned. It stood conveniently
on the ledge about halfway down the
aisle of the store and was noticeable to
every one who entered.

This is a good, clever little advertise-
ment, and at the same time it keeps
the polish from being scattered from
one end of the store to the other. It
does away with the untidy appearance
so often noticed in this department,
which you are now trying to place on a
paying basis, because all of the polish,
except samples, might be conveniently
kept in a large drawer in the rear of the
store.

Another good feature noted in this
same store was a lamb’s-wool polish
brush which the proprietor showed in
connection with the shoe polish. These
polishing brushes have become so _ per-
fect that the wool does not rub off at the
first or second application to the shoes.
They can be bought for 12% to 15 cents
of any findings house, and they will
sell readily at 25 cents each. It makes
no difference who your customer might
be, just as soon as you offer to sell him
a box of shoe polish and show him this
handy little brush, he is bound to be
taken with it at once; 12% cents’ profit
on a brush is not bad, and shoe mer-
chants can readily afford to stock two or
three dozen of these handy cleaners,
and they do not mind the trouble of sell-
ing. I would advise you also to secure
some order blanks, because if a demand
is once started you are bound to sel] just
about aS many as you can handle.

Have you not noticed that heavy
paste polishes are going out and that
liquid polishes of all kinds are being
pushed on the market; also that patent-
leather pastes of various descriptions
are being used? This condition of
affairs demands the presence of some
other style besides the old mohair brush
that costs $1.50 if you wanted a good
one. It is not an easy matter to get
down on your knees and attempt to pol-
ish shoes with a piece of rag, and these
lamb’s-wool brushes are superior in
that they polish the shoes evenly from
beginning to end. Do not forget these
little items and they will pay your gas
bills and fuel expenses if you handle
them in the proper manner.

The call for the better grades of shoes
has also created a demand fora superior
quality of laces, and it would not be a
bad idea to see that your stock of laces
is augmented accordingly. The new
patent laces, with tags on the inside,
are selling well wherever they are kept,
and you can not go wrong in putting in
a supply. From present indications
these new laces will supplant the old-
style string altogether, and, being put
up in pairs, they are easier to handle.
The season for insoles is now upon us
and you should see that your stock of
these goods is complete. The hair sole
with the whalebone stiffening is found
to be a ready seller at this time of year,
but when you sell this article advise
customers to take one a little larger than
the size of the shoe, for after a hair sole
has been in use a short time it is apt to

 

 

shrink. The whale bone center does
away with the sole shortening very
much, but does not keep it from shrink-
ing in width.
a
Little Wrinkles That Help Sales and Add
to Profits.

Once more we wish to remind you of
the necessity of preparing in time for
the holiday season. If you intend
carrying lines of misses’ and children’s
leggings in colors, or otherwise, you
will sell goodly numbers to mothers and
relatives who take this rather unique
means of bestowing gifts. It is not
only advisable, but it is necessary for
you to order your leggings at once, if
you have not already done so. Do not
pass this opportunity by for making
pin-money (if we may use the expres-
sion) during the holidays. There is no
article of a like nature which pleases a
child more, and there is nothing more
practical than children’s leggings for
Christmas presents.

There is another commodity which
is listed under findings that can be sold
with profit during the same period—
namely, bed slippers. How many
thousands of people you will find who
are continually complaining of cold
feet! To such people bed slippers di-
rectly apply, and they will indeed be
grateful for the opportunity to buy such
articles if they are only acquainted with
the fact that they are in the market.
You can make a clever advertisement
out of foot-warmers, and if you are un-
able to secure the eiderdown variety,
such as is sold by a few Eastern manu-
facturers, you can obtain the regular
socks which are used for rubber boots,
or for bath-room wear, and advertise
them under the same heading. They
will serve in this capacity satisfactorily
and will wear far better than specially
designed bed slippers.

If you are in the habit of ordering
your men’s and women’s slippers from
the manufacturer,and have not yet done
so, you should lose no time in making
enquiries as to whether you can secure
them in time for the Christmas display
—that is, not later than the first of De-
cember. If the manufacturer is doubt-
ful of his ability to supply you at this
time it would be unwise to allow him to
put you off and take chances of receiv-
ing them five or six days before the hol-
idays. It would be more feasible to
call in the salesman of some jobbing
house in the vicinity, or make a trip to
the market yourself and see what you
can pick up there,

Jobbers, during the past three or four
years, have made a specialty of holi-
day goods, and they will be able to sup-
ply your wants, at least in moderation.
When it is considered that you are sure
of immediate delivery you will be able
to realize how much more advantageous
it is for you to buy your men’s and
women’s’ slippers from wholesalers.
You might better do this than have your
goods arrive at the last moment.

lf you have not a satisfactory slipper
trade it would be unwise for you to tie
up money in an article which, while a
staple, is not pushed in most stores the
year around. Of course, if your trade
demands these goods the entire year you
will not be out so much; but you are
well aware of the fact that the greatest
opportunity during the year for selling
slippers is offered at Christmas time.

If you are out of sizes you should in-
struct the clerks to enquire if the slip-
pers are for a Christmas gift in case a
customer should ask for a pair of size 9
and you have only a size 8 or 1oin
stock. If they are, tell the customer

 

that should the size not be right the
slippers can be exchanged immediately
after the holidays. In this way you will
be able to sell a great many pairs which
otherwise would be sold by others. You
will find as soon as the holidays are
over that dozens of women will come
back to you wanting a size larger or a
size smaller, but on the grand average
you will have to order only a half-dozen
pairs to satisfy all.

One of the greatest troubles with shoe
dealers is that they become panic-
stricken as soon as they strike an extra
demand for goods which they have not
in stock, and immediately they plunge
in far over their depth, when there are
but two or three days more in which this
particular line of goods can be sold to
advantage. You might better lose sales
than do this, especially on slippers,
where your money is liable to be tied
up for the full twelve months.—Shoe

Retailer,
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King Edward has one thought to con-
sole him in his present darkest hour; he
will not have to read his obituary poem
which Austin is even now at work upon.

 

 

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Half a Century

of shoe making has per-
fected in the knowledge
of the merchants’ re-
quirements.

C. M. Henderson & Co.
“Western Shoe Builders’
Cor. Market and Quincy Sts., Chicago

 

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The Celebrated
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Velour and Vici Kid Stock. Re-

tails at $2.50.

The Western Shoe Co., Toledo, Ohio
Distributors

 

 

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WEATHER SHOES

We carry 36 different kinds of Wom-
en’s, Misses’ and Children’s Warm
Shoes and Slippers.

Women’s Button or Lace, Warm
Lined, Kid Foxed, Felt Top Shoe,
Opera Toe, Machine Sewed..... $1.00

Same as above in Turned, Common
Se $1.00

Women’s Felt, Fur Trimmed, Juliet
ye 2+. 80 Cents

Write us what you want and we will send samples or salesman.

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Specialty House.

 

Waterproof Horse and Wagon Covers

OILED CLOTHING

Paints

Oils

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Pipe Covering
Lath Yarn

Rope

Mill Supplies

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—Unless buyers of
brown sheetings and drills for home ac-
count wake up to the situation soon, they
may find that they can not get the goods
when they do really need them, for the
exporters are contracting heavily and if
this keeps up, as it now promises to do,
it will result in filling the mills, making
these goods, with orders so far ahead
that buyers for home account will find
themselves unable to get goods at any
price. This is merely by way of warn-
ing, for the situation to-day is a critical
one in many respects and the market
will undoubtedly strengthen consider-
ably with this continued export de-
mand. All leading brands of brown
sheetings and drills are firm as reported
above, and spot goods of all descrip-
tions are in short supply. Bleached
cottons show small stocks and in spite
of limited buying, this sustains the
market. Wide sheetings are firm with
only a small business transacted, and
the same may be said of cotton flannels
and blankets. Coarse colored cottons,
including denims, ticks, checks, plaids,
cheviots, etc., show no new features.
Stocks are small and prices firm.

Denims—Have been wanted for ex-
port, but there have been no contracts
made because sellers were in too strong
a position to accept bids for less than
the regular market prices. Denims are
very strongly situated, having been
bought freely for home trade for some
time past, and not only are stocks at a
very low ebb, but have also placed many
mills under contract for some time to
come. The actual shipments of cotton
goods during the past week have been
largest to Aden, Chili, and the British
possessions in India. These consisted
largely of brown sheetings and drills,
with a moderate assortment of other
staple domestics.

Prints and Ginghams—The Merri-
mack prints have had their prices
openly announced, and as they are
what the buyers expected, the market
Situation is unchanged. Buyers of fancy
prints for spring have been placing or-
ders for fair quantities, but so far the
trading has been largely for grades on
the basis of 4%c, which is practically
the same as quoted for last season. Full
standards have also been bought in a
moderate way, although prices have not
been openly quoted. It is firmly ex-
pected, however, that the price will be
5c. This is a change from the opinions
of a few weeks ago before print cloths
were advanced so sharply. Fine printed

 

 

 

specialties show no change since our
last report, the demand continuing fair.
All woven patterned goods of desirable
character are in excellent condition, in-
cluding staple ginghams, dress ging-
hams and fine wash fabrics. :

Hosiery—Probably the most interest-
ing feature of the market for hosiery is
found in the fancy end. Manufactur-
ers are wondering if the demand for
fancy stripes and open work is to keep
up all winter. If it is, there are not
enough goods on the market to supply
the demand. The lines of fancy wool
and cashmere half hose seem to have
struck a popular fancy in some parts of
the country, particularly the West, but
they are slow in being adopted in the
East, and they are not expected to be
wanted in the South.

There is a scarcity of fleeced hosiery
in the market, scarcely a case to be
found. The call
West, for in the East and New York
particularly, there are very few worn.
The trouble with these is that orders
were placed late, and the knitting mills
did not expect the business to amount to
much. The later demand has proved
too much for the machines making this
class of goods, and so the market is de-
pleted.

Sweaters—In our last report we men-
tioned the exceedingly small stocks on
hand, and the difficulty buyers were ex-
periencing in securing anything desir-
able in the line of sweaters. This week
a canvass of the market shows appar-
ently that everything that was left has
been snapped up, and the market, as
one man put it, ‘‘hasn’t a sweater to its
name.’’ ‘The public have taken a
greater fancy to sweaters this season ap-
parently than for many years, and many
of the large retail stores and department
stores are entirely cleaned out. Two
cases have been brought to our notice of
large premiums being offered for desir-
able goods, and no one took advantage
of the offer. Several mills, on the
strength of the present conditions, have
started upon extra time to try and sup-
ply the deficiency. Whether they can
get the goods out in time or not isa
question, but almost anything would
‘‘go’’ if it was only out on time.

Carpets—The opening of the new car-
pet season has been somewhat of a dis-
appointment to many who had hoped
that prices would at least be firmly
maintained all along the line, if not
actually advanced. As a matter of fact,
as was shown in our issue of last week,
prices of 3¢ goods ranged from the same
figures as last season to 6c decline,
and on rugs prices ranged from last sea-
son's rates to a $5.50 decline. Osten-

for these is from the:

 

Bed Blankets and Comforts

We make a specialty of Bed Blan-

kets and Comforts and always carry

 
 
 

a complete assortment.

ca Cotton, wool (cotton warp), all

 

 

 

wool blankets.
Knotted and stitched comforts in
silkoline and _ silk

print, satine,

coverings.

P. Steketee & Sons, Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids

We were right when we
anticipated a great demand
for duck coats.

Send your orders by
mail; prompt attention will
be given them.

Voigt,
Herpolsheimer

& Co.,

Wholesale Dry Goods,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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DUNKLEY’S FAMOUS

{ Michigan Fruits {§

Grown, cooked and canned in the Fruit Belt. Durect from
the orchard to the table. Cooked in the jars, by special proc-
ess, in clear, pure sugar syrup. We carry in stock the
‘‘Cupid’’ and ‘‘Golden Luncheon’’ brands of Peaches,
Pears, Plums, Cherries and Berries.

Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids
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THE MODERN STOVE POLISH

IMPROVED QUALITY

Dealers:—September Ist we commenced the sale of our new packages
of ENAMELINE, No. 4 and No. 6; each about 50 PER CENT. LARG-
ER THAN FORMERLY and with NO CHANGE IN PRICE. The
quality has been improved so the goods will keep much better than ever.

We have appropriated $200,000 FOR ADVERTISING the coming year.
don’t like it, send it back, as we guarantee it in every respect.

 

 

ENAMELINE LIQUID is THE modern stove polish—a great im-
provement. In tin cans with screw tops—cannot break, slop or spoil; ready
to use quick, easy, brilliant, FIRE PROOF; keeps perfectly for years.
Large cans, 5c and roc. THE BEST YET and a WINNER.

You should get in line for a BOOM on ENAMELINE. If you

J. L. PRESCOTT & CO., NEW YORK.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

 

sibly there was no reason why prices
should not have been firmly maintained,
and many weavers of ingrains are still
inclined to the belief that an advance
in prices is fully justified. At this
writing the decline is attributed to the
desire of one of the large concerns to
clear off the market stocks carried over
from last season. Its course in making
lower prices is certainly characteristic.
As regards the volume of business done,
however, the opening of the new lines
has been satisfactory, the sales being
reported as larger than have been known
for years by some agents, the attendance
being large and the jobbing interest
throughout the country being interested.
Some lines are said to be sold ahead
sufficiently to keep the machinery upon
them busy until next spring. The de-
cline in the price of 3 goods has ap-
parently shattered the hopes of the in-
grain makers as to an advance in their
product. Ingrains had not proportion-
ately shared in the improvement which
had characterized 3 goods. It was an-
ticipated, however, that in case there
had been an advance in the price of the
latter,it would have assisted in creating
more demand for ingrains, which would
have redounded to the benefit of the
ingrain makers, both in the size of their
business, and the prices which they re-
ceived for their goods. But as a decline
in price has been made on ¥% goods,
there are few ingrain makers apparent-
ly who are looking for much improve-
ment in the price of their product.

Rugs—Were a great feature in the
opening day of prices in New York,
and for many lines there was the largest
call ever known. On wiltons, axmin-
sters and Brussels, there was an ex-
ceedingly fine business done, which will
keep mills working on these goods for
several months to come. Prices showed
a slight falling off. Smyrna rugs were
a favorite with many buyers who bought
largely.

——___> +. —___
Excellent Condition of the Haberdashery
Trade.

The haberdashery trade, as a whole,
has found this a most successful season
and even when separated into parts and
analyzed, each division appears to be
in an excellent condition and very sel-
dom is there anything heard in regard
to bad business. Of course, there are
some croakers, there always are, who
say that there is ‘‘nothin’ doin’,’’ but
if the truth were known, it would prob-
ably be found that they had had their
full share, possibly more than their full
share, and that this manner of talk is
merely a chronic condition with them.

The retail haberdashers are excep-

 

tionally busy. The cool, clear weather
that characterized October was the best
in the world for business, and we fail
to find one retailer who has not had ex-
cellent sales in shirts, underwear, hos-
iery, gloves, neckwear, etc. Each cool
morning brought another contingent of
buyers for warmth-giving underwear,
hosiery and gloves, and the average
prices paid for these commodities ex-
ceed by considerable that paid by the
same trade a year ago. For instance,
the proportion of $1.50 grade gioves sold
has materially increased, also of $1 and
$1.50 neckwear, although by far the best
selling price for the latter is still 50
cents. People who never thought of
buying better than 20 or 25 cent hosiery
are frequently purchasers now of 50
cent grades, one dollar shirts in place
of 75 cent grades, and $1.50 in place of
$1 and $3.25. Those who bought $2 hats
are often seen buying $3 or even $5
grades,and so it goes through practical-
ly the entire range of the haberdasher’s
stock,

Manufacturers of neckwear have en-
joyed a prosperous holiday trade, even
although the shapes and silks vary but
little from what has been sold for the
regular fall and winter season. Partic-
ularly nice boxes for individual cravats
and for quantities have been used, and
the retailers will be able to make hand-
some displays.

The mufflers that are made for this
winter indicate a far greater amount of
luxury for the wearers. Among the new-
est are pieces of silk, plain black, white
or colors or neat-figured effects, 25
inches wide by 50 inches long. The
effect is very rich and they give excel-
lent protection, both against the cold
and against soiling the shirt bosom.

There have been some _ remarkably
fine specimens of fancy hosiery placed
before the buyers late this fall in antic-
ipation of the fancy business continuing
through the season. This promises to
come up to their expectations, for
fashion dictates to her followers that
low-cut shoes shall be worn much of the
time, except when extremely inclement
weather makes it impossible. Black
openwerk hosiery for evening wear is
much in vogue and sales have been
good. Sales of blacks have continued
good and also of some solid colors, such
as reds, blues and browns.

With the advent of still colder weather,
trade is expected to increase corres-
pondingly and many go so far as to
predict that this season’s business will
exceed that of any previous fall and
winter season, as last spring and sum-
mer, in many branches beat all previous
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Hardware

 

 

Hot Air Furnace Not Lost Its Prestige.

Architects and builders, as well as
their customers, have noted the fact that
during the past year or two hot air fur-
naces have been used for heating some
of the largest and finest residence build-
ings that have been erected in different
parts of the United States. This is
substantial encouragement to those fur-
nace men who have stood stanchly in
defense of good furnace work, and who
have insisted upon doing it and secur-
ing the price that such work is worth.
I make this statement in order to bring
to the notice of furnace men generally
the fact that furnace work has not lost
prestige in competition with the other
systems of heating, and that it is the
duty of every furnace man to study
methods and use his energy to secure a
more general use of a better class of
furnace work.

I have no hope of securing now or at
any time in the future a millennium for
hot air furnace men. They will always
have competitors to contend with who
are too ignorant to know how to do good
furnace work, either in the details of
workmanship, or in putting up the fur-
nace, to say nothing of that knowledge
of the movement of air currents and the
effect of the outside atmosphere, which
must be understood in order to lay out
furnace work as it should be done. The
annoyance caused by these men can be
alleviated by rendering them such as-
sistance and such encouragement in
their efforts as they are capable of re-
ceiving.

There is another class that have all
the gray matter necessary to do first-
class work, but who are thoroughly mer-
cenary and are only anxious for what
money they can get out of their work.
These fellows are more difficult to deal
with, but that is no reason why mis-
sionary work should not be conducted
among them.

The great multitude of furnace men,
however, are honest and ambitious, and
willing to do better when they know
what is better. These men form the
great majority, and it is among them
that the intelligent and progressive fur-
nace man and the furnace manufacturer
should labor to improve the general
character of work. Some of these men
are good workers, and their work in de-
tail is above reproach, but in many in-
stances they do not understand how to
determine the heating capacity of a fur-
nace or the heating values of different
styles of construction. Nor do they un-
derstand the size of heaters, the sizes of
pipes for hot air supply or the vent
‘ducts required for heating different
classes of buildings. To assist these
people by giving them information on
the points in which their knowledge is
deficient would be to remove, in many
instances, a disagreeable competitor
from the field. Men who do not know
the difficulty of heating a building will
agree to heat it for less money than
would a more competent man. If they
secure the contract either they will lose
money, or, if they are paid before their
heating systems are thoroughly tested,
the building can not be heated in ex-
treme weather, and furnace work gets
another black eye.

There is still another class of furnace
men who need assistance, and they are
the men who do good work, both in de-
signing and in construction, but who
need a little business training in order
to avoid being made use of by shrewd

building operators. The building op-
erator of this character is ever on the
lookout for some competent man who is
willing to take a contract for heating a
large number of buildings at a very
small margin of profit. The building
contractor knows that these buildings
will not be ready for the furnace man so
that he can do his work with advantage
to himself and keep the cost within the
figures at which he has estimated. He
knows that some of the buildings will
be ready at one time and some at an-
other, and that as the construction pro-
gresses the furnace man will be called
upon to complete his work at a sad dis-
advantage to himself, which will result
in the loss of no small amount of time
and labor, and may finally eat up the
expected profit until an actual loss takes
its place. If it was possible to educate
all the furnace men so that they would
know better than to take contracts of
this character at the low prices set by
the building operator, the work could be
made to pay a profit to those who do
it, instead of being the means of em-
barrassing the contractors by an eventual
loss.

Another source of discouragement is
that even although a large contract of
this kind may be carried out without
actual loss, there is really no profit in
it, for often the small contractor has al-
lowed his small custom trade to be dis-
appointed and scattered, while his
whole energies were concentrated on
one big contract. Thus he is sure to
suffer a loss from having taken up the
big iob.

Then there are shop methods and de-
tails of construction which enable some
shops to produce furnace drums, cas-
ings, pipes and fittings at a far lower
price than the small shop with a limited
equipment of tools. Usually the men
who do the high grade furnace work
which is used in handsome residences
have the best equipped shops, and if
they engage on contract work, with
their better equipment and better busi-
ness experience, they could eventually
secure a better profit from such work

‘than the smaller and less favored con-

tractors would make out of it.

