> Mie! 7a 20 roy C24) 5) Zi ‘il Bt ADESMAN Nineteenth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1902. Number 974 Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO. Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, efficient, responsible; direct demand system. Collections made everywhere—for every trader. Cc. E. MCCRONE, Manager. ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 [Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Country Merchants City Merchants Traveling Salesmen Your personal bank account is solicited. A feature of this bank is that the moderate deposit of the merchant or individual in our commercial department is acceptable. 3% per cent. interest paid on savings certificates of deposit. Kent County Savings Bank Corner Canal and Lyon Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich. I . —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 L. J. Stevenson, Manager Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids. Don. E. Minor and W. J. Gillett, Attorneys. Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit. R. J. Cleland. A. H. Covert, J. D. Harger and R. H. Lane, Attorneys. Our Direct Demand Letters bring in the “good but slow” accounts 100% net. We protect our members against worthless accounts and collect all others. . WILLIAM CONNOR $ WHOLESALE READYMADE CLOTHING of every kind and for all ages. All manner of summer goods: Ipacas, Linen, Duck, Crash Fancy Vests, etc., direct from factory. 28 and 30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mail orders promptly seen to. Open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p. m., except Saturdays to 1 p. m. Customers’ ex- enses allowed. Citizens phone, 1957. Bell phone, Main 1282. 90000000 9O0000000008 Tradesman Goupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. 2 Getting the People. 3. Wildcat Banking. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Credit Customers. 7%. Selfishness the World Hankers After. 8. Editorial. 9. Clerks’ Corner. 11. Butter and Eggs. 12. Shoes and Rubbers. 14, The New York Market. 15. The Meat Market. 16. Hardware. 18. Clothing. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Dry Goods. 24. Behind the Times. 25. Commercial Travelers. 26. Drugs and Chemicals. 2%. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 29. Grocery Price Current. 30. Grocery Price Current. 31. .Grocery Price Current. Hardware Price Current. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. It is unfortunate that the church and the world are not identical. Since it is necessary to recognize that they are not, it is not out of place for a secular jour- nal to consider the relations of the church and the world in a secular way. Selfishness and passion make wrecks of many human lives, but, on the whole, the world is a good world. It is full of kindly impulse, but not so full of per- sistence in well-doing. Our moral sen- sibilities need constant jogging in order to be kept lively. Our altruism needs furbishing up once a week if it is to be kept shining bright. This is part of the work of the church. Possibly to the devout it may seem a small part, but it is that which a secular journal may properly consider. We can not discuss faiths in these columns, but we can dis- cuss works. To love thy neighbor as thyself is the ultimate accomplishment of altruism. When men have gone beyond that, as some have who have died for others, we call it something else, possibly hero- ism. Altruism—at least altruism in other folks—is the ideal of humanity. None is so debased that he does not recognize it as the crown of glory attain- able in this life. It is said, also, to be a wellspring of joy to its possessor. If, therefore, a spirit of altruism is the highest earthly good, surely the institu- tion which does most to promote altru- ism ought to be the object of our ten- derest regard and warmest support. No- body can truthfully deny and probably few will attempt to dispute that the church does more to promote altruism in the human soul than all other human agencies combined. It is, in fact, the only agency which continuously and earnestly and effectively seeks, at its own cost and by its own labor, and without hope or desire for reward, to discover unfortunate humanity, relieve its material necessities, strengthen its physical and intellectual powers and awaken its moral emotions. It gathers the children as soon as they leave their mothers’ arms. It provides healthful rec- reation for youth amid moral surround- ings. It wrests the morally weak from degraded companionship. It pursues its ministrations in the slums them- selves. No other human institution even attempts such work, Public ‘‘charity’’ is not charity, because it is unsympa- thetic and grudging. Its spirit is not ‘*how much we can do,’’ but ‘‘how lit- tle we can do’’ and yet save life. The charity of the church is all-per- vading, sympathetic and_ uplifting. Doubtless it preaches certain doctrines which some insist are not true. We do not see what difference that makes, even to unbelievers. The doctrines of the church certainly do not make men bad nor do they injure their material wel- fare. From the standpoint of the un- believer, faith is of no consequence. Why, therefore, should they not aid the church in its good works? All unbeliev- ers confess the beauty of altruism. Some make the loudest possible profes- sions of its possession. We do not know that any such body does anything in particular to relieve distress or inspire right conduct in daily life. Emotional discourse of a good time coming gives no present hungry man a dinner or helps him to be honest and self-respecting. Doubtless the church also looks toa glor- ified future, but meanwhile it hunts out the unfortunate now with us and re- lieves their distress. It is sometimes said that many churchmen are dishon- est. Doubtless that is true, but there are also dishonest unbelievers. There are dishonest Republicans and dishon- est Democrats, but none who favors Re- publicanism or Democracy declines for that reason to aid what he thinks to be a good cause. Why, then, should un- believers not aid the church in its good works? Why should they not attend its services for the moral stimulus which they will receive, even if they do not believe that there is such a thing asa soul and have no hope of a life immor- tal? It is good to be honest, even in this world. It is good to be self-respect- ing. It is good to respect others. It is good to help the unfortunate. All these things the church teaches and, if it has proud, selfish or dishonest members it knows them in spite of their professions and seeks to uplift them with the rest. It is the great moral agency of the world, and the world owes it to itself to support, aid and foster its beneficent mission. Charles M. Schwab, President of the steel trust, has discovered a better use for his money than trying to break the bank at Monte Carlo, as he did recently when abroad. He has purchased Rich- mond Beach, facing New York Bay on the south shore of Staten Island, and is going to have it thoroughly equipped as a pleasure ground for the poor children of New York City. It is expected that from 1,500 to 2,000 children can daily be accommodated there. A _ large steamer is to be provided to convey the little folk to the grounds and back to the city. Schwab must have been getting points from Carnegie, the man who put him on the road to fortune. Statistics show that 75 per cent. of male criminals are unmarried. This goes to show how many men prefer the penitentiary to matrimony, GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. It could not be otherwise but that the decision to inaugurate one of the great- est of labor strikes should have an effect upon the stock market, but it is a mat- ter for congratulation that the effect should not extend to the average of val- ues. There was a decided dulness and the roads immediately concerned showed declines, but as a whole the market has moved upward in the face of this usual- ly most potent bear factor. The effect of the strike movement was largely dis- counted in the preliminary agitation and the market seems to bank on the advan- tages to be gained from the enhance- ment of values of stocks on hand, of course at the expense of the public. The dulness in the United States steel shares would be sufficiently accounted for in the decision to carry out the scheme of funding in bonds. The general trade situation is still very satisfactory. The increase in the volume of general merchandise move- ment has been great enough to overbal- ance the lessened grain transportation on account of the corn failure, so that there is still a decided increase as com- pared with a yearago. This is not to be accounted for along any special lines, being simply the increase in all trade movement. Cool weather in many local- ities has hindered the opening of the spring season trade, but there is no mis- giving but that the buying will be enor- mous when it comes. Iron and steel production is still at the highest known in this country and its relative magnitude may be realized by comparing with other nations. The output of American works are now said to exceed the combined production of England and Germany. With the un- paralleled showing of a rate of over eighteen million tons of pig iron per annum there is still a constant diminu- tion of furnace stocks. While cotton has been suffering some at the hands of speculators, the general textile situation is more favorable. The labor situation is constantly improving. The absence of heavy stocks gives both woolen and cotton goods a ready mar- ket. Footwear shipments from Boston are one-fourth less than those of a year ago, but it is to be remembered that the vol- ume was abnormally large at that time. The movement compares favorably with other years. The only source of uneasi- ness in this trade is the excessive high position of hides. A German professor may have solved the problem of aerial navigation. He says an eagle has sufficient strength to draw a balloon, and, by means of nu- merous diagrams and elaborate calcula- tions he shows how eagles can be _har- nessed and the weights they can pull through the air, In spite of the ridicule with which his theory has been received among mechanical aeronauts, the pro- fessor is training a team of eagles for a balloon which he has in readiness. When a man refuses to buy his wife a new coat she is perhaps justified in say- ing that he doesn’t care a rap for her. