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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II, 1901.

Number 951

 

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C. H. HANSON,
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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 éverywhere. 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

 

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Open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Saturday to I p. m.
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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Getting the People.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Show Cards.
7. Bankruptcy Amendments.
8. Editorial.
9. Editorial.
10, Clothing.
12. Shoes and Rubbers.
14. Dry Goods.
15. Window Dressing.
16. Clerk’s Corner.
18. The New York Market.
19. Butter and Eggs.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Poultry.
23._ Holiday Dinners.
24. One Woman’s Way.
25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
2%. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current.
31. Business and Philanthropy.
Hardware Price Current.

 

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

Among the most notable features of
the general situation is the paradoxical
fact that records for volume are being
broken while the Wall Street markets
are in a semi-panic. Last year the
high records made were aided by a
boom in stock transactions and the
funding of new corporations. It would
naturally be expected from past experi-
ence that, with decline in stock prices
and the consequent dullness in the mar-
ket, the general business of the country
would suffer in sympathy. Yet so great
has been the improvement in industrial
conditions that general ttade has not
only held its own, but it has more than
made up the difference, so as to surpass
all records in bank clearings.

The stock market seems to have set-
tled to a seesaw with intervals of from
two to three days. Led by Amalgama-
ted Copper, which made a new low
record Friday, the movement is upward
again. The export of gold can hardly
be reckoned as a serious bear element,
for with an outgo in recent weeks of
over $20,000,000 the amount in _ this
country is only decreased by about
$3,000,000, while the other currency has
increased so as to make the entire cir-
culation larger than ever. The con-
servatism of the President’s Message
and the attitude of Congress as far as it
has been made manifest are an assur-
ance that care will be taken to interfere
as little as possible with any subjects
likely to affect industries.

The holiday distribution of goods
throughout the country is exceeding any
previous season. Dealers are finding
that what they considered generous or-
ders are not adequate, and reorder
business is driving the producers to the
utmost. Holiday trade opened early,
and, with favorable weather in most lo-
calities, it promises not only to break
all records, but to make the distance to
the new mark a great one.

The only feature of interest in the
iron and textile industries is the inten-
sifying of activity in all directions,
with prices held down by conservative
operators. Railway earnings are heavy
and the increase of equipment is push-

 

ing shops to their capacity. The lead-
ing boom in prices is in the cereals and
provisions, both grains making new
high records, but with rather restricted
export movement on account of the
high figures reached.

 

THE WORDS HAVE FADED.

It is said that the writing on the orig-
inal declaration of independence has
faded so that it is not only illegible but
that only here and there traces of pen
strokes remain. The precious document
after its removal from Independence
Hall in Philadelphia was preserved in
a glass case and exposed to the light at
the State Department in Washington.
Under exposure to the light the text be-
gan to fade away and then it was placed
in a drawer of a cabinet specially pre-
pared for it and still the fading contin-
ued until now where the text and signa-
tures were is practically nothing but
blank parchment. It is a curious fact
in this connection that Jefferson’s orig-
inal draft of the declaration, with inser-
tions in the handwriting of Franklin
and Adams, still exposed to public
view, shows the writing as clearly as it
was more than a century and a quarter
ago when made. The original draft of
the constitution preserved in the same
way is as legible as ever, the ink there-
on showing no signs of fading.

Thus the material evidence of the
most important and indeed most valu-
able document in the history of the
United States is obliterated, leaving
only blank parchment where once inde-
pendence was declared and the mani-
festo signed by the brave men and true
who have ever since been held in grate-
ful honor and esteem by their descend-
ants ina republic which has become the
leader of the world. Although the writ-
ing may have faded from public view,
it long ago ceased to be needed save as
a memento. To recount its glorious
accomplishments would be to cite the
history of the United States. How lit-
tle the signers appreciated or even im-
agined the future of the nation they thus
founded. The struggling colonies of
those times formed into states became a
nation whose growth in everything
which contributes to greatness has been
phenomenal. No prophetic vision of
1776 ever gave a glimpse of what in
these days is an assured reality. That
document long ago accomplished its
noble purpose and what an accom-
plishment it has been. The record of its
words has faded, but the principles it
declared have stood and will stand for
all time.

 

 

As an illustration of how closely
everything is watched in Russia, take
their system of registering firearms.
When a weapon of any kind is pur-
chased a permit must be secured from
the local authorities. The name of the
man who makes the purchase, with the
number of the weapon, is recorded. If
the purchaser ever wants to dispose of
the weapon he must notify the authori-
ties and cause the transfer to be
recorded on the books of the firm which
sold it.

 

THE CHANGES TIME WORKS.

Compared with other nations the
United States is not very old. A cen-
tury brings great changes in manners
and methods of any people and more
than twice the change is noted after two
centuries, because every year is more
enterprising than its predecessor. Some
such thoughts as these must have been
in the mind of the Austrian professor
who proposes to leave to the museum of
Prague the sum of $15,000, under de-
cidedly unique conditions. The money
is to be used for defraying the expenses
of carrying out his directions, which
are that at his death all his personal be-
longings, including his clothes and fur-
niture, shall be packed in air tight
cases and preserved without opening for
200 years. At the end of that time they
are to be taken out and exhibited in the
museum for the purpose of showing the
people of 2102 just how an Austrian pro-
fessor lived in 1902.

Fashions and styles in this country
are so constantly changing that the at-
tire of the people, their furniture and
their personal belongings of a century
ago look very odd. The _ household
effects of an American just as they were
used 200 years ago, if exhibited in any
museum to-day, would draw a crowd and
attract a great deal of comment and at-
tention. By comparison they would at
least serve to emphasize the progress
and advancement made in ten score
years. Very much more interesting
would it be if any Austrian or Ameri-
can could seal himself up hermetically
for 200 years and then step out alive
and well, to note the changes wrought
in that time. He would be as startled
and amazed as an American of 1701
would be to come back now to ride on
locomotives, electric cars, talk over a
wire and do the thousand and one won-
derful things which the present genera-
tion thinks nothing strange. It is only
by such comparisons that the change
can be appreciated and unfortunately the
plan which the Austrian professor pro-
poses to follow is much more practical
than the one suggested, since it is
easier to keep furniture and wearing ap-
parel than it is to keep people for two
centuries,

 

The conviction of Salsbury was one of
the most notable triumphs of justice
ever recorded in this country. Some of
the associates and attorneys of the de-
fendant apparently did not hesitate to re-
sort to exceedingly questionable methods
in the effort to block the wheels of jus-
tice, fighting every inch of the ground
with the desperation of despair. Every
species of perjury was apparently
brought into play and attempts to tam-
per with the jury and corrupt the wit-
nesses were undoubtedly made. In
spite of such tactics, which would not
have been resorted to by innocent men
or the friends of innocent men, the jury
has recorded a verdict which foreshad-
ows the conviction of Salsbury’s asso-
ciates in crime, as well as those who
rushed to the rescue of the conspirators
by giving perjured testimony and at-
tempting to corrupt the people’s wit-
nesses.

ADESMAN |

    

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Getting the People

Increasing Significance Attaching to the
Advertisers’ Work.

During the years attending and fol-
lowing the hard times of '93 the work
of the advertiser was discouraging.
The lack of employment and the tend-
ency to hoarding which always attend
such panics gave the money of the
country an inaccessibility which made
the work of publicity most discouraging.
The result was seen in the cutting down
of space and dropping out of advertis-
ers until the magazines and newspapers
came to look very lean. During this
time, however, there were many who
persisted in spite of the discouraging
situation and were rewarded sometimes
by an unexpected success. There was
the effect of lessened competition in the
weeding out of the more cautious which
gave opportunity to the persistent.

The increase in the advertisers’ work
has fully kept pace with the changing
conditions. The once thin and anxious
looking magazines are concerned about
becoming too cumbersome and volumi-
nous, and the newspapers that were put
to straits to fill the vacant columns with
‘‘boiler plate’’ are now casting about to
find space for enough reading to meet
the demands of their subscribers. The
better times bring the advertisers’ har-
vest and with it an intensity of competi-
tion which makes a corresponding de-
mand upon the publicists’ resources.

The necessity of advertising is no
longer a debatable question. The mer-
chant who attempts to get along with-
out it soon succeeds in demonstrating
its necessity and takes it up or, per-
sisting, condemns his business to fail-
ure, either absolutely, or through the
long, tedious struggle for a meager suc-
cess which is worse than failure. Ac-
cepting, then, the proposition that in
all competitive trade advertising is a
necessity, the problem becomes one of
meeting the demands of competition
and of exploiting the field to its capa-
bilities.

The good times of to-day are the ad-
vertisers’ harvest. The abundance of
employment gives a buying capacity
many fold greater in most communities
than that of half a dozen years ago,
when public works were prosecuted to
save many from starvation. The plethora
of money is urging investment until all
sorts of schemes are in full swing,
which would then have been impossi-
bilities. The volume of advertising
has increased until often. its effective-
ness is greatly lessened, and methods
are varied as far as ingenuity makes
them available.

The need of making hay while the sun
is shining puts a corresponding pres-
sure on the wide awake business pusher.
Many are willing to accept the good the
gods send, contenting themselves with
the better results of improved condi-
tions. Such are missing the sunshine,
which experience teaches is usually fol-
lowed by clouds or darkness.

There is so general a recognition of
the need of meeting such opportunities
that advertising competition is to-day
greater than ever known before. Meth-
ods are systematized and refined to the
utmost, until the art has become prac-
tically a new one. The slipshod care-
less methods of years ago are worse than
useless, but in the rush of better times
they are too often tolerated.

* * x

H. E. Young gives a generous space
and a good deal of wording to the set-
ting forth of an interesting point in car-

 

 

 

 

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It accomplishes a fact; does just what we claim for it;
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Furnrrurg aND UNDERTAKING.

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carpenter, from your plas-
terer, from your painter,
from evervbody on the
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Christmas
Goods

in great variety at

Thatcher's
Book Store.

‘Pictures trom 256 Up
‘Books for alt Ages

Bibies all Sizes and Prices
Grokinoie trom 756 Up

 

 

Novelties in Toys and Games
Mirrors and Frames 10c Gp
Burnt wood and Leather Goods!
Toilet-cases andsets; Ebony,etc;
Handkerchief and Glove Cases
Calendars and Booklets
Oriental Statuary and Plaques
Pocket Books and chatelaines
Ebony and Silver Novelties
Elegant Holiday Stationery.

In short our store is
Filled to Overflowing
with Pretty Goods at
Popular Prices.

You Can Find: what
You Want. Here,

THATCHER'S
BOOK STORE,

HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN.

 

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Toys, dolls
Games,
Jewelery.
Books,
Silver’a’e
and china

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fumerougto mention,

O. W. Ferris,

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{t 1s equal ta any range sold, and superior to many—we

also have a very complete line of cook and heating stoves
in coal and wood, while

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such as:

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pet sweepers. The wording is not as
simple and direct as it might be, and
the display is not arranged to bring out
strongly the point aimed at. -The
printer has done well in adhering to un-
iform style and his use of white space
is good. There is no strength in dis-
playing a negative like ‘‘ Roller Bear-
ing is not."’

R. J. Corlett & Son make the mistake
of admitting a coarse suggestion in their
display, carried out by a coarser cut.
Throw the cut in the hell box, write a
new advertisement and if the printer
does his part as well as in this case the
result can hardly fail to be an improve-
ment.

A dignified and well composed under-
taker’s advertisement is that of A. W.
Sherwood & Son. Advertising in this
line is as desirable as in any other, but
too much care can not be used to pre-
serve dignity in wording and display.

Payne & Green write a good stove ad-
vertisement and their work is well sec-
onded by the printer. The use of bor-
der, display and white space is espe-
cially strong.

A well expressed holiday announce-
ment is that of Thatcher’s Book Store.
The printer would have done better to
use less faces oftype. He ‘‘falls down,’’
especially in the signature. Otherwise
his work is well proportioned and
spaced.

O. W. Ferris is a little too general in
his description to make his holiday an-
nouncement strong. ‘‘Too numerous to
mention’’ long ago became an advertis-
ing by-word.

H. C. Green has the materials for a
good advertisement, but his wording
might be improved. 1 would cut out
‘‘Resp.,’’as it is worse than useless,
even when it is not separated from its
signature by a postscript. 1 would also
strike out the paragraph above this word
as weakening the rest. General expres-
sions of this kind are absolutely worth-
less. The printer should have put in
less kinds of type. With the changes
suggested this would be a good adver-

tisement.
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The Oleomargarine Product. :

According to figures taken from the
annual report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, the product of oleo-
margarine shows a slight reduction dur-
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, Igo!,
as compared with the preceding year.
This reduction amounts to about 2, 100, -
ooo pounds—not quite 2 per cent. It is
the first break in the extremely rapid
growth of oleomargarine manufacture,
which, beginning in 1897, has carried
the annual production from less than
50,000,000 pounds to more than I00,-
000,000 in round numbers.

The most important variation in pro-
duction during the past year appears to
have been in the first district of Illinois,
where a decrease of some 4,000,000
pounds is indicated. There is alsoa
decrease in the sixth Indiana district
amounting to over 1,600,000 pounds,
and of nearly 500,000 pounds in the first
New Jersey district.

But these decreases are partly offset
by a large increase of over 1,800,000
pounds in the twenty-third Pennsylvania
district, one of over 400,000 pounds in
Maryland and smaller increases at other

points.
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Easy Way to Classify Men.

Customer—Why haven’t you called
upon me for that little bill 1 owe you?

Grocer—Oh, I make it a rule never to
ask a gentleman for money.

Customer—Indeed! But suppose a
man is indebted to you and doesn’t
pay?

Grocer—Well, after a certain length
of time I conclude he is not a gentle-
man; then | ask him,

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STATE OF MICHIGAN) <¢¢, at
COUNTY OF KENT  ) Bie
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John DeBoer, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows: Bie

I am a resident of Grand Rapids and’am employed as pressman in the .
office of the Tradesman Company. Since the issue. of October 4, 1899, no 33

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edition of thé Michigan Tradesman has fallen below SEVEN THOUSAND complcte as
‘gopiese I have personally superintended the printing and folding of every as
edition and have seen the papers mailed in the usual manner, And further pig

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county, this thirtieth day of November, A.D., 1901. Bie
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to circulation by the affidavit of its pressman? 4
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Is there any reason why you should not insist on circulation claims being .
verified, the same as you insist on verifying the count of your grocer and the
measurement of your dry good dealer? .
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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Adrian—The Marvin Shoe Co, has
removed to Hudson.

Jackson—A. J. Winches & Son have
sold their grocery stock to D. Shea.

Adrian—Sartor & Dreher succeed
Geo. Bowerfind in the bakery business.

Schoolcraft—Henry Dibble, of Law-
ton, has opened a meat market at this
place.

Waldron—E. J. Wilson has purchased
the implement stock of Boyd &
Wheeler.

Owosso—Hartshorn & Son have pur-
chased the implement stock of Clark &
Richards.

Constantine—Knorr & Shellenberger
have purchased the grocery stock of Wm.
Underner.

Cement City—X. A. Jones has pur-
chased the dry goods stock of X. A.
Jones & Co.

Detroit—The capital stock of John
Brenna & Co. has been increased from
$35,000 to $200,000.

St. Johns—Elmo Frink has purchased
the interest of his partner in the shoe
firm of Frink & Conkleman.

Gilford—Reid & Findley succeed
Wm. L. Reid in the bicycle, implement
and sewing machine business.

Benton Harbor—The Twin City Tele-
phone Co. has increased its capital
stock from $75,000 to $150, 000,

Flushing—Clarence G. Stevens con-
tinues the general mercantile business
of Stevens & Niles in his own name.

Sherwood—Lecker & Mead, meat
dealers, have dissolved partnership.
The business will be continued by R.
W. Mead. 7

Shadyside—M. E. Crommer has pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the
general merchandise firm of Crommer
& Denney.

Petoskey—The firm of Price & Pies-
ter, meat dealers, has dissolved partner-
ship. The business will be continued
by Mr. Price.

Battle Creek—The firm of Kernen &
Blackett has been organized to succeed
Kernen Bros. in the coal, wood and car-
riage business.

Steiner—Kohler & Fiedler is the style
of the new firm organized to succeed
John Kohler in general trade and the
lumber business.

Detroit—J. J. Youngblood & Co, is
the style of the new firm which succeeds
Youngblood & Lenzen in the paint and
wall paper business.

Linden—Lea! & Hyatt, general store
dealers, have dissolved partnership.
The business will be continued under
the style of Hyatt & Wiltsie.

Olivet—B. W. Pinch has sold his gro-
cery and bazaar stock to A. R. Henry,
of Battle Creek, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Port Huron—The Port Huron Co-
operative Society has been organized to
engage in the general merchandise
business along co-operative lines,

Harrietta—J. H. Larcom, meat dealer
at this place, has taken a partner in the
person of Philip P. Tobin. The new
firm will be known as Larcom & Tobin.

St. Johns—Francis Squair and Wm.
E. Gardner have purchased the boot
and shoe stock of W. H. H. Chapman.
The new firm will be known as Squair
& Gardner.

Traverse City—S. Adsley & Co., who
have carried ona grocery business on
Union street for about six years, have
closed out the grocery business and
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Croswell—At the beginning of the new
year, Dr. B. E. Brush will enter into
partnership with A. B. Graham under
the style of Graham & Brush. The new
firm will conduct a general drug _ busi-
ness.

Allen—F. A. Wagner has purchased

the interest of F. A. Roethlisberger in
the general merchandise firm of Benge
& Co., with whom he was formerly con-
nected, and after Jan. 1 the firm will be
known as Benge & Wagner.

Battle Creek—The Howes & Bush
Co., wholesale fruit dealers and pro-
prietors of cold storage warehouse, and
Lynn W. Macomber, dealer in coal,
wood and ice, will be succeeded Jan. I
by the Consumers Ice & Coal Co.

Holland—James A. Brouwer has de-
cided to discontinue the wall paper
business and to confine his energies to
his furniture and carpet business, He
has sold his wall paper stock to Bert
Slagh, proprietor of the Racket store.

Croswell—P. L. Graham will shortly
have associated with him as a partner
in his genera! merchandise business W.
G. Ackley, of Port Huron, who for a
number of years has been visiting this
place in the capacity of traveling sales-
man,

Port Huron—The Merchants and Man-
ufacturers’ Association is about to issue
its red book, giving a list of all delin-
quents in Port Huron. The merchants
are unanimously of the opinion that the
little book has done them much good
and that less people are asking credit
to-day than ever before.

Portage Lake—Graham Pope is clos-
ing out his general merchandise stock
and will shortly retire from active busi-
ness, having already disposed of his
mining interests. This is the oldest
store in the copper country, if not in
the Upper Peninsula, having been es-
tablished in 1846 by Ransom Shelden.

Belding—The vacant store in the
Wallace block is being equipped with
new shelving and counters, and when
completed will be occupied by the dry
goods stock of F. D. Lincoln. He has
also leased the store adjoining, which
he will also occupy as soon as the lease
of Mr. Hochradel expires on May 1 of
next year. An archway will be cut be-
tween the two stores.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Kalamazoo—Edward Cumins succeeds
the Michigan White Lead & Color
Works.

Jackson—The Pacific Starch Co, has
increased its capital stock from $30,000
to $500, 000.

Mt. Pleasant—The Mt.
Creamery Co.
cent. dividend.

Muskegon—The Muskegon Cabinet
Co. has been organized with a capital
stock of $85,000,

lIronwood—The Ironwood Brewing
Co. has been organized with a capital
stock of $10,000,

Coldwater—D. C. McKenzie has sold
his cigar manufacturing business to
Caton & Sillick.

Detroit—The Briscoe Manufacturing
Co. succeeds the Detroit Galvanizing &
Sheet Metal Works.

St. Johns—Richmond & Holmes suc-
ceed Richmond Bros. in the manufac-
ture of engines and boilers.

Adrian—The shoe manufacturing
house of Williams & Cox has changed
its style to F. H. Williams & Co.

Detroit—A. Jacobs & Co. is succeeded
by Jacobs & Co., Limited, in the man-
ufacture of clothing and as proprietors
of the Adjustable Clasp Co,

Pleasant
has declared a io per

 

 

Adrian—The capital stock of the Page
Woven Wire Fence Co. has been in-
creased from $240,000 to $1,000, 000.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Valley Beet
Sugar Co. is building an addition with
a capacity of 5,000 tons of beets per
week,

Detroit—The style of tbe Detroit
River Gasoline Engine Works has been
changed to the Detroit River Iron
Works.

Royal Oak—Many tons of sugar beets
still remain in the fields in this vicinity
and will be destroyed. The growers
claim a scarcity of help and the in-
ability to secure cars in season as the
cause.

Adrian—Fred Moreland has leased a
part of the Babcock building on South
Winter street, and will engage in the
manufacture of special brands of smok-
ing tobacco under the style of the Mich-
igan Tobacco Works.

Lake Linden—A stock company will
shortly be organized at this place for
the erection and equipment of a flour.
ing mill, and it is expected that opera-
tions will begin early next fall. A mill
site has been donated and water from
Trap River wili probably be utilized
for motive power.

Detroit—The Herman Mayer Manu-
facturing Co, has been succeeded by
the new firm of Herman Mayer & Co.,
with a capital of $35,000; paid in,
$10,500, The members of the firm are
Herman Mayer, J. J. Marten, W. J.
Burton and T. E. Gaghan. The com-
pany will manufacture an arithmetical
device, for teaching primary school
children the rules of arithmetic. The
machine is about three feet square and
is composed of wood and metals. The
method is to teach by observation. The
device is placed on a table in front of
the pupils, showing figures and signs,
large enough to be seen by the whole
room at once, if necessary. The Detroit
promoters bought the patents from a lo-
cal teacher, and then spent several
thousand perfecting the device before
it was put on the market. Herman
Mayer & Co, start business with a con-
tract to supply the schools of this city.

a

. A. Ault, grocer, Lowell, Ind. :
Four different trade journals find their
way to my store. The Michigan Trades-
man has more real reading than all of
the others put together.

 

The Other Man Had the Hatchet.
From the Lansing Republican, Dec. 9.

One of the clerks of Hull & Griffey’s
grocery store served an attachment on
his employers this morning and precip-
itated excitement in the neighborhood
of the intersection of Shiawassee street
and Washington avenue. The clerk, it
is-understood, was appointed trustee for
the creditors of Hull & Griffey. He
got his legal certificate early this morn-
ing and served it on Mr. Hull, who, he
claims, took the paper and drove him
from the store, locking him out.

The clerk tried to enlist the aid of
officers of the law, but as they had no
authority in the matter, without the
proper papers, his effort was wasted.

‘‘Why didn't you stay in the store?’’
one of the officers asked him. ‘‘ You
had the right.’’

‘I know,’’ replied the clerk, ‘‘but he
had a hatchet.’’

The hitch in the matter is that the
clerk will have to get new papers before
he can take possession of the stock, his
employer having retained the attach-
ment. It is probable that the matter
will be placed next time in the hands
of an officer of the law.

The firm of Hull & Griffey is having
trouble within itself over its accounts,
and the proprietors are at loggerheads.

Mr. Griffey filed a trust mortgage, it
is learned, for the benefit of all credit-
ors. Mr. Hull, it is understood, filed a
like mortgage to two preferred creditors.

——____» 2+.

Cutters Must Pay Cash For Goods.

Bay City, Dec. 9—The butchers of the
Bay Cities have an organization which
has attempted, in a measure, to control
prices of meat toconsumers. Recently,
however, several outside concerns have
been advertising meats at cut rates and
worked up a business which the butchers
looked upon with envy. The latter
could not control the trade of their ad-
vertising competitors themselves, but,
it is said, they have enlisted the help
of the packers, and that the Chicago
packing houses having branches here
have notified the trade that they will re-
fuse to do business with the cut-rate
meat dealers. This, however, is denied
by the managers of the beef houses.
They say they are here to sell all they
can, but have exacted cash payments
from those who are advertising the low
prices.

> +. __

November 30 Edwin Fallas shipped a
car of mince-meat, preserves, apple-
butter and baking powder to Duluth.
This is the fifth car he has shipped
West since October 12. The smallest
car contains at least 30,000 pounds. Mr.
Fallas is now shipping nearly half the
product of his factory West in carlots,
and sells his whole output himself.

 

WANTED

BUTTER, EGGS

M. ©. BAKER & @O,,

AND POULTRY
Toledo, Ohio

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,

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grain Market.

Wheat has made a phenomenal ad-
vance during the week, while receipts
were only fair in the Northwest, and the
world’s shipments were 9,712,000 bush-
els, of which the United States contrib-
uted 4,500,000 bushels. The visible
made another large increase of 2,844,000
bushels, leaving the amount in sight
55,240,000 bushels, against 61,494,000
bushels at the corresponding time last
year, a difference of 6,000,000 bushels
less than last year, where a few months
ago we were about 24,000,000 bushels
less. Notwithstanding these facts, the
market was very broad and prices are
up about 7c on winter wheat and fully
5c on spring wheat futures. Everybody
seems to be buying wheat and commis-
sion houses are rushed with orders, both
for buying and selling. The selling is
mostly to take profits. Such scrambling
for wheat has not been seen since the
Leiter deal. We think it is time to call
a halt. Still, as the buying craze is
on, prices may be forced still higher.
Wheat is still the lowest on the list,
lower than any of the cereals. Caution
should be used, as wheat is nearly 15c
per bushel up from bottom price.

Corn is also climbing, but not in pro-
portion to wheat, and an advance of 4c
can be recorded.

Oats, likewise, are up 3c per bushel,
and the demand keeps up. The market
seems to absorb ail of the offerings at
enhanced values.

Rye, not to be behind, has advanced
3c per bushel. The demand is large;
although some time ago it looked as
though rye would sell lower, the con-
trary has taken place. The whole line
of cereals have shown a strong advance
during the past week.

Beans are not affected by the rise in
other products and we see no reason
why they should advance above present
going prices.

Flour is up fully 30@4oc per barrel
and may go still higher if the present
advance in wheat is sustained.

Mill feed made another advance of $1
per ton and is scarce at that.

Receipts of wheat have been rather
large during the week, being as follows:
wheat, 81 cars; corn, 5 Cars; oats, 4
cars; rye, 2 cars; flour, I car; beans, 2
cars; malt, I car; hay, 2 cars; potatoes,
16 cars.

Mills are paying 82c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
—___+ 2. __
The Produce Market.

Apples—Good stock is running from
$4.50@6 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—The market is about steady.

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 fetches 15@17c. Packing
stock goes at 12@13c. Receipts of dairy
grades are more liberal, on account of
the shutting down of many cheese fac-
tories and creameries.

Cabbage—$z per crate of four dozen.

Carrots—$1.25 per bbl.

Celery—15c per doz.

Cranberries—Jerseys command $8@
8.50 per bbl; Waltons, $3@3.25 per
crate for fancy.

Dates—4%@5c per ib.

Eggs—The market is strong and firm
at 19@22c for strictly fresh and about
16@18c for storage. Receipts have
actually increased during the past week,
a considerable portion of the arrivals
being pullets’ eggs.

 

 

 

Figs—Three crown Turkey command
lic and 5 crown fetch 14c.
oo pay $1@1.20 for rab-

its.

Grapes—$5@6 per keg for 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 moder-
ate demand at 1o@IIc.

Lemons—Verdellis range from $4.50
for 300s to $4.75 for 360s. Maioris com-
mand $5 for 300s. Californias, $3.25@
3.50 for either size.

Lettuce—12%c per lb. for hothouse.

Maple Syrup—$1 per gal for fancy.

Onions—The market is strong and the
demand is maintained on the basis of
$1.10@1.25 per bu.

Oranges—California navels fetch $3.50
per box. Jamaicas command $3.50@
3.75. Floridas, $3.25@3.50.

Parsley—2oc per doz.

Potatoes—The market is steady and
strong, with no accumulation of sup-
plies. Local dealers pay 75c and hold
at 80c.

Poultry—The market is strong. Chick-
ens are scarce and strong. Dressed
hens fetch 7@8c, spring chickens com-
mand 8@oc, turkey hens fetch 10@IIc,
gobblers command g@loc, ducks fetch
10o@1ic and geese g@Iioc. Live pigeons
are in moderate demand at 60@75c and
squabs at $1.50@2.

Sweet Potatoes—All grades have ad-
vanced, Virginias to $2.50, Baltimores
to $2.50 and Jerseys to $4.

Winter Squash—Hubbard fetches 2c
per lb.

~~
Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market has had a bout of
higher values. The break did not
come, aS some dealers predicted and
worked for. Their sales for future de-
livery caught them on the wrong side
for a margin of profit. Large sales have
been made and at higher prices, leaving
the market in a strong position.

Pelts are in good demand at higher
values, with no accumulations.

Tallow has advanced materially, with
strong demand for home use. The high
prices of lard have advanced tallow and
greases and soapers take oils in place.
The foreign markets are short of stock
and await Australian stocks rather than
pay the present prices.

Wools remain firm and dealers are
paying a slight advance to obtain sup-
plies. Values West are too high fora
profit on the Eastern market. The out-
look is good for the future, but no ad-
vance is looked for before February or
March, and even then it depends upon
many contingencies. The foreign mar-
kets are firmer, with fair offerings.

Wm. T. Hess.

oe

The Commercial Credit Co. has re-
moved from the fourth floor of the Wid-
dicomb building to the second floor of
the same building, occupying the en-
tire front portion of the floor, including
the offices so long occupied by R. G.
Dun & Co, The growth of this business
has been little short of phenomenal,
clearly demonstrating the need which
exists in every community for an ad-
junct to the trade which shall enable
the dealer to post himself on the charac-
ter of his customers before according

them credit.
0

Dewey & Stalker have opened a drug
store at Coloma. The Hazeltine &

Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock.
—_—___>2>

John Burdick -has opened a grocery
store at Lamont. The Olney & Judson

Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
9

L. H. Porter succeeds Calvin H.
Catlin in the grocery business at 79

Plainfield avenue.
——__»4.—___

For Gillies’ N. Y_ ea,all kinds, grades
and prices, call Visner, both phones,

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw .sugar market is
stronger, but prices show no change as
yet, 96 deg. test centrifugals being still
quoted at 33c. Retiners appeared
ready to buy good sized lots at ruling
prices, but importers expecting higher
prices, offerings were very light and
few sales resulted. Receipts of raw
sugar show no increase and stocks for
the week decreased materially. In Cuba,
grinding of sugar-cane has begun ina
small way, and probably newcrop Cuba
sugar will be offered on the market
soon. The refined market is very firm,
in sympathy with the firmer tendency
for the raw sugar market, and we are
advised that unless present plans mis-
carry refiners will advance prices 10
points by Thursday. The demand is
good, and we see no reason for lower
prices. The general feeling seems to
be that prices have touched bottom
and indications point to a continued
firm market.

Canned Goods—The canned goods
situation is practically unchanged.
There is still a good feeling in the
tomato market and this helps to keep
the other lines firm, There is always
something doing in tomatoes, and while
heretofore the month of December has
always been a very quiet one in the
canned goods line, it seems as though
conditions have changed permanently,
for during the past two years there has
been a large business, not only through
December, but January as well. Re-
garding the general outlook for the to-
mato market, will say that there were
produced about 7,000,000 cases of toma-
toes in 1900 and not over 250,000 cases
of those tomatoes were carried into the
season of 1901. The pack of Igo1 will
not be over 4,000,000 cases, if it is that
much, making a shortage of at least
3,000,000 cases, with the consumption
increasing every day. The demand
during the past week has been very
good and the tendency of prices is still
upward. Gallons are exceedingly scarce,
being almost entirely cleaned up. There
is very little interest taken in corn and
very few sales of any quantity have
been made. Why it is is difficult to
say, but the fact remains that corn does
not sympathize with tomatoes, as in
former years. Prices are fairly steady,
but the demand is very light indeed.
There is considerable enquiry for the
better grades of peas and the tendency
of the market is toward higher prices.
It seems now perfectly safe to say that
the market will be entirely cleaned up
before the buying for the spring trade
sets in, String beans do not improve.
There is absolutely no demand what-
ever for them. There is, however, a
good demand for baked beans at prev-
ious prices. Succotash is in very ac-
tive demand just at present, but is very
scarce and difficult to obtain. Gallon
apples are scarce and high. Stocks of
these goods are practically exhausted.
Peaches are dull and easy, with prac-
tically no demand. Salmon and sar-
dines are both firmly held, but the de-
mand is light.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
is in good shape, the demand being
very good and prices firmly held, the
market in general showing decided
strength. The feature of the week was
the report from the coast that the bulk
of the California crop of raisins had
been bought up by the Seeders’ combi-
nation and the withdrawing from the
market of all prices on both loose mus-
catel and seeded raisins. When prices
are made again, it is expected that they

per arrears

 

will show an advance of from %@Ic

per pound. There was quite heavy

buying at the first intimation of this

purchase by the seeders, but prices were

withdrawn before the orders could be

confirmed. The present outlook for the

raisin market is exceedingly strong.