In many instances furnace manufac-
turers make, in addition to their good
furnaces, some hot air furnaces that are
sold at such extremely low prices that
it is impossible to conceive that they
will pass through even the first season
without becoming greatly impaired.
The sale and use of such furnaces result
in a dissatisfaction with hot air fur-
nace heating which is reflected along
the whole line of hot air furnace work.
At the outset I pointed out that some of
the handsomest residences that have
been erected in various parts of the
country were heated with hot air fur-
naces, I recognize that where there is
one of this class of buildings erected,
there are hundreds and even thousands
of the cheaper class. I would point out,
however, that that is no reason why the
cheaper class of buildings should not be
equipped with a hot air furnace of gond
construction, such as would be durable
in use and economical in operation.

To secure reform some co-operation
will be needed between furnace men in
all the larger cities and in adjacent
country towns. The men who do first-
class work must meet and discuss and
explain to their less well informed
brothers some of their methods. No
doubt many men who do first-class work
will be more or less reluctant to explain
their methods to some men who they

 

feel certain will utilize the information

 

for cutting into their trade and thus be-
come a greater nuisance to them than
they are without this assistance. How-
ever, in all attempts at elevation of
mortals or methods sacrifices must be
made, and in the end benefit will come.
There is no better way of helping the
furnace trade than in discussing methods
for improving its condition.—Metal
Worker.

———
Apple Famine Felt in Maine.

The good old cider that hits like a
green hickory club in the hands of the
hired man is going to be dear in the
teetotal State of Maine this winter.
There is less than half a crop of ap-
ples.

They Agreed Cordially.

‘*T see there is a pressing demand for
money of small denominations,’’ said
the dark complexioned man with the
turned up coat collar.

‘It shouldn’t be gratified,’ said the
clean shaven man.

‘IT agree with you heartily, sir.
There’s too much smali change in cir-
culation now.”’

‘*That's right.
small.’’

‘Correct.
sir?’’

‘I’m a Pullman porter.’’

‘‘Shake. I’m a hotel waiter.’’

— ses

The impending fate of England's
King is a warning to ordinary mortals
not to smoke the brand of cigars that
costs one dollar each.

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Clarion, Mich., March 20, Igot.
My Dear Sir—We have now had in
steady use for two years the Owen Gas
Generator and I am pleased to state for
amount of light produced, it is cheaper
than oil and far more satisfactory. My
candid opinion is, the reason so many re-
ject them is because the light is not eco-
nomically handled. We use light when
and where needed. We burn 13 jets and
all at once usually. We charge machine
with from 20 to 21 pounds which runs
generally’5 nights. Usually close store
about 8:30 to 9:30. Very respectfully
W. H. Ransom.

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KNOWS THE SIGNS,

But Does Not Prognostigate Any More.

‘*T used to always notice,’’ said Citi-
zen Jack Cole, ‘‘that whenever the hor-
nets hung their nests high on the trees,
the next winter was sure to be rigorous,
with deep and lasting snows.

‘It invariably impressed itself upon
me, too, that when angleworms went so
deep into the ground that plowing in
the fall did not turn them up in the fur-
row it was a sign the import of which
was the same as that of the hornet
nests.

‘*Then there was the fuzz on hogs.
Whenever I found a thick, woolly fuzz
at the roots of the hair on hogs, along
about this time o’ year, or a little later,
I knew from observation and experience
that it was nothing more or less than
corroboration of the angleworm and high
hornet-nest signs of a severe winter.

‘“Then, take foxes. Foxes were plen-
tiful around here. A hunter dug out
four in one of my back lots one day last
week, He had to go deep for them.

‘**Might as well dug a cellar,’ he
said to me. ‘What ails ’em,’ said he.
‘* ‘In the ground, were they?’ said I.

‘* “In the ground!’ said he. ‘Deep as
a well!’

‘**Ah!’ I said, ‘that’s a weather sign.’

“*And so it is. Foxes in the ground,
and deep, instead of in the rocks, is a
verification of the angleworm and the
hornet signs.

‘*T used to notice, too, that if 1 found
the grass growing taller and thicker
than usual along streams and swamp
borders, it was another sign of a hard
winter, because the muskrats that dwelt
about such places needed that increased
supply of grass for bedding in their
nests, which, I always noticed at such
times, the muskrats were making with
extraordinary thick walls.

‘“Whenever I found signs such as |
have mentioned, and many others too
numerous to mention, I knew I was sure
to hear old Boreas begin to how! early,
and that he intended to keep right on
howling, and likely would be howling
yet when the johnny-jump-ups ought to
be putting their purple heads above the
sod, and the dandelion be jaundicing
the mead. And I used to tell folks so
and advise ’em.

‘*Have I noticed any of those signs
this fall? Well, yes, I have. I have,
but I am not prognosticating any more.
Not since the fall that I found the six
hornets’ nests so high in the trees here
and there that you couldn’t have touched
them with a forty-foot pole, and dug the
fox from the bottom of a hole ten feet
deep.

‘*When I found those hornets’ nests
hanging in the trees higher than Ha-
man, and dug that fox from the depths
of that burrow, I went to prognosticat-
ing. I didn’t wait to notice whether
the angleworm or the long thick grass
or the hog-fuzz signs were with us in
verification, but set right out and prog-
nosticated on the strength of the hor-
nets and the fox.

‘‘And I prognosticated a winter so
fierce and snow bound that folks didn’t
do anything else for weeks but bank up
their houses and haul in wood and chop
jt and stow it away, and lay in supplies
as if an army was coming along to quar-
ter on ’em, and buy overcoats and fur
gloves and ear muffs and rubber boots
enough to start a store. And that win-
ter came in like a May morning.

‘*There wasn’t an inch of snow from
January to March. Nobody found it
necessary even to build a fire in,the

 

 

front room. Sap began to run the week
after New Year, and the bluebirds were
singing in the trees before Valentine’s
Day.

‘*Gardenmaking was pretty near all
over by the middle of March and green
peas were picked before April was
done.

‘‘Folks came looking for me with
cruel intent, and I almost ruined my-
self taking overcoats and things off of
people who had bought in on the
strength of my _ prognostications. I
speculated much on how in the world it
could be that those signs had failed me
and if in good time I had not learned
that Sam Clark and some of the rest of
the boys had not tied those hornets’
nests way up in the trees and that the
fox was Sam’s tame one they had buried
in that burrow which they had dug for
the purpose, knowing that I would see
those hornets’ nests and dig out that
fox, I would be speculating yet.

‘*Yes, I have noticed some of those
signs this fall, but I am not prognosti-
cating any more. But | will say this.
I don’t really see any use of the hogs in
this locality putting forth that fuzz sign.
That fuzz is there to be a sort of a hard
winter undershirt to ’em, and we will
kill "em and salt ’em down long before
any weather comes along that will make
that fuzz any good to ’em.’’—New York
Sun.

——___~>_2.__—_
The New York State Anti-Saloon
League has found an ‘‘angel’’ who

offers to donate $10,000 a year for the
promotion of its work, providing the
league raises $40,000 from other sources.
The name of the ‘‘angel’’ is supposed
to be a secret, but it is claimed that
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, is the individual. When the
trusts begin to fight the saloons the bat-
tle will be worth witnessing.

Letters of a Self-Made Merchant To His
Son.

A business man’s conversation should

be regulated by fewer and simpler rules

than any other function of the human

animal. They are:
Have something to say.
Say it.

Stop talking.

Beginning before you know what you
want to say and keeping on after you
have said it lands a merchant in a law-
suit or the poor house.

Remember, too, that it is easier to
look wise than to talk wisdom. Say less
than the other fellow and listen more
than you talk; for when a man’s listen-
ing he isn’t telling on himself and he’s
flattering the fellow who is. Give most
men a good listener and most women
enough note paper and they’ll tell all
they know. Money talks—but not un-
less its owner has a loose tongue, and
then its remarks are always offensive.
Poverty talks, too, but nobody wants to
hear what it has to say.

I simply mention these things in pass-
ing because I’m afraid you’re apt to be
the fellow who’s doing the talking ; just
as I’m a little afraid that you’re some-
times like the hungry drummer at the
dollar-a-day house—inclined to fill your
appetite by eating the cake in the cen-
ter of the table before the soup comes on.

In speaking of clerks he says: The
first week a lot of them go to work
they’re in a sweat for fear they’ll be
fired; and the second week for fear they
won’t be. By the third, a boy that’s
no good has learned just how little work
he can do and keep his job; while the
fellow who’s got the right stuff in him
is holding down his own place with one
hand and beginning to reach forthe job

 

just ahead of him with the cther. I don’t

 

mean that he is neglecting his own
work ; but he’s beginning to take notice,
and that’s a mighty hopeful sign in
either a young clerk or a young widow.

You'll read a good deal about ‘‘love
at first sight’’ in novels, and there may
be something in it, for all I know; but
I’m dead certain there’s no such thing
as love at first sight in business. A
man’s got to keep company a long
time, and come early and stay late and
sit close, before he can get a girl ora
job worth having. There’s nothing
comes without calling in this world, and
after you've called you ve generally got
to go and fetch it yourself.—Saturday
Evening Post.

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He Made an Assignment.

‘‘Third Notice.’’ Every editor has
received them. The postmaster is not
to blame. For instance, there is a man
named Tim Short who sent us three no-
tices to stop his paper; he did not want
it any longer. We wondered what was
the matter. Upon investigation of our
subscription list we found Tim was
short $2.50. He had never paid a cent
yet had stopped his paper as a matter
of economy —to us. A few evenings ago
we stépped into a church and Zim‘s
melodious tenor rang out clear in that
soul-stirring song, ‘‘Jesus Paid It All.’’
He might have been mistaken, but his
earnestness impressed us.

The next day we sent him a receipt
in full, begging his pardon for not
knowing that he had made an assign-

ment of his liabilities. Exchange.
a
Reflected Glory.

‘*And who are you, my little man?’’
enquired the lady who had called to ad-
mire the new baby.

Little Boy (with conscious pride)—
I’m the baby’s brother.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

STARTING RIGHT.

Important Duty Which Parents Owe
Their Children.

It seems to be a rule common to both
brute animals and human beings that
what habits they acquire earliest adhere
to them longest and intensify as age in-
creases, and are at their possible best
or. worse in senility, or, as it has been
stated, ‘‘The ruling passion is strongest
in death.’’ The charitably inclined
are the most charitable at the last, and
the selfish the most selfish. Let the
heifer be a natural kicker, for instance,
and the cow will have to be hampered
before she can be milked at all. Let
the colt once run away when in harness
to a vehicle, and he will be likely to
avail himself of any subsequent oppor-
tunities to do the same. When a pig
has once learned to craw! under or
through a fence he is generally ever
afterward on the lookout for chances to
do so. Let a boy or young man once
begin to lounge about ‘‘the corner gro-
cery’’ or saloons and _ it will soon be-
come a fixed habit, and then he will be
on the well traveled highway to destruc-
tion, morally, physically, financially
and intellectually. The young gons of
most farmers, when they first have oc-
casion to stop at a hotel for dinner or to
remain over night, make a mistake. In
most country towns of considerable size
there are two classes of hotels, gen-
erally called ‘‘$1 a day house’’ and ‘‘$2
a day house.”’’ Now, as these young
men usually have little money, they al-
most invariably choose the cheaper one,
and this to save money. Thus do they
come in contact with men whom it is
not most desirable for them to know,
and they will fail to make acquaintances
who would prove useful.

An incident under my own observa-
tion twenty years ago may be related:
A few miles from town lived a well to
do, easy going farmer whose wife was
originally an observing city woman.
They had two sons, eighteen and six-
teen years old. The elder son went to
town one afternoon,and stress of weather
detained him over night. Next day his
mother asked him: ‘‘At what hotel did
you stop?’’ He named one of the cheap
ones and said he did it to save money.
She replied: ‘*That is not the way to
save money, but the hest way to lose it
in the end, and more withit.’’ His
eyes, ears and mouth were wide open
for an explanation; then she proceeded
to-tell him about as I have written
above, adding: ‘‘Now, hereafter when
you are to go to town take money enough
with you to pay your entertainment at
the best hotel for a day in case of an
emergency ; and if you haven’t it, come
to me and I will supply you.’’ The
young man did as told and became
quite a favorite with the landlord and
many of the regular guests and board-
ers. At the age of about twenty-two an
officer of the Interior Department,
Washington, who was spending his va-
cation in the North, at this hotel, be-
came acquainted with the young man,
and, liking him, asked: ‘‘How would
you like a clerkship in the Government
land office in Montana?’’ The young
man replied: ‘First rate, if my par-
ents would approve.’* Within a month
he was on his way to the Far West, and
in less than two years he had climbed
up to be the chief of the office, where
he remained several years. He is now
one of the chief ranch owners and cat-
tle growers in that far off State.

Parents should observe closely from
early infancy the trend of the minds of
their boys toward some useful industry

 

and encourage that trait. Another farm
family had four boys, One took a great
liking to reading, first newspapers and
then books of which he had read in
those papers, the parents always select-
ing the right kind of books and papers.
Finally, this boy begged for a college
education. He was sent to Cornell Uni-
versity four years and to Germany and
France six months each. Strict account
of the money his father furnished him
was kept, that in his will he might
divide the property that he had accumu-
lated in all his lifetime equally among
his children. This son is now a pro-
fessor in a Western literary college and
has been for many years. Knowing
his father’s wishes about the final dis-
tribution of his property, he long since
paid back to him what he had used of
it. The next two boys chose business
careers. They were encouraged and
helped in it, and are now successful
business men. The fourth and young-
est boy desired a commercial college
education. This did not please his par-
ents any too well, but ‘‘let him follow
his bent,’’ was their decision. He
boarded at home, but earned money to
pay his own tuition. At about twenty
he was given the position of Secretary
of a construction company, at a salary
of $1,000, by the President of it, who
had watched the career of that family
of boys for years. Now, at the age of
twenty-two, there has been added to his
duties that of Secretary of a cemetery
company, salary $500; but this requires
but little time and does not interfere
with his other duties. Surely these
‘‘twigs’’ were ‘‘bent’’ about right or,
rather, were trained up in a perpendic-
ular direction.

While all of these young men simply
by chance were led away from the farm,
the same principles and motives of ac-
tion as instigated them have incited
‘‘oceans’’ of farm boys to equal or
greater successes in the line of agricul-
ture. Here is one and how he did it:
Mr. B. was reared on a farm by par-
ents who began married life with noth-
ing and closed their existence with a
competency. They did it by constant
industry, and, as all must do to win
success who begin in that manner, they
practiced close economy and were very
particular about saving the little things,
on the principle that if one saves the
pennies the dollars will care for them-
selves. Reared under such influence,
B. at eight years of age began to grow
bantam fowls on his own account, sell-
ing when he could and boarding the
money. Presently he bought a lamb
and grew a few sheep, and later he pur-
chased a colt and raised it into a good
and well-trained horse. At the age of
twenty-one his property was worth about
$300. But all this time he was getting
something better than money—he was
learning how to do things to advantage ;
he was gaining experience that would
tell in after life. At twenty-five he pur-
chased a valuable 150 acre farm, going
into debt for most of the purchase
money. Then he married and began
a business campaign such as seldom is
seen in any farmer. His invariable rule
was ‘‘never go to town without taking
along something to sell.’’ This put
him upon his mettle to study out how to
have something to sell all the year
around. Here is a partial list of the
items he gave me:

Besides the main crops of grain, hay,
straw, potatoes, etc., he sold butter,
poultry, eggs, a large assortment of
vegetables, berries, horseradish, pep-
pergrass, hickory nuts, butternuts, butts

 

of hickory trees for axe handles and
whiffletrees, logs for lumber, sauerkraut,
a little wild game, tame pigeons, med-
icina! herbs, maple syrup and sugar,
fat hogs and young pigs, an occasional
beef, vea, muttcn and many other
things. He reasoned that as ‘‘drop by
drop every day will wear the hardest
rock away,’’ so if there is saved dollar
by dollar every day it will keep gaunt
want from the door away. By pursu-
ing such course he lifted the mortgage
from his farm, and in course of time
bought an equally good farm for his
eldest son and paid for it,and later pur-
chased and paid for a similar farm for
his younger son; and there we will leave
them and their families enjoying ‘‘the
fat of the land’’ gained by the fore-
sight, industry and economy of the
father, ably assisted by the sons. All
three began right, continued right and
now have their reward for it. Any
young farmer boy possessing common
sense can imitate this father’s business
career successfully if he will; but if
other habits are already formed it is too
late to begin. Galen Wilson.
—___> +. —___

The Selling Power of Window Displays.

The window display is an acknowl-
edged attribute of trade winning. In
the category of essential aids to the
principal object of building up a busi-
ness none can be given more credit for
results than the show behind the win-
dow glass. The successful retailers of
the period are constantly endeavoring to
add to the subtle magnetic power of the
window. To secure the best results they
keep posted on all that is new in win-
dow fixtures, in drapings and in the ar-
rangement and the disposition of units.
At the helm of the prosperous shop the
man of ideas and progressive tenden-
cies will always be found. Merchan-
dise is peculiar in its selling ability—
somie goods sell without effort, while
other goods must be displayed, pushed
and talked up. The merits of hard sell-
ing goods must be accentuated, and this
can only be done by clever displays
backed by clever arguments. When-
ever a new line of goods is put in the
window there should follow a noticeable
demand for the articles displayed. If
not, then the display is not good or the
merchandise does not interest the pub-
lic. This is a condition that the win-
dow trimmer must face and handle. It
is his duty to make goods appear as at-
tractive as possible, and to do that he
must be a master of his art.

The modern method of dressing a
window calls for the judicious use of a
few articles. The old style of showing a
little of everything is now succeeded by
that of showing a little of one or two
things. The character of the goods
must be carefully considered, for it is
bad policy to show expensive and cheap
goods or formal apparel and outing
requisites in the window setting. The
successful window trimmer strives to
focus the prospective patrons’ attention
on one thing ata time. To do this and
yet cover the field calls for small dis-
plays frequently changed, so that in the
course of a few days every good thing
in the shop is put on dress parade in
the window.—E. S. Bachrach in Haber-

dasher.
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Two college women of Brookline,
Mass., are making a success of a laun-
dry run on strictly scientific and eco-
nomical principles. The clothes are
‘sun dried’’ and bleached, and by a
series of experiments the foreman has
tested all the latest contrivances and
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work,

 

Livened Up Business One Dull Summer
Day.

Baggs was the owner of a general
store in a good-sized town and sold
everything from mosquito netting to
horse feed. He was a ‘‘warm hand’’ at
advertising, and never let a novelty in
that line go by without a trial, besides
sticking to a liberal output of news-
paper and other ‘‘ printer’s ink’’ public-
ity.

When a bright young fellow blew in
one day with an advertising-electrical-
wound-sure-to-bring-’em phonograph, it
wasn't ten mintues before Baggs had
contracted for one, and was in confab
with his advertising man about attractive
specialties to load it with.

It was the dullest period in the sum-
mer, when legitimate advertising
seemed to have lost its power. Thead-
vertising man scratched his head for
ideas, but could only coax out the well-
worn ‘‘get - ’em -in-with-cut-prices-on-
staples,’’ and his loading of the phono-
graph cylinder sounded like an invita-
tion toa Tuesday night prayer meet-
ing. The bright young agent of the
phonograph was disgusted.

‘‘Pardon my _ frankness,’’ he said,
‘‘but that talk of yours would puta
crowd to sleep—’’

‘*It would, eh?’’ snapped the adver-
tising man, mad in a minute. ‘‘S’pose
you try your hand at it—I haven't got
a barrel of belief in your contraption,
anyhow!’’ and he bounced off ina rage.

Baggs laughed. ‘‘Jim’s all right for
newspaper stuff and window signs,’’ he
said, ‘‘but he sticks at phonographs.
What’ll you charge me to load it?’’

‘‘Five dollars,’’ said the young fel-
low, promptly. ‘‘No pull, no pay!’’

‘*Let her go!’’ said Baggs.

A curious crowd was gathering in
front of the Baggs emporium, watching
tbe neat removal of an exact circle of
glass from one of the show windows.

‘*For one of them whirl-a-gig ventila-
tors,’’ suggested one.

‘‘Huh! Mighty big ventilator, why,
that hole is twelve inches acrost,’’
jeered another. All doubts as to the use
of the opening were set at rest when a
bell shaped brass horn appeared.

‘‘Foneygraph!’’ shouted the crowd,
which was largely increasing by the min-
ute. A silence fell as the machine be-
gan:

‘‘Ladies and gentlemen: I am here
to boom business for Baggs! The day
is hot and commencing right now, pur-
chasers to the amount of fifty cents will
get a free ‘high ball’ of ice cream soda
at the soda counter—’’

There was a bustle of interest among
the crowd at this.

‘*And ice water is free to all comers!
Listen to these specialties for quick
buyers :

‘* “Smokers, here is smoker’s heaven.’

‘* *Five-cent Straights are two for
seven, vhile the stock lasts.’ ’’

Baggs’ five-cent cigars were locally
famous for big value, and at this an-
nouncement a dozen listeners made for
the door, and the cigar man found his
hands suddenly full.