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People ‘ Increasing Appreciation of Advertising in Trade. One of the effects of the greater atten- tion paid to the matter of reaching the public, through the columns of the local weeklies especially, is the greater ap- parent value attached to space. A few years ago the average weekly paper was run as though the duty of the local dealers was the support of the paper in- dicated by the buying and occupying of a certain space. Occasionally this space was designated as belonging to So-and- So, either for an issue or, if perchance neglected through laziness or other causes, its disfiguring blemish might be in evidence for weeks or months. Not much better than this would be the nominal filling of the space by a gen- eral display to be allowed to stand year after year until the type was worn to illegibility, this constituting the only change aside from an occasional] pull- ing of ‘‘sorts’’ likely to pass unnoticed for a month or so. This was common a few years ago, but such examples are rare in very recent observation. For one thing the advertising value of the newspaper is coming to a greater appreciation. The merchant who wishes to reach a certain community is glad to find that some paper is gener- ally in circulation there. He considers it fortunate if the division between the different publications is confined to as few as possible; more and more the _ lo- cal press is coming to be recognized in its local character, the distinction of politics and other causes of division be- ing met by other means. Not that the amount of circulation is properly any the less costly for the one covering the field than it would be for more. There is more of interest in the one local paper monopolizing a field than when the interest is divided, even when the spice of opposition or competition be- comes a factor. [The merchant who buys Space to-day buys it for the value it will yield in his business. He is not usually critical to find just how many are influenced by the publication, he has learned that much of the value is general. None the less, however, does he realize the concrete in his work, every issue is a study to make the space more effective. This results in a com- petition which raises the standard of all the other advertising and puts the pub- lisher into a lively method of work which affects his whole business. The modern publisher is a man of activity, the drones are eliminated by the process of absorption or killed by starvation. An effect of the better use of news- paper space is that it commands a better hearing. The old repetition of stale dis- play had no value except that by it the dealer performed his duty in the ‘‘sup- port of the paper.’* Modern papers do not have to be supported. I do not mean to say that the news- paper millennium has fully come by any means. There are occasionally indica- tions of support, but as a rule space is sold for its value and the coliector of advertising bills generally walks with as an independent a stride as anybody. * * * The Bryant Shoe Co. presents a good general display, but I think it could be improved by a little more specializing. For instance the abbreviation, ‘‘etc., etc.,’’ never sold any goods. Space should be occupied in listing the defi- nite articles or the white paper is bet- ter. ‘‘A Big Saving to Everyone,’’ too general—doesn't mean anything. There ONLY A FEW WEEKS MORE We have only a few weeks more to close out our large stock of Shoes, Rubbers, Trunks, Bags, Efc., Ete, ‘Remember these are from the best makes ever offered Kala- ™mazoo duyers and at very few prices. Bryant Shoe Co., slaSUROCeRORATTESRcOMRERceRddeReeeeseeeNeg A BIG SAVING TO EVERYONE Who buys an article from this ‘store. 4I7 West. Main Street. We want to talk with you about a PERFUMES: This is the season for them. Soon the flowers themeeclyes with all their fragrance will be here, but now ogr love for them is stirred and our imagination quickened by inhaling their delicate odor from the dew of kerchief. Have’ you ever tried LEIGHTNER’S -TRUE. PINK What memories of childood come over one! Again you are a chubby faced child carrying a bunch of sweet pinks to your teacher, or perhaps it is an odor of roses, and you have just awakened from a sweet sleep under the rose bush in the yard of your childhood home. Come in and see our line, or if you have already made your selection of a favorite odpr, ring up No. 223, Swaverly phone. Yours respectfally, MARSH, The Druggist INGALLS AVENUE L r Hale's Store News Friday, April 25, 1902 An Encouragement to “ Stick-to-ativeness’” A STORY: WITH A MORAL . tas > > Josh Billings once remarked: ‘‘My son, observe the postage » stamp. Its usefulness depends on its ability to stick to one ¢ thing until it gets there” Sound advice. Stick-to-ativeness or 9 @ persistence is the secret of this store’s marvelous success. Years ago we pitched our tent in this town. Our principal assets then were: youth, health, honesty and energy. Started with liabilities, too. In common with all young men our expe- rience was limited. Of course we made mistakes, many a one, which however only spurred us on to fresh endeavors, Yes, we stuck to it. You see our store to-day, and the end is not yet. Our growth is not like the mushroom, but like the sturdy oak. 3 Watch us grow, and grow with us. ‘ r. Hale & Co. ‘ The Orange Front Stores Watch This Space 2 4 > ’ ' =. din eae ll > Se Special Attention Is given to every detai] of our business, because 4 ’ ) a > = ‘ 7 3) 2 a Telephone calls are prompily answered, and How Peopte Lose Their. Money By concealing it sbout tnti™ ‘persons; by stowing it away in mugs, jugsand jay; by sewing it up in atirte aiid ticks; by tucking it under’the couches an¢ cafpets, w cupboards and bureaus drawers; : tnese are some .ot te ways. ‘by. whiet} people lose thelr ‘motey an sometimes their liye’ How People Save Their Money By depositing it in a. good, re- liable bank: Confident that this bank fully meets the pub * needs, we tender its ser- vices to all who believe in keeping on the safe side. THE Antrim County Bank McPhail & Richardson, Proprietors. LT, The most Exqusite Chocolates on the market are the Elk Brand made of the highest quality of Chocolate and fruit. For sale by all the leading confectioners and drug- gists in 1-2 Ib. Boxes only. S. B. & A. on every piece, —MADE. BY— Straub Bros. & Amiotte. Orders executed and goods delivered promptly. -EVERYTHINC—— that goes to make up an ideal, up-to-date store will be found ion. * Yar stock’ is Always. Fresh and-comptede.and:is com- posed of the Jatest. prodiipts of -Nature _and the Manufactorers: Art. . All You Have To Do ‘to bring these excellent facilities to your serviceis to “ring up” *!No. 2—two rings’,nd ask for SUPERNAW BROS. Suceesgors to W.L, French. East Jordan. Mich. , © We have & competent attendant to serve our patrons.’ | : s, the Bee BrP Mois Pe Mutis Mast ft § Menage ee ieee I EE NE BNE AE il. E. SWIFT CO, a@=—— HOUGHTON, MICH.——— PRP PSS VV OPC OVe AND [iINING SUPPLIES. Eh f-iWe carry the only complete stock in the Upper Peninsula, bought t from the man- ufacturers. Trade with us and save the smal dealers extra cost in buying from second hands. ‘Shelf and Heavy Hardware ; POSS O SSS SPOR COVE RAND DRILL PARTS IN STOCK. Good Meat Does anyone believe that good meat can be had from a half starved ani- © mal? Certainly not. To make wholesome and well flavored meat the animal mast be well fattened. That is the only kind f Duy and the only kind of meat I sell. Beckman TELEPHONE C6 is material here for a good general ad- vertisement, but it wants much trim- ming and re-arranging. A tastefully handled display is that of Marsh, the druggist, which isin keep- ing with the dainty treatment of the writer. The advertisement is a good one, but I would omit the ‘‘ Yours re- spectfully.’’ A good stirring argument as to the general status of the business is that of M. Hale & Co. This is based on a well- told and _ strong illustration which is of value on account of its brevity. Illus- trative stories are generally too long for use in advertising. The extent to which generalization may be carried is forcibly brought out in the advertisement of Supernaw Bros, The terms used in the description of the wares sold might apply to several lines of trade, but the most natural in- ference is that they are either drug- gists or grocers; I would be inclined to guess the latter. Now I submit that an advertisement which gives only the vaguest hint as to the line of trade fails in some essentials. It is of no special interest to those who know al! about it and it conveys no information to those who. do not except that they are located in East Jordan, Mich., and have a tele- phone. I. E. Swift Co. has a_ well written and displayed general advertisement, but there is a suspicion in the tf, that it may be run too long without change. I would omit the ornaments and space the location evenly between the faces of the other lines, A well-conceived argument as to the proper care of money is that of the An- trim County Bank. This is carefully and forcibly written and the printer shows excellent taste in its treatment. An ex- ceptionally good country bank advertise- ment. Straub Bros. & Amiotte show a well planned specialty announcement in their business. This is well handled by the printer except that there is a sug- gestion of mourning in his border. Beckman gets right to the point in a manner that is likely to be read and ap- preciated. The display of the printer could not be improved. It would satisfy my curiosity, however, and _ possibly convey information to others if location were mentioned. ——_>2>—__ Schoolboy Repartee. Professor Ellston, Superintendent of the Grand Rapids public schools, tells a joke on himself with much enjoyment. One day during an examination, when he was visiting various rooms, he stopped to ask a very bright boy a sum in algebra, and, although the problem was comparatively easy, he could not answer it. Professor Ellston remarked, and with some show of severity : + ‘*My boy, you ought to be able to do that. At your age George Washington was a surveyor.’’ The boy looked him straight in the eye and answered: ‘*Yes, sir, and at your age he was President of the United States,’’ The conversation dropped at point. that —»—4>____ He Knew How It Was. Mr. and Mrs. Peterby observed a very loving couple on the opposite side of the car, ‘*Do you see that married couple over there on the bench?’’ asked Peterby. ‘Yes, but I don’t believe they are married. They are too affectionate to be married,’’ replied Mrs. Peterby. ‘‘But I know they are. They are both married. His wife is in Europe right 2 her husband is an actor on the road.’’ ; eval. nae a D : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 WILDCAT BANKING. Tribulations of Michigan Merchants Fol- lowing Its Collapse. Written for the Tradesman. The fictitious value of real estate upon which the undivided issue of paper money was based had flooded the State with a circulating medium as the off- spring of unsound if not vicious bank- ing legislation, which inevitable col- lapse was followed by a reaction as sud- den as it was disastrous in its com- mercial consequences. It is not the in- tention of the writer to give in this paper a history of that eventful period in the early history of Michigan to which I refer. It would require a more graphic pen than mine to truthfully de- scribe the commercial and financial gloom that settled like a pall over our beloved Michigan, from which the lapse of a full generation was required to lift the veil. As is usual in all cases of financial and commercial disturbances or difficulties in which the whole peo- ple are involved, the country merchant came in for more than his share of the calamitous consequences. His stock of merchandise, bought mostly on credit in New York, had been sold to his ¢us- tomers on credit and they had nothing to pay him with that he would accept or could use in the Eastern market in pay- ment of his own obligations. The cir- culating medium in the hands of the people was literally worthless, The farmers had nothing to exchange for sound honest money to take the place of the worthless trash which was their only circulation at home. Among the merchant victims to these conditions, doing business in Coldwater, Michigan, was a brother-in-law of the writer, the late Frederick V. Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Leach. I was at that time salesman in a whole- sale house in New York, selling cloth- ing, cloths, cassimeres, vestings and trimmings. Mr. Smith, having bought his partner's interest in the business, proposed to me to join him in changing the business at Coldwater into exclus- ively clothing, we doing the most of our own manufacturing and being the first to engage in the manufacture of clothing in Coldwater. I was to do the buying in New York,he to manage the business in Coldwater. This arrangement proved to be very satisfactory in the end. Then. the question arose, How can we best collect or secure. the notes and accounts of the old firm of Smith & Leach? To solve this problem under the financial conditions then existing was the beginning of our tribulations. The entire volume of sound currency in cir- culation in Michigan that could be used to pay Eastern indebtedness was not equal to the business requirements of Grand Rapids alone for a single day. What could be done in this emergency? The people, as a rule, were bonest and ready to turn over any property they pos- sessed in payment of their obligations to the merchants. In the spring of the year of which I write there was an ex- cess of young cattle in the country. Venison and all kinds of game were plenty and cheap. Saddles of venison sold at three cents per pound and the best cuts of beef retailed at six cents. At an accidental gathering of some of the business men the subject of what could be done to relieve the situation was discussed. Any attempt to force collections would only make the ruin more complete. It was finally agreed between the following named business _men present, F. V. Smith & Co., Skeels & Lewis, L. D. Crippen & Sons and Hanchett & Cutter (the last named firm were physicians with a large country practiée, whose notes and accounts due them extended all over the country), to form a sort of alliance, offensive and defensive, by pooling their outstanding notes and accounts against the farmers and buying up a drove of cattle for the Eastern market. If it'was necessary to pay any money to secure the debt use as little as possible. The reader will remember that such a thing as shipping cattle by rail was then unknown. The Michigan Central only extended west to Ann Arbor and the Michigan Southern only to Hillsdale. Then the question came up, What shall we do with the cattle as fast as they are purchased and delivered? Luckily one of the parties to the agreement owned a large marsh near town which would furnish abun- dant pasturage for the summer and needed but little expense to enclose as it was mostly surrounded by cultivated farms. The enclosure was made com- plete and as soon as the grass was well started the buying began. The plan agreed upon was for each man to visit his delinquent customers and take in payment of the debts any merchantable cattle of any age that he was willing to turn over at a fair price in payment, and as fast as they were delivered in pasture report to one of the parties to the agreement who had been chosen a full description of the animals, cost, etc. It was a sort of a joint stock company. F. V. Smith was made Sec- retary and Financia] Manager. The result was the collection, before the time to start the drive, of a large drove of cattle of all ages, sizes and condi- tions. They grew so rapidly during the summer and so gained in general appear- ance as hardly to be recognized as the same Cattle on the first of October. Then came the tug of war, the long drive, which was under the personal direction of Mr. Smith. He added on his own account to the outfit a pair of matched horses and the long, tedious march through Ohio to Western New York was begun. The scheme proved to be a financial success and all the parties to it were well satisfied with the result. The minute incidents of that long, tiresome journey would be of but little interest to the readers of the Trades- man, but I think they will agree with || me that the trials and tribulations of the merchants doing business in the early days of Michigan history were many and grievous. W. S. H. Welton. ~~ 6 Her Boys Would Be Nothing But Men, Here is the story how Mrs. Caroline Corbin became the anti-woman suffragist leader in Chicago. Mrs. Corbin went tu school with Miss Susan B. Anthony, and not until years later the two women met in Washington. ‘‘What have you been doing all this while?’’ asked Miss Anthony. ‘‘Bringing up four boys,’ answer, ‘‘Bosh!’’ exclaimted the outspoken Susan. ‘‘What under the sun is a woman like you doing with four boys?’’ ‘*] don’t know. Would you expect me to strangle them?”’ ‘Bosh !’’ was the reply; ‘‘you should never have had them. They will grow. up to be men—nothing but men!"’ It was then that Mrs. Corbin became an opponent of woman suffrage. was the ——__>2+2>—_—__ New Result of Alcohol. The judge looked over his spectacles at the well dressed prisoner. ‘‘T suppose it was the output of the distillery that brought you here, my man?’’ he said in his somewhat labored way. ‘*Yes, your honor,’ replied the pris- oner. ‘‘It was one of them measly al- cohol patrol motors that did the job.’’ Che John G. Doan Company Manufacturers’ Agent for all kinds of Fruit Packages Bushels, Half Bushels and Covers; Berry Crates and Boxes; Climax Grape and Peach Baskets. Write us for prices on carlots or less. Warehouse, corner €. Fulton and Ferry Sts., Grand Rapids Citizens Phone 1881. WE WILL DELIVER i your goods the same day the order is received. We pride ourselves on our prompt deliveries. We have yet to receive our first complaint, either about our slowness or about the quality of our goods. E. J. KRUCE ® CO., Detroit, Mich. Manufacturers of D Crackers and Fine Biscuits Fans for Warm Weather Nothing is more appre- ciated on a hot day than a substantial fan. Espe- cially is this true of coun- try customers who come to town without provid- ing themselves with this necessary adjunct to com- fort. We have a large line of these goods in fancy shapes and unique designs, which we fur- nish printed and handled as follows: TOG oe de se $ 3 00 See 4 50 SOG ou. - | Sos MO ice aii, 7 00 ROO. ee uu ou 8 00 1600) a 15 00 We can fill orders on five hours’ notice if necessary, but don’t ask us to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid it. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Michigan ae HARES MPPs rentals cremate aot spe SP EP air ee a cree pesesecse E MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants.. Coldwater—S. A. Parrish, jeweler, has discontinued business. Dundee—The Standard Clothing Co. has removed to Clinton. Fruitport—Laug & Haan Laug & Co, in general trade. Saline—Otto Bliss bas purchased the drug stock of C. F. Unterkircher. Midland——Anderson Bros, succeed Ellery Anderson in the drug business. Dundee—Geo, H. Rathburn has _pur- chased the grocery stock of Romig & Co, Bay City—Henry Gagner has pur- chased the drng stock of Archie W. Her- rick, Battle Creek—Robert Stewart, of Rob- ert Stewart & Son, hardware dealers, is dead. Blissfield—H. E. Morrow has sold his clothing and shoe stock to W. G. White & Co. Bellevue—Wm. Donald, baker and confectioner, has removed to Battle Creek. Elkton—Harry Guppy has sold his general merchandise stock to Jameson & Son. West Bay City—Wm. A. Gregory has purchased the jewelry stock of Fred W. A. Kleineau. Coldwater—A. E. Morrison, dealer in boots and shoes, has sold out to B. R. Moore & Son. Port Huron—Henry McJennett & Co. succeed Mrs. Moore Coulter in the gro- cery business. Caledonia—Wenger Bros. succeed Z. G. Wenger in the hardware and imple- ment business. Berne—James Black has removed his general merchandise stock from Dean- ville to this place. Ann Arbor—The Allright Shoe Co. is the style of a new shoe house at 109 South Main street. Ludington—Eugene Murphy has _ pur- chased of A. Flewelling the stock of the Grand Union Tea Co. Escanaba—H. C. & W. Barr have engaged in the commission business on East Ludington street. Benton Harbor—P. W. Witherspoon, proprietor of the Home Cigar Co., has discontinued business. Grayling—The Grayling Mercantile Co. has filed articles of association. The capital stock is $8,000. Suttons Bay—Rufli & Strimel, meat dealers, have dissolved partnership, Jacob Rufli succeeding. Muskegon—Glenn R. Webber suc- ceeds Mrs. Zepha E. Kelly in the de- partment store business. Mecosta—Calkins_ Bros., furniture dealers and undertakers, have sold their stock to Boynton & Everitt. Clinton—Miss B. Brongersman is closing out her dry goods and bazaar stock and will retire from trade. Calumet—The Houghton County Bur- ial Co, has filed articles of incorpora- tion. The capital stock is $30,000, Chippewa dealer in dry goods and groceries, has removed to this place from M ayville. Dundee—The dry goods and notion stock of M. E. (Mrs. C. H.) Gainsley has been sold under chattel mortgage. Benton Harbor—The Michigan Fruit Co. is the style of a new