There is a very fair demand for prunes,

supplies of which are fair, with the ex-

ception of 80-g0s and g0-100s, which are
hard to obtain, as these sizes are very
scarce. On the coast the situation is

steadily becoming stronger and prices
are very firmly held. Peaches and
apricots are going out well for the sea-

son of the year and there is a some-

what firmer feeling in peaches. Cur-
rants and figs continue strong and con-

sumptive demand for both articles is
excellent. Layer figs are in large de-

mand and some holders are asking %c
advance. Supplies are becoming much

reduced. Dates are in good demand

and the market continues firm, and all

sorts are rapidly going into consump-

tion, influenced largely by the low prices.
now ruling. In fact, dates are the

cheapest article on the list and this has
naturally made them very popular.

Evaporated apples are practically un-
changed, with very few offerings.

Rice—The demand for rice is re-
ported as fairly good, considering the
usual slow movement preceding the
holidays. There was no accumulation
of spot supplies and, as dealers have
ample assortments, there was no inclina-
tion to purchase stocks at present
prices. Sales included a general assort-
ment of nearly all grades, but asa result
of the relative cheapness of domestic
Japan, compared with other styles, they
were in good request and fair sales re-
sulted.

Teas—There continued a strong up-
ward tendency to prices for all grades of
green teas, for which the quotations
have been raised from 1@2c per pound.
The lower sorts of black teas have stiff-
ened and it is likely that prices will ad-
vance soon. Importers were reluctant
sellers and preferred to hold goods in
the expectation of higher prices. Crop
reports place the crop of green tea at
11,500,000 pounds, showing a shortage
of 3,500,000 pounds compared with last
year’s crop, which was very small.

Molasses and Syrups—The molasses
market is firm, with a steady demand,
purchases, however, being mostly of
small lots for immediate use, as owing
to the high prices asked dealers do not
feel like making large purchases as they
anticipate an enlarged crop movement
and lower prices. Spot supplies are
light. Reports from New Orleans note
a strong market and confirmation of
damage to sugar cane in some districts
which helps to maintain a firm tone to
the market. The corn syrup market is
firm with good demand, but no change
in price.

Nuts—There is an excellent demand
for all varieties of nuts for the coming
holidays. Brazil nuts have again ad-
vanced %c, with small stocks on hand.
Walnuts are in very good supply, a
large shipment for this market having
just been received from the coast.. The
market on them is very firm, however,
and the demand is good. Jordan shelled

almonds are scarce and slightly higher.
Tarragonas are also in good demand
and in light supply. Filberts are un-
changed, with good demand. Peanuts
are selling well at previous prices.

Rolled Oats—In sympathy with the
very strong grain markets, the rolled
oats market is exceedingly strong and
prices have advanced as follows: Bar-
rels, 30c; competitive cases, loc; Ban-
ner oats, 15c; Quaker oats, 15c.

 

 

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SHOW CARDS.

 

Some General Rules Which Should Be
: Observed.

Discretion and judgment are required
in the arrangement and shading of the
letters and parts of the show card. This
matter of shading is very simple in-
deed. It is based upon a well-known
principle in physics, that any article
placed in a strong sunlight will cast its
own shadow. This is the theory of
shading. Ifa letter were to be cut out
from a newspaper or advertisement and
should be pasted on a cardboard, it
would throw a shadow, according to
the angle with the sun. And this is just
exactly the theory of shading. The let-
ter is supposed to stand out from the
board on which it is painted, and in or-
der to make it do so to the eye, it must
be given a black background, heavy
or light, as it is supposed to be a long
or short distance in front of the board.

Ordinarily you will notice that the
left side of the letter is shaded. This
is because the light comes from the up-
per right hand corner, and it is much
simpler to place the shading on the left
for the reason that in the majority of
instances that side of the letter is
straight. Straight lines take shading
better than curves or slants, and the
effect of making the letter stand out is
more easily produced.

Another fact that should be borne in
mind is to leave a small margin between
the letter and the shading, i. e., a white
space of an eighth or a sixteenth, and
in very large letters of a quarter of an
inch. This furnishes a contrast between
the letter itself and between the shading
and creates a stronger effect from the
standpoint of the shadow.

As to the color of the shade, it should
be remembered always to have it darker
than the background. There should be
at least a shade difference in color,
and several shades difference, with the
shading invariably darker and deeper
in color than the board, will bring much
better results.

Another point to be remembered is to
make the shading under the letter heav-
ier than that along the side.

It is a well-known fact that the shade
immediately at your feet or immediately
in front of an object standing ina
strong light is heavier than a few feet
away, and in adopting this rule you are
following nature, and can not go far
wrong.

The advantage of shading consists in
giving prominence to one or more lines
onacard. There is usually some catch
line, some point to the card which
should be brought out in such a way
that it can not fail to be seen by the
most casual passerby, and shading has
the effect of giving this prominence in
a most positive way.

In the matter of shading,the card and
sign writer must be to some extent orig-
inal, as he is in all the rest of his work.
He must permit his individuality to as-
sert itself and be prominent, and to do
this. it is necessary to draw offhand as
much as possible and to convey the im-
pression through the card that the writer
has in his mind’s eye when he starts
out. As stated previously,it is only ex-
perience that counts in card writing,
and the beginner who attempts shading
and finds that it is not successful should
not become discouraged, but should
continue his efforts until he obtains
more satisfactory results.

In this part of the article there is
only one other point that should be em-
phasized. The beginner has made such
progress that he ought to begin to col-

 

lect his library of colored pictures for
poster work. Possibly he has not yet
become so proficient that he can under-
take elaborate posters, but he should
begin to work along this line.

Mr. Card Writer, become a _ collector
of all descriptions of colored posters.
Highly colored lithographs coming as
advertisements for various descriptions
of food products, backs of color printed
calendars, theatrical advertising matter
and many other fields will afford you a
source of supply.

Secure one or more large drawers in
your workshop as a receptacle for these
pictures, or, if it is possible, a cabinet
large enough to be used for this and
nothing else. As you collect these pic-
tures from various sources, carefully cut
them out from the original matter in
which they appeared and trim them
closely and carefully with a small pair
of scissors, and be sure you do not cut
into the picture itself, so that it will
ravel out or curl up when it is used on
your show card.

A good supply of such colored pic-
tures should always be on hand, includ-
ing a large variety of subjects that are
fetching and likely to catch the eye. If
you have room for the purpose these
may be divided into different classifica-
tions, according to the nature of the
subject,and so arranged that they are al-
ways handy.

In using colored pictures as a central
idea in the show card, select the one
which you think best adapted to the
reading matter of the card and which is
most attractive. Then map out your
card in such a way as to give plenty of
room for the wording and the picture,
taking the latter and putting it in the
place that it should appear, marking
the outline with a soft pencil.

The greatest care should be used in
pasting the colored picture on the
board. Liquid glue of about medium
consistency may be used, and the back
of the picture should be thoroughly cov-
ered with this, a wide brush being used
for the purpose. No glue should be per-
mitted to lap over the sides, nor should
it be so thick that it will be pushed out
when the picture is pressed firmly in
place. Glue on the board is very diffi-
cult to remove, and it shows on a light
colored board to such an extent as to
spoil the effect.

A board should be used that is in
contrast with the leading colors in the
picture. A dark green board will serve
as a background for many of the lead-
ing colors, and is one of the best boards
ordinarily for a background. The col-
ored picture should be pressed firmly
into piace, and should be’ weighted
down until it thoroughly dries in order
to prevent curling at the edges.

The picture may be made to appear
as a part of the sign by giving it a neat
border in a color that harmonizes with
its leading color, but contrasts with the
background. This border may be in
the nature of shading to the edges of the
picture,or it may be criss-crossed lines,
attached outside and inside of the pic-
ture, or it may take any form that will
give the picture the appearance of hav-
ing been originally part of the card.

If the sign itself contains one promi-
nent line, and one or more lines of sec-
ondary importance, the prominent line
should be brought in as close contact
with the picture as possible, and may
be divided with one or more words on
each side of the picture, or with all the
prominent words if there are only two
or three to the left of the picture, and
those of secondary importance to the

 

right. The idea is that the picture will
attract the eye before the reading mat-
ter. The prominent wording should
therefore be as close to the picture as
possible, so that it will be caught with
one sweep of the eye. —Commercial Bul-
letin.
—___> 2.

Beer is the staple product of Milwau-
kee, and is regarded by the majority of
its citizens as having been the prime
factor in promoting its growth. There
is a minority, however,and a strong one,
which objects to the shoving of the bar-
ley juice before the outside public on
every possible occasion. The proposi-
tion to give the new bridge, which is
shortly to be opened with all kinds of
formal ceremonies, a good send-off by
breaking a bottle of the juice on the
structure is creating considerable op-
position. It is contended that there are
other sorts of business in the city be-
sides the brewing interests and that the
smashing of the bottle could very well
be dispensed with. The minority is
hardly likely to succeed, for the other
side seems to have disarmed opposition
in the only direction which would have
had any weight—the breweries them-
selves—for the bottle will be made up
of samples from all the establishments
in the city. It may be all very well to
advertise the city by the beer, but to
spread the virtues of somebody’s treble

X bock or lager is not to be tolerated. |’

For once, mixing the drinks seems like-
ly to promote good feeling.
—__> #2»

A novel form of charity has been in-
augurated in Budapest—namely, the
distribution of bread and milk among
children up to six years of age. The
distribution, which is to be continued
daily, takes place, morning and even-
ing, at a shop in a by street. The milk
is first boiled in four large boilers,
whence it runs into a cooling apparatus.
Fifty children are allowed to enter at a
time, either with their mothers or alone,
while the others wait for their turn ina
neighboring Warmestube, another char-
itable institution. These large, well-
warmed rooms are found in many places
in Austria-Hungary. The children are
told to bring their own mugs for the
milk; but there are drinking vessels for
those who have none, which, after use,
are cleaned and disinfected. Both the
bread and milk must be consumed on
the premises, and very sickly children
receive a second portion. On the open-
ing day a number of medical men, as
well as men and women from the upper
middle classes, assisted in the distribu-
tion.

———___> 4. —___

Terra cotta figures are as popular as
ever, only more so, as the humorist re-
marked. These goods have been brought
to a state of perfection which is simply
marvelous. Splendid reproductions of
famous pieces of statuary and highly ar-
tistic original designs are to be had in
this ware at marvelously low prices.
As a means of decorating studios, cosy

corners and ends these artistic figures ,

are unsurpassed.

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car after your wife.

Bertwhistle (working over engine,
perspiringly)—Yes; because whenever
I want to go anywhere with it it takes
so long before it gets ready to start!

 

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makes disputed accounts impossible.
It assists in making collections. It
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 7

 

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENTS.

 

Radical Changes Needed in the Existing
Law.

If, as is confidently expected, the
bankruptcy law is amended during the
present Congressional session, it is
pretty safe to assume that the amend-
ments proposed by the friends of the act
will be such as have had the full sanc-
tion and authority not only of those
who have been called upon to adminis-
ter the law in an official capacity, but
a large proportion of those who stand
in the relation of creditors to the seek-
ers of the benefits of its provisions.

It will be remembered by all who take
an interest in the agitation for the re-
vision of the bankruptcy law that at the
last session of Congress a bill was_pre-
sented by Chairman Ray, of the House
Judiciary Committee, which had re-
ceived the indorsement of the Executive
Committee of the National Association
of Referees and the approval of E. C.
Brandenburg, the Government expert in
bankruptcy matters. This bill was not
pressed for consideration, because it
became evident that any attempt in this
direction at the last (short) session
would be unsuccessful.

The Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Association of Referees, at the
request of the Committee of the Judic-
iary, has requested leading merchants
all over the country to express their
views as tothe amendments necessary to
be made in the act, in order that it
might meet all the necessities of a
National bankruptcy law. It is reported
that about twenty thousand replies have
been received, many of them proposing
radical changes; and, as might have
been expected, ifall the amendments pro-
posed should be adopted, there would
be little or nothing left of the original
act. In addition to this the National
Association of Credit Men has sent out
letters to the members of its organiza-
tion, requesting suggestions as_ to
changes; and these are to be embod-
ied in recommendations to be forwarded
to Chairman Ray.

There has always been a feeling on
the part of many of the friends of the
bankruptcy law that there would he
danger to its existence in any very rad-
ical action in Congress in the direction
of amendments. It is feared that the
enemies of the law are so numerous that
a few accessions to their ranks would
result in a majority in favor of its repeal
in the House of Representatives. It is
probable that there are a good many
tinembers of both the House and the
Senate who are neither very strongly in
favor of, or very bitterly opposed to, the
National bankruptcy act as it stands,
whose votes might be intluenced by the
arguments pro and con in the consider-
ation of important amendments thereto ;
and it follows that, the more numerous
and radical the amendments proposed,
the greater would be the opportunity for
discussion, and, consequently, the like-
lihood of a change of mind on the part
of those who were more or less indiffer-
ent. At the same time itis admitted in
all quarters that certain changes, and
these of a rather sweeping character,
must be made in the law before it finds
any considerable acceptance by mer-
chant-creditors. As matters now stand,
the creditors of insolvent concerns,
whether these be manufacturers. or
wholesale or retail dealers,are more and
more indisposed to invoke the aid of the
bankruptcy law in liquidating their
affairs when conditions of insolvency
disclose themselves. To put a debtor
into bankruptcy only to find that whena
claim is presented it must be expunged
unless all payments made on account
within four months are returned to the
bankrupt’s trustee is a condition of
affairs which affords very little satisfac-
tion to the creditor. The consequence
is that, where insolvents have been
reasonably straightforward in_ their
transactions, and are willing to surren-
der their assets without preference or
priority for the benefit of creditors, to a
suitable trustee or assignee, such assign-
ments are favored by creditors in pref-
erence to resorting to the bankruptcy
law, with all its sinister complications

 

and possibilities in the way of throw-
ing out legitimate claims.

Whatever may be the outcome of the
attempt to improve the law and to divest
it of this and other provisions almost
equally obnoxious to the creditor class,
it is certain that there will be no lack
of knowledge of what the merchants and
credit-givers of the country desire and
expect and what those who administer
the law and stand in a position between
the bankrupt and his creditors consider
necessary for its improvement and _ per-

fection.
9 >

“Red Albumen” Proves to Be Cayenne
Pepper.

The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
has lately been deluged with orders for
‘‘red albumen,’’ which purports to be a
new hen food. The trade generally re-
gards ‘‘red albumen’’ as a fraud, large-
ly because of the fact that it has been
put upon the market by an Ohio con-
cern, which bears an unenviable reputa-
tion among manufacturers and dealers
for exploiting mysterious and worthless
nostrums.

Among these may be named ‘‘Per
Algretta,’’ a compound for preserving
eggs; ‘‘Hyper-samphire,’’ another
preparation for the same _ purpose;
‘*Richard Butter Rennett’’ and ‘* Black
Pepsin,’’ compounds for buttermaking ;
‘‘Compound Extract of Salyx,’’ for
preserving fruit, and ‘‘Zulu Vulier,’’ a
hair restorer.

Of these, ‘‘ Black Pepsin’’ and ‘‘Hy-|_

per samphire’’ have attracted most at-
tention in the past. Ten years ago a
demand for ‘‘ Black Pepsin’’ was created
by liberal advertising. The use of this
article was supposed to increase the
amount of butter produced from a cer-
tain quantity of cream and was branded
by the Department of Agriculture at
Washington as a fraud.

An official analysis was made with
these results: Salt, 8 per cent. ; an-
natto, 15 per cent.; rennet and organic
matter, 2 per cent. The value of the
2-0z. box, which sold at retail for $2.50,
was 3C.

An analysis of one pound of *‘Red
Albumen’’ showed it to be cayenne pep-
per. A teaspoonful in soft food was to
be distributed among twelve hens.
This solution is retailing at 60c a pound.

—_—__~»> 0.» __-——
Boston Firm Corners Minnesota’s Squash
Crop.

Minneapolis, Dec. 5—E. E. Howe,
owning a large market garden near this
city and acting for a Boston commis-
sion firm, has cornered the squash mar-
ket. Just before Thanksgiving he sent
agents throughout the country and
bought up eight carloads of pumpkins
and squashes, which were sent East.

The home market speedily used what
was left on the market and it was dis-
covered to-day that there was not a
squash to be had in the Northwest, with
the possible exception of 2,400 owned
by one farmer. He realizes the situa-
tion and is holding out for $2 a dozen,
which is equivalent to a retail price of
25 cents each.

However, this price and higher must
be paid, as the visible supply has been
shipped to Boston. The long period of
drought reduced the output of pumpkins
and squashes to a mere handful this sea-
son, but no one seemed to realize this
fact until Boston had secured almost the
entire crop.

——_~>2+>—__
One Owns Up.

‘*But how,’’ they asked, ‘‘did you
re to permit the man to bunco

ou?”’

‘‘Why, to tell the truth,’’ answered
the truthful man, ‘I went into the game
because I thought there was a chance to
bunco him.’’

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It’s a wise woman that knows how to
avoid lending her copper-bottomed pre-
serving kettle to her neighbor.

 

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WEDNESDAY, - - DECEMBER 11, 1901.

 

 

 

 

STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Kent

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:

I am pressman in the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge
of the presses and folding machine in
that establishment. I printed and
folded 7,000 copies of the issue of
December 4, I90I, and saw the edition
mailed in the usual manner. And
further deponent saith not.

John DeBoer.

Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this seventh day of December, Igo!.

Henry B. Fairchild,
ae — in aad foe Kent County,
ich.

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AMERICAN KEELS FOR AMERICANS.

The President’s Message has brought
forth no heartier “‘Amen’’ than that
pronounced, after the statement that
American goods should be carried in
American built ships. Like other meas-
ures strongly recommended by _ the
paper, it gave expression to a long con-
sidered condition,and one that has been
carefully looked after. The matter has
been one of purely commercial enter-
prise. Not until recent years has there
been enough in the carrying trade to
warrant the expenditure of the required
capital. That period when the Ameri-
can merchant marine existed and flour-
ished was a time when the carrying
capacity, small as it was was hardly
equal to the demand ; and when Ameri-
can exports increased the business in-
terests of the country, there were more
profitable things to attend to. It was
simply a question of dollars and cents,
and it was answered by cost and con-
venience. The English keel was at the
wharf wanting a cargo, the rates were
reasonable and the American tradesman
took advantage of them, was satisfied
with the service and found it cheaper
than to build and man and manage ves-
sels of his own for the time being.

The time came, however, when the
conditions changed. The goods from
the American forge and spindle found
favor in the foreign market, to the ex-
clusion of the foreign manufacture. As
the exports increased the freight bill
became a matter of moment. The wary
merchant was not to be deceived. He
had learned to his cost the fickleness of
the fad in commerce and was not again
to be ensnared. The foreign goods-car-
rier was still good enough for him.
After a while he found that the fond-
ness for the American manufacture was
no fad. The increasing exportation
was based upon a real want, created by
the unequaled excellence of the goods,

full| pression the active, forceful

 

at a price as unexpected as the excel-
lence itself had been. That fact settled,
the rest followed as a matter of course.
If there was a profit in the carrying
there was no reason why it should not
be looked after and, if worth it, saved.
It has been looked after, it has been
found to be worth saving. The rest will
come in time, and that a short one. Al-
ready the movement has begun. Even
while the thought has been finding ex-
Yankee
wit has been ‘‘trying it on.’’ The trial
has resulted in ‘‘a fit’’ and the trade on
its own responsibility has ‘‘gone in.”’

That is not the best of it: It has been
‘tin’? long enough already to have ob-
tained unexpected results. As a matter
of fact, American enterprise in just this
line has been long enough at work to
change the old condition, and the tide
has begun its flow in our direction.
John Bull is beginning to find out that
it is cheaper to use the American keel
than to keep up his own. The Ameri-
can ‘‘get there’ spirit is taking posses-
sion of him and when he wants any-
thing in a hurry his own ships are too
slow. The regular English gait is well
enough for the regular English busi-
ness; but when an emergency comes up
the swifter American keel is depended
en to complete the business. The Eng-
lish merchant, for example, wants an
early delivery of his Australian mail.
The English mail service is direct, but
slow. The way to Australia via the
United States is longer by a thousand
miles, but the longest way around is the
shortest way to Australia,and the round-
about course secures the delivery of the
important letter five days earlier.

This is a single instance, but in it the
whole matter lies, and in it, too, is
contained the undeveloped future of the
coming carrier of the world. The Old
World is slow and its keels are ham-
pered by the barnacles of the past. It
can not get rid of them and it foolishly
believes that a little more steam in the
modern boiler, lately placed in the old-
time hulk, will be found enough for
every requirement, barnacle-clogged al-
though it be. That it is a mistake,
the swifter thought and the swifter
American method are proving. The fu-
ture will only more firmly establish the
already admitted fact: There are no
branacles on the hull of the American
trading vessel; and there are no bar-
nacles on the men that man and man-
age it! That is the conclusion of the
whole matter, and the future of the
American keel as a carrier will con-
firm it.

 

Penny-in-the-slot machines are seen
everywhere. Some of them are gambling
devices, while others dispense gum,
candy and music. In Cincinnati, where
a fight is being made to have their use
prohibited, it is estimated that there are
8,440 machines, and that at least
$3,080,600 are placed in them every
year. This is a lot of money. The
owners of the machines know that if
they ‘‘take care of the pennies the dol-
lars will take care of themselves.’

 

The appointment of Arthur H. Web-
ber as a member of the State Board of
Pharmacy will meet the hearty approval
of that portion of the drug trade who
enjoy the pleasure of his acquaintance
and are familiar with his superior quali-
fications for the position.

 

It was an all wise Providence that
created women after every thing else
had been finished ; otherwise she would
have wanted to boss the job.

 

MEDICAL BROADMINDEDNESS.

A statement has been published to the
effect that Dr. George B. Fowler, late
President of the New York County Med-
ical Society, a practitioner of the allo-
pathic or ‘‘regular’’ school, on the oc-
casion of his retiring from office, deliv-
ered an address in which he declared
that the code now permits consultation
with any legally qualified medical prac-
titioner and that the high standards of
medical education in New York to-day
are the results of this.

That enlightened physician is re-
ported to have said further: ‘*We have
secured the co-operation of the societies
of the regulars, the eclectics, and the
homeopaths. We do not respect our-
selves and are not respected when we
disagree among ourselves. I think the
day is near when there will be a general
handshaking and agreement and |
hope the day is coming when the whole
medical profession will be one."’

It is reported, in addition, that the
society which Dr. Fowler was address-
ing applauded him warmly, and com-
mittees were appointed to confer with
other medical bodies with a view of se-
curing closer relations. This shows a
great advance in scientific enlighten-
ment, as well as in broad-minded liber-
ality, and presents a strong contrast
with what has been the traditional be-
havior of the medical faculty through
many years, when all who did not adhere
to the practice of allopathy, no matter
how fully they had been educated in its
methods, were regarded as quacks and
charlatans.

Doubtless the relaxing of the old-time
professional jealousy in this country is
owing to a spirit of liberality that has
already shown itself abroad. It should
be remembered that Pasteur,the famous
French bacteriologist, whose great work
in the study of the bacilli of hydropho-
bia, and in the treatment of that most
terrible disease, has blazed the way and
created methods that have been followed
and adopted in the study of many other
germ diseases, never was a practicing
physician according to any school, nor
did he ever receive a complete medical
education, but was a chemist and pro-
fessor of biology. It is much to be
doubted if his hydrophobia treatment
would have been accepted inthe United
States if it had not previously received
the stamp of European medical scien-
tists.

But the simple fact is that science is
as wide as the universe and embraces
everything contained therein. Any fact
that throws light on the causation of the
diseases to which all living creatures
are subject, and which assists in the
discovery of efficient remedies, is to be
accepted as soon as it shall be proved
of value, no matter who may have first
brought it to public attention. What is
known as the healing art is, to a great
extent, made up of the results of guesses
and experiments, and one of the evi-
dences of this is that supposed remedies
are constantly being tried and in many
cases abandoned. In view of the fact
that empiricism makes up so large a
part of medical practice, because there
is so large a lack of accurate knowledge
in regard to the causes of disease, and,
consequently, as to what is required to
cure them, the motto of the medical
profession should be the scriptural in-
junction: ‘‘Prove all things, and hold
fast to that which is good.’’ In the
process of proving a vast deal of toler-
ance and patience is required, and any
dogmatic assumption of knowledge and
expression of judgment concerning mat-

 

ters which have not been properly in-
vestigated or tested are entirely to be
condemned.

There is no desire that physicians of
different schools should unite or discard
their differences. Indeed, such a con-
summation would bring only harm. The
truth is often brought out by discussion,
and the differences of opinion and
methods adopted by the leaders of the
various schools of medicine are highly
productive of a most desirable discus-
sion. All that can be asked in the prem-
ises is that men who have been fairly
educated and who are plainly not char-
latans and mountebanks, but are per-
sons of character and discretion, shall
be treated with ordinary respect, and
not be denounced, cast out and hounded
because they hold opinions different
from those of the self-constituted *‘reg-
ulars’’ in medical practice.

Let no man’s opinion in medicine be
set up as absolute truth when it is only
an opinion; but let the truth be earnest-
ly sought for, and, when tested and
found to be good, let it be accepted
without regard to the school out of
which it was evolved.

 

Some people are inclined to make
light of the conviction of Salsbury cn
the ground that he protests his inno-
cence. Such protests should have no
weight with thinking people, because
his word is not good and. never has
been. When he was accused of unpro-
fessional practices in connection with
the Jockey Brown will contest, a dozen
years ago, he protested his innocence
until evidence of his guilt was presented
to the court, when he took refuge behind
that fiendish skirk which is enough in
itself to convict him of any crime of
which he may be charged in any court
in the land. When it was announced
last fall that he was implicated in an-
other water deal with Omaha men, he
denied the charge and protested that he
did not know the men who claimed to
have been victimized by him, yet within
twenty-four hours he met them in Chi-
cago and attempted to forestall an in-
dictment by returning the money he
had deliberately stolen from a safety de-
posit box. Any one who sympathizes
with Salsbury in the predicament he
has precipitated by his own action is
wasting his sympathy on one of the
most hardened criminals this country
has ever produced.

 

Canada has been quick to appreciate
the value of navigable canals, and an-
other waterway will probably be added
to the list if the necessary legislative
authority be granted by the Dominion
Parliament. The projected waterway
will connect Lakes Huron and Erie, and
will have a depth of not less than four-
teen feet. The men who are at the head
of the project will approach Parliament
at its next session, and from the present
temper of the Canucks, there is little
doubt but that the scheme will be rail-
roaded through and without opposition.
Power will also be asked for the right to
build and operate harbors, wharves,
docks and elevators, to construct works
for the production of hydraulic or pneu-
matic power, to acquire and operate,
by cable, electricity, or otherwise,
steamers, barges and ferries, for the
purpose of navigation on inland waters
and the river and Gulf of St. Lawrence,
to own and operate ocean-going steam-
ers, and to develop and transmit elec-
trical energy.

 

 

The best way to make a man acknowl-
edge the corn is to stamp on his toe,

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

—

 

.

ONE CHRISTMAS EVE.

 

Pleasant Ending to an Unhappy Begin-
ning. ‘
Written for the Tradesman.

It. was in one of those old tenement
buildings on one of New York’s back
alleys, up in the very attic, that two
small children stood very close to a very
small stove that had just room enough
on its top for a tiny teakettle, which
the little girl had just filled and placed
there, ‘‘to be ready for Mamma’s tea’’
when she should come home. They
were lovely children, with that dainty
something about them that told of the
careful care of a mother, not of the kind
usually found in such localities. The
room was small, yet neatly furnished,
and everything bore an air of refine-
ment, from the artistically draped cur-
tains to the pretty rug that covered the
center of the floor; for the little Mother
had said, ‘‘I would rather my babies
go hungry for bread sometimes than to
have them starve for everything that
makes life worth the living.’’

So these little ones had books, pic-
tures and toys to amuse and instruct
them,in place of playing with the other
children on the street. To be sure, they
would sometimes have liked better food,
and there was not always enough coal!
to keep them quite warm, yet they never
really suffered as their clothing was
warm.

Percy was saying, ‘‘I wonder why our
Papa does not come home. Does you
fink the Pinos have eaten him, Hilda?’’

‘*Oh, no, our Papa was such a big
man. But you can’t ’member him,
*cause you is only free. 1 is most five
and can ‘member Papa, Clistmas and
lots of uver fings. ‘Sides you didn't
*nounce that word right—it is Fill
Pinos. And I don’t guess they are
very large either. They couldn't burt
our big Papa.’’

‘‘Oh, dear!’ sighed Percy, ‘‘I do
wish he would come home and bling
one for our Clistmas dinner.’’

The delicate face of the little maid
grew serious as she said in a hushed
voice, ‘‘Percy, I doesn’t know as |
should tell,but I is ’fraid there is some-
fing badder than the Fill Pinos out
where our Papa went. I heard Mamma
telling God about it last night. She
quied so hard and asked him not to let
the canteen 'stroy Papa. I didn’t like
to ask what it was ’cause she always
looks white when | ask her ‘bout Papa.
Oh, how I wish he lived at home with
us, ‘and not so many peoples in this
house, and our Mamma agone so much,
and we locked in.’’

And as they looked at each other there
were tears in their eyes and a look of
anxiety on their baby faces sad to see
in children so young.

Hilda soon brightened and_ ex-
claimed, ‘‘Oh, but we are to have a
Clistmas dinner, with Mrs. Smiff and
Flo to help us eat it—Mamma said so.
And I am to have a doll and make its
fings, so I will know how to sew and
help Mamma.’’

‘‘Can't I help, too?’’ asked Percy.

‘Oh, no, you is only a boy, and boys
can’t sew.’”’

‘*Can’t boys do anyfing, Hilda?’’

‘‘Well, yes, you might be locked in
here and keep the fire and put the ket-
tle on to make tea for Mamma and me
when we come home.’’

‘‘Oh!’’ sighed the dear child, and
looked comforted.

And the Mother—what of her?

Gwendolen Ray was the only child of
wealthy parents, proud and imperious.
Her home was .a brown stone front on

 

 

one of the most fashionable avenues of
the city. Her friends were of the Four
Hundred. Her parents had high hopes
for their’ beautiful daughter, so it was
small wonder that Walter Manning was
refused with scorn when he presumed to
ask her for his wife. Mr. Ray bade him
cease all attentions to her at once. When
Gwendolen accused her father of injus-
tice he said that it was his duty to pro-
tect his daughter against such an adven-
turer, who had nothing to recommend
him but a handsome face and fine man-
ners. Besides he had been told that he
was quite too fond of wine.

‘‘Oh, Papa, what a dear old Puritan
you are! No one in our set except
yourself considers wine drinking a dis-
sipation; and if you were not so high
up in the social scale you would be os-
tracized for banishing wine from our
table. As for Walter, I like to watch
him after he has taken a glass or two of
wine. His face lights up, his eyes flash
and he is so brilliant in conversation.’’

‘‘Beware, my child,’’ pleaded the
gentle Mother.

Mr. Ray interrupted her with, ‘‘Do
not trouble yourself, wife. Walter
Manning shall never be our son.’’

Then Gwendolen arose and stood be-
fore her father and angrily said, ‘*Wal-
ter Manning both can and will be my
husband !’’

‘‘Very well,’’ replied the proud
father, ‘‘in that case we shall have
neither son nor daughter—take your
choice.’’

The willful girl left her home, and
that evening saw her the wife of Walter
Manning; but not before he had told
her that he could not support her in the
style in which she had been accus-
tomed to live. They went to a distant
part of the city, hired a flat and
dropped as completely out of the fash-
ionable world as if they were buried.
In a few days all of her personal belong-
ings were left at her door, without a
single word from her parents. She had
known that they would be indignant,
but she had not expected this—to be
cast off. The petted only child, who
had never before been denied anything
—the blow came near crushing her. Yet
she was too much her father’s child to
supplicate, so she bravely tried to make
the best of her lot, for she dearly loved
her husband. And when little Hilda
came she felt almost happy. It was not
so with Walter. He loved gaiety and
home life became tame. As the years
went by he spent more and more time
at his club. He did not intend to be
unkind. He said that Gwenie enjoyed
the children so much she did not miss
him. As time passed she saw his face
flush and his fine eyes flash much oftener
than she wished, so when he and his
boon companions enlisted in the army
and they made him their captain it was
with almost a feeling of relief that she
saw him march away. Yet love was not
dead and the lonely wife shed tears of
anguish when she thought of the tempta-
tions that lay in the way of her weak,
yet not unkind husband. Perhaps, in
her devotion to the children, she had
not been to him all that a wife should
be, and the thought was a bitter drop in
her cup.

He had left her in comfortable cir-
cumstances, but almost immediately
after his departure a fire left her home-
less. Her box of jewels and a little
money were nearly all that was saved to
her. Now the woman within her as-
serted itself and she really prayed for
the first time in her life, humbly asking
guidance. -She knew that the right thing

 

for her to do was to go home; but she
cried out, ‘‘Not that! Oh, not that! let
me work for my little ones.’’ But what
could she do? She had been called ac-
complished, yet knew nothing well
enough to teach it.

She sought the humblest employment,
but no one would trust her with the
most common sewing because of her
lack of skill.. Of housework she knew
nothing. She bravely persevered in her
effort to find work. Her money was
soon gone, and her jewels followed
piece by piece. At last her sweet sad
face attracted the attention of the pro-
prietress of a dressmaking establish-
ment, who gave her employment in one
of the back rooms. She tried so hard
to please that she was kept on and on,
in spite of her inefficiency. Her want
of funds had forced her to take poor and
still poorer lodgings until she had
reached the little attic where we found
her babies.