‘*Gingham apron patterns swell

At ten cents each are going to sell.’’

There was no doubt about that, for
already a number of women were en
route for two and a half yards of ging-
ham for ten cents.—Advertising World.

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Necessity of Selecting a Mother With
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‘*Every young girl,’’ said the man of
the world, flicking the ashes from his
cigarette and addressing the two little
debutantes, ‘‘every girl desires to shine
in society and to be admired by men.
Oh, don’t trouble to deny it. You are
human, therefore to be praised; you are
woman, therefore to be pleased. Be-
sides, it is the career for which nature
intended you just as much as it intended
the rose to add to the beauty and frag-
rance of the world. If you did not care
for the admiration of your fellow-crea-
tures, you would not be a dear debu-
tante. You would be a Frankenstein
that we should all flee from in horror.

‘‘Now, just what it takes to make a
girl a howling social success is one of
the Dundreary things that no fellow has
yet found out. I have seen a girl to

- whom fate has dealt none of the trump

cards of wit, or beauty, or wealth, yet
who was besieged with admirers on
every hand. I have seen another girl,
with every trump in the deck in her
hands, who yet failed to win out.

‘“My own observation is that the
whole secret lies in the possession of the
right sort of mother. One girl hada
mother who knew her business. The
other had a mother who was a fatal han-
dicap, and if I were to try to givea girl
a recipe for popularity and social suc-
cess, I should begin, like the old-fash-
ioned cookery books, with: ‘First, se-
lect your mother with great care,’ and if
she did, there would be no use for any
further advice. The mother would do
the rest.

‘‘With the solitary exception of the
mother-in-law, no other individual has
come in for so much derision and abuse
as what is called the ‘managing moth-
er.’ She has been caricatured and lam-
pooned and slandered throughout the
length and breadth of the world, but so
far from being a figure of fun, she is a
heroine standing nobly at the post of
duty. Her daughter is her own to pro-
tect, to manage for, to place as advan-
tageously as she can in life, and she
does right to watch like a dragon over
her. We should think bad enough of
a father who let his son bankrupt him-
self by investing his all in some wild-
cat speculation, while a good invest-
ment stood waiting at his elbow, but if
a mother tries to keep her daughter from
wrecking her life hy marrying some no-
account fellow with whom the girl im-
agines herself in love, we hold her up
to scorn as a ‘managing mamma.’

“‘Every one who knows the world
knows that there are hordes of men who
are the butterflies of society, and who
have no intention whatever of afflicting
themselves with a wife and turning into
a family grub. They flit from flower to
flower in the ball room, monopolizing
the prettiest, the most attractive of each
season’s debutantes and driving eligi-
ble men away. The young girl is nat-
urally flattered at having won the ad-
miration of one so worldly wise and
such a connoisseur of beauty, and she
allows the man to fill up her dance
card, and camp on her parlor chairs,
and to take possession of her in a way
that is none the less real because it is
intangible. People begin to speculate
about an engagement, but there are
never any announcement cards. The
man has merely been amusing himself,
and in a season or two he will drop her,
as he has dropped others, | for.,some

newer and fresher face, absolutely and
cold-bloodedly indifferent to the fact
that he has stood in the way of the girl
making a good match and settling her-
self for life.

‘‘Every now and then you hear some
one wondering why such and sucha
handsome and attractive girl has never
married. Nine times out of ten the
answer is right here—that she hada
mother who was such an idiot she didn’t
know how to protect her daughter
against the social deadbeats of society.

‘* Another thing that foxy mamma—if
you have picked her out with the proper
care—will see to is that you are pre-
pared for the part you are to play. She
will recognize the fact that while life is
hard tack, it is also omelette souffle,and
that a girl’s education should consist of
frivols as well as substantials. Ifa girl
can learn but one thing, it is more
important to know how to comb her hair
pompadour than it is to know the multi-
plication table, and it will carry her
farther in the world; but, thank heaven,
there is no reason why she should not
adorn the inside of her head as well as
the outside.

‘‘But mothers need to get up-to-date
in their training. This is an age of
vaudeville, when we want to be amused,
and not instructed. Nobody will listen
while Miss Minerva Byrn Maw Vassar
discourses on protoplasms, or Aspasia
Paderewski renders a Wagner opus, but
we are all daft about little Kitty Jones,
who can play the banjo, or sing rag
time, or do any other kind of a clever
stunt. I did not make the world, my
children. 1 am merely giving you a few
tips on it, and I trust a hint to the wise
is sufficient.

‘‘Great also will be the regard of the
mother who has sense enough to run up
the ‘no gift’ sign on her banner, and
determination enough to live up to it.
Girls do not know it,but they cut them-
selves out of half of the pleasures they
might have by making the price of their
society so expensive it is prohibitory.
We go on the silly theory that we all
know is false, that everybody who goes
out in society is a millionaire, to whom
the price of American Beauty roses,
and chocolate creams, and a supper
pafter the play, is a mere bagatelle not
worth considering. The truth of the
matter is that while a young man could
often afford the theater tickets, he can

not scare up enough for the feed after
the play, or the flowers to precede it,
and so the girl stays at home.

‘*Worse still, the girls cut themselves
out of good husbands, for the men who
are worth marrying, the industrious,
hardworking fellows who are saving up
a little to go into business for them-
selves, and who are going to be the
merchant princes of to-morrow, are kept
out of society by its extravagant de-
mands, I once knew a woman who, not
even at Christmas or on their birthdays,
would permit her daughters to receive

 

the smallest gift. ‘I do not think it
delicate for girls to receive presents
from any one but their family,’ she an-
nounced astutely. Neither were they
ever allowed to go toa restaurant after
the play with a man, but always, when
they returned home, a delicious little
tete-e-tete supper was waiting in the
library. ‘Say, the Smiths are all right,’
was the universal comment of the horde
of men that swarmed about the com-
monplace Smith girls. ‘They do not
hold you up,’ and ina burst of grati-
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one of the girls was married in her first
season,

“‘It goes without saying, of course,
that no woman has a right to let herself
become an ‘awful warning.’ The big-
gest dunce of a man in the world, and
the most in love,never looks at a mother
without seeing in her the realization of
the prophecy of what her daughter will
be at the same age. He sees that the
rounded figure he admires so much at
20 may be Jumbo like at 50. He sees
that the youthful innocence he finds so
enchanting, may grow into middle-aged
Stupidity ; that, the piquant carelessness
in dress will end in slovenliness, and that
the little petulance of speech will de-
velop into a vinegar-tongued scold, and
if he has a grain of sense he sees while
there is yet time. Many a Maud who
wonders why Adolphus Augustus came
so near to the point, and then veered
off, can find the answer in her mother,

“On the other hand, an agreeable and
charming mother—a woman who isa
good housekeeper and manager, who is
bright, and cheery, and agreeable—is a
letter of recommendation for her
daughters that no man ever overlooks.
‘Here,’ he says, ‘is the kind ofa happy,
well-ordered home and the sort of agree-
able wife that I shall have if 1 marry
into this family.’ And he forthwith
does it. Disagreeable mothers always
call that kind of a woman a match-
maker, but she does it by presenting a
living picture of what a wife and
mother ought to be. A long time ago a
Latin poet sang the praises of the
‘beautiful mother of beautiful daught-
ers,’ and her charm holds just as good
now as it did then.

‘‘What part a mother should take in
the actual selection of her daughter’s
husband is a mooted question, and it
really does not matter, because she so
seldom has any say init at all, ut it is
my opinion she should hold a good,
stiff veto power. It is better to shed a
few tears and imagine your heart is
broken as a girl,than to know it is shat-
tered as an ill-treated and neglected
wife. One of the mysteries of the world
is the ostrich like quality of parents
that makes them bury their heads in a
newspaper, and let a dissipated and
worthless young fellow hang about the
house for a couple of years, and then
- makes them surprised when they find
that their daughter has fallen in love
with him. Then the parents try to
break the engagement with a crowbar,
instead of pouring over it a little of the
acid of tact, and let it dissolve of itself,
and the poor girl is made miserable
by those who love her, but do not know
how to manage her, and the end of the
affair is an elopement, and consequent
sorrcw and remorse.”’

The man of the world arose, and
lighted another cigarette. ‘‘To be the
mother of a debutante,’’ he went on,
‘‘requires the wisdom of a serpent,
the gentleness of a dove, the tact of a
Talleyrand and the staying powers of
a Jeffries, for all of a girl’s social suc-
cess, as well as her happiness in life,
depends on the kind of a mother she
has chosen. Bless you, my dears, I
hope you have made a wise selection.’’

Dorothy Dix.
———__> 4. __-
Too Few Women.

One hears so much about ‘‘surplus
women’’ that it is rather refreshing to
learn of places where there are so few
that they are actually clamored for. It
is said that in the Province of Manitoba
there is so small a proportion that the
colonists complain that homes are im-
possible for lack of wives.

 

The New Pine Needle Industry.

Southern Oregon and California have
given to the United States a new indus-
try, that of converting the fiber and ex-
tract of the pine needle into coarse
cloth, stuffing for mattresses and pillows,
toilet soaps, cough candies and syrup.
From the success with which the manu-
factured articles are meeting, and ow-
ing to the abundance of pine to be
found on the mountain ranges of the
coast, the industry promises to become
of more than ordinary importance in the
Western States. The industry has been
known in Germany for more than fifty
years, but it was not brought to the
United States until four years ago, the
first two factories being built in Grant's
Pass, where they -are doing a thriving
business to-day.

The trees from which the available
needles are picked are known as the
yellow, or bull pine. They are found in
abundance in Southern Oregon. The
needles are picked by men, women and
children ; 25 cents per hundred pounds
being paid for the work; 600 pounds
represents an average day’s picking for
one person. As soon as the needles are
picked they are hauled at once to the
factory, so as not to lose any of their
good qualities by wilting or exposure to
the sun. Arriving at the factory the
needles are dumped into huge steam-
ing vats, where they remain for six or
eight hours, until they become as soft
and flexible as rubber. The needles are
from eight to ten inches in length. The
extract of pine needle oil is secured
by the distillation of the needles in the
steaming vats. It requires 2,000 pounds
of needles to make one gallon of ex-
tract. This extract is used in making
pine needle syrup, soaps and candies.
These articles are noted for their medic-
inal qualities and their efficiency in the
curing of coughs, colds, and all diseases
of a pulmonary character.

The process of making the fiber or
pine needle wool is wholly mechanical,
[he needles are removed from the
steaming vat and conveyed to rolling
machines, which remove the inner part
of the needle and leave only the tough,
woolly,and silk-like outer coat. This is
a rich brown incolor. Then they go
through a washing, drying, and heating
process which, when complete, makes a
fluffy, soft, and light wool fiber that is
unsurpassed in many particulars as a
stuffing for mattresses, pillows, and
cushions. Mattresses and pillows stuffed
with this fiber are lighter than those
filled with wool, and nearly as light as
those stuffed with feather down. There
is a pleasant, permanent odor of the
pine forest emitted from such mattresses
and pillows that is a positive cure for
sleeplessness, headache, and bronchial
troubles. Thus far eighteen different
articles are manufactured from the pine
needle fiber and extract. The articles
are all meeting with popular favor
everywhere, and as all the Southern
Oregon farmers possess an_ endless
amount of the trees, which are benefited
by having the needles picked from them
in the spring and fall, the new industry
promises to become a most important
branch of the West’s agricultural in-
dustry.

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Be Square.

Do what you promise. Do not try to
evade in the slightest degree a promise,
although only inferred. When people
are convinced that you are conducting
business ‘‘on the square’’ you will have
laid a foundation for business success
that the floods of competition will not
shake. Instill this principle into your
clerks. When you advertise an article
for $2.49 let it be the genuine thing.
Do not try to palm off on customers
something worse, or even something
better. A serious mistake is made by
some merchants in advertising an ar-
ticle and then trying to convince cus-
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bargains advertised by the store are
trashy. A clerk lost a sale the other day
by trying to convince a lady that an
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Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

A well-posted man who was in Chi-
cago last week looking over the egg sit-
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cases of eggs left in the Chicago refrig-
rators at that time. There were sup-
posed to be about 550,000 cases there
October 1, and if both estimates are
nearly right it indicates an average re-
duction of about 6,400 cases per day,
counting six days to the week ; the same
rate of reduction would wind up the
Chicago holdings in forty-five days
more if the estimate of present holdings
is correct. But the rate of reduction
may decrease and holders in the big
Western city, although very firm on
high grade goods, are showing a dis-

position to keep the stock moving.
- 2 +

Over in Boston the rate of reduction
in refrigerator holdings since the first of
October has been about 1,400 cases a
day and if the same average should
continue the stock in that city would be
used up about the last week in Janu-
ary. But the time from November I to
December 15 is naturally the period of
greatest shortage in fresh goods and
greatest use of refrigerators; after the
latter date there are of course the pos-
sibilities of interference of bad weather
in respect to production, but ordinarily
we may expect increasing collections of
new eggs in the Southwest during the
last half of December and from that
time on the demand is likely to run
down to about the lowest point of the
season.

 

 

+) +

If it had not been for the South our
market would have been high and dry
for fresh eggs during the past couple of
weeks. Kentucky and Tennessee started
their goods this way just about in the
nick of time and the better grades of
these have been very acceptable to the
trade. A few brands run very good,
showing a good proportion of new eggs,
and exceptional lots have sold on about
even terms with the best Western; as a
rule, however, the Southern stock ranges
about Ic under Western quotations.

+ * +

The country has been so thoroughly
scraped for eggs during the past few
weeks that it seems as if the old coun-
try holdings ought to be pretty well
cleaned up by this time. And yet the
current arrivals still show a liberal pro-
portion of shrunken eggs, and their
presence causes a continued wide range
in net values. Very few of the ungraded
Western receipts have been salable
above 25c, and a. good many of them
have t6 go at 24c, owing to the large
proportion of old eggs still contained in
them. Some sales have ranged down to
23c and even lower in instances.

Fall packed fresh are now coming on
the market to some extent and they
show an exceedingly wide range of
value. There are a few lots that were
selected carefully when put away in
October for which present value comes
up pretty close to average prime fresh
gathered—say about 23@24c. We hear
of some other lots—longer held—offering
at 21@22c. Then there are some under
grade fall packings, put away in Octo-
ber during the time when our market
was overstocked with inferior grades of
fresh, for which holders would be glad

to accept 18@2oc.
* *

The Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station has lately issued a bulletin con-
taining the results of analysis of the

 

 

 

eggs of various domesticated fowls.
There appears to be a great similarity
in the proportion of shell, white and
yolk in the eggs of the different’ kinds.
On the average the shell constitutes
about one-ninth of the weight, the yolk
one-third and the white about five-
ninths of the whole. And of the white
about seven-eights is water. The yolk
is something less than half water. The
food value of the different kinds shows
very little variation ; of the whole edible
portion—white and yolk—the goose eggs
show the most protein, .151 pound,
while the duck egg has the least, .14
pound. The hen egg has .148. The
proportion of fat is somewhat more var-
iable, ranging from .105 pound (lowest)
in the hen egg up to.144 in the goose
egg and .145 in the duck egg.—N. Y.
Produce Review.
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What Happened to Miss Blake’s Turkeys.
From the Baltimore Sun.

Miss Sallie Blake, who lived near
Chesapeake Beach, Calvert county, Md.,
is well remembered by natives of that
county who now live in Baltimore. This
story of the lady and her turkeys is
vouched for by one of her former neigh-
bors now living in this city.

Miss Blake, like many country peo-
ple, was in the habit of gathering
chicken-grapes in the fall for the pur-
pose of making a palatable and stimu-
lating decoction by pouring over the
grapes the proper quantity of whisky
and allowing the mixture to stand for
the necessary time. It happened on
one occasion after the contents of a
demijohn containing the decoction had
been exhausted that Miss Blake emptied
the whisky-soaked grapes on_ the
ground, where her fine brood of turkeys
gobbled them up.

The turkeys became drunk—so drunk,
in fact, that they were soon lying on the
ground sleeping off their jag. Miss
Blake, not realizing the cause of their
stupor, thought they were dead. In or-
der to realize as much as possible out
of the supposed dead turkeys she had
them picked so as to get the feathers,
and the carcasses were thrown out
doors. The next morning Miss Blake
was surprised to see her turkeys walk-
ing about. They were alive, it is true,
but such a spectacle as they presented
with only their tail and wing feathers,
she had never seen before. In order to
protect them from the cold, she bought
enough red flannel to make each of them
a comfortable coat to replace the feath-
ers. The turkeys were soon stalking
about wearing their red coats, and
were the wonder of all beholders.

—— 2 -4-e

The Loss.

Harry—Well, yes, I suppose I was
rather hasty in proposing to her; but
the fact is, she looked so charming |
lost my heart.

Dick—You mean you lost your head.

L. O. Snedecor

EGG RECEIVER

36 Harrison St. New York

Reference—New York National Exchange
Bank, New York.

W. C. TOWNSEND,
Wholesale
Fruit and Produce Commission Merchant,
Eggs, Poultry, Veal, Etc.

References: Columbia National Bank, Dun’s and
Bradstreet’s Commercial Agencies.

84-86 W. Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Elk Street Market.

Geo. H. Reifsnider & Co.

Commission Merchants
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.

Special Correspondence.

New York, Nov. 23—Coffee has been
in light request during the week. The
market has. recently been so full of
‘*funny business’’ that buyers are fight-
ing shy of taking into store more than is
needed for present wants. The lack of
demand has had its effect and _ holders
are coming down from the high and
lofty position held a week ago. The
speculative market was almost at a
standstill, but what little business was
done was on a lower basis. At the close
Rio No. 7 is worth, in an invoice way,
656c. Receipts yesterday at Rio and
Santos were cabled as aggregating
73,000 bags. The stock in store and
atloat amounts to 2,346,380 bags, against
1,312,439 bags at the same time last
year. The receipts of coffee at Rioand
Santos from July 1 to Nov. 10 aggregate
8,932,000 bags against 5,936,000 bags at
the same time last year. Mild coffees
have made a fair showing for the week
and quotations are well sustained, Good
Cucuta being quotatble at gc. East In-
dia growths have met with fair sale and
full prices have been obtained.

The tea market is getting into better
shape right along and the change from
last summer is most gratifying. Indian
papers at hand this morning are strong-
ly advocating a good display of teas at
the forthcoming St. Louis exposition
and the probabilities are that both In-
dia and Ceylon will be with us in
‘‘great strength’’ upon that occasion.

The demand for sugar has, perhaps,
been all that could be expected at this
time of year and that is not much.
Buyers are simply taking enough to
meet requirements for the ‘‘ present oc-
casion,’’ and seem to have no particular
interest in the future.

The rice situation is about unchanged
and, upon the whole, is very satisfac-
tory to the seller. While the amount of
actual stock changing hands is not
large, the market is still pretty well
cleaned up and for the remainder of the
year it is likely we shall have firmly
sustained quotations.

More strength is shown in pepper,
but, aside from this, the situation is en-
tirely quiet. No changes of material
importance have been made in the
prices of any one article.

There has been a very satisfactory
trade in molasses and the whole situa-
tion is pleasing tothe seller, Buyers
realize that prices are not at all exorbi-
tant and seem willing to pay the ruling
quotations. The quality of recent ar-
rivals is very good, indeed, and reports
from the South indicate very favorable
prospects for the remainder of the sea-
son. Syrups are firm and unchanged.

After the rush of the past few weeks
it is but natural that we should have
something of a lull in canned goods,
and this is what we are now ‘‘enjoy-
ing.’’ It is very decided, too, for
hardly anything is being done. Retail-
ers have filied their shelves and will not
need any large amounts for some time
to come. There is a holiday demand
for certain lines of desirable goods, but,
upon the whole, the market is taking a
rest. There have been practically no
changes made in the general run of
quotations, tomatoes still firmly sustain-
ing their recent advance.

There is a fair jobbing demand in
dried fruits, but prices, upon the whole,
are hardly as firmly sustained. Califor-
nia prunes are lower and currants show
a slight advance. Nuts are selling
well and almonds, especially, are about

 

 

cleaned up temporarily. Tarragonas
are worth about 11 %c.

Lemons and oranges, bananas and
pineapples all have met with fair sale,

 

although naturally no large trade could
be expected in the first-mentioned ar-
ticle at this season. Sicily lemons are
worth $2.40@3.50 per box. Oranges,
Floridas, $2. 50@3. 50.

Butter is still advancing and the
market is so closely sold up and the ar-
rivals are so comparatively light that
the chances are good for at least present
quotations for the remainder of the year,
and probaby there will be still further
advance, but not much. Best cream-
ery is now quotable at 25c easily and

seconds to firsts, 20@24c; imitation
creamery, 15%@18c; factory, 14%@

1514c; renovated, 16@18c.

Fresh gathered Western eggs, 29c;
candled, 27c; regular pack, 23@26c.
The demand is sufficient tc take all sur-
plus stock of really good quality, but
lower grades are rather higher than buy-
ers care to pay and the market is in-
clined to sag, and yet quotations have
not shown any decline at all.