enterprise at this place. Its capital stock is $10,000, Port Hope--Edward 0. Schmalz, dealer in dry goods, shoes and gro- ceries, has taken a partner under the style of Schmalz & Leese, succeed Lake—John M. Beatty, Manistee—H. Ward Leonard has pur- chased the clothing stock of Bidelman & Lane and will close same out at once. South Haven—Alexander H. Rudow, dealer in cigars, tobacco and sheet music, has sold out to E. O. Goldsmith & Co, Coldwater—Grice & Bitz, grocers and meat dealers, have dissolved partnership. The business is continued by Abraham W. Grice, Coldwater— Knott & VanArnam, man- ufacturers of plumbers’ supplies, have merged their business into a corporation under the same style. Union City—H. C. Moore & Son, lum- ber dealers, have dissolved partnership. The business is continued under the style of Moore & Sweet. Big Rapids—S. Baldwin, who lately sold his general merchandise stock at Collins, has removed to this place and engaged in general trade. Muskegon—J. W. Fleming & Co., lately engaged in the produce business att Big Rapids, have opened a butter and egg store at 227 West Western ave- nue. Benton Harbor—Jos. Getz bas sold his branch dry goods and millinery es- tablishment at Bangor to J. H. Wester and will devote his entire attention to his business here. Jackson—The entire grocery stock of the Parker & Fleming Co. has been closed out by Trustee Henry Neesley, who has had charge of the disposal and auctioning of the stock. Nortbport—A. Cohen, formerly en- gaged in the clothing and men’s fur- nishing business in Petoskey and later at Alanson, is arranging to dispose of his interests, and will locate at this place. Detroit—Henry T. Phillips, who has resided in Detroit almost since his birth in 1835, and who has been in the com- mission business since his early man- hood, has decided to retire from active business life. He will turn the commis- sion business over to his partners, Jacob M. Smith and William A. Davidson. He owns the Hotel Iroquois in Sault Ste. Marie, as well as property in this city. Houghton—The Lake Superior Prod- uce & Cold Storage Co. will shortly es- tablish a wholesale grocery department under the style of the Peninsula Whole- sale Grocery. The company has in- creased its capital stock from $100,000 to $500,000 and has purchased the build- ing now occupied by Graham Pope; also the Pope docks and warehouse and a strip of land adjoining and formerly owned by P. Ruppe & Son, of Hancock. Ishpeming—F. Braasted & Co., gen- eral dealers, have purchased the entire merchandise stock of S. Johnson & Co., including the buildings in which the business has been conducted. The trans- fer is a complete surprise to everyone, as it was not known that Mr. Johnson had thought of retiring from the mer- cantile business. A few days ago he decided to close out his stock of dry goods, clothing and furnishings, but an offer was made him by Mr. Braasted, which he accepted. Mr. Johnson has been engaged in the mercantile business at this city for the past thirty -years. Owosso—Hall Bros. have sold their retail grocery business to Stephen Fra- zer, of Owosso, and Sidney Frazer, of Durand, who will take possession June 1, Hall Bros., A. L. Nichols and A. E. Dutcher have organized a stock com- pany with $50,000 capital, and besides the wholesale line will conduct the bean elevator now run by Hall Bros, & Nichols. L. C. and W, E. Hall will handle the grocery work and be on the road part of the time. Mr. Dutcher will go on the road and W. S. Lamb, who has been traveling for the wholesale department more than a year, will take territory in the northern part of the State. Manufacturing Matters. Delray—The Independence Lumber Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $15,000, Lansing—The capital stock of the Lansing Veneered Door Co. has been increased from $5,000 to $50, 000, Kalamazoo—The capital stock of the Kalamazoo Pure Food Co. has been increased from $22,000 to $27,000, Detroit—The Detroit Graphite Co. will mine 1,000 tons of graphite next summer on land near L’Anse, Mich. Holland—The Pneumatic Horse Col- lar Manufacturing Co. has been estab- lished with a capital stock of $20,000, Detroit—The Dr. Reed Cushion Shoe Co., whose place of business is at 44 Larned street West, has filed a bill of sale to John M. Goodspeed for $3,000, Saginaw—The Sifter Stove Polish Co. is being organized here with a capital of $100,000, The operations of the com- pany will be carried on in Saginaw. E. C. Ewen is connected with it. Saginaw—The Valley Sugar Co, has executed a contract with the Kilby Man- ufacturing Co., of Cleveland, by which the capacity of the company’s plant at Carrollton is to be increased from a min- imum of 600 to 800 tons a day. 4 Battle Creek—The Honey Comb Choc- olate Chip Co, has purchased the lot at the corner of Mamblin avenue and Bar- ney street and will immediately com- mence the erection of a brick building three stories in height, 48x71 feet. Petoskey—The Cornwell Beef Co., a branch of the Saginaw Beef Co., State agents for Swift & Company, has located in the Pratt building on Lake street and will hereafter supply its customers from this office instead of from Traverse City, as heretofore. Freeport—Two churns are now used to make the butter at the Freeport creamery, one not being sufficient to take care of the rapidly increasing busi- ness, The large separator put in recent- ly did not meet expectations and four of a less capacity are now doing the work satisfactorily, Benton Harbor—The Michigan Fruit Food Co. is a new concern organized and almost ready to begin operations, It will put up canned fruits, fruit syrups and juices. The incorporatorsare: H, M. Lawson and E. T. Gardner, Battle Creek, and Frank V. Eastman, of this city. Capital stock $10,000. Kent City—A. L. Power, who started a cheese factory here in 1889, and who leased the factory three years ago to Albert N. Saur & Co., has resumed the management of the business, Mr. Power has served the factory as salesman ever since it was established. Eugene O’Con- nor is acting as maker, this being his sixth season with the factory, Detroit—The Sterling & Skinner Man- ufacturing Co, has filed articles of as- sociation to manufacture metal goods, The capital stock is $25,000, divided into 2,500 shares of the par value of $10 each. The stockholders are: R, R,’ Sterling, 750 shares; F. J. Skinner, 750 shares; E, J. Raney, 500 shares; J. F, McDougall, 100 shares; J. C. Danziger, 400 shares. Holland—At a meeting of the direc- tors of the Holland Sugar Co., held last week, an additional dividend of 6 per cent. was declared, making 16 per cent. in all as the result of last season's busi- ness, The company hasalso greatly re- duced the indebtedness on the plant from the profits of the last campaign, which was the most successful in the history of the institution. Battle Creek—The Pan Peptogen Co, Limited, has filed articles of association in the sum of $1,000,000, there being 10,000 shares at $100 each. The stock is divided in first preferred, second pre- ferred and common. A food remedy to increase the actiun of the stomach in assimulation, digestion and nutrition, to be known as Pan Peptogen will be manufactured and sold by the company. The officers are: Chairman, Stephen S. Hulbert; Secretary, Margaret E. Pal- mer; Treasurer, Bernard J. Owen. Caro—A company composed of Caro, . Saginaw and Bay City beet sugar man- ufacturers has been organized at this place for the purpose of manufacturing vinegar from the refuse syrup of the sugar factory. It is proposed to make this new venture the parent industry of several other enterprises, such as an evaporator, pickling works, etc. The new company is capitalized at $10,000 and officered as follows: President, Chas. Montague, Caro; Vice-President, W. C. Penoyer, Saginaw; Secretary and Treasurer, F. S. Wheat, Caro, > > ___ The Boston Egg and Produce Market. Boston, May 19—Receipts of eggs for the past week have been extremely heavy, exceeding those of last week and the corresponding week last year by about 6,000 cases, but the cold storage warehouses have absorbed about all the surplus, and we have had a very steady market. There begins to be a greater discrimination in quality. Fine stock from northern sections is selling at 17 @174%c when carefully selected and packed for cold storage, but regular packings from southerly sections have been selling lower ranging from 15%@ 16%4c, Receipts of butter are also increasing. The market during the week has tended somewhat in the buyer's favor and _ re- ceipts this week have shown consider- able grass, but quality is not yet good enough for cold storage and there has been fully enough received to supply the local consumptive demand, and there was a slight accumulation during the latter part of the week, We quote to-day fine Northern and Western cream- ery that will grade extra 23c, dairies from 20@22¢, fine packing stock and ladles selling from 18@2oc, Smith, McFarland Co. ——__-20>_____ Not Making Trading Stamp Men Rich. Saginaw, May 20—-Saginaw merchants have all agreed to stop the use of trad- ing stamps and program schemes. As a result Saginaw merchants are not aid- ing the trading stamp men to build mil- lion dollar residences at Ypsilanti. Saginaw merchants use two newspapers only to cover the field and they use no other form of advertising, The intro- duction of daily newspapers on the rural route makes the farmer almost a resi- dent of your town and the merchants of our City are content to use what Wana maker uses exclusively to hold his big trade, namely, newspapers, D. E. Prall. REMEMBER We job Iron Pipe, Fittings, Valves, Points and Tubular Well Supplies at lowest Chicago prices and give you prompt service and low freight rates. 20 Pearl Street GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Produce Market. Apples—Ben Davis is about the only variety left. Choice stock commands $4.50 per bbl. Asparagus—45c per doz. Bananas—Prices range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime yellow stock, Beets—soc per doz. for new. Cabbage—Florida, $3.25 per South Carolina, $2.75. Celery—California Jumbo commands 80c per doz. Cranberries—$2.50 per crate for Cape Cod. Cucumbers—65c_ per house. Figs—Five crown Turkey command 14@15c. Greén Onions—tioc for Evergreens and 15c for Silver Skins, Green Peas—$1.25 per bu. box. Honey—White stock is in ample sup- ply at 15@16c. Amber is in active de- mand at 13@14c and dark is in moder- ate demand at 1o@IiIc. Lemons—Californias $3.50, Messinas $3.60@3.75. Lettuce—iIoc per Ib. for hothouse. Maple Sugar—1o%c per Ib. Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy. Onions—Bermudas, $2.50 per crate; Egyptian, $3.75 per sack; Louisiana, $4 per bbl. of 3 bu. Onion Sets—Top, $1.25 per bu. ; yel- low, $1.75; red, $2; white, $3. Oranges—California navels fetch $4 per box for fancy. St. Michaels and Fancy Mediterranean Sweets command $3. 50@3.75. Parsley—35c per doz. Parsnips—$z per bbl. Pieplant—2c per Ib. Pineapples—Havanas command I5c for No. 1 and 13c for No. 2. Floridas bring $3.50 per. crate. Butter—The market for factory cream- ery is lower and weak at 22c for fancy and 21c for choice. Dairy grades are . in strong demand at 16@17c for fancy to 15@16c for choice and 14@15c for packing stock. Receipts are heavy. Eggs—Receipts continue heavy, with apparently no lowering in quality. Lo- cal dealers pay 13c per case and 14c for candled. The market East is higher, _ which is taken to indicate that the stor- ages there are not yet full. Potatoes—The market is weak and lower and dealers who have stock on hand are using their best endeavors to unload, which naturally tends to de- press the market. Poultry—The market is strong and steady. Dressed hens fetch 10@IIc, chickens command 12@13c, turkey hens fetch 13@14c; gobblers command 12@ 13c; ducks fetch 13@14c. Live pigeons are in moderate demand at 50@75c and squabs at $1.20@2. Live poultry meets with active demand at the following prices: Spring broilers, 20@22c; chick- ens, g@I1oc; hens, 8@g9c; turkey hens, 10%@11%c; gobblers, 9@1oc. Radishes—2oc per doz. Spinach—6oc per bu. Strawberries—Tennessee and South- ern Illinois command $2.75 for 24 qts. Tomatoes—$3 for 6 basket crate. Vegetable Oysters—2oc per doz. Wax Beans—$z2 per bu. box. Death of Mrs. John W. Harvey. The many friends of John W. Harvey will sympathize with him in his deep bereavement in the loss of his wife, who died at their home in Detroit, May 6, from the effects of blood poisoning caused by the accidental prick of a pin. Laura Louise Hopkins was born and brought up at Grand Haven, where she resided with her widowed mother, Mrs. John W. Hopkins. She was educated at Olivet College and was married to Mr. Harvey in June, 1894. They resided at one time in Grand Rapids, where they were well known. Mr. Harvey, up to January 1 of this year, represented Burnham, Stoepel & crate. doz. for hot- Co., of Detroit, in Northern and West- ern Michigan, but since then has be- come manager and buyer of the domestic department of the above firm, which necessitated his removal to his place of business, They were comfortably lo- cated in their home on Alexandria ave- nue since March 1. Mrs. Harvey was of a genial disposi- tion, beloved by all who knew her, al- ways amiable, not knowing what trouble was and her married life, blessed by the three bright faces of her young children, was a continuous ray of sunshine, only clouded when the grim reaper, Death, took her from those she loved. She died, as she lived, perfectly happy, not knowing the end was coming, for she became unconscious the morning of her death, and thus was spared the last agonies which accompany that dread ordeal, passing gently into peaceful sleep. Friends from Grand Rapids and Grand Haven attended the last sad rites, which were conducted by Rev. Mr. Jennings, of the First Presbyterian church. The music was rendered by Harold Jarvis, who sang ‘‘ Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.’’ Flowers of many kinds covered her casket and she was borne to Woodlawn cemetery. She leaves be- hind her the remembrance of a loving wife, a devoted mother and a faith in Him who doeth all things well. ‘ —____~._2 > _____ Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool. The hide market is without change, there not being enough hides to change it. There is a demand, but it is below the asking point. There is little use to crowd prices up, as there are so few hides to crowd; nor will tanners buy freely at the present prices. Eastern tanners have stopped working in beyond what they are obliged to have. Their offers are a point below, with an oc- casional raise to supply a car or for some other object. The high price does not bring in one more hide, and trading is uncertain. . Pelts are few, except lambs and shearlings, which sell readily at fair prices. In tallow there is no accumulation. Prices are well up and any grade is readily taken. Everything edible goes quickly. Soapers’ stock is easier, but is in no supply. Wools are draggy at the seaboard. No advance can be obtained. Sales are small. While in the states wool is being marketed freely at relatively higher values than can be obtained East, buy- ers do not understand why wool should be at extreme low, and al) other condi- tions at a high one and have faith in the future on wool. It is being bought free- ly at country points, while little has left the State. Buyers generally are conserva- tive, although some are on their high horse and offer well un to all they can obtain on to-day’s market. Wm. T. Hess. +» 6. John Hondorp (Sherwood Hall) broke the bone of the little finger of his right hand while playing ball two weeks ago last Saturday. His hand swelled so badly that road work has been out of the question, but he expects to be able to resume his visits to his trade next week. 2 6 Nelson Morris & Co. appear to be in bad odor in other places besides Grand Rapids. They recently paid a fine of $100 at St. Paul for using borax in their meats, ——_—_>2 > —____ The capital stock of the Valley City Gold Mining Co. has been increased from $30,000 to $50, 000, The Grocery Market. Sugar—The raw sugar market shows a somewhat weaker tendency, with a de- cline of 1-32c on 06 deg. test centrif- ugals. The world’s visible supply of raw sugar is 3,200,000 tons, showing a decrease of 210,000 tons under May 7, Ig02, and an increase of 950,000 tons over the same time last year. In sym- pathy with the easier market for raws, the refined market has an easier ten- dency and many look for still lower prices. Dealers, asa rule, are lightly stocked and, in the event of warmer weather, an increased demand is looked for, which will sustain prices, but the course of prices will be regulated toa great extent by the future market for raw sugar. Sugars are certainly cheap at practically the lowest point, both for raws and refined, at the beginning of what promises to be a tremendous con- sumptive demand during the next six months, Canned Goods—This will be, unless all signs fail, one of the busiest seasons in the canned goods line that we have had for a long time. The crop condi- tions are excellent. The stocks of all kinds of canned goods are _ probably lighter than was ever known before at this time of the year. Not only are the stocks in the hands of the packers light, but also in the hands of dealers as well, and consumptive demand is heavy. There is a continued good demand for spot tomatoes—far greater, in fact, than can be readily supplied. Stocks are exceedingly light and many mar- kets are entirely cleaned up. What few have any spot stocks are holding them very firmly and offering only in small quantities and these offerings are almost immediately snapped up. There are still two months before us in which the consumption of tomatoes has always been large in the past, and there is no reason why the present year should be an exception, but we do not see where the guods to supply this demand are coming from. Futures are selling well, there being a continued good demand for the goods at full quotations. Pack- ers remain very firm in their views and no concessions in price are made. There is some business in the fancy grades of corn at previous prices, but business, as a rule, is very quiet in this line. Peas are quiet with, perhaps, a slightly easier tendency. Interest is centered in the outcome of the new patk, which now promises to be larger than last year and of superior quality. The acreage this season will be as large, if not larger, than it wasin Igol. A very few pine- apples have been packed at Baltimore, but not enough yet to amount to any- thing, but within a few days packing will begin in earnest and judging from what few have arrived the fruit will be as prophesied, of very fine quality, even better than last year. Sardines are in fair request and steady at quotations, 3s mustards being very scarce and strong. Salmon still continues very firm, with excellent demand. In fact, fish of all varieties and in all styles is meeting with excellent demand, taking to a great extent the place of meat. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market is in good condition, with trade along the entire line very satisfactory for this time of the year. Regarding the crop outlook, generally speaking, the coming crop in California, of all classes of fruit, with the exception of prunes, will be a good one, both in quality and quantity. Prunes supply the most inter- esting feature in the dried fruit market }and a very satisfactory yolume of busi- ness is reported, and a firm market pre- vails, although prices show no_ change. As reported heretofore, indications are for a very light crop of prunes this year and everything points to much higher prices than have been ruling recently; Raisins continue steady and are in good request. Seeded are going out well in a small way. Stocks are not heavy and prices are very well sustained. Apricots and peaches are in good demand and are very firm. In dates a good buying interest maintains at full prices. The situation statistically is very strong with the tendency upward. Figs are in good request at firm prices. Currants are in good demand at unchanged prices. Rice—Locally, there is nothing of particular interest in the rice market, but from the South comes the report that sales are far in excess of last year and that the market has been consider- ably strengthened by large purchases by the Government for the relief of suffer- ers at Martinique. This causes a firmer feeling all over the country and holders are not urging sales, expecting that prices will advance shortly. Teas—There are practically no new features in the tea market. As there was no special desire on the part of holders to urge sales, prices for most grades of teas were steady and without important change. Green teas were firmly held, particularly the lower grades, which are in moderate supply. Grocers still cling to the hand-to-mouth policy in making purchases. Molasses and Syrups—The position of the market on molasses was steady but quiet, and without change, Business, as usual at this time of the year, being between seasons, was moderate and of small lots only. The usual dulness is about to set in and will continue until August. Stocks in hands of dealers are moderate, and are reported as insuffi- cient to meet regular requirements. be- fore the arrival of the new crop. The market on cans of corn syrup is a trifle weaker and prices show a decline of 3c per case. Fish—Trade in fish is very good and mackerel shows some advance, caused by the large demand and scarcity of these goods. Nuts—Nuts are quiet, with but little doing. Peanuts are somewhat easier and show a decline of c. Rolled Oats—Rolled oats are active but unchanged in price. There is an extraordinary demand for case goods at previous prices. > 2. Geo. Jacoby, who recently started in on his third season with Holzman Bros., of New York, was stricken with pa- ralysis at his hotel in Marshall a week ago last Monday. He was brought to this city the same evening and is still in a critical condition, although his friends and physician are confident of his recovery. ———____—~>_2.