And this was the day before Christ-
mas. Thoughts of the happy Christmases
of the past crowded upon her. Oh, how
she longed for home—the home she had
not seen for six long years! She had
not heard from Walter since he left. Had
he forsaken her? Her parents had been
much in her thoughts of late. She felt
that they still loved and grieved for her.
Should she goto them? It was such a
little way. And did she not owe to her
children this sacrifice of her pride?
Yes,she would arise and go to her father
—and that very night, too—and would
humbly beg pardon. She hastened home
with a lighter heart than she had had
for years, and caught her babies in her
arms saying, ‘‘Mamma’s treasures shall
eat with Grandpapa and Grandmamma
to-night!’’ ‘‘Who are theyfr’’ asked
both children in one breath. ‘*You
shall see,’’ laughed the excited Mother
as she hurried them into their wraps.
Taking Percy in her arms and Hilda by
the hand, she hastened to the nearest
station, thankful that she had money
enough to take her home. ‘‘Home!’’
she repeated. ‘‘How sweet the name.”’
But how slow the car.

At last she stood before the door. She
stepped before a window and looked in.
She stood as one spellbound. She saw
her parents,and a gentleman whose face
she could not see, in the attitude of de-
votion. A feeling of great humility
swept over her—‘‘ No, I am unworthy to
enter here!’’ She went around to the
servants’ hall and asked to see Mr.
Ray. He came in, followed by the
others, and before she could speak three
pairs of arms were about her, and the
cry, ‘My wife, my children!’’ almost
paralyzed her.

Explanations followed: Mr. Ray had
kept a secret watch over his child. He
supposed her happy, did not know of
Walter’s going away. After the fire he
learned that no lives were lost, so con-
cluded they had gone to some other part
of the city. In fact, he had felt quite
easy about her, after learning that her
husband had steady employment, until
Walter wildly rushed in one day asking
for wife and children.

Army life had wrought a great change
in Walter. Providence threw him in
contact with an earnest Christian gen-
tleman whose exemplary life was a con-
stant rebuke to him. He wrote to his
wife, but his letters did not reach her.
When his time of enlistment was up he
hastened to find her if possible. Every
effort was vain. He appealed to her
father. As they worked together day
after day, they had learned to love each
other as father and son. Now that the

lost was found, their joy was complete.
But it was like wonderland to the chil-
dren, who were put to rest as soon as
their excitement would permit. Then
what an evening they had. Each had
much to confess, much to regret; yet
all agreed that the sad past had taught
them more than one useful lesson.

It was a happy family that gathered
round that Christmas board. This time
it was set in the good old primitive
way—not served in courses but just
loaded down with good things. The
children stood speechless, with clasped
hands. When Percy was lifted into his
chair and his eyes fell upon the great
turkey which graced the center of the
table he turned his wondering eyes to
Hilda, saying, ‘‘Is that the canteen?
Did Papa kill it?’’ ‘‘Bless the child!
what is he saying?’’ exclaimed Grand-
ma, and all laughed; but Papa’s and
Mamma’s eyes were moist as they
glanced at each other. Presently Hilda
exclaimed, ‘‘Oh, Mamma! what will
Mrs. Smiff do for her dinner?’’ ‘‘Sure
enough !’’ said Mamma; ‘‘in my great
happiness I had quite forgotten that I
had invited guests to dine with me.’’
Then she explained that Mrs. Smith’s
room adjoined hers, that she kept the
key when she was away, looking in at
the children occasionally, that she and
her young daughter did shop work, just
managing to live, and that she had re-
solved to have a littie treat and give
them a better dinner than they otherwise
would have. ‘‘And, Walter, my little
room was really comfortably furnished
and the rent paid for the coming quar-
ter, and Mrs, Smith and Flo have been
denying themselves the necessities of
life to save money enough to pay for
their next quarter. Now, if I might put
them in my room, just as it is, how
happy it would make them, and the
money laid by would make them com-
fortable for the winter.’’ ‘* You shall
do it, darling, and I will pay the rent
for a year besides, as a thank offering
for her kindness to my loved ones.’’
Mr. Ray turned to his wife, saying,
‘*Mary, jet us carry out the spirit of the
day in acts of good will tomen. If you
say so I will order the’sleigh and we
will all have a ride. I am glad that we
have adhered to the old Puritan way of
having our Christmas dinner at high
noon—it will enable them to havea
fashionable one. And I now will agree
to furnish a turkey to each family in
that old tenement house, also a sack of
flour, and Mother here will see that
each gets a basket of groceries and
other good things.’’ Hilda stood hold-
ing her Father’s hand and looking up
wistfully into his face. He asked,

‘*What' is it, pet?’’ “Phe echvldren,
Papa.’’ ‘‘Oh, I see—you wish to have
a part in this. Well, you and Percy

shall take a sack of candy and a fine toy
to each child. Will that do?’’ A hug
and a kiss were her answer.

I can not picture to you the joy of
that happy family as they started out
on their mission of love. It was the
children’s first sleighride and they were
wild with delight. But 1 do wish that
you could have seen the Smiths when
told that they were to have that comfort-
able, and to them elegantly furnished,
room for one and one-fourth year with-
out payment! When the delivery wagons
came up with their bountiful gifts for
all, the donors had to beat a hasty re-
treat to keep from being overwhelmed
with expressions of gratitude. As they
drove home Mr. Ray said that he had
never before known the luxury of giving
(although he had been called a liberal
man); and they all agreed that in the
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Clothing

Fads and Fashions Which Prevail in New
York.

One sees in the neighborhood of the
exchanges the latest expressions of
metropolitan preferences in business
dress. Among the younger members of
the boards extremes sartorial are fre-
quently encountered, but, asa rule, the
general impression an observer of the
fashions receives is that the less notice-
able a man’s attire is the more be con-
forms to high grade Wall Street taste.
Now and then, however, a chappie will
trot out something radically new and set
a pace for his fellows. Thus a fad or
fashion gets a footing for men in gen-
eral about town to follow.

I have seen nothing striking about the
exchanges or downtown dining clubs
lately of special value to the trade.

Long overcoats are the rule. Suits
are mainly on the sack order, The very
dressy fellows who have not lost their
figures are increasing the popularity of
whole suitings in the cutaway class.

Looking over a group on the floors of
either of the exchanges mentioned, I
noticed that standing collars in the va-
rious poke and tab styles are numerous,
with a proportionate showing of big
scarfs and larger designs in scarfpins.
In the matter of designs and _ color
schemes in ‘‘cravatings’’ there is no
apparent choice. Grays in the various
tones, large effects in combinations of
black and white are frequently seen.
Then, too, are rich things in deep
tones of brown set off with self cords.

As to shirts, there is no discounting
the fact that, among the elements under
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fabrics. In these goods I have seen
some recent examples from an English
source, ordered by the customer of the
best furnisher in the banking district.
They are finely woven percales in two
sets of patterns, one a series of hair-
line blue stripes on a white ground, so
closely set that the effect of a silk gros-
grain weave is presented. When on,
the bosom will look like solid light
blue; but the white peeping through,
and relieving the apparent solidity of
the blue shade, gives a result that is, to
say the least, unconventional. The
other patterns are on the scattered figure
order. These cloths are being made
up, the blue in solid bosom, the figures
in inch pleats.

They will have attached bent-point
collars, pretty well spaced at the top,
so that the wearer may not be jabbed in
the jaws.

I notice a very distinct revival in
pearl and crystal pins for securing the
large foids of the superb English
squares which have struck the fancy of
the town so pleasantly. It is some
years since they went out, and they are
here again in new conceits, so new, in-
deed, that their predecessors are scarce-
ly recalled. The crystals are semi-
globes framed with golden circles en-
closing figures of enameled heads of
birds and dogs and other things sugges-
tive of the field and fen. The pearls
are exquisitely finished with tiny dia-
mond treatments. I saw one of them at
a Thanksgiving dinner in the pearly
satin ascot of a young guest. It was
very neat and there was just enough of
jewelry about the combination to be
pleasing without obtrusiveness. And by
the way, this ascot was a new thing in
satin, which is for the nonce, quite the
caper for formal afternoon wear. It is

 

not of that vulgar, pronounced luster,
which the man of taste will turn down,
but of a rather delicate sheen. I no-
ticed, at the affair in question, these
satins in solid tints of pearl, and pure
white.

Apropos of afternoon functions, |
have recently seen some glace French
kid gloves in a most tender shade of
gray. They are fastened by a clasp with
a pearl button top, so that the buttoned
effect is presented with the convenience
of the clasp. I mention this glove as a
possible compromise between the or-
dinary tan or gray and evening glove
for teas and matinee receptions and
other formal ‘‘doin’s’’ in the afternoon.
I understand that these kids have ob-
tained a fashionable following in the
beige and canary shades, but of this |
have seen no trustworthy evidence.

To jump from the delicate to the
rough in handwear, I may mention that
the recent cold snap in New York has
had the effect of bringing to the front a
lot of creature comforts. I noticed that
the stylish men among the great crowds
which the big theaters pour out were
well content to draw on their cosy
Scotch knit gloves, and the variety of
grayish shades these presented was in
contrast to the few white ringwoods and
red or white leathers worn.

Get into the swirl of a theater crowd,
pushing for cabs, cars and restaurants,
on a crisp, clear night in late Novem-
ber, if you want to see the latest things
in headwear, handwear and outer gar-
ments. It is a mighty dress parade,
under the great fanfare of facades
aflame with priceless electric lighting.
And it winds, most of it, into the din-
ing halls and drinking halls, and the
various resorts where the dressy men
and women of the gay metropolis sit

 

and eat and chat and stare and expect
stares in return. Thus divested of outer
wraps, the groups of diners convey
much to the snapper-up of trifles and
serious things about dress.

To get back to daylight again, scarfs
of squares and squares for scarfs are
piling up in the dressy chaps’ collec-
tions. Some which have recently come
my observing way are wonders of the
weaver’s art. One white scheme is in
a taffeta ground, set off with an irregu-
lar heavy corded stripe of satin, broken
up at even intervals by tiny black satin
figures. Another is a white matelasse,
with a broken satin cord. To write of
all the new scarfs would be impossible.
Those I mention are selected as being
especially handsome.

To what extent the fashion of low-cut
shoes will survive the rigors of the frost
remains to be seen. A young man whom
I saw recently crossing his feet in the
reading room of a club showed that
rather interesting effect in half-hose in
which an apparently solid black changes
to a color. This two-tone knit is com-
mon in silk, but is not sold in cash-
mere. The underlying colors may be
blue, green, white, etc.

Low cut shoes call up spats or gaiters.
I see them occasionally about town in
the tan and drab shades.

The best thing that I have seen ina
great-coat came down the speedway the
other afternoon. 1 know its owner.
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cheviot, the plaid just large enough to
be handsome. The coilar was fairly
deep and closed with a broad throat-
latch. The pockets were deep and
straight. The wrists were latched. The
horn buttons were dyed to tone in with
the cloth. Another overcoat, a daisy,
but in the medium length class, had for
its fabric a combination of vicuna and
worsted and looked like a blind cheviot.
But a glorious garment, fit only for a
millionaire, was a fifty-inch unification
of the softest cheviot in a faint grayish
tone, lined with the purest satin. It was
made plain straight and ample, with
vertical pockets. It was so easy that
one got out of it perfect warmth with-
out the sense of weight, and when off it
could be rolled into a ball like a piece
of lamb’s wool. Such a coat is elegant,
but very perishable. It is, as I have
said, a rich man’s proposition,—Vin-
cent Varley in Apparel Gazette.
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Hat Buying Now a Study of Wants.

The advancement made by the lead-
ing hatters within the past three years
on independent lines has made hat buy-
ing a more difficult and serious matter.
Formerly it was a mere matter of quan-
tity to supply the trade; the style was
set by one or two leading blocks and
little or no brain energy or study en-
tered into the buying of a season's
stock.

The evolution in hat buying began
several years ago when hatters, here
and there, began ordering numbers and
lines to be made with a changed detail
to give the hat a characteristic tone and
make it an exclusive affair. Success
was the result.

Nowadays hat stocks are more nearly
like shoe stocks in that they have a va-
riety of styles to select from, all of
which fall within the limits of the pre-
vailing fashion. A shoe man may ad-
vertise and show thirty or forty styles
of shoes each one of which will preserve
Fashion's dictates, yet differ some in
its detail.

It is so with hats in a lesser degree.
The hatter now pays less attention to
what one or two leading blocks are go-
ing to be, but studies the wants of his
individual trade and plans his purchase
accordingly.

He is now safe in placing his orders
early on account of the marked advance-
ment made by the hat manufacturer
within the last three years. Greater
energy and study are brought to bear
by men who follow the tendencies of
fashions as closely as the designers of
clothing. The result is that the greatest
possible accuracy in forecasting styles
is assured and the retailer, with his
greater independence, can make out his
order early. Thus he avoids the annoy-
ances and loss of trade occasioned by
late deliveries.

‘‘We formerly waited,’’ said a Madi-
son street hatter, ‘‘until the several
standard blocks were issued before
placing our entire season's purchase.
Early in the season we used to buy a
few staples, about 30 to 40 per cent. of
our purchase. Then began a waiting
game, in which we grew more and more
anxious and impatient each day. At
last, at the very opening of the season,
we learned what was to be ‘the thing.’
Then came the scramble to get our or-
ders for the remainder of our purchase
into the factory. Trouble didn’t end
there. Deliveries of a little bunch of
hats now and then, when we should have
had all our stock on the shelves, only
served to aggravate us. Yes, there is a
big difference now. I myself know

 

about what I want for a coming season
and I make my selections from the sam-
ples of reputable manufacturers with
confidence and have my stocks in at the
opening of a season. I sell hats under
my own name and incorporate into my
purchase just such individual details as
I know my steady trade wants. As a con-
sequence my stock has more or less
character of its own, | am doing propor-
tionately more business and with less
worry and annoyance.’

By these statements we do not mean
to speak disparagingly of the retail hat-
ter’s intellect in former seasons. He is
to-day doing business on a broader basis
and depends more and more upon his
own judgment and the characteristic
wants of his individual trade.

It is a matter of surprise to note how
many leading hatters are to-day selling
their own brands of hats. They would
not do this, could not safely do ft, if
they were as dependent as they were in
past seasons on. a few blocks which
never came out until just as the season
opened.

Wanted—Men.

Napoleon said, ‘‘I have two hundred
millions in my coffers, but I would give
them all for Marshal Ney.’’ Napoleon
wanted a man when he said that. The
great cry, since the world began is,
‘‘Give us aman.’’ The scarcest thing
in the world is a man—a man who can
accomplish something, a man of force,
a man with concentrated energy, a man
who has a definite purpose and knows
how to fling his life out toit with all the
weight of his being. Such a man is
needed in every calling. This century
calls loudly for men of broad and liberal
culture. This isa very practical age;
theories and theorists are not in de-
mand. The cry is ever fora man who
can produce results, a man possessing
tact, practical ability, and executive
force. The world wants men who are
well balanced, and who are not cursed
with some inherent defect or moral
weakness which cripples their useful-
ness and neutralizes all their power.
While specialists are in demand, there
is little hope for men who are one-sided
in their development, and who have sent
all the energies of their being into one
narrow twig, so that all the other
branches of their lives have withered
and died. Men who do not take half
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and of large comprehensive ability—are
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The hero is the manufacturer of the
wheel which the narrator sells. Being
compelled to go away on a business trip
about the time an interesting domestic
event was expected, he left orders for
the nurse to wire him results according
to the following formula:

Ifa boy: ‘‘Gentleman’s safety ar-
rived.’’

Ifa girl: ‘‘Lady’s safety arrived.”

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word ‘‘Tamdem.’’

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The success of the retailer during the
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upon the manner in which the trade is
handled. You will find that there are
certain hours in the day when the trade
runs strong, and for that reason it would
be well to arrange to keep as many
clerks on the floor during the rush hours
of the day as possible. Where the busi-
ness is local, those hours are generally
from 10:30 a. m. to 12 m., from 2:30 to
5:00 p. m. and from 7:30 p. m. to 9:30
p. m. Where the customers have to
make a journey in order to do their
shopping, as they do in large cities
where most of the business is done by
the department stores, you will find that
the rush hours are from 10:30 a. m. to
I p. m., from 2:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.
and from 7:30 p. m. to g o’clock in the
evening.

In order to get the best work from
your clerks it would be well to allow
late mornings every other day to each
clerk in the shoe store or department,
and shorten the lunch hour by at least
a half hour. In doing this you are not
robbing the clerk in any way, and you
are simply offering him an inducement
to work a little harder during the rush
season. When you find a clerk on the
floor who is busily engaged with a cus-
tomer and his lunch hour is at hand, it
would be advisable to have some other
clerk change hours with him, so as not
to delay any one from returning in time
to catch the rush.

Many of the large department stores
in the East furnish suppers to their
clerks, so as to keep them in the build-
ing. If they find there is an extra strong
rush in the department, they immedi-
ately send to the Junchroom and request
one or more clerks who have gone out to
come down and assist. While this costs
a little money, it is more than paid for
by the assistance received from the
clerks who do not take the allotted time
to have their noonday or evening meal.

During the last five days it would
perhaps be wise to hire extra help, or
‘“contingents,’’ as they are called. Now
do not permit these green hands to han-
die your boot trade. Start them selling
leggings, rubbers, rubber boots, slippers
and warm goods, but do not allow them
to run from one part of the store to the
other.

In the first place, no matter how
bright the assistants may be they do not
know the stock, and it will, therefore,
be necessary for one of the old clerks
to stop and show them where they can

. find whatever they are searching for.

ee

Again, you will rarely find these ‘‘ex-

‘tras’’ any too bright; therefore, they are

liable to lose many sales, while your
regular clerks are selling articles which
could be disposed of as well by the in-
experienced.

Retail merchants and buyers should
forget their own importance during
this holiday season. They should get
out on the floor and give the clerks a
hand during the rush hours. If you
feel as though you do not care to sell
shoes, superintend the salesmen and di-
rect the customers to where they can be
waited on most readily. By standing
in the front of the store or department
and enquiring of each customer as he
comes in what is wanted, you can not
only turn a boot customer over to the
regular salesman on the floor, but also
assist the extras in their work, by tell-

 

ing them where they can find certain
articles which might be enquired for
from time to time. You will also be
able to keep an eye on the ‘‘contin-
gents,’’ and see that they do not allow
customers to go out without being
waited on. It would be well to ask each
customer as he is leaving the store if he
has secured just what he wanted. You
will be able to pay the expenses of
your extra help by this means, for, un-
less there is a close watch kept upon
these clerks, they are bound to let many
peopie depart without procuring the
goods they had desired.—Shoe Retailer.
, —_~>-2 <>

Word to Shoe Clerks.

Do not forget that the Christmas holi-
days are at hand, and your employer
needs your best assistance from now un-
til the rush is over.

Do not forget that you are paid to be
in the store at a certain hour each
morning.

Do not make it five or ten minutes
later, as every moment of your time is
valuable from now until Christmas.

Turn the face of the clock to the wall
and forget you are working on a salary.

Do not forget that there will be lots of
dull days during February and March,
for which your employer will pay you
full salary.

Reciprocate by doing your work faith-
fully during this rush season.

Help each other and thus help your-
self.

You can not work alone on the floor
and be in any way successful.

Your future in the shoe business de-
pends upon your own individual efforts.

You can show yourself to advantage
during this rush season.
—_~>-9

Medical records contain many refer-
ences to the ‘‘human ostrich,’’ but the
latest case, hailing from the New Jersey
State Insane Hospital,should be printed
in upper-case letters. The post mortem
examination evolved the fact that the
patient’s stomach contained three tea-
spoons, six dessert spoon _ handles,
three tin cup handles, two _ trouser
buckles, three suspender buckles, two
pieces of tin, one brass back of a comb,
twenty-six pieces of glass, twenty-eight
stones, a piece of slate and twenty-seven
pieces of wire—in all, 102 articles. The
doctors ascribe the patient's death to
gastritis; to the ordinary layman it
looks rather like an abortive attempt to
convert his ‘‘innards’’ into a junk
store, But the scientific fraternity never
seems to be happy unless it is wallow-
ing incrack-jaw terms when good, plain
Anglo-Saxon would fill the bill to a
nicety.

 

> 4.

St. Ignace Enterprise: Congratula-
tions from The Enterprise, especially,
were due the Michigan Tradesman last
week upon its nineteenth anniversary
number, issued Nov. 6. When this
paper was contemplating the adoption
of magazine form, our Grand Rapids
contemporary furnished us an admir-
able pattern. The mammoth number of
eighty pages took us too long to read in
time last week; the numerous original
articles upon interesting subjects from
competent authorities were all most en-
grossing. Every enterprising retail
dealer in Michigan appears upon the
Tradesman’s subscription list, and those
who do not should get there at once,
and learn to be up-to-date like the rest.

 

 

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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When good old reliable merchants
buy our own make shoes year in and
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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Bradley & Metcalf Co.,

Milwaukee, Wis.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Shoes and Rubbers

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Boy’s, Youth’s Men’s
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For durability they have no equal. Write for them to

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

28-30 S. Ionia Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Many and varied are the uses of rubbers. Occu-
pation and environment determine the kind a per-

son wears. And when you consider Bostons in
comparison with other makes what impresses you
most, aside from their dependable appearance, is
their adaptability to the varied conditions of out-
door walking in all sorts of weather.

Our assortment of them is complete and we
make prompt shipments

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

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

13

 

 

 

How to Conduct a Shoe Department.

This is a question of very grave im-
portance to the investor of a department
store or retail shoe establishment, and
depends largely on the surrounding
community and the class of trade de-
sired.

Speaking generally, I think it wise to
select the best man you can get as man-
ager and buyer. In my opinion the
man best suited for the position is one
brought up in the business from boy-
hood. Having served in all branches he
has gone through the ups and downs
with his employer and, if he has the
business at heart, has profited from his
experience.

If his employer has been successful
he can pattern after him; ifa failure he
has seen and learned the objectionable
features causing the loss or failure and
knows how to avoid getting into the
same old ruts,

Allow your manager to select his as-
sistants, and be sure he employs no one
with a sour disposition, as that will
hamper if not drive away the trade,
while affable and genteel salespeople
build it up. Having a good manager
and assistants the manager should be
sent out into the market to select goods
suitable for the class of trade you de-
sire to reach. He should labor in the
store himself so as to be in touch with
what is selling and better know what to
buy. If you desire to reach the best
class of trade have him purchase the
best lines obtainable and have them
made up to your own idea (if you are a
thorough shoe man you ought to have at
least a little originality about you), so
as to have something different from
your competitor. The store having the
most originality in designs will capture
this class of trade. Do not be content
to sell this class of goods on a 25 per
cent. margin, or you will rue the day
you entered the shoe business. Styles
are changing so fast that there are too
many losses on stock that is not cleaned
up before the end of the season, and
must be sold ata loss. On the staple
lines, retailing from $2.50 $to 3.50, I
think 35 per cent. a fair margin of
profit, and by carefully watching the
stock so as not to be overloaded on
small sizes and narrow widths, you will
be able to make a little money.

Don't touch job lots or erect any bar-
gain tables in a high gradg department.
The way I should use to dispose of dead
stock would be to have special sales on
each line that was a sticker, making it
appear that I was overloaded on these
particular styles and had cut the price
in order to unload. As soon as my sales
were over I should take the balance,
case them and ship to some auction
house. Just aS soon as you erect bar-
gain tables in a bon ton establishment
you give it the appearance of a Cheap
John store and spoil the aristocratic
effect.

Now, if you are desirous of reaching
the low and medium priced class of
trade, put in a line of goods retailing
from $1.25 up to $3.50 in ladies’ goods
and a very few $5 goods in men’s wear.

For my $1.25 shoe, I would pay $1.

For my $1.50 shoe, $1.10 to $1.15.

For my $2 shoe, $1.40 to $1.50.

For my $2.50 shoe, $1.60 to $1.75.

For my $3 shoe, $2 to $2.25.

For my $3.50 shoe, $2.50.

My retail experience has covered a
period of eighteen years, managing a
retail store for ten years, and while yet
a young man (28 years) I have learned
that it is impossible to do business on

 

any closer margins than above stated,
and come out on top.

Now, if you are handling any good
amount of low priced goods, buy up job
lots and samples using them as baits.
If you are using the same lines you buy
samples of, put them into stock and not
among the baits, as the public will see
the baits and if you ask one price for the
sample and another for the same thing
out of stock, you will not only lose the
sale on this pair of shoes, but the cus-
tomer will tell his or her friends about
it and keep them away thereby.

Be sure and always keep your staple
lines sized up, so that when a customer
calls for a certain size, you will not be
forced to say: ‘‘I am sorry, but we are
just out of your size on this particular
shoe. We have something here fully as
good or even better.’’ Such things will
give your place the appearance of not
doing much business or being behind
the times.

A customer disappointed will goaway
telling you they will be back again, but
they are saying to themselves, ‘‘Well,
old Dull hasn’t anything; I won't go
there any more for my shoes. I will
just go over to Bright’s where you can
always get just what you want.’’

Have your stock well sized and above
all kept clean. Never allow any of your
salespeople to misrepresent anything.
It is better to lose a sale than to sell a
woman anything for something else. She
will not only advertise the fact that you
misrepresented things, but will tear
your entire business to pieces. It counts
no matter how rich or poor the customer
may be, they can all influence some
trade at one time or another, and you
will be the loser. ,

Above all be honest in your dealings.
Don’t allow anything to get into your
advertisements that-is not the truth. It
may appear to you that you are reaping
good big returns from an advertisement
that stirred them up, but you will find
that the stir is not as durable as the
steady trade of the honest advertiser.

It is hard to get trade away from an
establishment that has built up its repu-
tation upon honesty and fairdealings. |
would not allow any one to misrepresent
a thing, because my persona! observa-
tion has taught me that where I built
up a substantial business by honesty in
selling and advertising, my competitors
who did not see far enough ahead, mis-
led the people for a short time only
and then found themselves with bank-
ruptcy staring them in the face and
finally were submerged into the finan-
cial abyss of failure.

I would have my stock of men’s, boys’
and youths’ goods on one side of store,
ladies’, misses’ and children’s on the
other side, with a space in the rear for
rubbers, findings, etc., with two rows of
cartons to each shelf.

If I have plenty of floor space I would
have the shelving erected just high
enough to reach the top shelf handily
from the floor, so as to have everything
in sight and ready to handle without the
aid of ladders. You will find that un-
desirable stock will not accumulate near
as fast on shelves of this kind as those
that require a ladder to reach top
shelves.

My experience shows that clerks, asa
rule are not going to climb up and down
a ladder to haul out something unsal-
able when he can reach the new thing
from the floor,especially on a busy day,
which | think the easiest day of all to
work off something undesirable.

Have plenty of seating capacity and
don’t have it too extravagant if you are

 

after the low and medium priced trade.
By this I do not mean that you are to
have rusty or fogy fixtures, but some-
thing bright and snappy to conform
with the surroundings.

Have a repairing department, as the
trade like to have shoes repaired where
they buy them, feeling that you are
looking after their wants all around,and
also because the percentage of profit is
a good one.

Avoid single pair orders as much as
possible, because nine times out of ten
the customers do not know what they
want, and you may have another pair
of shoes on hand to sell ata loss. If
they take them they are not just satis-
fied, mostly because the shoes throw a
wrinkle when they bend the foot or
something of that kind. The main
points to observe in order to make the
department pay are: Have a good man-
ager and buyer. Have good help, re-
quiring them all to be honest in their
transactions. Keep stock clean and up
to date.

If you will observe this and not try to
do business for fun, you will find a neat
profit on the credit side at the end of a
year’s business, and you will also have
an established trade that will be hard
to get away from you, because the pub-
lic is like the well posted shoe buyer:
He has no use for any concern that does
not do as it agrees to do and he keeps
on buying his lines from the house that
treats him with honesty and fair deal-
ing.—J. F. Hammrichin Boot and Shoe
Recorder.

The Celebrated
“Ione” Shoe for Men

 

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Stomach Rather Thav Head.

Mme. Sarah Grand claims that the
way to approach man and subdue him
is by the dinner route. Well, this is
certainly a better plan than lecturing at
him every night.

COLD WEATHER SHOES

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

Velour and Vici Kid Stock. Re

tails at $2.50.

The Western Shoe Co., Toledo, Obio
Distributors

 

 

 

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

Same as above in Turned, Common
Be ae $1.00

Women’s Felt, Fur Trimmed, Juliet
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Write us what you want and we will send samples or salesman.

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

 

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Holiday Gifts in Musical Goods

     

Se Pianos, Pianolas, Organs, Sheet

  
     
    

Music and Music Books, Guitars,

   

Mandolins, Banjos, Violins, Music

Boxes, Gramophones, Grapho-

     

 

phones, Accordeons, etc.

A fine line of Statuaries at moder-

    
       

ate prices.

Julius A. J. Friedrich,

30 and 32 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

   

 

 

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Dry Goods

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Principal

Staples.
Staple Cottons—There has been a
moderate business in progress in

bleached cottons with the jobbing trade,
with some improvement noted in the
orders of the manufacturers, and prices
show no change. Wide sheetings are
firm all along the line, and a quiet
business is progressing. Al] coarse col-
ored cottons remain practically as last
reported. The supply of most lines is
very limited, some not to be found at
all as is the case with denims. Prices
remain firm, and the genera! condition
of these goods is first class. On the
whole,the staple end of the cotton goods
market may be said to be ina very
good position, and at present writing
the weak spots which have been a men-
ace for several weeks have been prac-
tically obliterated.

Prints and Ginghams—Spot business
in practically all departments of prints
and ginghams has shown rather quiet
conditions, but this has been brought up
to a fair condition by an increase of
business through the mails. Enough
has been received through this medium
to make business in printed fabrics
good, even if we can not call it actual-
ly brisk. Many of these orders include
a good proportion of both fancies and
staples. The fancies are selling ona
basis of 5c for full standard fancies, as
we reported last week. Staples are sell-
ing at their recently reduced prices,
and those lines that weré not reduced
are also finding good business. This
makes a peculiar situation, but it must
be noted that these goods are now well
sold ahead, for the orders placed dur-
ing the past few weeks have been far
ahead of the production. Percales show
no change of importance since our last
report. Printed flannelettes and fine
printed fabrics are steady, as last
noted. Ginghams have ruled quiet,
but with the market for these goods as
well-conditioned as it is, business might
stop entirely fora little while without
having any serious effect. Domets are
reported dull but steady in some houses,
but others say that a fair business has
been in progress,

Linings—Linings as a whole have
been quiet during the past week, but
before the first of the year it is expected
that such goods as are used by the cloth-
ing trade will be in great demand. The
clothiers have for the most part started
on their trips, and the others will start
the first of the coming week. With the
receipt of the first orders there will be a
call for linings which will be continu-
ous for some months, and if the new
season for the clothiers turns out to be
as good in proportion as the last, they
will want immense quantities of lin-
ings.

Dress Goods—The dress goods mar-
ket is still in the midst of quiet condi-
tions the demand for heavyweights hav-
ing fallen off so far as regular lines of
dress goods are concerned, consequent
to the extent to which the season has
progressed. The demand for spring
goods is of a modest character, the sales
of the jobber apparently not having as-
sumed sufficient proportions to lead
them to place supplementary orders of
consequence. The fancy goods manu-
facturer does not like his present posi-
tion, nor does he feel at all confident re-
garding the future. There is nothing to
indicate any immediate improvement in
the direction of fancy goods, Even the

 

manufacturer of the regular lines of
plain dress goods is troubled to some
extent. Not that he fears that plain
goods have played out their popularity,
but he views with little satisfaction the
invasion of the men’s wear mills into
the women's wear field. The extensive
demand for such fabrics as are suited
to the separate skirt requirements have
opened up possibilities for the men’s
wear mills which they have been quick
to take advantage of. The demand for
women’s wear fabrics runs to extremes,
the medium-weight fabrics of the regu-
lar dress goods class suffering in conse-
quence. The popularity of the thin
fabrics of extremely light weight, such
as veilings, albatross, silk warps, etc.,
has been accompianed by large sales of
the very weighty fabrics—heavy cloth
effects. There is evidence of some ac-
cumulation of plain dress goods in cer-
tain quarters, which if continued might
affect the market unfavorably. Lead-
ing lines of wool and worsted dress
goods are firmly held.

Underwear—The market is in a good
healthy condition, for the present sea-
son’s business is good with the retailers
and jobbers and stocks will be well re-
duced before the end, so that they will
feel when the salesmen appear next time
that they can place good orders. The
prices for all cotton underwear and that
which contains considerable cotton,
will very likely be reduced, on account
of the lower level of prices for cotton
yarns,

Hosiery—The hosiery end of the knit
goods industry is in a most excellent
condition. Stocks of all kinds for the
present season have been reduced to
comfortable proportions, so there is
really nothing in the way of good or-
ders being placed for the new season,
and it seems very likely that such will
be the case. Stocks of present season's
goods are small indeed in the jobbers’
and agents’ hands forthe most part, but
here and there are to be found some
lines that have been overlooked. An ex-
amination usually shows, however, that
they have not been quite in accord, for
one reason or another, with what buy-
ers considered good sellers. For this
reason, prices have been unsteady, but
the generally strong, steady position of
the general market has not been in any
way affected. There has been an ex-
cellent trade in wool hosiery for the
best, although prices have been a little
unsteady. Women’s and_ children’s
fleeced hosiery has also been good for
the Western States, and is steady at
market prices. Cotton hosiery for spring
has been ordered with considerable free-
dom, and the demand still continues.
Prices are a fraction below last year's
quotations, to meet the lower basis for
cotton yarns. The present week has
seen some falling off in the demand for
spot goods, although the demand is still
fair.