There is a pretty good demand for all
sorts of beans and quotations are firmly
maintained. Choice marrows, $2;
choice pea, $2; red kidney, $2. Io.

If your readers are in need of cocoa-
nuts it is a good time to buy, for the
market here is full and more are com-
ing, so that shortly the supply will be
numbered by the million. They are so
plenty that the market is low—in fact,
it takes a very good nut to bring over
$3.50 per 100,

Currants are in good supply and large
shipments are still due. The market
is pretty strong, however, owing, prob-
ably, to the light supply of some other

fruits.
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Export of Poultry.

‘‘l believe there are great possibili-
ties in the export poultry business if
properly conducted,’’ remarked a New
York dealer recently. ‘‘While I have
never studied into the matter very close-
ly nor exported any poultry, 1 have ac-
quaintances who have quite an extensive
trade with English buyers. There are
but few firms exporting poultry in any
quantities and these have made money
out of the business. It isn’t every one
who can enter this field, for in order to

be successful large quantities must be}

shipped and the Englishman’s demands
of quality, style, etc., must be studied
and catered to. The Londoner is very
cranky and notional in his selection of
poultry, but if you can send stock that
will please him, he will pay a good
price for it. Manchester and Liverpool
markets are easier to supply, as trade
there is not so critical as in London.
Priebe & Simater and Beyer Bros. are
two of the poultry firms exporting the
poultry from this country. Mr. Simater
has just returned from England and 1
believe Beyer Bros. have one or two
representatives over there now, presum-
ably arranging to supply poultry to va-
rious markets in Great Britain the com-
ing season.”’

“‘One thing that amuses me,’’ spoke
a gentleman who was listening to the
remarks of the dealer, ‘‘is the secrecy
these poultry exporters maintain about
the business. Of course, no one expects
them to give information that would
hurt their business, but one would think

from their actions that the business | |

would go to the bad if they spoke about
it. One could easily secure all the in-
formation on the subject necessary if he
cared to make the effort.’’

‘‘That is quite true,’’ replied the
dealer, ‘‘but it requires experience to
get next to the fine points of the busi-
ness, and it is generally these fine
points that one must know to make a
success of exporting poultry.’’

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On Her Own Head.
Mr. Buggins—Fifty dollars for a bon-
net! Why, madam, it’s a crime.
Mrs. Buggins—Well, the crime is on
my own head.

 

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WANTED

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that will make Chicago when you can not get them for other points and
that is why you should have a good reliable connection here to whom you
would feel safe in shipping or selling.

BY WRITING US

you will be making a move in the right direction. We handle potatoes
exclusively in carlots only and it will pay you to look us up and keep posted.

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We are making a specialty at present on fancy

Messina Lemons

Stock is fine, in sound condition and good keepers. Price very low. Write or

wire for quotations.

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Successor to C. N. Rapp & Co.
9 North Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Will be in good demand for

Thanksgiving

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

LONG LOST BROTHER.

 

Family Happily United by a Street Acci-
dent.
Written for the Tradesman.

The three met on the corner of Mon-
roe and South Division streets, all go-
ing about as fast as they could go in
different directions and they met with
something like a bang. Crawford Brace-
wood with his dress suit case took up
his full share of the sidewalk, little
Bracewood Merryweather with the
scrawniest turkey that ever got into
Grand Rapids didn’t mean to appropri-
ate more than his share, but he did, and
the wind, a stiff northeaster, seeing how
matters were going, just humped him-
self and butted plump into the other
two, all striking at the same instant and
—bang !—there the two were sprawling
all over the sidewalk, while the wind,
roaring with laughter, was away past
the Wellington before the big fellow
with the case had a chance to say
‘* Thunder !’’

It was forceful enough for both when
it did come and that was lucky, for poor
little Merryweather got the worse of the
encounter as the weak and the small al-
ways do. He didn’t let go of his tur-
key, small as it was and he was _ thank-
ful for that. If he had lost it he
wouldn't have known what to do. He
had been talking of that turkey as far
back as when the fall leaves began to
turn. He was fifteen years old you see,
and for a_ year now had been working
for his living and for more than a year
he had been telling the younger chil-
dren—there were two of them—that they
must sit up late on the night before
Thanksgiving and see the finest bird
that ever made a Thanksgiving dinner.
He was going to bring it home himself
so to have it on hand in the morning;
and when Crawford Bracewood stag-
gered to his feet and got back the breath
that the mite of a boy had knocked out
of him he saw the iad with the blood
streaming from his nose, still on his
knees, clinging to the tnrkey scarecrow
and hurt so that he wrinkled up his face
to cry, but bravely managed to keep
back all but two big tears that started
out all right but were snapped up by
the driving sleet before getting halfway
to the dropping off place.

If it hadn’t been so serious a matter
to the little fellow the big one would
have laughed at the bump and the tum-
ble and the bloody nose and the scrawny
turkey of his companion in misery;
but, seeing at a glance how matters
stood and feeling sorry for the little
wretched half-clad boy, he managed to
reach him, see him safely on his pins
and then taking him by the hand _has-
tened to the nearest drug store on Mon-
roe street.

Once out of the storm the young man
proceeded to repair damages so far as
both were concerned, and soon had
everything in good condition except the
few bruises, which it was easy to see
time would take good care of. Then
they wound up with a hot lemonade
and, that disposed of, the boy reached
down for his turkey with the evident in-
tention of starting for home.

‘*How far do you have to go, kid?’’
the man asked, listening to the wind
outside and looking at the thin gar-
ments the child had on.

‘Oh, it’s a good ways out South
Division and then a couple of blocks
from the corner. I’m must go, too, for
they'll wonder what’s become of me.’’

‘‘All right, come on. I’m going to
see you home all right. We'll takea
car. Clerk, just put my suit case on

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your side of the. counter, please, and
give the kid a paper big enough to
cover his turkey. That’s it. Now,
youngket, come on.’’

Once aboard, the two got down to-
gether and yielding to the overpowering
influence of some big peppermint drops
the boy at once became communicative
and repeated with enthusiasm the com-
ing glories of to-morrow’s feast. ‘‘ You
see, it isn’t because it’s such a good
one. I wanted to buy a better one, but
I didn’t have the money. The man
knows me and wanted me to take a bet-
ter one and he said he’d trust me fer
the rest; but I don’t want my mother to
eat another person’s turkey, would you,
now? and I said no and came away with
this. I’m not going to eat much of it,
you see. There’ll be a leg and a wing
for each of the children and mother
shall have the breast and I’m going to
have the part that goes over the fence
last and the wishbone—not any of the
meat, you know, but just the bone.’’

‘*Oh, I see. You are going to wish
with it and get your wish and have as
part of it another dinner!’’

‘*No, that isn’t it. I’m going to wish
for something that my mother wants
more than anything else in this world
and that’s her brother. She doesn’t
know where he is and she knows that if
he knew about us he’d come right here,
and then she’d have something more
than this scrimpy turkey for Thanks-
giving.’’

‘That'll be fine. Who is this brother
—what’s his name and what is yours?’’

‘We both have the same; and isn’t it
funny that his last name’s my first one?
My name is Brace Merryweather—the
whole of it is Bracewood—and his name
is Crawford Bracewood. My mother
says he’s awful good, and I’m sure he
is or she wouldn’t say so. So I made
mother and the children say that I might
have the wishbone and get my wish;
and Uncle Craw is coming—lI‘m just as
sure of it as I am sure of wishing. 1’ll
tell you what I’d just like: get my wish
and have mother look up and see Uncle
Craw sitting there and looking right at
her! Wouldn’t that be good! I don’t
see why all the Cinderella times should
have come away back there where you
can only read about them, do you?’’

The smile on the. young man’s face
was full of encouragement and _ the
loosened tongue talked on:

‘*Then mother’d fly at him and kiss
him and then he’d wave his wand—
well, you know what I mean—and then
when the dinner was over he’d go tothe
door and say, ‘Thomas, the carriage,’
and then we'd all get in and away
we’d go to our mansion on—on Fountain
street, where we would live for good
and not have any twelve o'clock struck,
when we would all have to go back to
my turkey bone!—The next street is
ours. You’re very kind, sir, and 1 thank
you very much. Are you going to get
off, too?’’

‘‘I’m going to see you safely home.
Now, then, off with you.’’

The two ste pped from the car.

‘*Now, then, give me that turkey and
run—you'll have to if you keep warm ;”’
and Indian-file they hurried away
through the sleet that every minute was
becoming more severe.

The distance was short and the boy
soon entered the gateway of a small
house, his companion following. Of
course there was no ceremony, the only
unusual motion made by the stranger
being the placing of his finger on his
lips while boy and man were both look-
ing into the face of the:gentlewoman

 

who stood in silent surprise to greet
them.

‘*Do not be alarmed, madam,’’ said
the stranger. ‘‘I ran into this boy of
yours in turning a corner and I thought
I could do no less than see him safely
home to pay for knocking him down.
Here is my card, and from what Brace-
wood has been telling me I shall not be
surprised to learn that we have some
common acquaintances at least.’’ =’

Beside the name the owner had man-
aged to write on the card, in spite of
the motion of the car, ‘‘It’s I, sure
enough.’’ A glance at the pasteboard
almost overcame her; but, reading what
was in the mind of her brother, Mrs.
Merryweather contented herself by ex-
tending her hand and greeting her visit-
or so cordially that he could not refuse
to be seated, late as it was. Then he
consented to share the meager supper;
when it was found that they did know
some dear friends in common and this
fact made it easy to extend the convet-
sation far into the night, a long time
after Brace had gone to bed at all
events.

When the deep sleep of childhood had
fallen upon the children, it did not take
long for the young man to tell his story
and to disclose his plans. Mishapsand
misunderstandings had both prevented
him from finding where his sister was
and only the day before had he learned
of her whereabouts and started to find
her. The future was already provided
for. He was to take them to the old
home in the East; but on Thanksgiv-
ing day little Bracewood’s wish was to
be carried out to the letter; and it was.
That scrawny turkey—well flanked with
an abundance of good things—gave up
its wishbone without a groan and—be-
lieve it or not—the wish all came true,

 

even in these non-Cinderella days. In
the midst of the feast the mother did
look up and sure enough there sat Uncle
Craw looking right at her, and *‘mother
did fly right at him and kiss him’’ and
every blessed young one did the same;
and after that they went on with their
dinner and ate until every little stomach
was as plump asa polywog! Then—a
wand is nothing but a cane—Uncle Craw
went to the door and waved it and
shouted ‘‘Thomas, the sleigh!’’ and in
less than no time up pranced a span of
the finest horses from Grand Rapids’
‘*swellest’’ stable with a splendid sleigh
behind them—the storm having done its
best to make up for last night’s mis-
chief—and away they went, buried in
robes, all over the city, taking in Foun-
tain street to make Brace’s wish come
true. Best of all, when twelve o’clock
struck they didn’t have to go back to
the turkey bone nor the old condition.
Uncle Craw stayed Uncle Craw; they
didn't lose the glass slipper; the sleigh
didn’t change back into a pumpkin,
nor the horses into rats. In fact the
fairy days have returned and the Merry-
weather children told me only yester-
day with a seriousness that places the
matter beyond dispute that ‘‘there are
fairies and wizards and such things just
as there used to be, and Uncle Crawford
Bracewood is one of them !’’
Richard Malcolm Strong.
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A Tired Voice.

The children had written compositions
on the giraffe. They were reading them
aloud to the class. At iength the time
came for little Willie to read his. It
was as follows:

‘‘The giraffe is a dumb animal and
can not express itself by any sound,
because its neck is so long that its voice
gets tired on its way to its mouth.’’

 

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Commercial Travelers

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

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. ¢. 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.

 

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Hastings—Wm. Shulters succeeds Guy
Crook as-clerk for Chidester & Burton.

Cadillac—Albert Rupers has taken
charge of L. B. Bellaire’s new meat
market.

Newaygo—Charley Anderson, a popu-
lar clerk in the Pearson Bros. & Rebers
department store, was married one day
last week.

Elk Rapids—Lew. Pollard, prescrip-
tion clerk for T. W. Preston, has en-
gaged to travel in Eastern Michigan for
the Scotten Tobacco Co., of Detroit.

Holland—James Van Dyke has taken
a clerkship in the general store of E. S.
Gale.

Sault Ste. Marie—A. H. Sherman,
who has been prescription clerk for N.
D. Morrish for several years, has re-
signed his position in that pharmacy
to accept a similar one in Bad Axe.

Kalamazoo--J. Roy Carpenter, of
Harley, Ont., has a position in the drug
store of John L. Wallace.

Clare—Hiram Sattison has sold his
grocery stock at Thompsonville and re-
turned to this city to assume charge of
Bicknell Bros.’ grocery department.

Traverse City—James McEvoy, for
twenty-five years in the drug business
and,a well-known citizen of Manistee,
having been in business there many
years, has been engaged to take charge
of the drug department of the Hannah
& Lay Mercantile Co.’s store.

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Hides, Pelts, Tallow, Furs and Wool.

The hide market fluctuates but little.
Dealers hold firm for higher prices,
which tanners are not inclined to pay.
So far, tanners have the best of it on
light hides, and prices are inclined to
go lower rather than higher. Stocks are
not large, with sales made for future de-
livery, which tends to hold prices
lower.

Pelts have sold freely the past week at
full asking prices. Values tend up-
ward, with stocks well cleaned up.

Furs open up with a strong demand
and higher values on some kinds. The
demand is for holiday trade. Prices are
not well established.

Tallow is strong at a fair advance,
with trade active. There is no accum-
ulation.

Wool is still selling freely at a fair
advance. Prices on fleece are fully 1%4c
above last month. The demand is good
and large lots have changed hands in the
State. The outlook for future trade is
good,as large quantities are being used.

Wm. T. Hess.
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Gripsack Brigade.

Kalamazoo Gazette-News: A. E.
Knight, of this city, traveling salesman
for Amstein Bros. & Muir, of Cleve-
land, has been notified that his busi-
ness is temporarily suspended on account
of a destructive fire which has crippled
the firm’s activities for a few weeks.
Chas. H. Smith (Wm. Barie Dry

 

Goods Co.) has gone to Binghamton,
N. Y., to spend Thanksgiving with
his mother, who is now 87 years of age.
Mr. Smith makes this pilgrimage every
year and asserts that he will continue
the custom as long as his mother lives.
A Westphalia correspondent writes as
follows: A Grand Rapids traveling
man and a party. of young men from
this village went hunting a few days
ago and brought home a tame duck,
which one of the party had bought of
a farmer and tben shot, expecting their
friends would mistake it for one of the
wild kind. The substitution was read-
ily discovered, however, and the laugh
was on the hunters.
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Hotel Whitcomb.

Alonzo Vincent, of the firm of Vin-
cent & Blake, proprietors of Hotel
Whitcomb, St. Joseph, Michigan, has
just been appointed Warden of Jackson
Prison and will assume the duties of
that office on December 1. The hotel
will, however, continue under the same
management which has made _ the
‘*Whitcomb’’ so popular with the trav-
eling fraternity for so many years. This
hotel is modern in all its appointments,
with electric light, steam heat, eleva-
tor, fine sample rooms, fine beds and
excellent cuisine. The ‘‘boys’’ will al-
ways find a warm welcome in this popu-
lar hostelry.

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Bay City Endorses Mark Brown.

Saginaw, Nov. 25— Bay City Post has
endorsed the candidacy of Mark S,
Brown as Secretary of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, and the members
expect to accompany the Saginaw dele-
gation cn a special train to Lansing on
Dec. 26.

Post F (Saginaw) gives their first an-
nual ball at their hall on Dec. 7. Over
125 tickets have already been sold. We
expect from 125 to 150 to go on the spe-
cial train to Lansing on Dec. 26,

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Not Durable.

**Marriages may be made in heaven, ’’
he said, thoughtfully, ‘*but if so, they’re
dealing in a cheaper grade of goods up
there every year. They don’t last any-
thing like the way they used to.’’

——__~>_¢._—_

Hillsdale—The Jerome Brick & Tile
Jo. has filed articles of association with
a Capital stock of $25,000. The officers
are: T. J. Lowry, of Jerome, Presi-
dent; H. S. Walworth, of Jerome,
Treasurer; G. S. Cook, of Brooklyn,
Secretary, and L. J. Slown, of Jerome,
and W. P. Miner, of Battle Creek,
Managers. The company has _ been
formed to develop the large clay beds
at Jerome, on the Lake Shore & Mich-
gan Southern Raiiroad.

 

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Zeeland—The partnership heretofore
existing between Benjamin and Sybrant
Dykhuizen and Geo. Hoekzema, of the
Great Western Novelty Wood Working
Co., has been dissolved, the latter re-
tiring and the former two continuing
the business. Mr. Hoekzema has en-
gaged with the Wolverine Specialty Co.
and will have charge of its plant, which
will be in operation in about a month.

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Grace—C, A. Begle has sold his in-
terest and severed his connection with
the Grace Harbor Lumber Co. and
Lewis H. Jones, a prominent manufac-
turer of Detroit, has been elected Vice-
President. The Grace Harbor Lumber
Co, is putting in logs near its new mill
at this place.

Kalamazoo—Clarage & Sons have
leased temporarily the old plant of the
St. John Plow Co. in connection with
their Church street foundry and ma-
chine plant and will put a force of men
at work there Dec. 1 in the foundry un-
til the new plant of Charles Clarage is
completed.

 

Make Money For Others, But Not For
Themselves.

(The writer of the following article,
Harry T. Nisbet, sold shoes on the road
for twenty-eight years. Mr. Nisbet has
written the article from practical exper-
lence. He knows whereof he speaks in
this particular, for, although a success-
ful salesman, he himself has become a
living example of the fact about which
he writes. In the days of prosperity he
paid too little heed to laying aside
money, and six years ago he met with
an accident which caused lameness and
later rheumatism, from which he has
suffered ever since. He continued, how-
ever, to sell shoes until about two years
ago, when he became so lame he could
no longer continue in his calling, and
being without money he was obliged to
go to the almshouse on Blackwell’s Is-
land, New York City, where he fears he
will be obliged to remain during the
rest of his life. He is unable to walk
a single step and has become nearly
blind. However, by means of spectacles
he is yet permitted to see sufficiently to
read, and sitting beside his cot in the
open ward with nearly seventy men, all
of them partially or wholly blind, he
reads the daily papers aloud, and thus
occupies much of his time. )

It is a conceded fact that the com-
mercial traveler has become an almost
indispensable factor in the business
world. Less than a half century has
passed since his services were called
into being, but during this time the
growth and development of the United
States has been far greater than all pre-
vious time since the discovery of Amer-
ica,and no very small part has been the
services of the intelligent, active com-
mercial traveler in aiding this great and
wonderful growth and development.
His valuable services soon became
known and recognized by the enterpris-
ing manufacturers and wholesale mer-
chants in the sale and distribution of
their wares, which by their tireless
energy, perseverance, tact and ability
has rapidly spread, until at present the
hustling ‘‘drummer’’ can be found
wherever civilization has entered and
progress has begun.

Not alone where merchandise is to be
disposed of is the ability of the shrewd
commercial traveler sought and em-
ployed, but we find, all over this coun-
try, and I might say almost the entire
world, able, active, shrewd business
men, not alone representatives of the
factory, mill, mine and merchant, with
samples of their wares and products,
but also, as a product of the methods
of the sharp commercial traveler, we
find able men as agents for large corpo-
rations and vast schemes for the de-
velopment of almost everything which
goes to aid the progress and growth of
this vast country.

Only a few years ago the manufac-
turer or wholesale merchant depended
upon the retailer to come to him, at his
place of business, to make his pur-
chases. But since the advent of the
traveling salesman this has changed and
to-day the manufacturer or wholesale
dealer who attempts to sit down in his
office and await the coming of custom-
ers to him will soon find his more en-
terprising competitor (who employs
competent, hustling commercial travel-
ers) is enlarging his business and rap-
idly taking the trade which he has been
idly waiting for.

The army of commercial travelers has
become a force and factor in the de-
velopment of business that is little
realized by a iarge majority of people.
The successful salesman must be a
wide-awake, observing, persevering,
hard working, intelligent person, who,
if he remains in the position, must prove
himself strictly honest and thoroughly

 

reliable. Nothing can add to the suc-
cess of the salesman so much as _ being
able to command and _ hold the confi-
dence, not alone of his employer, but
also, and particularly, the confidence
of his customers.

The writer has had an experience as a
traveling salesman nearly thirty years,
and believes he can say with truth,
without conceit, he was considered a
good one, being successful in placing
his wares. But,considered in the sense
of being called a successful salesman,
it can be truthfully said that a great
majority of salesmen who have made a
success doing business for other people
have not been financial successes unto
themselves.

It may seem a difficult matter to ex-
plain why this is so, but to the writer’s
mind, in the light of his own experi-
ence, even the best and most successful
salesman reaches a limit of earning ca-
pacity; his salary or earnings depend-
ing upon a small percentage on his
sales, and a continuance of same upon
the endurance of his physical and men-
tal powers. His mind is entirely ab-
sorbed in his vocation, striving by
every honorable means to increase his
sales and thereby increase his salary or
earnings, and he has no time to devote
to outside personal matters for invest-
ment or speculation.