—__—— Joseph Finkler (Spring & Company), who is not as blithe as he used to be, bruised his lower limbs in attempting to step from one train to another at the union depot one day last week. He will probably be laid up a couple of weeks in consequence of his haste. —__~>_4—__—_ Hart Bros. have purchased the Stad- don Hotel, at Centerville, and are re- modeling and refurnishing it through- out, including electric lights and steam heat, making it a first class-hotel. —___>+.>—__—— For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. a C* MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CREDIT CUSTOMERS. Those Who Talk Loudest Seldom Safe to Trust. Written for the Tradesman, When Sam Strong moved his family to Kelly Center and went to work in the pickle salting plant he took occasion to call early on Hank Spreet, the vil- age grocer, and state his opinion on the question of Cash vs. Credit. There was the usual large audience around the front doorstep of the store, to which place they had adjourned with the com- ing of spring after hugging Hank’s oak heater all winter. Some of the old tim- ers who owed Hank antediluvian ac- counts may have winced a little when they heard Sam’s declaration of prin- ciples on this subject so much discussed in mercantile circles. “I believe,’’ declared Sam, with a grandiloquent sweep of his hand, ‘‘that a man should pay as he goes.”’ ‘‘Or better,’* replied Hank, who had investigated Sam a little and had heard something of his fly-by-night habits, “as he comes.’’ **You know what I mean,’’ said Sam with a questioning look out of the cor- ner of his eye at the grocer. ‘‘A man had ought to pay fer stuff when he gits it. I believe in a man doin’ business 0. 'D:"" “You're right, Sam,’’ Hank replied, “‘but I’ve got a lot of accounts that were started C. O. D. that are in the D. O. C. class now.’’ “* *D. O. C.?’ Well, I’ve studied the *breviations in the back of the ackey- demic dictionary enough times, but | don’t know as I recall that term— What’s it mean?’’ ““Don’t Often Collect. Y'see, some people are like a dog chasin’ a cow out of a garden. A dog’ll chase a cow all over a string bean patch and through the tomatoes and the cucumbers before it ever gits the animile out of the gate. Its intentions are good, but when it comes to carryin’ of them out it don't amount to much.’’ ‘‘Well,that may be the way with some people, but not with me. My wife wants a pound of butter an’ a dozen an’ a half of eggs an’ a package of rolled oats an’ a pound of cookies an’ if you’li just put them up I'll pay the bill now. That’s the way I do business, ’’ The grocer put up the goods as re- quested and Sam walked proudly out of the store, conscious that the eyes of the seven leading citizens of Kelly Center were fixed in awe upon him. “If you cud get a few more customers like that,’’ remarked Bill Blivens, ‘“‘you’d soon be on Easy street, as the fellar says. He seems to have money.’’ **Mebbe,’’ drawled Eli Snodgrass, who is a man of more penetration than Bill, *‘mebbe it’s a bonus they give him in the last town to induce him to move aout. ’’ ““Well, we don’t know, an’ what’s more we don’t care,’’ replied Hank, dropping into the editorial ‘‘we’’ for the sake of making a bad pun, ‘‘but we like that kind of bonus a darn sight more than we do the kind we get in this here store when you fellars come in an’ bone us fer credit.’* The pun so pleased Eli he secured one of the cigars from the private brand in his desk and treated himself to a smoke. Sam’s financial standing at Hank’s store kept good. For a week he dropped in every day and bought something and he invariably paid cash. Then one day he dropped in and bought quite a bill of goods. It came to $3.14. “Well, I'll be durned,'’ he remarked in surprise, ‘‘I never thought just that little stuff would come to that. I only brought two dollars with me, but I'll hand you the rest the next time I come in. Prices’ are gittin’ a little steep, ain’t they?’ Hank informed him he was selling goods just as cheaply as they were ‘‘down totown.”' He gladly accommo- dated Sam with the $1.14 balance and put it on the books. The next time Sam came in he was on his way home from work and didn't have the pocketbook with him. He al- ways let his wife handle the cash, he explained. He took away a fair-sized bill of goods. Mrs, Strong came to the store the next time the Strongs did any purchasing. It was the first time she had been in the place. She stocked up well on calicoes and staples—provisions, not hardware—and had the bill charged to her husband, as a matter of course. Hank thought that this was a little strange, in view of the fact that she was the person who handled the family purse, but he said nothing. The next purchase from the C. O. D. man’s family came from the little girl. Her mother sent her down for ‘‘a few things’’ that footed up $4.41. When she had departed Hank did some figuring. He found that the man who paid as he went bad set him back $13.97 so far. Then he locked up and went over to the salting plant. Sam was very much surprised to dis- cover how much he owed. Of course, he couldn’t fix it up until pay day now, and then he would come in and square the account. He was as pleasant as could be. So was Hank. The Strongs came again. The bill grew. So did Hank’s anxiety. At first Sam made ex- cuses, Finally he got so he did not even make excuses. Hank kept his temper through it all. Strange to say, this an- gered Sam. He had been used to cred- itors who fought with him and allowed him to take refuge behind a personal quarrel and give that as an excuse for not paying his debt. One day Hank asked him as pleasantly as possible for something on account. Sam replied he would pay when he got ready and not before. Sam was a little mad when Hank tied up his month’s salary at the salting plant and got a judgment in garnish- ment proceedings in Justice of the Peace Marble’s court. He was angry principally at himself, but it was Hank he blamed. Hank had always been so pleasant about the matter and had never threatened anything like this. If he bad done so Sam could have had his month’s wages out of the company’s hands be- fore Hank could touch it; but Hank had refused to quarrel with him and, when he suddenly invoked the law, he caught Sam off his guard. Worst of all, although Sam wisely and quietly confessed judgment, it some- what impaired his credit in the com- munity. He had been working his credit overtime of late and it could not stand a great deal anyway. The fact de- pressed Sam so much that he resigned his position in the salting plant and the Strongs folded their tents like the Arab and silently stole away. Thanks to Hank, it was not necessary for Kelly Center to offer a bonus. ‘‘That’s the way with them C, O. D. men,’’ said Hank to the seven leading citizens the day after Sam’s unexpected departure. ‘‘They do lots of C. O. D. talking sometimes, but they can’t cod pe. As he finished speaking a stranger mounted the steps briskly. ‘“Is this Mr. Spreet?’’ he asked. ‘‘Guilty,’’ replied the storekeeper. ‘‘T’ve just come up from town to take some fellow’s place in the factory. Other fellow went away kind of sudden, I guess, and left them inthe lurch. My name is Will Seddel. My folks’ll move up to-morrow and I’ll want to get some groceries. I’m kind of short of money just now, but I’ll be all right pay day. I'd like to stand you off for what I'll want until then,’’ Kelly Center smiled and felt a little sorry for the stranger, while Hank cogi- tated a moment. Hank's experience with Sam Strong was too recent for the Stranger to stand any show of getting credit. Hank looked up at the stranger. ‘You ain’t got no money so you kin pay cash?’’ ‘‘I’ve got some, but I'll need that for other things—moving and like that.’’ ‘*You don’t make it a practice to pay cash?’’ ‘‘A man working for monthly wages sometimes can’t.’* ‘‘Well, seein’ that you ain't one of them fellars that ‘pays as he goes,’ I guess it’ll be all right.’’ Douglas Malloch. a Generous to a Fault. Bings—I never saw such a generous man as Smithers. He'll divide with anybody. Bangs—Yes, no matter how much they have. Imported HIOGO JAPAN RICE The Perfect.ion Up-to-Date Peanut. Machine Throws out one cent boxes Salted Peanuts. Send for circular and prices to The Caille-Richards Co., Sole Manufact.urers, Union City, Mich. Hopper, Dormant, Scales R. R. Track, Abbatoir, Coal, Depot, Portable, Wagon, Stock, Grocer, Postal, etc. Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Write DETROIT or CHICAGO. _ Grand Rapids Bark and Lumber Co. Hemlock Bark, Lumber, Shingles, Railroad We pay highest market loaded. Correspondence solicited. Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich. Ties, Posts, Wood. prices in spot cash and measure bark when C. A. Phelps, Sec’y and Treasurer W. A. Phelps, President D. C. Oakes, Vice-President f MEN _ WANTED—Enguire at our camps at Spencer, Mich. cia MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 The Kind of Selfishness the World Hankers After. Written for the Tradesman. How little she was! How bent over she was! How poorly dressed she was! The little basket she carried had been broken and mended until it was all knots and strings and when Ben Bartlett came to where she was trying to pick out the smallest and poorest radishes and he had a good look at the thin hand there was something about it that hinted at a time when it was fair to look upon and made him curious to gaze into the face of the owner. It was wrinkled and thin and had a pinched appearance that meant hunger, but over it all there were a gentleness and patience and endurance that the young fellow had never seen before. What amused him at first and then saddened him was the too evident desire of the customer to have the best and then, after due deliberation, to make a virtue of necessity and select the cheapest, and so the poorest, vegetables before her, Her deliberation gave hima chance to study her and he did not hesitate to im- prove it. It was, he thought, the old story of better days and this was the wind-up of them. So he watched and, without knowing why, began to be curi- ous. What a discouraging thing it must be to have to live and know that you are going behind all the time and not be able to help yourself. Think of coming down to your last ten dollar bill, know- ing it is your last and not knowing where another is coming from! How it seems to buy your last garment and then, ten cents at a time, eat up all the money you have in the world! No friends, no relatives—nothing! What if she were his own mother! This woman was just about her age, only so much thinner, and with such a hopeless look in her face. What if this woman were sbe; and he thought of his mother in the home buried in the blossoms of the apple orchard where the birds and the brook and above all the sweet wind and the bright sunshine were holding high carnival that rare May day. ‘‘I—I think I will take these,’’ the gentle voice said as the gentle hand placed upon the counter the meanest bunch of radishes in the store. Back from the sun-flooded farm came the home-loving Ben with the ‘‘what’’ thought still in his mind and, taking the shriveled little radishes in his hand, he looked at them with a scowl! upon his face. ‘*Not these, madam, if you please. They ought to have been thrown away long ago. See here,’’ and, breaking the best and so spoiling the bunch, if it could be spoiled, to show how worthless it was, he put it one side, saying, ‘‘ Let me select for you.’’ ‘‘I can’t afford to pay for those fine ones,’’ the little gentlewoman hastened to say as Ben reached over and picked out two of the best bunches. ‘‘l—er— only wanted just a taste.’’ ‘‘And that’s what I’m going to give you. You see, |’m a farmer’s boy—out of place here—and so I know what rad- ishes are. Here’s a dainty littie crisp one. Just try that.”’ As he spoke he put the root into her hand. It was all he claimed it to be and she quickly put it into her mouth. The eagerness of the movement told him all he wanted to know. He went to another counter and brought hera chair. ‘‘Please have a seat,’’ he said. ‘*T have some of the finest bananas we have ever had in the store. There! Isn't that a fine one? 1’ll turn back the peel for you.’ He placed the prepared fruit in her hand and then, going to the baker’s counter, he brought two of the best fat cookies that had been brought in a few minutes before and that were making everybody hungry that smelled _ their warm appetizing odor. ‘‘My mother always wants some sort of cookie with bananas and I hope you will like these. She likes caraway seeds in hers, but we haven’t that kind. I’ll let the radishes remain where it's cool until you are ready forthem. Then, looking at the clock, he said, ‘‘ The de- livery wagon goes out in about ten min- utes, and shan't I have the driver take them for you? Let me have your ad- dress, anyway. A bundie of radishes isn’t a nice thing for a lady to be troubled with and I’ll see that they get home before you do. A dainty flush came into her pale face at ‘‘lady’’—just the faintest perceptible lifting of the chin at the ‘‘trouble’’— and when she gave the address there was a something that suggested the old and better days and that had the effect of strengthening a rapidly growing resolu- tion in Ben Bartlett's breast. ‘There is no doubt about it,’’ he said to himself as the little gentlewoman turned away. ‘‘Something is going to be done about it, and I’m going to do it. That isn’t the part of the town that she ought to be in. 1’ll go around there to-night and look the ground over. I believe I can doa good thing for her and the rest of us at the same time. She'll have something to eat to-morrow besides bananas and cookies or I'll know the reason why.’’, He found the little house, where his customer had a single room,in the poor- est part of the city. She met him as he knew she would and, when he had taken a seat in the room which had to be elegant in spite of its wretched furnish- ing because she was in it, Ben, at the proper time, and with an earnestness and a kindness which could not give offense, said: ‘*T may have come on a fool’s errand, Mrs. Wainwright, but ever since I’ve been in the city I've been having a dreadful time about a room. There isn’t a clean rooming house in the city. 1 haven’t been brought up that way and 1 can’t stand it. There are about seven other fellows just like me. We want a comfortable house in a respectable neighborhood where we can have some- thing that resembles a home. We want a lady who knows what a home is to come and make one for us. If we will find the house would you be willing to come and have a room there and keep us going? All of us furnish our own rooms and you shall have the back par- lor and the bedroom out of it for being a kind of chaperone to us. We’re not a bad lot. After you have tried it fora while if you care to go on we'd be mighty glad to have our breakfasts there for the sake of having a cup of coffee once a day that is fit to drink. We know the house we want and can get it. We'll help you move and we'd like to do it as soon as we can without incon- veniencing you—that is, if you are will- ing to help us out. Do you think you can be induced to come?’’ ‘Il am glad to come, and the sooner the better. Can we—can’t we go at once?’’ The house stands on a street that used to be in the fashionable quarter of the town. It is surrounded by fine old trees and, built by a man with means QUALITY AS WELL AS who wanted it for a home, has all the little conveniences that comfort calls for and could get twenty-five years ago. There are eight fellows, all home boys and all well brought up, and they are having, for less money than it used to cost them, better living than they ever hoped to have until they can earn money enough to pay for it. From the start the ‘‘new combination’’ was a benefit to all concerned—especially so to the little gentlewoman whom Ben Bartlett's kind- ness of heart prompted him to help. Only to him did she ever tell her story, and a single sentence is all that we care toknow. The banana and the cook- ies were the only food she had had for days, and then she would have re- fused if they had been offered in any other way. She says she can never pay that boy for what he did that day. Per- haps she never can; but somehow Ben’s cup has the thickest cream, and his but- tons never come off, and his handker- chiefs are always smootb, and if there is any difference in the steak the ten- derest piece manages in some way to get on Ben’s plate. The only remark Ben ever made was to the effect that it was a piece of con- summate selfishness on his part and knocks into smithereens the idea of its ever being more blessed to give than to receive. Richard Malcolm Strong. ———_—~>_2.___ There is a man in Hastings whose wife gives him a blowing up every time he is out late at night. Recently he went home late and took with him to his bedroom an umbrella.’’ There was a bright light burning, and as he raised his umbrella, his wife exclaimed, ‘‘Why, Henry, what are you doing with that umbrella?’ ‘‘Well,’’ said Henry, ‘*T expected a storm and came prepared for it.’’ Ever after that he could go home and to bed in peace. QUANTITY Tradesman Company, THe IMPERIAL Gas Lamp Co. SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE IMPERIAL LIGHTING SYSTEM GRAVITY AND AIR Pressure LAMPS For INDOOR anpd OuTDOOR UseE..... 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Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this seventeenth day of May, 1902. Henry B. Fairchild, a _— in at tox Kent County, ich. STATE OF MICHIGAN NATIONAL CONTROL OF TRUSTS. James B. Dill, of New York, is one of the most prominent and successful corporation lawyers in the country. He has been influential in promoting some of our mightiest ‘‘aggregations of cap- ital," and no man is more competent than he to speak of the good and evil which attend them or of the necessity of effective methods of control. One of our popular light operas suggests that ‘“‘when the enterprising burglar’s not a-burgling’’ he may act the part of an estimable and useful private citizen, and in this latter capacity Mr. Dill recently addressed the students of Harvard Uni- versity on the necessity of Federal con- trol of corporations whose business is not confined within state lines. This necessity he based upon the unques- tionable fact that we can never expect uniformity in state legislation, and that the small states, for the sake of the rev- enue to be derived, will always charter corporations with power to do outside the state that which they will not be permitted -to do in the state which in- corporates them. Neither is this abuse confined to the small states which are best known in that connection. The Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky, for example, can do no business what- ever in Kentucky except to keep an office there where processes can be served. In this case we do not happen to remember whether the ‘‘ revenue’’ ac- crued to the State or to the members of the Legislature. The State of New York is considering a law—which may have been passed by this time—authorizing the formation of corporations on the New Jersey plan, to carry on business outside the State only. Mr. Dill justly remarks that when a state thus publicly offers itself for sale the result is far worse than when individual legislators accept bribes. This condition is result- ing in interstate warfare which is de- structive alike of public morals and business interests. Besides, the larger corporations are far more powerful than most of the states, and the weaker can not control the stronger. Mr. Dill proposes that, under the Con- stitution as it now is, we should take steps for the Federal regulation of trusts by the enactment of a ‘‘national’’ cor- poration law on the lines of the national banking law. Corporations thus organ- izing would adopt the term ‘‘national,’’ which no other corporation would be permitted to use. They would, like the national banks, be subject to such Fed- eral inspection and supervision as the law might provide, and also, like the national banks, be entirely free from attacks by the states as ‘‘non-residents.’’ Being ‘‘citizens’’ of the United States, they would be citizens of all states, en- titled to do business there, and to sue and be sued, and would be taxed as other citizens were taxed. The law would, of course, require whatever de- gree of ‘‘publicity’’ the public welfare would demand. In the opinion of Mr. Dill, if Congress should pass sucha law all the important and sound corporations would incorporate under it, partly to es- cape being harassed by state legislation and partly for the sake of the better standing which they would acquire in the financial world. Corporations which did not so incorporate would tend to become objects of suspicion. This sug- gestion of Mr. Dill is unquestionably a valuable contribution to the discussion of the control of trusts. The queer extents to which some leg- islatures will go in their attempt to reg- ulate everybody’s affairs, is evidenced by a bill passed at its last session by the New Jersey lawmakers, prohibiting the picking of huckleberries by machin- ery. Presumably the statute was de- signed to be in the interests of the peo- ple to whom huckleberry picking is an annual source of revenue. Governor Murphy shows an appreciation of the humorous as well as the possession of considerable good sense by explaining his disapproval in these words: ‘‘ Where will we stop if we take huckleberries under legislative control? If the Legis- lature can stop the picking of small fruit by machinery, it can stop the use of ma- chinery in laundries and substitute the washboard and feminine knuckles for more modern apparatus.’’ In some peo- ple’s minds the line between public and private business is not very clearly marked or defined. Alsace and Lorraine, the provinces wrested from France, are now after thirty years to enjoy the full measure of home rule enjoyed by other divisions of the German empire, to which they were unwillingly annexed. Absolute power over the affairs in Alsace and Lorraine has been exercised by the German im- perial chancellor and rigid military rule was for years maintained because the people, although German subjects, were at heart French and suspected of sym- pathy with French movements. The time has at last come, after the lapse of a generation, when Germany regards the union as complete. Yet in the Place de Ja Concorde in Paris it is pos- sible that emblems of mourning may continue to be placed upon the statues representing the cities of Strasburg and Metz and that Frenchmen will continue to dream that the lost provinces may be recovered, There is no objection to being much married if you take care not to do it more than once at the same time. omens crane snarnaonanins nar eet A NEEDLESS ANXIETY. There is a lingering fear in a certain class of men that ambiticus humanity, old and young, in these degenerate days, is not going to have its chance. The Golden Days in the Great Repub- lic have gone never to return. Now, more than ever, the accident of birth is a fate-fixer, bounded by barriers which the shut-in can never get over. At the appearance of the first gray hair, once the symbol of experience and worth, the manhood so stricken is forced to take off its armor and await, as_ best it may, the final trumpet call. - The sad- dest feature, however, is the deplor- able future of the young man. The world is no longer before him. No mat- ter what the spirit may be within him, Hope no longer watches over his cradle, whispers things unutterable to his vig- orous boyhood and stands with lighted torch to pioneer his way when maturity claimshim. The storied past is a dead letter to him. It tells, indeed, of deeds that famous men have done, of poverty laughed at, of glory wrested from de- spair, of success snatched from failure and threatened defeat ; but these things happened in the old times when the vir- tues had a chance and when manhood, however bumble, could assert itself and prove its kingship. If all this is to be believed present life has little except existence to cheer iton. Everything has reached its cul- mination. The avenues to success have been closed. Even common old-fash- ioned work has for its only reward the needed periodical rest. That, heaven- sent, is the only good to be depended upon. Toil works in the field and at the forge to keep body and soul together. The Golden Age has gone and the man| with the hoe takes his old place in the field, his hoe the only mark of difference between him and other animals. Science has discovered Nature’s last secret. In- vention has fashioned its last device. Art has painted its last picture, composed its best song. Literature has written its grandest story and laid down its pen. The world’s work is done and its inhab- itants have only to wait for the last trumpet. In the realm of fact there have never been expressed sillier thoughts; and there never has been a time when fact could be better depended on to show the absurdity of it. Confining the idea to financial success alone, who believes that the time for satisfactory recom- pense has gone by? The ‘‘downtrodden farmer’’ laughs it to scorn. Even the deserted New England farm, having passed into thoughtful ownership, shakes its fat sides in derision, while the West, after seating the Secretary of the Treas- ury at the Council Board of the Presi- dent, goes back to its constantly increas- ing crops and, with a constantly increas- ing bank account, is doing its best to induce ambitious young manhood to take up and carry on the most honorable and remunerative employment on the face of the earth. With facts like this before him who but a fool will talk seri- ously of no chance for the young man's financial success on the farm! It is pleasing to note that the most bodeful headshaking over the lack of opportunity for advancement comes from the owner of a head determined to do nothing else. Even seeing no longer furnishes the groundwork of belief, The deafening din of anvil and trip- hammer, the rapid growth of town and city, the constant call for men with mus- cle at wages higher than have been ever offered or received before, count as nothing with the modern doom-por- tender. It is only a passing prosperity, short-lived, as booms~always are—a freshet that leaves the log high and dry to rot where merciless Fate has cast it. It is only a seeming with the hammer- armed hand hopelessly pounding upon the doors of Destiny to open to it, with nothing on the other side. There is no other side. Opportunity is dead to the mechanic, Arkwright and Fulton and Marconi have exhausted the resources of invention and only drudgery is left in the foundry and the shop; and yet the Eastern Hemisphere, civilized and uncivilized, is pouring the richest re- turns into the mechanic’s grimy apron here in the United States; and the home of that same mechanic in comfort and appointments is hardly surpassed by the home of the capitalist, his emplover. Has there not been about enough of this? Can not the boy and the girl, standing to-day at the gate of opportu- nity, hear something else? Can they not be made to understand that it is not the lack of opportunity for advancement that is wanting so much as being ready for it when it does come? The man with the scythe and the woman with her needle were equal to all demands upon them fifty years ago; but to-day these demands can not be met without the machine. Opportunity is not wanting and the reward was never so great for the brains that have wit enough to im- prove the one and receive the other. The times, however, have changed; and the opportunities have changed with them. The same energy and de- termination are called for, but something else is demanded. The machine, the creature of the brain, must have a trained brain to run it if success is to follow. This condition considered, suc- cess is as certain as the sunrise. The new President of the Western Union Telegraph Company is only that com- pany’s brain-developed messenger boy, and when a well-known steel company wanted a President they found him in a boy at one time in their rank and file. These are not single instances, this country is full of them; and everyone of them confirms the fact that, if the anx- iety for opportunity of advancement were to be expended in getting ready for it, there would be less grumbling in the world of work and a corresponding in- crease in the number of success-winners. ects es The government of Great Britain has no written constitution. The British people are governed by precedents created by the acts of Parliament and decisions of the courts. In the long his- tory of the nation there are precedents for almost everything, but it seems there is no precedent for an appropria- tion by Parliament for the relief of such conditions as have been produced by the volcanic disturbances in the West Indies. The making of a new prece- dent is a momentous matter in Great Britain, involving debate and delay. In the United States it is possible to act immediately in cases of emergency, and public sentiment is unanimous in ap- Proval of the prompt relief measures adopted by Congress, ‘‘He gives doubly who gives quickly.’”’ pe elecdalsbaercas Aee An Iowa man being examined in Washington to determine his fitness for a consulship was asked: ‘‘How many Hessians did George III. hire to come to this country to fight the Americans during the revolution?’’ He thought for a long time. Then he said: ‘‘I don’t know, but it was a darn sight more than went back,’’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 Clerks’ Corner. The Aims and Ambitions of Breezy, the Grocery Clerk.* When the prosperous although unpro- gressive firm of Casper W. Leslie & Co., grocers, hired him they thought they had secured an ordinary clerk, and gave themselves no further concern. They already had a force of about a dozen clerks, besides half a dozen de- livery teams. They had hired clerks for twenty years, and it was to them a troublesome and vexatious proceeding. They frowned at first at his slight frame, but when he puta prostrate sugar barrel un end with easy unconcern, all objecticns were immediately withdrawn. His surname was the leveling one of Smith, and his Christian name—highly Christian--— Hezekiah. His mother called him ‘‘Zeke’’ and his compan- ions, ‘‘ Breezy.’’ Breezy entered upon his work whis- tling in supreme content. He was at the bottom of the commercial hill and was preparing to run uptothe top. He had no star-high ambitions to make him dream, no love affairs to make him forgetful, and no vices to keep him from doing his best. There wasn't a lazy tendon in his body. He was not tall. If he had been, he would have been lazy. He was short, thin, black- eyed, nervous, and muscular. Before his ponderous companions got an idea through their heads, Breezy was_half- way done with the action.