Carpets—Philadelphia ingrain weav-
ers have experienced a_ considerable
amount of trouble by reason of the de-
cline in three-quarter goods as made by
the big Eastern mills, and it is likely
that until jobbers see the situation in
its true light, buying will be somewhat
affected. With a decline in three-quar-
ter goods, jobbers feel that a decline
equivalent to that in three-quarter goods
should be made in prices for ingrains,
but ingrain manufacturers do not look at
the situation in the same light as the
jobbers. Ingrain weavers feel that this
season should bring them a fair return
for their money, as they experienced a
very poor and unprofitable business

 

during the past fall and spring seasons
and they believe now that business
should be done on a basis that will give
them a fair profit. It is very, likely,
however, that jobbers and wholesalers
will make every effort to bring prices
down, and that where orders can be
taken for cheap tapestries in place of
ingrains, they will, no doubt, be gladly
received. The public, however, will
sooner or later learn that a good ingrain
is a far much better article for wearing
qualities than a cheap tapestry and will
place their orders for the carpet that is
cheaper to them in the end.

Rugs—There has been little change in
the rug manufacturing trade for some
months. There is an exceptionally good
demand for both Smyrnas and wiltons
and the prospects are good for a con-
tinued large business.

 

 

 

ART
POTTERY

In connection with our Cut Glass
Department we are showing an
artistic line of Colored Glassware
and Pottery, including the unique
and beautiful Louwelsa ware
Christmas buyers should not over-
look this department when in our
store.

Herkner’s

57 Monroe St.,
Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

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Useful
Xmas Giits

Lace curtains, chenille curtains,
Moquette rugs, table covers, sus-
penders, purses, neckwear, fascin-
ators, tam o’shanters and toques.

Also a nice line of perfumes to

retail at §c, loc, 15c, 25c and 5oc.

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

dozen.

 

 

Sc. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS and

G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR Co.

PERHAPS

Your line of handkerchiefs is not
as large as it should be for
Christmas business.
ment is unusually good. Prices
range from 25 cents to $4.50 per

Our assort-

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.,
Wholesale Dry Goods,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

Window Dressing

Easily Arranged Display Appropriate For
Holiday Week.

Thanksgiving Day, the gateway, as
it were, to the Christmas holidays is
past, and the retailer is in the thick
of the arduous but profitable business of
the weeks immediately preceding
Christmas. He will, of course, before
this have completed all his pians for
window and interior displays, by means
of which he may secure a fair share of
the holiday patronage. His store is
filled with beautiful and worthy mer-
chandise, and the hard work of the bus-
iest month of the year will be only a
pleasure if he can succeed in converting
that merchandise into increased capital
to be expended in the new year for the
furtherance of the ambitious schemes of
merchandising ever present in the
thoughts of earnest and up-to-date mer-
chants.

Although the Christmas displays are,
or should be, long since planned, and
are, in many cases, on view, an easily
arranged display might be found useful
as a change during the last week of the
Christmas holidays. If the merchant
should desire to introduce a flavor of
novelty and life into a chimney display
of this nature he might do so in this
way:

Arrange a false back to the window
so that there is room between the false
and real backs for the movements of a
living Santa Claus. In the’center of this
false back is the open hearth through
which Santa makes his entrance to the
window. The interior of the chimney is
furnished with ledges, so that he can
conveniently climb up and down, and a
hole is cut in the back of the chimney,
allowing him to retire to the space be-
tween the false and real backs of the
window.

The real back of the window, if not
high enough, should be screened so as
to conceal his movements from observa-
tion by persons in the store. Much of
the charm of these displays is lost if
people are permitted to be ‘‘behind the
scenes, ’’ as it were.

The window is arranged as a boy’s
bedroom, and in a large double bed are
three boys, supposed to be asleep.
There will be no difficulty in finding a
number of boys only too willing to play
these exciting parts with the prospect
of a pair of skates, or some other boy-
ish treasure, aS a reward, The bed
must be placed parallel with the window
glass,so that the boys may be easily ob-
served.

Hang a pair of boy’s trousers, by the
back strap, at the head of the bed. The
legs of the trousers should be roughly
tied at the ankles with coarse string,
buttered and so arranged as to look like
an invitingly open sack. Fix to this
pair of trousers a large white card bear-
ing the inscription, roughly but plainly
lettered, ‘‘ Hi, Santa-put mine in here,’’
At the foot of the bed is hung a large
and not too immaculate stocking show-
ing a hole or two, and on which is
pinned a card saying, ‘‘Say, Mr. Claus,
this is Jimmie’s.’’ At one side of the
mantelpiece is hung a boy's sweater tied
at the neck and hanging neck down-
ward. On this sweater is a card on
which is printed in a scraggy type,
‘‘Santa, Merry Christmas—I need a
gun.’’

The boys’ boots and clothing are
strewn about the room in the usual care-
less boyish manner, and a well thumbed
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thirsty detective stories, in which boys
delight, is laid in front of the window
near the bed. Santa, bearing an old-
fashioned lantern, enters this bedroom
from the chimney and cautiously puts
suitable gifts in the trousers, etc. He
should, of course, affect surprise at the
novelty and size of the receptacles, and
do all the little things likely to amuse
observers. He must, too, so arrange
matters that there is room left in each
receptacle for the articles deposited on
each visit. Santa can manage this by
slyly taking things out when pretending
to put,something in. Again, one of the
boys might make a pretense of awaken-
ing, when Santa, alarmed, can hastily
retreat, thus making excuse for a fresh
visit.

Many ways of sustaining interest in
this display will suggest themselves to
the merchant and his Santa Claus.

This display should be given at
night, when Santa is popularly supposed
to make his visits, and when the streets
are thronged with sightseers.

The window with the chimney-piece
background, can during the day be used
to display holiday merchandise, and
when it becomes dark the blind can be
drawn for a few minutes and the bed,
Santa, the boys, and other properties for
the display hustled into position.

The light in the window must be dim,
being just bright enough to allow sight-
seers to easily observe the proceedings.

Advertise the display by placing in
the window during the day a card on
which is printed, ‘‘To-night, 7 p. m.
Santa at work. Come and see him.’’—
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‘‘Let a coat get soaking wet,’’ said a
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wrinkled or out of shape, unless proper
care is taken in hanging it up. This
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man has a limited number of coats, he
couldn't spend the extra time required
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form of just the right size over which he
could simply button the wet coat when
he took it off, but a man may not want
a wire skeleton around or he may not
have room to keep it. So what he does
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‘*He puts the wet coat on an ordinary
hanger which he suspends where there
will be room all around so that the coat
will hang clear of everything. Then he
buttons the coat up and gets it into
proper shape and hang, and then he
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Clerks’ Corner.

 

 

Somehow or Other He Didn’t Get Around
to It.
Written for the Tradesman.

The first thing that Millicent Win-
ters heard after she had kissed them all
around and taken her things off was the
name of Charley Jerrold. ‘‘He is such
a handsome young man,’’ exclaimed
mother Winters, ‘‘and such a saving,
far-seeing young fellow,’’ interrupted
father Winters; ‘‘and such a good boy’’
put in mater familias, determined not
to be interrupted; ‘‘and the smartest,
keenest, handiest youngster that ever
clerked for me, and a chap that is
bound to make his way in the world,’’
aggressively declared pater familias, as
if for once in his life he was going to
have his say although the heavens fell.

In the meantime Miss Millicent pro-
ceeded to take in the surroundings.
‘*Looks just as it did a year ago.
Mother, are you sure you moved the
chairs and things when you swept or
did you just wig-wag the broom under
them and call it square? A dime to
nothing there'll be a little round new
place in the carpet when I move this
chair. See that! Just as I told you.
The furniture hasn’t been moved once
or, if it has been, you chalked the place
and put it exactly back. Come on.
Let’s stir things up and have a new
deal and start in over again. Here
goes;’’ and suiting the action to the
word, the sofa took a ‘‘two-step’’ into
the middle of the sitting room, and with
all the maliciousness of a human being
bumped into the sedate and dignified
center table with so much downright
violence that the prismatic pendants of
its stately oil lamp protestingly flashed
back their indignation. The big, old
haircloth sofa cut off one corner of the
big ‘‘spare room,’’ the mahogany center
table was pushed ‘up between the two
front windows, the big rocker took its
place over in the corner by one of the
windows and then the young woman
settled down on it with one foot under
her and gave long rocks of satisfaction
over the immense changes the last few
minutes had wrought.

‘‘It does brighten things up tremend-
ously,’’ admitted the staid mother, ‘‘but
I don’t know just how Charley will like
it. You see, he’s got into the notion of
coming over here when he wants to and
—well, he kind o’ likes things fixed so
that he knows where to find ’em and
land alive! we don’t care. You'll like
Charley, Milly. He’s an awful nice
young man. He—”’

‘*Bring it right in here. It’s easier
for you, and it’s easier for me to un-
pack ;’’ and the man with the trunk, fol-
lowing the orders of the lively maiden
placed the trunk where the table had
stood and landed a considerable amount
of dirt on the parlor carpet.

““My! My! But that will never do. I
don’t know what Charley wouldn't say.
He’s awful particular. I don't know
but he’d havea fit.’ To prevent that
catastrophe the good woman went for
the dust-pan and carefully removed all
traces of the drayman’s negligence.

**Well, now do tell us about yourself.
Did you leave one stone upon another
or is college and campus a pile of ruins?
Hungry, ain’t you?’’

The mother and daughter were stand-
ing by the trunk and for an answer the
young arms flashed around the maternal
neck and the young lips imprinted
something less than a baker’s dozen of
affection-pledges upon the happy mater-
nal mouth. Then without bothering

 

about the campus or such commonplace
matters as eating, open yawned the
trunk, and the wind on wash day never
showed more tremendous results than
that old-fashioned parlor showed in less
than five minutes. There were white
things and vari-colored things innumer-
able, and they were everywhere, so that
when a not unpleasant, manly voice
with a hearty ‘‘Well! Well!’’ an-
nounced the arrival of storekeeper Win-
ter a blizzard got possession of the at-
mosphere and out of the snowiest, fleeci-
est white cloud rushed the spirit of the
storm and threw itself upon the head
and face of old Winter so that he was
fairly buried.

When the flurry was over Mrs. Win-
ter’s ‘‘Land alive!’’ was heard. **What
in this world has got into ye? Ye act
more like fury than you do like a girl
from Vassar. Poke yer hair out yer
eyes and let me introduce Mr. Jerrold
to ye. This is Milly that I’m always
talking about to ye, Charley. Ye
wouldn’t think so, but she’s quite a
sensible young woman when she’s in
her right mind. Coming home sort of
upsets her!’’

Mr. Jerrold was equal to the require-
ments of the occasion and bowed the
conventional bow and murmured the
conventional ‘‘’M delighted to know
you, Miss Wizzwizz,’’ and was ready
to have the Vassar girl that he had been
dreaming about for the last six months
bluster around and straighten out things.
On the contrary she kept on towards the
bottom of her trunk—if it had one—
never hesitating to throw out the queer-
est things, without apology and to his
astonishment without seeming to care
whether he was there or not. Not until
Mrs. Winter implored them to come and
have ‘‘suthin’ t’ eat’’ was there any
stay in the wild confusion, and not un-
til she was seated opposite him at the
table did the young woman give much
attention to the young man ‘‘who ought
to have known better than to force him-
self in where he wasn’t wanted.’’

She found him agreeable to look at
with all the presumption she had ex-
pected and, ‘‘sounding him,’’ in spite
of his heralded virtues she saw -the
‘*sounding brass and the tinkling ‘sym-
bol’ ’’ personified! Then the fun came.
How she leaned forward and listened
to the young man’s condensed wisdom,
‘‘a heavenly smile’’ brightening her
face, the fairest he had ever hoped to
look upon.

He was right: a young woman ought
to darn stockings and do plain sewing
as well as translate Latin and Greek.
What was a question of psychology to
that far more important one of making
bread? And conic sections were nothing
when compared with the ability of get-
ting out a family wash on Monday
morning before breakfast—absolutely
nothing. She was glad he could ap-
preciate good darning—she would let
him see what she could do. He should
come over to a meal sometime and he
should see that the bread his mother
used to make would be a hack number,
and if he would only try her as a wash
woman he never would want another—a
Statement that made him look at her
with ‘‘goo goo’’ eyes that were well
worth looking at.

After the desirable qualities of the
housekeeper were taken good care of
those of householder were brought for-
ward and discussed. This part was not
so funny; for the young woman was de-
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She ‘‘carved him like a dish fit for the
gods,’’ and when she laid down the
knife he began to wonder if he hadn’t
gone too far and expected too much.
That was when the meal was over;
and when she got him into the parlor
with her best ‘‘togs’’ on and went at
him from the Vassar entertainment
point of view, the conceited donkey be-
gan to be aware, for the first time in
his life, of the enormous size of his
ears. She got through with him very
early in the evening, and when the front
gate clicked behind him, they both said
‘“*There!’” but with a_ difference to
Charley. He ‘‘didn’t want to go there
any more,’’ he didn’t want any bread;
he didn’t want his shirt washed, and he
began on the spot to do his own darn-
ing! She asked him to come again and
he promised her he would, but some-
how or other he never got around to it.
Richard Malcolm Strong.

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Increase Your Earning Capacity While
You Are Young.

I see a good many store boys, grocery
clerks, and book-keepers in the course
of a week. Speaking from actual ob-
servation, I have not seen one in a
month who seemed to be living in an
ambition to get beyond where he was.
Oh, what regret these boys will feel in
ten or twenty years!

When you get as old as your uncle
and remember the scores of hours which
might have heen used to advance you
in business, but which were used as
loafing times, or cheap reading times,
you will get pretty blue, take my word
for it.

Every once in a while I get intoa
certain store which employs _ several
clerks and a boy. I have observed the
boy a good deal. He isa good type of
those who are going to get blue ina
few years.

This fellow devours biood and thun-
der literature like a hungry man devours
food. Every minute of leisure he gets
he uses to squat down and open up his
tattered and bethumbed little novel,
pouring over it in rapt attention.

I stood looking at this boy one day
last week. It wasa dull hour inthe store
and he sat on a half-peck measure be-
hind a barrel in a corner,his eyes glued
to the page of one of the cheap and fiery
stories. His weazened little face was
aglow with an interest that it never bore
when he was working, and every limb
and feature told how tensely the cheap
and thrilling fake held him.

Suddenly came the voice of the gro-
cer from across the store.

‘Jimmy, go down cellar and bring
up about five buckets of granulated
sugar for the bin,’’ he called.

 

Jimmy’s poor little face changed as
one awakens from a delightful dream to
find himself falling out of bed. I sup-
pose the mean old grocer had inter-
rupted him just as Dare Devil Dicky
was in the act of killing sixty-eight In-
dians_ single-handed with no other
weapon than a bent pin.

He listlessly slouched off to the cei-
lar, after carefully tucking away the be-
loved novel in his hip pocket.

If that boy has any brains, he is go-
ing to have some bad quarters of an
hour when he gets older and realizes
how much he could have learned about
the business while he was reading trash.

I know a book-keeper for a brokerage
concern. Possibly he gets $9 a week.
He is a young fellow, unmarried, and
lives at home, so that the $9 a week al-
lows him to dress well, go occasionally
to the theater; in short, to give a mild
imitation of a man about town.

This fellow is another good type. So
far as I can discover he is absolutely
content with his job. He knows noth-
ing about the business- outside of its
book-keeping, for I have asked him
questions that even an observing office
boy should have known, but he could not
answer them.

I'l] wager that this man can never
hope to get at the very outside over $11
a week as book-keeper, because book-
keepers at less than $11 are as thick as
grains of sea sand. He could make
more on the street as a salesman, for
there is a good field there, but he does
not feel like exerting himself to that
extent.

How fervently will he wish that he
had some day! His $9 a week is all
tight to-day—he is only a boy, with
no thought of marrying and establishing
a home; but wait a year or two, His
friends will begin to marry around him.
He will want to marry himself, but he
cannot afford to, for he will only be get-
ting about $10 a week. Then will this
foolish book-keeper, as do hundreds of
others in the same leaky boat, begin to
take stock of themselves. They will all
emerge from the stock-taking with the
uncomfortable realization that they have
wasted their youth; that the time easiest
to use for giving themselves a solid
knowledge of the business they threw
carelessly away.

This may seem like prosy moralizing
now, boys; but you can gamble tbat it
won’t when you are thirty-five or forty
years old. The time will come when
your expenses will begin to climb up;
when Tommy will seem to need a new
suit every few minutes, and the heater
will seem to burn coal like an ocean
liner. Then is the time when you will

wish you had put yourself in a position
where you could earn more.

It’s hard to increase your earning ca-
pacity when you have become settled—
unless you are in the counterfeiting
business. The time to do it is when
you are young, when you have the time
and the mental receptivity.

You'll think of this in a few years,
boys.—Stroller in Grocery World.

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The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
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Special Correspondence,

New York, Dec. 7—The jobbers are
simply worked to death. Every order
is a ‘‘rush’’ one and from morning until
night—if not from night until morning
—there is a rattle and bang, a piling of
packages, boxes and barrels, going to
almost every station in the country. And
all this for Christmas. The grocer is
making hay these days, and if he has
had a poor year so far he is making it
up now, and the end will surely show
a favorable balance.

In the retail trade every man is
humping. The grocery departments of
the big stores are thronged and money
seems to be no object. There never has
been a holiday equal to this in volume
of trade. Let us hope there will be no
different story to tell another year!

Coffee is rather more quiet than last
week, Advices from Europe show some-
thing of a decline and Brazil has been
offering stock at low figures. There was
some slight advance from that country
later, but, upon the whole, the situation
is not especially in sellers’ favor. Re-
ceipts at Rio and Santos appear to be
quite full and range along about 60,000
bags daily. The receipts at these two
points from July 1 to Dec. 4 aggregate
9,684,000 bags against 6,400,000 bags
during the same time last year. In store
and afloat the aggregate amounts to
2,369,061, against 1,300,738 bags at the
same time last year. Business in mild
sorts is quiet and quotations are with-
out change. Good Cucuta is worth 9c
and is steady. East India sorts sell at
full quotations and the demand this
week has been rather better than the av-
erage.

Refined sugar is dull, or at least the
amount of business is only an average
amount and that, naturally, is not great
at this time of year. Petitions to Con-
gress for free raw sugars are being cir-
culated. Possibly every little helps. At
any rate the question of ‘‘free raws’’
grows in interest daily.

During the last few weeks the tea
market has begun to realize and show
the effects of short supplies, of which
we have been forewarned for some time
by the statistical position. There is no
doubt that before the new crop comes
in there will be much higher prices rul-
ing for teas of all kinds. There may be
some decrease in activity during the
holiday season, but it will not last. The
agitation for the repeal of the tea tax is
something of a disturbing element, for
whether Congress repeals the law or not
buyers are not now loading themselves
up to be caught with duty-paid teas
after the tax is repealed.

The rice market is steady and full
rates are being obtained. Prime to
choice 5@5 5c.

Pimento is stronger and, in fact, the
whole spice line is looking up. Sales
are not large in any one case, but. they
are numerous. It is not likely there
will be a better time to buy somewhat
ahead of current wants for some time.

The supply of molasses is quickly
taken and the market is well sold up.
One interesting thing is the amount of
molasses the retailers are selling in
small, nicely-gotten-up packages of tin
and glass. It isso tempting that one
cannot pass it and the little package
must make a gallon sell for at least $1,
thus showing a good profit. Syrups are
firm and exporters, as well as_ local
dealers, are doing a good business.
Prices for prime to fancy, 20@3oc.

The last few days have shown greatly
increased interest in canned tomatoes
and it looks now as if fancy brands
wotld continue to go up indefinitely.
Corn is hardly keeping up with the pro-

 

 

 

cession and the same may be said of
salmon but other goods are all moving
freely and at prices which must cer-
tainly be satisfactory to the seller.

Dried fruits have been in good de-
mand and almost every article on the
list has been selling freely at quotations
and concessions are seldom made, if at
all. Fancy fruits in ornamental pack-
ages have been in great request and,
while this sort of trade is short-lived,
it pays well while it lasts. Some quite
large transactions have been reported
from the raisin trade, a deal embracing
fifteen or twenty cars being said to have
changed hands, including 2 and 3-crown
loose, at a price about 35c and 4%c,
respectively. Currants are steady.
Sales, however, are mostly of small lots.
Domestic dried have been in fair re-
quest and the better grades of evaporated
apples in cartons are hard to find at any
price. An average grade of evaporated
will sell for 93/c and better for 10@IIc.
Sun-dried 4%@6%c, the latter for
fancy sliced.

Oranges from California and Florida
are arriving with freedom and, while
desirable fruit fetches full rates, there
is said to be a good share that will not
come up to requirements. California
is said to be sending some that is too
green and Floridas are deficient in this
and other respects. California navels
are worth from $3@4, and Floridas,
brights, $2.25@2.75. Lemons are quiet.
Californias range from $3 all the way up
to $4.50 per box. Sicily, $2.50@3.25.

While the demand continues good for
best Western, the butter supply seems
to be large enough to meet all immedi-
ate requirements and it is not thought
there will be further advance. Quota-
tions are as last noted, 25%c for top
grades and 20@24c, for seconds to
firsts; Western imitation creamery, 14
@18c and possibly 18 3c for fancy stock ;
factory, 14@I15c.

With improved demand and lighter
arrivals there has been an advance of
about %c and best New York full cream
small size are worth 10%@1ic. Large
size, %c less.

Eggs have advanced toa point that
checks demand and arrivals coming
now are not disposed of quite so read-
ily ; yet the market seems to be closely
cleaned up and fresh gathered Western
are worth 28c; fresh gathered, 26c; reg-
ular sorts, 22@25c.

Marrow beans are meeting with ready
sale and quotations have touched $2.35
for choice. Other grades are firmly
held at former quotations—medium,
choice, $2@2.05; choice pea, $2; choice
red kidney, $2.10, —

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This is a tough world for women at
best. They must either marry or be-
come old maids.

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

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

I NEED YOUR
Small shipments of FRESH EGGS for
my retail trade.
L. 0. SNEDECOR, 36 Harrison St., N. Y.
EGG RECEIVER

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Christmas Poultry
Prospects

Thanksgiving trade demonstrated to us very clearly that it is
very safe to claim beyond any reasonable doubt that four kinds of
poultry will continue at very satisfactory prices, viz., fancy turkeys,
ducks, chickens and geese. At Thanksgiving time all such did
well, so far as we know. The most unusual small per cent. of fancy
plainly indicates the strong probability of continued inadequate
supplies for Christmas and therefore small proportionate receipts
for Christmas. We venture the prediction, confidently, that dressed
scalded turkeys will sell 12@13c, quite possibly 14c; chickens, Io
@lic, possibly 12c; ducks, 12@13c, perhaps 14c; geese, 9@Ioc,
possibly 11c. It is most thankfully true that Thanksgiving usually
cleans up and exhausts the bulk of poor poultry, which has evi-
dently been the case this season, so that the receipts from now on
should consequently be greatly improved, as well as higher in
price, thus adding to the better prospects.

Ducks have been very scarce and sell on arrival, mostly at lic
live and 12@13c dressed, and this price should keep up or improve.
Geese, too, have’ done well, best live selling at g@1oc—and toc
mostly dressed. Anyone desiring to ship us and not knowing us
financially, please wire Third National Bank, Buffalo, or Berlin
Heights Bank, Berlin Heights, Ohio, at our expense, thus: ‘*Do
you consider Batterson & Co. safe to consign poultry?’’ Send us
your bill. A few shipments will also settle it. No house suits all
and never will, but if we do not, we do not know a house that will.
Be with us at Christmas. We want shippers for months, as well as
at Christmas. We honor conservative drafts. We sell as quickly as
best. We account as soon as cleaned up. We weigh in every lot
and know where it goes. We receive by numbers and do not get
lots mixed. We have a big store in which to properly display stock.
We do not pile various lots together. We sell every package on its
merits. We do not lump off poor and good together, thus making
the good sell the poor and the good suffer thereby.

Wire us at our expense if there is business in it. Have live
here by Dec. 14 or 16; dressed, by Dec. Ig or 20. With right
weather and quantity of stock you can just about bank on Buffalo
for Christmas poultry. It will not harm you to read this communi-
cation twice.

BATTERSON & CO.,

POULTRY COMMISSION MERCHANTS THIRTY-THREE YEARS,
92 Michigan Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.

  

 

When you are in the market for

No. 9 North Ionia St.

Oranges, Lemons, Cranberries, Almeria Grapes,
Figs, Dates, Nuts, Etc.

Write or wire

E. E. HEWITT

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

Geo. N. Huff & Co.

WANTED

10,000 Dozen Squabs, or Young Pigeons just before leaving .nest to fly.
Also Poultry, Butter, Eggs and Old Pigeons,
on all shipments. Write for references and quotations.

55 Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan

 

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WE WANT MORE GOOD POULTRY SHIPPERS

We buy live stock every day in the week. WRITE US.
F. J. SCHAFFER & CO., DETROIT, MICH.

Write for reference or ask Michigan Tradesman.

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Butter and Eggs

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

There is certainly room for improve-
ment in the existing methods of market-
ing eggs by farmers. The system of
paying a uniform price to egg producers
for irregular qualities tends to encourage
holding back on the farms during cer-
tain seasons and offers no incentive
either for quick marketing after the
eggs are Jaid or for the improvement of
the breeds of fowls. Eggs that are ac-
cepted in trade by country storekeepers
are apt to remain long unmoved to the
detriment of quality. It is evident that
the creameries, having immediate and
frequent communication with their pa-
trons, are possessed of all the machinery
of collection necessary for a consider-
able egg business. By starting such a
business on a proper basis—that is by
paying various prices according to the
quality of the stock brought in—there
should be inducement for selling all
production while fresh in the territory
covered.

Probably many of our buttermaker
friends will regard the addition of an
egg collecting business to the plant as
impractical, and doubtless it would be
so if the burden were to be placed on
the shoulders of those whose time is al-
ready fully occupied or over-burdened
with their present duties. But where
enough could be done to make a separ-
ate department, under competent man-
agement, the scheme is worth consider-
ation. One thing, however, would be
essential—the establishment of separate
cold rooms; it would never do to use
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Some time ago allusion was made in
this column to the growing business in
frozen eggs and the probability that this
product would be likely to still further
affect the outlets for limed eggs was con-
sidered. During the past month or more
there has been increasing attention to
frozen eggs by bakers’ trade, and the
business seems to be assuming consider-
able proportions. Bakers who have
learned to use the goods in the best way
are as a rule well pleased with them;
they find it necessary to thaw them out
slowly at a comparatively low tempera-
ture, best by immersing the cans in
cold water, and to thaw out at once only
what can be promptly used. We think
that egg limers will have to reckon with
this product more and more in the fu-
ture when figuring on the prospective
outlet for their goods; it is bringing into
the late fall and winter markets a low
cost product that will be preferred to
shell eggs when prices for the latter are
relatively high.

There is some irregularity in the
quality and value of the frozen eggs
now being marketed. Sales of the whole
eggs, that is, the whites and the yolks

together, range from 10% to 11Xc
per lb. A large proportion of the prod-

uct is put up in this manner, but some
lots have been separated when cracked
out in the spring, the whites and yolks
being frozen separately. It appears that
this can be successfully done when the
substance is thoroughly churned before
freezing. Whites separate may be suc-
cessfully used for icing and command
1134 @12%c per lb. in a wholesale way,
while we hear of sales of yolks separate
at irregular prices from 113%c down
to 8%@oc. pees:

The market for fresh gathered eggs
has now gotten into a very sensitive po-

 

sition and we are almost bound to have
frequent and rapid fluctuations of value.
The high prices lately ruling have cut
down the demand so much that even
very light receipts will be ample for all
requirements so long as serviceable re-
frigerators can be obtained. And as the
natural tendency is toward some in-
crease of Southern production during
December the influence of mild and fa-
vorable weather is likely to create pres-
sure to sell and weak markets. But there
are also possibilities of bad weather
and short supplies in the future, and
between the two the temper of the mar-
ket will doubtless be easily affected in
either direction by momentary influ-
ences. Probably those who keep their
goods moving every day will make the
best average in the long run.—N. Y.
Produce Review.

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Great Year For Cape Cod Cranberry
Growers.
From the New Bedford Standard.

The late shipments of the Cape Cod
cranberry crop are now going forward,
and the facts about the extraordinary
harvest of this year are gradually com-
ing out. Frost did slight damage,
worms failed to work their customary
harm, and it was an exceptionally fa-
vorable fall for harvesting.

Early fruit sold around $5 to $5.50 a
barrel, and the late fruit that has been
held for the expected Thanksgiving
market price is selling for $6 to $6.50,
but the loss in picking over the fruit
held for this rise in most cases will off-
set the variance in price, unless there
should be a sharp jump the present
week, for those who are holding on un-
til the very last call.

There is scarcely a bog in the cran-
berry growing center, which comprises
the swamps of Wareham, Carver and
Rochester, in Plymouth county, that has
not yielded at least 10 per cent. better
than last year, while there are some that
have reached 35 and 4o per cent. better,

The Makepeace bogs, up in the Ware-
ham and Carver swamps, that are the
mammoth bogs of the cranberry belt,
have yielded crops away ahead of last
year. If a dividend of 4o per cent. is
not declared after the returns are all in
some of the stockholders will be disap-
pointed, for as high as 50 per cent. div-
idends have been reported probable.
The former estimate of the actual cost
of growing and harvesting the fruit was
$2.50 to $3, but it is now quoted since
the improved method of scooping the
fruit from the vines has come _ into
vogue, as low as $1.75 a barrel.

Old swamps that years ago were
counted as useless, assessed in most
towns at a rate of about Io cents an
acre, are now equal in value, for the
most part, to the shore fronts that one
hears so much discussed now in the
lower Plymouth county and Cape Cod
towns,

There will be a large increase in acre-
age, and in the Carver territory there is
one very large bog now in process of
construction by Mr. White that will be
a rival to the big Makepeace bog when
completed, and there are many smaller
bogs projected.

 

 

Wholesale Price List Pure Mich-
igan Maple Sugar and Syrup

Pure Maple Sugar

L pound cakes. 0... 8e a pound
5 ounce cakes, to retail at 5¢e........... 9¢ a pound

Pure Maple Syrup

1 gallon cans, one-half dozen in case..75¢ a gallon
Y% gallon cans, one dozen in case.... .80¢ a gallon
1-5 gallon bottles, one dozen in case. ..$2.40 a doz.
¥% pint bottles, two dozen in case ..... 90¢e a dozen
Os, 70¢ a gallon

These prices are f.0 b. Grand Rapids
to dealers only.

We guarantee our Sugar and Syrup to
be free from adulteration and of an ex-
cellent flavor. Orders promptly filled.
If you want to buy or sell choice ‘dairy
BUTTER, if you want to buy or sell
EGGS get our prices.

STROUP & CARMER,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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‘POULTRY

AND GAME

If you have any to market, why not ship to a house that
give their entire attention to that line? We are the most exclu-
sive poultry handlers on our market. We positively guarantee
you outside market prices at all times with prompt returns.

If you have never shipped to us, we ask you to look up our
responsibility carefully through Dun’s, Bradstreet’s Agencies, People’s
Bank of Buffalo, all Express Companies and Michigan Tradesman. For
further references write to us for names of shippers in your section
who are sending us their poultry regularly. If you find us worthy
of your trade, let us keep you posted, and when our market justi-
fies try us with light shipments. We know we can hold your
steady business if we can only get started with you. Our quo- @
tations you will always find conservative. Send us your name
@ and we will mail you printed instructions in full how to dress,

pack and ship poultry for our market to obtainbest prices. If
advancement is any accommodation, make draft for reasonable :

WRITE US.

amount.

MAOWLPOS:

Commission Merchants
141 and 143 Michigan Street, Buffalo, New York

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Poultry, Eggs, Game and Butter

We want all these products in large or small quantities. We want
them because we have a demand for them. Our store is the best lo-
cated produce house in Baltimore. We have every facility for han-
dling shirments and guarantee the best prices.

References: Merchants National Bank, Baltimore; all Commercial
Agencies. Members National League of Commission Merchants.

STEVENS BROTHERS, 226 So. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.

 

Established 1860.

Jas. D. Ferguson & Co.

Produce Commission Merchants, 14 So Water St., Philadelphia

Poultry and Eggs

Every facility for handling shipments in any quantity to best advan-
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If you have poultry to ship to Buffalo, either live or
dressed, let us handle it. Some can do as well, but
none can do better. Prompt and honest returns.
Reliable quotations. Buffalo market compares fa-
vorably with all others.

REA & WITZIG, q
Commission Merchants in
BUTTER, POULTRY AND EGGS
96 W. Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.

References: Buffalo Commercial Bank, = express companies and commercial
agencies.

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Woman’s World

The Hand That Holds the Pocket Book
Rules the World.