The necessary expenses of the com-
mercial traveler are large. It can al-
most be said he has his hand in his
pocket nearly all the time fishing up
the requisite funds for the payment of
hotel bills, railroad fares, extra baggage
charges, express and transfer of bag-
gage, car and cab fares, tips, etc., etc.,
and he is thus obliged to be constantly
passing out the cash, so that it becomes
almost second nature, and he scarcely
stops to realize the vast amount of
money which in the aggregate he thus
expends.

He must be well and neatly attired to
make himself presentable to the mer-
chant or business man, for there is some
truth in the adage, *‘The apparel oft
proclaims the man.’’ As he passes out
the money for all these expenses he be-
comés so accustomed to spending money
that he little realizes its value, and be-
ing subjected to all temptations and
habits that are expensive (which the
majority of men in other walks of life
are not so subjected to) he naturally
drifts along carelessly, little thinking
that the time will ever come to him
when he may be sorely in need and find
himself destitute.

With all these things to contend with,
while thousands of commercial travelers
are successful in disposing of goods
with much profit to their employers, a
very small percentage of them ever be-
come rich or accumulate much with
which to provide against the time of
sickness, accident or old age, and many
of them find themselves in the days of
decline dependent upon charity, and
some of them possibly spend their last
days inan almshouse. Of course, there
are exceptions (as there are to all gen-
eral rules), but we see it so frequently
demonstrated that many salesmen, who
are successful in selling merchandise
and transacting business for the profit
of others, fail to use good judgment in ©
making a personal success financially,
the writer concludes that a very small
minority ever accumulate much wealth
for themselves in the vocation of com-
mercial traveler.—Boot and Shoe Re-
corder.

The Warwick

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

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

 

 

Term expires
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901
H=ENRY HEM, iw - - Dee. 31, 1902
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A. 0G. CHER, : ;
JouN D. MurE, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905

President, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Secretary, Y Heim -
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.

Examination Sessions.

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.

President—JoHN D. Mutk, Grand Rapids.
Secretary—J. W. SEELEY, Detroit.
Treasurer—D. A. HAGENS, Monroe.

 

 

Concerning the Sale of Carbolic Acid.

As is done hundreds of times every
year, a woman in New York recently
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. It was shown at the inquest that
the poison had been purchased of a
druggist by the victim’s eleven-year-old
son. Some of the jurors wanted the
druggist censured for selling the poison
to a minor, claiming the act illegal.
The coroner, however, declared that
there was no provision of the poison
law forbidding the sale of poison to
minors, and that the druggist could
therefore not be properly condemned ;
and so no reference was made to the
druggist in the verdict.

For ourselves, we can not hold the
druggist quite so guiltless,even although
he conformed to the letter of the law.
It is our opinion that a poison used so
often as carbolic acid for suicidal pur-
poses should not be sold without consid-
erable precaution. It should certainly
not be sold to an eleven-year-old child.
There is unfortunately no provision in
the new all-State pharmacy law in New
York against the sale of poison to
minors; moreover, carbolic poison, as
is quite generally the case with phar-
macy laws, is put in schedule B, with
the poisons of which no registration of
sale is required, and no assurance from
the purchaser that he is familiar with
the dangerous character of the poison
and wants it for a legitimate purpose.
Both these defects are remedied in Pro-
fessor Beal’s model law, approved last
year by the A. Ph. A. Minors under
sixteen years of age may not be sold
poisons ; and the sale of all listed pois-
ons must be registered; besides, the
purchaser must desire the substance for
a lawful purpose and be familiar with
its dangerous character.

But even without definite law the
druggist should, in the sale of poisons,
be a law unto himself, using every pre-
caution, striving especially to avoid
lending himself to suicidal purposes,
and remembering that he is a legally
qualified defender of the public health
and welfare. To sell undiluted carbolic
acid to a child, even although the law
allow such an act, and even although it
be done quite commonly by druggists,
is yet an act which, in our judgment,
pharmacists should never commit who
realize the obligations that rest upon
them as public servants.

In this connection it may not be out
of place to remark that a resolution was
passed at last year’s meeting of the
American Pharmaceutical Association
urging the pharmacists of the country to
sell for domestic purposes a 25 per cent.

solution of carbolic acid in alcohol, in- | P

stead of the ordinary strong acid which
contains only enough glycerin or water
to hold it in liquid form. This resolu-
tion was passed after a paper had been
read by Professor Howell, in which it
was convincingly shown that alcohol,
especially if administered early, was,
as had previously been reported a most

 

effective antidote for the acid; and it
may be said that since the Richmond
meeting this truth has received abun-
dant confirmation. Mr. Hynson sug-
gested during the discussion of Profes-
sor Howell’s paper that some effort be
made to have laws passed in the various
states compelling the sale of the alco-
holic solution of the acid for domestic
purposes, If it be found that the acid
loses none of its properties by this
means, such action is certainly to be re-
garded as of the utmost practical im-
portance. In the absence of such laws,
however, would it not be well for con-
scientious pharmacists to take the step
of their own accord?—Bulletin of Phar-

macy.
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The Drug Market.

Opium—Is a little firmer, but the
price is unchanged.

Morphine—An advance of 20c per
oz. is believed to be one that will stay
for some time, as it is understood that
manufacturers have come to an agree-
ment.

Quinine—Is firm and unchanged.

Citric Acid—Has declined Ic per Ib.,
on account of competition.

Alcohol—Is very firm, on account of
high price for corn.

Balm Gilead Buds—Are in very small
supply and high prices rule.

Cod Liver Oil—Is higher in primary
markets and there will no doubt be an
advance here.

Oil Anise—Is
higher.

Oil Lemon Grass—Is very scarce and
has again advanced.

Oil Peppermint—Is in good demand
and steadily advancing.

Oil Lemon—Has declined.

Gum Tragacanth—lIs very scarce and
steadily advancing.

Gum Guaiac—Is advancing.

African Ginger—Is scarce and has ad-
vanced.

Gum _ Shellac—Is advancing daily.
Stocks are small and there are only a
few holders.

Linseed Oil—Is weak and lower.

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Chemical Composition of Calcium Lacto-
phosphate.

In a paper read at the recent meeting
of the A. Ph. A., at St. Louis, Lyman
F, Kebler said that very little informa-
tion exists in literature relative to this
product. It is described as a white,
hard, shiny, scaly crystal, yet he was
sure that no one ever saw the article
commercially in this form. It is gen-
erally supposed to consist of calcium
lactate, lactic acid, and calcium phos-
phate ; an excess of lactic acid being al-
ways present to render the product sol-
uble. According to Mr. Kebler’s ex-
perience the presence of the lactic acid
does not account for the solubility of tbe
calcium lacto phosphate. The reason
why calcium lactophosphate is soluble
is because it is composed almost entire-
ly of soluble products, namely, calcium
lactate, calcium acid phosphate, lactic
acid, and a small amount of normal
calcium a. The latter is prob-
ably rendered soluble by the presence of
the calcium acid phosphate and a small
quantity of lactic acid.

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Systematic Smuggling.

Last month five men were arrested in
Detroit for counterfeiting the labels and
packages of the Elberfeld Farbenfab-
riken Co. the manufacturer of aristol,
henacetine, sulphonal, trional, etc. It
1s believed that these men were carry-
ing on a systematic business in buying
the drugs on Canadian soil, smuggling
them across the river, and putting them
up in packages counterfeiting those of
the company used for the American
trade. It is also thought that in some
instances even the drugs of the com-
pany were not used, and substitutes
employed instead.

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Artificial Cultivation of Ginseng in Ken-
tucky.

Ginseng is exported from the United
States in large quantities to China, and
the natural supply is rapidly becoming
exhausted. Only from the almost in-
accessible mountain lands of West
Virginia and Eastern Kentucky and
Northern Tennessee (largely culled dry)
can we expect to get the vanishing sup-
ply of ginseng for the future, a sup-
ply that in 1886 amounted to 80,000
pounds from the city of Cincinnati
alone. The early failure of the natural
supply of a drug needed in such large
quantities has of recent years suggested
artificial cultivation, and an _ enterpris-
ing gentleman in Northern Kentucky
has_ successfully established what he
calls a ‘‘ginseng garden.’”’

This garden belongs to Mr. S. Long,
of Union, Boone county, Ky. It is sit-
uated in the shade on the side of a hill,
and is fenced in by a tall paling fence
with narrow cracks between the palings.
About ten feet in height it is covered
with three-inch slats, between which
about 34-inch space is left for light, and
in very hot weather in the summer the
top is covered loosely with brush. We
thus briefly describe the surroundings
of the garden. Inside it bears the ap-
pearance of any vegetable garden under
proper conditions where the stock seems
to be thrifty and in its native element,
and as I found Mr. Long very willing
to impart information concerning the
same, I hereby relate, in his own words
as he gave it, his experience with this
ginseng garden:

I secured first about 300 plants from
the woods where ginseng naturally grows
in this section of the country. These
plants were taken up with great care,
plenty of dirt being left on the roots.
They were carried in the cool of the day
from their native location to the garden
I had prepared. The earth was such as
I would have used for the purpose of
raising onions, a rich loamy soil. These
plants were set out about six inches
apart, the rows being about six inches
from each other. I did not notice in any
instance that the transplanting dis-
turbed the early plants in the least.
From these 300 plants I collected the
first year about 3,000 seed. That fall
when the seeds had ripened I collected
from the woods about 600 more plants,
which I planted in the same manner as |
had done the 300 plants, making a total
of goo roots. .The following spring,
out of the goo roots, 800 came up, mak
ing a good crop of seed. To this I will
add that of the plants set out in the fall
there was a greater proportion lost than
of the plants that were set out in the
growing season. The seeds that rip-
ened in July, if planted at once, will
come up the next spring; those that
ripened later do not come up until the
second spring. I can not give the pro-
portion of loss in sprouting. The first
year's plant is a little three-leaved
spindle, and the growth is very slow.
As is weli known, the scars left by cast-
off stalks give the age of the root. I
have plants in my garden that are at
least twenty years of age. 1 am culti-
vating ginseng both for the root and for
the seed, the seed at this time being
very costly, although the root only has
any commercial value except for plant-
ing. I am enlarging my garden as
rapidly as possible and use all the seed
that is produced, at present having
none to distribute.

It will be seen from the above that
Mr. Long supplies from his own experi-
ence in a ginseng section of the country
just the data to serve persons concerned
in drug cultivation. The fact that he
did not go to the woods for natural dirt
seems in my mind to be of great _inter-
est, for it is certain that.in any section
of the country a slat garden after the
manner of Mr, Long’s garden can be
easily,put up, and it is also easy to ob-

 

 

tain mature plants from gatherers by
paying them an additional price there-
for. As the writer of this paper pre-
dicted years ago, either cultivation
must be given such plants as ginseng
and hydrastis, or they must within a
oderate period become extinct.
John Uri Lloyd.
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Handling Sulphuric Acid.

Be an operator as careful as he can
in the handling of a sulphuric acid
bottle, if frequently in use some of the
corrosive substance will find its way
down the sides of the receptacle to the
shelf or counter upon which it rests. To
obviate the unpleasant effects which re-
sult when no protection is given the
woodwork of the shelf or table, let a
small glass plate, somewhat larger than
the diameter of the acid bottle, be put
beneath the container. This will offset
the harmful influence of the last drop
which trickles down the sides of the re-
ceptacle to mingle its energy with that
of the drop before it. The glass plate
should be frequently washed well. In
our laboratory we have what is termed
an ‘‘acid shelf,’’ which, instead of be-
ing of wood, is entirely of glass three-
eighths of an inch thick. This is for
the support of the smaller acid bottles,
in company with such alkaline solutions
aS ammonia water and solutions of po-
tassa and soda. The larger acid con-
tainers of glass rest on a glass shelf
much more substantial. Shelves of this
pattern are much more practical and
satisfactory from all view-points than
the common kind of wood. They can
be removed from their positions at any
time, and cleaned perfectly in running
water. They do not prematurely ac-
quire the neglected and aged look pe-
culiar to acid shelves of wood.

Joseph Hostelley.

 

 

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Declined—Oil Lemon, Linseed Oil.

Acidum —- AG co = 60 2
Aceticum ..... .$ 6@$ 8| Copaiba............. 1 15@ 1 25
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75|Cubebe...... . 130@ 1 35 @
Boracic.............. @ 7 — - 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures
pie ggg icdee oes 30@ 42 geron ..... - 100@ 1 10 Aconitum Napellis R
Citricum............. 5@ 48 Gaultheria ..... . 2 00@ 2 10 A itum N. llis F
Hydrochior....1..." “sq 6 | Geranium = i 2 24

Seis ae ial 10 | GOssIppil, Sem = aM

Oxatteum 0.2 °-. 19 14) Hedeoma.....-.".°- 1 oog x 75| Alone and Myrrh

Phtesmerian, ai.. @ 15|Junipera ..... ” 1 50@ 2 00 | Atmica ..............
Salleviicum ce oe : 2 BB Lavendula a : 90@ 2 00 Assatooiida:
Sulphuricum ........ K@ iolM ae ee : a 1 35 | ‘auranti Cortex......
ae Mentha Verid.<°-.. 1 50@ 1 60 BEMZOIN |. +2 2+ +--+

Ammonia =a “ai Bal sie re = Barosma... nie
Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ 6) Ol ive. ee Seva ve 75@ 3 00
Aqua, 20 de B-. Dice daa 4 8 | Picis Liquida........ 10@ 12
Carbonas.. dooce uae 15 | Picis Liquida, Sal. @ 35
Chloridum........... 12@ 14 = cina — Le = : S
Rosmar oe
nt Ros, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50
POGUE eo 40@ 45
PO oe cn 9@ 1 00
Looe wale ods cules 2 75@ 7 00
Sassafras 55@ 60
Sthapls, ess., ‘ounce. 65
Cubebe........ 0,25 22@ 24} LIBMI..............4. 1 1 60
Sunt erus...... . ; ~ 2 Thyme. Sy 2 60
9 OPb.... ceseee
Xanthoxylum . : Theobromas ........ 15@ 20
Balsamum
50@ 55 Potassium
— @ 1 85 Bicnromai 2 = 18 = eae ta +
wee cece cess cere e pas. 1 15 ulaca ammon......
Terab Cae: --- oe S ae «.. Jeeccce | en Oe ee suis
ee ee a 12@ 15
Cortex Chlorate. -po. 17@19 16 18 — colorless.
Abies, Canadian..... 18 | Cyanide ............. 38 MNO 2... eee eee ween
Oadsioes oc... $2 | Noda 2 = 2 40 Lobelia :

Cinchona Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure UT kc sate oe
Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. 2 15 | Nux — Aaa sade
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7 10 | Opii..

Prunus Virgini Dadecs 14 | Potass Nitras.. 6@ 8B Opil, comphorated..
Quillaia, gr’d........ 12 | Prussiate. . sesee 20Q 26 _ = orized.....
Sassafras .. . 20 15| Sulphate po......... 16@ 18/| Quassia .............
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix hatany. .

Extractum Aconitum 20@ 25] San
oc cece ee voce guinaria..
Glycyrrhiza = 24@ «(25 | Althe................ 30@ 33) Serpentaria .. i
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@ 30/ Anchusa. 10@ 12) Stromonium.........
Hematox, 15 : box es 12; Arum po. Ese @ Bi tanta ||)...
Heematox, 18......-. 13) 14} Calamus... . 20@ 40) Valerian ............
Heematox, %s....... 14@ 15} Gentiana...... ‘po. 16 1 15| Veratrum Veride...
Hzematox, 48..:..... 16@ 17} Glychrrhiza...pv. 15 1 18 | Zingiber.............
Ferru —— a anaden. @ = Miscellaneous
an., po.

Jarbonate Precip... 15 Hallebore, Ali po. 12@ 15 7. Spts. Nit.2 F 30@
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25/ Inula, po.. eg 92 | Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 34@
Citrate Soluble...... 75 | Ipecac, po. 3 ae 3 75 mien 24@
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 | Tris plox.. ‘po. 6038 35@ 40] Alumen, gro’d..po. 7
Solut. Chloride... 15 Jalapa, pr. . 30 | Annatto.............. 40@
Sulphate, com’l.. 2 Sacued ta, \s.. i = 35 | Antimoni, PPotiss 4 4@
Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyiium, Po. 22 2 —— es 40@

Dbl, per cwt....... 80 75@ 1 00 | Antipy: ris es

Sulphate, pure...... 7 ithe, egg nan @ 1 25 | Anti Sprin
Flora i, py ae 75@ 1 35 — Nittas, oz..
Spigel a. 35@ 38| Arsenicum..........

Arnica «....0---+++- OG 25 | Sanguinaiia...po.is —@ 18| Balm Gilead Buds. 45@
a 30@ 35 Serpentaria Ua a 50@ 55| BismuthS.N.. 1 65@
Matricaria........--- nega 60@ 65 | Calcium Chior., aa. @
Folia eae officinalis H. @ 40/| Calcium Chior., ¥s.. @
Baros 36@ 38] Smilax, M.. @ 25| Calcium Chlor., 4s. @
Cassia  Acatifol, “Tin- Scillz . Bo. 36 10@ 12/| Cantharides, Rus.po @
nevelly 20@ 25 Symplocarpus, ceti- Capsici Fructus, @
Cassia, Acutitol, ‘Aix. 25@ 30| dus, po............ @ 25| Capsici Fructus, po. @
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,ing. po.30 - @ 25|CapsiciFructusB,po @

nd ten 12@ 20] Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 ———- _ 15 12@

Urea Uri ee 8@ 10| Zingibera........... 14@ = 16 | Carmine, No. 40..... @
gical Zingiber j............ 25@ 27 — a a
Acacia, 1st picked... @ 65 a occus ........ @
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 45) Anisu - po. @ 15| Cassia Fructus @
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35 plum (i (eravéieons) 13@ 15 oe @
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 2 4@ ~=s6 || Cetaceum.. Bt
Acacia, po. 45@ 65| Carul.. --Po. ‘15 10@ 11| Chloroform .
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12@ 14 Cardamon. . .... 1 26@ 1 75 | Chloroform, ‘squibbs @
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ 12 Coriandrum.......... 8@ 10} Chioral Hyd Crst.... 1 40@

oe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30 yn a ee: ee 4%@ 5 | Chondrus............ 200@
Ammoniac........... 55@ 60 | Cydoniu --- 75@ 1 00! Cinchonidine,P.&W 38@
Assafcetida.. —_ 40 25@ 40) Cheno = a 15@_ 16| Cinchonidine,Germ. 38@
Benzoinum .. ..-- 5O@ 55} Dipterix x Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 = Cocaine ............. 5 B@
Catechu, 18.........- @ 13] Foeniculum.......... @ Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
Catechu, 4S........- @ 14| Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9 Creosotum........... @
Catechu, 44S........- a Ck aE See ia 38%@_ ~=s 5 || Creta.. .. Dbl. 75 @
Campnore........-. 2 ° a ; re... bbl. 4 Te ; a Greta, prep. a oes s

— 10. 35 obelia ... reta, precip........
Senn a re on @ 1 00) Pharlaris Canarian.. 44%@  5| Creta, Rubra. Ce @
caaene Beas o 65@ 70| Rapa -- 4%@ 5] Crocus. ol oe
Guaiacum...... po. 25 @ 30|Sinapis Alba.. 9@ 10| Cudbear.. ate @
Kino........p0. $0.75 @ .75| Sinapis Nigra. . 11@ = 12| Cupri Suiph.. ace 6%@
— a = = Spiritus naga ares ae

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Opit ..sP0. 4304.90 3 30@ 3 35 | Frumenti, = = — 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, allnumbe:s. @
Shellac .............. 35@ 45 Frumenti, - 2 00@ 2 25 Emery ER @
Shellac, bieached. 10@ 3 oe ee ae ape ee — a .ele Fle wil --P0. 90 85@
Tragacanth.......... Junt ane Cee 1 75@ 3 50 e oka aaa =

Herba arum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10 one &@
Absinthium..oz. PEE 25 Set Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50 Gelatin, Gouger Po @
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 ni Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 Gelatin, French. .... 35@
Lobelia ...... oz. pkg 96) Vini Alpa:........... 1 25@ 2 00| Glassware, flint, box 75
Malena Pip. = ia = Sponges ois’: than box.....

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Mentha Vir-.07. pkg 3 eo ee ae a a 15

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Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22 Nassau shoes" wool asd pata ca cab ste- ie
Thymus, V...oz. pkg 25 | _Carriage............ ; Humalus

Vaivet aha sheeps 25@
Magnesia 1, carriage. .... @ 150 Hydrarg. Chlor Mite @
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @
Carbonate, Pat 18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, ae Ammoniati @
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage. @ 100 a rargUnguentum 50@
Glens Hard, for slate use.. @ 75 = Targyrum ....... @
.,| Yellow Reef, for Ichthyobolla, Am... 65@
Absinthium......... 7 00@ 7 20| slate use........... @ 1 40 | Indigo...............  75@
Amygdalez, Dulc.. 38@ 65 s Iodine, ers 3 40@
Amygdale, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 las Iodoform............ 3 60@
ee 1 85@ 2 00 Juels) SO) Raa oy
Auranti Cortex 2 10@ 2 20} Auranti Cortex...... @ 50 Lycopodium. . puece css |, COM
Bergamil .........-.- 2 60@ 2 75 | Zingiber............. @ 50 fi - 6@
Cajiputi .. 80@ 85 | Ipecac........ @ 60 — Arsen et Hy-
Caryophyil.. a 75@ 80} Ferri i. i @ wo nies @
wesecse-eeeee 60@ 85] Rhei Arom.......... @ 50; Liquor otags Arsinié 10@
Chenopad: bs cia ee @ 2 75} Smilax Officinalis.. 60@ 60/ Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@
Cinnamonil ......... 1 = 1 26 | Senega ..........---. @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph, bbi @
Citronella ..........: 40 | Sollla.. 273222000200 @ 50|Mannia,S, F........ 50@

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Ss, ‘op Loew oac. 30
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Soda, Boras.......... @ il
Soda, Boras, po..... @ 11
Soda et Potten Tart. 23@ 25
Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2
Soda, Bi-Carb 36 «66
poga, Ag... 3%4@ 4
Soda, Sulphas a 3
Spts. Cologne @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55
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Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @
Spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl @
Soe. Vini Rect. 10gal @
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Sulphur, Roll.. 24@ a4
Tamarinds .......... 8@
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pa : rect at time of going to press. Prices, h NB, | Fair Mexican
o change at any time, and country merckants ‘tl h es, however, are lia- 1 15| Choice... 16 ae SIR ste sore 8
market prices at date of purchase. will have their orders filled at Fancy - 120} Fancy... .c sess cesee ceed? Tutti BAB sae tveesees serene IB
asl Oi oat eile 3 20 Guatemala anilla Wafers..... : a a
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ADVANCED Columbia; ¥ pinia.....20..2.1 25 Java Standard Crackers. goo
Holland Herring DECLINED aiparre OILS or Weioas o 12% ee a Squares.
Californ a Figs Loose Muscatel Raisins Eocene .... ne O. G. ...... ee = with eines aes price list
Cranberries Sauerkraut come son a MR is coo cak satin ce a g discounts.
Medium Pickles Trout oe White. . @ 8% Mocha CREAM TARTAR
. 8. Gasoline.....---. @i2% | Arabian Sot oh eee Hee.
Rice mci. San) eekegs a1 | Bulk in sacks..............5..5 =
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Col, | AUFOFa. .. doz. gross NO. B.oseessseeseeese site soe 75 | Emblem oc — Snly. Mail all orders Nectarines » bas ie
A : — Oli. 22! = = —_* eee a gs ee 1 10 a 12% on tain ba F, McLaughlin Peaches .. Page aaa ee + on
Akron Stoneware.......-..- 15 | Diamond ...0..000... “oo 4 25 BUTTER. coLoR™ ‘oe Extract Pitted Geri. .2.7. 7%
: Alabastine ....--+..+-.+00 00+. 1 rch: olacas Oh hee 7% 900; W.,R. & Co.’s, 15csize.... 1 25 JOTSeY... 22. .4ss 9 | Valley ct Prunnelles ............
; MI. oo. ee es eens cee eens 1 9 00} W., R. & Co.’ Riverside el ae y City % BTOss......... 75 sesh
Axle Grease. . 22.0.2... 02. 1 30.78, 25¢ size...- 200 Brick ...... 200. soos = @i2 | Felix % gross........ "145 Raspberries .........
= ae Miostrie Licht LES rea ee 14@15 ee 's foil % gross...... 85 rae Caitorala Pranes
Baking Powd Electric Light 88. soseeel® | Talden .......2....-. ummel’s tin % gross ...... 143 b. boxes ...... @ 3%
Baking ¥ ow Bee 1 aa coe 1 75 og a CONDENSED MILK - aan joer --~ oe
a SS Paraffin, 128 CIITA a036 | Bimeappie 2000002 57s 4 doz in case. 70-80 25 Ib: boxes «..:<. @ BS
RN ecco eking “og (| Sap 19@20 Gall Borden Ha le. 60-70 25 Ib. boxe
Brushes ...........-.. a : —— GOODS CHEWING wr Crown.. . 4 s 50 - 60 25 Ib. pokes @ &%
Butter Ooior.........00000000. Apples American Flag 8 Daisy. “<5 7p | 40-90 25 Ib. bo Ba
ee ot Sie 18 Beeman's Pe g Spruce... 55 Champion... | carndat-scac ET ae aa ee eae @ 84
: Candies....... Gallons, standards _- 3 25 | Black Jac Staats 2 - Sade sos oe 34 cent less In 60 Ib. Scar
i Candles....... 14 i Blackberries Largest oe RS Challenge . Jas Citron
; aoe s - 2 Standards.. ...... . 80 Shen e Dime.... EE Leghorn... 22.03.33 li
—— , 2 Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00 as ans dom fom ficoath oat Dims voossseees cence cececs 8 9B Corsican ........ Snes
Carbon Olls . : Paragon............ ..B5 6 00| Red Kidney........ . 100@1 30 | Sugar Loaf..............-. COUPON BOO Currants
Cheese. 3 6 00 | Red Kidney....... 75@ 95 | Yucatan 55 KS California, 1 Ib.
ee: 3 BAKING POWD yas apenas tt 55 50 books, any denom 1 Imported, ’ package...
ewing Gum..............-. 3 E =e Wa an : oe 100 books, any denom. .. elt aio \ Ib package...... 8
paces 3 im Binebocrica 70 — Sees eeteee es , bio books, any denom. it 50 os so ee 7%
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aie ee 3 Standard . a 7 any denom... 20 00 | Citron American 19 Ib
es ae te oe panccnneaes _ Abovoquotatlonsaroforlther| Kemon Americano Ib. Bx. 13
Bee ace 3 ? Clams. ok a a a or Universal grad rades. Wh erican 10 Ib. bx..13
— LL 3 Little Neck, 1 Ib... 8 - CHOCOLATE 1,000 books are ordered ata time | London Sager ‘On
aa : wee cla customer receives specially | Linton {ayer Gown (1
eet os en nn ao a Sweet.............. 23 charge. cover without extra | Cluster 4 Crown... .... a
Books... 4] ER | Burnham's, pints... Se ane ee a catels 2 Grown
pees ole 4 Burnham’s, pints.. .. Breakfast Cocoa.... Cou Loo! a
Cream Tartar ............20.. Rg ee i CU noe Pome Backs | ios Seasunen. Oem
D -Cans, 4 doz. case......3 75 Cherries Vienna Sweet ......... - ——— from 10 NY | L. M., Seeded Te 6
Dried Fruits...... % Ib. cans, 2 doz. case......3 75 | Bed Standard: Vani Pde ~ book: Gown. |=" ae” esas Ib.....8
oe 5] Tip: cans, 1 doz. case.---.-3 75] Walle... ee anlla veel. 384° 00 books. 28 Sultahas, bulk <.. 7
Fa 1 = . cans, % doz. case...... 8 00} mate orn ae CLOTHES LINES 3 Dooks. wise ose eee - 2 50 | Sultanas, oe n=
s ea a... 2 A vo) Sean ac ccc * 80 on, 40 ft. per doz.... uy nl wasn deeds eins
gwar xtracts....00.00.. 5 % y) >< | a. 85 Cotton, 0 ft. per doz.. 3 3 500, ered ‘Checks | eee GOODS
a P [See ; oo Sg eee 0 | ee OO It. per doz.. 1 40 1 (000, — one denom...... 2 00 | Dried Lim
OAtB......-.-.-------- 6 S,4 doz. case...... 45 | Sur Extra Fi Cc per doz.. 1 60 y one denom...... 3 00 | Medium Hand Pi eaaee
ee 14 }% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 ita = ne ee otton, 80 ft. per doz........1 80 SS denom...... 5 00 | Brown Hol eked 1 80
- 1 Ib. cans. 2 doz. case... ....1 60 a Fine..-.+-.-+++- 0 19 = ft. per a. 80 Stee aa oo 2 50
cibihis at Siene ..<. . Queen Flake as aK oie eco . t. per doz.. 95 N CRACKERS Cream of Cereal.
Se ita ie eee niece cone A ational Biscuit Co.’s brands | GTa!2-O, small .. i “ 90
Herbs .... 6 0z., 4 doz. case... .. 222.213 20 | StaNtaTe «ins 90 | Colonial, Sot oe Butter a 112 25
ee + 6|907z., 4 doz. case............. Hominy Col OO cli. ciaeeeess 35 | Seymour............ Grape Nuts...... u
a ee. jim tte eee os| lees ontal, 448. ere BME SON one eos ans sacs 6 | Postum Cereal, smai aa
Indigo I 5lb., 1 doz. case...... TINS 00 Lobster — Cer NU ae te oe Postum Cereal, large....... 2 25
Oe . aa a4 as. es ie Buyir ee 45 | Salted...................-. 6% Farina
J ¥ Star, 1 Ib............ 2:3) Tee peso i2| Wolverine. ....... se. 6 23 1 Ib. packages ...........-1 15
ee Pienle —_- = = Bulk, per 100 Ibs... .2....2 3
* 6 10esize.... 90 aaa 2 40 | Van Houten, %s. 33 | Soda XXX oda cone? 25
Lamp Burners.. 7 4 Ib. cans 1 35 | Mustard, a 1 75| Web Houten, ane 70 | Soda, City... 2.02.2... 6% | Flake, 50 Ib. men
ramp Chimneys. 15 Sion tae 2 80 | Wilbur, xs. Siew o ioe eee 3 80
Lanterns. ..:.... = i: th ss Soused, 1Ib......... : 1 75 | Wilbur. SS 41 | Zephyrette... gece Pearl, 100 1b, sack. sh a teed 80
15 % Ib: cans 3 75 | Tomato, 1Ib........ : i COCOANUT —a. sto Domestic, 101p. box. 6 . ‘
: Tih. cans. 2 9p | Omato, 21d... ..... le aa 7% | Imported. 25 Ib. box........ 2 50
aes aon een ale Mushrooms enh a8 and 4sS..... 26% | Extra Farina......... oo es Pearl we
ae... oe : 18@20 | Dunham’ 14S. +eeeee sees 27 | Saltine Oyster. .... : %4 | Common ... ...
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Moreen) mame merce [Gare 1 py | 201D.DABSscreseseeconsns Assorted Gaké..00.0002 10 =_—
a American... i. gy] Core, 1% Oval...... 5p | Less quantity .. aati hee eos Oe Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand
oe ao sees 80| pie Peaches a : Bent’s Watt... ..00.0.0. 16 : '
oO es COFFEE ce Coffee ee 9
Of Cs eo 15 — — — , per gross 4 00 ee ee 65@1 85 Roasted Caliee Cake; baa age - i
Bee See abeee cee coca 7 * S. per gross6 ocoanu : =
at Me ee 7 | Aretic'16 oz. round one aes 00 ates ee 1 00 Sonne — : 18 e
P 00 anes ee . 1 25 Ca, Cracknelis J... 10
ox Dew... Se ae a 7 Marrowfat Se. 100 Creams, Iced. 7 .
Treen. ee ae Early June...... eo HIGH GRADE. Cream Crisp.. 10%
Early June Sifted 1 60 FE pamare ge Bratt.” 11%
lums 12
. Frosted H
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Grate Pineapple nee French Breakfast. si, | Ginger Gems, Tagcorai‘ 2 | Cases, 24 2 Ib. packag :
MOM. 1 35@2 55 | Q!d Gov't Java and Mocha..24 sone Pa Snaps, N. B. C.. 6% Peas ees 2 00 :
Fair ss Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 ee ss ga a 10% oe , Wisconsin, b bu.......1 40
| meee Shea gs | Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 oo : Split, tb Scoteh, Du. ......-..-1 50
; Raney oe - aa ’s Brands. Graham Wafers.-......... a aaa
8 ama White House, 30-28... 33 | Hone — eS - Stoel Ost aan Dbl... ...---.5 60
9 Miss 1 15 | Excelsior M. & J., aa aa08 tales Unaeks 12 | Monarch’ i Ib. sacks... 270 &
Shoe Blacking ° % Ib. can! an Cavier Excelsior = & J., 30-28 --20 Imperials ain) 10 | Monarch, hd
hoe Blacking................ 91, tip CRE 2-00-0200 ovr 3 75 | Royal Java.............0.00) 2 Jumbles, Honey........... 8 | Mona’ ch % DDI... 2.2.22. 2 80
Be ns 9 Small size, per doz.......... aie. 7 00 Royal Java & Mocha. ae Lady Fingers Recs te Eee 90 Ib. sacks. oS ss
Boap.. voi veeee stern 8 rge size, perdoz.......... 75 = CBMs. oon cee ceneee 12 00 | Arabian Mocha....... “33 | Lemon Sna Bee eeee es peta 12 + CASES... snes ee
Sploes. ; : BROOMS Columbia River,talls  @1 85 den Moch.......... ~- 280% | Lemon Waters..00../°.... 16 East India.. ago
ORR ee No. 1 Carpet.. Columbia River, fl Freeman Mere. Co. Marshmallow............ German, sacks... - 3%
Stove P - 10/1 N 2 65 ats @2 09| M Brands, Marsh -. 16 , Sacks...
8 i. = 0. 2 Carpet... z= Red Alaska.......... 1 30@1 40 MORNOR ee M. shmallow Creams.,... 16 German, — — —
Syrups eee ee 10 oo 3 Carpet. -2 25| Pink Alaska, _-...-. 1 10@1 25 — Biean id ae naa ——— =
PB eee esse ences eee teeces | Parlor Gem.” 2 sang Sarimps | | Parker House 3 8 M025 | Mk 2 Baamagg cb | Bean a 1b Bac. ag
‘is tenes... ..... Common Whisk ro 2 40 Sardines 50 | Monogram J & M..... "93 | M tk Biscult............... 7% Peent ae — sacks.......... 3%
> 2 ge REReTOR 12| Fancy Whisk.. . 85| Domestic, \s..... 3 Mandehling............. 31% olasses Cake........... 8 ’ lb. packages..... 6%
ee 2 11| Warehouse......... artes 10 | Domestic, %s ....... 4 Ri rises Molasses Bar.............. 9 |C gana
oe BRUSHES + Cracked, bulk. 3
Si Rp aaee * aati poser es a. ae tb. packages .. a
egar ....... age 12 | Solid Back, 8in......... as | Fremeh, 48... aeons EXTRACTS
Washing Powd Solid Back, im ro French, > Seheepy
Washing Powder............. 2 Pointed Ends.........-.. 2... 85 Strawberries om ange Ger FOOTE & JENKS’
Woodontrate 2000050 B] No Beene eet ine 14. | Pilot Bread, XXX". JA
g Paper. ..00200000 IB | NO. 8.....--+00--0---e0+.00-0- } 00 an 1 25 Fancy -..... pA aaa = Fretzelettes, hand made as
¥ ae Wate... 0c. ea era ef
east Cake........ nn gg [NO Acre cesses sen... Yann = ieee ee Highest Grade Extracts
ees v1 90| Famey 2.002000 ae Sears’ Lunch... .... : Vanilla Le
on 1 20| Choice........:0s,.cs0ecec0e016 Sugar Cake........ 7% | 102 full m.1 20 ‘amen
yeeeceseeeeel6 | Sugar Cream, XXX....... 8 Pagh ong 9.02 full m1 = Si
0.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75

 

 

 

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INDIGO Sausages
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ...........55 | Bologna .......... 6
8. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes......50 a . :
JELLY Pork .... 9
5 Ib. pails.per doz........ 1°) pised 6
Vanilla Lemon i omen seteeteee tteeeeee 38| Tongue .............. 4
iE anel..120 20z panel. 75 Palls....-......--2.-+ 72 | Headcheese ......... 6
3 oz taper..2 00 4 0z taper..1 50 KRAUT eacicus Beef
Barret. es. 5 00 | Hxtra Mess.......... 10 75
% Barrel...... .... 3 38 — teste ee eeeees =<
LICORICE Pigs’ 1 Feet
ecteeatdies/ scar ccnsce SO) Me ORES, 20 Fe. | 1 85
23 | % bbls., 80 Ibs.. 3 20
14 Tripe|
10) Kits, 15 Ibs.......... 70
\ bbls., 40 Ibs....... 1 25
Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 | % bbis., 80 Ibs.. 2 25
Condensed, 4 doz............2 25 Casings
MATCHES — lee 21
Diamond Match Co. *s brands. — rounds. weeee eee 4
No. 9 sulphur... 1 65 ee 12
- et 00 ape arlor 150 eep... "Butioris = 65
No.4T .152 No.3T... 2 08} 0-2 Home... 1 3C Butterine
Export — 4 00 | Solid, dairy...... @13%
202. Assorted Flavors 75c. Wolverine....... ..1 50 Rolls, dairy... @l4
Our Tropical. Rolls, creamery. .... 17%
20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 MEAT EXTRACTS Solid, creamery..... 17
4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50 | Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz. 4 45 c 'd Meat
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 | Liebig’s, 2 0z.............. 275! corned beef, 21 ag a 2 80
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 MOLASSES earnaa beef, 141b., 17 50
Standard. New Orleans Roast beef, 3 1b ia 2 50
2 0z. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 ae Open — Segee ae 40 | Potted ham, te. 50
20z. Panel Lemon.......,.. 60 | Choice Boiss 35 | Potted ham, %s..... . 90
FLY PAPER Fair. = Deviled ham, \s.... 50
Tanglefoot, per box.......... 35 | & ‘kale baavels Sc ouina Pomaed teeg ees .
Tanglefoct, per case........ 3 20 Potted tongu a ‘“s.. 90
FRESH MEATS MUSTARD RICE
Beef = a : - Beige ie 1 7E Dainaatic
Carcass... : ‘$@* | seusGaer ja 3 50 | Carolina head................ 6%
Forequarters . <= 68 SES oe Carolina No.1 ...............6
Hindquarters .. sieceee 7 @8&% OLIVES Carolina No. 2. Cece oe
Loins. . oll.) @ a2 | Balk, teal Kees)... 1 25 | Broken . a
Big 8 @10 | Bulk’ 3gal. Megs. 1 10 Imported.”
Honnds... 2.2... 2:4. 6%@ 7% | Bulk, 5 gal. kegs........... 1 00 | Japan, No. 1..  ——-
Chucks 54@ 6 Manzan Mia, 7 OZ. 0... 5. 80 | Jap any Se Z.. «5 @
Plates sceccee’ 6 @G. | Queen, pints Be a cre a oc cis 2 35 | Java, as head. @
Pork Queen, 19 02 .............. 4 50 a F No. 1... ae
Dressed .. : ‘ g 8% ed = = ees eae bee aae 7 = able. winnie
fs ie % |S Beg i
Boston Butis.. cana oi. 1 2 | chmenahruaee Haeene-s
Shoulders . nl @8 uffed, Oe. 2 30 Deland’s.. 3 os
Leaf Lard.. @2 PAPER BAGS Dwight’s Cow. 2020220211113 15
Mutton Continental Paper Bag Co. Embl CO Te A a a 2 10
Carcass... 0322... 54@ 7 kK TEA Ce ee ee 3 00
lan Te Ask your ao is — Wyandoite, a 3 00
Veal xlory Mayflower SAL SODA
Carcass ............-. 6 @7 sc omitay honawed
GRAINS AND FLOUR i. = —" Granulated, 100 Ib. cases
ea aan 2 60 | Lump, bbls” '
WHOSE 000. ae 80 Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs...
Winter Wheat Flour ee 54 100 neaLT
Local Brands : Bide oi cierele wes 66 13 100 31b. can. eye 3 00
Patents .. ee ees beeen epee 76 1 45 ia. 3 00
second Patent... 2. 1.12122. - va :< ps a. 5
Sie Se ee 3 65 oe 2 40 In5 bbl. lots 5 per cent. dis-
Second — olga tela 3 40 10 138 ; count
Clear - ae eee Diamond Crystal
Graham oo... cesses es ae. 2 24 415 | Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
ee 2 34 4.50 | Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.3 00
Subject to usual cash dis-| 20-------------- 2 52 > Table, barrels, 407 =
coun’ eee. e606 ooo ,
a ee ee ee. i ne 4x | Butter, sacke, 38 Ibe. sags. s
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Grae... 5... 6. 4% | Butter, — - Ib Ga aie -- &
Diamond %66.. ............. PICKLES 100 3 Ib. sacks........ 2 25
——— _ peewee ces seese. i 7 Medium 60 5 lb. sacks. Tn ole
Ib. sacks... 2 =
Sapadoi Ciocer Cole Brand Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 7 75| 2810 lb. sacks...............
Quaker %S...........2.-.6 3 80 | Half bbis, 600 count......... ‘ee .
Quaker \S.............---. 3 80 Small acca
Waker 48... iioar’ © | Barrels, 2,400 count .........8 75 | 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 40
Spring Wheat Flour Half bbls, 1,200 count .......5 00 | 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 20
Clark-Jewell- Wells _ " — PIPES
Pillsbury’s Best %s. Clay, N 56 Ib. dairy a a: sacks... 60
Pilisbury’s Best \s. . 4 bs Y> TD. ae eas 170 Higgins
Pilisbury’s Best 4s....... 4 25 | Clay, T. D.. full count....... 65 | 56 Ib. dairy in Ifnen sacks... 60
Pillsbury’ s Best %s paper. 4 25 | Cob, No. 3 cesses 85 Solar Rock
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 25 POTASH | BG Pe. saeks . 6c. ........ 25
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand 48 cans in case. ommon
Duluth Imperial s....... 4 25 Babbitt’s 400 Granulated Fine............ 85
Duluth Imperial \s... 415 Panna Sait Fon 3 00 Medium Fine... -... 2... 2... 90
Duluth Imperial 4s....... 4 05 a ene ah SALT FISH
Lemon & Wheeler Co. ’s — PROVISIONS Cod
Wingold %s... Barreled Pork Georges cured......... @6
Wingold ¥4s.. i 25 Mess. et @14 60 | Georges genuine...... @ 6%
Win = es SS @17 00 | Georges selected...... @7
Iney & — 8 —, Clear back....... 272! @i6 75 | Grand Bank........... @6
Ceresota %8.. Short ae, @i6 75 Strips or bricks....... 64@10%
Ceresota \s.. ‘ 30 a @20 00 | Pollock................ @ 3%
Guseute ae. 6 i i 4, 20 Pg oan ee eeoe cae cons = Se
Ceivonden Ora o.’s Bran a Paeuay saan. Le @17 50 ——- Sree
Eaeurer 268. 2... co. coe 4 30 Dry Salt Meats ee
Eearel 566... ss. 20 | Bellies. . 9% ou
Laurel %s and 4s paper.. 4 20/ Briskets............. 9% _ 1 100 = .
Meal Extra shorts........ 914 wes eae
Bee. a oS Smoked Monts mi i...
Granulated -. 2 85| Hams, 12Ib.average. @ 11% Herring
Feed and Millstuffs Hams, 141b. average. 11 | Holland white hoops, bbl. 19 25
St. Car Feed, screened.... 24 50 Hams, 161b. average. @ 10% | Holland white hoopsbbl. 5 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats.. Hams, 201b. average. 10% | Holland white hoop, keg.. 75
Unbolted Corn Meal.. Ham dried beef. .... @ 12% | Holland white hoop mechs. 85
Winter Wheat Bran. 18 00 | Shoulders (N.Y. nl @ 9% | Norwegian ................
Winter Wheat Middiings. 20 00 | Bacon, clear. . 104%@ 11% | Round 100 ihe... 3 35
Screenings ...............- 18 00 | California hams. . 8 | Round 40 Ibs.. 1 65
Oats Boiled Hams. @ 16% Mc 15
Car lots...... vecsseee 48 | Pienic Boiled Hams @ 13 | Bloaters........... 1 60
Car lots, clipped... en 52 = —- pr’s’d. $ oe Micki
less Caan ose ics... ls Mess 100 Ibs. . wo ne
Corn - — Tierces ai Mess 40 Ibs. «.. a ae
orn, car lots. <-....-..... 6 Jompound........... ess 10 Ibs. .............. 125
— Hay Pur 9% | Mess 8 Ibs. .........-... 1 03
8 No. 1 100 Ibs. . cae 9 50
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10 50 % {No.1 40 lbs... ie 410
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 50 %| No.1 10Ibs. . ie 110
HERBS NO.) SIDR oo. o.. eo 91
See. - ee Be clic ccs Salaa delseuic cutee % | No. 2 100 tbs, .... .. 8 00
i oe ckcpaeta bonnes % 1 Ne.2 ie. .... 2... Be
Laurel OR boc ae ee acess ee 1 | No.2 10lbs. 2.0.22 95
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Whitefish Pure Cane
No.1 No.2 Fam | Fair. Meir caw os 16
100 Te... :.. 8 00 3 25 20
2 = Sas ce es 3 50 1 65 | Choice . doce es oem
ee. 48
Se... |... 79 42 ‘STARCH
SEEDS
Anise...... Saauescccas @
Canary, Smyrna.. Redes osigees oa 3%
Caraway . ccetoe Cau
Cardamon, Malabar......... "100
Cee 10
Hemp, Russian.............. 4
Mixed Bird.. ‘ 4
ee , white. ae
Po es o
SE RE A CMS I 4
it tle Bone.. wee ee Kingsford’s Corn
SHOE BLACKING 40 1-lb. pacKages........... 8%
Handy Box, large......... 50 | 20 1-Ib. packages........... z
Handy Box, small......... 1261 GID. packages........... 7%
Bixby’s Royal Polish...... 85
Miller’s Crown Polish..... &5 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
SNUFF 40 1-lb. packages........... 74
Scotch, in bladders.. oe
Maceaboy, in jars.. SS Common Gloss
French — in jars. ---. 43 | 1.1, packages............. 5%
OAP 3-Ib. packages....... oe
B. T. Babbit ae _ ackages.. 6
Babbit’s Boat... .......... — boxes.. 3%
Beaver Soap Co, Sinsie mane 3%