The suggestion of the London County
Council to give each of their women
typewriters, on their marriage, a dot
equal to one month's pay for each year’s
service in compensation of their claims
on superannuation, etc., has started an
animated discussion in England on the
dowry question.

In France and, indeed, throughout
continental Europe, the custom is so
deeply rooted that few marriages are
contracted in which the bride has not a
dowry, even among the lowest classes.
Parents begin setting aside something
for her dot from the very hour of a girl
baby’s birth, and few women go to
their husbands empty handed.

Anglo-Saxon people have seen fit to
sneer at this practical arrangement.
Our men, we say proudly, are not for-
tune hunters. They marry for love and
not for money. Our girls are dowry
enough in themselves and we are not
offering dots with them to get them off,
like the painted plaque that goes with a
pound of cheap baking powder.

This is a lovely and_ sentimental
theory that does credit to our hearts, no
matter how much it may reflect upon
our heads, for the truth remains that
marriage has a practical as well asa
romantic side, and then comes an hour
when we find that love’s young dream
has to be sustained on beefsteak and
onions.

It is all very well to say—and we all
do make the idiotic statement daily—
that nothing but love should dictate a
marriage. That is true, but the young
couple whose only asset is love are
pretty sure to go into the bankrupt court
of affection before the first vear of mar-
ried life is over. You can not be senti-
mental when you are being dunned by
the butcher and baker and candlestick
maker. The glamor of romance fades
before shabby clothes and dingy lodg-
ings and mean food, and when a hus-
band and wife get to that point where
life is a perpetual anxiety and self de-
nial to make the ends meet, they are
not likely to make pretty speeches to
each other. They are more apt to in-
dulge in home truths. Domestic felicity
is a fragile vessel at best, and if it is
not kept in a well-padded home it is
mighty liable to get shattered.

It has been my lot to see the tragedy
of the marriage based on love, and with-
out financial backing, so often that I
have grown skeptical of its meaning
anything but disaster. I have seen doz-
ens of young men, weil-born, well-edu-
cated, with refined and cultured tastes,
but who were making only a small sal-
ary, fall in love with many charming,
but penniless, girls. In almost every
case the ending was the same. The
small salary that enabled the man to
live like a gentleman, and go in good
society was simply starvation fora fam-
ily. They had to live in a way that re-
volted his every taste. The simple
pleasures—the plays, the books, the
charming society—had to be foregone.
The man grew shabby and downcast
and discouraged. Inevitable sickness
ran up doctor’s and druggist’s bills,
and debts began to press upon him. He
saw the woman he loved grow slovenly
and querulous, and then he asked him-
self if love was enough, and the answer
came back, ‘‘ Not on your life.’’

Of course, there is here and there a
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do without cigars and clubs for her sake
without repining,and a woman who can
wear mother hubbards and home made
millinery and still feel she has drawn
the matrimonial prize, but such couples
are as rare as white blackbirds, and no-
body knows beforehand they are going
to be that kind of a domestic fool. Most
of us who have been used to the decen-
cies and luxuries of life beat our wings
against the cage and wonder what made
us such fools as to get caught in the
trap.

It is to prevent such catastrophes that
I would gladly see the dowry system in-
troduced into this country. Marriage
for money can bring no happiness, but
a marriage without money,except in the
rarest cases, brings only misery. Love
can not thrive on an empty stomach.
You have to be comfortable physically
before you can be sentimental. It is
time we recognized this palpable fact
and entered into the most important and
binding trade of our lives with a little
common sense, instead of stultifying
ourselves with an illusion that we all
know to be nothing but a poet's life
dream.

I do not mean by this that riches are
necessary, but I do say, with ali the
emphasis that I can command, that no
young couple have any right to get mar-
ried unless between them they have a
competency to enable them to live in
the way in which they have been accus-
tomed. If they have not, they will sure-
ly regret the day when they tied them-
selves up in double wretchedness. It is
all very well to talk about the pleasure
of sacrificing ourselves for those we
love, but I have yet to see the person
who did it cheerfully. There are a good
many things that are more comfortable
to talk about than to do.

 

It may shatter another illusion, but
every married woman knows that nine-
tenths of the domestic spats are the di-
rect result of a discussion of the money
question. It comes with a shock of sur-
prise to every man to learn that his
wife’s clothes wear out and that she has
to have pin money. ‘‘What! $15 for
that dress! $10 for a bonnet not six
inches square! Want more car fare?
Great heavens! do you think I am made
of money?’’ That is a phonographic re-
production of the breakfast table con-
versation in many a home, and the cur-
tain goes down to the man slamming
the front door, and the woman wailing
she is ‘‘go-go-going home to mother.’’

That scene, that always leaves be-
hind it a story of intolerable injustice
and humiliation with a woman, could
and would be eliminated if a girl had
something, no matter how small, settled
on her at her marriage, so that she
would not have to go to her husband as
a beggar for the very clothes on her
back.

How deeply women feel this matter of
money only those of us who are working
women know. It is the real secret of
the unrest and dissatisfaction in the
home. I have had women, women who
were the wives of rich men, say to me
times out of number that they envied
me because I made my own living.
‘But look at what you have and what I
make,*’ I would say. ‘‘Ah,’’ came the
invariable reply, ‘‘but it is your own.
You do not have to ask for it or ac-
count to any one for the way you spend
i:

Men do not know it, and they will
probably deny it, every mother's son of
them, but there is nothing they respect
so much in a woman as financial inde-
pendence. The hand that holds the

 

pocket book rules the world,and the wife
who is the happy possessor of her own
purse is going to be treated with the
deference we all feel towards the Al-
mighty Dollar. The rich are never
snubbed.

An old story, but one worth repeating,
is to the effect that a young million-
airess once went to that wise old world-
ling, Sam Ward, and confessed to him
that she was much in love with a cer-
tain young man, but she feared he was
desirous of marrying her for her for-
tune. ‘‘What shall I do?’’ she asked.

‘*Marry him,’’ responded Ward.
‘*A man always marries for some-
thing. If he married you for your
beauty, in time that would fade. If he
married you for your wit, he would be
sure to grow weary of your jokes, but if
he marries you for your money, as long
as you swing on to that, you have got
your man.”’

While not concurring in that cynical
view of the subject, I am sure that any
father desiring to assure his daughter’s
domestic happiness can come pretty
near doing it by settling a sufficient
dowry—tied up good and fast, so her
husband can not get at it—on her to in-
sure her financial independence.

In my opinion the dowry becomes al-
most a matter of noblesse oblige in
America because of the way in whicao
we bring up our girls. If a young
woman were going to bring to her hus-
band simple tastes, thrifty habits and
hands skilled in household tasks, she
might be excused for bringing no
money.

But so far from this, every American
girl, almost without exception, is raised
with the habits of a millionairess on the
hopeful theory that a fairy prince will
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He does not, and she espouses some
poor fellow who has to work his fingers
to the bone ina vain effort to support
her extravagance. Certainly if a father
brings up a girl with silk petticoat and
automobile coat tastes, he is in honesty
bound to furnish the money to provide
them. He has no right to shift the
burden of it on an impecunious and un-
sophisticated youth, who has no idea of
the magnitude of the job he is tackling
when he undertakes to love, cherish
and support the modern young woman.

Nor need any one fear that the dowry
system for girls would turn men into
fortune hunters. American men are not
built that way, and in this country rich
girls are habitually less sought after and
have fewer opportunities to marry well
than poor ones. Besides, men think
well of themselves, and few are willing
to sell themselves for any reasonable
amount,

By all means let us introduce the
dowry, which is only common sense and
prudence, into our matrimonial plat-
form. The reason so many people have
broken through that is because it has

. been built entirely on illusions, and it

needs a good, strong financial plank to
strengthen it. Dorothy Dix.

Was He a Liar?

It is surprising sometimes to find out
how much people think of you. Per-
haps because I ama modest kind ofa
man and never look for nor expect much
public approbation it comes to me with
more force when it does come.

There was a fellow in the store the
other day who wanted to buy a bed-
room suite. He had two daughters with
him, and it was evident he had plenty
of time and did not intend to give up
any more of his hard earned dollars than
was absolutely necessary.

I am not sure that it was because his
money was hard earned—rather | think
just because he was an Irishman, for an
out and out Irishman with a profile like
the coast line of Donegal and a brogue
like one of its own breezes will work as
hard to save a nickel as he will to earn
a dollar.

The first time he came in he was
‘‘yust looking around’ to see what was
to be had. The second time he ap-
peared he ‘‘just wanted to take another
look at one suite.’’ He had seen some-
thing elsewhere that suited him pretty
well. What did we say the price was?
Well, he would see.’’ After repeated
visits to the two stores he got down to
business and asked what were the low-
est figures. The price quoted was, of
course more than he was willing to pay.
He insisted that the suite he had been
comparing with mine was the same
every way only he liked it a little better
and he could buy it fora dollar less
than my price.

The bluff failed to work and event-
ually he bought my suite and paid my
price for it. Now, see how much he
must have thought of me to buy of me
a suit that he did not like as well and
that cost him a dollar more! And he
nearly a stranger to me, too.

It proves one of two things, either he

was willing to pay extra for the priv-|

ilege of buying from a man of such fine

personal appearance as your Uncle Reu-

ben, or he was a liar and I leave it to

you which is the more reasonable sup-

position.—Furniture Journal.
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Steel of Many Kinds.

It is the popular idea that steel is a
hard polished metal like a dagger ora
razor and capable of carrying a cutting
edge, but there are steels of various

 

kinds that do not possess the qualities
mentioned. Structural steel, for ex-
ample, such as beams, girders and
rough-rolled bars, generally has a much
higher tensile strength, elasticity and
tenacity than iron, and yet in physi-
cal constitution and external appearance
it differs but slightly from it. Of two
bars, one iron and the other steel, put
through the same rolls at the same heat,
not even an expert could distinguish
one from the other if they were laid
side by side. Moreover, careful analysis
fails to discover the line of actual de-
parture between steel and ironin the
lower grades of each metal, or where the
metal commences to be steel, so to
speak, and stops being iron.

But as between the two metals, iron
and steel, there is a vast difference in
their endurance and ability to stand se-
vere work and modern engineers have
a very good advantage over their pred-
ecessors of a half century ago in the
possession of it. In the modern open-
hearth and other process steels the
amount of fatigue or continuous resist-
ance to crucial strains of long duration
which they will endure is simply aston-
ishing—not laboratory or test machine
strains, but the downright pounding
and flogging of daily work, which is far
more serious than any testing machine
candeliver. This last sets up a certain

stress in a straight line, gradually in--

creasing up to failure under it; but the
duty imposed upon steel by daily work
in a high-speed engine, for example, is
not only to resist tensile strains, but
torsional and traverse burdens at one
and the same time.

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Poultry

Peculiarities Pertaining to the Handling
of Poultry.

‘“Ducks and geese are usually bought
by shippers by the pair,’’ remarked a
live poultry receiver, ‘‘but I have some
shippers who buy them by the pound.
Considering the wide range in quality
I should think all shippers would buy
them by the pound. Much of the stock
arriving is small and poor and worth
very much less than fine heavy ducks
and geese, and I think to get at the
actual value they should be bought by
the pound. In fact the shippers buying
that way seem to get better results.’’

+ £ +

‘‘I think that shipper must be send-
ing his poultry to market for fun or to
get rid of it,’’ said a live poultry re-
ceiver, pointing to a coop of turkeys.
‘“‘He evidently used ordinary fowl
coops instead of the larger turkey coops
and the turkeys are so weak they can
not stand up straight. Two or three
died during the trip and I doubt if the
balance bring much. The loss on them
will certainly be several times what
new coops would have cost. I have no
larger coops to put them in and the first
man that comes along with a decent
offer gets them because the Inspector of
the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals is likely to show up at any
minute and then 1 am good for a ten
dollar fine—possibly more—-besides a lot
of trouble. So you see 1 will sell pretty
cheap for I don’t think the shipper
should get anything for them.’’ Closer
inspection showed the feathers off of the
backs of the tallest birds and they

looked very uninviting.
* * *

‘‘Some shippers put limits on their
Thanksgiving poultry,’’ saida receiver.
‘I think this is one of the worst evils
we have,’’ he continued. ‘‘Of course
where we pay draft on the poultry we
use our own judgment, as the courts
have decided the poultry is ours as soon
as we pay the draft. But shippers do
not always draw on the poultry, and or-
der us to hold if we can not get a cer-
tain price. Now we commission re-
ceivers get advices from all over the
country and being in close touch with
buyers and receivers here we are ina
much better position to understand the
situation than the shipper. Consequent-
ly we can do better for him if he allows
us to use our own judgment as regards
selling or holding. It is certainly very
unsatisfactory to hold stock when we
know the market will be lower in a day
or two, and yet we can not do otherwise
as the shipper is liable to order it turned
over to somebody else and then we
would be in a hole if we had sold it and
more than likely the shipper would go
to law and try and collect the difference
from what we sold it for and the amount
it was ordered held for. In some cases
the stock is ordered put in freezer where
we can not get the limit, but the cost of
storage, insurance, cartage and other ex-
penses usually make a loss to the ship-
per, as the poultry is apt to deteriorate
by holding and it is pretty risky busi-
ness to store, especially when the stock
is not in perfect condition.’’

+ ££ 2

‘‘I doubt if the large retailers will
buy much poultry direct from the West
this year,’’ remarked a close observer
of the poultry market. ‘‘They have
been buying considerable stock direct
during the past two or three years and
particularly for the Christmas trade, but
it generally costs them as much or more

 

 

 

than they would have paid on the mar-
ket here and I guess they realize that
there is nothing to be gained by buying
in Chicago or other Western markets.
The wholesale poultry merchants would
all turn speculators if they could make
money this way and I guess they know
as much about the business as the retail

dealers.’’
*k* *k *

‘*T have some very fine stock’’ said a
receiver who seemed to have a full
house of poultry. ‘‘But some of my
shippers paid too much money for their
holiday poultry, and while I expect to
get enough to save them from a loss,
the margin of profit is too small entire-
ly. Many of these shippers think they
must pay high prices owing to competi-
tion, and they can not seem to realize
that it is better to handle a little poul-
try and make a profit than a large quan-
tity and only come out even or make a

loss.’’
*x* * *

‘“Itis getting so cold and wintry now,
especially in many of the shipping sec-
tions that much of the iced poultry is
not carrying well,’’ said a poultry re-
ceiver the other day. ‘You see the ice
does not melt well when it is so cold
and when it stays solid on the top of the
barrel the poultry in the lower part and
especially in the center of the barrel
gets heated and sometimes spoil. When
poultry is shipped iced, weather should
be warm enough to gradually melt the
ice and allow the cold water to drain
through the poultry to the bottom, there-
by keeping the poultry cold and in good
condition. On the other hand if stock
is shipped dry-packed before weather is
cold it will spoil in transit, and so
much dry-packed stock has been ruined
early in the season that this year ship-
pers are rather slow in changing from
iced to dry-packed.’”’

* x Ox
‘My receipts ran pretty light for
Thanksgiving,’’ said a receiver. ‘‘But

I see the published arrivals show a
shortage of several thousand packages
as compared to last year, and I presume
we all had a little less stock. Taken al-
together it was a pretty good market,
but prices ruled low considering the
moderate supply. Most of my stock was
too thin to try and strain high prices,
and some stock did not have the animal
heat out and was not in perfect condi-
tion in consequence. I think this stock
was hurried too much in the dressing.”’

Other receivers expressed the same
views and one said: ‘‘There has been
a great deal of stock in too late for the
holiday trade this year, and I have been
receiving stock ever since Thanksgiv-
ing which was intended to be here, but
which was delayed in transit and has
been straggling in, not only after the
holiday trade was over but after the
holiday had passed.’’’"—N. Y. Produce

Review.
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According to William Bybee, of
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and his body was paralyzed below the
breast, when a friend recommended
sand. He began taking a teaspoonful
every night and kept it up until quite
well. He uses common river bottom
sand, and washes it several times to
remove all dirt and vegetable matter,
then drys it in anoven. He says he
has recommended it to hundreds of per-
sons, and where the prescription was
faithfully followed they always recov-
ered.

POTATOES

Wanted in carlots only. We pay highest market price. In writing state variety
and quality.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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HOLIDAY DINNERS.

 

Baskets Which Present an Attractive and
Appetizing Appearance.

Retail merchants frequently pick up
ideas from watching the methods of de-
partment stores or other large dealers
that they find will readily adapt them-
selves to their business. The depart-
ment store manager has in his employ
some dozen or fifteen heads of depart-
ments whose business it is to evolve new
ideas for increasing and obtaining
trade, and who must necessarily be orig-
inal thinkers or they can not hold their
positions for a very long period.

They are paid for their thinking ca-
pacity as well as for the time which
they put in buying goods and selling
them, and the competition for positions
as department managers is so great that
they bend themselves to the task before
them with great energy and are able to
bring out many new ideas in the course
of a year's business. These twelve or
fifteen trained business men are special-
ists in the line of goods under their di-
rection, and it is very evident that they
can conceive ideas which are practical
and have considerable utility. And
through contact with system in business
they are in a better position to give
deep thought to these matters than the
average retailer who has several hun-
dred different things to attend to, his
own book-keeping, his buying, his store
management, his credits, his advertis-
ing, his selling, his clerk hire, and
numerous other matters which demand
his attention.

An idea which has been tried by one
leading Chicago department store for
two or three holiday seasons past, it is
believed, is worthy of the consideration
of the retail grocer and butcher or food
vendor. This department store a week
before Thanksgiving, and through the
fortnight preceding and __ including
Christmas and New Year’s Day, adver-
tises a holiday dinner ready for use,
without the necessity of selection by the
purchaser.

This holiday dinner is packed ina
basket purchased for the occasion, with
a neat layer of white paper in the bot-
tom, and is so arranged that it can be
carefully wrapped up and delivered. It
contains canned soup for the first
course, olives and celery.

For the second course there is a tur-
key, 8 to 12 pounds, a quart of cran-
berries, a can of French or other peas,
3 or 5 pounds of sweet potatoes, sage,
pepper and a loaf of bread for the turkey
stuffing, a relish of some sort, and one
or more cans of vegetables.

For the dessert there is a package of
condensed mince meat, a can of pie
peaches or some other pie material,
and a package of gelatine, with nuts and
raisins thrown in ad libitum.

These baskets are so arranged that
they present an attractive and appetiz-
ing appearance, with neatly scalloped
white paper around the edge outside,
and the different articles so displayed
that they attract attention. They are
put up to sell for from $1.50 to $2 a bas-
ket, according to the size of the turkey.
An eight-pound turkey and enough other
articles to bring the price up to this
amount constitutes a basket which sells
for $1.50. A twelve-pound turkey and
a somewhat more elaborate assortment
of food articles will sell readily for $2.

This idea is probably more practical
in the larger cities than in the smaller
towns. There are many young married
people,and many families in the cities,
who are ignorant of the proper selection
of a holiday dinner, and if they can go

 

to the retail store and purchase every-
thing they want for a specified sum,
without bothering with the details of se-
lection it is a positive benefit to them.
Retailers who are looking for new ideas
for the Christmas trade might give this
one atrial. A few sample Christmas
dinners will readily demonstrate whether
it is practicable or not with their trade,
and if they find that it is, they will also
discover that they are well paid for the
time spent in putting up these assort-
ments, for more than the ordinary profit
is usually made. Just one point more.
None of the articles included in the hol-
iday dinner basket are cooked. This,
of course, is left for the housewife.

The Chicago department store that
follows this plan sells several thousand
such baskets each day for a week be-
fore the holidays, and does not neglect
to advertise extensively.—Commercial

Bulletin.
—__~> +. ____

Hog Ripened Whisky.
From the Philadelphia Record.

There are but few people who can be
induced to believe that there ever was
such a drink as ‘‘hog ripened whisky,’’
but among the older generation it would
be no trouble at all to secure affidavits
that such a beverage was well known in
this immediate vicinity. There was
in the days gone by, in a village only
four miles from here a man who kept a
tavern that soon became famous through
its proprietor’s unique inventions and
ingenious contrivances to attract atten-
tion to his hostelry. Then, as now, to
succeed meant the necessity of being
well advertised. In his effort to do
something new ‘‘Uncle Billy,’’ as he
was called, conceived an invention that
was potent in making his tavern the
most talked about one for miles around.
The result, as known to the patrons of
the inn, was some good whisky, of
some age, that had been continuously
agitated while within the oaken casks
within which the drinks were kept for

‘‘ripening.’’
What the curious ones. discovered
about the invention was this: When

they went to see the ripening of the
whisky they found a hogpen witha plank
floor so balanced as to swing like a barn
scale. There was an open side furthest
from the feeding trough, and the sides
were fenced.

The way the thing operated was sim-
ple enough. The hogs were out in the
yard nosing around when they heard the
splash of the feed as it was put in the
trough. Naturally, as the weight came
first on the side furthest from the trough,
that side of the floor tilted down under
the swines’ weight. When they all got
over to the trough that side, in turn,
went down. And so the plank floor was
rocked back and forth every time a hog
went in or out.

Connected with this swinging plat-
form was another one which received
equivalent motion, of course, through
the medium of a long lever. On this
second platform were set the casks of
whisky which were to undergo the rip-
ening process. Of course, every time
the floor rocked, so did the upper like-
wise,and the whisky was shaken around
with every motion.

Naturally, ‘‘Uncle_ Billy’s’’ hogs
were fatter than anybody’s else, because
they were fed so much oftener. Part of
the ripening depended on feeding the
hogs, so as to make them rush in
through the open door and thus shake
the platforms.

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Moses and Tuberculosis Meat.
From the Hospital.

It has been a fashion for some time
back to regard Moses as the great sani-
tarian of antiquity,and on the discovery
of anything new in hygiene to pick out
from the Old Testament some text or
other showing that there is nothing new
under the sun, and that all that we are
now preaching has been put in practice
by the Jews from the earliest ages.
Lately, we have heard much as to the
examination to which all meat is sub-
mitted by the Jews, and it has been as-
sumed by some that their rejection of

 

carcasses affected with tuberculosis is to
be taken as showing that their code rec-
ognizes the infective nature of this dis-
ease. Of course, it does nothing of the
kind. As is well known, according to
the Jewish law an examination of the
viscera is made before a carcass is pro-
nounced fit for food, and there area
considerable number of conditions, the
discovery of which lead to its rejection.
The reason of all this would appear to
be to secure the rejection of the meat
from any beast affected by any such dis-
ease as would have ultimately led to
its death if the butcher had not inter-
vened, and among these conditions are
some which would of necessity involve
the rejection of all advanced cases of
tuberculesis. That is all. What may
have been the original object of the
Lawgiver we can not now discuss, any
more than we can the manner of the
giving as described in biblical history.
We may feel content, however, that
there is nothing in either the law or the
prophets to indicate any recognition of
the pathological questions which are
now exciting so much interest.

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The Right Way to Drink Beer.

‘‘Very few men know how to drink
beer so as to enjoy it properly,’’ said a
prominent German. ‘‘Beer is a deli-
cious drink, if used in the right way.
Most men guzzle it down like a dose of
medicine, and all they get out of a half-
pint of the beverage isa sort of farewell
taste that amounts to nothing. On the
other hand, there are men who sip it so
slowly that it becomes insipid and taste-
less. To get the full benefit of a glass
of beer, it should be drunk in several
swallows, with an interval between long
enough to allow the taste of the first to
evaporate from the palate before the
second is taken. Drunk in this way,
beer is not only refreshing, but whole-
some, and will not produce intoxica-
tion.”’

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Wanted Top Price For Butter and Cut
Price on Soda.
Written for the Tradesman.

She is a lovely-looking, white-haired
lady—lovely in, her own home | know,
for I have seen here there. She is an
ideal farmer’s wife,an exemplary Chris-
tian and a model housekeeper. She
makes the lightest bread, the sweetest
butter and the flakiest piecrust that you
ever saw and her floors are as clean and
white as scrubbing will make and keep
them.

But that is another matter, for Mrs.
Slocum at home and Mrs. Slocum at
the store are two separate and distinct
people.

She had brought along some butter
with the intention of dickering it off for
groceries. We were glad to see her, but
only moderately so, for the minute she
puts her head inside the store she is on
the defensive and her actions betray her
feelings. She has an idea that mer-
chants are a bad lot—a scheming,
thieving, cheating, lying, grasping, un-
principled set who have combined in
an effort to wrest her dollars from her,
and she makes it her chief aim in life
to baffle them in their unholy design.
She believes in fighting the devil with
fire.

She came in as if anything in the line
of business was furthest from her mind.
She was a little chilly, she said, and
would like to get warm. So she sat by
the stove and put her feet on the rail.
There was quite a flurry of trade and
she seemed interested in what people
were doing. At last she remarked:

**] suppose you are buying butter?’’

“‘O, yes; all we can get. But it’s
rather scarce at present, so we don’t
take in a great deal.’’

“*How much do you pay for it?’’

‘*Twenty cents.’’

She pursed her lips and her eyebrows
went up in studied surprise.

“*Is that all?’’ said she.

‘*Yes, ma’am. Don’t you think it a
pretty good price?’’

‘‘Why, I heard you were
thirty cents last Saturday.”’

“*Oh, that’s a mistake.
paid as much in years.
gave thirty cents?’’

‘‘Well, a certain person told me vou
paid another lady thirty cents for her
butier. Didn't you?’’

She asked this in a cold, matter-of-
fact way, evidently expecting to be lied
to, and therefore quite indifferent as to
the reply.

‘*No, ma’am, we did not. I don’t
see what anyone wants to tell that for.
Butter is worth no such money. We are
glad to pay twenty for it, though. Have
you some to sell?’’

*‘O, I don’t know,’’ said she, ab-
sently, not heeding the answer. Then
she pulled her cloth cape more closely

paying

We haven't
Who said we

. about her shoulders and, apparently for-

getting all about the conversation, she
turned to watch a small boy who was
trying on his first pair of rubber boots.

“‘Shall we weigh your butter?’’ was
asked after a suitable pause.

‘“‘How much do you charge for it
when you sell it out?’’ she asked.

‘*Twenty two cents.’’

Again the eyebrows and again the
pursing of the lips.

“You seem to make pretty good
profits on your goods,’’ said she.

Had it been anyone else I might
have taken her observation for a joke,
bnt this lady meant it. Two cents profit
struck her as a large margin on a twenty
cent investment. Ye gods! No ex-

 

planation can satisfy—no argument pre-
vail against such a mind. Formerly I
used to debate furiously upon a lesser
pretext, but it often did harm and now
I let those things slide.

“‘Yes,’’ I admitted. ‘‘We try to
make a profit. Shall I take the butter?’’

‘*Not just yet,’’ said she, in her cold
unconcerned way. ‘‘I think 1’ll look
around a bit first.’’ She arose, stood
in front of a convenient mirror long
enough to arrange her hair, started to-
ward the door and then asked, without
really turning around,as much as to im-
ply that this was our last chance before
the other fellow grabbed it:

‘“You think you couldn’t pay thirty
cents for the butter, then?’’ and, with-
out seeming to hear or care for the re-
ply, she passed on.

After a time she returned, handed in
her butter without comment, and said
she would buy few a things for the house.

‘““Have you any of the Armor brand
of soda?’’ she asked of the polite youth
who attended to her wants. ©

‘‘Yes, ma’am.”’

*‘Are you sure it’s the Armor brand?’’

**O, yes, of course. Here it is.’’

“Is that the Armor brand?’’

**Yes, ma’am.’’

‘*Il want to be sure that it’s the Armor
brand because I once bought some soda
of another kind, and I couldn’t make a
thing with it that was fit to eat. You're
sure this is the Armor brand?’’ and she
looked across the counter as if to pierce
the secrets of the salesman to the very
core.

‘Why, sure. See; there’s the name
right on the package.’’

‘‘Well, then 1 suppose I might take
it, but if it shouldn't prove to be the
Armor brand, | shall send it every bit
back, *’ and she gave him another look
that should have frozen him in his
tracks. ‘‘How much is it?’’

‘Seven cents.’’

“‘Seven cents!’’ she repeated, with a
face of stone. ‘‘Seven cents? Why, I
thought you sold it for five.’’

‘“‘No, ma’am, seven cents is. the
price,’’ said the clerk blandly.

‘*Didn’t you sell it last Saturday for
five?’’

“‘No, ma’am. Always get seven for
"Sita

‘‘Well, now, someone said you only
charged five for it. Didn’t you have a
sale on it or something?’’

‘*No, ma’am, Never sold it a cent
cheaper. That's the regular price.’’

‘*I’m just sure someone said you sold
it for five cents. Didn't you let Mrs.
Jones have some for that?’’

‘‘Not this kind. She uses the Pirate
brand and that’s cheaper.’’

Again the eyes congealed and the lips
swerved from their calm, straight line.
‘“‘If you sell one person for five, why
can’t you another?’’ she asked. ‘‘1
should think you would try to treat your
customers all alike.’’

*“*We do mean to.
Mrs. Jones got.
it?”

**That’s not the Armor brand,’’ said
she, very much as she might have
spoken had she just caught him with his
hand in her pocket.

‘‘That’s what I said,’’ was the reply.
‘*Would you care to try it?’’

‘*No, I wouldn’t,’’ said she. ‘‘I said
I wanted the Armor brand, but I won’t
pay more than the market price. You
may give me the money for the butter,”’
and the look of injured innocence and
outraged virtue that crossed her face

Here’s the kind
Would you like to try

could only have been equaled by her

 

evident determination to get cash for
her product.

‘“ You wouldn’t want the soda, then?’’
observed the clerk, sweetly.

oe No. a,

‘Nothing else in groceries?"'

“"No.”’

**No tea nor sugar nor flour?’’

‘*No; not a thing.’’

‘*You wouldn’t want to try that
scheme baking powder?’’ pursued the
salesman inndcentiy. It was his turn
to get even and he knew it. ‘‘ You get
a can of lovely baking powder for fifteen
cents and a chance ona whole set of
dishes. ’’

‘*No, I don’t want any baking pow-
der. I want my money.’’

‘*Yes, but you see you don’t have to
take any chances, for the powder’s guar-
anteed, and you’re sure of a dish any-
way. Better take one.’’

The lady was annoyed.

**Will you settle with me or shall I
have to speak to Mr. Jones?’’ said she.

‘*That’s just what I was going to
say,’’ remarked the clerk. ‘‘ You see,
he’s the only feller around here that
pays out any money. If you want cash
for the butter you better see him; but if
you want any groceries or baking pow-
der or anything like that I’m your man.”’

But Mrs. Slocum did not hear. With
pursed lips and wrinkled forehead. she
received the money for her butter and,
gathering her cape more and more
snugly about her retreating form, she
departed for those realms where butter
always brings a fabulous price and
where groceries hang like blackberries
on the bushes along the roadside.

Geo. L. Thurston.
0
Lobster Farms and the Law.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

Reports from Rockport indicate that
the farmers of Cape Ann are considering
the advisability of securing a greater
‘*rotation in crops.’’ A lobster farm is
one of the possibilities of agricultural

 

life in the suburbs of Gloucester. If the
idea spreads, the entire shore of that
rocky portion of the coast may be dotted
with lobster farms. The principal ob-
jection to the lobster farm is the fact
that it must be illegal. The law for-
bids a citizen to have short lobsters in
his possession. If the short lobsters are
found in his lobster farm, how may he
escape the penalties of the law? Still,
inasmuch as the Game Commission
has instructed its employes not to en-
force the law against Sunday fishing,
could it not also refuse to enforce the
law for protecting the short lobster?

——__> 2. ___.
A President’s Interview With a Sausage
Maker.

The late President McKinley had not
the reputation for story telling that
President Lincoln had, but here is one
story of his. Before he served his first
term as President—in his lawyer days—
he very often passed a pork butcher’s
shop on the way to his office and back
home. In the morning he used to notice
that sausages were twenty cents a pound
always. The sign read:

Good Pork Sausages,
20 cents.

Sometimes they were 2o cents a pound
in the evening, but more often 12. The
sign might even read:

Fine Pork Sausages,
Io cents.

The thing, he used to say, worried
him. Sausages were not of so perish-
able a nature that they would not keep
until next day. Sohe stopped one even-
ing at the shop,said it looked like rain,
and enquired about the price of saus-
ages. ‘‘Ten cents,’’ said the store-
keeper. ‘‘But,’’ said McKinley, ‘‘they
were 20 cents this morning.’’ ‘*So they
were, Mr. McKinley, said the un-
abashed sausage merchant. ‘‘So they
were. Then I! had ’em; now | haven't.
Sausages at Io cents is simply to get me
a reputation for cheapness. See?’’ The
future President saw, and was in the
habit of saying a great many reputa-
tions were made that way.

 

 

 

she Man who to Grand Rapids comes
With aught to buy or sell,

Will find’ twill pay to always stay
At Livingston Hotel.

For he ll find there good things to spare
Served up in measure heaping,

At proper rate these blessings great:

Eating, drinking, sleeping.

 

 

 

       
   
     

 

Don’t Be a Cow Fail

Always behind, be alive and on the
lookout for ‘‘snaps.’’

for instance.

OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER CO.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip

President, Gro. F. OwEN, Grand es Sec-
retary, A. W. Stitt, Jackson; easurer,
JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit.

 

 

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

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

 

 

Post C Again Comes to the Front.

Detroit, Dec. g—A very enthusiastic
meeting of Post C, Michigan Knights of
the Grip, was held at the Griswold
House, Detroit, Saturday evening, Dec.
7, which brought together many of the
old ‘‘war horses’’ of the Post and bids
fair to bring Post C into prominence as
of old.

All dissensions and differences have
been amicably settled and but one fac-
tion remains, and that is the unity of
all members for the advancement of
Post C and the Association at large.
This has taken much hard labor and
persistent efforts by a few members, but
the goal that we sought has been
reached, and the many members are as
anxious for the welfare of the Associa-
tion as the few have been in the past.

The disturbing element seems to be
entirely obliterated and harmony and
good feeling prevail, and at present
the indications seem favorable for a
large delegation to the annual conven-
tion at Lansing, Dec. 26 and 27.

There wiil be another meeting of Post
C held at the Griswold House Saturday
evening, Dec. 21, when a large attend-
ance of the members of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, whether members
of Post C or not, will be present by re-
quest.

The Post unanimously endorsed the
nomination of J. A. Weston, of Lansing,
for President for 1902, J. W. Schram,
of Detroit, for Treasurer and M. How-
arn,of Detroit, for member of the Board
of Directors.

The following officers were unanimous-
ly elected for the year “Igo2:

Chairman—W. H. Baier.

Secretary and  Treasurer—J. W.
Schram.

Sergeant at Arms—R. S. Longheed.

Executive Committee—John McLean,
J. L. McCauley, Thos. Plughs and M.
Howarn.

—__~> 2. ___
Gripsack Brigade.

J. C. Bush has secured a position as
traveling representative for the F. F.
Adams Tobacco Co., of Detroit, to take
effect Jan. 1.

Hudson Gazette: Earl Alford has
secured a position with Carson, Pirie,
Scott & Co., of Chicago, and will start
on the road as salesman for that house
Jan. 1.

Richard Jackson, Jr., for several years
past in the employ of Macauley Bros.,
of Detroit, will transfer his services to
the Frank B. Taylor Co. Jan. I, cover-
ing substantially the same territory he
has covered with the old house.

W. C. Dudley, Michigan representa-
tive for the Cincinnati Cordage and
Paper Co., will be married Dec. Ig to
Miss Blanche Beaudry, of Marlboro,
Mass. The happy couple will take up
their residence at 505 East Shiawassee
street, Lansing, where the groom has al-
ready provided a home with all the
comforts and luxuries peculiar to mar-
ried life.

Wm. Connor received a letter this
morning from Mrs. Albert Stegman,
announcing the death of her husband,
which occurred at San Diego, on Dec.
6. Mr. Stegman will be remembered as
manager of the grange store at Allegan
for several years, where he acquired a
wide reputation as a close buyer and
wonderful organizer and manager.

 

The nomination of Manley Jones as
the Grand Rapids candidate for the
Board of Directors of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip is one which every
Grand Rapids member will cheerfully
support. Mr. Jones has carried a grip-
sack upwards of twenty years and is
thoroughly in touch with the needs and
necessities of the fraternity, as they can
be served through the medium of or-
ganized effort.

Traverse City Record: W. H. Brad-
ley, employed in the dry goods and car-
pet department of Wilhelm Bros., has
resigned his position and will enter the
employ of the L. A. Dudley Rubber
Co., of Battle Creek, as traveling repre-
sentative. His resignation takes effect
December 24 and he will leave for Bat-
tle Creek the day following. Mr. Brad-
ley’s territory will be along the line of
the Michigan Central railroad.

It is now charged that Sig Folz, a
well-known business man of Kalama-
zoo, who disappeared last summer, is a
defaulter. A Chicago liquor house, of
which Folz was the local representative,
charges him with making away with
$3,000 of its funds, and has called upon
Folz’s bondsmen in Kalamazoo to settle.
Before his departure Folz borrowed from
$2 to $15 from scores of his friends. The
bondsmen will fight the payment of the
bond.

 

——> -9- <> -——
Another Old-Time Traveler Makes His
Last Trip.

At the ripe age of 82 years, jo months
and 4 days, B. G. Eaton, a_ pioneer
member of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip, died at his residence, 315 Na-
tional avenue, Detroit, Dec. 3. Death
was due to the ailments of old age.
The remains were sent to Mexico,
N. Y., for-interment.

Mr. Eaton was born in Columbia, N.
Y., Jan. 29, 1819, and in 1846 married
Miss Sarah E, Lansing, of Palerma,
Oswego county, that State. For years
he was engaged in the jewelry business
in Utica, N. Y., the firm name being
Eaton & Golden. In 1878 he took up
his residence in Detroit.

For many years Mr, Eaton repre-
sented the Suffolk Manufacturing Co. of
Boston, Mass., selling to the trade the
‘*Argosy’’ suspenders made by the
above firm, he being the first to intro-
duce their line in the West and South.
He afterward was general agent for and
handled Kinney’s patent tubular grave
fence, demonstrating and selling this
article from ocean to ocean. Of late
years Mr. Eaton has been confined to
the house through ill health and general
breaking down of a once vigorous con-
stitution.

He is survived by the widow and
three sons, B. Fitch, W. Frank and
Fred G., all of Detroit.

—_—_-+>?>>___—
A Few Good Business Rules.

Buy to suit your customers’ wants and
the wants of your community, and not
the manufacturer.

Give your customers the best value
you can for their money.

Buy at right prices so as to enable
you to make all the available profit.

Study prevailing tastes—be first to
show what you think will increase busi-
ness.

Keep posted on the different qualities
and grades of what is offered.

Be punctual in keeping business en-
gagements.

Buy from those you know to be strict-
ly just.

Do not trust to memory—keep a mem-
orandum.

Never accept favors from drummers.

Keep posted on methods of up-to-date
business houses.

Appreciate good service, and you
will never fail to get the best there is
in a man.

~~» 0

A man laughs when he is amused; a
woman laughs when she thinks other
people think she ought to laugh,

 

Three Addition to the Memberships Roll.

Grand Rapids, Dec. g—A_ well-
attended meeting of Grand Rapids
Council, No. 131, was held at the Coun-
cil Chamber, Saturday evening, Dec. 7,
all officers being present in their chairs
except Sentinel S. F. Simmons, who
was not able to be in attendance. The
following were made members and now
wear U. C, T. buttons on their coats,
and will be just as earnest in their
efforts to persuade others to join as
those who were the means of getting
them to become members of one of the

noblest secret orders on this bright
earth:

Frank D. Osgood. (J. W. Butler
Paper Co. )

Oscar L. Race (Geo. H. Reeder
& Co.)
a M. Waldren (Waldren Stove
o,)

The membership now is just 140, with
five applications ready for the January
meeting. The meeting in January will
be held in the new hall on Pear! street,
and immediately after the meeting, a
house-warming will take place. Just
what it will consist of, we are entirely
in the dark, but the committee in
charge promises something rich, rare
and juicy. We will try and tell some-
thing more about it later on. JaDee.

———_—__+. +.
Personel of the New Wholesale Dry Goods
House.

Detroit, Dec. 1o—Our plans are form-
ulated to organize our business under
the name of Crowley Bros., composed

of Joseph J. Crowley, W. C. Crowley |

and Daniel T. Crowley, the latter, how-
ever, not taking an active part in the
business, as he will retain his position
with the Peninsular Stove Co., of which
he is Auditor.

We wili be ready for business about
January 1 at 96 Jefferson avenue, where
we have temporarily located until either
a new building is built for us or until
we get larger quarters.

We have associated with us A. W.
Knapp who was formerly manager of
the hosiery and underwear department

 

of Strong, Lee & Co. and who will
handle a similar department in our
house. F. A. Lauder, formerly with the
same firm, will handle the notion de-
partment for us. John R. Costello, for-
merly manager of the blanket, flannel
and carpet department of Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., will be in charge of the
same department with us. F. C. Feck-
enscher, formerly manager of the do-
mestic and lining department of the
same concern, will identify himself with
us in like capacity. W. C. Crowley, of
our firm, will handle the print, wash
goods and dress goods departments. We
have also a number of salesmen engaged
who will cover Michigan, Ohio and In-
diana, whose names we will announce
later, Crowley Bros.
—_—___~> 2.
Status of the Baltimore Poultry Market.

Baltimore, Md., Dec. 9—We consider
the present outlook for Christmas favor-
able for choice to fancy turkeys, ducks
and geese. Ordinary turkeys are plen-
tiful and not wanted. Our best market
days for live turkeys will be Thursday
and Friday, Dec. 19 and 20. Dressed
stock should reach us Saturday, Dec. 21,
and not later than Monday morning, the
30th.

Shipments for the New Year should
arrive the same days of the following
week, Stevens Brothers.

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Morse & Deuel, clothiers, Marshall:
You will please find enclosed draft for
$1 in full payment for the Tradesman
for this last vear. You may continue
same, and when our year is up, send us
another bill. We think more of the
Tradesman than any other publication
we get.

The Warwick

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

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

 

 

Term expires
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - _ Dec. 31,
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
A. 0. SCHUMA AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1904

CHER,

JOHN D. MutR, Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1905
ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906
ace A. G. a am Arbor.

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Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.
Examination Sessions.
Detroit, Jan 14 and 15.
Grand Rapids, March 4 and 5.
Star Island. June 16 and 17.

Sault Ste- Marie, August 27 and 28.
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

 

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.

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

 

 

Question Customers Buying Poisons.

The frequent cases of suicide from
poison published in the daily press
would indicate that many druggists do
not take the precautions they should in
the sale of dangerous drugs. In some
instances it is because the law does not
require any register to be kept or else it
is not enforced and some druggists think
it is too much trouble to do anything
they are not compeiled to. In other
cases they do not question the customer
for fear of giving offense. If they ex-
plain why they ask the questions no
sensible person will take offense, and
those who do ought not to be trusted, for
if they have so little common sense as
not to see that you are looking after
their welfare they should scarcely be
considered fit persons to handle poisons.

No: matter how intelligent or well
dressed a person may appear to be, it is
always wise to find out the full particu-
lars. In one instance a well dressed and
intelligent looking customer asked for
sulphuric acid. Onhanding it to him I
asked for what purpose he wanted it.
He said he was going to take it, and
had been in the habit of taking thirty
drops three or four times daily. Need-
less to say it was the aromatic sulphuric
acid which he wanted. While the pure
acid might not have done any serious
harm if well diluted, it taught me to be
very careful to find out all about the use
of any poisons sold, no matter who the
person might be or how well I knew
him, and have no doubt prevented
many accidents. If the person was a
stranger to me and could not give a
good account of what he wanted it for,
I would flatly refuse to sell any strong
poisons, and even to those | knew al-
ways used discretion. Feople soon learn
that you are doing it for their own good
and think more of you for it, for the
reason that if you are so careful in that
regard you are also careful in the other
details of your business.

Wm. Mallard.

Protection Against Blackmail.

Physicians have been so frequently
victimized by blackmailing schemes of
one kind and another, suits for alleged
malpractice being the most common
form of this blackmail, that a regularly
incorporated company has been ’ formed
to defend all who shall pay a small fee
annually to it. It is practically insur-
ance against loss in this way. The
suit, if brought, costs the defendant
nothing more than his attendance at
court and the company being powerful
and resourceful can fight the thing to a
finish.

It seems to be getting more and more
common, particularly in cities, for
black-mailing dodges to be tried on
druggists. A stranger buys an ounce
of some harmless drug or preparation or
has some simple prescription com-

 

pounded, Pretty soon in rushes another
stranger wildly accusing the druggist of
having made a mistake and dispensed
some poison. A big hullabaloo is

31, 1902| raised, an opportunity is offered to set-

tle for a consideration of anywhere from
$25 to $250, depending on the size and
general ‘‘easiness’’ of the druggist and
he, too often, pays rather than have the
story get into the newspapers, even al-
though he may recognize it as a holdup.

If druggists’ associations are good for
anything they ought to be good for pro-
tection against raids of this kind. Let
the blackmailing gang once find that
they are going up against a determined
bunch of druggists with money in the
treasury for the purpose of landing
blackmailers behind the bars, and cases
of alleged poisoning will become beau-
tifully less.

Free Dispensary Abuse.

A movement has been inaugurated in
Pennsylvania to limit the free dispen-
sary and free medicine abuse. At the
recent annual meeting of the Medical
Society of that State, a joint committee
of physicians and pharmacists presented
resolutions recommending to their re-
spective associations that the Legisla-
ture be asked to pass an act requiring
all persons seeking aid from dispen-
saries and other charitable institutions
to record their names and addresses in
a book kept for this purpose. This
book is to be kept open for inspection
by proper persons, and a penalty is to
be inflicted upon those who fraudulently
receive aid. The resolution was
adopted by the Medical Society.

—__~> 2. _____
Formula For Tincture Vanillin.

The following formula has given good
satisfaction :

Vanillin, 1 oz.

Cumarin, 20 ozs.

Alcohol, 1 pt.

Glycerin, 8 ozs.

Caramel, s. q.

Water, ad. 10 pts.

Dissolve the vanillin and cumarin in
the alcohol and glycerin previously
mixed and let stand for at least two
days. Add water and caramel to de-
sired color, filter, and if possible let
stand for several months to blend. This,
like ess. vanilla, improves with age.
For a colorless tinct. vanillin leave out
the caramel. John Morley.

——>_20
Dimmed Eyeglasses.

Every wearer of eyeglasses has no-
ticed how they become dim with moist-
ure when subjected to a sudden change
of temperature—as, for instance, when
the wearer goes from the cold outer air
into a warm room. The reason is, of
course, that the cold glass causes a con-
densation of the vapor with which the
warm air is laden, and thus becomes
coated with little globules of water. A
German scientific paper says that this
may be prevented by rubbing the
glasses with soft potash soap every
morning. They may be polished right
after the soap is applied, but an invis-
ible film is left on them that will pre-
vent the deposit of moisture.

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Cure For Hiccough.

A young girl suffered for four days
without cessation from singultus about
thirty spasms to the minute, the attack
being due, apparently, to some gastric
disorder. When she put out her tongue
for a few seconds it was found the hic-
cough ceased. She was then ordered to
stick out this member at regular inter-
vals for a few minutes, at the termina-
tion of which only a few slight spasms
followed. She was then ordered to re-
peat, when the singultus ceased alto-
gether and did not again return. It
therefore would seem to be proper to
try continuous or rhythmic traction of
the tongue in these cases,

 

The Drug Market.

Opium—lIs a little firmer, but has not
changed in price.

Codeine—Manufacturers have made an
agreement and advanced the price 40c
per ounce. Another advance is looked
for.

Quinine—Is firmer and _ holders are
awaiting the bark sale at Amsterdam on
the 12th.

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

Whiskies—Have also advanced, on
account of the high price for spirits and
the cost of manufacture from corn at
the extreme price now ruling.

Cocaine—Is in very firm position, on
account of the high price for cocoa
leaves.

Menthol—Is very firm and shows an
advance.

Oil Peppermint—Is very firm
another advance is looked for.

Oil Cloves—Is higher, on account of
advance in spice.

and

How Liquid Peptonized Beef Is Made.

The outlines of a process for making
a liquid peptonized beef would be some-
what as follows: Chopa suitable quan-
tity of lean beef very fine and macerate
it for six hours or so in a solution of
pepsin in water acidulated with hydro-
chloric acid at about 100 deg. Fahren-
heit. The mixture is then strained, and
neutralized by sodium bicarbonate, and
a small quantity of pancreatic extract
added. Suitable corrigents, such as
port wine, sherry, or elixirs, may be
then added, with perhaps some sac-
charin, in order to impart an agreeable
taste or flavor to the preparation. The
exact quantities of the various ingred-
ients should be readily determined by
making a few experiments and care-
fully testing its keeping qualities.

Thos, Willetts.
> 2.
Rat-Killing Bacillus.

The rats at the city hospital of Cin-
cinnati are now under a plague which
promises to rid the institution of their
presence. Recently one of the doctors
employed in the new laboratory discov-
ered that a disease which assumed epi-
demic tendencies had broken out among
a collection of rats which were being
held for experimental purposes. Further
investigations were made to determine
the cause of the trouble, and from the
liver and spleen of the affected animals
a bacillus was detached which proved
on inoculation extremely fatal to both
rats and mice. Nearly every rat in the
establishment seems to have caught the
disease, and they are dying off in large
numbers. ‘Those affected have a pecu-
liar sniffle or cough, which may be heard
before the disease has progressed suffi-
ciently to make them take to the open
air.

—___> ¢»—___
Kola Preparations.

Mr. Carles says that kola preparations
should be made only from the fresh
nuts, since experience has taught that
by drying their pharmacologic value is
greatly decreased. A vinous syrup, ac-
cording to the experience of the author,
has proven quite efficacious, but it soon
becomes turbid and of bad appearance.
The same is true of a vinous extraction
of the fresh nuts. The simplest and
best mode of preparing fresh kola nuts,
the author finds, is to prepare a paste
of the contused fresh nuts and an equal
weight of sugar. Such a preparation is
not affected by the air or temperature,
and even in tropical climates will re-
main unchanged for at least three
months in its chemical and physiologic

aspects.
——— 2.0 a _

Selling Dogs in Drug Store.

A Bar Harbor druggist hit on an in-
genious method of making money out of
dogs. He called a lot of spaniels by
the name of button-hook, and adorned

 

the collar of each one with one of those
useful and never found when wanted
articles. He gave some terriers the
name of collar-button and fitted their
collars with collar-buttons. The span-
iels soid readily at $25 apiece to the
women, and the terriers at the same
price to the men, who now only have to
call button-hook or collar-button, when
the needed article comes to them and

much time and profanity is saved.

Formula For Gold Paint.

So-called gold paint is copper bronze
in its various shades, mixed as required
in a saucer, and applied at once tc the
surface of the article tobe gilded. The
following is the varnish for mixing with
the bronze powder:

‘Gum mastic, 6 ozs.

Gum sandarach, 4 ozs.

Methylated spirit, 2 pts.

Mix and shake for several days until
dissolved. If not quite bright filter
through paper, and keep the bottle well
corked or stoppered. Wm. Mixton.

White Wood as a Tobacco Cure.

The inner bark of the liriodendron
tulipifera, or white popular, is said to
be a very efficient cure for the tobacco
habit. The fresh inner bark may be
chewed, or the powdered bark may be
mixed with sugar and extract of licorice
and pressed into a tablet, say of five
grains of the bark. These tablets are to
be allowed to dissolve in the mouth
whenever the desire comes to takea
chew or a smoke. The man who made
the discovery cured himself, and also
gave it to dozens of his friends with fine

results.
> 2.

Carbonated Cod Liver Oil.

By impregnating cod liver oil with
carbonic anhydride the disagreeable
taste of the oil is, to a great extent,
masked, alteration of the oil is said to
be prevented. and its administration
facilitated even in the case of a person
who has strong objection to the oil.
Similar advantages are said to be se-
cured in the case of castor by saturating
it with carbonic anhydride. A German
patent has been secured by the Helfen-
berg Company forthe method of prepar-
ing effervescent oils.

oo
How to Give Epsom Salts.

Dr. W. E. Putnam advises the fol-
lowing method of taking Epsom salts
so as to avoid the taste: Use just
enough water to completely dissolve the
salts. From a second glassful of plain
water drink two large swallows, take the
salts quickly and drink the rest of the
water in the second glass. He has sug-
gested the putting up of magnesium
sulphate tablets, five and ten grains,
without coating.

—___9-«
Suitable Books.

Customer (hesitatingly)—I suppose—
er—you have some—er—suitable books
for a man—er—about to be married.

Bookseller——Certainly, sir. Here,
John, show this gentleman some of our
account books—largest size.

 

 

 

 
    
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
   
 

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ever. A card will bring salesman
or samples.

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The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

 

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Wholesale Drugs and Stationery

 

 

 

 

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Advanced—
Declined— Linseed Oil.

Acidum Conium Mae......... 50@ 60/| Scillz Co.. @ 50
Aceticum ........... $ 6@$ 8 Copaiba ............. 115@ 1 25] Tolutan.............. @ 50
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75 Comets 602.63... 1 30@ 1 35} Prunus virg Scie as @ 50
Boracic............+- @ 17| Exechthitos......... 100@ 1 10 Tinctures
Carbolicam « Se 30@ 42| Erigeron...... . 100@ 1 10

ee oo 45@ 48 | Gaultheria . * 2 00@ 2 10 | Aconitum Napellis R 60

Hl drochlor......... 3@ CO ——. sorm @ 7 Aconitum Napellis F bo

Ss em. gal.

Oxatheum 220 1g 14| Hedeoma. 00.07 god 1 75| Aloes and iyi ot
Phosphorium, dil.. @ 15|/unipera. ee BO®@ 2 00 | BIUUICAS . 2.2. eee eons

Salicylicum ns 52@ 55 Lavendula .......... 9@ 2 00 on sess ee cose 50

Sulphuricum ........ 1%@ 5 | Limonis............. 1 15@ 1 25 | Atrope Belladonna.. 60

Tannicum . “221 110@ 1 20| Mentha Piper: | 2 10@ 2 29 | Auranti Cortex Th 50

Tartaricum ess 38@ 40 Mentha Verid. .. - 1 50@ 1 60 Benzoin . —oe 60

Morrhue, ‘gal... .... 1 10@ 1 20 Benzoin Co.......... 50

Ammonia ia 4 00@ 4 50 | Barosma............. 50

Aqua, 16 deg......... -— Sie. 75@ 3 00 | Cantharides...... 75

Aqua, 20 deg. eee 6@ 8 | Picis Liquida....___” 10@ 12| Capsicum............ 50

Carbonas......--:-.. 18@ 15) Plels Liquida, gai... @ 35 Cardamon ........... 75

Chloridum........... w@ 14| Ricina. "2 1 00@ 1 06 | Cardamon Co... +... 75

Aniline Rosmarini.. : @ 1 00 COME... es oe 1 00

Rosz, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50 | Catechuj............. 50

Succind 2.2.00... 2... 40@  45| Cinchona ............ 50

WE oo 9@ 1 00 | Cinchona Co 80

Ranta 2 75@ 7 00 | Columba . 50

eee Sassafras... 55@ 60 Cubebe..... eececee 50

Baccze ete, | ess. ounce.  @ 6b | Cassia Acutifol sages 50
Cubeb2........P0,25  22@ 24 1 50@ 1 60 oe a Acutifol _ 50
Seamer aos Payme Ce 40@ 50 | Digitalis. :

aa vac, Oe... ...... 1 60 "AKL
Xan gg tS Taye i Lae a 20 | F ern Chiloridim =

Potassium Co c
So BB Gentian Co 60
eS Oe 18 Bl-Catb oon. 16@ 18) Gulaca 2000. b0
in. Canada.... 60 65 chromate ......... 18@ 15 ulaca ammon......
oe onets.--- po 50 | Bromide ............. 52@ 57] Hyoscyamus.. i 50
oes Carb ... «sscac, 2a . 1) Fodine ae: 15

Cortex Chlorate... ‘po. 17@19 16@ 18 Iodine, coloriess..... 75

— Canadian..... 1S | Oyamide ..-: 2... gigs aS | Bing 50

ee ete 12 | Iodi eas 2 2 40 Lobelia ee 50
Cinchona Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart,pure 28@ 30/ Myrrh............... 50
Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. g 15 Opi Vomica 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7 10 75
Prunus Virgini...... 14| Potass Ni — 6m SB Opi, ‘com phorated.. 50
Quillata, - Eas es 12 | Prussiate.. esice 26 | Opii, deodorized..... 1 5o
Sassafras ......po. 20 15| Sulphate po......... 1 18 | Quassia ............. 50
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 16 Radix — =
Extractum Aconitum. — so
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25) Althe.... 30@ 33 ae i 5
Glycyrrhiza, - 28@ 30) Anchusa . 10@ 12 Stromonium.. en ie 60
Heematox, 15 - box 11@ = =12| Arum po. @ 2! Tolutan . ie 60
Hematox, 1s. -- 13@ 14) Calamus.. -. 20@ 40] Valerian 120.0000... 50
Hematox, Ms. Soe. 14@ 15! Gentiana......po.15 12@ 15) Veratrum Veride... 50
Hzematox, 4s....... 16@ 17 Glychrrhiza.. _ 15 “— a8 Pineiber 29
ydrastis Canaden. 75

Ferru Hydrastis Can., po... @ 38 Miscellaneous
Jarbonate Preci 15 | Hellebore Alba Po. 1G 15 Aither, Spts. Nit.? F 30@ 35
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 | Thula, po... 18@ 22 dither, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Citrate Soluble...... 75 | Tpecae, po........... 3 75| Alumen ............. 24@ 3
Ferrocyanidum _ 40 | Tris plox...po. 35@38 ‘ 49 | Alumen, gro’d.po.7 3@ 4
Solut. Chloride. . 15 | Jalapa, pr........... 25@ 30 Annatto............+. 40@ 50
—- com’l..... 2| Maranta, %s_....... @ 35| Antimoni, 4@ OCS
oa oe oa = — Podophyilum, po.. 22@ «25 ‘Antimonie Potias 0@ 50
1, per cwt...... Bee 75@ 1 00 oe eo. 25
Sulphate, pure...... 7 Rhel, eae @ 1 25| Antifebrin .......... 20
Flora BO ao ones tei S| Se ee... 50
Arnica 15@ 18| Spigelia.. 35@ 38| Arsenicum.......... 10@ 12
fathouin.. 2@ 2 Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 18 Baim Gilead Bids 45@ 50
Matricaria. 30@ 35 | Serpentaria ......... 50@ 55 | Bismuth S.N........ 16. @ 170
ae een Senega 60@  65| Calcium Chlor., 1s... @ 9
Folia Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40| Calcium Chior., %s.. @ 10
Baros 36@ 38 | Smilax, } @ 25| Calcium Chlor., 8. @ 12
Cassa Acutifol, ‘Tin- Scille . “po. 10@ 12)| Cantharides, Rus. @ 80
20@ 25 Symplocarpus, Seth Capsici Fructus, af. @ 15
cutie Keutifol Aix. 25@ 30]. dus, po............ @ | Capsiel Fructus, po. @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 14s Valeriana,Eng.po.30 @  25| Capsici FructusB,po @ 15
mg cee eo. 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 0| Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14
Uva Orsi. 2...... 5... 8@ 10| Zingibera........... 14@ 16} Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00

Gummi Zingiber j........---- 25@ 27 rs eee ceeeeeeee [ =
Acacia, 1st picked... @ 65 ~—. Cacene Ae @ 4
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 45) Anisum. - po. @ 185/| Cassia Fruetus.. oe ia @ 35
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35 aoe (eisvsibons). 13@ 15 | Centraria.. ee @ 10
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28) Bird, 1 ae 4@ 6 | Cetaceum.. S cae 45
Acacia, po 45@ 65|Carul.......... Po. “15 10@ 11| Chloroform <::. 5 60
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12@ 14} Cardamon.. 1 26@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @ 110
Aloe, Cape....po. “15. @ = 12} Coriandrum 8@ 10} Chioral _ Crst.... 1 40@ 1 65
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30 | Cannabis pmees 4%@ 5 | Chondrus............ 20@ 25
Ammoniac........--- 55@ 60); Cydonium. 75@ 1 00 Chace P.&W 3@ 48
Assafcetida.. —— 40 25@ 40} Cheno odium . 15@ 16) Cinchonidine,Germ. 38@ 48
Benzoinum.......-.. 50@ 55| Dipterix Odorate..:. 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine ............. 5 55@ 5 75
Catechu, 1s.........- @ 13) Foeniculum.......... @  10| Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 75
Catechu, 4S......--- @ 14 — pe..-... 7@ 9|Creosotum........... @ 4
Catechu, acme & 16 | Lini . 8%@_ ~=sB | Creta. — 75 @ 32
Camphore .......--- 64 69 | Lini, rd. ....bb1. 4 4%4@ _ _=sBs | Creta, prep.. ae @ &
Eu a _ 35 @ 40 Lobelia 1 50@ 1 55 — ecip... eos o a s@ 1
Gajbanum....... @ 1 00 Pharlaris Canarian.. 4%@ 5 ta, Rubra... oe @ 8
Gamboge ......--- “po 65@ 70| Rapa - 4@ 5 on sloccw cs | 20 30
es oe po. 25 @ 30/|Sinapis Alba.. : 9@ 10] Cudbear............. @ 2%
Kino.. po. $0.75 @ 75) Sinapis Nigra... Bates u@ 12 Cu Sulph.. Se eed 64@=S8
Mastic ae cae . > Spiritus = = ae eerie an -

eed Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 . :
oon .po. 4. wais % 3 = 3 = Frumenti, DFR. 2 00g, 2 25 =. al ii. e -
hed.. 45 | Frumenti............ 2 1 50 a ee
Snetia, isi ee : 8G 1 00 | Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00 = wai . oe =
Juniperis Co........ . 1 75@ 3 50] Gala .. eas Q 2

Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier - ae?
Absinthium..oz. pkg 26 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50} Gelatin, Cooper. . ti @ 60
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 ni Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00} Gelatin’ French. .... 35@ 60
Lobelia ...... OZ. os g Vit Biee............ 1 25@ 2 00 Glassware. flint, box 75 & 5
a” -0Z. Pkg = Sponges Less than box..... 70
Melita Vir.oz, DKS 25 | Florida aheeps’ wool pore oa | =

‘ carriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 ly WAIL. .....200
. kr oo DE = Nassau sheeps’ wool Ce . 17%4@ 2
hymns, V..02. PKS 25 | yStvet attra ahoopa’ ®? "| Humming wo 55
Magnesia par anaes: - @ 150 Hydrarg Chior Mite @ 100
Calcined, Pat........ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg ChlorCor.. @ 9%
Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @110
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @ 1 20
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20 ——. ae @ 1 001 F ——— = =
ard, for slate use. 5 | Hydrargyrum.......

— _,| Yellow Reef, for Tehthyobolia, lia, Am... 65@ 70
Absinthium......... 7 00@ 7 20) slate use........... @ 140 Indigo. ----  75@1 00
Amygdalz, Dulc.. 65 Iodine, Resubi. 22.2) 3 40@ 3 60
Amy dale, Amar. 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups Todoform.. sisee 3 CO@ 3 85

eee oia cent see i 96@ 2 00 | Acacia ............-. @ 50 Lupulin........ sc. @ kO
Auranti Cortex...... 2 10@ 2 20} Auranti Cortex...... @ 50} Lycopodium......... 65@ 70
Bergami 2 60@ 2 75 ee OE eae cee os @Q@ 50 Macs Cincwcceunconce GO iO
Cajiputi 80m. 85 | Ipecac. .............. @ 60 — Arsen et Hy-
Caryophylli......... 75@ 80 Wore — Saice @ 50 @ 2
Cedar ............--. 60@ 85| Rhei Arom.......... @ 650 LiquorPotagersiait 10@ 12
cpemeneds Somes 4ey oe = : = Sinilax x OMelaalis. a = pene Balk. = Z
Cinnam ose aca ee ~ geaage uae sees Magnesia, ph, 1
Citronella ..........  88@ «40! Sell. 6220222211; 0 | Mannia, Foo... «so 0

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menthol.. @ 5 56 Staple eee bivess 2@ 22) Linseed, pureraw... 53 56
Morphia, S. P.& W. 2 25@ 2 50 oes @  18/| Linseed jled.. 54 57
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q. 2 15@ 2 40 a ‘opt. sc sas sinus @ 30 Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
Morphia, Mal....... - 2 15@ 2 40 ee De Spirits Turpentine.. 43 48
Moschus Canton @ 4 @ 41
Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80 snout Scotch, DeVo' 8 @ 4 Paints BBL. LB.
Nux er 0. 15 @ 10 Soda, Boras.. @ il
Os Sepia. 0... 35@ 37 | Soda, Boras, po. . 9@ 11| Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8
Pepsin Saaec, H. & P. Soda et Potass Ta: 23@ 25| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @A
Ce @ 1 00) Soda, Carb...... 1%@ ~ 2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
= Lig. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ «OB tty, commercial.. 2% 2%@3
Oz. @ 2 00 a, Ash. 3%@ 4/| Putty, strictly pure. 24 2%@3
Pele Liq., quarts .. @ 1 00/| Soda, Sulphas @ 2) Vermilion, ——
Picis Lig., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne @ 260| American . 13@ «15
Pil Hydrarg...po.80 @ 50|Spts. Ether Co...... 50@  55| Vermilion, Engiish:. 70@ 75
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom @ 2 6o| Green, Paris........ 14@ 18
Piper Alba.. - 35 @_ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Piix Burgun....... @ _ 7/| Spts. Vini Rect. %bbl @ Lead, fed... ......... 64@ 7
Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12} Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 64@ 7
Pulvis Ipecac et Si 1 30@ 1 50| Spts. Vini Rect.5gal @ Whiting, whiteSpan @ 90
Pyrethrum, boxes Strychnia, Crystal... 30@ 1 05| Whiting, gilders’.. @ %
& P. D. Co., doz @ 7|Sulphur, Subl....... 2%@  4| White, Paris, Amer. @12
Pyrethrum, pv...... 25@ 30) Sulphur, Roll 24%@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Quassiz.......... 8@ 10|Tamarinds.......... 8@ 10| _cliff.. @140
Quinia, S. P. & W 29@ 39/ Terebenth a 2@ 30 Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Quinia, S. German 29@ 39| Theobrome.. a: 60@ 65
Gunite NS 20h 98 | Vania - 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ = 14| ZinciSulph......... 7@ 8
Saccharum Lactis pv 20@ 22 Oils No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
Ramer... 4 50@ 4 75 Extra Ture. ......... 1 60@ 1 70
Sanguis Draconis 0@ 560 BBL. GAL. | Coach B y, Cee oo aes 2 75@ 3 00
po, W.... 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 0 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
Sapo M . 16@—8 = $2| Lard, extra.......... 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Sapo G @ 16) bard, No. t.......... 45 60 | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75
We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

We are dealers in Paints, Oils and
Varnishes.
We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Sundries.