 

50 cakes, large size......... 3 25
100 cakes, large size. <1. oe
50 cakes, small size.... .... 1 95
100 cakes, small size......... 3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal ¢ a oe eae eee 4 00
King coe - 400
Detroit ane Co. brands—
Quecn Anne... ........ 3 35
Big Bargain.. 77 2 oe
MO 2 <5

German Family
Dingman Soap Co. brand—

Dingman.. 3 85
N. K. Fairbanks brands—

Santa Claus.. 3
BIgwe.. aoe
a 4 00
Fels brand—
WOE oe 4 00
Gowans & Sons brands—
We DEAE st 3 25
Oak Leaf, big 5.. 4 25

VON

Single box.. Sane, a
5 box lots, delivered |. 2.2.7) 3 15
10 box lots, a ae aS 3 10

Silver King. : 40
Calumet ‘amily. Sees eine 2 40
Scotch Family..... ...... 2 55
Oe 2 40
OO cakes... ... 2. i... 1 95
Ricker’s Magnetic ....... 3 90
Lautz Bros. brands—
ie Acme 4 25
OOO. 3 65
Mearseies ol, 4 00
Master. 3 70
Bp pporead & ‘Gamble brands—
ee 3 20
fae oan colcsco + OO
Evory, 10.07.00. 10.2... 6 75
Schultz "& Co. brand—
Bese cs 3 25
A. B. Witisiey brands—
Good Cheer ..-- 2... .... 3 80
Old Country a 3 25
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
SODA
eee ee ele gel a 5%
oe English. . - 4%
SPICES.
Whole Spices
OC 12
Cassia, China in mats..... 12

Cassia, Batavia, inbund... 28
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 38
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 17

Cloves, —— Melcceece aa 14
Mace . cence 55
Nutmegs, 75-80... ewe 50
Nutmegs, 105-10... Seues 40
Nutmegs, 115-20. 35
Pepper, ee. black. 18

Pepper, Singapore, white. 28

 

Pepper, shoe:
ure —— in Bulk

Allspice.. — 16
Cassia, Batavia... ee oe 28
Cassia, SRO 48
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 17
Ginger, African........... 15
Ginger, Cochin............ 18
a —.- ose uees on 25
Mustard 18

 

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Pepper, nero, — 25
Pepper, —- oa 20
Sage 20
'SYRUPS
Corn

PRRPOe icoisias wecicins dolce co Oe
Re 24

1 gallon cans, per doz...... 8 40
¢ gallon cans, per doz...... 1 90

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No. 8. 2 4 25
No. 9. : 4 20
No. 10. 415
No. 11 : 410
No. 12. . 405
No. 13 4 06
No. 14 4 00
No. 15 4 00
No. 16. es 400
TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium .......... 28
Sundried, choice............ 30
sundried, fanoy............< 40
Regular, medium............ 28
Regular, Choleo ..... v0... 30
Heguiac, fancy .... ...; ....55 40
Basket-fired, medium....... 28
Basket-fired, choice......... 35
Basket-fired, , ey... =

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Gunpowder

Moyune, medium ........... 26
Moyune, ChOICS . ....... sees. 35
Moyune, fancy... .... os. cis. 50
Pingsuey, m —- a ey
Pingsuey, aaa. --30
Fingsuoey, fancy.......... .... 40

 

 

  

  
  

  
      

Best Gloss Starch, 50 Ib.....
Best Gloss Starch, 40 Ib.....
Best Gloss Starch, 6l1b.....
Best Gloss Starch, 3lb.....
Best Gloss Starch, 1Ib..
orks: Venice, til.
Geneva, Ill.

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| Best Corn Starch... .......:.
Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl.
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl.
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil.
Best Laundry in bbl., thin boil.
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Common Corn |

20 1-Ib. packages.......... 534 |
40 1-Ib. packages.......... 4%

STOVE POLISH

  
 

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No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross . 4
No. 6, 3 doz in Case, gross 7 20

SUGAR

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping puint, fering vou damn
on ¢ nvoice for the amount
of —* buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 pounds for the weight of the
barrel.

Sema...
Gos tear... Coe
Censnee 5 50
Cubes.. ect crcecuce ae
Powdered . ; oon
Coarse Powdered. ........ 5 10
SAX Powdered......... 5 15
Fine Granulated. .......... 493
2b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 05
a Ib. .—* Fine — Sawa 5 05
<a ooo
_ ond A.. saeco OO
Contnelianes’ my a7 298
No. 1, Columbia ae 470
No. 2, Windsor A......... 4 65
No. 3, Ridgewood A......
No. 4, Phoenix A.....

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4 65

~ £0

oO. 5, Empire A........ . 455
445

4 35

NO. 7c cons ve ccvces coor rose

Young Hyson

Cree... 30
Manes... ..... Moiese ie eaueguas 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy.............. 42
Amoy, modnim.............. 25
Amey, enetes...... 2. 3....... 32
English Breakfast
ee 27
Cee ce ene cece 34
ONO. ccc ceacl cate a cas 42
India
COPION, ONGIOE. 6... nccce cece 32
Pe as en ne 42
TOBACCO
Cigars
A. Bomers’ brand.
Plaindealer .

H.& P. Drug Co. ‘s brands.
Fortune Teller.. cone OO
Our Manager.. ‘Ss 00
Quintette..

35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co’s liane

Cc
os
&. 6. W.......... :.... ae
Cigar Clippings, per Ib..... 26
Fine Cut
inele Vamiel. ... .... o. 54
CP We 34
Forest Giant: ....... .:..5..- 34
Sweet BOTAV . 455-.c¢cues cos. 38
COGUG os. sk 57
Sweet Loma............<:5..88
Gomer Te. oe ices eccaes 26
PIAWOERG oe ss ccd ee gc sccceee
TOIGGPRI. coco s nce c ccs cecee 26
NE vececeses ole ce ee 32
Prairie Rose......... dveuanes 50

 

 

 

   

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Sweet Burley..

Sweet Loma.....
OE a to 39
Wiak Brg... 5.5 5202 cncs see 33
Piper Heldsick.. ee -wcoute
Boot Jack.......5.--- 2. eee 81
Feny Ss eee 36
Plumb Bob............ aaoee 32
Honey Dip Twist............ 39

Smoking

Hand Pressed............-.-40
ee ciate ace
35

 

an Yum, 13f 0Z...... 2.000: 40

Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pails........ 38

WT nc cla ae 37

Corn Cake, 2% OE cscs 24
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Col. Choice, 8 0Z........ oe
TABLE SAUCES
A PERRINS’
The Original and
Genuine

ane, Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, — 2 50
Halford, large. . ice ce an
Halford, small............. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small 2 75

TWINE

Colton, S ply...-... .......... 16

Ceiiee 4oly.... sos. 16

we ly. Been bok ae =

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ie 20

Wooi, [a ™,
VINEGAR

SS ee Se. 2 8
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. =
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Pure Cider, Red Star.. 2B
Pure Cider, Robinson. ......12
Pure Cider; Bitver..... 2... 12.
WASHING POWDER
Gold Dust, regular.......... 450
Gold Dust, 5¢.......>........ 400
RubNe More
Rub-No-More ............... 3 50
NT soo 3 75
Sco Bios n acy cess bees 3 50
WICKING
No. 9, per gross..............20
No. 1, per gross...... -- 25
No. ?, per gross...... 35
No. 3. per gross.............. 55
WOODENWARE
Baskets
eee 85
Bushels, wide —_ ea Seewisw 1 =
Ket oe hae a
Splint, 12 (au e yo atboers. 6 00
Splint, m: an ieea cua seee 4 5 00
eS eee 400
illow Clothes, B. 200025 OO
Willow Clothes, jum... 5 00
Willow Clothes, smaill....... 475
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 55
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate.. 65
Egg Crates

Humpty Dum; ty -
No. 1, comple
No. 2, complete . .

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Mop Sticks Mixed Candy
Trojan spring .. ee 90 Grocers.............. @ 6%
Kel ipse p patent § spring..... - 8 Competiion > “
No, 2 patent brush holder .. 85 — @ 8%
=e. ocean mop heads Ribbon g 8%
oy... Ge ccaeag ken: & 8%
" Ens lish Roek. zs
2-hoop Standard... ..1 40 | PDeUS * @9
Kinde: SOM 2.5...
—— ee is Bon Ton Croan. Sasi g 9
2-wire, Cable...... -1 50 | Pench C
3-wire, Cable.. .1 70 oo @10
— all red, brass bound. 125 Hand’ Made Great @10
— ia. St wees... @14%
ty eee te Crystal Gr ey 613
= ee Fancy—In Pails

anne - -++++.-2 50! Champ. Crys. Gums. 8%
Softw ~— capes nade ussaGhenas ; = a > cae ee 1s”
seer eee e eee en eeee eres sees a ry ream S uares 12
eee ee 1 50 | Fudge S mares pa. 12

Tubs seen uares..... -
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.....6 00 12
18-Inch, Standard, 2 5 00 10
16-inch, Standard, No. 3 4 00 @12
20-inch, Cable, No. 1. -6 50 @ 9%
18-inch, Cable, No. 2. -6 00 @10
16-inch, Cabl ~ _ 3. -5 00 @11%
No. 1 Fibre.. -9 45 @13%
No. 2 Fibre...... -7 9 @14
No. 3 Fibre.. ososl ae @15
Wash ‘Boards @ 5K
Bronze Globe................2 50 os
Dewey ..........-- a @ 9%
Double Acme................2 75 -
Single Acme....... - 2
Single Peetoss. jaca ede : a P @12
gle Peerless. <u
Northern Queen .. ..2 BO ane. — = @13
oe, —- : _ 7: Golden Wafties .. @12
= * 2 25 Fancy—In 5 ‘Ib. Boxes
Lemon Sours . @55
15 —-, Drops.. @60
“ Drops..
= - a ~ ‘ohoe. Drops. oS
"2 BO H. M. Choc. Lt. and
es eeee seecces as oo =
ee oe am Drove,
Assorted 13-15-17.... .....--- 1 75
‘Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50 oe. os sores =
WRAPPING PAPER a — @é60
oa See... 1% - @60
ber Manila, white....... 3% | Mottoes . @60
Fiber r Manila, col colored... cn 4% Cream Bar--.... S @55
a. : 3 | Hand Made Creams. @90
Butcher’s Manila.......... 2% — Buttons, —
Wax Butter, short count. Wint.......... @65
Wax Butter, full count.... String Rock......... @65
Wax Butter, rolls........ Wintergreen Berries @60
YEAST CAKE ee Caramels
site liek. 5:2. pper, 201b. pails... 9
Sunlight —_ 1 90 | Standard, 20 ib. pails 10
Sunlight, 1% doz............ 50 | Perfection, 20 Ib. pls @12%
Yeast Cream, 8 doz.......... 1 00 | Amazon, Choc Cov’d @15
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Bluefish pee ‘ancy Nave @3 75
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Verdelli, fey 300..... 3 75@4 25
Verdelli, ex chee 300 @
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Oysters. Maiori Lemons, 300. . @
Can Cysters Messinas 300s..... 50
F. H. Counts........ 40 | Messinas 360s 4 00
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Belpets ... 52... 27 | Medium bunches.... 1 50@2 00
Bulk Oysters —— bunches......
Counts. 75 reign Dried Fruits
Extra a ea 60 Figs
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Window Dressing

Seasonable Suggestions for Holiday Trims.

 

 

The hour is at hand when window
trimmers should make preparations for
their Christmas displays. The busy
weeks preceding Christmas will slip all
too rapidly away, and the procrastinat-
ing trimmer will at length awake to the
fact that his rivals have completed their
displays, and are attracting the atten-
tion, comment and business which his
establishment should share, while his
windows are noticeable only for lack of
harmony with the joyous spirit of the
season.

At Christmas time people expect some
effort in the way of unusual and _ bril-
liant display, and, according to the na-
ture and means of an establishment, a
more or less dazzling and beautiful ex-
hibit will be looked for. Poor and well-
to-do alike take pleasure in the gorgeous
displays of the Christmas week, and
the merchant must for once in the year
give his window trimmer carte blanche
to uphold, in his windows, the honor
of the establishment, and of this, the
most important day in the year.

Window displays are not really so
much needed as a trade stimulant at
Christmas as at other seasons, and are
regarded more in the light of attractive
entertainment. It is nowadays the prac-
tice to make Christmas gifts of a useful
and practical nature, and people need
little inducement to purchase generously
of such articles. The merchant, how-
ever, can not argue that an expensive
and attractive window is unnecessary,
because’ people are so readily buying
the useful articles which he sells, and
because his merchandise is of good
repute, and his customers constant.
People are naturally attracted to a store
which is brilliantly decorated and are
very likely to purchase while observing
such decorations, notwithstanding their
preference for the undecorated store on
less exciting occasions.

There is little doubt that windows
which are poorly and meanly dressed,
and which therefore attract no atten-
tion, will lose to the establishment
which they represent far more than the
cost of displays, which are worthy of
and attract much observation. And to
this pecuniary loss must be added loss
of public interest, occasioned by lack of
timely decorative effort at an important
season.

While the display arranged must at-
tract chiefly by reason of appropriate
novelty and brilliance, it is well, in
certain displays, to introduce articles
which are suitable for gifts, such as
neckwear, handkerchiefs, hosiery and
gloves, and window cards should give
short lists of articles to which the mer-
chant desires to draw the attention of
ladies and gentlemen purchasing gifts
for their relatives and friends.

Where a small and inexpensive dis-
play is desired, it is an excellent plan
to have the window completely cleared
out, and to arrange a Christmas tree of
suitable size in the center. Cover the
floor of the window with green cloth and
sprinkle with silver tinsel. The branches
of the tree might be laden with neck-
wear, suspenders, collars, hosiery or
whatever else the trimmer may desire
to display. These articles can be sim-
ply laid on the branches of the tree, or
suspended by the clips ordinarily used
in window trimming. After these
things are in place a small quantity of
powdered mica should be sprinkled here

 

 

and there so as to give sparkle and bril-
liance.

If it is desired to enlarge on this idea
it should be an easy matter, in these
days of easy and effective electric light-
ing to wire the tree and arrange in it a
number of tiny colored globes. The
light may be as sparkling and brilliant
as desired, but must not be at all glar-
ing, as a glaring light will annoy ob-
servers, and quickly drive them away.
The background and two sides of the
window should also be draped in green
and each such draping decorated with
a great star made of cotton batting
pasted on the green and lightly smeared
with mucilage, on which is sprinkled
powdered mica. This mucilage should
be mixed with white French zinc, so
that on drying it may not be the usual
dirty yellow.

Holly is, of course, used with especial
effect in Christmas displays, and can be
obtained very cheaply from dealers in
artificial plants and from most large
stores. Mistletoe, too, should not be
forgotten, and in displays which depict
family scenes of Christmas jollity and
good cheer the trimmer should pose a
handsome female figure under a bunch
of mistletoe, thus attracting sentimental
youths and maidens and striking a
reminiscent chord in the hearts of the
elders who observe his handiwork. —Ap-
parel Gazette.

—_>2»—___
Wasted Time Finding Out Just Who He
Was.

There were eight of us smoking our
after-supper cigars on the hotel veranda
when a small man with a great deal of
bustle and energy in his movements
called out in a general way:

‘Gentlemen, is there a general out
here?’’

‘‘l am a general, sir,’’ replied one of
the group as he half rose and bowed.

‘*Yes? Ah! Glad to see you, gen-
eral,’’ continued the little man as he
advanced and shook hands. ‘‘Now,
then, have we any colonels present?’’

‘‘l am a colonel,’’ replied three men
in chorus as they followed the general's

example.
‘*Ha! Glad to see you colonels—very
glad,’’ said the little man as_ he ex-

tended a hand to each in succession.

‘*Let’s see! Have wea judge among
us here this evening?”

‘‘We have,’’ replied two of the four
others.

‘*So glad to see you, judges—so glad!
Shake hands. Beautiful evening, this!
[ presume you two other gentlemen bear
the respective titles of major and _ pro-
fessor?’’

‘*We do,’’ said the pair of us.

‘Ah! Glad to know it—awfully glad!
Major and_ professor, shake hands.
Might have a little more rain, but we
can’t find much fault with this weather.’

‘*And who are you, if you please?’’
asked the general.

‘*]1? Ob, I'm only an ex-governor,
an ex-cabinet officer, an ex-congress-
man and at present raising $6,000,000 to
put another railroad bridge across the
Missouri River. Keep your seats, gen-
tlemen. 1 wouldn’t think of intruding
my company on such a distinguished
assembly !”’

Next day, when we found out that he
was only a drummer for a Cincinnati
shoe factory, he had departed, and we
couldn’t give him the licking he de-

served.
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Increment.

At a school in Kent an inspector was
examining a class of children in arith-
metic, when the inspector asked the fel-
lowing question:

‘Now, John, supposing I gave you
two rabbits and another kind friend
gave you one more, how many would
you have?’’

John—Four, sir.

Inspector—No, my boy two and one
don’t make four.

John (quickly )—Please, sir, I’ve got
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a
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Hicks’ a perm.. see ecas
Musket til a
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Cartridges
No. 22 short, per m.
No. 22 long, per m.
No. 32 short, per m....
No. 32 long, per m......

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No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m......

No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m...
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Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........ dis 70
Mattocks
Adze@ Eye... 2.22.02 cece cess $17 00..di8 65
Metals—Zinc
Seat ante. Seed eres Uomeaeu ee 1%
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Sbiaianeens
Bird Cages ...... 40
Pumps, Cistern.. 75810
Screws, New List .

Casters, Bed and Piate --. 50&10&10
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No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 Planes
120 4 1% 10 10 $290 i
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90 | Ohio Tool o s, fancy.. 40
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90| Sclota Benc ; 50
128 4 13% 6 10 2 90 | Sandusky Took Co. 8, fancy. 40
135 434 1% 5 10 2 95 | Bench, first yuality............ 45
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208 3 1 8 12-2. BO | Steel nails, base..........0. cece eeeee 2 45
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65 | Wire nails, base 2 45
265 3% 1 % es 12 2 70 9 VASO wc oe ee wore ween cane Beoee
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264 3% 1% 4 12 2.70) 10 to 16 advance 5
Discount 40 per cent. Sadcanse 10
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 6 advance.... : 20
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100... 72| 4advance.. 30
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. . 64 : ae. . S
Gunpowder Fine 3 advance... 50
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Axes Roofing Plates
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First Quality, D. B. Bronze........... 3 00 | 14x20 1X, Charcoal, Dean.. ce 3 00
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel........... 6 50 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. cae 15 00
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 10 50 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 7 50
Barrows 14x20 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 9 0
CRS ei eae Sam Se sis 12 00 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 15 00
Garden 2... cnet 29 00 | 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 18 00
Bolts Ropes
Stov Se ces ee cecal ce sce 70 | Sisal masa Mee cs 10
Carriage, new ee 60 — Cae dd oeaaa 14%
Plow sie dec oe cones 50 Sand Paper
“edhets ’
WORE, Dia os ee a ‘orn "
Butts, Cast cn ee
Cast Loose Pin, figured ..:..........-. Solid Eyes, per ton... st eese cece se
Wrought Narrow ............ eee Sheet isan:
Chain ius com. smooth. =
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Come... 23.2... 7 ¢. ee...6<¢ .. qi to 2a
B eos sees 824 7%... Bi Nes. 0694... .......... i 3 90
BBB.......... 8% 7% 6 Nos. 5B UO 26.02. .oa eees eve sevens: 4 00
Ceownars 8 «si tt Ne 4 30 410
Cast Steet, peor... 2... s.. Sit i Sheets No. 18 and — over 30 inches
Chisels wide, not less than 2-10 extra
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PPM oe sn oe oo cco Shovels and Spades
Cane Mivat Grade, Der.............. 040... 8 00
SEE ee Second Grade, DoZ............--+++- 7 50
Elbows Solder
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.. cuca oie wail ea ae
Corrugated, per rdoz......... The prices of the many other qualities of ante
Adjustable... ve in the market indicated by private brands vary
‘ae Bits according to composition.
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26.......... Squares
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; Ss Steel and Iron. ......c.cccvccescccseces 60—10—5
a Files—New List Tin—Melyn nie
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Nicholson’s.. aoe 10, co. sida cies al citi acs “- -
Heller’s Horse Rasps... ve 20x14 1X, Charcoal.,......-ssesesce 12.00
Galvanized patty Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
Nos. 16 to 20; _——* em 2,
List 12. 13 16. Tin—Allaway Grade
Discount, 65 iGx04 30, Charecal..................... 9 00
Gauges a ig’ a euecel code dececuce < z
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 14x20 IX, Charcoal, .............ss0 02s 10 50
Glass Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
a on a aaa ~ Boiler Size Tin Plate
U1 a. on oo a ne
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By the Light oe ox scale 14x56 EX, for No.9 Bollers, } per pound.. 13
ne Neg ap et .’8, DEW oe 6 Steel, Game. . — 75
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Mason’s Solid Gast — — sisige 30c list Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- ‘
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Kettles . Mobs we cslse tee eal Sees ca :
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Horse Nails Coppered Market..............ceceseee 50&10
Au Sable . .dis Tinned Market. acces 50810
House Furnishing Goods a ig Stoel Stoel ‘ =
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Knobs—New List eee meme eee Hee He SOE HEHE HH BOEe oid
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Door, porcelain ihe, be . trimmings....... Wrenches
Lanterns Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled...... 30
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Port Huron Touches Elbows With Sur-
rounding Towns.

Port Huron, Nov. 20—Marine City
and St. Clair business interests were
represented last evening by the business
men of both places at the banquet given
under the auspices of the Merchants
and Manufacturers’ Association, at the
Auditorium, under the direction of Sec-
retary John T. Percival. The arrange -
ments for the reception worked with
clock-like preciseness. Three large
tables seating over three hundred ban-

queters stretched from east to west
across the Auditorium.
The neat program, set on edge,

added a dash of color to the table deco-
rations. The bill of fare was good and
substantial,and the rapidity with which
the food disappeared left no doubt as
to the non-attendance of dyspeptics.

John Murray was toastmaster of the
evening. In his introductory remarks
the toastmaster stated that the banquet
had been arranged by the business men
of Port Huron to become better ac-
quainted with the business men of Ma-
rine City and St. Clair.

President E. N. Akers, of the local
association, welcomed the visitors in a
few neat words and commended the
movement of business men to become
better acquainted.

‘“*Marine City M. and M.’’ was to
have been responded to by A. J. Scott,
but he begged off and Charles Ely,
well known in Marine City, responded
to the toast in his own facetious man-
ner.

Hon. Justin R. Whiting did not dis-
appoint the banqueters who had antici-
pated something good. His toast was
“‘Future of St. Clair River.’’ The
progress of industry along the River,
stretching from Port Huron to Marine
City, was indicated by the speaker.
The closer relation of business men all
over the United States and the friendly
conventions which were being held for
the betterment of all were also men-
tioned.

Mayor G. N. Jones, of Marine City,
related a few experiences as mayor of
the thriving little city.

Business and good fellowship was the
two-fold bond which Rev. Rolph Duff
stated characterized the banquet of the
evening, in response to the toast, ‘‘ The
Tie That Binds.’’

In a carefully prepared toast Frank A.
Peavey spoke on ‘** Elements of Business
Success.’’ System in business was one
of the phases of ultimate success touched
upon by the speaker. Attention to busi-
ness and the cultivation of shrewdness
and also keeping up with the trend of
affairs of the day were touched upon.
——— relative to business success
rom prominent men were mentioned
during the toast.

A neat compliment was paid to Ma-
rine City and its citizens by Frank T.
Wolcott, during the course of his re-
marks on ‘‘Port Huron and Its Rela-
tions to Adjoining Cities.’’ He also
made predictions as to the future busi-
ness interests of Port Huron and the
adjoining cities onthe River. In the
future the speaker could see the city of
Huronia with its lines of industries
stretching from the north line of the
ary city of Port Huron to the south

ine of Marine City.

W. D. Smith, Sr., took a fall out of
the present city administration in his
toast relative to the canal.

A vein of humor ran through Alder-
man James O'Sullivan’s toast, ‘‘ Port
Huron, My Happy Home.’’ The boun-
daries of the city were facetiously de-
tailed by the speaker.

At midnight the banquet ended, as it
was necessary for the Marine City and
St. Clair delegations to take their spe-
cial cars, which were in waiting, for
home. This curtailed the toast pro-
gram to some extent. William Canham
was about to respond to the toast of
‘The Lexington Railway a Thousand
Years Hence,’’ when the midnight hour
sounded and the visitors were excused.
Toastmaster Murray requested Mr. Can-
ham to preserve his toast until the next
banquet was given.

Mayor Jones voiced the sentiments of

‘the visitors when he stated that the

banquet arrangements and the reception

 

which had been accorded them, sur-
passed their expectations. There was
considerable talk of both the St. Clair
and Marine City organizations uniting
and tendering the Port Huron associa-
tion a banquet in the near future.

Growth of the United States.

According to Sir Robert Griffen, the
well-known English statistician, the in-
crease of the United States in popula-
tion during the century just ended has
been greater than that of any other
country in the world. In 1800 the pop-
ulation of the United States was 5,000, -
000; in 1900 it had grown to be 76,-
000, 000,

Compare the increase of the United
States to the increase of other countries :
France increased from 25,000,000 to
40,000,000; Germany from 20,000,000 to
55,000,000; the English speaking per-
sons of the British empire from 15,000, -
000 to 55,000, 000.

Both Russia and Great Britain can
show a greater population than the
United States and a greater increase in
population during the century just
ended if all the subjects belonging to
these empires are taken into considera-
tion and the count not limited to those
who speak Russian and who speak Eng-
lish, If all the subjects are counted the
Russian empire has a population of
135,000,000, having increased to that
figure from 40,000,000 in 1800, and the
British empire has a population of
375,000,000. If the 10,000,000 Filipinos
and the Hawaiians and Puerto Ricans
are added to our 76,000,000 we can take
a step forward toward rivaling the fig-
ures of Russia and Great Britain, and
if we keep on increasing by adding to
our domains other countries teeming
with population that we make subject
to ourselves at the same rate as during
the past three years, we will in a short
time be able to catch up with these em-
pires of Europe. It is questionable,
however, whether~a country does not
weaken itself ultimately by the addi-
tion of alien peoples, however splendid
such accretion at first seem.

Sir Robert Griffen concedes that dur-
ing the coming century the United
States will outstrip all the European
countries in growth of population as
well as in industrial development and
wealth. The immense advantage that
the United States has over the other na-
tions is that it produces its own food
supply and foreign trade is not neces-
sary, but only a means of increasing
wealth. The great reason of the pres-
ent tariff agitation in Europe is that
the European countries have to depend
on other countries for food, and each is
afraid the other will in some way shut
her out of the means of subsistence.
The independence of the United States
from providing her own food and the
plentifulness of land are the two causes
which will enable this country, in the
century that has just begun, to forge
ahead of all rivals.

ee ____

It is the first step that counts. When
the British government gave an Ameri-
can company the contract to build a
bridge in Africa there was a noise about
it that was heard around the world.
Since then American companies have
been getting such contracts right along
and they have come to be regarded as
matters of course. The other day a
Philadelphia concern was awarded a
contract for twenty bridges in East
Africa for exactly the same reasons that
governed in the first case. The Ameri-
can bids were not only the lowest, but
guaranteed the completion of the work
in less time than any of the others,

 

Two Kindred Souls Impinge.

They had just been introduced, and,
as she looked into his thoughtful blue
eyes, the young girl felt that she had at
last met a man of high ideals.

‘‘Are you interested in the elevation
of the masses, Mr. McSmudge?’’ she
asked, after she had worked up to the
subject by easy conversational stages.

“*Intensely, Miss Gushington,’’ he
answered, ‘‘! have dedicated my life to
this great work. I am just now inter-
esting myself in circulating a pamphlet
on the subject, which | shall be pleased
to send you.’’

‘* How lovely,’’ she murmured. She
knew that she had at last found a kin-
dred soul.

But this world is full of bitter disap-
pointments, and it was a hard jolt to
Ethel Gushington’s finer sensibilities,
when a few days later she received,
with the compliments of John Wesley
McSmudge, a catalogue of passenger
elevators, for which he was agent.

——_—__~>-9-e —-__-
Awfal Misunderstanding.

‘‘It’s enough to make anybody cry!’’
blubbered Miss Pertie Goodwin, in
speaking of the affair to her most. inti-
mate friend. ‘‘You know | was asked
with a lot of other girls to attend a func-
tion at the Bachelors’ Club the other
evening. ”'

“es. |

‘*Well, them

mamma _ answered

through the telephone that I would come’

if my chaperon would. They under-
stood her to say, ‘She can’t come be-
cause she has to chop her own wood,’
and that’s the story that’s out. I think
I shall die!’’

Business Hans

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

NOR SALE—GENERAL MERKCHANDISE
stock in one of the best towns in Western
Michigan; well established trade; good clean
stock; good location. For further particulars
and terms address Box 555, Shelby, Mich. 158
OR SALE—A NEW AND THE ONLY BA-
zaar stock in the city or county; population,
7,000; population of county, 23,000; the county
seat; stock invoices $2,500; sales, $40 jo day;
expenses low. Address J. Clark, care Michigan
adesman. 157
OR SALE—TYPEWRITERS, LATEST
model No. 4 Williams. We have a limited
number of these machines which we will sell for

 

 

 

$75 each on very easy terms. We guarantee
them brand new. The Myers Co., Nashville,
Tenn. 156

 

OR SALE, ON EASY TERMS—STOCK OF
groceries and crockery, invoicing about
$1,100; no old goods; cheap rent; located North-
ern Michigan: — 1,400. Address J. S.,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 155
RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN CITY OF
5,000; invoices $1,500. Other business ne-
cessitates sale. Write at once for particulars to
No. 154, care Michigan Tradesman. 154

VOR SALE, ON CONTRACT—A SMALL
drug stock in beautiful Southern Michigan
village of 1,000; a snap for live man with little
cash. Address Drugs, Kalamazoo, Mich. 153
INE DRUG STOCK IN RAPIDLY GROW-
ing city of Southern Michigan; finest store
in city; on a paying basis, with uulimited possi-
bilities; several fine specialties already going
well; a great opportunity anda rare one. Will
exchange for good real estate in Southern Mich-
igan or anywhere in south or southwest or on
Pacific Coast. Best of reasons for selling. Ad-
dress Business, Kalamazoo, Mich. 152
NOR SALE—UP-TO-DAIE $2,000 SHOE
stock, with good trade established ina good
live town of 2,000. Correspond with U & S, care
Michigan Tradesman. 151
EAT MARKET FOR SALE-—IN SOUTH-
ern Michigan in town of 6,000 and —
fast; the best town in the State to do a g
business in and make money; everything in
first-class order; also power to run machinery
very cheap; best stock country and shipping
oint in Michigan. Will bear the closest inves-
igation. Come and look it over and you will
buy. Reason for selling, wish to retire. Ad-
dress No. 159, care Michigan Tradesman. 159
UB SALE—A GENEKAL STORE WITH
about $2,000 stock, in good locality. Address
416 Erie St., Port Huron, Mich. 144
ANTED—TO BUY A SLfOCK OF HARD-
ware in some good Northern town. S. T.
Hasse, Ithaca, Mich. 143
OR SALE—CIRCULAR SAW MILL, WITH
top saw, on Walloon Lake, Mich.; capacity,
twenty-five thousand feet of hardwood per day:
steam feed and engine ‘cece fed by two boilers.
Docks and roads all built and everythin ——
for this winter’s cut. For full parti Ss ad-
dress H, F. Guerin, Horton Bay, Mich. 142

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—MONEY MAKING STOCK OF
general merchandise, established business
of $1,500 per month in liveliest growing town
in Michigan, at 25 per cent. discount from in-
voice if taken within thirty days, Correspond
at once with Mac, care Michigan Trades-
man, 136
ANTED—TO SELL STOCK AND BUILD-
ing or stock of groceries, crockery and
meats; best location in one of the most thriving
cities in the Upper Peninsula; good reasons for
selling; correspondence solicited. Address B.
C. W., Box 423, Crystal Falls, Mich. 133

OR SALE—COUNTRY STORE DOING A

thriving business; best location iu Central
Michigan; cash receipts last year, $10,000; es
clean stock of general merchandise, invoicing
about $2,500; stock can be reduced to suit pur-
chaser; large ice house, with good refrigerator,
capacity 3,000 pounds; no competition; nearest
store five miles; good chance for hustler; a _—
bargain if taken right away; reason for selling,
other business. For further particulars address
W.S. Hamilton, Colonville, Mich. 130

OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES
inventorying about $3,000; located in growin
city of Kalamazoo; good reasons for selling; ren
low; no cut prices; satisfactory terms to pur-
chaser who can pay one-half down. Address
No. 139, care Michigan Tradesman. 139

ROCERY CLERK. POSITION WANTED

by an experienced grocery clerk. Can give
the best of references as to ability, ete. Address
Clerk, care Michigan Tradesman. 140

Or SALE CHEAP—20 OR MORE COLO-
nies of bees in good chaff hives. Albert
Baxter, R. R. No 3, Muskegon, Mich. 141
ANTED—UNDERTAKING AND FURNI-
ture business. Will pay spot cash. Ad-
dress No. 124, care Michigan Tradesman. 124

NOK SALE—GROCERY, CHINA AND BA-
zvaar store. Invoice about $1,100; centrally
located; town of 1,200; established trade; bar-
— investigate. Address No. 147, care Mich-
gan Tradesman.

OR SALE—GENERAL STORE, STOCK
and dwelling; doing $15,000 yearly business
on $1,800 stock; will pay expense of investigation
if not so. Michigan Central Railroad ticket
office in store, worth $25 a month. A. M. Bent-
ley, Rhodes, Mich.
UR SYSTEM REDUCES YOUR BOOK-
keeping 85 per cent. Send for catalogue.
— Cash & Credit Register Co., Scrau =
a. 5
JOR SALE—GROCERY STORE OF E. J.
_ Herrick, 116 Monroe street, Grand Rapids.
Enjoys best trade in the city. Mr. Herrick
wishes to retire from business... Address L. E.
Torrey, Agt., Grand Rapids. 102

YOR SALE—STORE, GENERAL MERCHAN-
dise stock and one-half acre of land in town
of 200 population in Allegan county. Ask for real
estate $2,500. Two fine glass front wardrobe
show cases, with drawers; also large dish cup-
board and three movable wardrobes in flat above
go with building. Will invoice the stock and
xtures at cost (and less where there is a depre-
ciation),which will probably not exceed $1,200 or
$1,500. Require $2,000 cash, balance on mortgage
at 5 per cent. Branch office of the West Michi-
gan Telephone Co. and all telephone property
reserved. Store building 26x62; warehouse for
surplus stock, wood, coal and ice, 12x70; barn,
24x36, with cement floor; cement walk; heated
by Michigan wood furnace on store floor; large
filter cistern and water elevated to tank {n bath-
room by force pump. Cost of furnace, bathtub
and fixtures, with plumbing, $295. Five barrel
kerosene tank in cellar with measuring pump.
Pear and apple trees between store and barn.
For particulars or for — of photograph
of premises address or call on Tradesman Com-
pany. 99
INE OPENING FOR DRY GOODS BUSI-
hess. Now occupied by small stock, for sale
cheap. Address No. 97, care Michigan Trades-
man. 97

OR SALE—GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF GEN-

eral merchandise, invoicing $2,500 to $3,000.
Situated in good farming district in Northern In-
diana. Reason for selling, business interests
elsewhere. Quick sale for cash. Address No.
93, care Michigan Tradesman. 93

oS SA LE—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 Trades-
man. 62
] 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 a
only two furniture stores in the town. Address
all correspondence to No. 63, care Michigan
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esman.

Ss DESIROUS OF CLOSING
4¥ out entire or part stock of shoes or wishing
to dispose of whatever undesirable for cash or
on commission correspond with Ries & Guettel,
126-128 Market St., Chicago, Ill. 6

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ITUATION WANTED AS REGISTERED

pharn a town. No dives need ap-

Ply. Address No. 160, care Michigan Trades-
: 160

W ANTED—EXPERIENCED MEN TO
write life insurance; good territory; none
but active workers wanted. Address D. D. Al-
ton, 96 and 97 Lyman Block, Muskegon, Mich. 149

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Wwas TED— REGISTERED PHARMACIST
to work in country store; state wages and
references. Address X. Y., care Michigan
Trrdesman. 134
crenata i a
ANTED—SITUATION BY A MAN OF
large experience in a general or hardware
or grocery or shoe store. Can furnish refer-
= Address No. 129, care Michigan Trades-
mi 129