We are the sole proprietors of Weath-

erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We always have in stock a full line of
Whiskies, Gins, Wines

and Rums for medical

Brandies,
purposes

only.

We give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

= Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
Prices, however, are lia-
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press,

 

ADVANCED

Family Whitefish

Rolled Oats
Corn Syrup
Flour

DECLINED

Scaled Herring

 

 

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By Columns AXLE GREASE
doz. gross
Col AUTOFA |... BB
A * | Castor Oil.
cca
Akron Stoneware............ 15
ieeeeIns <o-..<.--.....2.-.. 2
Ammonia. .... 2. 2.202. ces ceee 1
Baie Grease... <... 65.55... 1
B
Baking Powder............... 1
Bath Brick..............000++ 1| Owe >
Brooms. er = i} Nome
i es 1 s :
Butter Color SLs sckeeee econ 2
Cc
ees. so 14
rs. <i eas 2
Canned Goods.............-.. 2| Mica, tin boxes.......75 900
Be oop ccc en ene 3/| Paragon............ ..55 6 00
en Ns... .....--.<-5-.. 3
Reese... 3 BAKING POWDER
Chewing Gum................ 3 Egg
I oe oe See nce owns 3
CGhoeoinie. ....<....-:. ....---- 3
Clothes Lines. ................ :
So Bopcie ea cng wee se ;
3
3
4
4
4
5 | 34 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......3 75
% Ib. cans, 2 d0z. case...... 3 75
1lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 75
5 Ib. cans, % doz. case...... 8 00
\% lb. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45
\% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1 60
Queen Flake
Grains and Flour ............ 6 | 3 0z., 6 doz. case.............2 70
6 0Z., 4 d0z. case.............8 20
ee 6 | 90z., 4 doz. case.............4 80
Hides and Pelés oe ees 13 | 1Ib., 2 doz. case.............4 00
I Sib., 1 doz. case. ............ 9 00
See 6 Royal
Jelly .. a ae e oe 6 10esize.... 90
L ¥ Ib. cans 1 35
Lamp Burners...............- 15 6 oz. cans. 1 90
— ee ee 15 \% Ib. cans 2 50
—T — ——— 15
tao "Globes Pg ac 15 % Ib. cans 3 75
Licori 1Ib. cans. 4 80
3 1b. cans 13 00
5 Ib. cans. 21 50
BATH BRICK
Perignon 70
ee 80
BLUING
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00
Arctic, 8 0z. ovals. per gross6& 00
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00
Small size, per doz.......... 40
Large size, perdoz.......... 75
BROOMS
9| No. 1 Carpet.................2 65
Te. 2 eee 2 25
No. 3 Carpet.. Poaceae 15
Mo. 4 Carpal... .. 55. <..50....-1 7D
Parlor Gem -..2 40
Common Whisk. -- 85
Fancy Whisk.. tooo 10
Warehouse.. . ooo eed 25
BRUSHES»
Solid Back —

POE ios oss os : 5 SM... .s...-....
ee 12 | Solid Back” 11 in’. 95
wien Powder............. 12 | Pointed Ends................ 85
ne cs 13
Wooden ID ooo ec occa 13
Wrapping ra eceece oes 13
MRE CIB. oo. onan a cntc~ 2, ES

 

 
  
 
  

 

 

Stove
WU, Bag oss cece i ass apes 75
MOG Bose poo see secs 110
WOO. 2 175
BUTTER COLOR
-» R. & Co.’s, 15¢ size.... 1 25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.... 2 00
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s............ 12
Electric Light, 16s...... --<ee
Parafiine, 68. ...... ......+. 10%
Pararne, 198................0
Wicking a
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 1b. Standards...... 1 60
Gallons, standards. . 3 25
Blackberries
heehee: ce 80
ans
ee +» 100@1 30
Red Kidney......... 75@ 85
eee 70
ees. 70
Blueberries
Standard
Brook ‘Trout
2 Ib. cans, — See BLES 190
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 Ib.. 1 00
Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92
Burnham’s, pints.........- 3 60
Burnham’s, quarts........ 7 20
Cherries
Red gain Scar
Wei
Corn
ee 80
Poe eee 85
mae... 95
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine...........- 22
i<tra Fino.............-.- 19
OG Se a 15
Moyen aus il
Gooseberries
Standard ...........- 90
Hominy
Standard............. 85
Lobster
Star, Me oe ‘ 2 15
Siar tc: 3 62
Picnic Talls........ 2 40
Mackerel
Mustard, 1lb........ 1 75
Mustard, 2... ...... 2 80
Soused, ilb......... . 175
Soused, 2 Ib.......- : 2 80
Tomato, 11Ib......... 175
Tomato, 2 1b......... 2 80
Mushrooms nnn
Hates... 2... .
Buttons............. i 22@25
Oysters
owe, ii...

Cove; 21... -....-.- 1 55
Cove, 1 1b Oval...... 95
Peaches
oS ae 65@1 85
Pears
Standard ........... - 1 00
eee ke : 1 25
Peas
Marrowfat .......... 1 00
Early June.......... 1 00
Early June ae. 1 60

Plums
Plums...... 85
Pineapple
Grated 1 25@2 75
Sliced. . 1 35@2 55
Fair .. 95
Good ... 1 00
Fancy .... 110
Raspberries
Standard...........
——— Cavier
14 Ib. cans... ok . 8%
4 -» Ce eee 7 00
a ee ee ea . 12 00
‘Salmon
Columbia River, falls @1 85
Columbia River, flats @2 00
Red Alaska.......... 30@1 40
Pink Alaska. ..... 1 10@1 25
Shrimps
Standard. .......:... 150
Sardines
Domestic, 4Ss........ 3%
Domestic, %s ....... 5
Domestic, Mustard. 5%
California, 148....... 11@14
California %s...... < 17@24
French, 448.......... 7@14
French, S....-.....- 1
raw berries
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War se. 1 15

1 20

Fancy .. : os 1 25

Gallons............-- 3 20
ea.

Columbia, pints.. oseescal OO
Columbia, % pints... eee 1 25
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Monee... 3. 2... @10%
Perfection............. @ 9%
Diamond White. . @ &&%
D.S. Gasoline......... 12%
ee Naphtha.. @10%

Cylinder. .... .... 2-00. 29 @34
Peicicn cislgmicuielenre sm 19 @22
Black, winter.......... 9 @10X%
CHEESE
OMA oe ncaa s cas Dil
oo Ql’
Carson City.......... @12
Rec ek seine @13
Emblem ............. @Qi2%
a @:2%
Gold Medal.......... @11%
deal .... coc
ORBEE o-. oo05 ces cin ccs @i2
Riverside... @12
Brick .. 14@15
ae...
Reames ...-.......... @17
Limburger. See on ee 13@14
gaps OBO oa. cs 50@75
ae ere a 19@20
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce.... 55
Beeman’s Pepsin.......... 60
Bisek Jack... <......:.... 55
Largest Gum Made....... 60
eI gs 2 ec 55
Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. 1 00
Sagar Loaf................ 55
Wepesan:..-.....-....-,.. 55
CHICORY
eS a
ph ee :
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eg ES 6%
enemas 8. ose 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter — ” Co. ~
German Sweet.. Scecc ce ome
eee 31
Breakfast Cocoa.............
— _—
Vienna Sweet . coe eee ee
Wa 28
Pree 31

CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz....
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz..
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.. .
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz.. oa
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 1
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.........- 95

—.
Cleveland. . = Oe |
Colonial, “4S. Se eee ous 35
Colonial, es 33
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COCOANUT
Dunham’s s. cee
Dunham’s %s and 4s aca 26%
Dunham’s \4S....... eos 27
Dunham’s \S............. 28
ie ee oo 13
COCOA SHELLS
0 ee. to
Less quantity .. oe 3
Poun packages .. Sees: 4
COFFEE
Roasted

Special Combination........15
rench Breakfast...........17%
Lenox, Mocha & Java....... 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27

Dwinell-Wright Co.’s sagen
White House, 60-1s..........
White House, aes. 3
Excelsior M. & J., 60-18... ..21%
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20%
eval Java... 2... 26%
Royal seen & a 26%
Arabian Mocha.. tae
Agon Mock.:.....,........... 22%

Freeman Mere. Co. Brands.
MerenO... ee ll
Pore ieee 14
NigmMn oo ee 18%
Parker House J & M....... 25
Monogram J & M........... 28
Mandehling ............-...- 31%

Rio

Comme sos es 10%
Panes... eee cs 13
Pe cs 15

Santos

eee boos ess cue tee woes 11
Fair . 14
oe
17
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Mexican —- Squares. . ois ipiaieu agi 2
= te cams chee asses neces - Tutti Frutti... Sees 18
ae ie caitlin pat tee
Guatemala Vienna Crimp............. 8
Bo oso, occ cs wee cn 16 | FE. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods
Java Standard Crackers.
See ee coats teas 12% we a re. ice lst
rite for complete price lis
Raney African »....-.-.-----17" | with interesting discounts.
Be wesc ces en we sete es ewes 29 CREAM TARTAR
Mocha 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes... .30
Arablan....... pe taea accu 21 | Bulk in sacks......... 1.29
Package DRIED FRUITS
New —_ —_
Arbuckle.......... pe lees OO ee
—" ou. ues bese camcens 11 Evaporated, 50 Ib. “boxes. @9
“Ra ER ~ California Fruits
McLaughlin’s XXXX B Spee Ss ri sé se oc ee cose 10@10%
———— oe —_ to oe Sele ec et ce
retailers only. ail all orders I
direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Peaches ........ :8 —

Co., Chicago.
Extract

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Valley — * gross.. 75 | Raspberries ..........-
Felix % "145 California Prunes
Hummel’s foil. % gross. 85

Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 111 43

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

Gall —— —_ ee coee ease 6 40
ooo s ooa c sk occ ee sence oe
Daisy oe ws oo oe
Caan een sae a cteea ce 4 50
Magnolia ........ cs oulesie one aD
aa a 4 10
ee cee eee he cuca 4 00
COUPON BOOKS

50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
a books, any —- 11 50

000 books, any ; 20 00
“eas quotations are afor either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic
or Universal grades. Where
1,000 books areordered at a time
customer receives specially
printed cover without extra
charge.
Coupon Pass Books
Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 —

 

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500, any one denom...... 2 00
1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
2,000, any one — Spe ne 5 00
Steel punch.. See ae 75

CRACKE cRS
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Butter
SeymMour..........6.. eecece 644
Se a
a 6%
ON os eo 6%
Wolvermo................. 6%

oda

BOGR Mw oo 6%
Bouk, (a60...- 2... 8
Long Island Wafers..... —
Zepuyrese.... ....-....... 13
Faust . 7%
Farina... . 6%,
Extra Farina.............. 6%
Saltine Oyster..... 614

Sweet Sine “Boxes
AMmbneS co 2: 1
— Cake. 2k. 10
Belle RONG. .-.: -........... 8
Bent’s Water... .........: 16
Cinnamon Bar.............
Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
Coffee Cake, Java......... 10
Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18
Cocoanut Taffy. se
Cracknells. ... 16
Creams, Iced. 8
Cream Crisp 10%
Cubans. 11%
Currant Fruit. 12
Frosted Honey. 2
Frosted Cream............ 9

Ginger Gems, l’r; ga or —s 8
6

Ginger Snaps, Ye
Cr ee ce 8: 10%
Grandma Cakes........... 9
Graham Crackers......... 8
Graham Wafers........... 12
Grand Rapids Tea........ 16
Honey Fingers............ 12
Iced Honey an. = 10
Imperials.. oe
Jumbles, Honey... Bae cieinie ss 12
Lady Fingers.............. 12
Lemon Snaps.............. 12
Lemon Wafers............ 16
Marshmallow.............. 16
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
a Walnuts. . 16
ee Se ce 8
Mixed Picnic. . ieee
Mck Biscuit............... 7%,
Molasses Cake............
Molasses Bar.............. 9
Moss Jelly Bar............ 12%
Newton.. cece ee
Oatmeal Crackers......... 8
Oatmeal Wafers........... 12
Orange Crisp cece ide 9
Orange Gom..............3. 9
Penny Cake... 8
Pilot Bread, xx %

 

 

Pretzels, han: Me
Scotch Cookie: 9
Sears’ Lunch.. 7%
Sugar Cake... 8
Sugar Cream, 8

 

 

14 cent less in 50 lb. cases
Pa cea sa
Leghorn... a
Corsican . oo aa ot oe
‘Currants
California, 1 lb. package...
Imported, 1 Ib package...... 8

Imported, Due... 7%
Pee
Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13
Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13
isins

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 1 75
Cluster 4 Crown.........

Loose Muscatels 2 Crown =
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown

Loose Muscatels 4 Crown ee

L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib..... 8
Mi. . ee 7
Sulfanas, bu .... ...... ....
Sultanas, package ..........
— GOODS
Beans
Dried Uns. :: wk. 6
Medium Hand Picked 1 80
Brown Holland.............. 2 50
Cereals
Cream of Cereal............. 90
Grain-O, small .............. 1 35
Grain-O, large............... 2 26
Grape Nuts...........0.+-...1 35
Postum Cereal, small. ....2.1 35
Postum Cereal, large........2 25
Farina
241 1b. packages . snes ae
Bulk, per 100 cs acc ae
Hominy
Flake, 50 lb. sack .... ..... 90
Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ 4 50
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 2 50
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box..
Imported, 25 Ib. box......... 12 50
Pearl ee
Common . ..2 90
NEE i Se 3 00

OS ee a

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

Cases, 24 2 Ib. pane Leos 2 30
Green, Wisconsin, we -.1 40
Green, Scotch, bu.. 1251 50
Split, Ib..... soace oe
Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl.. ----5 90
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sacks. 2 85
Monarch, bdl.. i v5 50
Monarch, % bbl... «2 eo
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks.. .-2 65
Quaker, cases. co igs
Sago
Hast Tndias o.oo. sono lS. 3%
German, sacks.............. 3%
German, broken package.. 4
Tapioca

Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 414
Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3%
Pearl, 241 1b. packages..... 6%

Wheat
Cracked, buik............... 8%
24 2 tb. packages ............2 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

Vanilla Lemon
1ozfullm.120 1ozfullm. 80
20zfullm.2 10 2o0zfullm.1 25
No. 3fan’y.3 15 No.8fan’y.1 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JELLY _uie
5 Ib. rankfort . 6 No.1 N P
‘ —_. cian 1B Ib, oo. = GOR c.... 1 90 Pork ........ 7%4@8 - a Soe 8 00 0.2 = Fair . ure Cane nm a
..1 20 202 panel ao — 9 S.... see. 50 50 | Good - ; aia 2
3 oz taper..2 00 40z - Dee 38 | Tongu 10 Ibs... 9 1 70| Choi Se aa 0. 9 --- 425
aper..1 50 cae eee 72 fae : a... = 50 ice. : ores 20 No. 10 ‘ 20
— eo oa 6 | Anise SEEDS . —o ue ‘=
cree an ? C Hi a 0. 13, :
nei 3 38 10 75 aan Pe a = Shenson en sntn ers ‘S
— ee 11 00 | Cardamon, Malabar.....-... vA a... sessceneee 408
Calabria... Se /ecescecess SO) oe DDE igs’ Feet He Pea oo dtccideeuicaaacccec | aa
—- beece es a 28 s., 40 lbs.. mp, Russian.............. 10 me
Sicily ....+.-.-+ ++ +++. . ¥% bbls., 80 Ibs... nee. 4
US a 3 20 a nate Sf naseieben an
Condensed sian... - ue Ibs... Pe i ; Sundried, pe ce 28
_ edd. Seiad 1 20 ao ae 1p | C2 ee Sundrled;faneye 000.008
24 2 40 SHOE way ag ae 28
Diam ee Pork . —- Handy Box — 40 Lb. packages. ee aoe crea dovcesuieoues 30
No. 9 sulph atch Co.'s brands. aca 91 | Handy cea: aaa 2 50 | 20 1-1 packages..... Basket-fired, medium.......
Noat 4 52 _ No. 60 | anchor Parlor «2.222222. Beef — sees a | Bixby's ee 2 0 | 20 F, packages...» 8% | Basket-fired, medi. +28
2 oz. Assorted ers ‘se. . a ieteme wessceven ee ae. 14 | Miller’s Crown — « BOS... ee. 7% Basket-fired, Oe cacsay “85
Our Tropical a tees = 4 = Sol Butterine 65 Scoteh, in eee Kingsford’s Silver Gl Siftings. ee cevceccccevowee ee i
‘oz. full measure, ae } on = —yadatoeese ee oes | Fannings.....0.0.. 0.000 a
E asure, ° T a a rene ee Se nae ue a a
2 oz. full measure — 1 = he a t EXTRACTS Botts creamery. i @l4 h ——. = jars... ie . Connon Gloas 4 nies 22
i oe: full measure, Vanilla. 1 30 Liebig’s, 2 = 4 45 | Sold, creamery. lo 6 So ae 1-Ib. packages Moyun S
2 Standard. aa | = Ib. packages.......--.... i | aren amen 26
=. Fancy open Orleans Corned beat, si. 2 50 Beaver Soap Co. ‘brands 40 an “orb. is sr ¢ Pm a 35
i mon....... — stoans R OXeS......... ngsuey, medium.......... 50
... 60] Choice Se . oast beef, 2 Ib 17 50 ——— 3% y, medium...
FLY PAPER FE e sees : 40! Potted ham, %s..... 2 50 a wcecee cee Pingsuey, choice.......-...- 25
Tanglefoot, teed... air. Se: ae ro _ neece 50 :. 8%! Pingsuey, fancy............- =
anglefoct, per case........ 3 35 000 ono ee 22 Deviled ham, 4s... 90 au
FRESH arena 20 aa aon extra — a_i. 50
‘ T ed t ay 90
me Beef — sé felisd Gee 48. 50
Forequatiars 2 3 : Bayle’s Cae 2 doz........03 50 peice, ™
—e es 64@ 8% sla ip eee 175 Carolina oa
Loins. ....- 2-042. 9 @i2 | Bulk, 1 gal. ke — ——— 2.
——- 8 @10 Bulk, aoa 1251B rolina No. 2 og 50 cak
Rounds... 000. 2.00.: 6K@ 7% | Bulk, 5 gal. — mt none 3 25
Plates nee a Manzanll ree... 1 00 | Japan, = 50 cakes, pce hee ""§ 50 aaa
wists p ac Ta ib eae 100 cak ie 1 ao I
Pork as. 2 pan, No. is @ es, small si 1 95
ig seseeee 6%4@ 8% Queen, _.. 4 50 | Java’ faney he head —- Coal aor art brands as —
Boston butts... neue @ 9% | Stuffed’ 8 a 7 00| Tablé.... ae “mus 40
eae uffed, treet ees Oe: oo. oe 0
orto ad = - Stuffed, get eee e cece cceeee 1 = P SAT RRARGS” @ “— t Soap Co. brands— 00
re S 3% ee a 2 30 Guano 60 Ibs. in box. Big oe 3 35 GLOSS STARCH |
aioe Mutton Continental P BAGS a rm —_ ———. 315 ae ees ees mh a a
SE os scans ~~ z Ask your ae Bag Co. £9) Family.......... 2 85 a
ag @8 bber for them. Siemen aaa aD Raa ta
Carcass ........-.-- 6 @7 Satchel Mayflower N. K. Fairbanks Ih Ses
GRAINS AND FLOU — i SAL Santa Claus. ... et
Wheat R Reece cous ae 28 quare | Granul: SODA ag alee cabana 3 40 50 POUNDS
Wheat . a a %- See eect eees i i 34 oo oe bhia... = Fairy en ca eee . 222 Wray
Winter Wheat este oe te = 80 — bbls... cases. 4 “1 60 inte eee oe 4 00
Local Se 1 00 , hoe Gantas aan
Patents . — Re = 1 25 — cnn aay 85! Oak Le — brands— _— erat)
second Pataa. 020.00. 4 60 oe 5m |e Buckeye iti 3 25 io «
8 gee ERE ;: . 6... 1 06 1 70 50 3 lb. bags ..... s 425
Second Straight. ....121.2. a o> La AN 1 28 o 2 Pm BAGS... a <a.
CLEAR oe eooe cose cee cess [ae 1 38 260 | d25 bbl a eat eins oe a
Buckwheat... oe 4% oe 24 [7 ss = per céat. “als- | “S'hox lots, delivered mo a a C
a es = amond , delivered -. rola Tro Ccled
—cpuibiest to ‘usual cash og ~ pale 2B 5 00 Table’ barrels, 10 tb. boxes..1 40 Johnson Soap Co. brand 203 10 —
eee abate s, 1003 Ib, bags. Sil o.brands— | B . SSS
F ae in bb 550 | Lable, barr a . bags.3 00 ver Kin est Gloss Star
dition Is., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Red.......... — —— a os = bags.2 8.2 7% —- a --2 —— aero _— | Best Corn Starch
‘all-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand G@raye 00 vg | Butler, barrel, 20 241.bage.2 Seoteh Famlly.n.2 6.00. 265 eae te | Neutral Pear! Starch in DL
Diamond Sa Ee ates PICKLES 4% | Butter, aaa 28 1 Spel es cree eee ae a Best parapet Starch in bbl.
Benen ee 4 00 Medium Co IbS......... = Ricker’s Magnetic ...._.. 1 95 Works: eee Best La rs In bbl.,thin boil.
Worden tr 4 Oo | Barrels, 1,200 miu aoe 3 90 * Geneen sai as a boll.
Quaker %s. rocer Co.'s Brand Half bbls, 600 = _.775| 6051b. a 9 95| Big —— eneva, Ill. . Pope Glucose Co.,
—. 420 a 4 33 | 28 10 Ib. = aan Acme 5¢...... eas <2 Chicago, 111.
Ge ee olga 2 | Hal Dn te coun 28 0 alt sickens cag a: a
o ae Se 7
Clark- Jewell a oa meg ’ 7 — -...--5 00 | 56 Ib. dairy aan, 22 —— Gamble brands— ¢ Lb. packages = ace Young Hyson
is titan . «| See... i ene 3 TNOICE.....-.- see ees
ear a 6... Eee Clay, No. 216... 28 Ib. datry in drill —-- 40 ogee UID oe Ib. packages.......... Aig, | FADET--- +++ Sav LER 30
Pilisbury's Best 48... $88 7 © D., ful count... 1 7 | 56 Ib. a as Fn 75 STOVE POLISH cai "
sbury’s Best %s paper- Pelee n linen sacks Star and— olong
Pillsbury’s Be paper. 4 40 a Ai <<. Gl CS es, Formosa, fancy..
Dall Bayobare-Pucmalr cites | 2 POTASH 56 Ib. dairy in os sacks oat Gee Soap Co. jc i medium... ec S
Saude tiportieee "tae | Ba 3 scary ean 90/8 Wey rane oy, eholeer 2088
ui mpe eee ae % wie | (CEREMEUREAY \ | ean Ete Bromine
Duluth foetal — ia Penna Salt Co.'s... --+++4 00 | Granul aa * ee Cheer ............. 3 80 — B
Lemon & Wheeler C PROVISIONS 3 00 | Mediu ated Fine.... oS Se 3 naan
Wingold %s.... 0.'8 on ONS edium Fine........ “soo Bl tema, seen 5 en +27
Weg es oo Rng. Spat Rake :
Ss. ee Cod a ceo ;
Oine 5 Clear i b ore oid dia x S —— cured..... Box ODA 2 40 Ceyl ae.
Geresota %s — back... eR @i8 00 Georges Eleted = 2. png 5% ca. NE oorccricintes 32
: eae - BIg wos ev eeeeeese — =e Grand Ban saan a6 whol éi is" | | lena ™
- 80ta AS. Gols Brand” | Family Mess... -°-. sor bricks....... e Cc
3 Laurel b Grosor c é Brana —------- @16 00 | Poll ipa brik INT ew@any | Case oe ai eee ee eee
: pemtic : 450 . pages nia @17.50 | Strips fiaiibat. @ 2% | Cassia, Batavia, Inu wae | aaa case, gross 720 Cigars
2 . iS , . uD:
3 Laurel gs and 40 | Belli sia eect acta Chunks seeeee 10 Cassia” Saigon, broken... a A.B
‘ oti paper’. 4 40 | Briskets 9% SII | Clowes, ae - £i » ee nen
a tiles 2 oe eee
4 Bolted......... -_ Extra shorts. . . 9% | No. 1 100 so = \Zanaibar.... soe 17 “me are given New York | F H. & P. Drug Co.'s brand ”
- oa : % Guiana = P 914% He. i a : 50 a = - soceee 14 Pnolesale dealer aad wach the Our Manager... 35 00
4 Feed and Millstc Hams aa ee utmogs, 75-800. 0.220202. 55 | freight fr s the local a . 35
‘= ffs , 12lb.avera Waid a Ce 79 | Nutme eee 50 om New York t = 00
4 St. Car Feed, s vr ian si aan. @ 114 ee sees eeees aaa 105-10. . -_ ing puint, givin oO your | G. J. Johnaed 35 00
x aa 3 ae ae creened.... 26 00| Hams, 161b. neler 14) Herring 59 | Nutmegs, 115-20....... ... 40] 0n the invoice g you credit n Cigar Co.’s brand.
F. Unboited Corn Mea Oats. 25 50 Hams, bib: ave average. : 11% —— wnite hoops, bbl. 11 09 Popper? Surat ae i8 of frolght = or pay
4 er ried : @ hoopsi4bbl. Pepper, e, white. 28 ich he purch
- Winter Wheat Middlings. 21 Shoulders (N.Y. cut) @ 12 Holland white 5 75 per, shot. . to his shippin chases iC"
¢ Ser noes Middiings. 22 00 | Bacon —— nv. cut) @ a Holland white ed keg.. 75 Pure Ground ‘in B 20 pounds for spon incketiing
5 ee 20 00 aka... 10%4@ 11% | Norweelan . —~ meh. | Sees jul barrel. weight of the| _ on
a. Bolled Hams. when . Round 100 Ibe... 8 35 a en ee on oe
peas ce clipped .0212.0 = Bete eam Hams @ 2% —— 2 35 | Cloves, Zanzibar. 00.00. 48 | Crushed . 5 50
ss than car lots......... [aha d. @ 9% | Dlcaters... in 14 Sone” African. aT an = = aa 5.0
| en @ ; woe 26D co? Seana RS eee ea 25
Corn, car lots orn Lards—In Tierce 9% | woss 100 1 Mackerel Ginger, Jamatca.. STR 18| Coarse Powdered. . 5 10| 8.0. W.....
—oosce OS Compound Ss M. bs. . Meee Mn al 25 | XXXX P. _ 5 10 | Cigar Cli a
No. 1 Ti ow We 7% | Mess 40 Ibs. ample uses S od Mustard .- Ce ee toca soeee cess 5 15 ppings, perlb..... 26
. 1 Timothy car “ee 103 8. —— Pepper, Sin; pod Ff yh ne aaa 493
No.1 Timothy eat lots... 1950| if Tubs ada Oy | Mess be 0200 108 Bepber, Sineabors, i i7| 6b. bags Fine a fon 5 05 Fine Ont
ie HERBS 80 Ib. Tubs lg | No.1 aoe oo ee aa” Cayenne..... ee = pints EE a A 5 05} Uncle Daniel
He Resstses : es —— Tins. % | No.1 101bDS. ........... ca. ae | ae Contact /. a 2 CO RG ARES 54
farnel Lonven SMa | pails | No.1 Sips. wessee 1:10 SYRUPS a 3 Al. oe ae oe oe =
SR cea sus ne . Pails No. 2 100 Ibs. . 91 | Barre’ orn o. Columbia A.. weet SPray..,.....+.cc0ss0- 34
Senna VOB... 00 .15| Bb. Pails.. % | No.2 401b . ra 8 00 | Ralf MB... - cecece cece No. 2, Windsor A.. 470 lac.. Peeeeeeeeee eens 38
seseceseeeeeQS SID. Pale... 1° | No.2 10 Ibs. 2.2222. weseee 8 50 | 10 Ib. a anges ts No. 3, Ridgewood A. 4 65| Sweet Loma............0..-. 57
: as 95 | 5 lb. cans, % doz. in ease.. 1 No. 4, Phoenix A.. 1a Geli To... 38
ane Cans, 3 doy. aaa. 3 ‘io Be. 5, Empire A. ; ° Hiawatha... CCL 26
° 2 doz. 1 eg il ‘ele: ( acy cia as le cll igh ala
’ z. iD Case...190 NO. %..... ee Lees io... aeetspstene ceaiet! 26
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TABOR 22.2553 me No, 2 pat cobent pe holder _. 85 a SON nas @ fio Pe
Plug = ® cotton mop heads..... 1 Ribbon = : 120
Seo a saan a. Token .. ‘2
Greme de Hiei. oe Pails fenetign Rodi @® 2 70
serene ua eo eee 33 | hoop Standard............. : . Kindergarten . g : 30 gal. meat-tubs, eacn................
Seeet Chamk..... <0... ous... = — Cable. "1 50 Bon Ton Cream... @10 Ghurns o-
Eg ae eg aaa ~~ ’ 170 andy Pan.......... @10 Ol OE eA sa. cscs
Belo SAE ES 36 Godan all red, brass bound. 2% d@ Made Gr @14% “era be ers, per duzZ...........+..- ”
Kylo...... 36 Paper, Eure! Ka... 2 40 ea gor @13 Milkpans
41 Ee Crystal Cream mix poe 48
Hiawatha. Fibre......... Ty: fat or rd. bot, per ¢ doz.....
37 —In Pails % Bm fin 6
Battle Axe ......... red Toothpicks Fancy 8% } 1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each............
Auebeioee Eeeie..--. “87 Wierd wood 5655 occ cccc ess 2 Cham Fun Gums. io” Fine Glazed Milkpans
Spear Hee’ * = ri ee : oe “| Hs ren, Cream Squares = ¥% gal flat or > pot» nes Or. Lo. e
48 | Naot TTT bp | Raley Cream Squares rrd. bot., ench............
ObDy ‘Trist Eee ecanes = deal See EE aloes 1 50 — a 3 i gal. flat o Stewpans “ Oldsmobile, $600.00 mS .
‘ar Tubs Su: eanuts 1 bail, per doz......... little gasoline carriage is m
Gia Honey. 2388 | gp men, Standard, No. 1 --§ Salted Peanuts. a s Sees re peices grog a ermeai suceessful mak :
ne ae dard, No. 2..... Starlet AISSses..... Ja orld. It is sim- 3
wt neesce ns as 1f-inch, Stan 400] San B Jes.. @12 rus 60 f gasoline engines in the w
Piper Heldsick. va aa bo | Lozenges, —_--- eh ai oat, per er see : = oe compact, reliable, always a = fe
36 h, Cable, Os 2. 6 = @11% | 4 g sae. a 7% ’ ciladesh: tte tab bok Abbi on
Jelly Cake 32 18-inc ble, No. 3.........5 00 Choc. A eee 13% | 1 - 5 gal., per gal evcce any distance. i
umb Bob 39 | 16-inch, Cable, ------9 45 | Eclipse Chocolates... @ Sealing Wax for the money. +
Honey Dip Twist............ No. 1 Fibre...... ésadeces ""7 951 Cho. Monumentais. OR I oma ten 2 li the famous “White” steam car. se
No. 2 Fibre.. see teeees late @15 . In package, per Ib-........ We also sell the Bicyeles é
a 49 | No.3 Fibre.. oe Gun me Stee @ 5% | 5 Ibs. inp LAMP BURNERS riage and the “Thomas” line of cack a i
Hand Pressed..............-40 Wash Boards e oot ee 38 |and Tricycles. Catalogues on app
BOOK, == --- on -2+ onne ons~~ 36 | Bronze —- ee 9% fo teen. ys nt au eS Te 48 | respondence solicited.
ee a Double komen 222222 7 a NO. 2 80D... cvveceseseseecveceseee = a ae i
Great Navy. Singio Aamo, cwrseceseees, 2S “Se 50 | ADAMS & HART, Gana tee Stich. uz
8 oz --29 | Double Peerless.......... ey cee eee . s
8 OZ bist oa ceeacusm ae Nutmeg...... ..... ;
Bamboo, ib... a Northern Quocn -2 BO Ib. ae _ LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds ;
TEL. Si... 3 Double Duplex 3 ~ a, NO. OBUN......+-+---s2ve0rseeeseeeeees = zg
ao. i ae a i. 2 24 4
Blagman o00000 0000000000 ak — | issu a Blankets that ‘
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give cesses sees 13 in, ieee avckenariss s :
Duke’s Mixture............. = 15 in. Butter... eccceee: “— = gg ag ae a 178 e “
Duke’s —. eeccce cove voces o 17 in. Butter. ... > 00 @35 No.1 amt eat errr. 2 48 ri ng ?
See ais ~ occ ea are
Yom ¥ = om. ae Assorted ib ee wentcae 1 a 3 No First Quality ae 2 s
oe veseeeeeesB7 | ASSOT ee @60 top, wrapped & lab. B
one | re go |scisucimorranaees § 28 |1 Busines
Corn Cake, 11b.............. 40 Common Straw ees sees < 33 @55 No. 2 Sun; crimp top, '
Plow Boy, 4 of eee 39 | Fiber Manila, al red. a @55 XXX Flint
Plow Boy, 34 02.......+-+++- Se S srceeece & lab. 2 75 f the
Peerless, 3% 02. --3* | No. 1 Manila oo 3 | Hand ‘Buttons, Pop 80 @% | No. 1 Sun, an eet Glad. 3% Almost every one o
Peerless, 13¢ 0z “*>g | Cream Mant ia: ee 2% Cream uttons, Pep. @es | No.2Sun, — fen silane 5 oe SR 4 00 blankets in our large ‘
Indicator, 2% oz.. "31 Butcher’s Mani 13 ae @85 No. 2 Sun, ge, et cing an : 2 3
Indicator, 1 Ib, pails ..21 | Wax eee hee count.... 20 sirin g Rock : Berries @60 pi led : 4 00 k is the kind that will +
Gol. Choloe, 2% O2......-----31 | War Butter, ulicount.... 2) | Wintergreen No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled... 4 00 stoc :
Col. Choice, 8 oz.. + Wax Butter, r CARE Caramels ’ | No. 2 Sun, wrapped and Janel Red 5 10 bring business to your 4
TABLE SAUCES YEAST 1 00 | Clipper, 201b. pails. @2 |No. 2hinge, wrapped ana a te ak ;
Magi os dard, 201b. pails  @1o | No.2 Sun, “Sm oe 80 because they loo a
LEA & Surtight, a 3doz.. <i 00 |» ao 20 Ib. Pis = Lamps De eal c = See store he and ‘
PERRINS’ Sunlight, 1% ia "100 i, ike @55 La stay es 100 so well, and can be
Yeast Cream, a 1 00 Korker 3 —— @55 | No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per eee 135 h reasonable a
SAUCE Veast Foam, 14 doi..." m0] BIg, Sfor teprby. — @ae oe eee ee 1 35 for such a
. t » bx @60 | No. 1 Crimp, p aici RRS 1 60 . ing from
The Original and FRESH FISH a + Pao a 31b @50 | No.2 Crimp, per Be chester price. Everythi 's oa
Genuine hire. | White fish............ 22 - FRUITS i eee a _- the cheapest kin °
Worcestershire. Trout wee Oranges Oo. gan © etc.
Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75! Black Bass. —— 15 | Florida Russet. es soa iar oe: 4 60 fleece down plaids,
Lee. & Ferrin’s, small..... 3 75 | Halibut .. Herring... @ 5 | Florida Bright.... 3 so; Electric
Halford, large... — = Ciscoes 0 or ie 12 — ao. i eicks e a doz) foe 4 00
Halford, small............. 1: se ra Choice........ @ No. 2 Lime (700 doz).........-..+---. 4 60
Salad in ©. .... Live Lobster..-- . z Valencias...... We €or) ;. 5 |... 5-2...
— ae Solel Lobstet 0" @ a0 Seedlings. se ailee @ [No.2 Flint ( gone vo |{ Brown & Sehler
INE jada eet 7 | Medt. Sweets. : er doz.. :
es "a ag [Not Piewsret 0s eaten 3 Se aoe anes ole oak Gor doz. = Grand Rapids, Mich.
p BDI... 2-0. 0eee eee | POOR ena tcc i — : ogg
Cotton, B, 4 DIY... ---- -+--++-+.16 Pike secereseereseseeeee @ 8 geal 2 gal. galv. tron with spout, ber dos.. 4 30
Jute, 2 ply.........--.... a Perch .... .-.. “Raat 3 1t Verdelli, ex fey 300. . @ 3 gal. galv. i with spout, per doz.. 57
San. BEF = ns ->-—- 088 eo a eo ipo 3 75@4 00 | 5 a faucet, per doz... =
art TID. Tee 7% Col River Salmon....13@ 14 Verdelli, ex chee 300 g Ho an iron with faucet, per = 7 00
: Rectan ce @ 15 | Verdelli, fey 360..... a = |
VINEGAR Mackerel....... iori Lemons, 300. . @ oo | 5 Sal. = iron Nacefas....-..0s2.- 9 90090000000 000000000000 [
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 aie Messinas 9008....... 8 754 00/5 gal. galv. ae :
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 ow 40 | Messinas 360s...... = 47% 1}
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. 11 | p we ——. eed 33 Bananas 001 No. 0 Tubular, mae Wis... .......-:., 72 1 e
Pure Cider, Robinson......12 | K8,- Selects. | Tange bunches... + 12 | Ne. a 72 |@ Simp e
: der, Robinson.......12 | Sclects ........ ia i eee
Som oer. Silver........... 12 counts. Du Ovsters 1% "Foreign I Dried Fruits No. 15 $ Tubulat, da glass foutat. seeeiees 7 BO 3
eases ccees cece oO. ee =—=—_—_—_—_——————
ee Cr Extra Selects. 133 Californias, Fancy e 99 Ne: y Street cmp, GACH. 6s... ec 3 60 : ‘ ‘
a eee eee, Sole a ; Account File
cary ease eee e e, ie < -cagell « |3 .
HIDES AND PELTS 10 Ib. boxes........ @ . 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 5 19 i
Dub No-More 2, 100 Canal Strock, quotes as | Fancy, Tkrk., i2 ib. @ 14| Noo unknown 8 0 1¢ i
©., 1 et ea ce a cae Tub. 8 é i 15 >
Se Sa 3 50 | follows: Pulled, 6 lb. boxes. No.0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 3 . d +
Bub-No-More preter se ae 4 — @ 7% | Na , in =. MASON FRUIT JARS. oo | 2 Simplest an
seen ence testes eosees Sarlies aa . 6 | $ :
Pemerine.. reen No. 2......... @ 6% | ards in 10 Ib. boxes @ ee 625|% I |
Beton noe [Soi Roos GARR Ag Mat Gaoaas TI Ba] ee ;
0 T gross.. ur Werereeceseces Hal Og oo Nee nae ea aaa ees e ° :
Ne. 1, aor gross... Calfskins,green No. 1 > e “ Ib. Cases, new..... 4% 2 Hee. <---> - 2S 31S Method of Keeping fi
No. ?, per gross. ceesenarern — @10 | Sairs, 60 Ib. oes MEE. s if
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seg ee Ee CoS 3 Petit Accounts i
Pelts Almonds, Ivica ..... e 5
Bas Aim ‘ornia, " :
Bushels . a ae WO 6 8  auolle.. oe You ought to sell 3 File and 1,000 printed blank i
comet, “wide Band. - eo ane 1 15| Lam ee Brazile BEING...» wens +s = Wi WT = 3 bill heads. «202.625... $2 75 :
Marke Sceeeesobseeseee Se ee es oe : < ‘a
Splint, as acieb Se ce tce ec : = No. i..<. oe ee ai g = Walnuts. Grenobics. @13 | | | | ® File and 1,000 specially = i
Bpiint, oa wisssess.-4 00 | NO. 2... ol Wealltornis No. 1.. @13 “The flour the best cooks use” 3 printed bill heads...... 3 i
Wir illow Clothes, > nel a = Washed, fine........ @20 | Table Nuts, fancy... -" LING CO.,/? Printed blank bill heads,
Willow Clothes, medium... 475 | Washed, medium Pecans, Med.. 13 | VALLEY CITY MIL ra d oe .
Willow Clothes, small....... Unwashed, fine..... @i6 Pecans, Ex. Large... @13 AND RAPIDS. MICH. @ per thousan: seco . +
Butter Plates Unwashed, medium. @!8 | Pecans, Jam mses se GR Zs ecially printed bill heads, i
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 CANDIES lees? ae @2 75 i ed of 3 P . a 4, a ae i"
No. 2 Oval, 20 . crate. eae 85 — ee pails Cocoaniuts, fuii sacks 8 Are you not in ne 3 per thousand..... . i
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate... @ 7% | Chestnuts, per bu... @ ¥.
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate..-". 651 stanaard r Sane 1 B 3 mpany, Yt
eee Seches @ 7 Fancy, H.P.Suns., 5 @ New She f oxes $ Tradesman Company +
Humpty Dumpty ...........2 25 : Oe | Taney, HF» Suns con re sla Sain 3 Grand Rapids. $ ;
a mple' . Roas . so :
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Danger in Mixing Business and Philan-
thropy.

The recent announcement from Los
Angeles, Cal., that Alfred Dolge, for-
merly a resident of Dolgeville, N. Y.,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy, in
which he asks to be relieved of debts
amounting to $1,645,043.61, calls atten-
tion to an interesting business subject.
In his explanatory statement Mr. Doilge
alleges that his trouble came about
through business reverses and misfor-
tunes brought upon him as the result of
machinations, frauds and conspiracies
of other persons in whom he had im-
plicit trust and confidence. He was a
manufacturer of felt shoes and felt piano
covers. Besides this business he was
interested in a large number of other
enterprises. He was exceedingly pros-
perous for a series of years. That was
when he managed his own business.
Then he began to mix business and
philanthropy. Business and _ philan-
thropy are both splendid things, but
there seems to be grave danger in try-
ing to mix the two. Not that a business
man cannot be a philanthropist. In-
deed, many of the most successful men
in all lines of industry are exceedingly
philanthropic. Carnegie gives so many
millions to charity that the average man
gets tired counting them; Rockefeller
founded one of the greatest educational
institutions in the country: and endows
it munificently; Helen Gould employs
half a dozen secretaries looking after
her bountiful charities, and we can all
record from memory the names of half
a hundred members in the various
branches of the shoe and leather trade
who are in the habit of giving thousands
of dollars to benevolent and charitable
institutions without saying a word about
it. Alfred Dolge might have given
away a few millions in the course of
years without being any the worse off
financially had he done so after busi-
ness hours. He tried the experiment,
however, that has wrecked so many
thousands of making a sort of profit-
sharing enterprise of his business. In
other words he was carried away with
an Eutopian scheme, which would not
work in the long run, because people he
thus sought to benefit kad too much of
the old Adam selfishness in them which
impelled them to take advantage of
their benefactor. As they were part of
the profit sharers, they got an idea, no
doubt, that their services couid not be
dispensed with, and he soon had an
army of ‘‘soldiers’’ around him. That
was the beginning of the end. He lost
control of his own business and things
went from bad to worse. ‘‘Business is
business,’’ is an old saying, but it is
one of the truest that has come down to
us from somewhere in the dim and
misty past. Some good old Patriarch
probably gave utterance to it. The suc-
cessful business man who hopes to con-
tinue successful will give away a thous-
and dollars to charities after business
hours rather than lose a cent by allow-
ing some one to take advantage of him
during the hours he devotes to his busi-
ness, and he is right in doing so.

~~» 0. ____-

Numerous Novelties in the Doll Line
This Season.

Many additions to the doll line have
been made this year. In fact, not for
miany years have so many new dolls
been brought out... During the Spanish
war and immediately afterward every-
thing was military or naval. Now sen-
timent has-tended the other way, and
military dolls are not so much seen. It
is sporting dolls, society dolls, and dolls
representing various other people. There

 

are many from foreign manufacturers
which are reproductions of foreign per-
sonages, the costuming and other fea-
tures being as nearly perfect as it is
possible to make them. These are prov-
ing popular, and are selling freely at
well-sustained prices. The danger
seems to be that there will scarcely be
enough to fill orders at regular rates.
Hence the necessity for cutting doesn’t
seem apparent.

Among the novelties may be noted a
Chinese Boxer, which is sure to please.
For the child who still cares for military
matters this doll has some attractions,
There are three in a set, and they can
be stood up and knocked down with
toy cannon if desired. The expression
of the faces and the costuming are cor-
rect. Possibly they might be consid-
ered of some educational value for that
reason.

The Pan-American series had some
vogue earlier in the season, but with the
passing of the Exposition they are not
selling as readily. These were simply
dolls dressed to represent the nations
supposed to be a part of the fair. Some
were nicely made up and were attractive
for the reason that they brought to the
child’s notice new ideas in costuming.

Another doll is dressed in complete
Scotch costume including plaid kilt and
scarf, There are two little doll school
children, the boy clad in cap and
sweater with his books under his arm,
and the girl dressed in immaculate
pinafore with miniature slate in hand.

Another couple represent golfers. The
boy is dressed in golf trousers and hose
with a red sweater, The girl has a
plaid golf skirt and a golf cape as nice-
ly made as one ever worn by any golf
girl.

There are many other varieties, but
those following the popular fads of the
day are perhaps most distinctive, and
will attract attention wherever shown.

With the dolls go doll houses, which
are especially elaborate this season.
They are so constructed that they open
and permit the arrangements to be made
within as comfortably as ina regular
house. They range in price from 25
cents to $5, the latter price purchasing
a miniature house complete.—American

Stationer.
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Worry As a Success Killer.

Perhaps there is nothing else so ut-
terly foolish and unprofitable as a habit
of worrying. It saps the nervous energy
and robs us of the strength and vitality
necessary for the real work of life. It
makes existence a burden and weari-
ness, instead of a perpetual joy and
blessing, as it should be. Poise and
serenity are necessary to the complete
development of character and true suc-
cess, The man who worries is never
self-centered, never perfectly balanced,
never at his best; for every moment of
mental anxiety takes away vitality and
push, and robs him of manhood and
power. Worrying indicates a lack of
confidence in our strength; it shows
that we are unbalanced, that we do not
lay hold of the universal energy which
leaves no doubt, no uncertainty. The
man who does not worry, who believes
in himself, touches the wires of infinite
power. Never doubting, never _hesi-
tating, he is constantly reinforced from
the Omnipotence that creates planets
and suns. The habit of — is large-
ly a physical infirmity ; is an evi-
dence of lack of harmony in the mental
system. The well poised soul, the self-
centered man, never wabbles or hesi-
tates. The infinite balance wheel pre-
serves him from all shocks, and all ac-
cident or uncertainty. Enough vital
energy has been wasted in useless worry
to run ail the affairs of the world,

 

Hardware Price Current

 

 

Ammunition
Caps
G. D., full count, per m Sieg ce wees
Hicks’ Waterproof, perm... Bus, duaeies
MAUAROG, DOOM oe
Ely’s Wai rproof, per m.. pow
Cartridges
No. 22 short, per m.. Sets weal
No. 23 long, per Mi...
No. 32 short, per m.. So
ING. S210, PEF MW oe. ool ce cl
Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..
Gun Wads
Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M. C..
Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, per m......

Black edge, No.7, per m..............
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns
Drs.of oz.of Size
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge
120 4 1% 10 10
129 4 1% 9 10
128 4 1% 8 10
126 4 1% 6 10
135 414 1% 5 10
154 4% 1% 4 10
200 3 1 10 12
208 3 1 8 12
236 3% 1% 6 12
265 3% 1% 5 12
4 12

3% 1%
Discount 40 per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. .
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

Gunpowder
Kegs, 25 Ibs., — ee ee
% kegs, 12% I per % keg..........

14 kegs, 6% Ibs., per 34 keg...........
Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than B
Augurs — —
Snell’s. apie 2 :

Jennings genuine. ....................
Jennings’ aA
Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. .

First Quality, S. B. S. Steel. .
First Quality, D. B. Steel. .

Barrows

Pe SS ie ea ca
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Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, — asec oe Soces cose

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‘Chain. i
in. 6-16 in. % in.
— Bcc oes oe Ay —. © @
Fes oe om... 3% «CC... Ge
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per lp... 2... 5.8...
anmmaseess
Socket Firmer . Sees coeresiceec
Socket Framing. Bee oe come de cuca
Socket Corner.. Seeeeeccaea coc. on
POCHOU HORM
Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., ia =
Corrugated, = doz

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Adjustable... ...-dis
‘Expansive Bits”

Clark’s small, $18; lenge. a ce ne

Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; cae”

Files—New List
INGW AMORA
Nicholson’s.
Heller’s Horse Rasps... eae
Galvanized ena
Nos. 16 to 20; ee 25 and 26; 27,

List 12 13 15 16.
Discount, 65
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........
Glass
Single Strength, by box. . ccnecceec@s
Double Strength, by DOX......0. 0. ...,418
By the ight De cece otas Gola wea dis
Hammers
Maydole & none new Penne
Yerkes & Plumb’s. o carcie oe -dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Sto Sdieceee we ".30e list
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Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3 Socwcaecgecs cli

Hollow Ware
WANN Sec oocccs sdbciad vestesesses seuues
CR ee ee ec a
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Horse Nails

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House Furnishing Goods

Stamped eare.} new _ Secs wuia ae
Japanned Tinwar ee doeeees

prey

Au Sable .

  

TPOD.......20eceesecececsce cece ceed 25 Crates
3 c rates

Bar

Light Band .. ce ee
‘esiede- thew ‘List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........

Door, porcelain, jap. trim.

Regular 0 Tu! Dos. oe

a Gal bular, acess ft nemo soee

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Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........ dis 70
Mattocks
Afize Eye... 2. <i occ. ccce cons Gh? O..0l8 65
Metals—Zinc
600 pound aa ds ™%
Per pound.. We ‘ 8
ieoadtabidiins
BN COO cc ee
Pumps, Cistern.. 75&10
Rewermy, Wew Tie on os, ce 85
Casters, Bed and Plate.. eeereee. 50810810
Dampers, AONE.
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern.. susuaee 60810
Enterprise, self-measuring.. i ‘ 30
Pans
TN AOU lc ae uc ou 60&10&10
Cominen, “poliaived idea dis ola sclatpiagcw wey 7

Patent Planished Iron
‘*A”? Wood’s patent planished, bag 24to027 12 80
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 11 50
Broken packages \c per pound extra.

 

  
 

Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 40
Sciota Bench.. 50
Sandusky Tool ‘Co.'s, fancy... s 40
Bench, first yuality................000. 45
Nails
Advance oe base, on both Steel and Wire.
seeet MANA, NEMS... os. 2 45
Wire nails, - Scie igre cen cece ec 2 45
20 to 60 advance.......-.-.- . Base
10 to 16 advance... .
oe =
30
45
70
50
15
Cashig S AGVGnCO....... .. ooo. sence 25
Casing Gadyanee.................. 2-6, 35
Finish 10 Ad VANS... ws ood pece coins 25
Pinte SGaveiee... co 35
Bintan GAG@vanee......... 2.252. ok. 45
Barrel % advanee........ 2... 2.06. 2c. 85
Rivets
Brom Sd ‘Siamee co 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............

14x20 1X, Charcoal, —— de cooley oe we
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. sa
14x20 IC; Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
14x20 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

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20x28 IC; Charcoal ’ ‘Allaway Grade... 1
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 1
Ropes
Sisal, « -_ -_ a. Sele ceae Sanus 10
Manilla... ee dice euaee 14%
Sand Paper
List acct. 19, ’86.. < aes oe 50
Sash ‘Weights
Solid Eyes, per ton... as 25 00
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com.
on, 1606 Ms $3 60
Nos. 15 to 17... Saese 8 70
Nos. 18 to 21... 3 90
Nos. 22 to 24... 3 90
SO 4 00
A ea 4 30 410
qs Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
ite Grado, Dem... 0... 2... 5, 8 00
Second Grade, Per. on... os cos cons 7 50
Solder

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The prices of the many other qualities of a
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

 

Squares
Seeck and Irom... 60—10—5
Tin—Melyn Grade
9 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal........ $10 50
14x20 1G; a 10 50
20x14 Ix, Chare 12 00

 

Each cduitional X on this grade, $1. ‘25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

$Ox24 10, CRacooal. .... .... 2.0.5.
14e00 10, OHATOOAL. .... .... 2... occa 5 ce
10x14 IX, — SB aieial eed coue dese waca
14x20 20 IX; CUAIOORE soo
Each daitional X'on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin Plate

14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, {per pound.. 13

Traps

Steel, Gam 5
Oneida Commaranlir, “Newhouse’s....

— Community, Hawley & ‘Nor-

a

Mouse, choker per Cee

Mouse, delusion, per doz........ .... .

Wire

Dirtent MARWOG. o.oo, ee cca cece

Annealed oe ae wets

Coppered Market..

Ce tag Sia

Cop pr: ee
Barbed Fence,

 

Barbed Fence, Paintede ccccieg aad come
Wire Goods

Bright............
Bere Eyes..
Gate Hooks and Eyes..
Wrenches
Baxter's Adjustable, Nickeled........
’s Gen

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Helen Gould in the Meat Shop.
From the New York Times.

The other afternoon Helen Gould was
seen in the butcher's shop with about
twenty young women. Miss Gould was
as modestly dressed as her companions.
The butcher was busy cutting, sawing
and weighing, while Miss Gould was
pointing out to her companions the
parts which cost the least. She showed
how the butcher could cut meat in a way
that still kept it tender, and then she
told of the proper manner of cooking
and serving.

It was a lesson of the utmost value to
the young women. They were work
girls, knew the pinch of poverty, and
had little time for careful bargaining.
They were learning how to get the most
for their money. To the many who
knew Miss Gould it would be superfiu-
ous to add that none of the meat used
in the practical illustration was wasted
and that the butchers’ delivery boy car-
ried parcels to addresses distant from
his usual route.

——_>20+>—___-
Life in the Museum.

The ossified man produced a razor
from his kit of personal belongings and
examined its keen edge. The ossified
man had a melancholy cast of counte-
nance. He looked like one for whom
life had but little happiness left.

He gazed at the razor long and earn-
estly, and then suddenly stretching out
his arm ran the blade up and down the
hardened surface.

*‘Beats any hone | ever see,’’ he said
as he added a few quick strokes. Then
he briskly shouted, ‘‘Jim, look here!’’

A moment later the bearded lady en-
tered the room.

‘‘Here you are, Jim,’’ said the ossified
man with a playful smile. ‘‘Here’s
your mower, an’ it’s fit to give you the
shave of your life.’’ And he thrust the
razor into the bearded lady’s hands.

For the bearded lady had received an
offer to go on the gallery door of a con-
tinuous vaudeville house, and this was
his farewell appearance at the museum.

—_—__> 9 .______
Glass Stopper Which Preserves Syrups.

A German pharmacist has invented
and patented a glass stopper by the use
of which the spoiling of syrups and
similar preparations is prevented. It
may be described as a double stopper,
one being within the other. The stop-
per proper extends upward from the lip
of the bottle, has a bulge just above the
lip, and has a bore-hole throughout its
entire length except that it has a per-
forated bottom. Another solid stopper
fits into the upper half of the larger
stopper. The lower half of the latter,
it will be seen, forms a chamber, which
is stuffed full with cotton saturated with
alcohol or chloroform, the vapors of
which, passing through the sievelike
bottom, fill the space above the syrup
and thus protect it from fungus growths,

0
Tobacco the Best Insecticide.

Most of the insects common to house
plants dislike tobacco as much as does
the cleanly housewife. The best way to
use it as an insecticide upon window
plants is to secure a good handful of to-
bacco stems, place them in an old
basin, pour boiling water upon them,
and let them stand for several hours.
Then drain off the liquid into a basin
or tub deep enough for immersing the
tops of your plants in, and dilute it
with warm water until it shows only a
faint tint of brown, Then take up the
plants one at a time and hold them, tops
down in the water, washing them clean.

——__.0.—__

The Unready Seeker.

A Georgia darky went out to an old
field to ‘‘seek and pray.”’

It was dusk and he knelt down and
put a long petition that the angels
would come and minister unto him.

Presently he heard a flapping as of
wings behind him, and in a second ‘he
was making race-horse time on the
home road, where he jumped into bed
and covered his head from sight.

Suddenly there was a loud knocking
at the door and his startled wife cried:

‘‘John, git up dar, fer de Lawd’s

 

sake! De angels you have been- sekin’
is come fer you!’’

**Le’m stay dar,’’ was the trembling
answer. ‘‘Tell ‘’em throo de keyhole
dat I ain’t goton wing ter fly wid, en
I too heavy ter tote!’’

4.
Care of Rings.

‘*If you want your rings to last well,’’
said a jeweler, ‘‘don’t wear them under
gloves. But if you decide that gloves
are a necessity, as probably you will,
then send your rings twice a year toa
jeweler to be overhauled.’’ The reason
for this warning is the constant friction
of the glove wears the tiny points that
hold the stones in place, and the result
is that the stones drop out, unless they
are constantly looked after. You might
not detect a loose stone, but a jeweler
would at once and thus might prevent
your losing a valuable gem.

There are some who assume to say or
claim to think that the general spread
of electric roads and the increasing
popularity of automobiles will put the
horse out of business, The statistics
furnished from the office of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture do not bear out this
proposition. The total value of all the
horses in the United States in 1868 was
$432, 696,226, whereas the value of all
the horses in this country in 1900 was
$603, 969,442. Anybody who has had any
occasion to buy within the last year or
two cannot have failed to notice the ad-
vance in price. There was a time two
or three years ago when horses were
comparatively cheap, but market values
have advanced and nowadays whoever
wants a really good horse must pay a
really good price. It will be a very long

time before electricity or automobiles

put the horse out of business.
a>? >__—_

Recent experiments have convinced
Paris physicians that balloons may be
used to advantage in certain cases.
They show that high altitudes can be
turned to account in the treatment of
diseases where it is necessary to accel-
erate the consumption of oxygen, and,
on the other hand, how harmful high
altitudes may be to persons and to the
sick who already consume oxygen in an
exaggerated fashion. It can, therefore,
be determined in advance and with cer-
tainty whether a patient ought or ought
not to be sent into a climate of high al-

titude.
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Senator Depew’s marriage will not
take place until about Christmas time,
but it is found recorded in the new con-
gressional directory. The Senator fur-
nished his autobiography for the vol-
ume expecting it would not be issued
until about the first of next year, but it
is already in circulation and this sen-
tence in the sketch of the Senator's
career reads strangely: ‘‘ Married, in
December, Igo1, to Miss May Palmer.’’

—___- 2-2 __.—

That the American people are flush
with prosperity is a reasonable deduc-
tion from statisics showing that during
the past year there has been an increase
of $14,000,000 in the value of articles
classed as luxuries imported into this
country. Of this amount over $10,000, -
ooo was for jewels and precious stones.
If a panic comes Americans will have
something to carry to the pawn shops.

———_> 2. —___

Students will no longer be given em-
ployment as waiters in the Yale dining
hall. In years past service of this kind
has afforded opportunity to many young
men to partially pay their way through
the college. The present superintendent
of the dining hall, however, says that
the student waiters were incompetent,
and colored men have been given their
places. About ninety are now employed.

 

The Vogue of Crystal.

Crystal is coming more and more into
vogue for many things, and attractive
pieces for the writing desk are to be
found in it. There is a paper knife,
for one thing, of the style of a carving
knife, the blade of crystal and the han-
dle of gilt. There is a pen tray of the
crystal with a pen rack in the metal se-
cured to the back, crystal and gilt can-
dlesticks, a big slab of crystal with
handles of the gilt forming a rolling
blotter, the inkstand, of course, and a
paperweight with a representation of
an Egyptian woman in metal at the top.

—_>_2 2 __
Rapid Growth.

‘*You are in business in Montana?’’
asked the passenger with the skull cap.

‘“Yes,’’ said the passenger in the
smoking jacket.

‘*Is business good out there?’’

‘*Yes. In the last two years our
plant has increased in size more than
1,000 per cent.”’

**Great Scott! What was the size of
your plant originally?’’

‘*It consisted of a pair of Belgian
rabbits, ’’

—_—_> 2.

A Yankee youngster who saw a Ger-
man dachshund for the first time the
other day described it a ‘‘half a dog
high and a dog and a half long.’’

BusimssHanls

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

VOR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise; also building; good location; no
competition; doing good business. Write quick
if you wish it. Address Lock Box 146, Omer,
Mich. 176

 

 

ok SALE—FINE STOCK OF CLOTHING
and shoes in best location in town of Char-
lotte, Michigan; store to rent at reasonable
terms. Enquire at A. J. Prindle’s store. 175

ANTED—A GOOD LOCATION TO OPEN
a dry goods or general store; if necessary
will buy stock, but must be a good business.
Address No. 174, care Michigan Tradesman. 174
TORE TO RENT—SITUATED ON MAIN
street, Belding, Mich., directly opposite
Hotel Belding; considered the best location in
the city for a store; size, 18x80 feet. with coun-
ters, shelving, desk, elevator and good dry base-
ment. Address W. P. Hetherington, Agent,
Belding, Mich. 173

VOR SALE—WHOLESALE BUTTER, EGG
and poultry business in best location in De-
troit, selling to retail stores, hotels and restau-
rants; doing $75,000 to $109,000 business per year.
A good bargain if taken right away. Reason for
selling, am largely interested in other business.
Address No. 172, care Michigan Tradesman. 172

j}}OR SALE—BOOK. STATIONERY, CHINA,
fancy goods, wall paper, window shades.
— mouldings; business established twenty-
ve years; manufacturing town; modern im-
rovements. Will sacrifice on account of iil
ealth; bargain for you. Address J. T. Muncey,
Three Rivers, Mich. 171

AVE IMPROVED FARM 80 ACRES FOR
stock general merchandise. John W. Cur-
tis, Whittemore, Mich. 170

OR SALE—BEST GROVERY IN NORTH-
ern Michigan, county seat; trade established
seventeen years; two-story brick building for
sale. Sickness, cause for selling. Hemstreet &
Hinman, Bellaire, Mich. 177

DMINISTRATOR’S SALE—THE ENTIRE

box and basket factory plant of the late P.
C. Wimer will be sold to the highest bidder at 10
o’clock a. m., Jan. 13, 1902, at the office of said
factory in Coloma, Michigan. This factory is
well equipped and has a fine trade in Southern
Michigan. For particulars callor address Fred
Bishop, Administrator, Coloma, Mich.

UR SALE—GRAIN ELEVATOR; MAIN

building 24x52 feet; office, 8x12 feet; engine
room, brick, 22x24 feet; storage capacity, 18,000
bushels; oc with 25 horse power engine
and boiler, seales, corn sheller, etc. Business
for on year shows a profit of $2,500. Address
L. E. Torry, Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. 161

Ege OUT OF BUSINESS. FOR SALE,
Cheap—aA silver-plated soda fountain (Tuft’s
Congress) complete, with two ten-gallon steel
fountains, tumbler holders, ice cream freezers
and cabinet, liquid carbon acid apparatus and
tile counter. ddress J. H. C. VanDeinse,
Greenville, Mich. 163

EAT MARKET FOR SALE—IN SOUTH-
ern Michigan in town of 6,000 and growing
fast; the best town in the State to do a good
business in and make money; everything in
first-class order; also power to run machinery
very cheap; best stock country and shipping
— in Michigan. Will bear the closest inves-
gation. Come and look it over and you will
buy. Reason for selling, wish to retire. Ad-
dress No. 159, care Michigan Tradesman. 159

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—RESTAURANT AND BAKERY,

cigar and confectionery stock. Soda foun-.

tain and ice cream machinery. Centrally located. *
Only restaurant in town. O. S. Clark, Cedar
Springs, Mich. 168

pe SALE—GRANDFATHER CLOCK; 100
years old; in fine condition. Box 309, West-
erville, Ohio. 167
OR SALE—GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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

NOR SALE—A NEW AND THE ONLY BaA-
zaar stock in the city or county; population,
7,000; population of county, 23,000; the county
seat; stock invoices $2,500; sales, $40 i day;
expenses low. Address J. Clark, care Michigan
Tradesman. 157

RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN CITY OF

5,000; invoices $1,500. Other business pe-
cessitates sale. Write at once for particulars to
No. 154. care Michigan Tradesman. 154

Ko SALE—UP-TO-DATE — $2,000 SHOE
stock, with good trade established ina good
live town of 2,000. Correspond with U & S, care
Michigan Tradesman. * 151
OR SALE—THE BEST PAYING CASH
business on earth; has been established 15
years;will inventory about $2,500; will show up
yearly —_ of $2,000 or better; will stand the
fullest investigation; only reason for selling is
my health. Don’t answer this unless you have
the cash and mean business. Lock box 562,
Owosso, Mich. 168

OB SALE—A GENERAL STORE WITH
about $2,000 stock, in good locality. Address

416 Erie St., Port Huron. Mich. 144
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 —_ fed by two boilers.

Docks and roads all built and everything read
for this winter’s cut. For full particulars ad-

dress H. F. Guerin. Horton Bay, Mich. 142

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. 1
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

UR SYSTEM KEDUCES YOUR BOOK-
keeping 85 per cent. Send for catalogue.
——— Cash & Credit Register Co., Scraaton,
‘a. 95
YOR 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
NOR SALE—STORE, GENERAL MERU HAN-
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 steck and
fixtures 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 percent. 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 in 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
VINE OPENING FOR DRY GOODS BUSI-
ness. 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
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
Tradesman. 63

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ANTED— REGISTERED PHARMACIST

to work in country store; state wages and

references. Address X. Y., care Michigan
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For Sale Cheap

Tables, Counters, Shelving,
Show Cases, Wall Cases,
Mirrors, Store, Window
and Office Fixtures, and
Electric Light Plant, all in
first-class condition.

L. Higer & Sons,
Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich.